OK kids... now we are going somewhere... all the way back to Adam. If you have enjoyed the mental gymnastics so far, I hope you will get a good work out this time. We are going to abandon the photo-flattening and go back to the micro slice technique.
Remember when we took the micro slices through two fingers and visualized the time snakes created as we stacked up copies from the same finger locations over time? As your fingers moved through time and space, their worms moved around in the slice-time space we created in our imagination. OK, so now instead of a finger, think about slicing right through your torso... right about at the bottom rib... Can you imagine that slice? Take another now... another... another... stack them up... What do you get? Yep, a really wormy worm this time, complete with innards! Try to visualize your rib-slice-worm (RSW) for a minute or two. Hopefully by now you can see yourself stretching through time. Imagine the slices from the previous moments sort of trailing off below you as you rise through time while unfurling your RSW like a rope.
Now, here's the real fun. I want you to travel with your torso RSW back through your day. Imagine similar torso RSWs of the people you saw -- the guy who cut you off in traffic, the person walking down the hall in front of you, the person you passed going the opposite way. Imagine all of those worms, but don't even try to imagine all of the other objects around you! You could hurt yourself! Can you do that for a day's worth of time? Sure, it is OK to leave out some detail... just see the basic idea. My worm went from the bed to the shower, then down to put some flaky stuff down a tube, then into the car, and in to work after dropping off my girls at school... oops there go their worms! I walked back and forth to the coffee station, sat at my desk, came home, drove out to get some sandwiches, sat at home here typing, then soon back to bed... quite a worm-day! If I allow myself to imagine the bed's worm, it is pretty stable, so it is just a stationary surface in time. My worm was on it, then did all the daily stuff, then plopped down right back on the bed surface again... can you see it? Sort of like ivy attaching to a trellis, then going out and then attaching again further up... What does yours look like? Try to see just the rib slices stacked up... can you see the worm? Work at it! How does it look when you breathe? Now you are getting it!
OK now, Please allow me to assume that Adam was a real, actual, person who was the real actual first man, personally crafted by God in the garden. For some, that is probably an even harder stretch than visualizing their RSW! Do it anyway, it will do you good to think through this. So, travel back in your imagination all the way to Adam. God got some dust, a little spit, breathed in the air (spirit) and poof... Adam! For our purposes now, we do not need all of Adam... we just need his rib-slice. Ah, you are getting ahead of me - eh? OK, go ahead and imagine his RSW for a little while. Got it? Well, as many of you know, it was not long and God decided to complete the creation by making Eve. He did not make her in the same way, but instead he took a rib from Adam! As luck would have it, it is exactly the rib that we sliced through to make Adams RSW! Cleaver of us.
But wait... if he took the rib out of Adam to make Eve, then Eve's RSW is actually sort of a bud off the side of Adam's RSW! Imagine That! Whoa, that is an odd creature indeed! Eventually there were other, child worms. how would they occur? Well, I suppose one would have to make slices at different places than the rib, but I just picked that rib-slice out as an example... remember all of the billion slices are there stacked up all through the time we see. We just picked one as an example to make it easier to visualize. So, make an Adam slice and an Eve slice in appropriate places and let yourself imagine that sequence... oops getting pretty racy on the old blog...
So... if you are back... with me... Did you see a tiny Adam-cell-worm move across, join with an Eve-cell-worm, making it's own worm, then bursting forth to continue on as a separate, but time-connected little, growing bud? Good. Now, continue to imagine that for a few generations... How about a thousand years? It gets pretty tangled and interconnected - eh?
When I first thought of Adam this way I tried to figure out how to describe it to the few people who would listen to me... thanks son!... about the only thing I could think of was a hydra! That is not an especially good metaphor, particularly if you visualize the mythological hydra that Hercules fought!!! Or the constellation!!!
No, No, NO, I am talking about the little pond creature! See some here http://www.fishpondinfo.com/animals/micro.htm and here http://www.scientificillustrator.com/illustration/microscopic/hydra.html
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Even that is not very good, and only good for a few child-buds, but it might give you a little help with this!
The scripture says that we were in Adam from the beginning. I think that this visualization gives an interesting insight to that truth. When I think of my RSW (and necessary others...) stretching back through my life, budding from my mother and father, from their parents, on... and on... What an amazing creature! ...All the way back to Adam... standing there in the garden... Eve is reaching for that fruit... I am silent... (Larry Crabb, "The Silence of Adam")
Nois
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