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...Scientists claim life after death exists
11/07/2005 22:27
Death is only an interchange station between the two worlds
Every person at some point of his life questions himself what comes next after the physical death. Is everything to finish with the last breath or does the soul go on living?
Russian language connects the notion of soul with the word to breath as these have similar roots. Since earlier times people observed dead and alive tribesmen and made a conclusion that there was something inside a human being connected with breath. They started calling it soul (or dusha in Russian).
Australian aborigines believe in soul's existence. They think that a woman gets pregnant if she passes a tree, a rock or some animal, whose soul moves into the body of her future child.
The existence of soul is acknowledged by the people in Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Australia. In the Ancient Egypt soul was considered a constituent part of a human body.
Each religion allots a certain place in the organism for the soul. People in the ancient Babylon, for instance, thought that soul lived in ears. Ancient Jews believed it could be found in human blood.
However, there is an opinion that this substance occupies the whole body, not just a single organ. One of the most prominent figures of Russian Orthodox Church Dmitry Rostovsky agrees with this point of view.
Not so long ago German psychologists of Lubeck University conducted a really interesting experiment. They asked children aged 7-17 where in the human body the soul could be located. The eldest ones said it could be found everywhere. Some said that the soul existed in the head while the youngest ones pointed to a part of body a bit to the left of the heart. Yet some even named eyes or solar plexus as "the residence of the soul".
In recent years the hypothesis of the soul occupying the heart has found certain confirmation. A psychiatrist Paul Pearsall of Sinai Hospital of Detroit wrote a book The Heart's Code based on the answers he got from 140 patients with transplanted heart during the questionnaire. As a result, Dr. Pearsall concluded that it is in the heart that the personality is programmed. The heart controls the brain and not vice versa. Feelings, fears, dreams and thoughts are all decoded in heart cells. This cell memory - a soul - is transferred to another person with a transplanted heart. There are numerous examples in the book that support this idea. A 41-year-old who was transplanted the heart of a 19-year-old girl that had died in the railway accident changed drastically after the operation. He used to be really cool and sober but suddenly turned into temperamental and careless person.
Another interesting example is of Silvia Clair, dancing instructor from New York. At the age of 50 she had a transplantation of heart. When she came round after the operation the first thing she though about was beer. Afterwards at nights she started dreaming of some mysterious man called T.L. After secret investigation she found out that she had the heart of a guy who had died at the age of 18. His initials were T.L. and according to his relatives his favorite drink was cold beer. ...