Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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

May 19, 2023

01:35:21

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Jimmy Akin

Dom Bettinellil

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Morbid Science of Death Experiments

01:58

Weighing the Soul Experiment

01:20

Collaborating between Institutions in Parapsychology Research

01:19

Introduction

3min

The Soul Is a Space-Filling Substance

2min

The Light-Bearing Ether

2min

How McDougall Wounded People as They Died

4min

The Effects of Moisture on Weight Loss

1min

The Soul's Weight Loss

2min

The Effect of Perspiration on Weight Loss

2min

The Effects of Interference on Weight Loss

2min

The Importance of Weight Loss in Science

3min

10.

How to Account for a Range of Values When Taking Measurements

4min

11.

The Afterlife of a Dog

3min

12.

The Effects of Leverne Twining on Mouse Weight Loss

2min

13.

The Effects of Sealing a Test Tube on Weight Loss

2min

14.

The Effects of Weight Gain on Death

2min

15.

The Psychokinetic Effect of Souls on Weight Gain

2min

16.

John G. Crews' Experiment to Weigh the Soul

2min

17.

The Effect of Euthanasia on Weight Loss

4min

18.

The Effect of Out of Body Experiences on Weight Gain

5min

19.

The Effects of Out of Body Work on the Environment

4min

20.

The Effects of Meditation on Weight Gain

3min

21.

The Effect of Boogancy on Psychokinetic Lightning

5min

22.

How to Raise Funds for a Research Project in Parapsychology

3min

23.

The Importance of a Small Sample Size

3min

24.

McDougal's Selective Reporting Argument

2min

25.

The Weight Loss of McDougal

2min

26.

The Effect of Convection Air Currents on the Scale

2min

27.

The Effect of Death on Body Temperature

2min

28.

The Effects of Air Currents on Weight Gain

2min

29.

The Role of Psychokinesis in Weight Loss

2min

30.

McDougall's Theology of the Soul

3min

31.

The Relationship Between Matter and Spirits

5min

32.

The Effect of Death on Weight Loss

2min

33.

McDougal's Results With Dogs

2min

34.

The Effects of Souls on Weight Loss

6min

35.

The Strange Science of Weight Loss and Weight Gain

2min

36.

How to Measure the Solar System

3min

Could the human soul ever be scientifically detected? Could it even be weighed? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinellil discuss a series of experiments that claimed to detect the departure of the soul at death, whether that's possible, and what other researchers have found.