Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 من الصفحات 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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... unto the woman , Yea , hath God said , Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden ? And the serpent said unto the woman , Ye shall not surely die.10 Tree mythologies bloomed in the ancient world . Greek philosophers Aristotle and ...
... unto Abel and his offering . But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.14 12 Encyclopedia Britannica XXIV , pages 676-682 13 Genesis 3:24 14 Genesis 4 : 4-5 Yet that side of us that finds security in what 6.
... unto heaven ; and let us make us a name , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.32 And the Lord said , Behold , the people is one and they have all 31 Encyclopedia Britannica , Vol . XVII , page 697 ; Eleventh ...
... unto Abram , Get thee out of thy country , unto a land that I will show thee ; 43 And I will make of thee a great nation , and I will bless thee , and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing.44 Abraham , who has been ...
... unto Abraham , mocking.58 Such a mind is enslaved to or bound by what it sees at first hand , and it must be put into the background in order to free the creative side of us . Wherefore she said unto Abraham , Cast out this bondwoman ...