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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... serve Laban , who asks : What shall thy wages be ? 86 Jacob thinks he must merely court his true love in order to take her home , and replies : I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.8 We think and feel that we ...
... served your father . And your father hath deceived me , and changed my wages ten times ; but God suffered him not to hurt me.88 We may be buffeted about by difficulties , just as Jacob toiled long and hard in the land of Laban to ...
... fructifying power of water . Poseidon , god of the sea , was revered for his power to induce storm or calm . 110 Genesis 37:26 111 Genesis 37:28 112 Genesis 37:28 113 Genesis 37:24 Joseph's dreams will serve him well vis - a - 44.
... serve him well vis - a - vis the Pharaoh . Joseph is the mind that has learned from experience . It has improved and strengthened itself and uses its inherent powers . Jacob had to negotiate his ransom , the way back to himself . He was ...
... serve with rigour.137 Nothing stays the same . At no time in your life can you kick back and say : " I have arrived . " You can work out at the gym for ten years , be in top shape , but the day you stop exercising , your physical ...
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