Is there life after death? Is life possible after death - stories from the Russian press
One of the eternal questions to which humanity does not have a clear answer is what awaits us after death?
Ask this question to the people around you and you will get different answers. They will depend on what the person believes. And regardless of faith, many are afraid of death. They don’t try to simply acknowledge the very fact of its existence. But only our physical body dies, and the soul is eternal.
There was never a time when neither you nor I existed. And in the future, none of us will cease to exist.
Bhagavad Gita. Chapter two. Soul in the world of matter.
Why are so many people afraid of death?
Because they relate their “I” only to the physical body. They forget that in each of them there is an immortal, eternal soul. They don’t know what happens during dying and after it. This fear is generated by our ego, which accepts only what can be proven through experience. Is it possible to find out what death is and whether there is an afterlife “without harm to health”?
All over the world there is sufficient quantity documented stories of people, who have gone through clinical death.
Scientists are on the verge of proving life after death
An unexpected experiment was carried out in September 2013. at the English Hospital in Southampton. Doctors recorded testimonies of patients who experienced clinical death. The head of the research group, cardiologist Sam Parnia, shared the results:
“From the early days of my medical career I was interested in the problem of “disembodied sensations.” In addition, some of my patients experienced clinical death. Gradually I gained everything more stories those who claimed that they were flying over their own bodies in a coma. However scientific evidence there was no such information. And I decided to find an opportunity to test her in a hospital setting.
For the first time in history, a medical facility was specially refurbished. In particular, in the wards and operating rooms, we hung thick boards with colored drawings from the ceiling. And most importantly, they began to carefully record, down to the seconds, everything that happens with each patient.
From the moment his heart stopped, his pulse and breathing stopped. And in those cases when the heart was then able to start and the patient began to regain consciousness, we immediately wrote down everything he did and said.
All the behavior and all the words, gestures of each patient. Now our knowledge of “disembodied sensations” is much more systematized and complete than before.”
Almost a third of patients clearly and clearly remember themselves in a coma. At the same time, no one saw the drawings on the boards!
Sam and his colleagues came to the following conclusions:
“From a scientific point of view, the success is considerable. General sensations have been established among people who seem to crossed the threshold of the “other world”. They suddenly begin to understand everything. Completely freed from pain. They feel pleasure, comfort, even bliss. They see their dead relatives and friends. They are enveloped in a soft and very pleasant light. There is an atmosphere of extraordinary kindness around.”
When asked whether the experiment participants believed that they had visited “another world,” Sam replied:
“Yes, and although this world was somewhat mystical for them, it still existed. As a rule, patients reached a gate or some other place in the tunnel from where there is no turning back and where they need to decide whether to return...
And you know, almost everyone now has a completely different perception of life. It has changed because man has passed through a moment of blissful spiritual existence. Almost all of my students admitted that no longer afraid of death, although they do not want to die.
The transition to another world turned out to be an extraordinary and pleasant experience. After the hospital, many began to work in charitable organizations.”
On this moment the experiment continues. A further 25 UK hospitals are joining the study.
The memory of the soul is immortal
There is a soul, and it does not die with the body. Dr Parnia's confidence is shared by the UK's leading medical luminary. The famous professor of neurology from Oxford, the author of works translated into many languages, Peter Fenis rejects the opinion of the majority of scientists on the planet.
They believe that the body, ceasing its functions, releases certain chemicals that, passing through the brain, actually cause extraordinary sensations in a person.
“The brain does not have time to carry out the ‘closing procedure’,” says Professor Fenis.
“For example, during a heart attack, a person sometimes loses consciousness at lightning speed. Along with consciousness, memory also goes away. So how can we discuss episodes that people cannot remember? But since they clearly talk about what happened to them when their brain activity was turned off, therefore, there is a soul, spirit or something else that allows you to be in consciousness outside the body.”
What happens after you die?
The physical body is not the only one we have. In addition to it, there are several thin bodies assembled according to the matryoshka principle. The subtle level closest to us is called the ether or astral. We simultaneously exist in both the material world and the spiritual. In order to maintain life in the physical body, we need food and drink, in order to maintain vital energy in our astral body, we need communication with the Universe and with the surrounding material world.
Death ends the existence of the densest of all our bodies, and the astral body's connection with reality is severed. The astral body, freed from the physical shell, is transported into a different quality - into the soul. And the soul has a connection only with the Universe. This process is described in sufficient detail by people who have experienced clinical death.
Naturally, they do not describe its last stage, because they only get to the level closest to the material substance, their astral body has not yet lost contact with the physical body and they are not fully aware of the fact of death. The transportation of the astral body into the soul is called the second death. After this, the soul goes to another world. Once there, the soul discovers that it consists of different levels intended for souls of varying degrees of development.
When death occurs physical body, subtle bodies begin to gradually separate. Subtle bodies also have different densities, and, accordingly, different amounts of time are required for their disintegration.
On the third day after the physical, the etheric body, which is called the aura, disintegrates.
After nine days the emotional body disintegrates, after forty days the mental body. The body of spirit, soul, experience - casual - goes into the space between lives.
By suffering greatly for our departed loved ones, we thereby prevent their subtle bodies from dying at the right time. Thin shells get stuck where they shouldn't be. Therefore, you need to let them go, thanking them for all the experiences they have lived together.
Is it possible to consciously look beyond life?
Just as a person dresses in new clothes, discarding the old and worn ones, so the soul is embodied in a new body, leaving behind the old and lost strength.
Bhagavad Gita. Chapter 2. Soul in the material world.
Each of us has lived more than one life, and this experience is stored in our memory.
You can remember your past life right now!
It will help you with this meditation, which will send you into your memory storage and open the door to a past life.
Every soul has a different experience of dying. And it can be remembered.
Why remember the experience of dying in past lives? To look at this stage differently. To understand what actually happens at the moment of dying and after it. Finally, to stop being afraid of death.
At the Institute of Reincarnation, you can gain the experience of dying using simple techniques. For those in whom the fear of death is too strong, there is a safety technique that allows you to painlessly view the process of the soul leaving the body.
Here are some testimonials from students about their experiences with dying.
Kononuchenko Irina, first year student at the Institute of Reincarnation:
I watched several deaths in different bodies: female and male.
After natural death in a female incarnation (I’m 75 years old), my soul did not want to ascend to the World of Souls. I was left waiting for mine your soul mate- a husband who still lives. During his lifetime he was for me important person and a close friend.
It felt like we lived in perfect harmony. I died first, the Soul exited through the third eye area. Understanding my husband’s grief after “my death,” I wanted to support him with my invisible presence, and I didn’t want to leave myself. After some time, when both “got used to it and got used to it” in the new state, I went up to the World of Souls and waited for him there.
After natural death in the body of a man (harmonious incarnation), the Soul easily said goodbye to the body and ascended to the world of Souls. There was a feeling of a mission accomplished, a lesson successfully completed, a feeling of satisfaction. It took place immediately meeting with the Mentor and discussion of life.
In case of violent death (I am a man dying on the battlefield from a wound), the Soul leaves the body through the chest area, where the wound is. Until the moment of death, life flashed before my eyes. I’m 45 years old, I have a wife, children... I really want to see them and hold them close.. and here I am... it’s unclear where and how... and alone. Tears in the eyes, regret about the “unlived” life. After leaving the body, it is not easy for the Soul; it is again met by Helping Angels.
Without additional energetic reconfiguration, I (the soul) cannot independently free myself from the burden of incarnation (thoughts, emotions, feelings). A “capsule-centrifuge” is imagined, where through strong rotation-acceleration there is an increase in frequencies and “separation” from the experience of embodiment.
Marina Kana, 1st year student at the Institute of Reincarnation:
In total, I went through 7 dying experiences, three of them violent. I will describe one of them.
Young woman, Ancient Rus'. I was born into a large peasant family, I live in unity with nature, I love spinning with my friends, singing songs, walking in the forest and fields, helping my parents with housework, babysitting younger brothers and sisters. Men are not interested, the physical side of love is not clear. The guy was wooing her, but she was afraid of him.
I saw how she was carrying water on a yoke; he blocked the road and pestered: “You’ll still be mine!” To prevent others from getting married, I started a rumor that I was not of this world. And I’m glad, I don’t need anyone, I told my parents that I wouldn’t get married.
She did not live long, she died at 28, she was not married. She died of a severe fever, lay in the heat and was delirious, all wet, her hair matted from sweat. The mother sits nearby, sighs, wipes him with a wet cloth, and gives him water to drink from a wooden ladle. The soul flies out of the head, as if it is being pushed out from within, when the mother comes out into the hallway.
The soul looks down on the body, no regrets. The mother comes in and starts crying. Then the father comes running to the screams, shakes his fists at the sky, shouts to the dark icon in the corner of the hut: “What have you done!” The kids huddled together, quiet and scared. The soul leaves calmly, no one is sorry.
Then the soul seems to be drawn into a funnel and flies upward towards the light. The outline is similar to clouds of steam, next to them are the same clouds, circling, intertwining, rushing upward. Fun and easy! She knows that she lived her life as she planned. In the World of Souls, the beloved soul meets laughing (this is an incorrect husband from previous life). She understands why she passed away early - it became no longer interesting to live, knowing that he was not incarnated, she strove for him faster.
Simonova Olga, 1st year student at the Institute of Reincarnation
All my deaths were similar. Separation from the body and smoothly rising above it... and then just as smoothly upward above the Earth. Mostly it's dying natural death in old age.
One thing I saw was violent (cutting off the head), but I saw it outside the body, as if from the outside, and did not feel any tragedy. On the contrary, relief and gratitude to the executioner. Life was aimless, a female embodiment. The woman wanted to commit suicide in her youth because she was left without parents. She was saved, but even then she lost the meaning in life and was never able to restore it... Therefore, she accepted violent death as a benefit for her.
Understanding that life continues after death gives true joy from existing here-and-now. The physical body is only a temporary conductor for the soul. And death is natural for him. This should be accepted. To live without fear before death.
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Human nature will never be able to accept the fact that immortality is impossible. Moreover, the immortality of the soul is an indisputable fact for many. And more recently, scientists have discovered evidence that physical death is not the absolute end of human existence and that there is still something beyond the boundaries of life.
One can imagine how such a discovery delighted people. After all, death, like birth, is the most mysterious and unknown state of a person. There are a lot of questions associated with them. For example, why a person is born and starts life from scratch, why he dies, etc.
A person throughout his entire adult life has been trying to deceive fate in order to prolong his existence in this world. Humanity is trying to calculate the formula for immortality in order to understand whether the words “death” and “end” are synonymous.
However, recent research has brought science and religion into one: death is not the end. After all, only beyond life can a person discover new uniform being. Moreover, scientists are sure that every person can remember his past life. And this means that death is not the end, and there, beyond the line, there is another life. Unknown to humanity, but life.
However, if the transmigration of souls exists, it means that a person must remember not only all his previous lives, but also deaths, while not everyone can survive this experience.
The phenomenon of the transfer of consciousness from one physical shell to another has been exciting the minds of mankind for many centuries. The first mentions of reincarnation are found in the Vedas - the oldest sacred scriptures of Hinduism.
According to the Vedas, any Living being resides in two material bodies - the gross and the subtle. And they function only due to the presence of the soul in them. When the gross body finally wears out and becomes unusable, the soul leaves it in another - the subtle body. This is death. And when the soul finds a new physical body that is suitable for its mentality, the miracle of birth occurs.
The transition from one body to another, moreover, the transfer of the same physical defects from one life to another, was described in detail by the famous psychiatrist Ian Stevenson. He began studying the mysterious experience of reincarnation back in the sixties of the last century. Stevenson analyzed more than two thousand cases of unique transformation into different ends planets. While conducting research, the scientist came to a sensational conclusion. It turns out that those who survived reincarnation will have the same defects in their new incarnations as in past life. These could be scars or moles, stuttering or another defect.
Incredibly, the scientist’s conclusions can only mean one thing: after death, everyone is destined to be born again, but in a different time. Moreover, a third of the children Stevenson studied had birth defects. Thus, a boy with a rough growth on the back of his head, under hypnosis, remembered that in a past life he was hacked to death with an ax. Stevenson found a family where a man who had been killed with an ax actually once lived. And the nature of his wound was like a pattern for a scar on the boy’s head.
Another child, who seemed to have been born with chopped off fingers, said that he was injured during field work. And again there were people who confirmed to Stevenson that one day a man died in a field from loss of blood when his fingers got caught in a threshing machine.
Thanks to the research of Professor Stevenson, supporters of the theory of transmigration of souls consider reincarnation to be a scientifically proven fact. Moreover, they claim that almost every person is able to view their past lives even in their sleep.
And the state of déjà vu, when suddenly there is a feeling that somewhere this has already happened to a person, may well be a flash of memory of previous lives.
The first scientific explanation that life does not end with the physical death of a person was given by Tsiolkovsky. He argued that absolute death is impossible because the Universe is alive. And Tsiolkovsky described the souls that left their corruptible bodies as indivisible atoms wandering throughout the Universe. This was the first scientific theory about the immortality of the soul, according to which the death of the physical body does not mean the complete disappearance of the consciousness of the deceased person.
But for modern science, belief in the immortality of the soul alone is, of course, not enough. Humanity still does not agree that physical death is invincible, and is strenuously looking for weapons against it.
Proof of life after death for some scientists is the unique experiment of cryonics, where the human body is frozen and kept in liquid nitrogen until techniques are found to restore any damaged cells and tissues in the body. And recent research by scientists proves that such technologies have already been found, although only a small part of these developments is publicly available. The results of the main studies are kept confidential. One could only dream of such technologies ten years ago.
Today, science can already freeze a person in order to revive him at the right moment, creates a controlled model of a robot-Avatar, but he still has no idea how to resettle a soul. This means that at one point humanity may face a huge problem - the creation of soulless machines that will never be able to replace humans. Therefore, today, scientists are sure, cryonics is the only method for the revival of the human race.
In Russia, only three people used it. They are frozen and awaiting the future, eighteen more have signed a contract for cryopreservation after death.
Scientists began to think that the death of a living organism can be prevented by freezing several centuries ago. The first scientific experiments on freezing animals were carried out back in the seventeenth century, but only three hundred years later, in 1962, the American physicist Robert Ettinger finally promised people what they had dreamed of throughout human history - immortality.
The professor proposed freezing people immediately after death and storing them in this state until science finds a way to resurrect the dead. Then the frozen ones can be thawed and revived. According to scientists, a person will retain absolutely everything, it will still be the same person who was before death. And the same thing will happen to his soul that happens to it in the hospital when the patient is resuscitated.
All that remains is to decide what age to enter in the new citizen’s passport. After all, resurrection can occur either after twenty or after a hundred or two hundred years.
The famous geneticist Gennady Berdyshev suggests that the development of such technologies will take another fifty years. But the scientist has no doubt that immortality is a reality.
Today Gennady Berdyshev has built a pyramid at his dacha, an exact copy of the Egyptian one, but from logs, in which he is going to lose his years. According to Berdyshev, the pyramid is a unique hospital where time stops. Its proportions are strictly calculated according to the ancient formula. Gennady Dmitrievich assures: it is enough to spend fifteen minutes a day inside such a pyramid, and the years will begin to count down.
But the pyramid is not the only ingredient in this eminent scientist’s recipe for longevity. He knows, if not everything, then almost everything about the secrets of youth. Back in 1977, he became one of the initiators of the opening of the Institute of Juvenology in Moscow. Gennady Dmitrievich led a group of Korean doctors who rejuvenated Kim Il Sung. He was even able to extend the life of the Korean leader to ninety-two years.
Just a few centuries ago, life expectancy on Earth, for example in Europe, did not exceed forty years. Modern man the average lifespan is sixty to seventy years, but even this time is catastrophically short. And in Lately The opinions of scientists agree: the biological program for a person is to live at least one hundred and twenty years. In this case, it turns out that humanity simply does not live to reach its true old age.
Some experts are confident that the processes occurring in the body at the age of seventy are premature old age. Russian scientists were the first in the world to develop a unique medicine that prolongs life to one hundred and ten or one hundred and twenty years, which means it cures old age. The peptide bioregulators contained in the medicine restore damaged areas of cells, and a person’s biological age increases.
As reincarnation psychologists and therapists say, a person’s lived life is connected with his death. For example, a person who does not believe in God and leads a completely “earthly” life, which means he is afraid of death, most of does not realize that he is dying, and after death he finds himself in a “gray space”.
At the same time, the soul retains the memory of all its past incarnations. And this experience leaves its mark on new life. And training on memories from past lives helps to understand the causes of failures, problems and illnesses that people often cannot cope with on their own. Experts say that after seeing their mistakes in past lives, people in their present lives begin to be more conscious of their decisions.
Visions from a past life prove that there is a huge information field in the Universe. After all, the law of conservation of energy says that nothing in life disappears anywhere or appears from nothing, but only passes from one state to another.
This means that after death, each of us turns into something like a clot of energy, carrying all the information about past incarnations, which is then again embodied in a new form of life.
And it is quite possible that someday we will be born in another time and in another space. And remembering your past life is useful not only to remember past problems, but also to think about your purpose.
Death is still stronger than life, but under the pressure of scientific developments its defenses are weakening. And who knows, the time may come when death will open the way for us to another - eternal life.
Beautiful fields and forests, rivers and lakes filled with wonderful fish, gardens with wonderful fruits, there are no problems, only happiness and beauty - one of the ideas about life that continues after death on Earth. Many believers describe heaven in this way, into which a person goes without having done much evil during his earthly life. But is there life after death on our planet? Is there proof of life after death? These are quite interesting and deep questions for philosophical reasoning.
Scientific concepts
As is the case with other mystical and religious phenomena, scientists have been able to explain this issue. Also, many researchers consider scientific evidence of life after death, but they do not have a material basis. Only that later.
Life after death (the concept of “afterlife” is also often found) is people’s ideas from a religious and philosophical point of view about life that occurs after a person’s real existence on Earth. Almost all of these ideas are related to what is in the human body during his life.
Possible afterlife options:
- Life close to God. This is one of the forms of existence of the human soul. Many believers believe that God will resurrect the soul.
- Hell or heaven. The most common concept. This idea exists both in many religions of the world and among most people. After death, a person's soul will go to hell or heaven. The first place is intended for people who sinned during earthly life.
- A new image in a new body. Reincarnation is the scientific definition of human life in new incarnations on the planet. Bird, animal, plant and other forms into which the human soul can move after the death of the material body. Also, some religions provide for life in the human body.
Some religions present evidence of the existence of life after death in other forms, but the most common ones were given above.
Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
The tallest graceful pyramids took decades to build. The ancient Egyptians used technologies that have not yet been fully studied. There are a lot of assumptions about construction technologies Egyptian pyramids, but, unfortunately, not a single scientific point of view has complete evidence.
The ancient Egyptians had no evidence of the existence of the soul and life after death. They only believed in this possibility. Therefore, people built pyramids and provided the pharaoh with a wonderful existence in another world. By the way, the Egyptians believed that the afterlife reality was almost identical to the real world.
It should also be noted that, according to the Egyptians, a person in another world cannot move down or up the social ladder. For example, a pharaoh cannot become a simple person, and a simple worker will not become a king in the kingdom of the dead.
The inhabitants of Egypt mummified the bodies of the dead, and the pharaohs, as mentioned earlier, were placed in huge pyramids. In a special room, subjects and relatives of the deceased ruler placed items that would be necessary for life and rule in
Life after death in Christianity
Ancient Egypt and the creation of the pyramids go back a long time, so proof of life after death is ancient people only applies to Egyptian hieroglyphs, which were found on ancient buildings and pyramids as well. Only Christian ideas about this concept existed before and still exist today.
The Last Judgment is a judgment when a person’s soul appears on trial before God. It is God who can determine the future fate of the soul of the deceased - whether he will experience terrible torment and punishment on his deathbed or walk next to God in a beautiful paradise.
What factors influence God's decision?
Throughout his entire earthly life, every person commits actions - good and bad. It is worth saying right away that this is an opinion from a religious and philosophical point of view. It is these earthly actions that the judge looks at during the Last Judgment. We also must not forget about a person’s vital faith in God and in the power of prayers and the church.
As you can see, in Christianity there is also life after death. Proof of this fact exists in the Bible, the church and the opinions of many people who have dedicated their lives to serving the church and, of course, God.
Death in Islam
Islam is no exception in its adherence to the postulate of the existence of an afterlife. As in other religions, a person commits certain actions throughout his life, and how he dies and what kind of life awaits him will depend on them.
If a person committed bad deeds during his existence on Earth, then, of course, a certain punishment awaits him. The beginning of punishment for sins is painful death. Muslims believe that a sinful person will die in agony. Although a person with a pure and bright soul will leave this world with ease and without any problems.
The main proof of life after death is found in the Koran (the holy book of Muslims) and in the teachings of religious people. It is worth immediately noting that Allah (God in Islam) teaches not to be afraid of death, because a believer who does righteous deeds will be rewarded with eternal life.
If in Christian religion While the Lord himself is present at the Last Judgment, in Islam the decision is made by two angels - Nakir and Munkar. They are interrogating someone who has passed away from earthly life. If a person did not believe and committed sins that he did not atone for during his earthly existence, then he will be punished. A believer is given heaven. If a believer has unexpiated sins behind him, then he will be punished, after which he will be able to go to a beautiful place called heaven. Atheists face terrible torment.
Buddhist and Hindu beliefs about death
In Hinduism, there is no creator who created life on Earth and to whom we need to pray and bow down. The Vedas are sacred texts that replace God. Translated into Russian, “Veda” means “wisdom” and “knowledge”.
The Vedas can also be seen as providing proof of life after death. In this case, the person (to be more precise, the soul) will die and move into new flesh. The spiritual lessons that a person must learn are the reason for constant reincarnation.
In Buddhism, heaven exists, but it does not have one level, as in other religions, but several. At each stage, so to speak, the soul receives the necessary knowledge, wisdom and other positive aspects and moves on.
In both of these religions, hell also exists, but compared to other religious ideas, it is not an eternal punishment for the human soul. There are a large number of myths about how the souls of the dead passed from hell to heaven and began their journey through certain levels.
Views from other world religions
In fact, every religion has its own ideas about the afterlife. At the moment, it is simply impossible to name the exact number of religions, so only the largest and most basic ones were considered above, but interesting evidence of life after death can also be found in them.
It is also worth paying attention to the fact that almost all religions have common features of death and life in heaven and hell.
Nothing disappears without a trace
Death, death, disappearance are not the end. This, if these words are appropriate, is rather the beginning of something, but not the end. As an example, we can take a plum pit, which was spat out by a person who ate the actual fruit (plum).
This bone falls, and it seems that its end has come. Only in reality can it grow, and a beautiful bush will be born, beautiful plant, which will bear fruit and delight others with its beauty and its existence. When this bush dies, for example, it will simply move from one state to another.
What is this example for? Moreover, the death of a person is also not his immediate end. This example can also be seen as evidence of life after death. Expectation and reality, however, can be very different.
Does the soul exist?
Throughout the entire time, we are talking about the existence of the human soul after death, but there was no question about the existence of the soul itself. Maybe she doesn't exist? Therefore, it is worth paying attention to this concept.
In this case, it is worth moving from religious reasoning to the whole world - earth, water, trees, space and everything else - consists of atoms, molecules. Only none of the elements has the ability to feel, reason and develop. If we talk about whether there is life after death, evidence can be taken based on this reasoning.
Of course, we can say that in the human body there are organs that are the causes of all feelings. We must also not forget about the human brain, because it is responsible for the mind and intelligence. In this case, a comparison can be made between a person and a computer. The latter is much smarter, but it is programmed for certain processes. Today, robots have begun to be actively created, but they do not have feelings, although they are made in human likeness. Based on the reasoning, we can talk about the existence of the human soul.
You can also cite the origin of thought as another proof of the above words. This part of human life has no scientific origin. You can study all kinds of sciences for years, decades and centuries and “sculpt” thoughts from all material means, but nothing will come of it. Thought has no material basis.
Scientists have proven that life after death exists
Speaking about the afterlife of a person, you should not pay attention only to reasoning in religion and philosophy, because, in addition to this, there are Scientific research and, of course, the necessary results. Many scientists have puzzled and are puzzled to find out what happens to a person after his death.
The Vedas were mentioned above. These scriptures talk about from one body to another. This is exactly the question asked by Ian Stevenson, a famous psychiatrist. It is worth saying right away that his research in the field of reincarnation made a great contribution to the scientific understanding of life after death.
The scientist began to consider life after death, real evidence of which he could find throughout the planet. The psychiatrist was able to review more than 2,000 cases of reincarnation, after which certain conclusions were drawn. When a person is reborn in a different image, all physical defects also remain. If the deceased had certain scars, then they will also be present in the new body. There is necessary evidence for this fact.
During the study, the scientist used hypnosis. And during one session, the boy remembers his death - he was killed with an ax. This feature could be reflected in the new body - the boy who was examined by the scientist had a rough growth on the back of his head. After receiving the necessary information, the psychiatrist begins a search for a family where a person may have been murdered with an ax. And the result did not take long to arrive. Ian managed to find people in whose family, in the recent past, a man was hacked to death with an ax. The nature of the wound was similar to a child's growth.
This is not one example that may indicate that evidence of life after death has been found. Therefore, it is worth considering a few more cases during the research of a psychiatrist.
Another child had a defect on his fingers, as if they had been chopped off. Of course, the scientist became interested in this fact, and for good reason. The boy was able to tell Stevenson that he had lost his fingers during field work. After talking with the child, the search began for eyewitnesses who could explain this phenomenon. After some time, people were found who spoke about the death of a man during field work. This man died as a result of loss of blood. The fingers were chopped off with a thresher.
Considering these circumstances, we can talk about after death. Ian Stevenson was able to provide evidence. After the scientist’s published works, many people began to think about the real existence of the afterlife, which was described by a psychiatrist.
Clinical and real death
Everyone knows that severe injuries can lead to clinical death. In this case, the person’s heart stops, all life processes stop, but oxygen starvation of the organs does not yet cause irreversible consequences. During this process, the body is in a transitional stage between life and death. Clinical death lasts no more than 3-4 minutes (very rarely 5-6 minutes).
People who were able to survive such moments talk about the “tunnel”, about the “white light”. Based on these facts, scientists were able to discover new evidence of life after death. Scientists who studied this phenomenon made the necessary report. In their opinion, consciousness has always existed in the Universe; the death of the material body is not the end for the soul (consciousness).
Cryonics
This word means freezing the body of a person or animal so that in the future it will be possible to revive the deceased. In some cases, not the entire body is subjected to deep cooling, but only the head or brain.
Interesting fact: experiments on freezing animals were carried out back in the 17th century. Only about 300 years later did humanity think more seriously about this method obtaining immortality.
It is possible that this process will be the answer to the question: “Does life exist after death?” Evidence may be presented in the future, because science does not stand still. But for now, cryonics remains a mystery with hope for development.
Life after death: the latest evidence
One of the latest evidence in this regard was the study of the American theoretical physicist Robert Lantz. Why one of the last? Because this discovery was made in the fall of 2013. What conclusion did the scientist make?
It is worth immediately noting that the scientist is a physicist, so these proofs are based on quantum physics.
From the very beginning, the scientist paid attention to color perception. He cited the blue sky as an example. We are all used to seeing the sky in this color, but in reality everything is different. Why does a person see red as red, green as green, and so on? According to Lantz, it’s all about the brain receptors that are responsible for color perception. If these receptors are affected, the sky can suddenly turn red or green.
Every person is accustomed, as the researcher says, to seeing a mixture of molecules and carbonates. The reason for this perception is our consciousness, but the reality may differ from the general understanding.
Robert Lantz believes that there are parallel universes where all events are synchronous, but at the same time different. Based on this, the death of a person is only a transition from one world to another. As proof, the researcher conducted Jung's experiment. For scientists, this method is proof that light is nothing more than a wave that can be measured.
The essence of the experiment: Lanz passed light through two holes. When the beam passed through an obstacle, it was divided into two parts, but as soon as it was outside the holes, it merged again and became even brighter. In those places where the waves of light did not combine into one beam, they became dimmer.
As a result, Robert Lantz came to the conclusion that it is not the Universe that creates life, but quite the opposite. If life ends on Earth, then, as in the case of light, it continues to exist in another place.
Conclusion
It probably cannot be denied that there is life after death. Facts and evidence, of course, are not one hundred percent, but they exist. As can be seen from the above information, the afterlife exists not only in religion and philosophy, but also in scientific circles.
Living this time, each person can only imagine and think about what will happen to him after death, after the disappearance of his body on this planet. There are a large number of questions about this, many doubts, but no one living at the moment can find the answer he needs. Now we can only enjoy what we have, because life is the happiness of every person, every animal, we need to live it beautifully.
It is best not to think about the afterlife, because the question of the meaning of life is much more interesting and useful. Almost every person can answer this, but this is a completely different topic.
The other world is very interesting topic, which everyone thinks about at least once in their life. What happens to a person and his soul after death? Can he observe living people? These and many questions cannot but worry us. The most interesting thing is that there are many various theories about what happens to a person after death. Let's try to understand them and answer the questions that concern many people.
“Your body will die, but your soul will live forever”
Bishop Theophan the Recluse addressed these words in his letter to his dying sister. He, like other Orthodox priests, believed that only the body dies, but the soul lives forever. What is this connected with and how does religion explain it?
The Orthodox teaching about life after death is too large and voluminous, so we will consider only some of its aspects. First of all, in order to understand what happens to a person and his soul after death, it is necessary to find out what the purpose of all life on earth is. In the Epistle to the Hebrews, St. Apostle Paul mentions that every person must die someday, and after that there will be judgment. This is exactly what Jesus Christ did when he voluntarily surrendered to his enemies to die. Thus, he washed away the sins of many sinners and showed that the righteous, like him, would one day be resurrected. Orthodoxy believes that if life were not eternal, it would have no meaning. Then people would really live, not knowing why they would sooner or later die, there would be no point in doing good deeds. That is why the human soul is immortal. Jesus Christ opened the gates of the Heavenly Kingdom for Orthodox Christians and believers, and death is only the completion of preparation for a new life.
What is the soul
The human soul continues to live after death. She is the spiritual beginning of man. A mention of this can be found in Genesis (chapter 2), and it sounds approximately as follows: “God created man from the dust of the earth and blew the breath of life into his face. Now man has become a living soul.” Holy Bible“tells” us that a person is two-part. If the body can die, then the soul lives forever. She is a living entity, endowed with the ability to think, remember, feel. In other words, a person’s soul continues to live after death. She understands everything, feels and - most importantly - remembers.
Spiritual Vision
In order to make sure that the soul is really capable of feeling and understanding, you only need to remember cases when a person’s body died for some time, and the soul saw and understood everything. Similar stories can be read in a variety of sources, for example, K. Ikskul in his book “Incredible for many, but a true incident” describes what happens after death to a person and his soul. Everything that is written in the book is the personal experience of the author, who fell ill with a serious illness and experienced clinical death. Almost everything that can be read on this topic in various sources is very similar to each other.
People who have experienced clinical death describe it as a white, enveloping fog. Below you can see the body of the man himself, next to him are his relatives and doctors. It is interesting that the soul, separated from the body, can move in space and understands everything. Some argue that after the body ceases to show any signs of life, the soul passes through a long tunnel, at the end of which a bright light burns. White color. Then, usually over a period of time, the soul returns to the body and the heart begins to beat. What if a person dies? What then happens to him? What does the human soul do after death?
Meeting others like yourself
After the soul is separated from the body, it can see spirits, both good and bad. The interesting thing is that, as a rule, she is attracted to her own kind, and if during life any of the forces had an influence on her, then after death she will be attached to it. This period of time when the soul chooses its “company” is called the Private Court. It is then that it becomes completely clear whether this person’s life was in vain. If he fulfilled all the commandments, was kind and generous, then, undoubtedly, next to him there will be the same souls - kind and pure. The opposite situation is characterized by a society of fallen spirits. They will face eternal torment and suffering in hell.
First few days
It is interesting what happens after death to a person’s soul in the first few days, because this period is for it a time of freedom and enjoyment. It is in the first three days that the soul can move freely on earth. As a rule, she is near her relatives at this time. She even tries to talk to them, but it is difficult, because a person is not able to see and hear spirits. In rare cases, when the connection between people and the deceased is very strong, they feel the presence soul mate nearby, but they can’t explain it. For this reason, the burial of a Christian takes place exactly 3 days after death. In addition, it is this period that the soul needs in order to realize where it is now. It’s not easy for her, she may not have had time to say goodbye to anyone or say anything to anyone. Most often, a person is not ready for death, and he needs these three days to understand the essence of what is happening and say goodbye.
However, there are exceptions to every rule. For example, K. Ikskul began his journey to another world on the first day, because the Lord told him so. Most of the saints and martyrs were ready for death, and in order to move to another world, it took them only a few hours, because this was their main goal. Each case is completely different, and information comes only from those people who have experienced the “post-mortem experience” themselves. If we are not talking about clinical death, then everything can be completely different. Proof that in the first three days a person’s soul is on earth is also the fact that it is during this period of time that relatives and friends of the deceased feel their presence nearby.
Next stage
The next stage of transition to the afterlife is very difficult and dangerous. On the third or fourth day, trials await the soul - ordeal. There are about twenty of them, and all of them must be overcome so that the soul can continue its path. Ordeals are entire pandemoniums of evil spirits. They block the way and accuse her of sins. The Bible also talks about these trials. Mother of Jesus - Most Pure and Venerable Mary, - having learned about her imminent death from Archangel Gabriel, she asked her son to save her from demons and ordeals. In response to her requests, Jesus said that after death he would take her by the hand to Heaven. And so it happened. This action can be seen on the icon “Assumption of the Virgin Mary”. On the third day, it is customary to pray fervently for the soul of the deceased, in this way you can help it pass all the tests.
What happens a month after death
After the soul has gone through the ordeal, it worships God and goes on a journey again. This time, hellish abysses and heavenly abodes await her. She watches how sinners suffer and how the righteous rejoice, but she does not yet have her own place. On the fortieth day, the soul is assigned a place where it, like everyone else, will await the Supreme Court. There is also information that only until the ninth day does the soul see the heavenly abodes and observe righteous souls who live in happiness and joy. The rest of the time (about a month) she has to watch the torment of sinners in hell. At this time, the soul cries, mourns and humbly awaits its fate. On the fortieth day, the soul is assigned a place where it will await the resurrection of all the dead.
Who goes where and
Of course, only the Lord God is omnipresent and knows exactly where the soul ends up after the death of a person. Sinners go to hell and spend time there waiting for even greater torment that will come after the Supreme Court. Sometimes such souls can come to friends and relatives in dreams, asking for help. You can help in such a situation by praying for a sinful soul and asking the Almighty for forgiveness of its sins. There are known cases when sincere prayer for a deceased person really helped him move into better world. For example, in the 3rd century, the martyr Perpetua saw that the fate of her brother was like a filled pond that was located too high for him to reach. Days and nights she prayed for his soul and over time she saw him touch a pond and be transported to a bright, clean place. From the above, it becomes clear that the brother was pardoned and sent from hell to heaven. The righteous, thanks to the fact that they did not live their lives in vain, go to heaven and look forward to the Day of Judgment.
Teachings of Pythagoras
As mentioned earlier, there are a huge number of theories and myths regarding the afterlife. For many centuries, scientists and clergy studied the question: how to find out where a person ended up after death, looked for answers, argued, looked for facts and evidence. One of these theories was the teaching of Pythagoras about the transmigration of souls, the so-called reincarnation. Scientists such as Plato and Socrates shared the same opinion. A huge amount of information about reincarnation can be found in such a mystical movement as Kabbalah. Its essence is that the soul has a specific goal, or a lesson that it must go through and learn. If during life the person in whom this soul lives does not cope with this task, it is reborn.
What happens to the body after death? It dies and it is impossible to resurrect it, but the soul is looking for a new life. Another interesting thing about this theory is that, as a rule, all people who are related in a family are not connected by chance. More specifically, the same souls are constantly looking for each other and finding each other. For example, in a past life, your mother could have been your daughter or even your spouse. Since the soul has no gender, it can have both a feminine and masculine principle, it all depends on what body it ends up in.
There is an opinion that our friends and soul mates are also kindred spirits who are karmically connected to us. There is one more nuance: for example, a son and father constantly have conflicts, no one wants to give in, until last days two loved ones are literally at war with each other. Most likely, in the next life, fate will bring these souls together again, as brother and sister or as husband and wife. This will continue until they both find a compromise.
Pythagorean square
Supporters of the Pythagorean theory are most often interested not in what happens to the body after death, but in what incarnation their soul lives and who they were in a past life. In order to find out these facts, a Pythagorean square was drawn up. Let's try to understand it with an example. Let's say you were born on December 3, 1991. You need to write down the received numbers on a line and carry out some manipulations with them.
- It is necessary to add up all the numbers and get the main one: 3 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 1 = 26 - this will be the first number.
- Next, you need to add the previous result: 2 + 6 = 8. This will be the second number.
- In order to get the third, from the first it is necessary to subtract the double first digit of the date of birth (in our case, 03, we do not take zero, we subtract three times 2): 26 - 3 x 2 = 20.
- The last number is obtained by adding the digits of the third working number: 2+0 = 2.
Now let’s write down the date of birth and the results obtained:
In order to find out what incarnation the soul lives in, it is necessary to count all the numbers except zeros. In our case, the soul of a person born on December 3, 1991 lives through the 12th incarnation. By composing a Pythagorean square from these numbers, you can find out what characteristics it has.
Some facts
Many, of course, are interested in the question: is there life after death? All world religions are trying to answer it, but there is still no clear answer. Instead, in some sources you can find some Interesting Facts regarding this topic. Of course, it cannot be said that the statements that will be given below are dogma. These are most likely just some interesting thoughts on this topic.
What is death
It is difficult to answer the question of whether there is life after death without finding out the main signs of this process. In medicine, this concept refers to stopping breathing and heartbeat. But we should not forget that these are signs of the death of the human body. On the other hand, there is information that the mummified body of the monk-priest continues to show all signs of life: soft fabrics they press, the joints bend, a fragrance emanates from it. Some mummified bodies even grow nails and hair, which perhaps confirms the fact that certain biological processes do occur in the deceased body.
What happens a year after death? ordinary person? Of course, the body decomposes.
Finally
Taking into account all of the above, we can say that the body is just one of the shells of a person. In addition to it, there is also a soul - an eternal substance. Almost all world religions agree that after the death of the body, the human soul still lives, some believe that it is reborn in another person, and others believe that it lives in Heaven, but, one way or another, it continues to exist . All thoughts, feelings, emotions are the spiritual sphere of a person, which lives despite physical death. Thus, it can be considered that life after death exists, but it is no longer interconnected with the physical body.
Nikolai Viktorovich Levashov in the early 90s of the 20th century described in detail and accurately what Life (living matter) is, how and where it appears; what conditions must be on planets for the origin of life; what is memory; how and where it functions; what is Reason; what are the necessary and sufficient conditions for the appearance of Mind in living matter; what are emotions and what is their role in evolutionary development Human, and much more. He proved inevitability and pattern appearance of Life on any planet on which the corresponding conditions simultaneously occur. For the first time, he accurately and clearly showed what Man really is, how and why he is embodied in a physical body, and what happens to him after the inevitable death of this body. N.V. Levashov has long given comprehensive answers to the questions posed by the author in this article. Nevertheless, quite sufficient arguments have been collected here, indicating that modern life knows practically nothing either about Man or about real the structure of the World in which we all live...
There is life after death!
Sight modern science: does the soul exist, and is Consciousness immortal?
Every person who has encountered the death of a loved one asks the question: is there life after death? Nowadays, this issue is of particular relevance. If several centuries ago the answer to this question was obvious to everyone, now, after a period of atheism, its solution is more difficult. We cannot simply believe hundreds of generations of our ancestors, who, through personal experience, century after century, were convinced that man has an immortal soul. We want to have facts. Moreover, the facts are scientific. From school they tried to convince us that there is no, there is no immortal soul. At the same time, we were told that science says so. And we believed... Note that exactly believed that there is no immortal soul, believed that this is supposedly proven by science, believed that there is no God. None of us has even tried to figure out what impartial science says about the soul. We simply trusted certain authorities, without particularly going into the details of their worldview, objectivity and interpretation of scientific facts.
And now, when the tragedy happened, there is a conflict within us. We feel that the soul of the deceased is eternal, that it is alive, but on the other hand, the old stereotypes instilled in us that there is no soul drag us into the abyss of despair. This thing inside us is very heavy and very exhausting. We want the truth!
So let's look at the question of the existence of the soul through real, non-ideologized, objective science. Let's hear the opinions of real scientists on this issue and personally evaluate the logical calculations. It is not our FAITH in the existence or non-existence of the soul, but only KNOWLEDGE that can extinguish this internal conflict, preserve our strength, give confidence, look at the tragedy from a different, real point of view.
The article will talk about Consciousness. We will analyze the question of Consciousness from the point of view of science: where is Consciousness located in our body and can it stop its life?
What is Consciousness?
First, about what Consciousness is in general. People have thought about this question throughout history, but still cannot come to a final decision. We know only some of the properties and possibilities of consciousness. Consciousness is awareness of oneself, one’s personality, it is a great analyzer of all our feelings, emotions, desires, plans. Consciousness is what sets us apart, what makes us feel that we are not objects, but individuals. In other words, Consciousness miraculously reveals our fundamental existence. Consciousness is our awareness of our “I”, but at the same time Consciousness is great. Consciousness has no dimensions, no form, no color, no smell, no taste; it cannot be touched or turned in your hands. Even though we know very little about consciousness, we know with absolute certainty that we have it.
One of the main questions of humanity is the question of the nature of this very Consciousness (soul, “I”, ego). Materialism and idealism have diametrically opposed views on this issue. From point of view materialism Human Consciousness is the substrate of the brain, a product of matter, a product of biochemical processes, a special fusion of nerve cells. From point of view idealism Consciousness is the ego, “I”, spirit, soul - an immaterial, invisible, eternally existing, non-dying energy that spiritualizes the body. Acts of consciousness always involve a subject who is actually aware of everything.
If you are interested in purely religious ideas about the soul, then it will not provide any evidence of the existence of the soul. The doctrine of the soul is a dogma and is not subject to scientific proof. There are absolutely no explanations, much less evidence, for materialists who believe that they are impartial scientists (although this is far from the case).
But how do most people, who are equally far from religion, from philosophy, and from science too, imagine this Consciousness, soul, “I”? Let's ask ourselves, what is “I”?
Gender, name, profession and other role functions
The first thing that comes to mind for most is: “I am a person”, “I am a woman (man)”, “I am a businessman (turner, baker)”, “I am Tanya (Katya, Alexey)”, “I am a wife ( husband, daughter)”, etc. These are certainly funny answers. Your individual, unique “I” cannot be defined in general terms. There are a huge number of people in the world with the same characteristics, but they are not your “I”. Half of them are women (men), but they are not “I” either, people with the same professions seem to have their own “I”, not yours, the same can be said about wives (husbands), people different professions, social status, nationalities, religion, etc. No affiliation with any group will explain to you what your individual “I” represents, because Consciousness is always personal. I am not qualities (qualities only belong to our “I”), because the qualities of the same person can change, but his “I” will remain unchanged.
Mental and physiological characteristics
Some say that their "I" are their reflexes, their behavior, their individual ideas and preferences, their psychological characteristics and so on. In fact, this cannot be the core of the personality, which is called “I”. Why? Because throughout life, behavior, ideas, preferences, and, especially, psychological characteristics change. It cannot be said that if these features were different before, then it was not my “I”.
Realizing this, some people make the following argument: “I am my individual body”. This is already more interesting. Let's examine this assumption as well. Everyone else from school course Anatomy knows that the cells of our body are gradually renewed throughout life. Old ones die (apoptosis), and new ones are born. Some cells (the epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract) are completely renewed almost every day, but there are cells that go through their life cycle much longer. On average, every 5 years all the cells of the body are renewed. If we consider the “I” to be a simple collection of human cells, then the result will be absurd. It turns out that if a person lives, for example, 70 years, during this time all the cells in his body will change at least 10 times (i.e. 10 generations). Could this mean that not just one person, but 10 people lived their 70-year life? different people? Isn't that pretty stupid? We conclude that “I” cannot be a body, because the body is not permanent, but “I” is permanent. This means that the “I” cannot be either the qualities of cells or their totality.
But here the particularly erudite give a counter-argument: “Okay, with bones and muscles it’s clear, this really cannot be the “I”, but there are nerve cells! And they are alone for the rest of their lives. Maybe “I” is the sum of nerve cells?”
Let's think about this question together...
Does consciousness consist of nerve cells? Materialism is accustomed to decomposing the entire multidimensional world into mechanical components, “testing harmony with algebra” (A.S. Pushkin). The most naive misconception of militant materialism regarding personality is the idea that personality is a set of biological qualities. However, the combination of impersonal objects, be they even neurons, cannot give rise to a personality and its core - the “I”.
How can this most complex “I”, feeling, capable of experiences, love, be simply the sum of specific cells of the body, along with the ongoing biochemical and bioelectric processes? How might these processes shape the self? Provided that nerve cells constituted our “I”, then we would lose part of our “I” every day. With each dead cell, with each neuron, the “I” would become smaller and smaller. With cell restoration, it would increase in size.
Scientific research carried out in different countries world, prove that nerve cells, like all other cells of the human body, are capable of regeneration (restoration). This is what the most serious international biological journal writes: Nature: “Employees of the Californian Biological Research Institute. Salk discovered that in the brains of adult mammals, fully functional young cells are born that function on a par with existing neurons. Professor Frederick Gage and his colleagues also concluded that brain tissue renews itself most rapidly in physically active animals...”
This is confirmed by publication in another authoritative, peer-reviewed biological journal Science: "Within two recent years researchers have found that nerve and brain cells are renewed, like the rest in human body. The body is capable of repairing disorders related to the nervous tract itself.”, says Helen M. Blon."
Thus, even with a complete change of all (including nerve) cells of the body, the “I” of a person remains the same, therefore, it does not belong to the constantly changing material body.
For some reason, in our time it is so difficult to prove what was obvious and understandable to the ancients. The Roman Neoplatonist philosopher Plotinus, who lived in the 3rd century, wrote: “It is absurd to assume that, since not one of the parts has life, then life can be created by their totality... moreover, it is completely impossible for life to be produced by an accumulation of parts, and that the mind was generated by that which is devoid of mind. If anyone objects that this is not so, but that in fact the soul is formed by bodies that have come together, that is, indivisible into parts, then he will be refuted by the fact that the atoms themselves only lie one next to the other, not forming a living whole, for unity and joint feeling cannot be obtained from bodies that are insensitive and incapable of unification; but the soul feels itself” (1).
“I” is the unchanging core of personality, which includes many variables but is not itself a variable.
A skeptic can put forward a last desperate argument: “Maybe “I” is the brain?” Is Consciousness a product of brain activity? What does science say?
Many have heard the fairy tale about the fact that our Consciousness is the activity of the brain back in . The idea that the brain is essentially a person with his “I” is extremely widespread. Most people think that it is the brain that perceives information from the world around us, processes it and decides how to act in each specific case; they think that it is the brain that makes us alive and gives us personality. And the body is nothing more than a spacesuit that ensures the activity of the central nervous system.
But this tale has nothing to do with. The brain is currently being studied in depth. The chemical composition, parts of the brain, and the connections of these parts with human functions have been well studied for a long time. The brain organization of perception, attention, memory, and speech has been studied. Studied function blocks brain Great amount Clinics and research centers have been studying the human brain for more than a hundred years, for which expensive, effective equipment has been developed. But, opening any textbooks, monographs, scientific journals on neurophysiology or neuropsychology, you will not find scientific data about the connection of the brain with Consciousness.
For people far from this field of knowledge, this seems surprising. In fact, there is nothing surprising about this. Just no one ever didn't find it connections between the brain and the very center of our personality, our “I”. Of course, materialist scientists have always wanted this. Thousands of studies and millions of experiments have been conducted, many billions of dollars have been spent on this. The efforts of scientists were not in vain. Thanks to these studies, the parts of the brain themselves were discovered and studied, their connection with physiological processes, a lot has been done to understand neurophysiological processes and phenomena, but the most important thing has not been achieved. It was not possible to find the place in the brain that is our “I”. It was not even possible, despite extremely active work in this direction, to make a serious assumption about how the brain can be connected with our Consciousness?..
There is life after death!
English researchers Peter Fenwick from the London Psychiatry Center and Sam Parnia from the Southampton Central Clinic came to the same conclusions. They examined patients who returned to life after cardiac arrest and found that some of them exactly recounted the contents of conversations conducted by medical personnel while they were in a state of clinical death. Others gave exact a description of the events that occurred during this time period.
Sam Parnia argues that the brain, like any other organ of the human body, is composed of cells and is not capable of thinking. However, it can work as a thought detecting device, i.e. like an antenna, with the help of which it becomes possible to receive a signal from the outside. Scientists have suggested that during clinical death, Consciousness, acting independently of the brain, uses it as a screen. Like a television receiver, which first receives the waves entering it, and then converts them into sound and image.
If we turn off the radio, this does not mean that the radio station stops broadcasting. That is, after the death of the physical body, Consciousness continues to live.
The fact of the continuation of the life of Consciousness after the death of the body is confirmed by Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of the Research Institute of the Human Brain, Professor N.P. Bekhterev in her book “The Magic of the Brain and the Labyrinths of Life.” In addition to discussing purely scientific issues, in this book the author also provides his personal experience encounters with post-mortem phenomena.