Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistThe 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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... Bible are your thought and feeling , and in an ideal world thought and feeling and action should be an exact reflection of who you are in your whole being . You create your own options . This is the message of ages . viii.
... ideal is born . So God created man in his own image.2 The word " man " derives from the Indo - Germanic " men , " " to think , " as man is the essentially thinking and intelligent animal . It is a cognate of moon , Latin " mens , " mind ...
... ideal forward from the place in our heart and mind where it was conceived , knowing that a guiding light will always show the way . So he drove out the man ; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim , and a flaming sword ...
... and high - minded spirits , but if they are honored only in principle and not in practice , then 28 Genesis 9:15 29 30 Genesis 9:16 Encyclopedia Britannica II , page 342 they become a mere monument to an ideal , like 12.
... ideal , like an uncompleted building or ruins in the sands of antiquity . We set out to give expression to a goal or an ambition , an ideal , and we get no further than the image or the imagination of that ideal . We have in mind an ...
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Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged Individualist David Alan Kraul No preview available - 2004 |