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There is life after death. And there are thousands of evidences of this. Until now, fundamental science has dismissed 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 selected. But behind it there are ten more... What is behind the door of life?

“She sees right through everything...”

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

Intravision

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

Having flown through black space, I found myself in a shining space filled with light,” Galina Semyonovna tells me twenty years later. “In front of me stood a huge man in dazzling white clothes. I couldn’t see his face because of the light beam 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 balanced between life and death, the patient told the head of the intensive care unit, Evgeniy Zatovka, how the operations were carried out, which of the doctors stood where and what they did, what equipment they brought, from which cabinets they took what.

After another operation on a shattered arm, Galina, during her morning medical rounds, asked the orthopedic doctor: “How is your stomach?” From amazement, he did not know what to answer - indeed, the doctor was tormented by abdominal pain.

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 remember the past. His wife Lyudmila told his story:

Yura fell from high altitude, broke his spine and received a traumatic brain injury, lost consciousness. After cardiac arrest, he lay in a coma for a long time.

I was under terrible stress. During one of my hospital visits I lost my keys. And the husband, having finally regained 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 did he confess to me: while he was in a coma, he saw my every step and heard every word - no matter how far I was from him. He flew in the form of a cloud, including to where his deceased parents and brother live. The mother tried to persuade 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 he won’t leave now. He will be with us for another year." And a year later, at the wake of his deceased son, he admonished his wife: “He did not die, but only moved to another world before you and me. 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 the start of a new experiment was recently announced. For three years American and British doctors will study the testimony of patients whose hearts stopped or their brains turned off. Among other things, the researchers are going to put various pictures on the shelves in the intensive care wards. You can only see them if you soar right up to the ceiling. If patients who have experienced clinical death retell their contents, it means that consciousness is really capable of leaving the body.

One of the first who tried to explain the phenomenon of near-death experiences was academician Vladimir Negovsky. He founded the world's first Institute of General Reanimatology. Negovsky believed (and since then scientific view has not changed) that the “light at the end of the tunnel” is explained by the so-called tube vision. The cortex of the occipital lobes of the brain dies off gradually, the field of vision narrows to a narrow strip, creating the impression of a tunnel.

In a similar way, doctors explain the vision of pictures of a past life flashing before the gaze of a dying person. Brain structures fade and then recover unevenly. Therefore, a person has time to remember the most vivid events deposited in his memory. And the illusion of leaving the body, according to doctors, is the result of a failure of nerve signals. However, skeptics reach a dead end when it comes to answering trickier questions. Why are people blind from birth at the moment clinical death see and then describe in detail what is happening in the operating room around them? And there is such evidence.

Leaving the body is a defensive reaction

Dmitry Spivak himself examined the mental state of women in labor and found 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. The pain has disappeared. And about a minute later she also unexpectedly returned to her place in the room and again began to experience severe pain.” It turns out that “leaving 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 “flying in a tunnel” is also a protective program that is activated 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 Doctor of Medical Sciences Andrei Gnezdilov, who works at the St. Petersburg hospice. – And on the 40th day after death, I saw her in a dream. The woman said: “This is not death.” Many years of working in a hospice have convinced me and my colleagues: 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 this woman’s relatives. And it turned out that during the operation... a neighbor came in with a polka dot dress for a girl and the 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 of his patient and thanks him for his care and touching attitude. And in the morning, upon arriving at work, the doctor finds out that the patient died during the night...

Church opinion

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

Orthodox people believe in an afterlife and immortality. There is much confirmation and evidence of this in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. 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 Christ’s sake. “Whoever lives and believes in Me will never die,” says the Lord (John 11:26).

According to legend, in the first days the soul of the deceased walks through those places in which it worked the truth, and on the third day it ascends to heaven to the throne of God, where until the ninth day it is shown the abodes of saints and the beauty of paradise. On the ninth day, the soul again comes to God, and it is sent to hell, where wicked sinners reside and where the soul undergoes thirty days of ordeal (tests). On the fortieth day, the soul again comes to the Throne of God, where it appears naked before the judgment of its own conscience: has it passed 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 go in vain.

There is life after death!

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

The story is told by Andrey Vladimirovich Gnezdilov - St. Petersburg psychiatrist, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Psychiatry of the St. Petersburg medical academy postgraduate education, scientific supervisor Department of Gerontology, Honorary Doctor of the University of Essex (UK), Chairman of the Association of Oncopsychologists of Russia:

“Death is not the end or destruction of our personality. This is just a change in the state of our consciousness after the end 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. Over the years of communicating with seriously ill and dying people, I have many times had the opportunity to verify 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 proven by numerous stories of people who were in a state of such “spiritual” consciousness during clinical death. When people tell me about some of their secret experiences that deeply shook them, it is enough great experience a practicing physician allows me to confidently distinguish hallucinations from real events. Not only I, but also no one else can explain such phenomena from the point of view of science - science by no means covers all knowledge about the world. But there are facts that prove 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, into which we will all end up 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 regarding 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'm surprised. I didn't expect this." Waking up and remembering this unusual dream, I thought: “No, how can this be, we only saw him yesterday - everything was fine 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 didn’t even think about his supposed death, and here’s a dream... There is no doubt - the soul of this man came to say goodbye to me! My feelings after understanding this phenomenon simply cannot be expressed in words...

….I’ll 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 ward, who had been in a coma for several days. Having performed the Sacraments of Communion, the priest headed towards the exit, but was suddenly stopped by the pleading look of this man who suddenly woke up from a coma. While the priest was administering communion to the dying man, his roommate suddenly came to his senses and, unable to utter a word, began to look intently and pleadingly at the priest, thus trying to convey his request to him. The priest immediately stopped - his heart responded to this desperate, silent call. He approached the sick man and asked him if he also wanted 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 headed towards the door again and finally turned around to say goodbye…. the patient had already calmly passed into another world.

It is difficult to explain this case as a coincidence - a man 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.

….There was one woman in our oncology hospital. The prognosis was 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 her. The woman was very worried about this, because the girl had to be left completely 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 the doctor’s predictions, she lived for two more 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 to see spring, but she so wanted to bask in the gentle sun in those last cold and cloudy days... And the sun looked into her room in those minutes when she was dying...

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

And this incident happened to my relatives. 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 the priest.

Where to go, what to do? ... The saddened mother went out into the street in tears and walked towards the station, which was located not far from the house. She approaches the station and suddenly sees a priest standing next to him, who was behind the train that day. She rushes to him and asks him to come to confess and give communion to the dying man. The priest agrees, and everything happens as it should have been. It turns out that in the last hours of her life, my dying grandmother, with God’s help, felt a moment of clairvoyance, which helped her join sacred grace and depart in peace.

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

Once they asked me to look at a young woman. Let's call her Julia. During a serious oncological operation, Yulia experienced clinical death, and I had to determine whether there were any consequences of this condition, whether her memory, reflexes were normal, whether consciousness had been fully restored, etc. She was lying in the recovery room, and as soon as we started talking to her, she immediately began to apologize:

Sorry that I cause so much trouble to the 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 this. 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 true. But what happened to me was so real... and I remember everything.... I would tell you about this if you promise not to send me to a psychiatric hospital.

You think and speak completely rationally. Please tell us about what you experienced.

And this is what Julia told me then:

At first - after the administration of anesthesia - she was not aware of anything, but then she felt some kind of push, and she was suddenly thrown out of the own body somehow rotational movement. She was surprised to see herself lying on the operating table, saw the surgeons bending over the table, and heard someone shout: “Her heart stopped!” Start it immediately!” And then Julia was terribly scared, 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 scary words, as she was instantly overcome with anxiety for her loved ones left at home: her mother and little daughter. After all, she didn’t even warn them that she would be operated on! “How is it that I’m going to die now and not even say goodbye to them?!” Her consciousness literally rushed towards her own home and suddenly, strangely enough, she instantly found herself in her apartment! She sees her daughter Masha playing with a doll, her grandmother sitting next to her granddaughter and knitting something. There is a knock on the door and neighbor Lidia Stepanovna enters the room and says: “This is for Mashenka. Your Yulenka has always been a role model for your 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 her neighbor, but on the way she accidentally touches the tablecloth: an old cup falls from the table and breaks, a teaspoon lying next to it flies after it and ends up under the tangled carpet. Noise, ringing, turmoil, grandmother, clasping her hands, shouts: “Masha, how awkward you are!” Masha gets 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 for happiness... And then, completely forgetting about what happened earlier, the excited Yulia approaches her daughter, puts her hand on her head and says: “Masha, this is not the worst grief in the world.” The girl turns around in surprise, but as if not seeing her, she immediately turns back. Yulia doesn’t understand anything: it’s never happened before that her daughter turns away from her when she wants to console her! The daughter was raised 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 turned to her daughter, she did not hear her own voice! That when she reached out and stroked her daughter, she also did not feel any touch! Her thoughts begin to get confused: “Who am I? Can't they see me? Am I already dead? In confusion, 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 simply quietly go crazy from all this... But suddenly, amid the chaos of all these thoughts and feelings, she remembers everything that happened to her before: “I had an operation!” She remembers how she saw her body from the outside, lying on the operating table, and remembers the terrible words of the anesthesiologist about the stopped heart... These memories frighten Yulia even more, and in her completely confused consciousness it immediately flashes: “I must be in the operating room at all costs now, because if I don’t make it in time, the doctors will consider me dead!” She rushes out of the house, she thinks about what kind of transport she would like to get there as quickly as possible in order to be on time... and at the same moment she finds herself in the operating room again, and the surgeon’s voice reaches her: “The heart is working! We continue the operation, but quickly, so that it doesn’t stop again!” What follows is a lapse in memory, and then she wakes up in the recovery room.

So what is death?

We record the state of death, when the heart stops and the brain stops working, and at the same time, the death of consciousness - in the concept in which we have always imagined it - as such, simply does not exist. The soul is freed from its shell and 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 at these moments. 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 accidents and coincidences. These events dispel all doubts about the immortality of our souls.

I wonder what it takes to prove the existence of life after life? Comparison: What do I need to prove that you exist? Ideally, to see you and communicate with you. What if we are separated by many kilometers and it is impossible to see directly? You can find other ways to find out about you, for example, chat with you via the Internet, which is what we are doing now. How to understand that you are not a bot? Here we will have to apply some analytical methods and ask you non-standard questions. Etc.

How did scientists know about the existence of dark matter? After all, it’s basically impossible to see or touch it? By calculating the speed at which galaxies are moving away, comparing it with the observed speed. The result is a contradiction: there is more gravity in the universe than originally expected. Where did she come from? Its source was called dark matter. Those. The methods are very indirect. And, at the same time, no one questions the conclusions of physicists.

So it is here: a lot of people have had the experience of post-mortem visions and experiences. And not all of them are explainable from the point of view of hallucinations. I myself had the opportunity to communicate several times with people who were “there”. There is more evidence than evidence for the existence of dark matter.

And for the most skeptical skeptic, I will cite Pascal’s famous wager. One of the greatest scientists in the entire history of science, who discovered the laws without which modern physics is unthinkable.

PASCAL'S Wager

In conclusion, I will quote Pascal’s famous wager. We all studied the laws of the great scientist Pascal at school. Blaise Pascal, a Frenchman, is truly an outstanding man, ahead of the science of his time by a couple of centuries! He lived in the seventeenth century, in the era preceding the so-called Great French Revolution(end of the eighteenth century), when godless ideas were already corrupting the high society and, imperceptibly, were preparing its sentence to the guillotine.

As a believer, he boldly defended religious ideas that were ridiculed and very unpopular at that time. Pascal's famous bet has been preserved: his dispute with unbelieving scientists. He argued something like this: You believe that there is no God and there is no Eternal Life, but I believe that there is God and there is Eternal Life! Let's argue?.. Argued? Now imagine yourself in the first second after death. If I was right, I get everything, I get Eternal Life, and you lose everything. Even if you turn out to be right, you will not have any advantages over me, because everything will go into absolute oblivion! Thus, my faith gives me hope for Eternal Life, but yours deprives you of everything! Smart man there was Pascal!

Belief in the existence of an immortal soul gives us our greatest hope. After all, this is the hope of gaining immortality. Even if the probability of receiving an infinite prize were negligible, then in this case we are infinitely winning: either final number, multiplied by infinity equals infinity. What does atheism give a person? I believe in absolute zero! As one poet said: only meat in the pit. Everything that is born will die, everything that has been built will be destroyed, and the universe will collapse back into a point of singularity.

“She sees right through everything...”

Intravision

Galina was brought to the Kaliningrad regional hospital with severe brain damage, ruptured kidneys, lungs, spleen and liver, and many fractures. The heart stopped, the pressure was at zero. “Having flown through 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 dazzling white clothes. I couldn’t see his face because of the light beam 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 balanced between life and death, the patient told the head of the intensive care unit, Evgeniy Zatovka, how the operations were carried out, which of the doctors stood where and what they did, what equipment they brought, from which cabinets they took what. After another operation on a shattered arm, Galina, during her morning medical rounds, asked the orthopedic doctor: “How is your stomach?” From amazement, he did not know what to answer - indeed, the doctor was tormented by abdominal pain. 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 remember the past. His story was told by his wife Lyudmila: “Yura fell from a great height, broke his spine and received a traumatic brain injury, and lost consciousness. After cardiac arrest, he lay in a coma for a long time. I was under terrible stress. During one of my hospital visits I lost my keys. And the husband, having finally regained 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 did he confess to me: while he was in a coma, he saw my every step and heard every word - no matter how far I was from him. He flew in the form of a cloud, including to where his deceased parents and brother live. The mother tried to persuade 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 he won’t leave now. He will be with us for another year." And a year later, at the wake of his deceased son, he admonished his wife: “He did not die, but only moved to another world before you and me. 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 this on Earth!) and a long corridor. And so I seem to be waiting to enter this corridor. But then the doctors resuscitated me. During this time I felt that it was very cool THERE. 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

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, pictures of life flashing before your eyes, a feeling of love and peace, meetings with deceased relatives and some luminous creature - patients who returned from the other world talk about this. True, not all, but only 10-15% of them. The rest did not see or remember anything at all. The dying brain does not have enough oxygen, which is why it is “glitchy,” say skeptics. Disagreements among scientists have reached the point that the start of a new experiment was recently announced. For three years, American and British doctors will study the testimony of patients whose hearts stopped or their brains turned off. Among other things, the researchers are going to put various pictures on the shelves in the intensive care wards. You can only see them if you soar right up to the ceiling. If patients who have experienced clinical death retell their contents, it means that consciousness is really capable of leaving the body. One of the first who tried to explain the phenomenon of near-death experiences was academician Vladimir Negovsky. He founded the world's first Institute of General Reanimatology. Negovsky believed (and the scientific view has not changed since then) that the “light at the end of the tunnel” was explained by the so-called tube vision. The cortex of the occipital lobes of the brain dies off gradually, the field of vision narrows to a narrow strip, creating the impression of a tunnel. In a similar way, doctors explain the vision of pictures of a past life flashing before the gaze of a dying person. Brain structures fade and then recover unevenly. Therefore, a person has time to remember the most vivid events deposited in his memory. And the illusion of leaving the body, according to doctors, is the result of a failure of nerve signals. However, skeptics reach a dead end when it comes to answering trickier questions. Why do people who are blind from birth, at the moment of clinical death, see and then describe in detail what is happening in the operating room around them? And there is such evidence.

Leaving the body is 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. Leading researcher at the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dmitry Spivak, who is a member of the International Association for the Study of Near-Death Experiences, assures that clinical death is only one of the options for an altered state of consciousness. “There are a lot of them: these are dreams, and drug experience, and a stressful situation, and the consequence of illness,” he says. “According to statistics, up to 30% of people at least once in their lives have felt leaving the body and observed themselves from the outside.” Dmitry Spivak himself examined the mental state of women in labor and found 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. The pain has disappeared. And about a minute later she also unexpectedly returned to her place in the room and again began to experience severe pain.” It turns out that “leaving 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 “flying in a tunnel” is also a protective program that is activated 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 Doctor of Medical Sciences Andrei Gnezdilov, who works at the St. Petersburg hospice. - And on the 40th day after death, I saw her in a dream. The woman said: “This is not death.” Many years of working in a hospice have convinced me and my colleagues: 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, Doctor of Medical Sciences: “During the operation, the patient’s heart stopped. The doctors were able to start it, and when the woman was transferred to intensive care, I visited her. She complained that she was not operated on by the same surgeon who promised. But she could not see the doctor, being in an unconscious state all the time. The patient said that during the operation some force pushed her out of her body. She calmly looked at the doctors, but then she was overcome by horror: what if I die before I can say goodbye to my mother and daughter? And her consciousness instantly moved home. She saw that the 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 towards her, but touched the cup - it fell and broke. The neighbor said: “Well, that’s good. Apparently, Yulia will be discharged soon.” And then the patient again found herself at the operating table and heard: “Everything is fine, she is saved.” Consciousness returned to the body. I went to visit this woman’s relatives. And it turned out that during the operation... a neighbor came in with a polka dot dress for a girl and the 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 of his patient and thanks him for his care and touching attitude. And in the morning, upon arriving at work, the doctor finds out that the patient died during the night...

Church opinion

Priest Vladimir Vigilyansky, head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate: - Orthodox people believe in the afterlife and immortality. There is much confirmation and evidence of this in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. 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 Christ’s sake. “Whoever lives and believes in Me will never die,” says the Lord (John 11:26). According to legend, in the first days the soul of the deceased walks through those places in which it worked the truth, and on the third day it ascends to heaven to the throne of God, where until the ninth day it is shown the abodes of saints and the beauty of paradise. On the ninth day, the soul again comes to God, and it is sent to hell, where wicked sinners reside and where the soul undergoes thirty days of ordeal (tests). On the fortieth day, the soul again comes to the Throne of God, where it appears naked before the judgment of its own conscience: has it passed 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 go in vain.

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Is there life after death? Probably every person has asked this question at least once in their life. And this is quite obvious, because the unknown scares us the most.

IN scriptures All religions without exception say that the human soul is immortal. Life after death is presented either as something wonderful, or, on the contrary, something terrible in the image of Hell. According to Eastern religion, the human soul undergoes reincarnation - it moves from one material shell to another.

However, modern people are not ready to accept this truth. Everything requires proof. There is a judgment about various forms life after death. Written large number scientific and fiction, many films have been made, which provide a lot of evidence of the existence of life after death.

We present to your attention 12 real proofs of the existence of life after death.

1: The Mummy's Mystery

In medicine, the fact of death is declared when the heart stops and the body does not breathe. Clinical death occurs. From this condition the patient can sometimes be brought back to life. True, a few minutes after blood circulation stops, irreversible changes occur in human brain, and this means the end of earthly existence. But sometimes after death some fragments physical body as if they continue to live.

For example, in Southeast Asia there are mummies of monks whose nails and hair grow, and the energy field around the body is many times higher than the norm for an ordinary living person. And perhaps they still have something else alive that cannot be measured by medical devices.

2: Forgotten tennis shoe

Many patients who have experienced clinical death describe their sensations as a bright flash, a light at the end of a tunnel, or vice versa - a gloomy and dark room with no way to get out.

An amazing story happened to a young woman Maria, an emigrant from Latin America, who, in a state of clinical death, seemed to have left her room. She noticed a tennis shoe forgotten by someone on the stairs and, having regained consciousness, told the nurse about it. One can only try to imagine the state of the nurse who found the shoe in the indicated place.

3: Polka Dot Dress and Broken Cup

This story was told by a professor, doctor of medical sciences. His patient's heart stopped during surgery. The doctors managed to get him started. When the professor visited a woman in intensive care, she told an interesting, almost fantastic story. At some point, she saw herself on the operating table and, horrified by the thought that, having died, she would not have time to say goodbye to her daughter and mother, she was miraculously transported to her home. She saw a mother, daughter and a neighbor who came to see them and brought the baby a dress with polka dots.

And then the cup broke and the neighbor said that it was luck and the girl’s mother would recover. When the professor came to visit the young woman’s relatives, it turned out that during the operation a neighbor had actually visited them, who had brought a dress with polka dots, and the cup had broken... Fortunately!

4: Return from Hell

The famous cardiologist, professor at the University of Tennessee, Moritz Rowling, told interesting story. The scientist, who many times brought patients out of a state of clinical death, was, first of all, a person very indifferent to religion. Until 1977.

This year an incident occurred that forced him to change his attitude towards human life, soul, death and eternity. Moritz Rawlings carried out resuscitation procedures, which are not uncommon in his practice. young man by indirect cardiac massage. His patient, as soon as he regained consciousness for a few moments, begged the doctor not to stop.

When he was brought back to life, and the doctor asked what scared him so much, the excited patient replied that he was in hell! And when the doctor stopped, he returned there again and again. At the same time, his face expressed panic horror. As it turns out, there are many such cases in international practice. And this, undoubtedly, makes us think that death only means the death of the body, but not the personality.

Many people who have experienced a state of clinical death describe it as an encounter with something bright and beautiful, but the number of people who have seen lakes of fire and terrible monsters is no less. Skeptics claim that this is nothing more than hallucinations caused by chemical reactions in the human body as a result of oxygen starvation of the brain. Everyone has their own opinion. Everyone believes what they want to believe.

But what about ghosts? There are a huge number of photographs and videos that allegedly contain ghosts. Some call it a shadow or a film defect, while others firmly believe in the presence of spirits. It is believed that the ghost of the deceased returns to earth to complete unfinished business, to help solve the mystery, to find peace and tranquility. Some historical facts are possible evidence this theory.

5: Napoleon's signature

In 1821. After the death of Napoleon, King Louis XVIII was installed on the French throne. One day, lying in bed, he could not sleep for a long time, thinking about the fate that befell the emperor. The candles burned dimly. There was a crown on the table French state and the marriage contract of Marshal Marmont, which Napoleon had to sign.

But military events prevented this. And this paper lies in front of the monarch. The clock on the Church of Our Lady struck midnight. The bedroom door opened, although it was bolted from the inside, and... Napoleon entered the room! He walked up to the table, put on the crown and took the pen in his hand. At that moment, Louis lost consciousness, and when he came to his senses, it was already morning. The door remained closed, and on the table lay a contract signed by the emperor. The handwriting was recognized as genuine, and the document was in the royal archives as early as 1847.

6: Boundless love for mother

The literature describes another fact of the appearance of the ghost of Napoleon to his mother, on that day, May 5, 1821, when he died far from her in captivity. In the evening of that day, the son appeared before his mother in a robe that covered his face, and an icy cold wafted from him. He said only: “May the fifth, eight hundred and twenty-one, today.” And left the room. Only two months later the poor woman learned that it was on this day that her son died. He couldn't help but say goodbye to her the only woman, which was a support for him in difficult times.

7: The Ghost of Michael Jackson

In 2009, a film crew went to the ranch of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson to film footage for the Larry King program. During filming, a certain shadow came into the frame, very reminiscent of the artist himself. This video went live and immediately caused a strong reaction among the singer’s fans, who could not cope with the death of their beloved star. They are sure that Jackson's ghost still appears in his house. What it really was remains a mystery to this day.

8: Birthmark Transfer

Several Asian countries have a tradition of marking a person's body after death. His relatives hope that in this way the soul of the deceased will be reborn again in his own family, and those same marks will appear in the form of birthmarks on the bodies of children. This happened to a boy from Myanmar, the location of a birthmark on his body exactly coincided with the mark on the body of his deceased grandfather.

9: Revived handwriting

This is the story of a little Indian boy, Taranjit Sinngha, who at the age of two began to claim that his name was different, and he used to live in another village, the name of which he could not know, but he called it correctly, like his past name. When he was six years old, the boy was able to remember the circumstances of “his” death. On his way to school, he was hit by a man riding a scooter.

Taranjit claimed that he was a ninth grade student and that day he had 30 rupees with him and his notebooks and books were soaked in blood. The story of the tragic death of the child was completely confirmed, and the handwriting samples of the deceased boy and Taranjit were almost identical.

10: Innate knowledge of a foreign language

The story of a 37-year-old American woman, who was born and raised in Philadelphia, is interesting because, under the influence of regressive hypnosis, she began to speak pure Swedish, considering herself a Swedish peasant.

The question arises: Why can’t everyone remember their “former” life? And is it necessary? There is no single answer to the eternal question about the existence of life after death, and there cannot be.

11: Testimonies of people who experienced clinical death

This evidence is, of course, subjective and controversial. It is often difficult to assess the meaning of the statements “I separated from the body”, “I saw a bright light”, “I flew into long tunnel” or “I was accompanied by an angel.” It is difficult to know how to respond to those who say that in a state of clinical death they temporarily saw heaven or hell. But we know for sure that the statistics of such cases are very high. General conclusion According to them, the following: approaching death, many people felt that they were coming not to the end of existence, but to the beginning of some new life.

12: Resurrection of Christ

The strongest evidence for the existence of life after death is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Even in the Old Testament, it was predicted that the Messiah would come to Earth, who would save His people from sin and eternal destruction (Isa. 53; Dan. 9:26). This is exactly what Jesus' followers testify that He did. He voluntarily died at the hands of the executioners, “was buried by a rich man,” and three days later left the empty tomb in which he lay.

According to witnesses, they saw not only the empty tomb, but also the resurrected Christ, who appeared to hundreds of people over 40 days, after which he ascended to heaven.