For a hundred years, scientists have been conducting various experiments to find out how much the soul weighs and where it is located in the human body. Thanks to these experiments, we can conclude that the astral body, at least, exists.
Soul weight
In 1906, American physician Duncan McDagll conducted a series of studies determining the weight of seriously ill patients before and after death. The dying man lay on a large, very precise balance that the physician invented with other scientists. McDagll noticed that at the time of death, the arrow deflected by a few grams.
With the consent of the patients' relatives, the physician conducted the experiment seven times. The average weight loss for the dying was 2.8 grams.
In 1988, Duncan McDagll's experiment was repeated by German scientists, and two years later by American scientists. In total, doctors examined about three hundred patients. All patients experienced weight loss immediately after death. The new, more perfect and accurate equipment showed that at the time of death, from 2.4 to 6.1 grams "disappeared".
Swiss scientists went even further, who came to the conclusion that the soul leaves the human body not only after death, but also during deep sleep. The subjects (about fifty people) slept for several days on an ultra-precise balance. The results were the same: at some point, in the deep phase of sleep, the weight of the subjects decreased from 3 to 6 grams, and then returned to their previous values.
But Russian scientists under the leadership of Mstislav Miroshnikov set up such experiments on mice. The rodent was placed in a sealed glass jar that was mounted on an ultrasensitive watch. After death, the weight of the animals also decreased!
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All these experiments prove that not only humans, but also animals have a soul. It also has physical properties: it can be weighed.
Moving soul
The ability of the soul to leave the physical body for a while is often attributed to yogis and shamans, who, being in a state of deep trance, seem to be transported to another place and even space.
Russian scientists from the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted their own research. The subject was put into a state of deep trance and was given the task of visiting a certain place. During the trance, the subject had to get into an unknown apartment in another city.
Experimental results have confirmed that the human soul can travel. Information about the apartment, where a person had never been before, was distinguished by its accuracy, and the devices installed in it showed bursts of electromagnetic activity.
Professor Leonid Spivak and his colleagues from the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology said that about five percent of women in labor experience such "flights". Scientists believe that childbirth, especially difficult ones, is accompanied by pain that switches consciousness and sends it somewhere else. Women in labor, telling scientists about travel, gave reliable information that they did not know about before.
Where does the soul dwell?
But here scientists did not come to a common opinion.
The former believe that the soul dwells in the heart. As proof, they cite numerous cases of changes in the character of people who have undergone an operation to transplant this organ.
The second experts argue that the soul is located in the brain, as in the region of the head the equipment records a certain energy aura.
Still others are inclined to think that the human body as a whole is the seat of the soul. Simply put, the soul lives in every cell.
However, all these studies do not yet provide accurate answers to all questions. Where exactly is the soul located, where does it move after the death of the physical body, and whether it can be physically affected. Nevertheless, many experts are unanimous in their opinion: the soul exists, which means that it can be studied.