Cain and Abel

Cain’s sacrifice is rejected. Tried, but the universe may not reward. Things didn’t go his way. Out of his control. You accept, or you fight. He could not accept that which was out of his control, and his only way out was to reject Being; other beings. To spite man, god, existence.

Heaven and hell

Metaphors for acceptance, presence, awareness (unsullied by the mind) and ignorance, sin. Feedback loops: spiralling up (to heaven) or spiralling down (to hell).

Heaven. שמים. Sky. Space. Spaciousness. Emptiness. Nothing. No-thing. To go beyond the mind.

And hell as downward. Earth. Stuff. Matter. Ego.

Exodus

Leaving one system. Stepping out from tyranny (dysfunctional order). Temporarily end up in chaos. Wandering. Only from there, from zero, can you rebuild into a new better system.

→ Talk: Jordan Peterson, Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Badly

Are the religious stories literal, or metaphorical?

Did G-d write the bible, or did man?

• What’s the difference?
• Does it matter?

What does the question even mean.

Does man do anything truly creative, or do we call that the ‘voice of G-d’?

Merely different framings of the same thing.

We can ‘know’ something to be true, and within some context it is. And that’s useful.

But there will always be some outer context where—we know nothing.

Does that mean nothing matters?

Not at all!

And, absolutely!

It depends entirely on which context you are zoomed.