Kagome Kagome

== Intro== Gatway of the mind is a well known creepypasta, A bunch of mad scientists attempting some unbelivably literal interpretation of a figure of speech. this experiment was performed promptly after World War 2 ended, and seems to fit in with the long line of Strange experiments performed by the Nazis.

this is the basis for this page.

War Experiments
The Nazi reign was famous for its back-door scientists and occult researchers. Special expeditionary divisions of the Reich were often sent out in search of artefacts or locations of occult or religious significance. meanwhile, in germany bunkers were assembled and mansions and castles were fitted with labyrinths and dungeons which were filled with strange experiments and research notes.

Whenever the allies found these places, they were often gutted, burned, or otherwise destroyed and abandoned. whenever a lab was found intact, the research was often incoherent or missing, or later destroyed by the allies. (to prevent the Nazis from recovering any hidden data). a lot of the nazi Experiments were kept under the radar. until, eventually. veterans who served as guards to the labs and ritual zones have explained what they have seen, or folders and books have been uncovered in boxes and crates belonging to the scientists. a fair few of these contain a common research goal.

Giving man the power of God
Exactly the true power is often up to debate but it appears that this is often described in Nazi research as "Immortality", undeath, invincibility or other factors surrounding losing the capacity to die in some way or another.

The larger part of this research was actually legitimately based; certain doses of chemical compounds to aid bloodflow in aging people. First concepts that are now used in today's transplant surgery, grafting, ointments that renewed skin, antibodies to various deiseases, and fitness/dieting research.

however, One set of crates discovered in Hamburg in 1999 went way off of this research style. this stuff cross-bred the Occult experiments and immortality research.

"Mind is the disease"
The introductory folders and proofs of concept of the research begin with The principle that the brain controls the body completely and wholly, and, as the body slowly degrades around it, it continues to function. further statements say that the reason the body is left to degrade is because the human brain is "Set on a biological timer" such is why butterflies can only live a day, yet other insects can often last longer: the Brain tells us to die.

It is proposed that, as the brain grows, it begins to make connections, resulting in the human becoming more mature and having an advancing brain. at the age of 35-50, however, these connections slowly break down, resulting in forgetfulness, dementia and other mental diseases reserved for the elderly.

Their proposal
The Nazi Scientists proposed that the brain has a "Universal Killswitch" that activates as soon as the bran has fully developed. in all normal humans, this killswitch will initiate a shutdown sequence in bodily functions, which occurs over several decades. as soon as the body is fully shut down, the brain will be forced to die through lack of oxygenated blood.

It is said that Werners Syndrome (a disease where a person ages rapidly) is a result of the Killswitch funtion activating far too early.

The nazi's Proposed that they could remove the killswitch, and give the human mind immortality. and from that, complete immortality. Needless to say, brain surgery was incredibly difficult during those times, but it was possible. In the stacks of folders there were many different diagrams and past research on the brain, psychology, the human mind and the like.

The Location
The experiments were initially proposed to Nazi exectuives in 1940 and permission was granted to perform the experiments in 1942, under one condition;

''The experiments must be conducted outside of Germany. The German Populace must not see this experiment in any way shape or form''

It was no surprise to the scientists that the Executives were paranoid about public relations, but the idea of performing the research outside of the fatherland was foreign in itself. most experiments were performed in bunkers or basements. regardless, the scientist complied, and were able to organise a setup with their Ally, Japan. in late 1942, the research had begun.

Here's where it gets strange.

The research team had taken over a japanese orphanage. the orphanage was in the hills, supposedly somewhere in Shimane, an area nearby Hiroshima.

Carrying out the Experiments
The scientists deduced that if they tried to take the usual test subjects; old or diseased people with "nothing left to live for" (similar in a fashion to Gateway of the mind) they would be playing with the variable of disease, or, more importantly, they would be experimenting on a brain that has already had an activated killswitch, rendering it useless in the context of finding the solution.

as a result, the Nazi scientists demanded that Children, namely the orphans in the orphanage (which they deemed to, again, "have nothing else to live for"), would become test subjects: their young brains eliminated any cause for concern of an already activated killswitch.

to begin the experiments, the children went through numerous immunisations and intense phychological testing, to ensure that they would prevent any defects, and keep a general benchmark for their subjects.

next, they began with the older staff of the orphanage. put under anaesthetic, the surgeons opened up their skulls to find a good cross section of an adult brain, and begin to find key differences between it and a child's brain.

after gaining a model of both a Child brain and an adult brain, the scientists deduced that the Universal killswitch wasn't located in the Brain, but in the cerebellum, located at the rear. the cerebellum commands all sub-conscious activity in the brain, which is understandable, since it isn't a conscious action to set off the killswitch.

systematically, they took the tallest child in the Orphanage, and began to open her up. they were about to begin their first "killswitch-ectomy" they had managed to open up the cerebellum and remove the part presumed to be the killswitch, however, upon closing the subject up, they found that she had expired. they assumed that the incisions on the brain had been to brash, and required far more precision. the body was dumped in the forest behind the orphanage.

Sucess, presumably
After imports of different tools, and different techniques developed, the scientists were finally able to remove the killswitch and successfully revive the patients. in May 1943 they had taken one of the youngest girls in the orphanage and removed the killswitch, the only function she lost was the ability to sweat. after their assumed success, the scientists had celebrated, after which everyone went to sleep. the next morning, the girl did not wake up, and was revealed to be comatose. after a while, she was revived successfully, and the "killswitch-ectomies" continued.

to be continued...