Devil's Prison
A comment on Forbidden Fruit Incorporated
"With the success of current research into longevity carried out by the Harvard school of natural sciences at last the goal of possible eternal life is within the grasp of the moneyed elite. It involves unlocking the gene for longevity active naturally only in germ cells. Mice with five times the normal life span and greater vigor have been bred. Woe betide the majority of us with the eternal Kissinger or Rockerfeller."
Medical technology provides ever new ways to increase the longevity of our physical incarnations. However, it can give rise to difficult ethical issues, such as whether to withdraw artificial life-support from somebody in an otherwise comatose or vegetative state, or from somebody who no longer wants artificial life-support. The extension of physical life is an understandable desire for many people who fear death and want to live longer at all costs. And medical technology, within the prevailing materialistic culture, channels its efforts into the unbalanced support of the physical body, while largely ignoring what can be called spiritual concerns.
Questions about the use of tubes, devices, transplants, drugs and genetic engineering to extend physical incarnation involve our worldview, faith, and whether we consider the use of such technology to be healthy for our whole being, and not only the physical side of things.
Revelation chapter 9, verse 6, says
"And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them."
A movie made many years ago depicts a man who was granted his wish to live for ever. He later developed some incurable disease or injury and began to wish he could die. A gruesome scene showed his wife cutting his body into little pieces with every piece moving in agony as he was unable to die!
Life is another word for spirit. We are not meant to be prisoners in the same body, or form, forever. There is no new creation without the death of old forms. The death of a life's form is the casting off of what is no longer needed. Life is not the form, but rather formless and free. However, this is not understood within the prevailing materialistic culture with its dogged clinging to forms. Understanding destroys the form of things, including bodies, just as digestion destroys food to release energy. Life, or spirit, does not die as the body ceases to function, but rather there's an understanding, overcoming, and passing over.
As for the Kissingers, Rockefellers, or others with ample funds to try to materialize their dreams of living longer in their present bodies, perhaps wisdom would have them seeking understanding, peace and rest rather than more time in a world of turmoil and war which they have contributed towards. Time is a prison in which the Devil (duality personalized) chases its own tail and is not free but self-bound. Eternity is not measured in time, and like infinity is without form and free to create anew.
Goodbye Kissinger. Goodbye Rockefeller. Goodbye Ozymandias. A new day is dawning where your names are never heard.
A comment on Forbidden Fruit Incorporated
"With the success of current research into longevity carried out by the Harvard school of natural sciences at last the goal of possible eternal life is within the grasp of the moneyed elite. It involves unlocking the gene for longevity active naturally only in germ cells. Mice with five times the normal life span and greater vigor have been bred. Woe betide the majority of us with the eternal Kissinger or Rockerfeller."
Medical technology provides ever new ways to increase the longevity of our physical incarnations. However, it can give rise to difficult ethical issues, such as whether to withdraw artificial life-support from somebody in an otherwise comatose or vegetative state, or from somebody who no longer wants artificial life-support. The extension of physical life is an understandable desire for many people who fear death and want to live longer at all costs. And medical technology, within the prevailing materialistic culture, channels its efforts into the unbalanced support of the physical body, while largely ignoring what can be called spiritual concerns.
Questions about the use of tubes, devices, transplants, drugs and genetic engineering to extend physical incarnation involve our worldview, faith, and whether we consider the use of such technology to be healthy for our whole being, and not only the physical side of things.
Revelation chapter 9, verse 6, says
"And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them."
A movie made many years ago depicts a man who was granted his wish to live for ever. He later developed some incurable disease or injury and began to wish he could die. A gruesome scene showed his wife cutting his body into little pieces with every piece moving in agony as he was unable to die!
Life is another word for spirit. We are not meant to be prisoners in the same body, or form, forever. There is no new creation without the death of old forms. The death of a life's form is the casting off of what is no longer needed. Life is not the form, but rather formless and free. However, this is not understood within the prevailing materialistic culture with its dogged clinging to forms. Understanding destroys the form of things, including bodies, just as digestion destroys food to release energy. Life, or spirit, does not die as the body ceases to function, but rather there's an understanding, overcoming, and passing over.
As for the Kissingers, Rockefellers, or others with ample funds to try to materialize their dreams of living longer in their present bodies, perhaps wisdom would have them seeking understanding, peace and rest rather than more time in a world of turmoil and war which they have contributed towards. Time is a prison in which the Devil (duality personalized) chases its own tail and is not free but self-bound. Eternity is not measured in time, and like infinity is without form and free to create anew.
Goodbye Kissinger. Goodbye Rockefeller. Goodbye Ozymandias. A new day is dawning where your names are never heard.
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