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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on spirituality and healing ever!, June 22, 2012

This review is from: Healing Into Immortality: A New Spiritual Medicine of Healing Stories and Imagery (Paperback)

I first read Healing Into Immortality 12 years ago and I keep going back to it, it's like a manual on life. Gerald Epstein gives it to you straight; it's not a popularized version of new age spirituality. He has an impressive lineage. His teacher was Colette Aboulker-Muscat of Jerusalem and these teachings go back thousands of years. Among the highlights of the book, an exploration of the ten commandments unlike any other, for example - the 6th commandment, thou shall not kill includes a discussion on depression as "self murder". In addition, Epstein gives the remedy - mental imagery exercises to reverse depression. Other highlights: the seven keys to healing, how we become sick, how we become well, and a step-by-step guide to mental imagery including a section of exercises. Luckily, Amazon allows you to read the first pages of the book, and the first pages of this book are packed with examples of his unique and uncompromising perspective. Check out the table of contents, too. I always come back to this book - after all the years since I first read it, it still rings true. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in spirituality and healing, I've never come across another book like it. In fact my copy is so beat up, at this point I think I'm due for a new one!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book on Imagination and Healing, March 9, 2011

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Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying) byBill Gifford (Grand Central Publishing)

Someone alive today will live to celebrate a 1,000th birthday or so says gerontology theorist Aubrey de Grey, who has been snickered off many podiums during his controversial career.

His theory, which he calls SENSS, or Strategies for Engineering Negligible Senescence, contends that one day we will be able to engineer aging out of cells. Once we can implement de Greys idea to clean our cells of aging garbage, a kind of cellular housekeeping, then lifespan could even become infinite.

De Grey has a hopeful admirer in journalist Bill Gifford, author of the new book, Spring Chicken. In it, Gifford points out that MIT and the Technology Review have offered scientists $20,000 to try and refute de Greys theories. So far, three teams of scientists have tried. None, Gifford writes, has succeeded.

If the idea of exponentially increasing human lifespan sounds like the stuff of science fiction, consider this: Scientists have already doubled the lifespans of other species in the lab, including mice, worms and flies.

British theoretician Aubrey de GreyPhoto: Wikipedia

Researchers have also sequenced the genome of the naked mole rat, an animal that doesnt develop cancer, never suffers through menopause and lives 10 times longer than regular old subway rats.

Researchers believe that the longevity of mole rats comes down to the limited oxygen of its subterranean habitat. As such, its metabolic rates are abnormally slow and a proliferation of repair mechanisms keep their cells astonishingly youthful.

This is key, Gifford writes, pointing out that healthspan is far more important than lifespan. The real problem with aging isnt that we eventually die, its that we break down.

Aging is thought by some to begin while we are still in the womb. It speeds up after we finish growing, at about 20 years old, then accelerates after that.

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