According to some surgeons, when a patient dies right on the operating table, a very light, but quite noticeable breeze sweeps through the ward, despite the tightly closed windows and doors - this is the soul flying away from the body.
Looking for a soul
The first person who tried to approach the spiritual from a purely materialistic point of view, that is, literally try to weigh the human soul, was Dr. Duncan McDougall from the American city of Haverhill, Massachusetts.
In 1906, the experimenter built a special bed, which was a gigantic balance with high sensitivity (up to a gram). On this bed, hopelessly sick people under the supervision of a doctor retreated to another world.
“During several hours on my scale,” McDougall wrote in his diary, “the patient slowly and consistently lost weight, approximately one ounce (30 grams) per hour, due to evaporation of moisture through the respiratory tract and through perspiration. Three hours and forty minutes later, the patient died, which suddenly coincided with a sharp movement of the scale arrow to the lower end of the scale and was even accompanied by an audible hit of the arrow on the lower edge of the scale, where the arrow stopped. The weight loss was set at three quarters of an ounce (21 grams). Everything happened in just a few seconds. Hence the strange rumor that the human soul (astral body) has a real mass, and this mass is 21 grams, which, by the way, contradicts the Christian religion, which claims that a person receives a soul at the moment of conception. But the embryo even at the ninth week of development weighs only two grams, so the soul simply cannot fit there.
Modern experiences
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Several years ago, researchers from the laboratory of the All-Union Research Institute of Broadcasting Reception and Acoustics. A. S. Popov not only repeated McDougall's experience, but also went even further: they tried to "bring" the astral body to the computer screens, and, if the media does not lie, they succeeded. One of the correspondents who attended the experiment described the events as follows: “On the screen of a special computer, she (the soul of the deceased) looked like a creature that vaguely resembled a newborn child, with a disproportionately large head, a tiny body, twisted limbs, rather like bits of wings. The fan-shaped tail at the base was seen quite distinctly, but then, as the distance from the body, became more and more blurred and disappeared, literally dissolved in space."
Such studies were allegedly initiated by scientific developments in this area of the neurophysiologist Oleg Bekhmetyev, who was able to reveal the physical nature of the phenomenon, which is called the soul. After that, it was concluded that the soul is the radiation of all living cells of the human body without exception.
Scared dead
So does a certain soul fly away from a person's body after his physical death or not? If you follow the previous thesis that the astral body is contained in all cells of the body, then most likely there is no soul at all, or it never leaves even the dead. And the evidence of this is the eerie, at first glance, experiment conducted not so long ago by a group of physiologists.
Scientists have connected several sensors to a corpse prepared for cremation. And when the gurney with the body had just been brought up to the closed furnace of the crematorium, the arrows of the instruments literally "hid in hysterics." The human brain was long dead, but his body was "frightened" by the very prospect of being burned and reacted violently to it. Physiological effects (proximity to heat, open fire) are excluded.
So maybe the soul remains in a mortal shell until it itself disintegrates into dust? And, therefore, those who oppose cremation are right? Who knows…
Konstantin Karelov. Magazine "Secrets of the XX century" № 16 2010
