There is no proof after death. Is there life after death - eyewitness stories

Scientists have reached the afterlife.

Scientists have evidence of the existence of life after death. They discovered that consciousness can continue after death.

Although there is a lot of skepticism surrounding this topic, there are testimonies from people who have had this experience that will make you think about it.

Although these conclusions are not definitive, you may begin to doubt that death is, in fact, the end of everything.

Is there life after death?

1. Consciousness continues after death

Dr. Sam Parnia is a professor who has studied near-death experiences and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, believes that a person's consciousness can survive brain death when there is no blood flow to the brain and there is no electrical activity.

Since 2008, he has collected extensive evidence of near-death experiences that occurred when a person's brain was no more active than a loaf of bread.

Based on the visions, conscious awareness persisted for up to three minutes after the heart stopped, although the brain usually shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds after the heart stops.

2. Out-of-body experience

You may have heard people talk about the feeling of separation from your own body, and they seemed like a fantasy to you. American singer Pam Reynolds spoke about her out-of-body experience during brain surgery, which she experienced at the age of 35.

She was placed in an induced coma, her body was cooled to 15 degrees Celsius, and her brain was virtually deprived of blood supply. In addition, her eyes were closed and headphones were inserted into her ears, drowning out sounds.

Hovering above her body, she was able to observe own operation. The description was very clear. She heard someone say, “Her arteries are too small,” while the song “Hotel California” by The Eagles played in the background.

The doctors themselves were shocked by all the details that Pam told about her experience.

3. Meeting with the dead

One of the classic examples of near-death experiences is meeting deceased relatives on the other side.

Researcher Bruce Grayson believes that what we see when we are in a state of clinical death is not just vivid hallucinations. In 2013, he published a study in which he indicated that the number of patients who met deceased relatives far exceeded the number of those who met living people.
Moreover, there have been several cases where people have encountered a dead relative on the other side without knowing that the person had died.

4. Borderline Reality

Internationally recognized Belgian neurologist Steven Laureys does not believe in life after death. He believes that all near-death experiences can be explained through physical phenomena.

Laureys and his team expected that near-death experiences would be similar to dreams or hallucinations and would fade from memory over time.

However, he discovered that memories of near-death experiences remain fresh and vivid regardless of the passage of time and sometimes even outshine memories of actual events.

5. Similarity

In one study, researchers asked 344 patients who had experienced cardiac arrest to describe their experiences in the week following resuscitation.

Of all the people surveyed, 18% had difficulty remembering their experience, and 8-12% gave the classic example of a near-death experience. This means that between 28 and 41 unrelated people from different hospitals recalled essentially the same experience.

6. Personality changes

Dutch researcher Pim van Lommel studied the memories of people who experienced clinical death.

According to the results, many people lost their fear of death and became happier, more positive and more sociable. Almost everyone spoke of near-death experiences as a positive experience that further impacted their lives over time.

7. First-hand memories

American neurosurgeon Eben Alexander spent 7 days in a coma in 2008, which changed his opinion about near-death experiences. He stated that he saw something that was difficult to believe.

He said that he saw light and a melody emanating from there, he saw something similar to a portal into a magnificent reality, filled with waterfalls of indescribable colors and millions of butterflies flying across this scene. However, his brain was switched off during these visions to such an extent that he should not have had any glimpses of consciousness.

Many have questioned Dr. Eben's words, but if he is telling the truth, perhaps his experiences and those of others should not be ignored.

8. Visions of the Blind

They interviewed 31 blind people who had experienced clinical death or out-of-body experiences. Moreover, 14 of them were blind from birth.

However, they all described visual images during their experiences, whether it was a tunnel of light, deceased relatives, or watching their bodies from above.

9. Quantum physics

According to Professor Robert Lanza, all possibilities in the Universe happen simultaneously. But when the “observer” decides to look, all these possibilities come down to one, which happens in our world.

Every person who has faced the death of a loved one asks the question: is there life after death? Now this issue is of particular relevance. If several centuries ago the answer to this question was obvious to everyone, now, after a period of atheism, its solution looks more difficult. We cannot easily trust hundreds of generations of our ancestors, who, through personal experience, century after century, were convinced of the presence of an immortal soul in man. We want to have facts. Moreover, the facts are scientific.

From school they tried to convince us that there is no God, there is no immortal soul. At the same time, we were told that science says so. And we believed... Let us note that we believed that there is no immortal soul, we believed that science had allegedly proven this, we believed that there is no God. None of us has even tried to figure out what impartial science says about the soul. We easily trusted certain authorities, without particularly going into the details of their worldview, objectivity, and their interpretation of scientific facts.

We feel that the soul of the deceased is eternal, that it is alive, but on the other hand, the old stereotypes instilled in us that there is no soul pull us into the abyss of despair. This struggle within us is very difficult and very exhausting. We want the truth!

So let's look at the question of the existence of the soul through real, non-ideologized, objective science. Let's hear the opinions of real researchers on this issue and personally evaluate the logical calculations. It is not our belief in the existence or non-existence of the soul, but only knowledge that can extinguish this internal conflict, preserve our strength, give confidence, look at the tragedy from a different perspective, real point vision.

First of all, let's talk about what Consciousness is in general. People have thought about this question throughout the history of mankind, but still cannot come to a final decision. We know only some of the properties and possibilities of consciousness. Consciousness is awareness of oneself, one’s personality, it is a great analyzer of all our feelings, emotions, desires, plans. Consciousness is what sets us apart, what obliges us to feel ourselves not as objects, but as individuals. In other words, Consciousness miraculously reveals our fundamental existence. Consciousness is our awareness of our “I”, but at the same time Consciousness is great secret. Consciousness has no dimensions, no form, no color, no smell, no taste; it cannot be touched or turned in your hands. Despite the fact that we know very little about consciousness, we know with absolute certainty that we have it.

One of the main questions of humanity is the question of the nature of this very Consciousness (soul, “I”, ego). Materialism and idealism have diametrically opposed views on this issue. According to materialism human Consciousness there is a substrate of the brain, a product of matter, the product of biochemical processes, a special fusion of nerve cells. In the view of idealism, Consciousness is the ego, “I”, spirit, soul - an immaterial, invisible, eternally existing, non-dying energy that spiritualizes the body. The subject always takes part in acts of consciousness and is actually aware of everything.

If you are interested in purely religious ideas about the soul, then religion will not provide any evidence of the existence of the soul. The doctrine of the soul is a dogma and is not subject to scientific proof.

There are absolutely no explanations, much less evidence, for materialists who believe that they are impartial researchers (however, this is far from the case).

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

The first thing that comes to mind for most is: “I am a person”, “I am a woman (man)”, “I am a businessman (turner, baker)”, “I am Tanya (Katya, Alexey)”, “I am a wife ( husband, daughter)” and the like. These are certainly funny answers. Your individual, unique “I” cannot be defined general concepts. There are countless people in the world with the same characteristics, but they are not your “I”. Half of them are women (men), but they are not “I” either, people with the same professions seem to have their own “I”, not yours, the same can be said about wives (husbands), people of various professions, social status, nationalities, religions and so on. No affiliation with any group will explain to you what your individual “I” represents, because Consciousness is always personal. I am not qualities (qualities only belong to our “I”), because the qualities of the same person can change, but his “I” will remain unchanged.

Mental and physiological characteristics too.

Some say that their “I” is their reflexes, their behavior, their individual ideas and preferences, their psychological characteristics etc.

Actually, this cannot be the core of the personality, which is called “I”. For what reason? Because throughout life, behavior, ideas and preferences change, and even more so psychological characteristics. It cannot be said that if previously these features were different, then it was not my “I”. Realizing this, some people make the following argument: “I am my individual body.” This is already more interesting. Let's examine this assumption as well.

Everyone knows from a school anatomy course that the cells of our body are gradually renewed throughout life. Old ones die and new ones are born. Some cells are renewed almost every day, but there are cells that go through their life cycle much longer. On average, every 15 years all the cells of the body are renewed. If we consider the “I” to be an ordinary collection of human cells, then the result will be absurd. It turns out that if a person lives, for example, 70 years, during this time all the cells in his body will change at least 4-5 times (that is, 4-5 generations). Could this mean that not just one person, but 5 people lived their 70-year life? different people? Isn't that pretty stupid? We conclude that “I” cannot be a body, because the body is not continuous, but “I” is continuous.

This means that “I” cannot be either the qualities of cells or their totality.

Materialism is accustomed to decomposing the entire multidimensional world into mechanical components, “And using algebra to check the harmony...” (A.S. Pushkin). The most naive misconception of militant materialism regarding personality is the idea that personality is a set of biological qualities. However, the combination of impersonal objects, be they at least atoms, at least neurons, cannot give rise to a personality and its core - the “I”.

How is it possible for this most complex “I”, feeling, capable of experiences, love, to be the sum of specific cells of the body along with the ongoing biochemical and bioelectric processes? How can these processes shape the “I”???

Provided that if nerve cells constituted our “I,” then we would lose part of our “I” every day. With each dead cell, with each neuron, the “I” would become smaller and smaller. With restoration and cell proliferation, it would increase in size.

Scientific research conducted in various countries around the world proves that nerve cells, like all other cells of the human body, are capable of regeneration. This is what the most serious biological international journal Nature writes: “Employees of the Californian Institute biological research them. Salk found that in the brain of adult mammals, perfectly functional young cells are born that function on a par with existing neurons. Professor Frederick Gage and his colleagues also came to the conclusion that brain tissue renews itself most quickly in physically active animals.”

This is also confirmed by a publication in one of the most authoritative, peer-reviewed biological journals, Science: “Over the past two years, scientists have established that nerve and brain cells are renewed, like others in the human body. The body is capable of repairing disorders related to the nervous tract itself,” says scientist Helen M. Blon.”

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

For some reason, it is now so difficult to prove what was obvious and understandable to the ancients. The Roman Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus, who lived back in the 3rd century, wrote: “It is absurd to assume that, since not one of the parts has life, then life can be created by their totality... moreover, it is absolutely impossible for life to be produced by a heap of parts, and that the mind was generated by that which is devoid of mind. If anyone objects that this is not so, but that in fact the soul is formed by atoms coming together, i.e. bodies indivisible into parts, then it will be refuted by the fact that the atoms themselves only lie one next to the other, not forming a living whole, for unity and joint feeling cannot be obtained from bodies that are insensitive and incapable of unification; but the soul feels itself.”

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

A skeptic can put forward a last desperate argument: “Is it possible that the “I” is the brain?”

Many people heard the fairy tale about the fact that our Consciousness is the activity of the brain in school. The idea that the brain is essentially a person with his “I” is extremely widespread. Most people think that it is the brain that perceives information from the world around us, processes it and decides how to act in each specific case; they think that it is the brain that makes us alive and gives us personality. And the body is nothing more than a spacesuit that ensures the activity of the central nervous system.

But this tale has nothing to do with science. The brain is now deeply studied. Long and well studied chemical composition, parts of the brain, connections of these parts with human functions. Studied brain organization perception, attention, memory, speech. Functional blocks of the brain have been studied. A myriad of clinics and scientific centers They have been studying the human brain for more than a hundred years, for which expensive, effective equipment has been developed. But, opening any textbooks, monographs, scientific journals in neurophysiology or neuropsychology, you will not find scientific data about the connection of the brain with Consciousness.

For people far from this field of knowledge, this seems surprising. Actually, there is nothing surprising about this. No one has ever discovered the connection between the brain and the very center of our personality, our “I”. Of course, materialist researchers have always wanted this. Thousands of studies and millions of experiments have been conducted, many billions of dollars have been spent on this. The researchers' efforts were not in vain. Thanks to these studies, the parts of the brain themselves were discovered and studied, their connection with physiological processes was established, a lot was done to understand neurophysiological processes and phenomena, but the most important thing was not achieved. It was not possible to find the place in the brain that is our “I”. It was not even possible, despite the extremely active work in this direction, to make a serious assumption about how the brain is generally connected with our Consciousness.

Where did the assumption come from that Consciousness is located in the brain? One of the first to make such an assumption was the famous electrophysiologist Dubois-Reymond (1818-1896) in the mid-18th century. In his worldview, Dubois-Reymond was one of the brightest representatives of the mechanistic movement. In one of his letters to a friend, he wrote that “exclusively physicochemical laws operate in the body; if not everything can be explained with their help, then it is necessary, using physical and mathematical methods, either to find a way of their action, or to accept that there are new forces of matter, equal in value to physical and chemical forces.”

But the outstanding physiologist Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, who lived at the same time as Raymon, and who headed the new Physiological Institute in Leipzig in 1869-1895, which became the world’s largest center in experimental physiology, did not agree with him. The founder of the scientific school, Ludwig wrote that none of the existing theories of nervous activity, including the electrical theory of nerve currents of Dubois-Reymond, can say anything about how, as a result of the activity of nerves, acts of sensation become possible. Let us note that here we are not even talking about the most complex acts of consciousness, but about much simpler sensations. If there is no consciousness, then we cannot feel or experience anything.

Another major physiologist of the 19th century is the outstanding English neurophysiologist Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, laureate Nobel Prize, said that if it is not clear how the psyche emerges from the activity of the brain, then, naturally, it is just as little understood how it can have any effect on the behavior of a living being, which is controlled through the nervous system.

As a result, Dubois-Reymond himself came to the following conclusion: “As we are aware, we do not know and may never know. And no matter how much we delve into the jungle of intracerebral neurodynamics, we will not build a bridge to the kingdom of consciousness.” Raymon came to the conclusion, disappointing for determinism, that it is impossible to explain Consciousness by material causes. He admitted “that here the human mind comes across a “world riddle” that it will never be able to comprehend.”

Professor at Moscow University, philosopher A.I. Vvedensky in 1914 formulated the law of “absence objective signs animation." The meaning of this law is that the role of the psyche in the system of material processes of behavior regulation is completely elusive and there is no conceivable bridge between the activity of the brain and the area of ​​mental or spiritual phenomena, including Consciousness.

The leading experts in neurophysiology, Nobel Prize laureates David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel recognized that in order to establish a connection between the brain and Consciousness, it is necessary to understand what reads and decodes the information that comes from the senses. The researchers acknowledged that this could not be done.

There is interesting and convincing evidence of the absence of a connection between Consciousness and the functioning of the brain, understandable even to people far from science. Here it is:

Let us assume that the "I" is the result of the work of the brain. As neurophysiologists probably know, a person can live with even one hemisphere of the brain. At the same time, he will have Consciousness. A person who lives only with the right hemisphere of the brain undoubtedly has an “I” (Consciousness). Accordingly, we can conclude that the “I” is not located in the left, absent, hemisphere. A person with only a functioning left hemisphere also has an “I”, therefore the “I” is not located in the right hemisphere, which is absent in this person. Consciousness remains regardless of which hemisphere is removed. This means that a person does not have the area of ​​the brain responsible for Consciousness, neither in the left nor in the right hemisphere of the brain. We have to conclude that the presence of consciousness in humans is not associated with certain areas of the brain.

Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences Voino-Yasenetsky describes: “In a young wounded man, I opened a huge abscess (about 50 cubic cm of pus), which, of course, destroyed the entire left frontal lobe, and I did not observe any mental defects after this operation. I can say the same about another patient who was operated on for a huge cyst. meninges. Upon wide opening of the skull, I was surprised to see that almost the entire right half of it was empty, and the entire left hemisphere of the brain was compressed, almost to the point of being impossible to distinguish.”

In 1940, Dr. Augustin Iturricha made a sensational statement at the Anthropological Society in Sucre (Bolivia). He and Dr. Ortiz spent a long time studying the medical history of a 14-year-old boy, a patient at Dr. Ortiz's clinic. The teenager was there with a diagnosis of a brain tumor. The young man retained Consciousness until his death, complaining only about headache. When, after his death, a pathological autopsy was performed, the doctors were amazed: the entire brain mass was completely separated from the internal cavity of the skull. A large abscess has taken over the cerebellum and part of the brain. It remains absolutely unclear how the sick boy’s thinking was preserved.

The fact that consciousness exists independently of the brain is also confirmed by studies conducted relatively recently by Dutch physiologists under the leadership of Pim van Lommel. The results of a large-scale experiment were published in the most authoritative English biological journal, The Lancet. “Consciousness exists even after the brain has ceased to function. In other words, Consciousness “lives” on its own, completely independently. As for the brain, it is not thinking matter at all, but an organ, like any other, performing strictly defined functions. It is possible that thinking matter does not even exist in principle, said the famous scientist Pim van Lommel, who led the study.”

Another argument that is understandable to non-specialists is given by Professor V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky: “In the wars of ants that do not have a brain, intentionality is clearly revealed, and therefore intelligence, no different from human.” It's true amazing fact. Ants solve quite complex problems of survival, building housing, providing themselves with food, that is, they have a certain intelligence, but have no brain at all. This makes you think, doesn't it?

Neurophysiology does not stand still, but is one of the most dynamically developing sciences. The success of brain research is evidenced by the methods and scale of research. The functions and areas of the brain are being studied, and its composition is being clarified in more and more detail. Despite the titanic work on studying the brain, world science in our time is also far from understanding what creativity, thinking, memory are and what their connection is with the brain itself. Having come to the understanding that Consciousness does not exist inside the body, science draws natural conclusions about the immaterial nature of consciousness.

Academician P.K. Anokhin: “None of the “mental” operations that we attribute to the “mind” have so far been able to be directly associated with any part of the brain. If we, in principle, cannot understand how exactly the psyche appears as a result of the activity of the brain, then isn’t it more logical to think that the psyche is not, in its essence, a function of the brain, but represents the manifestation of some other - immaterial spiritual forces?

At the end of the 20th century, the creator of quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize laureate E. Schrödinger wrote that the nature of the connection between some physical processes and subjective events (which include Consciousness) lies “aside from science and beyond human understanding.”

The greatest modern neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in medicine, J. Eccles, developed the idea that based on the analysis of brain activity it is impossible to determine the origin psychic phenomena, and this fact can simply be interpreted in the sense that the psyche is not a function of the brain at all. According to Eccles, neither physiology nor the theory of evolution can shed light on the origin and nature of consciousness, which is completely alien to all material processes in the Universe. Spiritual world human and the world of physical realities, including brain activity, are absolutely independent independent worlds that only interact and to some extent influence each other. He is echoed by such venerable specialists as Karl Lashley (an American scientist, director of the laboratory of primate biology in Orange Park (Florida), who studied the mechanisms of brain function) and Harvard University doctor Edward Tolman.

With his colleague, the founder of modern neurosurgery Wilder Penfield, who performed over 10,000 brain operations, Eccles wrote the book “The Mystery of Man.” In it, the authors directly state that “there is no doubt that a person is controlled by SOMETHING located outside his body.” “I can confirm experimentally,” writes Eccles, “that the functioning of consciousness cannot be explained by the functioning of the brain. Consciousness exists independently of it.”

Eccles is deeply convinced that consciousness cannot be the subject of scientific research. In his opinion, the emergence of consciousness, as well as the emergence of life, is the highest religious mystery. In his report, the Nobel laureate relied on the conclusions of the book “Personality and the Brain,” written together with the American philosopher and sociologist Karl Popper.

Wilder Penfield, as a result of many years of studying brain activity, also came to the conclusion that “the energy of the mind is different from the energy of brain neural impulses.”

Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Russian Federation, Director of Scientific research institute Brain (RAMS of the Russian Federation), world-renowned neurophysiologist, professor, doctor of medical sciences. Natalya Petrovna Bekhtereva: “I first heard the hypothesis that the human brain only perceives thoughts from somewhere outside from the lips of Nobel laureate, Professor John Eccles. Of course, at the time it seemed absurd to me. But then research conducted at our St. Petersburg Brain Research Institute confirmed: we cannot explain the mechanics of the creative process. The brain can only generate very simple thoughts like how to turn pages book to read or stir sugar in a glass. A creative process– this is a manifestation of the latest quality. As a believer, I allow the participation of the Almighty in controlling the thought process.”

Science is gradually coming to the conclusion that the brain is not a source of thought and consciousness, but at most a relay of them.

Professor S. Grof puts it this way: “imagine that your TV is broken and you call a TV technician, who, after turning various knobs, tunes it up. It doesn’t occur to you that all these stations are sitting in this box.”

Also in 1956, the outstanding leading scientist-surgeon, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky believed that our brain is not only not connected with Consciousness, but is not even capable of thinking, since mental process taken outside of it. In his book, Valentin Feliksovich argues that “the brain is not an organ of thought and feelings,” and that “The Spirit acts beyond the brain, determining its activity, and our entire existence, when the brain works as a transmitter, receiving signals and transmitting them to the organs of the body.” .

English scientists Peter Fenwick from the London Institute of Psychiatry and Sam Parnia from Central Clinic Southampton. They examined patients who had come back to life after cardiac arrest and found that some of them were likely to retell the content of conversations that medical staff had while they were in a state of clinical death. Others gave exact description events that occurred in a given time period. Sam Parnia argues that the brain, like any other organ of the human body, consists of cells and is not capable of thinking. However, it can work as a device that detects thoughts, that is, as an antenna, with the help of which it becomes possible to receive a signal from the outside. Researchers have suggested that during clinical death, Consciousness operating independently of the brain uses it as a screen. Like a television receiver, which first receives the waves entering it, and then converts them into sound and image.

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

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

Natalya Bekhtereva, talking about her meeting with the Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga Dimitrova, speaks very precisely about this in one of her interviews: “Vanga’s example absolutely convinced me that there is a phenomenon of contact with the dead,” and also a quote from her book: “I can’t help but believe what I heard and I saw it myself. A scientist does not have the right to reject facts just because they do not fit into dogma or worldview.”

The first consistent description of afterlife, based on scientific observations, was given by the Swedish scientist and naturalist Emmanuel Swedenborg. After this, this problem was seriously studied by the famous psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler Ross, the no less famous psychiatrist Raymond Moody, conscientious researchers academicians Oliver Lodge, William Crooks, Alfred Wallace, Alexander Butlerov, Professor Friedrich Myers, and the American pediatrician Melvin Morse. Among the serious and systematic scientists on the issue of dying, Dr. Michael Sabom, a professor of medicine at Emory University and a staff physician at the Veterans Hospital in Atlanta, should be mentioned; the systematic study of the psychiatrist Kenneth Ring, who studied this problem, was also studied by the doctor of medicine and resuscitator Moritz Rawlings , our contemporary, thanatopsychologist A. A. Nalchadzhyan. The famous Soviet scientist, a leading specialist in the area of ​​thermodynamic processes, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus Albert Veinik, worked a lot to understand this problem from the point of view of physics. A significant contribution to the study of near-death experiences was made by a world-famous American psychologist of Czech origin, founder of the transpersonal school psychology doctor Stanislav Grof.

The variety of facts accumulated by science indisputably proves that after physical death, each of those living today inherits a different reality, maintaining their Consciousness.

Despite the limitations of our ability to understand this reality using material means, today there are a number of its characteristics obtained through experiments and observations of researchers studying this problem.

These characteristics were listed by A. V. Mikheev, a researcher at the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University in his report at the international symposium “Life after death: from faith to knowledge”, which took place on April 8-9, 2005 in St. Petersburg:

1. There is a so-called “subtle body”, which is the carrier of self-awareness, memory, emotions and “ inner life» person. This body exists... after physical death, being, for the duration of the existence of the physical body, its “parallel component”, ensuring the above processes. The physical body is only an intermediary for their manifestation on the physical (earthly) level.

2. The life of an individual does not end with current earthly death. Survival after death is a natural law for humans.

3. The next reality is divided into a large number of levels that differ in the frequency characteristics of their components.

4. A person’s destination during the posthumous transition is determined by his attunement to a certain level, which is the total result of his thoughts, feelings and actions during life on Earth. Similar to how the spectrum electromagnetic radiation, emitted chemical, depends on its composition, the posthumous destination of a person is definitely determined by the “composite characteristic” of his inner life.

5. The concepts of “Heaven and Hell” reflect two polarities, possible posthumous states.

6. In addition to similar polar states, there are a number of intermediate ones. The selection of an adequate state is automatically determined by the mental and emotional “pattern” formed by a person during earthly life. That is why bad emotions, violence, the desire for destruction and fanaticism, no matter how they are justified externally, in this regard are extremely destructive for the future fate of a person. This provides a strong rationale for personal responsibility and ethical principles.

All of the above arguments are remarkably consistent with the religious knowledge of all traditional religions. This is a reason to cast aside doubts and make a decision. Is not it?

admin.- It's a depressing situation. Consciousness exists, but it is impossible to explain it. And yet, the theory of understanding the essence and mechanisms of the origin and functioning of Consciousness already exists and it was discovered by the Russian scientist Nikolai Levashov in his work "Essence and Mind", which you can read or download on our website. This work is truly unique, due to the fact that it shows the harmonious pattern and interconnection of the Universe and Consciousness, the emergence of matter, living and non-living, and the further development of living matter until the emergence of Consciousness. Just read and a lot will become clearer.

The other world is a very interesting topic that everyone thinks about at least once in their life. What happens to a person and his soul after death? Can he observe living people? These and many questions cannot but worry us. The most interesting thing is that there are many different theories about what happens to a person after death. Let's try to understand them and answer the questions that concern many people.

“Your body will die, but your soul will live forever”

Bishop Theophan the Recluse addressed these words in his letter to his dying sister. He is like others Orthodox priests, believed that only the body dies, but the soul lives forever. What is this connected with and how does religion explain it?

The Orthodox teaching about life after death is too large and voluminous, so we will consider only some of its aspects. First of all, in order to understand what happens to a person and his soul after death, it is necessary to find out what the purpose of all life on earth is. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, St. Apostle Paul mentions that every person must die someday, and after that there will be judgment. This is exactly what Jesus Christ did when he voluntarily surrendered to his enemies to die. Thus, he washed away the sins of many sinners and showed that the righteous, like him, would one day be resurrected. Orthodoxy believes that if life were not eternal, it would have no meaning. Then people would really live, not knowing why they would sooner or later die, there would be no point in doing good deeds. That is why the human soul is immortal. Jesus Christ opened the gates of the Heavenly Kingdom for Orthodox Christians and believers, and death is only the completion of preparation for a new life.

What is the soul

The human soul continues to live after death. She is the spiritual beginning of man. A mention of this can be found in Genesis (chapter 2), and it sounds approximately as follows: “God created man from the dust of the earth and blew the breath of life into his face. Now man has become a living soul.” Holy Scripture “tells” us that man is two-part. If the body can die, then the soul lives forever. She is a living entity, endowed with the ability to think, remember, feel. In other words, a person’s soul continues to live after death. She understands everything, feels and - most importantly - remembers.

Spiritual Vision

In order to make sure that the soul is really capable of feeling and understanding, you only need to remember cases when a person’s body died for some time, and the soul saw and understood everything. Similar stories can be read in a variety of sources, for example, K. Ikskul in his book “Incredible for many, but a true incident” describes what happens after death to a person and his soul. Everything that is written in the book is personal experience the author, who fell ill with a serious illness and experienced clinical death. Almost everything that can be read on this topic in various sources is very similar to each other.

People who have experienced clinical death describe it as a white, enveloping fog. Below you can see the body of the man himself, next to him are his relatives and doctors. It is interesting that the soul, separated from the body, can move in space and understands everything. Some say that after the body ceases to show any signs of life, the soul passes through a long tunnel, at the end of which there is a bright white light. Then, usually over a period of time, the soul returns to the body and the heart begins to beat. What if a person dies? What then happens to him? What does the human soul do after death?

Meeting others like yourself

After the soul is separated from the body, it can see spirits, both good and bad. The interesting thing is that, as a rule, she is attracted to her own kind, and if during life any of the forces had an influence on her, then after death she will be attached to it. This period of time when the soul chooses its “company” is called the Private Court. It is then that it becomes completely clear whether this person’s life was in vain. If he fulfilled all the commandments, was kind and generous, then, undoubtedly, next to him there will be the same souls - kind and pure. The opposite situation is characterized by a society of fallen spirits. They will face eternal torment and suffering in hell.

First few days

It is interesting what happens after death to a person’s soul in the first few days, because this period is for it a time of freedom and enjoyment. It is in the first three days that the soul can move freely on earth. As a rule, she is near her relatives at this time. She even tries to talk to them, but it is difficult, because a person is not able to see and hear spirits. IN in rare cases when the connection between people and the dead is very strong, they feel the presence soul mate nearby, but they can’t explain it. For this reason, the burial of a Christian takes place exactly 3 days after death. In addition, it is this period that the soul needs in order to realize where it is now. It’s not easy for her, she may not have had time to say goodbye to anyone or say anything to anyone. Most often, a person is not ready for death, and he needs these three days to understand the essence of what is happening and say goodbye.

However, there are exceptions to every rule. For example, K. Ikskul began his journey to another world on the first day, because the Lord told him so. Most of the saints and martyrs were ready for death, and in order to move to another world, it took them only a few hours, because this was their main goal. Each case is completely different, and information comes only from those people who have experienced the “post-mortem experience” themselves. If we are not talking about clinical death, then everything can be completely different. Proof that in the first three days a person’s soul is on earth is also the fact that it is during this period of time that relatives and friends of the deceased feel their presence nearby.

Next stage

The next stage of transition to the afterlife is very difficult and dangerous. On the third or fourth day, trials await the soul - ordeal. There are about twenty of them, and all of them must be overcome so that the soul can continue its path. Ordeals are entire pandemoniums of evil spirits. They block the way and accuse her of sins. The Bible also talks about these trials. Mother of Jesus - Most Pure and Venerable Mary, - having learned about her imminent death from Archangel Gabriel, she asked her son to save her from demons and ordeals. In response to her requests, Jesus said that after death he would take her by the hand to Heaven. And so it happened. This action can be seen on the icon “Assumption of the Virgin Mary”. On the third day, it is customary to pray fervently for the soul of the deceased, in this way you can help it pass all the tests.

What happens a month after death

After the soul has gone through the ordeal, it worships God and goes on a journey again. This time, hellish abysses and heavenly abodes await her. She watches how sinners suffer and how the righteous rejoice, but she does not yet have her own place. On the fortieth day, the soul is assigned a place where it, like everyone else, will await the Supreme Court. There is also information that only until the ninth day does the soul see the heavenly abodes and observe righteous souls who live in happiness and joy. The rest of the time (about a month) she has to watch the torment of sinners in hell. At this time, the soul cries, mourns and humbly awaits its fate. On the fortieth day, the soul is assigned a place where it will await the resurrection of all the dead.

Who goes where and

Of course, only the Lord God is omnipresent and knows exactly where the soul ends up after the death of a person. Sinners go to hell and spend time there waiting for even greater torment that will come after the Supreme Court. Sometimes such souls can come to friends and relatives in dreams, asking for help. You can help in such a situation by praying for a sinful soul and asking the Almighty for forgiveness of its sins. There are cases when sincere prayer for a deceased person really helped him move to a better world. For example, in the 3rd century, the martyr Perpetua saw that the fate of her brother was like a filled pond that was located too high for him to reach. Days and nights she prayed for his soul and over time she saw him touch a pond and be transported to a bright, clean place. From the above, it becomes clear that the brother was pardoned and sent from hell to heaven. The righteous, thanks to the fact that they did not live their lives in vain, go to heaven and look forward to the Day of Judgment.

Teachings of Pythagoras

As mentioned earlier, there are a huge number of theories and myths regarding the afterlife. For many centuries, scientists and clergy studied the question: how to find out where a person ended up after death, looked for answers, argued, looked for facts and evidence. One of these theories was the teaching of Pythagoras about the transmigration of souls, the so-called reincarnation. Scientists such as Plato and Socrates shared the same opinion. A huge amount of information about reincarnation can be found in such a mystical movement as Kabbalah. Its essence is that the soul has a specific goal, or a lesson that it must go through and learn. If during life the person in whom this soul lives does not cope with this task, it is reborn.

What happens to the body after death? It dies and it is impossible to resurrect it, but the soul is looking for a new life. Another interesting thing about this theory is that, as a rule, all people who are related in a family are not connected by chance. More specifically, the same souls are constantly looking for each other and finding each other. For example, in past life your mother could be your daughter or even your spouse. Since the soul has no gender, it can have both a feminine and masculine principle, it all depends on what body it ends up in.

There is an opinion that our friends and soul mates are also kindred spirits who are karmically connected to us. There is one more nuance: for example, a son and father constantly have conflicts, no one wants to give in, until last days two loved ones are literally at war with each other. Most likely, in next life fate will bring these souls together again, as brother and sister or as husband and wife. This will continue until they both find a compromise.

Pythagorean square

Supporters of the Pythagorean theory are most often interested not in what happens to the body after death, but in what incarnation their soul lives and who they were in a past life. In order to find out these facts, a Pythagorean square was drawn up. Let's try to understand it with an example. Let's say you were born on December 3, 1991. You need to write down the received numbers on a line and carry out some manipulations with them.

1. It is necessary to add up all the numbers and get the main one: 3 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 1 = 26 - this will be the first number.
2. Next, you need to add the previous result: 2 + 6 = 8. This will be the second number.
3. In order to get the third, from the first it is necessary to subtract the double first digit of the date of birth (in our case, 03, we do not take zero, we subtract three times 2): 26 - 3 x 2 = 20.
4. The last number is obtained by adding the digits of the third working number: 2+0 = 2.

Now let’s write down the date of birth and the results obtained:

In order to find out what incarnation the soul lives in, it is necessary to count all the numbers except zeros. In our case, the soul of a person born on December 3, 1991 lives through the 12th incarnation. By composing a Pythagorean square from these numbers, you can find out what characteristics it has.

Some facts

Many, of course, are interested in the question: is there life after death? All world religions are trying to answer it, but there is still no clear answer. Instead, in some sources you can find some Interesting Facts regarding this topic. Of course, it cannot be said that the statements that will be given below are dogma. These are most likely just some interesting thoughts on this topic.

What is death

It is difficult to answer the question of whether there is life after death without finding out the main signs of this process. In medicine, this concept refers to stopping breathing and heartbeat. But we should not forget that these are signs of the death of the human body. On the other hand, there is information that the mummified body of the monk-priest continues to show all signs of life: soft fabrics they press, the joints bend, a fragrance emanates from it. Some mummified bodies even grow nails and hair, perhaps confirming the fact that certain biological processes still occur in a deceased body.

What happens a year after the death of an ordinary person? Of course, the body decomposes.

Finally

Taking into account all of the above, we can say that the body is just one of the shells of a person. In addition to it, there is also a soul - an eternal substance. Almost all world religions agree that after the death of the body, the human soul still lives, some believe that it is reborn in another person, and others believe that it lives in Heaven, but, one way or another, it continues to exist . All thoughts, feelings, emotions are the spiritual sphere of a person, which lives despite physical death. Thus, it can be considered that life after death exists, but it is no longer interconnected with the physical body.

Korotkov Konstantin Georgievich

Doctor of Technical Sciences

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

Konstantin Georgievich, what you did is both incredible and natural at the same time. Any man of sense to one degree or another believes or at least secretly hopes that his soul is immortal. “Does not believe in the immortality of the soul; - Leo Tolstoy wrote, “only those who have never seriously thought about death.” However, science, which has replaced God for half of humanity, does not seem to give reason for optimism. So the long-awaited breakthrough has been made: the light has dawned before us eternal life at the end of a tunnel that no one can escape?

I would refrain from making such categorical statements. The experiments I conducted are rather a reason for other researchers to use precise methods to find the threshold between the earthly existence of a person and the afterlife of the soul. How one-sided is the transition across this threshold? At what point is it still possible to return? - the question is not only theoretical and philosophical, but also key in the daily practice of resuscitators: it is extremely important for them to obtain a clear criterion for the body’s transition beyond the threshold of earthly existence.

You dared to set the goal of your experiments to answer a question that had previously puzzled only theosophists, esotericists and mystics. What an arsenal modern science allowed you to pose the task in this form?

My experiments were made possible thanks to a method created in Russia more than a century ago. It was forgotten, and in the 20s it was revived again by the inventors from Krasnodar, the Kirlian spouses. In a high-intensity electromagnetic field around a living object, be it a green leaf or a finger, a radiant glow appears. Moreover, the characteristics of this glow directly depend on the energy state of the object. Around the finger of a healthy, cheerful person, the glow is bright and even. Any disorders of the body - which is fundamentally important, not only those already identified, but also future ones that have not yet manifested themselves in organs and systems - break the luminous halo, deform it and make it dimmer. A special diagnostic direction in medicine has already been formed and recognized, which makes it possible to draw current conclusions about upcoming diseases based on inhomogeneities, cavities and darkening in a Kirlian image. The German doctor P. Mandel, having processed enormous statistical material, even created an atlas in which various features The glow corresponds to certain errors in the state of the body.

So, twenty years of working with the Kirlian effect pushed me to the idea of ​​​​seeing how the glow around living matter changes as it becomes inanimate.

Are you really like Academician Pavlov, who dictated his diary to his students? own death, photographed the dying process?

No, I did something different: I began to explore the bodies of recently deceased people using Kirlian photographs. An hour to three hours after death, the motionless hand of the deceased was photographed hourly in a gas-discharge flash. The images were then processed on a computer to determine changes in the parameters of interest over time. Filming of each object took from three to five days. The ages of the deceased men and women ranged from 19 to 70 years, and their manner of death was different.

And this, no matter how strange it may seem to some, was reflected in the photographs.

The set of obtained gas-discharge curves was naturally divided into three groups:

a) relatively small amplitude of oscillations of the curves;

b) also a small amplitude, but there is one well-defined peak;

c) large amplitude of very long oscillations.

These differences are purely physical, and I would not mention them to you if the changes in parameters were not so clearly linked to the nature of the death of those photographed. But thanatologists—researchers of the process of dying of living organisms—have never had such a relationship before.

Here's how the deaths of people from the three groups mentioned above differed:

a) "calm" natural death a senile organism that has exhausted its life resource;

b) “abrupt” death - also natural, but still accidental: as a result of an accident, blood clot, traumatic brain injury, or help not arriving in time;

c) “unexpected” death, sudden, tragic, which, had circumstances been happier, could have been avoided; Suicides also belong to this group.

Here it is, completely new material for science: the nature of death is literally displayed on the instruments.

The most striking thing about the results obtained is that oscillatory processes, in which rises alternate with declines over several hours, are characteristic of objects with active life activity. And I photographed the dead... This means that there is no fundamental difference between the dead and the living when Kirlian photography is done! But then death itself is not a break, not an instant event, but a gradual process, a slow transition.

- And how long does this transition last?

The fact of the matter is that the duration in different groups is also different:

a) “calm” death revealed in my experiments fluctuations in glow parameters over a period of 16 to 55 hours;

b) “sharp” death leads to a visible jump either after 8 hours or at the end of the first day, and two days after death the fluctuations converge to the background level;

c) with “unexpected” death, the oscillations are the strongest and longest, their amplitude decreases from the beginning to the end of the experiment, the glow dims at the end of the first day and especially sharply at the end of the second; in addition, every evening after nine and until approximately two or three o'clock in the morning, bursts of glow intensity are observed.

- Well, it’s just some kind of scientific and mystical thriller: at night the dead come to life!

Legends and customs associated with the dead are receiving unexpected experimental confirmation.

Who would know what it is abroad - a day after death, two days? But since these intervals are readable on my diagrams, it means that something corresponds to them.

- Have you somehow identified nine and forty days after death - especially significant intervals in Christianity?

I did not have the opportunity to conduct such long-term experiments. But I am convinced that the period from three to 49 days after death is a crucial period for the soul of the deceased, marked by its separation from the body. Either she is traveling at this time between two worlds, or Higher intelligence decides its future fate, or whether the soul goes through circles of ordeal - various religious doctrines describe different nuances apparently the same process, which was also displayed on our computers.

- So, the afterlife of the soul has been scientifically proven?

Do not misunderstand me. I obtained experimental data, used metrologically proven equipment, standardized methods, data processing was carried out on different stages different operators, I took care of proof of lack of influence meteorological conditions on the operation of the instruments... That is, I did everything in my power to make sure that the results were as objective as possible as a conscientious experimenter. Remaining within the framework of the Western scientific paradigm, I, in principle, must avoid mentioning the soul or the separation of the astral body from the physical; these are concepts organic to the occult and mystical teachings of Eastern science. And although, as we remember, “West is West, and East is East, and they cannot come together,” they converge in my research. If we talk about scientific proof of the afterlife, we will inevitably have to clarify whether we mean Western or Eastern science.

- Maybe just such research is called upon to unite the two sciences?

We have every right to hope that this will eventually happen. Moreover, the ancient treatises of mankind on the transition from life to death are fundamentally the same among all traditional religions.

Since the living body and the body of the recently deceased are very similar in the characteristics of the gas-discharge glow, it is not entirely clear what death is. At the same time, I specifically conducted a series of similar experiments with meat - both fresh and frozen. No fluctuations in the glow of these objects were noted. It turns out that the body of a person who died a few hours or days ago is much closer to a living body than to meat. Tell this to the pathologist - I think he will be surprised.

As you can see, the energy-information structure of a person is no less real than his material body. These two hypostases are connected with each other during a person’s life and break this connection after death not immediately, but gradually, according to certain laws. And if we recognize a motionless body with stopped breathing and heartbeat, a non-functioning brain as dead, this does not at all mean that the astral body is dead.

Moreover, the separation of the astral and physical bodies can somewhat separate them in space.

- Well, we’ve already agreed on phantoms and ghosts.

What to do, in our conversation these are not folklore or mystical images, but a reality recorded by instruments.

Are you really implying that the dead man is lying on the table, and his flickering ghost is walking around the house left by the deceased?

I’m not hinting, but I’m talking about this with the responsibility of a scientist and a direct participant in the experiments.

On the very first experimental night, I felt the presence of a certain entity. It turned out that this is a common reality for pathologists and morgue attendants.

Periodically going down to the basement to measure parameters (which is where the experiments were carried out), on the first night I experienced an insane attack of fear. For me, seasoned in extreme situations For an experienced hunter and climber, fear is not the most characteristic state. With an effort of will I tried to overcome it. But in this case it didn’t work. The fear subsided only with the onset of morning. And on the second night it was scary, and on the third, but with repetitions the fear gradually weakened.

Analyzing the reason for my fear, I realized that it was objective. When, going down to the basement, I was heading towards the object of research, before I even reached it, I clearly felt eyes on me. Whose? There was no one in the room except me and the dead man. Everyone feels a gaze directed at themselves. Usually, when he turns around, he meets someone's eyes fixed on him, B in this case there was a look, but no eyes. Moving now closer to the gurney with the body, now further from it, I experimentally established that the source of the gaze was located five to seven meters from the body. Moreover, every time I caught myself with the feeling that the invisible observer was here by right, and I was there by my own volition.

Typically, work associated with periodic measurements required being near the body for about twenty minutes. During this time I was very tired, and the work itself could not cause this fatigue. Repeated sensations of the same kind prompted the idea of ​​a natural loss of energy in the basement.

- Did the Phantom suck your energy?

Not just mine. The same thing happened to my assistants, which only confirmed the non-randomness of my feelings. Worse yet, doctor experimental group- an experienced professional who performed autopsies on corpses for many years - in our work he touched a piece of bone, tore his glove, but did not notice the scratch, and the next day he was taken away by ambulance with blood poisoning.

What kind of sudden puncture? As he later admitted to me, for the first time, a pathologist had to stay near corpses for a long time, and at night. At night, fatigue is stronger, vigilance is weaker. But besides this, as we now know for certain, the activity of a dead body is higher, especially if it is a suicide.

True, I am not a supporter of the view that the dead suck energy from the living. Perhaps the process is not so clear cut. The body of the recently deceased is in a complex state of transition from life to death. There is still an unknown process of energy flowing from the body into another world. Getting another person into this zone energy process may be fraught with damage to its energy-informational structure.

- Is that why they hold a funeral service for the deceased?

In the funeral service, prayers for the soul of the newly deceased, in only kind words and thoughts about him, there is a deep meaning that rational science has not yet reached. A soul making a difficult transition should be helped. If we invade its domain, even if it is forgivable, as it seems to us, research purposes, we apparently expose ourselves to an unexplored, although intuitively guessed, danger.

- And the reluctance of the church to bury suicides in consecrated ground is confirmed by your research?

Yes, perhaps those violent fluctuations in the first two days after voluntary death, which our computers recorded when calculating Kirlian photographs of a suicide, provide a rational basis for this custom. After all, we still don’t know anything about what then happens to the souls of the dead and how they interact with each other.

But our conclusion about the absence of a tangible boundary between life and death (according to the experiments conducted) allows us to assume the truth of the judgment that the soul, after the death of the body, continues in the afterlife the same fate of the same person living in a different reality.

This type of information interests most people. Previously, humanity only speculated whether there was life after death, scientific evidence was provided by modern scientists, using the latest technologies and research methods. The belief that life will continue in some other form, perhaps in another dimension, allows people to achieve their goals. If there is no such confidence, then there is no motivation for further development, there is no improvement.

No one can draw final conclusions. Research continues, new evidence of various theories is emerging. When irrefutable evidence of the existence of life after death is provided, then philosophy human life will change completely.

Scientific theories and evidence

According to Tsiolkovsky's scientific explanation physical death does not mean the end of life. In his theory, souls are presented in the form of indivisible atoms, therefore, saying goodbye to corruptible bodies, they do not disappear, but continue to wander in the Universe. Consciousness persists even after death. This was the first attempt to scientifically substantiate the assumption of whether there is life after death, although no evidence was presented.

Similar conclusions were drawn by English researchers working at the London Institute of Psychiatry. Their patients' hearts stopped completely and clinical death occurred. The medical staff at this time discussed various nuances. Some patients recounted the topics of these conversations very accurately.

According to Sam Parnia, the brain is an ordinary human organ, and its cells are in no way capable of generating thoughts. All thinking process organized by consciousness. The brain works as a receiver, receiving and processing ready-made information. If we turn off the receiver, the radio station will not stop broadcasting. The same can be said about physical body after death, when consciousness does not die.

Feelings of people who have experienced clinical death

The best proof of whether there is life after death is the testimony of people. There are many eyewitnesses to their own death. Scientists are trying to systematize their memories, find a scientific basis, and explain what is happening as an ordinary physical process.

The stories of people who have experienced clinical death differ sharply from each other. Not all patients had different visions. Many people don't remember anything at all. But some people shared their impressions after the unusual condition. These cases have their own characteristics.

During complex operation One patient experienced clinical death. He describes in detail the situation in the operating room, although he was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state. The hero saw all his saviors from the outside, as well as his body. Later, in the hospital, he recognized the doctors by sight, causing them to be surprised. After all, they left the operating room before the patient regained consciousness.

The woman had other visions. She felt a rapid movement in space, during which there were several stops. The heroine communicated with figures that did not have clear shapes, but she was still able to remember the essence of the conversation. There was a clear awareness that she was outside the body. I couldn’t call this state a dream or a vision, because everything looked too realistic.

The fact that some people who have experienced clinical death acquire new abilities, talents, and extrasensory abilities also remains inexplicable. Many potential dead people had a repeated vision in the form of a long light tunnel and bright flashes. States can be very different: from blissful peace to panic fear, shackling horror. This can only mean one thing: not all people are destined for the same fate. People's evidence of such phenomena can more accurately tell whether there is life after death.

Major religions about life after death

The question of life and death interested people in different times. This could not but be reflected in religious beliefs. Different religions have their own explanations for the possibility of continuing life after physical death.

Attitude to earthly life Christianity very dismissive. The real, true existence begins in another world, for which you need to prepare. The soul departs a few days after death, staying next to the body. In this case, there is no doubt about whether there is an afterlife after death. When moving to another state, thoughts remain the same. In another world, angels, demons and other souls await people. The degree of spirituality and sin determines the future fate of a particular soul. All this will be decided at the Last Judgment. Unrepentant and great sinners have no chance of going to heaven - they are destined for a place in hell.

IN Islam People who do not believe in the afterlife are considered malicious apostates. Here they also consider earthly life as a transitional stage before akhiret. Allah makes decisions regarding a person's lifespan. Having great faith and few sins, believers of Islam die with with a light heart. Infidels and atheists do not have the opportunity to escape from hell, while believers of Islam can count on this.

They don't give of great importance matter of life or death Buddhism. The Buddha identified several other issues that are undesirable for consideration. Buddhists do not think about the soul because it does not exist. Although representatives of this religion believe in reincarnation and nirvana. Rebirth into different shapes continues until a person reaches nirvana. All believers in Buddhism strive for this state, because this is how an unhappy carnal existence ends.

IN Judaism there are no clear accents regarding the issue of interest. Exist different variants which sometimes contradict each other. This confusion is explained by the fact that other religious movements became the source.

Any religion has a mystical element, although many facts are taken from real life. The afterlife cannot be denied, otherwise the meaning of faith is lost. The use of human fears and experiences is quite normal phenomenon for any religious movement. The sacred books clearly confirm the possibility of continuing one’s existence after earthly life. If you consider the number of believers on Earth, it becomes clear that most people believe in an afterlife.

Communication of mediums with the afterlife

The most compelling evidence of the continuation of life after death is the activity of mediums. This category of people has special abilities that allow them to establish contacts with deceased people. When there is nothing left of a person, it is impossible to communicate with him. Based on the opposite, it is easy to understand that another world exists. However, there are many charlatans among mediums.

No one will now doubt the abilities of the famous Bulgarian seer Vanga. She was visited by a large number famous people. The prophecies of the clairvoyant and the real medium are still relevant and important. Many were amazed by what Vanga said about life after death. This woman told her guests in great detail about their deceased relatives.

Vanga argued that death occurs only for the body. For the soul, everything continues. In another world a person looks the same. The seer even told us what clothes the deceased was wearing. Based on the description, relatives recognized the deceased’s favorite clothes. Souls glow. They have the same character as in life. Communication with the dead is not interrupted. People from the other world try to influence the course of events in the lives of friends and relatives, but this is not always possible. They experience the same feelings when trying to help. In another world, the existence of the soul continues with all the previous memories.

As soon as visitors came to Vanga, their deceased relatives immediately appeared in the room. The interest of living people in them is very great. People like Vanga can see ghosts and fully communicate with them. She had conversations with souls, learning future events from them. The woman served as a kind of bridge between two worlds, with the help of which their representatives could communicate. The fear of death, according to Vanga, is too common among people. In fact, this is just another stage of existence when a person gets rid of the outer shell, although he experiences discomfort.

American Arthur Ford never tired of surprising people with his abilities for several decades. He communicated with people who had not been in this world for a long time. Some sessions could be seen by millions of television viewers. Various mediums spoke about life after death, based on their own experiences. Ford's psychic abilities first appeared during the war. From somewhere he received information about his colleagues who died in the coming days. Since that time, Arthur began studying parapsychology and developed his abilities.

There were many skeptics who explained Ford's phenomenon with his telepathic gift. That is, the information was provided to the medium by the people themselves. But too many facts refuted such a theory.

The example of the Englishman Leslie Flint became another confirmation of the existence of the afterlife. He began communicating with ghosts as a child. Leslie at a certain time agreed to collaborate with scientists. Research by psychologists, psychiatrists, and parapsychologists confirmed the extraordinary abilities of this person. More than once they tried to convict him of fraud, but such attempts were unsuccessful.

Sound recordings of the voices of famous personalities from different eras appeared through the medium. They reported interesting facts about themselves. Many continued to work at what they loved. Leslie was able to prove that people who have moved to another world receive information about what is now happening in real life.

Psychics were able to use practical actions to prove the existence of the soul and the afterlife. Although the immaterial world is still shrouded in mystery. It is not entirely clear under what conditions the soul exists. Mediums work like receiving and transmitting devices without affecting the process itself.

Summarizing all the above facts, it can be argued that the human body is nothing more than a shell. The nature of the soul has not yet been studied, and it is unknown whether this is possible in principle. Perhaps there is a certain limit to human capabilities and knowledge that people will never cross. The existence of the soul inspires optimism in people, because they can realize themselves after death in a different capacity, and not just turn into ordinary fertilizer. After the above material, everyone must decide for themselves whether there is life after death; scientific evidence, however, is not yet very convincing.