I cannot believe that 'when the soul enters the body' is actually part of the abortion debate

[NJCher]

132. don't bother

I think it's kind of you to try to enlighten him but it's just a fact that some people have a resistance to believing in souls and the afterlife. They think that just because they fail to detect souls, they don't exist.

You're new, so I will just let you know that Hugh frequently goes on rants like this around here. He's a pretty good natured guy, likable and fun, so we older souls just chuckle and let him act out while we sip our tea, nod, and

This is for the person who wants a link.

Here is the table of contents to an essay that won $500,000 proving the existence of the soul and an afterlife (prize money provided by Robert Bigelow).
The link is below:

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"As readers study the top three essays authored by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove, Dr. Pim van Lommel and Dr. Leo Ruickbie, it will become apparent that there is a great variety of approaches that prove the case for survival of human consciousness after bodily death beyond a reasonable doubt." (link at end of post)

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Much of the recent work is based on input from medical doctors who have written about their experiences. There are plenty of them, so while Hugh likes to rant about science science science, in fact medical science people understand and publish on this topic on a regular basis.



Outline.
INTRODUCTION: SOME WHITE CROWS
An After-Death Communication Changes My Life
Postmortem Survival’s Universal Acceptance
Scientism’s Dark Shadow
The Need for a Framework
Does the Brain Create Consciousness?
The astonishing hypothesis
William James’ filtration theory
Hyperspace and consciousness
The quantum soul
THE EVIDENCE
The Spectrum of Arrows
Near-Death Experience
Cardiac arrest hospital studies
Out-of-Body Experience
Life reviews
Indescribable love
Seeing the future
Near-death healing power
After-Death Communications
Paying a debt
Kübler-Ross’ transformative after-death communication
A psychotherapy system born from the grave
While taking a shower
At the time of death
The late, communicative Elisabeth Targ
In a psychotherapy session
In lucid dreams
Prearranged after-death communication
Reincarnation
Ian Stevenson’s methodology
Reincarnation and archetypal synchronistic resonance
Patterns in the data
Intermission memories
Announcing dreams
Peak in Darien Experiences
An ancient example
A young nurse’s surprising death
Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven
Possession
The Watseka Wonder
The Shiva/Sumitra case
Implications for psychopathology
Instrumental Trans Communication
Konstantin Raudive’s return
Anabela Cardoso’s voices
Phone calls from the dead
A text message from the dead
Xenoglossy
The Jensen Jacoby case
The Uttara/Sharada case
Mental Mediumship
Leonora Piper
Frederic Myers’ Return
Gladys Osborne Leonard’s mediumship
Medium launches a revolution
Forensic evidence provided by a medium
Discarnate launches psychotherapy approach
Ena Twigg and Bishop James Pike
Legal evidence from Chico Xavier
Murders solved by mediums
The George Chapman/William Lang partnership
The Maróczy/Korchnoi chess match
Physical Mediumship
Preliminary considerations
Walter Stinson’s discarnate persistence
The Scole group
THE FRAMEWORK: CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND THE BRAIN
Consciousness and Pure Logic
The parsimony principle
Kastrup’s analytical idealism
Psychedelic Research
Terminal Lucidity
Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
The data
Absence of theory
Can living agent psi explain the survival evidence?
CONCLUSION
The Argument and the Evidence
The Price of Ignoring the Evidence
A Final Thought


Link: https://www.nonlocalmind.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Jeff-Mishlove-Essay-for-Bigelow-Institute.pdf

Oh, and here's a little information on Robert Bigelow. You can read about how this multi-millionaire published the above and other works:

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/353002/bigelow-institutes-winning-life-after-death-essays-published

on edit:

wanted to add that I have read that most think the soul enters the body just before birth. FWIW.