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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... wisdom . " The full moon signified the completion of a cycle , an idea or concept or aspiration " well thought out . " There were major temples to the moon in Ur of Chaldees , far to the south of Babylon , and in Harran far to the north ...
... wisdom . And Abram journeyed , going on still toward the south . And there was a famine in the land ; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there ; for the famine was grievous in the land.46 When you are reluctant to have faith in ...
... wisdom , " unto the place of the altar , which he had made there at the first . " 49 Just as the Pharaoh sent Abram out of Egypt , adverse situations send us back to the drawing board until we get it right . Getting it right means ...
... wisdom was sought by posing questions to a woman called the Pythoness whose knowledge or power was believed to derive from inspiration from the gods . She was traditionally a virgin , since virginity symbolized the purest of vehicles ...
... wisdom or inner five senses that tell us what ways of thinking must be exchanged for the insights that express our inherent power . We realize what is truly important and productive when we are ready to act on wisdom in order to move ...
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