God-sleeping Industry and Eternal Life Economy 1
Information from all aspects such as humanity demand, technical conditions, market forecast and so on has shown that the god-sleeping industry has a wonderful prospect，and will certainly grow at a tremendous speed.
In both the mythology of the orient and that of the occident, the time in the god world is always slower than in the human world, such as the saying goes, “Just three days have passed in the godly cave, but it is already one thousand years in the human world”. In Pilgrimage to the West, there are many stories like this: a god just took a nap, but his horse or slave-girl took this chance to steal the god’s treasure and went down to the human world secretly to make a great trouble for five hundred years or a thousand years. Judging from the time concept of the human world, the god’s sleeping time is very long, at least several hundred years, or even thousands of years.
God-sleeping，just as its name implies，is a sleep like a god. The god-sleeping industry means the industry in which we use a high-tech method to cause someone to enter a sleeping state like a god so that his body can be preserved perfectly，waiting for someday to “awake” and get a new life. In other words，the god-sleeping industry means industrialization of the undertaking of becoming immortal in a tortuous way, namely, the industrialization of the body preserving technology for becoming immortal in a tortuous way.
The god-sleeping industry is no longer a mere assumption or forecast, nor something existent only in the laboratory，but has become a business practice that has been put into commercial operation already. In USA，there are four corporations specializing in human body freezing-preservation, they have a certain customer group，and can earn a quite considerable service charge. People ready to accept this service not only include Americans，but also include Australians, Taiwanese and people from all over the world.
The target of this service may be someone with an incurable disease，or someone who is weighed down with age, or someone who is on the verge of death, or someone who has just died… It is hard for anyone to escape death, and the human body freezing-protection technology has offered people the great hope and possibility for curing their incurable diseases, conquering aging and getting a new life. Hence, anybody can be a potential customer of body freezing protection.
Although the public is not so familiar with the body protecting technology yet, information from all aspects such as humanity demand, technical conditions, market forecast and so on has shown, the god-sleeping industry has a wonderful prospect，and will certainly grow at a tremendous speed.
Pascall once described mankind’s fate of survival like this：
“Let’s imagine, some people are executed under the very nose of others. Those who have survived see their own plight from their fellows’ fate, so they are full of grief but just look at each other in speechless despair, waiting for their own death. That is just a miniature of mankind’s condition.”
Faced with death，there is no escape for anyone. The fear of death is threatening us beyond description. The mummy is a symbol of the ancient Egyptians’ “refusing death and seeking eternal life”, and other nations of the world have similar pursuits, too. Just as many customers of the body freezing protection say: “I like the feeling of being alive，so, I do not want to die for better for worse.”
Whenever we think of the picture that a person will never regain life after death, just as if falling into an abyss beyond redemption, we will tremble with fear. God-sleeping is the most powerful weapon against incurable diseases and aging, hopeful to save mankind from the edge line of the abyss of death, and enable people to say goodbye to death! At this point，just like the 1000-year longevity industry, the god-sleeping industry can meet people’s absolute and common demand. Hence，we can predict，there will doubtlessly be more and more people ready to receive this service, so, the god-sleeping industry has a tremendous market potential.
Eternal life economy is the economy that enables people to win life time and life quality forever. The god-sleeping industry (industrialization of the body preserving technology) is the core industry of the eternal life economy. Moreover, there are some related industries helping people to reach eternal life, such as the mind-saving industry (industrialization of the mind-preserving technology), the revival industry and so on.
The history of American human body freezing companies is not short, but its development is quite limited, chiefly because the technical conditions are not so mature. Now，the technical conditions of the god-sleeping industry are getting mature, much better than the past.
In the past，people’s greatest worry was whether the body could revive, and even if they believed in the “revival”，what they expected about the new life was no more than a dozen or more years or scores of years.
But now everything has changed!
Quantum jumps in science have convinced people that future technology may develop to the level to “raise people from the dead”，and the hope for revival or rebirth has increased by many times. At the same time, people are also convinced that, after revival, they can live for not only scores of years more, but for a thousand years more, hence, the value of revival or rebirth has increased by many times as well. Therefore，the magnetism of the products and service of the god-sleeping industry has increased by tens or hundreds of times, especially for those oldsters on the verge of death, the god-sleeping industry will be their greatest blessing and only savior. Once we realize scientists’ prophesy “Before 2030, mankind may break through the limit of one thousand years”, for those who are already too old to live to the year 2030, their death will mean a narrow miss from the unprecedented great happiness. How can they not feel a great pity! Yet, the god-sleeping industry and eternal life economy have offered them an ensuring buffer, helping them to be able to get the “rebirth” in 2030 or even later, and after the rebirth, their new life will not only be scores of years, but a thousand years or even an eternal life.
The god-sleeping industry will have continual great leaps in the body-preserving technology and revival technology. As far as the present is concerned, the god-sleeping industry chiefly depends on the human body low-temperature storage technology. But the current technological breakthroughs have made people discover there is not only one way for keeping the human body, but there are also some other possible ways, such as human body vitrification, gene hibernation technology and so on. The largest human body freezing institution of America at present, Alcor, has suggested a new preserving method, that is, human body vitrification, instead of refrigeration，which can prevent human cells from being frozen, so as to ensure the low-temperature freezing particles may not damage the cell membrane and keep the activity of the cell better.
What is more important，the discovery of the hibernation gene has brought about a new twilight for the god-sleeping industry. Mankind has studied animals’ hibernation for more than 100 years，and has found that coldness and diseases have no effect on hibernating animals. When an animal is in hibernation, owing to the drop of temperature，its metabolic activity can decrease by 98%, the whole physiological system is in a “sleeping” state，and the life process is prolonged accordingly. Can we use animals’ hibernation mechanism to put human beings into an “artificial hibernation”? In recent years，science has finally found out：Just as animals can hibernate，mankind can hibernate, too. Recently，US and German’s scientists found two hibernation-inducing genes, PL and PDK-4，which seem to be able to induce mankind into a hibernating state. Hellmayer, professor of zoophysiology of Marburg University of Germany and chairman of International Hibernation Society said: “In the past years，we just studied aimlessly，trying to find out the door handle or button for starting up this mode of metabolism. Now，we have finally found the related genes.” The American military source offering financial aid to the study is very interested in it, hoping to apply the hibernation technology to wounded soldiers afield, for the wounded soldier could be stopped in a “dormant state”，so it would be easy to carry him safely to the hospital for treatment. US Outer Space Headquarters also hopes the study on hibernation may contribute to mankind’s long-range space travel. If the god-sleeping industry uses the artificial hibernation technology，we may control the clock spring of life, putting people into a “hibernation” state, so as to preserve the body for a long time in order to “revive” at one stroke some day.
The success in eternal life economy and god-sleeping industry will also depend on the breakthrough in the revival technology. The present startling progress of mankind in nanometer technology, stem cell technology and other high and new technologies is also convincing more and more people that those receiving the body preserving service will get their “new life” some day in future. Now, American human body freezing corporations have begun to feel the number of people signing up for freezing-preservation after death is “unprecedentedly great”. One of the responsible officials said: “Our business has got recognition and acceptance from more and more people, and it is an indisputable fact.” All such results have greatly benefited from mankind’s accomplishments in the domain of science in recent years.
The combination of biotechnology, nanometer technology and even new energy technology will not only greatly reduce the cost and raise the quality of eternal life economy and god-sleeping industry, but also make the realization of rebirth much earlier. The present charge for human body freezing storage is something like this：In Alcor，the charge for freezing storage of the whole human body is 120,000 US dollars，and that for partial storage (only the head) is 50,000 US dollars. In the Human Body Freezing Research Institute of Clinton Town of Michigan State, the overall freezing charge is only 28,000 US dollars. Along with the deep going of the research, the cost of human body preservation will continue to drop, so the charge will get lower and lower.
One important phenomenon is noteworthy：Those who are fond of body refrigeration are just the elite of the times: high-tech personnel or brainpower.
Why are the consumers science and technology workers represented by the people of Silicon Valley instead of people not knowing their ABC? The reason lies in the fact that “Silicon Valley’s people are greatly loyal to advances in science and technology. They believe, so long as you can use plentiful money and technology，you can solve any problem. So, why can’t we live forever?”
Believing in human body freezing storage，believing future science will revive people, and believing in the feasibility of the god-sleeping industry, are just the same as believing the possibility of accelerated development of high technology and believing the magical power of high technology. The technology elite standing on the top of the tide can feel the invincible might of high technology more than any other group of people, and they take a more optimistic attitude to the future and are full of confidence in the future. Thus, most of the people who sign the human body freezing storage agreement are computer scientists, software developers and other professional technologists.
So it is evident that, judging from the consuming group, human body preservation is not only a universal human demand, but is also characterized by progressiveness and avant-garde. In judging the prospect of an industry or project，we need a looking-ahead way of thinking. The key point of the looking-ahead way of thinking is: in decision making, we should not only consider the “money”，but also look at the “prospect”. Insightful entrepreneurs are very good at grasping the future trend, especially grasping the trend of change in future. The god-sleeping industry is just an avant-garde industry representing the future.
When the famous Japanese entrepreneur, SONY’s founder, Akio Morita, launched his tape recorder into the market at first, he did not get a smooth going in the market. One day，he came to an antique store and found a customer buying an old flower vase with a high price. It startled him: Why was the customer willing to buy an old flower vase with a price even higher than a tape recorder? For the buyer knew the value of the flower vase. Thinking of that, he become enlightened at once: “Yes，to sell a commodity，first of all, you should let the buyer realize the value of it!” Whenever we develop a new product，we should educate the consumer first! Before selling your own new product to your consumers, first of all, you should sell your new idea，turning the consumers’ eyes to the demand that has not been understood and met. Did Chinese drink coca-cola in the past? Did they drink the colorless and tasteless pure water? Even water can be sold for big money: really unimaginable! Thus, we can see that the market can be cultivated and can be taught!
Two salesmen from a shoe factory went to an island in the Pacific Ocean to build up a market. After arriving at the island, each of them sent a telegram back to the factory. One was: “The people on this island do not wear shoes，so, I will return tomorrow by the first plane.” The other was: “It is so wonderful! The people on this island have not begun to wear shoes yet. The market potential is so great. I plan to settle down here to do business.”
The market of eternal life economy and god-sleeping industry is far from being exploited yet, and just like the people on the island who have not put on shoes yet, has an extremely great potential. Moreover，the god-sleeping industry has a greater need to educate the consumers than any ordinary industry and product. The god-sleeping industry needs to guide and kindle the great potential human demand (the greatest fear of death and the greatest thirst for life), turning their eyes and attention to this demand that has not been fully understood and satisfied before. Once we have educated the consumers successfully, people’s potential demand will be triggered for certain, and then, no force can stop it.
Culture decides ideology，ideology decides demand, demand decides consumption，and consumption decides production，that is, there is a chain like this: “culture – ideology – demand – consumption — production”. So, it can be seen that the most fundamental is culture. To transform the production mode, we must renew human demand and revolutionize human ideology, and the key to the revolution of human ideology just lies in culture. Hence，culture may determine the economic form. “Economization of culture”, “culturalization of economy” and “integration of culture and economy” are the megatrends of economical development. Culture and economy infiltrate into each other, blend with each other, promote each other, and decide each other, which is the future trend.
The hamburger with two pieces of bread holding a piece of meat, does not taste very good, frankly speaking. It is even not as delicious as the flapjack. But why can it become popular all over the world? At first, it was labeled as the food for the middle class in the affluent society, so, eating hamburger became a vogue of Middle America. Later, it marched into the international market，and was packed as a representative of American culture, making people eating it believe firmly that eating hamburger can prove they are modernists. Thus, it can be seen that the worldwide spread of the hamburger depended on culture, the culture that marks American vogue and fashion.
To develop eternal life economy and god-sleeping industry at a fast rate, we must rely on the wide spreading of the life culture. Human life problem is mankind’s most important problem. Once the society has accepted the culture that values life most, the life culture has become the leitmotiv of the society and every citizen has built up the idea that “One life is more important than a solar system”, then, the products and services of eternal life economy and god-sleeping industry will be accepted by everyone and everyone will be vying for them.
To sum up，to open up a broad market for eternal life economy and god-sleeping industry, we need to shake off the bondage of traditional culture, including ideas, concepts, morality, customs and force of habit, and need to let such a culture go deep into the hearts of the people, that is, “esteem life, love life, and life interest is above all things”.
In nuclear physics, there is a concept called “threshold quantity”，referring to the minimum quantity of radiating matter that can lead to a nuclear reaction. Once we reach that threshold quantity, the whole changing process will be self-sufficient. We may also introduce this “threshold quantity” concept into social science areas: We need a certain number of people who take the lead in adopting a new product, new method or new concept, and only after a series of chain reactions can it become the vogue to be followed by everyone. That “certain number” is just the threshold quantity.
American scholar Rogers has proved in his study: If 13% of the people have accepted a new idea, sooner or later, at least 84% of the people will accept it. He also says: “Once a new invention has reached the threshold quantity, it will be adopted naturally.” In the social field，the threshold quantity is about 5%-20%.
“All things may change from small to big, so long as you can trigger the vogue.” Threshold quantity is just the shooting point. Mastering the secret of the threshold quantity equals mastering the way to trigger the vogue, thus, you will be able to lead the vogue and sweep the world!
As an enterprise，it may consider the threshold quantity for eternal life economy and god-sleeping industry. What is the threshold quantity for accepting this new trend of thought of life culture and god-sleeping? By trying to reach the threshold quantity and reach the shooting point，you may trigger the vogue and make the fashion. The key is: First of all, we must cause some people to use or accept it first, so as to lead the public in their imitation and propagation，letting the public follow the public.
At first，it is necessary to take some intentional propaganda strategy and marketing strategy so as to concentrate the fire to reach the threshold quantity, then, change will become self-sufficient，turning automatically from a small trend to a megatrend. Once the threshold quantity of the god-sleeping industry is reached, receiving the god-sleeping service will become a vogue for certain, growing into a new vogue in the 21st century.
As a very promising eternal life economy industry, the god-sleeping industry has a broad market space and huge profit return. Meanwhile，the god-sleeping industry is never an isolated economic system，as it is closely related to many areas such as philosophy, ethic, moral, law and so on.
The god-sleeping industry should boost relevant philosophical innovation，ethical progress, moral improvement and legal establishment. For instance，how should we ensure the rights and interests of the people accepting the god-sleeping service (patients of incurable diseases or old people on the verge of death who have the economic condition)? How should our society treat them? How should their descendants treat them? Do the service providing private companies’ credit and commitment have a proper legal assurance? …
Like many large industrial projects, the god-sleeping industry is in dire need for cooperation between the enterprise and the government, and in dire need for the dual force of the market and the government. The government can offer a great award to scientists, entrepreneurs, educationists and so on who have made great contributions to the whole society and mankind, and the award will be life that is more valuable than money, that is, the government will provide the high-grade god-sleeping service to them free of charge…
As the world top prize, the Nobel Prize takes money as the reward to those excellent personages who have made great contributions to mankind. If we offer god-sleeping service to Nobelists at the same time, such a reward will be more important and attractive than money to themselves, and moreover, the result of such a reward, namely their living forever, will contribute more to the society, and meanwhile will boost the development of eternal life economy and god-sleeping industry to a better effect.