A living human being consists of three parts, the body, the soul and the spirit. The body is, as if it was not self-evident, what we are able to see and take pictures of. The other two, the soul and the spirit, are the immaterial parts of the human being. What they are and what the difference between them is, is evident from below.

The memory is of course not in the brain. The brain belongs to the recent body. More people than I, even purely physically aimed scientists, have called attention to the fact that the brain impossibly can have space for all the memories we have. Already during the fifties, brain scientists made experiments with hypnosis to find out how extensive the memory is.

A bricklayer who was more than 60 years of age was, during hypnosis, able to describe details from bricks he had had in his hands and it turned out at a control that he remembered correctly. Another man, also during hypnosis, could in an extremely detailed way describe the classroom he had been in at the age of six years. There are plenty of similar fantastic memory experiments.

The scientist John von Neumann published calculations about the extent of the memory in the book The computer and the brain 1958. Being able to remember all the details that a man, according to the experiments, actually remembers at the age of 60, the amount of neurons in the brain is not enough. We have about 10 billions of neurons in the brain. If we consider these as electrical on-off switches, like how a computer works, every single neuron would contain 30 billions of on-off switches. That is an absurd impossibility. So where are the memories stored, if there is not enough space in the brain?

Notice that there are physically aimed scientists who are guilty of these fantastic calculations - and there are no answers on a physical level. The answer is on a higher level. Memories are recorded in the brain, but are stored somewhere else.

A good comparison we get by comparing with a computer. It has its given memory capacity. It is not possible to store more in a computer than what it has capacity for. That is self-evident. But it can be connected to Internet. There it is enormously much more information than what there is memory for in the brain.

The entirety of the soul and the spirit is much bigger than the part we have space for in the brain. What we have here and now is just a small part of an entirety that is not here and now. Where is the entirety? Outside the body. The part of it which we are aware of, is called the soul.

People wrongly say that you have a soul, which sounds as if the soul is something else than the conscious owner of the body. The conscious owner is the soul. Saying that you have a soul sounds as if you are walking around with something that is not yourself.

During life we record experiences with the brain. These transfer to the archive of the memory entirety. It is what we call the spirit. There we have everything we ever have experienced during innumerably many incarnations, and nothing of it can darken or disappear. But it can only be brought to consciousness with hypnosis.

If you don't beleive in reincarnation, read Earthly life.