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I'd like to begin this evening referring to the probably greatest myth in our western world

where we got kicked out of the garden because we were basically impure and bad.

And there's a wonderful story of a little boy who was leafing through the big old family Bible

and a leaf pressed leaf fell out actually as he was looking through it.

And he got really excited and he ran to his mom waving the leaf saying,

mama, mama, I found Adam suit.

And I love that because you know, it's there it is.

You know, we're covering over right from the very start.

And of course, it leads to this mythology leads to mistrusting our natural being.

It leads to contorting ourselves to trying to fit our idea of what it means

to be a good person so we can belong again.

And of course, there are some exceptions, not everyone feels contorted.

Another little story, a little boy was overheard praying, Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it.

I'm having a real good time as I am.

So the Old Testament's teachings really on sin and evil are an expression of the primitive brain.

You can think of most metaphysics, most philosophy is coming from different parts of our brain in terms of evolution.

And the Old Testament, even compared to the New Testament, was pretty much the part of the brain that felt separate

and identified with aggression and identified with in some way selfishness or fear.

And so that generated this basic myth that we're bad, that we can't be trusted.

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