What does it mean to be in a person’s soul. Does man have a soul? Experiments by American scientists

IN last century of the second millennium, scientists, and after them all sensible people, were convinced that we do not have a soul. There is only an abstract concept that explains religious dogmas, and fascinating children's fairy tales, such as The Stag King by Carl Gozzi.

But now the third millennium has arrived. And suddenly, more and more often, reports began to appear in the press about absolutely amazing phenomena, objectively demonstrating that, despite official science, a person still has a soul.

Specialists invited by the radio station meticulously reviewed the scores of all works broadcast on the BBC. All the compositions corresponded one to one to the professional handwriting of the deceased musicians! It turned out that they were actually composed by Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven and other great composers. Moreover, the BBC management submitted the scores for examination, and it was discovered that even the recording system fully corresponded to the author's handwriting of each of the composers!

All these various musical works were transferred to the editorial office of the radio station by a housewife from London, Rosemary Brown. According to her, all the scores were dictated to her themselves... by deceased composers! And these creations of great geniuses, unknown to specialists, numbered about four hundred. The musical works received from the world of the dead were not sketches, but entire compositions, composed mostly for piano, but some of them were also written for symphony orchestra.

Unexpectedly for herself, Rosemary became a unique person through whom deceased composers began to transmit their works to the living. One day she walked up to the old piano, which she had not played for many, many years, and touched the keys with clumsy fingers.

Suddenly Rosemary felt that she was not alone in the room - someone was standing behind her. She turned around in fear. It was the great Franz Liszt! Then something completely incredible happened: it was as if he began to move the woman’s fingers, and a wonderful melody flowed from under them! The Hungarian classic disappeared as suddenly as he had appeared, and after this incident he began to come to Rosemary almost every day. And each time the woman always played a new piece at the suggestion of the ghost. As she wrote, “he used my hands like a pair of gloves.” At first, “the notes were at her fingertips,” and then she felt offended that only she could enjoy such beautiful music.

She asked Liszt to translate the pieces of music into sheet music and write them down on paper with her hands. So Rosemary began to transmit the musical works of Liszt, composed by him after his death. One day Liszt came to Rosemary with a pale-faced man with soft features and introduced him: “My friend Frederic Chopin.” A little time passed, and Chopin also began to play the piano with the help of Rosemary and record previously unheard works with her hands... As Rosemary claimed, Liszt began to bring other composers to her. Most of them became her true friends, others, like Mozart, for some reason did not stay with her for long.

Now let’s listen to the opinion of these works of deceased composers, professional musician, pianist Yehudi Menuhin, received from the world of spirits: “I look at these manuscripts with the greatest respect. Each piece is definitely in the composer’s style.” British composer Richard Rodney Bennett shares the same opinion: “Many people can improvise, but such music cannot be faked without many years of practice. Personally, I wouldn’t be able to fake something like Beethoven.”

A CLUTCH OF WEAK ENERGIES

It turns out that a person has a soul, and it is truly immortal. But two questions immediately arise: what is the soul and where does it reside after the death of the physical body?

At the Institute of Semiconductors of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Natural Sciences Eugenius Kugis conducted a unique series of studies. Accurate measurements made by the scientist showed that when a person dies, he loses from 3 to 7 grams of weight. Kugis suggested that this is the weight of the soul leaving the body. In his opinion, every person has a soul. And not in a figurative sense, but literally: “The soul is a bunch of weak energies, the so-called astral body, capable of very strongly influencing the physical body and even material objects.”

Here is information about another interesting discovery made at Princeton University in the USA. It turned out that the soul can not only be weighed, but also felt. The following experiments were carried out in which psychics took part. A psychic was seated under a specially designed installation from which light balls poured out. When the psychic did not think about the balls, they fell and formed a hill of the correct shape. But as soon as he concentrated his attention on the balls, the shape of the slide changed according to his mental order. According to researchers, the shape of the slide was influenced by the human soul, or, as it is now called, the astral body.

Now let's return to Lithuania again. Here, researchers Lolita and Darius Zhukasov created equipment that allows them to see changes in the color of the soul. The person lowered his hand onto a palm-shaped device with sensors. Then a video camera was turned on, aimed at the person, and his head appeared on the monitor screen, surrounded by the outline of his soul, painted in all sorts of colors depending on the mood, thoughts and health of the person.

Interesting results were obtained in Russia by a group of St. Petersburg scientists under the leadership of Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Konstantin Korotkov. In their research, they used special equipment that made it possible to record changes in the glow of various substances in an intense magnetic field. According to the professor, by the glow of the fingers on the hands of the dead, one could observe the process of a gradual exodus from the body of a certain substance - the “soul” of a person, which has an energy basis. True, such research was not always safe. In cases where experiments were carried out with recently deceased young people, the energy field of the latter somehow affected the scientists, and they experienced unpleasant sensations.

The professor supplemented the research on the outcome of the soul with a study of the “disappearance of the biological field” - the soul in psychics. The screen of his device reflects the human biological field. And suddenly it disappears. What is happening: there is a body, but there is no biofield? Instead of an evenly glowing silhouette of a person, reflecting the parameters of his biofield, rapidly flashing and extinguishing impulses appear on the screen. According to K. Korotkov, the experiments carried out made it possible to obtain “a picture of the human soul in special condition" This made it possible to create a method for objectively assessing the real abilities of psychics. After all, they can conduct their sessions and help those suffering only in a special state of their soul.

According to K. Korotkov, the experiments carried out convinced him “of the existence of what is called human soul... Belief in the immortality of the soul is changing to a certain extent. Strictly speaking, one can, in my opinion, say that there is no death. There is a rotation, an eternal dance of transformations and metamorphoses.”

Research by scientists at the turn of the millennium showed that the human soul has weight, shape and color. But they did not answer the question of what, after all, the soul is from the point of view of modern science.

FROM EARTH TO SUN

I have repeatedly had the opportunity to talk with the oldest ufologist in Russia, the leading scientific expert of the Association of the Unknown, Yu.A. Fomin. Yuri Alexandrovich is a man of encyclopedic knowledge - it’s not for nothing that one of his books is called “Encyclopedia anomalous phenomena" In his monograph, Yuri Fomin talked about the peculiarities of the perception of the world, the multidimensionality of space and time, the nature of some anomalous phenomena, the prospects for the evolution of humanity and the problems associated with unknown flying objects.

There is also a chapter in the book that is directly related to the problem of life and death of a person and to his soul - “Extracellular information structures.” Yuri Fomin drew attention to the discrepancy in the amount of information that can be contained in a single cell that gives rise to a person, and the minimum volume necessary for the construction and functioning of the human body. According to experts, the information capabilities of a living cell do not exceed 5.8 x 109 bits, and the minimum amount of information necessary to perform all the functions inherent in the cell and, especially, to program the development of a new organism from this cell must be no less than 1023-25 bit. In order to have an idea of ​​the comparability of these values, the ufologist gave the following example. If we conventionally accept the information capacity of a cell as 10 bits per millimeter, then the value of 1023-25 ​​bits will be equal to seven distances from the Earth to the Sun.

Where is this colossal amount of information necessary for the development and functioning of the cell stored? According to Yu. Fomin, the carrier of hereditary information is not the cell nucleus, but the information distribution structure. It is a kind of multidimensional formation surrounding the cell and the entire organism as a whole. It is this structure that forms what is commonly called the essence of a person, his “soul.” And you human body- this is just a biological machine that the “soul” uses.

NINE DAYS

What happens when a person dies? Let’s let Yuri Fomin himself answer this question: “Death leads to the destruction of the biological structure. But what happens then to the information distribution structure? It is preserved after death, carrying all the information about the subject, and even has its independence. For some time it still has some activity due to the stored energy, which can manifest itself during spiritualistic contacts.” By the way, Yuri Fomin long years studied such contacts, and in his apartment there are several cabinets filled with protocols of such sessions.

As a result of centuries of experience, humanity has identified certain patterns of loss of such activity of information-distribution structures (soul) and established some critical moments of its occurrence. This is how the well-known terms appeared and came into use: “nine days” and “forty days” after death, during which a person is remembered by his relatives and friends.

Thus, death should not be considered as a complete disappearance of a personality, but only as a transition to a different qualitative state in which it continues to exist, and in some cases may even manifest itself in the world we perceive.

The assumption that “once created information is stored and somehow displayed in the Universe” is now increasingly developing into a certainty. This is greatly facilitated by the works of Russian scientists and their discoveries in the field of bioenergy informatics. Physicist G. Shipov put forward a hypothesis that at the level of physical vacuum, an information display of all things is possible. It, like a giant computer with endless memory in conditions of unlimited time, contains information about everything and everyone, and sometimes this “computer” can be accessed by a person, the human brain. There are only a few such people, but they have always been and are.

A major role in understanding what happens to a person after death was played by the famous Russian biologist, founder of the new scientific direction- wave genetics - Pyotr Garyaev. “When we die,” says the scientist, “we do not disappear. We persist at the personal level.” A person, in his view, is the information and energy content of a genetic molecule, a convolution of a person’s material and energetic body, his physical body and soul. Each person, as it were, marks the room where he was, the air he breathed, the things he touched, on everything he leaves the imprint of his personality... And the questions about whether we remember ourselves after death, whether our thin body, - this is outside the experiment. Although people have accumulated a lot of empirical evidence, which suggests that yes, we remember.”

All teachings and evidence, obtained both through mystical or religious insights, and through scientific experimentation, boil down to the fact that the soul can leave the body, exist outside of it, see other worlds, and then return to the body and continue its earthly existence.

Summing up the results of research by scientists conducted at the turn of the millennium, the experience of mankind and the information and distribution structure developed by Yuri Fomin, which explains many of the mysterious properties of our consciousness, we can say with confidence: people have a soul, and it is immortal.

Various spiritual teachings proceed from the fact that man has an immortal essence - a soul. When our body dies, the soul goes to the afterlife or moves on to the next physical incarnation. This is confirmed by the stories of people who experienced clinical death. I wonder if there are any purely scientific facts, supporting this theory?

Does consciousness live outside the brain?

It is generally accepted that the thinking process takes place in our brain. In this case, death or brain damage should lead to the destruction of consciousness, and therefore to the death of the soul. But at the same time, there are many facts that cast doubt on this statement.

The first to put forward the hypothesis that the brain is only a “receiver” for thoughts was Nobel laureate John Eccles. The famous Russian neurophysiologist Natalya Bekhtereva believed that the generally accepted theory of the brain is not able to explain how, for example, the creative process occurs. Research conducted at the St. Petersburg Brain Institute has shown that this organ is capable of generating only thoughts regarding the simplest and most common actions that we perform every day... In addition, there are known facts when a tomograph recorded brain activity in patients who were in a coma or hypnotic trance.

Shocking examples

Back in the 20s of the last century, biologist Carl Lashley discovered that conditioned reflexes in rats do not disappear after removal of various parts of the brain. There are many cases where people with brain damage retained mental capacity in full.

Thus, American Carlos Rodriguez lives without the frontal lobes of the brain, that is, he is missing as much as 60 percent of this organ. Dr. Robinson of the Paris Academy of Sciences described a case in which a man died at about 60 years of age and died a month after receiving a head injury. During the autopsy, it turned out that instead of a brain he had only a thin shell of brain matter... Despite this, until the injury, the man led a completely normal life.

The German scientist Hufland encountered a similar episode. In the skull of a patient who died shortly after being paralyzed, instead of a brain, 300 grams of liquid floated. However, before the paralysis, the patient functioned quite normally...

In 1976, at the age of 55, the famous Dutch watchmaker Jan Geerling died. His skull was also filled with fluid instead of brain...

One of the latest such cases was recorded in Sheffield (Scotland). X-rays revealed that the student, whose IQ was 126, which is above average, has a completely absent brain... Even if we assume that healthy parts of the brain are able to take over the functions of damaged ones, how can water inside the skull replace the brain? Or just emptiness?

Rather, one can believe that there is some immaterial entity, including consciousness, that temporarily “inhabits” us. And the body is just a shell within which the soul functions.

Phantom effect

People who have amputated limbs often feel so-called phantom pain - the missing arm or leg ache or itch, so that sometimes it causes unbearable suffering... It seems that the “aura” of the missing body parts remains, and it causes similar sensations.

Eat famous photograph, which depicts a tree that has lost part of its trunk and crown after a lightning strike. But in a photo taken with special radiation, the tree looks intact: the missing branches, trunk and even foliage are clearly visible. Because the “aura” of the tree, its “soul”, has been preserved...

Receiver for the soul

But why does the soul need a body? According to most religions, the soul does not appear at the very moment of conception, but later, when the embryo develops a brain. “The human brain in this case is a kind of receiver that receives information from the personality-consciousness-soul,” says Ruslan Madatov, Doctor of Historical Sciences, teacher at the Department of Religious Studies at one of the Prague universities. “It’s not for nothing that the neurons of the brain are very similar to a transceiver device, even in appearance! Any biologist familiar with physical science will tell you this. electrical diagrams"Probably, a “reverse” process can also occur, when with the help of the brain we emit information into the surrounding space. This is what can explain such “parascientific” phenomena as telepathy or clairvoyance.

All this means that it is possible to influence the brain from the outside, activating its cells, for example, in medicinal purposes by electromagnetic stimulation method. Although we are still far from understanding the mechanism of interaction between the soul and the body. And is it possible today? official science explain this?

The human body has been studied far and wide, and yet there remains an unexplored area about which one can only speculate and speculate. For many centuries people have been asking the question: what is the soul? If it cannot be seen, does it mean that it does not exist at all?

What is the soul and where is it located?

From the perspective of religion, the concept is understood as “something” located in a person, which enters the body at the beginning of life and leaves with the onset of death. What is the human soul in a general sense? This is human consciousness, thoughts, images and visions, character traits. But the place where the invisible entity is, different peoples are defined differently:

1. In Babylon they reserved a place for it in the ears.
2. The ancient Jews reasoned that the carrier was blood.
3. The Eskimos believe that the soul is located in the cervical vertebrae, as the most vital organ.
4. But the most common belief is that it lives in the parts of the body involved in breathing. This is the chest, stomach, head.

What is the soul from a scientific point of view?

It is still unknown what the soul consists of, how much it weighs and in what part of the body it is located. However, attempts have been made repeatedly to get to the bottom of the truth. In 1915, American physician Mac Dougall measured a person's weight before and immediately after death. The vibrations amounted to only 22 grams - this is the weight assigned to the “soul”. Other doctors conducted similar experiments, but the data were not confirmed. One thing is certain: at the moment of departure to another world and even during sleep, the human body becomes lighter. Near-death researchers have recorded abnormal movements and unclear bursts of energy.

What is the soul in psychology?

The term “psychology” can be translated as “the science of the soul.” Although this concept is abstract, has neither form nor proof, it plays a role in psychology vital role and is the main subject of study. For several centuries, theologians and philosophers have been trying to answer the question “What is the human soul?” One of the founders of psychology, Aristotle, denied the idea of ​​it as a substance, but saw it as separated from matter. He called the main function of the entity the implementation of the biological existence of the organism. Another famous philosopher, Plato, distinguishes three principles of the soul:

• the lower, unreasonable - makes humans related to animals and plants;
• rational - counteracting the aspirations of the first, dominating him;
• “fierce spirit” is what a person fights with the whole world for, his aspirations.

What is the human soul in Orthodoxy?

Only the church does not pose the question: . Holy Bible calls it one of the two components of every person, along with the body. What is the soul in Orthodoxy? This is the basis of life, an incorporeal essence, an immortal, unshakable principle created by the Lord. The body can be killed, but the soul cannot. She is invisible by nature, but endowed with intelligence, and the intelligence belongs to her.

Restless soul - what does it mean?

People go through their path in this world, measured out to them from above. Believers believe that there is such a thing as the soul leaving the body after death and going on a further journey to another world. But sometimes the essence does not find peace if a person’s affairs on earth are not completed. What does a restless soul mean? She is attached to a place, people, events, and cannot let go of the body and the world of the living. According to beliefs, suicides, those who died tragically, or those who are “not let go” by their relatives cannot find peace. They seem to hang between worlds and sometimes appear alive in the form of ghosts.

Spirit and soul - what is the difference?

The soul is a step from consciousness to reality, helping to adapt to the world. The human “I” is determined in this world by spirit, personality. From the point of view of philosophy, these concepts are inseparable from each other, and both are in the body, but still differ. And the question remains open: what is spirit and soul?

1. Soul- the intangible essence of personality, the engine of life for a person. Every journey of life begins with her from conception. The area of ​​feelings and desires is subject to her.
2. Spirit- the highest degree of every essence that leads to God. Thanks to the spirit, people stand out from the animal world and become one step higher. Spirit is self-knowledge, the realm of will and knowledge, and is formed in childhood.

My soul hurts - what to do?

Let me see the inner spiritual world impossible, but it can be felt, especially felt. This occurs when a person experiences strong emotions of a negative nature, for example, suffering after the death of a close person or a difficult breakup. People have not come to a consensus on what to do if the soul hurts from love or grief. There is no medicine to relieve suffering (unlike physical pain). Only time is the most reliable healer. Support from loved ones will help you cope with the pain. They will help at the right moment, give advice, and distract you from sad thoughts.

Proof that there is a soul

Skeptics do not give a clear answer to the question: what is the soul, because it cannot be seen, measured and touched. However, there is evidence that the soul exists, and more than one. They all belong to different areas of life.

1. Historical and religious evidence is that the idea of ​​spirituality is inherent in all world religions.
2. From a physiological point of view, the soul exists because it can be weighed. This is what many scientists from all over the world have tried to do.
3. The human soul also manifests itself as bioenergy, and its image is an invisible aura, which is determined by special devices.
4. Bekhterov's proof is in the idea of ​​the materiality of thoughts and their transformation into energy. When a person dies, the bearer of the thought remains alive.

What does the soul do after death?

There is no consensus regarding the journey of a spiritual entity after death. All knowledge about this is dictated by the Bible. When life processes stop and the brain stops working, thought leaves the body. But this cannot be measured and can only be taken on faith. According to the Bible, the soul after death goes through several stages of purification:

• on the third day the etheric body dies;
• on the ninth - the astral dies;
• the mental and casual bodies leave a person on the fortieth day, and the soul is cleansed.

According to ancient scriptures, the spiritual entity is reborn and finds a new body. But the Bible says that after death a person (that is, the soul) goes to heaven or hell. Proof of this is the testimony of people who experienced clinical death. They all talked about strange place, in which they stayed. For some it was bright and easy (heaven), for others it was dark, scary, filled with unpleasant images (hell). It continues to remain one of the main mysteries of humanity.

There are even more interesting stories about the exit of the soul from the body - during sleep and not only. Even special practices are used with which you can separate the astral principle from the physical and go on a journey through fragile matter. It is likely that all people, without exception, are capable of supernatural things, but have not yet thoroughly studied the science of life and death.

Every believer at least once in his life thinks about what the human soul is. Why is it given to man to think, to sympathize, to feel? Why can a person create?

What “part” of our body is “responsible” for these abilities? Is the soul a reality or a poetic symbol? Is she there or not?

Does man have a soul?

This question was seriously asked by medieval philosophers and materialist scientists. For Orthodox Christian the answer is obvious. Of course have!

But no one can say exactly what she looks like. Because the soul is the incorporeal part of the human essence, which distinguishes the human race from other creatures living on earth.

Human soul - definition

Description of the soul: created by God, the Creator of all things, a rational, free and immortal substance that is not part of the body, but only resides in it for the duration of earthly life.

Theophan the Recluse presents the concept of the soul as the source of phenomena that emanate from it. The saint says that the soul is not a manifestation of the will and power of some being.

Soul - main strength a person, which gives him the ability to know Divine Love, to understand and behold the greatness of our Lord. It is wide and thin at the same time.

Interesting fact: in Greek the etymology of the words “soul” and “breath” is similar; they both come from the word “breath.”

The only danger for the incorporeal, invisible and eternally existing soul is ignorance of the Lord. Grounded, deprived of the wings of Divine Grace, the soul dies, being “nominally” alive - it becomes black. For the Scripture says: “Whoever sins, let him die” (Ezek. 18:20).

What is the soul and spirit of a person

Just as the soul gives a person the ability to feel, so the spirit gives him the power to know God. The Holy Fathers call the spirit the highest, innermost “soul of the soul.” It is through the spirit that Divine grace and the power of Love penetrate the soul. The spirit knows everything about the soul, just as the brain knows everything about the body.

The human spirit, every second of its existence, strives to grow, to penetrate into unknown regions, to climb higher and higher on the ladder of understanding and spiritual growth. The power of the spirit attracts a person to the knowledge of the invisible, eternal, Divine, as opposed to simple earthly joys and tangible things, objects and concepts.

The spirit makes a person related to the Angels, just as the body is related to the creatures of the earth. People whose minds are completely focused on pressing problems and issues weaken their spirit, drown out its voice - but even so they cannot destroy it.

Does the soul exist scientifically?

Scientists have long tried to ignore the question of whether the human soul exists. As it turned out relatively recently - only to confirm its existence and study its properties!

Today, the presence of a human soul is confirmed by the results of many studies. For example, a group of German psychologists and doctors, having collected material about the near-death experiences of approximately 1000 people of different religions, gender, age, views on the world and life, confirmed the existence of life after death.

All subjects, with the exception of some minor details, told the same thing: at the threshold of death, they felt themselves leaving the body and floating through a white tunnel towards a warm and kind light.

When a person has a soul

The soul does not have a pre-eternal incarnation. It originates at the moment of conception of the child, grows and develops along with his growing body.

After the birth of a baby, his soul gets acquainted with the world, grows, develops, learns to create and... destroy.

And then the soul makes a choice: to strive for the light, for God - or not. And he follows it for the rest of his life. After the death of the physical body, the soul does not pass on to another, but appears at the Judgment of God, where it receives reward and punishment according to its deeds.

After all of the above, the soul is sent to Heaven or Hell for the rest of the history of this world.

What is a restless soul

Such words have become firmly established in our vocabulary. Restless soul - what does this mean? A soul that is doomed to eternal existence without prayerful intercession, the soul is restless and suffers from confusion.

These are the souls of people who died and did not have time to various reasons accept the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. Restless souls poke at the closed doors and shutters of heavenly dwellings, there is no place for them there, they are like homeless people, without roof and shelter.

What kind of soul does a person have?

The Holy Fathers assure that the human soul consists of three forces: reason, feelings and will. The mind, that is, the part responsible for cognition, thinking and expressing in words its opinion on various issues, is the main part of the soul.

The “mission” of the mind, which it successfully copes with in an unclouded state, is to distinguish good from evil, to understand the world - and to indicate to the power of desire (will) in what direction to act, who to consider as friends, whose opinion to listen to.

Emotions are the most difficult part of the soul to control, which only does what spoils the “relationship” between the will and the mind, making spiritual growth difficult. This is why it is so important to monitor your emotions and keep them under control.

Conclusion

Man is a being, united in his duality. Its two halves, body and soul, although they are essentially autonomous entities, are fused together by the will of God.

Unlike other God's creations, man is an illustration of the law of balance on which the visible, tangible material world rests.