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Walking Towards Death - 1

Death. It's inevitable and since the time immemorial, has mystified and dismayed us. Death is the only certitude of life but can we predict it? Well science cannot really predict your death for you. Here we brings before you the first series of our articles describing various signs of death as elucidated in Ayurveda, the ancient healing science. As flower is manifestation preceding the would-be fruit, certain morbidities precede death. Sometimes a fruit may appear without a preceding flower but the certain morbidities do not recede without causing death. In the upcoming articles we shall discuss the morbidities which are not etiological in nature but resemble them in effect. In fact, they appear without any apparent cause and indicates the measure of the life-span particularly the signs of imminent death due to decadence of life. Keeping up the pace with our previous article, signs relating to the fatal morbidities are schematized owing to their conspicuousness. These corpor...
                                                   PHANTOSMIA -Dr. Rahul Kumar Phantom odors have always been tied to haunting and ghost stories.  Before sophisticated equipment could measure EMF and voice recorders were picking up EVPs, personal stories of encounters with the supernatural nearly always came accompanied with a particular odor.  Even today, part of our investigator's interview questionnaire always include questions about phantom odors, and any personal experiences involving such are carefully documented. But why are we so interested in phantom odors? Many believe that phantom odors are an excellent way for an entity to communicate with the living.  It presumably takes less energy to manifest a scent than to manifest as a visual apparition, make a noise, or move an object in our realm.  Certain scents can...