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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... and their individual abodes prevailed in communities south of Babylon , cities like Erech and Eridu . Ziggurats were erected in their honor , towers made of clay and brick , usually with seven steps or levels to represent the moon ...
Abraham and Sarah represent thought and feeling , a wedded pair , since feeling conveys what you think . Feeling gives motion or emotion to ... The Pharaoh represents the world of external circumstances . Abraham here illustrates the ...
Those first impressions or the outer five senses are represented by the first - born thought of the mind . It is the second - born concept or the land of the inner five senses , however , that takes these impressions and works on them ...
The mind fathers two sons , the conservative and radical side of us , the first and second born represented by Cain and Abel , Ishmael and Isaac , Esau and Jacob , Joseph and Benjamin , Manasseh and Ephraim , Aaron and Moses , Elijah ...
Female represents feeling as well as emotions that carry us astray , and thus Jacob at first follows the dictates of his mother's , rather than his father's , house . Arise , go to the house of thy mother's father ; and take thee a wife ...
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| Title | Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged Individualist |
| Author | David Alan Kraul |
| Publisher | DavidAlanKraul, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1414030223, 9781414030227 |
| Length | 344 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Biblical Studies / General |
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