Is there that light and what is there. High Councils and High Courts. What do the doctor's say

After death, what awaits us? Probably each of us asked this question. Death scares many people. Usually it is fear that makes us look for an answer to the question: "After death, what awaits us?" However, not only him. People often cannot come to terms with the loss of loved ones, and this forces them to look for evidence that there is life after death. Sometimes simple curiosity drives us in this matter. One way or another, life after death interests many.

Afterlife of the Hellenes

Perhaps non-existence is the most terrible thing in death. People are afraid of the unknown, the emptiness. In this respect, the ancient inhabitants of the Earth were more secure than us. Ellin, for example, knew for sure that he would be brought to trial, and then passed through the corridor of Erebus (the underworld). If she turns out to be unworthy, she will go to Tartarus. If she proves herself well, she will receive immortality and will be on the Champs Elysees in bliss and joy. Therefore, the Greek lived without fear of uncertainty. However, our contemporaries are not so simple. Many of those living today doubt what awaits us after death.

This is what all religions agree on

Religions and scriptures of all times and peoples of the world, differing in many provisions and issues, show unanimity that the existence of people after death continues. In ancient Egypt, Greece, India, Babylon, they believed in the immortality of the soul. Therefore, we can say that this is the collective experience of mankind. However, could he have appeared by chance? Is there any other basis in it than the desire for eternal life, and from what do modern church fathers start, who do not doubt that the soul is immortal?

You can say that, of course, everything is clear with them. Everyone knows the story of hell and heaven. The Church Fathers in this matter are like the Hellenes, who are clad in the armor of faith and are not afraid of anything. Indeed, the Holy Scriptures (New and Old Testaments) for Christians are the main source of their faith in life after death. It is reinforced by the Epistles of the Apostles and others. Believers are not afraid of physical death, since it seems to them just an entrance into another life, into existence together with Christ.

Life after death in terms of Christianity

According to the Bible, earthly existence is a preparation for the future life. After death, the soul remains with everything that she did, good and bad. Therefore, from the very death of the physical body (even before the Judgment), joys or sufferings begin for her. This is determined by how this or that soul lived on earth. The days of commemoration after death are 3, 9 and 40 days. Why exactly them? Let's figure it out.

Immediately after death, the soul leaves the body. In the first 2 days, she, freed from his shackles, enjoys freedom. At this time, the soul can visit those places on earth that were especially dear to her during her lifetime. However, on the 3rd day after death, she is already in other areas. Christianity knows the revelation given by St. Macarius of Alexandria (died 395) as an angel. He said that when an offering is made in the church on the 3rd day, the soul of the deceased receives from the angel guarding her, relief in grief due to separation from the body. She receives it because an offering and a doxology have been made in the church, which is why a good hope appears in her soul. The angel also said that for 2 days the deceased is allowed to walk the earth along with the angels who are with him. If the soul loves the body, then sometimes it wanders near the house in which it parted with it, or near the coffin where it is laid. And the virtuous soul goes to the places where it did the right thing. On the third day, she ascends to heaven to worship God. Then, after worshiping him, he shows her the beauty of paradise and the abode of the saints. The soul considers all this for 6 days, glorifying the Creator. Admiring all this beauty, she changes and ceases to mourn. However, if the soul is guilty of any sins, then it begins to reproach itself, seeing the pleasures of the saints. She realizes that in her earthly life she was engaged in the satisfaction of her lusts and did not serve God, therefore she has no right to be rewarded with his goodness.

After the soul has considered all the joys of the righteous for 6 days, that is, on the 9th day after death, it again ascends to the worship of God by angels. That is why the church on the 9th day makes services and offerings for the deceased. God, after the second worship, now commands to send the soul to hell and show the places of torment that are there. For 30 days, the soul rushes through these places, trembling. She doesn't want to be condemned to hell. What happens 40 days after death? The soul ascends again to worship God. After that, he determines the place that she deserves, according to her deeds. Thus, the 40th day is the boundary that finally separates earthly life from eternal life. From a religious point of view, this is an even more tragic date than the fact of physical death. 3, 9 and 40 days after death - this is the time when you should especially actively pray for the deceased. Prayers can help his soul in the afterlife.

The question arises about what happens to a person after a year of death. Why are commemorations held every year? It must be said that they are no longer needed for the deceased, but for us, so that we remember the deceased person. The anniversary has nothing to do with ordeals, which end on the 40th day. By the way, if the soul is sent to hell, this does not mean that it has finally died. During the Last Judgment, the fate of all people, including the dead, is decided.

Opinion of Muslims, Jews and Buddhists

The Muslim is also convinced that his soul after physical death moves to another world. Here she waits for judgment day. Buddhists believe that she is constantly reborn, changing her body. After death, she again incarnates in a different guise - reincarnation occurs. Judaism, perhaps, speaks least of all about the afterlife. Extraterrestrial existence in the books of Moses is mentioned very rarely. Most Jews believe that both hell and heaven exist on earth. However, they are also convinced that life is eternal. It continues after death in children and grandchildren.

According to Hare Krishnas

And only Hare Krishnas, who are also convinced of turning to empirical and logical arguments. Numerous information about clinical deaths experienced by different people come to their aid. Many of them described that they rose above the bodies and soared through an unknown light to the tunnel. also comes to the aid of the Hare Krishnas. One well-known Vedic argument for the soul being immortal is that we, while living in the body, observe its changes. We turn through the years from a child into an old man. However, the very fact that we are able to contemplate these changes indicates that we exist outside the changes of the body, since the observer is always aloof.

What do the doctor's say

According to common sense we cannot know what happens to a person after death. It is all the more surprising that a number of scientists hold a different opinion. First of all, they are doctors. The medical practice of many of them refutes the axiom that no one managed to return from the next world. Doctors are familiar firsthand with hundreds of "returnees". Yes, and many of you probably at least heard something about clinical death.

The scenario of the exit of the soul from the body after clinical death

Everything usually happens according to one scenario. During the operation, the patient's heart stops. After that, doctors ascertain the onset of clinical death. They begin resuscitation, trying with all their might to start the heart. The count goes to seconds, since the brain and other vital organs begin to suffer from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia) in 5-6 minutes, which is fraught with sad consequences.

Meanwhile, the patient "leaves" the body, observes himself and the actions of the doctors from above for some time, and then floats towards the light along a long corridor. And then, according to the statistics that British scientists have collected over the past 20 years, about 72% of the "dead" end up in paradise. Grace descends on them, they see angels or dead friends and relatives. Everyone laughs and cheers. However, the other 28% describe a far from happy picture. These are those who after "death" find themselves in hell. Therefore, when some divine entity, appearing most often as a clot of light, informs them that their time has not yet come, they are very happy, and then return to the body. Doctors pump out a patient whose heart starts beating again. Those who managed to look beyond the threshold of death remember this all their lives. And many of them share with close relatives and attending physicians the received revelation.

Arguments of skeptics

In the 1970s, research began on so-called near-death experiences. They continue to this day, although many copies have been broken on this score. Someone saw in the phenomenon of these experiences proof of eternal life, while others, on the contrary, even today strive to convince everyone that hell and paradise, and in general the "other world" are somewhere inside us. These are supposedly not real places, but hallucinations that occur when consciousness fades. One can agree with this assumption, but why then are these hallucinations so similar for everyone? And skeptics give their answer to this question. They say the brain is being deprived of oxygenated blood. Very quickly, parts of the visual lobe of the hemispheres are turned off, but the poles of the occipital lobes, which have a dual blood supply system, are still functioning. Because of this, the field of view is significantly narrowed. Only a narrow strip remains, which provides "tube", central vision. This is the desired tunnel. So, at least, says Sergei Levitsky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

case of dentures

However, those who managed to return from the other world object to him. They describe in detail the actions of a team of doctors who, during a cardiac arrest, "conjured" over the body. Patients also talk about their relatives who grieved in the corridors. For example, one patient, having come to his senses 7 days after clinical death, asked the doctors to give him a denture that was removed during the operation. The doctors could not remember where they had placed it in the confusion. And then the waking up patient accurately named the place where the prosthesis was located, while saying that during the "journey" he remembered it. It turns out that medicine today does not have irrefutable evidence that there is no life after death.

Testimony of Natalia Bekhtereva

There is an opportunity to look at this problem from the other side. First, we can recall the law of conservation of energy. In addition, one can refer to the fact that the energy principle underlies any kind of substance. It also exists in man. Of course, after the death of the body, it does not disappear anywhere. This beginning remains in the energy-informational field of our planet. However, there are also exceptions.

In particular, Natalya Bekhtereva testified that her husband's human brain became a mystery to her. The fact is that the ghost of her husband began to appear to the woman even during the day. He gave her advice, shared his thoughts, suggested where to find something. Note that Bekhterev is a world-famous scientist. However, she did not doubt the reality of what was happening. Natalya says she doesn't know if this vision was a product of her own mind, which was in a state of stress, or something else. But the woman claims that she knows for sure - she did not imagine her husband, she actually saw him.

"The Solaris Effect"

Scientists call the appearance of "ghosts" of loved ones or relatives who have died, the "Solaris effect". Another name is materialization according to the Lemma method. However, this happens extremely rarely. Most likely, the "Solaris effect" is observed only in cases where the mourners have a fairly large energy force in order to "pull" the phantom of a dear person from the field of our planet.

Experience of Vsevolod Zaporozhets

If the forces are not enough, mediums come to the rescue. This is exactly what happened to Vsevolod Zaporozhets, a geophysicist. He was a supporter of scientific materialism for many years. However, at the age of 70, after the death of his wife, he changed his mind. The scientist could not come to terms with the loss and began to study the literature on spirits and spiritualism. In total, he performed about 460 sessions, and also created the book "Contours of the Universe", where he described a technique by which one can prove the reality of the existence of life after death. Most importantly, he managed to contact his wife. In the afterlife, she is young and beautiful, like all the others living there. According to Zaporozhets, the explanation for this is simple: the world of the dead is the product of the embodiment of their desires. In this it is similar to the earthly world and even better than it. Usually the souls that dwell in it are represented in a beautiful form and at a young age. They feel material, like the inhabitants of the Earth. Those who inhabit the afterlife are aware of their physicality and can enjoy life. Clothes are created by the desire and thought of the departed. Love in this world remains or is found again. However, the relationship between the sexes is devoid of sexuality, but still different from ordinary friendships. There is no procreation in this world. One does not need to eat to sustain life, but some eat for pleasure or earthly habit. They mainly eat fruits, which grow in abundance and are very beautiful. Such is interesting story. After death, perhaps this is what awaits us. If so, then, apart from your own desires, there is nothing to be afraid of.

We examined the most popular answers to the question: "After death, what awaits us?". Of course, this is to some extent only guesswork that can be taken on faith. After all, science in this matter is still powerless. The methods she uses today are unlikely to help figure out what awaits us after death. Probably, this riddle will torment scientists and many of us for a long time to come. However, we can state that there is much more evidence that life after death is real than the arguments of skeptics.

It is hard to believe that people receive messages from the other world, but it is a fact. I was also rather a skeptic - until I witnessed such a contact in St. Petersburg. I wrote about this in three June issues of the newspaper "Life" in the current 2009 year. And calls came from all over the country - readers beg for the address of scientists who are engaged in similar experiments.
Since it is impossible to answer everyone by phone and e-mail, I will try to fulfill your request through my personal diary. I had to resuscitate him for the sake of such a case.
Here is the website address of the Russian Association for Instrumental Transcommunication (RAITK), a public organization that researches the phenomenon of electronic voices:
http://www.rait.airclima.ru/association.htm
Through this site, you can contact the head of RAITK Artem Mikheev and his colleagues. But I want to warn everyone - research is still at the experimental stage. Keep in mind that RAITK is not an occult services firm, its members are engaged in science.
And a personal request from me - do not rush to independently try to make contact with another world using modern technologies, this is still the lot of a few scientists. Believe me, the load on the psyche unprepared for such contacts is very high! Maybe it’s enough for you to go to church, light a candle and pray for the repose of friends and relatives who have gone to another world? Take comfort in the fact that the soul is immortal. And separation from people dear to you who have gone to another world is only temporary.
And now I am posting - also at the request of readers - a digest of my notes on the instrumental connection with the other world.

Bridge to another world
A sensational experiment by Russian scientists made it possible to hear a voice from the other world.
Candidate of Technical Sciences Vadim Svitnev and his colleagues from the Russian Association of Instrumental Transcommunication (RAITK) have done what until recently seemed mystical.
They developed a way of information communication with the deceased. With the help of specially designed devices and a computer, scientists have built a bridge to another world, where everyone who lived on Earth goes. This contact made it possible to finally give an answer to the most secret answer - is there an afterlife? And what awaits our souls there?
- It is impossible to die, we are all alive. We have a world of harmony and justice, - the subscriber from the next world answered the scientists.
Electronic equipment, snatching these words from imaginary non-existence, distorted the speech, but Vadim and Natasha Svitnev, their children Pavel and Yegor, immediately recognized their native voice, soft and kind:
- This is our Mitya!
Son
Dmitry Svitnev died in a car accident when he was twenty-one years old.
There are five of us: father, mother and three sons. Five rays, five fingers of one hand, and together - a whole, a family, - Natalia Svitneva wrote in her diary. - Healthy, happy, cheerful, young, on the threshold of a radiant tomorrow. Do we need paint to describe what happened to us on October 10, 2006 at 10 pm on the Peterhof Highway and why, from the entire acceleration of our happy life, we flew into the complete darkness of despair, fear and confusion?! What happened divided our life into two parts: "before" and "after" ...
... Natasha Svitneva and her husband Vadim, like the author of these lines, belong to the generation that was brought up as atheists in their childhood as a Young Pioneer Komsomol.
- There is no God, there is only that which is material! - hammered strict teachers. There is no soul, only the body!
We firmly memorized - if the heart stops for more than five minutes, life ends. And everything that is beyond the grave, heaven and hell - mythology, "priest's tales." We were then taught to consider ourselves meat ...
But are we just thinking carcasses? Without a soul, without God's eternal spark? After the death of their son Mitya, his parents asked themselves this question many times.
Search
What is death - a transition to another world or a point, the end of the existence of a person? Vadim and Natasha Svitnev would give anything in the world just to hear Mitya's native voice at least once.
Vadim read about the experiments carried out around the world by enthusiasts who tried to get in touch with dead people using technical means. And he was surprised to learn that such geniuses as Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla tried to build a “radio bridge to the next world”.
Vadim was delighted to learn that back in 1959, Friedrich Jurgenson was the first to record the phenomenon of electronic voices - he recorded the voice of his dead mother on a tape recorder. Jurgenson called his method of communication with the "world of the dead" "instrumental transcommunication".
Svitnev found followers of Jurgenson in Russia. The meeting with the head of the Russian Association for Instrumental Transcommunication (RAITK) Artem Mikheev, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, was for Vadim and Natasha major event. And not only for them.
- This is fate, - says Artem. - The Svitnevs managed to do what researchers all over the world have been struggling with for five decades. They did not just come into contact with another world. They have established a targeted relationship, stable and strong. And their son Mitya became the operator from that side ...
- Our son passed into another world on October 10, 2006, - says Natalia. - A was born on January 1, 1985. Almost mirror dates. And on the Internet, his nickname was the four letters MNTR. This is a mirror image of the name Mitya. In addition to these, there are many other incredible numerical and logical coincidences that convince us that the plots of all the stories that we live are written by the hand of the One Creator. And nothing is impossible for God. As for boundless love...
Mitya Svitnev responded from the other world to the call of his parents - the equipment of the Transradio complex accepted his voice.
- Svitnevs, finally we waited! - sounded words from the other world.
- I asked questions into the microphone, writing down the answers on a laptop, sometimes the answers came before I had time to ask out loud, - says Vadim. - Then they told me "from there": "Ask questions mentally, we hear you well." This is something like a station on the other side, which they themselves call "Energy". Mitya, his friends and our parents speak to us from another world. It's unbelievable, but it's actually happening...
Vadim Svitnev invented a multi-track method of communication with the other world, which significantly improved the quality of communication. The first phrase he adopted from there to the modernized equipment was the clearly pronounced words: “Those who conquered fear, answer!”
Svitnev realized that his method was working successfully, that he was on the right track.
Well, thank God you figured it out! - answered Vadim from the next world son. Everyone at the station is cheering!
Prospects for transcommunication, according to Svitnev, are opening up very broad.
- This is the first step towards creating a permanent bridge to the next world - says the scientist. – A technical way has been opened to create a miniature microprocessor receiver like a cell phone.
Vadim Svitnev spoke about his research at a scientific conference in St. Petersburg. Here are his conclusions, verified by the experience of more than three thousand audio recordings of communication with the afterlife (Vadim calls it the Subtle physical) world: “God exists, and everything in the Universe happens according to his plan. There is no death in the Universe, but there is only a transition from one space-time continuum to another by throwing off denser shells, while all the accumulated individual qualities and memory are preserved. From the Subtle World they watch us, listen and record every thought of any person on Earth, therefore it is important to realize the purity of thoughts, speech and actions.
Messages
“Our communication takes place in a relaxed manner, as in ordinary life,” Vadim and Natasha Svitnev explain. - We discuss our family affairs with our son, calm down, support each other in turn, joke, congratulate on the holidays. Mitya's lively voice is the most generous reward for our faith, which has not been broken by long months of cruel testing. Mitya told us many times: "I'm back!" For almost a year and a half now, our full-fledged dialogue with the other world has been going on, achieved through daily persistent experiments, trial and error. We dare to say that it is becoming less and less otherworldly for us. This is what we hear from the other side - this is just a grain of a grandiose and beautiful world that has opened up before us.
Here are just a few phrases taken from the other world:
"We, the dead, who missed our death, are in touch."
"I'm Mitya. I survived!" "I have already returned! I'm completely alive here."
“Happiness awaits us. There are doors here, you can open them.
"You and I are radiant with the Lord."
"The main secret of our connection is the Heart."

Evidence
Our world is separated from the world of the dead by an invisible wall. What awaits us beyond it - heaven, hell or non-existence, emptiness? These questions have always worried and will worry mankind.
- There is life too! - claimed the prophets of world religions. – The soul is immortal, because it is a part of God…
For thousands of years people have believed in an afterlife. But faith is just a dream. Only now it has become the truth, confirmed by experience. There are revelations about the afterlife both in the Holy Books and in the writings of the Church Fathers. The Apostle Paul, having visited the next world, said that he “heard inexpressible words that a man cannot retell.”
“Everything is perishable – only one happiness beyond the grave is eternal, unchangeable, right,” wrote St. Theophan the Recluse.
Descriptions of ordeals of souls in the afterlife, hellish torments, bliss in paradise are considered by atheists to be legends. They had nothing to say before. Documented evidence appeared only half a century ago, when resuscitators learned how to start stopped hearts. And they can no longer be dismissed - they say, fiction. Patients resurrected by doctors have presented evidence that consciousness persisted after death. A person continues to feel like a person, watching his body from the side!

News
I had to interview people who had experienced clinical death. Policeman Boris Pilipchuk, nun Antonia, engineer Vladimir Efremov - they are very different people, they never knew each other. But everyone brought their news from the other world, which made it possible to prove that they were telling the truth. Pilipchuk - the date of birth of the future son, Anthony - a revelation about the fate of his ex-husband, Efremov - an invention that brought his team the State Prize.
The most amazing thing is that none of them were afraid of death anymore - they talked about the other world with joy. How about a journey to a beautiful country where there is no pain, where love reigns...
Each of them did not stay there for long - resuscitation is effective only after two or three minutes. But, according to the resurrected, in eternity, the passage of time was not felt.
- What I saw is only a tiny part of the boundless multidimensional world! - Vladimir Efremov described what he experienced in a state of clinical death.
“Eternal life awaits us,” said the survivors of death. And in their eyes I saw some special light - they shone with tenderness and love for all people.
“What eternity will be like for us depends on what has been accomplished on Earth,” Nun Antonia affectionately assured me. - After all, hell is the pangs of conscience from unredeemed sins ...
- The soul sang from the joy of closeness to the Lord, - said the policeman Pylypchuk. This is the greatest blessing...
Today, we can back up their stories with other evidence—messages that researchers have learned to accept from another world. Scientists in many countries have established a connection with the afterlife with the help of technical means. This radio bridge is no longer a fantasy, I watched it work in St. Petersburg with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears. I testify: no trick, no quackery. Real contact! Getting in touch with the deceased, researchers receive not just greetings from relatives and friends, but knowledge from the other world. They step by step open the afterlife unknown to us, like polar explorers - Antarctica.
- There is no fear and horror, - candidate of technical sciences Vadim Svitnev analyzes messages from the next world. - There is harmony and justice everywhere.
Theory
Vadim Svitnev makes contact with another world with the help of a computer - from a giant chaotic set of sounds embedded in memory, meaningful answers to the questions asked (even mentally!) Are formed in some incomprehensible way.
- This relationship does not depend on the distance - explains Svitnev. - Remember the great discovery of quantum physics - the phenomenon of nonlocality. Its essence is that between the two elementary particles, if they are generated by the same source, there is a relationship that does not depend on distance. Perhaps contact with the other world is explained by interdimensional information interaction, justified by the laws of quantum mechanics.
Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Artem Mikheev, head of the Russian Association of Instrumental Transcommunication (RAITK) and his colleagues are already receiving targeted messages from people who have gone to another world. The most striking example of such a connection is the son of Vadim Svitnev Mitya, who left for another world in 2006, he constantly contacts his parents through a radio bridge. There is no doubt in the family that it is he: his intonations, his characteristic words are the most reliable password. His mother filled out ten thick notebooks in which she records communication sessions with her son.
Quotes
Here are the phrases received by Russian scientists from another world. They testify - leaving the body, people continue to live in eternity. And help those who are still on Earth.
“Close to us. Patience helps to fulfill desires. I am completely alive here. Death is not a meaningful farce. It's impossible to die. I want to be believed. You run in the fog. See you in the future. Who calls people mortal? Your thoughts come to us. You will never die. The dense worlds are seen as coalesced snowdrifts. You have exhausted the bad reality. Trust me, you can help. We are not different in the future. I have not seen death.

Everything here is different than you imagine! - something like this, as if by agreement, contactees from the other world answer the question about the structure of the afterlife. – Different physics, different relationships, everything is different.
- Of course, it is difficult for them to explain to us what our mind is not yet able to understand in short messages, - says Artem Mikheev. “Probably the same as teaching physics to a Neanderthal. But, if we summarize the messages received, we can try to imagine what happens to those who have gone to another world. But remember that you can’t rush there, suicide is a grave sin, everyone must go through their own earth path. As contactees from the next world testify in their messages, they were met in the next world by close people - to console, to make it clear that they are not alone. In the first forty days, the deceased finds his new essence, he again feels healthy and young. All lost organs, hair, teeth are restored. But this is not an earthly physical body, it has other properties, it can pass through obstacles, instantly move in space. Memories of earthly life persist, even those that we thought were forgotten. Sex differences between men and women remain. But love has a different character - children are born only on Earth. There are animals and plants too. There is the highest technique, art. Whoever wants to do what he loves, using the experience gained in earthly life. Everyone learns, constantly developing spiritually - from the more experienced and enlightened, from the higher hierarchs, from the angels. All actions have a divine meaning. From there, from eternity, they take care of the earthly world - a training ground for the education of immortal souls ...

A familiar aunt told me, so to speak, the third water on jelly. There was only one man in their village. Oh, and he was ugly! In the days of Comrade Stalin, he planted his best friends for awards, framed many people, took away the house from a single mother with a child, was imprisoned for theft, they say he decided a couple of people, beat his wives (there were 3), tortured, walked over the heads if he saw the target, in general, an evil, cruel, mercenary, greedy, quarrelsome, most disgusting person.

And the most interesting thing, as always happens in this world, this type lived a long, one might say happy life, in wealth, changed women, humiliated them later, and many fools looked at his wealth and ran after him, then he left them with nothing. than, and even with a child in his arms he drove out. By the age of 80 (I think in 2001), that man died, and what is most interesting - in a dream - easily and naturally! But this is where it started!

There was a belief in that village: if any misfortune happens to the dead, in general, any, even if the coffin turns over, even if the cross falls, then in the next world they are not welcome to him and he was a bad person. Found this man in the morning, when through the window country house wild dogs came running and just gnawed at his hand hanging from the bed! His daughter squealed as if cut with fear, the whole village heard. They called the paramedic, concluded that, they say, he died in his sleep, at night. When they put it in the coffin, everything was as it should be, the whisk was on the forehead, the hands were on the chest, the icons were nearby - the icons didn’t stand next to each other - they fell! The whisk was constantly moving down from the forehead, the candles were extinguished or smoked with a black flame. When the body was brought into the church, the second leaf of the door, closed with a latch, did not want to open - it stuck, as if it did not let the coffin with the sinner in.

The men this way and that, lubricated with machine oil, picked with a crowbar - no door was opened. So the priest recited prayers in the churchyard, and in the end the wind tore the ill-fated aureole from the forehead of the deceased, lifted it high, along with the dust from the roads, and carried it away to no one knows where. The priest only crossed himself and said that it was the will of God. So that guy was stabbed to death. While the coffin was lowered into the grave, the rope broke and the coffin fell from the side of the head, stuck in the grave at an angle of about 45 degrees. Everyone who was there gasped and groaned, crossed themselves, sighed, everyone understood why such a funeral was not successful, but no one dared to say.

And at the funeral itself, a fight broke out between the peasants, in general, people remembered all this from the bad side and did not want to remember, but they had to ... Now, as Aunt Valya told me, that peasant’s grave fell through and dented, it’s clear that everything was washed away with water and instead of a mound there is now a pit, no matter how much earth they bring there and fill it up. Others stand nearby intact, but this one is always crooked, skewed, the crosses did not stand there - they fell, the monuments cracked, photos 3 were changed and everything cracked in half. From there, the villagers have a legend - they did not accept a sinner in the next world! They didn't want to go to heaven or hell.

Vadim Deruzhinsky

Analytical newspaper "Secret Research"

The data of Moody and other physicians about the "near-death experiences" of those who have experienced clinical death are widely known. The usually sensationalist authors confuse the readership with the fact that near-death survivors see their deceased relatives. Without any details.

And the American scientists Dew and Erickson became interested in the details. They set up a test that neither Dr. Moody nor the authors of other books that continue his theme have done. They checked how the appearance of the deceased relatives corresponded to their dying appearance.

The fact is that those who often experience certain visions in clinical death saw relatives whom they knew as dead and did not see them for several years before their death (without even attending their funeral). Dew and Erickson wondered if the appearance of these visions (deceased relatives) corresponds to how they really looked before death?

It turned out that in every one of the cases, people saw their relatives the way they looked when they last met them. For example, in one of the episodes, a patient who fell into a state of clinical death saw his sister - he had not seen her for 6 years, and she appeared to him the way he saw her 6 years ago. But she, who died two years before this event, was ill with cancer and emaciated to the state of bones and skin, although the patient saw her as “fat”, as she was before the disease.

The study by Due and Erickson showed that virtually all cases of visions in a state of near death do not show new independent information about loved ones, but are only a reflection of what was in the memory of patients.

And this is completely clear to me. I have not seen many of my relatives, people close to me, living far from me, for many years, more than 15 years. Some of them died from debilitating diseases, becoming emaciated to impossibility, others have changed a lot from old age, but I have not seen them like that, because they are different in my memory - as I saw them the last time.

And here the question arises: what do people in a state of clinical death see in this case?

Images of one's memory or something external, objective, which is only formed in perception in an image that exists in consciousness?

REUNION OF A DEAD FAMILY

It can be assumed that the "spirit" of deceased relatives shows itself in such a form adapted to the patient's consciousness.

But, as it turns out, not only the appearance is changing. In a number of cases, during the years spent away from the patient, both the psyche and the character of the relative changed. And the patient sees him as he saw the last time. That is, this communication is not at all with the dead, but with oneself.

But the problem is even deeper. Dew and Erickson cite cases where parents hated their children for their very specific crimes and transgressions. And in clinical death, they allegedly saw their parents having already forgiven everything, although no one can forgive otherwise.

This is not only the realization of the image of relatives from one's memory, it is also the assignment of one's views to it.

As a result, Dew and Erickson state that visions of relatives, rare and extremely unique for experiences in a state of clinical death, are not only not the rule, but also do not reflect any other connection, except for the internal experiences of the patient, who feels either guilt or an emotional connection with the deceased. . They are only a product of his consciousness, and not something external.

This is a serious statement that puts an end to the whole theme of Moody's experiments.

As a rule, everyone who participated in the discussion on this topic considered themselves as outside observers. But we are all human. I propose to put myself in the place of the subject of the topic we are talking about.

The peculiarity of our memory is such that we strive to remember only the best, and the bad is forgotten. This is how we perceive relatives - in that perspective, as we see it inside ourselves. Usually, when loved ones die, we experience bitterness and sadness, and then idealize the deceased in our memories. But others had a difficult character, during their lifetime they annoyed us. And it turns out that in the Other World they will annoy us in the same way? With the possibility of such a meeting, sometimes you feel not at all joy, but you see the return of intra-family interpersonal conflicts.

Here is where the sore subject. The possibility of the existence of the Immortality of the Soul implies that we will inevitably live together again with our relatives there. Is it necessary? This is a serious issue, for example, for those families where parents abused children and grandchildren.

Well, in general: it is one thing how the images of our relatives are preserved in our memory. Another thing is who they really were. And the third thing is what we mean in their deceased memory.

Hitler dead grandmother I loved it when he was little too. Died during his childhood. But the question is: will she meet him with kisses, a 60-year-old ruin, in the Other World? Hitler liked his grandmother as a child, and not as a 60-year-old Fuhrer with Parkinson's disease, who ruined tens of millions of lives.

And in exactly the same way, each of us was liked by his deceased relatives as a child, and not as an adult, and even more so as an old man dying of old age.

We are here all the time trying to enter the waters of the river, which has long flown away.

And complicating the issue is the fact that often our parents died when the trees were really big for us, but we lived longer than our young parents. And it turns out that the trees are big for the parents who died young, and not for us, who lived to old age.

Who will we meet in the Other World? Will we find a common language with them? Will a 70-year-old man find a common language when he meets his mother in the Other World, who died at the age of 17 in childbirth? What will they even talk about?

Probably, such meetings will not give anything but disappointment.

But they are never really possible.

The soul of a person on Earth for several decades undergoes terrible changes: from a child to a youth, maturity, old age, dilapidation. And there everything is static: nothing moves, nothing develops, because it is devoid of a body and an end in the form of death. And if there is no end, then there is no logic, just as there is no order. This is chaos.

It is difficult to compare the simple circumstance that you will get to the Other World at the age of 70, and there, say, a 17-year-old mother is waiting for you. This is a violation of causality, a violation of not only the fundamental laws of Being, but also a reason to get confused and go crazy.

But the main thing is still not this. The main thing is that each of us has our own world, where there is a place for our deceased relatives. What matters is not how things really were, but how we store it in ourselves. That's where it all starts.

FAMILY RELATIONS IN THE OTHER WORLD

Let's assume a typical situation for us: your grandfather died as a young man in the war, and your grandmother lived safely to the age of 95 and died of decrepit old age. She enters that world. And there her young husband is waiting for her. But what kind of married couple is this if the wife is 60 or 70 years older than the husband?

Your young grandfather, having died at the age of 18, is waiting for his wife in the Other World, remembering her as a young beauty. She returns to him like a toothless bald old woman. Here's the disappointment.

But things could get worse. Your grandfather is waiting for his beloved in the Other World, and she managed to get married several more times here. Suppose her other husbands also died. And now she finds herself in the Other World, where several husbands who are already unfamiliar with each other are waiting for her. Pretty strange situation.

In the past, the church forbade remarriages precisely for this reason: so that order would be maintained in the Other World and there would be no mess. But today the church no longer looks at these "little things." Some politicians get married in public, in front of TV lenses in their second or third marriage. What does it mean? It turns out that the church itself does not believe in the existence of the Other World, for it itself breeds polygamy in the Other World.

There is another aspect of the issue. By our loved ones, we mean those with whom we have lived. But here's what is strange: for our grandmothers, not only we, the grandchildren, are close, but also their - grandmothers - grandmothers. Which we have never seen. And for us, our relatives and our grandchildren, whom our grandmothers never saw. It turns out a rather narrow sphere of kinship, limited only to those whom we personally knew.

And now let's look at all this from the positions of the Other World.

We present it as a kind of static picture, like a cemetery. Although if we believe in That Light, then it must be represented as something real and living, and the dead - as living people who simply left us for another city.

And in such a correct view, the people (or souls) who got to the Other World do not sit idly by and wait for us there, bored and fidgeting with impatience. They go about their business there - for they must have some kind of occupation in the Other World! And in the course of their otherworldly existence, they inevitably communicate with other dead people, make new acquaintances, find new friends, fall in love. Or maybe - and get married, finding a new relative.

And now, suppose you think that, having got to the Other World, you will meet your beloved relatives, and they have long forgotten about you and found new close people. Why not? After all, life does not stand still. Even in the Other World.

A typical picture: two friends served together in the army, did not see each other for 15 years and missed each other. And when they finally met again, they realized that they were strangers to each other - for life had changed them, and in their memory they idealized each other. The same should be true for us and our deceased relatives. I repeat: you cannot step into the same river twice.

APPEARANCE OF PEOPLE IN THE OTHER WORLD

And so we return to a very interesting question: what should a citizen of the Other World look like?

It is widely believed that souls in the Other World look like they looked at the last moment of life. The same is claimed by those who saw the ghosts: they say that they are dressed as they were dressed on the day of death.

This seems to be incorrect. And if a person burned down in a fire - how should he then look in the Other World? Coal? And if a person died while washing in the bathroom? Then, it turns out, in the Other World he should flaunt naked and in soapy foam? Will his ghost be a naked ghost?

Sometimes they say something like this about ghosts: “Tanya appeared to me at night, dressed in a dress in which she lay in a coffin.” But these are not the clothes in which she died. It was her dead body that was then dressed up in another dress.

According to the impressions of those who have been in clinical death and who have seen their deceased relatives, they look the way the eyewitnesses remembered at the last meeting. This resonates with ghosts: they are seen not in their lifetime clothes, but in the one in which the dead were already laid in a coffin. That is, again - as they were remembered at the last meeting.

It turns out that the eyewitnesses saw their own images, and not something objective.

If we assume that That Light really exists, then it turns out that the ghosts and visions of the deceased relatives of eyewitnesses in a state of clinical death are not the real appearance of the departed souls, but only a means of their communication with us. In fact: the soul cannot look like anything, since it is out-of-body and extra-material. If it somehow looks, it means that it is material and bodily. If she is wearing a jacket, then she has a jacket - although the jacket does not have a soul and does not have any afterlife.

Therefore, in order to contact us, the soul (suppose!) comes into contact with the soul of the eyewitness, produces images for its realization in communication - its appearance. And it looks like her image is captured in the memory of the interlocutor. Those who remember her during her lifetime as a girl and have not seen her for 60 years see her as a girl. And those who saw her in the coffin as an old woman for the last time - they see her like that.

Let it be. But how then do these souls look there, at home, in the Other World? No way. They don't have eyes or ears. They only have a soul - an informational thing. They see themselves in the Other World only as clots of consciousness.

Although things can be quite different.

Such, or approximately such, are the considerations of modern man of the 21st century on this subject. And they, of course, absolutely contradict the church concept of the Other World, which was a product of medieval folk art.

Modern man has little idea of ​​what kind of Light the Church promises us. As a matter of fact, we generally have strange views on biblical topics. For example, in the NTV program “To the Barrier!” Shandybin and Limonov agreed that Jesus Christ was killed by the damned Jews - just as the Jewess Kaplan shot Lenin's "Christ of Our Days".

However, the comrades are twice mistaken. Firstly, Jesus Christ himself was a circumcised Jew (He was not an atheist until he was crucified!), and at the Last Supper He did not eat bread at all, as other faces from TV screens already lie with us, but ate matza, a special holy product consecrated in the synagogue. Which is not surprising, since Yeshua and his followers gathered to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover. Secondly, Kaplan, who shot at Lenin, was not a Jew at all, but an atheist, like Lenin himself. She was a Social Revolutionary - a revolutionary: one socialist revolutionary shot another socialist revolutionary. What do the Jews have to do with this? And the comparison of Lenin with Christ is generally absurd; when the mausoleum was being built, and its foundation pit was flooded by a broken sewer, the Metropolitan of Moscow commented: "According to the relics - and oil."

In a word, porridge in the heads. Including in such an important issue for every person as the Afterlife. Traditionally, it is believed that our Church formulates the answer to the question, what is the Light, and atheists reject this: they say, here are two alternative concepts. However - and I undertake to show this below - the Church does not really have and never had a concept of the Other Light.

In fact, here the atheist and the believer in God are equal: both equally know nothing about what will happen after their death.

SERAPHIM ROSE

The Orthodox Church, perhaps quite rightly, claims that she alone is closer to the origins of Christianity than Catholics, Protestants and others. But the trouble with today's Orthodox Church is that it was crushed by the communists in the USSR for almost a century, and therefore there is almost no influx of bright heads into it. There is not only no one to develop Orthodox theory in the face of modern challenges, but few people are able to analyze anything and express their thoughts specifically, logically and honestly. Instead, Orthodox writers are mired in verbal fornication: they lie to readers, and they call black white, annoying with their unctuous reverence. If we are talking about someone revered, then he did not “ate”, but “deigned to tempt”, if he stole something, then “deigned to lend forever”. But this is the vocabulary of lackeys.

All the frailty of these "writers" became apparent in one of the public polemics about the nationality of the Virgin. Everyone knows that the Theotokos was a Jew and a Jewess, but these gentlemen called this fact “blasphemy”, and they said about the Theotokos that She had always been Orthodox. There was also such a chauvinistic pearl: "The Mother of God is closer to Russians than to Jews." That is exactly what the CPSU called Marietta Shaginyan's research on Lenin's Jewish roots blasphemy.

And in this Dark Kingdom, one really bright head appears - in 1963 in the USA - and not in the USSR. This is Hieromonk Seraphim (Eugene) Rose (1934-1982), one of the founders and editors of the Orthodox Word magazine (USA, California) and - interestingly - the author of the first studies in Orthodoxy on the attitude of Orthodoxy to UFOs and to the question of the Other World. Research on these topics is good and unique, in that earlier Russian priests generally refused to see anomalous phenomena and the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, as well as Dr. Moody's experiments with clinical death. Rose was the first (and so far the only one) to attempt to formally respond to these challenges by the Orthodox Church. For this, today Rose is highly appreciated and revered by the Orthodox Church.

Rose grew up in a Protestant family higher education in the field of the Chinese language, and was not Orthodox for a very long time - only about 20 recent years life. In search of an answer to the main questions of Genesis, he abandoned Protestantism, became a Jew, then a Buddhist, then came across an Orthodox church in the United States and became interested in Orthodox worship. He became a monk, grew a beard like Bin Laden's, and began to lead a life of a recluse. For which he paid - due to meager and improper food, he died in the prime of life from a volvulus of the intestines.

But Rose managed to leave a lot of interesting research, in which many modern parascientific phenomena are considered from traditionalist Orthodox positions. These studies, which is understandable, could only be written in the USA, and not in Russia, and besides, they are largely based on modern literature published in the USA. The attitude of Rose and Orthodoxy to the problem of UFOs is a separate topic, but here it is interesting to analyze his other book - “The Soul after Death. Modern "post-mortem" experiences in the light of the teachings of the Orthodox Church (with the application of the story of Blessed Theodora about ordeals).

Before proceeding directly to the topic, I would like to dwell on one characteristic detail. The preface to the book, written by a Russian translator from the Church, ends like this: "May the Lord rest him." This very phrase in the preface to the book refutes the very title of the book - "Soul after death." Only a dead person can be dead, but the soul, being outside of death, cannot be at rest. She's not dead, she's alive! If the priests themselves believed in what they claim, then instead of "May the Lord rest him" - implying the Complete End of Rose - they would say: "May the Lord give strength to his soul and continue to live fruitfully and work in the Other World."

The priests do not do this - it means that they themselves do not believe that Rose's soul still exists somewhere and writes new books. For them, Rose is ALL OVER.

ORTHODOXY AND THE AFTERGROUND

Starting a conversation about the Other World, Rose laments that the modern world "has become completely alien to Orthodoxy." The remark is correct, given that Catholics and Protestants sought to adapt to the changing world, while Orthodoxy lives in its little world, not wanting to see anything around it. Whole technical progress Rose calls "the temptations and delusions of modernity", and the purpose of his book is to show how to properly relate to this technological scourge.

But Rose did not fully study Orthodoxy. The Orthodoxy of Muscovy, like the earlier Orthodoxy of Byzantium, is the same modernization of the primordial faith in Christ, just like Catholicism or Protestantism. Here it is appropriate to recall the primordial Orthodoxy - the Orthodoxy of Ethiopia, where the Orthodox do not eat pork, circumcise themselves, do not recognize the Trinity invented in Europe (they have Christ himself the Lord who gave the tablets to Moses), etc. Ethiopian Orthodoxy is older than Byzantine, and therefore more archaic. And - following the logic of Rose - should be closer to the origins. But Rose does not mention the Orthodoxy of Ethiopia anywhere, although the Ethiopians have different ideas about the Other World.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has existed for almost two thousand years and is twice as old as the Kyiv Russian Orthodox Church - and three times as old as the Moscow ROC, created by Boris Godunov in 1589 (when he received the Russian Patriarchate of Moscow from the Greeks, and Kyiv was forced to accept the Union). However, Rose does not refer to any author of Ethiopian Orthodoxy in her research. Already here it is rather strange to see a work claiming to express a general Orthodox point of view, but completely ignoring the Orthodox theologians of Ethiopia, who wrote at a time when not only Russia was pagan, but Russia was not even in the plan. Therefore, apparently, Rose is not expounding the point of view of Orthodoxy, but only the point of view of Moscow Orthodoxy. And this is obvious in those, for example, the stories of all the blessed about the visions of the Other World, where the servants of hell are called Ethiopians who play the role of devils. This is a clear mockery of the only Orthodox country in Africa - Ethiopia. Like, the devils are those blacks of Africa who are just the Orthodox Africans of the Ethiopians. It's just wonderful: one Orthodox people considers another Orthodox people of the same faith to be devils because of their black skin.

But it's not only and not so much embarrassing. Rose undertook to write the work “The Soul After Death”, where throughout the book he generally considers scientists, Catholics, Protestants and researchers of the unknown to be fools who do not know the truth - and, they say, only Orthodoxy (Moscow) knows the truth about the Afterlife. Well, what is this knowledge of Orthodoxy about the Other World? Tell me Mr Rose!

Instead, Rose writes in the introduction to the book: “However, there really is no 'complete teaching' on this subject, just as there are no Orthodox 'experts' in the field. We, who live on earth, can hardly even begin to comprehend reality. spiritual world until we ourselves live there.” And Rose goes on to say that she does not set out to "gain an accurate knowledge of what is, after all, outside of us."

That's it! And why did Rose then write this thick book? If he calls in it on every page other points of view about the Other World as delusions, then for this he must at least be sure that he has his own position. But he tells the reader beforehand that Orthodoxy has no teaching here. So what are we talking about then? It is also absurd that in the preface, Rose says that “there is no complete Orthodox doctrine of the Other World” (p. 13), and on p. 47 he writes: “Unfortunately, without a complete Christian in the Bible" are deceived." Rose contradicts himself: is there a teaching or not?

Actually there is a position. But it does not concern the Other Light itself, about which no one knows anything, but the myth of the Other Light for the practical benefit of the church. That's what Rose wrote the book for.

For Rose, it is not the ideas about the Other World that are important, but how they fit into the earthly life of the church, allowing the church to control the flock and collect income from it. This he calls "the correct Orthodox approach to the question."

He honestly writes that "Orthodoxy does not have any concrete idea of ​​what the future is." Including the afterlife of a particular person. But that doesn't matter. It is important for the sake of the preservation of the church itself to preach the ideas that are necessary for it, and not at all to look for something dubious that could damage the existing status quo of the church. Here is the criterion of truth: not that which is objectively real is true, but only that which objectively serves the mercantile and political interests of the church.

WHO TO HEAVEN AND WHO TO HELL

The Bible clearly and specifically says: there will be an Apocalypse when Jesus Christ returns and resurrects BODY, just as he himself resurrected, all the dead. Then He will judge them each - someone to heaven, and someone to hell.

Already here I note that in a number of texts of the Bible it is said only about the resurrection, and all indiscriminately.

Indeed, Jesus promised those who believe in Him that all will go to heaven. Who will go to hell then? Those non-Christs who did not believe in Jesus. But in order for them to go to hell, Jesus must also resurrect them equally (at least for the Judgment) - as well as those whom He promised to send to heaven. It turns out that everyone will be resurrected by Jesus (if hell is not considered oblivion and non-resurrection). For otherwise hell will be empty.

From the point of view of morality, morality and humanity in general, something does not add up here. How to be, for example, with Russia? Under Christ, it did not exist at all, and our ancestors were not Christians. How can I agree to be resurrected if my ancestors are not resurrected? Why are they worse or better than me? The fact that Christianity did not spread to them in Europe at that time? Is it guilt? Maybe among them would be their Holy Fathers, but they never heard of Christ. How can one decide on such a basis who goes to hell and who goes to heaven?

It's already unfair. And these injustices in the Orthodox concept are innumerable, although Orthodoxy seems to be claiming some kind of justice.

But it’s not enough for the priests that they only came up with the idea of ​​resurrecting Christians. They also began to make gradations among Christians: whoever we name will go to heaven, and whoever we don’t like will go to hell.

The only tool for managing the flock in ancient time the priests had the Fear of God (which Rose misses so much). Only by frightening people with torments after death, the church could take something from people. But the Apocalypse is still unknown when it will be. Therefore, the church invented something new, which, as Rose himself admits, is not written about in the Bible: the ordeal of the soul. That is, even before the Apocalypse, everyone will already be judged in the form of a soul.

Rose is not embarrassed that this is something like some kind of camp for displaced persons. A type of emigration quarantine in the USA for 6 months in Italy for emigrants from the USSR and other countries. All the absurdity and absurdity of such reasoning is eclipsed by the benefits and power that the church received by introducing the institution of the ordeal of souls, unknown to the Bible.

Little of. The very idea is a complete mockery of Jesus Christ. According to Rose and Orthodoxy, our soul immediately after death goes to the court (ordeal of the soul) of all freaks-demons who decide where to send the soul - to hell or heaven. And then there will be the Judgment of God after the Apocalypse. But the question is: why judge twice?

And another question: what if the Court of Christ decides that the court of ordeals was mistaken? Man rotted in hell for thousands of years, and the Court of Christ did not find his guilt. How then to be? Who is guilty? Who will atone for the error of the judgment of ordeals? And if the priests believe that the Court of Christ is obliged only to repeat the decisions of the court of ordeals, then why, then, the Court after the Apocalypse, if all decisions have already been made and are not subject to appeal? So, the Judgment of Christ during the Apocalypse is secondary and does not decide anything?

None of this bothers Rose. He frankly writes that "The doctrine of ordeals is the doctrine of the Church," that is, of his church, and not the doctrine of the Bible (he specially emphasizes the words "the doctrine of the Church" in italics). He candidly writes that “many graduates of contemporary modernist Orthodox seminaries tend to dismiss this phenomenon entirely as some kind of “late addition” to Orthodox teaching, or as a “fictitious” kingdom that has no basis in Holy Scripture, or patristic texts, or spiritual reality."

Yeah, there are sane minds in Orthodoxy who see that this "ordeal of souls" cuts with its odious destructive absurdities the very branch of Christianity and the Bible. But Rose calls them "victims of rationalistic education." This is pure demagoguery.

Interestingly, Catholics and Protestants do not have such a term - "ordeal of souls." They have their own local attempts to build some similar concepts to intimidate the flock, for power over it and enrichment. But they - these concepts - are different for everyone. Which already proves the falsity of the picture of the Other World that Orthodoxy paints. For the Bible is the same for everyone, and that Light is for some reason similar only in outline for all confessions, but in details it is different for Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants and other Christians.

End of the first part

Thanks to the progress of medicine, the resuscitation of the dead has become almost a standard procedure in many modern hospitals. Previously, it was almost never used.

In this article, we will not cite real cases from the practice of resuscitators and stories of those who themselves suffered clinical death, since a lot of such descriptions can be found in books such as:

• "Closer to the Light"
• Life after life
• "Memories of Death"
• "Life at death" (
• "Beyond the threshold of death" (

The purpose of this material is to classify what people saw in the afterlife and present what they told in an understandable form as proof of the existence of life after death.

What happens after a person dies

“He is dying” is often the first thing a person hears at the moment of clinical death. What happens after a person's death? At first the patient feels that he is leaving the body and a second later he looks down at himself hovering under the ceiling.

At this moment, for the first time, a person sees himself from the outside and experiences a huge shock. In a panic, he tries to attract attention to himself, scream, touch the doctor, move objects, but as a rule, all his attempts are in vain. Nobody sees or hears him.

After some time, the person realizes that all his senses remained functional, despite the fact that his physical body is dead. Moreover, the patient experiences an indescribable lightness that he had never experienced before. This feeling is so wonderful that the dying person does not want to return back to the body.

Some, after the above, return to the body, and this is where their excursion into the afterlife ends, someone, on the contrary, manages to get into a kind of tunnel, at the end of which light is visible. After passing a kind of gate, they see a world of great beauty.

Someone is met by relatives and friends, some meet with a bright being, from whom great love and understanding emanates. Someone is sure that this is Jesus Christ, someone claims that this is a guardian angel. But everyone agrees that he is full of goodness and compassion.

Of course, not everyone manages to admire the beauty and enjoy the bliss. afterlife. Some people say that they fell into gloomy places and, returning, describe the disgusting and cruel creatures they saw.

ordeal

Those who returned from the "other world" often say that at some point they saw their whole life in full view. Each of their actions seemed to be a randomly thrown phrase and even thoughts flashed before them as if in reality. At this moment, a person was reconsidering his whole life.

At that moment there were no such concepts as social status, hypocrisy, pride. All the masks of the mortal world were thrown off and the man appeared before the court as if naked. He couldn't hide anything. Each of his bad deeds was displayed in great detail and it was shown how he affected those around him and those who were hurt and suffering by such behavior.

At this time, all the advantages achieved in life - social and economic status, diplomas, titles, etc. - lose their meaning. The only thing that is subject to evaluation is the moral side of actions. At this moment, a person realizes that nothing is erased and does not pass without a trace, but everything, even every thought, has consequences.

For evil and cruel people, this will truly be the beginning of unbearable internal torment, the so-called, from which it is impossible to escape. The consciousness of the evil done, the crippled soul of one's own and that of others, becomes for such people like an "unquenchable fire" from which there is no way out. It is this kind of judgment over deeds that is referred to in the Christian religion as ordeals.

Afterworld

Having crossed the line, a person, despite the fact that all the senses remain the same, begins to feel everything around him in a completely new way. His sensations seem to start to work one hundred percent. The gamut of feelings and experiences is so great that the returnees simply cannot explain in words all that they had a chance to feel there.

From the more earthly and familiar to us in terms of perception, this is time and distance, which, according to those who have been in the afterlife, flows there in a completely different way.

People who have experienced clinical death often find it difficult to answer how long their post-mortem state lasted. A few minutes, or several thousand years, it made no difference to them.

As for the distance, it didn't exist at all. A person could be transported to any point, to any distance, just by thinking about it, that is, by the power of thought!

The surprising point is that not all of the resuscitated describe places similar to heaven and hell. Descriptions of the places of individual individuals simply stagger the imagination. They are sure that they were on other planets or in other dimensions, and this seems to be true.

Judge for yourself word forms like hilly meadows; bright green of a color that does not exist on earth; fields bathed in wonderful golden light; cities indescribable in words; animals that you will not find anywhere else - all this does not apply to descriptions of hell and paradise. People who visited there did not find the right words to intelligibly convey their impressions.

What does the soul look like

In what form do the dead appear before others, and how do they look in their own eyes? This question is of interest to many, and fortunately those who have been abroad have given us the answer.

Those who have been aware of their out-of-body experience report that it was difficult for them to recognize themselves at first. First of all, the imprint of age disappears: children see themselves as adults, and old people see themselves as young.

The body also changes. If a person had any injuries or injuries during his lifetime, then after death they disappear. Amputated limbs appear, hearing and sight return, if it was previously absent from the physical body.

Meetings after death

Those who have been on the other side of the "veil" often say that they met there with their deceased relatives, friends and acquaintances. Most often, people see those with whom they were close during life or were related.

Such visions cannot be considered a rule; rather, they are exceptions that do not occur very often. Usually such meetings act as an edification to those who are still too early to die, and who must return to earth and change their lives.

Sometimes people see what they expected to see. Christians see angels, the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, saints. Non-religious people see some kind of temples, figures in white or young men, and sometimes they see nothing, but feel "presence".

Soul communion

Many resuscitated people claim that something or someone communicated with them there. When they are asked to tell what the conversation was about, they find it difficult to answer. This happens due to the language they do not know, or rather slurred speech.

For a long time, doctors could not explain why people do not remember or cannot convey what they heard and considered it to be just hallucinations, but over time, some returnees were still able to explain the mechanism of communication.

It turned out that there people communicate mentally! Therefore, if in that world all thoughts are "heard", then we need to learn here to control our thoughts, so that there we will not be ashamed of what we involuntarily thought.

Cross the line

Almost everyone who has experienced afterlife and remembers her, talks about a certain barrier that separates the world of the living and the dead. Having crossed over to the other side, a person will never be able to return to life, and every soul knows this, even though no one told her about it.

This limit is different for everyone. Some see a fence or a fence at the edge of a field, others see a lake or sea shore, and still others see it as a gate, a stream or a cloud. The difference in descriptions follows, again, from the subjective perception of each.

After reading all of the above, only an inveterate skeptic and materialist can say that afterlife this is fiction. Many doctors and scientists for a long time denied not only the existence of hell and paradise, but also completely ruled out the possibility of the existence of an afterlife.

The testimonies of eyewitnesses who experienced this state on themselves drove into a dead end all scientific theories that denied life after death. Of course, today there are a number of scientists who still consider all the testimony of the reanimated to be hallucinations, but such a person will not be helped by any evidence until he himself begins the journey to eternity.