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Originally posted by Hijinx
reply to post by Wertdagf
I can't help but wonder what it is you do for a living. You proclaim so much as definitive fact, and obviously aren't open to learning, imagination or creativity.
Albert Einstein, one of the worlds greatest minds proclaimed he would be nothing with out imagination and wonder.
You just seem so angry, and so sure of yourself. What is it that drives you to be this way? Everyone has dreams, fantasies, curiosity, you seem so empty in your words. I'm really not trying to be insulting, I'm observing and my curiosity has the better of me now.
Originally posted by Oannes
Kirlian photography basically shows the Soul. The aura is the energy given off from our light bodies.
Originally posted by maryhinge
i had sage once before it was taboo its what indians put in their pipes
(of the cow boys and indians type)
Originally posted by Xaphan
Originally posted by maryhinge
i had sage once before it was taboo its what indians put in their pipes
(of the cow boys and indians type)
I thought they smoked tobacco through those peace pipes
Originally posted by LittleByLittle
Originally posted by Hijinx
reply to post by Wertdagf
I can't help but wonder what it is you do for a living. You proclaim so much as definitive fact, and obviously aren't open to learning, imagination or creativity.
Albert Einstein, one of the worlds greatest minds proclaimed he would be nothing with out imagination and wonder.
You just seem so angry, and so sure of yourself. What is it that drives you to be this way? Everyone has dreams, fantasies, curiosity, you seem so empty in your words. I'm really not trying to be insulting, I'm observing and my curiosity has the better of me now.
Einstein what a mind that seeker had . He seem to be spot on when it came to Quantum entanglement and his quotes about god are very insightful. I have a feeling he really understood god/reality. Like listening to Buddha or Jesus.
Originally posted by life12
Like an onion life has many layers, we live in life and life lives in us, see the life to see the soul.
I am the creator of te beliefs which define the illusions within my reality, I am not what is, I am what could be, I am the source of infinite possibilitys, I am life as its self, the motionless force behind motion, I am the act of nothing in something which is the source of everything, I am all that I feel around me therefore I am you and together we are....
One who creates his own illusions and makes them more real than reality, follows the path of the spirit and finds the way of heaven.
When people ask what happened at the beginning of time, i say "nothing" love the confusion of being trapped in the illusion.
Originally posted by LittleByLittle
Originally posted by PurpleVortex
Originally posted by Hijinx
reply to post by PurpleVortex
I would love to be the man who definitively proves it's existence. On the other hand I don't know I would enjoy disproving it as much. A remarkable discovery either way, but I Imagine a huge portion of the religious world would call me the anti-christ or attempt to burn me for proving it to not exist. Imagine all the religious world having to grasp all their loved ones are gone for good, and there is no heaven or hell. It would be utter chaos. It's far too much for them to grasp.
No need to prove anything to anyone, especially the ideas of spirituality/religion...We will all find out in time.
OP. You can always try to prove it for yourself with chakra meditation. If you get an changed body then it will be hard for you dissbeliving there is not something more.
Originally posted by AkumaStreak
reply to post by Hijinx
Duplicate someone in a replicator, down to every atom, across the room.
See if clone is:
1) Unique new instance of the individual with same memories/personality (a fork of the individual going forward).
2) Duplicate body/brain tuned into the same metaphysical "mind" (soul) at unknown location.
3) Unconscious pile of meat and bones, indicating something beyond our biology that gives us our "spark".
4) Something else.edit on 11/29/2012 by AkumaStreak because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by new_here
Originally posted by Hijinx
reply to post by The GUT
Could this not be attributed to gas loss through the lungs? Our lungs contain gas which has weight, when you let our your last breath, you would in theory weigh less than while your lungs were full would you not?
Wiki has a bunch of volumes ranging from an average of 6 liter total capacity, and then a whole bunch of factors.
Average inspiratory volume in (healthy)men is 3.3 liters 1.9 in healthy women.
Tidal volume .5 liters in men .5 liters in women.
Expiratory reserve volume in men 1 in men 0.7 in women
residual volume 1.2 in men 1.1 in women
Soooooo if you die and you let out your breath, would you not weigh less? This doesn't necessarily mean our souls have weight. As gas could be attributed to these weights. Including anything expelled from our lungs that was in our breath.
For some reason your post made me wonder...
Does the electrical field of a living body attract any sort of surrounding particles to the body that would raise the weight of the living person, but disperse from the body when the electro-chemical functions cease at death?
Originally posted by brandiwine14
Very neat topic, I would be interested in knowing where you go with this.
What if they are on their death bed because their soul has already left their body? Strange thought I know but I think that most of us are so scared of death that we would jump out of our bodies before death actually consumed us (at least that's what I hope). I watched someone take their last breath but I remember thinking she was already gone, that it was just a body a shell I was looking at. So eventhough bodies can live hooked up to monitors for a very long time i'm not necessarily sure that the soul stays in it for the whole duration. The soul might already be out, wandering around looking at the whole picture. That saying "wandering souls" was coined for a reason. I think the place to start would be with people who have mastered the how to's of astral projection. Maybe try and find those people because I believe they would be closest to being on the same plane as the detached soul of those who have just died since their soul is detached as well.edit on 29-11-2012 by brandiwine14 because: needed to clarify a point
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by Hijinx
but I Imagine a huge portion of the religious world would call me the anti-christ or attempt to burn me for proving it to not exist. Imagine all the religious world having to grasp all their loved ones are gone for good, and there is no heaven or hell. It would be utter chaos. It's far too much for them to grasp.
I gotta say, I find it pitiful if people spend that much time worrying about the afterlife when they still have so much life left to live. After all, we can't really know for a fact - so why bother worrying? Just be a good person, love the people you care about, don't be afraid to dance for no reason, try to catch all the rain drops you can, and remember that if you only live once...MAKE IT WORTHWHILE.
Death is one of the things in life you can count on no matter what, so why worry about it? Live while you can.
Originally posted by maryhinge
reply to post by Hijinx
i had sage once before it was taboo its what indians put in their pipes
(of the cow boys and indians type)
and i swear i felt my soul it was so fantastic and scary at the same time
now i know why they called it the peace pipe
anyway thats how i detected/believed in my soul
when you think about it maybe thats why they killed off
many of the indians and their way to live of the landedit on 29/11/2012 by maryhinge because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Lazarus Short
I have posted on this topic before. I suppose I just need to keep it on my hard drive so I can post it over and over.
It starts with the Book of Genesis. God made man, breathed into the lifeless body the Breath of Life, and man became a living soul.
There you have it. People have been searching for the "soul" for centuries, but it turns out that you don't have a soul - you ARE a soul. Solved.
Originally posted by scotsdavy1
That's what I love about this forum, anything that is put up always a attracts an argument from someone like flies around a light bulb, regardless of content. Never fails ......
Originally posted by NiNjABackflip
Many people think they have a soul; this we must agree on. So perhaps rather than dismissing the theory altogether, as so far we have discovered nothing tangible we can call the soul, maybe we can speculate on why people think this?
We know when the body dies, all energy seeps into the immediate environment. That energy, or whatever keeps the body alive, may be a likely candidate for what we call the soul.
When someone dies, we can visualize and imagine them still existing perhaps in another plane of some sort, but truth be told, only an image of that someone exists within our thought, and could have easily been deified in more ancient times as proof of an afterlife. Maybe the memory is the soul?
The ego or the personality, is still merely what one remembers about himself, but also how that memory is applied expressively and outwardly. It is how one wants to be remembered. Perhaps this costume or way of dress is what we call the soul?
If there is a soul, it must also include and extend to the surface of the entire body, for without the body, its skin, its tissue, its organs, its nervous system, its skeletal system etc. we wouldn't be able to conceive of anything, let alone the possibility of souls. Could the body be our soul?
Is it our inward and outward expression? Could it be our instinct? Could it be our intuition or intellect? There's many likely candidates. The theory does not have to be dismissed.
Originally posted by PrimeLight
reply to post by Hijinx
The soul could be anything, and seeing as we are unaware of it's Scientific existence at this time, where would we begin?
You may find this article useful to your research.
www.news.com.au...
edit on 29-11-2012 by PrimeLight because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by 1littlewolf
reply to post by Wertdagf
I'm actually a big fan of the concise and efficient way your posts drive straight into the issue at hand, along with the dark humour which sometimes accompanies them…
…although I disagree with just about everything you say.
We live in a universe where the fundamental building blocks of all matter are essentially energy, an energy which may or may not be a particle or a wave. A universe where these buildings blocks blink backwards and forwards in time, and can be in many places at once. A universe where these particular particles are shown to be responsive to the presence of human consciousness. Following this logic one can infer that human consciousness is not bound within the human body, and can in some way effect things beyond the confines of the body. We cannot even define exactly what ‘consciousness’ is, let alone where exactly within the brain it sits. If human consciousness is not bound within the body, it is not actually a great stretch of logic to assume that this consciousness does not require a body at all.
And…. after all this scientifically proven time travel and teleportation of the fundamental building blocks of everything within the known universe and proof that the presence of a human mind can actually affect these building blocks of the universe, I do not think that it is totally unreasonable that a little ‘magic’ may exist out there.
Science is edging ever closer to what the mystics of many belief systems have been saying for thousands of years. It is simply framed and presented using an entirely different vocabulary.
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by Hijinx
Like the soul... your thread seems to not exist.
Maybe we should weigh this thread and see if its 21 grams lighter.