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Parts 9 and 10 of 10
By
Dan Hall
Published December 2004 The followiing are excerpts from
Dan Hall's new book, Neohygiene From
cryogenics to mystical elixirs, humans have searched for the proverbial fountain
of youth for longer than anyone can recall. Ponce de Leon is most famous for his
extended quest to the New World to discover an actual fountain, but to no avail.
According to the mainstream scientific viewpoint, immortality is not a possibility,
and regardless of the sheer number of metaphysicians, healers, spiritualists,
and others who have attempted to gain the universal secrets to everlasting life,
no one appears to have achieved something so lofty & yet. More
than a thousand years ago, a group of Chinese monks known as Sennin migrated to
Japan in order to flee the tyranny and oppression they experienced due to their
mixed religious beliefs. Sennin (immortals) represented a mixture of Buddhist,
Hindu, and Taoist ideas during an era in Chinese history where combining such
beliefs was not well respected and considered, among other things, impure. Winding
up in the Iga and Koga Provinces of Japan, the Sennin brought with them religious
practices that were soon heralded as both spiritual and mystical in nature. Shrouded
in mystery due to their religious practices and their vagabond nature, the Sennin
were sought out by numerous Japanese natives who desired the enlightening information
supposedly possessed by these Chinese settlers. Out of all this grew the mystical
beliefs of mikkyo or secret universal knowledge. The practitioners of mikkyo
were known as yamabushi or mountain warrior ascetics, and as the two cultures
intermingled beliefs, it wasn't long before these mountain warrior ascetics had
become knowledgeable enough in their own beliefs to practice the hidden knowledge
of immortality. Whether
or not the Sennin or the yamabushi actually achieved physical immortality is not
well documented and can be debated to infinity (pardon the pun), but what we can
learn from the ancient art of mikkyo, which later became known as Ninpo (interestingly
enough, the way of perseverance ) to Japanese villagers might lend more to the
concept of perpetual life than has ever been realized in the past. If
these ancient belief systems tell us nothing else, they tell us that the concept
of physical immortality has crossed the boundaries of cultures and belief systems
for many thousands of years. Ideas such as these generally have basis in fact,
regardless of how ridiculous they may appear on the surface, which is why it benefits
us to research these concepts in order to find out whatever the truth is behind
them. Physical immortality
brings up quite a few ponderables. Obviously, if the concept is true, then we
would need to ask, Why do people die? Other questions would range from, Why
do people get sick? to What about accidents? In other words, unless you lock
yourself in a closet and grow your own food to be sure of its purity, immortality
would be temporary at best; no matter how long you could live, the possibility
that you could die of an accident, disease, or whatever else would always exist.
Of course, this would be the case if physical immortality was a purely physical
phenomenon, but as we have already learned from the mikkyo priests of Japan, immortality
is a concept rich in spiritual beliefs and practices; it is not something to be
taken lightly. Humans,
by their very design, are blessed with qualities that other animals do not possess.
Intuition, sentience, knowledge, comprehension, and many other qualities (most
of them mental in nature) all define the human animal. The older we get as a species,
the more we become aware of and capable of using these qualities to build luxury
automobiles, towering skyscrapers, jet airplanes, and all of the other modern
conveniences of life. Human knowledge and societal technology increase dramatically
every year. In fact, during the latter part of the 20th century, our information
has doubled once every five to 10 yearssomething that was completely unheard
of only a century before. With the invention of computers, we have undoubtedly
taken the next step towards the progression of the human mind. It is only a matter
of time until we collectively stumble upon the true secrets of enlightenment,
and perhaps that time is approaching faster than we think. Intelligence
is merely one key to physical immortality. Without it, we would remain subject
to our biological programming just like any other wild animal. But because of
it, humans have been able to overcome our biological programming, all the while
unaware!
In
nature, there is a rule that applies to aging across species. Practically called
the seven times maturity rule, this rule states that the average life span of
most animals, regardless of their breed or species, is the number seven multiplied
by their maturity. Dogs, for instance, tend to mature at age three, and 7 ×
3 = 21, which is about the average life span of most breeds of dogs. Some mature
at around the age of two and only live about 12 to 14 years. The same goes for
most breeds of cats, which mature at around age three and live until they are
about 21. Humans are one of the few species of animals
who have defied this rule throughout history. In fact, we miss the seven times
maturity rule by about 60 years. But why? Could it be because of our diets? Are
we stricken by cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and other symptoms of old age
so early because of how we eat? Could it be because of daily stress, depression,
anxiety, and other negative emotions that put wear and tear on our bodies at a
molecular level? The truth is, all of the above reasons apply to some degree:
We dont eat the way we should for the most part, we think negative thoughts and
feel negative emotions that hinder our physical bodies at various levels, but
most importantly, we expect to grow old and die sooner than we are supposed to,
and that is the primary reason we age and die: belief. For
over 300,000 years, humans have walked the face of the earth observing death in
its various forms. As we grew more aware of our surroundings and more intelligent
as a whole, we began to make assumptions about the nature of both life and death.
Our increasing intelligence also gave us the ability to experiment with different
food sources, move away from our natural habitats, cook with fire, and so forth.
Not every technological advancement made living better; some of them worked in
quite the opposite direction. For instance, by learning how to cook and eat
meat, we have managed to provide our bodies with a food source that was both low
in nutrition and difficult for our herbivorous (plant-eating) digestive tracts
to handle. Practices such as this have shaved many years off of our life spans,
and as we grew even more intelligent, we eventually learned that 70 or 80 years
was the maximum life span. Now, after thousands of
years of learning, we are fairly confident that anyone living into his/her 80s
has lived a rather well-rounded life. Most scientists agree that humans have the
potential to live as long as 120 to 140 years, but they believe that such a life
span can only be achieved through modern medical miracles and not by alternative
health practices. Again, the one ingredient that we have missed is that human
aging is no longer caused by biological programming & but by belief alone. The
reason humans seem to defy the seven times maturity rule is because we believe
that we must die at a predetermined age. Every day, we are bombarded by deathist
programming telling us that the average human life span is about 75 years. We
have gotten to the point where we believe this fact wholeheartedly, and due
to our belief, our bodies grow old and die before it is absolutely necessary.
Whats important here is that humans do possess a unique set of mortality genes
known as M1 and M2, which are, interestingly enough, possessed in various forms
by all other animals who follow the seven times maturity rule. These genes, in
fact, are responsible for aging and death at seven times maturity, yet they turn
on way too early in humans. Why the human mortality genes do not follow the seven
times maturity rule is difficult to grasp, but it can be explained. Humans
are the only animals on earth to possess controlled, sentient thought. We are
aware of our existences, our surroundings, the past, the present, and the future.
We can think, and that is the one ingredient that differentiates us from all other
animals. Because of this unique quality, we are able to ponder natural occurrences
such as death, and after thousands of years of observation and pondering, we have
come to the conclusion that death occurs to the average human at 75 years of age.
So, we teach this, and we believe this, and after so many years of being told
that you are going to die at age 75, you begin to believe it wholeheartedly yourself.
Belief is a powerful thingmore powerful, in fact, than our biological programming. At
the subatomic level, thoughts and emotions are physical phenomena that take the
form of electrical and chemical impulses. Everything you think and feel is transmitted
along a vast electrical network of neurons (nerve cells) to every other cell in
your body. Each cell that possesses the M1 and M2 mortality genes is also the
recipient of every thought you think and every emotion you feel. Cells have no
conscious thought of their own. Because of this, they respond to all of your thoughts
and emotions, so when you are worried, your body responds with nausea; when you
are happy, your body responds with the release of endorphins to cause elation;
when you are depressed, your body responds with lactic acid to produce lethargy.
Your bodyat the cellular levelresponds to every single thought you think. From
the moment that you are old enough to realize what death truly is, you begin believing
that you are going to die, and every time you ponder your own death, you are telling
your cells (again, at the subatomic level via electrical and chemical impulses)
to die! The reason your M1 and M2 genes turn on and
start the death process nearly 60 years before your life span potential is because
you wish it so. You think you are going to die, so your body carries out its orders.
Each cell is reprogrammed with deathist urges every time you think these thoughts
and feel these emotions, and the M1 and M2 genes have no choice but to respond
to this new programming. (And, yes, the opposite is also true!) Other animals
do not have sentient thought; they are not aware, so they cannot ponder the future,
thereby ordering their cells to carry out their own deaths prematurely. Only
humans possess this ability, and after over 300,000 years of believing in the
inevitability of death at such an early age, we have essentially tricked our bodies
into their premature deaths. If we can trick the mortality genes into turning
on 60 years before they are supposed to by natural design, then why cant we turn
them off forever? Physical immortality comes from years
of this sort of contemplation and realization. Without pure conscious positive
thought, immortality will remain the legends of people like Ponce de Leon. The
choice of immortality, then, is actually a consciousness (a change in consciousness,
if you will) brought about by years of developing beliefs that are pro-life rather
than pro-death. The Sennin brought with them to Japan a belief system that was
built upon strict mental exercise and patience, and what developed afterwards
with the mikkyo priests merely continued a legacy that could be called fantasy.
But perhaps it was, or is, real. The question, then, is not whether or not immortality
is a possibility, but how can one achieve it?
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Dan
Hall Hall is a teacher and author living in Georgia. Visit him on the Web at http://www.neohygiene.com.
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