The weight of the soul.

2 November : In remembrance of all my beloved ones.
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Many people like to believe in the idea of a soul, and we often look to the empirical world to bolster our religious or spiritual beliefs, searching for corroborating physical evidence. Just such scientific proof seemed to come in 1907,when a Massachusetts doctor named Duncan MacDougall devised experiments that he expected would actually measure the soul. Using six terminally ill patients on a specially-constructed scale bed, he measured their weight before, during, and after death. His results were mixed, but he concluded that there was indeed a very slight loss of weight, 21 grams on average.

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64 comments - The latest ones

Schussentäler ^club

wunderschöne Aufnahme

8 years ago.

Taormina ^club

!!! like

8 years ago.

Wierd Folkersma ^club

great feeling of freedom

8 years ago.

vieira.de.carvalho

Very nice photo Annemarie. Congratulations.

8 years ago.

Jadviga Grase ^club

Fantastic image!*********
If I had such wings.......

8 years ago.

natur' ELLE ^club

En plein vol de liberté entre la lune et le ciel azur ! une merveille ! *****
belle semaien Annemarie !

8 years ago.

Don Sutherland ^club

Remarkable composition.

8 years ago.

William Sutherland ^club

Exceptional capture!

8 years ago.

Ulrich John ^club

Very nice and meditative ! Zen ! Have a nice Week ahead, Annemarie !

8 years ago.

Annaig56 ^club

le grand beau le grand bleu,,, belle semaine mon amie,

8 years ago.

Proxar

!!! Sehr hübsch

8 years ago.

Rafael ^club

Alcanzando la luna !

8 years ago.

Eve

Merveille photo en ce jour du 2 novembre !
Bonne semaine Annemarie !

8 years ago.

Nora Caracci ^club

incantevole cattura, al punto giusto nel momento giusto !
(sconcertante pensare che l'anima abbia un peso...)

8 years ago.

╰☆☆June☆☆╮ ^club

A lovely capture ;-)

8 years ago.

Malik Raoulda ^club

it's great as a glider
Beautiful shot

8 years ago.

Jaap van 't Veen ^club

BLUE ..tiful.
Congrats on Explore.

8 years ago.

jd weiss

perfect

8 years ago.

Mackedwars

El recuerdo de los seres queridos es lo único que perdura de ellos. Viven en nuestro recuerdo, nada mas. Por eso su memoria es honrada y tratada con el mayor respeto en todas las culturas, al menos en las mas tradicionales.

En la época actual, el recuerdo de los difuntos es selectivo según determinados factores culturales, religiosos, políticos y hasta económicos. Se sale totalmente de la esfera familiar, del vínculo generacional que proviene del mismo tronco.

Un excelente recuerdo Annemarie.

Muy cordialmente.

Eduardo.

8 years ago.

Skipper

Nel blù dipinto di blu.... la cosa buona è come sei riuscita a posizionare il gabbiano, quasi al centro e vicino alla luna.

(Per quanto riguarda l'esperimento che hai citato è un esempio di quanto babbei siano certi pseudoscienziati. L'anima, se esiste, certo non ha un peso misurabile... (:-)

8 years ago.

cammino ^club

Very nicely composed!

8 years ago.

J. Gafarot ^club

Splendid picture Annemarie !

8 years ago.

Valfal

A beautifully composed image, and very interesting information on the soul. I also heard of experiments conducted such as the one you describe.
Congratulations on Explore Front page, my friend, and have a wonderful week :-))

8 years ago.

Roger (Grisly) ^club

Tremendous composition, a great shot and a thought provoking image Ann Marie.

8 years ago.

Jean

A beautiful and outstanding image. The 21 gram weight of the soul equates to the average weight of the nightingale.

8 years ago.

Pam J ^club

This is a deeply evocative photograph.

Beautiful.

But.. I dont believe the "soul/spirit" can be weighed.

8 years ago.

Belleuse

Beautiful image and idea !
(By the way, I thought it could be good news for our times so cultivating the body: there is no thick and thin of souls.)
;-)
I wish you beautiful day, my friend !

8 years ago.

ROL/Photo ^club

Annemarie.. je viens de lire ton commentaire très surprenant.. je conclus donc que notre âme pèse en moyenne 21 grammes... cette photo remarquable peut nous faire effectivement penser à une âme qu'il monte vers la lune

8 years ago.

Helena Ferreira

Stunning capture! Marvelous scene!

A great tribute....

8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.

.t.a.o.n.

everyone may believe what he wants... ;-)
i see a wonderful image !

8 years ago.

Jürgen

ein großes Gefühl von Freiheit

8 years ago.

Armando Taborda ^club

the soul is too light, reason why she flies into the Infinity

8 years ago.

RHH

Wonderful photo.

8 years ago.

RHH

Congratulations on Explore.

8 years ago.

RHH

Admired in:
www.ipernity.com/group/tolerance

8 years ago.

RHH

Seen in: www.ipernity.com/group/frontpage

8 years ago.

Christiane ♥.•*¨`*•✿

Yes, just great !

I had read something about that experiment ...

8 years ago.

Farlang

Stunning shot. Star. Greetings, Heinz.

8 years ago.

Heidiho ^club

Die Story dazu ist natürlich heftig.
Irgendwie auch tröstlich.

8 years ago.

Danielle

Quelle brillante capture !

8 years ago.

Adel Tiar

Funny story ! The soul is not the material for weighing. The soul is from our creator the inconceivable (neither father nor mother nor son). He created man, gave him the sex gender (Man and woman), with things, objects ; on the whole matter, and all bounded by his creations of space and time.
Don't forgetting that the word soul is a purely religious concepte. We must be found a special LABORATORY devoid of MATTER for the success of experiance !
Look : Man creates the computer. One wonders if the computer is able to understand who is man ? The poor computer will tell us a man is : screen, keyboard, mouse, and CPU, RAM... etc ?
It's great in the photo, the heart travel in the sky ! The soul seeks his origin, our creator the inconceivable !

8 years ago.