- 31 - • This switch-on signal on the threshold of the final demise, initiated in spite of the non-existence of stand-by waves, is called the DELPASSE-EFFECT. The DELPASSE-EFFECT perfectly coincides with the appearance that one can expect if the spirit should survive. It could indicate that the human spirit, carried by an up to now unknown ENERGY, leaves the body at the moment death ensues. It could also mean that a tiny fraction of this spirit leaves a trace on the monitor behind - in principle no different from a metal object triggering a signal whilst passing through an electro-magnetic airport security control gate. It could be something like that. But it doesn’t have to be. Before the DELPASSE-EFFECT can be accepted as evidence of an up to now unknown ENERGY, a considerable number of problems have to be dealt with. The first problem consists of the fact that we only have an approximate time for the moment of death. The question arises: How long is this moment the spirit requires to leave the body? One second? - One hundredth of a second? - One billionth of a second? Energetic processes are probably the cause of the DELPASSE-EFFECT that take place inside of atoms. We are dealing with processes here that - as the nuclear physicist Nils Bor expressed it - “cannot be grasped by our concepts of space and time”. This order of magnitude cannot even be expressed philosophically because they are confronted by stations of death on the other side that have to be measured in comparably enormous dimensions. As the brain reacts the most sensitive to a lack of oxygen amongst all the other organs, it will be the first to suffer an irreversible loss of functionality. We talk about brain death. It inaugurates the phase of clinical death when individual organs perish one after the other due to the lack of oxygen. The end of the process is biological death, followed by decay. This biological death is not the result of an outside source as one might assume. The cells carry this information from the time of their conception. A proper decay-enzyme is stored within tiny particles, the lysosomes, and it fearfully screens itself from the rest of the working apparatus. The biological death gives the signal to open the lysosomes - the deadly enzyme emerges and immediately begins to dissolve the cells from within. Biological death therefore spells the end for cells. The problem therefore exists in the fact that we only have an all too insufficiently exact time determination for the moment death occurs. Dying itself is not one single moment. Dying is a process that takes place in three phases. Three phases that take at least a few minutes without showing any clearly defined dividing lines as they merge together: • Brain death • Clinical death • The cells death. How could you possibly determine the exact moment within this minute lasting eternity - the moment of the DELPASSE-EFFECT - “cannot be grasped by our concepts of space and time”? - Why is such an exact determination of time actually necessary and what strength of evidence could it impart on the DELPASSE-EFFECT? • The DELPASSE-EFFECT will only have strength of evidence if it has been clearly established that it can be retrieved after the extinction of the brain’s activity.
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