Hoosier Heaven - David McCaslin

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Résumé :
As the Garden of Eden cooled from creation, God's first decree to Adam was to partake only from the Tree of Life, not the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Unmeasured Knowledge is not experientially assimilated Life truth. Live in heavenly awareness or lost to confused ignorance. God so forewarned. Conventional human conditioning facilitates misperceiving this reality's dimensional nature as continual ... not impermanent. In rushes naive attachment to the imagined unchanging essence of things with uncompromised clinging to an ego-managed sense of an unreal I am, postured in a very real emotional minefield. Each is liable for the nature of knowledge vindicating their Life wisdom. Hoosier Heaven cites living manifestations of time-suspended cognitively etched cerebrally stored abstract theological notions. These experientially unverifiable spiritual signposts get intellectually planted in the continual specter of human imagination. When thinking heaven, blindly trusted book/chapter/verse adopted from time and translation-worn sandal-clad biblical promise still leaves many gazing hopefully upward, yet to detect the Tree of Life truth vibrating within. Lau Tzu originated either/or insight that while borrowed book wisdom lacking personal experiential tie-in might allow one the strength to conquer the world, through engendered mind/body harmony witnessing Life manifest, the wisdom-enriched self-knowledge gained allows instead conquering the self-ego, enlightened about heaven 'n hell. Siddhartha taught, as he did, how self-training that harmony allows self-training the same Tree of Life wisdom God warned Adam to ingest. His last word prescribed diligence to understand impermanence. How individuals characterize this reality's time/space nature, transitory or continual, echoes from their every decision. It determines the cumulative nature of acquired knowledge forming the collective substance of wisdom personified through their worldview ... the nature of their mind. The cause/effect relational justice coding impermanence keeps synched together reality's only web of ageless wisdom. Its universal pulse ripples across this sole/soul pool of Life wisdom, often misconstrued to satisfy various factions' contrarily conditioned purpose. It's the Garden of Eden Tree of Life fiber of sustenance. Omnipresent consistency in this reality's time/space transitional relationship seeds humanity's steadfast faith in newly surfacing Life truth, while keeping this world's material presence in its dimensionally balanced perpetual state of fully animated live present moment feed, since before God's virgin commandment to partake only of the Tree of Life was violated and man's ignorance created need for ten more....