21 grams: A unique and unique experiment in the history of the world to determine the weight of the human soul

 

The ancient Egyptians believed that after death a person goes on a long journey. He thought that this journey was very difficult in which he reached the Hall of Double Truth by boarding the boat of the sun god (called Egyptian Ra).

According to mythology, in this hall of truth-seeking, the deeds of the soul are examined and judged on its basis. Here the weight of the pen of the Goddess of Truth and Justice is compared to the weight of the human heart. The ancient Egyptians believed that all the good and bad deeds of man were written on his heart. If man has lived an honest life, his soul will weigh as light as a feather and he will have a place forever in the paradise of the Egyptian god Osiris. A glimpse of this ancient Egyptian hypothesis is found in a 1907 study published in the Journal of the American Society for Psychic Research. The study, entitled "Experimental Evidence of the Existence of the Soul with the Assumption of the Substance of the Soul," discussed the experiences of the human soul after death. I was published in which it was clearly written that the doctors think that the soul also has a special weight. It talked about the experiences of a physician named Dr. Duncan McDougall. Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1866, Dr. Duncan moved to Massachusetts, USA, at the age of twenty.

He graduated from the University of Houston's School of Medicine and spent most of his life treating people at a charity hospital in Hewralt. The hospital was owned by a businessman whose business was primarily with China. From China they brought an important thing, the 'Fairbank scales'. The scales were first made in 1830 and it was easier to weigh large objects accurately. The day Dr. Duncan worked, people would die the next day, and seeing a weighing machine in a hospital, the idea of ​​weighing the human soul came to his mind. According to an article published in the New York Times, six years after the incident, the subject of the research came to light, which was: Is?' The purpose of his research was not to prove the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians or to know anything about the gods and goddesses of Egypt, but the subject of his research was consistent with this ancient belief. You can understand that he started his research by saying that the soul separates from the human body after death. That is, they were not questioning the existence or non-existence of the soul. But as a result of their research, it was possible to recognize this on a scientific level. Dr. Duncan McDougall made a special kind of bed that weighed very light and fitted it on the large scales in the hospital. He balanced the scales so that it could weigh less than an ounce (about 28 grams an ounce). People who were seriously ill or had no hope of survival were laid to rest in that particular bed and their deaths were closely watched. He used to write down any change in body weight in his notebook. During this time they would also calculate the weight, assuming that the level of water, blood, sweat, feces, urine or oxygen, nitrogen in the body would also change. In his research, four more doctors were working with him and all had separate data.

Dr. Duncan claims that "when a person takes his last breath, he loses half or one and a half ounces of body weight." "The moment the body becomes inactive, the scales come down sharply," said Dr Duncan. It looks like a sack that encloses with a drawstring. According to Dr. Duncan, he also performed the experiment with 15 dogs and the results were negative. He said the dogs "did not show any change in body weight at the time of death." He described the results of the experiment as follows: "At the time of death, a person's body weight changes because they have a soul in their body, but dogs do not have a body because there is a soul in their body." It doesn't happen. ' The six-year experiment covered only six cases. Another problem was that data from two doctors were not included in the study. "Our scales were not fully adjusted and outsiders were objecting to our work," said one. The other doctor said, "This investigation was not correct. One patient died within five minutes of being bedridden. By the time he died, I had not fully adjusted the scales. The results of such research were based on only four patients. In three cases, immediately after death, the body weight suddenly decreased and then increased after a while.In the fourth case, the body weight suddenly decreased, then increased and then decreased again. An important point of the investigation was that Dr. Duncan and his team did not specify the exact time of his death. In fact, the research showed that people were divided into two tents. Some American newspapers that believe in religion have said that these findings of the research cannot be denied and that the research is proof that the soul exists. However, Dr. Duncan himself said that he was not convinced that his research had proved anything. He said his investigation was only a preliminary investigation and more was needed. The scientific community not only refused to accept the results of his research but also refused to accept the veracity of his experience. But of the six people that Dr. Duncan studied, the first change in the body is still a matter of debate. Based on this research, many people still say that a human soul weighs three quarters of an ounce or 21 grams. It was a change in the body of Dr. Duncan's first patient.