The ImmorTalist Manifesto: Stay Young & Save the World (Paperback)

by Elixxir (Author)

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Product Description
This book can save your life, and change the world.

“Old Age and Death are no longer necessary or acceptable. We are either the last to grow old and die, or the first to stay young and live forever. We choose to be the first to stay young and live forever. Our goal is simple: kill Old Age and Death!” - The Immortalist Manifesto

For the first time in human history, Science has the tools to slow down, stop, or even reverse your biological aging. But the powers that be have already decreed that you must grow old and die.

The Immortalist Manifesto: Stay Young & Save the World, the controversial new paradigm for our Post-Mortalist Era, reveals what you can do to save yourself - and the planet. It also explains:

• Why the U.S. has $100 billion for “Star Wars” but almost no money for anti-aging life-extension research, the one thing that can save your life
• Why The Religious Right & Vatican oppose in vitro fertilization for infertile couples, genetic engineering to fight cancer, stem-cell research to fight Parkinson’s, and cloning to save you from a certain Death
• How women and gays have been put down for desiring to stay young
• How anti-aging research can prevent cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis & Alzheimer’s
• Why work must be “excessive, compulsive, joyless and always punitive” under Market Capitalism & Globalization
• Why the U.S. will become more and more like Sweden
• The only way to save Social Security, Medicare, and European pension systems
• Why anti-aging breakthroughs can save Western Civilization
• What is The Death Society and why Bush Junior is its “ideal” President

Discover for yourself why Elixxir, our first Post-Mortalist philosopher, has been acclaimed as “razor sharp” and “first rate!” by Harvard’s Cornel West. Read about “The Immortalist Gameplan” to save your and the planet’s life.

Ideal for Reading/Discussion groups. Study Guide included.

About the Author
Elixxir is the Immortalist philosopher and diet-lifestyle guru. Harvard’s Cornel West has described Elixxir’s mind as “razor-sharp” and his work as “first rate!” The Immortalist Manifesto: Stay Young & Save The World is adapted from his Honors paper at Yale University.

Elixxir’s philosophy and lifestyle are intertwined. He has been on the only scientific anti-aging life-extension program for almost a quarter of a century. The result? Elixxir looks twenty-something at almost 50.

As the Master Coach of The Elixxir Program, Elixxir is the only anti-aging guru who has actually stayed young. Dr. David Weeks writes in Secrets of the SuperYoung (Random): “Elixxir is most amazingly youthful, he is himself his own best argument in favor of the regimen.” Investor’s Business Daily’s Marilyn Much raves: “Preternaturally youthful. Seeing is believing!… Can you afford to die? If not, there’s no better investment than The Elixxir Program.”

A thought-provoking, entertaining, transformational public speaker and workshop/seminar leader, Elixxir is available for lectures, debates, workshops and personal coaching.

He is completing his “chronicles and meditations” to celebrate living la dolce vita for almost a quarter of a century on the only anti-aging program known to science.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: 1st Books Library (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759653399
• ISBN-13: 978-0759653399
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,038,455 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The ImmorTalist Manifesto is not worth your time or money, January 24, 2006

By	Freeman "The last bastion of freedom is insid... (Ranger, Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

As a transhumanist, I had high hopes for The ImmortTalist Manifesto. I should have taken the time to read all the Amazon.com reader reviews first (about half the reviews appear fake, which is telling in and of itself). This book is written at a high school level from a perspective of arrogance and self-righteousness. It’s a litany of copy editing mistakes accompanied by immature socialist diabtribe about ending war for all time and building a new world order based on the unrealistic and incomplete “Immortalist” worldview.

You doubt me? Read this:

My childhood friends have all grown old, fat and ugly. I now look more like their son than their classmate or peer. I am still getting carded by bouncers at bars and clubs. I will outlive my enemies and marry their children.

The above is certainly not expressive of the attitude of a human being with the potential to build a political alliance capable of changing the world. The above words are typical of a man who rambles extensively in his manifesto about how we have a social responsibility to offer immortality to the rich and poor alike on a sliding scale but whose web site offers to teach the secrets of immortality for the price of only $1 million. The book most certainly gives no practical advice on extending one’s own life. The “wisdom” contained within is nebulous at best and is outright useless at worst.

“Elixxir” wants to smash poverty, terrorism and war through an Immortalist world government and via socialism. He espouses using the world’s military budgets for longevity research. This is an appealing (to me) if highly unrealistic idea. The first nation to follow this advice would be invaded by its enemies shortly thereafter. Imagine the United States making a declaration tomorrow that all military budget dollars will immediately be used to extend the human lifespan. I wonder who would pick up the pieces after the nation destroyed in civil war and China got through ravaging what remained.

The manifesto itself is poorly copy edited yet the writer claims to be a Yale graduate. The writing style is best described as disjointed. Rather than presenting a concise synopsis of some realistic plan for extended longevity or actual immortality, this book reads like a drug addict’s rambling tale of the first time he did heroin - how great it was to fall in love with the drug. Switch heroin for immortality and you have The ImmorTalist Manifesto. The only difference is that “Elixxir” is in love with immortality and claims to have the secrets to live longer yet manages to ramble for 223 pages without giving any of them away in a concrete or practical fashion.

If you are interested in living longer, this is not the book for you. If you are interested in a personal guru - a fakir who will gladly take your life savings - then by all means, purchase The ImmorTalist Manifesto. You’ll need to have a million dollars to actually have any “secrets” revealed to you. Narcissism, hypocrisy and immortality don’t go together in my worldview, so I will avoid any further publications by anyone calling themself “Elixxir.”

If you’ve been thinking about buying The ImmorTalist Manifesto, please visit Immortalism: The Official Site first, for a taste of the true emptiness that awaits you.

I’d like to live as long as possible assuming I’m healthy and happy. I’d probably committ suicide if a self-inflated narcissicist like “Elixxir” ran the world.

30 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars nonsense, July 5, 2004

By A Customer

Just do a Google search and look at Elixxir's website. The contents therein should be enough to convince you how ridiculous this book is as well. Anyone who will rent you his "presence" for an evening for $1,500 (or how about a year for $1,000,000!!!) is a charlatan of the highest order. Gee, you mean I can ask Elixxir anything I want and watch him eat for only $1,500?! Give me a break.

This is the only item I've reviewed on Amazon that truly deserves 0 stars. Unfortunately that isn't an option.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Anti-Aging Gurus Look Older? The Toxic Poisoning Delusion?, July 5, 2005

By	Ben Minolta (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

I bought this book after reading negative reviews of The Longevity Diet. I had heard that both the negative reviews (one by "David Spence" one by "Dr Dre Minake") were written by Elixxir, the author of The Immortalist Manifesto, but I didn't believe it. Now I'm thinking it's probably true. The Immortalist Manifesto is mostly a rambling rehash of things you can easily find on the Web about the possible benefits of a long-lived society. Some of the points made are important ones, but they're easy to find on the Web. There's no reason to buy this book. It is probably because of his insecurity about the merits of his own book that he feels he needs to go on the attack against other books dealing with a similar subject matter.
I'd also like to point out, like other reviewers, that an author who posts fake negative reviews - not one, but two! - under a fake name, of a new book just because he was spurned by one of the authors (also something I've heard, tho I'm not 100% certain it's true) is not someone I want to have as a teacher of ethics. Using a pseudonym for one review seems OK, since you might want to protect your privacy, but to "add a voice" falsely is really not kosher.
He also makes false claims (or implies them) about the nature of The Longevity Diet. There is nothing about "matchbox sized piece of salmon" in the book or any other book advocating Roy Walford's principles. Further, he says Walford "seems to have killed himself through his 'diet'". This is of course nonsense. Walford developed ALS. He died a tragic death that had nothing to do with his diet. Elixxir claims one needs "spiritual strength" to follow diets. Does one gain spiritual strength from a book written by a dishonest, back-stabber who is simply trying to get people to come his ridiculously expensive life-extension clinic in Scandinavia? I don't think so.