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The Weight of the Soul

Most people will know of the experiments conducted by  Dr. Duncan McDougall in the early 1900s which led to the theory that the human body weighed 21 grams less at the moment of death.  McDougall weighed six patients, while they were in the process of dying from tuberculosis. When death was imminent, the entire bed [...]

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The Weight of a Ghost (A True Experience)

This day is the anniversary of two things. One is a phenomenon that occurred to me on 23 October 2010. The other anniversary, is older, but that will become clear. This is a true story in as much as I witnessed these events, and did my research afterwards. I don’t believe in “ghosts” per se, [...]

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Sex, Life, Death, and Dawkins!

Earlier this week, More 4, who seem to almost be the main sponsor for Prof Richard Dawkins’ theories, broadcast the first of his trilogy of programmes; Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life. As always, there’s going to be a fuss. As an atheist who favours science over faith, he’s never going to be Mr [...]

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Scientist Says Heaven Is Real

A prominent US scientist has undergone a transformation in his belief following an out of body experience while in a coma. He said that he was met by a beautiful woman in a ‘place of clouds, big fluffy pink-white ones’ .  Dr Eban Alexander, a Neurosurgeon educated at Harvard, is not the sort of person [...]

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How The Bible Describes The Human Soul. A Reader Response To Weighing The Human Soul

Thanks to Marie for this outsanding response to Weighing The Human Soul: It might be interesting to know what the Bible says on the topic of souls, both human and amimal. The word “soul” is translated from the Hebrew ne’phesh ,and from the Greek psy’khe. The Bible’s usage shows the Soul to be a person [...]

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Pineal Gland – The Principal Seat Of the Soul?

In The Lost Secret, Dan Brown has Katherine Salomon lecturing Robert Langdon about the Pineal Gland and its magic capabilities, this is what she says; “Perhaps you’ve heard… about the brain scans taken of yogis while they meditate? The human brain, in advanced states of focus, will physically create a waxlike substance from the pineal gland. This [...]

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