
Conversations: With Professor John Gray, Political Philosopher & Author
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The Immortalization Commission
The Immortalization Commission was about two attempts by predominantly secular movements to conquer death. One was Western psychosurgeon spiritualism, very, very strong in Britain and other parts of the world. The other was in Russia, including a group called God Builders which thought that the dead could be brought back to their life by technology. And some of those people were involved in the embalming of Lenin after an unsuccessful attempt using German refrigerators.
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