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VICTOR J ZAMMIT: The Mind/Brain Debate
in the Age of Science
The
mind/brain debate has been going for more than twenty centuries.
Historically, it is one of the most important debates ever.
Plato and Socrates in the classical age of Greece and Descartes
before the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, promoted and
accepted the duality of mind and brain.
As a psychic-afterlife investigator, I state in absolute
terms that there is overwhelming objective evidence that
the physical brain is not the mind. The physical brain dies
when the physical body dies, but the mind survives physical
death.To-day, without any objective evidence, materialists
claim that mind and brain are the same thing.
My objective
evidence for a separate MIND is to be found in the TWENTY
THREE different areas for the evidence of the afterlife
in my book on the Internet (see below). The evidence for
survival can be used for to show the separate existence
of the mind and brain before and after physical death. And
equally the existence of MIND separate from the brain is
evidence for life after death.
- Empirical
research –admissible evidence - has shown that whereas
the physical brain is destroyed at the moment of death
the MIND continues to survive. The MIND is pure vibrating
energy and:
• is the element which removes time and space in
the afterlife,
• conducts 'thoughts' faster than the speed of light,
• retains all experiences whether consciously accessed
or not,
• includes the subtle bodies attached to the main
duplicate physical body,
• can create 'substance' in different dimensions,
• includes the aura which is the energy being projected
from the body,
• is like a television station: it can send and
receive vibrations by way of sound and pictures –
AND feelings,
• has the capacity to read other minds - telepathy,
• has the capacity to move solid objects and levitate
objects and humans,
• has the capacity to decrease and increase its
body's vibrations - materialisations and dematerializations,
• has the capacity to initiate, direct and target
positive and negative energy towards inanimate objects
and to living things, including human beings,
• has the capacity to heal another mind, body and
spirit,
• can transfer the 'etheric body' from one place
to another faster than the speed of light,
• has no beginning, no end in the afterlife dimensions,
• is eternal because it is part of the 'Universal
Cosmic Mind' - or as others see it is as a 'spark' of
the Divine,
• has enormous power we on earth have not really
envisaged.
The MIND can be seen as the driver of a motor car and
the BRAIN as the vehecile itself. The brain obeys the
mind. The mind gives direction and continues to accumulate
all the experiences. When the car rusts and 'dies', the
driver MIND lives on.
Not all minds are equal in development. Some minds are
more powerful and more developed than others. A superior
mind can influence and manipulate inferior, less evolved
minds - even from great physical distance. However even
if it takes aeons of time, each mind will continue to
refine and become stronger and more powerful in the afterlife.
MIND
- the ultimate frontier
Scientists
have conducted and are conducting critical research into
psychic phenomena and the afterlife. Some of the most brilliant
and important scientists who ever lived on this earth have
used and are using their skills as scientists to show that
the afterlife - and hence the mind - exist.
Whilst
materialists and closed minded skeptics try to attack or
ignore the objective evidence for psychic phenomena and
the afterlife, the fact of the matter is that NO materialist,
no closed minded skeptic, no scientist, no negatively minded
psychologist has ever rebutted the evidence for the afterlife
- and for the existence of the mind.
Since
psychic phenomena such as mediumship, Out of Body Experiences,
Near Death Experiences, Remote Viewing, Materialisations,
Proxy Sittings, Poltergeists, Electronic Voice Phenomena,
Instrumental Transcommunication have been and are producing
positive results, then it inevitably follows that the same
evidence can be used for supporting the separation of the
MIND and the BRAIN.
Those materialist psychologists who have been saying that
the mind does not exist have NOT rebutted the objective
and other evidence for psi and the afterlife. They claim
that all psychic/spiritual experiences emanate from the
‘limbic system’ within the brain – (see
for example Chapter 18 of my book on Near Death Experiences).
When
quality mediumship such as John Edward’s
is being demonstrated on television those from the other
side sending messages are using their mind and not the brain.
Currently research is being done but initial results from
just five shows show that the information John Edward is
obtaining during his television shows CROSSING OVER cannot
come by chance: conservatively, the mathematical probability
is MORE than 2,000,000 to 1 and if all shows are considered
during the one year the mathematical probability will be
astronomical – significantly more than twenty times
the odds stated. Translated this means it is NOT possible
the information is being obtained by chance - it is the
mind which is providing the information.
Since
the brains of those who crossed over no longer exist, having
been destroyed when they physically died, it follows then,
that it is the MIND of these individuals which is sending
messages to their loved ones on earth.
Similarly
it is the mind which is operational when the person’s
brain is unconscious or clinically dead and the person has
vivid memories of an out of body experience or a near death
experience. As Dr Peter Fenwick (from the
United Kingdom - an internationally renowned
neuropsychiatrist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists),
Dr Willem Van Lommel (cardiologist from
Holland) and Dr Kenneth Ring
(empiricist NDE’s United States)
pointed out, how can the materialists explain a person whose
brain is 'flatlining' on an EEG being able to describe in
vivid detail what had been happening in the operating theatre
after he was clinically dead? Clearly, Dr Fenwick
and others are stating that when science is being used to
show that the brain is technically dead, it is the MIND
which is observing and remembering what is going on in the
operating theatre AND in other nearby rooms. And this is
only a fraction of the evidence available by cardiologists
and psi researchers.
Until
the evidence for the afterlife is rebutted – the evidence
for the separation of the MIND and BRAIN will continue to
be valid. But the evidence over the last ten years is showing
that more scientists, more researchers and more people from
around the world are now supporting the afterlife and no
doubt the MIND/BRAIN separation will inexorably be accepted
as mainstream knowledge in the near future.
--
Victor Zammit (last update January 2003)
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