Immortality: A Journey to Discover the Timeless Essence Already Within Us

The rush to acheive immortality is alive and well in 2025, and there are people spending a ton of money on trying to find that one thing that's going to make them live forever. Technocrats are funding research at light-speed rates, and billionaires are investing their entire fortunes on trying to find what will work.  Everything from mind downloading to costly injections of extreme drug cocktails are being hailed as the next step toward acheiving immortality.  All of  these measures, of course, are done under the capitalist banner, so as to maximize financial return.  Because who would want to be immortal and poor?  But immortality isn't something to be acheived by the wealthy.  It isn't a condition that is only afforded to the elites.    Caste systems like this - and worldviews that undergird them - are not the creations of our cosmos.  They're the result of a cultural amnesia we suffer, one from which we will wake up soon enough. Meanwhile, every effort is being made to acheive immortality through whatever means necessary - even at the expense of appearing clownish!  These efforts to further extend the boundaries of biomechanical life demonstrate our committment to the fear of death - even the rich fear it!  But what if immortality isn't a goal to be acheived, but instead more of a concept to be understood?   

The science of our modern era - which is structured more like a religious order than anything else - has taken us to great heights.  But there are many concepts that thwart the understanding of science:  the "hard" problem of consciousness, certain mysteries of time and space such as dark matter and dark energy, the ultimate fate of our universe, and so much more.    Like any religion, what it cannot explain it either ignores or constructs from myth (e.g. the emergent properties of life that stem from inanimate matter, for example), and it has a priestly caste (scientists and academics of every discipline), it follows exclusive rigor (only certain intellectuals are allowed to interpret its signs and symbols, all others are considered laypeople), and it is exclusionary and often even hostile to those who question its tenets. The religious nature of science is merely a continuation of the mythologies to which we have historically been drawn, because their systems of believer/follower/prophet/teacher allow us to rest comfortably in the the myth of progress.  But these myths cannot - and will never be able to - tell us what we ultimately already know but have fundamentally forgotten:   that we are immortal.  

Yes, you are. 

Yes, you read that correctly. We are immortal. 

Before anyone gets upset with me, let me be clear:  I'm not talking about biological immortality here.  Our biomechanical meat suits are not intended to last into perpetuity: they were born, have a lifetime, and will experience an end/decline.  These are the cycles to which we are all subject - death, rebirth, and death again into rebirth.  This is how consciousness perpetuates itself infinitely.   By self-experience, endlessly repeating in cycles of ebbs and flows.   Regardless of how much research we fund to overcome biological aging and biomechanical death, it will always be necessary - even if we find ways to circumnavigate it.    These cycles serve the greater wheel of nature - and are required for its efficient operation on the continuum of infinity. 

Non-biological immortality, however, is baked into the very fabric of our cosmos.  Even our new-science religious fundamentalism agrees:  the law of the conservation of energy dictates that energy is neither created nor destroyed.   While the argument is made that this law applies to closed systems - or at least extremely isolated ones - I believe we can sufficiently prove that our current physio-realistic universal experience operates as a finite system:  our energies cycle and recyle over and over again with no real demise or decay, merely transfers from one form to another.     Since we know that these energies are immortal - meaning they have no beginning and no ending - we can safely assume that conscious energy (call it mind, self, the One, whatever you wish) functions on a similar if not identical mode, and is neither created nor destroyed.   This means that you have always been: you were, are and always will be.  There has never been a moment when you did not exist, and there will never be a moment where you do not.  

We are timeless; infinite.  We cannot recall it, because we are now subject to the subjective laws of our cyclilcal framework, but the heart of us knows what it is:  we call it forever, eternity, endlessness, permanence.   It remains hidden from us when we understand with biology; biology is a temporal framework from which we currently experience life.  But it is not a fundamental axiom from which we can base all experience.   Our ancestors knew this; modern life has eliminated this cultural memory for us, however, and we are now committed only to understanding what we experience from the paradigm of our biology.   For this reason, we have separated ourselves from nature, and erroneously believed ourselves to be above (or beyond) the laws that govern the biological world - a fallacy easy to see when viewed from the lens of interconnectedness.  The irony isn't lost here:  we are committed to believing that biological reasoning governs all: and yet, we - in our reduced biological forms - believe we are beyond biology, so that we will only observe its cycles, and not be subject to them.  Our infinity has nothing  to do with biology.  But it is intertwined with the perpetual cycles of our universe - and memory (which is linked to biology) does not bow to the dictates of its mechanisms.   

Immortality, then, is not an acheivement we can realize.  It is similar to the notion of sitting in a chair: if you are sitting in a chair reading this, it would be useless, then, for you to try to sit in that same chair, would it not? You are already doing it!  Immortality is the same - we cannot acheive it.   We are immortality;  it exists already as part of the fabric of our cosmos, and we are irrevocably married to it, whether we realize it or no.    Our search for futility in meaningless biology will not yield any discoveries that allow us to acheive immortality - it is a most basic fact of the ritual of our existence!