Deconstructing Eve + The Serpent
*Only for the use of members of the Deconstruction Circle in Wild Soul
Who was Eve? You probably grew up answering that the same way I did. We’ve been handed such a simple, matter-of-fact, surface story of a woman who ate a fruit in a garden and then cursed all of humanity for the rest of time. What if Eve is only the accumulation of a much more ancient story forged into a single body and used to scare women into submitting to a patriarchal system? Don’t you wonder if maybe you weren’t told the whole story after all? And don’t you wonder why?
In this two hour gathering we explore the intersection of sensuality and spirituality, god, mythology spanning across multiple cultures, Eve, Jesus, the Queen of Heaven, the myth of virginity, the serpent, communion, and so much more. This is not theology. This is broader than that. This is the accumulation of everything I have researched and gathered through anthropological texts, ancient hymns and mythologies, and even my own extensive study of the Bible throughout my ten year deconstruction. This is the kind of thing I always WANTED to hear pastors talk about, rather than skimming the surface of the same tired story that had been handed to them. This is a true deep dive and it’s going to take us places we have been longing to go. I’ll hand you everything I currently know about the mythology that influenced the garden of eden story, how patriarchy got to the place of power it has now, Eve’s true name, and then we’ll take a deeper dive into the spirituality that has thrived for far longer than the Bible. We’re going in for Eve. We’re reclaiming her story. We’re liberating ourselves from the oppressive myth of a woman ruining everything for the whole world. We’re taking the story back by going back to the story that started it all: back when God was a woman and the serpent represented something drastically different than what we were ever told.
