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D I V I S I O N T H E O R Y
THE SECRET AFTERLIVES OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE
Whenever a true theory appears,
it will be its own evidence.
Its test is that it will explain all phenomena.
- - - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can such a
dreadful legend, forgotten for nearly 2,000 years, be the true
Secret of Death? Although this ancient vision is completely
alien to our modern assumptions about what lies beyond, it
nonetheless makes a powerful case for itself. Simultaneously
based in modern science and ancient scripture, this answer
quickly shows itself to be simple, logical, and compelling,
providing neat solutions for many long-standing riddles and
enigmas. Horrific as it is, this DivisionTheory behaves
exactly the way correct answers are supposed to behave - it
generates sensible, cogent, intellectually honest explanations
for humanity's most prevalent and mysterious afterlife
reports, including:
* PAST-LIFE MEMORIES *
* NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES *
* REPORTS of DEMONIC POSSESSION *
* REPORTS of GHOSTS & APPARITIONS *
* WORLD RELIGION AFTERLIFE BELIEFS *
and also, amazingly,
* CREATION MYTHS & JUDGMENT DAY
PROPHECIES *
* THE ORIGIN of the HUMAN UNCONSCIOUS *
* THE ORIGIN of the DEVIL *
* THE RESURRECTION of CHRIST *
It appears, in short, to do exactly what one would expect the
Secret of Death to be able to do - solve the mysteries of the
ages themselves.
WHAT IS DIVISION OF
CONSCIOUSNESS?
"Nothing else in the world ...
not all the armies...
is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
- Victor Hugo
The
Division Theory website
describes a revolutionary theory about what happens to us
after death. Hundreds of such theories exist, of course – most
of them mutually contradictory.
The Binary
Soul Doctrine is different, in three respects:
1. It
accounts for virtually all the reports emerging from modern
research into afterlife phenomena.
2. It
accounts for the vast majority of humanity’s religious
teachings about death and the afterlife, explaining why people
would have arrived at those conclusions.
3. It is
based on modern scientific knowledge about how the mind
functions.
But the
oddest thing is that this theory, though newly rediscovered,
is among the oldest of explanations – perhaps the oldest
explanation – ever devised by the human mind for a series of
puzzles about life, death, and the afterlife.
The simple
premise of DivisionTheory is that we DO survive death - our
psyches do continue to exist and function after the demise of
the physical body, but at the tragic cost of being ripped
apart into two separate pieces, each of which goes on without
the other into a different, crippled afterlife experience. The
conscious mind, known for eons in the East as the Spirit,
loses its memory and goes on to reincarnate. The unconscious
mind, known for eons in the West as the Soul, becomes trapped
in a heavenly or hellish afterlife dreamworld of its own
unwitting creation. Both scientific and scriptural evidence
exists to support this startling conclusion, which not only
explains the differences between many of the world's great
religions, but also shows that humanity's intuitions about the
soul's survival has a reality separate and distinct from the
mind's philosophical conflicts.
Ancient
religious beliefs from all over the globe contain elements of
DivisionTheory, suggesting that this was once a world-wide
religion. And now our modern science is again pointing in that
same ancient direction.
Has modern
science finally arrived at the underlying mechanics of Life
After Death? It now seems possible, perhaps even likely, that
humanity's many various reports of heaven & hell,
reincarnation, and ghosts are all the common effects of a
single, scientifically definable "Life After Death" condition.
A great wealth of scriptural evidence, compiled from the
sacred texts of religions all across the world, also seems to
constitute substantiating evidence for a radical new,
scientifically-based vision of Life After Death. And yet more
evidence for this has been added to our cultural storehouse by
recent sociological research into Past-Life Regression,
Near-Death Experiences, and ghost reports.
The
ancients believed, as modern psychology does, that the inner
SELF is composed of a fundamental duality.
Whether one
calls the two parts of that duality a conscious and an
unconscious, or a mind and a heart, or (as in ancient China) a
p'o and a hun, or (as in ancient Greece) a thymos and a
psyche, or (as in ancient Egypt) a ba and a ka, or (as in
ancient Persia) an urvan and a fravashi, or (as in ancient
India) an asu and a manas, or (as in ancient Hawaii) the uhane
and unihipili souls, or (as in ancient Israel) a soul and a
spirit, humans have always seen themselves as possessing two
non-material psychic components.
Like that
ancient SELF described in so many cultures, modern science has
in this century also discovered that our mind is composed of
two parts - one conscious and one unconscious. And the
characteristics of the two parts that science has discovered
(surprise!) are the very same characteristics those ancient
cultures described the two parts of the ancient duality has
possessing.
The ancients
(Greece, Egypt, Persia, China, Hawaii, Israel) all believed
that these two parts separated from one another at death; most
cultures believed that one of their two parts would become
trapped in some sort of netherworld (a heaven/hell type
scenario), while the other part slipped away freely. Some of
these ancient cultures believed that this second part went on
to reincarnate.
What is
particularly interesting to me about this is that:
(A) These
ancient cultures described the functions and characteristics
of the two parts in terms virtually identical to how modern
psychologists describe the functions and characteristics of
the conscious and unconscious halves of the human psyche.
(B) If one
then asks what would happen if the two halves of the human
psyche survived the death of the physical body, but divided
from one another in the process, one finds that the
unconscious would seem to become trapped in a self-induced
dreamworld (think netherworld), while the other would loses
its memory and sense of identity but remain free to go on to
have new experiences (think reincarnation).
(C) The
Bible, as well as many other ancient scriptures, includes
literally hundreds of passages supporting such a soul/spirit
division concept (although no one seems to have noticed this
relationship).
This Division Would Hide Itself
What is
particularly interesting is that such a division, if indeed it
did occur, would naturally hide itself: If such a division did
occur, no one would be likely to report the division itself,
but only the effects of the division (the division itself
could only be discovered through deductive reasoning, or if
you accept the possibility, divine revelation).
No one would
report the division itself because after the division, neither
side of the mind would be aware that any such division had
occurred at all. Each side of the mind would be prevented from
arriving at this realization, because after the division, each
side of the mind would be crippled, because each would then
lack the mental capacities of the opposite side of the mind:
If the
conscious and unconscious split apart, each side would report
the very afterlife experiences we have seen come down through
history, and which continue to be reported today. The
afterlife experience of the conscious mind would reflect the
traditional reincarnation scenario, while the afterlife
experience of the unconscious would reflect the traditional
heaven/hell netherworld scenario.
As has
happened for thousands of years, each is still being actively
reported today, in NDEs and Past-Life memories. For the last
20 years, science has researched these phenomena, and this
research has produced yet further evidence supporting
DivisionTheory.
When subjects
are regressed in their memories to a point in time in-between
lives, they report an afterlife scenario dramatically unlike
that reported by NDE subjects. In-between lives, they report
possessing no memories or emotions, just calmly floating in a
tranquil nothingness. They don't recall their own names, or
having ever lived any previous lives, or having ever been
anywhere else besides that nothingness they are experiencing
at that very moment. This contrasts sharply with the scenario
described by NDE subjects, who report undergoing profound
memory-reviews - confrontations with their memories of their
past-life- after which they visit emotionally-intense heavens
or hells populated by any number of other people. NDE subjects
do often report a similar episode during their experiences, in
which they seem to temporarily "lose track" of their own
emotional state, during the first few moments of an NDE. But
shortly after they begin the subsequent events (traveling
through the tunnel, experiencing the memory-review, etc), they
again report having vivid, intense emotions.
The Evidence
This century brought many discoveries which stand as evidence
supporting DivisionTheory:
(1) the
psychological discovery that the human mind is naturally
divided into two halves, and the discoveries that each half
possesses unique traits and characteristics.
(2) the
DivisionTheory discovery that, if the mind was to survive
death, but divided apart in the process, those innate
scientific characteristics of those two halves, the conscious
and the unconscious, would cause them to neatly reproduce
humanity's two classic afterlife scenarios (the conscious
would lose its memory but remain free to go on to new
experiences, i.e., reincarnate, while the unconscious would
become trapped in a dreamworld created out of its own
reactions to its own memories, i.e., a memory-review, a
judgment, and then heaven or hell), and
(3) the
archaeological discovery, in the Nag Hammadi scriptures, that
the afterlife theology of the early Christian church
originally focused on such a division of two halves of a
person's spiritual self, and
(4) the
historic discovery that the ancient religions of Hawaii,
Egypt, Greece, China, Persia, and many other cultures also
focused on such a belief, and
(5) the
sociological phenomenon that subjects hypnotically regressed
in their memories to a point in time in-between past lifetimes
(as during Past-Life Regression) consistently describe
floating calmly in nothingness, feeling no emotions, recalling
no memories, and possessing no sense of identity, and
(6) the
sociological phenomenon that people describing Near-Death
experiences frequently report experiencing a similar, but
temporary loss of feelings and emotions (this occurs
immediately after leaving their bodies, but before they travel
very far away from that body, and their sense of experiencing
emotions returns shortly thereafter), and
(7) the
sociological phenomenon that modern exorcists consistently
describe the devils and demons they encounter as possessing a
single identity, but being at the same time composed of
innumerable separate entities.
Does this
constitute final, definitive, conclusive proof of
DivisionTheory? No. But DivisionTheory does explain ALL the
phenomena being reported, up to and including the peculiar
memory- and emotion-loses being reported by NDE and past-Life
Regression subjects. DivisionTheory suggests that the NDE
group is reporting the afterlife experience of the unconscious
soul, while the Past- Life Regression group reports the
afterlife experience of the conscious spirit.
But neither
side, neither conscious nor unconscious, would report the
division itself at all. There could be no direct eye-witness
reporting of such an event. Neither part would be aware such a
division had occurred, because:
*The
conscious would not remember the division. Memory is stored in
the unconscious.
* The unconscious would not be able to figure out that
the division had occurred, because, having lost the conscious
mind with its rational intellect, it could no longer
objectively figure out anything. It would be as unable to
discern logical conflicts and irrationalities as the mind is
during dreams.
This would
explain why the reports of heaven/hell netherworlds and the
reports of reincarnation both continued through the ages,
keeping both legends alive, but the reports of the division
itself got lost in the confusion during the Dark Ages. After
the Dark Ages, the division was no longer understood. or was
the distinction between the soul and spirit comprehended, and
they became thought of as interchangeable terms for the same
thing, whereas in the original texts, the two were clearly
separate and distinct components of the human spiritual
economy.
Given that,
we must ask, what part of "ME" is the soul, and what part is
the spirit? If we do divide apart, this question becomes
crucial - are they parts I will miss much?
The ancient
cultures speak of these two parts in the same way modern
science speaks of the conscious and unconscious. If the spirit
splits away at death, and the spirit is in fact our conscious
mind, death suddenly become far less hopeful a place than
merely the reincarnation scenario of the East or the
heaven/hell of the West. Instead, we are split apart, losing
our very SELFhood.
This rings
true in my ears. When something deteriorates, it breaks down
into its constituent components. Perhaps the mind does as
well. Perhaps this explains what so many ancient religions
focused so strongly on the importance of INTEGRITY.
D I V I S I O N T H E O R Y
THE FOUR PILLARS
Like the
four legs of a table, DivisionTheory rests on four empirical
facts:
1. The
Netherworld All over
the world, in every land and every era, human beings have
arrived at the conclusion that the experience of the afterlife
contains or includes or occurs within a heavenly or hell-like
netherworld. Netherworld traditions appear across the board,
from continent to continent to continent, on isolated island
after isolated island. Time after time, these netherworld
traditions offer similar descriptions of such places.
2.
Reincarnation. All over
the world, in every land and every era, human beings have
arrived at the conclusion that reincarnation also occurs after
death.
3.
Binary/Dividing Soul Traditions
- All over the world, human beings have arrived at the
conclusion that human beings are composed of two separate and
distinguishable components, calling them the soul and spirit,
the head and heart, the conscious and unconscious, the ba and
ka, the sun and moon, and on and on, each culture having its
own words. Within many of these traditions, the two parts of
humanity's binary soul are said to split apart at death, each
going off to a different afterlife experience. Most of these
cultures maintain that one or the other of the two halves of
the binary soul either experiences heaven/hell, or
reincarnates, and some cultures maintain that one part
reincarnates while the other becomes trapped in the
heaven/hell netherworld.
4. Modern
science has, after a century, arrived at some degree of
agreement as to the natural characteristics of the conscious
and unconscious. These
innate characteristics, as it turns out, are precisely those
necessary for the conscious to experience a reincarnation-type
experience after death, and the unconsicous to experience a
heaven/hell netherworld after death, but ONLY IF THE TWO
SURVIVED DEATH UNCONNECTED TO THE OTHER. DivisionTheory rests
on these four facts. The four facts each exist on their own,
and logic connects them together.
D I V I S I O N T H E O R Y
THE SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY
"Whenever a true theory
appears,
it will be its own evidence.
Its test is that it will explain all phenomena."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is there a
scientific basis to humanity's afterlife beliefs?
An intriguing
new discovery has uncovered compelling evidence that such a
basis does exist. The Division of Consciousness [Hampton
Roads, 1997] introduces a simple and cohesive scientific
theory which directly addresses and elegantly accounts for the
vast majority of different afterlife phenomena appearing in
humanity's cultural records. This is the first work ever to
present a scientifically grounded hypothesis that accounts for
the traditional afterlife descriptions of both East and West,
while also speaking to the ancient beliefs of a great many
other cultures, and even addressing such modern phenomena as
Past-Life Memories, Near-Death Experiences, ghosts &
apparitions, and more.
Ten years of
independent research yielded a mountain of scientific and
scriptural evidence which all pointed to the same promising
yet highly disturbing conclusion - that the human psyche does
survive physical death, but divides entirely apart in the
process into separate conscious and unconscious components.
Not only do
elements of classic psychology and modern sociological
research support such a hypothesis, but eerily similar
concepts appearing in Biblical, Persian, Egyptian, Gnostic,
Greek, Hawaiian, Chinese, and many other traditions raise the
intriguing possibility that this peculiar and unfamiliar
"Division Theory" may actually be a millennia- old case of
deja-vu.
If this
extraordinary hypothesis holds water, it will revolutionize
the entire field of religion. In this website, you will meet a
number of respected scientists, theologians, and philosophers
who are already convinced Division Theory will do just that.
Many aspects
of accepted scientific theory strongly support this
hypothesis; under the conditions being proposed, both
surviving components of the psyche would, due to their very
natures, encounter entirely different conditions after death,
conditions startlingly similar to those described in Eastern
and Western traditions.
THE EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE FOR
DIVISION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANICS OF
LIFE AFTER DEATH
JUNG
NEUROBIOLOGY RECONFIRMS THE BINARY
PSYCHE
SOCIOLOGY: NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH
SOCIOLOGY: PAST-LIFE REGRESSION
RESEARCH
SOCIOLOGY: GHOST REPORT RESEARCH
ARCHAEOLOGY: THE GOSPEL OF THE
NAZARENES
THE CLASSIC PHILOSOPHERS ON THE
DIVISION OF THE COSMOS
KEN WILBER ON THE DIVISIONS OF THE
COSMOS
EVOLUTION OR DEVOLUTION?
In Ancient Times, There Was A
RELIGIOUS CONSENSUS
ON LIFE AFTER DEATH
I believe in the fundamental Truth of all
the great religions of the world.
I believe that they are all God-given....
I came to the conclusion long ago...
that all religions were true,
and also that all had some error in them.
- Mohandes Gandhi
The Teachings of a Binary Soul
The Biblical Teachings
The Teachings of Hinduism
The Teachings of Buddhism
The Teachings of Taoism
The Teachings of Ancient Egypt
The Teachings of Ancient Greece
The Teachings of Hawaiian
Hunaism
The Teachings of Native Africa
The Teachings of Native America
The Teachings of Australia's
Aborigines
The Teachings of the Alaskan
Eskimo
The Teachings of Primitive
Cultures
The Teachings of the Nazirite
Essenes
The Teachings of Atlantis?
The Teachings of Emmanuel
Swedenborg
The Teachings of Rudolf Steiner
The Teachings of Edgar Cayce
The Teachings of Carlos
Castaneda
The Teachings on The Fall of
Man
The Teachings on the Price of
the Fall from Grace
The Teachings on the Division
Within Each of Us
The Teachings on Losing the
Soul During Life
The Teachings on the Afterlife
of the Soul
The Teachings on the Afterlife
of the Spirit
The Teachings on Preventing the
Afterdeath Division
The Teachings on Two Different
Options for Eternal Life
The Teachings on the Origin of
Hell
The Teachings on Babylon
The Teachings on the Devil
The Teachings of Exorcists
THE SOUL & THE SPIRIT
THE TWO HALVES OF THE SELF
"On the day you were one you became two.
But when you become two, what will you do?"
- - - The Gospel of Thomas 11
The soul and
the spirit of the Bible ARE the unconscious and the conscious.
(Science simply hasn't figured out that they are immortal
yet.) This ought to be considered true for two very good
reasons:
The Bible presents the soul and
spirit
as possessing those very qualities which
science grants to the conscious and unconscious.
This fits an existing larger
pattern.
Similar binary soul doctrines exist
in many other cultures.
Behold the
mystery : like man and woman, the conscious spirit and the
unconscious soul are opposite in nature, but do not
necessarily have to be "opposed" to one another. On the
contrary, these two can integrate, fitting together as
perfectly and as intertwined as the Yin and the Yang in the
Tao symbol, each helping to support and define the other, each
consisting, in its deepest center, of the other, each
providing its partner with precisely what it needs most.
This is the
mystery of the sexes.
The mystery of the psyche.
The mystery of life.
The mystery of death.
The natures and characteristics of the conscious and
unconscious ARE opposite to one another in many obvious ways.
The conscious is aggressively active, the unconscious
passively reactive. The conscious deals with facts and figures
and details, the unconscious deal with relationships and
systems. The conscious is objective, masculine, and has
control over the intellect and free will, while the
unconscious is subjective, feminine, the unconscious does NOT
have free will , instead being preprogrammed with material
universally present in all minds (archetypes), but the
unconscious DOES have control over the feelings and memories.
(While knowledge of good and evil is but one of the archetypes
that exist preprogrammed in the unconscious, it is certainly
the most troublesome one of them all).
Study of the
mind has revealed that the conscious and unconscious are,
despite what their names suggest, not merely two different
forms of the same substance; the unconscious is not just a
lesser or lower form of consciousness. They are fundamentally
different types of mind, with completely different modes of
operation. The fact that the unconscious is not more
immediately present to our normal waking awareness seems
almost beside the point; if the unconscious was somehow lifted
up so it could be perceived more directly, it would still be a
fundamentally different kind of mind, functioning differently
in the psyche than the conscious does:
Consciousness
proceeds in terms of analysis and differentiation, in terms of
special attention to "the most minute details". The
unconscious, on the other hand, has an opposite way of
thinking. Non-analytical, undifferentiated, it takes its
symbols as they are, and does not break them down as
consciousness does. ... the basic categories and ways of
procedure are different in consciousness from those that
prevail in the unconscious ... Its mode of thinking is
altogether different from what we understand by `thinking.
- Ira Progoff, Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning, Grove
Press, New York, 1953, p. 75
Each side of
the psyche possesses characteristics and capacities unique to
itself. However, neither part is sufficient alone; each needs
the input of the other. The two sides of the mind thus comple
ment one another, together forming a whole far greater than
the sum of their parts:
...the unconscious processes
stand in a compensatory relation to the conscious mind ...
conscious and unconscious are not necessarily in opposition to
one another, but complement one another to form a totality,
which is the self. - Jung
The conscious
mind's objectivity allows it to distinguish and differentiate
between forms, providing humanity with its logic and analytic
reasoning, the foundation of all science, technology, and
civilization. And more importantly still, the conscious mind
has free will, the power to make choices and decisions. The
basic design of the human mind grants all the free-will to the
conscious and none to the unconscious, which risks letting the
mind become one-sided. The conscious is able, under this
design, to repress and inhibit its other half, the
unconscious; and since it is essentially masculine, or
self-assertive, in nature, it tends to use this ability
regularly.
The
unconscious has equally essential qualities. Although much of
its activity does occur outside our awareness, the unconscious
is constantly releasing material into the conscious mind; this
secret participation of the unconscious is vital, providing
the balance necessary for a healthy psyche.
Whereas the
conscious is logical, the unconscious is emotional; and since
it does lie below the threshold of awareness, we tend to
experience the emotion it releases into the conscious not as
something we have chosen, but something which happens to us.
And whereas the conscious is active, enterprising, and takes
the initiative, the unconscious is almost purely reactive in
nature; much of what it does is in response to outside
stimuli. It is also receptive, which allows it function as the
mind's memory center, receiving and storing all information,
experiences, and other memory data. The unconscious contains a
complete, perfectly preserved, unedited record of all the
thoughts, feelings, and experiences of a person's past.
However, since the memory-bearing unconscious is also
emotionally-based, memory recall tends to be an emotional
experience; memories are generally found to be imbued with an
aura of emotion. People often find that past memories which
lack an emotional charge, having little personal meaning or
importance, tend to be more difficult to recall than memories
which do contain strong emotional ingredients. Storing all
memory, the unconscious is necessarily both vast and deep, and
has often been likened to a limitless dark ocean within the
psyche.
Essentially
female in character, the unconscious is also the source of
value-awareness in the human psyche. While the conscious will
coolly note an object's outer characteristics, it takes the
unconscious' more intuitive perspective to recognize if those
characteristics hold any personal value or meaning; the
conscious quantifies, the unconscious qualifies.
Although the
unconscious is subjective, allowing feeling, rather than law,
to form the ultimate basis of its value system, it also
possesses an innate understanding of good and evil, making it
the source also of humanity's moral consciousness. And, as the
inner creator of images and patterns, the "matrix-mind" that
gives birth to thought-forms in the psyche, it is also the
source of all instinct, intuition, and dreams.
While the
conscious mind tends to recognize specific details and
differences between things, the unconscious focuses instead on
issues of connectedness and unity; thus, the unconscious often
reflects a certain timeless quality, a feeling of oneness and
universality.
These two
halves of the mind are fully dependent upon one other; each
lacks and needs what the other possesses. While the conscious
is the seat of free will, able to make new and creative
decisions, by itself it has no ability for recall, and must
rely on the unconscious to provide it with memory-data when it
needs it. The unconscious, the equal but opposite partner of
the conscious, lacks free will; like an automatic computer, it
is incapable of making any independent decisions whatsoever.
But the unconscious instinctively recognizes all subjective
value content, automatically processes all command messages,
and, as the seat of all memory, precisely records all input
from the conscious.
Although
psychology first discovered this binary mind in the days of
Freud and Jung in the early 1900's, it took biology nearly a
full century longer to make the same discovery for itself. In
recent years, however, medical research on the hemispheres of
the human brain has reached essentially the same conclusions
as those arrived at by Freud and Jung - that a fundamental
division exists within the psyche. Each hemisphere seems to
have a mind of its own, or rather, each hemisphere seems to be
related to a different half of the whole mind. The two
hemispheres seem to have, again, completely different styles
of processing information: the left hemisphere seems language-
and analysis- oriented, while the right seems to process
information holistically. The left brain, like the conscious,
is critical and detail-oriented, while the right brain, like
the unconscious, seems emotional, creative, comprehensive,
pattern-matching, and analogy-forming, and
is even suspected of being the source of dreams.
WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN WE DIE?
This is the
oldest question, the first question, the most important
question, for on this question, all else depends.
Mankind's many ancient
spiritual traditions pretty much all agree that it is possible
for people to survive the death of their physical bodies. But
it is hard for many people to take much comfort in this
apparent agreement, for these spiritual traditions all differ
very dramatically on just what it is that they think survives
death, and what (if anything) is necessary to enable that
‘whatever it is' to survive. Some traditions say that survival
depends on certain things being just right, and if those
things are not right, then the person will fail to survive
death. Other traditions, however, insist that survival is
guaranteed, and nothing can prevent it from occurring.
Modern research into paranormal
phenomena (such as Near-Death Experiences, Past-Life Memories
and Past-Life Regression, and ghosts, apparitions,
poltergeists, and possession and exorcisms) leave us pretty
much in the same boat. While all this phenomena seems to point
in roughly the same direction, suggesting that survival does
occur, these different phenomena paint very different pictures
about just what it is that does survive, and what changes
happen during the transition.
In short, both our traditions
and our modern scientific research seems to disagree almost as
much as they agree, leaving us wondering why we should believe
any of them if they all seem to be telling us different
stories.
But the
ancient Binary Soul Doctrine provides a solution to this
dilemma. Through an ancient hypothesis substantiated by modern
science, it presents an argument for the processes of death
and the afterlife that neatly explains virtually all the
different traditions of mankind's past, as well as all the
afterlife phenomena being studied and reported by today's
paranormal researchers.
The Division of Consciousness is the first book in the
DivisionTheory trilogy.
It reintroduces the world to
the ancient Binary Soul Doctrine, and demonstrates that the
entire vision of history described by the Judeo-Christian
Bible was not only consistent with the BSD, but in fact would
be predicted by it!
The second book in the series,
The Lost Secret of Death, demonstrates that the ancient
BSD is not only consistent with the data emerging from modern
research into afterlife phenomena, but actually predicts it,
including a great deal of the most mysterious and otherwise
inexplicable aspects of this data.
The third book in the series,
yet to be titled, will focus on the Biblical prophecy of
Judgment Day and the Universal Resurrection. It will explore
the hypothesis that this will not only be a time when all of
mankind reawakens to all our lost past-life memories, but also
that this event will be the latest of a cyclical series of
such events which occur approximately once every 6500 years.
Ancient cultures all around the globe once held remarkably
similar beliefs about death and the afterlife. Ancient Egypt,
China, Greece, Persia, Australia, and native tribes throughout
Africa, North and South America, and the Pacific Islands all
believed that people had not one, but two souls, and that
those souls were savagely wrenched apart from one another at
death, each experiencing an entirely different, but equally
crippled afterlife. Many of these cultures believed that one
soul would become trapped in a fixed and unchanging
heaven-or-hell netherworld, while the other, although
remaining free to go on to new lives and/or new experiences,
would be struck with total amnesia.
Ancient Israel also believed
that people possessed two souls, calling them, of course, the
soul and the spirit. Early Christians even believed, as had
those other nations, that the soul and spirit could, and
sometimes would, divide apart from one another:
The word of God is living and
active
and sharper than any two-edged sword
and cuts so deeply it divides the soul from the spirit.
- - - - - - - Hebrews 4:12
TO FIND THE RIGHT ANSWER,
SIMPLY ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION
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Why did so many cultures hold this same peculiar notion that
people possessed not one, but two souls, and that those two
souls divided apart at death?
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Why were the characteristics and afterlife experiences of
those two souls described in consistently similar terms from
one culture to the next?
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Why are those ancient descriptions of the two souls so
similar to modern science's descriptions of the conscious
and unconscious halves of the human psyche?
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And what WOULD
happen if those two halves of the human psyche were to
survive death, but separately, each going on without the
other? What would each half experience?
Were these ancient beliefs simply coincidental
superstitions, or were they based on something common to all
human experience regardless of cultural heritage? It may now
finally be possible to determine the answer to these
questions, thanks to the recent publication of the long-lost
Christian Gospels unearthed in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945.
These lost scriptures bring to light a forgotten chapter in
Christianity's history, revealing that there was once a
branch of early Christian theology based directly on
Division. Armed with these newly found documents, the time
may have finally come to comprehend the bizarre and
disturbing facts behind these mysteries, a truth unspoken
since the earliest moments of the Christian era, a truth
buried and forgotten for nearly 2,000 years.
"My God, my God! Why, O Lord,
Have you forsaken me?"
It was on the cross that He said these words,
for it was there that He was divided.
- - - - - - The Gospel of Philip 68:26-29
On the day you were one you became
two.
But when you become two, what will you do?
- - - - - The Gospel of Thomas 11
Afterlife
Research and the Binary Soul Doctrine:
Keynote Address at the July 2004 Conference of the
International Association for
Regression Research and Therapies
Back in 1975, Raymond Moody's book “Life After Life” changed
the world for a lot of us. It really looked as if science was
finally going to prove life after death. Since that first book
on near-death experiences, there have been over 300 books
published on research into different kinds of afterlife
phenomena. We have seen works on near-death experiences,
past-life regression, after-death communication, ghosts,
apparitions, poltergeists, and more.
Unfortunately, that wealth of
data has proven to be a problem. All these reports didn’t seem
to paint the same picture about what happens after death. One
set of reports pointed in one direction, while other sets
pointed in other directions. Each set of reports seemed, on
its own, to provide valid information about the other side of
death’s door, but when they were compared with one another,
they all seemed to disagree with one another and cancel each
other out. This has been very frustrating, and I think it is
responsible for this research having received so little
attention on the world stage.
This is very much the same
situation that modern religion is in. Each religion seems to
say something different, and would-be believers are left on
their own to more or less arbitrarily choose which one they
want to believe and then just ignore all the other competing
claims. This lack of uniformity, this lack of agreement among
mankind’s belief systems, is leading more and more people to
conclude that they are all equally wrong, that no one has the
right answer.
And I think we see the same
dynamic occurring in how the world is reacting to research
into afterlife phenomena. So long as all these different
reports continue to describe mutually exclusive visions of the
afterlife, the average person will see no reason to believe
any of them.
Today we stand at a critical
threshold. A mere thirty years ago, a handful of scientists
began to recognize that people around the world were reporting
similar afterlife experiences. This insight sparked the first
organized research into NDEs and PLRs, which then spawned
grassroots movements dedicated to researching these phenomena,
followed by worldwide organizations which grow larger with
each passing year. If any model of the afterlife is going to
be widely believed fifty years from now, it will have to
recognize and convincingly account for the data emerging from
this research.
Over the coming years, we can
only assume that our advanced communications will continue to
more deeply integrate our cultural perspectives, unifying our
collective vision of reality. The invention of the telephone,
the radio, the TV, and now the Internet has struck a severe
blow to cultural perspectives that can only exist in an
informational vacuum. Eventually, the day will come when all
the different varieties of afterlife data being researched
today will be familiar to the majority of the people. When
that day arrives, only two possibilities are likely to remain
: either there will be some theoretical model of the afterlife
that accounts for all the data, or there won’t be.
If such a model does emerge, it
seems likely that it would eventually be accepted across all
borders, becoming, in time, a single world religion.
Not so long ago, when the world
was fractured into a multiplicity of different isolated
cultures, many different localized, non-integrated afterlife
beliefs existed side by side around the world, each providing
its own little sliver of humanity with their own unique vision
of reality. But as human culture grows more globally
integrated and homogenous, a new uniformity of belief will
also tend to establish itself on that new global scale, and
humanity’s different conflicting beliefs will become a thing
of the past.
If, however, no model of the
afterlife can be found that meets this challenge, if no
afterlife model successfully and convincingly accounts for all
our different reports and traditions, then it seems inevitable
that the human race will, slowly, perhaps reluctantly, cease
to believe in life after death altogether. So long as we keep
hearing radically different and contradictory descriptions of
the afterlife, our generation, and then our children’s
generation, and then their children’s generation, will keep
believing less and less in life after death as history marches
on.
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen,
is the great tragedy of our time. This modern research could
have changed the world, finally proving the reality of life
after death. It SHOULD have changed the world. But it didn’t.
And so long as these reports continue to disagree with one
another, it won’t.
And so, the great promise of
this work has gone largely unfulfilled. In the eyes of the
world, all this research has been in vain. In the eyes of the
world, we still don’t know the secret of death.
You already knew all that. What
I came here to tell you tonight is that --- it may have not
always been this way. In ancient times, I believe, men knew
the secret of death. I have been researching mankind’s modern
and ancient reports of death and the afterlife for the last 16
years, and I have become convinced that mankind once knew the
real secret of death. Thousands of years ago, at the very dawn
of written history, cultures all over the globe were on the
same page when it came to their afterlife beliefs. There was
none of today’s bewildering maze of conflicting reports and
incompatible theories. Instead, they all professed the very
same faith -- that man had two souls, which divided apart from
one another at death, each soul experiencing a different and
separate afterlife experience.
In time, we forgot that great
insight, and this forgetting, I believe, has been our undoing.
When we forgot what death was, we forgot what life was all
about, what our true identity was, and the importance of
integrity. Today, as we look around the world, if there’s one
thing that’s clear, it's that integrity is valued too little,
and we are suffering from its absence. We live in a dark time.
We live in a time when our soldiers laugh as they torture
their enemies, a time when our children show no qualms about
stealing music and art over the Internet, a time when the
majority of our college students admit cheating on tests, a
time when our executives are getting caught right and left
cooking their books and ripping off their shareholders, a time
when the greatest nation of the world looks for ways to get
around the Geneva Conventions.
The problem behind all this is
not that people no longer know the difference between right
and wrong. It’s just that they no longer see what’s in it for
them to choose right over wrong.
But today, in this time of
moral darkness, a light has arisen. That lost secret, the
faith of the ancients, has been rediscovered, pieced back
together from the surviving shards of its last days, scattered
among cultural antiquities across the globe. And this
discovery, you will see, may be just what we need right now.
It may be just what we need to rekindle our collective
interest in personal integrity.
For the last 16 years, I have
been researching an obscure religious belief called the binary
soul doctrine, an ancient idea that was once the centerpoint
of religions all across the planet. Once it was reconstituted,
the binary soul doctrine was found to have extraordinary
properties, properties suggesting that those ancients may have
actually known what they were talking about. That ancient
belief system, as it turns out, translates into a modern
scientific hypothesis that explains virtually everything we
currently observe in afterlife phenomena, including near-death
experiences, past-life regression, ghosts, poltergeists,
after-death communication, and much more. It even seems to
explain obscure anomalies like the zombies of Haitian Voudou,
the death prayer of the Hawaiian Kahuna, and the reports of
Catholic exorcists. This lost secret seems to reconcile
mankind’s sciences, religions, and paranormal phenomena into a
single coherent picture of what happens after death. It seems
to take all the pieces of the puzzle and show how they all fit
together.
This secret, you will see, is
not unfamiliar to the modern mind. This makes sense; it was
once the central cultural focus of nations all over the globe,
and it left a continuing imprint on our ideas, our languages,
and our ways of looking at life. For thousands of years, the
lost secret of death has been hiding in plain sight. But like
an unexploded bomb from an ancient war, its power, and
potential, and meaning, have gone unrecognized.
At the dawn of recorded
history, cultures all over the globe believed essentially the
same thing about death. Thousands of years ago, dozens of
cultures in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Hawaii, Alaska,
and both North and South America believed that human beings
had not one, but two souls, two souls which would divide apart
at death. Greece called these two souls the psuche and the
thumos. Egypt called them the ba and ka. Persia called them
the urvan and daena. Israel called them the ruah and nefesh.
Christianity called them soul and spirit. Islam called them
ruh and nafs. India called them atman and jiva. China called
them hun and po. Hawaii called them uhane and unihipili. The
Dakota Indians called them nagi and niya. The list goes on and
on. At death, these cultures believed, a person’s two souls
split apart, each going off into a very different sort of
afterlife experience.
If that’s all there was to the
story, it would already be an amazing story. Today, the world
entertains a hundred different notions about what happens
after death. How did the world manage to agree on this subject
thousand of years ago?
But that’s just the beginning.
Our modern science has reproduced that ancient belief. These
ancient cultures described those two souls the same way modern
science now describes the two halves of the human mind. The
ancient world believed we have two souls, and modern science
recently arrived at the same conclusions. Psychology calls
them the conscious and unconscious. Neurology calls them the
left brain mind and the right brain mind. And the descriptions
of the ancients match the descriptions of modern science.
The ancients felt that these
two halves of the mind split apart at death, each going off to
have an entirely different sort of afterlife experience. One
half was often said to reincarnate, while the other half would
become trapped in some sort of dreamlike netherworld.
This ancient idea is
interesting for many reasons. It is interesting because it
once existed in many different cultures all over the planet.
It is interesting because it reconciles Eastern traditions of
reincarnation with Western traditions of an eternal heaven or
hell. And it is interesting because it suggests a link between
modern science and ancient religion.
But it is perhaps most
interesting because it seems to explain a lot of modern
research into afterlife phenomena. It is consistent with
reports of ghosts and poltergeists. It is consistent with the
phenomena known as “after-death communication”. It is
consistent with shamanic soul-retrieval. It is consistent with
reports of near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences.
It is consistent with reports of past-life regression.
The binary soul doctrine
reconciles these different reports, suggesting that they are
all descriptions of the same phenomenon, simply from slightly
different angles. The idea that we are complex, rather than
simple, creatures, having two parts to our souls, is a very
old idea, but it is still is a living idea today. The Bible
calls them the soul and the spirit. Astrologers call them the
sun and moon. The average person on the street often calls
them the head and the heart.
They are BOTH the ‘self’. But
they are very different selves, equal-but-opposite selves in
many ways. One is more objective, rational, decisive, and
masculine, and the other is more subjective, intuitive,
emotional, and feminine. One possesses the free will, the
other possesses the memory.
Many ancient cultures believed
that one of these halves would reincarnate after death, and
that the other half would get stuck in a dream-like experience
that could seem just like heaven or hell.
The bizarre thing is, if the
two halves of the mind DID divide apart at death, they WOULD
experience something like that. This didn’t make any sense
before science rediscovered the properties of the conscious
and unconscious. But now that we again know a little about how
these two halves of the mind work, we can see that dividing
them from one another at death would produce some very
interesting results.
If the two parts of the human
psyche each survived physical death, but divided from one
another in the process, what would happen? Where would they
be? What would each experience? Well, this really isn’t so
hard to figure out; each would lose what the other half gave
it, and would be forced to rely exclusively on its own
capacities. After death the conscious mind would still possess
free will and intellect, but not emotion or memory. The
unconscious would still possess memory and emotion, but not
free will or intellect.
When people died, their minds
would essentially divide into two fragments. Both parts would
still possess awareness of a sort, but vastly different kinds
of awareness. Neither would be the whole self, but neither
would realize that, either.
Alone, the conscious mind would
have no reference of perspective, no context in which to
understand its environment. Without the unconscious, the
conscious mind would have no memory, no sense of form,
connection, or context, leaving it just like a newborn baby,
unable to make out recognizable patterns in anything around
it. Without any sense of context, without any instinct or
intuition, everything it observed around it would just seem
empty, meaningless, irrelevant chaos - pure nothingness. The
left brain conscious mind perceives details, distinctions and
differences, rather than connections and similarities, so it
would see the trees but not the forest, the text but not the
context, the data but not the significance. It would be aware
of every last speck of all the raw data, but it would be blind
to the patterns within the data. The data would have no
meaning, completely empty of significance. It would be like
static on a TV screen.
And without any subjective,
emotional perspective, it would not feel related or connected
to anything. It would feel completed isolated, detached,
dispassionate, and uninvolved. Without the unconscious, it
would not experience any feeling or emotion whatsoever.
Objective to the end, the conscious would then just be a
bodiless, identityless, emotionless, historyless,
uncomprehending point of pure, living awareness, floating
calmly alone in an empty field.
However, it would still have
free will. It would still be free to make new choices. And
those choices would, in time, cause it to move on to new
experiences and new cycles of experience, never knowing or
even suspecting that any previous life had ever occurred. In
time, such an amnesic conscious spirit could be expected to
eventually enter into new experiences, from which it would
slowly build up a whole new sense of identity. Free as a lark,
it would be likely to repeat this reincarnation-like process
indefinitely, perpetually creating new identities and leaving
behind a steady stream of discarded past selves, like a plant
endlessly growing shoots that are pruned as soon as they are
grown.
Meanwhile, an afterdeath
division would affect the unconscious very differently. The
unconscious would lose all ability for objective thought,
logical analysis, and discriminative reason, as well as all
ability to make new choices. The conscious mind holds the free
will and the intellect, and the unconscious would lose these
talents at the division. But the unconscious would still
possess emotion and memory, it would still be reactive and
responsive, and it would still see form and structure and
connections and patterns and relationships.
The unconscious would contain
the person’s complete and unedited memory, including every
thought, belief, impression, and suspicion that had ever
crossed the person’s mind in life. But it wouldn’t really be
the same person it remembered being when alive. Without the
conscious mind, the unconscious would no longer have any free
will - it wouldn’t be able to change its opinions, or make any
new decisions, or be creative, original, or spontaneous in any
way whatsoever. But since the unconscious would be cut off
from its rational intellect, it would never realize it was not
the same person. Unable to use reason or logic, unable to
arrive at any genuinely new conclusions or make any new
decisions, it would remain convinced that it was still the
same person it had been prior to the division. It would never
notice that anything had changed or that anything was missing.
Without any free will, the
unconscious would be unable to objectively act or move in any
way. It would have to just sit perfectly still, with nothing
to do but fall back deeper and deeper into itself. Being cut
off from the input of both the physical body and the conscious
mind, cut off, in effect, from all it had known outside
itself, from all objective reality and external stimuli, it
would turn its attention inward. There, it would rediscover
everything the person had stashed away and forgotten inside
his own unconscious over the course of his life - all his
memories, feelings, ideals, insights, and self-judgments.
And this, it seems, would
produce the famous “panoramic life review” described both in
near-death experiences and past-life regressions.
We would judge ourselves. Or
rather, we would discover that we had already judged
ourselves.
While we are alive, our
unconscious is constantly reacting and responding to all our
different choices and decisions. It is forever whispering to
us, continually comparing those choices and decisions with our
own inner sense of right and wrong. That’s its job. But, while
we’re alive, we can consciously choose to block out those
whisperings. The conscious mind is stronger, and can repress
the unconscious. We can, and often do, choose to ignore these
whisperings, pushing their messages back down, out of our
awareness.
It is these repressed judgments
and emotional reactions, this still-energized content of the
unconscious, that we would be re-confronted with after death.
If our unconscious found itself cut off from the conscious
mind after death, that conscious mind would no longer be there
to repress those judgments any longer, leaving them free at
last to surface into our awareness. Without the ability of the
conscious mind to discriminate between one thing and another,
the unconscious mind would not be able to reject, deny, or
ignore any of its memories, or the feelings and self-judgments
stored up inside those memories. It would not be able to hide
from itself any longer. The unconscious would suddenly find
itself face to face with all those repressed self-judgments, a
whole lifetimes’ worth, remembering all its memories at once,
and feeling all the feelings connected with them. It would be
swimming in them.
Collapsing into itself, the
unconscious would become completely preoccupied with
redigesting its own memories. Running on full automatic, the
unconscious would review and re-experience its memories,
feelings, and self-judgments over and over. And since the
unconscious is automatically responsive and emotional in
nature, it would also be expected to react emotionally to
them. If those self-judgments were favorable, the unconscious,
being automatically responsive and emotional, would
automatically respond to them by generating even more positive
feelings and emotions.
And since it is image-, form-,
and pattern-oriented, the unconscious would create dream
images for itself out of those memories and emotions. If those
memories and emotions were more self-affirming than
self-condemning, then the unconscious would create a
dream-experience for itself that was filled with positive
emotion — pure pleasure and happiness. It would think it was
in heaven. But if those memories and emotions were more
self-condemning than self-affirming, it would experience a
dreamland filled with the images and feelings of
self-condemnation. It would think it was in hell.
With no external input
possible, and no decision-making ability available to make
changes, this process would continue without interruption,
compounding upon itself - one’s afterlife dreams would just
keep growing ever stronger and more intense. The unconscious
could never awaken from these dreams, at least not under its
own power, since it would have no independent volition of its
own.
Is there a division of
consciousness at death? Many who believe in reincarnation
already believe so — the part of the mind containing the
memories is thought to be taken away before the spirit
reincarnates again. But there’s a huge difference. Traditional
views of reincarnation do not hold that this memory-containing
part then falls away into a netherworld. Instead, the
memory-containing part is generally thought to just be 'filed'
harmlessly away into a state of dormancy in the back of the
mind.
However, science has discovered
that the unconscious mind, the half of the mind that stores
memories, is never dormant. Freud’s great discovery was his
realization that a half of the mind exists that we do not
naturally see and cannot easily reach, which nonetheless is
very much active, running along robustly outside of our
conscious awareness. 100 years ago, the world of science was
very shook up about Freud's discovery. Why? Because they were
being told that a part of their own minds was beyond their
ability to monitor and control.
When we sleep, the unconscious
mind is dominant, but the conscious mind is still running and
functioning as well. When we are awake, the conscious mind is
dominant, but the unconscious is still running and functioning
too. The parts of the mind do not ever become dormant. If the
unconscious was cut off and separated from the conscious mind
after death, modern science suggests it would still continue
to function - energy, after all, cannot be destroyed.
And this means that those
cut-off parts of the mind that contain the memories of our
past lives are probably still living out their own dreams
somewhere, off on their own, possibly imagining that they are
in heaven or in hell, just as ancient cultures believed
thousands of years ago.
My research suggests that this
soul-division occurs often, perhaps even most of the time, but
it does not occur all of the time. As we will see, there is a
certain class of afterlife phenomena reports — afterdeath
communications — that seem to be of recently deceased souls
who have suffered little or no soul-division. And of course,
every culture also contains reports and legends of ancient
heroes and saints who briefly reappear from time to time, and
when they do, they too seem to present no evidence of having
suffered any soul-division . They seem to still possess all
their mental faculties, all their memory, intellect, and free
will.
The binary soul doctrine, then,
suggests that death has four different faces. You can
encounter a whole soul that has not divided after death; you
can encounter a conscious without an unconscious; and you can
encounter an unconscious without a conscious. Those are three
very different faces of death, and different religions and
belief systems around the world have repeatedly reported
encountering each of these. Those who feel that the conscious
mind is the true self are right to maintain that after death,
the self goes on to reincarnate again. And those who feel that
the unconscious is the true self are equally right to say
that, after death, the self becomes trapped in an eternal
heaven or hell. All of these stories have persisted down
through the ages because all of them indeed seem to be
correct, depending on one’s perspective. But there has also
been another story persisting alongside those three, and the
binary soul doctrine suggests that it too is based in truth.
There have always been those who feel that, after death, the
self dies and ceases to exist. And for those who feel that the
true self is the self we actually experience while alive, the
thing created by the union of the conscious and unconscious,
that more dismal assessment would also seem to be true, at
least when soul-division occurs.
Most people haven’t heard about
afterdeath soul-division before, but there’s a very good
reason for that. The division would hide itself. It would
virtually never get reported by any of its victims - only the
aftereffects of the division would get reported. Neither of
the two halves of the mind would be aware, after the fact,
that any division had occurred. Each half would be prevented
from understanding what happened, because each would be
functionally crippled after the division, lacking the mental
capacity to arrive at this realization. The conscious would
not remember the division, and the unconscious would not be
able to figure out that a division had occurred. Since memory
is stored in the unconscious, the conscious mind would have no
reason to think that anything had changed after the division -
it would have no memory of anything prior. And, since the
unconscious would have no rational intellect after the
division, it would never analyze the data and arrive at a
logical conclusion. This would explain why reports both of
heaven & hell and of reincarnation have both continued side by
side down through the ages, keeping both stories alive, while
the report of the division itself got lost over the course of
history.
However, a few eyewitness
reports of the division have managed to slip through. A
handful of near-death experience subjects have reported such a
division, as also have a few past-life regression researchers.
A few modern psychics and mystics have also reported this
division, such as James Van Praagh, Rudolf Steiner, and
Emmanuel Swedenberg.
One of the things that makes
the binary soul doctrine so amazing is the realization that
the simple mechanics of the human mind would reproduce the
classic afterlife scenarios of Eastern and Western religion,
but ONLY if the two halves of the mind divided apart at death.
... which, of course, is exactly what ancient cultures all
over the world once believed.
The other thing that makes the
binary soul doctrine so amazing is that it accounts for most
of the reports emerging from modern research into the
different varieties of afterlife phenomena. Ghosts,
poltergeists, after-death communications, near-death
experiences, and past-life regression all seem to exhibit
symptoms of soul-division.
The least amount of
soul-division seems to occur in after-death communications.
This is phenomena where departed souls return to earth briefly
to say goodbye to their loved ones or take care of other
unfinished business on earth. These kinds of afterlife
contacts usually occur in the first year or two after the
person has died. And for the most part, these souls don’t seem
to have suffered much soul-division at all. They seem to still
retain most of their mental faculties. They usually seem to
know who they are and who their loved ones are, they seem to
still possess some degree of free will, and they still seem
able to think and communicate rationally. However, it usually
does seem that they have suffered a little soul-division.
These deceased loved ones are generally unable to communicate
verbally; instead, they rely on nonverbal gestures or symbolic
images to get their messages across. This is consistent with
the binary soul doctrine. The left brain conscious mind is
verbal, the right brain unconscious is not. This inability to
use verbal communication suggests that the abilities of their
left-brain conscious minds are diminished, forcing them to
rely more heavily on the capacities of the right-brain
unconscious. Another curious thing about these after-death
communications is that they rarely occur after the person has
been dead a couple years. This suggests that the soul-division
might not happen immediately after death, or that it starts
off slowly and gets worse over time, and after a certain point
they are too divided to engage in this kind of communication.
Real ghosts, on the other hand,
seem far more seriously divided. Ghost reports often seem to
describe beings suffering from extreme mental dysfunction.
They often appear to be sleep-walking, re-living memories and
emotions from their past. Seemingly frozen in time and
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