Genesis 3:2 · World English Bible
Genesis 3:2 Meaning The Woman Said to the Serpent
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
What does Genesis 3:2 mean?
The human spirit answers the risen spinal current out of the garden that is the right hemisphere of the brain, free to draw nourishment from the trees growing there. The woman is that inner spirit, the serpent is the spine, and the garden is the right side of the brain, the fertile inward field where the trees of higher knowing stand.
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The human spirit answers the risen spinal current out of the garden that is the right hemisphere of the brain, free to draw nourishment from the trees growing there. The woman is that inner spirit, the serpent is the spine, and the garden is the right side of the brain, the fertile inward field where the trees of higher knowing stand.
To eat of their fruit is to take in the awareness those inner faculties yield. What this describes in a person is the spirit feeding openly on the intuitive gifts of the deeper mind, drawing life from the very ground the awakened energy has opened.
Serpent: the spine, the risen current the spirit is speaking with Woman: the human spirit within a person, drawing nourishment inward Garden: the right hemisphere of the brain, the inward field where the trees of higher knowing grow Trees: the inner faculties whose fruit is the awareness a person takes in
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Live Genesis 3:2 today
- Before you open your phone for an answer today, give yourself sixty seconds of quiet to see whether you already know. Often the first clear thought is yours, and the scrolling just buries it.
- When someone asks your advice, tell them what you actually sense rather than what you read somewhere. Your own knowing is nourishing to other people too.
- In the middle of a loud day, in traffic or a grocery line, take three slow breaths down into your back and let your attention go inward instead of outward. There is something growing there you keep walking past.
What do I already know that I keep going outside to look for?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · the Katha Upanishad
What you are looking for is already inside, closer than the search. The seeker is told to turn the gaze around rather than travel.
Taoism · the inner landscape
The body is described as having its own fields and gardens, and the practice is to draw nourishment from them rather than chasing it outside. What grows in you is allowed to feed you.
Sufism · Rumi
He says the one you are hunting for is the one hunting you, so the begging at other gates was never needed. Eat from where you stand.
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