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Seeking immortality

Synonyms:
Questing for immortality
Being interested in immortality
Being concerned with immortality
Claim:
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Broader:
Using alchemy
Seeking
Advancing transhumanism
Narrower:
Resurrecting
Reincarnating
Valuing near-death experiences
Facilitates:
Prolonging life
Problems:
Belief in self-healing
Compulsion of leaders to leave permanent monuments
Deluded quest for immortality
Inhumanity
Values:
Being
Mortality
Unconcern
Immortality
Selfishness
Organizations:
International Institute for the Study of Death
References:
Grof, Stanislav and Grof, C: Beyond Death: the gates of consciousness
Bhikshu, Ven Sumedho: Handbook for the Practice of Dhamma: being the method of recollection at the time of death and for those who are interested to go further
Badham, Paul and Badham, Linda: Death and Immortality in the Religions of the World
Humphreys, S C and King, H: Mortality and Immortality: the anthropology and archaeology of death
Spong, John S: Consciousness and Survival: an interdisciplinary inquiry into the possibility of life beyond biological death
Martinus: Meditation
Subjects:
Health Care → Concern
Theology → Religious observance
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

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