Russian scientists investigated the tukdam phenomenon
Neurophysiologists from Russia were able to scientifically substantiate the “tukdam” phenomenon. This is a meditation performed by a dying teacher or lama in Buddhism. A person goes into a state of suspended animation, and his body remains incorruptible, i.e. does not decompose, reminds the portal aif.ru.
Academician Svyatoslav Medvedev also worked on the study of the phenomenon, earlier he headed the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russian scientists have studied meditating monks, collected their psychophysiological data. In addition, the researchers had access to the bodies of those in the tukdam state.
Experts studied the data of 104 living Buddhist monks, and also studied those who were in a state of tukdam for several weeks. Those who were in posthumous meditation were by all indications dead. But the bodies had no characteristic manifestations of decomposition. In addition, there were no cadaveric spots or rigor mortis. The skin was elastic. It seemed as if the scientists were dealing with a sleeping person and not with a deceased person. However, no signs of electrical activity in the brain were recorded.
The state of suspended animation is known to biologists, but how a person plunges into it has not yet been reliably studied. Previously, structures that could be manipulated to induce suspended animation in humans were discovered by scientists from two independent groups from the United States and Japan.
