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Recently Life Extension Foundation’s Bill Faloon honored me and a few others
Beach Project" is an ongoing targeted assault on the human aging process that convenes
session to figure out how to reverse aging. Top researchers from around the world
combined their genius and expertise to further their efforts at creating a scientific
Each scientist represented a separate discipline from diverse fields such as stem
Project was designed in 1942 to build the atomic bomb to end WW II, the Manhattan
“Beach” Project which originated on June 23rd, 2000 is an all-out assault on the world’s
As I sat listening with rapt fascination to these brilliant minds, I wondered how
did I get there, and what did I have to contribute? As each speaker gave his presentation
I heard about nuking aging, this “disease” called death, and a multitude of strategies that
could possibly overcome it. Amidst the miracles, I felt something missing, causing me to
puzzle over the question of humanity’s hubris, specifically with the question; are we
playing God?
As far as I am concerned, dying is part of living, and when the time comes, I am
prepared to embrace my death for the magical, transformative moment that it is. I look
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So what was I doing at an anti-aging conference and where was the piece that
eluded me?
that I take. When questioned I tell my friends and family that I am a walking science fair
The missing piece that I sought came from Dr. Joseph Mercola when someone
asked him about what to look for in an anti-aging doctor. His first response was to
extension and catalyzed my reasons for participating in the Manhattan Beach Project.
I have spent years exploring the jungles, mountains, and deserts of North, Central,
and South America researching ancient knowledge. Much of my research has been in the
Peruvian Amazon working first hand, studying shamanic plant medicines and indigenous
cultures. Most of my teaching has come from doing extended jungle plant diets in
prehistoric traditions. I have also traveled throughout the Peruvian Andes studying Incan
and Pre-Incan cultures, and in Mexico studying the Maya and Huichol cultures, as well as
I was drawn to ancient healing practices and shamanism after learning that
shamans were the first medical specialists in indigenous communities whose traditional
methods are known to be effective in treating both physical and psychological ailments.
For thousands of years, indigenous groups have made extensive use of the materials
contained in the rainforest to meet their health needs. Shamans employ a whole body,
(w)holistic, system oriented approach to healing, not the divide and conquer mentality
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Some years ago I had the good fortune to work with an aging healer in the
Peruvian Amazon who told me he was a “plant man” like his father before him, and his
father’s father before that, and still more fathers going as far back as could be
remembered. He took me on a jungle walk pointing out the healing properties of plant
after plant as well as their preparation, use, and the synergistic ways of combining them.
What drew me into Life Extension and their healing modalities is the way that
they also combine different plant essences for maximum synergistic effects. I saw the
ongoing evolution and research of Life Extension’s formulas as twenty first century
shamanism.
Ancient wisdom from many cultures tells us that our body is our temple. One of
the most profound, densely packed storehouses of wisdom on our planet is contained in
Luxor is architecturally rendered to exhibit within its design and artwork the same
structure of the Cosmos and its locale within human consciousness. Pharaonic
Consciousness not only recognized Man as the center of the Universe, it could formally
equate it as well.
In concert with this, prehistoric shamanic wisdom teaches us that our heart is the
sun that is the center of and the giver of life in the Universe that we inhabit, and that our
personal sun is connected in a holographic manner to the sun that gives life to our planet,
and that sun is connected successively on up the line through more suns, all the way back
to Source. When I see Life Extension’s illustration of the seventeen daggers that impact
the heart, I don’t see the daggers. I see seventeen ways of loving my heart, the center of
my universe.
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If I believe like the ancients that my body is my temple, then everything that I put
into it is an offering to divinity. I have trillions of cells in my Universe all doing their
best to keep me alive and thriving. I want to be a beneficial, loving caretaker and give
them the best that I can in return for their dedication, loving this magical Universe that I
inhabit down to the molecular level and beyond if possible. I don’t do this because I
want to live forever. I do this because I follow in the footsteps of the ancients whose
Bibliography
Pallamary, Matthew J. Land Without Evil. Los Angeles: Charles Publishing, 1999
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. The Temple of Man. Rochester: Inner Traditions, 1998.
2000
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