Stanford Research Institute investigated remote human sensing and found clear evidence that consciousness can leave the body. It is published in the Proc. of the IEEE in the early 1970s.

So if consciousness can leave the body of an alive human, it is quite likely that it could leave the body of a dead one. I have a theory, really a hypothesis, that suggests a mechanism by which human consciousness can do this. In this mechanism the consciousness travels outside the body in an axionic medium that is a main constituent of dark matter and which is a superfluid residing at or very near absolute zero.

If you could relate what a soul is in terms of consciousness, perhaps the interpretative meaning of the hypothesis could be extended.

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Your exposition of Islamic beliefs about the soul sounds suspiciously like the old Jewish concept of resurrection of the body. When the Messiah finally comes, all dead bodies will come back to life. Transmigration was an attempt by more modern rabis to replace this ancient belief of the soul being confined to the body. Imagine the population problem that would cause.

I am also wondering what the function of the angels is if all souls just go back into the body. And is this why, perhaps, people from the middle east tend to blow themselves up?

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It is clear from animal (eg. racehorses) and human genetics that your DNA in inherited from your parents. Reincarnation or transmigration would have to be a separate process in which the surviving consciousness of a dead person or animal is reassigned to a newborn body.

Regards,

Richard

• Possesion ? - ezekiel - April 3, 2002 - 11:47 UTC
  • The Big Bang was hypothesized bya man. - yanniru - April 4, 2002 - 22:28 UTC
    • Yes... - ezekiel - April 5, 2002 - 12:18 UTC