Physical
Immortality: A History and How to Guide
(Or how to live to 150 Years and Beyond)
Formal Disclaimer
The author of this book is not a medical doctor, and the ideas contained herein may conflict with orthodox, mainstream medical opinion. The exercises, dietary measures, and other advice regarding health matters outlined in this book are not suitable for everyone, and under certain circumstances they could lead to injury. You should not attempt self diagnosis, and you should not embark on any exercise program, dietary regimen, or self-treatment of any kind without qualified medical supervision. Nothing in this book should be construed as a promise of benefits or of results to be achieved, or a guarantee by the author or publisher of the safety or efficacy of its contents. The author, the publisher, its editors, and it’s employees disclaim any liability, loss, or risk incurred directly or indirectly as a result of the use or application of any of the contents of this book.
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Physical Immortality: A History and How to Guide
By Martin K. Ettington
Copyright 2011 Martin K. Ettington
Smashwords Edition
ISBN 978-1-4657-5994-8
Important Notice on Bibliography
This book uses the reference of “(X)” to indicate the number of a research source in the Bibliography at the end of this book. Where “X” stands for the reference number in the Bibliography
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following persons for helping me with proofreading of this book:
My Mother Elizabeth K. Ettington and Father Richard M. Ettington for their reviews.
My wonderful son Neil and his manuscript reviews too.
Lynn Wakefield Peterson for her help in editing the newest version
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Other books by the Author
Spiritual and Paranormal Subjects:
Prophecy: A History and How to Guide
God Like Powers and Abilities
Enlightenment for Dummies
Removing Illusions to Find True Happiness
Using the Scientific Method to Study the Paranormal
A Compendium of Metaphysics and How to Guides
(All six books together in one volume)
Science Fiction:
Out of This Universe
These books are all available in digital and printed formats from my website:
http://mkettingtonbooks.com
Book Dedication
This book is dedicated to all those persons who make a dedicated search for the truth.
This type of search takes lots of energy, time, and makes the seeker subject to ridicule and a lack of respect by the large majority of people.
You do not follow the hard to find truth. You seek it wherever it is.
Our civilization considers itself advanced, but in matters of the spirit we don’t know much more than our forefathers did thousands of years ago.
Just remember that the goal is well worth it since only a few will succeed and the goal is the reward.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: First you need to open your mind
Chapter 3: History of the Search for Immortality
Chapter 4: Immortals in Science Fiction
Chapter 5: Long Lived Persons and Immortals
Chapter 6: Long Lived Plants and Animals
Chapter 7: What current Science says about Longevity
Chapter 8: Your Spiritual, Energy, and Physical Bodies
Chapter 9: Breaking the Habit of Dying
Chapter 10: Spiritual Growth Practices
Chapter 11: Practices and Exercises for your Body
Chapter 13: Avoiding Accidents
Chapter 14: Seven Beliefs to Help Life Extension
Chapter 15: Creating your own Path to Immortality
Chapter 16: The Immortality Research Center
Appendix A-Potentially Fatal Situations I Survived
Chapter 1: Introduction
Why another book on physical immortality?
There have been thousands of books written over the centuries on immortality of the soul. Also, thousands of books written on health, diet, exercise, and positive attitudes to allow one to live the longest and healthiest life possible.
Numerous books on myths and legends of physically immortal beings exist, and it’s become a popular topic in Science Fiction.
I’ve read many books on these subjects; but never one intended to blend all these concepts together in an integrated manner which provides a single holistic approach to life extension beyond the limits accepted by our civilization today.
The goals of this book therefore are as follows; to get the reader to first open their mind to the real possibility of a greatly extended life.
Second to provide a conceptual framework of why the Spiritual, Exercise, and natural recommendations which really work.
Lastly to provide some real guidance about how to go about changing your life to reach your extended life goal.
The use of the words “immortality” and “eternal life”
Words are important to describe concepts. In many holy books, including the Bible, the words “immortality” and “eternal life” are focused on the soul existing forever.
It is my belief that the soul is eternal and lives outside of time. Here we are focusing on the misconceptions about physical immortality. Can a physical body live forever? I believe so barring accidents which you will learn how to avoid later in the book.
How I got interested in this subject.
I’ve always been interested in the wild and wacky unexplained phenomena of our world. This attitude goes back to when I was 10 years old and read a book called “Stranger Than Science” by Frank Edwards (13). I was amazed at some of the stories; and had to find out what the explanations were. This led me on a lifelong quest into the unusual, paranormal, and spiritual.
Now being in my fifties, I have been reading on paranormal events and spiritual development all my life. I meditate daily and the peace from doing so has made an enormous difference in my daily life.
I have spent the last 10 years reading about UFOs and Aliens and found a wealth of information which changed me from a skeptic into a full believer. Not only are there UFOs, but Aliens have been visiting our planet for thousands of years and do so today (Subject for another time).
I also always loved science fiction stories about physical immortals and started searching for immortal information on the Internet about the year 2000. I figured anyone around for a long time would eventually get on the Internet and start providing clues to look for other physical immortals. Didn’t find any immortals directly but did find a lot of information which supported claims that immortals do exist.
Also read some metaphysical books that were about persons of unlimited longevity. One was the book “The Magic Presence”, about the immortal Count St. Germain.
Other books on Indian mystics often talk of physical immortals who are fully enlightened souls; but stay on the earthly planes anyway to help the common man advance his spirituality.
Why would anyone want to live longer than 100 years?
I think the answer is when you love life and you are in good health, why not?
I think many of us would agree that living to a great age as an invalid is not worth a lot.
Now that I’m in my fifties I’m only starting to realize how much more there is to life. It would take me hundreds of years to accomplish some of the things I really want to do.
Here is a short list:
• Travel to every country in the world. See and live in many cultures.
• Have multiple families (sequentially) with lots of kids
• Build a multi billion dollar business
• Vacation in a Hotel orbiting the Earth
• Learn and practice multiple professions like Doctor, Lawyer, Architect, Professional Investor, Artist, Musician, Newsperson, and many more
• Build extensive wealth to enjoy boats, airplanes, and the like
• Experience more sports and get good at them. Like becoming a Karate Black Belt
• Get more Pilot flying time for higher level licenses.
• Work on further spiritual development and related abilities
Making a significant dent in this list would take 1000 years.
No I’m not an immortal
The obvious question the reader will ask at some point in this book is that if I know so much about this subject am I an immortal hiding my identity?
The answer is NO---I’m only 54 at the writing of this book,and although I would like to live a very long time… I have a long time yet just to exceed normal age limits.
Besides, If I was really already an immortal it would be stupid of me to expose myself to the world and be constantly pestered and bothered going forward.
Why should anyone listen to what I’m saying?
I’ve studied and researched “outside the box” subjects since age eleven.
In my teens I read numerous books on paranormal and spiritual phenomena.
In college I was fortunate to make friends with a blind psychic at my college and learned meditation and psychic abilities from him.
In addition, at that time I met others in the paranormal community, went to their meetings, joined several spiritual societies, including but not limited to:
• The Theosophical Society of America
• The American Society for Psychical Research
• The Rosicrucians
I obtained and read books from these organizations as well as many other spiritual, occult, and eastern classics. This information and my experiences formed the basis of my world view.
In addition I was also attending a Christian church; and had a conflict about spiritual approaches, which lasted many years.
Finally, it became clear to me that all religions are really describing the same infinite spirit that exists in all of us.
My main goal in life is to become more enlightened. My interest in physical immortality is merely a side effect of that search. I’ve also thought that a long life will help me with my efforts to live an enlightened life in our physical world.
There are no degrees given in physical immortality studies and anyone living long enough to know the truth or falsehoods of what I’m saying probably wouldn’t take the risk of exposing themselves anyway.
However, I have spent a number of years researching this subject. It has been one of my far out interests which became intense about the year 2000.
The idea came to me that if I were an immortal and had learned about the new capabilities of the Internet, I might want to use that medium to search for others like myself.
After doing numerous Internet searches I didn’t find any internet bulletin boards or web sites which immortals used, but did find a number of web sites focused on the discussion of immortality, or providing information on the subject.
I ordered a number of books on spiritual aspects of the subject; and also went back to re-read some of my older books like ones from Theosophists on Ascended Masters.
I also decided to try various exercises and supplements to see how they worked.
My results are that I do seem to be healthier in my early fifties than I was 10 years earlier!
My best suggestion for you is to do your own research on what I’ve given you here, trying out the avenues that appeal to you, then form your own opinions.
We can all meet in the year 3000 A.D. to celebrate the success of our life extension efforts!
g. Decisions on Releasing Immortality “How to” Information
I had to make an important decision about releasing this material in wide circulation through an Ebook and eventually printed versions.
It’s hard to find books that compile all the spiritual, energy, and physical immortality approaches into one summary as this book does. Those books do exist but they are rare.
One is “How to Live Forever with Golden Rules for Successful Living” by Harry Gaze written in 1904 (37). Another is “Breaking the Death Habit” By Leonard Orr, (31) which is discussed in a later chapter in this book.
It’s clear to me that persons who study unlimited longevity long enough can eventually find enough separate sources of knowledge to put the same picture together as I have here.
There are books and traditions mentioned later in this book that describe aspects of physical immortality, but no one book that combines all the practices and ideas into one summary.
I’m forced to ask why? There should certainly be multiple persons down through the ages that have known as much or more about this subject than I do.
I must conclude that those who practice the immortal arts consider it best to keep these concepts and knowledge secret.
Why would that be? My best guess is that those in the know don’t consider the general population ready to learn this information.
They may think that if the world really knew and accepted that immortals existed it might overturn religious, scientific, and governmental institutions due to the huge interest the world’s population would have in finding some way to achieve immortality for themselves.
On the other hand, since the successful approaches to immortality require a person to work on their spirituality, isn’t that a good thing?
Maybe it’s that old adage “Don’t cast pearls before swine” which refers to not wasting wisdom on those who refuse to believe.
Another thought is that maybe making the individual search for this information is important to their development and for obtaining immortality on the path to enlightenment.
It also needs to be considered as to whether having more Immortals on the Earth is really a good idea. Wouldn’t things get pretty crowded? The counter to that argument is that due to better nutrition and medicine, people already live almost twice as long as they did 100 years ago. That would make almost everyone a long lived being compared to persons alive in the early 1900s.