A BIOGRAPHY ON LEONARD ORR – FOUNDER OF REBIRTHING
by Pola Churchill

PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY-–--CHAPTER FOUR
DEATH IS A GRAVE MISTAKE
After Leonard liberated himself from his death urge in 1967, he became fascinated with studying life extension, longevity and youthing, or what he calls simply the concept and practice of physical immortality; but he noticed that the authors of most of the books he had read on the subject had died. 
    One minister that Leonard discussed, was called Harry Gaze, who had written a book called How To Live Forever. He gave a series of lectures on physical immortality at the Hollywood Church of Religious Science, and the second week he did not show up.
    Everybody including Leonard was waiting and wondering where he was. He died in an automobile accident on the way to the lecture! Leonard decided from then on, not to trust anyone who taught physical immortality unless they were at least three hundred years old.
    He realized that just the belief in physical immortality was not enough to stay alive forever. He felt there was a missing component that glued it all together, and he thought that the only way to find out, was to go to India and study the yogis that had mastered it.
    He arbitrarily picked this age as a prerequisite for his study of the Immortal Yogi Masters.

THE UNCONSCIOUS DEATH URGE.
Even Sondra Ray would acknowledge Leonard for having the guts to speak out publicly in America about physical immortality, because way back then, the idea was not that acceptable, there was a lot of resistance to it, and people thought it was "irrational." But Leonard kept challenging people to defy their thoughts about death!
    Leonard concluded that, "Rebirthing as unravelling the birth/death cycle takes longer than learning to breathe energy....it involves personal liberation from birth trauma, infancy consciousness, family patterns, and the death urge. It involves mind and body mastery."
    So to actually break the death habit and experience our full aliveness, there is another factor that we have to deal with, and that is called our unconscious death urge; this is a real psychic entity that can be isolated in your own mind and destroyed. It is composed of anti-life thoughts and beliefs, such as "Death is inevitable and beyond our control" or "People are out to get me and harm me," and we absorb this programming from our parents and ancestors and society.
    Leonard feels that, "All death is suicide, and that physical death is involuntary purification for people who don't practice it voluntarily." The idea that death is inevitable has killed more people than all other causes of death combined.

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After Leonard liberated himself from his death urge in 1967, he became fascinated with studying life extension, longevity and youthing, or what he calls simply the concept and practice of physical immortality; but he noticed that the authors of most of the books he had read on the subject had died. 
    One minister that Leonard discussed, was called Harry Gaze, who had written a book called How To Live Forever. He gave a series of lectures on physical immortality at the Hollywood Church of Religious Science, and the second week he did not show up.
    Everybody including Leonard was waiting and wondering where he was. He died in an automobile accident on the way to the lecture! Leonard decided from then on, not to trust anyone who taught physical immortality unless they were at least three hundred years old.
    He realized that just the belief in physical immortality was not enough to stay alive forever. He felt there was a missing component that glued it all together, and he thought that the only way to find out, was to go to India and study the yogis that had mastered it.
    He arbitrarily picked this age as a prerequisite for his study of the Immortal Yogi Masters.

THE UNCONSCIOUS DEATH URGE.
Even Sondra Ray would acknowledge Leonard for having the guts to speak out publicly in America about physical immortality, because way back then, the idea was not that acceptable, there was a lot of resistance to it, and people thought it was "irrational." But Leonard kept challenging people to defy their thoughts about death!
    Leonard concluded that, "Rebirthing as unravelling the birth/death cycle takes longer than learning to breathe energy....it involves personal liberation from birth trauma, infancy consciousness, family patterns, and the death urge. It involves mind and body mastery."
    So to actually break the death habit and experience our full aliveness, there is another factor that we have to deal with, and that is called our unconscious death urge; this is a real psychic entity that can be isolated in your own mind and destroyed. It is composed of anti-life thoughts and beliefs, such as "Death is inevitable and beyond our control" or "People are out to get me and harm me," and we absorb this programming from our parents and ancestors and society.
    Leonard feels that, "All death is suicide, and that physical death is involuntary purification for people who don't practice it voluntarily." The idea that death is inevitable has killed more people than all other causes of death combined.

© November, 2000

...to Chapter Five Shiva Mahavatar Babaji

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list of chapters in Biography
main page of site