| Freeing ourselves from traditional ideas can be so liberating. Just questioning the idea say, of physical death at roughly the same age as our parents (it’s so common that insurance companies bet on it by basing their premiums on the assumption) - can mean that we feel that there is all the time in our lives to do all the things we really want to. I remember the feeling I had when I first entertained the idea( reading ‘Physical Immortality’ by Leonard Orr) a mixture of excitement and enormous relief/relaxation; I needn’t rush anymore. There is plenty of time to do all the things I want to do. And sure enough, when I had taken up this idea, I read that medical doctors say that the human body is designed to last for 150 years. Well, that’ll do for a start while I work out what I really plan to do... It really doesn’t matter whether we live for an astonishing length of time by western standards or not; once the idea is mooted, we have gained from entertaining the idea. Then, as Leonard Orr says, we’d better stick around and see if it is true ... | |
