X-Message-Number: 18051 Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 02:13:23 +1030 From: William Henderson <> Subject: [Fwd: Ahem..consider?] In relation to cryonics and the reanimation through a duplicate brain the following excerpt from my book might be interesting (and throw more coals on the fire): We all know about Semyon Kirlian who "discovered a type of energy structure infusing and surrounding the body of all living things in 1939 in Russia, after noticing its appearance around patients while undergoing electro-therapy. Kirlian and his wife then spent the next 25 years developing the technology with which to study this energy structure. Using Kirlian technology biophysicists and biochemists were then able to study this energy structure using an electron microscope. In 1968 scientists in Russia officially announced the discovery of a new energy system in all living things. Biochemists say that this energy body is some sort of elementary plasma-like constellation made of ionised particles not a chaotic system, but a whole unified organism in itself. The scientists studying this energy body called it bio-plasma energy . It was further discovered, under closer examination, that this bio-plasma body had certain points of intense energy that corresponded exactly to the 700 main points of the acupuncture chart. Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese system of medicine that has been used for over four thousand years. It is a system of healing that is based on the balancing of the energy forces in the body relating to the fundamental forces of Yin and Yang. Acupuncture is increasingly being used in the west, mainly as a form of anesthesia. Due to developments from the Kirlian s bio-plasma technology, electronic aids to accurately mark acupuncture points are being used by medical laboratories around the world to treat patients using acupuncture. This is hard evidence that the existence of the bio-plasma body is real and that it is intimately related to our physical body. * The bio-plasma body has been observed as a whole unified organism in itself , and as its correspondence with acupuncture has shown, the bio-plasma body is connected with, and an extension of, the biological body. It stands to reason that there must be something in the bio-plasma body that has to do with the brain & nervous system of the biological body. The bio-plasma body, in short, logically, should contain some extension or alternative plane of consciousness to the brain. Our brain forms neuronal patterns from our experience. In a similar way it is likely that our bio-plasma brain would also form patterns from our experience. Biochemists describe the bio-plasma as an organised constellation, so we can see that the concept of pattern-formation fits neatly into the bio-plasma. Let us, from this point on, for the sake of clarification, refer to the bio-plasma brain with a more appropriate term, that is, the soul. The integrity and existence of the bio-plasma would be dependent on biological matter; that is: the bio-plasma would be a property of living matter. The soul would be capable of a higher consciousness than the brain because the soul s bio-plasmic structure is lighter or freer than the structure of the brain (i.e. the bio-plasmic-structure is already an energy system and thoughts [which are electrical energy] in this system would be almost instant compared to the brain-structure system in which energy has to find its way through matter). Since the brain is quite capable of recording our experience and permitting analytical thought, it follows that the soul would exist for other purposes. Since the soul must have a purpose it could be that the soul records the essence of experience and therefore the essence of personality. The dictionary states essence as: the characteristic or intrinsic feature of a thing, which determines its identity; fundamental nature. " From 'The Science of Soulmates'. So if this bio-plasma is a property of matter, and is organised in human beings, and part of this organisation annexes our awareness, then one would assume that this bioplasma stays with the brain and goes inactive with the freezing of the physical brain. But what of a duplicate? Would this animate the bio-plasma the same as the original. I am inclined to think not, especially when considering some part of our 'feeling' awareness may include other parts of the body (the spinal cord for example) and associated bio-plasma. I know you die-hard, hard line scientist are going to scoff at this bio-plasma/soul notion, but I think the link with acupunture, which is being USED in the west, is a good argument. Maybe worth at least keeping an open mind for. Live forever, William Henderson. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18051