Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 ページ 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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... allow yourself to be pulled back into the abyss of defeat and fear . Abram's nephew Lot was sent east of the Jordan River where he could not contaminate the ground reserved for growth and progress and improvement . To Abram or to that ...
... allowing your creative power to flow naturally because fear has removed itself from the equation . The entire Bible points to the fact that you need specific skills to support you in every situation that life has in store for you ...
... allow thoughts of distraction to rob him of his vitality . He invokes wisdom to stand guard and insure that clarity remain separated from confusion , that the latter never cross the line into the dominion of the former . The Lord watch ...
... allows its subconscious powers to rise unhindered to the surface . And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came ; and Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh : For God , said he , hath made me forget all ...
... allow your inherent capacity to go to work for you . And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see , God called unto him out of the midst of the bush , and said , Draw not nigh hither : put off thy shoes from off thy feet , for the ...