Proof of the Soul?

Question

There is a growing set of documented incidents from patients having operations, providing accounts post operation of events that occurred during their surgery for which they could not possibly have been conscious or have had any possibility of deriving the information that they recounted.

They all report having out of body experiences and witnessing their operation from a vantage point away from their body.

When surgical conditions demand that all brain function ceases and yet consciousness persists, this would seem to provide an ideal set of circumstances to observe these out of body phenomena, which must be independent of physical consciousness.

To me these experiences point to the existence of something 'other', which we possess that can exist outside of and beyond our physcial forms. Could this be the Soul?

I ask because I am not religious, nor an agnosic nor an atheist. I don't expect a heaven but having nothing for a hereafter is BS too.

What do you think?

Answer 1

I have answered a question very much like this a while ago.I know there is something after death
Last year i was in a very bad accident .i don`t remember any thing about the accident or being taken to hospital and i was in and out of a sort of coma for a couple of weeks the longest i was awake for was 7 minutes .after when i was recovering the doctor told me that i had died for a while but they revived me .
The strange thing is the only time i remember anything from those two weeks is who was in the room when i was supposed to be dead .It wasn`t the full blown walking into a white light thing but i could see myself on the bed and at first i didn`t realise it was me .i can remember being confused and disorientated and not understanding what was happening but after i recovered i knew who was there what they where doing and everything
i know i must have seen it because i was in hospital quite a while and had lots of chances to talk to the nurses and they said i was right when i was describing what went on .They couldn`t understand why i knew and neither can i . I believe in God but i`m not a very religious person .and i can`t explain the reasons but i know that there is something.

Answer 2

Those who study the brain have observed that certain areas of the brain control how we perceive the boundary between ourselves and the world. While a person uses a tool, that person's brain adapts and regards the tool as an extension of the person (otherwise he'd be a klutz with it). If a person closes her eyes and touches a soft object three feet in front of her face, and some sort of device touches her nose at exactly the same time, her brain will immediately interpret that her nose is three feet long. Stimulation of the amygdala expands one's perception of the self, leading one to have a "mystical" experience in which one feels the self merging with the universe.

None of this disproves the validity of out-of-body experiences, but it does diminish the case for them. People in surgery are often not at their perceptual best. They could be sensing real sights and sounds subconsciously and filling in the logical details, somewhat like a dream. There are moral obstacles to trying to induce these experiences and anecdotal evidence often suffers from a lack of objective controls. So we'll have to keep puzzling it out as the "evidence" comes in.

Answer 3

I don't think that you give the human body enough credit. How many times have you dreamed something which happpen to coincide with what was really happening to you at the moment? Perhaps you dreamt that you were falling only to wake up falling out of bed. Or you dreamed that your face was getting wet (for whatever reason) only to wake up and find a pet licking your face. Even when not conscious the brain is clearly still receiving signals from external stimuli. Just because you are unconscious these receptors do not just turn off...only your conscious interpretation of them. Even an unconscious mind can receive these stimuli and translate them into something....

Answer 4

Very good question. Thanks!

Once this is verified, if it can be, it would be very strong scientific evidence for a soul. There is study ongoing in Britain to do this.

Here is another. Brain is matter and thus is regulated by cause and effect. There is a lot of current research behind that statement.

Current research cannot find mind or consciousness in brain wiring or operation. Thus, if we could ever model a human brain, we would have a human robot, or zombie. To animate a zombie, you need to break the strict bounds of cause and effect so that this zombie, human robot, becomes self aware and can say, "I'm alive". Since consciousness is immaterial and immeasurable, as is soul, then, soul is needed to animate a human robot.

Answer 5

In Islam, we understand the peace of a soul, that's why we examine Quran all 12 months as a lot as conceivable for the demise anniversary at the same time as type of "paras"(Quran is split into 30 books) are to presented through an "Hafiz" to that friend's soul. that is so as that soul receives peace and is remembered, if on those auspicious days at the same time as souls are released to visit their properties yet no human being does any ritual, the souls leaves wailing and dissatisfied. it really is termed "Khatam" my mom and father and family individuals individuals continually do it each Thurday, extremely effortless ritual, my dad does "wudu" (stated wuzu) to be paak(sparkling) then my mum makes a scrumptious dish, positioned fruit, water, dish on the table and my dad reads du'a over. That nutrition then ought to no longer be wasted. that's purely a fashion of doing it right. nutrition: possibly it really is like "Prashad" (goodies) that hindus eat on the top of Puja or bread on Sunday community service. i imagine that is something major and basically tremendous to do with understand, if we actually care or love our surpassed ones. be conscious to describe will be that- it really is "significant" to do.

Answer 6

some time ago dying person was put in the bed with very sensitive scales and when the person past away the scales registered the change of the weight for 1,5 -2 grammes off (it was on few occasions). i don't knew if it is a proof of the soul living the body but still... it is something that left without trace and couldn't be explained by any other way

Answer 7

What do you want to believe? As for the growing set of documented incidents....a drop in the sea! Let's be honest....you're not an atheist! Why do you want an afterlife for?
I love Desperate mum's answer!

Answer 8

Yes I have heard of this........ and I know some people who's aura is larger than their body, when asleep while the body is relaxed, their aura lifts up out of them basically their soul, and they can see themselves asleep, sometimes these people are mistaken for a ghost, if seen by a sensitive spiritual individual.

Answer 9

I think you should continue your research about man and a soul until you find the answer. It will be a life changing discovery.

Good luck to you.

Answer 10

Our death but provides food for worms. Applaud friends, the play is done... let the curtain close.