The Science of Everlasting Life by Leonard Orr
Orr claims it is possible to live forever
Since I’m nearing the half-century mark, I’ve decided that I’m not going to participate in the aging of my peer group. Many of them are hunkering down with their pharmaceuticals and widescreen TVs preparing for chronic ill health and decrepitude. So the question is, How long can I expect to live? Orr says I can live forever.
You probably best know Orr as the founder of Rebirthing. He has traveled to India where he has met several immortals, claims thousands of immortals currently have an address on Earth, and says that he has been contacted and taught by an immortal who is God the Father in physical form. Much of this book seems farfetched, but I choose to keep an open mind about it. Orr writes:
The belief that death is inevitable will kill you if nothing else does. Your spirit is already eternal. The philosophy of physical immortality gives your body a chance. Death is a grave mistake….The realization that our own mind is the greatest threat to the health and aliveness of our physical body is a thought everyone deserves to have.”
For those who desire immortality, Orr provides exercises for purifying the physical, emotional and energy bodies using elements of earth, air, fire, and water. Immortality also calls for mastery over sleep and diet and some isolation from others driven by the “death urge.”
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While this all appeals to me, I have to wonder, what sort of life is it to spend much of the day in concentrated breathing, bathing, sitting in front of a fire, meditating, fasting, and abstaining from society? Orr writes about a yogi who meditated for 700 years!
I suppose if I have eternity before me, then meditating for 100 years wouldn’t seem too onerous. And I guess if I could materialize anywhere and form matter with thought alone, then it would all be worth it…in a few thousands years. My limited mind cannot grasp such a concept. But it would not hurt anyone to cease thinking they should wind down their affairs in middle age.
After reading this book I have the strongest urge to turn my library into a sanctuary, to trade my love of the written thoughts of others to a practice of realizing my connection to Source. I very much enjoyed this book and recommend it.
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