The Weight of the Human Soul
Humans have always had a deep interest in the soul. What is the soul? Does the soul ever die? These are questions that humans have been asking, and trying to find answers to, for all of remembered history. I would guess that readers on this website absolutely know that we are more than our bodies. Our bodies are simply our avatars in this lifetime on earth. The real us is a non-physical energy body that is eternal and is currently animating our chosen avatars in this lifetime. We have lived many lives, and will live many more, both in the physical and non-physical realms.
In 1907 a doctor set out to prove that humans had a soul that was not only real, but had mass and could be weighed. Doctor Duncan MacDougall designed a bed with an accurate set of beam scales. He found some people who were dying of terminal illnesses and convinced them to lie on his bed right at the time of their death. MacDougall carefully weighed each person before, during and after their death.
MacDougall found that each person dropped exactly 21 grams at the time of death when their soul, or energy body, parted from their physical body.
MacDougall took all of the processes of physical death into account during his experiments and with each person that died while being weighed, his conclusion was the same, the human soul weighed three-fourths of an ounce, or 21 grams.
Later in 1911, MacDougall was again on the front page of The New York Times with a dozen pictures from experiments he had done to photograph the human soul, or energy body, leaving the physical body at the exact time of death. He called the substance he was photographing, interstellar ether.
I have never been in a room where someone died but I have loved ones that have passed out of this physical lifetime. A few have come back to visit and one of them was my father. He physically died over three years ago.
One year after my father’s physical death, my mother, sisters and I decided to take a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate my dad. He had loved Las Vegas in life. It was his kind of town!
We rented a suite so we could all stay together and, late one night as I turned out the lights in the living room part of the suite, I had a strong intuitive feeling that I should take a few pictures. I just got a kind of “knowing” to leave the lights off and let in the lights of Vegas through the large windows. I had no idea that “knowing” came from my father at the time but he was right there with me and he wanted me to take his picture. There is no doubt of that. To make sure I knew immediately that it was indeed my father, he showed up right there in our suite in Las Vegas in full military fatigues but so much younger in his body and stance. He was leaning against the bar and typical of my dad, he likely had a cold beer in his hand. Below is the picture I took of my father in Las Vegas.
Humans will always have a deep fascination with the soul. Movies, books, and songs have been written about the soul because even though we have a bit of amnesia in these physical lives, we feel this truth.
We know we are eternal non-physical sparks of energy from Source.
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... I am a level two QHHT hypnotist trained by Dolores Cannon shortly before her death. I used Dolores’ method because I could go straight to our Oversoul which is our connection to this Universe. There is so much to learn there. I could help people under hypnosis by allowing them to see their past lives so that they could better understand their current life. Connecting to the Universe along with another consciousness doing the same thing in the room is a powerful experience. We felt such an electric feeling in the room and in ourselves. Those sessions opened my subconscious and my intuition became even stronger as did the people that had the sessions with me. They experienced a lot of changes in their lives. I came to know a very special man that was a Buddhist Guru in Texas. He had come from China as a young man and started a Buddhist temple. He had the ability of being very intuitive. When I walked into the room, he first rang a small brass bell to clear the room. Then he quickly began shuffling ordinary playing cards and told me many things about myself. He taught me to find my answers within myself and not to seek them elsewhere. I have been blessed by, The Dali Lama when he made his visit to the temple where I attended. I’m not Buddhist but I felt the need to study their ways at that time in my life. The temple was bright and colorful and filled with people. People made pilgrimages to see the Guru and he gave them his time seven days a week. I have taken sound healing with Tom Kenyon and studied his work with the Hathors. Kenyon is the best sound healer on the planet. Through sound one can achieve deep states where answers can be found inside of each of us. I had an out of body experience while listening to a world meditation that Tom Kenyon gave through the Hathors. It was a visual lesson. I had been stumbling along trying to understand something and the meditation sent me right into the Universe where I experienced my lesson in full color. What Tom Kenyon gives to the world through the Hathors and his incredible voice is an experience I am honored to have had. I came to this life already knowing other life existed off this planet. As an adult I had a full blown contact experience. I had a lifetime interest in ET’s but after my contact experience, I knew I needed to get a camera and take images and videos of spacecraft in our day and night skies so others could see what I knew was out there. I used a camera technique and intuitive photography to capture some interesting images and some beautiful craft. I got the knowing to do this kind of photography from my contact experience. I lived close to a family of Sasquatch for five years that made me welcome. I am honored to know them and even though I no longer live close to them I still feel their connection. It’s been a lifetime of learning, and I continue to learn every single day. If asked what was the most important lesson that I have ever learned in my lifetime, it would be this; our bodies are just bodies. Our bodies are not who we really are. Inside of each of us there is an energy body. Our energy bodies are all knowing, eternal beings. Even though we don’t all remember that, it’s true. When our bodies physically die, we don’t even lose consciousness. We simply “blink” to a new reality, one we are very familiar with. What many have forgotten in this lifetime is that as an, All Knowing, Eternal Being, we are Sovereign. I have fully embraced that in myself. I am the sole owner of my body, my mind, and my energy. I am not ruled by the confinements of our physical life on earth. I choose to awaken all of my Sovereign Abilities! ~ Vickie Definition of Sovereign Dictionary sov·er·eign/ˈsäv(ə)rən 1. a supreme ruler, especially a monarch. Similar: ruler monarch supreme, ruler crowned, head of state, lord adjective: possessing supreme or ultimate power.”in modern democracies the people’s will is in theory sovereign.
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I have taken classes and studies at The Monroe Institute in Virginia, USA (TMI). I took the, Gateway Voyage and then returned to TMI to study, Out of Body Advanced with William Buhlman. The institute was developed by Robert Monroe to study and teach about our natural ability to leave our physical body. We can explore, and we do this naturally, almost every time we sleep. TMI is a place setup for learning to go out of body consciously. Not while you sleep, but while you’re awake.
i do recall the experiments of that doctot…now that you remind me! thanks. neat photograph.
They did a movie called 21 Grams that was so sad.
Hey Vickie!!!
Nice post :). And an interesting topic.
I’ve also heard of this doctor’s research and found it to be interesting. Odd how certain groups of people seem to prefer to ignore or discount such things.
This is one of many reasons why I love attending TMI courses. Many of the instructors cover this topic is some detail.
I’ve shared with you a while back one of the experiences I had during an OBE during one of the many exercises that are a core part of these courses. In one of them (I was attending “Starlines” at the time), the experience I was having was soooo….connected…so, purposeful and natural I didn’t want to come back.
I had decided to stay in this other dimension and continue the work I was doing.
Remember that idea that we have “Free Will”? Since I made the decision, one would think I would have departed my body….completely detach myself…..and not come back. Hmmm, guess what…..some Spirit Guides had other ideas.
I ended up back here and I spoke with the lead instructor about what happened. She was adamant….she didn’t want anyone making that kind of decision during any exercises at TMI. Why? Because it would likely be misinterpreted and it just wouldn’t be good.
So, how does that tie into your article? It feels like an indirect connection. Your father influenced you in a way hat you felt intuitively, but couldn’t interact with him as you could your family at the time.
That’s exactly what I was doing when I was in the midst of that exercise. The sense of purpose, the connection I felt to everything was so profound….I just didn’t want it to end and I couldn’t see the point of coming back. No one here cared one way or the other about my existence….there seemed to be no purpose for me being here any longer.
Well…..there is….but sometimes we just can’t see it because our ego or out fears or our repetitive thinking gets in the way.
Man….young lady….I’m so glad you had this experience. I wonder what’s next on your unseen agenda 🙂
Hey Keith, What a truly profound experience you had at TMI that time. I can certainly understand that feeling because it feels like a good and familiar place to be out of our bodies. But, here we are in these physical lives that we really did choose before we came here and this physical life is sooooo short. I can’t believe how fast the years go. These lives we are living currently on earth are very important to each of us along our path. So, I’m glad you decided to come back into your’s. Thanks for telling all of us about that profound experience. ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
I’ve seen experiments like this even recently. Why… wait… how … wait… there are just some people (like the one I am divorcing) who will never want to know one tiny detail about this. They are not ready for the change their lives will experience if they acknowledge that perhaps, we are more than our bodies. Strange world we are living in.. love it Vickie!
Thank you, Cari. Yes, I agree there are people that will never look at this, understand it, or even care because they didn’t come into this lifetime to learn this. Some people didn’t mark the box “wake up” when they were setting up the details of incarnation. They chose a life of immersing themselves fully into physical reality and not see anything much beyond it. Some of my own family is a lot like that too.