The answer to the question: "Is there life after death?" - give or try to give all the major world religions. And if our ancestors, distant and not so distant, life after death was presented as a metaphor for something beautiful or, on the contrary, terrible, then it is quite difficult for a modern person to believe in Paradise or Hell described by religious texts. People have become too educated, but not too smart when it comes to the last line before the unknown. There is an opinion about the forms of life after death and among modern scientists. Vyacheslav Gubanov, rector of the International Institute of Social Ecology, tells about whether there is life after death and what kind it is. So life after death is a fact.
- Before raising the question of whether there is life after death, it is worth understanding the terminology. What is death? And what kind of life after death can there be in principle, if the person himself no longer exists?
When exactly, at what moment a person dies - the question is not resolved. In medicine, a statement of the fact of death is cardiac arrest and lack of breathing. This is the death of the body. But it happens that the heart does not beat - a person is in a coma, and blood is pumped due to a wave of muscle contraction throughout the body.
Now let's look from the other side: in Southeast Asia there are mummies of monks who grow hair and nails, that is, fragments of their physical body are alive! Maybe something else is alive in them that cannot be seen with the eyes and measured with medical (very primitive and inaccurate from the point of view of modern knowledge about the physics of the body) devices? If we talk about the characteristics of the energy-information field, which can be measured near such bodies, then they are completely anomalous and many times exceed the norm for an ordinary living person. This is nothing but a channel of communication with the subtle-material reality. It is for this purpose that such objects are located in monasteries. The bodies of the monks, despite the very high humidity and high temperature, are mummified in natural conditions. Microbes do not live in a high frequency body! The body does not decompose! That is, here we can see a clear example that life after death continues!
Communication channel with subtle-material reality after the clinical fact of death
Another example: in India there is a tradition of burning the bodies of dead people. But there are unique people, as a rule, people who are very advanced in spiritual terms, whose bodies do not burn at all after death. Other laws of physics apply to them! Is there life after death in this case? What evidence can be accepted, and what can be attributed to inexplicable riddles? Doctors do not understand how the physical body lives after the official recognition of the fact of his death. But from the point of view of physics, life after death is facts based on natural laws.
- If we talk about subtle-material laws, that is, laws that consider not only the life and death of the physical body, but also the so-called bodies of subtle dimensions, in the question “is there life after death”, it is still necessary to take some kind of starting point! Question - what?
It is physical death, that is, the death of the physical body, the cessation of physiological functions, that should be recognized as such a starting point. Of course, it is customary to be afraid of physical death, and even life after death, and for most people, stories about life after death act as a consolation that makes it possible to slightly weaken the natural fear - the fear of death. But today, interest in the issues of life after death and evidence of its existence has reached a new qualitative level! Everyone is wondering if there is life after death, everyone wants to hear the evidence of experts and eyewitness accounts ...
- Why?
The fact is that we should not forget about at least four generations of "godless" who were hammered into their heads from childhood that physical death is the end of everything, there is no life after death, and there is nothing at all beyond the grave! That is, from generation to generation people have been asking the same eternal question: “Is there life after death?” And they received a “scientific”, well-founded answer from the materialists: “No!” This is stored at the level of genetic memory. And there is nothing worse than the unknown.
We are also materialists. But we know the laws and metrology of the subtle planes of the existence of matter. We can measure, classify and define physical processes proceeding according to laws different from the laws of the dense world of material objects. The answer to the question: "Is there life after death?" - is outside the material world and the school course of physics. It is also worth looking for evidence of life after death.
Today, the amount of knowledge about the dense world turns into the quality of interest in the deep laws of Nature. And it is right. Because having formulated his attitude to such a difficult issue as life after death, a person begins to look sensibly at all other issues. In the East, where various philosophical and religious concepts have been developed for more than 4000 years, the question of whether there is life after death is fundamental. In parallel with it, there is another question: who were you in a past life. It is a personal opinion about the inevitable death of the body, a certain way formulated "worldview" that allows you to move on to the study of deep philosophical concepts and scientific disciplines relating to both man and society.
- Acceptance of the fact of life after death, evidence of the existence of other forms of life - liberates? And if so, from what?
A person who understands and accepts the fact of the existence of life before, in parallel and after the life of the physical body, acquires a new quality of personal freedom! I, as a person who personally went through the need to realize the inevitable end three times, can confirm this: yes, such a quality of freedom cannot be achieved in principle by other means!
Great interest in the issues of life after death is also caused by the fact that everyone went through (or did not go through) the procedure of the “end of the world” announced at the end of 2012. People - mostly unconsciously - feel that the end of the world has happened, and now they live in a completely new physical reality. That is, they have received, but have not yet psychologically realized the evidence of life after death in the past physical reality! In that planetary energy-informational reality that took place before December 2012, they died! Thus, what is life after death, you can see right now! :)) This is a simple comparison method available to sensitive, intuitive people. On the eve of the quantum leap in December 2012, up to 47,000 people a day visited the site of our institute with the only question: “What will happen after this “amazing” episode in the life of earthlings? And is there life after death? :)) And literally this is what happened: the old conditions of life on Earth died! They died from November 14, 2012 to February 14, 2013. Changes took place not in the physical (dense-material) world, where everyone was just waiting and fearing these changes, but in the subtle-material world - energy-information. This world has changed, the dimension and polarization of the surrounding energy-information space has changed. For some, this is fundamentally important, while others did not notice the changes at all. So after all, Nature is different for people: someone is supersensitive, and someone is super-material (grounded).
Rice. 5. Is there life after death? Now, after the end of the world in 2012, you can answer this question yourself :))
- Is there life after death for everyone, without exception, or are there options?
Let's talk about the subtle-material structure of the phenomenon called "Man". The visible physical shell and even the ability to think, the mind, which many limit the concept of being - this is only the bottom of the iceberg. So, death is a “change of dimension”, of that physical reality where the center of human consciousness operates. Life after the death of the physical shell is a DIFFERENT form of life!
Rice. 6. Death is a “change of dimension” of the physical reality where the center of human consciousness operates
I belong to the category of the most enlightened people in these matters, both in terms of theory and practice, since almost every day in the course of consulting I have to deal with various issues of life, death and information from previous incarnations of various people who seek help. Therefore, I can authoritatively say that death is different:
- death of the physical (dense) body,
- death personal
- death Spiritual
Man is a triune being, which is composed of his Spirit (a real living thin-material object, represented on the causal plane of the existence of matter), Personality (a formation like a diaphragm on the mental plane of the existence of matter, realizing free will) and, as everyone knows - the Physical body , represented in the dense world and having its own genetic history. The death of the physical body is only the moment of the transfer of the center of consciousness to higher levels of the existence of matter. This is life after death, stories about which are left by people who “jumped out” due to various circumstances to higher levels, but then “came to their senses”. Thanks to such stories, one can answer in great detail the question of what will happen after death, and compare the information received with scientific data and the innovative concept of man as a triune being, which is considered in this article.
Rice. 7. Man is a triune being, which is composed of the Spirit, the Personality and the Physical body. Accordingly, death can be of 3 types: physical, personal (social) and spiritual.
As mentioned earlier, a person has a sense of self-preservation, programmed by Nature in the form of fear of death. However, it does not help if the person does not manifest as a triune being. If a person with a zombie personality and distorted worldview settings does not hear and does not want to hear control signals from his incarnation Spirit, if he does not fulfill the tasks assigned to him for the current incarnation (that is, his destiny), then in this case the physical the shell, together with the “disobedient” ego that controls it, can be “thrown off” quite quickly, and the Spirit can begin to look for a new physical carrier that will allow it to realize its tasks in the world, gaining the necessary experience. It has been statistically proven that there are so-called critical ages when the Spirit presents accounts to a material person. Such ages are multiples of 5, 7 and 9 years and are, respectively, natural biological, social and spiritual crises.
If you take a walk around the cemetery and look at the predominant statistics of the dates of people's departure from life, you will be surprised to find that they will correspond to precisely these cycles and critical ages: 28, 35, 42, 49, 56 years, etc.
- Can you give an example when the answer to the question: "Is there life after death?" - negative?
Just yesterday, we analyzed the following consultation case: nothing foreshadowed the death of a 27-year-old girl. (But 27 is a small Saturnian death, a triple spiritual crisis (3x9 - a cycle of 3 times 9 years each), when a person is “presented” with all his “sins” from the moment of birth.) And this girl should have gone for a ride with a guy on a motorcycle, she should have inadvertently twitched, violating the center of gravity of the sportbike, she should have put her head, not protected by a helmet, under the blow of an oncoming car. The guy himself, a motorcycle driver, escaped with only three scratches on impact. We look at the photographs of the girl taken a few minutes before the tragedy: she holds her finger to her temple like a pistol and her facial expression is appropriate: crazy and wild. And immediately everything becomes clear: she has already been issued a pass to the next world with all the ensuing consequences. And now I have to put in order the boy who agreed to ride it. The problem of the deceased is that she was not developed personally and spiritually. It was just a physical shell that did not solve the problems of incarnating the Spirit on a specific body. There is no life after death for her. She didn't really live fully in physical life.
- And what are the options in terms of life of anything after physical death? New incarnation?
It happens that the death of the body simply transfers the center of consciousness to more subtle planes of the existence of matter, and it, as a full-fledged spiritual object, continues to function in a different reality without subsequent incarnation in the material world. This is very well described by E. Barker in the book “Letters from the Living Deceased”. The process we are talking about now is evolutionary. This is very similar to the transformation of a Shitik (dragonfly larva) into a dragonfly. Shitik lives at the bottom of the reservoir, dragonfly - mainly flies in the air. A good analogy of the transition from the dense world to the subtle one. That is, man is a creature of the bottom. And if an “advanced” Human dies, having worked out all the necessary tasks in the densely material world, then he turns into a “dragonfly”. And receives a new list of tasks on the next plane of existence of matter. If the Spirit has not yet accumulated the necessary experience of manifestation in the densely material world, then reincarnation into a new physical body occurs, that is, a new incarnation begins in the physical world.
Of course, death is an unpleasant process and should be delayed as much as possible. If only because the physical body gives a lot of opportunities that are not available "above"! But inevitably a situation arises when "the upper classes can no longer, but the lower classes do not want to." Then a person goes from one quality to another. This is where a person's attitude towards death is important. After all, if he is ready for physical death, then in fact he is also ready for death in any previous capacity with rebirth at the next level. This is also a form of life after death, but not physical, but the previous social stage (level). You are reborn at a new level “a goal like a falcon”, that is, a child. So, for example, in 1991 I received a document stating that in all previous years I had not served in the Soviet army and navy. And so I became a healer. But he died like a "soldier". A good "healer" is capable of killing a person with a blow of his finger! Situation: death in one capacity and birth in another. Then I died as a healer, having seen the failure of this type of help, but I went much higher, to another life after death in my past capacity - to the level of cause-and-effect relationships and teaching people self-help methods and infosomatic techniques.
- I would like clarity. The center of consciousness, as you call it, may not return to a new body?
When I talk about death and evidence of the existence of various forms of life after the physical death of the body, I rely on five years of experience in accompanying the dead (there is such a practice) to the more subtle planes of the existence of matter. This procedure is performed in order to help the center of consciousness of the "deceased" person to reach subtle planes in a clear mind and solid memory. This is well described by Dannion Brinkley in Saved by the Light. The story of a man who was struck by lightning and who was in a state of clinical death for three hours, and then “woke up” with a new personality in an old body, is very instructive. There are plenty of sources that, to one degree or another, provide factual material, real evidence of life after death. And so, yes, the cycle of incarnations of the Spirit on various media is finite and at some point the center of consciousness goes to the subtle planes of being, where the forms of the mind differ from those familiar and understandable to most people, who perceive and decipher reality only in a material-tangible plane.
Rice. 10. Sustainable plans for the existence of matter. The processes of incarnation-disembodiment and the transition of information into energy and vice versa
- Does knowledge of the mechanisms of incarnation and reincarnation, that is, knowledge about life after death, have any practical meaning?
Knowledge of death as a physical phenomenon of the subtle planes of the existence of matter, knowledge of how post-mortem processes go, knowledge of the mechanisms of reincarnation, understanding of what life is like after death, allow us to solve those issues that today cannot be solved by methods of official medicine: childhood diabetes, cerebral palsy , epilepsy - are curable. We do not do this on purpose: physical health is a consequence of solving energy-informational problems. In addition, it is possible, using special technologies, to take on the unrealized potential of previous incarnations, the so-called "canned food of the past", and thereby dramatically increase one's performance in the current incarnation. Thus, it is possible to give a full new life to unrealized qualities after death in a previous incarnation.
- Are there any sources that are trustworthy from the point of view of a scientist that could be recommended for study by those who are interested in issues of life after death?
The stories of eyewitnesses and researchers about whether there is life after death have been published to date in millions of copies. Everyone is free to form their own idea of the subject, based on various sources. There is an excellent book by Arthur Ford Life after death as told to Jerome Ellison". This book is about an experiment-research that lasted 30 years. The theme of life after death is considered here based on real facts and evidence. The author agreed with his wife to prepare during his lifetime a special experiment on communication with the other world. The condition of the experiment was as follows: whoever leaves for another world first must get in touch according to a predetermined scenario and subject to predetermined verification conditions in order to avoid any conjectures and illusions during the experiment. Moody's book Life after life" - classics of the genre. Book S. Muldoon, H. Carrington " Death on loan or exit of the astral body"- also a very informative book that tells about a person who could repeatedly move into his astral body and come back. And there are also purely scientific works. Professor Korotkov very well showed the processes accompanying physical death on the instruments ...
Summing up our conversation, we can say the following: a lot of facts and evidence of life after death have been accumulated in human history!
But first of all, we recommend that you deal with the ABC of the energy-information space: with such concepts as Soul, Spirit, center of consciousness, karma, human biofield - from a physical point of view. We consider all these concepts in detail in our free video seminar “Human Energy Informatics 1.0”, which you can access right now.
One of the main questions for all remains the question of what awaits us after death. For millennia, unsuccessful attempts have been made to unravel this mystery. In addition to conjectures, there are real facts confirming that death is not the end of the human path.
There are a large number of videos about paranormal phenomena that have conquered the Internet. But even in this case, there are a lot of skeptics who say that the videos can be faked. It is difficult to disagree with them, because a person is not inclined to believe in what he cannot see with his own eyes.
There are many stories of people coming back from the dead when they were about to die. How to perceive such cases is a matter of faith. However, often even the most hardened skeptics have changed themselves and their lives, faced with situations that cannot be explained with the help of logic.
Religion about death
The vast majority of religions in the world have teachings about what awaits us after death. The most common is the doctrine of Heaven and Hell. Sometimes it is supplemented with an intermediate link: "walking" through the world of the living after death. Some peoples believe that such a fate awaits suicides and those who have not finished something important on this Earth.
This concept is seen in many religions. For all the difference, they are united by one thing: everything is tied to good and bad, and the posthumous state of a person depends on how he behaved during his lifetime. It is impossible to write off the religious description of the afterlife. Life after death exists - inexplicable facts confirm this.
One day something amazing happened to a priest who was the pastor of the Baptist Church in the United States of America. A man was driving his car home from a meeting about the construction of a new church, but a truck flew towards him. The accident could not be avoided. The collision was so strong that the man fell into a coma for a while.
An ambulance arrived shortly, but it was too late. The man's heart was not beating. The doctors confirmed the cardiac arrest by rechecking. They had no doubt that the man was dead. Around the same time, the police arrived at the scene of the accident. Among the officers there was a Christian who saw a cross in the priest's pocket. Immediately he noticed his clothes and realized who was in front of him. He could not send God's servant on his last journey without prayer. He spoke the words of prayer as he climbed into the dilapidated car and took the hand of the man with no beating heart. While reading the lines, he heard a barely perceptible groan, which plunged him into shock. He checked his pulse again and realized that he could clearly feel the pulse of blood. Later, when the man miraculously recovered and began to live his former life, this story became popular. Perhaps the man really returned from the other world to finish important things at the behest of God. One way or another, they could not give a scientific explanation for this, because the heart cannot start on its own.
The priest himself said more than once in his interviews that he saw only white light and nothing more. He could take advantage of the situation and say that the Lord himself spoke to him or that he saw angels, but he did not. A couple of reporters claimed that when asked about what the person saw in this afterlife dream, he smiled discreetly, and his eyes filled with tears. Perhaps he really saw something intimate, but did not want to make it public.
When people are in a short coma, their brain does not have time to die during this time. That is why it is worth paying attention to the numerous stories that people, being between life and death, saw a light so bright that even through closed eyes it seeps as if the eyelids are transparent. One hundred percent of people came back to life and told that the light began to move away from them. Religion interprets this very simply - their time has not yet come. A similar light was seen by the Magi approaching the cave where Jesus Christ was born. It is the radiance of paradise, the afterlife. No one saw angels, God, but felt the touch of higher powers.
Dreams are another matter. Scientists have proven that we can dream anything that our brain can imagine. In a word, dreams are not limited by anything. It happens that people see their dead relatives in dreams. If 40 days have not passed after death, then this means that the person really talked to you from the afterlife. Unfortunately, dreams cannot be analyzed objectively from two points of view - from scientific and religious-esoteric, because it's all about sensations. You may dream of the Lord, angels, heaven, hell, ghosts and whatever, but you do not always feel that the meeting was real. It happens that in dreams we remember the deceased grandparents or parents, but only occasionally does a real spirit come to someone in a dream. We all understand that it will not be realistic to prove our feelings, so no one spreads their impressions further than beyond the family circle. Those who believe in the afterlife, and even those who doubt, wake up after such dreams with a completely different view of the world. Spirits can predict the future, which has happened more than once in history. They can show discontent, joy, sympathy.
There are quite a famous story that took place in Scotland in the early 70s of the 20th century with an ordinary builder. A residential building was being built in Edinburgh. The construction worker was Norman MacTagert, who was 32 years old. He fell from a rather great height, lost consciousness and fell into a coma for a day. Shortly before that, he dreamed of a fall. After he woke up, he told what he saw in a coma. According to the man, it was a long journey, because he wanted to wake up, but he could not. First he saw that same blinding bright light, and then he met his mother, who said that she always wanted to become a grandmother. The most interesting thing is that as soon as he regained consciousness, his wife told him about the most pleasant news that is possible - Norman was supposed to become a dad. The woman found out about the pregnancy on the day of the tragedy. The man had serious health problems, but he not only survived, but also continued to work and feed his family.
In the late 90s, something very unusual happened in Canada.. The doctor on duty at a Vancouver hospital was taking calls and filling out paperwork, but then she saw a little boy in white pajamas for the night. He yelled from the other end of the emergency room, "Tell my mom not to worry about me." The girl was frightened that one of the patients had left the ward, but then she saw the boy go through the closed doors of the hospital. His house was a couple of minutes from the hospital. That's where he ran. The doctor was alarmed by the fact that it was three in the morning on the clock. She decided that she must by all means catch up with the boy, because even if he is not a patient, he must be reported to the police. She ran after him for just a couple of minutes, until the child ran into the house. The girl began to ring the doorbell, after which the mother of that same boy opened the door for her. She said that it was impossible for her son to leave the house, because he was very sick. She burst into tears and went to the room where the baby lay in his crib. It turned out that the boy had died. The story received a great response in society.
In the brutal World War II one ordinary Frenchman fired back from the enemy for almost two hours during a battle in the city . Next to him was a man about 40 years old, who covered him from the other side. It is impossible to imagine how great was the surprise of an ordinary soldier of the French army, who turned in that direction to say something to his partner, but realized that he had disappeared. A few minutes later, the cries of the approaching allies were heard, hurrying to the rescue. He and several other soldiers ran out to meet the help, but the mysterious partner was not among them. He searched for him by name and rank, but never found that same fighter. Perhaps it was his guardian angel. Doctors say that in such stressful situations, slight hallucinations are possible, but talking with a man for an hour and a half cannot be called an ordinary mirage.
There are many such stories about life after death. Some of them are confirmed by eyewitnesses, but the doubters still call it a fake and try to find scientific justification for the actions of people and their visions.
Real facts about the afterlife
Since ancient times, there have been cases when people saw ghosts. They were first photographed and then filmed. Some people think that this is a montage, but later they are personally convinced of the veracity of the pictures. Numerous stories cannot be considered proof of the existence of life after death, so people need evidence and scientific facts.
Fact one: many have heard that after death a person becomes lighter by exactly 22 grams. Scientists cannot explain this phenomenon in any way. Many believers tend to believe that 22 grams is the weight of the human soul. Many experiments were carried out, which ended with the same result - the body became lighter by a certain amount. Why is the main question. People's skepticism cannot be destroyed, so many hope that an explanation will be found, but this is unlikely to happen. Ghosts can be seen by the human eye, hence their "body" has mass. Obviously, everything that has some kind of shape must be at least partly physical. Ghosts exist in larger dimensions than we do. There are 4 of them: height, width, length and time. Time is not subject to ghosts from the point of view from which we see it.
Fact two: the air temperature near the ghosts decreases. This is typical, by the way, not only for the souls of dead people, but also for the so-called brownies. All this is the result of the action of the afterlife in reality. When a person dies, the temperature around him immediately decreases sharply, literally for a moment. This indicates that the soul leaves the body. The temperature of the soul is about 5-7 degrees Celsius, as measurements show. During paranormal phenomena, the temperature also changes, so scientists have proven that this happens not only during immediate death, but also afterwards. The soul has a certain radius of influence around itself. Many horror films use this fact to bring the shooting closer to reality. Many people confirm that when they felt the movement of a ghost or some kind of entity next to them, they were very cold.
Here is an example of a paranormal video showing real ghosts.
The authors claim that this is not a joke, and the experts who watched this compilation say that about half of all such videos are the real truth. Particularly noteworthy is the part of this video where the girl is pushed by the ghost in the bathroom. Experts report that physical contact is possible and absolutely real, and the video is not a fake. Almost all pictures of moving pieces of furniture can be true. The problem is that it is very easy to fake such a video, but there was no acting in the moment where the chair next to the sitting girl began to move by itself. There are very, very many such cases around the world, but no less of those who just want to promote their video and become famous. Distinguishing fake from the truth is difficult, but real.
The other world is a very interesting topic that everyone thinks about at least once in their life. What happens to a person and his soul after death? Can he observe living people? These and many questions cannot but excite. The most interesting thing is that there are many different theories about what happens to a person after death. Let's try to understand them and answer the questions that concern many people.
"Your body will die, but your soul will live forever"
Bishop Theophan the Recluse addressed these words in his letter to his dying sister. He, like other Orthodox priests, believed that only the body dies, but the soul lives forever. What is the reason for this and how does religion explain it?
The Orthodox teaching about life after death is too large and voluminous, so we will consider only some of its aspects. First of all, in order to understand what happens to a person and his soul after death, it is necessary to find out what is the purpose of all life on earth. In the Epistle to the Hebrews of the Holy Apostle Paul, there is a mention that every person must die sometime, and after that there will be a judgment. This is exactly what Jesus Christ did when he voluntarily surrendered himself to his enemies to death. Thus, he washed away the sins of many sinners and showed that the righteous, just like him, would one day be resurrected. Orthodoxy believes that if life were not eternal, then it would have no meaning. Then people would really live, not knowing why they would die sooner or later, there would be no point in doing good deeds. That is why the human soul is immortal. Jesus Christ opened the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven for the Orthodox and believers, and death is only the completion of the preparation for a new life.
What is the soul
The human soul continues to live after death. It is the spiritual beginning of man. The mention of this can be found in Genesis (chapter 2), and it sounds something like this: “God created man from the dust of the earth and blew the breath of life into his face. Now man has become a living soul.” Holy Scripture "tells" us that man is two-part. If the body can die, then the soul lives forever. She is a living entity, endowed with the ability to think, remember, feel. In other words, the human soul continues to live after death. She understands, feels and - most importantly - remembers everything.
spiritual vision
In order to make sure that the soul is really capable of feeling and understanding, it is only necessary to recall the cases when the human body died for a while, but the soul saw and understood everything. Similar stories can be read in a variety of sources, for example, K. Ikskul in his book “Incredible for many, but a true incident” describes what happens after death to a person and his soul. Everything that is written in the book is the personal experience of the author, who fell ill with a serious illness and experienced clinical death. Almost everything that can be read on this topic in various sources is very similar to each other.
People who have experienced clinical death characterize it with a white enveloping fog. Below you can see the body of the man himself, next to him are his relatives and doctors. Interestingly, the soul, separated from the body, can move in space and understand everything. Some argue that after the body ceases to give any signs of life, the soul passes through a long tunnel, at the end of which a bright white light burns. Then, as a rule, for some time the soul returns to the body again, and the heart begins to beat. What if the person dies? What then happens to him? What does the human soul do after death?
Encounter with peers
After the soul separates from the body, it can see spirits, both good and bad. It is interesting that, as a rule, she is attracted to her own kind, and if during her life any of the forces had an influence on her, then after death she will be attached to her. This period of time when the soul chooses its "company" is called the Private Court. It is then that it becomes completely clear whether the life of this person was in vain. If he fulfilled all the commandments, was kind and generous, then, undoubtedly, the same souls will be next to him - kind and pure. The opposite situation is characterized by the society of fallen spirits. They are waiting for eternal torment and suffering in hell.
First few days
It is interesting what happens after death with the soul of a person in the first few days, because this period is for her a time of freedom and enjoyment. It is during the first three days that the soul can freely move around the earth. As a rule, she is at this time near her native people. She even tries to talk to them, but it turns out with difficulty, because a person is not able to see and hear spirits. In rare cases, when the connection between people and the dead is very strong, they feel the presence of a soul mate nearby, but cannot explain it. For this reason, the burial of a Christian takes place exactly 3 days after death. In addition, it is this period that the soul needs in order to realize where it is now. It is not easy for her, she may not have had time to say goodbye to anyone or say anything to anyone. Most often, a person is not ready for death, and he needs these three days to understand the essence of what is happening and say goodbye.
However, there are exceptions to every rule. For example, K. Ikskul began his journey to another world on the first day, because the Lord told him so. Most of the saints and martyrs were ready for death, and in order to go to another world, it took them only a few hours, because this was their main goal. Each case is completely different, and information comes only from those people who have experienced "post-mortem experience" on themselves. If we are not talking about clinical death, then everything can be completely different here. The proof that in the first three days the soul of a person is on earth is also the fact that it is during this period of time that the relatives and friends of the deceased feel their presence nearby.
Next stage
The next stage of the transition to the afterlife is very difficult and dangerous. On the third or fourth day, trials await the soul - ordeals. There are about twenty of them, and all of them must be overcome so that the soul can continue its journey. Ordeals are whole crowds of evil spirits. They block the way and accuse her of sins. The Bible also talks about these trials. The mother of Jesus, the Most Pure and Reverend Mary, having learned about the imminent death from the Archangel Gabriel, asked her son to deliver her from demons and ordeals. In response to her requests, Jesus said that after death, he would lead her by the hand to Heaven. And so it happened. This action can be seen on the icon "Assumption of the Virgin". On the third day, it is customary to pray fervently for the soul of the deceased, so you can help her pass all the tests.
What happens a month after death
After the soul has gone through the ordeal, it worships God and goes on a journey again. This time, hellish abysses and heavenly abodes await her. She watches how sinners suffer and how the righteous rejoice, but she does not yet have her own place. On the fortieth day, the soul is assigned a place where, like everyone else, it will await the Supreme Court. There is also evidence that only until the ninth day does the soul see the heavenly abodes and observe the righteous souls who live in happiness and joy. The rest of the time (about a month) she has to look at the torments of sinners in hell. At this time, the soul cries, mourns and meekly awaits its fate. On the fortieth day, the soul is assigned a place where it will wait for the resurrection of all the dead.
Who goes where and where
Of course, only the Lord God is omnipresent and knows exactly where the soul goes after the death of a person. Sinners go to hell and spend time there in anticipation of even greater torment that will come after the Supreme Court. Sometimes such souls can come in dreams to friends and relatives, asking for help. You can help in such a situation by praying for a sinful soul and asking the Almighty for forgiveness of her sins. There are cases when sincere prayer for a deceased person really helped him move to a better world. So, for example, in the 3rd century, the martyr Perpetua saw that the fate of her brother was like a filled reservoir, which was too high for him to reach. Days and nights she prayed for his soul, and over time she saw how he touches the pond and is transported to a bright, clean place. From the foregoing, it becomes clear that the brother was pardoned and sent from hell to heaven. The righteous, thanks to the fact that they lived their lives not in vain, go to heaven and look forward to the Day of Judgment.
The teachings of Pythagoras
As mentioned earlier, there are a huge number of theories and myths regarding the afterlife. For many centuries, scientists and clergy have been studying the question: how to find out where a person went after death, looking for answers, arguing, looking for facts and evidence. One of these theories was the teaching of Pythagoras on the transmigration of souls, the so-called reincarnation. The same opinion was held by such scholars as Plato and Socrates. A huge amount of information about reincarnation can be found in such a mystical current as Kabbalah. Its essence lies in the fact that the soul has a certain goal, or a lesson that it must go through and learn. If in the course of life the person in whom this soul lives does not cope with this task, it is reborn.
What happens to the body after death? It dies and it is impossible to resurrect it, but the soul is looking for a new life. In this theory, it is also interesting that, as a rule, all people who are in a family relationship are not connected at all by chance. More specifically, the same souls are constantly looking for each other and find. For example, in a past life, your mother could have been your daughter or even your spouse. Since the soul has no gender, it can be either feminine or masculine, depending on which body it enters.
There is an opinion that our friends and soul mates are also kindred spirits who are connected with us karmically. There is one more nuance: for example, a son and a father constantly have conflicts, no one wants to give in, until the last days two relatives literally fight among themselves. Most likely, in the next life, fate will bring these souls together again, as brother and sister or as husband and wife. This will continue until both of them find a compromise.
Square of Pythagoras
Supporters of the Pythagorean theory are most often interested not in what happens to the body after death, but in what kind of incarnation their soul lives and who they were in a past life. In order to find out these facts, the square of Pythagoras was drawn up. Let's try to understand it with an example. Let's say you were born on December 03, 1991. It is necessary to write down the received numbers in a line and carry out some manipulations with them.
- It is necessary to add all the numbers and get the main one: 3 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 1 = 26 - this will be the first number.
- Next, you need to add the previous result: 2 + 6 = 8. This will be the second number.
- In order to get the third, from the first it is necessary to subtract the doubled first digit of the date of birth (in our case, 03, we do not take zero, we subtract the three times 2): 26 - 3 x 2 = 20.
- The last number is obtained by adding the digits of the third working number: 2 + 0 = 2.
Now write down the date of birth and the results obtained:
In order to find out which incarnation the soul lives in, it is necessary to count all numbers except zeros. In our case, the human soul, born on December 3, 1991, lives on the 12th incarnation. By composing the square of Pythagoras from these numbers, you can find out what characteristics it has.
Some facts
Many, of course, are interested in the question: is there life after death? All world religions are trying to give an answer to it, but there is still no unequivocal answer. Instead, in some sources you can find some interesting facts regarding this topic. Of course, it cannot be said that the statements that will be given below are dogma. These are just some of the interesting thoughts on the subject.
What is death
It is difficult to answer the question of whether there is life after death without finding out the main signs of this process. In medicine, this concept is understood as a stoppage of breathing and heartbeat. But we should not forget that these are signs of the death of the human body. On the other hand, there is evidence that the mummified body of a monk-priest continues to show all signs of life: soft tissues are pressed through, joints are bent, and a fragrance emanates from it. In some mummified bodies, nails and hair even grow, which, perhaps, confirms the fact that certain biological processes do occur in the deceased body.
And what happens a year after the death of an ordinary person? Of course, the body decomposes.
Finally
Given all of the above, we can say that the body is just one of the shells of a person. In addition to it, there is also a soul - an eternal substance. Almost all world religions agree that after the death of the body, the human soul still lives, someone believes that it is reborn in another person, and someone that it lives in Heaven, but, one way or another, it continues to exist . All thoughts, feelings, emotions are the spiritual sphere of a person that lives, despite physical death. Thus, it can be considered that life after death exists, but it is no longer interconnected with the physical body.
The most terrible thing is that thanks to the materialism in which we were brought up, we are mostly convinced that with death our existence ceases categorically and forever. We will no longer be able to meet the dawn and admire the sunset, we will not kiss our beloved, we will not take our baby in our arms. We will stop seeing and hearing, feeling and thinking - what could be worse? In such a situation, you involuntarily ask yourself the question: Is there life after death?
The Last Judgment or Reincarnation
In addition to atheism and materialism, there are many ideas about the afterlife in the world. Most religions speak of the Last Judgment and the transmigration of the soul after the death of the physical body to hell or heaven. For believers, therefore, it is somewhat easier to die: at least they are convinced that this is not the end, that a continuation is to come. Although, of course, the prospect of going to hell (and how many of us can count on heavenly bliss?) is not at all encouraging and not encouraging. And does not remove the fear of death.
Perhaps the only theory that removes the fear of death is the doctrine of reincarnation, that is, the transmigration of souls. Two variations of this teaching are particularly common.
- We all are in a circle of constant births and deaths, incarnating again a short time after our death.
- It involves a long stay in other worlds, during which the soul prepares itself for a new birth.
This means that highly spiritual souls can incarnate over long periods of time, reaching thousands of years.
To date, not much scientifically verified evidence of specific reincarnations has been collected. But very many, including scientific materials, testify that the soul feels great without a physical body, including after his death.
Where, then, do the incorporeal souls live? Where do we go after death? All these are questions to which there are currently no clear and reasonable answers, but there are many theories and conjectures. In order to somehow penetrate and come closer to understanding the natural process as death, we must first clearly understand what the soul and body are.
The structure of the human subtle body
The idea of a person as a physical body and a disembodied soul is too simplistic. According to esoteric and occult teachings, a person consists of several bodies: the physical body and subtle bodies, the main ones among which are
- Essential
- Astral
- mental
Each subtle body has its own energy field. The united energy field of subtle bodies makes up our aura, or biofield.
The physical body This is the body familiar to all of us, which can be seen and touched.
If you believe the materialists, then we simply do not have anything other than this body. According to other points of view, we are much richer in various bodies, and besides, we still have a soul.
lower human chakras
The etheric body is the "double" of the physical body, only invisible. It repeats the shape of the physical body and has an energy field in common with it.According to the tantric teaching, a person has seven chakras, that is, seven energy centers that accumulate and distribute various types of energies throughout our body. The three lower chakras, which are responsible for the grossest energies, are directly related to the etheric body.
- The lower chakra - Muladhara - corresponding to the elements of the Earth, has a red color and is responsible for physical energy. Thanks to the work of this chakra and the energy accumulated by it, we can perform rough physical work, monotonous and monotonous, which does not require any intellectual effort. Muladhara is located in the region of the coccyx.
- Slightly above Muladhara, in the lower abdomen at the level of the gonads, is the chakra Svadhisthana. Svadhisthana-chakra is responsible for sexual energy, its element is Water, and its color is orange. Svadhisthana is a kind of center for energy replenishment of the overall energy of our body, sexuality and emotions.
- Just above the navel is the chakra Manipura, responsible for the energies that control the involuntary functions of the body. This chakra corresponds to the element of Fire and has a yellow color. Manipura connects the etheric and astral bodies with its field, transforms lower energies into more subtle ones. Like the two previous chakras, Manipura works in the plane of the material world.
As a rule, the etheric body is completely destroyed during the first three days after the death of a person. It is with this that all funeral traditions are connected, according to which the body is interred or cremated no earlier than on the third day.
Higher human chakras
The astral body is otherwise called the "body of emotions." Depending on the state and experiences of a person, it can change its radiation.It is the astral body that is responsible for our out-of-body journeys in space and time. The astral body sometimes involuntarily separates in sleep, and then in the morning we recall especially vivid and memorable dreams, which are in fact nothing more than journeys of our soul, while the body rests peacefully on the bed.
With this ability of the astral body are connected cases of death in a dream, inexplicable from the point of view of modern medicine, of perfectly healthy people. Three chakras correspond to the astral body: Anahata, Vishuddha and Ajna.
Anahata located at the level of the heart and is often called the heart chakra. It corresponds to the energy of Air and green, the favorite color of the world's famous religions. If Manipura gives energy to the higher chakras, then Anahata is the center of the invisible connection of two planes, the point of intersection of the material and astral worlds.
If you like, the fourth dimension begins with Anahata, incomprehensible in our three-dimensional world. Anahata is responsible for our creative energy, for what we used to call the potential of the individual. Inspiration is a gift of the energy of the heart chakra.
The energies of Anahata allow us to draw ideas and images in the higher world, for some time, under the influence of inspiration, completely forgetting about the existence of the material world. Anahata helps us to ennoble our physical material world, to transform it through love. Comprehension of the essence of things, understanding of the unity of form and content - the Anahata chakra is responsible for all this.
The energies of Anahata are the energy of love and the energy of inspiration. All the great reformers work on the energies of this chakra, striving to establish prosperity on the whole Earth and putting the common good above the personal. The entire world process can be depicted as the descent of the astral into the material world and its gradual release from there. There is a constant exchange of energies between the physical world and the astal, spiritual world.
The chakra is located at the level of the thyroid gland. Vishuddha. It belongs to the element of the all-pervading ether and has a blue color. The scope of Vishuddha Chakra is the world of our emotions. It generates the energies of emotions and feelings that are “colored” and polarized by us, turning into love or hate, joy or envy, anger or humility, fear or acceptance. It is not surprising, therefore, that some researchers specifically associate a person's karma with his Vishuddha chakra as a carrier of karmic energy.
Chakra is also important. Ajna, which is located above the bridge of the nose at the level of the so-called "third eye". Ajna is blue and is the intersection point of the astral and mental bodies. This chakra is responsible for figurative thinking, as well as for the extrasensory abilities of a person, for concentration on an object and impassive detachment from feelings. Ajna is the chakra of intuition, thanks to which we are able to “see” the past, present and future with our inner vision, linking them together with a thread of reasoning that is not subject to logic.
main chakra
Mental body This body is responsible for the thoughts of a person.The mental body is located at the very top edge of the crown and has a purple color chakra Sahasrara.
Sahasrara is responsible for abstract thinking of the highest level, in which the researcher clearly distinguishes the content through the form and is able to instantly assess the essence of a thing. This is the chakra of philosophers and thinkers.
It is through the Sahasrara that we are constantly in contact with the cosmos, through it we “connect” to the information fields of the higher plane, receiving answers to our questions by the method of insight and insight. Through the Sahasrara, our soul leaves the physical body, separating from it at the moment of death and rushing to the higher worlds.
The biofield, that is, the general energy field of the subtle bodies of a person, goes beyond the limits of the physical body. Normally, in an ordinary person, the biofield reaches 1 m. A biofield of less than 80 cm indicates health problems with its owner. Psychics can see the biofield and the color of a person's aura. You can also determine the size of the field using a frame, that is, the dowsing method.
The development of subtle bodies contributes to our approach to perfection. A well-developed etheric body gives a person indestructible health, endurance and efficiency. In turn, a highly developed etheric body radiates energy, nourishing the subtle bodies of higher levels.
A developed astral body instills vigor and cheerfulness in us. In the energy of the astral body we draw strength for action, inspiration and the ability to sympathize.
The mental body energizes our mind, strengthens and enhances creativity. A developed mental body directs its owner to the path of learning and comprehension, makes him strive for knowledge. We owe a healthy and full-fledged energy of the mental body to a good memory, the ability to concentrate on the subject of reflection and to acquire knowledge firmly.
Thanks to a developed mental body, we can endure high mental loads, as well as “turn off” emotions in the process of thinking. The mental body is most strongly developed among philosophers and thinkers.
The physical, ethereal, astral and other invisible bodies of a person are like nesting dolls. Only in this case, the smallest of the set is visible and, no offense will be said, the smallest in content. It is worth destroying it, as all external nesting dolls-invisibility are released.
The astral, or single energy-informational, field connects all the worlds with each other and us with all the worlds. According to legend, Hermes taught that from the most distant heights of the sky, the universal spirit continuously descends, an inexhaustible source of light and fire, which, having passed through all the spheres of heaven and being gradually condensed, constantly flows to the earth. This is the astral light or the astral breath of the planet.
Nature does not act from the simple to the more complex. Vice versa. And the more subtle and intangible the matter, the more significant it is. We cognize the deep essence of life and personality, penetrating into these higher intangible worlds. The spirit world is the most real world. The physical body is needed only temporarily. To move to the higher, subtle worlds, we must free ourselves from the physical body. This is what the answer is: Is there life after death?
Transition to the world of subtle energies
The transition to the world of more subtle energies can only occur in a jump. The soul goes through death and is reborn in a higher world, inaccessible to physical bodies. Death is preceded by suffering and sorrow. At the moment of death and during life in the subtle world, we have the opportunity to reassess, partially free ourselves from karma and reduce the number of reincarnations. Pure righteous souls leave the circle of reincarnations, rising higher and higher into the spiritual worlds.
The thought is material. In the subtle worlds, we can create everything from nothing, completely repeating everything familiar, earthly, without which it is difficult for us to live in the new world.
Time in the higher worlds flows much faster than in the familiar world of physical bodies and physical phenomena. The life of the physical body is measured by the speed of the logical mind, which is able to perceive and cognize phenomena only sequentially, one after the other, and not simultaneously.
That is why many phenomena of the higher worlds go unnoticed, happening right before our eyes. We do not see infrared rays and do not hear ultrasound, which does not interfere with the existence of both. In order to see the first and hear the second, we need special instruments.
Whether we like it or not, we have to acknowledge the very existence of death. Everything is clear with the body - it gradually decomposes and disappears completely. But how to understand the strange phenomena described in huge numbers in literary works, and now in scientific books, which speak of the probable immortality of individuals and the continuation of life after death?
Someone heard about ghosts and spirits, and someone met with them. How to explain it? The problem is that we are used to relying on science and documented facts in everything, but in fact, intuitive knowledge can be hundreds of years ahead of science with its evidence. Once they laughed at people who dream of wings, of flying into space. At best, they were looked upon as funny eccentrics, and at worst they were considered insane and locked up in psychiatric hospitals. But it is thanks to them that we can now fly airplanes.
In our materialistic world, quite often only unusual events that really happened to us make us seriously think about the secrets of being. These are not necessarily unusual events, but necessarily - knocking us out of the usual rut of life, forcing us to suddenly find ourselves “in a different dimension” with other reference points and other values.
In the role of such events, which are the “trigger”, there can be anything: overload, conflicts, shocks and disappointments, serious illnesses, serious physical and mental injuries. For different people, different events are the “trigger” - depending on the characteristics of the higher nervous system of a person, his vulnerability and emotional stability, his physical and mental state at the time of shock or stress.
Each person has his own pain threshold, his own "traumatization limit". Those events that will not leave a trace in the life of one person can temporarily introduce another into an altered state of consciousness, in which he is able to perceive information from other worlds, is available for contact with them.
Past incarnations
What a person was at the time of death inevitably affects what he will become after a new birth. Through the method of holotropic breathing, some people come to the experience of their past incarnations, which they were not aware of. An interesting fact is that the problems of the mother in at least one of her past incarnations are most often associated with caesarean section.
Being in a state of altered consciousness, people report a lot of details that they could not know about, even if they had devoted many years of their lives to studying the history of a country. It is not uncommon for a person, during a session of holotropic therapy, to begin speaking in a language or dialect from which, in an unchanged state of consciousness, he does not know a word.
Those who live in countries that measure length in meters and centimeters, and weight in frames and kilograms, easily switch to inches and pounds. Moreover, there are cases when people performed those actions that they could not perform and never performed in a normal state of consciousness.
Experiences of events that took place in other historical periods in other countries are usually accompanied by powerful emotions and physical sensations, but most importantly - a convincing feeling of personal participation, that this is not a dream or a hallucination, but just a memory of what happened to you.
There are many recorded cases when people, not being in a state of altered consciousness, recalled their past lives and even more than one. Every year the number of such people only increases. They tell in detail about the places where they lived, about the distant past, about cities that do not exist now.
The most important and striking thing in these stories is the accuracy of the description, which makes it impossible to ignore these cases and equate such people with crazy people. The data reported by these people was repeatedly checked, and not a single error or inaccuracy was found that could cast doubt on the veracity of such stories.
Perhaps death is not the end, but only the beginning of a new life. Well, it is up to each of you to believe in it or not, and find the answer to the question: Is there life after death?; everyone should do it on their own.
One of the most exciting questions for the mind of people is “is there something there after death, or not?”. Many religions have been created, each revealing the secret of the afterlife in its own way. Libraries of books on the topic of life after death have been written. And, in the end, billions of souls, who were once inhabitants of the mortal earth, have already gone there, into an unknown reality and distant non-existence. And they are aware of all the secrets, but they will not tell us. Between the world of the dead and the living is a huge abyss . But this is provided that the world of the dead exists.
Various religious teachings, each of which interprets the further path of a person after leaving the body in its own way, generally support the version that the soul exists and it is immortal. The exceptions are the religious directions of the Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, they adhere to the version of the perishability of the soul. And the afterlife, Hell and Paradise, the quintessence of variations of afterlife existence, according to most religions, for the true worshipers of God will be presented in a much better form than that, that is, on earth. Belief in the excellent after death, in higher justice, in the eternal continuation of life is the basis of many religious worldviews.
And although scientists and atheists claim that a person hopes, because it is inherent in his nature at the genetic level, they say, “ he just needs to believe in something, and preferably global, with a saving mission ”, - this does not become an “antidote” of craving for religions. Even if we take into account the genetic attraction to God, where did it come from in pure consciousness?
Soul and where is it located
Soul- it is an immortal substance, not tangible and not measured with the help of material standards. Something connecting spirit and body, individual, identifying a person as a person. There are many people who look similar in appearance, twin brothers and sisters are just copies of each other, there are also enough “twins” who do not have a consanguinity. But these people will always differ in their inner spiritual content, and this does not concern the level, quality and scale of thoughts, desires, but, above all, abilities, facets, features, and potential of the individual. The soul is something that accompanies us on earth, reviving the mortal shell.
Most people are sure that the soul is in the heart, or somewhere in the solar plexus, there are opinions that it is in the head, brain. Scientists, in the course of a series of experiments, have established that when animals are killed with a current at a meat processing plant, a certain ethereal substance comes out at the moment of termination of life precisely from the upper part of the head (skull). The soul was measured: in the course of experiments carried out at the beginning of the 20th century by the American physician Duncan MacDougall, soul weight - 21 grams . Approximately such a mass was lost by 6 patients at the time of death, which the doctor was able to fix with the help of super-sensitive beds-scales on which the dying lay. However, later experiments conducted by other doctors found that a person loses a similar body weight when falling asleep.
Is death just a long (eternal) sleep?
The bible says the soul is in the blood. In the days of the Old Testament, and even to this day, Christians were forbidden to drink and eat processed animal blood.
“For the soul of every body is its blood, it is its soul; Therefore I said to the children of Israel: You shall not eat the blood of any body, for the soul of every body is its blood: whoever eats it shall be cut off.” (Old Testament, Leviticus 17:14)
“... and to all the beasts of the earth, and to all the birds of the air, and to every creeping thing on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I have given all green herbs for food. And so it became” (Genesis 1:30)
That is, living creatures have a soul, but they are deprived of the ability to think, make decisions, they lack a highly organized mental activity. If any soul is immortal, then the animals will be in spiritual incarnation in the afterlife. However, in the same Old Testament it is said that earlier all animals simply ceased to exist after physical death, without any other continuation. The main goal of their life was affirmed: to be eaten; born to "capture and exterminate". The immortality of the human soul was also questioned.
“I said in my heart about the sons of men, that God might test them, and that they might see that they themselves are animals; because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of animals is the same fate: as they die, so these also die, and everyone has one breath, and a person has no advantage over cattle, because everything is vanity! Everything goes to one place: everything came from dust and everything will return to dust. Who knows whether the spirit of the sons of men goes up, and the spirit of the animals goes down into the earth? (Ecclesiastes 3:18-21)
But the hope for Christians that the animals in one of their incarnations are incorruptible is preserved, because in the New Testament, in particular in the Revelation of John the Theologian, there are lines that there will be many animals in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The New Testament teaches that accepting the sacrifice of Christ will give life to all people who desire salvation. Those who don't accept it, according to the Bible, don't have Eternal Life. Whether this means that they will go to Hell or that they will hang somewhere in a state of “spiritual disability” is unknown. In Buddhist teachings, reincarnation means that the soul that previously belonged to a person, who accompanied him, can settle in an animal in the next life. Yes, and the man himself in Buddhism takes a dual position, that is, it seems that he is not “pressed” as in Christianity, but he is not the Crown of Creation, master over all living things.
And it is located somewhere between the lower entities, “demons” and other evil spirits and higher, enlightened Buddhas. His path and subsequent reincarnation depend on the degree of enlightenment in today's life. Astrologers talk about the existence of seven human bodies, and not just the soul, spirit and body. Etheric, astral, mental, causal, buddhial, atmanic and naturally physical. According to esotericists, six bodies are part of the soul, but according to some esotericists, they accompany the soul on earthly paths.
There are many teachings, treatises and doctrines that interpret the essence of being, life and death in their own way. And, of course, not all are true, the truth, as they say, is one. It is easy to get confused in the wilds of other people's worldview, it is important to adhere to the position once chosen. Because if everything was simple and we knew the answer that there, at the other end of life, there would not be so many guesses, and as a result of global, radically different versions.
Christianity highlights the spirit, soul and body of man:
"In His hand is the soul of all living things, and the spirit of all human flesh." (Job 12:10)
Moreover, there is no doubt that the spirit and the soul are different phenomena, but what is their difference? Does the spirit (it is also mentioned in animals) go after death to another world or soul? And if the spirit leaves, what happens to the soul?
Termination of life and clinical death
Doctors distinguish biological, clinical and final death. Biological death implies a cessation of cardiac activity, respiration, blood circulation, depression, followed by the cessation of reflexes of the central nervous system. Final - all of the listed signs of biological death, including brain death. Clinical death precedes biological death, is a reversible transitional state from life to death.
After stopping breathing and palpitations, during resuscitation, it is possible to bring a person back to life without serious damage to health only in the first few minutes: up to a maximum of 5 minutes, more often within 2-3 minutes after the pulse stops.
Cases of a safe return are also described after a 10-minute stay in clinical death. Resuscitation is carried out within 30 minutes after cardiac arrest, breathing or loss of consciousness in the absence of circumstances that make the resumption of life impossible. Sometimes 3 minutes is enough for the development of irreversible changes in the brain. In cases of death of a person under conditions of low temperature, when metabolism is slowed down, the interval of a successful “return” to life increases, and can reach 2 hours after cardiac arrest. Despite the strong opinion based on medical practice that after 8 minutes without a heartbeat and breathing, the patient is unlikely to be brought back to life without serious consequences for his health in the future, hearts begin to beat, people come to life. And they meet further life without serious violations of the functions and systems of the body. Sometimes the 31st minute of resuscitation is decisive. However, most people who have experienced prolonged clinical death rarely return to their former fullness of existence, some go into a vegetative state.
There have been cases where doctors mistakenly recorded biological death, and the patient later came to his senses, scaring the mortuary workers more than any horror movie they had ever watched. Lethargic dreams, a decrease in the functions of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems with oppression of consciousness and reflexes, but the preservation of life is a reality, and it is possible to confuse an imaginary death with a true one.
And yet here is the paradox: if the soul is in the blood, as the Bible says, then where is it in a person who is in a vegetative state or in a “beyond coma”? Who is artificially kept alive with the help of apparatuses, but doctors have long stated irreversible changes in the brain or brain death? At the same time, it is absurd to deny the fact that when blood circulation stops, life stops.
See God and not die
So what did they see, people who survived clinical death? Lots of evidence. Someone says that Hell and Paradise appeared before him in colors, someone saw angels, demons, deceased relatives, communicated with them. Someone traveled, flying like a bird, all over the earth, not feeling any hunger, or pain, or his former self. In front of another, his whole life flashes in a moment in pictures, another sees himself, doctors from the outside.
But in most descriptions there is the famous mysteriously deadly image of the light at the end of the tunnel. The vision of light at the end of the tunnel is explained by several theories. According to psychologist Payall Watson, this is a prototype of passing through the birth canal, a person remembers his birth at the time of death. According to the Russian resuscitator Nikolai Gubin - manifestations of toxic psychosis.
In the course of an experiment conducted by American scientists with laboratory mice, it was found that animals, when experiencing clinical death, see the same tunnel with light at the end. And the reason is much more banal than the approach of the afterlife illuminating the darkness. The brain in the first minutes after the cessation of the heartbeat and breathing produces powerful impulses, which are accepted by the dying as the image described above. Moreover, the activity of the brain in these very moments is incredibly high, which contributes to the appearance of vivid visions, hallucinations.
The appearance of pictures from the past is due to the fact that new structures of the brain begin to fade first, then the old ones, with the resumption of the vital activity of the brain, the process occurs in the reverse order: first, the old ones begin to function, then the new sections of the cerebral cortex. What causes the “emergence” in the emerging consciousness of the most significant pictures of the past, then the present. I don't want to believe that everything is so simple, right? I really want everything to be confused on mysticism, mixed up on the most bizarre assumptions, shown in bright colors, with feelings, spectacles, tricks.
The consciousness of many people refuses to believe in ordinary death without mystery, without continuation. . And how can you really agree that someday you will not be at all? And there will be no eternity, or at least some kind of continuation ... When you look inside yourself, sometimes the most terrible thing is to feel the hopelessness of the situation, the finiteness of being, the unknown, not knowing what is next and stepping into the abyss blindfolded.
“How many of them have fallen into this abyss, I'll open it away! The day will come when I will disappear From the surface of the earth. Everything that sang and fought will freeze, It shone and burst. And the green of my eyes, and a gentle voice, And gold hair. And there will be life with its daily bread, With forgetfulness of the day. And everything will be - as if under the sky And there was no me!” M. Tsvetaeva “Monologue”
The lyrics can be endless, since death is the biggest mystery, everyone who, no matter how they get away from thinking on this topic, will have to experience everything on their own experience. If the picture were unambiguous, obvious and transparent, we would have been convinced long ago by thousands of discoveries of scientists, stunning results obtained as a result of experiments, versions of various teachings about the absolute mortality of the body and soul. But no one has been able to establish and prove with absolute accuracy what awaits us at the other end of life. Christians are waiting for Paradise, Buddhists are waiting for reincarnation, esotericists of flight into the astral plane, tourists to continue their travels, etc.
But it is reasonable to admit the existence of God, since many, who during their lifetime denied the highest justice in the Other World, often repent of their ardor before death. They remember the One who was so often deprived of a place in his spiritual temple.
Have survivors of clinical death seen God? If you have ever heard or will hear that someone in a state of clinical death saw God, doubt it very much.
First, God will not meet at the “gate”, he is not a Swiss... Everyone will appear at the judgment of God already during the Apocalypse, that is, for the majority - after the stage of rigor mortis. By that time, hardly anyone will be able to return and tell about the Other Light. “Seeing God” is generally not an adventure for the faint of heart. In the Old Testament (in Deuteronomy) there are words that no one has yet seen God and remained alive. God spoke to Moses and the people on Horeb from the midst of the fire, without showing an image, and even people were afraid to come close to God in a hidden form.
The Bible also states that God is a spirit, and the spirit is immaterial, respectively, we cannot see him as each other. Although the miracles performed by Christ during His stay on earth in the flesh, spoke of the opposite: you can return to the world of the living already during or after the funeral. Let us remember the resurrected Lazarus, who was revived on the 4th day, when it already began to stink. And his testimony to another world. But Christianity is more than 2000 years old, during this time were there many people (not counting believers) who read the lines about Lazarus in the New Testament and believed in God on the basis of this? Likewise, thousands of testimonies, miracles for those who are convinced in advance of the opposite, can be meaningless, vain.
Sometimes you have to see it for yourself to believe it. But even personal experience tends to be forgotten. There is a moment of replacing the real with the desired, excessive impressionability - when people really want to see something, during their lifetime they often and a lot draw it in their minds, and during and after clinical death, based on sensations, they finish impressions. According to statistics, most people who saw something grandiose after a cardiac arrest, Hell, Paradise, God, demons, etc. were mentally unstable. Resuscitation doctors, who have repeatedly observed the state of clinical deaths, saving people, say that in the vast majority of cases patients did not see anything.
It so happened that the author of these lines once visited the Other World. I was 18 years old. A relatively easy operation turned into almost real death due to an overdose of anesthesia by doctors. Light at the end of the tunnel, the tunnel is like an endless hospital corridor. Just a couple of days before I ended up in the hospital, I was thinking about death. I thought that a person should have a movement, a development goal, in the end, family, children, career, study, and all this should be loved by him. But somehow there was so much “depression” around at that moment that it seemed to me that everything was in vain, life was meaningless, and maybe it would be nice to leave before this “torment” had yet begun in full. I don't mean suicidal thoughts, but rather fear of the unknown and the future. Difficult family circumstances, work and study.
And here is the flight into oblivion. Already after this tunnel - and after the tunnel I just saw a girl whose face the doctor looks at, covers with a veil, puts a tag on her toe - I hear a question. And this question, perhaps, is the only thing that I could not find an explanation for, from where, who asked it. “I wanted to leave. Will you go?” And I seem to be listening, but I don’t hear anyone, neither the voice, nor what is happening around, I am shocked that death exists. The whole period, while I was observing everything, and then, after the return of consciousness, I repeated the same question, my own, “So, death is a reality? Can I die? I died? And now I will see God?
At first, I saw myself from the side of the doctors, but not in exact forms, but blurry and chaotic, mixed with other images. I did not understand at all that they were saving me. The more they manipulated, the more it seemed to me that they were saving someone else. She heard the names of medicines, the doctors' conversations, screams, and, as if yawning lazily, she also decided to cheer up the rescued person, began to say in unison to the alarmists, “Breathe, open your eyes. Come to your senses, etc.” I sincerely worried about him. I was spinning around the whole crowd, then as if I saw everything that would happen next: a tunnel, a morgue with a tag, some orderlies were weighing my sins on Soviet scales ...
I become some kind of small grain of rice (these are the associations I have when I remember). There are no thoughts, only sensations, and my name was not at all what my mother and father were called, the name was generally a temporary earthly number. And it seemed that I had been alive only a thousandth part of the eternity into which I was going. But I didn’t feel like a person, some small substance, I don’t know, a spirit or a soul, I understand everything, but I just can’t react. I don’t understand how it was before, but I realize a new reality, but I just can’t get used to it, it was very uncomfortable. My life seemed like a spark, burning for a second, extinguished quickly and imperceptibly.
There was a feeling that there was an exam ahead (not a trial, but some kind of selection), for which I did not prepare, but I would not present anything serious to me, I had not done either evil or good in a worthy measure. But as if frozen at the moment of death, and it is impossible to change something, somehow influence fate. There was no pain, no regrets, but a feeling of discomfort and confusion from how I was so small, the size of a grain, I was going to live. Without thoughts, they were not, everything is at the level of feelings. After being in a room (as I understand it, a morgue), where I spent a long time near the body with a tag on my finger and could not leave this place, I start looking for a way out, because I want to fly further, it’s boring here and I’m not here anymore. I fly out the window and fly towards the light, with speed, suddenly a flash, akin to an explosion. Everything is very bright. Looks like it's coming back at this point.
A gap of silence and emptiness, and again a room with doctors, manipulations with me, but as if with someone else. The last thing I remember is the incredibly severe pain and pain in my eyes from the fact that they shine with a lantern. And the pain in my whole body is hellish, I again wet the earth into myself, and somehow it’s wrong, it seems that I stuffed my legs into my hands. There was a feeling that I was a cow, that I was square, that I was made of plasticine, I really didn’t want to go back, but they pushed me in. I have almost come to terms with the fact that I left, but now I have to go back again. Got in. It hurt for a long time, hysteria began from what he saw, but she could not speak or even explain the reason for the roar to anyone. During the rest of my life, I once again endured anesthesia in a few hours, everything was quite safe, except for the chills after. There were no visions. A decade has passed since my “flight”, and, of course, a lot has happened in my life since then. And I rarely told anyone about that long-standing event, but when I did share, most of the listeners were very worried about the answer to the question “did I see God or not?”. And although I repeated a hundred times that I did not see God, I used to be asked again and with a twist: “And Hell or Paradise?” Did not see… It doesn't mean they don't exist, it means I didn't see them.
Let's return to the article, or rather finish it. By the way, the story by V. Zazubrin “Sliver” that I read after clinical death left a serious imprint on my attitude to life in general. Maybe the story is depressing, too realistic and bloody, but that's exactly what it seemed to me: life is a sliver ...
But through all the revolutions, executions, wars, deaths, diseases, one could see what is eternal: soul. And it’s not scary to get into the next world, it’s scary to get there and not be able to change anything, while realizing that the test has not passed. But life is worth living, definitely, at least in order to pass exams ...
What are you living for?
