The Story of Paradise and the Fall

We've established predictable routines and patterns of behaviour, but we don't really understand them or know where they originated. No one was formulating them explicitly, at least not in the dimmest reaches of the past. We started using our bodies as devices to represent their own actions. The biblical narrative of paradise and the fall is one such story,. fabricated by our collective imagination, working over the centuries. It provides a profound account of the nature of being before self consciousness. So goes the story, human beings were sinless. Our primordial parents, adam and eve, walked with god. But we didn't, and we still don't, understand what it all meant.