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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.

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

Bible and a leaf freshly 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's suit.

But I love that because there it is.

We're covering over right from the very start.

Of course 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.

Of course there are some exceptions, not everyone feels contorted.

There's another little story, little boy who 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 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, especially compared to the New Testament,

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