Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 pagini 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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... ancient writings that became known as the Bible . Say you come home from work and empty your pockets of loose change onto that little table in the bedroom . Eventually it accumulates in a drawer or some other ridiculous place and in an ...
... ancient Persia or India or elsewhere , hundreds if not millions of people were , and still are , adulating the sage instead of listening to what he said . Most of the time they are not even aware of what he said . His image is enough ...
... ancient Greece . In the end , it remains the choice of the individual , anytime , anywhere , to take advantage of the wisdom articulated by few or by many . It is that choice that elevates one life to a level that soars above the rest ...
... ancient metaphor . In today's language we call it the left and right hemisphere of the Encyclopedia Britannica XXIII , page 281 Encyclopedia Britannica I , page 921 Encyclopedia Britannica XXVII , page 956 Encyclopedia Britannica I ...
... ancient world . Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plutarch thought that trees had perceptions , passions and reason . In the Egyptian " Tale of Two Brothers " of at least 3,000 years ago , one of the brothers leaves his heart on the top ...
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