The Egyptian Cryonics

This article is pure speculation and more of a thought experiment than anything else. It is a vision I would like to present to you, allowing you to explore the possible process of resurrection found in the past.

People seem to look at our past relatives as children or simple-minded. But it has been proven over and over again, that our minds haven’t changed much over the last 2,000 or even 10,000 years. Understandably our society is advanced when it comes to our modern process of relaying information, but other than that, our actions, desires, and general consciousness are the same. To this day we have cults who believe in rather barbaric traditions, superstitious and irrational behaviors seem to trickle into modern societies and we often behave in ways that seem to be the same throughout recorded history. We may believe that we are better than our past, but this may be a part of us just trying to think we are better than our ancestors.

I doubt the last 10,000 years have changed our desire and demand for immortality. Even today we freeze our minds hoping that in the future, others can open our caskets and breathe life into our nostrils to resurrect us as we were once.

This is where I would like to begin imagining ourselves in ancient Egypt. Surely we can’t go on google and research anything we want to, and our understanding of many things are still veiled within our own mysteries, myth, and gods. But even though our minds may be darkened with the wisdom of physical reality, being more fantastical and mythical, our needs are the same. Food, shelter, and sex. A better future for our offspring. And the desire of not dying.

Religion around this time tries to explain, explore and make sense of ourselves and our environment. Many explanations are still revolving around the well-meaning four main elements, fire, water, earth and air. At this time, I doubt, that science and religion have been separated, making them still one and same. The importance of water in Egypt is found within the culture, religion, and lifestyle. The Nile allowing a physical representation of how all life springs forth. It is seen as the veins of the entire culture, pulsating and quenching the ever-demanding thirst of life around it.

Now, in this situation, let us say we are a rich merchant or even noble enough to afford the concept of future resurrection. We find a group of people speculating, discussing and theorizing within their temples, trying to understand the nature of life and death. What could a culture during this time, represent that understanding? A way of resurrecting others/themselves?

I would like to think, they tried more than one way, noticing and realizing how some methods could work while others may not. It was well known back then, that if you attuned or worshipped a certain deity, a part of that deity could take form in another person. Thoughts and ideas could be seen as agents of immortality, and tapping or making yourself as one of them you could become a lineage of that immortal.

Though could everyone be a good vessel for the gods? What if some people were naturally attuned to thinking/acting as the gods? Could a culture be inclined to preserve the body for a resurrection? Maybe that these physical conduits were special and allow a future return if nobody else could be found to take their place? Could this lead into the beginning of preserving physical bodies?

Around this time, it was also quite understood that the mind and body were two different things. The spirit and the flesh. So how would a culture, seeing water as life-giving, a possible way to resurrect future bodies?

Here is an idea. Water is one of the foundations of life. All human bodies need water. Water regenerates and can give dry almost dead things a new life. What if the idea and belief, that future generations could use water to fully reanimate the carefully taken care of corpses? What if they believed that they could place a dead body in the Nile, and like a sponge, they could reabsorb life. What if the water of the Nile was seen as the blood of the Gods or even humanity itself? Or what if they tried to recreate a womb, fill it up with water, and give birth to the same dead body, having it rise out of the waters born again?

I can imagine someone filling up a tomb with water, hoping, that once they are opened after a number of days, the person appears resurrected. Or maybe they take the body, place it in the waters, and the person stands from the dead after having blood or water back in their body. This could have inspired other cultures and religions if this was the case. It could give weight to the idea I am presenting here.

That modern Cryogenics is just another attempt, of raising the dead from their slumber. Since there truly is nothing is new under the sun.