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[Mind]

Just wanted to pimp for another life extension blog that has popped up. Take a look: Let's Live Forever

Always good to see more people getting the word out....you know, closer to building a critical mass.

[VictorBjoerk]

Interesting! Maybe we should collect a list of different blogs related to life extension?

[forever freedom]

Too much new age crap for my taste, i don't think we would like be linked to these blogs.


Look at one of the entries, the one i found the most new-age loaded.


"Staying young



None of us would want to stay alive forever if we were old and sick and in pain and lonely and depressed and all that. I would assume.

So how can we stay young and healthy indefinitely? I’m 54 myself, so I haven’t exactly proved one can live indefinitely, but I’ll have a go at putting together some thoughts about staying young that I have picked up from my own life and around the place. Here are some things we can do:

1. Work with our feelings
Physical aging is caused by suppressed feelings. As young children we most likely did not suppress our feelings, or not very much—but we were taught as we grew older that saying and showing exactly what we felt was definitely not on. So any therapies or methods for getting in touch with suppressed feelings and allowing them to flow through us will help restore health and youthfulness to the body.

2. Work with our intuition
An alive healthy person follows their intuition. They follow their gut feelings. Their intuitive promptings flowing through them and on into action are life itself flowing through them.

Anyone reading this blog would already be successful in life, so would already know how to follow their intuition in many areas of their life. The challenge, I think, is to start following intuition more in those areas where we are not yet reaching our potential.

We turn down intuitive prompts for all sorts of reasons—all of which boil down to fear of some sort. Then we get “logical” to justify not going with the intuition. It can be difficult to even know what is intuition and what is our other “voices”. There are lots of books, blogs and workshops around that help people learn to follow their intuition. I personally like Shakti Gawaine’s book ‘Living in the Light’, for this.

3. Change our thoughts
Top sportspeople practise “seeing” themselves winning—to make it come true. Top business people often have the same practice. The blogosphere is full of writings about how to attract success and abundance and anything else with our thoughts. It’s hardly a new idea that our life and reality is created by the thoughts we are putting out there.

So what effect would it have on us to believe we are going to die one day?

I’d suggest that believing death is inevitable is actually what causes all aging and death, ultimately. Because many subliminal, subconscious fears come into play and stop life flowing through us. And our hearts turn to escape, eventually.

An interesting exercise is to imagine for some time period—say, an hour or a day—that you are not ever going to die. And see how it feels, and if it sits right with you. It’s just an experiment. "

[VictorBjoerk]

Well that blog was a bit crazy or rather a bunch of nonsense.But it would seriously be a good idea to collect a list of blogs who write interesting relevant things about life extension like April Smith's and Matthew Lake's CR diaries etc .I figure there must be many people writing about future technology etc....

[Heliotrope]

Let's Live Forever reminds me of another bloggy site : FuckDeath.org or is it .com?

Edited by HYP86, 15 June 2008 - 01:17 AM.

[Live Forever]

Nice blog. Anyone know the lady running it, Robin?

http://letsliveforever.net/about/
It appears she lives in Melbourne, Australia, and works with musicians. Maybe zoolander knows of her?

[brokenportal]

Too much new age crap for my taste, i don't think we would like be linked to these blogs.

Even so, to change the entrenched belief that death is inevitable and natural, and classifying aging as a disease rather than a natural, normal process of life is at times just as important as the work being done in labs around the world to solve the aging problem.. get enough of humanity to start demanding an end to aging and death and you have the beginnings of cracks in the dam of ignorance.. the appearance of little blogs like this are signs of the hairline fractures to come..

I agree. Blogs like this are great. This one is not only not crap, but its awsome. Here, apparently is some lady that doesnt seem to know about imminst, sens, mprize and all that stuff going on, but shes trying to rally people toward the idea anyways. Shes saying lets not age and die, because theres tons of potential out there like maybe living in shiny light filled bodies that may be able to move at the speed of light or some such thing.

Thanks for getting me into that digg idea Mind. I checked it out and entered a blog there. I see your compiling links to these kinds of blogs, shonghow agrees, and I agree too.

What do you guys think about making maybe, a pinned topic or some such method with a list of links to diggs and blogs. Then I and whoever could go around and get the word out to life extensionists that we can all help by making it a habit to check in at that link to go to all those other links so the click count goes up. We keep commenting in them so that we can show a force of optimism toward life extension rather than letting them get overrun by pessimistic sentiments.

[Mind]

I agree that it is not a blog with hardcore science, kind-of touchy-feely, more psychological, than biological, but like brokenportal very succinctly pointed out. This lady (Robin) is calling for indefinite lifespans even though she had never heard of Imminst, MF, SENS, LEF, whatever. And that is a good thing.

[robinlives]

Hi there guys - ha ha - I wish there WERE other physical immortality blogs out there! Then I would have someone to network with out there on the web.

It's funny, but although I have a background in science - B.Sc. (Hons in biochemistry) - I have always been more interested in the psychological side of this issue. A "change the mindset and the means will come" sort of thing. When I've read about advances in the science of life extension, I've usually just thought ah-ha, things are on the move, rather than taking a huge interest in the particulars myself. I've been more interested in astronomy.

I think the "touchy-feely" side is really important. No-one is going to want to live forever if they are alone and miserable, I would imagine, so psychological healing is what is needed to turn things around, in my opinion. It's the area I wish to have input into, anyway.

Anyway, thanks for the discussion - and thanks brokenportal for your comment on my blog!

Cheers - Robin

[zoolander]

I'm a Melbourne boy Robin. there are about 3 or 4 of us here. Please feel free to cross reference us for the scientific side of things. If you need any assistance I think that we would be more than happy to help move the meme forward with you.

[robinlives]

Thanks zoolander.

[VictorBjoerk]

http://liveto100andbeyond.blogspot.com , another interesting blog............

[brokenportal]

I just read the liveto100andbeyond blogspot

Does that Lynn Peters Adler lady come here, to the mfoundation or go to any of the conferences or anything? She doesnt seem to be a life extensionist, but shes knowledgable in related fields and Im sure has clout and connections. Heres a part of her "about" section:

"This lifework has featured many milestones. In 1995 she wrote a seminal book titled Centenarians: The Bonus Years (Health Press, Sante Fe, NM, 1995). The book received excellent reviews as a contemporary window into the lives of remarkable people who have lived 100 years or more. Although the book was written for the general public, it has become a teaching resource for students of gerontology, nursing and social work, and an organizational guide for groups and projects in the field of aging.
She co-produced the first centenarian documentary, “Centenarians Tell It Like It Is,” which aired on PBS in 1998 and 1999, and has been used as a resource by senior centers and other aging services groups; she compiled a year 2000 calendar of inspirational centenarians with the theme “Age With Grace: The Centenarian Spirit,” published by Cedco; and she has contributed to articles such as “Women of the Century,” published in Ms. Magazine in 2000."


I invited her here, maybe shes already signed on.