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How Long Can We Live For?

Is there any limit to the length of time we can live for? One approach, suggested by Peter Ragnar, is simply to do the right things, without any limiting beliefs, to do the life supporting things and see how far it can take us.

As he puts it, its a work in progress. So what he's saying is that we don't know how long we can live for.

The link below will take you to a fascinating viewpoint, definitely worth our recommendation for your consideration, on the question of how long human beings can live for, and how much life they can live with.

The link is to a three page interview on the What Is Enlightenment? site by Andrew Cohen with Peter Ragnar, a student of consciousness and the mind-body connection, and includes several insightful messages.

There is also a link to a similar page on the WIE site where you can actually hear from Peter Ragnar in an audio excerpt from the interview.

In the interview, Ragnar suggests what may be possible for us if we are conscious of our thoughts to a more highly developed degree. As he suggests, "If we're conscious of our thoughts—I mean luminously conscious of our thoughts".

"It's a working hypothesis, of course. But the more life we have running through our body's energy system, the more alive we are. Life is not death, life is the opposite of death. So embracing life is the situation. How many people embrace life with every thought and every action and every decision they make? Only a very, very rare few." Ragnar suggests.

"You see, we've been conditioned to believe in death. Right from the very first breath we take, we feel like life is a march between the womb and the tomb."

Cohen then continues to seek to clarify the approach...

"What you seem to be saying is, “Let's make the effort to transcend all of our self-limiting thoughts, all of our convictions of emotional, psychological, spiritual, and physical limitation. Let's first try to discover, at least as far as we can humanly imagine, what a perfectly full and absolutely positive embrace of the human experience is. And then let's see what the result is going to be on every level, including the physical.” Is that what you mean?"

"Absolutely." is Ragnar's response. "You put it as good as it can be put."

Cohen continues, asking; "So therefore, you don't actually mean that if you strive to live a perfect life, you will live forever. But that if you strive to live a perfect life, you don't exactly know how long you're going to live, but let's find out. That kind of thing?"

...and Ragnar confirms this to be as he is thinking. "Exactly, let's find out."

It's a working hypothesis. Let's find out if this life is a definite one of eighty to ninety years, or seventy to eighty years, however gerontologists might want to estimate it—or whether it's an indefinite life that you can go on living as long as you stay in that space. If you can live the “perfect life,” how long would that life span be?"

Of course, then, quite naturally, Cohen goes on to ask what does it mean to live a perfect life. The answer, and many other empowering beliefs and informed points of view we'll leave you to enjoy in the interview.

Simply click on the two links below to begin.