could be flat out wrong, and you might be right. But it would take more than a quantum physicist to make both true. I find this interpretation of the Garden of Eden story insightful, intriguing and liberating. The myth is seen to contain ancient, innate and relevant wisdom, despite its original cultural context with its apparent primitive and currently irrelevant message. It normalizes and legitimizes the experience of those who have responded to the impulse of the evolutionary dynamic which has led them out of the garden of pseudo security into the freedom of the uncertainty of a more abundant life. Dear Bruce, I love the story as Adam is made in our image to tend and care for creation, while asleep receives his companion as not to be solitary yet of the same flesh. Naked, unadorned and in natural communion with their father, eternal life their birthright. Wanting to understand, eating the fruit of knowledge of good and evil opened their eyes to distinctions, for better or worse, and they had to live apart from their original abode yet never separated from God who follows their destiny with close scrutiny. Wanting to know, a curse and a promise, we are given the keys, that God held for us. Learning to walk can be painful at times yet we never choose not to if given a choice. Walking out of Eden for an unknown future, serves mankind with a blueprint of this life giving creative principle; time never turns back.