Good morning to all of you listening. This week we talk about death, loss and aging.

Now before you pause your podcast app, sick with me. It's actually much more beautiful

and empowering than most of you may expect. Today we speak about aging, but in a slightly different light

than you might usually hear. When we look at the phenomenon of aging it is important to recognize that there are different ways to look at aging.

Biological age, chronological age, psychological age,

spiritual age.

A spiritual age is

is ageless, timeless.

You, as spirit, you are not in space or time. And every spiritual tradition tells us that our soul or spirit is

eternal now when I say eternal it doesn't mean endlessly stretching in time, but not in time altogether.

Timeless. It is the timeless that recycles as you in time.

So setting that aside, there are other ways to look at aging.

Chronological age is when you were born and that's on your birth

certificate or perhaps on your Social Security, or card, whatever.

That's chronological age.

And there's biological age, which is measured

through things like blood pressure, bone density,

body temperature regulation, fat content, skin thickness,

number of wrinkles, many other things.

So that would be biological age. These days there are ways to look at genetic

programming of that age by looking at telomerase levels, the enzyme that is responsible for the length of telomeas, which are like little

buttons at the end of your chromosomes, that presumably predict how long you're going to live. So having said all this, all these

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