Is there life after death? What is it like, the afterlife - heaven and hell or relocation to a new physical body? It is difficult to answer these questions definitively, but there is strong evidence for the existence of reincarnation, karma, and the continuation of life after death.
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Is there life after death - what do people see in a state of clinical death
People who have experienced clinical death know very well the answer to the eternal question - is there life after death? Almost everyone knows that during clinical death a person is able to see the other world. Doctors do not find a logical explanation for this. The phenomenon of seeing the afterlife during clinical death began to be widely discussed after the publication of Dr. Raymond Moody’s book “Life after Death” in the 70s of the last century.
There are statistics of what is seen during clinical death. Many people see the same thing. They could not agree with each other, therefore, what they saw was true. Thus, 31% of survivors of clinical death talk about flying through a tunnel. This is the most common posthumous vision. 29% of people claim that they were able to see the starry landscape. About 24% of respondents talk about how they saw their body lying on the operating table from the side. At the same time, some of the patients who survived clinical death accurately described the actions of doctors that took place during the process of their resuscitation.
23% saw a bright, blinding light that attracted people to it. The same number of clinical death survivors claim to have seen something in the bright color scheme. 13% of people saw pictures from their lives, and they were able to view all of them life path, in the smallest detail. 8% spoke about seeing the border between the worlds of the living and the dead. Some managed to see and even communicate with deceased relatives and even angels. In a non-living state, but not yet dead man can make a choice - to return to the material world or move on. Only the stories of people who chose life are known. Sometimes those on the other side are told that it is “too early” for them and are sent back.
It is interesting that people who are blind from birth describe everything that happens when they are “on the other side.” sighted people see. The American doctor K. Ring interviewed about two hundred patients who were blind from birth and who experienced clinical death. They described exactly the same things as people without visual impairments.
People who are interested in facts about life after death are afraid of the end of physical existence. However, more than half of the people surveyed note that the feelings during their stay in the afterlife were more positive than negative. In about half of the cases, awareness occurs own death. Unpleasant sensations or fear are very rare during clinical death. Most people who have been beyond the line are convinced that beyond the line awaits better world, and are no longer afraid of death.
The sensations after entering another world change seriously. Survivors talk about heightened feelings and emotions, clarity of thoughts, the ability of the disembodied soul to fly and pass through walls, teleport and even modify its intangible body. There is a feeling that there is no time in this dimension, or maybe it flows completely differently. The consciousness of a deceased person gains the opportunity to solve many issues at the same time, in general, many “impossible” things in ordinary life.
This is how a girl who experienced clinical death described her experience of being in the world of the dead:
When I saw the light, he immediately asked me: “Have you been useful in this life?” And different pictures began to flash in front of me, as if I was watching a movie. "What is this?" - I thought, because everything happened completely unexpectedly. Suddenly I found myself in childhood. And year after year she passed through her entire life, from birth to the last moment. Everything I saw was alive! It was as if I was looking at all this from the outside, in three-dimensional space and color, like in some kind of movie from the future.
And when I looked at all this, there was no light in my field of vision. He disappeared when he asked me that question. However, his presence was felt, as if he was guiding me through my life, especially noting important and significant events. And in each of these events, this light seemed to emphasize something. First of all, the importance of tenderness, love and kindness. Conversations with loved ones, with mother and sister, gifts for them, family holidays... And he also showed interest in everything that was related to knowledge and its acquisition.
At all moments when the light concentrated on events that related to learning, it seemed to say that I should continue to study without fail, so that when he comes for me next time, I will retain this desire within myself. By that moment I already understood that I was destined to return to life again. He called knowledge a continuous process and now, I think that the learning process certainly does not stop even with death.
Suicides are a different matter. People who managed to survive a suicide attempt say that before doctors managed to bring them back to life, they were in extremely unpleasant places. Often the places where suicides end up look like prisons, sometimes like Christian hell. They are there alone, their loved ones are not in this part of the afterlife. Some complained that they were being dragged down, that is, instead of going up in an attempt to catch up with the bright light at the end of the tunnel, they were moving into some kind of hell. It is recommended not to let those who came after your soul do this. The soul, which is not burdened by the physical body, is able to cope with this.
Almost everyone knows what other religious sources say about death. In general, the descriptions of the afterlife in various beliefs have much in common. However, the survivors of clinical death did not observe anything that resembled heaven or hell in its traditional sense. This leads to certain thoughts - perhaps the afterlife is not at all the way many people are used to imagining it.
Rebirth, or reincarnation of the soul - evidence
There is a lot of evidence in the soul. These include children’s memories of past incarnations, and such children are found quite often in the last two centuries. Perhaps the fact is that previously it was not customary to make such information public, or perhaps we are standing on the threshold of some special era, extremely important for all humanity.
Evidence of reincarnation is usually uttered through the mouths of children between 2 and 5 years old. Many children remember their past lives, but most adults do not take this seriously. Children aged 5 years and older most often lose memory of past incarnations. Some esotericists believe that babies for some time have the memory of a person who died in a previous incarnation - they do not understand the language of their new parents, they practically do not see the world, however, they understand that they have begun a new path in life. This is only an assumption, but there are reliable facts confirming the possibility of the soul relocating to a new body after death.
Some children remember details of their death in a previous incarnation. Often parts of the body that were damaged in past life, have birthmarks or other marks. Children often tell such shocking details of their past incarnation that it makes even scientists believe in reincarnation and karma. Thus, the loudest statements that reincarnation exists are illustrated by biographical data that has been verified for accuracy. It turned out that the people the children talked about in the first person actually existed at different times.
How little Gus Ortega surprised his father
As one of the most famous examples around the world of children who remember past lives, here is the case of Gus Ortega:
Ron Ortega once witnessed a strange incident when his one and a half year old son Gus said a very strange phrase while his father was changing his diapers. Little Gus said to his father, “When I was your age, I changed your diapers.” It was very strange, his son was only 1 year old, and for his son Gus to say that, he must have been the same age as his father.
After this incident, Ron showed Gus some Family photos, one of which featured Gus's grandfather, Augustus. This photo showed a group of people, and when Ron asked Gus to point out who your grandfather was, little Gus, without hesitation, easily pointed to the right person. Gus had never seen his grandfather in his life, and had never seen pictures of him before. Gus was even able to locate where the photo was taken. Also looking at other photographs, Gus pointed to his grandfather's car, said: “that was my first car,” and indeed, once upon a time, it was the first car that Grandpa August purchased.
Adults, as a rule, remember their past incarnations in a state of trance or a hypnotherapy session. In addition, there is a lot of literature on reincarnation from various authors. However, apart from numerous evidence of cases of reincarnation, there is no other evidence. There are no scientifically confirmed facts about reincarnation; it is simply impossible to prove its existence. It is difficult to answer the question of whether soul reincarnation exists unambiguously.
Life after death - facts about the phenomenon of ghosts
Ghost of Uttuku
Numerous evidence and facts about the appearance of ghosts have always been encountered in human history - even in ancient Babylonian legends it was reported about a wide variety of types of ghosts that came to relatives and friends, or to those who were responsible for their death. Particularly famous was a ghost called Uttuku- people who died from torture became like this. They came both to their relatives and to the executioners and their masters in the form in which they left this world and at the very time when they were dying.
There are very, very many similar stories about the appearance of ghosts to loved ones during the death of a person. Thus, one of the documented stories is connected with Madame Teleshova, who lived in St. Petersburg. In 1896, while she was sitting in the living room with her five children and a dog, the ghost of the milkman's son appeared to them. The whole family saw him, and the dog literally went crazy and jumped around him. As it turned out later, it was at this time that Andrei died - that was his name little boy. This is a very common phenomenon when people report their death in one way or another - therefore it is strong evidence of the existence of life after death.
But ghosts do not always want to reassure or simply notify loved ones. Situations often occur when they begin to call relatives or friends to follow them. And agreeing to follow them inevitably leads to quick death. Not knowing about this belief, most often the victims of such exhortations from ghosts are small children who perceive such a call as a game.
Also, ghostly silhouettes passing through walls or simply suddenly appearing next to people do not always belong to the dead. Many people, distinguished by righteousness, appeared to passers-by and pilgrims, helping them in various matters - such situations were especially often recorded in Tibet.
However, similar cases also occurred on Russian territory - once, in the 19th century, the peasant woman Avdotya from Voronezh, who had sore legs, went on foot to Elder Ambrose to ask him for healing. However, she got lost, sat down on an old fallen tree and began to sob. But then the elder approached her, asked about the reason for her sorrows, after which he pointed with his cane in the direction in which the desired monastery was located. When Avdotya got to the monastery and began to wait for her turn among the suffering, that same old man immediately came out to her and asked where “Avdotya from Voronezh” was. Moreover, as the monks reported, by that time Ambrose had already been too weak and sick for several years to even leave his cell. This phenomenon is called exteriorization and only exceptionally spiritually developed people have such capabilities.
Thus, this is another confirmation of the scientific theory that ghosts exist, at least in the form of a person’s energy imprint on the Earth’s information field. The famous scientist Vernadsky mentioned the same thing in his works on the noosphere. Accordingly, the question of the existence of life after death, although not on the agenda, can be considered practically closed. The only reason for the non-acceptance of these theses by official science is the need for experimental confirmation of such information, which is unlikely to be obtained.
Is there karma - punishment or reward for actions?
The concept of karma, in one form or another, was present in the traditions of almost all peoples of the world, starting with ancient centuries. People all over the world, who had much more time to observe the reality around them in the absence of technology, noticed that many bad or good deeds tend to be rewarded. Moreover, often in the most unpredictable way.
Every person at least once in his life asks the question “Is there life after death?” Previously, our ancestors believed in the immortality of the soul and its ability to be reincarnated. Today, after a long period of unbelief and atheism, it is quite difficult to come to terms with the fact that with death comes an absolute end. Eastern religions have long history consideration of this issue. In them, life after death is perceived as something natural and not subject to proof.
IN Lately, most people have rather ambivalent attitudes towards both old age and dying. That's probably why everyone more people from European culture are interested in such beliefs, trying to alleviate and overcome their own fear of death. What is death and is there life after death? Let's look at these questions in more detail.
By death, according to various dictionaries, today we understand the cessation of our physical existence. From a medical point of view, death is cardiac arrest and complete lack of breathing. Today, the development of technology makes it possible to maintain human life in a coma. This is when the body is actually dead, but blood flows through the vessels due to the operation of the equipment.
In Asia, in monasteries you can see mummies of monks, on which hair and nails are still growing. And this is after the fact of physical death and the lapse of many years. In India, there are cases where the bodies of people with a high level of spiritual development did not burn during the funeral pyre. Because they already existed according to other laws of physics. If from a medical point of view there is nothing after death, then from a physics point of view everything happens according to natural laws.
Yet the cessation of the functioning of the physical body is the starting point for the concept of “death.” And it is precisely this phenomenon that causes a person to develop a fear of death. Considering the question “is there life after death?” from the point of view of various religions is one way to overcome this fear.
Life after death in different cultures
European culture worships material values; we believe in what we can touch and see. However, such a worldview creates a certain attachment, which becomes the basis for the fear of death. After all, we are not afraid of what will happen to us later. We are worried that we will lose everything that was dear and important to us here. To the other side of existence, we will not be able to take money, jewelry, real estate, loved ones or our status with us.
All this will remain in this world after our death. And there we will be judged by our actions, which will have a significant impact on our soul and its future path. Therefore, another way to confront the fear of death is to accept its fact and be willing to cut off the existing ties of this world. For example, in Eastern philosophy there are special practices based on seeing death. This is a walk through cemeteries, finding for a long time next to a dead body and so on. They help a person understand and accept death and see in it the natural law of life, in which there is nothing frightening. Also, after this, a person begins to better appreciate every moment of life, enjoying it.
Of course, different religions have different views on afterlife, but they all agree that death is part of the life cycle. There is no need to strive for it, but there is no need to be afraid of it.
In one of the great books - the Bible - the topic of life after death was one of the most important. But in the Pentateuch, the leading role was given to the discussion of the pressing problems of the Jews. And yet in these texts there is a mention of those places where human soul after physical death.
Judaism tells that the first people originally lived in paradise, and the Last Judgment is mentioned. In Kohelet, which is known to Christians as the Book of Ecclesiastes, it is said that after death a person moves to his " eternal home" His soul is reunited with God, and his ashes return to the earth. These texts also point out the transience of life, which must be appreciated.
In Egypt, people prepared for death almost from birth. The cult of death was one of the most revered. So, for the pharaoh, they began to build a tomb (pyramid) during his lifetime. Earthly life here was considered only a short moment, while true existence was possible only after death. This is described in a collection of religious hymns called “The Book of the Dead.” It was recited during ritual to provide guidance useful for the afterlife.
After death, the soul went to trial before Osiris, who, with the help of other gods, determined where it should go. The soul, unburdened by sins, flew off to heaven like a feather, while sinners went into the mouth of a terrible monster (a lion with the head of a crocodile).
Many Indian religions adhere to the theory of reincarnation (transmigration of the soul). According to it, after the death of the body, a person’s soul can again inhabit a new body. And although this process is regulated by higher powers, a person can influence what his next incarnation will be. Karma burdened with sins can lead to the fact that in the next life the soul is reborn as an animal or even a plant.
But righteous people who strive for spiritual development can become kings or even gods (devas) in their next life. Such rebirth can occur a large number of times. Therefore, one of the main aspirations in Hindu religions is the desire to escape the circle of rebirth. There is a goal of achieving the state of nirvana and completing one's path by reuniting with the highest essence.
A feature of Buddhism is the description not so much of the transmigration of souls, but of the journey of consciousness through many worlds. Death here is interpreted as a transition from one world to another, which is influenced by karma (activities during this and past lives). In Jainism, there is a main principle - not to harm any living being. And if a person observes this principle during his lifetime, then in his next birth he can become a deity.
Christianity and Islam
These two religions are the most numerous on our planet. Their ideas about the afterlife are very similar. Christianity, at the very beginning, completely rejected the idea of the transmigration of souls, which was even formalized at one of the Councils. According to the interpretation of Christianity, the main and only afterlife begins after death.
Already on the third day after burial, the soul is able to move to another world, where it will prepare for the Last Judgment. Not a single sinner can hide from God's punishment and will definitely go to hell. True, he has the opportunity to go through purgatory, where he can be cleansed and from there go to heaven. The righteous all immediately go to heaven.
Islam also says that earthly life- This is a way to prepare for the afterlife. It is greatly influenced by all the actions performed by a person during his lifetime. The way of life greatly influences death: sinners suffer, but the righteous leave this world painlessly. Muslims have two posthumous judgments. The first is carried out by two angels, punishing the guilty. After this, the soul exists in anticipation of the main judgment under the leadership of Allah, which, according to this religion, will occur after the end of the world.
Philosophy and esoterics
Interest in the problem of life after death has led to a large number of studies on this topic. The subject of study was the experience of people who were between life and death. Parapsychologists continue to try to find evidence that the afterlife exists. Some of them prefer to talk with patients who have experienced clinical death in the past. Others try to help people remember their past incarnations.
Philosophy also has not lost interest in the question “is there life after death?” Thus, Van Inwangen especially insists that a complete organism cannot exist in nature. Since, in essence, it consists of large quantity components.
The most elementary particles are those that can exist in time and space here and now. Therefore, even a newly born soul cannot be identical to the one that died earlier. Viewing death from the point of view of time has led modern philosophy to the idea that a person is mortal to an outside observer, and not to himself. This was reflected in one of the philosophical principles - relativism.
One of the most disturbing questions in people’s minds is “is there something there after death or not?” Many religions have been created, each revealing in its own way the secrets of the afterlife. Libraries of books have been written on the topic of life after death.. And, in the end, billions of souls who were once inhabitants of the mortal earth have already gone there, into an unknown reality and distant oblivion. And they are aware of all the secrets, but they won’t tell us. There is a huge gap between the world of the dead and the living . But this is provided that the world of the dead exists.
Various religious teachings, each of which interprets in its own way the further path of a person after leaving the body, generally support the version that there is a soul and it is immortal. Exceptions are the religious movements of Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses; they adhere to the version of the perishability of the soul. And the afterlife, Hell and Heaven, the quintessence of variations of after-life existence, according to most religions, for true worshipers of God will be presented in significantly at its best than that, that is, on earth. Belief in something superior after death, in the highest justice, in the eternal continuation of life is the basis of many religious worldviews.
And although scientists and atheists claim that a person hopes, because it is inherent in his nature at the genetic level, they say, “ he just needs to believe in something, and preferably global, with a saving mission ”, - this does not become an “antidote” to craving for religions. Even if we take into account the genetic craving for God, where did it come from in pure consciousness?
The soul and where it is located
Soul- This is an immortal substance, not tangible and not measured using material standards. Something connecting spirit and body, individual, identifying a person as a person. There are many people who are similar in appearance, twin brothers and sisters are simply copies of each other, and there are also plenty of “doubles” who are not related by blood. But these people will always differ in their inner spiritual filling, and this concerns not the level, quality and scale of thoughts and desires, but above all the abilities, facets, characteristics, and potential of the individual. The soul is something that accompanies us on earth, reviving the mortal shell.
Most people are sure that the soul is in the heart, or somewhere in the solar plexus; there are opinions that it is in the head, the brain. Scientists, in the course of a series of experiments, have established that when animals are electrocuted at a meat processing plant, a certain ethereal substance comes out at the moment of death from the upper part of the head (skull). The soul was measured: in the course of experiments carried out at the beginning of the 20th century by the American physician Duncan McDougall, it was established soul weight - 21 grams . Six patients lost approximately this much weight at the time of death, which the doctor was able to record using ultra-sensitive bed scales on which the dying people lay. However, later experiments carried out by other doctors established that a person loses similar body weight when falling into sleep.
Is death just a long (eternal) sleep?
The Bible says the soul is in the blood. During the Old Testament, and even to this day, Christians were forbidden to drink or eat processed animal blood.
“For the life of every body is its blood, it is the soul of it; Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any body, for the life of every body is its blood; whoever eats it will be cut off.” (Old Testament, Leviticus 17:14)
“...and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to every thing that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food. And it became so" (Genesis 1:30)
That is, living creatures have a soul, but they are deprived of the ability to think, make decisions, and they lack highly organized mental activity. If any soul is immortal, then animals will also be in spiritual embodiment in the afterlife. However, the same Old Testament says that previously all animals simply ceased to exist after physical death, without any other continuation. The main goal of their life was stated: to be eaten; born to be “captured and exterminated.” The immortality of the human soul was also questioned.
“I spoke in my heart about the sons of men, so that God would test them, and so that they would see that they are animals in themselves; because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of animals is the same fate: as they die, so these die, and everyone has the same breath, and man has no advantage over cattle, because everything is vanity! Everything goes to one place: everything came from dust and everything will return to dust. Who knows whether the spirit of the sons of men ascends upward, and whether the spirit of animals descends down to the earth?” (Ecclesiastes 3:18-21)
But the hope for Christians is that animals in one of their incorruptible forms remain incorruptible, because in the New Testament, in particular in the Revelation of John the Theologian, there are lines that there will be many animals in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The New Testament says that accepting Christ's sacrifice gives life to all people who desire salvation. Those who do not accept this, according to the Bible, do not have Eternal Life. Whether this means that they will go to Hell or that they will hang somewhere in a state of “spiritually disabled” is unknown. In Buddhist teachings, reincarnation implies that the soul that previously belonged to a person and accompanied him can settle in an animal in the next life. And man himself in Buddhism takes a dual position, that is, he does not seem to be “pressed” as in Christianity, but he is not the Crown of Creation, the lord over all living things.
And it is located somewhere between the lower entities, “demons” and other evil spirits and the highest, enlightened Buddhas. His path and subsequent reincarnation depend on the degree of enlightenment in today's life. Astrologers talk about the existence of seven human bodies, not just the soul, spirit and body. Etheric, astral, mental, causal, budhial, atmanic and, of course, physical. According to esotericists, six bodies are part of the soul, while according to some esotericists, they accompany the soul on earthly paths.
There are many teachings, treatises and doctrines that in their own way interpret the essence of being, life and death. And, of course, not all are true; truth, as they say, is one. It’s easy to get lost in the wilds of someone else’s worldview; it’s important to stick to the position you’ve once chosen. Because if everything was simple and we knew the answer that there, at the other end of life, there would not be so many guesses, and as a result, global, radically different versions.
Christianity distinguishes the spirit, soul and body of man:
“In His hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all human flesh.” (Job 12:10)
Moreover, there is no doubt that the spirit and soul - various phenomena does not remain, but what is their difference? Does the spirit (its presence is also mentioned in animals) go after death to another world or the soul? And if the spirit leaves, what happens to the soul?
Termination of life and clinical death
Doctors distinguish biological, clinical and final death. Biological death implies cessation of cardiac activity, respiration, blood circulation, depression followed by cessation of reflexes of the central nervous system. Final - all of the listed signs of biological death, including brain death. Clinical death precedes biological death and is a reversible transitional state from life to death.
After stopping breathing and heartbeat, during resuscitation measures, bringing a person back to life without serious damage to health is possible only in the first few minutes: up to a maximum of 5 minutes, more often within 2-3 minutes after the pulse stops.
Cases of safe return even after 10 minutes of clinical death have been described. Resuscitation is carried out within 30 minutes after cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest or loss of consciousness in the absence of circumstances that make resuming life impossible. Sometimes 3 minutes are enough for the development of irreversible changes in the brain. In cases of death of a person in conditions of low temperature, when metabolism is slowed down, the interval of a successful “return” to life increases and can reach 2 hours after cardiac arrest. Despite the strong opinion, based on medical practice, that after 8 minutes without heartbeat and breathing, the patient is unlikely to be brought back to life without serious consequences for his health in the future, hearts begin to beat, people come to life. And they meet their future life without serious violations of the functions and systems of the body. Sometimes the 31st minute of resuscitation is decisive. However, most people who have experienced prolonged clinical death rarely return to their previous fullness of existence, some go into a vegetative state.
There have been cases where doctors mistakenly recorded biological death, and the patient later came to, scaring morgue workers more than all the horror films they had ever watched. Lethargic dreams, decreased cardiovascular and respiratory systems when consciousness and reflexes are suppressed, but life is preserved, it is a reality, and it is possible to confuse an imaginary death with a true one.
And yet here is a paradox: if the soul is in the blood, as the Bible says, then where is it in a person who is in a vegetative state or in an “exorbitant coma”? Who is artificially kept alive with the help of devices, but doctors have long since stated irreversible changes brain or brain death? At the same time, denying the fact that when blood circulation stops, life stops is absurd.
See God and not die
So what did they, people who experienced clinical death, see? There is plenty of evidence. Someone says that Hell and Heaven appeared before him in colors, someone saw angels, demons, dead relatives, and communicated with them. Someone traveled, flying like a bird, all over the earth, feeling neither hunger, nor pain, nor the same self. Another person sees his whole life flashing by in pictures in a moment; another sees himself and the doctors from the outside.
But in most descriptions there is the famous mysterious and deadly image of light at the end of the tunnel. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel is explained by several theories. According to psychologist Pyell Watson, this is a prototype of the passage through the birth canal, a person at the time of death remembers his birth. According to Russian resuscitator Nikolai Gubin - manifestations of toxic psychosis.
In an experiment conducted by American scientists with laboratory mice, it was found that animals, when experiencing clinical death, see the same tunnel with light at the end. And the reason is much more banal than the approach of the afterlife illuminating the darkness. In the first minutes after the heartbeat and breathing stop, the brain produces powerful impulses, which are received by the dying as the image described above. Moreover, brain activity in these very moments is incredibly high, which contributes to the appearance of vivid visions and hallucinations.
The appearance of pictures from the past is due to the fact that new brain structures begin to fade first, then old ones; when brain activity resumes, the process occurs in the reverse order: first, old, then new areas of the cerebral cortex begin to function. What causes the most significant pictures of the past, then the present, to “emerge” in the emerging consciousness. I don’t want to believe that everything is so simple, right? I really want everything to be entangled in mysticism, implicated in the most bizarre assumptions, as shown in bright colors, with feelings, spectacles, tricks.
The consciousness of many people refuses to believe in an ordinary death without mystery, without continuation . And is it really possible to agree that one day you will no longer exist at all? And there will be no eternity, or at least any continuation... When you look inside yourself, sometimes the worst thing is to feel the hopelessness of the situation, the finitude of existence, the unknown, not knowing what’s next and walking into the abyss blindfolded.
“So many of them have fallen into this abyss, I'll open it up in the distance! The day will come when I too will disappear From the surface of the earth. Everything that sang and fought will freeze, It shone and burst. And the green of my eyes and my gentle voice, And gold hair. And there will be life with her daily bread, With the forgetfulness of the day. And everything will be as if under the sky And I wasn’t there!” M. Tsvetaeva “Monologue”
The lyrics can be endless, since death is the biggest mystery; everyone who, no matter how they avoid thinking about this topic, will have to experience everything firsthand. If the picture were unambiguous, obvious and transparent, we would long ago have been convinced by thousands of discoveries by scientists, stunning results obtained from experiments, versions of various teachings about the absolute mortality of the body and soul. But no one has been able to establish and prove with absolute accuracy what awaits us at the other end of life. Christians are waiting for Heaven, Buddhists are waiting for reincarnation, esotericists are waiting for flight to the astral plane, tourists are continuing their travels, etc.
But recognizing the existence of God is reasonable, since many who during their lifetime denied the highest justice in the Next World often repent of their ardor before death. They remember the One who was so often deprived of a place in their spiritual temple.
Have survivors of clinical death seen God? If you have ever heard or will hear that someone in a state of clinical death saw God, strongly doubt it.
First, God will not meet you at the “gate”, he is not a doorman... Everyone will appear before God's judgment during the Apocalypse, that is, for the majority - after the stage of rigor mortis. By that time, it’s unlikely that anyone will be able to return and talk about that Light. “Seeing God” is not an adventure for the faint of heart. In the Old Testament (in Deuteronomy) there are words that no one has yet seen God and remained alive. God spoke to Moses and the people at Horeb from the midst of the fire, without showing an image, and even to God in hidden form people were afraid to come close.
The Bible also states that God is spirit, and spirit is immaterial, therefore, we cannot see him as each other. Although the miracles performed by Christ during His stay on earth in the flesh spoke of the opposite: one can return to the world of the living already during or after the funeral. Let us remember the resurrected Lazarus, who was revived on the 4th day, when it had already begun to stink. And his testimony about another world. But Christianity is more than 2000 years old; during this time, have there been many people (not counting believers) who read the lines about Lazarus in the New Testament and believed in God based on this? Likewise, thousands of testimonies and miracles for those who are convinced in advance of the opposite may be meaningless and in vain.
Sometimes you have to see it for yourself to believe it. But even personal experience tends to be forgotten. There is a moment of replacing the actual with the desired, of excessive impressionability - when people really want to see something, during life they often and a lot picture it in their minds, and during and after clinical death they complete their impressions based on sensations. According to statistics, the majority of people who saw something grandiose after cardiac arrest, Hell, Heaven, God, demons, etc. - were mentally unstable. Resuscitation doctors, who have observed clinical death situations more than once and saved people, say that in the overwhelming majority of cases the patients saw nothing.
It so happened that the author of these lines once visited the Other World. I was 18 years old. A relatively easy operation turned sour because the doctors almost overdosed on anesthesia. real death. There is light at the end of the tunnel, a tunnel that looks like an endless hospital corridor. Just a couple of days before I ended up in the hospital, I was thinking about death. I thought that a person should have movement, have a goal of development, in the end, family, children, career, study, and all this should be loved by him. But somehow there was so much “depression” around at that moment that it seemed to me that everything was in vain, life was meaningless, and maybe it would be nice to leave before this “torment” had yet to fully begin. I don't mean suicidal thoughts, but rather fear of the unknown and the future. Difficult family circumstances, work and study.
And now the flight into oblivion. After this tunnel - and after the tunnel I just saw a girl, a doctor looking into whose face, covering her with a blanket, putting a tag on her toe - I heard a question. And this question is perhaps the only thing that I could not find an explanation for, where it came from, who asked it. “I wanted to leave. Will you go?” And it’s as if I’m listening, but I don’t hear anyone, neither the voice, nor what’s happening around me, I’m shocked that death exists. The entire period while she observed everything and then, after returning consciousness, repeated the same question, her own, “So, death is a reality? Can I die? I died? And now I will see God?”
At first I saw myself from the doctors’ side, but not in exact forms, but blurred and chaotic, mixed with other images. I didn’t understand at all that they were saving me. The more manipulations they performed, the more it seemed to me that they were saving someone else. I heard the names of medications, doctors talking, screams, and, as if yawning lazily, I decided to also cheer up the person being rescued and began to say in unison with the alarmists, “Breathe, open your eyes. Come to your senses, etc.” I was sincerely worried about him. I spun around the entire crowd, then it was as if I saw everything that would happen next: a tunnel, a morgue with a tag, some orderlies weighing my sins on Soviet scales...
I become some kind of small grain of rice (these are the associations that arise in my memories). There are no thoughts, only sensations, and my name was not at all the same as my mother and father’s name, the name was generally a temporary earthly number. And it seemed that I had been alive for only a thousandth of the eternity into which I was going. But I didn’t feel like a person, some small substance, I don’t know, a spirit or a soul, I understand everything, but I just can’t react. I don’t understand it like before, but I am aware of the new reality, but I can’t get used to it, I felt very uneasy. My life seemed like a spark that burned for a second, then went out quickly and imperceptibly.
There was a feeling that there was an exam ahead (not a trial, but some kind of selection), for which I had not prepared, but I would not be presented with anything serious, I had not done any evil or good to the extent that it was worth it. But it’s as if she’s frozen in the moment of death, and it’s impossible to change anything, to somehow influence fate. There was no pain, no regrets, but I was haunted by a feeling of discomfort and confusion about how I, so small, the size of a grain, would live. Without thoughts, there were none, everything was at the level of feelings. After being in a room (as I understand it, a morgue), where I stayed for a long time near a body with a tag on my finger and could not leave this place, I begin to look for a way out, because I want to fly further, it’s boring here and I’m not here anymore. I fly through the window and fly towards the light, with speed, suddenly there is a flash, akin to an explosion. Everything is very bright. Apparently at this moment the return begins.
A period of silence and emptiness, and again a room with doctors, manipulating me, but as if with someone else. The last thing I remember is the incredibly strong pain and pain in my eyes from being shone with a flashlight. And the pain in my whole body is hellish, I again wet myself with earthly, and somehow wrongly, it seems that I stuffed my legs into my hands. I felt like I was a cow, square, made of plasticine, I really didn’t want to go back, but they pushed me in. I’ve almost come to terms with the fact that I left, but now I have to go back again. I got in. It still hurt for a long time, I began to go hysterical from what I saw, but I couldn’t speak or even explain the reason for the roar to anyone. During the rest of my life, I endured anesthesia again for several hours, everything was quite well, except for the chills after. There were no visions. A decade has passed since my “flight”, and a lot, of course, has happened in life since then. And I quite rarely told anyone about that long-ago event, but when I did share, most of those listening were very concerned about the answer to the question “did I see God or not?” And although I repeated a hundred times that I did not see God, they sometimes asked me again and with a twist: “What about Hell or Heaven?” Did not see… This does not mean that they are not there, it means that I have not seen them.
Let's return to the article, or rather finish it. By the way, the story “Sliver” by V. Zazubrin, which I read after my clinical death, left a serious imprint on my attitude towards life in general. Maybe the story is depressing, too realistic and bloody, but that’s exactly what it seemed to me: life is a sliver...
But through all the revolutions, executions, wars, deaths, illnesses, we saw something that is eternal: soul. And it’s not scary to end up in the other world, it’s scary to end up and not be able to change anything, while realizing that you failed the test. But life is definitely worth living, at least to pass exams...
What are you living for?..
One of the eternal questions to which humanity does not have a clear answer is what awaits us after death?
Ask this question to the people around you and you will get different answers. They will depend on what the person believes. And regardless of faith, many are afraid of death. They don’t try to simply acknowledge the very fact of its existence. But only our physical body dies, and the soul is eternal.
There was never a time when neither you nor I existed. And in the future, none of us will cease to exist.
Bhagavad Gita. Chapter two. Soul in the world of matter.
Why are so many people afraid of death?
Because they relate their “I” only to the physical body. They forget that in each of them there is an immortal, eternal soul. They don’t know what happens during dying and after it. This fear is generated by our ego, which accepts only what can be proven through experience. Is it possible to find out what death is and whether there is an afterlife “without harm to health”?
All over the world there are a sufficient number of documented stories of people who have gone through clinical death.
Scientists are on the verge of proving life after death
An unexpected experiment was carried out in September 2013. at the English Hospital in Southampton. Doctors recorded testimonies of patients who experienced clinical death. Supervisor research group Cardiologist Sam Parnia shared the results:
“From the early days of my medical career I was interested in the problem of “disembodied sensations.” In addition, some of my patients experienced clinical death. Gradually I gained everything more stories those who claimed that they were flying over their own bodies in a coma. However scientific evidence there was no such information. And I decided to find an opportunity to test her in a hospital setting.
For the first time in history medical institution was specially refurbished. In particular, in the wards and operating rooms, we hung thick boards with colored drawings from the ceiling. And most importantly, they began to carefully record, down to the seconds, everything that happens with each patient.
From the moment his heart stopped, his pulse and breathing stopped. And in those cases when the heart was then able to start and the patient began to regain consciousness, we immediately wrote down everything he did and said.
All the behavior and all the words, gestures of each patient. Now our knowledge of “disembodied sensations” is much more systematized and complete than before.”
Almost a third of patients clearly and clearly remember themselves in a coma. At the same time, no one saw the drawings on the boards!
Sam and his colleagues came to the following conclusions:
“From a scientific point of view, the success is considerable. Installed general feelings from people who seem to crossed the threshold of the “other world”. They suddenly begin to understand everything. Completely freed from pain. They feel pleasure, comfort, even bliss. They see their dead relatives and friends. They are enveloped in a soft and very pleasant light. There is an atmosphere of extraordinary kindness around.”
When asked whether the experiment participants believed that they had visited “another world,” Sam replied:
“Yes, and although this world was somewhat mystical for them, it still existed. As a rule, patients reached a gate or some other place in the tunnel from where there is no turning back and where they need to decide whether to return...
And you know, almost everyone now has a completely different perception of life. It has changed because man has passed through a moment of blissful spiritual existence. Almost all of my students admitted that no longer afraid of death, although they do not want to die.
The transition to another world turned out to be an extraordinary and pleasant experience. After the hospital, many began to work in charitable organizations.”
The experiment is currently ongoing. A further 25 UK hospitals are joining the study.
The memory of the soul is immortal
There is a soul, and it does not die with the body. Dr Parnia's confidence is shared by the UK's leading medical luminary. The famous professor of neurology from Oxford, the author of works translated into many languages, Peter Fenis rejects the opinion of the majority of scientists on the planet.
They believe that the body, ceasing its functions, releases certain chemical substances, which, passing through the brain, really cause extraordinary sensations in a person.
“The brain does not have time to carry out the ‘closing procedure’,” says Professor Fenis.
“For example, during a heart attack, a person sometimes loses consciousness at lightning speed. Along with consciousness, memory also goes away. So how can we discuss episodes that people cannot remember? But since they clearly talk about what happened to them when their brain activity was turned off, therefore, there is a soul, spirit or something else that allows you to be in consciousness outside the body.”
What happens after you die?
The physical body is not the only one we have. In addition to it, there are several thin bodies assembled according to the matryoshka principle. The subtle level closest to us is called the ether or astral. We simultaneously exist in material world, and in the spiritual. In order to maintain life in the physical body, food and drink are needed to maintain Vital energy in our astral body we need communication with the Universe and with the surrounding material world.
Death ends the existence of the densest of all our bodies, and the astral body's connection with reality is severed. The astral body, freed from the physical shell, is transported into a different quality - into the soul. And the soul has a connection only with the Universe. This process is described in sufficient detail by people who have experienced clinical death.
Naturally, they do not describe its last stage, because they only get to the level closest to the material substance, their astral body has not yet lost contact with the physical body and they are not fully aware of the fact of death. The transportation of the astral body into the soul is called the second death. After this, the soul goes to another world. Once there, the soul discovers that it consists of different levels intended for souls of varying degrees of development.
When the death of the physical body occurs, the subtle bodies begin to gradually separate. Subtle bodies also have different densities, and, accordingly, it is required different quantities time for them to disintegrate.
On the third day after the physical, the etheric body, which is called the aura, disintegrates.
After nine days the emotional body disintegrates, after forty days the mental body. The body of spirit, soul, experience - casual - goes into the space between lives.
By suffering greatly for our departed loved ones, we thereby hinder their thin bodies die in due time. Thin shells get stuck where they shouldn't be. Therefore, you need to let them go, thanking them for all the experiences they have lived together.
Is it possible to consciously look beyond life?
Just as a person dresses in new clothes, discarding the old and worn ones, so the soul is embodied in a new body, leaving behind the old and lost strength.
Bhagavad Gita. Chapter 2. Soul in the material world.
Each of us has lived more than one life, and this experience is stored in our memory.
You can remember your past life right now!
It will help you with this meditation, which will send you into your memory storage and open the door to a past life.
Every soul has a different experience of dying. And it can be remembered.
Why remember the experience of dying in past lives? To look at this stage differently. To understand what actually happens at the moment of dying and after it. Finally, to stop being afraid of death.
At the Institute of Reincarnation, you can gain the experience of dying using simple techniques. For those in whom the fear of death is too strong, there is a safety technique that allows you to painlessly view the process of the soul leaving the body.
Here are some testimonials from students about their experiences with dying.
Kononuchenko Irina, first year student at the Institute of Reincarnation:
I watched several deaths in different bodies: female and male.
After natural death in a female incarnation (I’m 75 years old), my soul did not want to ascend to the World of Souls. I was left waiting for mine your soul mate- a husband who still lives. During his lifetime he was an important person and close friend to me.
It felt like we lived in perfect harmony. I died first, the Soul exited through the third eye area. Understanding my husband’s grief after “my death,” I wanted to support him with my invisible presence, and I didn’t want to leave myself. After some time, when both “got used to it and got used to it” in the new state, I went up to the World of Souls and waited for him there.
After natural death in the body of a man (harmonious incarnation), the Soul easily said goodbye to the body and ascended to the world of Souls. There was a feeling of a mission accomplished, a lesson successfully completed, a feeling of satisfaction. It took place immediately meeting with the Mentor and discussion of life.
In case of violent death (I am a man dying on the battlefield from a wound), the Soul leaves the body through the chest area, where the wound is. Until the moment of death, life flashed before my eyes. I’m 45 years old, I have a wife, children... I really want to see them and hold them close.. and here I am... it’s unclear where and how... and alone. Tears in the eyes, regret about the “unlived” life. After leaving the body, it is not easy for the Soul; it is again met by Helping Angels.
Without additional energetic reconfiguration, I (the soul) cannot independently free myself from the burden of incarnation (thoughts, emotions, feelings). A “capsule-centrifuge” is imagined, where through strong rotation-acceleration there is an increase in frequencies and “separation” from the experience of embodiment.
Marina Kana, 1st year student at the Institute of Reincarnation:
In total, I went through 7 dying experiences, three of them violent. I will describe one of them.
Young woman, Ancient Rus'. I was born into a large peasant family, I live in unity with nature, I love spinning with my friends, singing songs, walking in the forest and fields, helping my parents with housework, babysitting younger brothers and sisters. Men are not interested, the physical side of love is not clear. The guy was wooing her, but she was afraid of him.
I saw how she was carrying water on a yoke; he blocked the road and pestered: “You’ll still be mine!” To prevent others from getting married, I started a rumor that I was not of this world. And I’m glad, I don’t need anyone, I told my parents that I wouldn’t get married.
She did not live long, she died at 28, she was not married. She died of a severe fever, lay in the heat and was delirious, all wet, her hair matted from sweat. The mother sits nearby, sighs, wipes her with a wet cloth, gives her water to drink from wooden ladle. The soul flies out of the head, as if it is being pushed out from within, when the mother comes out into the hallway.
The soul looks down on the body, no regrets. The mother comes in and starts crying. Then the father comes running to the screams, shakes his fists at the sky, shouts to the dark icon in the corner of the hut: “What have you done!” The kids huddled together, quiet and scared. The soul leaves calmly, no one is sorry.
Then the soul seems to be drawn into a funnel and flies upward towards the light. The outline is similar to clouds of steam, next to them are the same clouds, circling, intertwining, rushing upward. Fun and easy! She knows that she lived her life as she planned. In the World of Souls, the beloved soul meets laughing (this is an incorrect husband from previous life ). She understands why she passed away early - it became no longer interesting to live, knowing that he was not incarnated, she strove for him faster.
Simonova Olga, 1st year student at the Institute of Reincarnation
All my deaths were similar. Separation from the body and smoothly rising above it... and then just as smoothly upward above the Earth. Mostly these are dying of natural causes in old age.
One thing I saw was violent (cutting off the head), but I saw it outside the body, as if from the outside, and did not feel any tragedy. On the contrary, relief and gratitude to the executioner. Life was aimless, a female embodiment. The woman wanted to commit suicide in her youth because she was left without parents. She was saved, but even then she lost the meaning in life and was never able to restore it... Therefore, she accepted violent death as a benefit for her.
Understanding that life continues after death gives true joy from existing here-and-now. The physical body is only a temporary conductor for the soul. And death is natural for him. This should be accepted. To live without fear before death.
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From the point of view of physics, it cannot appear out of nowhere and disappear without a trace. Energy must move to another state. It turns out that the soul does not disappear into nowhere. So maybe this law answers the question that has tormented humanity for many centuries: is there life after death?
What happens to a person after his death?
The Hindu Vedas say that every living creature has two bodies: subtle and gross, and the interaction between them occurs only thanks to the soul. And so, when the gross (that is, physical) body wears out, the soul passes into the subtle, therefore the gross dies, and the subtle seeks something new for itself. Therefore, rebirth occurs.
But sometimes it happens that the physical body seems to have died, but some of its fragments continue to live. A clear illustration of this phenomenon is the mummies of monks. Several of these exist in Tibet.
It's hard to believe, but, firstly, their bodies do not decompose, and, secondly, their hair and nails grow! Although, of course, there are no signs of breathing or heartbeat. It turns out that there is life in the mummy? But modern technology cannot capture these processes. But the energy-information field can be measured. And in such mummies it is many times higher than in ordinary person. So the soul is still alive? How to explain this?
Rector of the International Institute Social Ecology, Vyacheslav Gubanov, divides death into three types:
- Physical;
- Personal;
- Spiritual.
In his opinion, a person is a combination of three elements: Spirit, Personality and physical body. If everything is clear about the body, then questions arise about the first two components.
Spirit– a subtle material object, which is presented on the causal plane of the existence of matter. That is, it is a certain substance that moves the physical body in order to fulfill certain karmic tasks and gain the necessary experience.
Personality– formation on the mental plane of existence of matter, which realizes free will. In other words, this is a complex of psychological qualities of our character.
When the physical body dies, consciousness, according to the scientist, is simply transferred to a higher level of existence of matter. It turns out that this is life after death. People who managed to move to the level of the Spirit for some time and then returned to their physical body exist. These are those who experienced “clinical death” or coma.
Real facts: how do people feel after leaving for another world?
Sam Parnia, a doctor from an English hospital, decided to conduct an experiment to find out how a person feels after death. On his instructions, in some operating rooms, several boards with color pictures painted on them were hung from the ceiling. And every time a patient’s heart, breathing and pulse stopped, and then they managed to bring him back to life, the doctors recorded all his sensations.
One of the participants in this experiment, a housewife from Southampton, said the following:
“I lost consciousness in one of the stores and went there to buy groceries. I woke up during the operation, but realized that I was floating above my own body. Doctors were crowded there, doing something, talking among themselves.
I looked to the right and saw a hospital corridor. My cousin was standing there talking on the phone. I heard him telling someone that I had bought too many groceries and the bags were so heavy that my aching heart could not stand it. When I woke up and my brother came to me, I told him what I had heard. He immediately turned pale and confirmed that he had spoken about this while I was unconscious.”
In the first seconds, slightly less than half of the patients perfectly remembered what happened to them when they were unconscious. But what’s surprising is that none of them saw the drawings! But the patients said that during the “clinical death” there was no pain at all, but they were immersed in calm and bliss. At some point they would come to the end of a tunnel or a gate where they would have to decide whether to cross that line or go back.
But how do you understand where this line is? And when does the soul pass from the physical body to the spiritual? Our compatriot, Doctor of Technical Sciences Konstantin Georgievich Korotkov, tried to answer this question.
He conducted an incredible experiment. The essence of it was to study the bodies just using Kirlian photographs. The deceased's hand was photographed every hour in a gas-discharge flash. Then the data was transferred to a computer, and analysis was carried out there according to the necessary indicators. This shooting took place over three to five days. The age, gender of the deceased and the manner of death were very different. As a result, all data was divided into three types:
- The amplitude of the oscillation was very small;
- The same, only with a pronounced peak;
- Large amplitude with long oscillations.
And oddly enough, each type of death was matched by only one type of data obtained. If we correlate the nature of death and the amplitude of oscillations of the curves, it turns out that:
- the first type corresponds to the natural death of an elderly person;
- the second is accidental death as a result of an accident;
- the third is unexpected death or suicide.
But what struck Korotkov most of all was that he died, and there were still hesitations for some time! But this corresponds only to a living organism! It turns out that instruments showed vital activity according to all physical data of the deceased person.
The oscillation time was also divided into three groups:
- In case of natural death – from 16 to 55 hours;
- In case of accidental death, a visible jump occurs either after eight hours or at the end of the first day, and after two days the fluctuations disappear.
- In case of unexpected death, the amplitude becomes smaller only at the end of the first day, and completely disappears at the end of the second. In addition, it was noticed that the most intense surges are observed in the period from nine in the evening to two or three in the morning.
Summarizing Korotkov's experiment, we can conclude that, indeed, even a physically dead body without breathing and heartbeat is not dead - astrally.
It is not for nothing that in many traditional religions there is a certain period of time. In Christianity, for example, these are nine and forty days. But what does the soul do at this time? Here we can only guess. Perhaps she is traveling between two worlds, or her future fate is being decided. It’s probably not for nothing that there is a ritual of funeral services and prayers for the soul. People believe that a dead person must be spoken of either well or not at all. Most likely, our kind words help the soul make the difficult transition from the physical to the spiritual body.
By the way, the same Korotkov tells a few more amazing facts. Every night he went down to the morgue to spend necessary measurements. And the first time he came there, it immediately seemed to him that someone was watching him. The scientist looked around, but saw no one. He never considered himself a coward, but at that moment it became truly scary.
Konstantin Georgievich felt a gaze on him, but there was no one in the room except him and the deceased! Then he decided to find out where this invisible someone was. He took steps around the room, and finally determined that the entity was located not far from the body of the deceased. The following nights were also scary, but Korotkov still curbed his emotions. He also said that, surprisingly, he got tired quite quickly during such measurements. Although during the day this work was not tiring for him. It felt like someone was sucking the energy out of him.
Does heaven and hell exist - confession of a dead man
But what happens to the soul after it finally leaves the physical body? It is worth citing the story of another eyewitness here. Sandra Ayling works as a nurse in Plymouth. One day she was watching TV at home and suddenly felt a squeezing pain in her chest. It later turned out that she had a blockage in her blood vessels and could have died. This is what Sandra said about her feelings at that moment:
“It seemed to me that I was flying at great speed through a vertical tunnel. Looking around, I saw a huge number of faces, only they were distorted into disgusting grimaces. I felt scared, but soon I flew past them, they were left behind. I flew towards the light, but still could not reach it. It was as if he was moving away from me more and more.
Suddenly, at one moment, it seemed to me that all the pain had gone away. I felt good and calm, a feeling of peace came over me. True, this did not last long. At one point, I suddenly felt my own body and returned to reality. I was taken to the hospital, but I kept thinking about the sensations that I experienced. The scary faces I saw were probably hell, but the light and feeling of bliss were heaven.”
But then how can one explain the theory of reincarnation? It has existed for many millennia.
Reincarnation is the rebirth of the soul in a new physical body. This process was described in detail by the famous psychiatrist Ian Stevenson.
He studied more than two thousand cases of reincarnation and came to the conclusion that a person in his new incarnation will have the same physical and physiological characteristics as in the past. For example, warts, scars, freckles. Even burring and stuttering can be carried through several reincarnations.
Stevenson chose hypnosis in order to find out what happened to his patients in past lives. One boy had a strange scar on his head. Thanks to hypnosis, he remembered that in a previous life his head was broken with an ax. Based on his descriptions, Stevenson went to look for people who might know about this boy in his past life. And luck smiled at him. But imagine the scientist’s surprise when he learned that, in fact, in the place that the boy pointed out to him, a man had previously lived. And he died precisely from an ax blow.
Another participant in the experiment was born with almost no fingers. Once again Stevenson put him under hypnosis. This is how he learned that in a previous incarnation a person was injured while working in the field. The psychiatrist found people who confirmed to him that there was a man who accidentally stuck his hand in a combine harvester and his fingers were cut off.
So how can you understand whether the soul, after the death of the physical body, will go to heaven or hell, or will be reborn? E. Barker proposes his theory in the book “Letters from a Living Deceased.” He compares the physical body of a person with a shitik (dragonfly larva), and the spiritual body with the dragonfly itself. According to the researcher, the physical body walks on the ground, like a larva along the bottom of a reservoir, and the subtle body hovers in the air like a dragonfly.
If a person has “worked out” all the necessary tasks in his physical body (shitik), then he “turns” into a dragonfly and receives a new list, only for more high level, level of matter. If he has not completed the previous tasks, then reincarnation occurs, and the person is reborn in another physical body.
At the same time, the soul retains memories of all its past lives and transfers mistakes to a new one. Therefore, in order to understand why certain failures occur, people go to hypnotists who help them remember what happened in those past lives. Thanks to this, people begin to take a more conscious approach to their actions and avoid old mistakes.
Perhaps, after death, one of us will go to the next, spiritual level, and there will solve some extraterrestrial problems. Others will be reborn and become human again. Only in a different time and physical body.
In any case, I want to believe that there is something else there, beyond the line. Some other life, about which we can now only build hypotheses and assumptions, explore it and conduct various experiments.
But still, the main thing is not to dwell on this issue, but to simply live. Here and now. And then death will no longer seem like a scary old woman with a scythe.
Death will come to everyone, it is impossible to escape from it, this is the law of nature. But we have the power to make this life bright, memorable and full of only positive memories.