Physical Immortality
"Sickness is a defense against the truth."
Jesus Christ
As Channeled Through "A Course In Miracles"

By
Dr. Joshua David Stone

Most people involved with spiritual pursuits and/or religion believe in the immortality of the soul. In other words, we, as soul extensions, or incarnated personalities, are eternal beings and our body dies, however we don't. We just keep reincarnating over and over again until we achieve our liberation and ascension.

Many people don't realize, however, that the physical body is immortal also. It is not immortal for most people because humanity has a collective belief in the reality and need for death. Death is a belief, just as eternal life is a belief. Collective humanity, for most of its life, has been materialistically identified, hence it has listened to the voice of the negative ego on this matter instead of the voice of the soul and spirit.

The negative ego tells us we have to age and die. Spirit tells us that it is eternal and immortal. Spirit says that the physical body is the temple of the soul, and ages because we program it to do so with our minds. One must remember that the subconscious mind runs the physical body. This can be clearly proven using hypnosis. The subconscious mind, given suggestions under hypnosis, can cause the physical body to do miraculous feats. We have all seen hypnosis stage shows where some of these feats have been demonstrated.

The subconscious mind, however, having no conscious reasoning, will be happy to create perfect health or illness and aging, depending on what you program it to do. This programming can come from yourself or what you allow other people to program into you.

What I am suggesting to you is that it is possible to program your body to "youth" instead of age. It is also possible to program your body to remain eternally the same. Many great Masters have done this. Babaji has remained the same for 1,800 years. Saint Germain lived for 350 years. Lord Maitreya resurrected Jesus' body and lived for another 31 years. Other Masters can materialize or dematerialize their body at will.

Thoth (Buddha), in Egypt, was said to have lived for 2,000 years. Jesus, in His last lifetime when He ascended, lived for 300 years. Did not Jesus say, "Everything that I can do, you can do and more." The Course in Miracles, which Jesus wrote, says: "Sickness is a defense against the truth." The truth is that we each are the Christ, or Eternal S elf. God doesn't get sick and neither do we, because we are God.

So what causes sickness? It is the negative ego. Sai Baba says the definition of God is that "God equals man minus ego." The ego doesn't exist in God's reality and ideally shouldn't exist in ours. When we get rid of the negative ego we recognize our perfection, because we are "made in God's image."

The key to spiritual psychology is to get all levels aligned properly. We know that spirit and soul are eternal. The next lesson is to get only eternal thoughts, eternal feelings, and an eternal physical body. Does not the Hermetic Law state, "As within, so without - as above, so below". If the spirit is eternal then, by definition, we can make the "without, or the body eternal. "Our true identity is the Christ, so be definition we should have only Christed thoughts, Christed emotions, and a Christed body. A Christed physical body is an immortal physical body.

The process begins on the thought level. It is our thoughts that create our reality and that includes our physical body. Any negative thought will manifest in our physical body. The same holds true for positive thoughts. Humanity is under a mass "negative hypnosis" in believing they have to age and die. Everyone believes it, so everyone does it.

Do you ever notice that people die where they have set their mental clock, so to speak? They think 75 years is old, and they say to themselves, "I want to make it to my granddaughter's 16th birthday and my 75th. They set it up in their mind to die at a certain time and sure enough that is exactly what happens.

The key to physical immortality on the mental level is to get rid of this "death urge" and replace it with a "life urge". The fact is, our body is already immortal. We just think it isn't, so it follows our command. The only thought we should allow in our minds concerning our physical body is that we are in perfect, radiant health. We are youthing every day, and we can live eternally, or as long as we choose to.

The soul is eternal, so the physical body should be seen as eternal to keep proper alignment of the four body system. This process begins with accepting this philosophy on the conscious mind level, and then programming it into the subconscious mind. This last point is important. Some people believe this consciously, but their subconscious doesn't. It will work only if all three minds believe it. The superconscious or soul does already.

To achieve physical immortality one must have absolute control over the subconscious mind. One also must maintain absolute vigilance over the thoughts you allow into your conscious mind, from self and other people. It is very easy to get negatively hypnotized on this subject, because belief in death is so rampant.

It has been proven that there is a death hormone that the pituitary produces, as well as a life hormone. The pituitary is producing the death hormone in most people because we are unconsciously programming it to, because of all our death thoughts and emotions. By once and for all getting rid of all these death thoughts and emotions and replacing them with only life thoughts and emotions the pituitary will only produce the life hormone.

The use of positive affirmations constantly, in this regard, is essential. Constantly tell yourself that you are the eternal spirit and your thoughts, emotions, and physical body reflect this eternal and immortal nature. To achieve physical immortality one must have mastery over one's subconscious mind, three lower bodies (physical, emotional, mental,), and mastery over one's negative ego. The negative ego's main belief is separation from God. If we believe we are one with God, and literally are sons and daughters of God, the next logical step, of course, is "we are immortal on all levels."

What we are demonstrating is that we have absolute self mastery over all levels of our being in service of God when we believe in physical immortality. Physical immortality is not for weak minded people, and neither is one's spiritual path. Physical immortality begins with the need to purify your four bodies of all negative energies.

On the emotional level the need is to get rid of all negative emotions. Again, remember your thoughts create your reality, and that includes your feelings and emotions. When you think only with your Christ mind, instead of the negative ego mind, then you live in joy, happiness, unconditional love, even-mindedness, and inner peace at all times. The world is a projection screen and you are seeing your own movie. The movie is the perception, and interpretations you are making of life.

There is a way of thinking that will bring you this joy, peace and love all the time. This is the science of attitudinal healing. Negative emotions debilitate the physical body. Positive emotions energize the physical body. Living in unconditional love activate the thymus gland which is your immune system. Physical immortality is just another by-product of being on one's spiritual path.

Purification on the physical level deals with eating a good physical diet, cutting down on the amount of meat you eat, stopping all drugs, alcohol, artificial stimulants, getting physical exercise every day, trying to get sunshine, fresh air, deep breathing every day. So we have physical toxins, emotional toxins, and mental toxins, and energetic toxins in our etheric body. All these bodies must be cleansed.

In essence our goal to achieve physical immortality is to only have God thoughts, God emotions, God energy body, and God physical body. God is perfect and we are perfect. The microcosm is like the macrocosm. When all the bodies become purified and get into alignment with the soul and spirit, perfect, radiant health occurs.

As one moves spiritually through the seven levels of initiation, more and more light and energy are found running through the four body system. At the third initiation, which is called soul merge, it causes a great increase in energy and physical health. At the fifth and sixth initiation, which are the ascension process, there is the complete merger with the monad, spirit, or I AM Presence, which guarantees physical immortality.

Ascension is where the I AM Presence or monad descends and turns all four bodies into light. The physical body is just densified spirit, and the spirit is just refined matter. We are here on earth to spiritualize matter. This begins with spiritualizing our physical bodies and raising it back to light.

Constantly hold in your mind that you are God, and can't get sick, and you can't age, and you can't physically die. Hold the thought and feeling that you are in perfect health, you are getting younger every day, and you will live eternally. When any negative thought, any feeling, emotion or energy, tries to tell you anything to the contrary, get rid of it. and immediately do a positive affirmation, or positive visualization seeing yourself as the ascended master or eternal spiritual being you truly are.

Call to your mighty I AM Presence to get rid of that negative egotistical belief and feeling and to consume it in the violet flame. Constantly call to your soul and monad and ask it to integrate and merge with you on earth. We are here to create heaven on earth. We are here to be God on earth on all levels. What I am sharing with you here is within every person's reach. Jesus said, however, "Be it done to you as you believe."

Your physical, emotional , and mental bodies are your servants, not your masters. Command them in the name of the Christ, (which is who you are in truth), and they will do as you order. Command your pituitary to stop creating the death hormone and only create the life hormone and it will do as you command.

The bible says, "Ye are gods and know it not." The philosophy of physical immortality's time has come. It is time now to ground spirituality into the earth, and into the physical body. For too long people have been into leaving their bodies to touch spirit, instead of touching spirit and bringing it back and grounding it into earth.

The entire universe responds to your every command because you are God!!! God doesn't determine when you die, you do. The key to physical immortality is to live as a soul and as spirit in your every thought, word and deed. In essence become God, and sickness, death, and aging will disappear. God does not get sick, age, or die and neither do we.

Write down on a piece of paper all your thoughts and feelings about death and being physically immortal. Any thoughts that aren't of God, rewrite in terms of positive affirmations that correct the faulty beliefs you are holding. Listen then, for any faulty beliefs that arise again and write them down. Correct them on paper with new positive affirmations until you have cleared out your conscious and subconscious mind.

Also be open to cleansing any past life beliefs about death that are stored in your subconscious mind. Cleanse all fears of death. In truth there is nothing to fear because it does not exist, except in our own minds. Forgive yourself and always forgive all people - is a prerequisite for physical immortality. In more advanced stages begin to see yourself as "light", and every one else as "light". For, in truth, that is what we really are. What this really comes down to is where you put your attention. Do you put the attention of your mind on death, sickness, negativity, aging, or on perfect health, positivity, eternal life, and youthing?

The problem with most people in the world is they live on automatic pilot and do not control where they keep their attention. Your attention, ideally, should be kept at all times on the soul, the spirit, the mighty I AM Presence, on Christ, and/or on God. Each person you meet on the street must be seen as God or you will not achieve God yourself.

One of the by-products of holding this state of consciousness of physical immortality is that our physical bodies begin transforming from two strands of DNA to twelve strands of DNA. Twelve strands of DNA is the state of enlightenment. Affirm to your self and pray to God that this transformation is occurring right now.

Hold the thought and image in your mind that you have been "reborn" in this moment and that you now have twelve strands of DNA. Did not Jesus say, "except that ye be born again you will not find the kingdom of God." Physical immortality is the consciousness of being born again into your true eternal Christ nature on all levels of your being. Realize in this "holy instant" the truth of this statement, and from this day and moment forward to not allow any thought or feeling to the contrary to enter your consciousness.

If something starts to interfere say, "get thee behind me, Satan", and replace it with a Christ like affirmation. This is what Sai Baba calls "self inquiry". It is the process of discriminating between what is truth and what is illusion, what is permanent and what is impermanent, what is negative ego and what is God. Sai Baba says that 75% of the spiritual path is nothing more than this practice.

This is the key practice towards physical immortality, and towards your path of ascension which in truth are one and the same. Once physical immortality is achieved, (which is any moment you choose it to be so) that doesn't mean you have to stay on earth for eternity. It just means you can stay as long as you "choose" to, instead of letting your physical body decide for you.

Physical immortality, hence, calls for remaining in your personal power and self mastery at all times. Most people give away their power to their physical body, desires, emotions, feelings, mind, senses, and other people. To achieve physical immortality you must give your power to no one, because you are god. You do not have to be afraid of your power because you are using it only in service of God and your brothers and sisters, and in service of love.

Another key towards physical immortality is controlling your sexuality. You must learn to become the absolute master of this energy, so you choose when to identify with it, and when to raise it. The "overindulgence" in sexuality depletes the physical body and takes years off your life. Sexuality should be used only in service of love and intimacy, and in moderation. The kundalini will never raise if your energy is constantly moving out of your second chakra.

Self control and the raising of this energy allows this energy to be used for healing of the organs and glands and over all physical body. Fundamental to physical immortality, is a deep desire for physical immortality and God realization. Most people allow themselves to be run by the desires of the lower self or carnal self which weakens them physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

Understand the physical immortality is also a process as is the spiritual path. It is a process of moving from polarization or identification with the lower self, to polarization and identification with the Higher Self. In the beginning stages it is an all out spiritual war. In the later stages it becomes much easier as all one's habits get reprogrammed.

Another suggestion on the physical level is the use of water both inwardly and outwardly. Baths and showers can be seen as baptisms and cleansings of the entire four body system every day. The drinking of large amounts of water purifies the kidneys and liver and entire system. Disease cannot grow in a purified body.

It can clearly be seen here that physical immortality and ascension will take a total commitment. Anything less won't get you to your goal. As Yogananda said, "If you want God (physical immortality) you must want Him as much as a drowning man wants air.

Physical immortality in the end is God realization. Some people believe it can be achieved just with the power of the mind. I don't, personally, believe that. Holding only positive thoughts without a belief in God will certainly greatly help your health, however, I don't believe will get you physical immortality. Physical immortality is the integration of all levels of our being. You can't skip any steps, or levels. Just working on the mental or spiritual, and eating a terrible diet and getting no physical exercise is not going to do it unless you came in as a God-realized Master. For 99.9% of the rest of the world, all levels must be mastered and purified. Balance and moderation in all things is the ideal.

It is not disease and old age that kills most people. It is the belief in disease and old age and death that kills most people. Even cancer specialists agree, that one of the keys to curing cancer is the "will to live". If a person doesn't have that, all other treatment is useless.

Every night as you are going to bed and falling asleep, or waking up in the morning, give yourself "autosuggestions" affirming your physical immortality. Your subconscious mind is more receptive at these times. Remember the body doesn't die, it is your mind and emotions and lack of spiritual integration that kill your body.

Other practices that will help in your achieving of physical immortality are meditation, prayer, chanting the name of God, singing devotional songs, fasting, growing your own food, eating organic food, reading uplifting spiritual books, cleanliness and orderliness in one's environment, not talking about one's age, and not going to funerals.

The idea is to keep your mind, consciousness, and feeling body in an elevated spiritual state at all times. If your mind is constantly attuned to God in your higher self, how can sickness, aging, and death enter into it? It can't. "If the mind and consciousness is constantly attuned to and affirming, praying, meditating, and chanting God's name and form, only perfection can exist. It gets easy after a while, becomes this way of living, becomes a habit.

The last section of this chapter on physical immortality deals with a book I was recently turned on to, called "Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth" by Peter Kelder. In Peter's book he tells of this amazing story of Colonel Bradford who had the opportunity to be stationed in India near the Himalayan mountains. While there he constantly heard stories of a group of lamas or Tibetan priests who had discovered the fountain of youth.

To make a long story short, he eventually returned to India in search of these lamas and this fountain of youth and found it. In this monastery he was taught their secret. He was taught by the lamas that the secret to staying young was to keep the chakras revolving at a high rate of speed, and at a synchronous rate of speed with each other.

When one or more chakras begin to slow down, aging occurs. The slowing down of the chakras prevents the vital force, prana, or etheric energy from flowing properly. The key to the fountain of youth was to get these chakras spinning normally again.

Colonel Bradford was taught by the Himalayan masters, five rites or five exercises. The exercises are easy to do and can all be done within 20 minutes once you learn how to do them. These exercises have the effect of speeding up all the chakras and causing them to revolve in harmony. The doing of these exercises causes the chakras to spin at a speed of that of a 25 year old.

When Colonel Bradford returned to America he literally looked 30 years younger according to Peter. Peter didn't even recognize him when he saw him. With each exercise there is also a special way of breathing while doing the exercise. The exercises remind me, a little bit, of certain Hatha yoga postures, but are very specific in their purpose and affect.

These five rites must be practiced every day to get their full effect. A physically fit person can do them in ten minutes once you learn how. I, personally, have an incredibly good feeling about them, and have no doubt they do exactly what he says they do.

Colonel Bradford was given a sixth rite which was to be used only at those times when one wanted to raise one's sexual energy and use it for youthing the body.

I know I say this a lot in my books, however, I cannot recommend more highly that you get this small book. You can read it in 30 minutes, however it will take you a little while to learn how to do the exercises properly. Then all you need is, literally, ten minutes a day, a "small investment" for such a "large return". Djwhal Khul, Kuthumi, and El Morya were all Tibetan lamas. The Masters of the Himalayas truly knew what they were talking about.