Scientists have proven that the soul really exists. Its density is 176 times less than the density of air.

The question of the existence of the soul tormented more than one generation of pundits. After all, the scientific approach to life did not cancel many of them's faith in God, but it only required not blind worship, but the search for evidence. Recently, one of the world's largest pharmacological corporations announced that its employees unequivocally proved the existence of the soul (we will not indicate the name of the company, so as not to make it unnecessary advertising).

Spirit is material

Scientists have had different approaches to the study of the essence of the soul. One of our compatriots, Professor Konstantin Korotkov, filmed the aura of the dying in St. Petersburg and proved that the glow continued even after death, gradually fading away. The body, as it were, turned into an inanimate object. And the aura spread in space. That proved: the energy shell lives longer than the body.

Another Russian, a professor from Barnaul Pavel Goskov, a few years ago managed to prove that everyone has a soul, unique, like fingerprints.

“All world religions are sure: every person has a soul,” said the scientist. - But no one had ever been able to feel it, if not with their hands, then at least with instruments. We were the first to conduct a series of experiments that convincingly prove that a person, in addition to the physical body, has some kind of energy-informational substance.”

Scientists called the method "materialization of the soul." A kind of net, with which Goskov caught the manifestations of the human soul, was ordinary water. This substance is the most amazing thing in the universe. It is able to record any information by changing its structure. The essence of the experiment: scientists put water purified from any influences for 10 minutes next to a person and then examined its structure. They did such experiments hundreds, if not thousands of times, and proved that changes necessarily occurred, each new tester had water changing in its own way, while the structure of the same person was repeated.

On the scales!

But modern scientists, working on the money of that very world pharmaceutical corporation (they conducted experiments in several countries and had an international composition, including immigrants from Russia), decided to repeat another experiment on a modern basis. It was conducted in 1906 by Duncan McDougall: he weighed the terminally ill (mostly tuberculosis) and revealed that at the moment of death, each subject sharply decreased in weight by exactly 21 grams. Then the opponents tried to prove: the reason for this weight loss is in some oxidative processes occurring in the body of the dying. But modern researchers, having conducted the same experiments (modern science allows them not to put the unfortunate dying on the scales, but to measure changes remotely), proved with a 100% guarantee: after death, a person “loses weight” exactly by 21 grams.

Moreover, continuing the research, scientists saw with the help of instruments that.

“Even Heraclitus in the VI century. BC assumed: the human soul consists of a rare type of matter like air and fire, - says Professor Micha Reif, head of the department of one of the medical centers in Tel Aviv. - Today we know that the emitted substance consists of extremely small and separated atoms, the density of which is 176.5 times less than that of air. And it seems that this dark substance is not stored in some particular organ - say, in the heart - but evenly envelops a person. There is more research ahead. But we are sure that we really weighed the soul or some other vital substance. There is only one conclusion: the existence of the soul is proved.

Expert opinion

Mikhail Dudko, archpriest, dean of the Dormition Cathedral in London:

From the point of view of a believing Christian, all scientific evidence for the existence of God or the soul is superfluous and meaningless. For us, of course, the main sources of faith in eternal life are the Holy Scriptures.

Immortal life is an object of faith, and faith is the main virtue of a Christian. In addition to the Holy Scriptures, there are also testimonies of those people who visited the afterlife, and then returned.

We do not reject these clinical death reports. But no post-mortem experiences can tell in detail what awaits a person outside of earthly life. It is an object of revelation, an object of faith.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, humanity came close to resolving the question of the existence of the soul. Not only esotericists, but also scientists became interested in the answer to it. In 1926, a voluminous work " History of Spiritualism". The author of the work is a respected doctor, the famous creator of historical and detective novels, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the USA, seventeen years earlier, another physician became interested. Dr. Duncan McDougall raised the question of how much the human soul weighs before the experiment, the scientific fact was announced in wide circles. The experiment he conducted had stunning results and forever changed the world's understanding of spiritualism.

How to measure the soul and go down in history

The American doctor Duncan McDougall, seeing off the patients at the last hour, wondered whether people finally die, or whether there is some kind of spiritual shell that mediums and religious figures talk about. Dr. McDougall decided to approach the issue from a scientific point of view:

1. In the hospital, the scientist built a unique scale in the form of a bed, designed to become the last shelter for those dying of tuberculosis. They were supposed to record the data at the time of death. This category of patients was chosen due to the fact that they die calmly, without convulsions and will not cause erroneous fluctuations in weights.
2. After placing the patient, whose days are numbered, on the bed, the mark on the dial was set to zero.
3. For three hours before the death of the patient, the readings of the device were carefully monitored. The dying were provided with all possible medical care.
4. At the hour of death of each of the patients, Dr. McDougall recorded a decrease in body weight. Thus, indisputable evidence of the reality of the human soul was obtained.
5. The physician published the results of the experiment in the authoritative journal American Medicine.

The main theses of the experiment:

• At the time of death, the arrow on the scales rapidly twitched and in just a couple of seconds showed a weight loss equal to three quarters of an ounce (21 grams).
• Patients slowly lost one ounce (30 grams) per hour through sweating, evaporating moisture, and breathing. However, the jump at the time of death was sharp and sudden. "Is this really the weight of the soul?" asked the doctor. As a scientist, he remained skeptical throughout the experiment.
• Dr. McDougall personally checked the possibility of error: he lay down on a scale bed to check whether breathing affects the performance of the device. The same was repeated by his colleague. However, this had no effect on the movement of the arrow.
• In another case, the body lost 12 grams in weight, and then the weights returned to their previous state. Fifteen minutes later, the loss was repeated, finally. The soul left the owner, and then tried to return back? Alas, unsuccessful. Does this mean that in such a state a person retains the ability to be aware of himself?

Dr. McDougall came to the only possible conclusion: if the body loses weight, then some invisible particle leaves the dying person. This allowed him to suggest that the individuality of a person continues to exist after death.

The American physician was wary of supporting the activities of the Spiritualists, unlike Sir Conan Doyle. Mediums were not favored by the government and were equated with fraudsters, and MacDougall feared for his academic career. Even experiments with weighing the dying were recognized by colleagues as unethical.

The Significance of Dr. MacDull's Work for Esoteric Science

Based on the data obtained by the scientist, at the time of death, the soul leaves the physical body. The mental shell has weight, and therefore mass, which is proved by the vibration of the arrow in the last seconds of life. The question of the reality of the soul turns into a fact.

As usual in any scientific work, a number of other problems appear before esotericists: how long the astral, mental and etheric bodies exist? What fate awaits that particle of consciousness that is able to exist without a physical incarnation?

The law of conservation of energy suggests that nothing disappears forever. The material body is involved in the natural circulation of substances. Let us remember the immortal Shakespeare and his Hamlet. The ashes of Alexander the Great could well have become material for a cork in a wine barrel.

What fate awaits the ounce of human consciousness that leaves it at the hour of death? Whether the soul will wander forever among the living who do not notice it or will ascend to higher spheres - one can only guess. Is there an energy cycle of non-material entities? Will the soul disintegrate to become material for spiritual matter, from which the young souls of newborns will emerge? After spending some time in the form of a spirit, the image of a person can take on a new life, being reborn, as Hindus believe.

Questions will remain unanswered until another inquisitive doctor appears, inspired by the deeds of his predecessor, who discovered how much the human soul weighs, a scientific fact, of course, not yet fully recognized. Perhaps he will make an invaluable contribution to the intangible human body if he manages to find out what fate awaits us after death.

To date, there are several scientific assumptions about the weight of the human soul:

In 1906, Dr. Duncan McDougall from the American city of Haverhill, Massachusetts, conducted a series of experiments in an attempt to find out the mass of the human soul. To do this, he built a special bed, which, in fact, was a lever scale. Based on the assumption that the soul must have mass, right in the clinic, McDougall weighed patients before and after death. The difference between the readings, in his opinion, should have been equal to the mass of the soul. McDougall weighed six patients in total. As a result, he found that at the time of death a person loses part of his mass. On average, this figure was about five and a half spools, which corresponds to 22.4 grams. Dr. McDougall published the data of his research in a number of popular publications, as a result of which, the information that the soul weighs 21 grams became widespread.

On February 25, 2001, an article under the heading "How much does a human soul weigh?" was widely circulated in the media. The author of the article, Ph. From which Kugis concluded that this is the mass of the soul leaving the body after death.

An interesting experiment was conducted in a medical center in Switzerland. The subjects (23 volunteers in total) lay down on the ultra-sensitive scale beds and fell asleep. At the moment when a person passed into the sleep stage, he lost 4 to 6 grams in weight, when he woke up, the weight returned to its previous value. According to the experimenters, the data obtained indicate the materiality of the soul, which leaves the body during sleep.

In the afterword to the book by the American psychologist Raymond Moody "Life after death" there is also information about the weight of the soul. According to data obtained from the intensive care unit of the Cook County Hospital, Illinois, a person's body weight decreases by 9-12 grams after death. The same data were obtained in the observation of clinical death. It is noteworthy that if the resuscitation of the patient was successful, the weight of the person increased by the corresponding value.

In 1990, in the United States, employees of one of the laboratories came to the conclusion that the soul is a bioplasmic double of a person that leaves the body at the time of death. Researcher Lyall Watson found that the human body loses 2.5-6.5 grams in weight after death. Experiments, as in other cases, were carried out on specially made beds of scales.

In fairness, it should be noted that all known experiments on measuring the mass of the soul can hardly claim the title of serious scientific research. The reliability of these data is highly questionable. And their very presence does not guarantee that the results obtained indicate precisely the mass of the soul.
If we proceed from the assertion that the soul is non-material, then it is easy to come to the conclusion that it cannot have mass at all.

But in reality, it's not...

The human soul is a concept that is interpreted in completely different ways in philosophy, religion and psychology. The controversial question of whether a given substance is material or ephemeral has long occupied the minds of eminent scientists, philosophers and ordinary people. The weight of the human soul, according to research conducted by scientists in different years, ranges from 2.5 to 22.4 grams. How true these assumptions that the soul has weight, and how the practical data were obtained, can be found out by familiarizing yourself with the unusual methods used in scientific practice.

How can you determine the weight of a person's soul

Scientists approached the issue of "weighing human souls" thoroughly. At different times, several experiments were carried out to determine the weight of the human soul.

The weight of the human soul is from 2.5 to 22.4g.

• American doctor McDougal in 1915, in the journal Good News, he described a scientific experiment in which the weight of the soul was determined as the difference in the mass of the human body before and after his death. The study was conducted on a special bed capable of capturing the slightest fluctuations in the weight of the object under study. Six terminally ill patients in the near-death stage were weighed before and after death. The difference in measurements was five and a half spools or 22.4 grams.
• A community of scientists from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, led by Doctor of Natural Sciences Eugenius Kugis, studied the human body in a near-death state. The data obtained showed that at the time of death a person loses from 3 to 7 grams. It has been suggested that this difference is the weight of the human soul.
• A group of 23 volunteers in Sweden took part in an experiment using an ultra-sensitive bed scale. On the verge of sleep and wakefulness, the human body became lighter by 4-6 grams. Scientists agreed that this difference is the weight of the human soul, which leaves the human body at the time of sleep.
• Data obtained in the intensive care unit of the Cook County Hospital in Illinois indicate that the body weight of a person after his biological death becomes less by 9-12 grams. The same values ​​were reflected after the person suffered clinical death, but in this case, if the resuscitation manipulations were successful, the weight of the human body became the same.
• American explorer Lyell Watson discovered that the soul of a person is his bioplasmic counterpart, which leaves the human body after his death. It was found that the weight of the human soul is 2.5-6.5 grams.

All studies were documented and became public opinion. There were both skeptics and supporters of the theory of the weight of the human soul.

The weight of the human soul: myth or reality?

The belief in the existence of the soul is evidenced by numerous folklore sources from different peoples. In the verbal piggy bank of the Russian people, one can find eloquent proverbs and sayings about the soul: “The soul has gone to the heels”, “If you put your soul in - you can do anything”, “His soul is wide open”. That is, the presence of the soul, as a physical factor, was determined by its movement inside the human body and from the outside. The ancient Russians even determined the place in the human body where the soul itself is located. This "repository of the soul" was a depression between the collarbones, forming a dimple on the body. Also, this place on the chest was intended to store money. This is where the expression “there is nothing behind the soul” came from. It is assumed that wearing a pectoral cross in this place is nothing more than the protection of one's own soul.

The place of "stay" of the soul in the body is defined differently for different peoples: among the Indians it is in the nose, among the Papuans in the blood, the Polynesians "settled" the soul in the stomach, and the Siamese in the heart.

Despite the difference in the location of the incorporeal substance, all nationalities believed that at the time of death the soul leaves the human body and its further transformation already depends on the religious or pagan beliefs of the person. That is, in any case, if the soul is inside the body of a person, it is its integral part and has some certain weight.

What can happen to this non-material entity in the future?

• The most ancient source that has come down to us is the Egyptian Book of the Dead. It tells that the human heart was weighed by the gods Thoth and Anubis, the unburdened soul weighed “lighter than a feather” and could not be heavier than the feather of Maat, the goddess of truth. A soul of this weight went to heaven. More "heavy" souls of sinners went into the mouth of a monster with the body of a lion and the head of a crocodile.
• Most Indian religions define the subsequent destination of the soul as moving to another body. Optionally, this body may be human. At the same time, it is not possible for a person to influence what the new “home” for the soul will be like.
• Buddhism does not recognize the transmigration of souls. Death in Buddhism is a transition from one place to another, the outcome of such a movement is influenced by the actions of a person during his lifetime (karma). That is, the soul has no weight, since its incorporeal (spiritual) movement takes place.
• In Christianity, the destination of the soul, after the death of the human body, is either purgatory for souls - hell, or heavenly prosperity - paradise. Medical studies of the state of clinical death indicate that at the moment when a person is “between heaven and earth”, he sees and experiences such sensations quite realistically. The soul that has been in one of these places later re-inhabits the human body and becomes its integral part.

The weight of the human soul in scientific facts

Science is skeptical about the proposed research results. The conclusions of scientists are based solely on facts.

• Firstly, the first experiment on “weighing the soul” was carried out more than a hundred years ago, there is no need to talk about the existence of ultra-sensitive devices that can record the exact change in weight and the very moment of death, therefore, the data obtained on weighing are criticized by modern scientists.
• Secondly, the data obtained during the experiment were confirmed in 1 out of 6 patients, which does not indicate a 100% result. An experience is considered to have taken place when more than a fifty percent positive result is obtained.
• Thirdly, similar studies were also conducted on animals, in a dog, for example, at the time of death, no changes in weight were observed, which, according to scientists, is due only to the fact that at the time of death of a person there is a sharp jump in body temperature, so how the lungs stop cooling the blood, which is why fluid is released, which reduces body weight. And in a dog, the sweat glands are poorly developed and therefore the weight remains the same. And it does not in any way indicate that a person is endowed with a soul, and animals are deprived of it.

How much the human soul weighs, whether it is material, where it is located and whether it exists at all is a philosophical question and the answer to it is unlikely to be received in the near future, because the human body is still one of the most complex and unexplored mysteries, first of all, for the person himself.

In 2003, the film "21 grams" was released - a drama, one of the slogans of which was the phrase "How much does life weigh?" At the end of the film, it is stated that all people at the time of death lose 21 grams, supposedly this is how much the soul weighs. But is it really so?

How to prove the existence of the soul?

It was this question that tormented the American physician Duncan McDougall, who decided to experimentally prove the existence of the soul. In 1907, McDougall built a special bed, which was a large scale with high sensitivity, up to 5.6 grams. Since the scales were super sensitive, it was important that the dying person did not move. Therefore, for the experiment, he selected six people with debilitating diseases (mainly tuberculosis), who were so weak that they could not even move. After the death of patients, their corpses were observed for some time, and all changes were recorded.

How much does a soul weigh?

In March 1907, the results of the experiment were published in the New York Times under the headline "The Doctor Says the Soul Has Weight" ( English Soul Has Weight, Physician Thinks). The article claimed that McDougall had empirically proven that the weight of the soul is 21 grams- that's how much lighter the bodies became after death. The scientist conducted the same experiment on 15 dogs, but their body weight did not change after death, which, according to McDougall, proved the absence of a soul in dogs.

Research criticism

Let's start with the fact that even the complete coincidence of the results of 6 subjects is not enough to draw conclusions about the remaining 6-7 billion people. But this is not even the biggest problem.
The fact is that from McDougall's notes it appears that only part of his research was published in the New York Times, or rather, the most profitable part of them. As it turned out, only 1 of 6 McDougall's patients had irretrievably lost 21 grams of weight at the time of death. The results of two patients were not counted due to "technical problems". One of the subjects at the time of death lost 10 grams, but then his weight was restored. The weight of the other two patients first decreased at the time of death, and then again a few minutes later.
Another problem is the technology of the time. Let's not forget that even with all the modern technology, it is sometimes difficult for doctors to determine the exact moment of death, and McDougall conducted his experiment more than a hundred years ago. Many question the accuracy of his equipment and even the scales themselves. In addition, there are many types of deaths: clinical, biological, final, brain death, etc., and it is not entirely clear which of them the scientist had in mind.

How to explain weight loss after death?

Despite all the arguments about the technical imperfection and ambiguity of the results, one quite logical question arises: why did the weight of people decrease after death, while the weight of dogs remained the same? Doctors attribute this to the fact that at the time of death there is a jump in body temperature, as the lungs no longer cool the blood. In humans, this jump leads to sweating, due to which the corpse “drops” a few grams. At the same time, the sweat glands in dogs are very poorly developed - they cool themselves mainly by breathing through the mouth. That is why after death the moisture does not leave the body of the dog and its weight does not decrease.

In conclusion, we can safely say that McDougall's experiment could neither prove nor disprove the existence of the soul, and the statement that it weighs 21 grams can hardly be taken seriously.