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Chapter Ten Q: (L) You said that time was an illusion that came into being at the “time” of the “Fall” in Eden, and this was said in such a way that I inferred that there are other illusions put into place at that time... So, it seems that we are “programmed to believe”, exactly as don Juan has remarked. And this is a curious thing. Collective Identity, which is a result of a covenant of Monotheism, is explicitly narrated in the Bible as an invention, a radical break with Nature. A transcendent deity breaks into history with the demand that the people he constitutes obey the law he institutes, and first and foremost among those laws is, of course, that they pledge allegiance to him, and him alone, and that this is what makes them a unified people as opposed to the “other”, as in all other people which then leads to violence. In the Old Testament, vast numbers of “other” people are obliterated, while in the New Testament, vast numbers are colonized (or annihilated) and converted for the sake of such covenants. (Schwartz, 1997) This brings us face to face with the idea of the “provisional” nature of a covenant. This means that it is conditional. “Believe in me and This “belief business” constitutes a sort of “permission”, if you will, to accept the “vengeful” action if the agreement is broken. The Hebrew phrase for “he made a covenant”, is “karat berit”, or literally, he cut a covenant. In the covenant with Abraham in Genesis, animals are cut in two and a fire passes between them in a mysterious ritual. Then, there is the cutting of the flesh at circumcision, and the Sinai covenant where the laws were cut into stone. So, these covenants are apparently what constituted Israel as a nation. The entire foundation of Monotheism is framed by the severed pieces of animals, it seems. Could these “cuts” be a symbol of the “breaking apart” of DNA? Most particularly when associated with the genitals! 296 A: Time is an illusion that works for you because of your altered DNA state. Q: (L) Okay, what other illusions? A: Monotheism, the belief in one separate, all powerful entity. Q: (L) What is another one of the illusions? A: The need for physical aggrandizement. Q: (L) What is another of the illusions? A: Linear focus. Unidimensionality. From “The Curse of Cain:” obey me or else I will destroy you.” Returning to “The Curse of Cain:"