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"Some people like to think they achieve immortality or regain their youth by having children. Others like to marry people young enough to be their children. Some achieve immortality by changing a law or inventing something or writing a book. As Woody Allen said, "Iprefer to achieve immortality by not dying" Since that is highly unlikely, 1 can at least live a long, healthy life on a raw diet. This is why I researched the raw food diet with a zeal found only in those who have discovered the secret of immortality." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"When the Sufi poet Rumi observed that we're afraid of our own immortality, maybe he meant that it is actually the power to choose immortality that truly frightens us. Just as Christopher Logue's initiates in the Introduction discovered that all they needed was a little nudge to get them to fly, perhaps all we require is a little shift to see that we're the architects of our world and our fate, cosmic artists expressing our inner beliefs on the canvas of the universe." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"The sophistication of the humor of the infantile imagery, when inflected in a skillful mythological rendition of metaphysical doctrine, emerges magnificently in one of the best known of the great myths of the Oriental world: the Hindu account of the primordial battle between the titans and the gods for the liquor of immortality. An ancient earth being, Kashyapa, "The Turtle Man," had married thirteen of the daughters of a still more ancient demiurgic patriarch, Daksha, "The Lord of Virtue." Two of these daughters, Diti and Aditi by name, had given birth respectively to the titans and the gods." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"The search for porcelain," concludes Chatwin, is a quest "to find the substance of immortality." Turning back to the books, Karp explained how, of all fruit writers, Bunyard is of paramount importance. Karp's own soon-to-be-released guide to thirty-five fruit varieties is described as "a book of fruit connois-seurship based on the principles elucidated by Edward A. Bunyard." Bunyard is also a touchstone for Karp's other gurus, such as Andy Mari-ani and the "Fruit Crank," C. Todd Kennedy, who compares a nectarine's ideal flavor to a pheasant hung until high." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Having sutvived so much in his long life—not least his own visit, twenty-thtee years previously, from Y pestis—Justinian was, even more than most autocrats, convinced of his immortality. As a result, he had failed to name a successor (the most obvious choice, Germanus, had been dead for fifteen years) until the night of his own death, and possibly not even then: The only witness to the emperor's supposed choice was the Praepositus of the Sacred Bedchamber, Callinicus, who brought the news to Justinian's nephew Justin42 that he had succeeded to the imperial throne." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Pomegranate Juice Pomegranates have been cultivated for thousands of years, and because of their numerous seeds, they came to symbolize fertility, bounty, and immortality for various cultures and religions. The Spanish city of Granada takes its name from the Latin word for pomegranate, granatum. Pomegranates are one of the richest sources of antioxidant flavo-noids—healing nutrients found in plants. Recently, Israeli researchers have shown that these compounds slow the development of atherosclerotic plaque in mice and humans and help prevent LDL oxidation." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"What strange beings we are," says Rumi, "that sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality."13 With these words, the great mystic describes the irony of our mysterious condition in this world. On the one hand, we're told that we are frail and powerless beings who live in a world where things just "happen" for no apparent reason. On the other hand, our most ancient and cherished spiritual traditions tell us that there's a force that lives within every one of us, a power that nothing in the world can touch." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The body is crying for an immortality experience which only the soul can give to it." To further describe the relationship between ourselves and our souls, physicist Dr. Fred Wolf says, "the soul's fundamental purpose is the shaping of knowledge into material form" and "anything that comes into existence did so through the soul's desire to manifest." He continues, "the soul communicates instantaneously with the self by collapsing its boundaries. Similarly, the self is capable of communicating with the soul by expanding its boundaries." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "The spiral symbol can indicate "potential energy" or "the seed of life," or, as Monica Sjoo suggests, "the spiral is the symbolic key to immortality or the eternal process." Jill Purse, author of The Mystic Spiral, says, "The spiral is a cosmic symbol—a natural form of growth, and has become, in every culture and every age, humanity's symbol of the progress of the soul towards eternal life. As the inward winding labyrinth, it constitutes the hero's journey to the still centre where the secret of life is found." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Burr wrote a book called Blueprint for immortality that explained how you could detect all kinds of physical problems in the energy field before you could identify them through traditional diagnosis. Doing so has a huge impact on many healthcare problems where time is of the essence, such as cancer. I've used this "early diagnostic method" myself many times, where simply by looking at someone's energy field, I can identify cancer in that person before there is anything manifest in the body. With a jump like that, we can knock the cancer out quickly before it has a chance to do real damage." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"While centuries before and far away, the Chinese philosopher Ko Hung spent the latter years of a long lifetime preparing pills of immortality. "Take three pounds of genuine cinnabar," Ko Hung wrote, "and one pound of white honey. Mix them. Dry the mixture in the sun. Then roast it over a fire until it can be shaped into pills. Take ten pills the size of a hemp seed every morning. Inside of a year, white hair will turn black, decayed teeth will grow again, and the body will become sleek and glistening. If an old man takes this medicine for a long period of time, he will develop into a young man." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"The oldest written story is a forest quest for immortality. But what Gilgamesh finds instead is humanity, an understanding that the same ineluctable fate awaits us all: a return to the soil. Everything is born from the earth and dies in it; it is both womb and tomb. The fantasy of creating some perfect world and inhabiting it forever fuels much artistic creation. But there comes a time when every monkey must let go of its paradise nut. "Heaven," wrote Emily Dickinson, sagely, "is what I cannot reach! The Apple on the Tree." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"To advocate otherwise, including measures purporting to increase the lifespan beyond eighty-five, is to harbor delusions of immortality. Heroic efforts on behalf of the highly functioning octogenarians will accomplish little of substance. We can, perhaps, alter the proximate cause of death ?that is, the diagnosis on the death certificate ?but I am aware of no data to support the premise that we can alter the date of death. This is not to advocate therapeutic nihilism. It is the invoking of the age-old ethic of medicine to contend with the reality of our aging and our mortality." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"He is the bridge to immortality.sa Thus it appears that though these myths of creation narrate of the remotest past, they speak at the same time of the present origin of the individual. "Each soul and spirit," we read in the Hebrew Zohar, "prior to its entering into this world, consists of a male and female united into one being. When it descends on this earth the two parts separate and animate two different bodies. At 88 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1. 4. 1-5. Translated by Swami Madhava-nanda (Mayavati, 1934). Compare the folk lore motif of the transformation flight, supra, pp. 197-198." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -woody allen Since the seventeenth century, some have understood that those who earn their living with their hands face bold, palpable and unsurprising hazards. The shortened lives and wizened bodies of miners, blacksmiths, printers, and leather tanners were the stuff of literature and occasional dark paintings or grim woodcuts. Dickens, Shaw and Marx wrote of the vile working conditions of girls and boys in the mines, foundries and metal works." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Another Sanskrit name for guduchi is amrit (or amrita), which means "immortality," or "nectar of immortality." The Chyavanprash formula, which contains amla, is believed to help maintain youthfulness, vigor, and vitality. Basically, all of the Chinese tonic herbs and ayurvedic rasayanas help to slow the aging process and promote longevity, s*." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"On the contrary, the basic problem is: to enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. immortality is then experienced as a present fact: "It is here! It is here!" 165 "All things are in process, rising and returning. Plants come to blossom, but only to return to the root. Returning to the root is like seeking tranquility. Seeking tranquility is like moving toward destiny. To move toward destiny is like eternity. To know eternity is enlightenment, and not to recognize eternity brings disorder and evil." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"That is to say, it eliminates the "immortality" of cancer cells which is their trademark and which makes them so deadly. Green tea is particularly effective in destroying the causes of leukemia, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. And the benefits of green tea don't stop there. It has also been shown to be effective in regulating blood sugar, reducing triglycerides and in reversing the ravages of heart disease. (Incidentally, the Japanese, who drink large amounts of green tea, have some of the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease in the world." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"This is why I researched the raw food diet with a zeal found only in those who have discovered the secret of immortality. Many people uncovering this secret also have the same zeal, almost a missionary passion. Actor Woody Harrelson made a documentary, Go Further, in which one of his traveling partners got turned on to the raw diet and was shouting on the streets to people something like, "You've been lied to! No more corn dogs! You've been lied to!" If you count my two master's degrees, as well as my continuing education, I have eleven years of university/college education." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"To conform to ma 'at was to achieve immortality and a prosperous existence in the afterlife. Ma'at was cosmic order, justice, and prosperity—civilization itself. The ruler, as the personification of ma'at, was thought to exercise a magical control over human existence, and over the life-giving floods of the Nile River. The king could not fail. He was the symbol of equilibrium between the forces of order and chaos, of the stability that sustained Old Kingdom Egypt for centuries." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality."1 Precisely, I thought. Not only are the plants in this field connected, but they possess a power together that's greater than any of them has alone. Any single shrub in the valley, for example, influences only the small area of earth that surrounds it. Put hundreds of thousands of them together, though, and you have a power to reckon with! Together, they change features such as the pH of the soil in a way that assures their survival." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"In Feng-tai, he stumbled upon his ticket to immortality: Meyer lemons. While his lemons are more available than ever before, Meyer himself disappeared from the deck of a steamer crossing between Wuhan and Nanjing on the night of June 1,1918. David Fairchild spent his final years in Miami, and his legacy lives on at the botanical garden named in his honor. For today's fruit hunters, who congregate at this luxuriant plant sanctuary Fairchild's books are sacred texts. "His books put a wanderlust in me that was almost uncontrollable," explains Campbell." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Many claims ate made for the effects of Growth Hormone—some bordering on claims of "almost" immortality and "almost" eternal youth. Would that it were so! Although the effects are more subtle, for most people, than pronounced, they are nevertheless wide ranging, and include things such as: • 14." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The Chinese name ling zhi translates as the "herb of spiritual potency" and was highly prized as an elixir of immortality.3 Its Traditional RHODIOLA____ Common name: Golden root, roseroot Botanical name: Rhodiola rosea Historical or traditional use (may or may not be supported by scientific studies) Rhodiola has long been used in traditional medicine, primarily in Russia and Scandinavia." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"The Physics of immortality. New York: Macmillan. von Bertalanffy, L. 1968. General System Theory. New York: Braziller. Weiskrantz, L. 1986. Blindsight: A Case Study and Implications. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Yates, F. E., ed. 1987. Self-Organizing Systems: The Emergence of Order. New York: Plenum Press. APPENDIX B Ability of an Electric Current to Carry Information for Crystal Growth Patterns: Implications for Systemic Memory Gary E. R. Schwartz, Ph.D. Parmi Suchdev, B.A. Linda G. S. Russek, Ph.D." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

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