History of Magic, The (Lévi), 181
Hitchcock, Alfred, 65
Hiyoyoa, 219
Ho Chi Minh, 2
Holosync meditation, 326
homeopathy, 17, 105–06
Homer, 19, 121, 214, 215, 317
Hope, Ed, 303
Horace, 15
Hornung, Erik, 180
hot springs, 106, 106n, 149, 151, 378
Houdini, Bess, 186
Houdini, Harry, 15, 167–68, 182, 186, 186n, 194
hsien Taoism, 240–41
Hubbard, L. Ron, 307n
Hughes, Charles Evans, 353
human growth hormone (HGH), 252–53
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (Myers), 40
Human Potential Movement, 150
Hume, David, 263
Huxley, Aldous, 150, 161
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 13
hyaluronic acid, 251
hydroxy acids, 100, 251
Hyperboreans, 121
Hyparchus river, 120–21
hyphamacains, 292
Ignatius of Loyola, Saint, 54–55, 64, 69–70, 77, 79
iliaster, 231–32
imagination, 29, 71, 158, 159, 166–67
Immortality Institute, 9, 267, 271, 272, 278–79, 283
Immortality: Scientifically, Physically, Now (Cooper), 302
Implied Spider, The (Doniger), 213
India, 21, 101–02, 115, 116, 119–20, 121–22, 122n, 123, 228n, 245–47
Indica (Ctesias), 120
Indus River, 118, 119n
INDY longevity gene, 255
Inferno (Dante), 303
Infiniti brand automobile, 18–19
infinitude, 158
Ingmar Bergman (Gervais), 65, 68, 74–75
initiation rituals, 101, 153–57, 161, 193–94, 246
injections, in longevity treatments, 1, 3, 282, 284, 303, 348–49
Innocent VIII, Pope, 1
InR longevity gene, 255
International Association for Near-Death Studies, 35–36
International Congress of Surgeons, 276
intuition, 70–71
Investigation of Perfection (Jaābir ibn Hayyaān), 228
Iroquois tribe, 99, 181
Isabella I, queen of Castile and León, 138
Isagenix, 285
Iskandar Naāma (Nizami), 117–18
Islam, 48–51, 98, 117, 118, 119n, 313, 357
Jaābir ibn Hayyaān, 228
Jackson, Janet, 160
Jackson, Michael, 113
Jahannam, 98
Jainism, 38, 99
Jamaica, 1
James, William, 40–41, 362
Jannah (al-Jannah), 98
Jefferies, Richard, 159
Jeffers, Robinson, 157
jellyfish genes, 3, 258, 308, 355
Jesuits, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 67, 69, 70, 78, 362
Jesus, 49, 72, 79, 84, 101, 116, 291
Jesus complex, 194
Jind Pir (also known as Khizr), 118–19
Jin dynasty, China, 244
Jobs, Steve, 356
John II, king of England, 115
John Dee Memorial Theater of the Mind, 42
John Paul II, Pope, 38
Johns, Emmett (“Pops”), 33, 34
Jolie, Angelina, 90–91, 92–93
Jones, Leanne, 339
Judaism, 81–84, 86, 87–89, 93, 99, 377
Judeo-Christian, 99, 357
Jung, Carl Gustav, 13–14, 20, 117, 231, 232
Juster, Norton, 125
Juvenon, 254
ka, 181
Kabbalistic traditions, 90, 99
kaddish, 89–90
Kalanchoe daigremontiana bryophyllum, 298
kami, 99
Kandel, Eric, 262
Kant, Immanuel, 147
karaoke, 175, 196–97, 202
karma theory, 99, 102
katharsis, 155
Katha Upanishad, 237
Katigbak, Rafael (“Raf”), 175–77, 184–85, 187, 189, 191–92, 193, 194, 196–98, 200–202, 207, 210, 222
Keats, John, 35, 106, 270, 279–80, 358
kefir, 2
Kekich, Dave, 267–68, 283, 284, 287, 290, 296, 297–99, 350
Kelly, R., 196
Kennedy, John F. (JFK), 131
Kent, Dora, 315
Kenyon, Cynthia, 254, 255, 256, 260
Kerényi, Károly, 215
Khan, Genghis, 4, 116
Khan, Kublai, 113, 116
Khidr, Al- (Green Man), 117, 118, 121
Khizr (also known as Jind Pir), 118–19
Khosrow Anushirvan, 20–21
kinetin, 251
King, Larry, 306
Kinship of the Three, The, 243
Klatz, Ronald, 253
Koné, Omar, 53–54, 56–57
Koontz, Dean, 166
Kore, 215
Kripal, Jeffrey J., 149
Kublai Khan, 113, 116
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 28
Kubota, Shin, 308
Kubrick, Stanley, 306, 308
Kuhn, Thomas S., 351, 362
Kurzweil, Ray, 16, 272–75, 277, 279, 286, 301, 302, 321–22, 356
labyrinths, 14
Lacks, Henrietta, 258
lama urine, 2
lamb cell injections, 1
Land of Darkness, 19, 117, 121
Laozi, 241
Lautréamont, Comte de, 10
Law of Accelerating Returns, 273
Lawrence, D. H., 105
Leary, Timothy, 306, 354
Lebowitz, Cheskie, 82–84, 86
Lee-Brenner, Lord, 287
legacies, 29
legal death, 315
Lemaître, Georges-Henri, 362
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 2, 303
Leo X, Pope, 123
Leonardo Da Vinci, 357
Lepore, Jill, 306
Lessing, Doris, 51
Lévi, Eliphas, 181
Libet, Benjamin, 158
Life (magazine), 303
Life After Life (Moody), 34
life extension escape velocity, 296
Life Extension Society (LES), 302
life extension strategies, 9, 17, 165, 166, 246, 249, 250, 253, 275, 278, 283, 317, 336–37, 340
life force
grace as, 52, 69–70, 77, 118
people exhibiting, 377
philosophers and poets on, 70–72
talks with Father Gervais on, 60–61, 62, 76, 77–79, 118, 231, 366, 376, 377
Lifespan Anti-aging Center, 283
life spans, 8, 53–54
Lincoln, Abraham, 29
Lindbergh, Charles, 353, 354, 355
Lipitor, 347
Li Shao-chun, 241–42
Locke, John, 359
logic, 54, 371
Longevinex, 342–43, 350
longevity, 2, 8, 248–69
longevity molecules, 3
Long for This World (Weiner), 292
love
Father Gervais on, 59, 60, 71, 80
Sufism on, 51–52
LSD, 152
lower water, 232
Luan Ta, 242
Lubavitch movement, Judaism, 86, 88
Luna, 215
Maasai people, 123
magic, 178–83
Copperfield’s illusions and, 109–10, 147, 166–69, 174–75, 181, 182, 182n, 191, 195, 207
energy and, 180–81
entertainment magic, 182–83
need to believe and, 111
real magic, 181–82
religion and origins of, 178–80
science and, 223–33
Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (TV show), 181
Magnificence, 114–15
Mahabharata, 108, 364
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 182–83
Malevich, Kazimir, 2
Mandeville, Sir John, 122–23
Manichaeism, 99
Manuel I of Constantinople,
Emperor, 114
Mao Zedong, 2
Marcelli, Rick, 222
marginals, 161
Martin, Dean, 197
Martin, Himo, 91–92, 93, 94
Martin, Joseph B., 344
Martin, Steve, 197
Maslow, Abraham, 150
mass (liturgy), 58, 64, 72, 73, 80, 101, 375
materialism, 360
Matthews, Korbett, 308, 309–10
Maugham, Somerset, 1
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 2, 63
McConnell, Edward (“Easy Money”), 127
McConnell, Louella Day (Diamond Lil), 125–28, 131, 133, 134, 135, 139, 140, 145
Medicare, 338
medicine
healing aspects of water and, 101–02, 105–06, 106n, 120, 121, 123, 124, 157
mummified remains as, 2
regeneration and, 249
meditation, 13, 103, 149, 156, 182–83, 240, 245, 326, 364, 365, 366–70, 373
mediums, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40–47, 181, 182, 186n
Melville, Herman, 103, 108
memories of people who have died, 29–30
Menéndez de Aviles, Pedro, 131
Mephistopheles (Goethe character), 225
Merck, 343
mercury (element in potions), 3, 229, 231, 232, 236, 237, 238–39, 241, 245, 246
Mercury (god), 231
Meropis, 120
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 181, 229, 230
Mesopotamia, 100
message circles, 42–44, 377
metaphysics and metaphysical phenomena, 70, 119, 181, 214, 215, 358, 371–72
metempsychosis, 99
metetherial world, 40
metformin, 261
Methuselah, 227
Methuselah Foundation, 9, 289, 291
Metz, Harry, 136–38
Michigan State University, 355
microbivores, 286
Microwave Instrument Co., 4
Middle Ages, 1, 17, 123, 228, 245, 357
Middle Realm, 42
Mill, John Stuart, 263
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 5
Milton, John, 3
Mind Time (Libet), 158
mineral baths, 106, 106n, 149, 378
Ming, Emperor, 238
Minoan civilization, 100, 377
Minsky, Marvin, 301
miracles, 8, 10, 64, 101, 109, 183, 226, 229
miraculous powers of water, 64, 73, 101, 109, 120, 149, 180, 219, 228, 229–30
mirror gazing, 41–42
Mission, The (film), 59
Mongolia, 4, 99, 116
Monograph on Broad Phenomena, 243
Moody, Raymond, 33–34, 35–36, 37–38, 40, 41–42, 205
moon (planet), 64–65, 91, 100, 106–07, 181, 216, 284–85, 298
Moon Goddess, 215–16
moon travel, 354, 356, 359
Morano, Martha, 108–09, 111, 112, 113, 116, 148, 149, 165, 166, 170, 177, 220–21, 222, 378
More, Max, 272, 278, 301
Moriki, Dean, 267
Mormonism, 99
Moses, 85–86, 96, 99, 117
mourning, 31, 34, 89–90
Muhammad, 49
Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts, 194
mummies and mummified remains, 2–3, 179–80, 231
Mu of Zhou, king, 243
Musha Cay, Bahamas
fountain of youth on, 108–09, 123, 148, 166, 187, 202–09, 210, 220, 221, 222, 377
proposed article on, 111, 116, 148–49, 165–66, 220–21
visit to, 175–77, 184–211, 377
Musha 500 (game), 186–87
Muslim Council of Montreal, 48–49
Muslims, see Islam
Muzong, Emperor, 238
Mycenae, 100
Myers, Frederic, 39–40, 43n
Mysterious Antidotarium, 239
Mystery (magician and author), 194–95
mystery, 77, 166, 231, 361
mystery cults, 101, 216, 218
mystery schools, 154
mysticism, 51, 54–55, 59–60, 70–71, 117, 371
myths and mythology, 17, 32
fountain of youth stories in, 124
immortality in, 119–20
magic liquid mentioned in, 212, 214–15
protection against death in, 102
religion and, 74
science and, 74
symbolism in, 213–16
nanobots, 271, 272, 286
Narcissus, 215
Naqshbandi Sufi Center, Montreal, 52–54, 56
Nasafī, Azīz-I, 48
Nasruddin (character, Sufi tales), 55
National Institute on Aging, 9, 254, 259, 345
National Institutes of Health, 253
natural magic, 226–27
Nature (journal), 249, 255, 341, 344
Neanderthal period, 102
near-death experiences (NDEs), 33–34, 35–38
Needham, Joseph, 238–39, 238n, 241
negative capability, 106
Nelson, Robert F., 304
Neolithic period, 237
Neoplatonism, 59, 72, 214
Nestorian sect, 116, 116n
New England Journal of Medicine, 266, 343
Newton, Sir Isaac, 227, 229, 373
New York Community Trust, 29
New York Times, 182, 276, 341, 344
New York Times Magazine, 3, 308
Nhat Hanh, Thich, 148
Niagara Falls, 168, 183
Nicole, Nicole, 317–18, 320, 321, 322, 323–24
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 154, 329
Nile River, 123, 179, 180
Nineveh, 19–20
Nizami, 117–18
Nobel Prizes, 48, 248, 262, 264, 288
Nolan, David, 126, 140, 145–46
Norse Vikings, 134
Nostradamus, 11
Notch protein, 339
Oates, Joyce Carol, 166
Obama, Barack, 195
objectivity, 147
occult powers, 43–44, 180–81, 226
ocean, mysteries in, 103–05, 215
oceanic experience, 218
Ode on the Intimations of Immortality (Wordsworth), 158
Odysseus, 214
Odyssey (Homer), 214, 317
Okeanos, 100
Olay brand, 252
Old Testament, 31, 72, 83–84
Olschki, Leonardo, 125
Onians, Richard B., 100
On the Cave of the Nymphs (Porphyry), 214
oracles, 42, 122
orgasms, 218, 224
Orinoco River, 123
Orphism, 99, 214
Osirification, 180
Osiris, 179–80
Out of My Later Years (Einstein), 361
Ovarium, Montreal, 377
Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de, 143
Pacetti, Benjy, 139
Pacific Islanders, 219
Pacific Ocean, 2, 123–24
Paderno brand, 15
Padmasambhava, 367, 368
paganism, 80, 101, 218
Pagels, Elaine, 101
Paleolithic period, 102
palingenesia, 161
Palmo, Ani Lodrö, 365, 369, 373
pantheism, 80
Papua New Guinea, 219
Paracelsus, 230–31, 232
Parade (magazine), 322
Parks, Tim, 98
Parmenides, 371–72
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 58, 58n, 66
patents, 10, 134, 143, 229, 254, 349
Paul, Saint, 20
Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging, Harvard University, 338
Paul F. Glenn Symposium on Aging, 336, 337–38, 344
Pawnee tribe, 42
Pelagius, 115
Penner, Alden¸ 184
People Unlimited, 267
Persephone, 215
Persia, 20–21, 115, 119n, 120, 178, 228
Petrified Lake site, Musha Cay, Bahamas, 193, 196, 200–201, 206, 209
Petroski, Henry, 272
Pew Trust surveys, 39
Pfizer, 341
PGC-1 gene, 339
Phaedrus (Plato), 217, 375
Philippe de Thaun, 122
philosopher’s stone, 228
Photoshop, 189, 192
Pierpont, Nicole, 317–18, 320, 321, 322, 323–24
Pindar, 121, 248
Pitera, 252
Pitjantjatjara people, 154
placebo effect, 229, 250–51, 277, 349
Plastic Omega, 8
Plato, 31, 178, 217–18, 223, 372
Plotinus, 72, 217
Plotkin, Bill, 155–57
Plutarch, 154
poetry, 157
ancient Greek, 15, 121, 217
on immortality, 3, 15
Romantic period, 55, 72, 147, 158
Sufi, 51, 52, 117
visionary, 214, 216
Pohl, Frederik, 307n
poiesis (poetry), 217
polls, 28, 355
Polo, Marco, 115–16, 144, 246
polytheism, 80
Ponce de León, Juan
historians on, 143–44
stories about, 124, 126–27, 128, 130–33, 134–35, 136, 137–38, 140
Ponce de León Fountain of Youth Water, 134
Pop, Iggy, 300
Porphyry of Tyre, 214, 215
“Position Statement” [on longevity], National Institute on Aging, 9
posterity immortality, 31
prayers, 1, 38–39
art and, 59, 60, 205
Buddhist, 373
Catholic, 67, 80
Father Gervias on watching films as, 59, 205
Hasidic, 82, 90
Islamic, 49
Sufi, 53
water metaphor for, 105
prayer services, Sufi, 53, 56
Prechtel, Martín, 19
pregnancy, 64, 105, 154, 218–19, 325–26
preserved bodies of leaders, 2, 303
Prester John, 114–16, 117, 121
Priceless Prescriptions (Sun Ssu-miao), 244
Priest and the Medium, The (Rossner), 38
procaine hydrochloride, 2
progress, belief in, 9–10
Prospect of Immortality, The (Ettinger), 302, 306, 307, 314
Prospero (character, The Tempest), 109, 167, 199, 200, 223, 224, 226
Portestants, 31
Psalms of Ascent, 89
p66Shc longevity gene, 255
psychic automatism, 43
psychics, 34, 39–40, 43, 117, 232
psychomanteums, 42
Pulotu, 124
punk music, 59, 150–51
punters, 292–93
Puranas, 121
Pure Fulfillment brand cream, 294
Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán, Mexico, 112
pyramids, 3, 112, 150, 298, 378
Pyramid Texts, 179
Pythagoras, 42, 372
quacks, 17, 229, 295, 322
Quantum Immortality (QI), 30
Qin Shi Huang, 242–43
Q10, 251
Qiu Chuji, 4
Qur’an, 49–50, 117
Raine, Kathleen, 214, 216
rainwater cures, 2
Ramadan, 49
rapamycin, 249, 345
rap music, 197, 197n, 282
rasa, 246
Rasarnava, 246
Ray and Terry’s Longevity Products, 274
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