I heard this story, legend, the real thing about the good old Russians/Soviets doing tests with dying people. They found out that when a person dies apparently 21 grams of his/hers weight disappears. Why? What might weigh 21g that we lose at the moment of our death?
Is it perhaps our soul?
If a soul is made of some kind of 'spirit matter' would it actually have a weight?
Today I read about Democritus, a Greek natural philosopher who introduced the idea of atoms. He also had this idea of our soul consisting of atoms. Soul atoms that are perfectly round when other atoms have all kinds of hooks and what not. So these atoms make our soul and they are not one immortal soul unit but when we die they fly away and become parts of other souls. I thought this to be a terribly interesting idea. Not that I believe in it really. I believe in an immortal soul.
But I'm not quite sure what happens to it when we die.
At some point I had this hippie idea of it becoming a part of this greater energy that radiates throughout the world. Kind of like God but maybe not all that conscious.
Maybe it becomes a part of God?
I don't enjoy the idea of our souls travelling to heaven and then getting back together with our bodies in the end. But maybe a soul doesn't have any point without a body.
Call me stupid but I just can't believe there would be no life after death. I know that thoughts are 'just' (nothing 'just' about it) electric current running through our nerves but where do they originally come from? Ideas, inventions and philosphical thinking are just so out of this world :).
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