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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... King Alcinous , whose gardens and palace were famous in antiquity . Your ultimate goal or 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 ...
... king , could predict rain or prevent flood . The twelve constellations of the zodiac announced the and winter solstices , the vernal and autumn equinoxes . Orion and Sirius and the constellation Leo accompany the month of July and ...
... king of the land held divine status . The fiction evolved that the king's successor was the progeny of the supreme deity and the pharaoh's eldest daughter . She bestowed upon her human husband the right to rule Egypt and suppress any ...
... king Theias by his daughter Smyrna . When Theias discovered that Smyrna felt an unnatural attraction for Aphrodite , he would have slain her , but the gods changed her into a tree . Ten months later , the tree burst asunder and out came ...
... king over Egypt , which did not know Joseph . And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour.137 Nothing stays the same . At no time in your life can you kick back and say : " I have arrived . " You can work out at ...