There
are still those who suppose that it is somehow “unscientific” to believe in any
form of survival. There is actually no justification for this view, and
certainly today not all scientists would endorse it.
As
has been pointed out earlier, there are psychological reasons why some
scientists almost willfully shut their eyes to all evidence for the paranormal;
this enables them to continue operating on the assumption that all
manifestations of “mind” are simply by-products of the body, determined by it
and perishing with it. In this way, mental activities are reduced to “mere”
functions of the brain, and so on. In fact, however, it should be stressed that
the brain does not think.
The
human brain is a very remarkable organ, which has still been only very
superficially explored, owing to obvious practical difficulties in addition to
its own quite extraordinary complexity. But quite certainly not all mental
activities can be related to it. The various forms of ESP (extra-
sensory-perception) phenomena are facts, and nothing in the physical brain has
been found to account for them, even by officially materialist Soviet-bloc
scientists who have a vested interest in establishing such a connection.
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