I will now explain some other laws to you, André, unbelievable truths, which we, from within our life on this side, have been able to determine on earth.

Over here, we know that a human being can think without a brain.

Do you hear?

Man does not need his brains to think.”

“You really mean that?”

“Yes, André, I speak the truth, it is possible.

During the First World War, many of us served on earth.

They helped the doctors from this side in their difficult task of caring for the wounded.

Among them was a scientist, who had already become very interested in the brain while he was on earth.

When he arrived on this side, he awakened and realized that his life would continue forever, as the spirit is a second body that lives inside the material body, and he understood the studies he had conducted on earth.

‘Good heavens’, he called out and sighed deeply, ‘if I only had been allowed to know this on earth.

I could have shown them that there is more to the earthly body than one imagines.’

So, what did he do next?

After he had accepted his eternal life, and had acquired spiritual consciousness, he hurried back to earth to help his colleagues in the flesh and assist them with the maimed and mutilated.

He merely focused his concentration on his earthly colleagues when they performed operations on the skull.

Now, what did those doctors and he experience?

On one occasion, when they lifted the crown of a soldier’s skull, they found he had no brains.

His cranial cavity merely contained a desiccated mass instead of brains.

From his birth onwards, this person had lived without this vital organ.

‘This is a miracle’, they cried out on earth.

My spiritual brother exerted his influence on them, and wanted to explain this phenomenon to them.

During his short earthly life, he had dedicated himself entirely to solving the question whether man needs a brain in order to think.

And here was the answer.

Do not suppose, André, that this is mere fiction.

On earth people are now that far that this is known in the field of science.

The academics therefore know about this, but cannot accept it yet.

They do not possess the courage to accept it, because it would refute all their theories.

It would force them to accept the spiritual continuity of life as an established fact and they would have to publicize this in scientific circles.

But they have not reached that stage yet.

There are still no doctors who will devote their whole personality to this cause.

Some scholars did get that far without the need of earthly knowledge, but these few cannot bridge the gap of unbelief.

Not until they reach this side will they all realize this truth.

However, by that time they will no longer be able to help their world; by then, their influence on earth will belong to the past.

Slowly but surely, science is making headway.

The conscious acceptance that a person’s inner life is soul too, and that the soul is spirit on this side, marks his awakening to life on the Beyond.

Man has to experience and accept our laws, he must become acquainted with life after death, and only then will he really come alive.

“How do things function under these circumstances, Alcar?”

“I will try to explain this enigma to you.

Listen. Several people exist on earth, who, without knowing this, possess no brain beneath the crown of their skull.

Their skull is empty and yet they can think and are very quick-witted.

The brain itself would not be able to convey this power of feeling whenever it is expressed in words, because the speech organs and the nervous system have to perform this.

This shows us that the speech organs are vital, but that we can do without the brain.

The vibrating organs, which produce speech, are now forced to operate by the will power and the personality of the person in question.

The nervous system is therefore the most important organ in this process, as the nerves are directly attuned to the inner life.

If the nervous system is in disorder, the brain no longer fulfils its normal function, even though it is fundamentally normal, but in that case the nerves refuse to function, due to some illness or disturbance.

A brain disorder will cause a different condition.

However, as long as the nervous system is attuned to the brain, it represents the all-embracing impact and regulates the spoken word.

The nerves register the exerted pressure, which is acquired through concentration, and this leads to the spoken word.

I am now talking about the physical disturbances that frequently occur.

Under normal circumstances, when the brain is instrumental in producing speech, these disturbances show up immediately.

This is different when the skull is empty, because then these disturbances can no longer be traced.

Of course, a person without a brain does present an abnormal phenomenon, but that abnormality does not interfere with actual speech, because spirit and nervous system take complete charge of that.

However, the inner life dominates over all the physical systems, André, and it forms an unity with the central nervous system.”

“But did you not say that we are able to think even if we had no brain?”

“That is possible, André, except when the brain has been forcibly removed.

What could this man do if his brain had been crushed?

I explained this to you before.

It is possible to think without using that organ, provided that the brain was absent prior to birth, so that all other vital organs can adapt from the start.

If this organic unity is forcibly disrupted, then physical disorders will emerge which the personality cannot restore, because these circumstances prohibit the life of feeling from adapting to those organs.

The direct link between the inner life and the nervous system will not be established and these will therefore remain disconnected.”

Master Zelanus said it on Tuesday evening: brains, ladies and gentlemen, mean nothing, because the brains take care of the life of feeling - and it is true, I was able to see all of that by means of those disembodiments - the brains takes care of the life of feeling and send it on, or we would burst as feeling ...

When we begin to think, that is so awe-inspiringly strong.

If you touch a certain thing with your thoughts, sir, then this whole building will collapse.

Only as a result of thinking.

If the vibration of a sound, engineer, isn’t it true, touches the fundamental, a castle collapses.

By means of a sound like that. And what is the thinking then, the thinking of the human being?

But they do not know it, they say: ‘That comes by means of the brains.’

But the brains take care of the life of feeling, send it on, fragment it, send it left, they hold back that pressure, there are nerves there - if you lose balance, you should see what happens there, because we know all those little veins and those little nerves - and then it goes on, and then it goes back again, over the back, to the stomach, and in this way it comes back, and then you get the sound, the timbre on the palate.

And if you are singer, sir, then we can immediately say whether you sing from your throat, with your feeling or by means of your brains.

Solar plexus?

We transmit from there.

The real thinking ...

André is reading a little book like that at the moment, he will read that, then he can make a comparison with what he has experienced through us.

And then you must see that, then the academic says: “Yes, we do not understand: in the prehistoric age those big people had such a small skull, just such little brains.”

Then I already wanted to start writing in addition and to send that book back to him, your doctor; I say “Yes, sir, because there was still no feeling.

The life of feeling created the brains, because brains are only a resistance in order to pass on the life of feeling.

No brains were needed.

There were just a little bit of brains needed for that large, animal-like, human beast.

There were only a few brains needed, just a little bit.

That skull was capable of thinking and doing for a fly, there was no feeling and there were no more brains either.”

And then the academic begins again: “We do not understand that now, in this time, the brain pan is much bigger and there are a lot more brains.”

But the human being also has more feeling, more consciousness.

And because there is more feeling and consciousness, that skull must expand and the brains must ...

They are tissues – do you see? – they are attuned to the centre of feeling, the centre of life, in order to be able to take care of that, or your thoughts would fly out of you and would not get a halt.

You would not be able to stop yourself, you would not be able to restrain yourself.

Do you understand this?

(Hall:) “Is that a type of variable resistor?”

Nothing else, nothing else.

But the academic lets his brains research whether people will find learning there.