In this blog I want to give you a refreshing new perspective on Eve’s story.

Adam and Eve, we all know them from the apple. But we only know one version, that of evil.

There is also another story of paradise. I’m happy to tell you about her.

ADAM AND EVE

When we think of Eve, we think first of the woman from the Bible.

Her short-lived adventure in the book of Genesis has been decisive for her bad reputation: the loss of paradise is still entirely at her expense, which is accepted by many.

The “mother of all the living”, the first woman, made directly by God from a rib of Adam, the first man. Eve is the first man to sin by eating some fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, on the advice of a talking serpent.

When Eve took a bite out of the apple, she gave us the world as we know it now, it is said.

Beautiful but also flawed. Dangerous but also full of life. She gave us smallpox and Somalia,
a polio vaccine and wheat, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison muse in her musings on Eve, which she wrote in the provocative collection of essays Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible.

From that position, it would also be the basis for the problems of our time, thinking of
poverty, climate change and inequality.

I would like to tell you another story about Eve.

BRAVE EVE

Did you know that Eve has done something very beautiful and brave.

“Against the explicit order of the Father, she extended her arm, plucked the apple from the tree, and took a bite of the ripe fruit of expectedness. She knew it was good and passed the apple on to Adam so that he too could taste that it was good. At that moment Adam and Eve awakened from the primordial dreams and their eyes were opened. They saw the beauty of their own form in the splendor of their own light.

Now Eve was wise in the beginning… because she could listen very well. Eve listened and under the ringing of the father’s voice, who cried out that she should do what he commanded without asking anything, she heard the whisper of a truer life. Eve chose that way of life,
by her conscience, and she picked the fruit.

At that moment Eve blessed all the generations that are yet to come with the gift of being able to participate in the creation of their world…

Eve ‘knew’ that she had to pick the apple. She had the magnanimity to extend her hand against all reasonableness.

Eve was brave because she knew that by eating the fruit of conscious life, she would know not only pain but also joy.”

This story gives a very different view of the Fall, right?

EVE, ONE MORE

In his book The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan, who won many awards for his work on horticulture, states that certain plants, especially tulips, marijuana, potatoes and apples, enchanted and seduced humanity long before they realized it by arousing desire through the senses.

The desires Pollan explored were sweetness, intoxication and power. This already explains to a large extent why man has transported these plants all over the world to continue their existence.

Isn’t that a wonderful thought?

When that means that the apple has seduced Eve.

EVE AND I

I would like to believe that Eve is not the mother of original sin. For me, she is the mother of Sensual Desire.

What does she mean to you?

Love with me,
Carmen Talitha Cumi
Writer, Writing coach and Sensualist.

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