MANUAL II: How to Live Forever
A scientists is now claiming what I have known since 3030. Though he is not entirely on the mark -- morality and psychologically dealing with stress have A LOT TO DO with immortality -- his is a great start. At least he's fighting the ridiculously arrogant assumption of the inevitability of death. SEE NEW RESEARCH. Of course the "death-lovers" (why do some love death so?) call him crazy.
Death is often spoken about in many ways. It is a concept that really doesn't sit well with most people. There are always these admonitions to "accept death" with the natural implication to "accept weakening" and to "accept deterioration." Many seem fairly content (note, that I say "seem") to imagine themselves as some kind of machine that -- like all machines -- will eventually fall out of use. Is this really a natural perspective? Or is this perhaps some kind of remnant of the dark ages that keeps us from striving by imposing some kind of religious and/or cynical time-barrier past which a curious consciousness cannot go?
No one would dispute that the true goal of medical science is physical immortality, yet for some (superstitious?) reason, most doctors and many scientists scoff at the idea. Some point to a recent petri dish experiment where they managed to replicate cells under "ideal" conditions and found that (alas, they knew it all along!) over time, these cells -- they concluded without much real thought -- degenerated "on there own".
(5/29/04) yet another group of brilliant minds came up with the asinine idea that there is actually a gene that governs aging. They claim they've found out that cells carry an aging principle in their DNA! This is probably one of the biggest cases of backward experimentation you'll ever see. It's almost as bad as the suggestion that some people are genetically determined to be alcoholics.
(2/13/04) What these anti-immortalists did not consider was that a necessary ingredient to any "ideal" scenario for a cluster of cells to replicate without degenerating over time is happiness. Yes, true happiness. If this quality can find a way to become inherent to a cluster of cells, there is no limit to how long that cluster of cells can replicate without degenerating. This makes the petri dish experiment quite laughable. Any organism under such conditions wouldn't even have the capacity for thought, much less for happiness. This leads me to a very important point: Immortality requires consciousness.
If a cluster of cells is to even be held together, there must be some sort of overriding principle by which they are organized to hang together. In most organisms this higher principle is DNA. But DNA is not enough to steer the cellular cluster into a perpetual state of union. What it can do is give rise to a brain which then thinks its way into such a union.
Most humans and even some animals have the capacity to do this. At the very least, any living thing that can read these words and understand them has the capacity to be immortal.
So here is the equation. Perpetual happiness = immortality. Can it really be this simple? Well, happiness is a complicated thing. So, no. And perpetual happiness seems impossible. So, does this make immortality impossible? No, it only makes it difficult to attain.
It turns out that happiness is not simply perpetual joy. It is a complex emotional framework involving both pain and pleasure, both stress and calm, both joy and sadness, both negative emotions and positive emotions. Happiness consists in keeping these different emotions balanced with respect to each other in ways that do not burn excess energy. It is the unnecessary burning of our vital energies through the misorganizating of these emotions that constitutes unhappiness. As these energies are depleted faster than they are recovered (because of net loss over time being simply too much to sustain), the cellular cluster deteriorates and, yes, it will then follow the path of the petri dish experiment.
So happiness is not an emotion. It is special relationship that a rational being has with his emotions. It is a special way of organizing your emotions so that they actually yield more vital energy than they burn off. Because emotions do burn vital energy. Especially, unmanaged negative emotions. But negative emotions are also potentially a huge source of usable energy for the person who is really able to consciously make them propel his actions -- (this takes some practice but it is an invaluable step toward immortality) actions which he knows are important for his energy level to increase, because some are quite obvious, certain short term goals can be overall morale boosters, developing an artistic idea or thought can be a confidence builder( = energy), or menial tasks such as cleaning and organizing one's living space (clean surroundings = more energetic mind or clean thinking). It is only when you become identified with (believe in) your negative emotion -- i.e., mistake it for a factual claim -- that it becomes a huge energy drain. The urge to do something about the (wrongly) assumed fact looms large against the conscience which says, "No!". There is no conscious effort to shift the negative energy to an UNRELATED task THAT YOU KNOW will increase your energy (learning an instrument), so the energy not only dissipates, it also poisons the body for not being used in the right way. Try pouring gas into the wrong hole in your car, and you will see a rough physical example of the kind of stupid waste that is occurring in our minds on a daily basis UNLESS we are willing to be conscious 24/7 and continually ask and answer the question: Am I releasing/employing my negative emotions in a way that will no doubt speed my progress toward happiness? (Am I pouring this gasoline into the gas hole?)
Though it is the goal for many, it is simply not possible nor advisable to try to enter a cognitive state in which you no longer have negative emotions. Your energy supply, coming only from food and positive emotions, would quickly be depleted. In other words, one bowl of negative emotions carries more propulsion energy in one second of "mind-think" than 100 bowls of positive emotions. [energy that can either be created into tons of positive energy by conscious efforts, or leak out wrongly and simultaneously nullify other sources of positive energy (e.g., from food and positive emotions) if left to its own devices (thru: crime, bad comments, nasty demeanor, pessimistic viewpoint expression, etc.)]
More here later (on about how to be happy -- some clues will be found below).
Take a deep breath. Hold it for a second. Let it all out slowly. Every last bit, slowly. Let it seep out your mouth. Repeat the above, forever. Air is the fountain of youth.
You are always breathing, but sometimes, when you're thinking about something that doesn't seem to have an easy solution, your breathing becomes shallow. This is a throwback reaction to when our minds were our primary source of survival. From primitive times, our reasoning capabilities comprised our lion fangs, our protective shell. It is a relatively recent development in the history of the species for us to be reasoning apart from immediate danger.
Flash of a picture of the savage human. He is crouching behind a stone, watching in terror as a hungry wolf catches his scent and approaches. As his intellect chooses a useful escape route, his breathing must not be heard, so he holds his breath as he thinks. The lack of oxygen will affect his ability to reason out his escape route -- but if his hunter hears it and finds him, the man is doomed.
Today, holding your breath while thinking is not necessary and it can even be harmful. Nevertheless it is still done out of years of evolutionary programming. Whenever your oxygen intake is reduced, your world-view is then recast commensurate with a low oxygen world. Low oxygen worlds are bleak, cold and unforgiving. High-oxygen worlds are happier worlds, they have more possibilities and many more miracles. So stay in high oxygen. Breathe.
"Don't worry about polluted air, it only harms those not helping to restore the earth's beauty. If you're consciously working to create harmony, you can't be harmed by anything," said the LONE KING. His shipmates seemed skeptical. He opened the hatch to his time dilator and, with a wince, stepped out into the thick morass of Nihilistic Self-Regret.
The Lone King is correct. But one should also make note of the fact that our minds may be lazier than we think. For instance, a person can become easily convinced that he/she is doing all she can to maintain the harmony of the earth when he/she is in fact disharmonizing it. (Mother Teresa?)
Pollution, poor diet, parasites and other physical weakeners impair judgments. Thus, under the influence of these and similar factors, you really must establish a "double-check system" to be quite positive you are fulfilling your harmonic potential.
FIRST: Ask yourself: Am I mentally lazy?
Mental laziness is virtually undetectable. Some signs to look for include:
Depression is not acceptable for whores. It gives you bad breath and makes you sneaky, self-destructive, resentful, and sometimes criminal. Do not let yourself get depressed if you can help it. Do whatever it takes to stay high. Drugs, however are not recommended. See MANUAL V.
There was a period in your life when your desires did not outrun the possibilities of the situation in which you found yourself. When this period ended, depression became a common aspect of your existence. I am speaking of the innocence you lost in the name of ambition--in the name of a future that can never come because it is defined as "that which you lack and are striving for."
More precisely said, the prudent man by today's standards is always setting up a goal toward which to strive. Fixating on this goal, the fleeting present is little more than a dim reminder of some unattained future state-of-affairs that will, in truth, come and go with equal swiftness.
There is something insidious going on whenever a teacher teaches the concept of the "goal." The very idea--that a future possibility is more important than one's present moment and its possibilities--smacks of some basic kind of (molecular?) stupidity. It is, after all, a denial of the majick of the present.
"Most spend their whole lives taking shallow breaths, eating dead-quick-blood-sugar-food, envying those they should admire, ignoring those they should help. And these people wonder why they aren't happy--why they've grown so damn ugly. Wonder why I look good--why I'm so fucking young--why I evolve rather than age. I breathe, motherfucker! Do you? I admire without envy. Do you? I help anyone who is in need? Do you? I don't allow myself to get depressed. Do you? I see Gods. Do you? I see that death is a curable disease. Do you? Don't envy me. Beat me. It's easy. Just love this universe and the beings in it more than I do. Compete like that, you fucker!"
Reporter:
" . . .and with that the Lone King completed his monthly State of the Universe Address from his solitary planet, Thanos. I'm Roberto Matus, Child Empire News, in the Lone Kingdom."
You must exercise every morning--only slightly--ten minutes, vigorously, to put you just to the point where you're out of breath--then sit with your back straight and bring your breath down to a deep, steady, even pace through your nose. If you had braces when you were younger, this is a good time to reassume your natural face. Hold it for as long as you can. Feel the growth as you visualize your upper and lower jaw moving forward.
Old age is a reversible disease. Don't you see it? The loosening of the skin, the loss of pigmentation in the hair and eyes, the weakening. If we weren't so convinced that this disease constituted the natural order of things, we'd be horrified by it. It is a disease, and I've found the cure.
Death is also a reversible disease. The ancients knew this. Such knowledge offers some insight into the reason cemeteries arose so early in Homo Sapien history. There was an intuition: we may be able to re-animate this corpse, let us leave it where we might find it later. Genetic cloning is a feeble attempt to address the urge to re-animate the dead, and the urge to immortality.
Every animal except the human being considers itself immortal and it expresses the calm of that belief by the gingerly pace of its existence. Animals flee from danger not to avoid death, but to avoid pain.
Here is the cure to old age: Become a saint. Do the right thing. All the time. The "wrong thing" is anything you need to be sneaky about to carry off.
Here is the cure to death: Stop believing in an end. Can you really imagine an end? Wake up, it is an illusion that the so-called dead are decaying under. There is no end to you, cockter.
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