About Longevity

How might we understand the longer lifespans that are becoming more common?

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Welcome, welcome from Sananda. There's much to say on this subject, so let's begin. You find yourselves living in an interesting time, a transitional time, and one characteristic of this transitional time is that you are finding that many, but of course not all by a large measure, are living beyond what was traditionally seen as a standard human lifespan of seventy years. And importantly, not just living beyond that particular number of years, but living beyond in good health and feeling full of life, full of ability, recognising you have much to offer. It is, however, a mixed picture, and I'll touch on some of the mixed aspects of this later. So this is a transition time, although you can go back into the past and find individuals who lived well past a hundred, it’s more common now than it was even take into account the larger population of the Earth. 

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Broadly, the direction of the change does, as you might imagine, take humanity towards longer lifespans yet, and so in a while (and I'm not going to give a timescale for this) you may well find humans living comfortably for two or three hundred years, but the way that that comes about is not primarily through the sorts of methods that are being investigated in this age. That is to say, things like organ replacement surgery are not actually how this comes about. There can still be occasions when the skills that are being developed in modern medicine are of great value, but predominantly the shift comes from within. It comes from a changed relationship between you as spirit and you as physical presence, human presence in a physical body. Currently, although you are seeking to increase your consciousness, to build consciousness, to become more aware of the relationship of you as spirit with the cells that make up your physical body, there is still plenty to learn, plenty to develop, and so by and large you find yourselves doing your best, of course, to look after your bodies, doing your best to eat well, for example, and take moderate amounts of exercise and so on. 

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You are, and I mean no insult, still amateurs in this process. It's not easy for you to hear the voice of every single one of the trillions of cells that make up your body, yet each has an individual voice. It's that kind of reason that I justify calling you as yet amateurs, and I'm using that not as a pejorative term as I've already said, but in its root meaning of one who is doing something that she or he loves. You are learning how to enter into a more conscious, loving relationship with the physical body that gives you all of these amazing experiences on planet earth. 

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You're emerging from a considerable number of thousands of years in which the sense of having fallen from a higher state has been so ubiquitous that it's only partially recognised. If you look into myths around the world, you'll find again and again this idea of being fallen beings, of having fallen from grace, in some sense. It may not be evident to those who told the stories and who ensured that those stories were passed on generation by generation, exactly what the nature of the sin was, and in a sense it doesn't matter. It's more the idea that there has been a sin that has had the impact and this has had a profound effect on the relationship of spirit with physical matter. 

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Somewhere in that marriage of spirit and physicality, this idea of sin has crept in and therefore it has been difficult for you as individuals and certainly collectively to support a sense of joyous aliveness. Often you've used stimulants to encourage this idea of joyous aliveness. But that's the way it's worked: the stimulants, whatever your stimulant of choice might be, have acted as ideas of joyfulness rather than being the real thing. And you're on the cusp now of moving into an age when that lived experience of joyfulness is present, is real for you; that somehow or other whatever process is required and you're exploring that at the moment as humanity, you're able to not just leave behind the sense of sin, but allow it to dissolve, recognise that it served its purpose and the energy out of which it was made (and a lot of energy went into making it) is available to use in different ways. 

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A very important way in which that energy that is released will be used is to create what we might describe as bridges of light between you as being and the cells that make up your physical body. It then becomes much easier to hear the voice of each cell. Of course, as you can imagine, your cells often speak in chorus. They're not at odds with one another. There are harmonies, but the harmonies are subtle and beautiful and well worth learning to hear, and it is by these kind of means that you will come or your descendants will come to live longer lives. 

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Now let's be clear, a longer life of itself is neither better nor worse than a short life. There are many who choose to come to the earth plane to experience what it is to be in physical form and really only need a brief taste. There'll be children who die in infancy or even in the womb, and this is tragic for the parents who experience that, but for the child, for the foetus involved, there may be really no tragedy at all, but a particular purpose fulfilled within a short compass of time. This is not to say that you should just shrug your shoulders, if you experience the death at a young age of someone you care about or indeed any child. No, for those who feel the loss, the loss is a loss, not to be glossed over or denied. But it can still be valuable to recognise that the reasons for the length of any particular life are largely obscure to you. You're not able to see behind the scenes to understand the preparation, fully anyway, for the life that has been experienced. 

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Similarly, if we look at why you chose to be (because you did choose) to be born into this age rather than another, you may have some sense of the reasons for it, but probably not all of the reasons are apparent to you just now. You may have a strong sense that this is a time of change, that that as a time of change is something that you could both contribute to and learn from, and there's an enormous attraction to that. And if we consider that broadly as why you chose to be born when you did, then we can also say that that opportunity to participate in change and to benefit from change, whilst general, is experienced in unique ways by each of you. You have unique talents, unique gifts, you bring those with you into the world. There are certain kinds of healing that may have brought you to this life in order to accomplish an opportunity to finish one circle or cycle of lives before moving on to another, for example. 

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And so you may intuitively or with some inner knowledge have quite a strong sense of what brought you to earth in this age. Nevertheless you might ask of yourself, why now? Why not 500 years ago? Why not 5,000 years ago? Why not a million years ago? If we look at life on earth using the template of reincarnation, then of course it is entirely possible that you were present in all of the times I've mentioned. Another form another life, a different set of experiences, but in some way connected to you. But beyond that, the question is not a fruitless one, not a foolish one. Just for a moment, let's play at imagining why you might have chosen to be born in England 500 years ago. 

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Not a completely unrecognisable world for you through your modern eyes. You’ve read history, you've seen movies, you've visited old buildings, so it would not be wholly alien to you. You could teleport or time travel there without too much difficulty, where such a thing possible there. The accents, many of the vocabularies would be different, but you'd get by. And yet I would suggest that as you emerge from your time capsule into a marketplace in the early 1500s, it's not just the smells that would be different. There would, in all seriousness, be a different feeling to the air. In many ways you might find it preferable just at the physical level. There’ll be a freshness that can be absent in many of your cities, but it's not really the physical that I'm talking about. It’s what’s sometimes called the zeitgeist, the spirit of the age. You would feel it, you would experience a whole series of subtle shifts if you chose to be there for any length of time. You begin to adapt to that spirit of that age. You'd begin to understand why people behave as they do in a way that when you look back or read a history book might be difficult to comprehend. You might find that it would take a considerable amount of adjustment. So the point I'm making is it's not just that people behave in different ways in different times. There is a different energy, a different setup being explored, different opportunities, different pleasures in some deeper sense, different challenges for sure as well as many that are familiar. As I say, you would not feel entirely alien, but each age has its own feel and you'd know it. 

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So there are qualities of energy that you are engaged in in this life. Yes, change is occurring, rapid change in your world. That makes up part of that spirit of the age. But what is also evident is an extraordinary range of energies that are present in your world at the moment. A wide spectrum and out of that wide spectrum are emerging new energies that really haven't been present on earth before or only in very limited quantities and in rare places. You're seeking to embody the next age, in a sense, to give birth to the zeitgeist of the coming age. And it's in you and it's partly expressed by you being you. So if in this particular age you find yourself living longer than has been normally the case, and we trust that if that is so, you find yourself also in good health, then recognise, in response to the question, that your presence itself makes a profound contribution because you are learning to embody new energies, but also in many practical ways (really whatever appeal to you as an individual) you're able to contribute to a wider realisation of the potential of humanity. 

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Earlier I said that there is no reason to assess a longer life as in some way better or superior to a shorter life. Each life has its own span. What you may find, if you examine from a higher dimension the operations of human life, that for any one life you're likely to look along the timeline of that life and find a number of potential exit points, a number of occasions at which that individual might choose to leave the physical. So it isn't a tapered process whereby you move from being full of life and immune to all challenge to your aliveness, your continuing physical existence, on a gradual downward slope in which your prospect of survival becomes smaller and smaller. It's more subtle than that by a long way, right from an early time in your life, if you reached a reasonably advanced age now, you probably can look back and see that there were not many of those opportunities relieve this life, but there were some and you chose not to take those exits.

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As you become older, yes, those exits come a little closer together and it's ultimately up to you when you leave. It has been said truly, although it can be a difficult truth to take on board, that every death is suicide. By this is simply meant that at some level (for most people, this has tended to be outside of their conscious awareness) there is a choice to leave this life. That choice can, we trust, occur for you when there is a recognition that essentially you've completed whatever it is has been your purpose or your sense of why you are here. Of course it can occur for other reasons. There can be opportunities for people to feel that they simply don't want to continue, that things have become too difficult for them and that is their right. 

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An area that I think is worth talking about for this particular age that you are in, something that you will have noticed, is that whilst in the past your general sense is that it was physical dilapidation, we might call it, that led to death, at least once past the earlier years. And whilst that is still true, there can also be a widespread experience, at least among some peoples on earth, that a mental deterioration precedes a physical deterioration: that, in a sense, the body outlives the mind. 

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There are a number of reasons for this. One reason is the modes of modern medicine, where skills to keep the body alive have developed quite rapidly over the last hundred years, but an understanding of what generates vitality has not advanced at the same rate. And so, at least in some instances, you can find people walking around with not a great deal of mental functioning whilst their body is still comparatively fit. Quite often that will occur because a large portion of that individual has already left the physical world, but is not quite able to detach completely because in a sense there's a loyalty to the physical body. The physical body is still functioning a part of that being feel, ‘Well, I really should stay with the physical body until it's finished.’ There's a kindness in that, but also a misunderstanding. There are other reasons as well. And this leads to an area which runs counter to the general trend of increasing lifespan. 

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The air you breathe, the soil you rely upon for your food is to a considerable degree, not irreparably, contaminated. And it is hard work sometimes for your cells to deal with this contamination. They manage remarkably well, but some of the diseases you find increasing amongst the human population essentially come from the difficulty you have as individuals in nurturing the cells of your body with all that they need, and at the same time avoiding contaminants that are detrimental to their functioning. We feel that over the next couple of generations, this is going to change considerably for the better. But in the meantime, right now, you are noticing some statistics coming forward that suggests that lifespan is actually beginning to diminish rather than increase. 

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We see that as a temporary setback, and I say setback because as I said at the beginning, there is a general movement towards longer lifespans for humanity. There can sound as though there is implicit in what I've just said, a kind of criticism of you for only making it to ninety, shall we say, or whatever age it might be. Not so. I spoke of the different air, the different spirit, the different zeitgeist of each age. And if you look forward to the time in which those kind of longer lifespans are common, you'll find a very different quality to the air, shall we call it. Though again, whilst there is a reference to the physical air that you breathe, I'm using that term in a much broader sense to include the pranic energies that you absorb and that give you a life force. You're in the process of cleansing these energies through the inner work that you choose to do not least of all.

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That inner work of profound value, and so one age doesn't change into the next age at random. Those who participate in an age are assisting the birth of the next age. It's not you alone in this age who are involved in that. If you look back to the age of your grandparents, your great-grandparents, and back on 500 years and so on, you'll find in each however subtle it might be, however difficult to decipher the sound from the background noise, that has been happening: a beautiful process of evolving human consciousness. Different ages have different focuses. Your own age is in the emergence of or re-emergence of an awareness of the primacy of spirit or subtle energies, however you choose to identify those in your own mental language. 

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And if we look forward to those two hundred, three hundred-year lifetimes, they're possible, first of all, because the physical conditions are improved but not solely because of that. They’re because of that greater presence of - for simplicity, we'll continue to use this word prana, and with that a different understanding of the nature of what it is to be human. And with that a different understanding of what the purpose of being human is, what it is you are engaged in, what you're giving birth to for the next age. There will be a far greater awareness of your sister/brother beings across the Galaxy. At that time, with those longer spans, there'll be a much greater interplay and journeying between different dimensions and modes of being, different star systems and so on. And because you're opening up to a wider range of possibilities, to have an increased lifespan is therefore valuable. It gives you the time (although time itself will also have altered) to make those wider explorations, so to speak up more of the dots. 

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Let's close with a little look at death. You are all going to die, of course, you know that. It's the common lot of humanity. Be grateful for it, if you're not already. Being human is a wonderful  experience, but it's not the only wonderful experience. That's really why you die. That's all. And so when the time comes for you to leave, consider it simply that you have an appointment somewhere else. There's something else for you to be or to do or to experience or to become. And of course, as has often been reported, when the time comes to leave the body, however much you've enjoyed your life, however grateful you are to this body that has given you such wonderful experiences, there is a sense of release. It can indeed be like casting off a coat that you valued through the winter, that you valued when the wind was blowing strongly, but now it's spring, the sun has come out, don't need a coat, you let it go. 

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So have that kind of attitude to your own life. If you live long and healthy, that's great. If you find that your health is diminishing, see what you can do to bring about good health again. You have many abilities within. And do not take what I've said about modern medicine as a piece of advice to avoid it. No. Use what it offers, let it help you as much as it can, but have no fear of dying. Be at ease. Enjoy your life while you're enjoying it. And when it's ready to go, let go. Thank you for listening.