Roy Walford is considered by many to be the most successful scientist in terrestrial history.  His deciphering of the longevity principle, which won him the Nobel Prize in 1981, was the first vital step in the attainment of Immortality.

This Evolutionary Agent became interested in Life Extension as a teenage student.  Like any sensible adolescent he wanted to become everything -- artist, biologist, physician, musician, poet, millionaire, athlete.  But unlike most adolescents, Wolford did not imprint a narrow hive-reality.  He vowed instead to discover the principle of Life Extension, reasoning that if he could live for several hundred years he would be able to do everything and more.

And it came to pass that he did.

Science Fiction is always more important than Science ...

Werner von Braun as Science Fiction Hero
by Roy Walford

In the early decades of the 20th century (Stage 11) traces of industrial pollution initiated the activation of the first post-terrestrial hum-models.  Thousands of Pre-Dom (Stage 15) individuals were produced in gene-pools located in the Forward Technological Niches of Western Europe.  Of these pre-mature evolutes, most ended up as weirdo artists or in asylums.  The more fortunate appeared in environments where their neural programs could find external supports.

Robert Goddard, the Wizard of Worcester, flourished in the Snow Belt of the New World; Konstantin Edouradovich Tsiolovsky, the genius of Kaluga, was produced by a dissenting science intellectual gene-pool; space-visionary Krafft A. Ehricke sprung from parents who were scientifically trained.  The most successful of the proto-post-terrestrials was, of course, Werner von Braun.  (In studying the personal evolution of these obvious-mutants, the neurogeneticist is not surprised to discover that during the vulnerable-to-imprint adolescent years, there occurred the revelation, the flash insight that they were not terrestrials).

Goddard's unfolding pre-sexual brain was stimulated, as were millions of pre-adolescent lobes, by the Science Fiction of Jules Verne and by the standard "fantasy" stories of Mars exploration in daily newspapers.  The effect of Science Fiction and of "yellow journalism" in activating post-terrestrial circuits cannot be overestimated!  UFO rumors, Sci-Fi hoaxes, lurid un-scientific news stories are key signals which awaken young brains to futique possibilities.  Newspapers were powerful reality-transmission tools during the Pre-Flight years.  When a newspaper published a wild, unfounded hoax story about a Science Fiction theme, it was performing a key role in evolution by using the hive-ritual of "news" to transmit a future reality trace.

Science Fiction is always more important than Science because the former anticipates, guides, directs the latter.  Indeed, it is safe to say that all Scientific progress is initiated by Science Fictionists who turn their blueprints over to the Science Engineers.  The Scientist Fiction Caste is the future probe of the species -- always Pre-Dom by many stages.  The Hive Engineer Caste is much more numerous.  For every post-hive Science Fictionist there are more than a thousand hive Science Engineers who work on the present and past.  Post-hive scientists are rarely called by that name.  For example, Jules Verne was called a novelist; Giordano Bruno a dissenting philosopher; Arthur C. Clarke (who designed the Com-Sat system decades before its manufacture), a Sci-Fi author.

Evolutionary Agent Werner von Braun was born of a noble family in Silesian Germany.  Members of Pre-Dom Castes born to aristocratic gene-pools at times of technological advance are unusually free to attain self-indulgent (Stage 13) and self-actualized (Stage 14) status and thus choose, i.e., be allowed to follow DNA intuitions, to select their robot-role.)

Von Braun's mother, another evolutionary agent, encouraged her son to study the stars.  "For my confirmation," confided von Braun, "I got a telescope.  My mother thought this would make the best gift."

According to biographer Shirley Thomas, "Through this hobby, he happened upon an article in an astronomy magazine that crystallized the patterns his life should take.  He relates, "I don't remember the name of the magazine or the author, but the article described an imaginary voyage to the moon.  It filled me with a romantic urge.  Interplanetary travel!  Here was a task worth dedicating one's life to!  Not just to stare through a telescope at the moon and the planets but to soar through the heavens and actually explore the mysterious universe.  I knew how Columbus had felt.'"

Reflect on this amazing statement.  This pre-adolescent larval understood how an evolutionary agent, 450 years before, felt about his genetic task.  Columbus was clear about his destiny, his obligation to the species.  But the significance of his genetic clarity is, of course, lost upon most biographers.  That the young von Braun responded to the genetic imperative behind the Columbus mission is comforting evidence that pre-programmed nervous systems can be activated in pre-adolescence to extraordinary futique missions.

Oh, by the way, I have to apologize to you.  I should have done it before.  I want to appeal to you.  Please, do not believe anything I say.  (Applause)

I have been studying human nervous systems for the last 25 years, I have performed many neurological experiments, my friends, (laughter) and have come to the conclusion that the human nervous system, this 111-billion-cell bio-electric computer, is not a set of ice tongs.  You don't hook the sharp claws of belief onto an idea and hold it.

By all means listen to everything; consider anything.  Pick up a belief and try it out.  If it works, use it as long as it works.  And then put it down or change it.  Be open to new ideas.  But I urge you, don't believe in any final sense anything I say.

MOBILITY IS THE KEY
TO INCREASED INTELLIGENCE

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