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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... hear , touch , taste and smell must be a reflection of who you are on the inside . The outside world must conform to the inside world , and you and you alone make that determination . In a nutshell , the Bible says this : You create ...
... hear , touch , taste and smell forces you to think in terms of previous perceptions or the inner five senses . When you draw on what is stored in memory or written in your heart and apply it intelligently to what life puts in front of ...
... hear and act in our best interests . Those first impressions or the outer five senses are represented by the first - born thought of the mind . It is the second - born concept or the land of the inner five senses , however , that takes ...
... hear and that which we know . The outer five senses must ultimately obey the dictates of the inner five . And Jabob said , sell me this day thy birthright . And Esau said , Behold , I am at the point to die : and what profit shall this ...
... hear , what you perceive with all the five senses , inner and outer or ten together , adds to your capacity to think and act constructively , creatively , then they complement each other and you are at one with yourself . And Esau said ...
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