How does physical immortality work?
There is no set path to physical immortality, no twelve step program to overcome the addiction to death. However, here is one of the most radical suggestions, and certainly the most unique, that struck a chord in me when I first heard it in 1988. It was not expressed in these exact words, but the feeling of “rightness” is still the same. We’re on this planet to move together, not in isolation. “None of us can be immortal as lone identities . . . Many people have strived for this, and it has never been accomplished. We contain the power within ourselves to keep each other’s lives, to stir that which has never been stirred before in each other’s bodies, to stimulate the immortal potential that is there, the eternal flame. This flame exists already in the cells and atoms of our bodies. It is the stirring of one another’s bodies, what we call the quickening of one another, that fans the flame and causes it to spread until it consumes the whole body. This is why intimacy is an integral part
