Evolution, Heaven on Earth, and the Tree of Knowledge

Email to a friend:

"I am only now (today, at age almost 31) coming to terms with the idea that life is not designed to have you be exactly who you want to be.

Only now.

My parents never knew this. They think, and taught me, that life involves necessarily (by definition) enduring some form of latent pain.

Evolution. This is evolution. This is the process of slowly waking up to the fact that, indeed, we are living in the Garden of Eden. We just forgot about it, as we started to use the beautiful tool that sits in our skull: the dualistic mind, the one that distinguishes good from bad and allows us to create – i.e. as we "ate the fruit from the tree of Knowledge (of Good and Evil)". We can now remember."