The transfer of consciousness to another body

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Frederick Dodson

Evading Old Age and Afterlife

You’re a 90 year old Billionaire. You visit a warehouse where inanimate young bodies, cloned from real bodies, are presented to you. You are going to purchase a young body to transfer your consciousness into. You evade afterlife-evaluation of your life. You evade leaving Earth. You’re young again but have the knowledge of age – a dream come true. What’s more, you get to keep the assets you had in your previous life (minus the costly transfer process).

You’re 90 years old and a Billionaire, but less ethical than the last one. You choose the body of a young person who is alive and well. You illegally take possession of his body and force his consciousness to leave it. People notice the young person has radically changed but there’s nothing they can legally do about it.

Transfer of consciousness:

Can it be done?

Has it been done?

Should it be done?

Brain Transplant into another Body

One of the most controversial scientists of our age was Robert White. In the 1970s he managed to transplant the head of a monkey onto the body of another monkey. You can imagine how outraged the public was. White claimed the consciousness of the monkey whose head been moved, had been maintained. Same personality, same eating preferences, etc.

Also in the 70s, White published a paper titled “Experimental Transference of Consciousness”. I quote from this paper:

“It is already possible to transfer human consciousness provided that the organ that subtends such functioning is retained. It could be argued that all of the other body systems and organs have been primarily developed for, and in a sense subservient to the concept that brain function must be sustained and that their very existence and design is based on this principle. In other words, the body and its systems are nothing more than a “power pack” for the brain for, the brain is the tissue substrate of the mind and possibly that which we call the spirit or soul of man”.

By the 1990s, Robert White was working on “whole body transplants”. He believed he could give Stephen Hawking and Christopher Reeve new bodies by cooling their brains before and during transplant. White practiced his consciousness transfer techniques using corpses at a mortuary. By this time White was of the opinion that it wasn’t enough to transplant the brain, the connected spinal cord had to be transferred along with it.

Shortly after White’s intentions were publicized,his work “went dark”. The creepy corpse re-animator was not heard of again.

I doubt Robert White succeeded, because consciousness is not just the brain. As I say in my book The Electromagnetic Self, the brain and spine are receptors of consciousness but do not contain the spirit. The spirit is a field of energy.  Scientists who don’t believe in the spiritual reality won’t know what consciousness is. And if you don’t know what it is, you can’t transfer it.

Typing “transfer of consciousness” into a search engine, reveals public discussion revolves around transferring consciousness to machines or robots. Transhumanism. In fact, it’s already been done.

Transhumanists, dimwitted as they are, believe that consciousness consists of memories, beliefs, behaviors and habits This is why their results are ridiculous. See for example a video titled “Uploading human consciousness into robots to cheat death” on YouTube.

The concept is called “Mind Uploading”. Even though the robot in the video has all memories, beliefs, habits and behaviors of the deceased person, it does not have the person’s consciousness. Consciousness is not your thoughts and beliefs. Those are the contents of consciousness. Consciousness is spirit. The defining qualities of consciousness are the ability to self-observe, will, intent, compassion and creativity. The robots are void of any of those qualities.

A new generation of scientists continue where Robert White left off. The National Library of Medicine carries a paper from 2019 titled First Human Head Transplantation. I quote from this paper:

According to many, head transplantation is considered to be an extraordinary and impossible surgical procedure. However, nowadays, relevant literature and recent advances suggest that the first human head transplantation might be feasible. This innovative surgery promises a life-saving procedure to individuals who suffer from a terminal disease, but whose head and brain are healthy. Recently, the first cephalosomatic anastomosis in a human model was successfully performed, confirming the surgical feasibility of the procedure, but still not the real outcome.

Cryogenicists believe they can freeze the body for some time, then unfreeze it. But here too, it is falsely assumed that consciousness is the brain and that, as soon as the brain thaws out, the person is back. I assure you that no spirit has a desire to hang around a cryonic freezer for hundreds or even a couple of years. When the person is reanimated, will the spirit return? Or will another one take it’s place?

From an article in The Telegraph newspaper titled Cryogenically frozen brains will be “woken up” and transplanted in donor bodies within three years, claims surgeon:

People who have had their brains cryogenically frozen could be ‘woken up’ within three years, a pioneering Italian surgeon has claimed.

Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, is aiming to carry out the first human head transplant within 10 months and then wants to begin trials on brain transplants.

If the procedures are successful, he believes that frozen brains could be thawed and inserted into a donor body. 

Hundreds of people who are dying or paralysed have had their bodies or brains cryogenically preserved in the hope that medical science will be able to bring them back to life and cure their conditions.

Although many experts are sceptical that huge organs like the brain can be thawed without damage, Prof Canavero said he believes the first frozen head could soon be resurrected.

The article was published in 2017 and nothing has been heard about this since, so the experiment either didn’t succeed or became secret.

In 2001 the Japanese inventor Izumi Arai patented a method he called Mind Personality Transfer Method. It appears that his patent application was granted. I quote from the Patent’s page:

Traditionally, it was thought that the creature’s spirit and personality collapsed and disappeared due to physical aging and serious disability. The present invention transfers the spirit and personality of a living individual or a clone to a new clone, and continues to develop while permanently securing the base of its existence, the spirit and personality of the creature. By transferring to a new clone, the formal identity and substantial development of the individual are retained forever.

This inventor has filed for dozens of ordinary inventions and this one anomalous one. Despite a thorough search I didn’t learn more about this.
Spiritual Techniques of Consciousness Transfer
In Hinduism and Buddhism there is a concept called Phowa. The word describes a transfer of consciousness at death or the practice of conscious dying. There are elaborate rituals to make sure that the consciousness of a person is transferred to the desired place so that “conscious dying” does not become “mere suicide”.
Phowa is normally practiced to transfer consciousness to higher realms, but there are also variations in which one desires to transfer to another body on Earth. It’s said to be very controversial because, regardless of whether you transfer to higher realms or to another body, you are evading your natural karmic destination.
I’ve heard it said that royal families use a sarcophagus when their bodies are buried, so that they can transfer their consciousness to another earthly body. The sarcophagus prevents their body from touching the earth so that the information stored in the bones and skin do not dissolve in the Earth. Royal bloodlines have elaborate rules on how to bury body parts, how to design the sarcophagus, how to seal it, etc.
It’s claimed that royalty use occult rituals to transfer consciousness to a newborn baby and prevent the spirit that was originally destined for that body. Some also say that they can “steal the body” of a child or adult, forcing the consciousness already residing there, to leave. This is supposedly done through drugs, torture and rituals. Some insist that the new body is of the same lineage or bloodline. The idea is that blood and conscious memory are what give the person the right to carry certain titles, powers and rights. Without the blood and consciousness, the power is lost.
I’ve also heard it said that some members of the ruling elite seek consciousness transfer as a means of evading karmic punishment, God’s Judgement or being thrown into Hell. Thus, they reincarnating into a fresh body when they grow old, recycling themselves from generation to generation.
I don’t know whether any of this is true.My personal view is that yes it can be done, yes it has been done, no it shouldn’t be done.
I believe it can be done because there’s a long ancient tradition teaching about it. And if it can be done, then it has been done.
When they grow old, many harbor the desire to take their accumulated knowledge and get a younger body. I believe “where there’s a desire, there’s a reality”. Either it’s already being done in secret or will be done some day.
Should it be done? I trust Universe is already perfect and the process of life, death and afterlife needn’t be meddled with.
A flower grows effortlessly without the need for a “scientist” to try to replicate it by taping stems, leaves and pedals together.
I believe in exploration and research but why fix something that’s already working? It’s only human perception that aging and death are “bad”. Leaves withering away is not “bad”, they’ll return the next season. Trying to make the old leaves stick to the tree is silly. But that’s just me.

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