Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 páginas 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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... Egypt to India ages ago . Minds mingled from one marketplace to the next over thousands of miles by foot , horse and sail . Profound words were cast abroad , recorded , revised , recorded again and again down through the corridors of ...
... Egypt in the time of the pharaohs or on Wall Street . The courage to make the right decision is a timeless commodity that has generated countless stories , scripts and anecdotes everywhere on this planet , but courage requires going ...
... Egypt , go to the wilderness of your soul and commune with your higher self . You have to listen to your heart of hearts , your most holy of holies , and then , and only then , do you cross the Jordan and take possession of your desires ...
... Egyptian priests practised the art of embalming in the time of the pharoahs . In the time of Homer and the ... Egypt.7 Adam is a popular Hebrew derivation from " adamah , " " the ground . " Both adam and adamu may come from the ...
... Egyptian " Tale of Two Brothers " of at least 3,000 years ago , one of the brothers leaves his heart on the top of the flower of the acacia and falls dead when it is cut down . In the Homeric poem to Aphrodite , the tree nymph is ...
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