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Chapter Eight
An Immortal Body

Capturing good posture is something that everyone wants. Yet, if one tries to stand up straight, with legs locked, back erect, shoulders wide, and chin up, one feels uncomfortable. Moreover, one knows that one cannot maintain such a position for more than a few minutes. One has too many other things to concentrate on during the day; one cannot keep thinking about sitting up straight, standing straight, and walking correctly.

Fortunately, one does not have to consume one's attention or feel uncomfortable in order to have good posture. If one does consume too much attention on posture or experience awkward positions while trying to straighten oneself out, one is doing something wrong. In fact, good posture is fairly easy to achieve.

To begin with, one does not need to force any part of one's body into an upright position. Instead, one simply leads the body with one's head and lets the body follow. For example, suppose a person is sitting down. The person gently directs his head forward and upward. As his head rises up, he lets his body rise up with it. In this way, his neck and spine will automatically straighten out.

Another example: suppose one is standing up. One need not attempt to stand up straight; simply notice the posture one unthinkingly uses. Then gently lift one's head up and let one's mid-section follow. Next, let one's legs lengthen by allowing one's ankle, knee, and hip joints to remain loose and flexible. The more one practices this, the easier it becomes.

This technique is called The Alexander Technique. And there are good books that describe this process with text and photos. When one uses The Alexander Technique, one no longer needs to strive for a correct posture. By gently lifting one's head forward and up, and letting one's body follow, one's body will straighten out automatically.

What are the benefits of such action? One will eliminate the gravity-caused, downward pressure on one's bones and organs. And one will be able to breathe much easier and more naturally. In short, one will look and feel better.

What is bodyshaping? And, how can one use it? Bodyshaping is a combination of diet and exercise that enables one to develop a beautiful figure.

First, one needs to consider the three basic body types. They are ectomorphic, endomorphic, and mesomorphic. An ectomorphic body type is thin and lanky. An endomorphic body type is round and heavy. A mesomorphic body type is muscular. Many people have a blend of these body types, with one that dominates their physique. Some people's physique displays only one of these body types. For example, basketball players have an ectomorphic body type. Bodybuilders have a mesomorphic body type. And obese people have an endomorphic body type.

The point here is to determine which body type characterizes one's physique. Is one naturally thin or muscular or round? Once one knows what one's basic body type is, one can shape one's body into a figure that is harmonious to one's natural characteristics. For example, if one has an endomorphic body type, one probably will not be able to display purely ectomorphic characteristics.

Once one has determined a realistic figure one wants to achieve, one can focus on diet and exercise. By using a carbohydrate-moderate, sugar-free diet, one can eliminate fat to shed extra pounds. If one wants a muscular-looking physique, one can use one's diet to reduce one's percentage of body fat so one's muscles show though with startling clarity.

One can also use aerobic exercise to shape one's body. By running, for example, one can burn body fat to keep one's body trim and in excellent aerobic condition.

Human beings have always longed for immortality—physical and mental immortality. Why? It is natural. Natural? With people constantly dying, how can immortality be natural?

Everyone in an anticivilization must die; earth's anticivilization clearly demonstrates this fact. Citizens trapped in an anticivilization must be brought to their death relentlessly, mercilessly, within a few decades after becoming an adult. Why? Such are the dynamics of an anticivilization. That is part of its identity. Immortality is not and cannot be a part of that bizarre world.

When one clicks into a wider perspective—the Civilization of the Universe perspective—one sees something no one in history has ever seen. One sees that conceptual conscious beings are immortal, and their death is unnatural. One sees that conceptual consciousness—the perfect mind—is the mechanism that lets human beings overcome every impediment in nature to achieve immortality. No matter how many obstacles prevent man from becoming immortal, his consciousness can and eventually will overcome them to live forever.

Fifty years ago, who thought of the Internet and the World Wide Web? Maybe one or two people. Today, those dynamics are changing the world more than the invention of the printing press. Likewise, today, who is seriously thinking about immortality? Very few people. Yet, in fifty years from now, new knowledge and technology could bring de facto immortality to everyone. Reverse-aging technologies could also be available within that time frame.

The point is this: the anticivilization must bring everyone to his or her death. But, step outside that unnatural entity and one overwhelming point emerges: instead of everyone rapidly moving toward death, everyone rapidly moves toward immortal life. People throughout recorded history have longed for immortality, probably because it is the natural state for volitional conscious beings. Animals and plants are not and cannot be immortal. They lack the mechanism to develop commercial immortality: mystic-free conceptual consciousness—the perfect mind. Now, with the discovery of the perfect mind, man has the mechanism to develop immortality products and services.

The following are possible routes to physical and mental immortality:

* Nanotechnology
* Genetic surgery
* Cloning
* Medicinal treatments
* Cures for major illnesses such as cancer and heart disease
* Valid diet and exercise routines
* Cellular alterations
* Artificial organs

All or some of the above techniques can lead to human immortality. The only way to achieve immortality is to develop non-contradictory hypotheses combined with proving/refuting experiments.

Few if any people oppose impregnation as a way to bring human beings into the world. But many if not most people oppose cloning as a way to bring human beings into the world. Why?

Most people view impregnation as natural—as a God-given or nature-given means for reproduction. Thus, most people do not cringe when they think about conceiving a human being. However, most people do not view cloning as natural; they view it as a man-created method for interfering with God's plan or the dynamics of nature. Also, the practice of cloning is new, and new things initially turn many people off.

Impregnation consists of blending the genes of two different people to create an entirely new person. This is the only way human beings have perpetuated themselves throughout history. Cloning, by contrast, consists of replicating one person to create another identical person or numerous identical persons.

The popular media and movies tend to make cloning appear bad, unethical, even horrific. Movies such as Frankenstein or Boys From Brazil depict manmade people as monsters or evil. Also, the popular media argues that cloning is unethical and should be banned from the world.

In reality, cloning is an efficient means to replicate people. The only unethical or immoral act is initiating force or fraud against others. Cloning does not initiate force or fraud. Those who clone themselves will do so out of personal choice, not because they are forced or tricked into cloning themselves. Thus, cloning is not unethical or evil. Cloning is also a potential means to achieve biological immortality. A sick person can replace damaged organs with healthy organs from his or her cloned body.

Although social implications are not the primary reason to support cloning, it would produce tremendous benefits for society. The primary grounds to support cloning is to further the life of the individual. Cloning would provide unprecedented assistance for living longer, healthier, more youthful lives. Still, cloning would deliver undreamed of values for everyone in society. What are those benefits and values?

Imagine cloning the geniuses of society. If man could clone great producers such as Archimedes, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Jonas Salk, Bill Gates, and Steven Speilberg, the world would boom into undreamed of health, wealth, and happiness for all.

A human being arrives into the world. The baby is unconscious, delicate, and beautiful. It is precious and unrepeatable. Within that baby lies potential beyond anyone's beliefs. Each human being begins life with natural powers to control existence.

A couple years later, that baby becomes conscious. It is aware of the world. The baby innocently explores its environment. As it grows, it becomes aware of itself as a separate entity. At this point, the baby grows in power—genuine power, a power that conceptual beings and only conceptual beings possess.

A couple years later, around age four, that young child is like a small version of an adult. Except for one major difference. That difference consists of a special power not known to any adult. It is a natural power to control reality—to convert thoughts into things and vice versa, as Spinoza identified in the maxim "thoughts and things are one and the same."

As the child reaches age six, he is at the peak of his power—an uncorrupted power long forgotten by every adult who has invested in today's anticivilization. Perhaps Mozart and Beethoven never lost this power.

But soon after the child reaches the peak of his uncorrupted power, he is forced into the corrupt anticivilization. When that occurs, he steadily loses his genuine power. The child continues to grow both physically and psychologically. But tragically, his powers diminish as he becomes an integral part of the anticivilization.

As a teenager, this person continues to grow in new knowledge and experience. Yet, something fundamental is missing. His genuine power, his power to control all situations concerning his well-being and happiness, is gone. What happened to the boundless joy of childhood? What about the limitless future he saw as a pristine child?

This person grows into a young man. In his twenties, he notices something strange, almost horrific. He sees the primordial indications of aging. He witnesses the first signs of physical decline, albeit in subtle doses. "Wait a minute; I'm too young to be getting old" he thinks to himself. "I have not yet lived; I have not yet experienced the deepest joys of life" he thinks as he sees signs of aging coming on.

In his thirties, this man sees the aging process begin to unfold: his hair starts to turn gray, his vision begins to weaken, his posture sags, and his skin begins to wrinkle. All such conditions are subtle, barely perceptible to other people. But they are enough to indicate what his future holds: a future of deterioration culminating in a state of dependence on other people, such as in a nursing home. And then the conclusion: death.

Again, what happened to the beauty of childhood? And, what happened to the endless power he wielded as a pristine child?

He lost his power to control existence and make his dreams come true when he became part of the anticivilization. That loss of power culminated in a future of aging and decline. In essence, he switched from an immortal being into a mortal being. Upon realizing that he is too young to get old, he reviewed his life. During this review, he discovered that his only alternative to aging and death was to recapture his omnipotent, benevolent powers.

When he recovered his natural powers—his ability to objectively perceive and honestly integrate reality—he regained his God-like status of immortality. Once again controlling reality, including time, he began to outcompete the aging process while experiencing the intense joys available only to immortal beings.

In order for a person to value immortality, that person would first have to value life—especially his or her own life. Those people who do not value life do not want immortality. But anyone who genuinely values conscious life would value immortality.

Man has been searching for immortality for millennia. What is the key to immortality? The key to immortality is the honest processing of objective reality. This means rejecting mystical illusions and con jobs on principle. That principle is this: nothing good can come from evading reality or conjuring up new realities. Only harm can come from avoiding objective reality in favor of mind-created realities.

Billions of people throughout the ages have evaded reality in favor of illusions—political and religious illusions. Thus, they all lost the values of life. Why? People dismiss objective reality in favor of illusions because in the short term, illusions appear easier and more comfortable. Less effort is required in the short term to act on mind-created scenarios than the facts of reality.

But the price each person pays for the primacy of illusions is death. And that death is final. In reality, there is no supernatural dimension where people go to live happily ever after. A person either captures abiding happiness here on earth or the person does not capture abiding happiness at all.

Researchers are now uncovering the biological mechanism for living forever. That mechanism is a mutated form of chromosome #4 in the human genome. When that chromosome is mutated, cells do not stop dividing; they divide indefinitely. These immortal cells might be the key to living forever with youth and vigor. However, whatever form biological immortality takes—perhaps through cloning, nanotechnology, or genetic engineering—individuals will still need the key to immortality.

That key lets each individual control reality and freeze nature relative to his life. As each person wields the key to immortality, he locks aging and death into a one-dimensional coordinate system, like that of the code of Hammurabi. When aging and death become locked into a one-dimensional coordinate system, they have no effect on the individual. Aging and death have no more effect on those who wield the key to immortality than the code of Hammurabi has on people today.

Again, what is the key to immortality? It is the volitional act of processing objective reality with undivided honesty. This not only delivers immortal life, but also eternal riches—right here on planet Earth. John D. Rockefeller sensed that key; George Eastman and Chester Carlson probably did too. But today, that key is explicitly available for anyone's immediate use. Those who seize it will capture a future of ecstasy. Those who avoid it will remain trapped in a fatal civilization.

Most people will resist that key at first. Fear of letting go of the known will temporarily keep the world populations from embracing that key. But elements of the Civilization of the Universe found among earth's anticivilization will let people emotionally experience and intellectually understand the value of immortal life. As that happens, people will reject death and seize the key to immortality.

The natural dynamics of unbreached, integrated honesty wielded by each person leads to ever-increasing power, prosperity, romance, happiness, and life itself. And, a rational civilization—the Civilization of the Universe—provides the conditions necessary for human beings to live forever with eternal youth.

But in order for people to experience youthful immortality, mankind has to override nature's aging-and-death mechanism that is built into every living organism. That aging-and-death mechanism exists in every cell of living organisms.

One of nature's preset dynamics, like the water cycle, is the life-and-death cycle. This cycle, like the others, naturally occurs in non-thinking nature. Such a preset dynamic prevents catastrophic problems that would occur if non-conscious organisms reproduced but never died. If plants and non-conceptual animals reproduced but never died, chaos would inevitably ensue; overpopulation would threaten the survival of entire species. Without death, non-conscious life would evolve from single-celled organisms, to complex organisms, to massive overpopulation, to mass extinction.

Of course, that does not happen because of nature's life-and-death cycle: life begets new life and existing life grows old and dies. This keeps nature's unthinking system functioning smoothly.

Enter volitional, conceptual conscious beings: human beings. Their conscious-thinking minds enable them to develop knowledge and rapidly override the static, non-conscious dynamics of nature. In reality, conceptual consciousness allows man to override the aging/death factor. Man is the only living entity on earth with a volitional, conceptual consciousness. Other living entities lack this faculty and thus cannot override nature's preset dynamics. Plants and the other animals cannot develop cures for death. They are locked in nature's predetermined system. Thus, for example, a tree, fish, or monkey cannot develop youthful immortality. But conscious man can do this.

What is the aging/death factor? It is a genetic instruction programmed by nature that orders living cells to stop dividing. Human cells divide a set number of times and then enter a non-dividing state. When human cells enter this non-dividing state scientists call senescence, aging begins. Wrinkled skin, eyesight problems, clogged arteries, and other ailments are most likely due to cellular senescence.

Human beings can override the aging/death factor by eliminating the genetic instruction that tells cells to stop dividing. By doing this, the human organism will not age. For people who have already aged, youthful cells possibly can be created, cloned, and implemented for eternal youth.

The process of eliminating the aging/death factor could occur by mutating the "mortality gene." For example, researchers at Baylor College found that mutating the mortality gene from chromosome 4 causes some cells to never stop dividing. After further research and testing, doctors could mutate the mortality gene within each human being. Doing so would mean that cells never stop dividing and never age. Mutating the mortality gene could occur through a surgical process, a drug, or some other method. Those people who have removed their aging/death factor would beget children without the aging/death factor.

In conclusion, the aging/death factor would need to be eliminated only in the current population; future generations would be born immortal. Thus, future generations would experience eternal youth without having to go through the procedure of eliminating the aging/death factor. The current population could capture eternal youth; future generations would be born with de facto eternal youth.

There is quite a difference between the traditional body and the perfect body. The traditional body generally is unfit, unhealthy, uncomfortable, and unattractive. The perfect body is fit, healthy, comfortable, and attractive.

The traditional body exists through a high-carbohydrate diet and a lack of aerobic exercise. It usually is overweight for its particular frame, although sometimes it is underweight.

The perfect body exists through a carbohydrate-moderate diet and sufficient aerobic exercise. It falls within the proper range of weight for its particular frame—and stays there for life. By utilizing a diet and exercise program that is appropriate for the human organism, essentially anyone can develop the perfect body.

The perfect body does not comprise one set of measurements that is appropriate for everyone. Instead, the perfect body is one that is ideal for each person's physical structure. A person who weighs above or below the ideal weight range for his or her physique does not have the perfect body.

The perfect body is highly attractive, very healthy, and generates pleasant internal sensations. And because the perfect body is totally flexible, it functions with graceful, catlike movements. It is the epitome of health and beauty.

The following table illustrates the difference between these two bodies.

How can human beings become immortal? Philosophers, scientists, and alchemists have been asking just such a question for thousands of years. Finally, there is a workable solution.

A critical mass of knowledge came together, which culminated in the Perfect Mind/Perfect Body breakthrough. This breakthrough reveals the new mind and body that human beings will use beginning early in the third millennium. With the perfect mind and body, human beings will live not only richer, healthier, and happier lives—they will live forever.

Doctors—homeopathic and allopathic—will receive this breakthrough knowledge, as will scientific researchers. Some will look at it seriously to determine its viability. A few will experiment with this breakthrough. They will conduct controlled laboratory studies to determine the exact genes and mutations that are necessary for non-aging human life. They will also develop and perfect human cloning and nanotechnologies. These findings will work their way out of laboratories and into doctors' offices and hospitals. Eventually, these findings will be available on a commercial basis for everyone, regardless of age, social standing, or income.

Will human immortality come as a direct result of delivering the Perfect Mind/Perfect Body breakthrough to doctors and scientific researchers? No. The actual mechanism that will bring de facto immortality to everyone on earth, perhaps early in the 21^st century, is the competition for financial gain. Yes. As scientists, researchers, doctors, and others understand the crying need for, importance of, and opportunities available from immortality products, they will compete for fortune—as well as fame and heroic status. Twenty-first century Edward Jenners (1749-1823), Louis Pasteurs (1822-1895), Robert Kochs (1843-1910), Alexander Flemings (1881-1955), and Jonas Salks (1914-1995) will rise to the occasion and flood humanity with in-the-flesh eternal life.

What are we talking about? Consider that in the anticivilization, people compete with each other to deliver death to human beings in the form of mortality-causing products. Those mortality-causing products include tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, caffeine, sugar, mysticism, physical force. Many people make full-time jobs out of delivering such fatal products to human beings. But, upon the release of Perfect Mind/Perfect Body to individuals throughout this world, people will increasingly grasp the advantages that come from benefiting—not harming—human beings. As that happens, people will begin competing with each other to deliver life to human beings in the form of immortality-causing products. Those immortality-causing products include genetic engineering, cloning, nanotechnology, sugar-free foods, balanced diets, mystic-free knowledge, and protective services.

Financial incentives to slowly—or rapidly—kill human beings will decline. Rather than getting rich by harming human beings, societal dynamics will evolve whereby individuals can get incredibly rich by bringing immortality to everyone. Such dynamics will drive doctors, researchers, and other professionals into a race to get rich by curing diseases and extending everyone's life into infinity.

The healing profession comprises a blend of Platonism and Aristotelianism. This would be bad enough. However, the biggest problem in the healing profession—from a philosophical standpoint—is that it lacks an explicit philosophical base.

The Platonistic elements of the healing profession lead to all kinds of non-objective profferings and practices ranging from acupuncture to faith healing. Mysticism flourishes where Platonism dominates the healing profession. Genuine medical progress halts and even reverts to primitive "mind-over-matter" healing approaches in the presence of a Platonistic-based philosophy.

Aristotelian philosophical influences lead to genuine cures, even stunning breakthroughs, in medicine and health. This is because doctors, when operating from a base of Aristotelianism, approach healing objectively. In such a milieu, doctors reject arbitrary approaches to healing, i.e., treatments that are not grounded in reality.

Today, as throughout history, the healing profession comprises a blend of opposing philosophical approaches: subjective Platonism and objective Aristotelianism. Platonism in the healing profession culminates in pragmatic approaches such as dealing only with effects, i.e., dealing with symptoms instead of identifying and eliminating the origins of disease. Aristotelianism in the healing profession culminates in impressive breakthroughs in medicine, treatments, and human longevity.

Doctors and medical researchers who operate from an implicit philosophical base are carried along by the dominant ideology in their profession, regardless if that ideology is rational or irrational. The key for a continuous wave of life-extending breakthroughs in order for man to live forever is to bring a fully explicit, rational philosophic base to the healing profession.

As the Perfect Mind/Perfect Body breakthrough permeates the healing profession, medical researchers and doctors will gain an explicit Aristotelian-based philosophy—an ideology of reality, reason, logic, and rational egoism. From that objective philosophical base, they can sweep aside witch-doctor approaches to bring spectacular cures and treatments to human beings. Researchers and doctors themselves will be justly rewarded for their much-needed work. And citizens around the world will directly benefit as they enjoy longer, healthier, and happier lives.

Today, no one can imagine the specific breakthroughs that will arise from a combination of a valid philosophical base and advanced technology in the healing profession. But, the slow increase in human longevity—from 30 years in the eighteenth century to 75 years in the twentieth century—probably will be replaced by a rapid increase in life span. Healing savants will boost human longevity, not from an act of altruism, but from an act of rational self-interest: to raise their own lives into fortune and fame.

Diets come and go. Fad diets proffer good-sounding non sequiturs that put people on a roller coaster of weight loss and weight gain. Throughout the past several decades, numerous diets have gained the attention of people around the world. Most diets help people lose weight, but only for a limited time. Moreover, many such diets contradict the biological requirements of the human organism.

So, what can one do? Which diet is consistent with the needs of the human organism? And which diet, if practiced consistently, will keep one at his or her optimal percentage of body fat and weight? The answer is the perfect diet.

What is the perfect diet? It is a diet that is tailored to the specific needs of the individual. While the perfect diet has certain universal guidelines, its specific food intake differs from person to person. Here are the guidelines for the perfect diet:

• Ratio of food consists of 50% carbohydrate, 40% protein, and 10% fat


• Comprises 3 to 5 meals per day


• Requires a greater intake of water than any other food or beverage


• Excludes refined white sugar, i.e., sucrose


• Limits the amount of natural sugar intake, i.e., glucose, fructose, and galactose


• Excludes all alcohol and caffeine products such as beer, liquor, and coffee

 
Individualized Guidelines

• Requires that one calculate one's protein requirement


• One uses one's protein requirement to determine one's carbohydrate and fat requirements


• One creates a diet from favorable foods to meet one's unique requirements

One gains maximum benefits from the above diet by combining it with aerobic exercise. Those benefits include (1) a clear thinking, healthy mind, (2) a lighter, more efficient body, (3) a loss of carbohydrate cravings, (4) greater internal equilibrium, (5) optimum physical health, and (6) a more attractive body.

Does the perfect diet require self-discipline? Yes. Does one have to give up one's favorite foods? With the exception of sugary foods such as cake and cookies, one can eat a wide range of food—as long as one's meals comprise the proper ratio of protein, carbohydrate, and fat.

The perfect diet grew out of the works of Frank R. Wallace and Barry Sears. Dr. Wallace's work reveals the importance of eliminating caffeine, alcohol, and sugar from one's diet (see Neo-Tech Advantage #59). Dr. Sears' work reveals the importance of balancing hormones via a proper ratio of protein, carbohydrate, and fat. The best way to begin the perfect diet is by consulting Barry Sears' The Zone (Regan Books, 1995) to calculate one's body fat and protein requirement. One can then create a perfect diet that is guaranteed to bring ever-increasing benefits and happiness to oneself.

Why would anyone resist developing the perfect body—a body that enables one to feel great and look beautiful? Is it because of the effort involved to learn about and develop this body? Or is it because many people initially resist the new? These factors will play a minor role in resisting this new body. But what is the primary reason why people will resist developing the perfect body?

As with the perfect mind, developing the perfect body is not very hard to do. It certainly does not require any special genes, talent, or skill. Any normal conscious being can do this. Developing the perfect body is not painful either; nor does it require extraordinary effort. This is because the perfect body is healthy, graceful, and attractive, which are natural conditions for conscious beings.

What happens upon developing the perfect body? First, one needs to understand the nature of this body. It is a super-healthy body that has balanced levels of insulin and glucagon, and is aerobically fit. In essence, it is a state of perfect health whereby one's weight and percentage of body fat are within the ideal range for one's physique. And that lets one function at maximum efficiency, feel good, and look sexy. Again, why would anyone resist this new body?

At first, people will say that a perfect body is impractical or impossible. They will claim that regular aerobic exercise combined with a carbohydrate-moderate diet is too difficult to maintain. But this is merely a rationalization to avoid personally discovering the perfect body and its benefits. The fundamental reason why people will initially shun the perfect body is the realization that arises from developing such a body. And that realization is this: all the years spent on politically-correct activities, fad diets, and self-destructive habits were for naught. For citizens of earth, this realization can be unbearable.

Developing this body by definition leaves one outside earth's anticivilization. Upon developing this super-healthy body, one realizes that one can no longer integrate with the anticivilization. One grasps that the anticivilization is inimical to the perfect body. Since the anticivilization and the perfect body are mutually exclusive, one will not be able to re-enter the anticivilization, unless one is willing to lose one's artistically sculptured body. The thought of not being able to re-enter the anticivilization can be scary—especially if one is deeply invested in that hoaxed world.

Developing the perfect body can never occur automatically. It has to be developed consciously through rational effort. And when one does this, one will find oneself outside the anticivilization. That revelation will shock some people. Yet, upon grasping the futility of today's irrational world, one's desire to be a part of the Plato world begins to fade. In fact, developing and maintaining the perfect body is one of the quickest ways to break out of the anticivilization and enter the Civilization of the Universe.

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