Zombies - cases, reasons
1982 - Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis leads an expedition to Haiti. They discovered that local sorcerers can prepare a poison that can induce deep lethargic sleep. When the powder is rubbed into the skin, it paralyzes the nervous system, breathing almost disappears.
With the help of local clerics, Davis was able to meet with sorcerers and obtain samples of the poison for analysis. Its main ingredient turned out to be tetradoxin, one of the world's most powerful nerve poisons, exceeding the effect of potassium cyanide by 500 times. This poison is obtained from a two-toothed fish (dioodon histrix). In Haiti, the recipe for such a poisonous powder was known 400 years ago. So far there are no convincing versions that could explain how tetradoxin works and why the victim remains fully conscious.
The practice of turning a person into a zombie was once brought to the island by the priests of voodoo and the descendants of black slaves who came from Benin (formerly Dahomey). It consists of two stages: first, the murder, and then the return to life. The victim, which they intended to turn into a zombie, was sprinkled with tetradoxin poison (according to other sources, this poison was rubbed into the skin). The victim immediately stopped breathing, the surface of the body turned blue, his eyes turned glassy - clinical death occurred.
A few days later, the deceased was abducted from the cemetery in order to allegedly bring him back to life. So he became a living corpse. The awareness of his "I" did not return to him completely or did not return at all. Eyewitness accounts of zombies speak of them as people who stare blankly in front of them.
There is a lot of documentary evidence of zombies in real life. Thus, in 1929, the New York Times reporter William Seabrook published the book The Island of Magic, in which he tells about his life in Haiti, in the house of the famous witch Maman Seli.
This is how he described his meeting with the living dead: “The most terrible thing is the eyes. And this is not my imagination at all. These were actually the eyes of a dead man, but not blind, but burning, defocused, unseeing. Because the face was terrible. So empty, as if there was nothing behind it. Not just a lack of expression, but a lack of ability to express. By that time, I had already seen so many things in Haiti that were outside of ordinary human experience that for a moment I completely turned off and thought, or rather, felt: "Great God, maybe all this nonsense is true?"
According to the observation of a researcher who spent 3 years in Haiti, physically stronger people were selected in advance for zombies, so that later, returning to life, they would be used as slaves on sugarcane plantations.
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As mentioned above, the practice of zombies was brought to Haiti by Negroes - immigrants from Benin. As you can see, some examples of returning to life are practiced in Benin and in our time. This was told by a doctor-traveler from America, who attended one of these sessions.
“On the ground,” he wrote, “there was a man who showed no signs of life. I sat down so as to shield him with my body, with a quick movement lifted his eyelids to check the pupillary reaction. There was no reaction, and there were no signs of a heartbeat. The man was actually dead. Those gathered under the leadership of the priest sang a rhythmic song. It was a cross between a howl and a growl. They sang faster and louder. It seemed that the dead would hear these sounds too. Imagine my surprise when exactly this happened.
The dead man suddenly ran his hand over his chest and tried to turn. The screams of the people around him merged into a continuous howl. The drums beat even more violently. In the end, the living corpse turned, tucked his legs under him and slowly got down on all fours. His eyes, which a few minutes ago did not react to the light, were now wide open and looking at us."
It is possible that an eyewitness described here something similar to the ritual of the Haitian zombies.
Another story told by Z. Hurston heard from the mother of the deceased boy. On the night after the funeral, his sister suddenly heard singing and an incomprehensible noise in the street. She recognized her brother's voice, and her crying awakened the whole house. The family saw from the window an ominous procession of the dead and with them the boy buried the day before.
When he, with effort shifting his legs, came up to the window, everyone heard his plaintive cry. "But there was such a horror inspired by these creatures that even his mother and sister did not dare to go out into the street and try to save him." The procession disappeared from sight. After that, the boy's sister went crazy.
The zombie ritual in a strange way echoes the magical practice, and nowadays prevailing among the aborigines of Australia. According to their stories, recorded by ethnographers, a sorcerer kidnaps a person who was pre-designated as a victim and, placing him on his left side, sticks a sharp bone or a stick into his heart. When the heart stops, it means that the soul has left the body. Then, through various manipulations, the sorcerer brings him back to life, ordering him to forget about what happened to him. But at the same time he is told that after three days he will die. Such a person returns home without really knowing what happened to him. Outwardly, he is no different from other people, but this is not a person, but only a walking body.
In one Tibetan monastery, the writer and historian A. Gorbovsky observed the performance of the rlanga rite, the purpose of which was to help the soul in its posthumous state. With a large crowd of people, the deceased is brought and placed in the monastery courtyard. In front of him, in the lotus position, is a lama. Everything happens in complete silence. Some time passes, and the deceased slowly rises. His eyes are still closed, his face remains the face of a dead person. Moving like an automaton, he goes around the place where he was lying three times, lies down again and freezes, ready for burial.
Perhaps the reception of a short-term revival of corpses in Tibetan monasteries is based on the belief that even in the absence of vital functions of the body, some levels of consciousness, some beginning in a person, continues to perceive the environment.
Studies in recent years have established that death does not occur immediately. This is a gradual long-term evolution of an organism with a certain probability of reversibility - a special kind of existence. A corpse does not have a biofield, but this is also not a sign: so a living person can also lose it and live without it for some time.
Resurrection of a living corpse - as explained
Doctor of Economics, physicist by education Boris Iskakov created a bold hypothesis. Its essence is as follows. In modern science, more and more evidence of the existence in nature of such a phenomenon as the world lepton gas (MLG), which permeates all the bodies of the Universe, is accumulating. It consists of ultra-light microparticles, of which dozens are described in the scientific literature today - electrons, positrons, theons, muons … To put it simply, leptons are carriers of human thoughts and feelings, information about objects and phenomena of the material world. MGL contains information about everything that was, is and will be in the Universe.
It is the interaction of the world lepton gas with the object of the physical world and the human brain that it is possible to explain many phenomena that are considered mysterious to this day. These are telepathy, clairvoyance, etc. On the surface of the human skin there are several hundred biologically active points. Their radiation is created by the total quantum shells of the human body, located one inside the other - according to the principle of a nesting doll. One's own body is not the whole person, but only his visible core, around which his information-energy counterparts are located. The emission of quantum shells can be associated with low-energy "cold beta decay" reactions occurring in nerve cells.
The experiments of some of the researchers have shown that when the "core" is destroyed, quantum shells also begin to dissolve. If they do not receive information and energy replenishment, then their half-life will be approximately 9 days, and their complete decay will be 40 days. This applies to both living beings and inanimate objects.
It is curious that these dates coincide with the time of the commemoration of the dead. The ancient Russians believed that the soul “walks” around its home for six days, and for another three days through the fields and gardens near its native village. Therefore, they performed such rituals: on the 3rd day - burial, on the 6th - farewell to the house, on the 9th - farewell to the village, on the 40th - farewell to the Earth. Interestingly, Buddhism also features 40 days, during which the soul seeks a new body for reincarnation. During these 40 days, the lama had to read the instructions to the deceased, moreover loudly, clearly and without mistakes. While reading it was impossible to cry and lament, because it was considered harmful to the deceased.
According to B. Iskakov's theory, it is possible to assume that the sensitives of antiquity could observe the quantum shells of deceased people and see critical moments when these deceased needed to be fed by the thoughts and feelings of relatives and friends.
With the further development of this theory, perhaps, it would be possible to find explanations for the mysterious phenomena in Tibetan monasteries.
A. Bernatsky