Watching Discovery Channel a few nights ago with my son, a documentary on super humans was shown. One of those featured was famous futurist Ray Kurzweil who believes that one day in the next 20 years, we will have the technology for humans to live 300 to 400 years old. There are three Kurzweil bridges to radical life extension. First is one we can do today to live longer. Second is reprogramming our bodies to live longer and healthier with the help of targeted pharmaceuticals that will keep our body away from disease and aging. Third is nanotechnology. Kurzweil predicts a day when little nanorobots can travel our bloodstream to fix damages and keep us healthy inside. Kurzweil at 58 has the body profile of a 38-year-old, according to his latest medical test. He keeps himself healthy while waiting for nanotechnology to make him nearly immortal by drinking 10 cups of green tea a day, taking 250 supplements, drinking eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water, keeping a positive disposition in life, and exercising on the treadmill daily. We know the other tricks: manage stress, don’t smoke, eat healthy (low fat, low sugar, low salt), and don’t drink alcohol excessively. Although a successful inventor and New York businessman, Kurzweil became known as the author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, which the Association of American Publishers awarded as the Most Outstanding Computer Book of 1990. Aside from computer books, he co-authored with a medical doctor and specialist in alternative medicine Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever. With the amazing and positive realization that we are on the brink of technology that will prolong our lives long enough to nurture our relationships and complete our mission on earth and in the spirit of promoting hope, I share the discovery of a medical doctor who survived a fatal heart disease, bankruptcy, and even federal prison and turned all these seeming negative events into a single powerful and life-changing experience through warp speed healing!
Noah’s Ark
“I am a physician, schooled in the world’s finest medical traditions, but in the fall of 1989, all my years of medical training, practice, and theory came crashing down around me when I was suddenly stricken by an incurable, incapacitating and near-universally fatal medical condition called viral cardiomyopathy. The prognosis was grim. The disease is especially deadly in young people; at age 33, my life expectancy dropped to just 24 months. I became an invalid overnight. Confined to my bed and utterly dependent on oxygen, there was little to do but read — just as you are reading now. That’s where the miracles began. I am here today to tell you my story because what I learned from the work of an Irish physicist by the name of John Stewart Bell saved my life — and it can save yours, too. I found my path to warp speed wellness.” These were the words of an American doctor addressing a group of local and foreign attendees in the recently concluded Spa Asia convention this year held at Sofitel. Grateful enough that Tourism Undersecretary for Sports and Wellness Cynthia Carrion gave me the chance to meet and talk to this man in person, I was very blessed to talk to him not once but several times as he came back to Manila weeks after the convention ended.
Who is this man? Inspirational speaker Dr. Noah McKay is the author of a just released (October 2007) book titled Wellness at Warp Speed: Your Health, Your Destiny, Your Choice (available at National Book Store) and for international readers, who ask, through the official website www.WellnessWarpSpeed.com. What makes him captivating is his passion to spread his message and the tranquility of his soul that radiates from his every word.
There are a lot of inspirational speakers, but maybe the reason Dr. Noah has 100,000 fans, who listen to his radio program in Washington State, is that he speaks the truth. He has a team of volunteers who globe-trots with him at their own expense. As a Tuft’s University magna cum laude in biology and an Albert Einstein College graduate of medicine, he could get technical on quantum science, but in his book, he shares, in lay language, how atoms and sub-atomic particles in the body travel at warp speed or the speed of light. Many of today’s medical diagnostics like CT, PET, and MRI draw from this science which, according to Dr. Noah, can bring robust health as well as well-being. While waiting for inevitable death from acute heart failure, he went on what he thought would be a final vacation in Mexico. There, he met a “yogi” who helped him awaken his body’s own healing powers.
Dr. Noah survived his illness and dedicated the next 20 years of his life exploring the converging disciplines of quantum physics, spirituality, and alternative medicine to bring about healing at warp speed. Just like Noah in the Old Testament, this Noah wants to bring about a new world of peace, happiness, and wellness. He has dedicated his life to the mission of sharing his discovery that “illness, disability, divorce, bankruptcy, and prison are opportunities in disguise, chances to reconnect with higher selves as part of the infinite source of healing that unifies and connects us all.”
Paying for the good life
“As a medical student I was told it would be wrong to give my patients a false sense of hope. Today, I know better. Hope is the first step in the recovery process, and no one is better positioned to take advantage of its powerful healing potential than you. There is nothing false about having the imagination and courage to begin manifesting a healthy future that is not yet visible to others. Don’t be afraid to lose yourself in the ecstasy of the moment and envision your preferred future as one of peace, health, and happiness,” urged Dr. Noah.
He added, “Your heart, body, and mind work together as a fully integrated system to process information and formulate a response to the things happening within and around you. Because of this, your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes can kill you — or they can make you well. The recovery process is not random or beyond your control; in a very real sense, the choice is yours. We’re living in consumption-driven economies where advertisers remind us each day that we are inferior and incomplete if we don’t own the latest products. Half of us are paying for ‘the good life’ with high-stress jobs and lifestyles that will kill us early; the other half are trying desperately to reach the bottom rung of a ladder that ultimately leads us nowhere.”
He lamented, “We take pills to cope with depression and anxiety. We take pills to help us sleep. We take lattes to help us wake up. Our bodies are bombarded with a constant stream of electromagnetic radiation from the high-tech devices we work so hard to buy.”
In his book, Dr. Noah details the Einstein formulas he used, combined with medicine, to reverse disease and disability at the speed of light. He refers to our body as the world’s most advanced self-repairing system in the whole universe and enlists simple techniques to tap the unlimited potential of the Quantum body. He used his healing strategies to develop an insanely successful practice combining mainstream and alternative medicine. His phenomenal success in Washington state led to a controversial conflict with health insurance companies (because his clinic offered more comprehensive health services for one-third the price), which sent him to a year in federal prison. Dr. Noah said he learned more healing techniques in that one year than in four years of medical school. From his prison sanctuary evolved five powerful lessons he shared in his book and lectures. These are strategies worth pursuing this holiday season and on to the new year: Let go of the past. Live in the moment. Detach from anger. Embrace gratitude. Experiment with love.
It took me a long time to write this piece because in the middle of my story came the painful news of the unexpected demise of my professional partner of 22 years, an industry legend, Ley V. Fernandez. Ley died in the morning of December 16. Like Dr. Noah, Ley is an engaging mentor. She was a passionate teacher, a caring friend, a very generous spirit. Her passion, joy, and kindness will certainly live forever in the achievements of the people she taught and the wellness of the members they serve. I found the teachings of Dr. Noah, the life shared by Ley, the fresh hope for a new year, and the warm message of Christmas nicely rolled into one song that is now my favorite. From the much celebrated “Noel” album of Josh Groban, I leave you this song together with sincere prayers for a most memorable holiday season.
Some days we forget, to look around us.
Some days we can’t see, the joy that surrounds us
So caught up inside ourselves. We take when we should give.
Look beyond ourselves. There’s so much sorrow.
It’s way too late to say. I’ll cry tomorrow.
Each of us must find our truth. It’s so long overdue.
Even with our differences. There is a place we’re all connected
Each of us can find each other’s light.
So for tonight we pray for what we know can be.
And on this day we hope for what we still can’t see.
It’s up to us to be the change. And even though this world needs so much more,
There’s so much to be thankful for.
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