Longing for Longevity?

    Human longevity is a much discussed subject throughout the world.  We all want to live a long time, it seems, if we can be vigorous and relatively healthy in the process and our minds are clear.  All valid information points toward the concept that if the mind is kept active in creative matters, it will continue to function well with the passage of the years.  The Cayce readings substantiate such an idea.  From Russia and other parts of the world, we find there are people who have lived far beyond the traditional three-score-and-ten, a fact which proves that it is possible to do so.  Whether we catch and hold the formula for doing it is another question.  There is a story which received world-wide publicity about a Russian who died recently at the age of 169.   Now comes another story about two Russians (these stories completely credible) who are at the 140-year mark.  Khfar Lasuria has lived 140 years in the town of Kutol which is just east of the Black Sea in the mountainous southern part of the Soviet Union.  She celebrated her 140th birthday with her husky, vigorous-looking 100-year-old son by her side.  She has worked most of her life in th tea plantations and citrus ochards of the region and has reportedly never been seriously ill and never visited a doctor.