There is life after death. And there are thousands of testimonials to that. Until now, fundamental science has brushed aside such stories. However, as Natalya Bekhtereva, a famous scientist who has studied the activity of the brain all her life, said, our consciousness is such matter that it seems that the keys to the secret door have already been picked up. But ten more are revealed behind it ... What is still behind the door of life?

She sees through everything...

Galina Lagoda was returning with her husband in a Zhiguli from a country trip. Trying to disperse on a narrow highway with an oncoming truck, my husband swerved sharply to the right ... The car was crushed against a tree standing by the road.

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Galina was brought to the Kaliningrad regional hospital with severe brain damage, ruptures of the kidneys, lungs, spleen and liver, and many fractures. The heart stopped, the pressure was at zero. - Having flown through the black space, I found myself in a shining, light-filled space, - Galina Semyonovna tells me twenty years later. In front of me stood a huge man in a dazzling white robe. I couldn't see his face because of the beam of light directed at me. "Why did you come here?" he asked sternly. "I'm very tired, let me rest a little." "Rest and come back - you still have a lot to do." Having regained consciousness after two weeks, during which she was balancing between life and death, the patient told the head of the resuscitation department, Yevgeny Zatovka, how the operations were carried out, which of the doctors stood where and what they did, what equipment they brought, from which cabinets what they got. After another operation on a shattered arm, Galina asked an orthopedic doctor during a morning medical round: “Well, how is your stomach?” From amazement, he did not know what to answer - indeed, the doctor was tormented by pain in his stomach. Now Galina Semyonovna lives in harmony with herself, believes in God and is not at all afraid of death.

"Flying like a cloud"

Yuri Burkov, a reserve major, does not like to reminisce about the past. His wife Lyudmila told his story: - Yura fell from a great height, broke his spine and received a head injury, lost consciousness. After cardiac arrest, he lay in a coma for a long time. I was under terrible stress. During one of her visits to the hospital, she lost her keys. And the husband, finally regaining consciousness, first of all asked: “Did you find the keys?” I shook my head in fear. “They are under the stairs,” he said. Only many years later he confessed to me: while he was in a coma, he saw my every step and heard every word - and no matter how far I was from him. He flew in the form of a cloud, including where his dead parents and brother live. The mother persuaded her son to return, and the brother explained that they were all alive, only they no longer had bodies. Years later, sitting at the bedside of his seriously ill son, he reassured his wife: “Lyudochka, don’t cry, I know for sure that now he will not leave. Another year will be with us." And a year later, at the commemoration of his dead son, he admonished his wife: “He did not die, but only before you and I moved to another world. Trust me, I've been there."

Savely KASHNITSKY, Kaliningrad - Moscow.

Childbirth under the ceiling

“While the doctors were trying to pump me out, I observed an interesting thing: a bright white light (there is nothing like it on Earth!) and a long corridor. And now I seem to be waiting to enter this corridor. But then the doctors revived me. During this time, I felt that THERE is very cool. I didn’t even want to leave!” These are the memories of 19-year-old Anna R., who survived clinical death. Such stories can be found in abundance on Internet forums where the topic of "life after death" is discussed.

light in the tunnel

The light at the end of the tunnel, pictures of life flashing before our eyes, a feeling of love and peace, meetings with deceased relatives and a certain luminous being - patients who returned from the other world tell about this. True, not all, but only 10-15% of them. The rest did not see and did not remember anything at all. The dying brain does not have enough oxygen, so it is "buggy" - skeptics say. Disagreements among scientists have reached the point that a new experiment was recently announced. For three years, American and British doctors will study the testimony of patients whose hearts have stopped or whose brains have been switched off. Among other things, the researchers are going to lay out various pictures on the shelves in intensive care units. You can see them only by soaring up to the very ceiling. If patients who have experienced clinical death retell their content, then the consciousness is really able to leave the body. One of the first who tried to explain the phenomenon of near-death experience was Academician Vladimir Negovsky. He founded the world's first Institute of General Resuscitation. Negovsky believed (and since then the scientific view has not changed) that the "light at the end of the tunnel" is due to the so-called tubular vision. The cortex of the occipital lobes of the brain dies off gradually, the field of view narrows to a narrow band, giving the impression of a tunnel. In a similar way, doctors explain the vision of pictures of a past life flashing before the eyes of a dying person. The structures of the brain fade away, and then are restored unevenly. Therefore, a person manages to remember the most vivid events that have been deposited in memory. And the illusion of leaving the body, according to doctors, is the result of a malfunction of nerve signals. However, skeptics are at an impasse when it comes to answering more tricky questions. Why do people who are blind from birth see and then describe in detail what is happening in the operating room around them at the moment of clinical death? And there is such evidence.

Leaving the body - a defensive reaction

It is curious, but many scientists do not see anything mystical in the fact that consciousness can leave the body. The only question is what conclusion to draw from this. Dmitry Spivak, a leading researcher at the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who is a member of the International Association for the Study of Near-Death Experiences, assures that clinical death is just one of the options for an altered state of consciousness. “There are a lot of them: these are dreams, and a drug experience, and a stressful situation, and a consequence of illnesses,” he says. “According to statistics, up to 30% of people at least once in their lives felt out of the body and watched themselves from the side.” Dmitry Spivak himself investigated the mental state of women in labor and found out that about 9% of women experience “leaving the body” during childbirth! Here is the testimony of 33-year-old S.: “During childbirth, I had a lot of blood loss. Suddenly, I began to see myself from under the ceiling. Pain disappeared. And about a minute later, she also unexpectedly returned to her place in the ward and again began to experience severe pain. It turns out that “out of the body” is a normal phenomenon during childbirth. Some kind of mechanism embedded in the psyche, a program that works in extreme situations. Undoubtedly, childbirth is an extreme situation. But what could be more extreme than death itself?! It is possible that "flight in the tunnel" is also a protective program, which turns on at a fatal moment for a person. But what will happen to his consciousness (soul) next? “I asked one dying woman: if there really is something THERE, try to give me a sign,” recalls Andrei Gnezdilov, MD, who works at the St. Petersburg Hospice. - And on the 40th day after her death, I saw her in a dream. The woman said, "This is not death." Long years of work in the hospice convinced me and my colleagues that death is not the end, not the destruction of everything. The soul continues to live. Dmitry PISARENKO

Cup and polka dot dress

This story was told by Andrey Gnezdilov, MD: “During the operation, the patient's heart stopped. The doctors were able to start him, and when the woman was transferred to intensive care, I visited her. She lamented that she was not operated on by the surgeon who promised. But she could not see a doctor, being all the time in an unconscious state. The patient said that during the operation, some kind of force pushed her out of the body. She calmly looked at the doctors, but then she was seized with horror: what if I die without having time to say goodbye to my mother and daughter? And her consciousness instantly moved home. She saw that her mother was sitting, knitting, and her daughter was playing with a doll. Then a neighbor came in and brought a polka-dot dress for her daughter. The girl rushed to her, but touched the cup - she fell and broke. The neighbor said: “Well, this is good. Apparently, Yulia will be discharged soon.” And then the patient was again at the operating table and heard: "Everything is in order, she is saved." Consciousness returned to the body. I went to visit the relatives of this woman. And it turned out that during the operation ... a neighbor with a polka-dot dress for a girl looked in on them and a cup was broken. This is not the only mysterious case in the practice of Gnezdilov and other workers of the St. Petersburg hospice. They are not surprised when a doctor dreams about his patient and thanks him for his care, for his touching attitude. And in the morning, having arrived at work, the doctor finds out: the patient died at night ...

Church opinion

Priest Vladimir Vigilyansky, head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate: - Orthodox people believe in the afterlife and immortality. In the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments there are many confirmations and testimonies to this. We consider the very concept of death only in connection with the coming resurrection, and this mystery ceases to be such if we live with Christ and for the sake of Christ. “Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die,” says the Lord (John 11:26). According to legend, the soul of the deceased in the first days walks in those places where she worked the truth, and on the third day ascends to heaven to the throne of God, where until the ninth day she is shown the abodes of the saints and the beauty of paradise. On the ninth day, the soul again comes to God, and it is sent to hell, where ungodly sinners reside and where the soul goes through thirty-day ordeals (tests). On the fortieth day, the soul again comes to the Throne of God, where it appears naked before the court of its own conscience: did it pass these tests or not? And even in the case when some trials convict the soul of its sins, we hope for the mercy of God, in whom all deeds of sacrificial love and compassion will not remain in vain.

Is there life after death - Facts and evidence

- Is there an afterlife?

- Is there an afterlife?
— Facts and evidence
- Real stories of clinical death
— A scientific view of death

Life after death, or the afterlife, is a religious and philosophical idea of the continuation of a person's conscious life after death. In most cases, such ideas are due to the belief in the immortality of the soul, which is characteristic of most religious and religious-philosophical worldviews.

Among the main presentations:

1) resurrection of the dead - people will be resurrected by God after death;
2) reincarnation - the human soul returns to the material world in new incarnations;
3) posthumous retribution - after death, the soul of a person goes to hell or heaven, depending on the earthly life of a person. (Also read about.)

Doctors in the intensive care unit of a Canadian hospital registered an unusual case. They turned off the life support system in four terminal patients. In three of them, the brain behaved in a normal way - it stopped working shortly after the shutdown. In the fourth patient, the brain emitted waves for another 10 minutes and 38 seconds, despite the fact that the doctors declared him dead, using the same set of measures as in the cases of his “colleagues”.

The brain of the fourth patient seemed to be in a deep sleep, although his body showed no signs of life - no pulse, no blood pressure, no reaction to light. Previously, brain waves were recorded in rats after decapitation, but in those situations there was only one wave.

- Is there life after death?! Facts and evidence

— A scientific view of death

In Seattle, biologist Mark Roth is experimenting with putting animals into suspended animation using chemicals that slow their heart rate and metabolism to levels similar to those seen during hibernation. His goal is to make people who have experienced a heart attack "a little bit immortal" until they overcome the consequences of the crisis that has put them on the brink of life and death.

In Baltimore and Pittsburgh, trauma teams led by surgeon Sam Tischerman are conducting clinical trials in which patients with gunshot and stab wounds have their body temperature lowered to slow bleeding for the period needed to receive stitches. These doctors use the cold for the same purpose that Roth uses chemical compounds: it allows you to "kill" patients for a while in order to ultimately save their lives.

In Arizona, cryopreservation specialists store the bodies of more than 130 of their clients in a frozen state - this is also a kind of "border zone". They hope that sometime in the distant future, maybe in a few centuries, these people can be thawed and revived, and by that time medicine will be able to cure the diseases from which they died.

In India, neuroscientist Richard Davidson is studying Buddhist monks who fell into a state known as thukdam, in which biological signs of life disappear, but the body does not seem to decompose for a week or more. Davidson is trying to record some activity in the brains of these monks, hoping to find out what happens after the circulation stops.

And in New York, Sam Parnia talks enthusiastically about the possibilities of "delayed resuscitation." According to him, cardiopulmonary resuscitation works better than is commonly believed, and under certain conditions - when the body temperature is lowered, chest compressions are correctly regulated in depth and rhythm, and oxygen is supplied slowly to avoid tissue damage - some patients can be returned. to life even after they've been heartbroken for several hours, and often without long-term negative effects. The doctor is now investigating one of the most mysterious aspects of returning from the dead: why do so many near-death survivors describe their minds being separated from their bodies? What can these sensations tell us about the nature of the "border zone" and about death itself?

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At some point in life, more often from a certain age, when relatives and friends pass away, a person tends to ask questions about death and a possible life after death. We have already written materials on this topic, and you can read the answers to some questions.

But it seems that the number of questions is only growing and we want to explore this topic a little deeper.

Life is eternal

In this article, we will not give arguments for and against the existence of life after death. We will proceed from the fact that life after the death of the body exists.

Over the past 50–70 years, tens of thousands of written testimonies and research results have been accumulated in medicine and psychology, which allow us to remove the veil from this mystery.

It is worth noting that, on the one hand, all recorded cases of experiencing a post-mortem experience or travel differ from each other. But, on the other hand, they all coincide in key points.

Such as

death is simply a transition from one form of life to another;
when consciousness leaves the body, it simply passes into other worlds and universes;
the soul, freed from physical experiences, experiences extraordinary lightness, bliss and sharpening of all feelings;
feeling of flight
the spiritual worlds are saturated with light and love;
in the posthumous world there is no time and space familiar to man;
consciousness does not work the way it does during life in the body, everything is perceived and grasped almost instantly;
the eternity of life is realized.

Life after death: recorded real cases and recorded facts

The number of recorded eyewitness accounts of out-of-body experiences to date is so great that a large encyclopedia could be made from them. Or maybe even a small library.

Perhaps the most big number described cases about life after death can be read in the books of Michael Newton, Ian Stevenson, Raymond Moody, Robert Monroe and Edgar Cayce.

Several thousand transcribed audio recordings of regressive hypnosis sessions about the life of the soul between incarnations can only be found in the books of Michael Newton.

Michael Newton began using regressive hypnosis to treat his patients, especially those who were no longer able to be helped by conventional medicine and psychology.

At first, he was surprised to find that many serious problems in life, including the health of patients, had their causes in past lives.

After several decades of research, Newton not only developed a mechanism for treating complex physical and psychological traumas that originated in past incarnations, but also collected the largest amount of evidence to date for the existence of an afterlife.

Michael Newton's first book, Journeys of the Soul, was released in 1994, followed by several more books on life in the spirit worlds.

These books describe not only the mechanism of the transition of the soul from one life to another, but also how we choose our birth, our parents, relatives, friends, trials and circumstances of life.

In one of the prefaces to his book, Michael Newton wrote: “We are all waiting for the return home. There, where only pure, unconditional love, compassion and harmony exist side by side. You need to understand that you are currently in school, the school of Earth, and when the training is over, this loving harmony is waiting for you. It must be remembered that every experience that you have during your current life contributes to personal, spiritual growth. No matter when or how your training ends, you will return home to the unconditional love that is always available and waiting for all of us.”

But the main thing is not only that Newton collected the largest amount of detailed evidence, he also developed a tool that allows anyone who wants to get their own experience.

Today, regressive hypnosis is also present in Russia, and if you want to resolve your doubts about the existence of an immortal soul, now you have the opportunity to check it out for yourself.

To do this, it is enough to find on the Internet the contacts of a specialist in regressive hypnosis. However, do not be too lazy to read the reviews to avoid unpleasant disappointment.

Today, books are not the only source of information about life after death. Movies and series are made on this topic.

One of the most famous films on this subject, based on the true events of "Heaven is Real" 2014. The film was based on the book "Heaven is Real" by Todd Barpoe.

Shot from the film "Heaven is Real"

A book about the story of a 4-year-old boy who survived a clinical death during an operation, went to heaven and returned back, written by his father.

This story is amazing in its details. Being out of the body, 4-year-old baby Kilton clearly saw what the doctors and his parents were doing. Which is exactly what is happening in reality.

Kilton describes the heavens and their inhabitants in great detail, although his heart stopped for only a few minutes. During his stay in heaven, the boy learns such details about the life of the family that, according to his father, he could not know, at least because of his age.

The child, during his out-of-body journey, saw dead relatives, angels, Jesus and even the Virgin Mary, apparently due to his Catholic upbringing. The boy watched the past and the near future.

The events described in the book forced Father Kilton to completely reconsider his views on life, death and what awaits us after death.

Interesting cases and evidence of eternal life

An interesting incident happened a few years ago with our compatriot Vladimir Efremov.

Vladimir Grigorievich had a spontaneous exit from the body due to cardiac arrest. In a word, Vladimir Grigorievich survived a clinical death in February 2014, about which he told his relatives and colleagues in all details.

And it seemed that you would think of another case confirming the existence of an afterlife. But the fact is that Vladimir Efremov is not just an ordinary person, not a psychic, but a scientist with an impeccable reputation in his circles.

And according to Vladimir Grigoryevich himself, before he had a chance to experience clinical death, he considered himself an atheist and perceived stories about the afterlife as a dope of religion. He devoted most of his professional life to the development of rocket systems and space engines.

Therefore, for Efremov himself, the experience of contact with the other world was very unexpected, but it largely changed his views on the nature of reality.

It is noteworthy that in his experience there is also light, serenity, extraordinary clarity of perception, a pipe (tunnel) and no sense of time and space.

But, since Vladimir Efremov is a scientist, designer of aircraft and spacecraft, he gives a very interesting description of the world in which his consciousness found itself. He explains it with physical and mathematical concepts, which are unusually far from religious ideas.

He notes that a person in the afterlife sees what he wants to see, which is why there are so many differences in the descriptions. Despite the former atheism, Vladimir Grigorievich noted that the presence of God was felt everywhere.

There was no visible form of God, but his presence was unmistakable. Later, Efremov even made a presentation on this topic to his colleagues. Listen to the eyewitness account.

Dalai Lama

One of the greatest proofs of eternal life is known to many, just few people have thought about it. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, the spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama XIV, is the 14th incarnation of the consciousness (soul) of the Dalai Lama I.

But they started the tradition of reincarnation of the main spiritual leader, to preserve the purity of knowledge even earlier. In the Tibetan Kagyu lineage, the highest incarnate Lamu is called the Karmapa. And now the Karmapa is going through his 17th incarnation.

Based on the story of the death of Karmapa 16 and the search for a child in which he will be reborn, the famous film "Little Buddha" was shot.

In the traditions of Buddhism and Hinduism, in general, the practice of repeated incarnations is very widespread. But it is especially widely known in Tibetan Buddhism.

It is not only the Supreme Lamas who are reborn, such as the Dalai Lama or the Karmapa. After death, almost without interruption, their closest students come to a new human body, whose task is to recognize the Lama's soul in the child.

There is a whole ritual of recognition, including recognition among the many personal items from a previous incarnation. And everyone is free to decide for himself whether he believes or not in these stories.

But in the political life of the world, some tend to take it seriously.

Thus, the new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is always recognized by the Pancha Lama, who in turn is also reborn after each death. It is the Pancha Lama who finally confirms that the child is the embodiment of the consciousness of the Dalai Lama.

And it so happened that the current Pancha Lama is still a child and lives in China. Moreover, he cannot leave this country, because the Chinese government needs him, so that without their participation it would not be possible to determine the new incarnation of the Dalai Lama.

Therefore, in the last few years, the spiritual leader of Tibet sometimes jokes and says that perhaps he will no longer incarnate or incarnate in a female body. Of course, one can object that these are Buddhists and they have such beliefs and this is not evidence. But it seems that the heads of some states perceive it differently.

Bali - "Island of the Gods"

Another interesting fact takes place in Indonesia, on the Hindu island of Bali. In Hinduism, the theory of reincarnation is key and the inhabitants of the island deeply believe in it. They believe so strongly that during the cremation of the body, the relatives of the deceased ask the gods to allow the soul, if it wants to be born again on earth, to be born again in Bali.

Which is quite understandable, the island justifies its name "Isle of the Gods". Moreover, if the family of the deceased is prosperous, she is asked to return to the family.

When a child reaches 3 years old, there is a tradition to take him to a special clergyman who has the ability to determine which soul has come into this body. And sometimes it turns out to be the soul of a great-grandmother, or an uncle. And the existence of the entire island, practically a small state, is determined by these beliefs.

The view of modern science on life after death

The views of science on death and life have changed a lot over the past 50-70 years, largely due to the development of quantum physics and biology. In recent decades, scientists have come closer than ever to unraveling what happens to consciousness after life leaves the body.

If 100 years ago science denied the existence of consciousness or soul, today it is already a generally accepted fact, as well as the fact that the experimenter's consciousness affects the results of the experiment.

So does the soul exist, and is Consciousness immortal from a scientific point of view? - Yes

Neuroscientist Christoph Koch said in April 2016 at a meeting of scientists with the Dalai Lama 14 that the latest theories in brain science consider consciousness as a property that is inherent in everything that exists.

Consciousness is inherent in everything and is present everywhere, just as gravity acts on all objects without exception.

The second life in our days has received the theory of "Panpsychism", - the theory of a single universal consciousness. This theory is present in Buddhism, in Greek philosophies and pagan traditions. But for the first time, Panpsychism is supported by science.

Giulio Tononi, author of the famous modern theory consciousness "Integrated Information Theory" states the following: "consciousness exists in physical systems in the form of diverse and multilaterally interconnected fragments of information."

Christopher Koch and Giulio Tononi made a startling statement for modern science:

"Consciousness is a fundamental quality inherent in reality."

Based on this hypothesis, Koch and Tononi came up with a unit of measurement for consciousness and called it phi. Scientists have already developed a test that measures phi in the human brain.

A magnetic pulse is sent to the human brain and it is measured how the signal is reflected in the neurons of the brain.

The longer and clearer the reverberation of the brain in response to a magnetic stimulus, the more consciousness a person has.

Using this technique, you can determine what state a person is in, whether he is awake, sleeping, or under anesthesia.

This method of measuring consciousness has found wide use in medicine. The phi level helps to accurately determine whether the actual death has occurred or the patient is in a vegetative state.

The test helps to find out at what time consciousness begins to develop in the fetus and how clearly a person in a state of dementia or dementia is aware of himself.

Some evidence for the existence of the soul and its immortality

Here again we are faced with what can be considered proof of the existence of the soul. In court cases, the testimony of witnesses is evidence in favor of the innocence and guilt of suspects.

And for most of us, the stories of people, especially loved ones, who have experienced a post-mortem experience or the separation of the soul from the body will be evidence of the presence of the soul. However, it is not certain that scientists will accept this evidence as such.

Where is the point at which stories and myths become scientifically proven?

Moreover, today we already know that many of the inventions of the human mind that we use now were present only in fantastic works 200-300 years ago.

The simplest example of this is an airplane.

Evidence from psychiatrist Jim Tucker

So let's look at some of the cases described by psychiatrist Jim B. Tucker as evidence for the existence of the soul. Moreover, what can be a great proof of the immortality of the soul, if not reincarnation or the memory of one's past incarnations?

Like Ian Stevenson, Jim has been researching reincarnation for decades based on children's memories of past lives.

In his book Life Before Life: A Scientific Study of Childhood Past Life Memories, he provides an overview of more than 40 years of reincarnation research at the University of Virginia.

The research was based on children's accurate memories of their past incarnations.

The book, among other things, discusses birthmarks and birth defects that are present in children and correlate with the cause of death in a previous incarnation.

Jim began investigating this issue after he encountered a fairly frequent request from parents who claimed that their babies tell very consistent stories about their past lives.

Names, occupation, place of residence and circumstances of death are given. What a surprise it was when some of the stories were confirmed: houses were found in which children lived in their previous incarnations and graves where they were buried.

There were too many such cases to consider this a coincidence or a hoax. Moreover, in some cases, young children as young as 2-4 years of age already possessed the skills they claimed to have mastered in past lives. Here are some examples.

Baby Hunter incarnation

Hunter, a 2-year-old toddler, told his parents that he was a multiple golf champion. He lived in the United States of America in the mid-30s and his name was Bobby Jones. At the same time, in his two years, Hunter played golf well.

So good that he was allowed to study in the section, despite the existing age restrictions of 5 years. Not surprisingly, the parents decided to test their son. They printed out photographs of several golfers and asked the boy to identify himself.

Hunter pointed to the photo of Bobby Jones without hesitation. By the age of seven, memories of a past life began to blur, but the boy still plays golf and has already won several competitions.

James incarnation

Another example is about the boy James. He was about 2.5 years old when he spoke about his past life and how he died. At first, the child began to have nightmares about the plane crash.

But one day, James told his mother that he was a military pilot and died in a plane crash during the war with Japan. His plane was shot down near the island of Iota. The boy described in detail how the bomb hit the engine and the plane began to fall into the ocean.

He remembered that in a past life his name was James Huston, he grew up in Pennsylvania, and his father suffered from alcoholism.

The boy's father turned to the military archive, where it turned out that a pilot named James Huston really existed. He took part in the air operation off the islands of Japan during the Second World War. Houston died off the island of Iota, exactly as the child described.

Reincarnation researcher Ian Stevens

The books of another no less famous reincarnation researcher, Ian Stevens, contain about 3 thousand verified and confirmed childhood memories of past incarnations. Unfortunately, his books have not yet been translated into Russian, and so far are only available in English.

His first book was published in 1997 and was titled Stevenson's Reincarnation and Biology: Contributions to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects.

Two hundred cases of birth defects or birthmarks in children that could not be explained medically or genetically were examined in the course of this book. At the same time, the children themselves explained their origin by events from past lives.

For example, there have been cases of children with abnormal or missing fingers. Children with such defects often remembered the circumstances under which these injuries were received, where and at what age. Many of the stories were corroborated by later found death certificates and even by living relatives.

There was a boy with moles, which in shape very much resembled the entrance and exit holes from a bullet wound. The boy himself claimed to have died from a gunshot to the head. He remembered his name and the house he lived in.

The deceased's sister was later found, confirming her brother's name and the fact that he had shot himself in the head.

All the thousands and thousands of such cases recorded to date are proof not only of the existence of the soul, but also of its immortality. Moreover, thanks to many years of research by Ian Stevenson, Jim B. Tucker, Michael Newton and others, we know that sometimes no more than 6 years can pass between soul incarnations.

In general, according to the research of Michael Newton, the soul itself chooses how soon and for what it wants to incarnate again.

Another proof of the existence of the soul came from the discovery of the atom.

The discovery of the atom and its structure led to the fact that scientists, especially quantum physicists, were forced to admit that at the quantum level, everything that exists in the universe, absolutely everything, is one.

An atom is 90 percent space (emptiness), which means that all living and non-living bodies, including the human body, consist of the same space.

It is noteworthy that more and more quantum physicists are now practicing Eastern meditation practices, as they believe they allow one to experience this fact of oneness.

John Hagelin, a famous quantum physicist and popularizer of science, in one of his interviews said that for all quantum physicists our unity at the subatomic level is a proven fact.

But if you want not only to know this, but to experience it for yourself, take up meditation, because it will help you find access to this space of peace and love, which is already present inside everyone, but is simply not realized.

You can call it God, soul or higher intelligence, the fact of its existence will not change in any way.

Is it possible for mediums, psychics and many creative personalities to connect to this space?

The opinion of religions about death

The opinion of all religions about death converges in one thing - with death in this world you are born in another. But the descriptions of the other worlds in the Bible, the Koran, Kabbalah, the Vedas and other religious books differ in accordance with the cultural characteristics of the countries where this or that religion was born.

But taking into account the hypothesis that the soul after death sees those worlds that it is inclined and wants to see, we can conclude that all differences in religious views on life after death are explained precisely by differences in faith and beliefs.

Spiritualism: communication with the departed

It seems that a person has always had a desire to communicate with the dead. Because throughout the existence of human culture, there were people who were able to communicate with the spirits of dead ancestors.

In the Middle Ages, shamans, priests and sorcerers did this, in our time people with such abilities are called mediums or psychics.

If you watch TV at least occasionally, you may have come across a television show that shows conversations with the spirits of the dead.

One of the most famous shows in which communication with the departed is the key topic is the “Battle of Psychics” on TNT.

It is difficult to say how real what the viewer sees on the screen. But one thing is certain, it's not hard to find someone to help you connect with a deceased loved one these days.

But when choosing a medium, you should take care of getting proven recommendations. At the same time, you can try to set up this connection yourself.

Yes, not everyone has psychic abilities, but many can develop them. It is not uncommon for communication with the dead to occur on its own, spontaneously.

This usually happens up to 40 days after death, until the time has come for the soul to fly away from the earthly plane. During this period, communication can occur on its own, especially if the deceased has something to tell you and you are emotionally open to such communication.

She sees through everything...

intravision

Galina was brought to the Kaliningrad regional hospital with severe brain damage, ruptures of the kidneys, lungs, spleen and liver, and many fractures. The heart stopped, the pressure was at zero.

Having flown through the black space, I found myself in a shining, light-filled space, - Galina Semyonovna tells me twenty years later. In front of me stood a huge man in a dazzling white robe. I couldn't see his face because of the beam of light directed at me. "Why did you come here?" he asked sternly. "I'm very tired, let me rest a little." "Rest and come back - you still have a lot to do."

Having regained consciousness after two weeks, during which she was balancing between life and death, the patient told the head of the resuscitation department, Yevgeny Zatovka, how the operations were carried out, which of the doctors stood where and what they did, what equipment they brought, from which cabinets what they got.

After another operation on a shattered arm, Galina asked an orthopedic doctor during a morning medical round: “Well, how is your stomach?” From amazement, he did not know what to answer - indeed, the doctor was tormented by pain in his stomach.

Now Galina Semyonovna lives in harmony with herself, believes in God and is not at all afraid of death.

"Flying like a cloud"

Yuri Burkov, a reserve major, does not like to reminisce about the past. His wife Lyudmila told his story:

Yura fell from a great height, broke his spine and received a head injury, lost consciousness. After cardiac arrest, he lay in a coma for a long time.

I was under terrible stress. During one of her visits to the hospital, she lost her keys. And the husband, finally regaining consciousness, first of all asked: “Did you find the keys?” I shook my head in fear. “They are under the stairs,” he said.

Only many years later, he confessed to me: while he was in a coma, he saw my every step and heard every word - and no matter how far I was from him. He flew in the form of a cloud, including where his dead parents and brother live. The mother persuaded her son to return, and the brother explained that they were all alive, only they no longer had bodies.

Years later, sitting at the bedside of his seriously ill son, he reassured his wife: “Lyudochka, don’t cry, I know for sure that now he will not leave. Another year will be with us." And a year later, at the commemoration of his dead son, he admonished his wife: “He did not die, but only before you and I moved to another world. Trust me, I've been there."

Savely KASHNITSKY, Kaliningrad - Moscow

Childbirth under the ceiling

These are the memories of 19-year-old Anna R., who survived clinical death. Such stories can be found in abundance on Internet forums where the topic of "life after death" is discussed.

light in the tunnel

Disagreements among scientists have reached the point that a new experiment was recently announced. For three years, American and British doctors will study the testimony of patients whose hearts have stopped or whose brains have been switched off. Among other things, the researchers are going to lay out various pictures on the shelves in intensive care units. You can see them only by soaring up to the very ceiling. If patients who have experienced clinical death retell their content, then the consciousness is really able to leave the body.

One of the first who tried to explain the phenomenon of near-death experience was Academician Vladimir Negovsky. He founded the world's first Institute of General Resuscitation. Negovsky believed (and since then the scientific view has not changed) that the "light at the end of the tunnel" is due to the so-called tubular vision. The cortex of the occipital lobes of the brain dies off gradually, the field of view narrows to a narrow band, giving the impression of a tunnel.

In a similar way, doctors explain the vision of pictures of a past life flashing before the eyes of a dying person. The structures of the brain fade away, and then are restored unevenly. Therefore, a person manages to remember the most vivid events that have been deposited in memory. And the illusion of leaving the body, according to doctors, is the result of a malfunction of nerve signals. However, skeptics are at an impasse when it comes to answering more tricky questions. Why do people who are blind from birth see and then describe in detail what is happening in the operating room around them at the moment of clinical death? And there is such evidence.

Leaving the body - a defensive reaction

Dmitry Spivak himself investigated the mental state of women in labor and found out that about 9% of women experience “leaving the body” during childbirth! Here is the testimony of 33-year-old S.: “During childbirth, I had a lot of blood loss. Suddenly, I began to see myself from under the ceiling. Pain disappeared. And about a minute later, she also unexpectedly returned to her place in the ward and again began to experience severe pain. It turns out that "out of the body" is a normal phenomenon during childbirth. Some kind of mechanism embedded in the psyche, a program that works in extreme situations.

Undoubtedly, childbirth is an extreme situation. But what could be more extreme than death itself?! It is possible that "flight in the tunnel" is also a protective program, which turns on at a fatal moment for a person. But what will happen to his consciousness (soul) next?

“I asked one dying woman: if there really is something THERE, try to give me a sign,” recalls Andrey Gnezdilov, MD, who works at the St. Petersburg Hospice. – And on the 40th day after her death, I saw her in a dream. The woman said, "This is not death." Long years of work in the hospice convinced me and my colleagues that death is not the end, not the destruction of everything. The soul continues to live.

Dmitry PISARENKO

Cup and polka dot dress

I went to visit the relatives of this woman. And it turned out that during the operation ... a neighbor with a polka-dot dress for a girl looked in on them and a cup was broken.

This is not the only mysterious case in the practice of Gnezdilov and other workers of the St. Petersburg hospice. They are not surprised when a doctor dreams about his patient and thanks him for his care, for his touching attitude. And in the morning, having arrived at work, the doctor finds out: the patient died at night ...

Church opinion

Priest Vladimir Vigilyansky, head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate:

Orthodox people believe in an afterlife and immortality. In the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments there are many confirmations and testimonies to this. We consider the very concept of death only in connection with the coming resurrection, and this mystery ceases to be such if we live with Christ and for the sake of Christ. “Whoever lives and believes in me will never die,” says the Lord (John 11:26).

According to legend, the soul of the deceased in the first days walks in those places where she worked the truth, and on the third day ascends to heaven to the throne of God, where until the ninth day she is shown the abodes of the saints and the beauty of paradise. On the ninth day, the soul again comes to God, and it is sent to hell, where ungodly sinners reside and where the soul goes through thirty-day ordeals (tests). On the fortieth day, the soul again comes to the Throne of God, where it appears naked before the court of its own conscience: did it pass these tests or not? And even in the case when some trials convict the soul of its sins, we hope for the mercy of God, in whom all deeds of sacrificial love and compassion will not remain in vain.

There is life after death!

A few testimonies from a professor that death is not the end of life

Andrey Vladimirovich Gnezdilov - St. Petersburg psychiatrist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Psychiatry of the St. Petersburg Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Scientific Director of the Gerontology Department, Honorary Doctor of the University of Essex (Great Britain), Chairman of the Russian Association of Oncopsychologists:

“Death is not the end or the destruction of our personality. This is just a change in the state of our consciousness after the completion of earthly existence. I worked in an oncology clinic for 10 years, and now I have been working in a hospice for over 20 years. During these years of communication with seriously ill and dying people, I have many times had the opportunity to make sure that human consciousness does not disappear after death. That our body is just a shell that the soul leaves at the moment of transition to another world. All this is proved by numerous stories of people who have been in a state of such a "spiritual" consciousness during clinical death. When people tell me about some of their secret experiences that deeply shocked them, then a sufficiently large experience of a medical practitioner allows me to distinguish hallucinations from real events with confidence. To explain such phenomena from the point of view of science, not only I, but no one else can yet - science by no means covers all knowledge about the world. But there are facts proving that besides our world there is another world - a world that operates according to laws unknown to us and is beyond the limits of our understanding. In this world, which we will all enter after our death, time and space have completely different manifestations. I want to tell you a few cases from my practice that can dispel all doubts about its existence.

.... Once I saw my patient in a dream - as if he came to me after death and first began to thank me for my care and support, and then said: “How strange - this world is as real as my world. I'm not scared. I am surprised. I didn't expect that." Waking up and remembering this unusual dream, I thought: “No, how is it, we only saw each other yesterday - everything was in order with him!” But when I came to work, I was informed that the same patient had died during the night. Nothing foreshadowed his imminent departure, so I did not even think about his alleged death, and such a dream .... There is no doubt - the soul of this person came to say goodbye to me! Words simply cannot express my feelings after understanding this phenomenon ....

.... Let me give you another impressive case. A priest came to our hospice to give communion to a dying patient. There was another patient in the same room, who had been in a coma for several days. Having performed the Sacraments of Communion, the priest was about to head for the exit, but was suddenly stopped by the pleading look of this man who suddenly woke up from a coma. While the priest was giving communion to the dying man, his roommate suddenly came to his senses and, unable to utter a word, began to stare at the priest intently and imploringly, thus trying to convey his request to him. The priest immediately stopped, his heart responding to this desperate, silent call. He approached the sick man and asked him if he would like to confess and take communion. The patient could only blink his eyes in agreement. The priest again performed the Sacrament of Communion, and when he finished, tears glistened on the cheeks of the dying man. When the priest again went to the door and finally turned around to say goodbye…. the patient has already calmly departed into another world.

It is difficult to explain this case as a coincidence - a person who was in a long coma woke up precisely during the performance of the sacred sacrament. No, this is not a coincidence, I have no doubt that the human soul felt the presence of the priest and the Holy Gifts and reached out to meet them. In the last moments of his life, he managed to commune with God in order to depart in peace.

.... One woman was lying in our oncology hospital. The forecasts were disappointing - she had no more than a few weeks to live. She had a minor daughter, who, after the death of her mother, had no one to shelter. The woman was very worried about this, because the girl had to be left all alone. What awaited her girl - an orphanage, a street? "God! Don't let me die now, let me raise my daughter!" - the dying woman prayed without ceasing .... And, despite medical forecasts, she lived for another two years. Apparently the Lord heard her request and extended her life until the time when her daughter became an adult.

Another woman was afraid not to live until spring, and she so wanted to bask in the gentle sun in those last cold and cloudy days of hers .... And the sun looked into her room in those moments when she was dying ....

The dying grandmother kept praying to God to live until Easter. She died after the Paschal service... Everyone is rewarded according to faith.

This incident happened to my family. I'll tell you what happened when my grandmother was dying. They lived then in the south - in the village of Lazorevskaya. Before her death, my grandmother turned to my mother with the following request:

Go get me a priest...

Mother was surprised, because the only church in the village had long been abandoned and closed.

Where is the priest from? You know, our church has been closed for a long time...

I'm telling you, go and get a priest.

Where to go, what to do? ... Saddened mother went out into the street in tears and went towards the station, which was not far from the house. She comes to the station and suddenly sees a priest standing near him, who on that day lagged behind the train. She rushes to him and asks him to come confess and give communion to a dying man. The priest agrees, and everything happens as it should be. It turns out that in the last hours of her life, my dying grandmother, with God's help, experienced a moment of clairvoyance, which helped her to partake of sacred grace and depart in peace.

…. I will tell you another interesting and unusual story that happened to one of my patients. I want to note that this story made a great impression on Natalia Petrovna Bekhtereva, academician, head of the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, when I retold it to her.

Somehow they asked me to look at a young woman. Let's call her Julia. Yulia experienced a clinical death during a severe oncological operation, and I had to determine whether the consequences of this condition remained, whether her memory and reflexes were normal, whether her consciousness was fully restored, and so on. She was in the recovery room, and as soon as we started talking to her, she immediately began to apologize:

I'm sorry that I'm causing so much trouble to doctors ....

What kind of trouble?

Well, those…. during the operation... when I was in a state of clinical death.

But you can't know anything about it. When you were in a state of clinical death, you could not see or hear anything. Absolutely no information - neither from the side of life, nor from the side of death - could come to you, because your brain was turned off and your heart stopped ....

Yes, doctor, that's all right. But what happened to me was so real… and I remember everything…. I would tell you about it if you promise not to send me to a psychiatric hospital.

You think and speak perfectly intelligently. Please tell us about what you experienced.

And this is what Julia told me then:

At first - after the introduction of anesthesia - she was not aware of anything, but then she felt some kind of push, and she was suddenly thrown out of her own body with some kind of rotational movement. She was surprised to see herself lying on the operating table, to see the surgeons leaning over the table, and to hear someone shout, “Her heart has stopped! Get started immediately!" And then Julia was terribly frightened, because she realized that this was HER body and HER heart! For Yulia, cardiac arrest was tantamount to the fact that she died, and as soon as she heard these terrible words, she was instantly seized with anxiety for her loved ones who remained at home: her mother and little daughter. After all, she did not even warn them that she would be operated on! “How is it that I will die now and not even say goodbye to them ?!” Her consciousness literally rushed towards her own house and suddenly, oddly enough, she instantly found herself in her apartment! He sees that her daughter Masha is playing with a doll, her grandmother is sitting next to her granddaughter and knitting something. There is a knock on the door and a neighbor Lidia Stepanovna enters the room and says: “This is for Mashenka. Your Yulenka has always been a model for her daughter, so I sewed a polka-dot dress for the girl so that she would look like her mother. Masha rejoices, throws the doll and runs to a neighbor, but on the way she accidentally touches the tablecloth: an old cup falls off the table and breaks, a teaspoon lying next to it, flies after it and falls under a stray carpet. Noise, ringing, turmoil, grandmother, clasping her hands, shouts: “Masha, how awkward you are!”. Masha is upset - she feels sorry for the old and such a beautiful cup, and Lidia Stepanovna hastily consoles them with the words that the dishes are beating fortunately .... And then, completely forgetting about what happened earlier, the excited Yulia approaches her daughter, puts her hand on her head and says: “Mashenka, this is not the worst grief in the world.” The girl turns around in surprise, but as if not seeing her, immediately turns away. Julia does not understand anything: this has never happened before, so that her daughter turns away from her when she wants to console her! The daughter was brought up without a father and was very attached to her mother - she had never behaved like this before! This behavior of hers upset and puzzled Yulia, in complete confusion she began to think: “What is happening? Why did my daughter turn away from me?

And suddenly she remembered that when she spoke to her daughter, she did not hear her own voice! That when she reached out and stroked her daughter, she didn't feel any touch either! Her thoughts begin to get confused: “Who am I? Can't they see me? Am I already dead? In dismay, she rushes to the mirror and does not see her reflection in it .... This last circumstance completely knocked her down, it seemed to her that she would just quietly go crazy from all this .... But suddenly, among the chaos of all these thoughts and feelings, she remembers everything that happened to her before: “I had an operation!” She recalls how she saw her body from the side - lying on the operating table - she recalls the terrible words of the anesthesiologist about the stopped heart .... These memories frighten Yulia even more, and in her completely confused mind it immediately flashes: “I must by all means be in the operating room now, because if I don’t have time, the doctors will consider me dead!” She rushes out of the house, she thinks about what kind of transport to get there as soon as possible in order to be in time .... and at the same moment she is again in the operating room, and the voice of the surgeon reaches her: “The heart has earned! We continue the operation, but quickly, so that it does not stop again! A memory lapse follows, and then she wakes up in the recovery room.

So what is death?

We fix the state of death, when the heart stops and the work of the brain stops, and at the same time, the death of consciousness - in the concept in which we always imagined it - as such, simply does not exist. The soul is freed from its shell and is clearly aware of the entire surrounding reality. There is already a lot of evidence for this, this is confirmed by numerous stories of patients who were in a state of clinical death and experienced a post-mortem experience in those minutes. Communication with patients teaches us a lot, and also makes us wonder and think - after all, it is simply impossible to write off such extraordinary events as coincidences and coincidences. These events dispel all doubts about the immortality of our souls.

This section contains stories of people who know about death firsthand. The experience of each person who, for various reasons, finds himself on the other side of life is unique in his own way. However, everyone who has experienced clinical death unequivocally asserts that existence does not stop with the death of the physical body. Life exists THERE!

According to the materials of the newspaper "AiF".

Based on the article "The nun came to life on the third day after her death." Grigory Telnov, newspaper "Life".

She saw her body from the side - lying on the operating table. The doctors were all around. A device similar to an iron was pressed to his chest. - Discharge! shouted Professor Psakhes. The body twitched. But she didn't feel pain. - Discharge! Discharge! More! More!..

Maxim, doctor.

A patient of the cardiology department of the clinic described his feelings during his exit from the body at the time of clinical death that occurred during a heart operation ... This story was recorded by a doctor who helps desperate people on the Pobedesh.ru website ...

"Rebus", 1899

I had the hope of recovery, although I had been ill for several years, suffering from a painful chronic illness that only time, a good climate and constant care could cure. And now the doctors have told me that an operation is needed to hasten my recovery. Although my parents were still alive, I was alone abroad. I lived in Switzerland for the mountain air and special treatment in a nursing home...

Voyno-Yasenetsky Valentin Feliksovich, professor of medicine.

The appearance of ghosts at the time of death is a well-known and undeniable fact. Richet gives many examples of this kind in his book. I will only mention a few of them...

According to the book "The Past Unrolls the Scroll".

In the winter of 1923/24, I fell ill with pneumonia. For eight days the temperature was kept at 40.8 degrees. About the ninth day of my illness, I had a significant dream. Even at the very beginning, in half-forgetfulness, when I tried to say the Jesus Prayer, I was distracted by visions - beautiful pictures of nature, over which I seemed to float. When I listened to the music or looked at the wonderful landscapes, leaving the prayer, I was shaken from head to toe by an evil force, and I quickly set to prayer ...

Roolings Moritz, MD.

Do we have anything more valuable than life? Does death mean the end of our existence in general, or is it the beginning of another, new life? Are there people who have returned from the afterlife, and do they know what happens there, beyond the threshold of death? What can you compare that state to? Public interest in such matters begins to grow rapidly, because thanks to the now available technique of resuscitation, otherwise called the technique of resuscitation, which helps to restore the respiratory function and cardiac activity of the body, an increasing number of people are able to talk about the states of death they have experienced.