The Essential AgeLess Body, Timeless Mind

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From THE ESSENTIAL AGELESS BODY, TIMELESS MIND I would like you to join me on a journey of discovery. We will explore a place where the rules of everyday existence do not apply. These rules explicitly state that to grow old, become frail, and die is the ultimate destiny of all. And so it has been for century after century. However, I want you to suspend your assumptions about what we call reality so that we can become pioneers in a land where youthful vigor, renewal, creativity, joy, fulfillment, and timelessness are the common experience of everyday life, where old age, senility, infirmity, and death do not exist and are not even entertained as a possibility. Only our conditioning, our current collective worldview that we were taught by our parents, teachers, and society is preventing us from going there. This way of seeing thingsthe old paradigmhas aptly been called "the hypnosis of social conditioning," an induced fiction in which we have collectively agreed to participate. Your body is aging beyond your control because it has been programmed to live out the rules of that collective conditioning. In order to create the experience of ageless body and timeless mind, which is the promise of this book, you must discard ten assumptions about who you are and what the true nature of the mind and body is. These assumptions form the bedrock of our shared worldview. They are: 1. There is an objective world independent of the observer, and our bodies are an aspect of this objective world. 2. The body is composed of clumps of matter separated from one another in time and space. 3. Mind and body are separate and independent from each other. 4. Materialism is primary, consciousness is secondary. In other words, we are physical machines that have learned to think. 5. Human awareness can be completely explained as the product of biochemistry. 6. As individuals, we are disconnected, self-contained entities. 7. Our perception of the world is automatic and gives us an accurate picture of how things really are. 8. Time exists as an absolute, and we are captives of that absolute. No one escapes the ravages of time. 9. Our true nature is totally defined by the body, ego, and personality. We are wisps of memories and desires enclosed in packages of flesh and bones. 10. Suffering is necessaryit is part of reality. We are inevitable victims of sickness, aging, and death. These assumptions reach far beyond aging to define a world of separation, decay, and death. Time is seen as a prison that no one escapes; our bodies are biochemical machines that, like all machines, must run down. This position, the hard line of materialistic science, overlooks much about human nature. We are the only creatures on earth who can change our biology by what we think and feel. We possess the only nervous system that is aware of the phenomenon of aging. And because we are aware, our mental state influences what we are aware of. Each assumption of the old paradigm can be replaced with a more complete and expanded version of the truth. These new assumptions are also just ideas created by the human mind, but they allow us much more freedom and power. They give us the ability to rewrite the program of aging that now directs our cells. The ten new assumptions are: 1. The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. 2. In their essential state, our bodies are composed of energy and information, not solid matter. This energy and information is an outcropping of infinite fields of energy and information spanning the universe. 3. The mind and body are inseparably one. The unity that is "me" separates into two streams of experience. I experience the subjective stream as thoughts,