Consciously Transcending Aging and Genetics

Most people experience their body like a machine they have inherited. The genes are fixed, the expiry date is stored somewhere, the vulnerabilities run on their own — if not at forty, then at sixty. You look at your parents, your grandparents, at what runs in the family, and you calculate. Father, heart attack at fifty-seven. Mother, dementia at seventy-eight. Grandmother, diabetes at sixty. So you know what to expect — you think.