Theos-Talk Archives (January 2006 Message tt00264)

Hello,

Welcome to the list. You would be happy to find that a lot of us are very  
much interested in the relation between Modern science and theosophy.  
Within the past few months there's been a lot of posts regarding this  
topic. I'm sure Leon will probably follow up on this, himself, but here is  
one such post from myself:


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"In part 3, H.P.B. stated that the brain dies LONG AFTER the body is
dead (clinically speaking, death means that there is no pulse & no
breathing). It also goes on to say that you go UNCONSCIOUS, and the
spirit doesn't appear until hours or days afterwards, in most
occasions."

In Blavatsky's time, was this a well-known fact?

Today, we have devices that can detect these things (such as EEG
machines). Even on people who were apparently brain-dead, there is
still electrical activity.
See:  
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3619714&dopt=Citation

It says:
"low-voltage ... activity was recorded in nine (16.1%) patients as
long as 72 hours following brain death"
This shows data to suggest that the brain doesn't fully die until a
few days after initial clinical death. In this study, the patients
were clinically dead at one point, but kept alive artificially.

It also continues by saying that a small portion of patients show
sleep-like patterns. This infers that these patients were forced into
a sleep-like state at their moment of death.
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-Mark H.

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:17:12 -0500, Jacques Mahnich <jacmahnich@yahoo.com>  
wrote:

>  Hello everybody,
> My first name is Jacques, I am almost 55 now, and a T.S member since  
> 1980.
> I had the opportunity to join this discussion list back in the mid 90'  
> during one of my stay in US. I am now back to France and ready to share  
> again some ideas on Theosophical subjects.
> We (together with my spouse Anne-Marie who joined T.S. at the same time  
> than me) have had 4 children (and 2 grand-children by now).
>  I am working since 30 years in aerospace industry as an electronic  
> engineer.
> My main topic of interest is the relationships between modern science  
> and theosophical teachings (a subject HPB spent some time with...).
> Talk to you soon.
> Jacques
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