Is there a link between the fall in the Garden and birth trauma?

Question: Is there a link between a fall in the garden and a birth trauma?

Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2026 New Year Webinar.

As we have said before, the Garden of Eden is a metaphor. Really eating the forbidden fruit is a symbol for going into the duality consciousness, becoming as a god, knowing good and evil, because in duality you are defining what is good and evil.

It is not necessarily the same, because the fall in the garden is a symbol for going into the duality consciousness.

For the original earth inhabitants, this happened at a much earlier stage. Avatars had not gone into duality when they came to earth, although they could still have some dualistic view of what coming to earth meant. You came here, you were exposed to the birth trauma, and then you went into duality. For avatars, the birth trauma came as a result of coming to earth, and then going into duality came after that shock. But for many earth inhabitants, they had already gone into duality before they were exposed to the fallen beings.