Saturday 1 December 2012

...To be a jellyfish



Did you know that some species of jellyfish, that these protozoans (in the parlance of the big-bang-theory-world of geeks) never die. According to a report in New York Times — at any stage of its development  — this species can transform itself back to a polyp,  the jellyfish's earliest stage of life, thus escaping death and achieving potential immortality. 

This then negates one of the main laws of life as we know it, that we are all caught in the eternal cirlce of life and death. Ferdinando Boero, the author of the science paper who revealed this phenomenon likened this species to a butterfly that, instead of dying, turns back into a caterpillar or  an old man who grows younger and younger until he is again a foetus. 


While the publication of this paper Reversing the Life Cycle did not raise much eyebrows, for me it is exciting. What if at some point in the future, scientists were to figure out a way to tap into the genes of this jellyfish, and what if then we could all have access to this secret, to find a way to reverse physically, and thus mentally, and emotionally everything we have been through in life so far. That way the we would have a choice of wiping out the conditioning we grew up with, that very barrier that holds many of us back from being what we wanted to be in the first place. What if I could actually change my own destiny by choosing which avatars I wanted to be in this very life? Imagine.

Hence I am naming this blog page Immortal Protozoan, after this incredible jellyfish that I want to be. This page links back to my main Young Adult site. The Immortal Protozoan will cover anything to with reinvention, creativity (ie. those who die a thousand deaths)  especially people (authors, et al) who dare to live many lives in one life time. Stay tuned.