Scientific evidence of the afterlife. The science

Probably, among the adult population of the entire planet, you cannot find even one person who has not thought about death in one way or another.

We are not now interested in the opinions of skeptics who question everything that they have not touched with their own hands and have not seen with their own eyes. We are interested in the question, what is death?

Quite often, surveys cited by sociologists show that up to 60 percent of respondents are sure that the afterlife exists.

Just over 30 percent of respondents take a neutral position regarding the Kingdom of the Dead, believing that most likely they will experience reincarnation and rebirth in a new body after death. The remaining ten do not believe in either the first or the second, believing that death is the final result of everything. If you are interested in what happens after death to those who sold their soul to the devil and gained wealth, fame and honor on earth, we recommend that you refer to the article about. Such people gain prosperity and respect not only during life, but also after death: those who sell their souls become powerful demons. Leave a request to sell your soul so that demonologists will perform a ritual for you: [email protected]

In fact, these are not absolute numbers; in some countries people are more willing to believe in other world, based on books read by psychiatry specialists who have studied issues of clinical death.

In other places, they believe that they need to live to the fullest here and now, and they are of little concern about what awaits later. Probably, the diversity of opinions lies in the field of sociology and living environment, but this is a completely different problem.

From the data obtained in the survey, the conclusion is clear: the majority of the planet’s inhabitants believe in an afterlife. This is a truly exciting question, what awaits us at the second of death - the last exhalation here, and a new breath in the Kingdom of the Dead?

It’s a pity, but no one has a complete answer to such a question, except perhaps God, but if we accept the existence of the Almighty in our equation as faithfulness, then of course there is only one answer - there is a World to Come!

Raymond Moody, there is life after death.

Many prominent scientists at different times wondered: is death a special transitional state between life here and moving to the other world? For example, such a famous scientist as the inventor even tried to establish contact with the inhabitants of the afterlife. And this is just one example of thousands of similar ones, when people sincerely believe in life after death.

But what if there is at least something that can give us confidence in life after death, at least some signs indicating the existence of an afterlife? Eat! There is such evidence, assure researchers of the issue and psychiatry specialists who have worked with people who have experienced clinical death.

As Raymond Moody, an American psychologist and doctor from Porterdale, Georgia, assures us, such a well-known expert on the issue of “life after death”, there is an afterlife beyond any doubt.

Moreover, the psychologist has many adherents from the scientific community. Well, let's see what kind of facts they give us as evidence of the fantastic idea of ​​​​existence afterlife?

Let me make a reservation right away, we are not now touching on the issue of reincarnation, the transmigration of the soul or its rebirth in a new body, this is a completely different topic and God willing and fate allows it, we will consider this later.

I will also note, alas, despite many years of research and travel around the world, neither Raymond Moody nor his followers were able to find at least one person who lived in the afterlife and returned from there with the facts in hand - this is not a joke , but a necessary note.

All evidence about the existence of life after death is based on the stories of people who have experienced clinical death. This is what has been called “near-death experience” for the last couple of decades and has gained popularity. Although there is already an error in the definition itself - what kind of near-death experience can we talk about if death did not actually occur? But well, let it be as R. Moody says about it.

Near-death experience, journey to the afterlife.

Clinical death, according to the conclusions of many researchers in this area, appears as an exploratory path to the afterlife. What does it look like? Resuscitation doctors save a person’s life, but at some point death turns out to be stronger. A person dies - omitting the physiological details, we note that the time of clinical death ranges from 3 to 6 minutes.

The first minute of clinical death, the resuscitator conducts necessary procedures, and meanwhile the soul of the deceased leaves the body and looks at everything that happens from the outside. As a rule, the souls of people who have crossed the border of two worlds for some time fly to the ceiling.

Further, those who have experienced clinical death see a different picture: some are gently but surely pulled into a tunnel, often a spiral-shaped funnel, where they pick up crazy speed.

At the same time, they feel wonderful and free, clearly realizing that a wonderful and wonderful future awaits them. wonderful Life. Others, on the contrary, are frightened by the picture of what they saw, they are not drawn into the tunnel, they rush home, to their family, apparently looking there for protection and salvation from something bad.

Second minute of clinical death, physiological processes they freeze in the human body, but it is still impossible to say that this is a dead person. By the way, during a “near-death experience” or foray into the afterlife for reconnaissance, time undergoes noticeable transformations. No, there are no paradoxes, but the time that takes a few minutes here, in “there” stretches to half an hour or even more.

Here is what a young woman who had a near-death experience said: I had the feeling that my soul had left my body. I saw the doctors and myself lying on the table, but it didn’t seem scary or frightening to me. I felt a pleasant lightness, my spiritual body radiated joy and absorbed peace and tranquility.

Then, I went outside the operating room and found myself in a very dark corridor, at the end of which there was a bright white light. I don’t know how it happened, but I was flying along the corridor in the direction of the light at great speed.

It was a state of amazing lightness when I reached the end of the tunnel and fell into the arms of the world surrounding me from all sides... a woman came out into the light, and it turned out that her long-dead mother was standing next to her.
The third minute of resuscitators, the patient was snatched from death...

“Daughter, it’s too early for you to die,” my mother told me... After these words, the woman fell into the darkness and remembers nothing more. She regained consciousness on the third day and learned that she had acquired a clinical death experience.

All the stories of people who experienced the borderline state between life and death are extremely similar. On the one hand, this gives us the right to believe in an afterlife. However, the skeptic sitting inside each of us whispers: how is it that “the woman felt her soul leaving her body,” but at the same time she saw everything? It’s interesting whether she felt it or did she look, you see, these are different things.

Attitude to the issue of near-death experience.

I am never a skeptic, and I believe in the other world, but when you read the full picture of a survey of clinical death from specialists who do not deny the possibility of the existence of life after death, but look at it without liberty, then the attitude towards the issue changes somewhat.

And the first thing that amazes is the “near-death experience” itself. In most cases of such an event, not those “cut-ups” for books that we love to quote, but a full survey of people who experienced clinical death, you see the following:

It turns out that the group surveyed includes all patients. All! It doesn’t matter what the person was sick with, epilepsy, fell into a deep coma, etc... it could generally be an overdose of sleeping pills or drugs that inhibit consciousness - in the overwhelming majority, for the survey it is enough to declare that he experienced clinical death! Marvelous? And then, if doctors, when recording death, do this based on the lack of breathing, blood circulation and reflexes, then this does not seem to matter for participation in the survey.

And another strange thing that little attention is paid to when psychiatrists describe the borderline states of a person close to death, although this is not hidden. For example, the same Moody admits that in the review there are many cases where a person saw/experienced a flight through a tunnel to the light and other paraphernalia of the afterlife without any physiological damage.

This really comes from the realm of the paranormal, but the psychiatrist admits that in many cases when a person “flew into the afterlife,” nothing threatened his health. That is, a person acquired visions of flying into the Kingdom of the Dead, as well as a near-death experience, without being in a near-death state. Agree, this changes the attitude towards theory.

Scientists, a few words about near-death experiences.

According to experts, the above-described pictures of “flight to the next world” are acquired by a person before the onset of clinical death, but not after it. It was mentioned above that critical damage to the body and the inability of the heart to provide life cycle destroy the brain after 3-6 minutes (we will not discuss the consequences of the critical time).

This convinces us that having passed the mortal second, the deceased has no opportunity or way to feel anything. A person experiences all the previously described conditions not during clinical death, but during agony, when oxygen is still carried by the blood.

Why are the pictures experienced and told by people who have looked “on the other side” of life very similar? This is fully explained by the fact that during the death throes, the same factors influence the brain function of any person experiencing this state.

At such moments, the heart works with great interruptions, the brain begins to experience starvation, the picture is complemented by surges in intracranial pressure, and so on at the level of physiology, but without an admixture of the otherworldly.

The vision of a dark tunnel and flying to the next world at great speed also find scientific justification, and undermine our faith in life after death - although it seems to me that this only breaks the picture of the “near-death experience”. Due to severe oxygen starvation, so-called tunnel vision can manifest itself, when the brain cannot correctly process signals coming from the periphery of the retina, and only receives/processes signals received from the center.

The person at this moment observes the effects of “flying through the tunnel towards the light.” Hallucinations are enhanced quite well by a shadowless lamp and doctors standing on both sides of the table and in the head - those who have had similar experience know that vision begins to “float” even before anesthesia.

The feeling of the soul leaving the body, seeing doctors and yourself as if from the outside, finally getting relief from pain - in fact, this is an action medical supplies and malfunction of the vestibular apparatus. When clinical death occurs, then in these minutes a person sees and feels nothing.

So, by the way, a high percentage of people who took the same LSD admitted that at these moments they acquired “experience” and went to other worlds. But shouldn’t we consider this the opening of a portal to other worlds?

In conclusion, I would like to note that the survey figures given at the very beginning are only a reflection of our belief in life after death, and cannot serve as evidence of life in the Kingdom of the Dead. Statistics from official medical programs look completely different, and may even discourage optimists from believing in the afterlife.

In fact, we have very few cases where people who actually experienced clinical death could say anything at all about their visions and encounters. Moreover, this is not the 10-15 percent that they are talking about, it is only about 5%. Among whom are people who have suffered brain death - alas, even a psychiatrist who knows hypnosis cannot help them remember anything.

The other part looks much better, although of course there is no talk of complete restoration, and it is quite difficult to understand where they have their own memories and where they arose after conversations with a psychiatrist.

But the instigators of the idea of ​​“life after death” are right about one thing; clinical experience really does greatly change the lives of people who have experienced this event. As a rule, this is a long period of rehabilitation and restoration of health. Some stories say that people who have experienced a borderline state suddenly discover previously unseen talents. Allegedly, communication with angels who meet the dead in the next world radically changes a person’s worldview.

Others, on the contrary, indulge in such grave sins that you begin to suspect either those who wrote were distorting facts and kept silent about it, or...or some fell into the underworld and realized that nothing good awaits them in the afterlife, so that’s what we need here and now.” get high" before dying.

And yet it exists!

As the ideological inspirer of biocentrism, Professor Robert Lantz, from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, said, a person believes in death because he is taught so. The basis of this teaching lies on the foundations of the philosophy of life - if we know for sure that in the World to Come life is arranged happily, without pain and suffering, then why should we value this life? But this tells us that the other world exists, death here is birth in the Other World!

The human soul and its life after the death of the body...
Is there life after death? Is there new life after earthly life?
To get closer to answering these questions, we need to turn to the question of what consciousness is. By answering this question, science leads us to the realization that there is a human soul.
But what is the other world like, is there really heaven and hell? What determines the fate of the soul after death?

Khasminsky Mikhail Igorevich, crisis psychologist.

Every person who has faced the death of a loved one asks the question: is there life after life? 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 of the presence of a human immortal soul. We want to have facts. Moreover, the facts are scientific.

A unique experiment is currently taking place in England: doctors are recording testimonies of patients who have experienced clinical death. Our interlocutor is the head of the research team, Dr. Sam Parnia.

Gnezdilov Andrey Vladimirovich, Doctor of Medical Sciences.

Death is not the end. This is just a change in states of consciousness. I have been working with dying people for 20 years. 10 years in an oncology clinic, then in a hospice. And many times I had the opportunity to verify that consciousness does not disappear after death. That the difference between body and spirit is very clear. That there is a completely different world that operates according to other laws, superphysical, beyond the limits of our understanding.

The evidence of common sense undoubtedly assures us that human existence does not end with earthly existence, and that in addition to this life there is an afterlife. We will consider the evidence with which science affirms the immortality of the soul and convinces us that the soul, being a being completely distinct from matter, cannot be destroyed by what destroys a material being.

Efremov Vladimir Grigorievich, scientist.

On March 12, at the house of my sister, Natalya Grigorievna, I had a coughing attack. I felt like I was suffocating. My lungs didn’t listen to me, I tried to take a breath - but couldn’t! The body became weak, the heart stopped. The last air left the lungs with wheezing and foam. The thought flashed through my mind that this was the last second of my life.

Osipov Alexey Ilyich, professor of theology.

There is something in common that unites the searches of people of all times and views. It is an insurmountable psychological difficulty to believe that there is no life after death. Man is not an animal! There is life after death! And this is not just an assumption or an unfounded belief. Eat great amount facts that indicate that, it turns out, the life of an individual continues beyond the threshold of earthly existence. We find amazing evidence wherever literary sources remain. And for all of them at least one fact was undeniable: the soul lives on after death. Personality is indestructible!

Korotkov Konstantin Georgievich, Doctor of Technical Sciences.

Treatises of ancient civilizations have been written about the immortality of the soul, about its exit from an immobilized dead body, myths and canonical religious teachings have been composed, but we would also like to receive evidence using the methods of the exact sciences. It seems that St. Petersburg scientist Konstantin Korotkov managed to achieve this. If his experimental data and the hypothesis built on their basis about the exit of the subtle body from the deceased physical body are confirmed by the research of other scientists, religion and science will finally agree that human life does not end with the last exhalation.

Leo Tolstoy, writer.

Death is a superstition that affects people who have never thought about it. in true sense life. Man is immortal. But in order to believe in immortality and understand what it is, you need to find in your life what is immortal in it. Reflections of the great Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy on life after life.

Moody Raymond, psychologist, philosopher.

Even inveterate skeptics and atheists will not be able to say about this book that everything said here is fiction, because this is a book written by a scientist, doctor, researcher. About thirty years ago, Life After Life fundamentally changed our understanding of what death is. Dr. Moody's research has spread all over the world and has greatly helped shape modern understanding of what a person experiences after death.

Leo Tolstoy, writer.

The fear of death is only the consciousness of the unresolved contradiction of life. Life does not end after the destruction of the physical body. Carnal demise is just another change in our existence, which has always been, is and will be. There is no death!

Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko.

The most important argument against materialism is this. We see that physiology provides many facts indicating that there is a constant connection between physical phenomena and between mental phenomena; we can say that there is not a single mental act that is not accompanied by some physiological ones; from here the materialists drew the conclusion that mental phenomena depend on physical ones. But such an interpretation could only be given if mental phenomena were consequences of physical processes, i.e. if between one and the other there existed the same causal relationship as between two phenomena physical nature, of which one is a consequence of the other. In fact, this is completely false...

Voino-Yasenetsky Valentin Feliksovich, professor of medicine.

The very structure of the brain proves that its function is to transform someone else's irritation into a well-chosen reaction. Afferent nerve fibers that bring sensory stimulation end in the cells of the sensory zone of the cerebral cortex, and they are connected by other fibers to the cells of the motor zone, to which the stimulation is transmitted. With countless such connections, the brain has the ability to endlessly modify reactions in response to external stimulation, and acts as a kind of switchboard.

Rogozin Pavel.

None of the representatives of genuine science ever doubted the presence of a “soul”. The dispute among scientists arose not about whether man has a soul, but about what should be meant by this term. The question of whether there is a spiritual principle in man, what is our consciousness, our spirit, soul, what are the relationships between matter, consciousness and spirit - has always been the main question of every worldview, Different approaches This question has led people to various conclusions and conclusions...

Unknown author.

The atom proves the eternity of life. Strictly speaking, human body dies every ten years. Each cell of the body after birth is repeatedly restored, disappears and is replaced by a new one in a strict sequence, depending on what type of cell it is (muscle, connective tissue, organs, nervous, etc.). But although the cells that originally made up our face, bones or blood deteriorate over a period of hours, days or years, our ever-renewing body retains the presence of consciousness.

Based on the book "Evidence of the Existence of Life After Death", comp. Fomin A.V..

Every person sooner or later asks himself the question: what will happen after physical death? Will everything end with the last breath or will the soul exist beyond the threshold of life? And now, following the abolition of party supervision over the process of cognition, scientific information began to appear proving that man has an immortal consciousness. Thus, our contemporaries, obsessed with the “fundamental question of philosophy,” seem to have a real chance to complete their earthly journey without the fear of non-existence.

Kalinovsky Peter, doctor.

This book is devoted to the most important question for a person - the question of death. We are talking about the facts of the continued existence of the personality, the human “I” after the death of our physical body. These facts include, first of all, testimonies of people who experienced clinical death, visited the “other world” and returned “back” either spontaneously or, in most cases, after resuscitation.

The answer to the question: “Is there life after death?” - all major world religions give or try to give. And if our ancestors, distant and not so distant, saw life after death as a metaphor for something beautiful or, on the contrary, terrible, then to modern man It is quite difficult to believe in Heaven or Hell described in religious texts. People have become too educated, but not to say that they are smart when it comes to the last line before the unknown.

In March 2015, toddler Gardell Martin fell into an icy creek and was dead for more than an hour and a half. Less than four days later, he left the hospital alive and well. His story is one of those that encourage scientists to reconsider the very meaning of the concept of “death.”

At first it seemed to her that she just had a headache - but like she had never had a headache before.

22-year-old Carla Perez was expecting her second child - she was in her sixth month of pregnancy. At first she was not too scared and decided to lie down, hoping that the headache would go away. But the pain only got worse, and when Perez vomited, she asked her brother to call 911.

Unbearable pain overwhelmed Carla Perez on February 8, 2015, close to midnight. An ambulance transported Carla from her home in Waterloo, Nebraska, to Methodist Women's Hospital in Omaha. There the woman began to lose consciousness, breathing stopped, and doctors inserted a tube into her throat so that oxygen continued to flow to the fetus. A CT scan showed that a massive cerebral hemorrhage created enormous pressure in the woman’s skull.

Perez suffered a stroke, but the fetus, surprisingly, was not harmed; his heart continued to beat confidently and evenly, as if nothing had happened. At about two o'clock in the morning, a repeat tomography showed that intracranial pressure irreversibly deformed the brain stem.

“Seeing this,” says Tiffany Somer-Sheley, a doctor who saw Perez during both her first and second pregnancies, “everyone realized that nothing good could be expected.”

Carla found herself on the precarious line between life and death: her brain stopped functioning without a chance of recovery - in other words, she died, but the vital functions of the body could be maintained artificially, in this case, to allow the 22-week fetus to develop to the stage where it will be able to exist independently.

There are more and more people who, like Carla Perez, are in a borderline state every year, as scientists understand more and more clearly that the “switch” of our existence does not have two on/off positions, but much more, and between white and black there is room for many shades. In the “gray zone” everything is not irrevocable, sometimes it is difficult to determine what life is, and some people cross the last line, but return - and sometimes talk in detail about what they saw on the other side.

“Death is a process, not an instant,” writes resuscitator Sam Parnia in Erasing Death: The heart stops beating, but the organs do not die that very minute. In fact, the doctor writes, they can remain intact for quite a long time, meaning that for a long time "death is completely reversible."

How can one whose name is synonymous with mercilessness be reversible? What is the nature of the transition through this gray area? What happens to our consciousness?

In Seattle, biologist Mark Roth is experimenting with placing animals in artificial suspended animation using chemical compounds that slow their heart rate and metabolism to levels similar to those observed during hibernation. His goal is to make people who have suffered a heart attack “a little immortal” until they overcome the consequences of the crisis that brought them to the brink of life and death.

In Baltimore and Pittsburgh, trauma teams led by surgeon Sam Tisherman are conducting clinical trials in which patients with gunshot and stab wounds are lowered in body temperature to slow bleeding long enough to receive stitches. These doctors use cold for the same purpose that Roth uses chemicals: to temporarily "kill" patients in order to ultimately save their lives.

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

In India, neuroscientist Richard Davidson studies Buddhist monks who have entered a state known as thukdam, in which biological signs of life disappear but the body appears to remain intact for a week or longer. Davidson is trying to record some activity in the brains of these monks, hoping to find out what happens after the blood circulation stops.

And in New York, Sam Parnia talks excitedly about the possibilities of “delayed resuscitation.” He says cardiopulmonary resuscitation works better than is commonly believed, and under certain conditions—when body temperature is lowered, chest compressions are properly regulated in depth and rhythm, and oxygen is administered slowly to avoid tissue damage—some patients can be brought back to life even after their heart had not been beating for several hours, and often without long-term negative consequences. Now a doctor is exploring one of the most mysterious aspects of returning from the dead: why do so many people who have experienced clinical death describe how their consciousness was separated from their body? What can these sensations tell us about the nature of the “border zone” and about death itself?

According to Mark Roth of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, the role of oxygen at the border between life and death is highly controversial. “As early as the 1770s, as soon as oxygen was discovered, scientists realized that it was essential for life,” says Roth. - Yes, if you greatly reduce the concentration of oxygen in the air, you can kill the animal. But, paradoxically, if you continue to reduce the concentration to a certain threshold, the animal will live in suspended animation.”

Mark showed how this mechanism works using the example of soil-dwelling roundworms - nematodes, which can live at an oxygen concentration of only 0.5 percent, but die when it is reduced to 0.1 percent. However, if you quickly pass this threshold and continue to reduce the oxygen concentration - to 0.001 percent or even less - the worms fall into a state of suspended animation. In this way, they escape when harsh times come for them - which is reminiscent of animals hibernating for the winter. Deprived of oxygen, creatures fallen into suspended animation seem to be dead, but this is not so: the flame of life still glimmers in them.

Roth attempts to control this condition by injecting test animals with an "elemental reducing agent" - such as iodide salt - which significantly reduces their need for oxygen. He will soon try this method on people, to minimize the damage treatment can cause to patients after a heart attack. The idea is that if iodide salt slows oxygen metabolism, it may help avoid ischemia-reperfusion injury to the myocardium. This type of damage due to excess supply of oxygen-rich blood to areas where there was previously a lack of it occurs as a result of treatments such as balloon angioplasty. In a state of suspended animation, the damaged heart will be able to slowly feed on oxygen coming from the repaired vessel, rather than choke on it.

During her college years, Ashley Barnett was involved in a serious car accident on a highway in Texas, far from major cities. Her pelvic bones were crushed, her spleen was ruptured, and she was bleeding. In those moments, Barnett recalls, her mind slipped between two worlds: one in which rescuers extracted her from a crumpled car using a hydraulic tool, where chaos and pain reigned; in the other, a white light shone and there was no pain or fear. A few years later, Ashley was diagnosed with cancer, but thanks to her near-death experience, the young woman was confident that she would live. Today Ashley is a mother of three and counsels accident survivors.

The question of life and death, according to Roth, is a question of movement: from the point of view of biology, the less movement, the longer the life, as a rule. Seeds and spores can live for hundreds and thousands of years - in other words, they are practically immortal. Roth dreams of the day when, using a reducing agent like iodide salt (the first clinical trials will begin soon in Australia), it will be possible to make a person immortal "for a moment" - for that very moment when he needs it most, when his heart is in trouble.

However, this method would not help Carla Perez, whose heart never stopped beating for a second. The day after the horrific results of the CT scan came back, Doctor Somer-Sheley tried to explain to the shocked parents, Modesto and Bertha Jimenez, that their beautiful daughter, a young woman who adored her three-year-old daughter, was surrounded by many friends and loved to dance, had died. brain

Had to overcome the language barrier. Native language Jimenez speaks Spanish, and everything the doctor said had to be translated. But there was another barrier, more complicated than the linguistic one - the very concept of brain death. This term appeared in the late 1960s, when two medical advances coincided: the advent of life-sustaining equipment, which blurred the line between life and death, and advances in organ transplantation, which created the need to make this line as distinct as possible. . Death could not be defined in the old way, only as the cessation of breathing and heartbeat, since artificial respiration machines could support both indefinitely for a long time. Is the person connected to such a device alive or dead? If he is disabled, when is it morally right to remove his organs to transplant them into someone else? And if the transplanted heart beats again in another breast, is it possible to assume that the donor was truly dead when his heart was cut out?

To discuss these delicate and difficult issues, a commission was convened at Harvard in 1968, which formulated two definitions of death: the traditional, cardiopulmonary, and a new one, based on neurological criteria. Among these criteria that are used today to determine the fact of brain death, there are three most important: coma, or complete and sustained absence of consciousness, apnea, or the inability to breathe without a ventilator, and the absence of brain stem reflexes, which is determined by simple tests: You can rinse the patient's ears cold water and check whether the eyes move, or squeeze the nail phalanges with a hard object and see if the facial muscles react, or work on the throat and bronchi, trying to evoke a cough reflex.

This is all quite simple and yet counterintuitive. “Patients who are brain dead do not appear dead,” James Bernath, a neurologist at Dartmouth Medical College, wrote in the American Journal of Bioethics in 2014. - This contradicts our life experience - to call a patient dead whose heart continues to beat, blood flows through the vessels and functions internal organs" The article, which aims to clarify and reinforce the concept of brain death, appeared just as the medical stories of two patients were widely discussed in the American press. The first, Jahi McMath, a teenager from California, suffered acute oxygen deprivation during tonsillectomy, and her parents refused to accept the diagnosis of brain death. The other, Marlyse Muñoz, was a pregnant woman whose case was fundamentally different from Carla Perez's. Relatives did not want her body to be artificially kept alive, but the hospital administration did not listen to their demand, because they believed that Texas law obliges doctors to preserve the life of the fetus. (The court later ruled in favor of the relatives.)

...Two days after Carla Perez's stroke, her parents, along with the father of their unborn child, arrived at Methodist Hospital. There, in the conference room, 26 clinic employees were waiting for them - neurologists, palliative care and ethicists, nurses, priests, social workers. The parents listened intently to the words of the translator, who explained to them that the tests showed that their daughter’s brain had stopped functioning. They learned that the hospital was offering to keep Perez alive until her fetus was at least 24 weeks old—that is, until it had at least a 50-50 chance of surviving outside the womb. With luck, doctors said, they It will be possible to maintain vital functions even longer, increasing the likelihood that the baby will be born with each passing week.

Perhaps at that moment Modesto Jimenez remembered a conversation with Tiffany Somer-Sheley - the only one in the entire hospital who knew Carla as a living, laughing, loving woman. The night before, Modesto had taken Tiffany aside and quietly asked just one question.

“No,” Dr. Somer-Sheley replied. “Most likely, your daughter will never wake up.” These were perhaps the most difficult words in her life. “As a physician, I understood that brain death is death,” she says. “From a medical point of view, Carla was already dead at that moment.” But looking at the patient lying in the intensive care unit, Tiffany felt that it was almost as difficult for her to believe in this indisputable fact as it was for the parents of the deceased. Perez looked as if she had just undergone successful surgery: her skin was warm, her chest was rising and falling, and the fetus in her stomach was moving - apparently completely healthy. Then, in a crowded conference room, Carla's parents told the doctors: yes , they realize that their daughter is brain dead and she will never wake up. But they added that they would pray for un milagro - a miracle. Just in case.

During a family picnic on the shores of Sleepy Hollow Lake in upstate New York, Tony Kikoria, an orthopedic surgeon, tried to call his mother. A thunderstorm began, and lightning struck the phone and passed through Tony's head. His heart stopped. Kikoria recalls feeling himself leaving his own body and moving through the walls towards a bluish-white light to connect with God. Returning to life, he suddenly felt drawn to playing the piano and began recording melodies that seemed to “download” into his brain. In the end, Tony came to the conclusion that his life was spared so that he could broadcast “music from heaven” to the world.

The return of a person from the dead - what is this if not a miracle? And, I must say, such miracles sometimes happen in medicine.

The Martins know this first hand. Last spring younger son Gardell visited the kingdom of the dead after falling into an icy stream. The large Martin family - husband, wife and seven children - lives in rural Pennsylvania, where the family owns a large plot of land. Children love to explore the area. On a warm day in March 2015, two older boys went for a walk and took Gardell, who was not yet two years old, with them. The kid slipped and fell into a stream flowing a hundred meters from the house. Noticing the disappearance of their brother, the frightened boys tried for some time to find him themselves. As time went…

By the time the rescue team reached Gardell (a neighbor pulled him out of the water), the baby's heart had not been beating for at least thirty-five minutes. The rescuers began performing external cardiac massage and did not stop for a minute throughout the 16 kilometers that separated them from the nearest Evangelical Community Hospital. The boy’s heart failed to start, and his body temperature dropped to 25 °C. Doctors prepared Gardell to be transported by helicopter to Geisinger Medical Center, 29 kilometers away, in Danville. The heart still didn't beat.

“He showed no signs of life,” recalls Richard Lambert, a pediatrician in charge of administering pain medications at the medical center and a member of the resuscitation team waiting for the plane. “He looked like... Well, in general, his skin was darkened, his lips were blue...” Lambert's voice fades as he recalls this terrible moment. He knew that children who drowned in icy water sometimes came back to life, but he had never heard of this happening to babies who had not shown signs of life for so long. To make matters worse, the boy's blood pH level was critically low - a sure sign of imminent organ failure.

...The resuscitator on duty turned to Lambert and his colleague Frank Maffei, director of the intensive care unit at the Geisinger Center Children's Hospital: maybe it was time to give up trying to revive the boy? But neither Lambert nor Maffei wanted to give up. The circumstances were generally suitable for a successful return from the dead. The water was cold, the child was small, attempts to resuscitate the boy began a few minutes after he drowned, and have not stopped since then. “Let's continue, just a little longer,” they told their colleagues.

And they continued. Another 10 minutes, another 20 minutes, then another 25. By this time, Gardell wasn't breathing, and his heart hadn't beat for over an hour and a half. “A limp, cold body with no signs of life,” Lambert recalls. However, the resuscitation team continued to work and monitor the boy’s condition. The doctors performing external cardiac massage changed every two minutes - a very difficult procedure if performed correctly, even when the patient has such a tiny chest. Meanwhile, other intensivists inserted catheters into Gardell's femoral and jugular veins, stomach and bladder, pouring warm fluids into them to gradually raise his body temperature. But this seemed to be of no use.

Rather than stop resuscitation completely, Lambert and Maffei decided to move Gardell to surgery to put him on a heart-lung machine. This most drastic method of warming the body was a last ditch attempt to get the baby's heart beating again. After treating his hands before the operation, the doctors checked his pulse again.

Incredible: he appeared! I felt a heartbeat, weak at first, but even, without the characteristic rhythm disturbances that sometimes appear after a prolonged cardiac arrest. Just three and a half days later, Gardell left the hospital with his family offering prayers to heaven. His legs barely obeyed him, but otherwise the boy felt great.

After a head-on collision between two cars, student Tricia Baker ended up in a hospital in Austin, Texas, with a broken spine and severe blood loss. When the operation began, Trisha felt like she was hanging from the ceiling. She clearly saw a straight line on the monitor - her heart had stopped beating. Baker then found herself in a hospital hallway, where her grief-stricken stepfather was buying a candy bar from a vending machine; it was this detail that subsequently convinced the girl that her movements were not a hallucination. Today, Trisha teaches creative writing and is confident that the spirits that accompanied her on the other side of death guide her in life.

Gardell is too young to describe what he felt while he was dead for 101 minutes. But sometimes people saved thanks to persistent and high-quality resuscitation, returning to life, talk about what they saw, and their stories are quite specific - and frighteningly similar to one another. These stories have been the subject of scientific study numerous times, most recently as part of Project AWARE, led by Sam Parnia, director of critical care research at Stony Brook University. Since 2008, Parnia and his colleagues have reviewed 2,060 cases of cardiac arrest that occurred in 15 American, British and Australian hospitals. In 330 cases, patients survived, and 140 survivors were interviewed. In turn, 45 of them reported that they were in some form of consciousness during resuscitation procedures.

Although most could not remember the details of what they felt, others' stories were similar to those found in best-selling books like Heaven is for Real: time sped up or slowed down (27 people), they experienced peace (22), a separation of mind from body (13), joy (9), saw a bright light or a golden flash (7). Some (the exact number is not given) reported unpleasant sensations: they were scared, it seemed that they were drowning or that they were being carried somewhere deep under water, and one person saw “people in coffins that were buried vertically in the ground.”

Parnia and his co-authors wrote in the medical journal Resuscitation that their study provides an opportunity to advance our understanding of the variety of mental experiences that are likely to accompany death after circulatory arrest. According to the authors, the next step is to examine whether and how these experiences, which most researchers call near-death experiences (Parnia prefers the term "after-death experiences"), affect surviving patients after recovery. he has cognitive problems or post-traumatic stress. What the AWARE team didn't explore was the typical effect of a near-death experience—an increased sense that your life has meaning and meaning.

Survivors of clinical death often talk about this feeling - and some even write entire books. Mary Neal, an orthopedic surgeon from Wyoming, mentioned this effect when speaking to a large audience at the Rethinking Death symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences in 2013. Neal, author of To Heaven and Back, recounted how she went to the bottom while kayaking down a mountain river in Chile 14 years ago. At that moment, Mary felt her soul separating from her body and flying over the river. Mary recalls: “I walked along an amazingly beautiful road leading to a majestic building with a dome, from where I knew for sure there would be no return, and I couldn’t wait to get to it as soon as possible.”

Mary was at that moment able to analyze how strange all her sensations were, she remembers wondering how long she had been under water (at least 30 minutes, as she later learned), and consoled herself with the fact that her husband and children would be good without it. The woman then felt her body being pulled out of the kayak, felt both her knee joints were broken and saw CPR being administered to her. She heard one of the rescuers calling her: “Come back, come back!” Neal recalled that upon hearing this voice, she felt “extreme irritation.”

Kevin Nelson, a neurologist at the University of Kentucky who took part in the discussion, was skeptical - not about Neal's memories, which he recognized as vivid and genuine, but about their interpretation. “This is not the feeling of a dead person,” Nelson said during the discussion, also objecting to Parnia's point. “When a person experiences such sensations, his brain is very alive and very active.” According to Nelson, what Neal felt could be explained by the so-called “invasion REM sleep“when the same brain activity that is characteristic of it during dreams for some reason begins to manifest itself in some other circumstances not related to sleep - for example, during a sudden oxygen deprivation. Nelson believes that near-death experiences and the feeling of separation of the soul from the body are caused not by dying, but by hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) - that is, loss of consciousness, but not life itself.

There are other psychological explanations for near-death experiences. At the University of Michigan, a team of researchers led by Jimo Borjigin measured brain waves of electromagnetic radiation after cardiac arrest in nine rats. In all cases, high-frequency gamma waves (those that scientists associate with mental activity) became stronger - and even clearer and more orderly than during normal wakefulness. Perhaps, the researchers write, this is a near-death experience - increased activity of consciousness that occurs during the transition period before final death?

Even more questions arise when studying the already mentioned tukdam - a state when a Buddhist monk dies, but for another week or even more his body does not show signs of decomposition. Is he still conscious? Is he dead or alive? Richard Davis of the University of Wisconsin has been studying the neurological aspects of meditation for many years. All these questions have occupied him for a long time - especially after he had a chance to see a monk in a tukdam in Buddhist monastery Deer Park in Wisconsin.

“If I happened to walk into that room, I would think he was just sitting there, deep in meditation,” Davidson says, a note of awe in his voice over the phone. “His skin looked absolutely normal, without the slightest sign of decomposition.” The sensation caused by the close proximity of this dead person, contributed to the fact that Davidson began to explore the phenomenon of tukdam. He brought what he needed medical equipment(electroencephalographs, stethoscopes, etc.) to two field research sites in India and trained a team of 12 Tibetan doctors to examine the monks (starting when they were clearly alive) to find out whether there was any activity going on in their brains after death.

“Many monks probably go into a state of meditation before they die, and it somehow persists after death,” says Richard Davidson. “But how this happens and how it can be explained eludes our everyday understanding.”

Davidson's research, based on the principles of European science, aims to achieve a different, more subtle understanding of the problem, an understanding that could shed light not only on what happens to the monks in tukdam, but also on any person who crosses the border between life and death.

Typically, decomposition begins almost immediately after death. When the brain stops functioning, it loses the ability to maintain the balance of all other body systems. So in order for Carla Perez to continue carrying her baby after her brain stopped working, a team of more than 100 doctors, nurses and other hospital staff had to act as a kind of conductor. They monitored blood pressure, kidney function and electrolyte balance devices around the clock, and constantly made changes to the fluids given to the patient through the catheters.

But even performing the functions of Perez’s brain-dead body, the doctors could not perceive her as dead. Everyone, without exception, treated her as if she were in a deep coma, and upon entering the ward they greeted her, calling the patient by name, and when leaving they said goodbye.

They did this partly out of respect for Perez's family's feelings—the doctors didn't want to give the impression that they were treating her like a "baby container." But sometimes their behavior went beyond ordinary politeness, and it became clear that the people caring for Perez actually treated her as if she were alive.

Todd Lovgren, one of the leaders of this medical team, knows what it's like to lose a child - his daughter, who died in early childhood, the eldest of his five children, would have turned twelve. “I wouldn’t respect myself if I didn’t treat Carla like a real person,” he told me. - I saw a young woman with nail polish, her mother was combing her hair, she had warm hands and her toes...Whether her brain was functioning or not, I don’t think she stopped being human.”

Speaking more as a father than as a doctor, Lovgren admits that he felt as if something of Perez's personality was still present in the hospital bed - even though, after a follow-up CT scan, he knew that the woman's brain was not just not functioning ; large portions of it began to die and disintegrate (However, the doctor did not test for the last sign of brain death, apnea, because he feared that by disconnecting Perez from the ventilator for even a few minutes, he could harm the fetus).

On February 18, ten days after Perez's stroke, it was discovered that her blood had stopped clotting normally. It became clear: dying brain tissue penetrates into circulatory system- another evidence in favor of the fact that she will not recover. By then, the fetus was 24 weeks old, so doctors decided to transfer Perez from the main campus back to Methodist Hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department. They managed to temporarily overcome the problem of blood clotting, but they were ready to perform a caesarean section at any moment - as soon as it became clear that they could not delay, as soon as even the semblance of life that they managed to maintain began to disappear.

According to Sam Parnia, death is, in principle, reversible. Cells inside the human body, he says, usually don't die immediately with the body: some cells and organs can remain viable for several hours and maybe even days. The question is when can we announce man dead, is sometimes decided according to the doctor's personal point of view. During his years as a student, Parnia says, cardiac massage was stopped after five to ten minutes, believing that after this time the brain would still be irreparably damaged.

However, resuscitation scientists have found ways to prevent death of the brain and other organs even after cardiac arrest. They know that lowering body temperature contributes to this: ice water helped Gardell Martin, and in some intensive care units, the patient is specially cooled each time before starting a cardiac massage. Scientists also know how important persistence and perseverance are.

Sam Parnia compares critical care to aeronautics. Throughout human history, it seemed that people would never fly, and yet in 1903 the Wright brothers took to the skies in their airplane. It's amazing, Parnia notes, that it took just 66 years from that first 12-second flight to the moon landing. He believes that similar successes can be achieved in intensive care medicine. As for the resurrection from the dead, the scientist thinks, here we are still at the stage of the first airplane of the Wright brothers.

And yet doctors are already able to win life from death in amazing, hope-giving ways. One such miracle occurred in Nebraska on Easter Eve, around noon on April 4, 2015, when, with the help of caesarean section at Methodist Women's Hospital a boy is born, named Angel Perez. Angel was born because doctors were able to keep his brain-dead mother alive for 54 days, long enough for the fetus to develop into a small but normal—astonishingly normal—newborn weighing 1,300 grams. This child turned out to be the miracle his grandparents had prayed for.

Is there life after death? What is it like, the afterlife - heaven and hell or relocation to a new physical body? It is difficult to answer these questions definitively, but there is strong evidence for the existence of reincarnation, karma, and the continuation of life after death.

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Is there life after death - what do people see in a state of clinical death

People who have experienced clinical death know very well the answer to the eternal question - is there life after death? Almost everyone knows that during clinical death a person is able to see the other world. Doctors do not find a logical explanation for this. The phenomenon of seeing the afterlife during clinical death began to be widely discussed after the publication of Dr. Raymond Moody’s book “Life after Death” in the 70s of the last century.

There are statistics of what is seen during clinical death. Many people see the same thing. They could not agree with each other, therefore, what they saw was true. Thus, 31% of survivors of clinical death talk about flying through a tunnel. This is the most common posthumous vision. 29% of people claim that they were able to see the starry landscape. About 24% of respondents talk about how they saw their body lying on the operating table from the side. At the same time, some of the patients who survived clinical death accurately described the actions of doctors that took place during the process of their resuscitation.

23% saw a bright, blinding light that attracted people to it. The same number of clinical death survivors claim to have seen something in the bright color scheme. 13% of people saw pictures from their lives, and they were able to view all of them life path, in the smallest detail. 8% spoke about seeing the border between the worlds of the living and the dead. Some managed to see and even communicate with deceased relatives and even angels. A person who is in an inanimate state, but not yet dead, can make a choice - to return to the material world or to move on. Only the stories of people who chose life are known. Sometimes those on the other side are told that it is “too early” for them and are sent back.

It is interesting that people who are blind from birth describe everything that happens when they are “on the other side.” sighted people see. The American doctor K. Ring interviewed about two hundred patients who were blind from birth and who experienced clinical death. They described exactly the same things as people without visual impairments.

People who are interested in facts about life after death are afraid of the end of physical existence. However, more than half of the people surveyed note that the feelings during their stay in the afterlife were more positive than negative. In about half of the cases, awareness occurs own death. Unpleasant sensations or fear are very rare during clinical death. Most people who have been beyond the line are convinced that beyond the line awaits better world, and are no longer afraid of death.

The sensations after entering another world change seriously. Survivors talk about heightened feelings and emotions, clarity of thoughts, the ability of the disembodied soul to fly and pass through walls, teleport and even modify its intangible body. There is a feeling that there is no time in this dimension, or maybe it flows completely differently. The consciousness of a deceased person gains the opportunity to solve many questions at the same time, in general, many “impossible” in ordinary life things.

This is how a girl who experienced clinical death described her experience of being in the world of the dead:

When I saw the light, he immediately asked me: “Have you been useful in this life?” And different pictures began to flash in front of me, as if I was watching a movie. "What is this?" - I thought, because everything happened completely unexpectedly. Suddenly, I found myself in childhood. And year after year she passed through her entire life, from birth to the last moment. Everything I saw was alive! It was as if I was looking at all this from the outside, in three-dimensional space and color, like in some kind of movie from the future.

And when I looked at all this, there was no light in my field of vision. He disappeared when he asked me that question. However, his presence was felt, as if he was guiding me through my life, especially noting important and significant events. And in each of these events, this light seemed to emphasize something. First of all, the importance of tenderness, love and kindness. Conversations with loved ones, with mother and sister, gifts for them, family holidays... And he also showed interest in everything that was related to knowledge and its acquisition.

At all moments when the light concentrated on events that related to learning, it seemed to say that I should continue to study without fail, so that when he comes for me next time, I will retain this desire within myself. By that moment I already understood that I was destined to return to life again. He called knowledge a continuous process and now, I think that the learning process certainly does not stop even with death.

Suicides are a different matter. People who managed to survive a suicide attempt say that before doctors managed to bring them back to life, they were in extremely unpleasant places. Often the places where suicides end up look like prisons, sometimes like Christian hell. They are there alone, their loved ones are not in this part of the afterlife. Some complained that they were being dragged down, that is, instead of going up in an attempt to catch up with the bright light at the end of the tunnel, they were moving into some kind of hell. It is recommended not to let those who came after your soul do this. The soul, which is not burdened by the physical body, is able to cope with this.

Almost everyone knows what other religious sources say about death. In general, the descriptions of the afterlife in various beliefs have much in common. However, the survivors of clinical death did not observe anything that resembled heaven or hell in its traditional sense. This leads to certain thoughts - perhaps the afterlife is not at all the way many people are used to imagining it.

Rebirth, or reincarnation of the soul - evidence

There is a lot of evidence in the soul. These include children’s memories of past incarnations, and such children are found quite often in the last two centuries. Perhaps the fact is that previously it was not customary to make such information public, or perhaps we are standing on the threshold of some special era, extremely important for all humanity.

Evidence of reincarnation is usually uttered through the mouths of children between 2 and 5 years old. Many children remember their past lives, but most adults do not take this seriously. Children aged 5 years and older most often lose memory of past incarnations. Some esotericists believe that babies for some time have the memory of a person who died in a previous incarnation - they do not understand the language of their new parents, they practically do not see the world, however, they understand that they have begun a new path in life. This is only an assumption, but there are reliable facts confirming the possibility of the soul relocating to a new body after death.

Some children remember details of their death in a previous incarnation. Often parts of the body that were damaged in past life, have birthmarks or other marks. Children often tell such shocking details of their past incarnation that it makes even scientists believe in reincarnation and karma. Thus, the loudest statements that reincarnation exists are illustrated by biographical data that has been verified for accuracy. It turned out that the people the children talked about in the first person actually existed at different times.

How little Gus Ortega surprised his father

As one of the most famous examples around the world of children who remember past lives, here is the case of Gus Ortega:

Ron Ortega once witnessed a strange incident when his one and a half year old son Gus said a very strange phrase while his father was changing his diapers. Little Gus said to his father, “When I was your age, I changed your diapers.” It was very strange, his son was only 1 year old, and for his son Gus to say that, he must have been the same age as his father.

After this incident, Ron showed Gus some Family photographs, one of which was of Gus's grandfather, named August. This photo showed a group of people, and when Ron asked Gus to point out who your grandfather was, little Gus, without hesitation, easily pointed to the right person. Gus had never seen his grandfather in his life, and had never seen pictures of him before. Gus was even able to locate where the photo was taken. Also looking at other photographs, Gus pointed to his grandfather’s car, said: “that was my first car,” and indeed, once upon a time, it was the first car that Grandpa August purchased.

Adults, as a rule, remember their past incarnations in a state of trance or a hypnotherapy session. In addition, there is a lot of literature on reincarnation from various authors. However, apart from numerous evidence of cases of reincarnation, there is no other evidence. There are no scientifically confirmed facts about reincarnation; it is simply impossible to prove its existence. It is difficult to answer the question of whether soul reincarnation exists unambiguously.

Life after death - facts about the phenomenon of ghosts

Ghost of Uttuku

Numerous evidence and facts about the appearance of ghosts have always been encountered in human history - even in ancient Babylonian legends it was reported about a wide variety of types of ghosts that came to relatives and friends, or to those who were responsible for their death. Particularly famous was a ghost called Uttuku- people who died from torture became like this. They came both to their relatives and to the executioners and their masters in the form in which they left this world and at the very time when they were dying.

There are very, very many similar stories about the appearance of ghosts to loved ones during the death of a person. Thus, one of the documented stories is connected with Madame Teleshova, who lived in St. Petersburg. In 1896, while she was sitting in the living room with her five children and a dog, the ghost of the milkman's son appeared to them. The whole family saw him, and the dog literally went crazy and jumped around him. As it turned out later, it was at this time that Andrei died - that was his name little boy. This is a very common phenomenon when people report their death in one way or another - therefore it is strong evidence of the existence of life after death.

But ghosts do not always want to reassure or simply notify loved ones. Situations often occur when they begin to call relatives or friends to follow them. And agreeing to follow them inevitably leads to quick death. Not knowing about this belief, most often the victims of such exhortations from ghosts are small children who perceive such a call as a game.

Also, ghostly silhouettes passing through walls or simply suddenly appearing next to people do not always belong to the dead. Many people, distinguished by righteousness, appeared to passers-by and pilgrims, helping them in various matters - such situations were especially often recorded in Tibet.

However, even on Russian territory There were similar cases - once, in the 19th century, the peasant woman Avdotya from Voronezh, who had sore legs, went on foot to Elder Ambrose to ask him for healing. However, she got lost, sat down on an old fallen tree and began to sob. But then the elder approached her, asked about the reason for her sorrows, after which he pointed with his cane in the direction in which the desired monastery was located. When Avdotya got to the monastery and began to wait for her turn among the suffering, that same old man immediately came out to her and asked where “Avdotya from Voronezh” was. Moreover, as the monks reported, by that time Ambrose had already been too weak and sick for several years to even leave his cell. This phenomenon is called exteriorization and only exceptionally spiritually developed people have such capabilities.

Thus, this is another confirmation scientific theory that ghosts exist, at least in the form of a person’s energy imprint on the information field of the Earth. The famous scientist Vernadsky mentioned the same thing in his works on the noosphere. Accordingly, the question of the existence of life after death, although not on the agenda, can be considered practically closed. The only reason for the non-acceptance of these theses by official science is the need for experimental confirmation of such information, which is unlikely to be obtained.

Is there karma - punishment or reward for actions?

The concept of karma, in one form or another, was present in the traditions of almost all peoples of the world, starting with ancient centuries. People all over the world, who had much more time to observe the reality around them in the absence of technology, noticed that many bad or good deeds tend to be rewarded. Moreover, often in the most unpredictable way.

All living things obey the laws of nature: they are born, reproduce, wither and die. But the fear of death is inherent only in man, and only he thinks about what will happen after physical death. It is much easier in this regard for fanatical believers: they are absolutely sure of the immortality of the soul and the meeting with the Creator. But today scientists have scientific evidence of whether there is life after death, and evidence real people who have experienced clinical death, showing the continuation of the existence of the soul after the death of the body.

When faced with an inexorable death that takes away a loved one in the prime of life, it is difficult not to fall into despair. It is impossible to come to terms with the loss in this case, and the soul requires at least a tiny hope of meeting in another life or in another world. At the same time, human consciousness is structured in such a way that it believes facts and evidence, therefore one can only talk about the possible rebirth of the soul based on eyewitness testimony.

Scientific researchers from almost all countries of the world have scientific facts about the soul after death, since today even the exact weight of the soul is known - 21 grams, obtained experimentally. It can also be said with confidence that death is not the end of life, it is a transition to another form of existence with the subsequent rebirth of the soul after death. Facts inexorably speak of constantly repeating earthly incarnations of the same soul in different bodies.

Scientists - psychologists and psychotherapists believe that many mental illnesses have their roots in past lives and carry their nature from there. It’s great that no one (with rare exceptions) remembers their past lives and past mistakes, otherwise real life would be spent correcting and correcting past experiences, but there would be no present spiritual growth, the purpose of which is reincarnation.

The first mention of this phenomenon is in the ancient Indian Vedas, written five thousand years ago. This philosophical and ethical teaching considers two possible miracles that occur with the physical shell of a person: the miracle of dying, that is, the transition into another substance, and the miracle of birth, that is, the appearance of a new body to replace the worn-out one.

Swedish scientist Jan Stevenson, who has been studying the phenomenon of reincarnation for many years, has come to a stunning conclusion: people who move from one earthly shell to another have the same physical characteristics and defects in all cases of rebirth. That is, having received some kind of flaw on his body in one of his earthly rebirths, he transfers it to subsequent incarnations.

One of the first scientists to talk about the immortality of the soul was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who argued that the soul is an atom of the Universe that cannot die, since its existence is due to the existence of the Cosmos.

But modern man is not satisfied with just statements; he needs facts and evidence about the possibilities of being born again and again going through the entire earthly path from birth to death.

Scientific evidence

Human life expectancy is steadily increasing as the efforts of scientists around the world are aimed at improving the quality of life. But at the same time, along with an understanding of the inevitability of death, the inquisitive mind of a person requires new knowledge about the afterlife, the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. And this new thing in the science of life after death appears to convince humanity: there is no death, there is only a change, the transition of the “subtle” body from the “rough physical” shell into the Universe. The evidence for this statement is:

It cannot be said that all this scientific evidence proves with one hundred percent certainty the continuation of life even after the end of the earthly path, but everyone tries to answer such a sensitive question on their own.

Existence outside of your body

Many hundreds and thousands of people who have experienced coma or clinical death recall an amazing phenomenon: their etheric body leaves the physical and seems to hover above its shell, watching everything that happens.

Today we can definitely say that there is life after death. Eyewitness evidence equally answers: yes, it exists. Every year, the number of people who confidently talk about their amazing journeys outside the physical shell and amaze doctors with the details noticed during their adventures increases.

For example, Washington-based singer Pam Reynolds spoke about her visions during a unique brain surgery that she underwent several years ago. She clearly saw her body on the operating table, I saw the doctors’ manipulations and heard their conversations, which after waking up I was able to convey. It is difficult to convey the state of the doctors who were shocked by her story.

Memory of past births

In the philosophical teachings of many ancient civilizations, the postulate was put forward that each person has his own destiny and is born for his own business. He cannot die until he has fulfilled his destiny. And today it is believed that a person returns to an active life after a serious illness, because he has not realized himself and is obliged to fulfill his obligations to the Universe or God.

• Some psychoanalysts believe that only people who do not believe in God or in reincarnation, and who constantly feel the fear of death, do not realize that they are dying and, after finishing their earthly journey, find themselves in a “gray space” in which the soul is in constant fear and misunderstanding.
• If we recall the ancient Greek philosopher Plato and his teaching about subjective idealism, then according to his teaching the soul passes from body to body and remembers only some especially memorable, vivid cases from past births. But this is precisely how Plato explains the emergence of brilliant works of art and scientific achievements.
• Nowadays, almost everyone knows what the phenomenon of “déjà vu” is, in which a person physically, psychologically, and emotionally remembers something that did not actually happen to him in the first place. real life. Many psychologists believe that in this case, vivid memories of a past life emerge.

In addition, the series of programs “Confessions of a Dead Man about Life after Death” was successfully shown on television screens, several popular science documentaries were shot and many articles were written on a given topic.

This burning question still worries and worries humanity. Probably only true believers can confidently answer this question positively. For everyone else, it remains open.