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What Is Aging?
I will start today’s topic on Aging with a question. It’s a question everyone seems to struggle with and matters very much for the purpose of understanding the topic. What is aging? Body decomposition. Maturing like a fine wine? Back pains. All are legitimate definitions. In fact, the concept is heavily open for interpretation, but…
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Traits Of Aging
Your body acquires the traits of aging in the same way that you acquire beliefs. Degenerative diseases. They stem from any of a collection of frustrations. I’ll use an example of aging. Back pain. It’s an adaptive response to either the literal practice of or the psychological focus on physical labour. It comes from a…
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Directed Aging
The acquisition of energy and thus manifest traits cannot be stopped, but its pacing can be controlled and its path directed, at least to a large degree. The direction aging will take you in is the same as it took you in when you were still physically immature. That model just gets more and more…
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Path Of Your Nature
It’s really amazing how strong people are. They set themselves against their own nature so intensely and for so long they wind up like little human bonsai trees. Which makes me ask, what do you think of when you see a bonsai tree? I think of the way they are trained into those shapes. Slow patient…
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People First
I read somewhere that people like us because of our faults. They make us interesting. Yes. They have done studies both of artificially targeted brain damage and the symptoms of specific neurological illnesses and forms of brain damage. There are portions of the brain that if they are damaged don’t seem to impair the persons…
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Time to Die?
I have a question for you. What is this age thing that everyone seems to worry about? Even children worry about it. It consumes a considerable amount of their attention. Declining health, getting closer to death. Wearing down like an old engine… It reminds me that I can do better at taking care of myself.…
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Aging Process
I will offer a definition of age. I offer that age is memory, and I mean memory as a principle, as a physical law. So then, why would age seem to be associated with disease? The longer you live, the more time you have to get sick. Perhaps the body’s ability to fight off germs…
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Andropause
Andropause. They even think that there may be a legitimate third gender among humans. Have you heard of it? A-sexual? Yes, they have even traced it genetically it seems. They aren’t sterile, but the biological mechanism is modified. Is that becoming more common? Actually, the sociological trend regarding sex recently is psychological, psycho-social, but it…
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Life Forms a Bubble
I recently made a realization… Owls are known to be wise and crows are said to be murderous, but owls are like hawks and eagles, except they hunt at night, and crows are one of the most intelligent animals. So it’s actually crows that are smart and owls that are murderous. Owls can see at…
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Idea of Need
So, human preservation… The code that is introducing so much corruption into the planetary organic infrastructure. Almost everything humans have done so far has been based not on perception, observation, empathy or sensitivity of any kind, but on a concept, a weird viral infection of the human brain that no other species has. Humans need…
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Biological Age
Even biological age, right now, this moment in your body, is not a coherent or absolute thing. Different parts of your body will test as being different ages. Women’s breasts are a whole decade older than they are for example, so there isn’t even a single clock in the body regulating aging. How does that…
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Riddle of Lethe
I have to ask, why do you want to die? Because I can. Feel there is merit in it? Dying because you can? To die this moment, no… So I can be reincarnated. So I can continue to be independent and not become dependent or a burden on others. Sometimes, enough is enough. For most,…
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Self is the Dynamics
Everyone familiar with the concept of the zeitgeist? World-spirit. Just as all beings are their own I, and have their own desire, there is a communicated body of awareness, a desire held in common, a mutual urge to live and not only survive but evolve, to prosper and explore information more fully. This is also an…
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Forgetting
I’m fat because I’m depressed? You are fat, if you call yourself that, because you are forgotten. The process of forgetting and age are the same thing. Death is forgetting. Life is remembering. The organs forget. They have memory. They use all the same chemical processes that the brain does to form memories, or some…
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You Must be You
The difference in aging between parts of the body, various tissues and organs, is a pattern of forgetting, or selfing. I call it selfing because you block out portions of your experience to preserve a set of data that form an illusion that you then declare to be yourself. All it is is a stress…
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Spectrum of Experience
The remedy for aging / forgetting? It’s attention. Not to information, our old folks have it right there. There is no fix for them in new fangled information. Their instincts told them that. It’s not just prejudice. Their life experience sample is big enough that they know what information does to the body, and yes,…
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Record Scratchers
Should you reincarnate on your personal path, it’s no big deal, never has been. Little steps until you take that big one works also, but you can make reincarnation a big deal. The more your memory is interrupted, the more stops and restarts it has, the louder your karma will get. If you think you…
Category: Aging
Aging as the acquisition of increasing numbers of characteristics and potential disorder possibly leading to collapse of the system. We lose our center. The majority of supposed symptoms of aging are acquired traits. Your body acquires the traits of aging in the same way that you acquire beliefs. Tell me what you think it is to be aging, and you have also told me what it is for you to be alive.
The ultimate mystery of aging is that there is nothing you should be trying to struggle with. Struggle makes people old. You gain wisdom by growing along the path of your nature. We can work with our own fault lines rather than trying to disrespect our own nature and stress these bodies and the lives we are living. We can embrace our inner nature with both it’s weakness and it’s strength.
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” Aldous Huxley
“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet, 1807-1882)