Rethinking Original Sin
We have all heard it — We are all born with original sin. We are all sinners from the moment we arrive.
It is laid upon us as such a heavy burden to bear, and we spend our lives trying to be “good”, trying to find the perfect way to fix it, to fix ourselves. We are programmed to believe that we are unworthy of God’s love because we carry the mark “sinner”.
What is sin anyway? A sin is anything that would take us away from God/Oneness/Creatrix/Creator/Source (GOCCS). Consider that this is precisely what we CHOOSE when we choose to incarnate here on Earth! We all come from the Oneness that is GOCCS. In that state of oneness, we know ourselves as whole, perfect, and as one with everything. In the Oneness, however, it is impossible to experience the Oneness because we are the Oneness. How does a drop of water in the ocean experience the ocean when it is the ocean?
For the One to experience itself, it must individuate as separate from the One. Every one of us here has made the brave choice to separate from the GOCCS to create and experience our creations. It is not an easy mission. It is, in fact, a hero’s journey that is honored and celebrated.
We choose to come out of the Oneness of GOCCS and into the density of matter. In doing so, we all incur the original wound, that of leaving the Oneness and entering a simulation of separation and individualization. This is the wound of separation.
We root our identity in our bodies where we ultimately feel all alone — abandoned, separate from everything and everyone around us. We spend our lives looking for where we belong, forgetting that we are One with everyone and everything and that we have all simply created this experience of separateness to create and experience our creations.
We are heroes, pioneers, and explorers worthy of love and admiration for our courage to “forget who we truly are”. Perhaps it is time to redefine this word SIN as Separation Imagined Now. Does it take us away from GOCCS? Yes, indeed it does, and we all said:
- Yes, put me in!
- I will bear the wounding of leaving the Oneness and forget who I truly am!
- I will take on density and limitation!
- I will enter the realm of free will and create freely, forgetting that I cannot get my life wrong!
- I will experience it all — love, anger, confusion, power over, power under, compassion, judgment, success, failure, desperation, abundance, poverty, joy, sadness.
What could possibly be more NOBLE? This SIN for which we volunteer is not for the faint of heart! It takes a master to pretend that he or she is not a master!!
We are here to relate with others, to experience through relationships. Our conflicts arise from seeing ourselves as separate from one another. We can experience harmony when we remember that, in fact, we are one with everything. Everyone and everything are part of us, and we are part of them. What we do to others we are ultimately doing to ourselves. When we can remember that everyone carries the original wound of feeling separate and alone, it helps us to have compassion for one another’s journeys.
At our core, we all know that there is something more than this life. We all long for our natural state and spend our lives searching for what we just cannot seem to remember.
THERE IS NOTHING INHERENTLY WRONG WITH US! We are immensely loved, supported, and celebrated. We are never truly alone. We have just chosen to experience Separation Imagined Now.
