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Acknowledgments xi

Introduction

A Celebration of Unusual Lives xiii

A Symphony for Chameleons xv

Pop Culture xvi

A New Age for America xvii

The Butterfly Effect xx

Truman Capote, John Cage, Jack Parsons, and Beyond xxii

Truman Capote and The Brain from Planet Arous 1

John Cage and the Zen of Music 23

Gilgamesh, God, and the Language of Angels 40

The Matrix, Quantum Resurrection, and the Quest for Transcendence 75

Jesus and the Future of Mind-Altering Drugs 128

Clockwork Butterflies and Eternity 157

Evolution, Ice Cream, and The Goddess of Chopped Liver 176

The Whispers of History 208

Conclusion 235

Appendix: Cathedrals of the Mind 243

Notes 275

References 311

Index 317

About the Author 321

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A Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches. In his latest and greatest work, world-renowned science writer Cliff Pickover studies such colofrul characters as Truman Capote, John Cage, Stephen Wolfram, Ray Kurzweil, and Wilhelm Rontgen, and their curious ideas. Through these individuals, we can better explore life’s astonishing richness and glimpse the diversity of human imagination.
Part memoir and part surrealistic perspective on culture, A Beginner's Guide to Immortality gives readers a glimpse of new ways of thinking and of other worlds as he reaches across cultures and peers beyond our ordinary reality. He illuminates some of the most mysterious phenomena affecting our species. What is creativity? What are the religious implications of mosquito evolution, simulated Matrix realities, the brain’s own marijuana, and the mathematics of the apocalypse? Could we be a mere software simulation living in a matrix? Who is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Emanuel Swedenborg? Did church forefathers eat psychedelic snails? How can we safely expand our minds to become more successful and reason beyond the limits of our own intuition? How can we become immortal?