There is another world after death. Out of body experience. Interesting cases and evidence of eternal life
At some point in life, often from a certain age, when relatives and friends pass away, a person tends to ask questions about death and about 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 exists after the death of the body.
Over the past 50–70 years, medicine and psychology have accumulated tens of thousands of written evidence and research results that make it possible to lift the veil from this mystery.
It is worth noting that, on the one hand, all recorded cases of post-death experiences 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 goes to other worlds and universes;
- the soul, freed from physical experiences, experiences extraordinary lightness, bliss and heightened all senses;
- feeling of flight;
- spiritual worlds are saturated with light and love;
- in the posthumous world, time and space familiar to humans do not exist;
- consciousness works differently than when living 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 accounts of eyewitnesses who have experienced out-of-body experiences is so great today that they could form a large encyclopedia. And perhaps a small library.
Perhaps the largest number of 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 regression hypnosis to treat his patients, especially those for whom traditional medicine and psychology could no longer help.
At first, he was surprised to discover that many serious problems in life, including patients’ health, had their causes in past lives.
After several decades of research, Newton not only developed a mechanism for treating complex physical and psychological injuries that began in past incarnations, but also collected the largest amount of evidence to date for the existence of life after death.
Michael Newton's first book, Journeys of the Soul, was released in 1994, followed by several more books dealing with life in the spirit worlds.
These books describe not only the mechanism of the soul’s transition from one life to another, but also how we choose our birth, our parents, loved ones, friends, trials and circumstances of life.
In one of the forewords to his book, Michael Newton wrote: “We are all about to return home. Where only pure, unconditional love, compassion and harmony exist side by side. You need to understand that you are currently in school, the Earth school, and when the training is over, this loving harmony is waiting for you. It is important to remember that every experience you have during your current life contributes to your 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 us all.”
But the main thing is that Newton not only collected the largest amount of detailed evidence, he also developed a tool that allows anyone to gain their own experience.
Today, regressive hypnosis is also represented 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 for yourself.
To do this, just find the contacts of a specialist in regressive hypnosis on the Internet. However, take the time to read the reviews to avoid unpleasant disappointment.
Today, books are not the only source of information about life after death. Films and TV series are being made on this topic.
One of the most famous films on this topic, based on real events, “Heaven is for Real” 2014. The film was based on the book “Heaven is Real” by Todd Burpo.
Still from the film “Heaven is for Real” A book about the story of a 4-year-old boy who experienced clinical death during surgery, went to heaven and returned back, written by his father.
This story is amazing in its details. While out of body, 4-year-old baby Kilton clearly saw what the doctors and his parents were doing. Which exactly corresponded to what was actually happening.
Kilton describes the heavens and their inhabitants in great detail, although his heart only stopped for a few minutes. During his stay in heaven, the boy learns such details about the life of the family that, according to his father’s assurances, he could not have known, if only 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 observed 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 several years ago with our compatriot Vladimir Efremov.
Vladimir Grigorievich experienced a spontaneous exit from the body due to cardiac arrest. In a word, Vladimir Grigorievich experienced clinical death in February 2014, which he told his relatives and colleagues about in every detail.
And it seemed like there was one more case confirming the presence of an otherworldly life. 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 Grigorievich himself, before he experienced clinical death, he considered himself an atheist and perceived stories about the afterlife as the 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 afterlife 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 in 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 his previous atheism, Vladimir Grigorievich noted that the presence of God was felt everywhere.
There was no visible form of God, but his presence was undeniable. Later, Efremov even gave a presentation on this topic to his colleagues. Listen to the story of the eyewitness himself.
Dalai Lama
One of the greatest proofs of eternal life is known to many, but few have thought about it. Nobel Peace Prize laureate, spiritual leader of Tibet Dalai Lama XIV, is the 14th incarnation of the consciousness (soul) of the 1st Dalai Lama.
But they began the tradition of reincarnation of the main spiritual leader, to preserve the purity of knowledge even earlier. In the Tibetan Kagyu lineage, the highest reincarnated Lama is called Karmapa. And now the Karmapa is experiencing his 17th incarnation.
The famous film “Little Buddha” was made based on the story of the death of the 16th Karmapa and the search for the child into whom he would be reborn.
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, such as the Dalai Lama or the Karmapa, who are reborn. After death, almost without interruption, their closest disciples also come to a new human body, whose task is to recognize the soul of the Lama in the child.
There is a whole ritual of recognition, including recognition among many personal belongings from a previous incarnation. And everyone is free to decide for themselves whether they believe or not in these stories.
But in the political life of the world, some are inclined to take this 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 past few years, the spiritual leader of Tibet sometimes jokes and says that he may no longer incarnate or incarnate in a female body. You can, of course, argue that these are Buddhists and they have such beliefs and this is not evidence. But it seems that some heads of state perceive this 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 islanders 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 lives up to its name “Island of the Gods”. Moreover, if the family of the deceased is wealthy, she is asked to return to the family.
When a child reaches 3 years of age, there is a tradition of taking 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 uncle. And the existence of the entire island, practically a small state, is determined by these beliefs.
Modern science's view of life after death
Science's views on death and life have changed greatly 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 before to understanding what happens to consciousness after life leaves the body.
If 100 years ago science denied the existence of consciousness or soul, today this is already a generally accepted fact, as is the fact that the consciousness of the experimenter influences the results of the experiment.
So does the soul exist, and is Consciousness immortal from a scientific point of view? - Yes
Neuroscientist Christoph Koch in April 2016, at a meeting of scientists with the 14th Dalai Lama, said 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 theory of “Panpsychism”, the theory of a single universal consciousness, has received a second life these days. This theory is present in Buddhism, Greek philosophy and pagan traditions. But for the first time, Panpsychism is supported by science.
Giulio Tononi, the author of the famous modern theory of consciousness “Integrated Information Theory” states the following: “consciousness exists in physical systems in the form of diverse and multilaterally interconnected pieces of information.”
Christopher Koch and Giulio Tononi made a statement that is astonishing for modern science:
"Consciousness is the 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 how the signal is measured in the brain's neurons is measured.
The longer and clearer the brain reverberation in response to a magnetic stimulus, the more conscious a person is.
Using this technique, it is possible to determine what state a person is in: awake, asleep or under anesthesia.
This method of measuring consciousness has found widespread use in medicine. The phi level helps to accurately determine whether 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 is aware of himself in a state of dementia or dementia.
Several proofs of the existence of the soul and its immortality
Here we are again faced with what can be considered proof of the existence of the soul. In court cases, witness testimony 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 a soul. However, it is not a fact 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 exclusively in science fiction works 200–300 years ago.
The simplest example of this is an airplane.
Evidence from psychiatrist Jim Tucker
So let's look at several cases described by psychiatrist Jim B. Tucker as evidence for the existence of the soul. Moreover, what could be a greater proof of the immortality of the soul if not reincarnation or the memory of one’s past incarnations?
Like Ian Stevenson, Jim spent decades researching the issue of reincarnation based on children's memories of past lives.
In his book Life Before Life: A Scientific Study of Children's Memories of Past Lives, he reviewed more than 40 years of reincarnation research at the University of Virginia.
The studies were based on children's exact 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 studying this issue after he encountered quite frequent requests from parents who claimed that their children told very consistent stories about their past lives.
Names, occupations, places 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 the children lived in their previous incarnations and graves where they were buried.
There were too many such cases to consider it a coincidence or a hoax. Moreover, in some cases, young children as young as 2-4 years old already possessed skills that they claimed to have mastered in past lives. Here are a few such examples.
Baby Hunter incarnate
Hunter, a 2-year-old boy, 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, at only two years old, Hunter played golf well.
So good that he was allowed to study in the section, despite the existing age restrictions of 5 years. It is not surprising that the parents decided to have their son checked. They printed out photographs of several competitive golfers and asked the boy to identify himself.
Without hesitation, Hunter pointed to the photograph of Bobby Jones. By the age of seven, memories of his past life began to blur, but the boy still plays golf and has already won several competitions.
Incarnation of James
Another example about the boy James. He was about 2.5 years old when he started talking about his past life and how he died. 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 previous life his name was James Houston, he grew up in Pennsylvania, and his father suffered from alcoholism.
The boy's father turned to the military archives, where it turned out that a pilot named James Houston really existed. He took part in air operations 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 are currently only available in English.
His first book was published in 1997 and was entitled "Reincarnation and Stevenson's Biology: Contributions to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects."
In researching this book, two hundred cases of birth defects or birthmarks in children that could not be explained medically or genetically were examined. At the same time, the children themselves explained their origins by events from past lives.
For example, there have been cases of children with irregular 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 confirmed by death certificates found later and even stories from living relatives.
There was a boy with moles that were shaped very much like the entry and exit wounds of a bullet wound. The boy himself claimed that he died from a shot in the head. He remembered his name and the house in which he lived.
The deceased's sister was later found and confirmed her brother's name and the fact that he shot himself in the head.
All the thousands and thousands of similar cases recorded today 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 why it wants to incarnate again.
Further 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 existing in the universe, absolutely everything, is one.
An atom is 90 percent composed of space (emptiness), which means that all living and nonliving 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, because, in their opinion, they allow them to experience this fact of unity.
John Hagelin, a famous quantum physicist and popularizer of science, said in one of his interviews that for all quantum physicists, our unity at the subatomic level is a proven fact.
But if you want not just to know this, but to experience it 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 mind, the fact of its existence will not change in any way.
Isn’t it possible that mediums, psychics and many creative personalities can connect to this space?
Religious opinions on death
The opinion of all religions about death agrees on one thing - when you die in this world, you are born in another. But the descriptions of other worlds in the Bible, Koran, Kabbalah, 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 after death the soul 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 humans have always had a desire to communicate with the dead. Because throughout the existence of human culture, there have been people who have been able to communicate with the spirits of deceased ancestors.
In the Middle Ages, this was done by shamans, priests and sorcerers; in our time, people with such abilities are called mediums or psychics.
If you watch television at least occasionally, you may have come across a television show that shows sessions of communication with the spirits of the deceased.
One of the most famous shows in which communication with the departed is a key theme is “Battle of Psychics” on TNT.
It is difficult to say how real what the viewer sees on the screen is. But one thing is for sure - it is now not difficult to find someone who can help you contact your deceased loved one.
But when choosing a medium, you should take care to obtain 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. There are often cases when communication with the dead occurs 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.
These are interviews with renowned experts in the fields of afterlife research and practical spirituality. They provide evidence of life after death.
Together they answer important and thought-provoking questions:
- Who am I?
- Why am I here?
- Does God exist?
- What about heaven and hell?
Together they will answer important and thought-provoking questions, and the most important question in the here and now: “If we truly are immortal souls, then how does this affect our lives and relationships with other people?”
Bonus for new readers:
Bernie Siegel, surgical oncologist. Stories that convinced him of the existence of the spiritual world and life after death.
When I was four years old, I almost choked on a piece of a toy. I tried to imitate what the male carpenters I watched did.
I put part of the toy in my mouth, inhaled and... left my body.
At that moment when, having left my body, I saw myself from the side, suffocating and in a dying state, I thought: “How good!”
For a four-year-old child, being out of the body was much more interesting than being in the body.
Of course, I had no regrets about dying. I was sad, like many children who go through similar experiences, that my parents would find me dead.
I thought: " Well, okay! I prefer death to living in that body».
Indeed, as you already said, sometimes we meet children born blind. When they go through such an experience and leave the body, they begin to “see” everything.
At such moments you often stop and ask yourself the question: “ What is life? What's going on here?».
These children are often unhappy that they have to go back to their body and be blind again.
Sometimes I talk to parents whose children have died. They tell me
There was a case when a woman was driving her car along the highway. Suddenly her son appeared in front of her and said: “ Mom, slow down!».
She obeyed him. By the way, her son had been dead for five years. She reached the turn and saw ten badly damaged cars - there was a big accident. Thanks to the fact that her son warned her in time, she did not have an accident.
Ken Ring. Blind people and their ability to "see" during near-death or out-of-body experiences.
We interviewed about thirty blind people, many of whom had been blind since birth. We asked whether they had had a near-death experience and also whether they could “see” during these experiences.
We learned that the blind people we interviewed had the classic near-death experiences that ordinary people experience.
About 80 percent of the blind people I spoke to had different visual images during their near-death experiences or .
In several cases we were able to obtain independent confirmation that they had “seen” something that they could not have known was actually present in their physical environment.
Surely it was the lack of oxygen in their brain, right? Haha.
Yes, it's that simple! I think it will be difficult for scientists, from a conventional neuroscience perspective, to explain how blind people, who by definition cannot see, receive these visual images and communicate them reliably.
Blind people often say that when they first realized that can “see” the physical world around them, then they were shocked, scared and shocked by everything they saw.
But when they began to have transcendental experiences in which they went to the world of light and saw their relatives or other similar things that are characteristic of such experiences, this “vision” seemed quite natural to them.
« It was the way it should be", they said.
Brian Weiss. Cases from practice that prove that we have lived before and will live again.
Stories that are credible, compelling in their depth, but not necessarily scientific in the sense that they show us that there is much more to life than meets the eye.
The most interesting case in my practice...
This woman was a modern surgeon and worked with the “top” of the Chinese government. This was her first visit to the USA, she did not speak a single word of English.
She arrived with her translator in Miami, where I was then working. I regressed her to a past life.
She ended up in Northern California. It was a very vivid memory that took place approximately 120 years ago.
My client turned out to be a woman who was telling off her husband. She suddenly began to speak fluently in English, full of epithets and adjectives, which is not surprising, because she was arguing with her husband...
Her professional translator turned to me and began to translate her words into Chinese - he still did not understand what was happening. I told him: " It's okay, I understand English».
He was stunned - his mouth opened in surprise, he had just realized that she spoke English, although before that she did not even know the word “hello”. That's an example .
Xenoglossy- this is the ability to speak or understand foreign languages with which you are absolutely unfamiliar and which you have never studied.
This is one of the most compelling moments of past life work when we hear the client speak in an ancient language or a language with which he is not familiar.
There is no other way to explain this...
Yes, and I have many such stories. In one case in New York, two three-year-old twin boys communicated with each other in a language very different from the children's invented language, such as when they make up words for telephone or television.
Their father, who was a doctor, decided to show them to linguists at New York's Columbia University. There it turned out that the boys spoke to each other in ancient Aramaic.
This story has been documented by experts. We must understand how this could happen. I think that it is . How else can you explain the knowledge of Aramaic by three-year-old children?
After all, their parents did not know this language, and the children could not hear Aramaic late at night on television or from their neighbors. These are just a few convincing cases from my practice that prove that we have lived before and will live again.
Wayne Dyer. Why there are “no coincidences” in life, and why everything we encounter in life corresponds to the divine plan.
—What about the concept that there are “no coincidences” in life? In your books and speeches you say that there are no coincidences in life, and there is an ideal divine plan for everything.
I can generally believe this, but what then should one do in the event of a tragedy with children or when a passenger plane crashes... how can one believe that this is not an accident?
“It seems like a tragedy if you believe that death is a tragedy.” You must understand that everyone comes into this world when he should, and leaves when his time is up.
By the way, there is confirmation of this. There is nothing that we do not choose in advance, including the moment of our appearance in this world and the moment of leaving it.
Our personal egos, as well as our ideologies, dictate to us that children should not die, and that everyone should live to the age of 106 and die sweetly in their sleep. The universe works completely differently - we spend exactly as much time here as planned.
...To begin with, we must look at everything from this side. Secondly, we are all part of a very wise system. Imagine something for a second...
Imagine a huge landfill, and in this landfill there are ten million different things: toilet lids, glass, wires, various pipes, screws, bolts, nuts - in general, tens of millions of parts.
And out of nowhere a wind appears - a strong cyclone that sweeps everything into one heap. Then you look at the place where the junkyard was just located, and there is a new Boeing 747, ready to fly from the USA to London. What are the chances that this will ever happen?
Insignificant.
That's it! The consciousness in which there is no understanding that we are parts of this wise system is just as insignificant.
It just can't be a huge fluke. We are not talking about ten million parts, like on a Boeing 747, but about zillions of interconnected parts, both on this planet and in billions of other galaxies.
To assume that all this is random and there is not some driving force behind it would be as stupid and arrogant as believing that the wind can create a Boeing 747 airplane from tens of millions of parts.
Behind every event in life there is the Highest Spiritual Wisdom, therefore there can be no accidents in it.
Michael Newton, author of Journey of the Soul. Words of comfort for parents who have lost children
— What words of consolation and reassurance do you have for those who lost their loved ones, especially small children?
“I can imagine the pain of those who lose their children. I have children and I am lucky that they are healthy.
These people are so consumed by grief that they cannot believe they have lost a loved one and will not understand how God could allow this to happen.
Perhaps it is even more fundamental...
Neil Douglas-Klotz. The real meanings of the words "heaven" and "hell", as well as what happens to us and where we go after death.
"Paradise" is not a physical place in the Aramaic-Jewish sense of the word.
“Paradise” is the perception of life. When Jesus or any of the Hebrew prophets used the word “heaven,” they meant, as we understand it, “vibrational reality.” The root “shim” - in the word vibration [vibreishin] means “sound”, “vibration” or “name”.
Shimaya [shimaya] or Shemaiah [shemai] in Hebrew means “boundless and limitless vibrational reality.”
Therefore, when the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament says that the Lord created our reality, it means that he created it in two ways: he (she/it) created a vibrational reality in which we are all one and an individual (fragmented) reality in which there are names , persons and purposes.
This does not mean that “heaven” is somewhere else or that “heaven” is something that must be earned. “Heaven” and “Earth” coexist simultaneously when viewed from this perspective.
The concept of “heaven” as a “reward,” or something beyond us, or where we go when we die, were all unfamiliar to Jesus or his disciples.
You won't find anything like that in Judaism. These concepts appeared later in the European interpretation of Christianity.
There is a currently popular metaphysical concept that “heaven” and “hell” are a state of human consciousness, a level of awareness of oneself in oneness or distance from God and an understanding of the true nature of one’s soul and oneness with the Universe. Is this true or not?
This is close to the truth. The opposite of “paradise” is not , but “Earth”, thus “paradise” and “Earth” are opposed realities.
There is no so-called “hell” in the Christian sense of the word. There is no such concept in either Aramaic or Hebrew.
Did this evidence of life after death help melt the ice of mistrust?
We hope that you now have much more information that will help you take a fresh look at the concept of reincarnation, and perhaps even relieve you of your greatest fear - the fear of death.
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This type of information interests most people. Previously, humanity only speculated whether there was life after death; scientific evidence was provided by modern scientists, using the latest technologies and research methods. The belief that life will continue in some other form, perhaps in another dimension, allows people to achieve their goals. If there is no such confidence, then there is no motivation for further development and improvement.
No one can draw final conclusions. Research continues, new evidence of various theories is emerging. When irrefutable proof of the existence of life after death is provided, then the philosophy of human life will change completely.
Scientific theories and evidence
According to Tsiolkovsky's scientific explanation, physical death does not mean the end of life. In his theory, souls are presented in the form of indivisible atoms, therefore, saying goodbye to corruptible bodies, they do not disappear, but continue to wander in the Universe. Consciousness persists even after death. This was the first attempt to scientifically substantiate the assumption of whether there is life after death, although no evidence was presented.
English researchers working at the London Institute of Psychiatry managed to draw similar conclusions. Their patients' hearts stopped completely and clinical death occurred. At this time, the medical staff discussed various nuances. Some patients recounted the topics of these conversations very accurately.
According to Sam Parnia, the brain is an ordinary human organ, and its cells are in no way capable of generating thoughts. The entire thought process is organized by consciousness. The brain works as a receiver, receiving and processing ready-made information. If we turn off the receiver, the radio station will not stop broadcasting. The same can be said about the physical body after death, when consciousness does not die.
Feelings of people who have experienced clinical death
The best proof of whether there is life after death is the testimony of people. There are many eyewitnesses to their own death. Scientists are trying to systematize their memories, find a scientific basis, and explain what is happening as an ordinary physical process.
The stories of people who have experienced clinical death differ sharply from each other. Not all patients had different visions. Many people don't remember anything at all. But some people shared their impressions after the unusual condition. These cases have their own characteristics.
During a complex operation, one patient experienced clinical death. He describes in detail the situation in the operating room, although he was taken to the hospital in an unconscious state. The hero saw all his saviors from the outside, as well as his body. Later, in the hospital, he recognized the doctors by sight, causing them to be surprised. After all, they left the operating room before the patient regained consciousness.
The woman had other visions. She felt a rapid movement in space, during which there were several stops. The heroine communicated with figures that did not have clear shapes, but she was still able to remember the essence of the conversation. There was a clear awareness that she was outside the body. I couldn’t call this state a dream or a vision, because everything looked too realistic.
The fact that some people who have experienced clinical death acquire new abilities, talents, and extrasensory abilities also remains inexplicable. Many potential dead people had a repeated vision in the form of a long light tunnel and bright flashes. States can be very different: from blissful peace to panic fear, shackling horror. This can only mean one thing: not all people are destined for the same fate. People's evidence of such phenomena can more accurately tell whether there is life after death.
Major religions about life after death
The question of life and death has interested people at different times. This could not but be reflected in religious beliefs. Different religions have their own explanations for the possibility of continuing life after physical death.
Attitude to earthly life Christianity very dismissive. The real, true existence begins in another world, for which you need to prepare. The soul departs a few days after death, staying next to the body. In this case, there is no doubt about whether there is an afterlife after death. When moving to another state, thoughts remain the same. In another world, angels, demons and other souls await people. The degree of spirituality and sin determines the future fate of a particular soul. All this will be decided at the Last Judgment. Unrepentant and great sinners have no chance of going to heaven - they are destined for a place in hell.
IN Islam People who do not believe in the afterlife are considered malicious apostates. Here they also consider earthly life as a transitional stage before akhiret. Allah makes decisions regarding a person's lifespan. Having great faith and few sins, believers of Islam die with a light heart. Infidels and atheists do not have the opportunity to escape from hell, while believers of Islam can count on this.
Do not attach much importance to the issue of life or death in Buddhism. The Buddha identified several other issues that are undesirable for consideration. Buddhists do not think about the soul because it does not exist. Although representatives of this religion believe in reincarnation and nirvana. Rebirth into different forms continues until a person reaches nirvana. All believers in Buddhism strive for this state, because this is how an unhappy carnal existence ends.
IN Judaism there are no clear accents regarding the issue of interest. There are different options, which sometimes contradict each other. This confusion is explained by the fact that other religious movements became the source.
Any religion has a mystical element, although many facts are taken from real life. The afterlife cannot be denied, otherwise the meaning of faith is lost. The use of human fears and experiences is quite normal for any religious movement. The sacred books clearly confirm the possibility of continuing one’s existence after earthly life. If you consider the number of believers on Earth, it becomes clear that most people believe in an afterlife.
Communication of mediums with the afterlife
The most compelling evidence of the continuation of life after death is the activity of mediums. This category of people has special abilities that allow them to establish contacts with deceased people. When there is nothing left of a person, it is impossible to communicate with him. Based on the opposite, it is easy to understand that another world exists. However, there are many charlatans among mediums.
No one will now doubt the abilities of the famous Bulgarian seer Vanga. A large number of famous people visited it. The prophecies of the clairvoyant and the real medium are still relevant and important. Many were amazed by what Vanga said about life after death. This woman told her guests in great detail about their deceased relatives.
Vanga argued that death occurs only for the body. For the soul, everything continues. In another world a person looks the same. The seer even told us what clothes the deceased was wearing. Based on the description, relatives recognized the deceased’s favorite clothes. Souls glow. They have the same character as in life. Communication with the dead is not interrupted. People from the other world try to influence the course of events in the lives of friends and relatives, but this is not always possible. They experience the same feelings when trying to help. In another world, the existence of the soul continues with all the previous memories.
As soon as visitors came to Vanga, their deceased relatives immediately appeared in the room. The interest of living people in them is very great. People like Vanga can see ghosts and fully communicate with them. She had conversations with souls, learning future events from them. The woman served as a kind of bridge between the two worlds, with the help of which their representatives could communicate. The fear of death, according to Vanga, is too common among people. In fact, this is just another stage of existence when a person gets rid of the outer shell, although he experiences discomfort.
American Arthur Ford never tired of surprising people with his abilities for several decades. He communicated with people who had not been in this world for a long time. Some sessions could be seen by millions of television viewers. Various mediums spoke about life after death, based on their own experiences. Ford's psychic abilities first appeared during the war. From somewhere he received information about his colleagues who died in the coming days. Since that time, Arthur began studying parapsychology and developed his abilities.
There were many skeptics who explained Ford's phenomenon with his telepathic gift. That is, the information was provided to the medium by the people themselves. But too many facts refuted such a theory.
The example of the Englishman Leslie Flint became another confirmation of the existence of the afterlife. He began communicating with ghosts as a child. Leslie at a certain time agreed to collaborate with scientists. Research by psychologists, psychiatrists, and parapsychologists confirmed the extraordinary abilities of this person. They tried to convict him of fraud more than once, but such attempts were unsuccessful.
Sound recordings of the voices of famous personalities from different eras appeared through the medium. They reported interesting facts about themselves. Many continued to work at what they loved. Leslie was able to prove that people who have moved to another world receive information about what is now happening in real life.
Psychics were able to use practical actions to prove the existence of the soul and the afterlife. Although the immaterial world is still shrouded in mystery. It is not entirely clear under what conditions the soul exists. Mediums work like receiving and transmitting devices without affecting the process itself.
Summarizing all the above facts, it can be argued that the human body is nothing more than a shell. The nature of the soul has not yet been studied, and it is unknown whether this is possible in principle. Perhaps there is a certain limit to human capabilities and knowledge that people will never cross. The existence of the soul inspires optimism in people, because they can realize themselves after death in a different capacity, and not just turn into ordinary fertilizer. After the above material, everyone must decide for themselves whether there is life after death; scientific evidence, however, is not yet very convincing.
One of the most disturbing questions in people’s minds is “is there something there after death or not?” Many religions have been created, each revealing in its own way the secrets of the afterlife. Libraries of books have been written on the topic of life after death.. And, in the end, billions of souls who were once inhabitants of the mortal earth have already gone there, into an unknown reality and distant oblivion. And they are aware of all the secrets, but they won’t tell us. There is a huge gap between the world of the dead and the living . But this is provided that the world of the dead exists.
Various religious teachings, each of which interprets in its own way the further path of a person after leaving the body, generally support the version that there is a soul and it is immortal. Exceptions are the religious movements of Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses; they adhere to the version of the perishability of the soul. And the afterlife, Hell and Paradise, the quintessence of variations of after-life existence, according to most religions, for true worshipers of God will be presented in a much better form than that on earth. Belief in something superior after death, in the highest justice, in the eternal continuation of life is the basis of many religious worldviews.
And although scientists and atheists claim that a person hopes, because it is inherent in his nature at the genetic level, they say, “ he just needs to believe in something, and preferably global, with a saving mission ”, - this does not become an “antidote” to craving for religions. Even if we take into account the genetic craving for God, where did it come from in pure consciousness?
The soul and where it is located
Soul- This is an immortal substance, not tangible and not measured using material standards. Something connecting spirit and body, individual, identifying a person as a person. There are many people who are similar in appearance, twin brothers and sisters are simply copies of each other, and there are also plenty of “doubles” who are not related by blood. But these people will always differ in their inner spiritual filling, and this concerns not the level, quality and scale of thoughts and desires, but above all the abilities, facets, characteristics, and potential of the individual. The soul is something that accompanies us on earth, reviving the mortal shell.
Most people are sure that the soul is in the heart, or somewhere in the solar plexus; there are opinions that it is in the head, the brain. Scientists, in the course of a series of experiments, have established that when animals are electrocuted at a meat processing plant, a certain ethereal substance comes out at the moment of death from the upper part of the head (skull). The soul was measured: in the course of experiments carried out at the beginning of the 20th century by the American physician Duncan McDougall, it was established soul weight - 21 grams
. Six patients lost approximately this much weight at the time of death, which the doctor was able to record using ultra-sensitive bed scales on which the dying people lay. However, later experiments carried out by other doctors established that a person loses similar body weight when falling into sleep.
Is death just a long (eternal) sleep? The Bible says the soul is in the blood
. During the Old Testament, and even to this day, Christians were forbidden to drink or eat processed animal blood. “For the life of every body is its blood, it is the soul of it; Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any body, for the life of every body is its blood; whoever eats it will be cut off.”
(Old Testament, Leviticus 17:14) “...and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to every thing that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food. And it became so"
That is, living creatures have a soul, but they are deprived of the ability to think, make decisions, and they lack highly organized mental activity. If any soul is immortal, then animals will also be in spiritual embodiment in the afterlife. However, the same Old Testament says that previously all animals simply ceased to exist after physical death, without any other continuation. The main goal of their life was stated: to be eaten; born to be “captured and exterminated.” The immortality of the human soul was also questioned.
“I spoke in my heart about the sons of men, so that God would test them, and so that they would see that they are animals in themselves; because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of animals is the same fate: as they die, so these die, and everyone has the same breath, and man has no advantage over cattle, because everything is vanity! Everything goes to one place: everything came from dust and everything will return to dust. Who knows whether the spirit of the sons of men ascends upward, and whether the spirit of animals descends down to the earth?” (Ecclesiastes 3:18-21)
But the hope for Christians is that little animals in one of their incorruptible forms remain, because in the New Testament, in particular in the Revelation of John the Theologian, there are lines that there will be many animals in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The New Testament says that accepting Christ's sacrifice gives life to all people who desire salvation. Those who do not accept this, according to the Bible, do not have Eternal Life. Whether this means that they will go to Hell or that they will hang somewhere in a state of “spiritually disabled” is unknown. In Buddhist teachings, reincarnation implies that the soul that previously belonged to a person and accompanied him can settle in an animal in the next life. And man himself in Buddhism takes a dual position, that is, he does not seem to be “pressed” as in Christianity, but he is not the Crown of Creation, the lord over all living things.
And it is located somewhere between the lower entities, “demons” and other evil spirits and the highest, enlightened Buddhas. His path and subsequent reincarnation depend on the degree of enlightenment in today's life. Astrologers talk about the existence of seven human bodies, not just the soul, spirit and body. Etheric, astral, mental, causal, budhial, atmanic and, of course, physical. According to esotericists, six bodies are part of the soul, while according to some esotericists, they accompany the soul on earthly paths.
There are many teachings, treatises and doctrines that in their own way interpret the essence of being, life and death. And, of course, not all are true; truth, as they say, is one. It’s easy to get lost in the wilds of someone else’s worldview; it’s important to stick to the position you’ve once chosen. Because if everything was simple and we knew the answer that there, at the other end of life, there would not be so many guesses, and as a result, global, radically different versions.
Christianity distinguishes the spirit, soul and body of man:
“In His hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all human flesh.” (Job 12:10)
Moreover, there is no doubt that spirit and soul are different phenomena, but what is their difference? Does the spirit (its presence is also mentioned in animals) go after death to another world or the soul? And if the spirit leaves, what happens to the soul?
Termination of life and clinical death
Doctors distinguish biological, clinical and final death. Biological death implies cessation of cardiac activity, respiration, blood circulation, depression followed by cessation of reflexes of the central nervous system. Final - all of the listed signs of biological death, including brain death. Clinical death precedes biological death and is a reversible transitional state from life to death.
After stopping breathing and heartbeat, during resuscitation measures, bringing a person back to life without serious damage to health is possible only in the first few minutes: up to a maximum of 5 minutes, more often within 2-3 minutes after the pulse stops.
Cases of safe return even after 10 minutes of clinical death have been described. Resuscitation is carried out within 30 minutes after cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest or loss of consciousness in the absence of circumstances that make resuming life impossible. Sometimes 3 minutes are enough for the development of irreversible changes in the brain. In cases of death of a person in conditions of low temperature, when metabolism is slowed down, the interval of a successful “return” to life increases and can reach 2 hours after cardiac arrest. Despite the strong opinion, based on medical practice, that after 8 minutes without heartbeat and breathing, the patient is unlikely to be brought back to life without serious consequences for his health in the future, hearts begin to beat, people come to life. And they meet their future life without serious violations of the functions and systems of the body. Sometimes the 31st minute of resuscitation is decisive. However, most people who have experienced prolonged clinical death rarely return to their previous fullness of existence, some go into a vegetative state.
There have been cases where doctors mistakenly recorded biological death, and the patient later came to, scaring morgue workers more than all the horror films they had ever watched. Lethargic dreams, decreased functions of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems with suppression of consciousness and reflexes, but preservation of life are a reality, and it is possible to confuse an imaginary death with a true one.
And yet here is a paradox: if the soul is in the blood, as the Bible says, then where is it in a person who is in a vegetative state or in an “exorbitant coma”?
Who is artificially kept alive with the help of machines, but doctors have long since established irreversible changes in the brain or brain death? At the same time, denying the fact that when blood circulation stops, life stops is absurd.
See God and not die
But in most descriptions there is the famous mysterious and deadly image of light at the end of the tunnel. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel is explained by several theories. According to psychologist Pyell Watson, this is a prototype of the passage through the birth canal, a person at the time of death remembers his birth. According to Russian resuscitator Nikolai Gubin - manifestations of toxic psychosis.
In an experiment conducted by American scientists with laboratory mice, it was found that animals, when experiencing clinical death, see the same tunnel with light at the end. And the reason is much more banal than the approach of the afterlife illuminating the darkness. In the first minutes after the heartbeat and breathing stop, the brain produces powerful impulses, which are received by the dying as the image described above. Moreover, brain activity in these very moments is incredibly high, which contributes to the appearance of vivid visions and hallucinations.
The appearance of pictures from the past is due to the fact that new brain structures begin to fade first, then old ones; when brain activity resumes, the process occurs in the reverse order: first, old, then new areas of the cerebral cortex begin to function. What causes the most significant pictures of the past, then the present, to “emerge” in the emerging consciousness. I don’t want to believe that everything is so simple, right? I really want everything to be entangled in mysticism, implicated in the most bizarre assumptions, shown in bright colors, with feelings, spectacles, and tricks.
The consciousness of many people refuses to believe in an ordinary death without mystery, without continuation . And is it really possible to agree that one day you will no longer exist at all? And there will be no eternity, or at least any continuation... When you look inside yourself, sometimes the worst thing is to feel the hopelessness of the situation, the finitude of existence, the unknown, not knowing what’s next and walking into the abyss blindfolded.
“So many of them have fallen into this abyss, I'll open it up in the distance! The day will come when I too will disappear From the surface of the earth. Everything that sang and fought will freeze, It shone and burst. And the green of my eyes and my gentle voice, And gold hair. And there will be life with its daily bread, With the forgetfulness of the day. And everything will be as if under the sky And I wasn’t there!” M. Tsvetaeva “Monologue”
The lyrics can be endless, since death is the biggest mystery; everyone who, no matter how they avoid thinking about this topic, will have to experience everything firsthand. If the picture were unambiguous, obvious and transparent, we would long ago have been convinced by thousands of discoveries by scientists, stunning results obtained from experiments, versions of various teachings about the absolute mortality of the body and soul. But no one has been able to establish and prove with absolute accuracy what awaits us at the other end of life. Christians are waiting for Heaven, Buddhists are waiting for reincarnation, esotericists are waiting for flight to the astral plane, tourists are continuing their travels, etc.
But recognizing the existence of God is reasonable, since many who during their lifetime denied the highest justice in the Next World often repent of their ardor before death. They remember the One who was so often deprived of a place in their spiritual temple.
Have survivors of clinical death seen God? If you have ever heard or will hear that someone in a state of clinical death saw God, strongly doubt it.
First, God will not meet you at the “gate”, he is not a doorman... Everyone will appear before God's judgment during the Apocalypse, that is, for the majority - after the stage of rigor mortis. By that time, it’s unlikely that anyone will be able to return and talk about that Light. “Seeing God” is not an adventure for the faint of heart. In the Old Testament (in Deuteronomy) there are words that no one has yet seen God and remained alive. God spoke to Moses and the people at Horeb from the midst of the fire, without revealing an image, and even to God in a hidden form people were afraid to come close.
The Bible also states that God is spirit, and spirit is immaterial, therefore, we cannot see him as each other. Although the miracles performed by Christ during His stay on earth in the flesh spoke of the opposite: one can return to the world of the living during or after the funeral. Let us remember the resurrected Lazarus, who was revived on the 4th day, when it had already begun to stink. And his testimony about another world. But Christianity is more than 2000 years old; during this time, have there been many people (not counting believers) who read the lines about Lazarus in the New Testament and believed in God based on this? Likewise, thousands of testimonies and miracles for those who are convinced in advance of the opposite may be meaningless and in vain.
Sometimes you have to see it for yourself to believe it. But even personal experience tends to be forgotten. There is a moment of replacing the actual with the desired, of excessive impressionability - when people really want to see something, during life they often and a lot picture it in their minds, and during and after clinical death they complete their impressions based on sensations. According to statistics, the majority of people who saw something grandiose after cardiac arrest, Hell, Heaven, God, demons, etc. - were mentally unstable. Resuscitation doctors, who have observed clinical death situations more than once and saved people, say that in the overwhelming majority of cases the patients saw nothing.
It so happened that the author of these lines once visited the Other World. I was 18 years old. A relatively easy operation turned into almost real death due to an overdose of anesthesia by doctors. There is light at the end of the tunnel, a tunnel that looks like an endless hospital corridor. Just a couple of days before I ended up in the hospital, I was thinking about death. I thought that a person should have movement, have a goal of development, in the end, family, children, career, study, and all this should be loved by him. But somehow there was so much “depression” around at that moment that it seemed to me that everything was in vain, life was meaningless, and maybe it would be nice to leave before this “torment” had yet to fully begin. I don't mean suicidal thoughts, but rather fear of the unknown and the future. Difficult family circumstances, work and study.
And now the flight into oblivion. After this tunnel - and after the tunnel I just saw a girl, a doctor looking into whose face, covering her with a blanket, putting a tag on her toe - I heard a question. And this question is perhaps the only thing that I could not find an explanation for, where it came from, who asked it. “I wanted to leave. Will you go?” And it’s as if I’m listening, but I don’t hear anyone, neither the voice, nor what’s happening around me, I’m shocked that death exists. The entire period while she observed everything and then, after returning consciousness, repeated the same question, her own, “So, death is a reality? Can I die? I died? And now I will see God?”
At first I saw myself from the doctors’ side, but not in exact forms, but blurred and chaotic, mixed with other images. I didn’t understand at all that they were saving me. The more manipulations they performed, the more it seemed to me that they were saving someone else. I heard the names of medications, doctors talking, screams, and, as if yawning lazily, I decided to also cheer up the person being rescued and began to say in unison with the alarmists, “Breathe, open your eyes. Come to your senses, etc.” I was sincerely worried about him. I spun around the entire crowd, then it was as if I saw everything that would happen next: a tunnel, a morgue with a tag, some orderlies weighing my sins on Soviet scales...
I become some kind of small grain of rice (these are the associations that arise in my memories). There are no thoughts, only sensations, and my name was not at all like my mother and father’s name, the name was generally a temporary earthly number. And it seemed that I had been alive for only a thousandth of the eternity into which I was going. But I didn’t feel like a person, some small substance, I don’t know, a spirit or a soul, I understand everything, but I just can’t react. I don’t understand it like before, but I am aware of the new reality, but I can’t get used to it, I felt very uneasy. My life seemed like a spark that burned for a second, then went out quickly and imperceptibly.
There was a feeling that there was an exam ahead (not a trial, but some kind of selection), for which I had not prepared, but I would not be presented with anything serious, I had not done any evil or good to the extent that it was worth it. But it’s as if she’s frozen in the moment of death, and it’s impossible to change anything, to somehow influence fate. There was no pain, no regrets, but I was haunted by a feeling of discomfort and confusion about how I, so small, the size of a grain, would live. Without thoughts, there were none, everything was at the level of feelings. After being in a room (as I understand it, a morgue), where I stayed for a long time near a body with a tag on my finger and could not leave this place, I begin to look for a way out, because I want to fly further, it’s boring here and I’m not here anymore. I fly through the window and fly towards the light, with speed, suddenly there is a flash, akin to an explosion. Everything is very bright. Apparently at this moment the return begins.
A period of silence and emptiness, and again a room with doctors, manipulating me, but as if with someone else. The last thing I remember is the incredibly severe pain and pain in my eyes from being shone with a flashlight. And the pain in my whole body is hellish, I again wet myself with earthly, and somehow wrongly, it seems that I stuffed my legs into my hands. I felt like I was a cow, square, made of plasticine, I really didn’t want to go back, but they pushed me in. I’ve almost come to terms with the fact that I left, but now I have to go back again. I got in. It still hurt for a long time, I began to go hysterical from what I saw, but I couldn’t speak or even explain the reason for the roar to anyone. During the rest of my life, I endured anesthesia again for several hours, everything was quite well, except for the chills after. There were no visions. A decade has passed since my “flight”, and a lot, of course, has happened in life since then. And I quite rarely told anyone about that long-ago event, but when I did share, most of those listening were very concerned about the answer to the question “did I see God or not?” And although I repeated a hundred times that I did not see God, they sometimes asked me again and with a twist: “What about Hell or Heaven?” Did not see… This does not mean that they are not there, it means that I have not seen them.
Let's return to the article, or rather finish it. By the way, the story “Sliver” by V. Zazubrin, which I read after my clinical death, left a serious imprint on my attitude towards life in general. Maybe the story is depressing, too realistic and bloody, but that’s exactly what it seemed to me: life is a sliver...
But through all the revolutions, executions, wars, deaths, illnesses, we saw something that is eternal: soul. And it’s not scary to end up in the other world, it’s scary to end up and not be able to change anything, while realizing that you failed the test. But life is definitely worth living, at least to pass exams...
What are you living for?..
Incredible facts
Disappointing news: scientists insist that there is no life after death.
The famous physicist believes that humanity needs to stop believing in the afterlife and focus on the existing laws of the Universe.
Sean Carroll, cosmologist and professor of physics at California Institute of Technology put an end to the question of life after death.
He stated that "the laws of physics that dictate our daily lives have been fully understood" and everything is happening within the realm of possibility.
Is there life after death
The scientist explained that for the existence of life after death consciousness must be completely separate from our physical body, which does not happen.
Rather, consciousness at its most basic level is a series of atoms and electrons that are responsible for our minds.
The laws of the Universe do not allow these particles to exist after we physically pass away, Dr. Carroll said.
Claims that some form of consciousness remains after the body has died and disintegrated into atoms faces one insurmountable obstacle. The laws of physics prevent the information stored in our brains from remaining after we die.
As an example, Dr. Carroll cites quantum field theory. Simply put, according to this theory, there is a field for every type of particle. For example, all photons in the Universe are at the same level, all electrons have their own field, and so on for each type of particle.
The scientist explains that if life continued after death, they would detect "spirit particles" or "spirit forces" in quantum field tests.
However, the researchers did not find anything like this.
How does a person feel before death?
Of course, there are not many ways to find out what happens to a person after death. On the other hand, many people wonder what a person feels when the end approaches.
According to scientists, a lot depends on how a person dies. So, for example, a person dying of illness may be too weak and ill and unconscious to describe his feelings.
For this reason, much of what is known has been gathered from observation rather than the inner experiences of man. There are also testimonies of those who experienced clinical death, but returned and spoke about what they experienced.
1. You lose your feelings
According to the testimony of specialists caring for hopelessly ill people, a dying person loses feelings in a certain sequence.
First of all, the feeling of hunger and thirst disappears, then the ability to speak and then see is lost. Hearing and touch usually last longer, but they also disappear later.
2. You may feel like you are dreaming.
People who had near-death experiences were asked to describe how they felt, and their responses surprisingly matched the results of research in this area.
In 2014, scientists studied the dreams of people near death, and the majority of them (about 88 percent) reported very vivid dreams that often seemed real to them. In most dreams, people saw loved ones of deceased people and at the same time experienced peace rather than fear.
3. Life flashes before your eyes
You may also see a light that you are moving towards or a feeling of being separated from your body.
Scientists have found that just before death, there is a surge of activity in the human brain, which may explain near-death experiences and the feeling that life is flashing before our eyes.
4. You can be aware of what's going on around you.
When researchers studied what a person felt during the period when he was considered officially dead, they found that the brain was still functioning for some time, and this was enough to hear conversations or see events happening around, which was confirmed by those who were nearby.
5. You may feel pain
If you have been physically injured, you may experience pain. One of the most painful experiences in this sense is considered to be strangulation. Cancer often causes pain because the growth of cancer cells affects many organs.
Some diseases may not be as painful as, for example, respiratory diseases, but cause great discomfort and difficulty breathing.
6. You may feel normal
In 1957, a herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt was bitten by a poisonous snake. He didn't know that the bite would kill him within a day, and he wrote down all the symptoms he experienced.
He wrote that he initially felt “severe chills and trembling,” “bleeding in the lining of the mouth,” and “light bleeding in the intestines,” but that his condition was otherwise normal. He even called work and said he would come the next day, but this did not happen and he died shortly after.
7. Dizziness
In 2012, footballer Fabrice Muamba suffered a heart attack in the middle of a match. For some time he was in a state of clinical death, but was later resuscitated. When asked to describe that moment, he said he felt dizzy and that's all he remembers.
8. Feel nothing
After footballer Muamba felt dizzy, he said he didn't feel anything. He had neither positive nor negative emotions. And if your senses are turned off, what can you feel?
