| 2. Originally planted at Jena High School some fourteen years ago as a "Tree of Knowledge," the infamous tree was slain in July 2007, so as not to be a continued reminder of the polarizing events that surrounded it. A concept first established in the Book of Genesis millennia ago, "The Tree of Knowledge" was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil from which Adam and Eve notoriously ate its fruit. Upon so doing they perceived their own differences and, feeling ashamed, concealed their nakedness from each other, and from God. The initial knowledge thereby acquired in this mythological tale was more than that of merely male and female. Rather, it was knowledge of "one's self" and "other." This knowledge forms the fundamental perceptual duality perhaps at the root of all dualistic awareness. |
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