Where is the human soul?
To the "Book of the Dead", the interest of scientists has greatly increased by the end of the last century, - says Professor Igor Garin. - At that time, the results of studies of near-death conditions, obtained by Dr. R. Moody, author of the best-selling Life After Life, appeared. As it turned out, these states are very accurately described in the "Book of the Dead". It is unclear where its authors could get information about the stages of dying, which have become thoroughly known only to modern resuscitators.
Personally, I think, - continues Igor Ivanovich, - that the source of this supernatural "revelation" is in a person's head - where in the subcortex of each of us the memory of centuries is kept. It can be extracted through psychoanalysis or hypnosis. Or it sometimes pops up by accident. And lets you remember where the soul was before. Therefore, it finds its temporary home in the brain. Although there are other opinions.
Without which there is no life
At all times, people were looking for what makes a person alive. Breath? It is logical. After all, the dead does not breathe. Based on these considerations, many peoples placed the soul or spirit in the chest, abdomen, head - in the parts of the body that participate in breathing.
However, even without blood - what kind of life can there be? - the ancient Jews reasoned and believed that blood is the bearer of the soul. This opinion is still shared by Jehovah's Witnesses. “For the soul of every body is its blood” (Lev. 17:14), they refer to the Bible. And they resist a blood transfusion, believing that a particle of someone else's soul will enter with it.
The Eskimos, knowing that damage to the cervical vertebra leads to death, placed the soul in it. And in ancient Babylon, for some reason, they believed that the most vital organ is the ears. There the soul was given a place.
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In our time, there is also no consensus
Interesting observations were made public by German psychologists from the University of Lübeck. A group of children from 7 to 17 years old, in a relaxed manner, they asked where the soul is. The elders said, “Everywhere,” and pointed with their hand from forehead to knees. The middle ones pointed at the head and circled their hand around it. But the smallest ones brought their finger to a place located slightly to the left of the heart. By the way, these answers were the majority. But some children opted for the solar plexus or the eyes.
The heart is the head of everything?
Or maybe the soul is still in the heart? After all, for the public consciousness, a soulful and a heart man are one and the same. And the scientific world in recent years has received shocking confirmation of the "heart" hypothesis.
For example, Paul Pearcell, a psychiatrist at the Sinai Hospital (Detroit), interviewed 140 transplant patients and published the sensational book Heart Code. His conclusion is this: our soul with all its subtleties is located not in the brain, but in the heart. The personality is programmed in it. And it controls the activity of the brain, and not vice versa.
Pearcell believes that feelings, fears, dreams, thoughts are encoded in the cells of the heart. This "cellular memory", which is essentially the soul, is transferred to another person during transplantation. At least partially.
Here are just a few of the many cases in which a transplanted organ changed the person who received it.
The man (41 years old) had the heart of a 19-year-old girl who died in a train accident. And that seemed to be replaced: a stormy temperament, sharpness of movements, a frantic interest in life - earlier this was unusual for him. After all, since childhood he was slow and judicious.
The 35-year-old woman got the heart of a 24-year-old college student. From cold and shy, she suddenly becomes a passionate lover. Literally every night she pestered her husband with lovemaking. “You've become a prostitute,” my husband once said. They later found out that the student, whose heart was now borne by his wife, earned money to study with her body.
The case in Princeton "spoiled" the picture. He testifies that someone's soul may not be in the heart, but in … the kidney. After all, it was she who was transplanted to 37-year-old Cheryl Johnson, taking from a deceased 60-year-old man. And the woman's character changed dramatically.
“If before that she was kind and affectionate, now she’s just a shrew,” says her son Joseph. - Annoyed over little things. Once I almost got into a fight in a restaurant over a poorly cooked steak. Before the operation, she liked silly love affairs. And now she is addicted to the classics.
Even the clock stops
“Many would like to find a soul,” says Professor Garin. - Or at least prove that it really exists. Now quite serious scientists are engaged in this, who primarily study anomalous phenomena preceding death. For example, thanatological research is being conducted by Professor Charles Tart at the University of California, Davis. And physicist Robert Monroe even founded his institute in Faber, Virginia.
Thus, they support the idea, incredible from the point of view of rational thinking, of preserving a certain part of consciousness after physical death of the brain. They are trying to understand if it has a material basis. In other words, do there exist "carriers" of the soul - some elementary particles of which it consists? They check the reports of witnesses about meetings with the spirits of deceased relatives, who, if you believe this, appear during the first days after physical death.
By the way, the well-known researcher of the near-death state of man, Dr. Melvin Morse, who previously likened them to narcotic hallucinations, discovered an incredible fact: a quarter of the respondents were faced with the phenomenon of stopping or incorrect movement of wristwatches. This strangeness gave reason to assert that the movement of the soul is accompanied by a certain energy field, sufficient to influence material objects.
The same Tart placed unconnected recorders and oscilloscopes in the wards of the dying. And a second or two after the death of the person, the instruments registered some kind of bursts. As if the parameters of the surrounding electromagnetic field were changing. Was it not the soul that made itself felt?
Material carriers of what passes into another world have not yet been found.
Weight - 22.4 grams. Or less?
1915 - was described a scientific experiment by the American physician Mac Dougall, who tried to determine the weight of "that unknown, which is called the soul." The purpose of the experiment was to "catch" the fluctuation in a person's weight when he dies. Measurements showed that the "soul" weighs 22.4 grams. But modern researchers, using more accurate measuring instruments, have received different numbers.
Doctor of Natural Sciences Euge-nius Kugis (Lithuania) found that at the time of death a person loses from 3 to 7 grams, which, according to a specialist, is the weight of the soul.
Researcher Lyell Watson of New York University received slightly less weight. During his experiments, the deceased became lighter by 2.5 - 6.5 grams.
Something similar is recorded during sleep. In an experiment by Swiss scientists, 23 volunteers lay down on hypersensitive weighing beds and fell asleep. At the moments when a person crossed the line between reality and sleep, he lost weight from 4 to 6 grams.
Death Tutorial
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Bardo Thedol, is believed to have originated in the 8th century AD. However, according to researchers, its author - the legendary preacher of Buddhism in Tibet, guru Padmasambhava - used some more ancient sources. The book teaches a person to die correctly. Prepares for the transmigration of the soul.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead says:
After death, the soul sees and realizes everything, but is not able to convey what is happening to it to others. The soul sees its relatives and acquaintances in the same way as before. She hears their lamentations. She can watch her body from the side. She can see that some of the food is being laid aside for her, that her body is being freed from her clothes, that the place next to her bed is being swept. Then the soul meets with the Luminous Beings - without fear and with joy.
The deceased looks into a kind of mirror in which he can see his life actions. At this time, the soul begins to realize the true purpose of its past earthly existence.
After the Judgment comes, and then the soul lives in anticipation of a new unconscious birth for 49 days. Continents, places and families will open before the soul, where it will be reborn again.
The Lord God is a programmer, and our souls are his programs?
There is a theory that the soul is simply information about our personality, recorded on a certain medium. Which one?
Now scientists are conducting experiments with so-called quantum computers, in which the information carriers are elementary particles. In the future, they must increase the power and speed of computing systems to the top level. It is already possible to place a huge flow of information on a very small volume. Scientist Seth Lloyd from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology assures that the most powerful device will be a device in which all particles in the Universe will be involved, and their protons, neutrons, electrons and other little things, according to the scientist's calculations, are about 10 to the 90th degree. And if these particles had been involved since the Big Bang, they would have already performed 10 to the 120th power of logical operations. This is so much that it is unthinkable to even imagine. For comparison: all computers during their existence have performed less than 10 to the 30th power of operations. And all information about a person with all his individual quirks is recorded in about 10 to the 25th power in bits.
And then Lloyd thought: "What if the universe is already someone's computer?" Then, he reasoned, everything inside her, including us, is part of the computational process. Or his product … So, somewhere there must be a Programmer.
Following Lloyd's computer logic, it is possible to assume that initially not just information in the form of a soul is invested in a person, but a program. Special: which is capable of self-learning and improvement. Thanks to what it is transmitted and then withdrawn, we do not know. Likewise, the carriers of the accumulated information have not been found, which does not seem to disappear without a trace. But in order to put a soul-program in a person, you don't need much space. One chromosome is enough. Perhaps there she is, somewhere next to the carriers of the genetic code? And if the Universe resembles a large computer, then we can all be permanently entered into its database. And at the time of death, the "message" is sent to a new e-mail …