The Unquenchable Quest for Immortality
Reasoning Behind the Motivation
Since the day that humanity became aware of itself it has craved answers to its ever-widening questions about the nature of existence. We are a very curious species. We look to the skies and in the deepest ocean to discover what is hidden to us. We build fascinating tools to delve deeper into the unknown. We perform mental acrobatics to arrange the world into determinate boxes that can be labelled and shelved as monuments to our great cognitive capacity. We organize ourselves and our societies based on the understandings that we acquire from this activity, and we encourage our progeny to delve even deeper.
Of course, this is an admirable adventure to undertake. Existence is so vast that it is quite reasonable that humanity, being conscious, would want to understand it rather than to simply be adrift in a dark ocean of potentials. We want to understand and create from our comprehension. We strive to know that which we do not now know.
One of the most fundamental perplexities of existence is the quandary of death. It is the perennial and looming doom to which we seem to be drifting toward regardless of our protestations. It seems that most people are rather accustomed to the idea, and have already labelled and shelved the concept of death in the recesses of their mind, at least until the day that they are faced with it. Others though, seem to crave seeking the elusive conclusion to the mystery that evades all. This search can be benign enough, as one who meditates or contemplates upon death can come to acceptance of not knowing, a far more significant realization than any amount of knowing. For those who cannot accept this, there is only the seeking.
Throughout the course of the human legacy there have been fantastic dramatizations of the concept of Immortality, the breaking of the rules. Whether in the darkness of demonic vampirism or the alchemical shrine, or deism, humanity has exposited the variations of defiance of death as an elegant expression of life. Even in the case of vampirism, the expression is always one of a seemingly graceful existence, with languid nobility or aristocratic imperviousness.
There is a deep psychological, or as I would more accurately present, “position of the mind”, development that urges some to affect effrontery in the face of the doom of biological existence. Seeing as all things that exist must come into existence from infinite potentiation, it serves that there must be a compensatory action, resulting in exiting existence, at least in the physical world we recognize.
Thus, I will examine to some degree this psychology/position of the mind, and the concept of immortality as it appears in various places and times.
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