Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 oldal The sensitive mind and the rugged individualist are portrayed in the literature of antiquity by two brothers, the first-born and the second-born. The mind is the father of two sons. One side of us is conservative, cautious; the other side is radical and adventurous. A part of us is content with the status quo; another part of us seeks change and improvement. The mind perceives first with the outer five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell. Those perceptions are recorded and processed for future use, and thus the mind has five inner senses, the second-born son. In the Old and New Testaments this concept is expressed through several pairs of brothers. Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin, Aaron and Moses, John and Jesus are all characters created to illustrate the mind's journey. The eastern Mediterranean became a marketplace for the exchange of ideas that had their provenance not just in Athens or Alexandria, but made their way westward from India and China well over 2,000 years ago. The lunar calendar and the appearance of the full moon was not just vital to agriculture in Mesopotamia; it spawned metaphors that illustrated the mind at its brightest. Abraham, for example, Hebrew for "father is high," was a moon god who symbolized the full moon, i. e., the moon straight up or high. "Father" is high because the mind is the father of two sons. Obviously, many concepts evolved independently, but migration and commerce exported and imported more than just figs and wine. Adam and Eve, the male and female of Genesis, are reflected in the yang and the yin of Taoism in ancient China. Elizabeth, Mary and Jesus are a variation of Demeter, Persephone and Dionysus. Thinkers over the ages have struggled to come to terms with the rough and tumble of daily life. Some have even suggested that life begins in some faraway place after death. Others have tried to find the way to live now and die later. |
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... allows any semi - literate reader to let curiosity do the walking . No one of any intelligence today can get past the first chapter of Genesis without serious reflection . Writers of antiquity were not idiots . They lived and breathed ...
... allow your mind to grow . This is eternal life . It is eternal because you are constantly moving forward , reviving a positive outlook , resurrecting thoughts and ideas that have lain dormant and yearn to come to the surface and express ...
... allow your innate , deep - seated energy to rise to the surface and change your world . You can harness your true capabilities and set in motion what has lain dormant like the night awaits the rise of the sun . And the earth was without ...
... allowed to stand in the way of progress , but always play an important role in carrying out that progress , and so must be recognized as a necessary faculty to it . And the Lord said unto him , Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain ...
... allow the world to see them , then what is in you is an exact reflection of what others see from without . And I will remember my covenant , which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no ...
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