Weighing The Human Soul
From a Noetic Science experiment in 1988:
The human soul weighs 1/3,000th of an ounce!
That’s the astonishing claim of East German researchers who recently weighed more than 200 terminally ill patients just before, and immediately after, their deaths.
In each case the weight loss was exactly the same–1/3,000th of an ounce.
“The inescapable conclusion is that we have now confirmed the existence of the human soul and determined its weight,” Dr. Becker Mertens of Dresden said in a letter printed in the German science journal Horizon.
“The challenge before us now is to figure out exactly what the soul is composed of”, he continued. “We are inclined to believe that it is a form of energy. “But our attempts to identify this energy have been unsuccessful to date.”
The expert’s report, co-authored by physicist Elke Fisher, got mixed review from top scientists around the world. Gerard Voisart, the leading French pathologist, was especially critical, saying that the weight difference between the living and the dead could be accounted for by air leaving the lungs. But Drs. Fisher and Mertens said they took that into account in making their calculations. They further stated that the device they used to weigh the soul has a margin of error of less than 1/100,000th of an ounce.
“It occurred to us that the weight loss could be the result of an instantaneous physical deterioration,” said Dr. Fisher. “But after exhaustive study we agreed that was not the case. The only possible explanation is that we were measuring the loss of the human soul or some kind of life force.”
The communist scientists were careful not to link their study of the soul with a superior being or with afterlife. But church leaders contacted by the European press said the experts’ report confirmed the existence of God and heaven–and praised their breakthrough research.
“It’s ironic that communist scientists would conduct a search for the soul, much less declare that they found it,” said one clergyman.
Repeated attempts to get an official statement from the Vatican were unsuccessful. But one highly placed source said Pope John Paul II was aware of the German study. And he reportedly was most impressed. “The Roman Catholic Church has never concerned itself with the weight of the soul, but we are pleased with scientific confirmation of its existence,” the source said.
From the tabloid, Weekly World News, Nov. 8, 1988. By Ragan Dunn. This story appeared in the same issue as a story headlined, “Painting of Elvis weeps real tears”, and “Psychic makes river run backwards”.
In the earliest 20th century, Dr Duncan McDougall measured the human soul at 21 grams.(The movie 21 Grams is based on the same findings).
In 1907, MacDougall weighed six patients while they were in the process of dying from tuberculosis in an old age home. It was relatively easy to determine when death was only a few hours away, and at this point the entire bed was placed on an industrial sized scale which was apparently sensitive to the gram. He took his results (a varying amount of perceived mass loss in most of the six cases) to support his hypothesis that the soul had mass, and when the soul departed the body, so did this mass. The determination of the soul weighing 21 grams was based on the average loss of mass in the six patients. Other studies were soon put forward to confirm the results. Experiments on mice and other animals took place. Most notably the weighing upon death of sheep seemed to create mass for a few minutes which later disappeared. The hypothesis was made that a soul portal formed upon death which then whisked the soul away.
In the Roman Catholic Church, Saint Michael has four main roles or offices. He is the Christian angel of death, carrying the souls of all the deceased to heaven, where they are weighed in his perfectly balanced scales (hence Michael is often depicted holding scales). At the hour of death, Michael descends and gives each soul the chance to redeem itself before passing, thus consternating the devil and his minions. St Michael is the special patron of the Chosen People in the Old Testament and is guardian of the Church; it was thus not unusual for the angel to be revered by the military orders of knights during the Middle Ages. Last, he is the supreme enemy of Satan and the fallen angels.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 am
This is amazing….never thought of the soul actually being part of ones bodt weight. what a freaky idea
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I am so glad that this information is finally coming to light. There is so much we cannot physically see, it will be most interesting to hear what has been proven next. Excellent stuff!
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I read about this in /The Lost Symbol/ by Dan Brown and I decided to google it and see if it was actually real. It just blows my mind!
December 26th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
I did the same after Reading dan brown it is actually amazing that less of this type of research has been conducted; although of course understandable given the morbid nature.Will be very interesting to see how
this type is research links in with many worlds hypothesis implied by quantum mechanics ( I.e everything that can happen does happen and the universe splits – potentially the soul is the accumulation of knowledge from deaths iof the same person in these parallel universes) and current thinking about dark matter and dark energy which make up most of the mass in the universe but have not yet been found ( sounds alot like an accumulation of souls ). Does give you hope when you realise the universe is so muh stranger than you think, that science doesn’t really have any answers – it is that there is something more after death….
January 29th, 2010 at 12:43 am
Afterlife 1 – Science 0….Scientists beaten by their own experiment MWHAHAHA!
February 4th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
all of you christans are fucking stupid it is not linked to any after life. the damn church turned it around you morons.
February 18th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
@tim
You are so right lol. Guys read the texts again… You obviously didn’t understand the most of it. Fools
March 7th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Whilst this experiment was slightly morbid, what it has proved is a truely amazing thing. Whether this shows we go somewhere or that there is something after death is yet to be proved, I guess each of us will find out for ourselves when the time comes. However, this also reminds me of the noetic experiments on the weight and gravity and power of thought. Wouldn’t it be amazing (considering humans only use about 10% of their brain) if our minds developed to the point where we could heal cancer and other terminal illnesses with the power of thought?
March 14th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
[...] Originally Posted by MontanaGuy gsoboi wrote: How could something we can't even find be destroyed anyway? Well, there are some who believe we cannot find it, yet they believe they were able to measure it's weight leave the human body at the time of death. Their claim is that a human soul weighs 1/3,000th of an ounce. Consider the link below. Weighing The Human Soul | Noetic Sciences – World of Noetic Science [...]
March 21st, 2010 at 7:41 pm
This is truly amazing. How exciting it is to find a way to prove that the human spirit has mass, even if it is 1/3000th of an ounce. The ramifications are astounding. I have allways believed in an afterlife, but never thought that SCIENCE would be able to delve into that arena. It just makes you want to study. Truly inspiring. Keep up the work.
April 16th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
I googled this after reading Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol because I was enthralled with the idea of noetic science. I am 16 and have an interest in physics and science in general and reading this just blows my mind. I hadn’t considered the possibility of there literally being some kind of life force or soul before reading The Lost Symbol, and I have never been religious. Although I’m not sure that this research implies that there’s an afterlife. However I do think that there must be some kind of life force.
I have been inspired by this research and it makes me want to study even more. Next year in sixth form, I am taking the Extended Project Qualification and YASS combined, and fully intend to include/study this in some way!
May 6th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
CONSIDER THIS,PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE AGES HAVE EXPERIANCED DEATH+RETURNED
TO TELL OF THE EXISTANCE OF AN AFTER
LIFE.I SPEAK FROM EXPERIANCE.I DIED.
21mins LATER I WAS BROUGHT BACK.
THERE IS A SOUL WITHIN EACH OF US.
AND THERE IS A GLORIOUS AFTERLIFE THAT WE CAN ALL LOOK FORWARD TO,JUST
AS GOD PROMMISED. TRUST ME, I WAS A
SKEPTIC WHO HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO BELIEF BY THE HAND OF GOD. JESUS HIMSELF GAVE ME A MESSAGE TO PASS ON:”LOVE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE. LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS.”
May 8th, 2010 at 10:20 am
That last comment brought tears to my eyes. I just read ‘The Loast Symbol’ interesting read! i’ve totally become addicted.. Want to learn so much, sounds weird but i haven’t slept in days.
Anyway, hope more answers come out about how complex and special we all are.
Sending good luck from Wales(UK)
May 13th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
christians maybe you should study your own religion before you think this proves the exixtance of jesus or god. The story of jesus for example is a plagerisation of the story of the egyptian god Horus who lived around 3000 B.C.
however this info. is extremely interesting. it is unbelievable what sciense is proving.
June 5th, 2010 at 9:18 am
pls tell me what & where is this ’science journal’ published – can’t seem to find out anything about it – is it a reputable source?? you say Germany?
June 27th, 2010 at 6:24 am
astounding..very wonderful, ain’t it..? I cannot beleive that science did thought about doing that..I thought before that instead of saying “we don’t believe that” why don’t they just do an experiment about that, In fact they are scientists…
June 30th, 2010 at 4:27 am
what about the 15 dogs that he murdered-and when they showed no weight loss -he claimed it was because “dogs have no souls”????
July 4th, 2010 at 9:10 am
I looked this up after reading Dan Brown’s book also. Haha. I calculated that 1/3000th of an ounce is about 0.01 grams. Although it isn’t a significant difference, it is still interesting, knowing that this finding was consistent with the 200 cases that they analyzed. Maybe an interesting experiment would be to see if an animal about the same weight of a human being loses 1/3000th of an ounce as well. Maybe they wont lose that weight, which may indicate that animals do not have souls. Or perhaps they do also lose that weight and we can go from there. :]
July 4th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Okay nevermind. I just read the article after I posted and realized that experiments conducted on animals have already occurred.
July 10th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
soul weight or none, dude dont say shit about jesus, he may or may not have been the son of god, but pretty much every historyian confirms he existed and if you had half the balls of that man did they’d write a bible about you too. Power to the big balls!
August 10th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
All of you ignorant fools who deny the existence of a higher power are only here to make us who do believe stronger. so, by all means, keep it up.
Now, as to the experiment that proved without a shadow of a doubt that we have souls and our souls possess mass. this by itself is something our ancestors never dreamt of happening. We are grateful for the advances of technology in this day and age, and for those who choose to use them for the betterment of mankind. To say the least, I am in awe. This is no small thing, of that I can assure you. Pretty soon, we will be seeing the different planes of existence and come to realize how small a part we play in the big game of life. In our greatest time, we will be performing miracles every day. Except we will not think of them as miracles because they will have become commonplace.
To all those who have something constructive to say, you have my eternal gratitude, as you prove that this world still dreams, and dreams big. As a matter of conversation, I would urge you all to look within yourselves and revel in the simple joys life brings to us, instead of looking always to the outside world. In way of parting, I have something to impart to you who believe. Of all the gods and goddesses this world has created to govern us, there is one you remain blind to. That is the GOD and GODDESS inside yourself, urging you to turn your vision into yourself. You have but to listen and you will be amazed at what you find. I bid you all a good day. Life is what you make it. If you don’t put anything in, you will not get anything out.
August 11th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Instant weight loss…woohoo, too bad your dead to appreciate it.
August 16th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Interesting that these experiments were ‘explained away’ with the loss in mass after death being attributable to lung exhalation. Surely we would then expect to see varying changes in mass, not the consistent loss in mass that was found?I find the fact that the change in mass was identical in all subjects totally atonishing. I would be interested to see whether their experiments had been repeated and should like to see a copy of the paper.
August 23rd, 2010 at 5:32 am
Every decade more and more of these “secrets” are revealed, what if i was to tell you that this was just one of the many secrets? Humans will one day become God’s they say (Apotheosis). Many people believe that day is 2012, the 21st of December, like it or not there’s going to be huge changes. The world changes, an obvious change, if nothing happena in 2012, then religions will be proven to innacurate, also with them the theorists ect. If we’re all thinking the same thing in 2012, then that’s combined thought, if noetic science’s hypothesis is right, then we’ll be seeing more percentige being used in our Minds. I am lucky to be alive at such an event, i will be 18, but i was brought into this world without choice, forced upon it’s terrors and sadness, but also it’s beauty and happyness, let no rules stop you doing what is natural… Nothing is true. Everything is Permitted
September 7th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
When you die, your bodily systems cease to exist. The energy needed to pump blood to and from certain body parts, the energy needed to keep the heart pumping, the energy needed to even keep breathing, that all ceases to exist.
Consider this. When you collectively put them together, all that energy needed for those simple bodily functions, could weigh 1/300th of an ounce. Noetic Science has proven that something leaves the body, in a dimension we cannot yet perceive, but just consider this simple scientific explanation I put above.
Please comment. It will be appreciated….
September 7th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Just picking up on what Wondering has said. What if ‘pressure’ has mass? After all out body is kept pressurised internally by our heart and maybe when the heart stops beating that pressure is what is being weighed? I do believe that we have an inner us, whatever you want to call it, I don’t believe in a single devine being. I have always been of the opinion that humans are more than what we are at the moment when I first heard that the human brain is operating on minimum. However, with experiments such as these there are many variables and all need to be examined and eliminated before declaring that the weight loss is proof of the existance of a soul.