Could we learn to survive without the need for clothing? Apparently so.
In this author's experience, writings and meditations, what Genesis 1:2 and the Virgin Birth stories point towards is not a time in the past, but a state that serves as the foundations for the here and now. In the physics of David Bohm and neurology of Karl Pribram, this point would be called the Unmanifest Implicate Order which serves as the foundation for creation. The Unmanifest is the container of the eggs of potentiality or unlimited possibilities. Please do not take the term "eggs" literally.
What David Bohm refers to as the Unmanifest Implicate Order is simply the upper notch of the Aleph which meets a dividing line after which there is the lower notch (Manifest Explicit Order). A similar meaning is applicable to our letter "A" or Alpha. In "A" you have two lines descending (Manifest, duality) from a central point (Unmanifest) and widening further and further apart. At the middle of the divide, a third line is drawn as a bridge between the two divergent lines. If you think of this in terms of male and female as being opposites, both emerge from a central point (at the center male and female are useless terms for there is no duality) and are joined back together by the middle line of Love, which thus reflects relationship. To be a "Mother" there has to be an "Other." This is no accident in spelling. Without an "other" there is no relationship.
The beauty of "A," in my opinion, is its emphasis on the relationship between the two parting lines. Could that interpretation teach us that when we gaze into whomever we deem as the opposition we ultimately see ourselves? What is an opposite if not a mirror image. Gaze into the mirror and see how left and right are reversed.
Mm, can we realize, as Christ taught, "love thy enemy as thyself?" Could this be more than a request to be nice and instead be a reflection on universal reality where opposites are revealed to be our mirror image?
The virgin birth story is throughout the world. It is not peculiar to the Bible's Genesis or any other specific religion. Without repeating several creation stories, consider the following account of the Goddess Aluna from the Native American Kogis tradition in relationship to Genesis (all you need to listen to is the first minute, once the song begins, feel free to come back to the article):
The important point of this discussion is that we are grounded in a state of infinite potential, Aluna. Indeed, we are infinite in our being. For a wonderful short piece of film footage that allows you to better connect with these ideas regarding infinity, allow Rod Sterling and his incredible shrinking man to help out in the following very short Twilight Zone clip:
Whether we dive into the depths of ourselves, or the depths of matter external to us, we are nested in a state of infinite potential,--ALEPH, ALPHA. I would go further to state that the ALPHA and OMEGA, the beginning and end, are one and the same, not two points on a continuum. A man emerges from a woman head first at birth and returns to a woman head first as an adult lover. (This is not meant to deny same sex coupling, it is simply being used as a metaphor for life's process). Thus the ancient Goddess was known as Mother, Sustainer and Fate.
In essence, each one of us is but a wavelet bouncing around on the surface of an Ocean that is infinite. And in that Ocean are hidden gems of infinite variety that we can manifest. Paradoxically, each of us contains the potential of the entire Ocean of life. We are simultaneously both infinitesimal and infinite, both mortal and eternal. Thus, this article is written (given birth) and the readers are reading (absorbing), which leads to conceiving of an original potential within themselves. If you agree or disagree with the content doesn't matter. The Way or Process is simply the Way.
One's conception, in turn, is according to one's conditioning. Thus, you may say the author is a "nut" or you may say "he has some interesting ideas." This is according to your conditioning. However, what if we moved beyond our conditioning as reflected in the teachings of Lao Tzu, the author of the Tao Te Ching when he says, " Be newborn, be free of yourself ." This is the same as saying let go of your conditioned mind. Or as stated of Buddhism:
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