User:Jeremygbyrne/Live Forever

Live Forever (also published as So You're Planning To Live Forever) is a 2012 non-fiction book by Sylvia La Some. One of the author's most controversial works, this planning manual for personal godhood has become a talisman not just amongst xianists but also within the broader transhumanist subculture.

Major Themes

 * The Tainted Mind
 * "Self-awareness is an overactive storytelling module grabbing the reins."
 * "Untempered, the mind seeks all of our attention, every scrap of it, for its endless "important things to think about". [...] Ritual and forced relaxation help restore us to blissful oblivion."


 * Living in the Present
 * "Aesop's Serpent Wisdom has poisoned our culture. His snake never forgets a slight and his self-satisfied ant never enjoys its pointless existence. (A grasshopper typically lives less than three months out of the egg; I say, dance and sing, little green sister!)"

It has been argued that La Some reverses much of her stance towards the nature of mind expressed in Xian and earlier non-fiction, and come to believe "the irrational Serpent Wisdom cosmology of her science fiction". In fact, early posts on La Some's livejournal support biographical claims that her emergent physicality, apparently repressed well into her twenties, bloomed during her relationship with M Y Said.