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chapter five revival or resurrection? The scenario of Jesus’ as revival from the dead presents many problems. Some of them have already been discussed in the previous chapter. Now we turn to other elements and complexi- ties. What we have in view is the nature of the ‘mind’ of Jesus as , prior to the Crucifixion and after his revival from the dead. His mind was brought to life again, after a loss of function for three days and nights. The question is, what actually happens to the brain at the time of death? On one point at least there is a consen- sus among both the Christian and the non-Christian medical experts: if the brain remains dead for more than a few minutes, it is dead and gone forever. As soon as the blood supply ceases, the brain begins to disintegrate. If Jesus as died during the Crucifixion it can only mean that his heart ceased functioning and stopped supplying blood to his brain, and that his brain died soon after. So his entire life support system must have stopped operating, or he could not have been declared dead. That being so we are faced with a very intriguing problem in relation to the understanding of the life and death of Jesus Christ as. The death of Jesus Christ as , as has been demonstrated, would mean a final departure of his astral body, or soul as we may call it,