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Actually, the entire Old Testament can be mapped to your genius framework. The Bible is really the story of the brain and self-consciousness—from Genesis all the way through Jesus, who was the Master entering a left-brain dominant world. Unfortunately, the "Church" became the left-brain dominant Builder again when it decided to disregard Jesus's right-brain mastery.
This started in fifteenth-century Spain, when a new rule appeared: limpieza de sangre—purity of blood. It meant that even if a Jewish family converted to Christianity, they could never be considered true Christians because of their ancestry. This was more than social prejudice; it was a profound violation of Christianity’s own foundation. The gospel taught that Christ came for all people, and that through faith, repentance, and baptism a person became new.
Here the Builder appears again, in the Church: the impulse to secure order by sorting, defining, and controlling. Under Christ, another hierarchy had briefly been revealed—one in which wholeness came before category, grace before rank, and belonging before exclusion. But when that vision proved difficult to sustain, the older instinct returned.
I'm writing a deeply researched book about all this—it's nearly finished—and I've also written a blog series that touched on the subject. It's called The Drama You're In. Here's the essay where I map the Garden to Babel: "The Shadow Siblings and the Algorithm of Exile."
Tomorrow, another post releases that covers what I mentioned above from a modern real estate vantage point. Here's a preview:
The Tower They Built: How Real Estate Became the World's Biggest Bubble
