After death: what awaits us in the "other world", where the soul flies away

After death, what awaits us? This question was probably asked by each of us. Death frightens many people. Usually it is fear that makes you look for the answer to the question: "After death, what awaits us?" But not only him. People often can not accept the loss of loved ones, and this forces them to seek evidence that life after death is. Sometimes simple curiosity moves us in this matter. Either way, life after death interests many.

The afterlife of the Greeks

Perhaps, non-existence is the most terrible thing in death. People are afraid of uncertainty, emptiness. In this respect, the ancient inhabitants of the Earth were more protected than us. Ellyn, for example, knew for sure that his soul would be brought to trial after death , and then pass through the corridor of Erebus (the underworld). If she turns out to be unworthy, she will go to Tartarus. If she will prove herself well, she will get immortality and will be on the Champs-Elysees in bliss and joy. Therefore, the Hellene lived without knowing the fear of uncertainty. However, our contemporaries are not so simple. Many of those who live today doubt what awaits us after death.

The afterlife - that's what all religions come together

Religions and sacred writings of all times and peoples of the world, differing in a variety of positions and issues, show unanimity that the existence of people after death continues. In ancient Egypt, Greece, India, Babylon believed in the immortality of the soul. Therefore, we can say that this is a collective experience of mankind. However, could he have appeared accidentally? Is there any other foundation in it than the desire for eternal life and the fear of death? What are the modern fathers of the church repelled from, who do not doubt that the soul is immortal?

You can say that, of course, everything is clear with them. The story of hell and heaven is known to all. Fathers of the church in this matter are like Hellenes, who are bound in the armor of faith and are not afraid of anything. Indeed, the Scriptures (New and Old Testament) for Christians are the main source of their faith in life after death. Reinforce it with the Revelations of John the Theologian, the Epistles of the Apostles, etc. Believers are not afraid of physical death, since it seems to them just an entrance into another's life, into existence together with Christ.

Life after death from the point of view of Christianity

According to the Bible, earthly being is a preparation for the future life. After death with the soul, everything that she did is good and bad. Therefore, from the very death of the physical body (before the Court), joy or suffering begins for her. This is determined by how one or another soul lived on earth. The days of the wake after death - 3, 9 and 40 days. Why do they? Let's figure it out.

Immediately after death, the soul leaves the body. In the first 2 days she, freed from his shackles, enjoys freedom. At this time, the soul can visit those places on earth that were especially dear to her during her lifetime. However, on day 3 after death, it is already in other areas. In Christianity, a revelation is known which is given by St. Makarii of Alexandria (died in 395) an angel. He said that when an offering is made in the church on the third day, the soul of the deceased receives from the angel guarding her, relief in sorrow because of separation from the body. She receives it because the offering and the thanksgiving in the church are committed, which gives a good hope in the soul. Also, the angel said that within 2 days the deceased is allowed to walk on the ground with the angels who are with him. If the soul loves the body, it sometimes wanders near the house in which it parted with it, or near the coffin where it is laid. A virtuous soul goes to the places where she created the truth. On the third day, she ascends to heaven in order to worship God. Then, after worshiping him, he shows her the beauty of paradise and the abode of saints. The soul considers all this for 6 days, glorifying the Creator. Admiring all this beauty, it changes and ceases to mourn. However, if the soul is guilty of any sins, then it begins to reproach itself, seeing the pleasures of the saints. She realizes that she was engaged in satisfying her lusts in the earthly life and did not serve God, therefore she has no right to be awarded his goodness.

After within 6 days the soul considered all the joys of the righteous, that is, on the 9th day after death, it again ascends to the worship of God by angels. That is why the church on the 9th day performs services and offerings for the deceased. God after the secondary worship commands now to send the soul to hell and show the places of torment that are there. Within 30 days the soul rushes to these places, trembling. She does not want to be condemned to stay in hell. What happens on the 40th day after death? The soul rises again in order to worship God. After that, he determines the place, which she deserves, according to her deeds. Thus, day 40 is the line, finally separating the life of the earth from eternal life. From the religious point of view, this is even a more tragic date than the fact of physical death. 3, 9 and 40 days after death - this is the time when you should pray very actively for the deceased. Prayers can help his soul in the next world.

The question also arises about what happens to a person after a year of death. Why is a wake every year? It must be said that they are more needed not for the deceased, but for us, so that we remember the deceased person. Anniversary is in no way connected with the ordeals that end on the 40th day. By the way, if the soul is sent to hell, it does not mean that she died completely. During the Last Judgment the fate of all people, including the dead, is decided.

Opinion of Muslims, Judaists and Buddhists

The Muslim is also convinced that his soul after physical death moves to another world. Here she waits for the day of judgment. Buddhists believe that she is constantly reborn, changing her body. After death, she again incarnates in a different guise - there is reincarnation. Judaism, perhaps, speaks of the afterlife the least. Extraterrestrial existence in the books of Moses is mentioned very rarely. Most Jews believe that both hell and paradise exist on earth. However, they are also convinced that life is eternal. It continues after death in children and grandchildren.

According to the Hare Krishnas

And only the Krishnas, who are also convinced of the immortality of the soul, turn to empirical and logical arguments. To help them come a lot of information about the clinical death experienced by different people. Many of them described the fact that they had risen above bodies and soared through the unknown light to the tunnel. Vedic philosophy also comes to the aid of the Hare Krishnas. One famous Vedic argument in favor of the fact that the soul is immortal is that we, living in the body, observe its changes. We turn through the years from the child to the old man. However, the mere fact that we are able to contemplate these changes indicates that we exist outside of body changes, since the observer is always on the sidelines.

What do the doctor's say

According to common sense, we can not find out what happens to a person after death. All the more surprising is the fact that a number of scientists hold a different opinion. This is primarily physicians. The medical practice of many of them refutes the axiom that no one has managed to return from the other world. Doctors are familiar not by hearsay with hundreds of "returnees". And many of you probably even heard something about the clinical death.

Scenario of the exit of the soul from the body after a clinical death

Everything happens usually in one scenario. During the operation, the patient stops the heart. After that, doctors state the onset of clinical death. They begin resuscitation, trying to start the heart with all their might. The account goes for seconds, since the brain and other vital organs begin to suffer from a shortage of oxygen (hypoxia) in 5-6 minutes, which is fraught with sad consequences.

Meanwhile, the patient "leaves" the body, watches for some time after him and the actions of the doctors from above, and then swims to the light along the long corridor. And then, according to the statistics that British scientists have collected over the past 20 years, about 72% of the "dead" are in paradise. Grace descends upon them, they see angels or deceased friends and relatives. Everyone laughs and rejoices. However, the other 28% describe a far from happy picture. These are those who, after "death", are in hell. Therefore, when some divine essence, appearing most often as a clot of light, informs them that their time has not yet come, they are very happy, and then return to the body. Doctors pumped out the patient, whose heart starts to beat again. Those who managed to look beyond the threshold of death remember this all their lives. And many of them share their revelation with close relatives and treating doctors.

Arguments of skeptics

In 1970, studies of so-called near-death experiences began. They continue to this day, although many copies have been broken on this score. Someone saw in the phenomenon of these experiences the proof of eternal life, and others, on the contrary, in our days are trying to convince everyone that hell and heaven, and in general "that light" are somewhere inside us. These are supposedly not real places, but hallucinations that arise when consciousness fades. One can agree with this assumption, but why are all these hallucinations so alike? And the skeptics give their answer to this question. They say that the brain is deprived of oxygen-enriched blood. Very quickly, parts of the visual portion of the hemispheres are turned off, but the poles of the occipital lobes, which have a double blood supply system, still function. Because of this, the field of view is considerably narrowed. There remains only a narrow band that provides "tubal", central vision. This is the desired tunnel. So, at least, says Sergei Levitsky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

Case with denture

However, those who managed to return from the other world, object to him. They describe in detail the actions of a team of doctors who during the cardiac arrest "conjured" over the body. Patients also talk about their relatives who were grieving in the corridors. For example, one patient, recovering after 7 days after clinical death, asked the doctors to give him a denture that was removed during the operation. Doctors could not remember where they put him in turmoil. And then the awakened patient accurately called the place where the prosthesis was located, while noting that during the "journey" he remembered it. It turns out that medicine today does not have irrefutable evidence that there is no life after death.

The certificate of Natalia Bekhtereva

There is an opportunity to look at this problem from the other side. First, we can recall the law of conservation of energy. In addition, one can turn to the fact that the energy principle underlies any kind of substance. It is also found in man. Of course, after the death of the body, it does not disappear anywhere. This beginning remains in the energy-information field of our planet. However, there are exceptions.

In particular, Natalia Bekhtereva testified that after the death of her husband, the human brain became a mystery to her. The fact is that the ghost of her husband began to appear to the woman even in the afternoon. He gave her advice, shared his thoughts, suggested where you can find something. Let us note that Bekhtereva is a scientist of world renown. However, in the reality of what was happening she did not doubt. Natalia says she does not know if this vision was the product of her own consciousness, which turned out to be in a state of stress, or something else. But the woman claims that she knows for sure - her husband did not see it, she actually saw him.

"Solaris Effect"

Scientists call the appearance of "ghosts" of relatives or relatives who died, "the effect of Solaris". Another name is materialization by the Lemma method. However, this happens very rarely. Most likely, the "Solaris effect" is observed only in cases when mourners have a rather large energy force in order to "drag" an expensive person from the field of our planet.

The experience of Vsevolod Zaporozhets

If forces are not enough, mediums come to the aid. This is what happened with Vsevolod Zaporozhets, a geophysicist. He was a supporter of scientific materialism for many years. However, in 70 years, after the death of his wife, he changed his mind. The scientist could not accept the loss and began to study literature on the other world, spirits and spiritism. In total, he performed about 460 sessions, and also created the book "Contours of the universe," which described a technique by which you can prove the reality of the existence of life after death. Most importantly, he managed to contact his wife. In the afterlife it is young and beautiful, like all the others living there. According to Zaporozhets, the explanation for this is simple: the world of the dead is the product of the embodiment of their desires. In this he is similar to the earthly world and even better than him. Usually the souls residing in it are presented in beautiful guise and at a young age. They feel themselves material, like the inhabitants of the Earth. People in the afterlife understand their corporeality and can enjoy life. The desire and thought of the departed creates clothing. Love in this world is preserved or is recovered again. However, the relationship between the sexes are devoid of sexuality, but they are still different from ordinary friendly feelings. In this world there is no procreation. You do not need to eat to sustain life, but some eat for pleasure or because of earthly habits. Basically they consume fruits that grow in abundance and are very beautiful. Such an interesting story. After death, perhaps this is what awaits us. If so, then, apart from their own desires, there is nothing to be afraid of.

We examined the most popular answers to the question: "After death, what awaits us?". Of course, this is to some extent only conjectures that can be taken for granted. After all, science in this matter is still powerless. The methods that she uses today are unlikely to help to find out, after death, what awaits us. Probably, this mystery will continue to torment scholars and many of us for a long time. However, we can state: the evidence that life after death is real, there is much more than the arguments of skeptics.