Life Beyond the Physical Body

A monumental question which has intrigued the whole of mankind, throughout history – Is there life / consciousness beyond the physical body?

Science has analysed every element, every organ, every process of the human body, and the evidence suggests that when the body fails, we simply cease to exist.

Yet, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence to hand, there remain a large percentage of the population who believe that a human life is more than the sum of its parts and that the consciousness, the spirit or soul transcends the physical form.

Why then, do we find the science so hard to accept?

Is it an arrogant human trait to believe that we are somehow too special to simply die?

Is it fear? Fear driven by an individual’s dread of an incomprehensible nothingness at the end of their lives.

Is it a sub-conscious instinct / a sense that the complexity of our thoughts, emotions, opinions and passions somehow are not fully confined by the “little grey cells”?

It is true that science cannot yet provide a full explanation of every aspect of brain function and capability.

Scientists are still researching in this field, looking at where the subconscious mind is located, how and why there is a necessity to dream, variances between differing the brain structures of different nationalities, males / females, left / right handed people, gay / straight people, why many have the same primal fear reactions, whether species memory exists etc. The list goes on and on.

The more interesting question is – what evidence is there to suggest that there is another plane of existence / life beyond the physical body? Why do so many not believe the science?

I have listed below, areas of thought which may point to life beyond the physical body- the list is not definitive, or conclusive, but until we have all the answers, are areas which are worthy of consideration.

Near-Death Experiences

There have been many reports of individuals, who are resuscitated at the point of clinical death, who relate tales of advancing through a tunnel of light, arriving in off worldly locations, and meeting and communicating with dead loved ones.

Disturbingly, there are also tales of those who arrive in a place of torture and pain.

Many of the descriptions are identical, interest in the subject spread and scientists seriously studied the phenomenon.

The scientific conclusion, up until 2008 was that the tunnel of light was a visual bi-product of the oxygen starved cerebral cortex, endorphins released by the body at the point of death.