Like life after death. Rebirth of the soul or “Reincarnation”. Childbirth under the ceiling

Since the dawn of humanity, people have been trying to answer the question of the existence of life after death. Descriptions of the fact that there really is an afterlife can be found not only in various religions, but also in eyewitness accounts.

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Is there life after death - Moritz Rawlings

Eh, people argue for a long time. Ardent skeptics are sure that there is nothing after death.

Moritz Rawlings

Believers believe that... Moritz Rawlings, a cardiologist and professor at the University of Tennessee, tried to collect evidence of this. He is known from the book “Beyond the Threshold of Death.” It contains many facts describing the lives of patients who experienced clinical death.

One of the stories tells about a strange event at the moment of resuscitation of a person in a state of clinical death. During the massage, which was supposed to get the heart pumping, the patient returned to consciousness and began to beg the doctor not to stop.

The man, in horror, said that he was in hell and when they stopped doing the massage, he again found himself in this terrible place. Rawlings writes that when the patient regained consciousness, he told what unimaginable torment he experienced. The patient expressed his readiness to endure anything in life, just not to return to such a place.
Rawlings began recording stories that were told to him by resuscitated patients. According to Rawlings, half of those who have experienced clinical death say that they were in a charming place from which they did not want to leave. They returned reluctantly.

The other half insisted that the world they contemplated was filled with monsters and torment. They had no desire to return.

But for skeptics, whether there is life after death is not a statement. It is believed that each individual subconsciously builds a vision of the afterlife, and during clinical death the brain gives a picture of what it was prepared for.

Life after death - stories from the Russian press

You can find information about people who have experienced clinical death. The newspapers mentioned the story Galina Lagoda. A woman was in a terrible accident. When they brought her to the clinic, she had brain damage, ruptured kidneys, lungs, multiple fractures, her heart stopped beating, and her blood pressure was zero.

The patient claims she saw darkness, space. I found myself on a platform that was filled with amazing light. A man in white clothes stood in front of her. I couldn't distinguish his face.

The man asked why the woman had come. It turned out she was tired. She was not left in this world, explaining that she had unfinished business.

When Galina woke up, she asked her doctor about the abdominal pain that was bothering him. Returning to the “world”, she became the owner of a gift; the woman healed people.

Wife Yuri Burkova told about an amazing incident. He says that after an accident, the husband injured his back and received a serious head injury. Yuri's heart stopped beating and he remained in a coma for a long time.

The husband was in the clinic, the woman lost her keys. When the husband woke up, he asked if she had found them. The wife was amazed, Yuri said that they should look for the loss under the stairs.
Yuri admitted that at that time he was close to his deceased relatives and comrades.

Afterlife - Heaven

The actress speaks about the existence of another life Sharon Stone. On May 27, 2004, a woman shared her story on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Stone claims that she had an MRI and was unconscious for some time and saw a room with a white light.

Sharon Stone, Oprah Winfrey

The actress claims that the condition is similar to fainting. The difference was that it was difficult to come to one’s senses. At that moment she saw all the deceased relatives and friends.

She confirms the fact who they knew. The actress assures that she experienced grace, a feeling of joy, love and happiness - Paradise.

We managed to find interesting stories, they received publicity all over the world. Betty Maltz assured about the existence of Heaven.

The woman talks about the amazing terrain, beautiful green hills, rose-colored trees and bushes. There was no sun in the sky, everything around was in bright light.

The woman was followed by an angel who took the form of a young man in long white robes. Beautiful music was heard, and a silver palace rose in front of them. Behind the gates was a golden street.

The woman experienced that Jesus was standing there, inviting her to come in. Betty thought she felt her father's prayers and returned to her body.

Journey to Hell - facts, stories, real cases

Not all eyewitness accounts describe life after death as happy.
15 year old Jennifer Perez claims that she saw Hell.

The first thing that caught the girl’s eye was a long snow-white wall. The exit in the center is locked. Not far away there is another black door - slightly open.

An angel appeared nearby, he took the girl by the hand and led her to door 2, it was scary to look at her. Jennifer tried to run away and resisted, but it didn't help. On the other side of the wall I saw darkness. The girl began to fall.

When she landed, she felt the heat, it enveloped her. There were souls of people around, they were tormented by devils. Seeing all these unfortunate people in agony, Jennifer stretched out her hands and begged, asking for water, she was dying of thirst. Gabriel spoke about another chance, and the girl woke up.

Descriptions of hell appear in the story Bill Wyss. The man talks about the heat in this place. The person begins to experience terrible weakness and powerlessness. Bill didn’t understand where he was, but he saw four demons nearby.

The smell of sulfur and burning flesh hung in the air, huge monsters approached the man and began to tear apart the body. There was no blood, but with every touch he felt terrible pain. Bill felt that demons hated God and all his creatures.

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 bright colors. 13% of people saw pictures from their lives, and they were able to view their entire 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. A person who is in an inanimate state, but not yet dead, can make a choice - to return to the material world or to 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 approximately half of the cases, awareness of one's own death occurs. Unpleasant sensations or fear are very rare during clinical death. Most people who have been beyond the line are convinced that a better world awaits beyond the line, 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 his 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 for some time babies 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 around them, but 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. It is not uncommon for parts of the body that were damaged in a past life to 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 photographs, one of which was of Gus's grandfather, named August. This photo was of a group of people, and when Ron asked Gus to point out who your grandfather was, little Gus easily pointed to the correct person without hesitation. 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 the name of the 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, has been present in the traditions of almost all peoples of the world, starting from ancient times. 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.

1.For 3 days after a person’s death, enzymes remaining in the body contribute to decomposition.

2. Abraham Lincoln's body was reburied 17 times after his death.

3. People who hanged themselves most often experience a post-mortem erection.

4. A person’s head continues to live for about 20 seconds after death.

5. In 1907, Dr. Duncan McDougal conducted an experiment in which he had to weigh a person “before” and “after” his death. After death, a person loses weight.

6. The real facts of life after death say that people with large fat deposits turn into soap after death.

7. Moritz Rawlings wrote the book “Beyond the Threshold of Death.”

8. According to scientists, a person who was buried alive will die after 5.5 hours.

9. After death, a person’s nails and hair do not grow.

10. Many people have visited another world when they were in a state of clinical death.

11.Children see only good things in clinical death.

12.Adults who experienced clinical death saw monsters and demons.

13. In Madagascar, after the death of a person, relatives dig up the remains of the deceased. This is necessary in order to dance with the deceased during a ritual ceremony called Famadikhana.

14.American scientist Michael Newton used hypnosis to awaken memories of a past life in people.

15. When a person dies, he is reborn in another body.

16.When a person dies, hearing is the last thing to go.

17. In the south-eastern part of Asia there are still mummies whose nails and hair continue to grow.

18. Reliable facts about life after death indicate that psychologist Raymond Moody managed to write the book “Life after Death.”

19. Many peoples have a ban on pronouncing the name of the deceased after his death.

20. Information in the human brain does not die after death, but is stored. This fact confirms life after death: what facts are known for sure remains a great mystery.

21.Residents of China believe that after death they go to the underworld.

22.After the death of a person, his body undergoes various changes in all parts.

23. Coconuts kill more people than sharks.

24. In France, if desired, people can officially marry the deceased. This is permitted by law.

25. Many animals can pretend to be dead to escape from a predator.

26.9 women out of 10 are able to remember their past lives within an hour.

27. In a Norwegian town called Longyearbyen, it is forbidden by law to die. If a person dies in this city, he will not be buried there.

28.Blind people are able to “see” what will happen to them after death.

29. On the territory of Ancient Rome, lemurs were the name of the dead who died and did not return to the world of the living.

30. South Koreans believe in the myth that a person dies while in a dark room with a fan.

31. It takes about 15 years for the decomposition of a dead human body.

32.After death, a person remains the same as he was before: his qualities, intelligence and abilities do not change.

33.After the death of a person, the cerebral cortex continues to receive blood from the vessels, which continue to work until biological death occurs.

34.During his earthly life, a person creates a bed for himself on which he will have to sleep after death.

35.After death, adults see themselves as children, and children, on the contrary, as adults.

36. If a person had any injuries or damage during life, then after death they disappear.

37.After death, a person’s consciousness takes on completely different forms, while maintaining its essence.

38.Professor Voino-Yasenetsky believes that inside the world we see, another world is hidden - the afterlife.

39. There is no longer a person in a deceased person. Life after death speaks about this. Facts about this philosophical topic can be read continuously.

40. Archpriest Paul believes that earthly life is a preparation for life after death. The human body is destroyed, but the soul continues to live.

41.Life continues in a person’s body after his death, but consciousness has nothing to do with this.

42.After death, gas pressure in the body increases.

43. Vanga claimed that there is an afterlife. According to her assumptions, the dead begin a new life after death, and their souls are among us.

44.N.P. Bekhtereva said that after the death of her husband, his ghost appeared not only at night, but also during the day.

45. The facts of life after death claim that after death only good souls return to Earth.

46.The Egyptians believed that the afterlife was almost identical to the real one.

47. Things were placed in the tomb of the dead pharaoh so that they would be useful in the afterlife.

48.Sometimes dead people come back to life.

49.After death, a person’s state does not become inactive and boring peace, but appears in the form of a harmonious and complete satisfaction of all needs. This once again proves life after death, the facts about which are interesting to everyone.

50. Suicides, when they commit suicide, believe that “they will end everything,” but in the afterlife for them everything is just beginning.

Without exaggeration, we can say that every person from a certain age thinks about death and asks himself: When a person dies, what happens...

What happens to a person after death

And, in general, is anything happening? It is difficult not to ask such questions simply because death is the only inevitable event in the life of every living being. Many events may or may not happen to us during our lives, but death is something that will happen to everyone.

At the same time, the idea that death is the end of everything and forever seems so frightening and illogical that it itself deprives life of any meaning. Not to mention the fact that the fear of one’s own death and the death of loved ones can poison the most cloudless life.

Probably partly for this reason, throughout the existence of mankind, the answer to the question: “When a person dies, what happens to him?” searched for by mystics, shamans, philosophers and representatives of all kinds of religious movements.

And, I must say, there are as many possible answers to this question as there are religions and various spiritual and mystical traditions.

And today, information about life after death can be found not only in religious and mystical traditions. The development of psychology and medicine, especially since the second half of the 20th century, has made it possible to accumulate a large number of recorded, recorded testimonies from people who have experienced clinical death or coma.

The number of people who have experienced separation from the body and traveled to the so-called afterlife or subtle worlds is so large today that it has become a fact that is difficult to ignore.

Books are written and films are made on this topic. Some of the most famous works, which have become bestsellers and translated into many languages, are “Life After Life” by Raymond Moody and the trilogy “Journeys of the Soul” by Michael Newton.

Raymond Moody worked as a clinical psychiatrist and over a long period of medical practice he encountered so many patients who had near-death experiences and described them in surprisingly similar ways that even as a man of science he recognized that this could not be explained simply by chance or coincidence.

Michael Newton, Ph.D. and hypnotherapist, during his practice was able to collect several thousand cases in which his patients not only remembered their own past lives, but also recalled in great detail the circumstances of death and the journey of the soul after the death of the physical body.

To date, Michael Newton's books contain perhaps the largest and most detailed description of post-mortem experiences and the life of the soul after the death of the physical body.

To summarize, there are many theories and stories about what happens to a person after the death of the body. Sometimes these theories are very different from each other, but they are all based on the same basic premises:

Firstly, a person is not only a physical body; in addition to the physical shell, there is an immortal soul or consciousness.

Secondly, nothing ends with biological death; death is just a door to another life.

Where does the soul go, what happens to the body after death?

Many cultures and traditions note the importance of 3, 9 and 40 days from the death of the body. It is not only in our culture that it is customary to remember the deceased on the 9th and 40th days.

It is believed that for three days after death it is better not to bury or cremate the remains, since during this time the connection between the soul and the body is still strong and burying or even moving the ashes over a long distance can break this connection and thus disrupt the natural division of the soul with the body.

According to the Buddhist tradition, in most cases, the soul for three days may not realize the fact of death and behave the same way as during life.

If you watched the film “The Sixth Sense”, then this is exactly what happens to Bruce Willis’s hero in the film’s plot. He does not realize that he has been dead for some time and his soul continues to live at home and visit familiar places.

Thus, for 3 days after death, the soul remains close to its relatives and often even in the house where the deceased lived.

During 9 days, the soul or awareness, having accepted the fact of death, usually completes, if necessary, worldly affairs, says goodbye to relatives and friends and prepares to travel to other subtle, spiritual worlds.

But what exactly does the soul see, who does it meet after the end?

According to most records of people who have experienced coma or clinical death, meetings occur with previously deceased relatives and loved ones. The soul experiences incredible lightness and peace that were unavailable during life in the physical body. The world, through the eyes of the soul, is filled with light.

The soul, after the death of the body, sees and experiences what a person believed in during life.

An Orthodox person can see angels or the Virgin Mary, a Muslim can see the Prophet Muhammad. A Buddhist will most likely encounter Buddha or Avalokiteshvara. An atheist will not meet any angels or prophets, but he will also see deceased loved ones who will become his guides to spiritual dimensions.

With regard to life after death, we can rely either on the views of religious and spiritual traditions, or on the descriptions of the experiences of people who have experienced clinical death or remember their previous lives and after-death experiences.

On the one hand, these descriptions are as varied as life. But, on the other hand, almost all of them have a common point. The experience that a person receives after the death of his physical body is largely determined by his beliefs, state of mind and actions in his life.

And it’s hard to disagree with the fact that our actions throughout life were also determined by our worldview, beliefs and faith. And in the spiritual world, free from physical laws, the desires and fears of the soul are realized instantly.

If during life in a material body our thoughts and desires could be hidden from others, then on the spiritual planes everything secret becomes clear.

But, despite the differences, in most traditions it is believed that until the end of 40 days, the soul of the deceased is in subtle spaces, where it analyzes and sums up the life lived, but still has access to earthly existence.

Often, relatives see the dead in dreams during this period. After 40 days, the soul, as a rule, leaves the earthly world.

A man feels his death

If you have ever lost someone close to you, then perhaps you know that often on the eve of death or the onset of a fatal illness, a person intuitively feels that his life is running out.

There may often be obsessive thoughts about the end or simply premonitions of trouble.

The body feels the approach of its death and this is reflected in emotions and thoughts. To have dreams that are interpreted by a person as a harbinger of imminent death.

It all depends on a person’s sensitivity and how well he can hear his soul.

Thus, psychics or saints almost always not only sensed the approach of death, but could know the date and circumstances of the end.

How does a person feel before death?

How does a person feel before death is determined by the situations in which he leaves this life?

A person whose life was full and happy or a deeply religious person can leave calmly, with gratitude, in full acceptance of what is happening. A person dying of a serious illness may even view death as a release from physical pain and an opportunity to leave his decrepit body.

In the event of an unexpected serious illness that occurs to a person at a young age, there may be bitterness, regret and rejection of what is happening.

The experience before death is very personal and it is unlikely that there will be two people with the same experience.

One thing is for sure, what a person feels before crossing strongly depends on what his life was like, how much of what he wanted to achieve, how much love and joy there was in life, and, of course, on the circumstances of death itself.

But, according to numerous medical observations, if death was not instantaneous, a person feels how gradually strength and energy leave the body, the connection with the physical world becomes thinner, and the perception of the senses noticeably deteriorates.

According to descriptions of people who have experienced clinical death as a result of illness, death is very similar to falling asleep, but you wake up in another world.

How long does it take for a person to die

Death, like life, is different for everyone. Someone is lucky and the end happens quickly and painlessly. A person can simply fall asleep, experience cardiac arrest in this state and never wake up again.

Some people struggle for a long time with a fatal disease such as cancer and live on the verge of death for some time.

There is not, and cannot be, any script here. But the soul leaves the body at the moment when life leaves the physical shell.

The reason why the soul leaves this world can be old age, illness, or injuries received as a result of an accident. Therefore, how long a person dies depends on the cause that led to death.

What awaits us “at the end of the road”

If you are not a person who believes that everything ends with the death of the physical body, then at the end of this path a new beginning awaits you. And we are not just talking about the new birth or life in the Garden of Eden.

In the 21st century, many scientists no longer consider the death of the physical body as the end of the human soul or psyche. Of course, scientists, as a rule, do not operate with the concept of soul; instead, they more often use the word consciousness, but the main thing is that many of modern scientists do not deny the existence of life after death.

For example, Robert Lanza, an American, Doctor of Medicine and Professor at Wake Forest University of Medicine, argues that after the death of the physical body, a person’s consciousness continues to inhabit other worlds. In his opinion, the life of the soul or consciousness, unlike the life of the physical body, is eternal.

Moreover, from his point of view, death is nothing more than an illusion that is perceived as reality due to our strong identification with the body.

He describes his view of what happens to human consciousness after the death of the physical body in the book “Biocentrism: Life and Consciousness - the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe.”

To summarize, we can say that although there is no clear answer to the question of what happens after death, according to all religions and the latest discoveries in medicine and psychology, life does not end with the end of the physical body.

What happens to the soul after death in different religions

From the point of view of various religious traditions, life after the death of the physical body clearly exists. The differences, by and large, are only in where and how.

Christianity

In Christian traditions, including Orthodoxy, there are concepts of judgment, judgment day, heaven, hell and resurrection. After death, each soul awaits a judgment, at which godly, good and sinful deeds are weighed and there is no opportunity to be reborn.

If a person’s life was burdened with sins, then his soul may go to purgatory or, in the case of mortal sins, to hell. Everything depends on the severity of the sins and the possibility of their atonement. At the same time, the prayers of the living can influence the fate of the soul after death.

As a result, in the Christian tradition it is important to perform the funeral ceremony over the grave on the day of burial and periodically pray for the repose of the souls of the dead during church services. According to the Christian religion, sincere prayers for the departed can save the soul of a sinner from eternal stay in hell.

Depending on how a person lived, his soul ends up in purgatory, heaven or hell. The soul ends up in purgatory if the sins committed were not mortal or in a situation where there is no ritual of remission of sins or purification during the dying process.

After experiencing unpleasant sensations tormenting the soul and gaining repentance and atonement, the soul gets a chance to go to heaven. Where she will live in peace among angels, seraphim and saints until the day of judgment.

Paradise or the kingdom of heaven is a place where the souls of the righteous are in bliss and enjoy life in perfect harmony with everything that exists, and do not know any need.

A person who has committed mortal sins, regardless of whether he was baptized or not, a suicide or simply an unbaptized person, cannot go to heaven.

In hell, sinners are tormented by hellfire, torn into pieces and experience endless torment as punishment, and all this lasts until the day of judgment, which must take place with the second coming of Christ.

Descriptions of the loan hour can be found in the New Testament in the Bible, in the Gospel of Matthew verses 24–25. God's judgment or great day of judgment will forever determine the fate of the righteous and sinners.

The righteous will rise from the grave and find eternal life at the right hand of God, while sinners will be condemned to burn in hell forever.

Islam

The concept of judgment, heaven and hell in Islam as a whole is very similar to the Christian tradition, but there are some differences. In Islam, much attention is paid to the rewards that a holy soul receives in heaven.

The righteous in Muslim paradise not only enjoy peace and tranquility, but live surrounded by luxury, beautiful women, delicious dishes, and all this in the wonderful gardens of paradise.

And if heaven is a place for the fair reward of the righteous, then hell is a place created by the Almighty for the legal punishment of sinners.

The torment in hell is terrible and endless. For someone who is condemned to hell, the “body” is increased in size several times in order to multiply the torment. After each torture, the remains are restored and subjected to suffering again.

In Muslim hell, as in Christian hell, there are several levels that differ in the degree of punishment depending on the severity of the sins committed. A fairly detailed description of heaven and hell can be found in the Quran and Hadith of the Prophet.

Judaism

According to Judaism, life is essentially eternal, therefore, after the death of the physical body, life simply moves to another, higher, so to speak, level.

The Torah describes the moments of the soul's transition from one dimension to another, depending on what inheritance the soul has accumulated from its actions during life.

For example, if the soul was too strongly attached to physical pleasures, then after death it experiences unspeakable suffering, since in the spiritual world, not having a physical body, it does not have the opportunity to satisfy them.

In general, we can say that in the Jewish tradition, the transition to higher, spiritual parallel worlds reflects the life of the soul in the body. If in the physical world life was joyful, happy and filled with love for God, then the transition will be easy and painless.

If the soul, while living in the body, did not know peace, was filled with hatred, envy and other poisons, all this will pass into the afterlife and intensify many times over.

Also, according to the book “Zaor”, the souls of people are under the constant protection and supervision of the souls of the righteous and ancestors. Souls from the subtle worlds help and guide the living, because they know that the physical world is only one of the worlds created by God.

But, although our familiar world is only one of the worlds, souls always return to this world in new bodies, therefore, while caring for the living, the souls of ancestors also take care of the world in which they will live in the future.

Buddhism

In the Buddhist tradition there is a very important book that describes in detail the process of dying and the journey of the soul after the death of the body - the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It is customary to read this text in the ear of the deceased for 9 days.

Accordingly, funeral rites are not performed within 9 days after death. All this time, the soul gets the opportunity to hear step-by-step instructions about what it can see and where it can go. To convey the essence, we can say that the soul will feel and experience what it was inclined to love and hate during life.

What a person’s soul felt strong love, attachment or fear and disgust for will determine what kind of pictures a person will see during his 40-day journey in the spiritual world (bardo). And in what world is the soul destined to be reborn in the next incarnation?

According to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, during the journey in the posthumous bardo a person still has a chance to liberate the soul from karma and further incarnations. In this case, the soul does not receive a new body, but goes to the bright lands of Buddha or the subtle worlds of Gods and Demigods.

If a person experienced too much anger and showed aggression during life, such energies can attract the soul to the worlds of asuras or half-demons. Excessive attachment to physical pleasures, which does not dissolve even with the death of the body, can cause rebirth in the worlds of hungry ghosts.

A completely primitive way of existence, aimed only at survival, can lead to birth in the animal world.

In the absence of any strong or excessive attachments and aversions, but in the presence of attachment to the physical world as a whole, the soul will take birth in a human body.

Hinduism

The view of the life of the soul after death in Hinduism is very similar to that of Buddhism. Which is not surprising, since Buddhism has Hindu roots. There are slight differences in the descriptions and names of the worlds in which the soul can be reborn. But the point is also that the soul receives rebirth according to karma (the consequences of the actions that a person performed during life).

The fate of a person’s soul after death - can it get stuck in this world?

There is evidence that the soul can become stuck in the physical world for some time. This can happen if there is strong attachment or pain towards those who remain or if there is a need to complete an important task.

This often happens due to unexpected death. In such cases, as a rule, death is too great a shock for the soul itself and for the relatives of the deceased. The intense pain of loved ones, their reluctance to come to terms with the loss, and important unfinished business do not give the soul the opportunity to move on.

Unlike those who die of illness or old age, people who die unexpectedly do not have the opportunity to make a will. And often the soul wants to say goodbye to everyone, to help, to ask for forgiveness.

And if the soul does not have any painful attachments to a place, a person, or physical pleasure, then, as a rule, it, having completed all its affairs, leaves our earthly world.

Soul on the day of funeral

On the day of the burial or cremation ceremony, the soul of a person is usually present next to the body among relatives and friends. Therefore, it is considered important in any tradition to pray for the easy return of the soul home.

In Christian customs, these are funeral services; in Hinduism, these are sacred texts and mantras, or simply good and kind words spoken over the body of the deceased.

Scientific evidence for the existence of life after death

If the testimony of eyewitnesses who have experienced near-death experiences, psychics who see souls and people who are able to leave the body can be considered evidence, then there are now, without exaggeration, hundreds of thousands of such confirmations.

A large number of recorded stories of people who experienced coma or clinical death, with comments from medical researchers, can be found in Moody's book Life After Life.

Several thousand different unique stories about life after death obtained as a result of regressive hypnosis by Dr. Michael Newthan are described in his books dedicated to the journeys of the soul. Some of the most famous are “The Journey of the Soul” and “The Destination of the Soul.”

In the second book, “A Long Journey,” he describes in detail what exactly happens to the soul after death, where it goes and what difficulties it may encounter on its way to other worlds.

Quantum physicists and neuroscientists have now learned to measure the energy of consciousness. They have not yet come up with a name for it, but they have recorded a subtle difference in the movement of electromagnetic waves in a conscious and unconscious state.

And if it is possible to measure the invisible, to measure consciousness, which is often equated to the immortal soul, then it will become obvious that our soul is also a type of very subtle energy.

Which, as you know, from Newton’s first law is never born, never destroyed, energy only passes from one state to another. And this means that the death of the physical body is not the end - it is just another stop on the endless journey of the immortal soul.

9 signs that deceased loved ones are nearby

Sometimes, when a soul lingers in this world, it remains for a while in order to complete its earthly affairs and say goodbye to loved ones.

There are sensitive people and psychics who clearly sense the presence of the souls of the dead. For them, this is the same part of reality as our world is for ordinary people, without extrasensory abilities. However, even people without special abilities talk about feeling the presence of a deceased person.

Since communication with souls is possible only at the level of intuition, this contact often occurs in dreams, or manifests itself in subtle, psychic sensations that are accompanied by pictures from the past, or the voice of the deceased sounding in the head. In those moments when the soul is open, many are able to look into the spiritual world.

The following events may be a sign that the soul of a deceased person is near you

• Frequent appearance of the deceased in dreams. Especially if in a dream the deceased asks you for something.
• A sudden and unexplained change in smells near you. For example, the unexpected smell of flowers, despite the fact that there are no flowers nearby, or coolness. And if you suddenly smell the perfume of the deceased or his favorite aroma, then you can be sure that his soul is nearby.
• The movement of objects is unclear. If you suddenly discover things where they could not possibly be. Especially if these are the things of the deceased. Or you suddenly began to discover unexpected objects on your way. Perhaps the deceased is attracting attention and wants to say something.
• A clear, undeniable feeling of the presence of a departed person nearby. Your brain, your feelings, still remember what it was like to be with the deceased before he died. If this feeling becomes as clear as during his life, rest assured that his soul is nearby.
• Frequent and obvious malfunctions in the operation of electrical appliances and electronics may be one of the signs of the presence of the soul of the deceased nearby.
• Unexpectedly hearing your favorite or meaningful music for both of you while you are thinking about the departed is another sure sign that his soul is nearby.
• Explicit sensations of touch when you are alone. Although for many it is a frightening experience.
• If any animal suddenly shows special attention to you, or persistently attracts you with its behavior. Especially if it was the deceased person’s favorite animal. This could also be news from him.

The idea that death is not the end, but life has a continuation, is known from ancient times: primitive man worshiped the spirits of his clan and tribe and performed special burial rituals.

What's behind this? Scientists and psychologists are sure that the reason for this vision is an unconscious fear of death. That is, at the subconscious level there lives an idea: my ancestor did not die, but became a spirit, which means I will not die. Theistic philosophers argue that the idea of ​​immortality is inherent in human nature itself. That the physical body is only a vessel for the eternal soul, unborn and unable to die. Like a suit that is taken off when it is worn out. The “owner” of the suit - that same immortal soul - either receives another “clothes” (reincarnation) or goes to the spiritual worlds (paradise, purgatory, etc.).

The phenomenon of life and death has been studied by scientists and philosophers for hundreds of years, but to date humanity has not been able to obtain all the answers. Although there is certainly progress.

For example, one of the latest discoveries is striking. In February 2017, American scientist Peter Noble gave a sensational report. His team was able to discover that after death, special genes are activated in the body. Moreover, these genes appear only in the fetus in the womb and after death. In addition, it was discovered that while some cells die, others, on the contrary, are born.

Some of the “born” even tried to revive other cells, inhibiting stress and enhancing immune processes. In other words, the scientist proved that after death the body tries to recover... But it’s too early to draw conclusions. Perhaps this study, like thousands of others, will not open the veil of secrecy about death to us. Or maybe this is the very step towards increasing life expectancy or even immortality.

Life after death. Data

On the other hand, science knows of thousands of cases of human revival after death. After clinical. Its signs are a complete stop of biological processes: breathing, pulse, reaction of the pupils to light. Coma is also a sign of clinical death. This is a state when the body does not react to external stimuli, but biological processes are still occurring.

Only an experienced doctor with special equipment will distinguish between clinical and biological death. By the way, it was precisely because of the insufficient equipment of hospitals and the lack of professional doctors that in the past they could not recognize this condition, and there were cases when patients came to their senses after being buried...

But why do they return “from there”? Because even though breathing and heart rate stop, the brain still retains the ability to work. A patient in a state of clinical death can be “revived” within an average of 3-6 minutes. Rehabilitation measures will be required: chest compressions, an injection of adrenaline or another special drug, a defibrillator discharge.

There are cases when clinical death lasts longer. But this is very rare. As a rule, after 6 minutes oxygen starvation begins in the cells and they die. Unfortunately, this process is irreversible.

Real stories of patients who experienced clinical death

If we talk not about scientists, but about ordinary people, about you and me, then another question is much more interesting than biological processes: is there CONSCIOUSNESS after death?

This cannot be measured with instruments, and the only thing that can be provided as proof of the existence of the other world is the real stories of those who returned from there. Patients who have experienced clinical death tell similar stories. Mostly they say that they saw themselves, the operating room and the doctors from the outside. And the most amazing thing is that most of them repeat phrases with amazing accuracy and describe in detail the actions that took place in the operating room.

These incidents cast doubt even on scientists who strictly separate religious interpretations of the soul from science. US Professor of Cardiology Mikhail Sabom, Dr. Raymond Moody, Dr. Kübler-Ross, Dr. Michael Newton and other famous doctors - they are all united by a radical change in views on human life after communicating with “resurrected” patients.

Dr. Michael Newton.

M. Newton is a psycho- and hypnotherapist who devoted himself to working with people who have experienced clinical death. It turns out that not all patients remember what happened to them, or only partially remember. Hypnosis helps put the puzzle together.

From the archives of Dr. Newton, the story of a patient under hypnosis:

“I see my wife. She stands in the room and cries, pressing her hands to her face. I want to calm her down, but I can't. I saw myself and realized that I had died. There is no fear, on the contrary, I feel calm, but I feel a little sorry for my wife.

I feel like I'm rising off the ground. The higher I go, the colder and darker it gets. I stopped rising and saw the light. I found myself in a dark tunnel, at the end of which there is a bright light, it beckons me. I'm starting to walk towards the light."

This tunnel is described by many; at the end of the path, some see clouds and blinding light, others see heavenly angels. Scientists are trying to explain these phenomena. For example, cold and the feeling of flying are explained by the cessation of physiological processes, and the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel is explained by a special reaction of the brain. But these are just guesses. Perhaps the material knowledge of mankind, science and technology are not the most suitable tools to unravel this mystery.