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to one better-suited for, say, life
on Mars. He seems to find the
world’s relentless focus on carnal
matters to be quite tedious, and
laments to the documentary crew
that every interviewer asks him
how his vision will affect eating,
procreating and having sex.
“Why don’t people think about
something more sophisticated
than just food, sex and children?” he asks. “By the way, if
you live in this biological body
for 80 years and have five or six
children, isn’t that enough? Why
don’t you start living for a greater
purpose than to just help raise
your children?”
Itskov’s quest for a deeper consciousness hasn’t stopped him
from indulging in a few earthly
pleasures: When we sit down for
an interview, he has on a Burberry button-down and Louis Vuitton sneakers.
So what does someone do for
fun if he knows he’ll live forever?
Itskov is content to dedicate his
life to the pursuit of eternal life.
He has no wife, children or immediate plans to have either, and
spends just one week a month at
his home in Moscow. The rest of
the time he’s traveling between
the U.S., Europe, India and China
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meeting with experts and potential supporters.
“We are mostly having fast fun
in this world,” says Itskov, likening fast fun to fast food. “But we
are not thinking of a more essential fun, which is inside of us.”
Itskov says he has fond memories of visiting the Salvador Dali
Theater and Museum in Figueres,
and he loves the Prado Museum in
Madrid. He’s partial to paintings
If you live in this
biological body for 80 years
and have five or six children,
isn’t that enough? Why
don’t you start living for a
greater purpose than to just
help raise your children?”
by El Greco and Goya. But once
his mission has been realized,
three decades from now, Itskov
says he will seek out solitude, not
sightseeing.
“What will be intriguing to me
is the process of development
of my personal consciousness,”
he tells the crew of filmmakers.
“Probably, I’ll be sitting somewhere up in the mountains, just meditating.”