Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 pages 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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... look outward and find someone else to do the work for us . The composite writings collected in the Old and New Testaments follow a thread , a common theme that is expressed in several different ways but pointing in one direction . The ...
... look around you and realize that you have drifted from your true course , that you are no longer the person you wanted to be , that your decisions tend to be more influenced by those people around you than by those powers within you ...
... look upon it , that I may remember the ever - lasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.29 The ultimate derivation of " arch " is the Latin " arcus , " a bow or arch , in origin meaning ...
... look for answers elsewhere . You think that someone else has more wisdom than you , or you seek advice when you had the answer all along . You enter the land of circumstances and conditions not of your own making and submit to the ...
... look back and realize you have been brainwashed . You would rather be doing something else , and then real or imagined obstacles stand in the way of your desire . They are real in that everyday life does present certain situations to ...
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