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Death and resurrection from the point of view of the cell-theory

Chapter 17: FOOTNOTES
By Gustaf Björklund
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A scientific-philosophical investigation proposes that consciousness and hopes for survival after death are best examined through the biology of cells. After critiquing the subjective limits of psychical research, the work argues for a cytological foundation for the soul, treating personal identity as an emergent property of organized cell-communities while acknowledging the partial independence of constituent cells. It traces how segmentation and evolutionary relations among cells might produce rising levels of self-awareness and sketches a biologically coherent account of resurrection or postmortem continuity. The aim is to reconcile instinctive beliefs in continued existence with observable biological principles.

FOOTNOTES

[1] The latest researches in regard to the newly discovered corpuscles show that these “bodies” have a mass proportional to the square of their velocity, thus forcing us to conclude that they at rest have no mass. Perhaps, therefore, the ancient dualistic world of matter and force is merging into a larger unity where life directs force to serve its specific purposes.—Translator’s note.

[2] Chemists understand that the so-called native iron, found, for instance, in Greenland, forms no real exception more than the chemical reactions that absorb heat form exceptions to the general law that chemical processes set heat free, because if the necessary simultaneous reactions are taken into account, all the reactions as a whole show a surplus of heat.—Translator’s note.

[3] Björklund might here properly have referred to his previous demonstration of the fact that life has no roots in time, consequently is independent of this principle—i. e., immortal.—Translator’s note.

INDEX

  • Absolute organism, the, 187.
  • Achilles, 14.
  • Activity, incitement to, 154.
  • Adaptation, 149.
  • Affinity, 97.
  • Agni, the elementary, 24.
  • Annihilation contrary to nature, 1, 168.
  • Army organization, 159f.
  • Art and organic matter, 107, 111, 119f.
  • Ask and Embla, 21.
  • Athens, 9.
  • Bacteria, 57.
  • Belief in future life, 2.
  • Biology and the spiritual body, 192.
  • Björklund, Johan Gustaf, VII.
  • Body, importance of the, 18.
  • Boström, Christofer Jacob, 174, 194.
  • Burial ceremonies, 9, 20.
  • Büchner, 48f, 56, 62, 69, 73, 75, 83.
  • Causality, 118, 119.
  • Cause, sufficient, 117.
  • Cells, living units, 27, 29;
  • man, a community of, 30;
  • a system of, 142.
  • Chemical reactions, 76, 82.
  • Chinese civilization, 10;
  • death-cultus, 11.
  • Chlorophyll, 115.
  • Christianity, 16, 20.
  • Church burial, 16.
  • Circulation, blood, 78.
  • Civilization, antiquity of Chinese, 10.
  • Cohesion, 97.
  • Conscience, 44.
  • Consciousness, 45.
  • Combustion, 92, 94ff.
  • Communism, cell, 159.
  • Coöperation, innermost, 161.
  • Corporeal existence, soul’s craving for, 15.
  • Cosmic catastrophe, a, 103.
  • Creation, orthodox theory of, 67, 173.
  • Cremation, 21, 24.
  • Customs, grave, 13.
  • Coulanges, Fustel de, 7, 10.
  • Cytology, 28, 29, 177, 193.
  • Darwin’s theory, 62.
  • Death, and dissolution, 1;
  • in mid-ocean, 12.
  • Death-cultus, 11, 49, 189, 192.
  • Decay, 105, 116.
  • Deity, 176.
  • Dextrose, 82.
  • “Division of labor,” organic, 141.
  • Dogma, 16, 51.
  • Doomsday, 191.
  • Dove, 128.
  • Dualism, ecclesiastical, 21, 88.
  • Dusch, von, 57.
  • Duty of matrimony in China, 12.
  • Dying and renewal, process of, 125.
  • Earth, history of our, 100.
  • Ego, perceived as relation, the, 162f.
  • Elysian fields, 15.
  • Energy of a living being, the, 72.
  • Entity, the soul’s, 164;
  • man’s, 169;
  • the divine, 185.
  • Equivalents of energy, 89.
  • Eskimo, the, 13.
  • Eternal, the, 181, 185f.
  • Eternity, 183.
  • Ether, 89.
  • Evolution, 17, 26.
  • Existence beyond the grave, 37.
  • Experience, daily, 77.
  • Faith, founded on probability, 37.
  • Fear, effect of, 131.
  • Fechner, Gustav, V.
  • Flourens, 129.
  • Folk-lore, IV.
  • Food, 156.
  • Forces, inorganic, 74;
  • as qualities, 76;
  • and resistance, 87.
  • Forms of energy, 88.
  • Foundation fact, Björklund’s, XII.
  • Fries, S. A. D. D., VII.
  • Fuel, organic, 93.
  • Function, bodily, 48.
  • Funeral ceremonies, 7.
  • Furnace heat and the sun, 109.
  • Future life, modern attitude toward, 4.
  • Geology, 62, 69.
  • Ghosts, 25.
  • God, image of, 22;
  • presence of, in logical laws, 180.
  • Granfelt, 19.
  • Grave, communications from the, 7;
  • in China, 12.
  • Grew, 28.
  • Harvey’s formula, 55f, 58, 62ff, 67, 122.
  • Heat, equivalents of, 98f.
  • Historical process, the, 46, 70, 188f.
  • Hierologists, Germanic, 22.
  • Hoffman, 58.
  • Höner, 22.
  • Humanity, a higher organism, 126;
  • the link between God and man, 177.
  • Hunger, 156.
  • Hydrates of carbon, 82.
  • Idea, man, God’s eternal, 174.
  • Idealism, 18, 194.
  • Image of God, the soul an, 172f, 179.
  • Immaterial experience, 45, 50.
  • Immortality, instinctive, 1, 2;
  • of the cell, 124.
  • Incentives, 119.
  • Indestructibility of matter and energy, 170.
  • Indian tribes, 13.
  • Industry, a common need of, 145.
  • Inertia, 111.
  • Instinct, faith and, 4, 6;
  • social, 144.
  • Intellect, mechanical equivalent of, 90.
  • Intelligence and the soul, 132.
  • Intuition, 26, 44, 173f.
  • Islam, 15.
  • Judaism, 15.
  • Jungle of materialism, the, XV.
  • Key, Ellen, VIII.
  • Laboratory results, 83, 84.
  • Language, cell, 164.
  • Lavoisier, 72.
  • Life-force, so-called, 71, 73, 121.
  • Life, supernatural origin of, 123.
  • Logical laws the form in which God exists, 180.
  • Limitations, man’s, 178.
  • Lodur, 21.
  • Machine, the living, 79, 139.
  • Malpighi, 28.
  • Man, a social organism of cells, 32;
  • responsibility of, 198.
  • Material, organic, 112f.
  • Materialism, 19, 49, 85.
  • Matrimony in China, 11.
  • Matter, 47, 68, 88, 96, 118.
  • Mechanical toy, man not a, XIV.
  • Mechanism of the organism, 138.
  • Memory, 146.
  • Metamorphosis, 40.
  • Micro-organic world, the, 58.
  • Mid-ocean, death in, 12.
  • Microscope, the, 28, 155.
  • Mirbel, Brisseau de, 29.
  • Mind, time-bound and space-bound, XIV.
  • Moldenhaver, 29.
  • Molecules, 96.
  • “Moss-clad fragment,” the, 65.
  • Motility, mechanical, 79.
  • Mutability, 91.
  • Mythology, Germanic, 21.
  • Nations as organisms, 31.
  • Natural science, 48, 191.
  • Nirvana, XIV.
  • Nobel prize, the, X.
  • Negroes, immortality ideas among, 12.
  • Nordenskold, 13.
  • Norse sagas, 15.
  • Odin, 22.
  • Omne vivum ex vivo, 59.
  • Organic structure, 33, 83, 84.
  • Origin of life, the, 70.
  • Oxygen, 102.
  • Pacific Ocean, 10.
  • Parasites, 54.
  • Parseeism, 15.
  • Pasteur, 58.
  • Permanence, law of, 89, 91.
  • Personal existence after death, 6.
  • Philosophy of science, the, 73.
  • Polar regions, 10.
  • Pre-existence, 171.
  • Prehistoric beliefs, 4, 188.
  • Present, the eternally, 182.
  • Presentiment, 2.
  • Priestley, 72.
  • Primitive ideas of immortality, 10.
  • Principles of life and physical force, 90, 91, 121.
  • Propagation, 54, 55, 61.
  • Providence, 133, 197.
  • Psychical Research, society for, III.
  • Psychologic order of evolution, 5.
  • Purpose, organic, 149.
  • Pyre, the funeral, 190.
  • Reasoning, headlong, 20.
  • Re-birth, 40.
  • Recapitulation, 188.
  • Religious instincts, 17.
  • Resurrection, 15f, 150, 166, 190.
  • Rydberg, Victor, 21, 172.
  • Sagas, 15.
  • Samoyede grave, a, 13.
  • Scheele, 72.
  • Schröder, 57.
  • Schultze, 57.
  • Schwann, 57.
  • Science and resurrection, 16, 20, 74.
  • Scylla and Charybdis of science, the, XIV.
  • Sin, 198.
  • Skeptical attitude, modern, 3f.
  • Society, human, 32, 143, 158.
  • Solar system, the, 184.
  • Sorcerers, 25.
  • Soul, future life of the, 8, 14;
  • physiologists and the, 127;
  • functions of the, 130, 134;
  • a spiritual principle, 151.
  • Spallanzani, 57.
  • Spiritual body, a, 19f, 22, 26, 34f, 190, 195;
  • vision, 43;
  • interaction, 152;
  • beings, 175.
  • Spontaneous generation, 51, 52, 59, 105, 122.
  • Substance, living, 124;
  • comprehending, 153.
  • Sun, importance of the, 104.
  • Supernatural forces, 45, 67.
  • Steam engine, art and the, 108, 110.
  • Swedish Peace Society, X.
  • Teleological causality, 118.
  • Telepathy, III.
  • Thomson, Sir William, 63.
  • Time, a form of existence, 181.
  • Tissues, the, 142.
  • Tomb, life in the, 7.
  • Tool, the organism a, 135.
  • Transcendental world, a, 42.
  • Treviranus, 29.
  • Units, organic, 151.
  • Unity of the organism, 166f.
  • Upsala, VII.
  • Veda Aryans, 21, 23f.
  • Virtue, 198.
  • Vis inertia, 110f.
  • Vitalistic doctrine, 72.
  • Will incentive, 119.
  • Wöhler, 81.