Aging – What is it?
What is aging? Is the deterioration we see inevitable? Are the diseases that come with age all part of the process? Is it inevitable that we get sick and decrepit as we get older?
On the surface it looks as if aging is a process that is inevitable. Most people that we know do get more and more sick and disabled as they get older.
But what Michael Rose has discovered is that this is an illusion. Before you laugh too hard think about another illusion.
The sun comes up every morning in the east – arcs across the sky all day – and sets in the west. The earth seems flat and stationary to us. But all of this is an illusion. It is real to us but none of it is true and as long as we believed that this was a true reality, we remained stuck.
The Galileo “saw” the truth – that the Earth was part of a much larger system that revolved around the sun. Then Newton was able to discover the rules that made this predictable. And then Einstein was able to understand that gravity was not a simple force like a magnet but a distortion in space time that was affected by mass. The larger the mass the greater the distortion – the greater the force of attraction.
So in Thesis 12 Michael shows us that “Aging” is a similar illusion.
That as we age, the forces of natural selection weaken and we are less protected. This is why you can party away at 20 but not when you are 50. This is why you can get away with eating crap aged 25 but not aged 50.
Illness and disability are growing risks as we age because the forces of natural selection are weaker as we age. That is why we do best to align how we live and our choices to give us the best chance of being well.
That is why it helps to know also that if we do align our life to our evolved state that we can plateau and keep fit and well until we die
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