[Quinny]

Am I missing something - what's the issue with the pine cone?

[ColossalContrarian]

Am I missing something - what's the issue with the pine cone?

The thing about pinecones is that they're mostly only useful during great destruction (forest fires). Pinecones are made to transcend great destruction while everything else is burned and destroyed so to many cultures they represent a new beginning or something greater than death.

[Quinny]

Thanks but still don't get why VM points any reference to them out.

[evilgenius]

The pinecone is a symbol of consciousness, moreso, the third eye. It has to do with a belief that matter is subject to consciousness. It has a follow on in what I was saying about the importance of love in the idea of religion. The temptation in the garden was to adopt selfishness. Selfishness essentially blinds the third eye while the selflessness that love contains empowers it. That's why the knowledge of good and evil brought death and changed the nature of the world. It's why every religion eventually gets round to love as a core teaching. It's also why we, being flesh and blood, can't see anything to religion unless we decide to have faith in it because flesh and blood are doomed to see only from selfishness.

[vision-master]

Am I missing something - what's the issue with the pine cone?

Pineal Gland, DMT, Vatican Secrets ( Pine Cone Symbolism ).

[vision-master]

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