After death, what awaits us? Probably each of us asked this question. Death scares many people. Usually it is fear that makes us look for an answer to the question: "After death, what awaits us?" However, not only him. People often cannot come to terms with the loss of loved ones, and this forces them to look for evidence that there is life after death. Sometimes simple curiosity drives us in this matter. One way or another, life after death interests many.
The afterlife of the Hellenes
Perhaps non-existence is the worst thing about death. People are afraid of the unknown, the emptiness. In this respect, the ancient inhabitants of the Earth were more protected than us. Ellin, for example, knew for sure that his soul after death would stand trial, and then pass through the corridor of Erebus (the underworld). If she turns out to be unworthy, she will go to Tartarus. If she proves herself well, she will receive immortality and will be on the Champs Elysees in bliss and joy. Therefore, the Greek lived without fear of uncertainty. However, our contemporaries are not so simple. Many of those living today doubt what awaits us after death.
The afterlife is what it isall religions converge
Religions and scriptures of all times and peoples of the world, differing in many provisions and issues, show unanimity that the existence of people after death continues. In ancient Egypt, Greece, India, Babylon, they believed in the immortality of the soul. Therefore, we can say that this is the collective experience of mankind. However, could he have appeared by chance? Is there any other basis in it than the desire for eternal life and the fear of death? What is the starting point of modern church fathers, who do not doubt that the soul is immortal?
You can say that, of course, everything is clear with them. Everyone knows the story of hell and heaven. The Church Fathers in this matter are like the Hellenes, who are clad in the armor of faith and are not afraid of anything. Indeed, the Holy Scriptures (New and Old Testaments) for Christians are the main source of their faith in life after death. It is reinforced by the Revelations of John the Theologian, the Epistles of the Apostles, etc. Believers are not afraid of physical death, since it seems to them just an entrance into another life, into existence together with Christ.
Christian life after death
According to the Bible, earthly existence is a preparation for the Hereafter. After death, the soul remains with everything that she did, good and bad. Therefore, from the very death of the physical body (even before the Judgment), joys or sufferings begin for her. This is determined by how this or that soul lived on earth. The days of commemoration after death are 3, 9 and 40 days. Why exactly them? Let's find out.
Immediately after death, the soul leaves the body. In the first 2 days, she, freed from his shackles, enjoys freedom. At this time, the soul can visit those places on earth that were especially dear to her during her lifetime. However, on the 3rd day after death, she is already in other areas. Christianity knows the revelation given by St. Macarius of Alexandria (died 395) as an angel. He said that when an offering is made in the church on the 3rd day, the soul of the deceased receives from the angel guarding her, relief in grief due to separation from the body. She receives it because an offering and a doxology have been made in the church, which is why a good hope appears in her soul. The angel also said that for 2 days the deceased is allowed to walk the earth along with the angels who are with him. If the soul loves the body, then sometimes it wanders near the house in which it parted with it, or near the coffin where it is laid. And the virtuous soul goes to the places where it did the right thing. On the third day, she ascends to heaven to worship God. Then, after worshiping him, he shows her the beauty of paradise and the abode of the saints. The soul considers all this for 6 days, glorifying the Creator. Admiring all this beauty, she changes and ceases to mourn. However, if the soul is guilty of any sins, then it begins to reproach itself, seeing the pleasures of the saints. She realizes that in her earthly life she was engaged in the satisfaction of her lusts and did not serve God, therefore she has no right to be rewarded with his goodness.
After the soul has considered all the joys of the righteous for 6 days, that is, on the 9th dayafter death, she again ascends to the worship of God by angels. That is why the church on the 9th day makes services and offerings for the deceased. God, after the second worship, now commands to send the soul to hell and show the places of torment that are there. For 30 days, the soul rushes through these places, trembling. She doesn't want to be condemned to hell. What happens 40 days after death? The soul ascends again to worship God. After that, he determines the place that she deserves, according to her deeds. Thus, the 40th day is the boundary that finally separates earthly life from eternal life. From a religious point of view, this is an even more tragic date than the fact of physical death. 3, 9 and 40 days after death - this is the time when you should especially actively pray for the deceased. Prayers can help his soul in the afterlife.
The question arises about what happens to a person after a year of death. Why are commemorations held every year? It must be said that they are no longer needed for the deceased, but for us, so that we remember the deceased person. The anniversary has nothing to do with ordeals, which end on the 40th day. By the way, if the soul is sent to hell, this does not mean that it has finally died. During the Last Judgment, the fate of all people, including the dead, is decided.
The opinion of Muslims, Jews and Buddhists
Muslim is also convinced that his soul after physical death moves to another world. Here she waits for judgment day. Buddhists believe that she is constantly reborn, changing her body. After death, she reincarnates in anotherappearance - reincarnation occurs. Judaism, perhaps, speaks least of all about the afterlife. Extraterrestrial existence in the books of Moses is mentioned very rarely. Most Jews believe that both hell and heaven exist on earth. However, they are convinced that life is eternal. It continues after death in children and grandchildren.
According to Hare Krishnas
And only Hare Krishnas, who are also convinced of the immortality of the soul, turn to empirical and logical arguments. Numerous information about clinical deaths experienced by different people come to their aid. Many of them described that they rose above the bodies and soared through an unknown light to the tunnel. Vedic philosophy also comes to the aid of the Hare Krishnas. One well-known Vedic argument that the soul is immortal is that we, while living in the body, observe its changes. We turn through the years from a child into an old man. However, the very fact that we are able to contemplate these changes indicates that we exist outside the changes of the body, since the observer is always aloof.
What doctors say
According to common sense, we cannot know what happens to a person after death. It is all the more surprising that a number of scientists hold a different opinion. First of all, they are doctors. The medical practice of many of them refutes the axiom that no one managed to return from the next world. Doctors are familiar firsthand with hundreds of "returnees". Yes, and many ofyou must have at least heard something about clinical death.
Scenario for the exit of the soul from the body after clinical death
Everything usually happens according to one scenario. During the operation, the patient's heart stops. After that, doctors ascertain the onset of clinical death. They begin resuscitation, trying with all their might to start the heart. The count goes on for seconds, since the brain and other vital organs begin to suffer from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia) in 5-6 minutes, which is fraught with sad consequences.
Meanwhile, the patient "leaves" the body, observes himself and the actions of the doctors from above for some time, and then swims towards the light along a long corridor. And then, according to the statistics that British scientists have collected over the past 20 years, about 72% of the "dead" end up in paradise. Grace descends on them, they see angels or dead friends and relatives. Everyone laughs and cheers. However, the other 28% describe a far from happy picture. These are those who after "death" find themselves in hell. Therefore, when some divine entity, appearing most often as a clot of light, informs them that their time has not yet come, they are very happy, and then return to the body. Doctors pump out a patient whose heart starts beating again. Those who managed to look beyond the threshold of death remember this all their lives. And many of them share their revelation with close relatives and attending physicians.
Arguments of skeptics
In the 1970s, research began on so-called near-death experiences. They continue to this day, although many copies have been broken on this score. Someone saw in the phenomenon of these experiences proof of eternal life, while others, on the contrary, even today strive to convince everyone that hell and paradise, and in general "the other world" are somewhere inside us. These are supposedly not real places, but hallucinations that occur when consciousness fades. We can agree with this assumption, but why then are these hallucinations so similar for everyone? And skeptics give their answer to this question. They say the brain is being deprived of oxygenated blood. Very quickly, parts of the visual lobe of the hemispheres are turned off, but the poles of the occipital lobes, which have a dual blood supply system, are still functioning. Because of this, the field of view is significantly narrowed. Only a narrow strip remains, which provides "tube", central vision. This is the desired tunnel. So, at least, says Sergei Levitsky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
Denture case
However, those who managed to return from the other world object to him. They describe in detail the actions of a team of doctors who, during a cardiac arrest, "conjured" over the body. Patients also talk about their relatives who grieved in the corridors. For example, one patient, having come to his senses 7 days after clinical death, asked the doctors to give him a denture that was removed during the operation. Doctors could not remember where in the confusionput it down. And then the waking up patient accurately named the place where the prosthesis was located, while saying that during the "journey" he remembered it. It turns out that medicine today does not have irrefutable evidence that there is no life after death.
Testimony of Natalia Bekhtereva
There is an opportunity to look at this problem from the other side. First, we can recall the law of conservation of energy. In addition, one can refer to the fact that the energy principle underlies any kind of substance. It also exists in man. Of course, after the death of the body, it does not disappear anywhere. This beginning remains in the energy-informational field of our planet. However, there are exceptions.
In particular, Natalya Bekhtereva testified that after the death of her husband, the human brain became a mystery to her. The fact is that the ghost of her husband began to appear to the woman even during the day. He gave her advice, shared his thoughts, suggested where to find something. Note that Bekhterev is a world-famous scientist. However, she did not doubt the reality of what was happening. Natalya says she doesn't know if this vision was a product of her own mind, which was in a state of stress, or something else. But the woman claims that she knows for sure - she did not imagine her husband, she actually saw him.
Solaris Effect
Scientists call the appearance of "ghosts" of loved ones or relatives who have died, the "Solaris effect". Another name is materialization according to the Lemma method. However, thishappens extremely rarely. Most likely, the "Solaris effect" is observed only in cases where the mourners have a fairly large energy force in order to "pull" the phantom of a dear person from the field of our planet.
Experience of Vsevolod Zaporozhets
If the strength is not enough, mediums come to the rescue. This is exactly what happened to Vsevolod Zaporozhets, a geophysicist. He was a supporter of scientific materialism for many years. However, at the age of 70, after the death of his wife, he changed his mind. The scientist could not come to terms with the loss and began to study literature about the other world, spirits and spiritualism. In total, he performed about 460 sessions, and also created the book "Contours of the Universe", where he described a technique by which one can prove the reality of the existence of life after death. Most importantly, he managed to contact his wife. In the afterlife, she is young and beautiful, like all the others living there. According to Zaporozhets, the explanation for this is simple: the world of the dead is the product of the embodiment of their desires. In this it is similar to the earthly world and even better than it. Usually the souls that dwell in it are represented in a beautiful form and at a young age. They feel material, like the inhabitants of the Earth. Those who inhabit the afterlife are aware of their physicality and can enjoy life. Clothes are created by the desire and thought of the departed. Love in this world remains or is found again. However, relations between the sexes are devoid of sexuality, but still differ from ordinary friendships.feelings. There is no procreation in this world. It is not necessary to eat to sustain life, but some eat for pleasure or earthly habit. They mainly eat fruits, which grow in abundance and are very beautiful. This is such an interesting story. After death, perhaps this is what awaits us. If so, then there is nothing to fear but your own desires.
We looked at the most popular answers to the question: "After death, what awaits us?". Of course, this is to some extent only guesswork that can be taken for granted. After all, science in this matter is still powerless. The methods she uses today are unlikely to help figure out what awaits us after death. Probably, this riddle will torment scientists and many of us for a long time to come. However, we can state that there is much more evidence that life after death is real than the arguments of skeptics.
