Immortal Being
March 22, 2010
“What the heck is that?” I hear you ask. “Is it a creature from a sci-fi movie?”
The photo is of a jellyfish species named Turritopsis nutricula, a creature no more than 4-5 mms wide. It’s cited as the only animal known to achieve biological immortality.
“Really!!” you exclaim. “You mean it lives forever?”
Well … theoretically … scientists claim that it has that potential. Here’s what’s known about its regeneration. When it reaches sexual maturity it has the ability to revert back to its adolescent (polyp) stage and renew its life cycle – effectively indefinitely – assuming that it doesn’t get eaten by predators or succumbs to disease. Through a cell development process called transdifferentiation, it is believed that some cells change their function, thereby altering the original life cycle. [source: Wikepedia]
It’s a tantalising story that raises a host of questions, such as, what prompted the creature to develop this process? Why haven’t other life forms evolved their own path to immortality? And what do we actually mean by immortality?
So let’s take a deep breath, let go of any scepticism we may have, and be ready to expand our thoughts of the cosmos.
Well start with the last question. The word immortal, I’ve found, has some interesting definitions, including -
- that which is capable of indefinite growth
- one who is not subject to death
- any supernatural being who is the personification of a force, and
- having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude.
Can you hear me purring with delight? To me, all of that describes our potential.
During the last 15 years, some of the greatest achievements in transformational change have been around -
- the recreating of ourselves: discovering our potential and choosing to live that
- discovering that we can shape our reality through the spirit of enquiry (rather than letting our reality shape us)
- cultivating energy awareness: defining life in energy terms: finding out what fits and letting go of what doesn’t resonate
- revising our ideas about time and space: being present: ensuring our thoughts do not define or limit what we do
- dedicating ourselves to conscious collective action
The results of these changes have been -
- To stimulate a desire in us to take responsibility for our physicality, including full ownership of our bodies, and gain a better understanding of what our bodies are saying to us.
- Better communication, as we explore what we already feel and know to be true.
- Energetic wholeness and sustainability, as we consciously remake ourselves.
- Energetic freedom from living in the present – and not living in the past or in the future.
- To live for something that’s more than personal self ambition.
All of this points to a renaissance in human thinking/being. If we can have more awareness of the nature of physical transformation, and orient to it as a good thing to fully master, then perhaps we can learn how to consciously modify our physical functioning with unquestionable precision and authority. And that requires evolutionary vision. [continuation]
Image source: http://zrooglepic.blogspot.com/2009/09/jellyfish-can-live-forever.html
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One Response to “Immortal Being”
Hi Santari. Welcome to Fb. Love this piece. Your observations & inquiries are wonderful food for contemplation. I look forward to spending some time with this. Thank U. Love C