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by Adam Leith Gollner


  Reagan, Ronald, 195

  rebirth, 5, 17, 101, 102, 104, 105, 119, 161

  regeneration

  belief and, 17, 104, 180

  cells and, 1, 257, 258–59, 288, 355

  preservation and, 3, 303, 314

  regenerative medicine, 249

  red wine, 17, 327, 340, 347

  Reich, Wilhelm, 181

  reincarnation, 6, 89, 102, 369, 370

  religion

  acceptance of death and, 27–28

  belief in immortality in, 17, 31–32

  Father Gervais on, 80

  immortality beliefs in, 98–99

  opinion about validity of belief and, 95–96

  origins of magic and, 178–80

  science and, 12

  See also specific religions

  Replenish brand antiwrinkle cream, 288

  resveratrol, 251, 284, 327, 340, 341–42, 344, 345, 347

  Reuters, 109, 110

  Reyna, Michelle, 125–27, 129–32, 136

  Reynolds, Charles B., 139

  Rigveda, 119, 119n

  Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum, St. Augustine, Florida, 142

  rite of passage, 153

  river gods, 118–19

  Rochon, Esther, 369–70

  Rodale, Inc., 166, 220n

  Rodale, J. I., 166

  Rod of Asklepios, 105

  Róheim, Géza, 154

  Rolland, Romain, 218

  Roman Empire, 16, 101, 106, 116, 357

  Romania, 2

  Romantic poets, 55, 72, 147, 158, 214

  Rossini, Gioachino, 113

  Rossner, John, 38–39, 38n, 40–41

  Rossner, Marilyn, 34–35, 38–39, 42, 44–47, 377

  Roth, Philip, 14

  Rudman, Daniel, 266

  “Rules for Thinking with the Church” (Ignatius of Loyola), 69–70

  Rumsen tribe, 152

  Ruvkun, Gary, 344–45

  sacrifice, 4, 66, 72

  sacrifices, 42, 178, 241

  St. Augustine, Florida, 124, 125, 128–29, 138n, 145–46

  St. Augustine Historical Society, 139–40

  saisava, 119

  Salinan tribe, 152

  Salk, Jonas, 319

  Salk Institute, 318, 326, 329

  Saltus, Edgar, 178

  Samoa, 124

  sanctuaries, ancient Greek, 42, 101

  Sandler, Adam, 208, 210

  San Francisco Chronicle, 4

  Sarasvati River, 119, 120

  Saturday Evening Post (magazine), 139

  scatter (Sufi tales), 55–56

  Schiffer, Claudia, 109, 195

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 71

  science

  belief in, 7, 38, 110

  immortality and, 73–74

  life after death and, 35

  magic and, 223–33

  mysteries of aging unraveled by, 4

  near-death experiences (NDEs) and, 38

  progress and, 9–10

  religious belief and, 12

  water in creation stories in, 99–100

  Science (magazine), 335

  Scientific American (magazine), 256

  Scientific Conquest of Death, The (Immortality Institute), 271

  scientism, 38, 110, 361

  Scientology, 307n

  Scorpion trick, 174–75, 200

  scryers, 41, 42

  sealings (weddings), 99

  séances, 39, 40, 44

  Secret, The (book), 324, 327, 331–32

  self-actualization, 150

  selfish-gene theory, 31, 264

  Seligman, Johanna, 159n

  Sellers, Peter, 306

  Semang tribe, 219

  SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) theory, 291, 292, 296, 297

  SENS Foundation, 291

  sensitives, 35, 44

  Sephardic Judaism, 88, 95

  Seraphim of Sarov, Saint, 39

  Serapis, 122

  sexual-enhancement cream, 294

  Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, The, 124

  Shabbat observance, 93

  Shah, Idries, 51, 56

  Shakespeare, William, 10, 165, 223, 315, 316

  Shaklee, 342

  shamanism, 19, 43, 153, 178, 241

  Shambhala, 365, 366–67, 370–71, 373

  Shaw, George Bernard, 71

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 33, 214

  Sherrf, Haim, 84–91, 92–97, 377

  Shintoism, 99

  Sidgwick, Henry, 39

  Sierra Sciences, 264

  Sikhism, 98, 100

  Silver, Jackie, 288, 298

  Silverman, Kenneth, 194

  Sinatra, Frank, 196

  Sinclair, David, 256, 261, 327, 333, 335, 338, 340–42, 346, 349

  Singing Nun (Jeanine Deckers), 129

  Singularity Is Near, The (Kurzweil), 274

  Singularity University, 16

  Sioux tribe, 181

  Sirtris, 256, 264, 335, 340, 342, 346

  sirtuins (SIRs), 3, 252, 261, 264, 266, 333, 334–35, 336, 338, 340, 341, 343, 346–47, 349, 351, 355

  SIR2 longevity gene, 255, 334

  Sitwell, Dame Edith, 11

  Skinnies, 259–60

  SK-II brand, 252

  skulls, 3

  Smith, Liz, 222

  Smith Papyrus, 3

  Smithsonian Institution, 137

  snakes, and rebirth, 106

  sneezes, blessing after, 45

  social immortality, 29–30

  Social Security, 339

  Society for Psychical Research, 39–40, 43n

  Society for the Prevention of Progress, 377

  Society of American Magicians, 176n

  Society of Jesus (Jesuits), 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 67, 69, 70, 78, 362

  Socrates, 217–18, 223, 372, 375

  Solomon, Lewis D., 262

  soma, 100, 119, 246

  somatic cells, 254, 257–59, 345

  Song dynasty, China, 245

  Song of Myself (Whitman), 158

  Sophocles, 10

  soul, 12–13, 39–40, 45, 49, 51, 52, 53, 59, 70, 73, 77–78, 86, 88–90, 98–99, 102, 119, 154, 157–59, 179–80, 214–16, 217, 219, 232, 240, 263, 363, 364, 368, 369, 371, 372

  South Pacific, 2, 123–24

  Special Committee on Aging, 251

  Spencer, Herbert, 357

  sperm, 244. 246

  spermidine, 249

  spiritualism, 39, 182, 186n

  spiritual science, 157

  Spiritual Science Fellowship (SSF), 35, 42–44

  spontaneities, 71

  Sports Illustrated (magazine), 186, 193, 327

  SRT501, 341

  SRT2104, 341

  SRT2379, 341

  stars, as symbols, 107

  Steiner, Rudolf, 157

  stem cells, 1, 3, 251, 257, 258, 264, 265, 284, 297, 318, 326, 338, 339, 345

  Stonehenge, 112

  Story of My Heart, The (Jefferies), 159

  Stowball, Allen, 138–39

  Strabo, 121

  Stravinsky, Igor, 60

  Strindberg, August, 216

  subconscious, 28–29, 43, 55–56, 103, 363

  subliminal consciousness, 40, 55

  Sufic stream, 51

  Sufism, 49–54, 55–57, 83, 107, 117–18, 324, 377

  Sugarman, Joe, 285, 294, 297

  suicide and suicide attempts, 2, 29, 30

  Sumeria, 99

  Sun Ssu-miao, 244

  superlongevity, 11, 138n

  Surrealism, 43, 85

  surveys, 6, 39, 149

  swamis, 38

  Swan Knight, 122

  Swedenborg, Emanuel, 216–17

  Swift, Jonathan, 266

  symbols and symbolism, 106–07, 213–20

  Symposium (Plato), 217

  Szostak, Jack W., 262

  tajalli, 118

  T’ang dynasty, China, 238

  Tantra, 226, 245–46

  Taois
m, 4, 98, 240–45

  Tao Te Ching (Laozi), 241

  Target, 252

  Tehillim, 86

  telepathy, 39, 40

  telomerase, 261–62, 264, 265, 266, 284, 339

  telomeres, 3, 261–62, 264, 265, 288, 355

  Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 165, 199, 223–24

  Teorema (film), 58n, 66

  Teresa, Mother, 38

  Terracotta Army, China, 242

  terror-management theory, 28

  thalassal regression, 219

  Thales, 100

  Teotihuacán, Mexico, 112

  Thiel, Peter, 15–16

  Thompson, William Irwin, 274, 363

  Thoth, 231

  Through a Glass Darkly (film), 78

  Tiberius, emperor, 16

  Tibet, 2, 38, 99, 366–68, 373, 377

  Tibetan Book of the Dead, 368

  Time (magazine), 10, 276

  Timucua tribe, 137

  Tithonus error, 266

  Torah, 81, 84, 87–88, 89

  Tov, Baal Shem, 86

  Tragedy of the Klondike (Diamond Lil), 127

  Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement, 182–83

  transfiguration, 155

  transfusions, 1, 226

  Transhumanism, 11, 322

  Truffaut, François, 68

  Trungpa Rinpoche, Chögyam, 367–68

  Tsiabiloum, 219

  Tuma, 124

  Turck, Léopold, 3

  Turgenev, Ivan, 14, 16

  Turner, Victor, 171

  TV shows, 8–9, 88, 110, 168–69, 174, 189, 191, 302, 325

  Twain, Mark, 327

  2DG, 260

  2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 308

  Tylor, E. B., 103

  Tzara, Tristan, 1

  Unamuno, Miguel de, 7, 270

  uncertainty, 6, 78, 106

  unconscious, 20

  Underhill, Evelyn, 213

  U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, 124, 137

  U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, 251

  Universal Dollar, 297

  Upon the Eternal Duration of Life (Weismann), 258

  upper water, 232

  Up-Wingers (Esfandiary), 354

  usnea, 3

  Uttara Kuru, 121

  van Gennep, Arnold, 153

  van Gogh, Vincent, 29, 293

  vasana, 102

  Vaughan, Thomas, 215

  Vedas, 246

  Vedic lore, 119, 120

  Venter, Craig, 355

  vicarious immortality, 29–30

  Vidal, Gore, 306

  Vikings, 134

  Vishnu, 102

  visionaries, 39, 57, 71, 158, 216, 232

  visionary poetry, 214, 216

  Vital, Mony, 324–25

  Vital-O-Gland Company, 276

  Vita-More, Natasha, 272

  Vivix Cellular Anti-Aging Tonic, 342

  Vogue (magazine), 186, 193

  Voiage and Travails (Mandeville), 122–23

  Voltaire, 359

  Vonnegut, Kurt, 327

  Voronoff, Serge, 276–77

  Wade, Nicholas, 341

  Wall Street Journal, 342

  Walmart, 252

  Wandering Jew, 118

  Warhol, Andy, 210

  War on Aging (WOA), 291, 296

  Warring States Period, China, 237–38, 241

  water

  ancient Egyptian spells with, 179, 181

  baptism linked to, 72–73

  beliefs linking immortality with, 104–05

  creation narratives linked to, 99–100

  evolution and transformation with, 105

  healing aspects of, 101–02, 105–06

  initiation rituals involving, 157

  miraculous powers of, 64, 73, 101, 109, 120, 149, 180, 219, 228, 229–30

  mystic faculty is likened to, 72–73

  prevention of death and, 100–101

  river gods associated with, 118–19

  sunrise and sunset associated with bodies of, 103

  as symbol of all we don’t know, 103

  as theme in religious beliefs, 98–99

  Water Torture Escape (magic trick), 182, 194

  Watson, Lyall, 7

  weddings, 78–79, 99

  We Froze the First Man (Nelson), 304

  Weinberger, Eliot, 238

  Weiner, Clay, 269

  Weiner, Jonathan, 292

  Weismann, August, 258

  West, Michael D., 264

  West Indies, 123

  Westphal, Christoph, 342

  White, David Gordon, 246n

  Whitman, Walt, 28, 158–59, 214, 216

  Wilde, Oscar, 329, 317, 361

  Wile, Douglas, 245n

  William of Rubruck, 116

  Williams, Robin, 172

  Williams, Ted, 305, 305n

  willing suspension of disbelief, 147

  “Will to Believe, The” (James), 362

  WILT: Whole-body Interdiction of Lengthening Telomeres, 265, 291

  wine, 17, 327, 340, 347

  Winfrey, Oprah, 81, 112, 172, 318

  Wisdom of No Escape, The (Chödrön), 366

  Wnt protein, 339

  Wojcicki, Anne, 112

  womb

  Freud on, 218–19, 219

  in initiation rituals, 154

  Wordsworth, William, 55, 72, 158

  World Values Survey, 6

  Wright, Jenna, 268–69

  wrinkle-reduction creams, 251–52

  Wu, Emperor, 241–42, 243

  Wuzong, Emperor, 238

  Xanadu, 113, 116

  Xianzong, Emperor, 238

  Yamuna River, 119

  Yankner, Bruce, 339

  Yeats, W. B., 214

  Yellow Springs, 240

  yoga, 17, 38n, 244, 246, 364, 365

  yogurt, 2

  Yoruba, 99

  You Don’t Mess with the Zohan (film), 210

  YOUNIVERSE (Ettinger), 314–15, 316

  Youth Gland Chemical Laboratories, 276

  Zarathustra, 119n

  Zehme, Bill, 176, 222

  Zeno, 371–72

  zoe, 101

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