Alan Harrington The Immortalist 1977 PDF
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CelesaalArts ALAN HARRINGTON "Mr. Harrington may have written the most important bool< of our time." — GoreVidal ". .a masterful job of relating man's . unrelenting quest for immortality to the problems plaguing the advanced technological societies of today." —Dr. Alex Comfort The Immortalist . BOOKS BYALAN HARRINGTON TheRevelations ofDr.Modesto Life in the CrystalPalace The Secret Swinger The Immortalist Psychopaths . . THE IMMORTALIST ALAN HARRINGTON Celestial Arts • Millbrae, California Acknowledgment is hereby made to the following for permission to reprint from their works: Dover Publications, Inc., and Macmillan & Co. Ltd.: Tragic Sense of Life, by Miguel de Unamuno, trans- lated by Crawford-Flitch. J. The Macmillan Company and The Macmillan Com- pany of Canada: "The Tower" from Collected Poems, by William Butler Yeats. Copyright 1928 by The Macmillan Company; renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats. The Washington Post: a column by Victor Cohn in the May 24, 1968 edition. Village Voice: a column by Don McNeill in the May 4, © 1967, edition. Copyright 1967 by the Village Voice. Doubleday & Company, Inc.: The Prospect of Im- © mortality, by R.C.W. Ettinger. Copyright 1964 by R.C.W. Ettinger. First Printing © Copyright 1969, 1977byAlanHarrington No part of this book may be reproduced by any me- chanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording, normay it be stored inaretrieval system,transmitted,orotherwisebecopied forpublicorprivate usewithout thewrittenpermission ofthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber6^16432 To Peggy All or nothing! Eternity, eternity! . . . . . . that is the supreme desire! The thirst of eternity is what is called love among men, and whosoever loves another wishes to eternalize himself in him. Nothing is real that is not eternal. Miguel de Unamuno Tragic Sense of Life CONTENTS PART I I. Presentation of the Immortalist Argument 3 II. The Longing for Rebirth 25 We Must Have Done Something Wrong 44 III. IV. The Disguised Drive to Become Divine 58 V. Satan, Our Standard-Bearcr 67 PART II VI. Conditional Immortality for the Elect 91 VII. Showing Off Before the Computer of 106 Excellence VIII. Four Styles of Consciousness in the Face of 116 Death IX. Emotional Mathematics 1S4 X. Love and Evil 146 XI. Shared Consciousness 158 PART III XII. The End of Philosophy 169 XIII. The End of Art 181 XIV. Time and Games 195 CONTENTS XV. The Great Defiance 202 XVI. The Future of Unnatural Man 213 PART IV XVII. State of the BiomedicalArts 225 XVIII. The Cryonics Underground 233 XIX. Aging, Death and Birth 251 XX. The EngineeringofDivinity 272 XXL Notes on a Utopia Beyond Time 275 Appendix 285 Notes 291 Index 309
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