Sawubona, fam! Welcome to readers new and bold, today we dive into tales of old, age like Methusaleh, or just fools gold? This missive began years ago focused on curated biohacking widgets, and over the years has taken turns into holisitc health, psychonautics, philosophy, trauma work, and other oddities.

However, the core theme remains, WHO ARE WE?

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As part of that quest-I-on, I’ve stumbled into the world of pranic living, immortality, and breatharianism. Its too juicy to ignore and has taken much of my focus the past few years. However, and I apologize, I haven’t shared most of that with you all. As per immortality, today we explore the question of:

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What If You Could Live 1,000 Years?

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First, we need to check some assumptions at the door. Yours likely aren’t mine. Many people assume that living a long time means being miserable for a long time. Why would I want 300 years of Alzheimers? I’d rather die! Fair point, I get it. Let’s assume that to reach 1,000 years, a tipping point of regeneration must first be reached. No-body wants to be a millenial, literally, looking like a prune.

This new assumption helps us transcend the idea of a long, slow, painful death. It shifts our perspective when it comes to developing longevity frameworks. Remember, its not the years in your life, its the life in your years.

Transhumanists and biohackers dance with the word “healthspan” instead of “lifespan” in an attempt to clarify this. Lifespan refers to calendar years– how many years did you stack before getting stuffed into a coffin, cremated, or whatever happens when the body stops working.

Healthspan takes into account both duration and quality. How many healthy years did you have?

You may have come across health gurus that regularly talk about this healthspan idea. Peter Attia, Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield, and Bryan Johnson, among others have embarked on quests to live long, healthy lives. Attia has a variety of milestones he wants to hit at age 90 and is backtracking accordingly. People pay him handsomely to help them do this.

I’m grateful for their work and its noble.

They are wrong about a lot of things and I’m not finding worthwhile critiques and alternatives. More to come.

Namely, they take the current models of aging, or dying, and try to optimize them based on the same old set of assumptions.

But, in order to be different, we need to think different.

SIDE NOTE: This topic is at the cutting edge. Few people talk about it, those that do are explorers. Please let me know how I might explain better, any questions you have, what errors in logic may be present, etc. This writing will be increasingly immortality focused in the future and with that will come better examples, better logic, better frameworks, and better data. One way I get those is thanks to readers like you pointing out hiccups. Also, areas that may be clear but you wish to go deeper are welcome, too. Reply or let’s nerd out live.

These assumptions include but are not limited to:

• accepting Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution as fact
• believing we need to eat to survive
• believing we need to sleep to survive
• and other things usually associated with the work of Abraham Maslow

If we are going to think big, feel big, explore big, we must be humble enough to explore our assumptions. Kids have no problem with this but adults sometimes do. Resetting the brain’s default mode network every now and again is one of the best methods for this sort of tree-shaking, assumption-questioning, neuroplasticity-increasing exploration.

For a second, just a second, please consider the above as assumptions. Dance with me, baby!

Notice that Darwin’s theory of evolution is well, a theory. Notice how much of our scientific literature today takes this theory as fact, which is intellectually dishonest. I’m not saying the theory is wrong, rather, we are calling a cat a dog. Theories have their place and this one is dubious at best.

The best way I’ve found to disprove Darwin’s work is to play around with constructing buildings. Get in your body. Work with your hands. Build shit. Then take a peak at old architecture created by people “less evolved” than us. You’ll find examples everywhere of buildings and structures that we cannot replicate today, even with unlimited budgets and modern tooling.

After enough real, lived experience I could no longer accept the narrative that these people before us were less advanced, considering we still cannot replicate what they did. It simply doesn’t add up.

I’m not going to dismantle all these assumptions in today’s article. But, if that is of interest, let me know. It’ll likely be made manifest as a series and larger body of work.

What then?

What if these assumptions are wrong? What assumptions replace them? Where would we go?

Well for one we would ask more questions. These questions would come with experiments. New models need to be constructed.

Consider this a rough draft that will be polished and coalesce with time as part of an effort to learn in public and share ideas as a means of sharpening them.

New assumptions:

• “The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental.” h/t to Hermes Trismegistus
• the body is capable of self-healing
• this self-healing is the default mode

New Conclusions

All is mind, and the material world is related to the spirit world. Science gets funky when you go beyond the material, and contemporary mainstream science is currently stuck there. Its called “scientific materialism.” If you study physics, the high level math is loaded with unproven assumptions and gobbledygook. The Placebo Effect is a decent colloquial explanation of this hermetic “all is mind” principle. If we believe something works, it often does work. Unfortunately placebo is often poorly explained and framed as “do you believe or not” instead of “to what degree do you believe.” Additionally, placebo’s existence doesn’t negate nor is exclusive to the idea that chemicals can and do influence us. It’s a both, and thing, not an or thing.

Thoughts and beliefs influence the material world. There’s a reason books like The Secret have sold millions of copies, and billionaires that supposedly “know better” go to Tony Robbins’ neurolinguisitic programming events.

Tony and others have taken esoteric concepts like the Hermetic Principles and brought them to the mainstream. In fact, Tony’s early career involved working with Landmark, whose founder Werner Herzog is often credited with “bringing zen to the west.”

If we remove the old assumptions, and take the all is mind principle and combine it with the assumptions that the body is self-healing and always working to clean itself and regenerate, we can take a next step into the how.

That’s where I have been exploring for the past few years. A series of intense events, perhaps called miracles, forced me to see things I cannot unsee, and created activation energy to sincerely explore questions like, What If You Could Live 1,000 Years?

What then?

For starters, entertaining this possibility in a serious way, perhaps even a playful way, has been the best anti-anxiety treatment I have come across. After all, anxiety stems from the projection of a shitty future. This fantasy becomes exacerbated with a scarce mindset.

You’ve likely heard platitudes like “we need an abundance mindset,” and “stop acting from a place of scarcity,” and yet, I haven’t heard anyone say these platitudes while seriously considering immortality.

With the belief that you can live much longer than you are trained to believe, many questions go on the table. Long term thinking takes on a different meaning.

Notice how most if not all of your dreaming, goal setting, planning, and scheming is predicated on a 70-100 year lifespan, and backtracks from there.

If you leave with anything after reading this, please consider that maybe, just maybe, those assumptions are wrong.

Later we will explore more deeply just why those assumptions are wrong, with more data. More resources. More evidence.

If you’ve bought into the idea that immortality is possible, but want to get into the nitty gritty of how, why, and what to do in the present to create an immortal future, I’m here for you. If you’re a skeptic but curious, I’m here for you, too. Let’s talk. Everyone I work with gets a bespoke curriculum and personalized 1:1 support. The principles apply to everyone, but we all have a unique starting point.

Peace,

Drew

PS- If you’re looking for more information, I invite you to read Breaking The Death Habit by Leonard Orr.