The Mecca of Light

(The Dead Sea Scrolls)

The Last Prophecy - The Cathar Prophecy of 2021

The Sons of Light, the Fallen Angels, and the Nephilim

Before the Deluge, Semites were led by angels (a word meaning messenger), the elohim. The story is told in the Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), the great grandfather of Noah of the Genesis Flood. According to early biblical scriptures, angels were offspring of gods and goddesses who acted as "spiritual beings... intermediate between God and humanity" and were variously sent to the physical world as watchers, testers, and judges. Under Enoch, God talked to humans only through these messengers.

Enoch tells of a rebellion of some of the angels (the fallen angels) against God. Sent to Earth as watchers, they defied orders and had carnal interactions with human women who later gave birth to Nephilims, offspring of gods and human women.

Elohim is "cognate to the 'lhm' [or 'ilhm'] found in Ugaritic texts where it stands for the pantheon of Canaanite gods, i.e. the children of El, and conventionally vocalized as 'Elohim'" ("Names of God in Judaism." Wikipedia, 27 April 2024, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonai#Elohim.). In Latin, 'nefas' means 'crime' (see nefarious). Nephilim (nef-ilhm) would mean 'criminal elohim,' i.e. fallen angels. In Norse mythology, the word Niflhel (derived from Niflheim) is the lowest level of the Underworld, i.e. the Abyss.

Jesus, as the Son of God born to a human woman,

would be a Nephilim, and his father, a fallen angel.

The name of God in the original New Testament in Greek was Theou or Theos. Eos, presumably the corresponding female goddess, was known for having "a great sexual appetite... [and having taken] numerous human lovers for her own satisfaction... [and born] them several children" ("Eos." Wikipedia, 6 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eos.). In ancient cosmogony, chaos is what preceded the creation.

The War in Heaven

The Book of Revelation, which described future events, talks about a War in Heaven in which fallen angels, led by Satan, attacked the angels loyal to God, those led by Archangel Michael, and were condemned to the Abyss till the End of Time.

A similar story is echoed in the Dead Sea Scrolls, of which the War Scroll describes a future conflict between the Sons of Darkness, led by Belial, and the Sons of Light, led by Melchizedek (which translates to Righteous King, alternatively Just King or King of Justice), the nephew of Noah according to the Second Book of Enoch (2 Enoch).

In the story, El is God and Melchizedek, a messenger (i.e. an angel), "is the Anointed one of the spirit," i.e. the Christ ("11Q13, The Melchizedek Document." Wikipedia, 13 October 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek_document.). Very likely, both these stories refer to the same event, meaning Belial would be Satan.

In the angelic prophecy, El is God, Melchizedek is the savior,

and the anointing comes from the Spirit.

Since Peter had the power to bestow the Spirit,

he would have been the one anointed by the Spirit at the time of Jesus.

The Name of God

Typically, the names of archangels end with el, e.g. Michael (probably Melchi-el, meaning king of angels), Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, etc.  El (Eloah or Elah in Aramaic) is the name of God. 

El-ijah is generally translated as God is the Lord (i.e. Yahweh for Jews). Similarly, Beth-el and Immanu-el are translated as 'House of God' and 'God with us' respectively.

As such, El (the god of angels) is God. Yahweh (god of Israelites) and its nemesis Baal were lower entities subordinate to El. Confirming this is their listing on Wikipedia as children of El. The latter is also referred to El Elyon, or 'God Most High,' suggesting a polytheistic system.

Yah (as in Yahweh), Jah, Baal, and Yodh all mean lord. A double Yah (Yah-Yah) means Lord of lords, i.e. God. The use of single Yah and Baal further confirms that Yahweh and Baal were lesser deities rather than God, himself.

Elohim is the plural of El. Pluralization is sometimes used as an epithet of royalty (pluralis majestatis). As such, in capitalized form with singular verb, it translates to God (El). Otherwise, it is plural and refers to the children of El (angels or gods, uncapitalized). In literal translation, the first book of the Bible (Genesis 1) reads, 'In the beginning, Elohim created the Heavens and the Earth...' (God or Gods? The Many Faces of God in Ancient Texts).

In Judges 6 (Interlinear Bible), El and Eloah in Hebrew are translated to God. Elohim is translated to God or gods, and Yahweh, to Lord. In Judges 6:26, the expression "Lord thy God" is translated from "Yahweh Elohim of you." Yahweh was the god of the Jewish family, but not the Most High God.

The letter 'l' is typically associated with angels, while 'd' in pronunciation tends to be linked to Dyeus (the Indo-European day-light sky god), Dieu (French), Zeus (derived from Dyeus), Jupiter (Djous patēr), deity, divine, and possibly Jews (Djous). In English it is 'g' as in God and Ghost (Holy Ghost).

The Elohim of the Jews

In the War Scroll, Melchizedek is the Elohim of the Jews. He is also described as being 'by his strength' the judge of the 'holy ones of God' (i.e. the priests and religious clerics). Belial is associated with the spirits that rebelled. With the 'gods of justice,' it is said, Melchizedek will defeat Belial, save many from its grasp, and bring final peace. In the end, the Sons of Light (angels loyal to El) and men of Melchizedek (the Just) will be rewarded. Belial is said to have three nets: "fornication, wealth, and pollution of the sanctuary" ("Belial." Wikipedia, 8 February 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belial.).

Melchizedek, king of Salem (the former name of Jerusalem meaning peace), was the high priest of El.  He was better known for having accepted Lot and his tribe as refugees after their rescue from the king of Elam by his uncle Abraham. The latter was blessed by Melchizedek in the name of the supreme god, El (Genesis 14), and paid tithe to Melchizedek so he and Lot could settle in his land. This sets El and Melchizedek above Yahweh and Abraham, in line with all of the above.

When Yahweh through Abraham gave Canaan (pehaps the land of Cain; modern day Israel and parts of Jordan) to the Israelites in the Covenant of the Pieces, he set in motion a series of events that led to the violent conquest of Canaan and the Levant by Joshua, multiple genocides, and the killing of the last Zedekian king of Jerusalem, Adonizedek.

The Book of Joshua relates the story, starting with destruction of Jericho and continuing with the massacre of 12,000 souls, men and women, and total annihilation of Ai (Canaan), their city, and its king.

Catharism professes that people are angels

and would therefore be associated with the Sons of Light,

Melchizedek, the Spirit, and El, the Elohim.

They would have followed Archangel Michael,

a name meaning 'like El' or more likely 'king of angels' (Melchi-el),

and celebrated Michaelmas.

The God that Matters

The words Aides, Adon (Lord), Adonai (My Lords), and Adonis are all closely related. Adonai was one of the seven names of God in Judaism. Adonis was the "mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was famous for having achieved immortality" ("Adonis." Wikipedia, 22 July 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adonis.), i.e. Adonis may have been Hades in the flesh. Sdk, or Sydyk and Zedek, was a Phoenician god, son of Amunos and Magos, themselves children of Wanderers or Titans ("Sydyk." Wikipedia, 20 August 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydyk.).

The Greek pantheon was comprised of 12 or 13 gods, all living on Mount Olympus except for the one ruling the Underworld (the Afterlife). As a result of the Titanomachy--a decade-long war in Ancient Thessaly in which the Olympian gods led by Zeus (Dyeus) rebelled, overthrew their father Cronus and the Titans, and seize power (the castration)--Zeus became proprietor of the sky, Poseidon, of the waters, and Hades, who did not take part in the rebellion, was given the Underworld (from then on called Hades).

The Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus, a part of the Underworld (called the Abyss) which was a "dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked" ("Tartarus." Wikipedia, 22 August 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus.). In contrast, Hades was a place of judgement where only the wicked were punished.

2 Peter 2:4 (Literal Standard Version):

'For if God did not spare messengers having sinned, but having cast [them] down to Tartarus with chains of deepest gloom, delivered [them], having been reserved to judgment.'

Jesus would therefore be linked to Tartarus, the Abyss, rather than Hades (the Afterlife) which provides for life eternal and reincarnation.

The Zoroastrian pantheon of Persia had several gods and one angel, Rashnu, the Angel of Justice and keeper of the bridge between life and the afterlife. This mirrors the Greek pantheon with its gods on Olympus and Hades, keeper of the Underworld. Hades would therefore be the Rashnu of Persia, not only an angel, but one of the priestly Zedekian line since the suffix 'zedek' translates to righteousness, i.e. justice. He would also be the one guarding the Gates of the Afterlife.  Hades was a chthonic god, i.e. of the underworld.  He would be different from the presumed god of creation, who would be of the physical realm.

Persian priest-gurus were once called magi

and were known for their expertise in astrology.

Magos (singular) is the Greek word for magi (magus).

In the Greek pantheon story, the gods violently rebelled, making them the fallen angels of the Enochian story and the Sons of Darkness of the War in Heaven. After the Titanomachy, Zeus and the gods began another war, the Gigantomachy....

While we may disagree on reincarnation,

the god that matters is the one

 we meet after we die, i.e. in the afterlife.

Christians' put their loved ones underground

after they die, i.e. in the Underworld.

The House of God

Bethel, Luz, and Ai are three of the most significant biblical locations after Jerusalem. They are all within 3 km of today's town of Deir Dibwan. When Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, visited the area he dreamed of angels travelling up and down a ladder between Earth and Heaven (Jacob's Ladder), a stairway to Heaven.

And he [Jacob] was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God [Elohim], and this is the gate of heaven!" (Genesis 28:17)

Inspired by the dream, he built an altar to El, called the place Bethel, took the name Israel, and became the father of the 12 tribes of Israel.  Bethel (or Beit El), often translated as the House of God, literally means House of El.  It was the same area where Abraham built an altar to Yahweh in Genesis 12.

Luz, a royal city in Canaan, is identified as Bethel in three different books of the Bible (Judges 1:23, Joshua 18:13, Genesis 28:19 & 35:6). In Judges 1:23 and Genesis 28:19, Luz is the former name of Bethel. Recent excavations suggest Ai could be Khirbet el-Maqatir near Deir Dibwan. However, this is still debated and Ai may have been one of the many other ruins in the area (Et Tell, Khirbet el-Haiyan, etc.) or Luz itself as ancient texts are not always accurate.  There might have been two Bethels, the settlement founded by Jacob on the outside the city called Luz at the time and the latter which became know as Bethel later on.

Deir Dibwan literally means 'The Monastery of the Divan.' Divan or dewan is a word of Persian origin meaning a high-ranking official or ruler. The word itself is almost the same as the English 'divine' and French 'divin.' Very likely, it would have been the equivalent of pope. As small towns don't have popes, Deir Dibwan would have been originally the crowning jewel of Luz. At the highest of point of the plateau on which Deir Dibwan sits is a ruin called Ed-Deir (the Monastery) by locals.

Luz means 'almond' in Hebrew but could also refer to Latin 'lux' for 'light.'  Melchior (as in the king-magi of Persia in the Jesus story) literally means king of light.  As Judaism has no official monastic tradition and magi was the word used for Persian priest-gurus, 'Luz' would likely refer to the Indo-European 'light' rather than the Hebrew 'almond.'

In some books of the Bible, Luz was the stuff of legends, being associated with the immortality:

Luz... which Sennacherib entered but could not harm; [which] Nebuchadnezzar [marched against], but could not destroy; the city over which the angel of death has no power; outside the walls of which the aged who are tired of life are placed, where they meet death (Luz, jewishencyclopedia.com, n.d./May 29, 2024).

After his dream, Jacob continued on his journey. In Genesis 35:16-20, he is called back by God to settle in Bethel. He later travels on to a Judean town called Ephrath where Rachel, one of his two wives, dies giving birth to Benjamin. Rachel's tomb can be found today at its northern entrance.  It is now called Bethlehem, the claimed birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth as well as of two parallel stories.

The first is that of a Jewish (Yahweh) shepherd by the name of David who famously killed with a simple sling his much bigger opponent, Goliath, a Philistine giant. A controversial historical figure, he later became king of Israel. The other one is that of El Hanan (El), a Bethlehemite who killed the brother of Goliath in another battle.

The Book of Exodus and Book of Joshua in the Bible tell how Moses wandered the wilderness for 40 years and died before reaching the promised land. Joshua (a.k.a. Yehoshua, Jeshoshua, Josue, as well as Yeshua and Jesus), son of Joseph of the tribe of Ephraim, was his successor. At the prompting of Yahweh (see Joshua 1, 7, 8), he violently conquered Canaan and the other lands promised to Abraham by the former (Genesis 12) under the Covenant of the Pieces. In Judges 1:23 the House of Joseph is said to have destroyed Bethel, perhaps over disagreements between Jacob and Joseph over the latter's succession.

Bethlehem is translated by scholars as the 'House of Bread.' However, since Jacob was with the House of El, Bethel, the name would likely have been rooted in 'Beit-lhm,' i.e. the House of the Elohim (El) or House of the Children of El (God).  In that place, an angel by the name of Immanuel (meaning El with us) was to be born, according to the prophecy of Isaiah 7:10-16. 

Very likely, Ephrath got renamed to Bethlehem probably because of Rachel's and Jacob's association with El, and perhaps also as a result of the surviving descendants of Ai moving to the Judean city after its destruction. El Hanan may have been the fulfillment of the Angel of Bethlehem prophecy (El with us), which occurred about 1,000 years before Jesus, of the house of Joseph, descendant of David. 

El Hanan might be a reference to Anu, the sky god and head of the Anunnaki pantheon of gods of early Mesopotamian mythology.  This may link the story further to Ki, the earth goddess and mother of the Anunnaki people.  The name could be cognate with chi or qi, the life energy force in Asian mythology, despite the difference in pronunciation.

There were two branches of Judaism, the angelic one followed God (El) and was associated with Bethlehem. The other one followed Lord Yahweh and destroyed Bethel, the source of the angelic branch.

Lucifer

The myth of Lucifer's fall from Heaven stems from Isiah 14:12. Most scholars agree today that the passage was misapplied to Lucifer in the Vulgate (400 C.E.) and King James Bibles ("Lucifer." Wikipedia, 24 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer.):

"O Lucifer, son of the morning!" (King James Bible).

"O star of the morning, son of the dawn!" (New American Standard Bible).

The passage spites the king of Babylon--probably Nebuchadnezzar II who destroyed Jerusalem's First Temple and enslaved the Jews--not Lucifer. 'Luci' stands for light, and the word Lucifer means 'light bearer,' 'light bringer,' or 'source of light' (just like aquifer is a source of water) and can be confused with the planet Venus, the morning star, also referred to as light bringer as it rises at dawn before the sun.

Isaiah 14 was portraying Nebuchadnezzar rising to Heaven and being cast out of it (as a result of his arrogance), similarly to the planet Venus seen rising at dawn but falling at dusk (see Lucifer).

In John 8:12 Jesus calls himself the 'light of the world.' There are also multiple other references to Jesus being the light in the gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John (see Light of Christ).

2 Peter 1:19 says about Jesus:

"And so we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts" (New American Standard Bible).

"et habemus firmiorem propheticum sermonem cui bene facitis adtendentes quasi lucernae lucenti in caliginoso loco donec dies inlucescat et lucifer oriatur in cordibus vestris" (Latin Vulgate Bible).

Even today, the Church still refers to Jesus as lucifer in one of its most sacred chant, the Easter Proclamation in Latin:

"Flammas eius lúcifer matutínus invéniat: ille, inquam, lúcifer, qui nescit occásum. Christus Fílius tuus..." ("Exsulted." Wikipedia, 12 September 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsultet.).

The first six minutes of the following video by Robert Sepehr (an anthropologist known for fairly edgy theories) argues that Luciferianism has it origin in secret Catholic societies and features the chant live in Saint Peter's Square in 2014: "The Luciferian Doctrine Explained - ROBERT SEPEHR."

There is no reference to Lucifer being the devil in the Bible.  On the contrary, there are several claims of Jesus being the source of light (lucifer) in both the New Testament and Christian traditions. 

Lucifer is never called the Devil in the Bible, but Satan is, repeatedly. The words satan and devil are both etymologically linked to the word 'accuser' and are associated with temptation. Satan, for example, is identified as the serpent in the Garden of Eden and as the tempter of Jesus in the wilderness.

Satan was probably the angel known as Satanael (or Satanail), who became known as Satan, losing the angelic suffix 'el' after he fell. In the Second Book of Enoch, Satanail was the leader of a group of angels that rebelled against God and tried to "establish his own throne above God's" ("2 Enoch." Wikipedia, 9 May 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Enoch.). The same group of angels is later responsible for tempting Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden and thus being cast out of Heaven.  The story is known in the Bible as the Fall of Mankind.

It is said that Eve was tempted by Sataniel and fell from Heaven.  Before the fall, she would have been known as Evil.

Satan would be the Devil (D-evil), the consort of Evil.

The Children of Hel

'Il' is the French (a Latin language) third person singular masculine pronoun (i.e. 'he' in English). It is also an alternative spelling for El (God). 'Elle' is its feminine equivalent and a perfect homophone for El. These might be related to Eleleth, an angelic being or divine emanation in Sethian Gnosticism, and may represent the dual male-female (El-Eleth) aspect of divinity as well as relate to Helel (il, elle) in Isiah 14 in the original text which gets mistakenly translated to Lucifer in the Latin Vulgate.

Hell is an eternal afterlife of punishment in Christian and Islamic religions. However, in Eastern mysticism, it is an intermediary place between reincarnations. Religions for which the afterlife is non-punitive (for example, Mesopotamian Kur, Greek Hades, and Hebrew Sheol) see it as the abode of the dead ("Hell." Wikipedia, 1 August 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell.).

Hel (also spelled Hell or Helle), coincidentally, is the female goddess of the Underworld in Norse mythology. Like Tartarus and Hades, the name represents both a god (goddess) and a place.  Perhaps, the Hebrew Sheol is really Indo-European She-El, a female equivelent of El.

Angelical mysticism has both male (El) and female (Hel) deities. In contrast, Judaism (Yahweh), Christianity (Jesus), and Islam (Allah) have male gods only. In French, 'hell' translates to 'enfer' (from Latin infernus, or underworld). Shockingly, the French call their own children 'enfants!'  This points to ancient Latin mythology viewing the Underworld as a transit place between life and death and death and life, i.e. reincarnation.

In French, the male and female pronouns (il, elle)

are cognate with angelic deities (El, Hel).

The children (enfants) are named after the afterlife (enfer).

Angels are usually depicted with wings, probably symbolizing their ability fly to and abide in Heaven.  The French word for wings is 'ailes,' pronounced 'el.'

In ancient mythology, angels that rebelled against God fell to the Earth, probably as a result of losing their wings (ailes, el), and the angelic suffix 'el' was dropped from their names, just as Sataniel became Satan after his fall.

Babel (later called Babylon) translates from the Akkadian to Gate of El. It was a biblical city located about 85 km south of Bagdad, Iraq, famous for its Tower of Babel legend in which people, after having displeased God, had their languages confused by the latter and were scattered all over the Earth as punishment.

The city was also famous for having built a tunnel across the Euphrates that joined both of its sides.  Further east was the Elamite territory which was part of the Persian Empire.  Perhaps the Gate of El may have referred to the tunnel access to the region Elam, out of which was born the mythology of the god El (El-am).  Perhaps also, the legend's reference to languages was really one to religions, explaining how the ancient angelic belief system of the god of Genesis splintered into Judaism and other faiths.

Contrary to Judaism and Christianity, which are worships of the god Yahweh, antediluvian mythology seems to be rooted in the angelic God of Genesis, El, and his feminine counterpart, Hel. 

The Spirit and the Truth

The French pronoun 'nous' means 'us' in English.  The same word means 'mind' in Greek and refers variously to the intellect, the intelligence, the intuition, or the mind's eye. ("Nous." Wikipedia, 30 June 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nous.). 

At the time of Jesus, the 'nous' was the substance of God, "he himself is pure nous" ("Apollonius of Tyana." Wikipedia, 13 September 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonius_of_Tyana.).  John 4:24: "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth".

The nous would be the Spirit or a part us that connects to the Spirit.  It allows us to perceive the underlying logic of life.  In Christianity the Spirit is a messenger of God which enlightens and provides clarity (Acts 1:2; John 14:16; John 15:26; John 16:7) and is one of the three divine persons of the Trinity.

En-light-enment is associated with the truth and comes through realizations.  These are often at the root of scientific breakthroughs and profound and liberating understanding of oneself and life. They free us from slavery to the physical world (diseases, poverty, etc.) and the prison of ignorance (falsehoods, taboos, religious dogmas, etc.).  Epiphanies are realizations or little bits of clarity, truth, or enlightenment.  Science, in as much as it pursues the truth, would be the religion of the Spirit. 

The Holy Spirit has a strong connection with light in Christianity.  At times it is called the source of light or the lord of light (examples, hymntime.com, blessedcatholicmom.com, humnary.com).  In French, the Spirit is often referred to as Dieu de Lumiere (God of Light).

The Holy Spirit would be the God of Light.

He would also have been the god of Lux, the Eternal City of Light, whose King may have been Melchior.

Muslims argue that trinitarian Christianity has three gods and is not monotheist: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.  However, the latter seems to have a special position within the religion.  

"Truly I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons and daughters of men, and whatever blasphemies they commit; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin." ("Mark 3 NASB." Bible Gateway, n.d., https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2018&version=NASB.).

This sets up the Spirit as higher than God.  Furthermore, Christians calling the God of the Trinity a father confirms his status as a fallen angel.

The Holy Spirit, God of Light, would be the Most High God of a monotheist Christianity and be associated with the truth, the light, and life eternal.

The God That Looks Like Us

Judaism and Christianity have roots in Greek mythology whose  pantheon was more or less composed of 6 gods and 6 goddesses plus Hades.  In French the name of God is Dieu (pronounced Dzieu in Quebec).  Both the French and Greek (Zeus) words originate from 'dyeu-' which means 'shining.'  The Greek gods became the 12 male patriarchs of Judaism and the 12 male apostles of Christianity.  Their priesthoods, with the exception of the Cathars', were also male.

If the Greek gods resided on Mount Olympus, they would have been humans.  The Olympians fought wars, had children, etc.  If God looks like us, he would also likely be human.  The mythology on which Christianity is based was human.  In our own history, we saw how priests turned Jesus, a human, into a god....  Many of the Greek gods were simply human heroes of oral tradition, essentially the stuff of legends.

The human-looking god was simply an attempt at explaining how we came to exist, the chicken and egg paradigm.

Science has essentially proven that humans and the universe were not created as per the Genesis account.  If the creation story is false, then the tenuous foundational evidence for a god creator is gone.

When is the last time God created matter even the size of a grain of sand in response to your prayers?

Without light (energy, heat), everything in the universe would be frozen.  Even the air would be rock solid.  There are essentially two basic things in the universe, matter and energy.  Light is a form of energy and the source of life.  Organisms are essentially life incarnated in a body of matter.  

Early in the universe, certain chemicals combined to form heavier elements and basic structures.  Some of these combinations were capable of capturing light, which enabled them to grow.  The first time that that happened, life began.  Through randomness over eons of time, these eventually formed the early building blocks of cellular organisms, vegetation, and animal life, which together form the Earth's biome.

Matter is sort of the architecture of life forms.  We are made of rock particles.  Light is the life in them.

Life further evolved into spirit, the third state of existence after itself and matter.  Matter is static, inanimate on its own.  Organisms (life) have one degree of freedom from it as they are animate.  In the same way, the spirit adds one degree of freedom to life by (presumably) being able to detach itself from the biological form which it inhabits.

While there is no proof that the spirit exists, there is a lot of anecdotal support for it in esoteric tradition, for example, out-of-body projections and near-death experiences.  Scientifically, we know that the body generates electromagnetism and that the latter attracts electrically charged particles, some of which can pass through the body as solar radiation does.  It is therefore possible that extremely small particles or dark matter (which is more abundant in the universe than regular matter) can form a double of our physical envelope, one which is normally locked in by the body's electromagnetic field but that is released when the latter disappears at death.

A newborn body would generate an impersonal template of a spirit which would develop over time with the various experiences of life.  If reincarnation exists, that template would be overwritten early on by the spirit of a deceased person.   

The mind is an interface between the bio-material body and the reality.  It can be focused on the external materialistic and sensual aspects of life or the inside reality that deals with the unknown (explanation of reality) and societal (equity and responsibility) and personal issues (personal ethics and growth).

It is the ENA (energetic DNA) of the DNA.

More to come...