THE CENTER OF THE LABYRINTH--IMMORTALITY, THE GOMERITE OBJECTIVE
An overview summary by Doug Lewis doug@magicbox.co.uk
IMMORTALITY continued
Quote Francis Bacon - "Filium Labyrinthii" (The Clue to the Maze).
"To postpone and alleviate death though scientific means, not by teaching
about the immortality of the soul but by scientific miracles that depend on
secrets wrested from the labyrinth." The Gomerite directive is clear and to
the point. So, in 1607 - Francis Bacon, (he prime Gomerite agent of the
second phase) through the auspices of Queen Elizabeth I, (the supreme
Gomerite monarch), clearly puts forward the primary Gomerite "immortality"
goal for science to achieve, the Gomerite reward - long-lasting lifespan
within an uncrowded paradise.
1607 - 2007
Exactly four hundred years later, where are we in the quest for wresting
such secrets from the labyrinth?
As it is we may only know the genetic maze journey through official (public)
channels provided us at this moment in time and must - out of necessity -
speculate the rest. As with all futuristic inevitabilities conventional
science is loathe to associate until their own fringe element has cracked
the issue and most are of the scientific public opinion (at this point in
time) is that questing for physical human immortality is a laughable
prospect. There again, with all of the "ethical" factors surrounding the
topic of achieving human immortality do we really expect "full disclosure"
of progress in the matter?" Occasionally we are offered tantalizing glimpses
of progress through the "official" channels.
It is generally accepted that Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid
that contains the genetic instructions for the development and functioning
of living organisms and so appears to be the key for possible modification
leading to extreme longevity or even immortality as Bacon requested.
History of Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) discovery
1869 - 1937
DNA was first isolated by Friedrich Miescher who, in 1869, discovered a
microscopic substance in the pus of discarded surgical bandages. As it
resided in the nuclei of cells, he called it "nuclein". In 1929 this
discovery was followed by Phoebus Levene's identification of the base, sugar
and phosphate nucleotide unit. Levene suggested that DNA consisted of a
string of nucleotide units linked together through the phosphate groups.
However, Levene thought the chain was short and the bases repeated in a
fixed order. In 1937 William Astbury produced the first X-ray diffraction
patterns that showed that DNA had a regular structure.
1943 - 1953
In 1943, Oswald Theodore Avery discovered that traits of the "smooth" form
of the Pneumococcus could be transferred to the "rough" form of the same
bacteria by mixing killed "smooth" bacteria with the live "rough" form.
Avery identified DNA as this transforming principle. DNA's role in heredity
was confirmed in 1953, when Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase in the
Hershey-Chase experiment showed that DNA is the genetic material of the T2
phage.
1953 - 1962
In 1953, based on X-ray diffraction images taken by Rosalind Franklin and
the information that the bases were paired, James D. Watson and Francis
Crick suggested what is now accepted as the first accurate model of DNA
structure in the journal Nature. Experimental evidence for Watson and
Crick's model were published in a series of five articles in the same issue
of Nature. Of these, Franklin and Raymond Gosling's paper saw the
publication of the X-ray diffraction image, which was key in Watson and
Crick interpretation, as well as another article, co-authored by Maurice
Wilkins and his colleagues. Franklin and Gosling's subsequent paper
identified the distinctions between the A and B structures of the double
helix in DNA. In 1962 Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins jointly received
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Franklin didn't share the prize
with them since she had died earlier).
In an influential presentation in 1957, Crick laid out the "Central Dogma"
of molecular biology, which foretold the relationship between DNA, RNA, and
proteins, and articulated the "adaptor hypothesis". Final confirmation of
the replication mechanism that was implied by the double-helical structure
followed in 1958 through the Meselson-Stahl experiment. Further work by
Crick and coworkers showed that the genetic code was based on
non-overlapping triplets of bases, called codons, allowing Har Gobind
Khorana, Robert W. Holley and Marshall Warren Nirenberg to decipher the
genetic code.
More recently guarded announcements of genome cracking progress seep to the
mainstream media. One can only speculate the microbiology "news of progress"
that does not. In any event it is most likely that the "real" and
accelerated progress towards achieving human immortality is not being
conducted by or in any "official" facility. As Bacon advocated through his
(the Gomerite) motto "bene visit qui bene latuit - One lives best by the
hidden life." - you can wager that REAL progress in the world of
microbiology is a highly secretive endevour cloaked from public view.
However, conventional science is in fact progressing with "defeat of death"
albeit slowly, if nothing else this provides confirmation and some validity
to the notion that achieving immortality is on the table of near future
inevitability.
Official glimpses through the veil.
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Scientists find key to stem cell immortality - By Alan Boyle - Science
editor - MSNBC
One of the medical marvels of stem cells is that they continue to divide and
renew themselves when other cells would quit. But what is it that gives stem
cells this kind of immortality?
Researchers report in the journal Nature that microRNAs — tiny snippets of
genetic material that have now been linked to growth regulation in normal
cells as well as cancer growth in abnormal cells — appear to shut off the
"stop signals" or brakes that would normally tell cells to stop dividing.
"What we think we see is that there is a special mechanism to get rid of the
brakes," said University of Washington biochemist Hannele Ruohola-Baker, a
leading member of the research team.
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John Harris holds the Sir David Alliance Chair of Bioethics at the
University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Clones, Genes and
Immortality (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998) and editor, with Søren
Holm, of The Future of Human Reproduction (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
He is a member of the United Kingdom Human Genetics Commission.
CREDIT: ALLAN BURCH
Is it simply a design fault that we age and die? If cells were not
programmed to age; if the telomeres, which govern the number of times a cell
divides, did not shorten with each division; if our bodies could repair
damage due to disease and aging, we would live much longer and healthier
lives. New research now allows a glimpse into a world in which aging--and
even death--may no longer be inevitable. Cloned human embryonic stem cells,
appropriately reprogrammed, might be used for constant regeneration of
organs and tissue. Injections of growth factors might put the body into a
state of constant renewal. We may be able to switch off the genes in the
early embryo that trigger aging, rendering it "immortal" (but not
invulnerable). We do not know when, or even if, such techniques could be
developed and made safe, but some scientists believe it is possible.
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The Prophet of Immortality
Controversial theorist Aubrey de Grey insists that we are within reach of an
engineered cure for aging. Are you prepared to live forever?
By Joseph Hooper
On this glorious spring day in Cambridge, England, the heraldic flags are
flying from the stone towers, and I feel like I could be in the 17th
century—or, as I pop into the Eagle Pub to meet University of Cambridge
longevity theorist Aubrey de Grey, the 1950s. It was in this pub, after all,
that James Watson and Francis Crick met regularly for lunch while they were
divining the structure of DNA and where, in February 1953, Crick made his
breathless announcement that they had succeeded.
Aubrey de Grey has no victory pronouncements to make as of yet, but he is
vigorously pursuing an even more challenging project. Using the legacy that
Watson and Crick bequeathed us, he proposes to tinker with the essential
biochemical pathways that drive the aging process. De Grey contends that we
know enough to intelligently map out a program of anti-aging intervention
research such that sometime in the next 100 years, and quite possibly much
sooner, the average human life span may be 5,000 years, a figure brought
short of outright immortality by the small number of people who will die
from non-age-related diseases and everybody else who, given the boggling
amount of time available to them on the planet, will eventually do something
unlucky or stupid like walk in front of a moving rocket car. In de Grey
time, the 400-year span between Shakespeare’s England and today would be but
the blink of an eye.
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Suffice it to say, even in the "public" realms of science there is goodly
smoke from the fires of immortality, who knows the rate of ignition and
involvement from the raging fires of the "private" world.
As with all things "enigma" only the sleuthing efforts of concerned citizens
(demonized as conspiracy theorists by the powers that be), are likely to
rent the veil sufficiently for us... the common folk... to see more clearly.There is of course a wealth of supporting information which, if desired, can be linked into the summary in the near future, also it is possible that once the SLEUTHS glimpse the potential that much more "indication" will be dug up and contributed. I can visualize an ever growing body of work that shows evidence of both human genetic engineering through current day micro-biology and global depopulation with links to the Gomerite intention.