Live Now Die Later: A Book for the Sensitive Mind and Rugged IndividualistDavidAlanKraul, 2004 - 344 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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... intuition , which has brought us this far , is brought to a standstill . Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made . And he said unto the woman , Yea , hath God said , Ye shall not eat of ...
... intuition when faced with hard choices . This immaculate conception is described again , in a slightly different way , in Matthew and Luke . Those choices , of course , arise all the time when we face the outside world , the land of the ...
... Intuition urges . Intuition suggests , very strongly , in no uncertain terms , that you move in a well - defined direction . Intuition urges caution . It tells you to ask questions , obtain more information . When you know you have ...
... intuition , your wisdom , leads you there . Wisdom resides with the inner five senses or the 69 Genesis 25 : 4 70 Genesis 24 : 4 71 Genesis 24 : 2 72 Genesis 24:13 73 Genesis 24 : 14,18 74 Mark 14:13 accumulation of perceptions . Your ...
... intuition . And the Lord was with Joseph , and he was a prosperous man ; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.114 The Pharaoh himself is stymied by his own dreams . Joseph is summoned to interpret them . And Joseph ...
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