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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... possession of your desires , take possession of your mind , the promised land . You cannot rest on your laurels . You must constantly put idle and negative thoughts to the sword . Doubt , fear , anxiety , must all be vanquished , the ...
... possession , and the other who goes afield and tends the flock of ideas and concepts that lead to new insights and horizons . One is Cain , a tiller of the ground ; the other Abel , a keeper of sheep , and when the fruits of the mind's ...
... possession of the wealth that lies within it . In the tantric39 mysticism of Tibet , the mind rises above the material world around it and returns to its original state . One who seeks enlightenment indulges in this process by way of a ...
... possessions are in the mind , the only real life is in the mind , and the mind must always be on the move . Abraham means travel . From the beginning to the end , the Bible stresses the point that you must be physically and mentally ...
... possession of his own 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 ...
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