From: lwebb@sscvx1.ssc.gov (Lynn Webb [Auntie Lynn, to you])
Subject: Re: Life Extension/another question
Keywords: towards health Pearson 
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:38:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.002504.7906@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca>, maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Roger Maynard) writes:
> In <1993Jan3.230442.16270@Csli.Stanford.EDU> pedwards@csli.stanford.edu (Paul N Edwards) writes:
> 
>>What has become of Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, authors of _Life
>>Extension_? Are they still on their mega-vitamin/mineral/drug/nutrient
>>diet? Are they aging? Are they dead?
> 
> What about Paul C. Bragg?  Anyone know what happened to him?  I read
> "The Miracle of Fasting" and it is truly hilarious.  I am assuming that
> he has passed on and I was wondering if anyone knows how old he was?
> 
> -- 
> Roger Maynard
> maynard@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
-- 

Not a clue, but a group of us were just wondering the same thing.

And in a way this is related,

I work with an am friends with several therapists who talk about the
psychological "meta-program" of being either "towards" or "away-from" a given
thing (as towards money, away-from pain, towards quiet, away-from disapproval,
away-from being fat, away from being old, towards conversation, and so on....)

As when people say "I will never be like my mother" (an away-from), they tend
to end up like their mother...
And when people say "I will do everything I can not to get sick right before
the trip to the Bahamas..." sure enought they get sick right before the trip to
the Bahamas...

It looks like (and evidently this is a given in some circles) -- an "away-from"
tends to be a "toward" in disguise.  Or probably more accurately, the mind just
doesn't understand NO and NOT and NEVER and other negative constructions and
just drops the NO, and goes to whatever it is supposed to avoid before it can
turn to another direction.
Like "don't think of a purple pigeon."
You gotta think of it -- even for just a split second -- to not think of it.
"Away-froms" are just time consuming ways to get what you don't want.  And then
hopefully figure out what you do want and go toward that.  So if you end up
like your mother, then look around and realize where you are, you can still
find something else you'd rather be (or in some cases or extreme
"away-from-ers", something else to be away-from.

There really is a question in here.

So much of alternative medicine (including herbal medicine which is my link)
tends to be "away-from" this ailment or that problem.  Granted, an ounce of
prevention and all that, but in all the books I've been reading lately, the
thing that has struck me most is that though there is some, there is a decided
lack of "towards health".  Towards long life.  Towards energy.  Towards
whatever.  Human beings seem to really have a tough time NOT being away-from
pain, death, tiredness ....

Like we have to swim upstream just to be toward anything.
Pearson and Shaw make me think of this.  They seemed really toward long life -- 
or maybe I'm just not remembering clearly.
Hmmmm.
No answers here.  Only questions.
Lynn
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	If this were somebody else's opinion, I'd think they were crazy.
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