X-Message-Number: 30225 From: Mark Plus <> Subject: Timothy Leary predicted "immortality" by now. Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:23:15 -0800 Timothy Leary, who had cryonics arrangements for several years until he cancelled them before his death in 1996, predicted in his 1977 book "Neuropolitics" that we'd have "immortality" or "eternal life" (his words) by now. Scroll down to pp. 150-51: http://www.leary.ru/download/leary/Neuropolitics.pdf Cryonicists today might want to distance themselves from these embarrassing predictions of attaining "immortality" by the first decade of the 21st Century made by Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and F.M. Esfandiary. But the fact remains that for many years we hobnobbed with these bohemians, read their books, invited them to speak at our conferences and liked the fact that the promoted cryonics. We even had turkey roasts at Leary's home. Today some of us have apparently switched fan allegiances to living prophets of "immortality" like Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey. But how embarrassing will their forecasts look in another 20-30 years? "There was a time before reason and science when my ancestors believed in all manner of nonsense." (Narim on "Stargate SG-1") Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_122007 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=30225