What Does a Soul Weigh?

Toward a Spiritual Physics

Dying to Ditch the Last Five Pounds?

A LOT of fairly strange and downright bizarre things find their way onto your radar when you take a stroll through the wonderful world of woo - for, say, 20 years or so…

Here’s one.

In the early 1900s, a Dr. Duncan McDougall of Haverhill, Massachusetts, found that people underwent a baffling instantaneous loss of weight at death, varying between one-half and three-quarters of an ounce (21 grams).

The film 21 GRAMS was based on this idea.

The research of McDougall seems to have been replicated in the work of five physicians at a Massachusetts hospital.† These men built a large and very delicate balance. On one platform they would lay a person who was at the very point of death, while on the other platform they would place counterweights so as to bring the large pointer into a balanced condition. At the moment the heart stopped beating, the doctors said, “With startling suddenness the pointer moved, indicating a weight loss from the now dead patient’s body. The amount of the weight loss which we encountered over such tests in a six-year period varied between one-half and one ounce.”¹

Afterlife researcher (and creator of the Spiricom) George Meek seemed to suspect that the weight loss represented the stored lifetime’s worth of information in the human mind, personality and soul, leaving the inert body.

He cited the incredible ability of tiny—almost weightless—silicon computer chips weighing as little as 20% of the weight loss measured by McDougall to store unfathomable amounts of information/bits by way of comparison.

The human psyche and the “permanent atoms” posited by Theosophy remaining after death would surely have far greater capacity yet, however, there is a physics explaining the sudden weight loss, as explained by Dan Winter:

A successful death would be one in which the essential symmetry (pattern) ingredients of biological charge were able to propagate successfully and coherently—that is without serious loss of information density…This would mean that the energy field of the body were able to sustain itself—without the cellular makeup of the rest of the body’s mass at death. We…further speculate that this weight loss IS associated with the charge density which has been able to leave the body.²

The departure of the plasma body/psyche is apparently the reason for the sudden small loss of bodily mass. As Winter explains, rotation, compression, and storage of charge into the geometric centre of any body creates the inertia we measure as mass (as well as the effect we tend to call “gravity”).

Hence larger bodies have more mass and stronger “gravitational fields” (more charge-implosion towards centre). This, rotation, compression, and storage of charge is exactly what the human torsion-plasma field is doing while associated with the human body, thus presumably adding to its mass.

Therefore, when the plasma field (soul/psyche) departs, it takes a small amount of that mass with it, and the body instantly loses a tiny amount of weight, as McDougall and others found. 

Much more of this fascinating esoterica to come in Book 2 of The Grand Illusion…

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1. Meek, After We Die, What Then?

2. Dan Winter, Fractal Conjugate Space and Time