Rejuvenating apples; boiling vats, plunged in which you can become a handsome young man (you can, however, and boil alive); treasured bottles dead and living water that can raise up the fallen hero... This is our Russian tales.

But in the epics and folklore of any country reflects the attempts of people to partake of immortality. A lot of things that have reached us from the depth of centuries, not like fairy-tales and has all the signs of historical Chronicles.

So, recorded cases when, in different times, in different places of the Earth, spontaneously or through special secret techniques, Chinese Taoist monks or Indian ascetics lived from hundred up to four hundred years and more.

Our elderly compatriot, applied in the early XX century in the Tomsk hospital, presented quite authentic documents from which, as from his stories, meant that he more than two hundred years...

The maximum, which decided not to exceed even the fairy tale, is the age in 5000 years! It testified survivor of Indian origin, Tapaswini, he lived for more than 180 years. At the foot of the Himalayas, he once met a hermit, St orasiga only on ancient Indian Sanskrit. To achieve such a long and healthy stay in our world, the elder helped severe diet and knowledge of the composition of the drugs, the secret of which he kept.

Refer to the Bible stories which, in our opinion, are the natural history of mankind "from the outset". Not by chance the first books of the old Testament (the First book of Moses) called Genesis". We learn from it that Adam named his wife eve, which means if not eternal, but still it ' life". In the Slavic version of this name was transformed into the word "Virgo".

It is said that Adam lived 930 years, his son Seth - 912, the son of Seth, and the grandson of Adam Enosh lived 905 years, and so on And son Seth was born, Adam when he was 130 years old; and to Seth, the son of Enos was born in 105 years; Enos became the father in 90 years, and so on, The elderly, children are not born. So a hundred years old in old Testament times people were young.

We are looking for a parable where there are none. Obviously, before people really lived almost a thousand years, in contrast to our incomplete hundred. Our life force is clearly increasing. Maybe by the End Times? By the way, there is an opinion that the average age of human life depends on the number of earthlings. Now we are six billion. Whether we are smaller, we would live longer (and better). And so must live as we can and as soon as possible to give a place in the sun "another knock".

...The legendary count Cagliostro was quite specific person. And in the second half of the XVIII century together with his wife even visited St Petersburg. Following the Newspapers and oral rumor that always ran ahead artistic adventurer or a great adept, celebrities have received indirect confirmation of the fact that the powerful count owns if not the secret of eternal life, the very long youth. The wife of count, beauty Lorenz, the mother of a grown son of the captain was so young for his forty-odd years, that even did not deny the merits in that of her husband. Not only known date of birth (1743), but the date of death of the mysterious count Cagliostro - 1795. He possessed mystical power and charming all the mystery, he, a favourite of Louis XVI, on whose order the irreverence to Cagliostro, Piran was to insult royalty, a Martyr's death ended his life in the dungeons of the Inquisition.

According to the rules of the time the paper strange count were burned as unclean. But something the Vatican still preserved. For example, the record (copy) of "the regeneration of Cagliostro". However, it describes the process (cramps, sleep, loss of hair and teeth, the growth of new and t d), which lasts for forty days, but not a prescription pills that give such effect. Also preserved and recorded by the court of the Inquisition the story of Alexander Cagliostro that he visited count Saint-Germain (the one whose fame was similar to the glory of the Cagliostro) and saw a vessel, where the owner has kept their mysterious elixir of immortality.

The essence of the intrigue is best illustrated by the case in Dresden. Someone asked the count's coachman, is it true that Saint-Germain four hundred years. He replied that he did not know, but for those 130 years that he is, the owner has not changed. Of course, all this could be a hoax. But impressed contemporaries such detailed knowledge of the Saint-Germain past, which could only be a participant, an eyewitness to the events. Older people knew this man, as seen before, in the days of his youth. Only he, unlike them, not age.

He was known in different cities and countries under different pseudonyms. One time he even was "image" a Russian General, only the name was biased - Saltykov (via "on"). The mysterious count if I were the last. Nobody knew it, didn't remember a child and so on, Even the death of the Saint-Germain in Holstein in 1784 one of his friends called "imaginary". And no wonder: nowhere else in the area has not appeared gravestones with the appropriate name. In addition, he is "the late" many times after his "death" appeared in public (for the last time in Paris in the winter of 1939) and generally lived a full life.

He may be dressed not already in a frock coat and denim suit, yesterday met you on the bus or in the store... Maybe he still lives with us, burdened by so many memories there for most of us. And maybe he is not alone... now If even atheists recognize Christ as a real historical person, maybe we should recognize authentic and other biblical evidence, in particular about the times "epidemic" longevity?

Then not as fancy, but as echoes, the remains of the former opportunities should be perceived and evidence of a huge number of quite sober, not crazy people about ageless graph Saint-Germain and others like it. And only enveloped in an aura of fantasy, but has many real prototypes, stands before us the hero of the series "Highlander", one of the immortal Duncan Macleod, with his friends.

Immortality bestowed upon man with the immortality of the soul. Grows old and dies only the body. So, to put it more precisely, mankind has always been looking for a way of life extension and youth available to the body as a vessel, container of the soul.

Why are we largely go the same way in our time of universal nihilism, " I see. But why did it happen in the past, when the religious consciousness of people of different faiths could accommodate the notion that our world is not the only and not the best of all worlds? Gradually the mankind began to think about the transplantation of the brain to another, younger head, replacing the sick or the old organs of cybernetic devices or flesh grown by the method of cloning. And finally, came to immortality on the other hand, refusing endlessly to revive the body and decided to try to save for eternity inner world of man.

Not so long ago the journal "Business week" spoke about the scientific search of electronic means of reproduction of a person after his death. We are talking about virtual equivalents of specific brain and specific nervous system, that will allow to save individual peculiarities of thinking, memory of past lives, thoughts and feelings. A person of such immortality own mind and soul, will have to insert in the frames of the glasses miniature camera, whose signals (his life with his eyes) are recorded on a tiny hard disk the size of a button. These are already being produced, one disk is enough for the record month of life.

So, thanks "reasonable electricity", a hundred years from living can communicate with absolute equivalent identity of deceased people. It will be interesting if the answers to the questions received via computer differ from those obtained at spiritualistic seances? If not, was it worth the game worth the candle? But that is another subject material.

Meanwhile regeneration (rejuvenation) of already existing organism as a way to stay a bit longer in this world it seems people preferred. Gerontologists have noticed that not the last role is played by water. Most of today's centenarians drink the water of mountain rivers, formed from melting glaciers, thawing water. As in old Testament times. Not by chance the knights of the heroes and adventurers of all times and peoples was looking for in a literal sense, the source of eternal youth, living water...

To linger in this world to 200 years can, cut by a couple of degrees constant temperature of the body. And you can use the experience of suspended animation, borrowed some animals. There are a lot of earthlings sleep, frozen in a special way to Wake up in the best of times. The truth is that this will be behind the times, another question...

The biological clock, counting down the time of our lives, are located in the chromosomes in the nucleus of cells. The number of cell divisions limited. But already identified a way to influence this process, therefore, increase of human life. There are many anti-aging diets, exercises, extracts from plants and animals, special spiritual practices. The whole range of modern features uses to stay young and relive all of us, the famous singer Michael Jackson.

It is believed that more than "visible energy" (water, food, medicines, etc.), on the aging process is influenced "energy invisible"that run through us, because we are their generated and received from outside. For example, electricity. With age in our PRS are Anisman accumulate balances, waste, fragments of molecules with high electrical potential (free radicals). In one of the Moscow Newspapers for 1998 show how accidentally managed to include each of us in addition to old age covert program to return to his youth.

In General, was treated for osteochondrosis and other diseases of the spine. The spine is our power column energy basis. Know-how was to affect the entire energy system, which, ozdoravlivatj, "capture" and the spine, and the organism as a whole. With the help of special equipment sick sent a special electrical signals. Soon one patient, who was in her 50, was clearly and quickly look younger. Until now the precise cause is not clear. Presumably frequency healing Electrosignal resonate with the frequency of some gene or DNA responsible for activation countdown of the biological clock, i.e. rejuvenation.

The natural joy of the woman was soon replaced by the feeling of just the opposite: it began to look younger than his daughter. What's next? Is there a way to stop this process? All I want forever stay in this world? No.

Tradition says that king Solomon had rejected the elixir giving immortality, because I do not see happiness in life without those she loved.

Cagliostro, possessing the secret of regeneration, did not use the available opportunity. This leads some to the idea that he was bluffing, he was fabulously rich and certainly could bribe the guards, so they gave him the coveted pills. But why he needed another "portion" life and youth? To continue to rot in a dark and smelly stone bag on the circuit?

It is likely that owns the secret of life extension, consciously chose death of fifty. As a deliverance.

And the legend of the Eternal Jew? Remember, a man by the name of Ahasuerus was among others on the path of Christ to Calvary. Languishing under the weight of the cross convicted of a little rest at the house of Ahasuerus, but he roughly drove Christ. And Christ said to Ahasuerus that it will go in your life, to wander, not knowing death. And so it happened. A thousand years later, he was saw people whose testimony credible. So, in the XIII century Ahasuerus was in Armenia and spoke with the Armenian Archbishop. Later saw him, talked to him in all languages of the Earth other bishops, p Eskie legates, historians, burgomasters. At the end of the XVI century the Eternal Jew is going to Moscow and visit her soon.

A century later the professors of the prestigious English University of Cambridge and Oxford even tested, proessional of Ahasuerus, but could not be accused of ignorance of the history, customs, culture and geography of the ancient Land, which during the years of wandering, he bypassed all. In the first third of the XIX century some Englishmen had reason to know that Ahasuerus still wanders to become alien world...

Still, the main question that the first thing you should find the answer mankind is why live. Then it will become clear, why don't we live a thousand years, is it worth trying and why.