Secrets of Longevity and Mysteries of Immortality

By Kayros O'Hara

The agrarian and industrial revolutions have already happened. Humanity stands on the verge of a spiritual revolution. To make it successful, people need books that transform consciousness. This book gives practical advice and recommendations on health and longevity. Issues related to esoterica and mysticism are viewed through the prism of scientific achievements, giving impetus to further spiritual growth. One of the most important questions of life is being studied in this book: how to achieve maximum life extension and immortality?

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paravitta
• Release date: May 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223108696

Kayros O'Hara

Kayros O'Hara is the author of several books about history of the Mankind with a special emphasis on the achievements of great philosophers and spiritual leaders throughout the ages. He has also written books on the "Secrets of Longevity" shedding light on "mysteries of immortality" through the prism of different practices and teachings. His book "From Runic Symbols to the Language of the Universe" views different scripts including numeric language. It questions what the cosmic universal language could be, that would allow us to communicate with extraterrestrial minds. The latest book by Kayros O'Hara, "Homo Futuris and the World of the Future", is a must-read for all the people who seek the truth about the current situation of the world we live in, who are interested in thought-provoking predictions of what our reality could be and how the possible scenarios can be changed. Kayros O'Hara also writes screenplays ('Billion") and is the founder of the "Phi-Fi" genre: Philosophical Fiction ("Almarisia"). Last but not least, Kayros O'Hara is a social activist and ecologist who realizes projects intended to help our planet. He is the creator of the International Academy of Education, a non-commercial school for children, the founder of "Portal Electi" Club and "Paravitta" organization that runs under the motto "VIA INTENTO ABSOLUTIO" (life in search for the Absolute). 

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Preface

This edition is the eighth book in the series ‘Books about the Main Things’, which is published under the motto ‘Via Intento Absolutio’ (‘The Path of the Pursuit of Perfection’). Intento is a concept that permeates the whole of the human life. This path is predestined from above. Perfection is the Absolute, God, and Highest Harmony.

The agrarian and industrial revolutions have already happened. Humanity stands on the verge of a spiritual revolution. To make it successful, people need books that transform consciousness. This book gives practical advice and recommendations on health and longevity. Issues related to esoterica and mysticism are viewed through the prism of scientific achievements, giving impetus to further spiritual growth of both  — Man and Humanity in general.

One of the most important questions of life is being studied in this book: how to achieve maximum life extension and immortality?

SECRETS OF LONGEVITY

People depart this life because they have overslept their promised immortality.

(African mythology)

Wherever I am, there is no death; wherever is death, there I am not. Therefore, death is nothing for me, that is what Titus Lucretius Carus, a great Roman poet and philosopher, once said while preparing himself for his passing away from this perishable world.

Death of any organism is the informational order for the cells, to cease their constant renovation and reconstruction. Moreover, its DNA programs the very waiting for this order within the cell, but the command is delivered by the informational cocoon of a human being, based on a new situation. That is where reality meets mystery, as Earth meets Space, body and spirit, existent and nonexistent.

Cell constituting atoms continue their existence entering further structure of informational reality, be it live or inanimate — from our human point of view. For atoms and their constituting electrons, protons, and neutrons, it is just a transition into a new informational form. In our bodies, we also may be carrying atoms of great philosophers of the past.

However, we are now extremely deep in informational exhaustion of our body. It is just an example of how we are affected by our mind and by outer cyberspace. Probably, with no knowledge of death, we could live then — approximately — forever. The idea of death gave birth to the very process of dying. That is why, for our purpose, we shall put those ideas away and get back to the basics of preserving our physical health and longevity. In addition, we shall consider the subject of immortality, reached by actualization of mind in the vastness of cyberspace.

Eternity and Immortality Are Absolute Concepts;

and, Therefore, Divine

One concept implies another; and both of them are coming from an idealistic picture of the world, where God is eternal, immortal, and omniscient. God is the Maker of the Universe, of Man; He breathed new life into bodies of rational beings. God is infinite; but we cannot conceive even the idea of this notion, though we long for immortality, least satisfied by envisioned longevity, if we are not yet tired by living on the planet Earth.

For those who are not, who wish to prolong life to enjoy all its beauty in full and to fulfill all the plans, we shall show herewith what can fill us with hope and joy provided by academics and long-livers.

Gerontologists have accumulated plenty of truthful information about long-livers. According to the Guinness’ Book of World Records, Jeanna Calman, a French woman, was the oldest person in the last period of 150 years. She died on August 4, 1997, when she was 122 years and 164 days old. Man’s longevity record belongs to Khabib Miyan, India: He died in 2008 at the age of 129.

According to some historic chronicles, it is recorded that Li DzungYung, born in the province of Sichuan, China, lived 256 years (1677– 1933). He had 200 offspring and 24 wives, besides he outlived 23 of them.

There is annalistic information about Alain de Lispe, the bishop. At the very old age, in the year of 1218 he took a mysterious medicament. It is claimed that, by doing this, he extended his life over 60 more years. It was recorded, that St. Kentigern, the founder of the city of Glasgow, had died at the age of 185.

Christian Drakenberg, a Danish sailor of Norwegian origin, was known to live 146 years (1626–1772). Pirates held him captive for 15 years; still, after that he served as a sailor for 90 years.

Shirali Muslimov from the village of Barvazu (Lenkoran Region, Azerbaijan) was — officially — the oldest man in the USSR: he lived 168 years (1805–1973).

Omar Abbas reached the age of 144. He was born September 26, 1857; and in 1998, he was protocolled in the Guinness’ Book of records as the oldest man in Malaysia. The government awarded Omar a special medal in 1995, honouring him as the oldest Malaysian. After his death, he left a 103 years old wife, 4 children, 20 grandchildren, and more than a hundred grand-grandchildren! His relatives remembered his good spirits, good health, and ability to work hard, especially in the last months of his life.

Ram Avtar Saha Kanu was born in 1832 in the village of Devodia, in the tropical lowland part of India. As journalists wrote, the aged man did not have those estimated years’ looks. The elder member of the village board, Rabindra Shah, is doing his best to fix Kanu’s age documentarily. On January 1, 2000, Kanu took part as an honorary guest at the opening ceremony of the Mahabir Prasad Stomatological Institute.

In July 2009, Khalime Olkai, an elder woman from a remote Turkish village, celebrated her 135th birthday. The public started knowing her due to some kind of a bureaucratic mistake. Some social service’s ‘Jackin-office’ deprived her of pension, perhaps, by having decided that people did not live that long. Nonetheless, the old woman, being in good health, managed to restore her rights by stating that she was of

the same age with Winston Churchill. She said she was even more than 150 years old. However, her birth certificate read she had been born July 1, 1874. Khalime lives with her relatives in the village of Sarikoban, South-Eastern Turkey.

According to the age grading published by the World Health Organization, the biological health estimation has changed radically. Youth is 25-40 years of age, middle age is 44-60 years, 60-75 years is elderly age, and 75-90 years mark old (senile) age. More than 90 years of age make old-livers.

All animate creatures on the planet Earth have their own terms of existence. For instance, cats live approximately 10 years, dogs live 18 years, bulls live 30, horses live 40, elephants — 150, turtles — 300, and whales live 400 years. Moreover, how long can a human being live? After long-term and thorough researches, the scientists stated the law of average life duration for animals and humans, which suggests the following scale of calculation: mammals’ average life duration should be measured by five to seven periods necessary for growth. Human growth period equals approximately twenty — twenty-five years. Yu– Quedzyang, а Chinese physician of the Qing Dynasty, wrote in his treatise How to Build Health. Introduction: Since the moment of birth, man’s organism ripens by the age of twenty five years. Compared to the lifetime of animals, man’s life must be as long as 125-200 years.

Scientists took the period of mammal’s pubescence as the starting point, which helped them to determine its maximum life duration as eight-tenfold of that period. As, usually, human pubescence starts at the age of 14-15, thus man’s lifetime maximum must be 112-150 years.

Having investigated the law of division and proliferation of human embryo’s stem cells, one American cytologist took the number of cell divisions as a measurement criterion and suggested a new principle of lifetime determination. Stem cells of the chicken’s lungs devise 13-35 times; life duration is 30 years. Stem cells of the turtle’s lungs devise 72-114 times; life duration is 300 years. Stem cells of the human lungs devise 5-10 times. According to this principle, man’s average life duration should be 120 years.

Experiments, based on tissue and organs viability principle, showed that they could exist for many years outside the human body. Further measurements make it 140-150 years of a lifetime. There is one common feature in all those theories: man’s average life duration must be more than a hundred years long. Controversy is only in numbers: 120, 150, 180, or 200 years. In China, there were always elders over hundred years of age. There are many recorded witnesses of it. It was mentioned in the book of the Tan dynasty (713-742), Some Cases from Quai-Yuan History: In the age of 128, Yu Bolun was still full of life. Though his son had died, he lived with his two grandsons, 70 and 80 years old. ‘The Dun Way Chronicles’ says, Yang Syangtsui is 81; and his uncles are over 120. We met his grandfather, who called himself Master Sung. He is 195. Excerpts from The Collection of Various Bibliographical Records: The River Zu runs through Nanyang; its water tastes soft and sweet. More than ten families dwell there; and they drink it. All live long, reaching quite advanced ages, some are over 120-130. Sung Symyao, a famous pharmacist, lived more than 100 years of age; and even at that age, he was still full of stamina. His treatise A Thousand of Gold Prescriptions was an encyclopedia of clinical medicine for many generations of practical physicians. In Self-Perfection chapter, one could read the following: He, who is perfecting himself morally and doing good deeds, shall not suffer from severe illnesses or disasters. It is one of the major principles of good health. Self-perfection means the need of practicing and hardening in morality. It is a long process. Self-perfection takes years of training to make self-command and complaisance habitual, and disposition truly kind-hearted. (Zen Zinnan, Liu Daotzin, Therapeutic Exercises of Chinese Medicine")

Theories of Senility and the Birth of Gerontology

Way Po, the Chinese prominent thinker of the 2nd Century, was one of the first who introduced the idea of the philosopher’s stone which would turn other metals into gold and give man the eternal youth. Much later, this idea fell onto the fertile ground of Western maximalism. The mystery of immortality was much more intriguing than banal transformation of ordinary metals into something golden or precious. For any human being, life is the most precious thing, although some people treat it most thoughtlessly. People are apt to waste their lives as if they have extra immeasurable life resources ahead. The widest spread of virtual reality only aggravated that notion; teenagers, whose minds are dosed by computer games, assume that life can be replayed, recharged or relived, and bodies refilled with life elixir, again. Nowadays mostly the science is used to spread the ideas that soon, in the future, we will solve the secrets of longevity and even the mystery of immortality. What is left to do is to find that ill-fated but inexhaustible gene, which starts up the mechanism of senescence, or make a cell follow commands lest it be exhausted — but regenerated.

Men have sought for that immortality elixir for many centuries (to say nothing of alchemists); but the real breakthrough in gerontology has been achieved just recently. First, scientist discovered the way to prolong life of yeasts, worms and even mice through starvation diet; later they discovered several genes capable of continuing active longevity. It seems they have found the principal cause of senescence — a wear-and-tear of the porous shell of the nuclear membrane. But all of that is just the beginning, first timid steps towards the mysteries of life; there are many thrilling discoveries ahead. Here is a brief list of major chronological events, discoveries and hypotheses:

1882. A. Wiessmann (Germany) assumed that man’s life is determined by limited capability of body cells to reproduce themselves.

1889. Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (France) self-tested that injection of extracts drawn from animals’ testicles caused temporal rejuvenation.

A. Alzheimer (Germany) was first to describe senile dementia (Alzheimer’s disease, or cerebral atrophy).

Max Rubner (Germany), by comparing animals of different species, revealed inverse relationship between longevity and intensity of metabolism.

1912. A. Carrel (France) stated that cells of a many-celled organism could supposedly propagate in unlimited quantities (so called potential immortality of somatic cells).

F. Verzar (Switzerland) created a theory of ‘cross stitching’: disulfide bonds mainly caused ageing by forming in macromolecules and thus limiting their functions.

D. Harman (USA) created The Free-Radical Theory of Ageing, according to which free radicals destroyed DNA and, consequently, cause ageing.

1959. L. Szillard (USA) suggested a theory according to which radiation damages of chromosomes caused ageing.

1969. R. Walford (USA) created the immunological theory of ageing.

1990–2011. Rapid development of gerontology and researches directed to prolong the active life’s period of man.

According to Zen Zinnan, Liu Daotzin, Chinese academics, most well developed theories of ageing are the following:

•  Central Nervous System Theory. Normally, man’s brain continues to gain weight since birth until, approximately, fifty. The most rapid growth is from six to ten years of age, then it is notably slower at the age between 21 and 30; after 60, there are quite a few changes. As cerebral cortex handles normal body functioning with the help of spinal cord and vegetative nervous system, their condition plays a very important role during the whole process of ageing. Multitude experiments show that those tensions within the brain cortex and imbalance between the inner and the outer worlds corrupt normal functioning of viscera. There is also an interconnection between maturity of brain and longevity. Deteriorations in cerebrum functioning cause premature ageing.

•  Autointoxication Theory. As far as functioning of excretory organs of the body is weakening, such products of metabolism as phenol, indole and pigments tend to deposit in the organism and poison the cells. As far as these substances are accumulating and intoxicating the cells, life functioning of the latter is worsening; and they die. As a result, human viscera are ageing and weakening.

•  Traditional Chinese Medicine. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, man’s health and longevity depend on the kidneys functioning. Kidneys are ‘the basis of inborn vital force’, as they keep reproduction and spirit ‘under command’. They partially perform the work of reproduction, endocrine, central nervous, and immune systems. A man with healthy kidneys is not just full of life and robustness, but he fully enjoys good health and longevity. It is regarded that kidneys serve as mighty accumulators of ether.

There have been numerous efforts to combine basic theories of ageing and longevity, which emerged during the last fifty years.¹

The first combination includes the version that, under internal and external destructive circumstances, the structure of DNA and RNA molecules is being ruined; as a result, there starts the synthesis of ‘incorrect’ (genetically unprogramed) proteins, including ferments (RNA– polymerase), which, in their turn, condition the synthesis of ‘incorrect’ RNA molecules, — on and on, within the vicious circle. By itself, this process is not lethal: when the quantity of ‘incorrect’ RNA molecules reaches the critical level, it switches the mechanism of self-inhibition, and it sets the balance between the syntheses of ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ molecules.

Version 2: Within a lifetime, there is a protein oxidation, including oxidation of ferments responsible for preservation of DNA structure. As a result, errors accumulate in DNA; and this process leads to forming of further ‘incorrect’ protein molecules, and so on.

The non-genetic theory states that the protein synthesis is correct, but later proteins are damaged under the same conditions; accumulation of those damages constitutes the very process of ageing. Proteins are filled with ‘cross stitches’ — disulfide bridges, which limit the molecules functioning.

Overall, the scientists assume that, somewhere inside us, there is a molecular timer a-ticking, which, at a certain moment of organism’s development, is generating signals and starting the mechanisms of ageing. However, we all know that any commands and signals without extensive nervous system (it means, without neural network) cannot be delivered. So, let us start our studies with brain activity.

The brain has been a subject of study for more than one thousand years. Many philosophers, scientists, clergymen, esoteric and mystic followers, monks and priests pursued to recognize themselves, and thereby, their correlation with the Universe. We shall go on with this tradition by learning those constants and variables of our organisms, which substantially influence longevity; we shall also examine longlivers’ nutrition and rules of life, as well as those biochemical principles and sci-tech achievements that promote rejuvenation and longevity.

Is Sure Way to Longevity in Neural Network-Saving?

Brain neurons Galactic ‘neurons’

Human brain consists of neurons; they provide functioning of the brain and connecting glia cells, which — with age — reproduce intensively and substitute dying neurons. Mental activity stimulates creation of new neurons during whole lifetime. Besides, new neuron connections are being formed each time we try to remember or think something over. Scientists have proved that brain types are inherited matter — up to morphological configuration of convolution of brain. Another important tendency in the studies of evolution is brain growth, especially neocortex (cerebral cortex). And the peak of evolution — Mother Nature’s afflatus — is Man himself, with his unlimited and complexly organized cortex, three times bigger in volume than that of his anthropoid ancestors. Even so, its main feature is the fantastic amount of inter-neuron connections. As Tilly Edinger, one of the most prominent experts in paleontology, mentioned, since man passed the phase of pithecanthropus, then the evolution of his brain was quite a unique phenomenon — not only by the results but by the speed also. Evidently, growth of cerebral hemispheres for more than fifty percent took place — judging by the geochronological scale — practically instantly, and more or less substantial growth of the body did not accompany that event.

This is one of the biggest mysteries of the so-called evolution.

"Twenty different types of genes are responsible for the volume of brain. Scientist’s researches mostly covered two of them, which are microcephalin and ASPM. They discovered that these genes mutate, whereas not accidentally but as a result of natural selection which has been quickly fixed and become normal.

Further estimations demonstrated that microcephalin gene had started its active change approximately 37 thousand years ago. It was the period when our next ancestors emerged on Earth — Cro-Magnon men.