Mysteries of the soul

In the most mysterious land in the world, Tibet to this day still preserves a very strange event about "Rainbow people". The event occurred in 1998 in Kham, a remote area of ​​eastern Tibet, the strange disappearance of the monk.Lama Khenpo A-chos. He is one of the most prestigious lamas in the region, regularly preaching about Buddhism even though the Chinese Government has very strict regulations on this. At the age of 80, the Lama was still completely healthy. One day, Lama Khenpo A-chos lay on his bed, muttering the Tibetan mantra "Om mani padme hum" and passed away. Soon after,rainbow appeared in his small room all day long.

The students of Khenpo A-chos held a prayer ceremony for the teacher's soul to pass away. But a strange phenomenon happened: the Lama's skin began to become rosy again. It seemed that Khenpo A-chos was taking his time regeneration. His student went to consult a lama and was advised to wrap the teacher's body and continue praying. They did exactly as instructed. A week later, when the mantle that wrapped the Lama's body was opened, only a few strands of hair remained on the pillow, and Khenpo A-chos's body had completely disappeared. From then on the Tibetans called him "Rainbow people".

The mysterious story spread everywhere. DadFrancis Tiso - A Benedictine priest in America also heard this mysterious story. He is one of the experts in Buddhist research and has a doctorate in this field. Father Francis Tiso organized a trip toKham to record the accounts of those who witnessed the event. The person Father Tiso wanted to meet the most was the lama whom Lama A-chos's students had consulted. The lama told Father Tiso that the disappearance of Lama A-chos was due to oneMaterial force comes from the soul his. This is not a statement with philosophical or metaphorical implications, what he wants to say here is a fact that happened. The lama showed Father Tiso a photo of Lama A-chos when he had passed away. With the naked eye, one can clearly see a stream of light emanating from the body of Lama A-chos. Looking at the photo, Father Tiso exclaimed:"This is the harmony between the possible and the impossible, between an existing person and a supernatural person. One day we will find the basis to prove that it is real."

What Father Tiso wants to find in the event that happened in Kham is also part of the big problem he is researching, which is whether or not the human soul exists. Currently, debates surrounding this issue are still fierce. The crux of the problem lies in the fact that if there is a soul, how can it be determined? Those who believe that the soul is real rely on religious documents to prove its existence, while opponents believe that those arguments are too vague and cannot be trusted enough when tested. proven by scientific research.

Scientific verifications

Many people have tried to prove the existence of the soul using scientific experiments. One of them is a doctorDuncan MacDougall. After conducting experiments on 7 dead people, he discovered that immediately after death, the dead person's weight decreased from 11 to 43 grams. He believes that it is the physical part that people often call the soul that escapes from the body. Later, many other people also tried to repeat Duncan's experiment, but the answer to the existence of the soul has not yet been clarified. The weight lost by humans after death is simply explained as the evaporation of water available inside the body.

Another doctor also tried to prove the existence of the soul by scientific experiments, viz Gerard Nahum, director of the research department of the pharmaceutical company Berlex. He spent 20 years researching this field. According to Nahum, the most difficult problem to determine the existence of the soul is to find the soulelectromagnetic chain emitted from the dead body. He placed a series of modern detectors around the body (microwaves, infrared detectors, gamma rays, electromagnetic rays,...) to find the "soul". Nahum is certain that after death, everything that belonged to that person while they were alive cannot be completely lost immediately. It will have to go through a transformation process somewhere in space. In those places, they will be preserved and exist forever. But when he tried to present his idea to universities in the US, they all refused. Even the Catholic church did not accept funding for Nahum's research. Therefore, this scientist's efforts stood still...

At the University of Virginia, a specialist in psychiatry isGruce Greyson There are also studies related to the existence of the soul. Greyson was the first to focus on the psychology of people on the edge of life and death. He discovered that a few dying personall see one very strong blue light, and felt a tunnel leading them forward. But actually Greyson does not completely believe in the existence of the soul. He believes that there must be more research to prove the existence or non-existence of the soul.

Current answers based on science or religion cannot be considered satisfactory. Through 30 years of studying the mental state of the dying, he has found that about 10% of heart failure patients show signs of brain activity while they are unconscious. After being treated and regaining consciousness, these patients said they saw the actions of doctors and nurses at a higher level. Continuing his research, Greyson placed a screen with different interfaces outside the emergency room of patients with heart failure. He believes that if the soul really exists, then people with heart failure will know the color of the screen in the next room after waking up. 50 people were tested, but not a single one knew what color the screen was. The scientist explained that it was due to the effects of the anesthetic that hindered the soul's escape.

Pim van Lommel, a Danish cardiologist, also agreed with Greyson's point of view. Lommel believes that people are not just one awareness, while they were in a dying state, other consciousnesses became active and expanded their scope more than at any previous time. At that time, they can recall the most distant times in the past and feel things and people around them more clearly than usual. Meanwhile, their central nervous system is still shutting down.

The above assumptions have raised doubts about the knowledge that we have known and accepted for a long time: Consciousness is a product of the brain. That may no longer be accurate. Because if so, consciousness would not exist if the brain stopped working. But the experiments above all prove the opposite.

Two Oxford scholars, Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose, explain the existence of the soul in this wayquantum process. According to the two men, the human brain is divided into billions of microscopic cells, these cells are connected to each other through a process of quantum movement. When a person's body stops working, blood is not delivered to these cells, and they also stop working. But the movement of quanta is not lost. They will escape outside the brain and record what exists in the surrounding space. If the person regains consciousness, the quanta will return to the brain and function with their usual function. What they record when they escape outside is also received by the brain. And that is why a dying person who is later revived can learn about events that he has not personally witnessed or heard about.

So if that person can't wake up again, then...quantum chain Where will it move? Continuing to expand Hameroff and Penrose's hypothesis, doctor Ian Stevenson researched the possibility that such quantum chains would be received in the future. baby's brain, Or in other words, it isthe rebirth! After Ian Stevenson died, his son Tucker continued to pursue this hypothesis. Tucker conducted interviews with many children, among whom he gathered 1,400 children who had the ability to know events that happened before they were born. Some children can even clearly tell events in the very early stages of human history.

In fact, up to now, even if we have gathered all the scientific research on this issue, we still cannot know exactly whether the soul exists or not, and if it exists. In what form will they exist? Perhaps science is not always the optimal solution to all problems. As the lama that Father Tiso met at Kham said: "It's not something for the eyes, but for the heart. For us, perhaps seeing with our eyes and also feeling From the heart will give the most accurate answer."