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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... soil of what is already in its possession , and the other who goes afield and tends the flock of ideas and concepts that lead to new insights and horizons . One is Cain , a tiller of the ground ; the other Abel , a keeper of sheep , and ...
... soil.27 You have every opportunity to reconsider your position and start all over again , and again . When the clouds and thunder have receded and the sun's rays reappear and a new light signals a new beginning , it will become clear to ...
... Mediterranean Sea , has always been coveted for its fertile soil and abundant crops . Encyclopedia Britannica XIII , page 16 & Encyclopedia Britannica XXV , page 138 The mind must often migrate over long roads of hardship 15.
... soil . You can only give it the best nutrients , cultivate a positive outlook . This takes work . You have to till the soil , keep your mind active if it is to produce growth . The twelve sons of Jacob were conceived near Harran , where ...
... soil giving birth to new life after months of barrenness . Benjamin was the only son born in the land of Canaan , the promised land , the land of fertile soil and a wealth of crops , 106 a way of saying that the mind travels and ...
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