Is there life after death? Life after death: real facts and cases in history.

The human soul and its life after the death of the body ...
Is there life after death? Is there a new life after earthly life?
To approach the answers to these questions, we must turn to the question of what consciousness is. Through the answer to this question, science leads us to the realization that there is a human soul.
But what is the other world, is there really a heaven and hell? What determines the fate of the soul after death?

Khasminsky Mikhail Igorevich, crisis psychologist.

Every person who is faced with the death of a loved one wonders if there is life after life? In our time, this issue is of particular relevance. If a few centuries ago the answer to this question was obvious to everyone, now, after the period of atheism, it is more difficult to solve it. We cannot simply believe hundreds of generations of our ancestors, who, through personal experience, century after century, were convinced of the presence of an immortal human soul. We want facts. Moreover, the facts are scientific.

A unique experiment is currently taking place in England: doctors record testimonies of patients who have experienced clinical death. Our interlocutor is the leader of the research team, Dr. Sam Parnia.

Gnezdilov Andrey Vladimirovich, Doctor of Medical Sciences.

Death is not the end. It's just a change in states of consciousness. I have been working with dying people for 20 years. 10 years in an oncology clinic, then in a hospice. And many times I had the opportunity to make sure that consciousness does not disappear after death. That the difference between body and spirit is very clear. That there is a completely different world that operates according to other laws, superphysical, which are beyond the limits of our understanding.

The testimony of common sense undoubtedly assures us that earthly existence does not end the existence of man, and that in addition to this life there is life after death. We will consider the proofs by which science affirms the immortality of the soul and convinces us that the soul, being a being completely different from matter, cannot be destroyed by that which destroys a material being.

Efremov Vladimir Grigorievich, scientist.

On March 12, at the house of my sister, Natalia Grigorievna, I had a coughing fit. I felt like I was suffocating. The lungs did not obey me, I tried to take a breath - and could not! The body became wadded, the heart stopped. The last air came out of his lungs with wheezing and foam. The thought flashed through my brain that this was the last second of my life.

Osipov Alexei Ilyich, professor of theology.

There is something in common that unites the searches of people of all times and views. It is an insurmountable psychological difficulty to believe that there is no life after death. Man is not an animal! There is life after death! And this is not just an assumption or an unfounded belief. There are a huge number of facts that indicate that, it turns out, the life of an individual continues beyond the threshold of earthly existence. We find amazing evidence wherever there are literary sources left. And for all of them, at least one fact was indisputable: the soul lives after death. Personality is indestructible!

Korotkov Konstantin Georgievich, Doctor of Technical Sciences.

Treatises of ancient civilizations were written about the immortality of the soul, about its exit from an immobilized dead body, myths and canonical religious teachings were composed, but we would like to receive evidence by the methods of the exact sciences. It seems that this was achieved by the St. Petersburg scientist Konstantin Korotkov. If his experimental data and the exit hypothesis built on their basis subtle body from the deceased physical will be confirmed by the research of other scientists, religion and science will finally converge on the fact that human life does not end with the last exhalation.

Leo Tolstoy, writer.

Death is a superstition that people who have never thought about the true meaning of life are subject to. Man is immortal. But in order to believe in immortality and understand what it is, you need to find in your life that which is immortal in it. Reflection of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy about life after life.

Moody Raymond, psychologist, philosopher.

Even inveterate skeptics and atheists will not be able to say about this book that everything said here is fiction, because before you is a book written by a scientist, doctor, researcher. About thirty years ago, Life After Life fundamentally changed our understanding of what death is. Dr. Moody's research has spread all over the world and in no small measure helped shape modern ideas about what a person experiences after death.

Leo Tolstoy, writer.

The fear of death is only the consciousness of the unresolved contradiction of life. Life does not end after destruction physical body. The carnal death is just another change in our existence, which has always been, is and will be. There is no death!

Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko.

The most important argument against materialism is this. We see that physiology cites many facts indicating that there is a constant connection between physical phenomena and between mental phenomena; it can be said that there is not a single mental act that would not be accompanied by some physiological ones; hence the materialists drew the conclusion that mental phenomena depend on physical ones. But such an interpretation could be given only in such a case, if mental phenomena were the consequences of physical processes, i.e. if between the one and the other there existed the same causal relation as between two phenomena of physical nature, one of which is the effect of the other. In fact, this is not true at all...

Voyno-Yasenetsky Valentin Feliksovich, professor of medicine.

By its very structure, the brain proves that its function is the transformation of someone else's irritation into a well-chosen reaction. Afferent nerve fibers that bring sensory stimuli terminate in the cells of the sensory zone of the cerebral cortex, and they are connected by other fibers to the cells of the motor zone, to which the stimulus is transmitted. With an infinite number of such connections, the brain has the ability to endlessly modify the reactions that respond to external stimulation, and acts as a kind of switch.

Rogozin Pavel.

None of the representatives of true science has ever doubted the existence of a "soul". The dispute among scientists arose not about whether a person has a soul, but about what should be meant by this term. The question of whether there is a spiritual principle in a person, what is our consciousness, our spirit, soul, what are the relationships between matter, consciousness and spirit, has always been the main issue of any worldview. Different approaches to this issue led people to different conclusions and conclusions ...

Unknown author.

The atom proves the eternity of life Strictly speaking, the human body dies every ten years. Each cell of the body after birth is repeatedly restored, disappears and is replaced by a new one in a strict sequence, depending on what type of cell it is (muscle, connective tissue, organs, nervous, etc.). But, although the cells that originally make up our face, bones or blood become useless in a few hours, days or years, our ever-renewing body retains the presence of consciousness.

According to the book "Evidence for the existence of life after death", comp. Fomin A.V.

Every person sooner or later asks himself the question: what will happen after physical death? Will everything end with the last breath or will there be a soul beyond the threshold of life? And now, after the abolition of party supervision over the process of cognition, scientific information began to appear, proving that a person has an immortal consciousness. So our contemporaries, notorious for the “basic question of philosophy”, seem to have a real chance to complete their earthly journey without fear of non-existence.

Kalinovsky Petr, doctor.

This book is devoted to the most important question for a person - the question of death. We are talking about the facts of the continued existence of the personality, the human "I" after the death of our physical body. These facts include, first of all, the testimonies of people who survived clinical death, who visited the “other world” and returned “back” either spontaneously or, in most cases, after resuscitation.

Nikolai Viktorovich Levashov in the early 90s of the 20th century described in detail and accurately in his own what Life (living matter) is, how and where it appears; what conditions must be on the planets for the origin of life; what is memory; how and where it functions; what is Mind; what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for the appearance of Mind in living matter; what are emotions and what is their role in the evolutionary development of Man, and much more. He proved inevitability and regularity appearance of Life on any planet on which the corresponding conditions occur at the same time. For the first time, he accurately and clearly showed what a Human is in reality, how and why he incarnates in a physical body, and what happens to him after the inevitable death of this body. N.V. Levashov has long given exhaustive answers to the questions posed by the author in this article. Nevertheless, quite sufficient arguments are collected here, indicating that the modern one knows practically nothing about either Man or real the structure of the world in which we all live...

There is life after death!

Sight modern science: Does the soul exist, and is Consciousness immortal?

Every person who is faced with the death of a loved one asks the question: is there life after death? In our time, this issue is of particular relevance. If a few centuries ago the answer to this question was obvious to everyone, now, after the period of atheism, it is more difficult to solve it. We cannot simply believe hundreds of generations of our ancestors, who, through personal experience, century after century, were convinced that a person has an immortal soul. We want facts. Moreover, the facts are scientific. They tried to convince us from the school bench that no, there is no immortal soul. At the same time, we were told that this is what science says. And we believed ... Let's note what exactly believed that there is no immortal soul, believed that this is allegedly proven by science, believed that there is no God. None of us even tried to figure out what an impartial science says about the soul. We simply trusted certain authorities, without particularly going into the details of their worldview, objectivity and their interpretation of scientific facts.

And now, when the tragedy happened, there is a conflict inside us. We feel that the soul of the deceased is eternal, that it is alive, but on the other hand, the old and inspired stereotypes that there is no soul drag us into the abyss of despair. This inside of us is very heavy and very exhausting. We want the truth!

So let's look at the question of the existence of the soul through a real, non-ideological, objective science. We will hear the opinion of real scientists on this issue, we will personally evaluate the logical calculations. Not our FAITH in the existence or non-existence of the soul, but only KNOWLEDGE can extinguish this internal conflict, to save our strength, to give confidence, to look at the tragedy from a different, real point of view.

The article will focus on Consciousness. We will analyze the question of Consciousness from the point of view of science: where is Consciousness in our body and can it stop its life?

What is Consciousness?

First, about what consciousness is in general. People have been thinking about this question throughout history, but still cannot come to a final decision. We know only some properties, possibilities of consciousness. Consciousness is awareness of oneself, one's personality, it is a great analyzer of all our feelings, emotions, desires, plans. Consciousness is what distinguishes us, what makes us feel not as objects, but as individuals. In other words, consciousness miraculously reveals our fundamental existence. Consciousness is our awareness of our "I", but at the same time, Consciousness is great. Consciousness has no dimensions, no form, no color, no smell, no taste; it cannot be touched or turned in one's hands. Despite the fact that we know very little about consciousness, we absolutely know that we have it.

One of the main questions of humanity is the question of the nature of this very Consciousness (soul, "I", ego). Materialism and idealism have diametrically opposed views on this issue. From point of view materialism human Consciousness is the substratum of the brain, the product of matter, the biochemical processes, a special fusion of nerve cells. From point of view idealism Consciousness is the ego, "I", spirit, soul - non-material, invisible spiritualizing the body, eternally existing, not dying energy. In the acts of consciousness, the subject always participates, which is actually aware of everything.

If you are interested in purely religious ideas about the soul, then it will not give any evidence of the existence of the soul. The doctrine of the soul is a dogma and is not subject to scientific proof. There are absolutely no explanations, much less evidence for materialists who believe that they are impartial scientists (although this is far from being the case).

But how do the majority of people who are equally far from religion, from philosophy, and from science too, imagine this Consciousness, soul, “I”? Let's ask ourselves, what is "I"?

Gender, name, profession and other role functions

The first thing that comes to mind for most is: “I am a man”, “I am a woman (man)”, “I am a businessman (turner, baker)”, “I am Tanya (Katya, Alexei)”, “I am a wife ( husband, daughter)”, etc. These are certainly funny answers. One's individual, unique "I" cannot be defined general terms. There are a huge number of people in the world with the same characteristics, but they are not your “I”. Half of them are women (men), but they are also not “I”, people with the same professions seem to have their own, and not your “I”, the same can be said about wives (husbands), people different professions, social status, nationalities, religion, etc. No belonging to any group will explain to you what your individual "I" represents, because Consciousness is always personal. I am not qualities (qualities only belong to our “I”), because the qualities of one and the same person can change, but his “I” will remain unchanged.

Mental and physiological features

Some say that their "I" are their reflexes, their behavior, their individual ideas and preferences, their psychological characteristics, etc. In fact, this cannot be the core of the personality, which is called "I". Why? Because throughout life, behavior, ideas, and addictions change, and even more so, psychological characteristics. It cannot be said that if earlier these features were different, then it was not my “I”.

Understanding this, some make the following argument: "I am my individual body". It's already more interesting. Let's examine this assumption. Everyone knows from the school anatomy course that the cells of our body are gradually renewed throughout life. Old ones die (apoptosis) and new ones are born. Some cells (the epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract) are completely renewed almost every day, but there are cells that go through their life cycle much longer. On average, all the cells of the body are renewed every 5 years. If we consider the "I" as a simple collection of human cells, then we get an absurdity. It turns out that if a person lives, for example, 70 years, during this time at least 10 times a person will change all the cells in his body (i.e. 10 generations). Could this mean that not one person lived his 70-year life, but 10 different people? Isn't that pretty stupid? We conclude that “I” cannot be a body, because the body is not permanent, but “I” is permanent. This means that "I" cannot be either the qualities of cells or their totality.

But here, especially erudite people give a counterargument: “Well, it’s clear with bones and muscles, it really can’t be “I”, but there are nerve cells! And they are alone for life. Maybe "I" is the sum of nerve cells?

Let's think about this together...

Is consciousness made up of nerve cells? Materialism is accustomed to decomposing the entire multidimensional world into mechanical components, “checking harmony with algebra” (A.S. Pushkin). The most naive fallacy of militant materialism in relation to personality is the notion that personality is a collection of biological qualities. However, the combination of impersonal objects, even if they are neurons, cannot give rise to a personality and its core - “I”.

How can there be this most complex “I”, feeling, capable of experiencing, love, just the sum of specific cells of the body, along with the ongoing biochemical and bioelectrical processes? How can these processes form the "I"? Provided that if the nerve cells were our "I", then we would lose part of our "I" every day. With every dead cell, with every neuron, the "I" would get smaller and smaller. With the restoration of cells, it would increase in size.

Scientific research carried out in different countries world, prove that nerve cells, like all other cells of the human body, are capable of regeneration (recovery). Here is what the most serious international biological journal writes Nature: “Employees of the California Biological Research. Salk discovered that fully functional young cells are born in the brain of adult mammals, which function on a par with already existing neurons. Professor Frederick Gage and his colleagues also concluded that brain tissue is most rapidly renewed in physically active animals ... "

This is confirmed by the publication in another authoritative, refereed biological journal Science: "Within two recent years researchers have found that nerve and brain cells are updated, like the rest in the human body. The body is capable of repairing disorders related to the nerve tract on its own.”, says Helen M. Blon.

Thus, even with a complete change of all (including nerve) cells of the body, the “I” of a person remains the same, therefore, it does not belong to the constantly changing material body.

For some reason, in our time it is so difficult to prove what was obvious and understandable to the ancients. The Roman Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus, who still lived in the 3rd century, wrote: “It is absurd to assume that since none of the parts has life, then life can be created by their totality ... besides, it is absolutely impossible for life to produce a heap of parts, and that the mind gave birth to that which is devoid of mind. If someone objects that this is not so, but that in fact the soul is formed by those who have come together, that is, indivisible into parts of the body, then he will be refuted by the fact that the atoms themselves only lie one next to the other, without forming a living whole, for unity and joint feeling cannot be obtained from bodies that are insensitive and incapable of unification; but the soul feels itself” (1).

"I" is the unchanging core of personality, which includes many variables but is not itself a variable.

The skeptic may come up with a last desperate argument: "Could it be that 'I' is the brain?" Is Consciousness a product of brain activity? What does science say?

The tale that our Consciousness is the activity of the brain, many have heard back in. It is an unusually widespread idea that the brain is essentially a person with his "I". Most people think that it is the brain that receives information from the surrounding world, processes it and decides how to act in each specific case, they think that it is the brain that makes us alive, gives us personality. And the body is nothing more than a spacesuit that ensures the activity of the central nervous system.

But this tale has nothing to do with. The brain is now deeply studied. The chemical composition, sections of the brain, the connections of these sections with human functions have long been well studied. The brain organization of perception, attention, memory, and speech has been studied. The functional blocks of the brain have been studied. A huge number of clinics and research centers are studying human brain more than a hundred years, for which expensive efficient equipment has been developed. But, having opened any textbooks, monographs, scientific journals on neurophysiology or neuropsychology, you will not find scientific data on the connection between the brain and Consciousness.

For people who are far from this area of ​​knowledge, this seems surprising. In fact, there is nothing surprising in this. Just no one ever did not find connection of the brain and the very center of our personality, our "I". Of course, materialistic scientists have always wanted this. Thousands of studies and millions of experiments were carried out, many billions of dollars were spent on this. The efforts of scientists were not in vain. Thanks to these studies, the parts of the brain themselves were discovered and studied, their connection with physiological processes was established, a lot was done to understand neurophysiological processes and phenomena, but the most important thing was not done. It was not possible to find in the brain the place that is our "I". It was not even possible, despite the extremely active work in this direction, to make a serious assumption about how the brain can be connected with our Consciousness?..

There is life after death!

The same conclusions were reached by English researchers Peter Fenwick from London Psychiatry and Sam Parnia from Southampton Central Clinic. They examined patients who came back to life after cardiac arrest and found that some of them exactly recounted the content of the conversations that the medical staff had while they were in a state of clinical death. Others gave exact a description of the events that occurred during this time period.

Sam Parnia claims that the brain is like any other organ human body, consists of cells and is not able to think. However, it can function as a mind-detecting device, i.e. as an antenna, with the help of which it becomes possible to receive a signal from the outside. Scientists have suggested that during clinical death, the Consciousness, acting independently of the brain, uses it as a screen. Like a television receiver, which first receives the waves that enter it, and then converts them into sound and image.

If we turn off the radio, this does not mean that the radio station stops broadcasting. That is, after the death of the physical body, Consciousness continues to live.

The fact of the continuation of the life of Consciousness after the death of the body is also confirmed by Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Research Institute of the Human Brain, Professor N.P. Bekhterev in his book “The Magic of the Brain and the Labyrinths of Life”. In addition to discussing purely scientific issues, in this book the author also cites his personal experience of encountering posthumous phenomena.

Can we say with complete certainty that life after death No? After all, for the most part, we represent death not quite what she really is. Death is not a dreamless sleep, not a solid darkness and not an unconscious state.

Why don't we think and prepare for it? I don't mean the kind of training that some older people do. Prepare clothes, look for a place in the cemetery, etc.

Are we afraid? We are afraid to darken our own, and so short, by the standards of eternity, a life. "Why think about of death anyway, we'll all be there. While we live, we need to enjoy, earn more, so that our great-grandchildren have enough, to eat sweeter and tastier. And getting ready? Why exactly?

But have mercy! When we go to another city or country, don’t we learn from various sources what is better to take with us on the road, what are the customs, customs and traditions of people living in that place? Why, knowing that sooner or later we will have to die, do we not try to find out what awaits us? after death?

Of course, everyone has a vague anxiety that the world is not so simple, that it is quite possible that life does not end with the death of the body. Even if a person right and left assures that life after death no.

I myself until some time in every possible way drove from myself thoughts about the inevitability of death. You can read about this in the article and on the page. Yes, over the millennia of existence, mankind has not received one hundred percent confirmation, certified by science and framed in a colorful atlas, about the afterlife, but still it is worth listening to the stories of those who survived clinical death and visited the threshold of another world.

After all, it is not for nothing that these people, upon returning to their perishable body, radically change their attitude to life. They cease to participate in the race for pleasures, so necessary and gratifying for the physical body. Gone through near death experiences know that the most important thing in life, the only thing you can take with you to the other world, is love and knowledge.

"Another man radically changed by OSB(near-death experiences), is the man I will call Mark. All his life he was obsessed with money and social position…. He was engaged profitable business …

… at the age of forty-five, Mark suddenly had a heart attack. During OSB he met his grandmother and many other relatives and realized what their pure love is.

After he was "resurrected" the whole perspective of his life changed completely. Everything that used to attract him was now at the very bottom of his list of priorities in life - below family, friendship and knowledge.

The irony is that this new attitude towards life led to the fact that his income only increased. “I became more pleasant to talk to,” Mark said with a smile, “so people started buying from me more.” "

Raymond Moody "Life After Life".

Thanks to Raymond Moody's book "Life After Life", published in 1975, and in the mid-80s, translated and published in Russian, as well as the research of Kenneth Ring, Michael Sabom, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and many others, the world learned and talked about OSB.

But people of the 20th century used to trust only experiments that received scientific confirmation, and therefore there were many skeptics, including among scientists, who tried to explain this phenomenon only from a materialistic point of view. For example, hallucinations of people under the influence of drugs.

However, some studies conducted in the USA and Western Europe confirmed that the nature of NDE does not have the character of hallucinations and that human consciousness has a more complex nature, not yet explained by modern theories.

The development of medicine and modern methods of resuscitation now makes it possible to "return" to life an increasing number of people who have been in a state of clinical death. But cases near death experiences existed before, just people who have been in a state clinical death and "resurrected" was much less. And people did not want to talk about their otherworldly experience, so that they would not be considered crazy.

Even the great thinker and philosopher Plato "opposed the soul and the body as two heterogeneous entities." Proving in his reflections that "the body is decomposable and mortal, but the soul is eternal."

And let scientists have not yet answered, and perhaps never will answer the question: “What is death - the end of life or the transition to the next?” Can each of us honestly say that he does not believe in the existence of an afterlife at all?

Carl Gustav Jung in 1944, a few months after a heart attack that left him in a state of clinical death wrote in one of his letters:

“We fear and avoid any penetration of ‘eternity’ into our everyday lives, but I can only describe my experience as a blissful feeling of my own timeless state, when the present, past and future merge into one. Everything that happens in time, everything that lasts, suddenly appeared as a whole. There was no longer a flow of time, and in general nothing could be measured in terms of time. If I could describe this experience, it would be only as a state - a state that can be felt, but impossible to imagine.

A strange question: "Is there life after death? In general, where did a person get the concept of ""? After all, if we proceed from the theory of evolution, then man himself appeared on earth, and human life is just a series of certain interconnected chemical reactions… When reactions stop, life stops. But the question is: why is a person able to think or think about what he should not think about in principle? I have already given an example with fish. She swims in the water and she does not have a question: why is the water so wet? Water is its natural habitat, so it is absolutely normal for fish to have wet water. Now let's look at a person. If he has educated himself and gives life to himself, then, firstly, the concept of good and evil should not exist for him, because everything should be perceived as a natural habitat, and even more so a person should not distinguish that good is good, and evil is bad. Secondly, a self-sufficient person cannot, in principle, have thoughts about life after death, and even more so thoughts about it, because. death, it is a natural consequence of existence.

But, the fact is that a person distinguishes between good and evil, and is able to think about eternity. Question: how does he know about it? Who gave man a conscience so that he knows what is bad and what is good?

I like the story of Winnie the Pooh, when he came to visit a rabbit, put his head in a hole and asks: "Anyone there?" And the rabbit answers him, - "There is no one." Winnie the Pooh thought about it and said: "It's strange, because someone had to say" There is no one "."

Friends, if a person knows what is bad and what is good, then there must be Someone Who would have to tell him about it or put this program into him.

God gives through the Bible clear answers to these questions. The story of creation, which God told us through the Bible, tells us that initially God created man physically eternal. Those. Man is originally meant not for death, but for life. After people sinned and left God, they ceased to be eternal physically, but they still had the desire and desire for an endless life. That is why people dream of apples and pills that give eternal life... But death appeared as a consequence of sin. And now God in the Bible declares: “… people are supposed to die once, and then judgment» (Heb.9:27) There are two thoughts here:

1. Everyone must die.

2. After death there will be a mandatory judgment.

The second part speaks unambiguously about the continuation of life, otherwise how to judge someone who does not exist?

But this is not all that the Bible reveals to us. The Bible says that a person consists of several components. He was created in the likeness of God, and also, like God, has a tripartite nature. There are three components of a person: May the God of peace Himself sanctify you in all its fullness, and your spirit and soul and body in all its integrity may it be preserved without blemish at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ". (1 Thess. 5:23) There are three components:

1. The body is the center of world knowledge.

2. The soul is the center of self-consciousness.

3. Spirit is the center of God-knowledge.

God originally created all three components to be eternal, including the body. But the Bible shows the reason why man ceased to be eternal physically - this is sin. Until now, scientists are struggling with the problem of aging and cannot stop it. After all, the whole organism is constantly updated and theoretically can renew itself forever. It's just getting old for some reason. People dream that one day a way will be found to defeat old age, and then they will finally be able to live forever ... But this will never happen. Because death is not the cessation of chemical reactions. Death is the separation of the soul and spirit from the body. This is the whole point. You can make a person forever young, but he will still die, despite the fact that his body will be young, because the Bible says that "the wages of sin is death." Sin is the cause of aging and death, not the breaking of the genetic code. God controls life and death. And if He stops life, then no one can restore it except Him. “...Thus says the Holy One, the True One, who has the key of David, who opens and no one closes , closes and no one will open ." (Rev. 3:7)

With the body, everything is clear - it is mortal, but with other components - the spirit and souls, everything is different. They remain eternal, as they were originally created. That is why the human soul longs for eternity and wants to live forever.

The Bible says that the human soul is able to exist outside the body, and the body is only a means of communication with the physical world.

Those people who are looking for secrets eternal life, - they are not looking for them there. The center of man is not in the brain or in any other physical organ. The center of a person is the soul, which is located in another dimension, inaccessible to the physical world. That is why Christ said: AND do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear the One Who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna". (Mat. 10:28). In fact, a person cannot be killed. You can only destroy its physical shell.

It turns out that the human brain is apparently a repeater of signals in spiritual world, as well as the receiver of information from there. How this happens, at what frequency and in what spectrum is unknown. For the most part, scientists study the structure of the brain as a center for storing information, and not as a receiver and transmitter of information to an external storage. Such scientists will never understand the principle of the functioning of the brain, because they look in the wrong place and give it the wrong functionality that it actually has.

It seems that the human brain is a window into another dimension. And if you find out how he transmits information to another dimension, then you can learn a lot of incredible things and discover new communication technologies ... But, these are just thoughts ... But this is not about that now.

The Bible says that when the time comes, a person leaves his body, as if disconnected, and exists outside the body, keeping in himself all the information received through the communication channels from the body. " And the dust will return to the earth as it was; and the spirit returned to God, who gave him". (Eccl. 12:7)

There is interesting story, which Jesus Christ told, she lifts the veil over the secret of life after death:

« A certain man was rich, dressed in purple and fine linen, and feasted splendidly every day. There was also a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate in scabs and desired to feed on the crumbs falling from the rich man's table, and the dogs, coming, licked his scabs. The beggar died and was carried by the angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died, and they buried him. And in hell, being in torment, he raised his eyes in his bosom, and crying out, he said, Father Abraham! have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I suffer in this flame. But Abraham said: child! remember that you have already received your good in your life, and Lazarus - evil; now he is consoled here, and you suffer; and besides all this, a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they pass from there to us. Then he said: So I ask you, father, send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers; let him testify to them that they also do not come to this place of torment. Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets; let them listen. He said: No, Father Abraham, but if anyone from the dead comes to them, they will repent. Then [Abraham] said to him: If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, then if someone rises from the dead, they will not believe." (Luke 16:19-31)

Jesus is a man who came from where we all have to go, and He tells how everything is arranged there. From his story we can draw the following conclusions:

1. Man after death continues to feel (And in hell, being in torment… , now he is comforted here, and you suffer)

2. Man after death can see (lifted up his eyes, saw Abraham and Lazarus afar off)

3. The person can communicate (and crying out he said...But Abraham said…)

4. Man after death recognizes other people : (I saw Abraham and Lazarus in the distance)

5. A person has a memory of the past: (recognizes people: I saw Abraham and Lazarus in the distance, Remembers living brothers and father: send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers; let him testify to them that they also do not come to this place of torment…)

These facts are confirmed by hundreds of thousands of eyewitnesses who experienced clinical death and left the body. Subsequently, they accurately described all the procedures that were performed on their body, and could retell what happened in the neighboring rooms and wards, even talked about who was wearing what clothes. All this confirms that the information is not stored in the brain, but outside it, otherwise, how could a person find out the information that was outside the walls of the operating room? And not only to learn, but also to remember. Scientists have no explanation for these facts, because for them a priori there is no life after death. Therefore, they try to either hush up these facts, or tell all sorts of nonsense, trying to explain such things. If we admit that there is life after death, then it means that we did not originate from a monkey, and everything is not so simple with a person. We have to admit that God created us, and the Bible is right! This means that you just need to close all institutions that study the origin of man from monkeys. This means that people will have to be told that there is a God and that everything the Bible says is true!

But, they will never do this, because it contradicts the existing world system, therefore they will fool people to the last, coming up with more and more crazy explanations of reality.

But the facts are clear: Life after death has been and always will be. And if this is so, then a sea of ​​questions arises: If there is life after death, then Who sent us here? And where do we return when life ends? What is the mission of man on earth, because for some reason we live this life in time on earth in order to return to eternity again? Scientists have no answer to this, but God does. I will try to cover these issues in more detail in future articles. Come back often and you'll find a lot interesting information about life after death. Write your thoughts in the comments, I'm interested in what you think on these issues.

The other world is 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 various 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 Bible“tells” us that a person 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 with a person and his soul. Everything in the book is personal experience 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 show any signs of life, the soul passes through a long tunnel, at the end of which a bright light burns. White color. 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 to move into 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 transferred to the 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 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 itself 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 past life your mother could be 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 soul mates 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.

1. 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.
2. Next, you need to add the previous result: 2 + 6 = 8. This will be the second number.
3. 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.
4. 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 comes 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.

What happens a year after death 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.