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Weighing the Soul? (Scientific evidence for the human soul? Spirit? Life after death?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Relationship Between Matter and Spirits

"I have a really hard time imagining that the soul itself is made out of stuff that has any physical matter and thus is subject gravity," he says. "But we know they are related to each other because spirits, including angelic spirits and human spirits, are able to affect matter" The name for that is psychokinesis; it's got a psychokinetic grip on some of the particles and atoms in your brain. As part of the rational thought process, as the synapses in your brain fire or refrain from firing, that physical process is somehow influenced by your rational soul.

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