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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... ideal is to be king or ruler of the realm that is your mind . Your intuition , your wisdom , leads you there . Wisdom resides with the inner five senses or the 69 Genesis 25 : 4 70 Genesis 24 : 4 71 Genesis 24 : 2 72 Genesis 24:13 73 ...
... ideal that is sacrificed in order that it may reappear at a higher level . The Greek goddess Aphrodite was associated with the sea and symbolized the fructifying power of water . Poseidon , god of the sea , was revered for his power to ...
... ideal that you admire and pursue . Whatever your goal or ideal may be , you must give it your undivided attention and consume it bit by bit until it becomes a part of you , your flesh and blood . You will have to memorize vocabulary and ...
... ideal in mind . It is quite another to frame that ideal in a way that is fixed and inflexible . An army general cannot allow himself to become so entranced with his desire to have bigger and better weapons that he stops listening to his ...
... ideal , ambition , is what you truly love . You give it your undivided attention by courting and cultivating its development . You must devote yourself to it to the exclusion of matters of lesser priority . Whatever it is you want ...