No-Shame, No-Blame Creation Story

In the beginning...
there was an entity of light
within a lovely garden
which was also made of light.
A single being, with many aspects
living in peace and harmony.
When a serpent,
who knew well of matter said,
"Birth, Death, Rebirth."

The quality of the light being
that would become known
as the feminine said,
"Why Not? Exploration, process."
The masculine energy said,
"Structure, power."
And the serpent said,
Be aware, you may forget
who and what you really are."
She said, "We'll remember."

And she said to the masculine energy,
"I'll remind you of our light."
And he agreed,
and so they split in two,
into two separate beings,
and the Universe around them
became a duality, And they forgot.

And everything became heavy and
matter now mattered most of all.
Gravity became grave
in its seriousness
and grave as in death,
and they suffered,
and became ill,
and felt lost
and sometimes,
they almost remembered...
something.

and there were times...
when there was joy and light
but always a longing
to get back out of matter.
back to where?

And so they began to learn
how to use matter
and they thought they were powerful
and so a great battle began.

Everyone wanted to have power
power over matter
power over each other
power over thoughts and feelings
power over structures
especially the masculine beings
because their focus was structure.
And they took things apart
and made more...things.

And often...there was fear,
fear of each other,
fear of thoughts & feelings,
fear of the loss of structure.

Structures became institutions
But the feminine beings
were not preoccupied
with the institutions.
Instead they were occupied
with life,
with nature,
with babies
and a different order of things.

Sometimes...
she would remind him
of something,
but he thought he would
lose his power
if he remembered
and so he remained...forgetful.

And for this... he held power over her,
power over nature,
power over his own natural self,
as in control, repression, structure.

Fear kept these beings time-bound
and distanced them
from their light inside,
and their light remained interior
while they took everything apart.

Discovery pulled them forward
until almost everything
large and small
was in pieces.
what they didn't know was that
the external world was becoming
a reflection of themselves,
fragmented selves
with fragmented thoughts,
conflicts unresolved,
split inside.

And the external world
reflected opposites everywhere as in:
Good people don't kill, but...
we must have
war & weapons
to keep our power.
Good people don't lie, but...
we must deny and deceive
to keep our power.
Good people don't harm, but...
we must argue and abuse
to keep our power.

Yet behind all of this
there was still light,
and there were
those who would remember
something
and living differently
some of them stood out
as heroes...strangely enough.

Finally...
after many thousands of years,
when the world was full of
war and weapons,
denial and deception
and abuse of every kind,
and matter had contracted
as far as it could go,
little sparks of light
began to flash
more & more often
and remembering
began to manifest as:
concern for the environment,
conflict resolution,
love for one another
with integration and wholeness
bringing the fragments
back together.

Now...
individuals were creating community,
scientists discovering quantum leaps,
spiritual psychology learning
and teaching empowerment,
and the lights became brighter still.

Soon there were those
who remembered very well
that power was indeed interior,
that everything was made of light,
that evil meant
to live backwards in fear, and
that trust had
the vibrational quality
to bring light forward.

And that everyone together
had been Making it all up!

Even still...
people seemed to take sides.
And in the end,
those full of light
looked at those full of fear
and saw their light hidden inside
and loved them.

And those full of fear
looked at those full of love
and saw their light
and remembered their own,
and they all remembered together
and began to lighten up.
And soon
they found themselves
at home again... Back in the garden.