Materialist science accepts only evidence the experimenter’s senses provide, following Cartesian dualism established by René Descartes in the 17th century. Descartes separated the foundations of reality into two substances: the physical and the mental or non-physical. Science was free to focus on the physical, while the mental would be left to religion. Over the course of the next four centuries, science trivialized all things non-physical. As the influence of religions waned, scientism became the predominant religion, with its dismissal of all things non-physical.
Today humankind’s understanding of reality is shifting. As we learn more about the non-physical, humankind is coming to realize that the non-physical is just as real as the physical. We are seeing a paradigm shift as the evidence mounts that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.
Science is not accepting the shift without a struggle. There are at least eight areas of evidence the non-physical is as real and substantial as the physical that materialist scientists are loath to consider:
- People use remote viewing to see far-distant objects or scenes without using the senses or the brain.
- Researchers cannot explain how the mind is produced by or located in the brain.
- Researchers cannot explain how memories are produced by, retrieved from, or located in the brain.
- People with little or no brain tissue lead normal lives.
- People with deteriorated brains often revive just before their deaths and have lucid conversations.
- In near-death experiences, people leave their bodies and describe accurately things in other places.
- Psychics know information the brain and body haven’t experienced
- A great variety of controlled experiments prove minds are linked.
This article explains these eight areas of evidence the non-physical is as real and substantial as the physical.
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1. People Use Remote Viewing to See Far-Distant Objects or Scenes
Many people are able to see objects or scenes far distant from them without using their eyes through a common ability called “remote viewing.” The remote viewers sit quietly with their eyes closed and focus on an object or scene hundreds or thousands of miles away. The remote viewers instantly see in their mind’s eye what is there and send sketches to the person at that remote location. The remote viewers’ sketches match what is at the remote location, in great detail. Not only that, but the remote viewer can hear, smell, touch, sense movement in, and have emotional responses to the remote object or scene. The remote viewer is having a variety of sensory experiences while the body is sitting quietly with its eyes closed far removed from what is being viewed. The sensory organs are not involved in the experience. Carefully designed studies of remote viewing have shown it to be a real, validated phenomenon.
Materialist science cannot explain how remote viewers can perform these feats when the sensory organs and brain are not involved. And so the materialists ignore the evidence.
2. Researchers Cannot Explain How the Mind Is Produced by or Located in the Brain
Brain researchers are unable to explain how brain functions could result in a mind. The problem resulted in researcher Dr. David Chalmers referring to this puzzle as the “hard problem of consciousness.” One of these researchers, Wilder Penfield, spent his whole life looking for the mind in the brain. Penfield was a brain surgeon. As he was probing the brain during brain surgery, he could never find a mind in the brain. He ended up at the end of his life saying the mind makes its impact on the brain but is not in the brain. He wrote, “If there were a mechanism in the brain that could do what the mind does, one might expect that the mechanism would betray itself in a convincing manner by some better evidence of epileptic or electrode act.”
There are no validated materialist science explanations for how the brain could create a mind, and the scientists aren’t willing to consider other explanations for where the mind is located.
3. Researchers Cannot Explain How Memories Are Produced by, Retrieved from, or Located in the Brain
The human brain has been carefully mapped to reveal the areas responsible for human activities. In spite of the extensive research, no brain researcher has discovered how and where memories are stored in the brain. Simon Berkovich, Professor of Engineering and Applied Science in the Department of Computer Science of George Washington University, and Dutch brain researcher Herms Romijn, working independently of one another, concluded that it is impossible for the brain to store everything you think and experience in your life. An hour of television would overwhelm the brain’s capacity. In spite of that, we can recall a great number of memories from our childhoods.
And some people remember details of every day of their lives, an ability called hyperthymesia. All the brain’s cells are shed and replaced 10,000 times in a lifetime. They are not like a hard drive that always keeps its electromagnetic tracks unless they are erased. A life of memories could not be stored in the brain.
No materialist researcher has identified where or how memories could be stored in the brain.
4. People with Little or No Brain Tissue Lead Normal Lives
People who have had half their brains removed in hemispherectomies to correct disorders resistant to other treatments live normal lives. A study of hemispherectomies showed many patients had no loss of personality, mental functions, or memory. Children who undergo hemispherectomies often improve academically once their seizures stop.
Other patients with a condition called hydrocephalus, in which the cranial cavity is filled with cerebral-spinal fluid with little brain tissue, have normal or above-average IQs and normal personalities, mental functions, and memory. One 44-year-old man’s brain showed fluid occupying most of his skull, with a thin sheet of brain tissue, but he was a married father with two children who worked successfully as a civil servant.
Materialist science has no explanation for how people could have normal or above-normal life functions with little or no brain.
5. People with Deteriorated Brains Often Revive Just Before Their Deaths and Have Lucid Conversations
Dying patients with brain abscesses, tumors, strokes, meningitis, Alzheimer‘s disease, dementia, schizophrenia, and mood disorders, cannot have normal, lucid mental functioning. Their brains are broken. They are deteriorated. In spite of that, these patients often revive just before death and have normal, clear conversations with loved ones at length, for hours or days. The phenomenon is called “terminal lucidity.” It’s as though the dying person was a television set hammered into pieces that suddenly come together with a perfect picture and sound just before death.
The materialists cannot explain how someone with a brain that is deteriorated and resembles Swiss cheese could suddenly be lucid, with perfectly functioning mental capacities.
6. In Near-Death Experiences, People Leave Their Bodies and Describe Accurately Things in Other Places
Many verified near-death experiences on record provide unusually convincing evidence that the brain is not involved in the near-death experience. A migrant worker near death in a cardiac-care unit revived and described how she felt herself floating upward, above the hospital, where she saw a man’s dark-blue tennis shoe on a window ledge, well-worn, scuffed on the left side where the toe would go. Workers searched the windows of the hospital and found the tennis shoe exactly as she described it.
In another incident, a woman near death described floating above the hospital, where she saw a red tennis shoe on the roof. Workers searched for it and found it just as she had described it.
In a famous near-death account, a woman named Pam Reynolds was put into a controlled coma to treat a deadly brain aneurysm, rendering her clinically dead. After she revived, she described perfectly all the activities in the surgery suite, including a special saw used to open her skull. Five eminent cardiac specialists supported the accuracy of her descriptions.
The fact that during some near-death experiences people have out-of-body experiences in which they clearly describe things they could not have seen or heard should be accepted and studied by materialist scientists. Instead, they try in vain to explain away the events.
7. Psychics Know Information the Brain and Body Haven’t Experienced
Psychic detectives are used routinely by police departments to solve difficult crime cases. The psychics describe events so accurately that the police locate a missing person, demonstrating that the psychics were getting information without using their senses or brains. In one case, psychics Debbie Malone and Scott Russel-Hill helped solve a murder by telling detectives 22 facts about the victim and killers that were shown to be true, including the nicknames of the perpetrators and where and how the murder took place.
In another case, a psychic detective named Phil Jordan was brought in to find two men who disappeared along a fast-moving stream. Jordan pinpointed on a map where the two bodies were and even that there were flowers in the stream, although it was mid-winter with snow on the ground. The two bodies were found where he said they would be, and the flowers were found to be flowers mourners had cast into the water where the two men had disappeared.
The evidence for the accuracy of psychic detectives is attested to by police departments. Materialist science has no explanation for how the psychics could know things they had not experienced themselves.
8. A Great Variety of Controlled Experiments Prove Minds Are Linked
In Ganzfeld experiments, senders in a soundproof room receive a random picture or short video and concentrates on using telepathy to communicate it to the receiver. Receivers are in another soundproof room not adjacent to the senders’ rooms in soundproof rooms. The receiver records what they are seeing or feeling. In large numbers of these experiments, receivers successfully describe what the sender is sending at rates far higher than chance with odds of ten billion to one against the suggestion the receivers were guessing.
In other studies, senders in sealed, electrically shielded chambers were exposed to random bright flashes of light, sounds, or electric shocks. Receivers in other rooms fitted with electroencephalograph (EEG) devices registered brain-wave patterns consistent with the senders’ experiences. Their minds were linked.
In still another study, two groups of meditators 200 km apart without contact focused their minds on the other group and EEGs of their brain waves showed their brain waves synchronized between the two groups.
These and many other such experiments show that people’s minds are linked. That couldn’t happen if the mind was confined to the skull. Materialist scientists are unable to explain these phenomena using their materialist paradigm.
What the Eight Experimental Findings Point To
Materialists have no explanations for these experimental findings. The eight findings demonstrate realities about life that are beyond the limited view of the physical world. The basis of reality is consciousness, the mind of God or the Source. We are spiritual beings having a brief physical experience.
Remote viewers are able to see and hear things thousands of miles away because the reality is that we are not limited by space. Our minds can experience anything we can cue up by focusing on a location.
Researchers cannot explain how the brain could create a mind or store memories because the mind and memories are not in the brain. Instead, the brain is in the greater mind we are all part of. We can cue up memories from that greater reality when we just intend to experience them.
People with little or no brain tissue live perfectly normal lives because the mind is not in the brain and does not use the brain for functions.
People with deteriorated brains often become lucid before the body dies because the person’s mind is not in the brain. It uses the body to communicate and may return to the body when the end of this life is near.
Near-death experiencers have experiences apart from the body because their minds were never confined to their bodies. When they are released from the body temporarily, their minds can freely range anywhere to have experienced while the brain is flat-lined.
Psychics know information the brain and body haven’t experienced because the mind has access to information and other people’s minds when the psychic relaxes away from the focus on the Earth plane to allow information to flow from any source.
Experiments show minds are linked because our minds are not confined to our brains inside a cramped cranium. We are one mind in Our Universal Intelligence who can communicate with one another apart from the body and brain.
The evidence supports the conclusion that we are eternal beings having a physical experience. We will come to the end of this life and leave the body behind, but we will never die.
