ü  Your body is aging beyond control because it has been programmed
to live out the rules of that collective conditioning.

10 Inherited Assumptions about Who You Are & What the True Nature of the
Mind & Body Is

1. There is an objective world independent of the observer,
   and our bodies are aspect of this objective world
2. The body is composed of atoms (?) of matter, separated
   from each other in timely space
3. Mind & body are separate, and independent of each
   other.
4. Materialism is primary; consciousness is secondary. In
   other words, we are physical machines to have learned to think.
5. Human awareness can be completely expanded product of
   biochemistry.
6. As individuals, we are all disconnect, self-contained
   entities.
7. Our perception of the world is automatic, can give us an
   accurate picture of how things really are.
8. Our true nature is totally defined by the body, ego and
   personality. We are wisps of memories and desires enclosed in packages of
   flesh and bones.
9. Time exists as an absolute. We are captives of that
   absolute. No one escapes that ravages of time.
10. Suffering is necessary. It is a part of our reality. We
    are inevitable victims of sickness, aging and death.

ü  Human aging is critically different from animal aging.

10 New Assumptions

1. The physical world including our bodies is a response of
   the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our
   world.
   • Cf. chair
2. In their essential state, our bodies are composed of
   energy and information, not solid matter. This energy & information is
   an outcropping of infinite fields of energy & information spanning the
   Universe.
   • Entropy doesn’t apply to intelligence
   • Prana: flow of intelligence (life force)
3. The mind and the body are inseparably one. The unity that
   is me, separates into two streams of experience, thoughts & desires,
   & the experience of the body. It’s in the union of the two that we are
   all meant to live.
   • The decline of vigor in old age is largely the result of
     the people expecting to decline.
4. The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness.
   Beliefs, thoughts, and emotions create the chemical reactions upholding
   life in every cell, and aging cell is the end product of awareness that has
   forgotten how to remain you.
   • You’re only as old as you think you are.
5. Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact, it’s a
   learned phenomenon. If you change your perception, you change the
   experience of your body & of your world.
   • Aging process has to be countered everyday.
6. Impulses of intelligence constantly create your body in
   new forms every second. What you are is the sum total of theses impulses,
   and by changing the patterns, you’ll change.
7. Although each person seems separate and independent, all
   of us are connected with patterns of intelligence that govern the whole cosmos.
   Our bodies are a part of universe body; our minds and aspect of a universal
   mind.
   • What makes us old isn’t stress so much as the perception
     of stress. Someone who doesn’t see the world out there as a threat can
     co-exist with the environment free of the damage created by the stress response.
   • The most important thing to experience the world without
     aging is to nurture the knowledge that the world is you.
8. Time does not exist as an absolute, only eternity. What we
   call linear time is a reflection of how we perceive change. If you could
   perceive the changeless, time would cease to exist as we know it. We can
   learn to start metabolizing non-change, eternity, the absolute. By doing
   that, we’ll be ready to create the physiology of immortality.
   • Choose time of day when you
     feel relaxed and unpressured. Sit quietly and place your watch nearby.
     Close your eyes. Be aware of your breathing. Imagine your whole body
     rising and falling with the flow of each breath. After a minute or two,
     when you feel settled and quite inside, peek at the second of your watch. → Time is a product of perception. Only time there is the one you’re
     aware of.
9. Each of us inhabits reality lying beyond all change. Deep
   inside us, unknown to the 5 senses, is an innermost core of being, a field
   of non-change that creates personality, ego and body. This being is our
   essential state. It is who we really are.
10. We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are
    a part of the scenery, not the seer who is immune to any form of change.
    This seer is spirit, the expression of eternal being.
    • If you want to change your body, change your awareness
      first.

Exercise 1 – Seeing Through the Mask of Matter

1. Look at your hand and examine it closely.
2. Holing the image of your hand in your mind’s eye, imagine
   that you’re examining it through a high-powered microscope.

Lessons

1. 3-D body, reported by the 5 senses, is a mirage.
2. Every solid particle of matter is composed of more than
   99.999% empty space.
3. The void between 2 electrons is proportionally as large
   and empty as the space between two galaxies.

Exercise 2 – Closing the Gap

1. Imagine two candles on a table in front of you.
2. Carry one candle outside at night, and hold it up against
   back against the background of stars.

Lessons

1)      No
matter how separate anything appears to the senses, nothing is separate at the
quantum level.

2)      The
quantum field exists in, around, & through you. The field is your extended
body.

3)      Each
of your cells is a local concentration of information and energy inside the
wholeness of information and energy of your body. Likewise, you are a local
concentration of information and energy in the wholeness which is the body of
the Universe.

Exercise 3 – Breathing the Field

Sit comfortably in a chair with your eyes closed. Gently and
slowly, inhale through your nostrils, imaging that you’re drawing the air from
a point infinitely far away. Now, slowly and easily exhale, sending every atom
of air back to its source infinitely far away. Feel each breath coming to you from
quantum field.

Exercise 4 – Redefining

Repeat the following statements silently to yourself: “I can use the power of my awareness to experience
the body that is flowing instead of solid, flexible instead of rigid, quantum
instead of material, dynamic instead of static, composed of energy and
information instead of random chemical reactions, in network of intelligence
instead of the mindless machine, fresh and ever-renewing instead of entropic
and aging, and timeless instead of time-bound.”