Apples & Oranges

By on February 28, 2009 in Balance, Peace, Spirituality

Did you know that in the Genesis story of Adam, Eve and the Serpent, the kind of fruit is never named? It has traditionally become an apple. Why is that? Because apples are indivisible as themselves. Perfect fruit to symbolize the metaphysical “division” of humankind from its Creator. Even more perfect because Eve held in her hand the solution to the segmentation—wholeness.


Spencer Beebe, president of Ecotrust in Portland, writing in Spirituality & Health May/June 2008 says, “We are an “orange” society (segmented); we need to be an “apple” society (whole again.)”


Oranges and apples, apples and oranges, are images used primarily to illustrate how things don’t go together. How perfect that Mr. Beebe harnesses them to explain how societies are interacting at the moment.


I’d like to take this image to a more microcosmic level than he did. We are orange individuals seeking to become apples again. Segmentation within is rampant, and we, made in the image and likeness of the Original Wholeness, naturally seek wholeness.

Have an apple!


Be joy,


Susan Corso

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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood. 
 
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com 
 
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
 
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
 
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen. 
 
For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.

Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz. 
 
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2 Responses to Apples & Oranges

  1. Ruch March 1, 2009 at 3:52 am #

    Nice ~ I've always wondered this meaning of the phrase Apples and Oranges. Now I know!

    I think most are orange individuals perfectly fitting in to an orange society, where some apple individuals are left with confusion. And then they call it 'adjustment difficulty' !

    Thanks for sharing Dr. Susan.

  2. howsoonisnow March 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm #

    This is a such a wonderful discovery. Thanks for posting. Learned something new today! =)