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Health and Ageing
Health, Spirituality and Human Consciousness
Exploring the connection between health, happiness and the Higher Self
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| Your lifestyle and dietary choices make an enormous difference to your lifespan and to your quality of life in later years.
A good diet will help to keep healthy. All it takes is a little work in the 'here and now' to keep you in a good shape for later.
People who are born healthy can grow very old and still remain in good health. Most of them will, however, die long before their potential Biological Old Age is reached.
Why should that be? Perhaps the past can help to explain, let's take a look into some aspects of our history and then you can make up your own mind!
One of the oldest books we can use is the Bible. If you look at the Old Testament you will find that:
| Name |
Age |
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| Adam |
900 + |
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| Childeren |
900 + |
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| Methuselah |
996 |
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| Lamech |
777 |
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| His Son |
178 |
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| Noah |
900 |
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| Moses |
120 |
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Most scientists dispute these claims, although one of them, C. Edward Burtis, had to admit, after a life-long study, that the age mentioned for Moses was correct. These great ages were partly made possible because of their life style and a special diet which had to be enforced rigidly.
The Sumerians, living in the same area and same period are another society who left us with a lot of records, this time in the form of baked clay documents. They did recorded most of the reigns of the different Kings in the area and when we look at them we find:
| Name/location |
periode |
Totale rule in years |
Average rule in years |
| Kisj |
1 |
2324510 |
1065 |
| Kisj |
2 |
83195 |
399 |
| Kisj |
3 |
1100 |
100 |
| Kisj |
4 |
14 |
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| Uruk |
1 |
122310 |
192 |
| Uruk |
2 |
3480 |
160 |
| Ur |
1 |
4171 |
42 |
| Ur |
2 |
4108 |
27 |
| Adab |
1 |
190 |
90 |
| Mari |
1 |
136 |
23 |
Time
Ancient people explained the decrease and increase of the life span in the following
terms:
Time and space are aspects of the material world.
This is one of the reasons why Buddha called the material world an illusion. Despite its powerful manifestation, its glamour and its glitter, it is all in vain. Another reason; the material world has no inside, it is empty and it cannot make one single soul really happy!
The spiritual and mental world is not ruled by Time, and can exist indefinitely - forever.
The more cynical ones of the ancients people associated Time with what they would call corruption and as the Destroyer!
Materialism as a destructive philosophy?
Expansion of consciousness and awareness could reduce the effects that time has in the material world and expand the maximum lifespan, a process we call now Transcendentalism.
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