Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 עמודים 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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... carried away captive , beside yourself . But you can depart from the exile of Babylon and return to the sanctity of ... carry you up toward your ideals . You must leave old attitudes behind and project yourself into the new world of ...
... carry the law with you in your heart . In architecture , a rib is used in the arches of stone work that constitutes the skeleton of the vault . As an integral part of the structure , the rib is referred to as an arc.5 The authors of ...
... carry aloft eternal youth and a reaching for the sun . Yet there is not one moment in life that does not require vigilance . At any given moment , the temptation to hesitate , to doubt oneself winds its way into view and we are fixated ...
... carry the ideal forward from the place in our heart and mind where it was conceived , knowing that a guiding light will always show the way . So he drove out the man ; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim , and a ...
... carrying out that progress , and so must be recognized as a necessary faculty to it . And the Lord said unto him , Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain , vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold . And the Lord set a mark upon Cain , lest ...
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