The Eternal Striving For Concord Out of Discord

About this poem

The creation myth of the tale of Adam and Eve is borne out of an agricultural society of several thousand years ago, where the Hebrew-Aramaic word “ha-adam” translates in English roughly as “Man” or “Mankind,” and the Hebrew-Aramaic word “havvah” (“Eve” in English) can be interpreted as “life,” as “living” or as “enlivening,” suggesting together that the story of Adam and Eve, collectively, is a classical story of the imperfect and flawed (sinful?) life of humanity on earth, eternally seeking, pursuing, and striving to attain and maintain concord out of discord through an unending ethical and moralistic global process involving stages of human social and cultural development that is broadly known as “civilizations. ” Humankind is forever striving to become whole or self-fulfilled (in Jungian terms, to become individuated). more »