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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... nature . You will definitely need to be in shape and have a self - defense trick or two up your sleeve in order to have this confidence . That idiot cannot hurt me because I will knock him out if he tries . By the same token , you had ...
... nature is the offspring of it . Isaac is wed to Rebekah . The Lord was intreated of him , and Rebekah his wife conceived.75 In the Old Testament , the father's estate went to the first- born . Your inheritance is your nature , your ...
... nature was more than adequate ^o break free from the servitude of conditions imposed from without , put them behind him , and reinstate his own inner worth . Except the God of my father , the God of Abraham , and the fear of Isaac , had ...
... natural powers and not flee from them . Such a mind is enlightened because it has discovered its whole nature , both intellect and imagination . Its nature or name now takes on a higher meaning . And Jacob was left alone ; and there ...
... nature . It retains its equanimity in the face of the Pharaoh or external circumstances . Joseph foresees in the Pharaoh's dreams " great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt " as well as a famine that " shall consume the land ...
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