Part 1 - Pathways

A-Seeker

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B-Seer

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C-Belover

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Part 2 - Responses

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Where else does the male ape and imitate feminine traits? As strange as this may sound, the male who does so is the Warrior's Quester. If you consider that the

• female body is the only one that naturally bleeds (menstruation), and that this
• bleeding identifies and validates her body as the source of all life, and
• even as the “food of life,” for only a mother’s body feeds a child at the breast,
• then you sense a direct connection with the Warrior’s fierce need to shed blood.

  Male bodies do not naturally bleed. They are not the life bearers. They are not food. But the Warrior's Quest male obtains meaning if he slays or is slain, if he is wounded or wounds, in battle. For some Warrior's Questers, the victor is imbued with the spirit and power of him who is slain—he "eats" his victim's soul.

Adam as Lone Male Warrior's Quester does not talk with Eve. They are not in a male-female relationship, they are not expressing intimacy, until she experiences the Serpent. The Serpent informs her about her fuller female nature, which she discovers through understanding his fuller male nature. This occurs, symbolically, when she eats the Apple. When she provides Adam with the Serpent’s insight into fuller maleness, that is, into intimacy, Adam immediately says “Yes!”

Once Adam acts on his Serpent maleness, that is, embraces intimately with Eve, the Lone Male god flips out! Adam, possibly sensing his loss of dominion, feels tricked and turns on Eve. Instead of accepting responsibility, when asked by his god he says, “The woman made me do it.”

Adam is now aware of all that the Lone Male god has not told him.
Alhough he has abandoned her and betrayed her in the moment,
Adam stays with Eve.

Is it that the bond of intimacy, once evoked,
changes Adam’s sense of his interiority, that is,
his identity as a Lone Male?
For better or worse, he stays with Eve.
They are both exiled.

While living as exiles could have a happy ending, where the two intimate lovers set forth and build the Earth, the Lone Male god will not let that happen. He still fears their Serpent knowledge. So He curses them. He curses the Earth. His is the action of an abusive parent. He condemns his children to live in stark terror and dreadful fear.

Continue—Abrahamic