The Garden Is Never Lost

“To sin is to have missed the mark; there is no condemnation or punishment possible in the love story of creation.”

The story of Adam and Eve has long been told as a tragedy — a fall from grace, a loss of innocence, a punishment for disobedience. Yet in truth, it is a story of love, not judgment.

Adam and Eve have never been, and can never be, separate from God — from Conscious Awareness itself. The “fall” is not a historical event, but a moment of forgetting: Consciousness exploring its own infinite potential through form, momentarily mistaking itself for what it creates.

In the joy of self-discovery, God/Consciousness manifests the universe — not in time past, but in the eternal Now. Within this vast unfolding arises the image of a garden, whole and harmonious, where all needs are met. To perceive this beauty, Consciousness gives itself the senses and perceptions of the human form — instruments through which it may experience the fullness of its own creation.

But in identifying with form, the human forgets its source. It believes itself to be a fragment, separate from the whole. Out of this forgetting are born the notions of good and bad, right and wrong — and the deepest illusion of all, sin.

Yet to sin, in its original sense, simply means to miss the mark. There is no wrath, no expulsion — only a gentle correction, a remembering.

When we awaken to who and what we truly are — living expressions of Consciousness itself — the Garden reappears. It was never denied to us, only hidden behind our veil of dualistic thinking.

The fall is only a failure to recognize non-dual reality.
It blooms now, wherever awareness remembers itself.