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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... mind has the two sides of thought and the feeling that conveys that thought into words or action , the mind has a conservative and a radical side . One part of us is content with the status quo ; the other part is adventurous and sets ...
A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged Individualist David Alan Kraul. upon the earth.17 And God said to Noah , The end of all flesh is come before me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them ; and , behold , I will destroy ...
... mind an icon or the picture of a perfect world and we give our undivided attention to what we believe is the source of what will lead to fulfillment . We become infatuated with the notion that there is a power outside of ourselves that ...
... mind once and for all . Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities , and all the plain , and all the inhabitants of the cities , and that which grew upon ...
... mind . It is the second - born concept or the land of the inner five senses , however , that takes these impressions and works on them and shapes and forms an image that is to our advantage and carries us forward in life in search of ...
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Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged Individualist David Alan Kraul No preview available - 2004 |