How long can a healthy human live?

Yahoo – AFP, Isabelle Tourne, 23 January 2023 

The death of the world's oldest person at the age of 118 has reignited a debate that has divided scientists for centuries: is there a limit on how long a healthy human can live? 

After French nun Lucile Randon died last week, Spanish great-grandmother Maria Branyas Morera, 115, has assumed the title of the oldest living person, according to Guinness World Records. 

Back in the 18th century, French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, known as the Comte de Buffon, theorised that a person who had not suffered an accident or illness could live for a theoretical maximum of 100 years. 

Since then, medical advancements and improving living conditions have pushed the limit back by a couple of decades. 

A new milestone was reached when Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment celebrated her 120th birthday in 1995. 

Calment died two years later at the age of 122. She remains the oldest person ever to have lived -- that has been verified, at least. 

According to the United Nations, there were an estimated 593,000 people aged 100 years or older in 2021, up from 353,000 a decade earlier. 

The number of centenarians is expected to more than double over the next decade, according to the Statista data agency. 

The Comte de Buffon might also have been surprised by the rise of supercentenarians -- people aged 110 or over -- whose numbers have been increasing since the 1980s. 

Natural limit at 115? 

So how far could we go? Scientists disagree, with some maintaining that the lifespan of our species is limited by strict biological constraints. 

In 2016, geneticists writing in the journal Nature said there had been no improvement in human longevity since the late 1990s. 

Analysing global demographic data, they found that the maximum human lifespan had declined since Calment's death -- even though there were more elderly people in the world. 

"They concluded that human lifespan has a natural limit and that longevity is limited to around 115 years," French demographer Jean-Marie Robine told AFP. 

"But this hypothesis is partly disputed by many demographers," said Robine, a specialist in centenarians at the INSERM medical research institute. 

Research in 2018 found that while the rate of death increases with age, it slows down after 85. 

Around the age of 107, the rate of death peaks at 50-60 percent every year, the research said. 

"Under this theory, if there are 12 people aged 110, six will survive to be 111, three to be 112, and so on," Robine said. 

A numbers game 

But the more supercentenarians, the higher chance a few have to live to make it to record ages. 

If there are 100 supercentenarians, "50 will live to be 111 years old, 25 to 112," Robine said. 

"Thanks to a 'volume effect', there are no longer fixed limits to longevity." 

However Robine and his team are publishing research this year which will show that the rate of death continues to increase beyond the age of 105, further narrowing the window. 

Does this mean there is a hard ceiling on how long we can live? Robine will not go that far. 

"We will continue to make discoveries, as we always have, and little by little the health of the oldest people will improve," he said. 

Other experts are also cautious about choosing a side. 

"There is no definitive answer for the moment," said France Mesle, a demographer at the French institute of demographic studies (INED). 

"Even if they are increasing, the number of people reaching very old age is still quite small and we still cannot make any significant statistical estimate," she told AFP. 

So it might be a matter of waiting for rising numbers of supercentenarians to test the "volume effect". 

And of course some future medical breakthroughs could soon upend everything we know about death. 

Eric Boulanger, a French doctor specialising in the elderly, said that "genetic manipulation" could allow some people to live for 140 or even 150 years.

World's oldest person dies in Japan at 119

Yahoo – AFP, 25 April 2022 

Kane Tanaka was recognised as the world's oldest person in 2019 (AFP/JIJI
PRESS) (JIJI PRESS)

A Japanese woman certified the world's oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday. 

Kane Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. 

Tanaka was in relatively good health until recently and lived at a nursing home, where she enjoyed board games, solving maths problems, soda and chocolate. 

In her younger years, Tanaka ran various businesses including a noodle shop and a rice cake store. She married Hideo Tanaka a century ago in 1922, giving birth to four children and adopting a fifth. 

She had planned to use a wheelchair to take part in the torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, but the pandemic prevented her from doing so. 

When the Guinness World Records recognised her as the oldest person alive in 2019, she was asked what moment she was the most happy in life. Her answer: "Now." 

Her daily routine was described at the time as including a 6:00 am wake-up, and afternoons spent studying mathematics and practising calligraphy. 

"One of Kane's favourite pastimes is a game of Othello and she's become an expert at the classic board game, often beating rest-home staff," Guinness said. 

Local governor Seitaro Hattori hailed Tanaka's life after she passed away on April 19. 

"I was looking forward to seeing Kane-san on this year's Respect for the Aged Day (a national holiday in September) and celebrating together with her favorite soda and chocolate," he said in a statement on Monday. 

"I am extremely saddened by the news." 

Japan has the world's most elderly population, according to World Bank data, with around 28 percent aged 65 or over. 

The oldest-ever living person verified by Guinness was Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment, who died aged 122 years and 164 days in 1997.

Want to live forever? Theoretically, you could, study says

Yahoo – AFP, Sara HUSSEIN, September 29, 2021

Kane Tanaka is currently the oldest living person in the world, at 118 (AFP/JIJI PRESS)

Humans can probably live to at least 130, and possibly well beyond, though the chances of reaching such super old age remain vanishingly small, according to new research. 

The outer limit of the human lifespan has long been hotly debated, with recent studies making the case we could live up to 150 years, or arguing that there is no maximum theoretical age for humans. 

The new research, published Wednesday in the Royal Society Open Science journal, wades into the debate by analysing new data on supercentenarians -- people aged 110 or more -- and semi-supercentenarians, aged 105 or more. 

While the risk of death generally increases throughout our lifetime, the researchers' analysis shows that risk eventually plateaus and remains constant at approximately 50-50. 

"Beyond age 110 one can think of living another year as being almost like flipping a fair coin," said Anthony Davison, a professor of statistics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), who led the research. 

"If it comes up heads, then you live to your next birthday, and if not, then you will die at some point within the next year," he told AFP. 

Based on the data available so far, it seems likely that humans can live until at least 130, but extrapolating from the findings "would imply that there is no limit to the human lifespan," the research concludes. 

The conclusions match similar statistical analyses done on datasets of the very elderly. 

"But this study strengthens those conclusions and makes them more precise because more data are now available," Davison said. 

The first dataset the team studied is newly released material from the International Database on Longevity, which covers more than 1,100 supercentenarians from 13 countries. 

The second is from Italy on every person who was at least 105 between January 2009 and December 2015. 

'One in a million' 

The work involves extrapolating from existing data, but Davison said that was a logical approach. 

"Any study of extreme old age, whether statistical or biological, will involve extrapolation," he said. 

"We were able to show that if a limit below 130 years exists, we should have been able to detect it by now using the data now available," he added. 

Still, just because humans can theoretically reach 130 or beyond, doesn't mean we're likely to see it anytime soon. 

For a start, the analysis is based on people who have already achieved the relatively rare feat of making it to well over 100. 

And even at age 110, your chances of making it to 130 are "about one in a million... not impossible but very unlikely," said Davison. 

He thinks we could see people reaching 130 within the century, as more people make it to supercentenarian status, increasing the chances of one becoming that one in a million. 

"But in the absence of major medical and social advances, ages much over this are highly unlikely ever to be observed," he added. 

For now, the oldest person on record is Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the confirmed age of 122. 

Her true age was the subject of some controversy, with claims of a possible fraud, but in 2019 several experts said a review of the evidence confirmed her age. 

Other pretenders to the throne of oldest person ever have a long way to go. The oldest verified living person in the world is Japan's Kane Tanaka, a comparatively youthful 118.

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Low-skilled worker life expectancy is five years less than for graduates

DutchNews, August 16, 2019

Photo: Depositphotos.com

Today’s new pensioners with a college or university degree will live an average of four to five years longer than those with vocational qualifications, the national statistics agency CBS said on Friday. 

Men with a degree are now expected to enjoy 22 years of retirement, while men with few qualifications will live a further 17 years, the CBS said. In addition, the life expectancy gap for men has grown a full year since the period 2011 to 2014. For women, the gap remains four years. 

Lifestyle is likely to be behind the difference, the CBS said. ‘People with a lower level of education are more likely to be overweight and to smoke,’ a spokesman told news agency ANP. They are also more likely to have hearing, eyesight and muscle problems. 

In addition, people with degrees retire, on average, eight months before the low-skilled – meaning they enjoy both a corporate and state pension for longer. 

The FNV trade union federation, which is campaigning for early retirement to be incorporated in the current proposals to reform the pension system, said the new figures demonstrate the real need for change. 

‘The growing difference in life expectancy shows that the union is right to call for the state pension age to be frozen and to scrap the fines for early retirement,’ a spokesman told ANP.

Global life expectancy up 5.5 years since 2000: WHO

Yahoo – AFP, Nina LARSON, April 4, 2019

While most people who die in rich countries are old, nearly one in three deaths
in poorer countries are children under five (AFP Photo/GREG BAKER)

Geneva (AFP) - Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning though that unequal income and access to healthcare translates into far shorter lives for many.

The UN health agency also stressed significant gender differences in life expectancy worldwide.

On average, a child born in 2016 can expect to live 72 years, up from 66.5 in 2000, according to the annual World Health Statistics report.

The first 16 years of the century saw dramatic drops in deaths among children under five, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where progress has been made against malaria, measles and other communicable diseases, WHO said.

Life expectancy has also increased thanks to advances against HIV/AIDS, which ravaged much of Africa in the 1990s.

But despite progress in poorer countries, WHO said there remained significant life expectancy gaps between developed and developing nations.

People in low-income countries live 18 fewer years on average than those in high-income nations, statistics showed.

In Lesotho, for instance, people on average live to be just 52, or 53 in the Central African Republic 53 years of age, compared to over 83 for Switzerland and over 84 in Japan.

While most people who die in rich countries are old, nearly one in three deaths in poorer countries are children under five, WHO said.

'Shocking differences'

For the first time, WHO broke down its global health statistics by sex, clearly showing that females have better longevity prospects than males.

Life expectancy for people in full health and in less than full health (AFP 

Photo/Jonathan WALTER)

At birth, babies are more likely to be male than female, with some 73 million boys expected to be born this year, compared to 68 million girls, WHO said.

But due to greater biological frailty and riskier behaviours, mortality rates tend to be higher among boys and men, and the ratio shifts as the population ages.

At a global scale, girls born in 2016 are expected to live to the age of 74.2, while and boys on average will make it to 69.8 years, the report showed.

One reason why women appear to live longer is that they tend to be better about using available healthcare.

In countries facing HIV epidemics, for instance, women are far more likely to take HIV tests and access antiretroviral therapies than their male counterparts. Female TB patients are also more likely to seek treatment, WHO said.

It is therefore perhaps not surprising that the gap between men's and women's life expectancy is narrowest in places where women lack access to health services.

In low-income countries with scarcer services, one in 41 women die from maternal causes, compared to one in 3,300 women in high-income countries.

These are "shocking differences", WHO's head of data and analytics, Samira Asma, told reporters.

Overall, the statistics showed that life expectancy has risen in most countries, including significant jumps in places like Eritrea, where people on average are now expected to live 22 years longer than the 43 years predicted in 2000.

In Syria, meanwhile, which has been ravaged by eight years of conflict, life expectancy dropped by a decade, from 73 years in 2000 to 63.8 years in 2016.

People in the United States have meanwhile seen their life expectancy slip from 79 years in 2014 to 78.5 years two years later, the WHO numbers showed.

Asma said the drop was in part driven by the obesity epidemic.

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"Recalibration of Free Choice"–  Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth,  4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical)  8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…  3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…

Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?

The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].

Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”

Dutch showman makes global headlines with ‘I’m 49 not 69’ court case

DutchNews, November 8, 2018

Emile Ratelband at a book launch in 2015. Photo: Fotopersburo Edwin Janssen via HH 

Dutch showman and self-styled ‘motivational guru’ Emile Ratelband has hit headlines around the world with a court case to have his age officially cut by 20 years. 

Ratelband was in court in Arnhem earlier this week in a bid to have the clock turned back on his official documents so that he is only 49. 

‘We live in a time when you can change your name and change your gender. Why can’t I decide my own age?’ Ratelband is quoted as saying. In particular, Ratelband, hopes being officially younger will enable him to attract more women.

‘When I’m on Tinder and it says I’m 69, I don’t get an answer. When I’m 49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position,’ he said. Ratelband has been married twice and has seven children. 

The BBC, Daily Mail and Telegraph are among the foreign media outlets which have picked up the story, which has generated thousands of comments. 

Ratelband, who converted to Buddhism earlier this year, told the Telegraaf that he is not suffering from the Peter Pan syndrome and has been checked out by a doctor to make sure he will ‘be able to deal with this major step.’ 

After all, he told the paper, there are some disadvantages to becoming younger. ‘For a start I’ll be missing out on my old age pension for 20 years,’ he said. 

Judges will rule on the case later this month. 

Ratelband has a history of outspoken comments and has described Osama bin Laden as a ‘freedom fighter with clear principles’. In 2003 he made an attempt to enter parliament on a populist platform. He received just under 10,000 votes.

A Dutch "young god" just months shy of his 70th birthday has launched a legal bid to slash 20 years off his age as he looks to enhance his prospects at work and in love https://t.co/HvJgOg49Bk

— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 8, 2018

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Public health minister takes health warnings with pinch of salt

DutchNews, April 13, 2018 

Photo: Health Ministry 

If every excess glass of wine shortens your time on earth by 30 minutes, is the sum total a joyless life? 

Dutch public health minister Hugo de Jonge suggested on Friday that he was taking new reports on the damaging effects of alcohol and sunbeds with a pinch of salt. 

Speaking to reporters on the way to a cabinet meeting, he said that health secretary Paul Blokhuis was best placed to comment on a new report in The Lancet suggesting that 12.5 units of alcohol a week – or five glasses of wine – is the upper safe limit. 

‘It’s his area, and I am always glad of that when I read reports that say something else is bad for your health,’ he reportedly told NOS. ‘That’s often the case with the joys of life.’ 

He added that he was not planning to stop using sunbeds himself, despite safety warnings earlier this week from the KWF cancer charity. ‘I have become a minister, not a monk, which means that I have my foibles,’ he said. ‘I like to use a sunbed every now and then. Otherwise you lot will tell me I look bad.’ 

His own maxim was: all things in moderation, he added. ‘With all of these things, be aware and be moderate. That is the best advice you can give anyone.’ 

The Lancet story, widely reported in the international and Dutch press, suggested excess drinking was more damaging than previously thought, at lower levels. 

But the Dutch health council has already, for the past three years, recommended that people do not drink alcohol at all or limit themselves to a glass a day.

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Living to a ripe old age may be down to your mother, Dutch scientists say

DutchNews, March 28, 2018

People who live to a ripe old age have their mothers to thank for it, according to new research by Dutch scientists at Leiden University. 

Molecular epidemiologist Eline Slagboom and PhD student Niels van den Berg have been monitoring 421 families of which various members lived way beyond the age of 90. 

‘A new analysis of these extremely long-lived persons, their siblings, and parents now shows that longevity in these families is passed on mainly through the mother,’ the researchers said in a statement. 

An explanation for this, the scientists say, is that these healthy mothers produce healthy babies. The fact that the fathers play no role strengthens the supposition that longevity is linked to mitochondrial dna which, unlike other dna, is only handed down by the mother. 

The results bring the ‘holy grail’ of unravelling the secrets of a long life a little nearer, the researchers say. 

‘We now know even more precisely whose genes we need to map in order to find out why some people survive into extreme old age but also, and above all, why they age healthily,’ Slagboom said.

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"The Innate Revealed" - Nov 22/23, 2014 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

"... Innate's Old Program

Here is what Innate has learned to do, which the old system required. Are you ready? Death. In order for you to graduate, pick up the wisdom, and move forward into a higher spiritual consciousness in the next life, you need a short and productive life. Then you reincarnate with that wisdom. The faster the learning cycles are, the higher potential there is for the planet to awaken into a higher vibration - spiritual evolution. Are you starting to see where this is going? Innate, by design, will give you short lifetimes! What a system! It's important that you see the sense in this. In an older consciousness, this became the "engine of enlightenment." The recycling of old souls was the key. Let them have experience and wisdom. Then recycle them back into the planet so that the wisdom could be used.

It's important to remember that the old energy didn't really allow for present-life wisdom to be realized [used] by the grid of the planet. This was only accomplished through rebirth, and from DNA only working at about one-third its potential.

Suddenly in 2012, you passed the marker [as measured by the precession of the equinoxes], and you've come to a place in consciousness that the ancient prophecies all told you about. Dear ones, that's why I'm here! You have the ability, for the first time, to do what we saw was possible 25 years ago when I arrived. Your DNA is starting to evolve.

I want all of you to start telling Innate that you don't need to go through the transition of death to pass on the wisdom you have. There is a new process now, and it's different than any you have had in the past. Not only can your present wisdom to pass into the grids of the planet today, but everything you have learned from the beginning can be applied, too. Your full Akashic wisdom and learning is suddenly accessible in real time to the energy of Earth.

You don't need to reincarnate quickly anymore. Instead, you can do it by remaining here as your DNA starts to increase in efficiency. By the time you get to 36 percent (do the numerology), the process is complete. You will then have the ability to stay - a very long time! Dear ones, Innate doesn't know that. For thousands of years, it has been progressing this planet's potential spiritual growth by giving short lifetimes. Innate needs to know this, and you are the ones to tell it. Longer lifetimes are the key to the planet's evolution!

Doesn't it make logical sense, dear ones, that you could accomplish more on this planet if you don't have to be reborn and have to grow up all over again? Stay!

There are many on this earth who will say, "This is silly. You are born one way and stay that way." But this is simply old traditional thinking. You can reprogram almost everything in your body! Many of you know that you've changed your entire personality, perhaps even your Human nature! You've even changed your corporeal structure. There are those reading this who have stopped aging, and that's what this is about - proof that these things are real.

The key to stopping the aging process as you know it today is reprogramming the Innate. Your body is designed to age you, even against common sense! Your cellular body was designed to rejuvenate, and it isn't doing it well. Do you understand? It is the job of Innate to change this, but it needs the signal to do that. This is free choice, and you are the only one who can do it - not a facilitator or a healer, not a channeller. YOU need to learn how to communicate with Innate.

Tell Innate: "I no longer have to die to create spiritual growth." You can do this almost any way you want. Learn how to build affirmations that are positive. Get in touch with the body through whatever process that comes your way. You are ready to communicate to the smart body.

Now, the beauty of this is the following: You don't have to convince Innate of anything. It knows! It has been waiting for the call! As soon as it sees the progress that you have made in your consciousness, it's a done deal. Did you hear that? Innate knows who you are! After all, it's the smart body. But it doesn't know until you make the call.

Innate is ready to cooperate as soon as it sees the new and evolved avenue of spiritual evolution. The result of this is that you may live a lot longer. Some say, "I'm not certain I want that!" If you say that, then you are buying into an old paradigm that age equals health problems. It doesn't have to! So that's the next thing: Stay healthy as you don't age. [Kryon smile] Youthing is not complicated! Is it possible it's filled with love? Yes. Is it new? Yes. It's also smart enough to work well.

Dear ones, I just gave you an attribute that I have never been able to give humanity, and you heard it for the first time tonight. For this information to be given, you had to cross the 2012 energy, past 2013, into 2014. It's time you knew the truth. You are in control of so much more than you have been taught. That's how powerful you are. You're going to see it, and then you're going to believe it. Indeed, you are all unique, and not all of you are going to be able to awaken Innate with the same strength. That's because each of you are individuals on a unique spiritual path. Dear ones, I know who you are!

Old souls of this planet, awaken! Awaken to a new process, and a new kind of life. You can double your lifespan and more! Don't be afraid of what you see around you. There will be those who don't agree with any of this, and the result will be that they can't do it. They don't understand it. Slowly, as you don't age as much, the differences between you and them may actually frighten them. It won't be forever, because there will come a time when all humanity will know what I'm teaching tonight is true.

And so it is.

KRYON

"Recalibration of Free Choice"–  Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth,  4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical)  8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…  3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…

Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?

The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].

Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”

"The Great Escape" – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)

Kryon.com, March 11, 2017

This live channelling was given in Boston Massachusettes

Lee Carroll

To help the reader, this channelling has been revisited [by Lee and Kryon] to provide even clearer understanding. Sometime information is even added or condensed. Often what happens live has implied energy within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed page does not. So enjoy this enhanced message given in Boston.

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. Each of you is absolutely unique. If you could measure Human past experience, you would find that each one is different in so many ways. You may have the same organs in the same place biologically, but the filters that you carry into this meeting, this life, are profoundly diverse.

We've spoken of this before, but again we say that the bubble of bias that you come in with shields you from all realities that are not in your bubble. It shields you from the negative, and it shields you from the positive. Instead of coming in with a totally open mind, you carry in with you a preset of the way you think things work. If you're presented, therefore, with something that is not in your bubble of reality, your analysis is not to allow it. You block it from even being discussed.

The biggest preset of all, and the one that exists within most humanity, is the perception of what's going to happen next. The future, as we have discussed before, is almost always determined by what humanity has experienced before throughout history. In other words, nothing new or positive is really expected. Instead, the past determines what the future will hold, and that's why it's so startling when humanity sees something really new.

Too Young to Remember

Dear ones, this particular channel is being described as The Great Escape. We start by giving information that was already presented in the seminar today, but the readers here are not aware of it. We speak of a planet that literally has gone through such darkness, such trouble, such horror and disappointment that it's actually biased to expect it to continue. Dear ones, I'll say it again, Humans don't currently live long enough to remember any of the profundity of it! Your lifespans are ridiculously short, and you only live a fraction of what you were designed for. You would have to go to your grandfathers and great grandfathers and bring them into this discussion to fully understand.

If you could bring them back now, as we've said before, they would be so very impressed and happy for you with many of the freedoms that they didn't have, or for the joy of things that you can do today with each other that was impossible for them. They would marvel at a "world at peace" without looming wars or major threats on many sides, even though you don't see it this way at all. They would also remember the wars, and the dysfunction of what caused them, and how horrific and sorrowful they were. Through their maturity, they would clearly see what doesn't work and what does through history and would never repeat it - ever. But you don't have any of that. So a very "young" humanity simply tends to repeat the dysfunction and actually expects it to continue. There is no real senior maturity consciousness that can actually remember any of it at the core, wise level. You keep repeating the dysfunction since you don't cognize the past.

The consciousness of the past, therefore, becomes the consciousness of the future in your mind. This all changed in 2012. It's all centered on that which is astronomical and that which was foretold by the ancients of this planet. This precession of the equinoxes, which is caused by the 26,000-year wobble of the planet, is the core of these ancient prophecies. The humanity that has 23 chromosome pairs has actually been through two of these cycles. What did I just say? I'll explain: The humanity that has 23 chromosome pairs is not like any other life form here. The ones directly under you in the evolutionary hierarchy have 24 pairs. You have 23. Your DNA was altered. The 24th pair is actually there, but we have told you that it hides in a multidimensional way. That's part of your potential evolution, which is coming.

So, two cycles of this earth wobble is almost 50,000 years. That's how long your civilization has worked the puzzle, and some of you have been here through it all. This is esoteric information. For the doubters in the room, these are laughable facts. Their bubble is a result of what they were taught, so it's a closed bubble. So I speak to the ones who resonate and who know that they have been here before. Dear ones, the darkness that you have seen and the horrors that you have experienced could fill libraries. There is an awakening coming that will begin to react to these remembrances.

The Circle of Time is Shifting

Every one of you has been each gender. That means all of you have given birth to your children. All of you have lost children. All of you have been in the battlefield. All of you have killed another Human Being, and all of this information and energy is still there in your Akash.

What keeps all this sorrowful history from repeating again? Science will tell you that time isn't a straight line, and that it actually exists in a circle. It comes around, and here it comes again. With this information, no wonder humanity feels it's stuck in a constant circle of wars. However, in the '80s this all started to shift, and in that period you called The Cold War there was consciousness - a certainty - that you would not survive another war on this planet, and the idea of a peaceful earth started to unravel. The unraveling of any hope was made worse by your current prophecies of doom around the years 2000 and 2012. However, the year 2000 came and went and the year 2012 came and went and there was no Armageddon and no extinction of the Human species. Instead, there was fulfillment of ancient prophecy, and you "passed the marker" into the new energy. It was a fresh start, and it's the reason Kryon is here at all.

Expectations Drive Perception

Dear ones, at this time on the planet, you really didn't expect to be here. Everything within your past expectations said you would be gone by now, and that expectation is what I want to talk about. That expectation creates a consciousness of the old doom prophecies that you grew up with. If you ask a Human Being, "What's next?", they might say, "Well, eventually war. It's always war." That answer is what we want to talk about now as well.

There are those who postulate that humanity is in layers of dimensionality, and that within the old dimensional energy, an earth that was going to go through war and horror and nuclear exchange is actually still there and going through that. They say that what happened with the shift is that Earth simply shifted dimensions and that there are layers of dimensional reality. In other words, in another dimension, it's still happening the way it was going to happen, but in this changed dimension where you now sit, it's not.

"Dear Kryon, is that accurate?" I can't give you a yes or a no because you don't know what you're asking. It's like asking, "Do the angels who hold up the wings of an airplane ever get tired?" You mix and match assumptions of spirituality and physics into ways that show you have no understanding of the basics yet. So the question becomes un-answerable. Therefore, my reaction to the question of the accuracy of the dimensionality question must be this: In some ways, yes, and in some ways, no.

Escaping the Expected

Let's pretend for a moment that it's true and that in another dimension very close to yours, the earth terminates itself gradually with nuclear war and horror and all the things that you expected. Let's say it lies right next to this new layer that you have, this beautiful dimensionality that you have, which has new energy and no future world war. Instead, it's a dimension that is building a future that no one has seen before. It's one where, through unexpected wild cards [major change attributes that are startling], you climb out of an old consciousness and start to develop and evolve into something higher, where Humans exist together in new cooperative and compassionate ways.

So, let's pretend for a moment that the above is the way it works. Then you'd ask, "Well, can we still feel the other one - the war dimension?" The answer is indeed! Most of you do, right now! The escape we talk about is multilayered. The biggest escape, the greatest escape, is from the old dimension expectation, the one where your earth would be destroyed by war and go right where it was predicted to go. You escaped the horror of nuclear world war, and instead you've started on a path that the ancients predicted could happen.

Who were these ancients? The list of those who still remain is impressive: The Mayans, the Aztecs, the Toltecs, the Navajo, the Lakota and the ancient Hawaiians. The list goes on to include dozens and dozens of those who are now extinct. However, even though they didn't know each other back then, they all talked about what might happen at the precession of the equinoxes. They said that if humanity made it without destroying itself, it would reset to a new potential and evolution would begin to a higher consciousness. It's the prophecy of The Eagle and the Condor. Indeed, you made it past the December 2012 date, and that date was scheduled 12 years after the old prediction of the demise of humanity through nuclear exchange in the year 2000. Now, here you are, but still somehow "feeling" the dimension that had expected war.

I arrived in 1989 and started channelling with my partner. This coincided with two events - The Harmonic Convergence of 1987 and, most important, the fall of the Soviet Union. It also coincided with the beginning of an energy that no one truly expected, where the Harmonic Convergence information was realized.

There was indeed a dimensional shift, if you want to say that. But it happened internally with you, and not on the earth in general. So "the escape" from the past comes within your new reality, for here you sit in 2017, alive and well, dealing with puzzles that nobody thought you would need to, because you weren't expected to be here!

Four other civilizations of humanity preceded you and destroyed themselves. This has not yet been realized by historians. However, the Mayan long-count within their old calendar is based on an average civilization length of 5,125 years. When archeologists begin going back past 5,000 years, that's when they start to find very little. When they get to 10,000, they feel that is close to the beginning of organized society. However, there are discoveries coming that begin to tell a bigger story - the one about multiple civilizations on the planet with languages you have never seen. You're going to start finding these things, and clues to these things, and even ancient technology that could lead to modern weapons. When you do, you'll know I'm correct. Remember this message, for it may expand your bubble of belief. Read it again after the discoveries are made. Then perhaps it will become far more real to you that your civilization, like none of the others, escaped termination.

The Puzzle: How to React to the New Energy

The puzzle that I'm here to tell you about in these years is about this new dimensional energy - what to expect, how to proceed, the beauty of it, being loved through it, the help that you have and the new tools for humanity. That's my job as Kryon.

So the greatest escape of all is that your civilization made it past 2012. Indeed, you escaped it, but dear ones, that's just at the basic reality level. The other layers of escape are just being realized. For some of you, maybe not in this room or reading this, there is still an old consciousness that really has not escaped the expected potential at all. Even though horror didn't happen, and against all logic, many still expect it. So there is no escape from the perception of a bad future as long as it's still in humanity's bubble of belief.

Basic Fear - Fear of the Future

The major layer of this multidimensional shift is fear of the future. How can you have the reality of what actually happened and still expect that which you were told, which didn't happen? The answer? It's a habit. You were there for most of it. Fear of the future is a habit that was developed through many civilizations that destroyed themselves and didn't make it. You were there, so the seeds of this past destruction are inside you, and many still expect a horrible end.

There is, therefore, a bias that some of you carry who are still expecting the worst. How do you feel about your future - your personal future? This is one of the keys to new thinking. Is it hopeful and benevolent and exciting? Or is it the same old thinking that says everything is going into the dumper eventually? Be honest, because there are those even sitting here who may not be in actual fear, but will expect the future to go to a place as it always has for the reasons it always did. So the real bias is by judging the future from the past. There is no awareness or exception or even planning for something you didn't expect and haven't seen before - only what you have seen. As I have said, you just don't live long enough yet. If you could live just 200 years, a fraction of what your DNA was designed for, you would start to see the patterns. You would start to be aware of potentials and not just expect a repeat of dysfunction.

Layers of Escape

There still is negative thinking, even if you acknowledge that the Armageddon didn't happen and won't. Let's say that you believe that the future is not going to include that episode and all will be okay. It is! I'm discussing a long-term future. Right now you will have two steps forward one step backward in your progress, creating challenges to good, positive thinking. The positive things are going to evolve through generations, dear ones. You're going to start to see organizations clean up their acts or they will fall. There will be no more fence-sitting on the things that have a lack of integrity, and you're going to see old leadership with old paradigms fall away. Eventually they will be replaced by new leadership that's more compassionate and has more integrity. That's what's coming.

The Fall of Many - Seen It Yet?

You are going to see more and more personal secrets being revealed about persons in high places of popularity or government. It will seem like an epidemic of non-integrity! But what is happening is exactly what we have been teaching. The new energy has light that will expose the darkness of things that are not commensurate with integrity. They have always been there, and they were kept from being seen by many who keep secrets in the dark. Seen the change yet?

In order to get to a more stable future, you will have to go through gyrations of dark and light. What this means is that the dark is going to be revealed and push back at you. It will eventually lose. We told you this. That's what you're here for is to help those around you who don't see an escape from the past. They didn't get their nuclear war, but everything else is going into the dumper anyway.

There Are More Layers to Get Through

Let's say that you're alright with the future. You get it and understand this message. "Okay Kryon, we made it. Humanity is okay with the future. I'm on board with you and I'm one who is going to say, 'this or something better'. I'm not going to carry around that feeling that we're always going to be at war. I'm okay with believing there is something better coming."

I say to you, what about the other layers? You'll say, "What do you mean? There's more?" Yes! Intrinsically the chemistry in your body, the innate, the consciousness you carried around for eons and eons through your past lives, has always seen one reality: Challenge with light. You've had challenge after challenge after challenge. There are channellers today who won't channel. There are shamans walking around who won't teach and who are actually hiding. All of this is due to Akashic remembrance and the innate yells at them to "stop showing who you are". It's all because the last time they did, in an older energy, it didn't work out well at all.

These are today's closet Lightworkers. Some of you are married to them and that's why you married them! They are like you, but they just didn't come out of the spiritual closet. But they're good people, delightful people, and they are the ones who you love. You know them at work, too. They won't agree with any of my messages, because at some level there is the seed fear of enlightenment we've told you about before. The fear comes from powerful Akashic memory. What does your Akash tell you? Are you one who has escaped from what the Akash shows you? Are you still in the closet because of your past?

The Akash represents the life records, in energy, of every single one of you. Oh, your consciousness may say, "Okay, the future is good. Thanks Kryon for helping me with this." But then your innate logic says, "What are you, crazy?" Because all that your Akash remembers is horror, disappointment, war and sadness! This is very much like drowning in your last life and being expected to dive right into the water in this life.

Changing the Past

Dear ones, you're going to have to reframe your Akashic filter, and that is by using consciousness that starts to instruct your own cellular structure. Did you get that? This is the new Human, who understands that they have the ability to change things at the cellular level. You can change the past because of what the future holds. Now you know what the phrase retro causality means [a physics term discussed earlier in the day]. Things that are happening in the future can change the past. Do you now understand this better? It means, dear ones, that consciousness that expects a good future will create it. It will eliminate or reframe that negative part of the Akashic logic that says, "You're nuts! It's going to happen again, just like it always did." Are you working on that?

Dreams Are Very Telling

What are your dreams like? How many of you are having dreams that reveal insecurity? That's your Akash working overtime to tell you things are not getting better. Perhaps it would be better if you had a talk with your Akash? Did you know you could do that? That which is your Higher-Self, which is the sacred YOU, is in your consciousness all the time. It's the "God in you" that we talk about. It works with you to void these things that are based on old thinking.

Using dialogue with your Higher-Self from what you now understand, you can start to change the very chemical level in your DNA that is where your Akash is stored and start to reframe it. Start the instructions of a new paradigm. Remind your body that all this negativity is simply a residual history that will never repeat itself. In fact, due to the shift, it now belongs in another consciousness compartment completely.

Let's put all the old books of the past in another room and shut the door. Label the door, "Old things that are gone." Now, tell your body that it is not allowed to access that room. From now on, only positive things that lead you into a future that is filled with light are allowed to be presented to you, and that includes your dreams. Did you know you could do that? You could make this very visualization happen, but you may have to do it over again and again, because the Akash is stubborn and it's YOUR OWN BODY you are dealing with. However, you will eventually win because you have so much help from your Higher-Self, the part of you who loves what you are doing and will supply the logic of it to your innate. It's like exercising a new muscle in your thinking.

Cellular Memory

There are more layers. I know, you are saying, "You mean we're not done yet?" No. Hardly. Your innate is responsible for knowing about the smart-body and your chemistry. It's the part of you who knows who you are, from the health perspective. It's also the one that responds to benevolence and creates spontaneous remission. However, it also responds to other kinds of thinking, and can become programmed and unbalanced. A hypochondriac who "trains" himself to fear all microbes can actually unbalance his own smart-body so that it cooperates with the idea. It represents how a Human thinks. Remember this: How you think is how your body reacts. Your cellular structure is designed to "listen" to your instructions.

Do you understand the power of this? What you expect, you create! So perhaps a person has trained their chemistry that there are diseases they may catch and there's a short life span they are going to have (based, of course, on past information). Then the Akash chimes in and says, "That's right! Look at how you died so many times before. Your bad health is built into your chemistry, so this time is just like the others."

Did you listen to the channel I gave you some time ago on the Youth Template? The design of the life-span template of your body is to allow you to live for more than 900 years. But you don't! So, where do you think the body takes it's cue from in this? I'll tell you - from the past. Isn't it time to change that? You can actually live far longer by telling your cells that all is okay and by not buying into what you are told by others.

Your consciousness is king! What you say and what you think instructs the chemistry of the body. We've said this way too many times and the real proof, yet again, is homeopathy. Homeopathy was deemed "unscientific" by a famous report from your medical world some time ago. They said, "In a tincture, there are too few parts per million to be 'seen' by any cells in the body. It therefore can't make any difference in any chemistry or systems in your body. There is simply no way it can work."

Yet, it works!

So here is an interesting decision to be made, and it's one that is primary in the thinking of today. Question: Are you going with what the scientists tell you or are you going to look at real results, although unexplainable? Remember, science knows only what it has discovered to this point. Homeopathy works! Why?

This very ancient system of healing works because it's the intent placed into the tincture when it's created and ingested that the body "sees". So the one who places it under the tongue is instructing the innate on what to do. Did you hear that? It instructs the innate, just like the hypochondriac does with a consciousness of fear. Science will also tell you that what the hypochondriac does is impossible as well, yet it's common to your culture and you see it every day.

Instructions That Work

Because of all this, dear ones, we already have proof that the chemistry in your body is able to take instructions, both negative and positive. You can give it instructions and it takes them! So what's the problem? Let's look at it further. How many of you have started to give instructions to your body that the future is a good one, that good health is expected, and you are reframing the past and eliminating fear? The issue is that you are telling your body to expect something that is unknown and has never happened before. See the issue? You are biased to think the unknown is going to be bad!

First I will expose this: The very idea of the unknown is a bias. What do you think when you see a sign in the road that says, "Everything from here on is unknown?" It's a perceived negative message, isn't it? So you step into the void of the unknown and immediately you are on high alert and very frightened. "I don't like being here," you say. Dear ones, that's because Human Beings want to know where they are going. It's a bias!

"Kryon, how can we feel good about the unknown?" Let me ask you: Why is that such a problem? Why do you have to analyze everything? Why do you have to intellectualize the future? The answer is habit. The unknown can actually be very good! You walk into the void and you can say, "Wow, I am so happy that I don't know anything, because then I don't have to worry about anything either! I'm going to be given things I never expected, and what happens is not going to be based on the past; it's not going to be the negative things I formerly expected. Instead, it's going to be new things I've never seen. Bring them on!"

Did you ever notice how Spirit works with you when you give intent and when you pray - especially when you are going into a situation that is unknown? "Dear Spirit, what's going to happen? I'm afraid of what is next and I don't know what to do." Then often nothing happens and nothing happens and finally you give up, thinking that you were not heard. Then suddenly you get an answer, and it's not what you expected. Do you understand how timing is involved and also how your body is actually waiting for you to stop intellectualizing the issue? Solution often comes when you are finally relaxed with the problem.

Some of you are still waiting for things to happen. I dare you to step into the void, in all these biased layers, and say, "I am in the unknown. Akash, get in the back seat. I'm driving now. Akash, get in that older room where I can slam the door shut for good. Only new, positive things are allowed. I don't know what they are, but this feels real good not to know! Biology, get in the back seat and stop giving me old, fearful information or old ideas of life span. It's time for the grand escape from all of this. These are my instructions to you!"

About the God Bias

Finally, what is the bias many carry about God, about Spirit? It's totally based on what you were told, not on reality. I'll tell you what many think about this meeting. First, the very method of receiving what I'm telling you is impossible. A man in a chair speaking through an angelic source from the other side of the veil is ridiculous, stupid and he's obviously a "nut job". Dear ones, that's a bias. Secondly, others will leave the room saying, "Okay, it was weird and kind of dumb, but it was cute. I like the guy, even if he's crazy."

I know who's here, dear ones, and I'll say it again. If either one of these situations represent your thinking, there's no judgment here from us. You personally leave here with the same number of angels and guides that everybody has, with the same amount of the love from God that everybody has. Like all of humanity, you have free choice to work with it or not. There's no judgment from God. Nothing is going to happen to you due to your non-acceptance of these sacred ideas.

However, what about the message? Don't let your God-bias get in the way of some great, logical thinking! Can your mind instruct your body? Could you have an enhancement of your life that you don't expect as a result of something actually proven to work? What about life extension? What happens when cells start to change because they are presented with a harmonious energy of thought? What happens when there's a confluence of energy that aligns things for the first time? As we said even this morning, these are the things that create health, long life, happiness and balance. It's the discovery that inside you is a force to be reckoned with that comes equipped with a DNA package from the original creation.

Do you want a fast track to the great escape? Here it is: See a God with no judgment, a God who loves you unconditionally no matter what, who expects you home when you leave this planet, who knows every breath you take, who loves you through every situation and who will take your hand if you will allow it. That's the best escape of all. It's the first one you should try, for it helps to balance all the others. Layer after layer of bias and filters and history are what you're going to have to get through to escape the old biases of the past. Finally, you can get to that place where you can take a big breath and say, "It's good to be alive. I'm stepping into a place where I've never been before and no matter what people tell me, I finally trust my intuition. I'm finally out of fear."

I close the way I started. Every single Human is different. What you've experienced and what you've been taught is unique to you. Where you've come from and why you're here is unique and different. There is no one rule, one pill, one solution or one doctrine that is going to work for all humanity. Instead, there are a billion truths, all leading to the one solution - the escape from the bias of who you were in the past.

The ones who have the greatest chance are the children. The best generation is yet to come. They will be healthier, believe it or not. Diseases are going to go away eventually. I'll speak of this later. There is no pattern that you will follow, or that you must follow, as a requirement to be loved by God. The love of God is what you have built-in. Spread it around.

Some day you'll awaken with a new kind of Akash, and you'll remember what you did before that worked. This means that you won't make the same mistakes that you made this time. Instead, you'll be a new Human. This planet has never seen anything like it before, never.

I am Kryon in love with humanity.

And so it is.

KRYON