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12 - Link between body and soul
Another mystery
If an organ is not used, it withers and fades away. In the past 300 000 years our neurons have had many opportunities to disappear. If they are still here, there must be a use for them of which we are not aware. If we don’t use them during the day, would it be possible that we use them at night?
Another reason to believe that the contact between body and soul is in the brain is that stealing makes you a thief at the instant the theft is committed, before nobody notices it. This is a connection between the material and the immaterial world.
This is getting far away from scientific rigor. We cannot produce any proof. We cannot measure anything. We are in the position of a detective looking for clues.
NDE (Near Death Experience)
Being desperate makes it easier to remain open to new ideas. In the 1980’s, some people began claiming they could leave their bodies and remain conscious. It usually happened during surgery. They called it an NDE (Near Death Experience). They talk about pure bliss, perfect happiness, even a connection with God. You cannot recommend surgery as a way of achieving perfect happiness, of course! This is only a testimony. It is much easier to reach happiness when the soul is free from 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 on the surgery operation. They decided to forget the whole thing and asked the psychiatrist to do the same.
As more people came out with similar stories, the psychiatrists started to pay attention. Would it be possible for the body and the soul to get separated and be put back together while we are still alive? Surgeons like Dr Lloyd Rudy can testify to their surprise.
Let’s have some fun:
Our literature always ignores what happens at night. What a pity! We could take 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 your son and my daughter should have an affair during the day. Everybody in town knows that there is a heredity in your family. Sometimes, it is transmitted by men and affects only women. Search Hemophilia for details.
The most famous case happened in the Royal English family. It was transmitted by women and affected only men. All the men had the same blood cell disease, and the women were not affected.
I don’t want the heredity in your family to pollute the life of my grandchildren. I can understand why Juliet and your 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 ignore the night. They are full of holes. Take a play you like and fill the holes. Enjoy
Motivations
Human motivations lead to actions. They could be at the junction of body and soul. Our long-term motivations may be the most important, but it is our short-term motivations that get most attention. The human body is high maintenance. It must be fed three times a day. It smells bad unless it is cleaned regularly. It needs clothing, shoes, and glasses. Hiding behind this short-term motivation is a long-term motivation: “What is the purpose of our lives?” Every individual takes part in the same general evolution of human society. We are never alone. We can go even deeper and ask what the purpose of the Homo sapiens on Earth is.
Civilizations rise and fall like flowers bloom and wither. We know of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures. In the 15th century, Portugal was leading Europe, followed by Spain, The Netherlands, France, England, and the USA. All these countries followed a similar pattern. The people living during those times were unaware that they were fulfilling the same purpose. They were not separate individuals. They were part of a flow of people like a river moving through the centuries. They serve a common purpose, consciously or not.
We are never alone
In the 21st century, this flow is speeding up. That does not make us smarter. To answer the question “What are we doing on Earth”, some people turn to religion. Others decide they will be happy once they have enough money or become famous. Everybody is searching for love. The problem is that we do not know where to find it. Looking for love cannot be a daily activity like going to work.
Is motivation implemented in nature?
Let us use a maze. First, we use water to fill the maze. It fills all the dead ends and finds its way to the exit. Water is driven by gravity.
The next step is to replace the water with slime mold, a sticky substance that spreads on dead trees in the forest. It has no head or brain. It will fill all the dead ends of the maze and reach the exit. It will go even further. It will remove what fills the dead ends. Slime mold is driven by the search for food.
Now, let us place humans at the entrance of the labyrinth. They are not looking for food. They lack true motivation. They may not find the exit.
Motivation may be the key to success. It has no shape, color, or weight. You will not find it in the physical world. It is within the soul. Our motivations control our lives. They are not part of the material world. They can be compared to heat, which is essential but invisible. They exist beyond the scope of science and can even go beyond the boundaries of the human brain. What governs our lives may be buried deep in our subconscious.
Pushing the envelope
Behind our every day’s motivation is something less conscious and more general. Behind the waves there is a tide. Every day is an experiment that changes the soul. We keep rubbing our brain against reality. The result is an increase of consciousness. We keep pushing the envelope of human consciousness and call it maturity.
Every morning the soul goes back to the same body. There must be a connection between them. What is their point of contact? Could it be an organ that it always connected with the outside world like the lungs?
After much hesitation and looking in many places, the best help we could find came from the cracking tower of a refinery!
The oil is introduced 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 physical energy to move things around - some new cells to replace the dead ones. What is important is that we keep 20% of the energy that we extract from our food and send it to our brain.
The human body works like a cracking tower, extracting products from a raw material provided by nature.
The human body distills food and
sends 20% of that energy to the brain.
The State of the Union of body and soul
We, the Souls of the People, hold the following truths to be self-evident:
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If we accept the idea of a body without a soul (a dead body) we should also accept the idea of a soul without a body. There could be many planets, up there, full of souls who are in no hurry to get into a physical body – and we cannot blame them.
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The body and the soul belong to separate domains. The body is our connection with the material domain. The soul is our connection with the non-physical domain.
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Nothing in the human body was created by the human brain. It all started with a spermatozoid and an ovule. What happened after that was completely out of the control of the parents. Those cells knew how to grow and multiply.
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A soul is associated with a physical body for a limited time, after which, the body gets recycled.
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At night the soul leaves the body like people leave their car in the garage - and walk away.
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The soul is treating life on earth as a part-time job. Every morning the soul gets back into a physical body, gets dressed and goes to work.
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The human being is conscious of the world around him through his senses and these senses are very limited.
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The limitations of the body are well known. Unfortunately, we do not have a third eye to see the limitations of the soul.
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We can assume, for the time being, that the human consciousness can be found in the brain, at the junction of body and soul.
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We focus on the loudest noise. To reduce the noise level around us, we must start by reducing the loudest one. Something similar can happen to the soul. To reduce our stress level, we should start with the main problem. This would contribute to maintaining a healthy body. Eliminating the pollution of the brain would help eliminating the pollution of the body.
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What gives real happiness also gives meaning to our life. Happiness can be used as a criterion for a successful life.
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The question at the center of human life is: “What could motivate the soul to get associated with a physical body – even for a short period of time?”
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We are going through a period of accelerated evolution. We will not have to wait another 300 000 years to notice major changes.
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We are on level 4 above matter, plants and animals. The next step above seems to be the level of consciousness. We must break our glass ceiling.
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We can get help from the levels above us. We already have some freedom, love and consciousness that can be amplified.
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We can also get help from the levels below. We learned how to think by learning the laws of nature, starting with gravity. We learned from the material world that matter is an important source of energy at our disposal.
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After we cast off our moorings to the material world, we can help our soul to move to higher levels.
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We still have a long way to go.
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 such as IANDS NDERF ADCRF OBERF. with their web sites on the internet.
For many of them it is an opportunity to talk about an experience that they kept secret for many years. Be careful if you go to one of their meetings. Many of them can guess what other people are thinking. Instead of “What a big nose” try to think “Beautiful hair”. You will also notice that in general, those people are not afraid of dying.