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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... five senses , inner and outer or ten together , adds to your capacity to think and act constructively , creatively , then they complement each other and you are at one with yourself . And Esau said , I have enough , my brother ; keep ...
... five senses or that part of the mind that lives in the land of first impressions . This is yet another way of saying that the mind must travel to a place where it learns to deal with external circumstances before it can return to itself ...
... five senses . And he took and sent messes unto them from before him : but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs.122 The mind meets up again with itself . Life starts anew . Season falls upon season , month upon month ...
... five senses or the observation of barriers that keep us enslaved or imprisoned until we allow the inner perceptions to lead the way . Pleading with the Pharaoh to " let my people go " 148 is allowing the problem to have the upper hand ...
... five senses give way to the inner five . and all the firstborn of the land of Egypt shall die.151 You get caught up in the way things are until you remember that who you are on the inside determines what will happen on the outside ...