The content reflects on Eve’s choice between the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life, emphasizing the power of free will. This suggests that today’s collective moment invites a return to the Tree of Life, prioritizing intuitive wisdom and healing over intellectual pursuit, as society struggles with exhaustion from knowledge’s burdens.

“Everyone knows that Eve chose to eat from the Tree of Knowledge not the Tree of Eternal Life, yet, the entire world pretends to be confused about the cause-and-effect of this choice? ” ( Anna von Reitz )

What intrigues me most is how it relates to current times, woulden’t you have chosen the tree of life in this moment and time, ongoing dependance on God’s sustaining life and eternal vitality. The tree of knowledge is a hard and difficult road. I understand now more than ever that we were given free will and free choice. Had Eve chosen the Tree of Life instead of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, her life would likely have been one of sustained innocence, harmony, and direct communion with the divine, without the introduction of mortality, shame, or the struggle of duality. Choosing the Tree of Life, ongoing dependence on God’s sustaining vitality, eternal harmony, and innocent communion feels deeply right to me. The Tree of Knowledge path, with its struggle, consequences, and hard lessons, is indeed a heavy road. My recognition of free will as central is powerfully reframed and I see everything now as an active, personal choice rather than fate.

Relating this to currant times, we appear to be living in a collective moment of re-choosing. Many spiritual traditions and intuitive voices describe this era (especially post-2020 into the mid-2020s) as a great turning point—a time of correction, exposure, and the opportunity to shift from over-reliance on the Tree of Knowledge (intellectual analysis, material power, moral polarization, technological control, and fractured knowing) back toward the Tree of Life (restoration of direct connection, intuitive wisdom, healing, and humble dependence on higher sustaining Life). Knowing and Knowledge are not the same. The “knowledge” path has given humanity immense progress but also exhaustion, division, burn-out, identity crises, and a sense that “fig leaves” (our own coverings and systems) are no longer enough. This mirrors the post-Eden consequences: toil, shame, separation. The invitation to Life is strengthening. There’s a widespread spiritual stirring, people turning inward, valuing intuition, seeking simplicity, community, healing, and renewed faith or direct experience of the divine. Completion of old cycles, release of what no longer serves, and renewal. It’s as if humanity (and individuals) stand again before the trees, invited to choose dependence on eternal Life over self-directed knowledge.

My personal stance—“I would have chosen the Tree of Life.” If I would have known better, but I didn’t in my early days. In mystical understandings, individual choices ripple outward. By consciously preferring ongoing surrender to God’s sustaining flow, we participate in the collective healing. It becomes less about regretting humanity’s ancient choice and more about choosing differently now in our own life and sphere of influence. Jesus Christ is the perfect embodiment of what I am describing. The one who fully chose and lived from the Tree of life. He did not operate from independent knowledge or self-directed action. His life was marked by continual, moment-by-moment dependence on the Father. He only moved when He sensed the Father’s approval, timing, and leading. Jesus lived in perfect alignment with His inner “Knower” — which was the voice and will of the Father through the Holy Spirit. This wasn’t intellectual analysis or Tree of Knowledge striving. It was pure relational knowing. He would often withdraw to pray, listen, and only then act. Even in high-pressure moments (like Gethsemane), He submitted: “Not my will, but yours be done.”

When you feel something deeply in your knower and you honor it, you’re practicing the same kind of dependence Jesus modeled, choosing relationship and alignment over self-reliant figuring-it-out. In these current times of correction and healing, this way of living is being restored and highlighted. Many people are feeling exhausted by the heavy, independent Tree of Knowledge path and are being drawn back to this simpler, surrendered way that Jesus walked. Jesus shows us it’s possible even in a broken world. He lived in the consequences of the Fall, yet He never ate from that tree in His own heart. He remained rooted in the Tree of Life, and invites us to do the same through Him. He is the ultimate picture of the Tree of Life choice that we need to resonate with: ongoing dependence on God’s sustaining life and eternal vitality, rather than reaching for self determination and the knowledge of good and evil on our own terms.

Both Adam and Eve were equally created in God’s image. There was no hierarchy of closeness to God in the beginning — they walked with Him together in the garden. Woman was not “more spiritual” or “less spiritual.” She was the perfect counterpart — “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” Many interpreters today see the enemy’s tactic as an attack on partnership and unity. By getting Eve to act independently and then involving Adam, the harmony they were meant to enjoy was broken. The patriarchal systems that emerged later in history are part of the fallen world’s distortion — not God’s heart.