Life extension

This then unsurprisingly feeds into 1960s hippie movement.

And during the '70s in particular, he begins to promote what he calls SMILE, an acronym that stands for Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, and Life Extension.

In other words, the classic transhumanist combination.

At the time, transhumanism is not a term in wide circulation.

So the, the roots of some of these ideas are similar.

They go back to people like O'Neill in relation to the space race.

Life extension in the 1980s, Leary is signed up for cryonic suspension.

Never actually happens.

The more synapses you have, the faster your brain works.

And number five, intermittent fasting can actually cause life extension.

There's tons of research in every animal.

Every animal we've ever researched from flatworms to fruit flies to dogs, their lifespan is actually increased anywhere from 10% up to 80% by intermittent fasting.

So we can't do that experiment in humans, but every single animal, all the way from the tiniest single-celled organisms, all the way up to advanced creatures like dogs and monkeys, when you intermittent fast them, they live longer.

longer.

The Life Extension community has actually been aware of this effect of intermittent fasting for decades, and many people in the Life Extension community practice intermittent fasting for just this benefit.

Now, there are many, many common mistakes people make when they start fasting, and I've got a video about those common mistakes.

The album's lyrics make several references to cosmic entities, including comets, the planet Mars, and its landscape, and a starship.

When the word smile is used in songs Afternoons in Utopia, Lassie Come Home, and Red Rose, it's printed in the liner notes as the acronym S-M-I with a little two above it or superscript, I guess that is, L-E, a reference to Timothy Leary, which stands for Space Migration, Increased Intelligence, and Life Extension.

The album creates an atmospheric journey through a futuristic or utopian city with the themes on a journey through that city, post-war dreams, and a melancholic longing for innocence and peace.

So of the songs and some of the singles, the first single was Dance With Me, released in March of 86, ahead of the album.