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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... soul , and most of us would rather look outward and find someone else to do the work for us . The composite writings collected in the Old and New Testaments follow a thread , a common theme that is expressed in several different ways ...
... 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 , take possession of your mind , the ...
... souls of the pious . The tree is famous for oracles . The oak of Dodona in ancient Greece was tended by priests who slept on the ground . Sacred trees were the object of pilgrimage , such as the Bo tree in Sri Lanka , before the ...
... soul shall live because of thee.47 You underestimate your own powers of reason until the deception reveals itself to you and beckons you to return to the center of your soul from which life forces spring eternal . Abraham and Sarah ...
... soul has traveled through the night of introspection . The full moon enlightens by night , that is to say , the mind is enlightened when it makes wise choices even though the material world is not clearly visible . Once 25.
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