I am reading a famous book right now, a book wrought with controversy and theories of conspiracies. It is called "The Da Vinci Code." I am more than half way through the book but not quite done. The thing is that the more I read, the more I wonder what the fate of the world would had been like had all the stuff the author, Dan Brown, had said was true. Would it have been so bad if the early Catholic Church had recognized Mary Magadalene as the "Sacred Feminine"? If there really is a bloodline directly descendent of God and Jesus Christ, wouldn't the Church have been better served had they welcomed the line into the Church, thus being able to draw on the original power of Christ. Imagine, also, that there is a chance that accept for the occasional "Peter" (an alleged sexist in the book that was jealous of Mary Magadelene), perhaps we would never have had any world wars. Perhaps, instead of everyone constantly volleying for power, we all would have trully been united and thus escaped some of the horrors that exist in the world today like children in Africa with AIDS who are dying every day because they have no one to take care of them. Or women being kidnapped from their families and sold into slave labor and prostitution. Or what about men who think that only way to prove that they are men is to beat women. Maybe, if Eve had not been painted as the enemy then women would not have become as devalued as they are all across the world, as they are in countries that practice female circumcision. And perhaps, yound boys trying to pretend that are men would not be trying to hover over me trying to find out what I am writing. Maybe, had things been done a little differently, boys today would have learned how to grow up and be men, instead of boys forever playing cops and robbers, volleying for positions of power. Which is all it's really about any more, power, right? I mean, if things that the book claims are even partially true, that means that even the human need to be the top dog is nothing more then a left-over reprecussion from the days that the Roman Catholic Church tried to become the end all and be all of religion. What if people were trully free? Not bound by anything an innate human ideal that meant protecting yourself and respecting your fellow man? What if this is the reason that God allowed Jesus to die on the cross. Maybe He knew that our sins did not trully lie in the flesh, but in the spirit, the soul, and that all the physical torture Christ endured was nothing more than a symbol for the spiritual torture man was about to endure at the hands of our ignorance. Perhaps the quest to find yourself and comfort in the Lord is really a quest to find a the truth that we instinctively know does not lie in the teachings of a document written by men, but in the spirituality that was first discovered so long ago.