I’m writing a new book, “12 Steps to Immortality.” In this book, you’ll discover how to awaken your physical immortality, develop strength and perfect peace. I’ll share a bit of my new book — as I write it — every week, right here in this blog.

CHAPTER ONE

We’re born to live forever — happy,  joyous and free.

From an early age, I wanted to know the “Secret to Life,” the answer to why we were here. I wanted to make this lifetime count and bring something special to the world.

I was surrounded, in my youth, with good and intelligent adults, yet I knew these people did not fully understand the mysteries of life. I could see, for everyone, something was missing — a knowledge, power and understanding of the world that I was seeking.

Born with a strong sense of  mission — I intended to discover and embody this truth I sought.

I felt I had lived before hundreds of times but had never really known our true human potential or the meaning of existence. I had never fully questioned life or pursued greater possibilities.

I wanted this life to be different and live with greater purpose. I wanted to be all a human could be and teach this to humanity.

After decades of research and practice toward this goal, I came to understand the Secret to Life — to have the experience, understanding and awareness I envisioned.

In this chapter, I’ll tell you my story and the journey toward human immortality. Further, I’ll share powerful life secrets.

First, let’s look at the Secret to Life. Later, you’ll discover exactly how I found and developed the “12 Steps to Immortality.”

When a Secret’s Not a Secret

The Secret to Life is no secret; it’s happening before our eyes every day — we’re creating reality with our words, thoughts and actions.

Everything we do, conscious or not, contributes to both the total reality and smallest elements of life.

Why isn’t this obvious?

The Absence of Awareness

Suffering, pain and loss are the consequence of not knowing how we create. We’re like pilots in a jet who don’t remember we’re pilots in an active cockpit full of controls.

We expect someone else to fly the jet, when we are fully prepared and able to fly our craft in any direction we please.

Our plane goes out of control and plunges to earth as we pray for intervention. Yet, our fate would be better served if we simply took control and flew our plane.

In our struggles, we’ve often lost awareness of how we direct and shape our lives. We may fail to see that we’re fully able pilots in a cockpit of precise instrumentation.

Mistakes We Make

A mistake we can make is attributing outside forces as the cause for how we feel and what we have; when in reality, we are the creative force making the world and our daily lives.

The Secret to Life is that we make what appears in our lives. We create our feelings, thoughts and habitat.

If we’re not the source of our problems, our lives are without hope. If we’re not the cause and creating source of our own troubled times, then we have no power to change our situation.

Yet, we have all the power in the world.

You Have Power and Control

The Secret to Life is that all “bad things”– suffering, death and disease — are created by what we do: our thoughts, actions and words. Further, we create everything good.

This is a simple concept, and obvious if you look, but we’re biologically hijacked by predatory instincts that blur our vision and twist our understanding.

As predatory creatures, we kill and feed off other living beings to survive. We harm our friends, neighbors and families, blaming other people for our bad feelings and poor luck … when all the time it is ourselves who direct and initiate everything that happens to us.

How Death Is Created

Worst of all is death, our killing of other humans, our false belief that we will die unless we kill another living thing, and eat it.

This the opposite of how life creates.

This is a debasement of our living purpose, a misconception that we propagate every day by our actions and inactions. By what we do, we are the ones who formulate death and impose it upon ourselves.

There is no one else making reality what it is but us — not a displeased deity, not random acts of nature. We are the one’s in control, creating what we experience for better or worse.

We Can Reverse the Harm

We make the harm of this world, it’s brutality and insensitivity, yet we have the ability to reverse these harms the way we created them.

We can end suffering, death and disease for everyone by changing our behaviors from destruction to life affirming action. We can be generous, giving and kind to ourselves and every living thing.

We can live an immortal life of joy, happiness and freedom. We can have unlimited expression and human understanding.

Born to Be Immortal

The Secret to Life is this: We’re born to be immortal; it’s our natural physical state. Creation is designed to serve us in a kind, helpful and benevolent way — if we’re kind, helpful and benevolent in our manner.

By our behavior, thoughts and words: we write the “code” or programing that tells our bodies and world what to do.

If we are active in killing, or permit others to kill without consequence, we activate death in our bodies and world. Cycles of death and rebirth are ignited.

If we are kind, benevolent and forgiving; if we plan to live and not die: immortality and perfect life emerge.

We’re Hurt First

Everything we do to harm another, harms us first.

If we’re insensitive and unthinking in how we treat others, we’re first hurt by our own unfortunate acts.

If we’re careless, harmful and unkind toward others, this brutality acts first upon ourselves.

When we act to hurt another, that act is first formed as a thought in our brain, and we are immediately hurt by this harmful thought of ours … before we ever act it out.

We harm ourselves first by thinking of harming someone else.

This harm further effects us badly as the motion of our body acting out our bad intent.

Everything we do to harm another harms us first.

As Children, We Knew It All

We are immortal if we act with simple principles we learned as children: forgive, be kind and share. Do not steal, harm or hurt our neighbor or friend in the school-desk next to us.

We are immortal, born that way, but we twist this immaculate design to hardship, pain and death.

We’re born to be immortal without suffering, pain and death, yet we suffer and die by our own hand and little else.

The Way of Immortality

The Way of Immortality is becoming aware of how you harm yourself and others in this world.

The Secret to Life is understanding and gaining control of your natural predator instincts and reversing this trend to eternal acts of love.

We can do it! We can do this together: succeed in turning around a misshapen creation to an eternal blessing of life.

More of My Story

I was born with a driving purpose and desire to know the Secret to Life, and teach it to the world.

The Secret to Life is that we’re born to be immortal — happy, joyous and free.

I’ll tell you now how I discovered the Secret to Life and the Way to Immortality, step by step, throughout my life.

I Had a Plan

At a young age, I could see I lived more than 1,500 lives, yet I had missed, in each life, a chance to know and pursue the full meaning of life.

In this lifetime, I had a different plan — the plan was to know all there was to know about the purpose and unknown aspects of the world.

I began a mentorship at the age of 12 with my mother — reading metaphysical books, eastern philosophies and practicing meditation. My mother would read a book, then share it with me. We’d then discuss each book, it’s topics and meaning.

My mother was involved in yoga and meditation, and passed these practices on to me.

In my later teens, I met an immortal and further pursued this direction. This immortal was an American Master working on her own immortality process. She awakened me to my own immortality — thus beginning my lifelong pursuit I share with you in this book.

Disabled at 30

Later in life, at age thirty, I lost my health and become fully disabled. I had sleeping disorders and anxiety that resulted from a bad drug experience in my teens. This problem progressed over the years until I was crippled with constant pain and unable to work.

All seemed lost at this time, as I struggled to survive and recover. I would find this difficult trial to be the powerful teacher and transformational experience that would take me to my envisioned goal I had earlier in life — to know the Secret, to be all I could be.

A 12 Step Program

I had been drinking too much for my weakened nervous condition and later found myself in a 12 Step Program. All my life I had dreamed about finding an advanced spiritual master who could guide me on my mission. In this 12 Step program, I found some of the most powerful masters of life I have ever met.

Without conscious intention, my mistakes and problems drove me to exactly what I needed to succeed with my life plan.

For me, the 12 Steps were a blessing and a well designed fate. They gave me directions and a methodology for my chosen way. My illness, disability and pain were the task masters that kept me glued to my ambition.

With illness, disability and a 12 Step Spiritual Master, my journey to immortality and the Secret to Life began it’s true and certain path.

How My Recovery Progressed

With the 12 Steps: my body, mind and spirit began to recover slowly, and slowly was what I needed. To survive, I had to diligently pursue my goals of wellness, understanding and perfect human life.

I had found myself in a position where I was forced to realize my early vision to know the Secret to Life; there was no other choice. I had to push forward and progress every day to get out of my pain. I had no opportunity to lag, be lazy or put off my good intentions for another day. The pain of my situation focused me sternly on the task at hand.

A Gift for You!

Through struggle, pain and effort, I came to understand the Secret to Life … and you can too! But you don’t have to struggle or be in pain, that’s optional. Yet, you do have to do a little work.

As you read this book, step by step, you’ll discover how to awaken your own immortality, gain strength and calm you may have never imagined possible.

On my path, I discovered Four Powerful Secrets that can help you turn your life from hardship and struggle – to love and immortality.

Discover below how to activate your immortal human powers for a rewarding and wondrous life!

Here are the secrets that have given rise to my immortality teachings.

4 powerful secrets

Four Powerful Secrets

There are four remarkable secrets that have blessed me in my personal journey to immortality.

We draw from these four secrets in the teachings I give you of books, videos, lectures and courses.

The “12 Steps to Immortality” are one of the secrets. Today, for your benefit, we’ll discuss all four remarkable secrets.

My personal immortality practice has included these Four Secrets:

          • 1. Translation from Mortal to Immortal Life
            2. Reading Books from Masters of the Far East
            3. Qi Gong Work for Peace, Strength and Immortality
            4. Practice and Instruction on the 12 Steps to Immortality

You are about to discover each of these secrets as well as the 12 Steps to Immortality.

Here we go…

[Secret #1] Translation from Mortal to Immortal Life

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Translate Love to Physical Life

Translate: to change the form, condition, nature, etc. [Dictionary.com]

I began my practice of physical immortality, in a deliberate way, at age 15 when I met an American Master who shared her immortality process with me.

This Master called her immortality process “Translation,” where we translate our mortal, death-inclined human cells, to cells of biological immortality.

My extraordinary experience with this Mentor began my own “immortality process.” It was a bit challenging at the beginning, and for years to come.

[Secret #2] Masters of the Far East Books

As I progressed, I read an important set of books, “Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East” by Baird L. Spalding. The books describe a research party’s travels to India and Tibet and their encounter with a tribe of human immortals.

Spalding Books
The Book that Got Me Started on Immortality!

Throughout my childhood and teenage years, my mother acted as a mentor, giving me influential books to read on personal growth and development.

Of all the books my mother presented to me, these books on the Far East were the most important and most ardently suggested.

I studied and read these books many times: rehearsing, memorizing and placing myself in the scenes described.

As I read these books, I took the feel and sense of immortality into my personal life.

I let these books transform me, creating a foundation for immortal consciousness.

The effect of my practice with these books was life-changing, in a permanent and immortality-activating-way.

Powerful and Inspiring!

The Far East books by Baird Spalding are powerful, inspiring and a fascinating look at the daily life of physical human immortals who do not experience death, illness or calamity.

These immortals are the same as we, in every respect. Yet, their choices and habits consistently favor life, not death.

The immortals are normal humans — smart, compassionate and giving — where you’ll see yourself in their stories and understand how a life of immortality is both possible and imperative for good human living.

[Related: See the books: “Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East”]

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Health and Immortality

[Secret #3] Qi Gong for Immortality

I further have benefited by my past 21+ years of practice with a Qi Gong Grandmaster from Beijing, China.

Qi Gong is an ancient healing art and part of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

I call Qi Gong the third pillar of Traditional Chinese Medicine with the other two pillars being acupuncture and medicinal herbs.

Though acupuncture and herbs were effective, I’ve found Qi Going to be the longterm healing powerhouse. The reason is this: we do Qi Gong ourselves, of our own volition. It’s not something done to us, or a pill we ingest.

I’ve found the most powerful instrument of change and improvement are the things we do ourselves, for ourselves, that we share with others and the world.

I’m now a Qi Gong Master in my teacher’s lineage.

The purpose of our practice and Qi Gong lineage is:

      1. Health
      2. Wellbeing
      3. Immortality

I dramatically improved, in every way, from the beginning of my Qi Gong practice. Healing, peace and strength came quickly … as well as a deeper understanding of the necessity for human immortality.

[Related: Qi Gong Explanation with Free Qi Gong Videos!]

The Immortality Argument of Christ

My early background, from childhood forward, was a Christian approach that sees the words of Jesus presenting a similar message as Taoists, Kabbalists, Yoga Masters and others…

Death Is Not Required

where death is not the natural way, with eternal life the intended design.

These teachings present suffering and death as our own making, where eternal life on earth is here — now — for those who choose it, acting with compassion and eternal love.

God Consciousness of Early Years

From my earliest times, as a child, I experienced “God Consciousness.”

I felt the presence of a beautiful and loving Being that was full and complete. I experienced this loving reality in myself and in the world; I still do.

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Beautiful Love!

When I later learned of hardship and suffering, I felt it my mission to bring this perfect love to the world, ending accident and pain for the masses … presenting an alternative to suffering and death.

The 12 Steps to Immortality can bring this perfect love about for you, ending your pain and improving your life in every possible way.

[Related: What is Kabbalah?]

[Secret #4] Benefits of the 12 Steps

My day-to-day spiritual practice, for over 30 years, has been the 12 Steps as presented in 12 Step programs: A.A, Al-Anon, Co-Dependents Anonymous, Over Eaters Anonymous, etc.

Everyone has habits, good and helpful habits, but also habits that harm. Most habits are unconscious behaviors we do with little thought.

I suggest death, disease and suffering are habits, bad habits, or more accurately … addictions.

[Related: What are the 12 Steps?]

End Your Addiction to Death

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Break the Hold of Death Addiction!

Death, suffering and disease can be seen as addiction — things we do by habit, without much awareness or action to change.

A 12 Step approach is perfectly designed to break the habit of death addiction, allowing immortality and love to prevail.

The “12 Steps to Immortality” serve as a valuable aid for spiritual and personal development, as a process to end our addiction to death.

“Step One” of the 12 Steps to Immortality

Step One: We admitted we were powerless over death, hardship and pain — that our lives had become unmanageable.

If you’re satisfied with a life of suffering, death and disease, you may not be interested in the 12 Steps to Immortality.

However, if suffering and the harm of life are something you want to change, the 12 Steps to Immortality may be for you.

Read the Book as I Write It, Right Here, every Week.

 

 


John F. Harrigan
John F. Harrigan

Author, Speaker, Qi Gong Master