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Death Is An Illusion

“The influences of the senses,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson “has in most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of space and time have come to look solid, real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits in the world is the sign of insanity.”

 

We have posted here often about Biocentrism, Dr. Lanza’s fascinating theory of the universe and reality, and we are still very intrigued. But, if consciousness is everything, how is death explained using the ideas of Biocentrism? Won’t we cease to exist once our consciousness has passed away? The following article explains that there may in fact be no death of our consciousness whatsoever…and therefore no death at all.

 

Is Death An Illusion? Evidence Suggests Death Isn’t the End

 

by Robert Lanza

 

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“After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

 

New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right – death is an illusion.

 

Our classical way of thinking is based on the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence. But a long list of experiments shows just the opposite. We think life is just the activity of carbon and an admixture of molecules – we live awhile and then rot into the ground.

 

We believe in death because we’ve been taught we die. Also, of course, because we associate ourselves with our body and we know bodies die. End of story. But biocentrism – a new theory of everything – tells us death may not be the terminal event we think. Amazingly, if you add life and consciousness to the equation, you can explain some of the biggest puzzles of science…”

 

For the complete article click here to go to Lanza’s website.

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Immortality – If jellyfish can do it…

Dear Science,

 

 

Please hurry up and replicate this phenomenon for use in humans!

 

 

Or, wait, it would probably be nightmarish beyond words if we were all immortal? What would we all eat, where would we all live?…

 

 

 

The Curious Case of the Immortal Jellyfish (Discover magazine)

 

 

 

“It’s official: the only thing certain in this world is taxes. That’s because death, for a tiny sea creature, is not inevitable.Turritopsis nutricul, a jellyfish-like hydrazoan, is the only animal known to be potentially immortal.

 

 

Once it reaches sexual maturity, Turritopsis looks like a tiny, transparent, many-tentacled parachute (only about 5mm in diameter) that floats freely in warm ocean waters. But when times get tough, Turritopsis can turn into a blob, anchor itself to a surface, and undergo a sort of reverse methamorphosisback to its youthful form as a stalk-like polyp. That’s like a butterfly turning back into a caterpillar. Scientists, who firstdescribed this phenomenon [pdf] in the 1990s, believeTurritopsis can repeat its life cycle indefinitely.”

 

 

 

For the complete article, click here.

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The theatre predating Shakespeare’s Globe is discovered…

If only it were possible to step into a time machine and land ourselves in the the Curtain theatre (or the Globe itself!) with a mug of ale and a raucous tale for the evening…

 

 

Museum unearths pre-Globe Shakespeare theatre in London 

BY PHILIP BAILLIE, REUTERS JUNE 7, 2012

 

Archeologists in London have discovered the remains of an early playhouse used by William Shakespeare’s company where Romeo and Juliet and Henry V were first performed.

 

Predating the riverside Globe, the Curtain theatre, north of the river Thames in Shoreditch, was home to Shakespeare’s company – the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.

 

Remains of walls forming the gallery and the yard within the venue have been discovered by archaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA).

 

“This is a fantastic site which gives us unique insight into early Shakespearean theatres,”…

 

Read more here.

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