4 - Link between body and soul
If a human being is made of a body and a soul, there must be a link between the two. Where could it be? Some civilizations believe that it is in the liver. Others place the link in the lungs because breathing keeps it in contact with the outside world. We got some help from the cracking towers of our refineries.
You introduce the oil in the center of the cracking tower. The heavy products move to the bottom. The lighter products such as fuel for trucks, planes and cars move to the top.
Let’s look at the human body. The input is the food that we eat. It gets separated into different products. There is some heat to keep our body at the right temperature - some energy to move things around - some new cells to replace the dead ones…. The most important goes to the top. It represents 20% of the energy that we extract from our food.
The human body works like a cracking tower, extracting different products from a raw material provided by nature. What is important, in our case, is that we send to our brain 20% of the energy found in our food.
The human body distilled food and
sends 20% of that energy to the brain
Another mystery:
We have more than 80 billion neurons and most of them are not used during the day. If an organ is not used, it withers and fades away. In the past 300 000 years the neurons of our brain could have disappeared many times. If they are still here, there must be a use for them that we are not aware of. If we don’t use them during the day, would it be possible that we use them at night?
Have you ever watched somebody fall asleep? It is obvious that there is nobody home! We leave the body in bed like we leave the car in the garage. The driver is free from the limitations of the body. Freedom at last! Nighttime could be the most important part of our life.
This is getting us far away from scientific rigor. We cannot produce any proof. We cannot measure anything. We are in the position of the detective looking for clues.
NDE - (Near Death Experience)
In the 1980’s some people started saying that they can leave their body and remain conscious. That usually happened during surgery. They called that having an NDE (Near Death Experience). They talk about pure bliss, perfect happiness, connection with God. They don’t recommend surgery as a way to reach perfect happiness, of course! They only testify that it is much easier to reach happiness when the soul is free from the limitations of the body.
The first patients coming with such stories were not welcome. They were sent to the psychiatrists and put on drugs. When they realized that pills could become the main part of their diet, the best way out of their predicament was to blame the stress of the surgery operation. They decided to forget the whole thing.
As more and more people came out with similar stories the psychiatrists started to pay attention. Would it be possible that body and soul could get separated and be put back together while we are still alive? Surgeons like Dr. Lloyd Rudy can testify to their surprise.
In the 1970’s Raymond Moody published “Life after life”.
He is the father of the modern NDE movement.
Today the NDE survivors have meetings every month in the main cities of the world. They have their own organizations with their web sites on the internet. IANDS - NDERF - ADCRF - OBERF.
Let’s have some fun:
Our literature always ignores what happens at night. They are missing something. We could take some famous plays and insert what the characters could have done at night. What they do during the day would remain the same. Their motivation would be different.
For instance, at night, Juliet’s mother could tell Romeo’s father: “Because we are having an affair during the night does not mean that our children should have an affair during the day. Everybody in town knows that there is some genetic disorder in your family. It is transmitted by the men and affects only the women. The most famous case happened in the Royal English family. All the men had the same disease of the blood cells, and the women were not affected. Romeo, I don’t want your family to contaminate my grandchildren. I can understand why Juliet and Romeo fell in love. I don’t want their love to go down to the material level. Love is between the souls – not between the bodies. We kept our relationship at the soul level. They can do the same. If you cannot keep your Romeo away from my daughter, I will send her out of town.”
The plays in our theaters are full of holes. Take a play that you like and fill the holes. Tell us what really happened at night! Enjoy!