Your post brings the subject of "life".

There are many ways to look at it. In my opinion though if you were to replace your whole brain with an artificial intelligence that would be the EXACT copy of your mind, I wouldn't call this being "alive". SO artificial life wouldnt be life imo.

Try this little game that explores the problemcatic http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/identity.htm

Newbody

Brendan, where did you get the idea that farting was bad? Farting is good-I learned this from being the oldest of three brothers, the mother of two husbands, and the wife of three sons-or the other way around, (I recognize this as a put down-but hey this thread has taken off as a alpha thing) anyway just don’t take the Chile for your lunch at work.  And-Raphael, don’t take this thread too seriously, cuz’ we need a break from some of the tension.  Anyhow, Brendan, I also learned from all this assortment of males I’m connected to is that you can drink, eat, and smoke (the legal smoke) all you want as long as it’s in moderation.  Moderation is also a good thing.  You see, I’m the only one in this group that tends to go overboard including being emotive, but they all successfully practice the moderation principle if not in the past, they do now as mature adults (age range 28 to 57).  As a result of what I learned from them in addition to my own research, I’m a healthy 60 year old, living life on my own terms.  They’re also very healthy.  I’ve also discovered, along with farting, aging is good too.  I don’t do meds, doctors, casserole or is it clorestarole, blood pressure-is it 210 over 120 is good and 20 over 5 is good, scales, (I appear slim, though still short, and my clothes still fit) etc. but I have done the Gateway tapes for the past seven years and have added Bruce’s Harborside tapes.  I also remember Monroe’s description of us when we’re about to leave (possible future) around the year 3,000.  We all look about 30 years old reflecting higher vibrations, hair mid length and the men and women don’t look much different from each other, except for the b..bs on the women.  Illness is an outdated notion.  We’re not really interested in food but we can produce it by manifesting it in our hands and we are leaving the physical world as clean and beautiful as when we first arrived.  So have hope, enjoy farting (just be careful with the matches!) and much love and laughter. And remember, dave, we as humans can create whatever we can conceive of  & we do & will, thanks for starting this thread, Jean.

We have a vital essence in our bodies( in chinese medicine this is called jing). We use the essence up by abuseing our bodies with food, alcohol, drugs...
Then it is gone. Then we want new bodies.
How about keeping the vital essence healthly by eating right, yoga, exersize and most important positive thoughts and actions............
If you treat this body good the next one you get will be even better. Its like saying I need a new Earth, this one is trashed and I never even recycled once.......
Take responsibility for your gifts.          Aloha

Brendan the lifestyle is not complicated. If it is you are doing something bad.

For the food : It comes down to buy good snacks and meals (some freezed meal are quite healthy) and for desserts stop the cookies. Personally I don't drink sot drinks, eat sugar and all that stuff. Yup I know it tastes good but when after a while you used to not eating these products.

As for... FITNESS 
Your program was probably NOT meant for you. Training should be fun. I stopped training for 3 weeks because I injured most of my back muscles on my right side (go figure how I did it) and I miss it.
I mostly did weight lifting because cardio training was something I couldn't stand. I know it's important but it's better to do parts of the whole package than do the whole thing and stop after 3 months hmm?

When you DO make your training out of all the exrcises that you like, training isn't training anymore... it's a game 

That's why I miss it now 
(come on body, heal heal heal !!)

So if the cardio was bothering you, just drop it  8)

Fascinating responses!

Last night I was doing my meditations, exteriorizing to become one with the walls of my bedroom, then looking back "inside myself" at the lumps in bed where my physical self lay with my wife, and I had no sense I was missing anything essential.

But I agree, farting does have its virtues. My wife says that her butt's asleep, and it's snoring.

After the meat body falls off, or in an OBE, it seems to me that it makes little diference where we place ourselves. All we need is a mechanism, protoplasmic or not, in which we retain the abilities by which the "self" operates and is defined. That might be "ectoplasm" as we haunt the back stairs, an animal existence such as a primate (that's where I am now), or howsabiout a network of energies within some ionized stellar medium etc.

Meanwhile, whole grains, vitamins and minerals, lots of love, joy and awareness, as I attempt to gain sufficient wisdom so I don't have to come back to this specific place, but can go onward. But I see no way that that differs from love, joy and awareness in a critter that eats uranium and swigs lube oil.

The idea of mechanoid life may be bizarre, but the math defining creativity works easily, and the engineering will eventually get there on some level as well. I suspect that we may already have such visitors. Or maybe not yet.

dave

SKydiving rocks !!!

I wish I had more money I would do it every week !!

Nobody can say if there is a better way or not to "live" but for me it's a matter of quality and not quantity.

Like when you drink wine or bear with a meal. If you have a sloppy mouth because you don't care to clean it properly, the drink will badly mix with the food you eat and you will have a smaller experience than the guy next to you who cleaned his mouth properly and says "mmmm ... MMMM oh man that's good".