Anyway, it's a mere hypothesis from the Buddhist point of view. People cannot, however, achieve immortality by jumping from body to body. Participants in the spirited dialogue included Columbia University Computer Sciences Professor Dr. Newcomb Greenleaf, plus Berkeley's cognitive scientist Eleanor Rosch, and San Diego's brain development expert Dr. Robert B. Livingston. Naropa Institute's Dr. Jeremy Hawyard, along with French neurobiologist Dr. Francisco Varela of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, also attended. Orgasm is the strongest of the four ordinary occasions in which clear light appears, and so it is used in meditation to extend the experience of the emergence of clear light, to clarify the experience and make it more vivid.
Some people can remain in that state for a week or more.
For example, the late Kyabjey Ling Rinpochey, my tutor, remained in the state of clear light for 13 days, and his body remained very fresh. The Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology defines how to achieve new life inside a dead person. This enables him to maintain his life even after the break-up of his original body, in order to fulfill the purpose of other sentient beings. In the West Indies, however, these zombies are without their own will, and have trouble speaking. Unlike animated Tibetan lamas, zombies appear able to perform only automatic movement.