Back To The Font
BY CAROLE SAWO
When Eve supposedly handed Adam the apple, tradition has long said that this was the beginning of our fall. But the apple is not the problem. The apple represents ‘all knowledge’ – the awareness of life, of creation, of God. What has been lost is not knowledge itself, but the way it is accessed and understood. Our mind has travelled far from its spiritual origins of being, from faith to fear, from trust in the higher reality to anxiety about what appears in front of us.
No, the apple is not the problem, the worm inside the apple is the true corruption. It is fear-based thinking – programmes, memories, and worries that take root in the conscious mind where we deceive even ourselves. And like a worm hollowing the fruit, fear eats away from the inside. It paralyses us, casting shadows of doubt that are not true in reality. It freezes the mind in anxiety, locking us into repetition and preventing us from seeing the higher reality that faith reveals.
Faith thinking is the remedy. Faith is not a fragile belief but a deeper knowing that overrides the fear-mind and trusts the Universe. Where the conscious mind argues with appearances, faith rests in the higher reality that is more real than what we see in our external world. To return to the font – to God, to the lotus – is to return to the Garden of Eden of the subconscious mind and remember that knowledge was never the problem. I doubt the story itself is true either. Eve never picked the apple at all – she ‘is’ the apple. The apple of God’s eye.