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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