Genesis Dream - In the Beginning

 by Brian T. Lynch, MSW

https://medium.com/@AmazonkaIV/the-scientific-proof-that-everything-and-everyone-is-connected-and-infinitive-6f8163423a5b 

Late one night I woke up from a dream, the details of which quickly faded. But the dream left me with an indelible insight I had never considered. It came as an answer to a question I had never asked about a few passages in Genesis. God made all things but didn't name anything. He left that up to Adam and Eve. Why?

The answer is that for God, all creation is one indivisible whole. His sweeping understanding of the universe is more than humans can possibly grasp. We must break everything down into innumerable smaller parts and study each to make sense of our world. The very act of naming a thing artificially separates it from everything else. A thing doesn't appear real to us until it has a name. Once named, we can see it, study it, and maybe even control it. But, in the act of naming things, we move further away from seeing everything holistically. This may be the source of our estrangement with nature. Even when we step back to look at the big picture we can never see the wholeness to which we belong.

This insight is a reminder to me that all our dichotomies are false. There is no mind vs. body, no man vs. nature, and no us vs. them. All distinctions are human constructs, therefore no human value judgments should firmly be attached to them. The act of making and naming things may be essential for our immediate understanding, but it doesn't explain our time or purpose for being here. For that, we must focus on all that connects us to each other and to all things rather than dwelling on the differences. 
This requires faith in all the things we cannot see.

And so it was written, "In the beginning..."