genesis is not about nature out there but the BEGINNING of MAN, who is the image and likeness of all nature and its creator together: Hence Man is inanimate, vegative, animate and last of all, he is the WORD or that which UNDERSTANDS AND KNOWS himself from the inside out...........from the BEGINNING OF HIS OWN CREATION to the END, hence the image and likeness of God:
even perhaps God KNOWING HIMSELF through his own creation:
we are born not knowing.............and we develop through the "INPUT" from the outer world to the inner world and when we have come to the end of learning outside in, we focus on learning inside out....and when we have finished redeeming the time, when we have REDISCOVERED our origin, we literally IMPLODE in consciousness..........thats how it happened to me and all writers of the holy books:
they returned to the consciousness before "MIND" to grasp how MIND IS FORMED and this is according to the NATURE of the thing that is used to form it, hence our nature is the shadow of that which forms it:
when we find this BEGINNING (GENESIS) we understand how everything begins..........within us
and then we realize that what is OUTSIDE, is also inside
and this is why we enjoy the outside of nature so much
it reflects OUR OWN BEING and we reflect IT
when we discover or become aware of or have OUR INNERMOST nature revealed, we understand HOW IT WORKS
hence we have overcome ...............death..........which only happens to the "lesser mind" we are born into, what I call ego, but you can call it the false self if you prefer:
ego is not the TRUE MIND that reflects the TRUE NATURE of the creator who you may not believe exists, but then you have to deny intelligent design....be my guest:
I say creator because I know now that only the LIFE FORCE ITSELF IS REAL
everything that it forms is simply a shadow of itself..........an image of itself
first it forms the ANTI IMAGE, (negative of a picture) the one that the true image is reflected off of
and then, the TRUE IMAGE begins to appear........suddenly, which removes the anti-image
and once the true image appears, we understand the ONE WHO FORMED.........from its own BEING
what I see out there is the manifold manifestation of all the ways LIFE WORKS........in and through US