- 32 - Reflections can only be retrieved from memory with the help of an electrical impulse. This process can however only take place in a living brain. When the brain is definitely dead, its electrical potential for action and its brain waves are also extinguished. The DELPASSE-EFFECT can no longer appear after that point in time if we assume that consciousness, memory and the human soul die with the body. • But if the DELPASSE-EFFECT eventuates in spite of this - also after the extinguishment of any brain activity, we have the evidence that an up to now unknown ENERGY exists that is capable of retrieving the content of memories after the death of the brain. We can then assume that this ENERGY is the CARRIER of a consciousness that outlasts death, it is the immortality of the spirit. It had to be proven that the DELPASSE-EFFECT can come into effect after the breakdown of the brain’s activity. But this is easier said than done, because one has to presuppose that the DELPASSE-EFFECT can be placed within the no man’s land of the dying process. The dying enter this no man’s land in their journey from life to death whenever death is artificially delayed through artificial respiration and circulatory support. These measures are not taken to arbitrarily extend the dying process; they are rather more an attempt to save a life. Not all pressure increases in the brain must inevitably lead to death. If a change happens or is initiated before permanent damage occurs, the state of the patient can improve. This is why a physician will always introduce the artificial maintenance of the circulatory system when support is required and when there is hope that everything can still turn out okay. But if the brain irreversibly dies in such a case, the heart of the patient will continue to beat and prevent the decay of the body until the ventilator is switched off. With the help of artificial respiration and circulatory support, it is possible to create a kind of no man’s land between the death of the brain and the final demise of the whole organism. • A DELPASSE-EFFECT that would appear in this no man’s land could no longer be fed by the life energy of the brain, because it would be dead. It would have to come from another source, from an ENERGY that is not depended on life. But the appearance of the DELPASSE-EFFECT would only be afforded a limited space of time in this no man’s land. The dissolution of cell structures would begin in the dead brain, because it is not affected by the artificially induced blood flow in the body. For Delpasse and van Amsynck, researching this no man’s land began on an April day at 6 o’clock in the morning. Van Amsynck was called to see a patient who had suffered a sudden cerebral haemorrhage and was now lying in a coma. Van Amsynck ordered artificial respiration, an angiogram and the recording of brain waves in order to get an idea of the extent of the damage. The results were not encouraging but van Amsynck and his team of doctors did not give up. Delpasse followed their efforts to save the patient with silent tension. Would they be able to save him? - Would he die? And if he died - where and when would the DELPASSE-EFFECT set in? At around 3 o’clock in the afternoon, flatlines on the EEC indicated the start of a critical phase. The support through the breathing apparatus continued with supplying the lungs and the heart with oxygen. But the DELPASSE-EFFECT showed itself in spite of signs of total loss of function that also included the brain. No matter how disappointing the result was - Delpasse and van Amsynck had not really expected
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