In 1982, Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis led an expedition to Haiti. It was found that local sorcerers are able to prepare a poison that can induce deep lethargic sleep. If the powder is rubbed into the skin, then 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 effects of potassium cyanide by 500 times. This poison is obtained from a two-toothed fish (dioodon histrix). In Haiti, the recipe for this poisonous powder was known 400 years ago. There are no convincing theories yet to explain how tetradoxin works and why the victim remains fully conscious.
The practice of turning a person into a zombie was once introduced to the island by voodoo priests and the descendants of black slaves who came from Benin (previously Dahomey). It consists of two stages: first, murder, and then returning to life. The victim, which they intend to turn into a zombie, is mixed with the poison of tetradoxin (according to other sources, this poison is rubbed into the skin). The victim immediately stops breathing, the surface of the body turns blue, the eyes turn glass - clinical death occurs.
A few days later, the deceased is kidnapped from the cemetery in order to allegedly bring him back to life. So he becomes a zombie. Awareness of his "I" returns to him incompletely or does not return at all. Eyewitness accounts of zombies speak of them as people who stare blankly in front of them.
According to the observations of a researcher who spent three years in Haiti, the most physically strong people are selected for zombies in advance, so that later, returning to life, they can be used as slaves on sugarcane plantations.
As already mentioned, the practice of zombies was introduced to Haiti by Negroes who came from Benin. Apparently, some examples of returning to life are practiced in Benin to this day. An American travel doctor who managed to attend one of these sessions tells about this. “On the ground,” he writes, “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 response. There was no reaction, and there were no signs of a heartbeat. The man was really 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 began to beat even more violently. Finally, the man turned around, 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 looked at us."
It is possible that an eyewitness describes here something similar to the ritual of the Haitian zombies.
The zombie ritual in a strange way echoes the magical practice that is still prevalent among the aborigines of Australia. According to their stories, recorded by ethnographers, a person who was previously planned as a victim is kidnapped by a sorcerer 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. After that, 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 inspired that in three days he will die. Such a person returns home without really knowing what has been done to him. Outwardly, he is no different from other people, but this is not a person, but only a walking body.
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In one of the Tibetan monasteries, the writer and historian A. Gorbovsky happened to observe the performance of the rlanga rite, the purpose of which is to help the soul in its posthumous state. With a large crowd of people, the deceased is brought and placed in the monastery yard. 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 three times where he was lying, lies down again and freezes, ready for burial.
Perhaps, the method of 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 lose it and live without it for some time.
Boris Iskakov, Doctor of Economics, physicist by education, 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. The 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 material world and the human brain that can explain many phenomena that are still considered mysterious. These are telepathy, clairvoyance, etc. On the surface of 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 a number of researchers have shown that when the "core" is destroyed, quantum shells also begin to dissolve. If they do not receive information and energy support, 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 interesting that the named 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 celebrated the following rituals: on the third day - burial, on the sixth - farewell to home, on the ninth - farewell to the village, on the fortieth - farewell to the Earth. Curiously, 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, and moreover loudly, clearly and without mistakes. During the reading, one could not cry and lament, since this was considered harmful to the deceased.
In accordance with the theory of B. Iskakov, it can be assumed 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 one could find explanations for the mysterious phenomena in Tibetan monasteries.
Bernatsky Anatoly