How our dead live. Life after death - where dead people live

As they say, all's fair in love and war. Well, what about a person’s craving for knowledge? People's curiosity knows no bounds, and in order to satisfy it, a person is able to step over age-old prohibitions, overcoming his own fears.

One of the legends talks about a very curious couple who lived many years ago in a small village in Italy. One day, while relaxing in the evening after work, the wife and husband began to Once again discuss the existence of an afterlife. And so great was their desire to know the truth that they swore to each other that the one who died first would definitely return and tell the other what he saw.

After several years, the woman became a widow. Fellow villagers helped the widow make all the preparations for the upcoming funeral: the women washed the body and dressed the deceased in clothes specially reserved for such an occasion. And when in the evening the mourners came to spend the night in the widow’s house to pay their last respects to the deceased, they were surprised by her strange request. The woman began to ask them to leave her alone with her husband’s body, and the mourners had no choice but to satisfy her desire.

Night fell, the woman sat and waited with bated breath for her husband to fulfill his promise. A sharp knock on the door made her shudder in horror. A stranger entered the room and, as if not noticing the dead man on the table, asked to spend the night. In those days, it was not customary to refuse shelter to wanderers, and the man settled down by the fireplace.

Suddenly, a chilling scream broke the silence, the owner’s corpse sat on the table with a face distorted by agony, but the stranger quickly touched it with his staff, and the body collapsed back. As soon as the woman came to her senses, the corpse made a new attempt to leave his bed: with a terrible scream, he jumped off the table and attacked his wife. Hooked fingers grabbed her throat, and a vengeful light flashed in her lifeless eyes. “Because of you, I am now in hell, and you will pay for it with your life!” the living dead wheezed. This time the stranger had to make an effort to save the woman. Where the staff touched the dead body, the flesh began to decompose, and soon the clothes hung loosely on the skeleton. At that same second, a huge column of smoke and flame burst out of the fireplace, as if enveloping the dead man in a black cloak, and with a wild howl carried the remains of the husband through the chimney.

The fire in the hearth went out, and a chill filled the room. The woman fell to her knees and began to pray earnestly. At dawn, the wanderer, leaving, said the words that the widow remembered for the rest of her life: “It is not the business of the living to know the fate of the dead.

Are intermediaries needed?

However, despite such warnings, people are still looking for a way to make contact with the souls of the dead and use the power given to them to get answers to their questions. In the 19th century, a widespread passion for spiritualism began. With the help of mediums, a kind of intermediaries between worlds, man gained the opportunity to communicate with otherworldly forces. Whether one should treat such things with faith is a personal matter for everyone, because most of the mediums and spiritualists were caught in fraud. But today we can safely say that the phenomena of mediumship exist, if by this we mean unusual abilities some people that we are not yet able to explain from a scientific point of view. People with such abilities, often against their will, see the spirits of the dead, who themselves are looking for a way to establish a connection with the world of the living.

Such plots are by no means uncommon in world literature: here is the shadow of Hamlet’s father, crying out for retribution, and the Reveler from the work of Jorge Amado, who does not want to leave his young wife Donna Flor. It is the spirit loving husband warns the ancient old woman from P. Coelho’s novel “The Devil and Signorita Prim” about the misfortune that threatens their town. And such examples can be given endlessly. Almost everyone, having dug deep into their memory, will definitely remember a similar incident that took place in their life or the lives of their closest acquaintances.

For example, here is a story that happened in 1998 in St. Petersburg communal apartment, where next to big family There lived a lonely old woman. By that time she was already 80 years old, but despite such an advanced age, she was a surprisingly sensible and cheerful woman. At first her neighbors, brought up in the best traditions of atheism, laughed at her only oddity, but then they got used to it and stopped paying attention. The strange thing was that on her husband’s birthday, and she had been a widow for more than 20 years, the old woman cooked him favorite dish- naval pasta, locked herself in her room and didn’t come out until midnight struck. If you believe her stories, then the spirit of her late husband came to her room that day, at the set table they had leisurely conversations about their past, and sometimes he gave her advice regarding the future. The neighbors were able to appreciate the usefulness of one such advice.

And after one such “ family holiday“The widow went out into the common kitchen and in the most ordinary, everyday voice, in which she usually reported about the weather or sugar prices, said: “It’s now better to keep big money in foreign currency.” The neighbors had recently sold the car, and the head of the family decided to follow the unobtrusive advice. More than once after the default that occurred three months later, he gratefully remembered the old woman and her late husband, whom she had already joined by that time.

Do you really need to have some kind of superpower to communicate with the dead? Or is it due to such strong ties that bind loving friend friend of people, that even death cannot completely tear them apart? People have yet to discover this.

Hungarian demon

Unfortunately, it's cramped psychological connection with another person can be quite dangerous. Without knowing it, a person, experiencing the untimely death of a loved one, can open access to spirits into our world. It has been known since time immemorial that words spoken in the hearts can bring a lot of trouble. The call to the deceased is sometimes endowed with such emotional energy that it is capable of bringing his spirit to life. In Hungary, for example, it was believed that the name of a dead person spoken out loud could summon a demon. Here is one such story. A certain widow missed her husband very much and dreamed of seeing him at least one more time.

One day a man appeared to her, exactly like her late husband. The woman’s mind was clouded with joy, and she did not realize that the demon had come in the form of her beloved. In Hungary, such demons who feed on human suffering are called leaders. Night after night they come to their victims until they drink all their life force. The only salvation for people who fall into their power is to recognize the evil spirit in the alien, which can be done if you carefully look at his legs: the leader’s one of them always ends in a bird’s paw.

The fact is that these evil spirits come from chicken egg, which a person “hatched”, carrying it under his arm for 24 days. Such a hellish “chick” can enrich its owner by doing any work for him or showing him the places where treasures are buried. But this does not bring him happiness: gradually the leader exhausts the person, and when his master dies, evil spirit goes in search of a new source of energy.

The guardians of darkness do not sleep

There are also other demons who act less “delicately” and do not leave their victims any opportunity to avoid death. One of the old Prussian fairy tales tells about the unfortunate girl Lenore, who saw off her fiancé to the war. She waited for news from him for many months, but never received a single message. Far from her native land, her fiancé laid down his head on the battlefield. Lenora suffered so much that in moments of despair she called for death, which would relieve all sorrows and sorrows. But death did not respond to her call, although the girl, exhausted sleepless nights, lost weight and became very weak.

One night she heard the voice of her lover, who called her with him. Going out into the yard, she saw a horseman waiting for her. Obeying her fiancé's orders, Lenora climbed onto the horse behind him and they raced off. On the way, the stranger explained to her that they must reach the appointed place before the rooster crows, otherwise they will be late for their wedding feast. The goal of their journey turned out to be a cemetery, where a crowd of gray shadows pulled the unfortunate girl off her horse, and her fiance, who turned out to be a swollen corpse, took her with him to the grave. In the morning, the church watchman discovered in the church yard a tortured horse, from which there was already a stinking spirit of decay, and a new grave, on the freshly filled mound of which lay a piece of lace. Thus ended the earthly journey of Lenora, now doomed to wander at night among the dead...

N. Ivanova

Thanks to the progress of medicine, resuscitation of the dead has become almost standard procedure in many modern hospitals. Previously, it was almost never used.

In this article we will not provide real cases from the practice of resuscitation doctors and stories of those who themselves experienced clinical death, since a lot of such descriptions can be found in books such as:

"Closer to the Light" (
Life after life (
"Memories of Death" (
"Life Near Death" (
"Beyond the threshold of death" (

Purpose of this material is a classification of what people who visited the afterlife saw and a presentation of what they told in an understandable form as evidence of the existence of life after death.

What happens after a person dies

“He’s dying” is often the first thing a person hears at the moment of clinical death. What happens after a person dies? First, the patient feels that he is leaving the body and a second later he looks down at himself floating under the ceiling.

At this moment, a person sees himself from the outside for the first time and experiences a huge shock. In a panic, he tries to attract attention to himself, scream, touch the doctor, move objects, but as a rule, all his attempts are in vain. No one sees or hears him.

After some time, the person realizes that all his senses remain functional, despite the fact that his physical body dead. Moreover, the patient experiences an indescribable lightness that he has never experienced before. This feeling is so wonderful that the dying person no longer wants to return back to the body.

Some, after the above, return to the body, and this is where their excursion into the afterlife ends; on the contrary, someone manages to get into a certain tunnel, at the end of which light is visible. Having passed through a kind of gate, they see a world of great beauty.

Some people are met by family and friends, some people meet a bright being from whom one breathes great love and understanding. Some are sure that this is Jesus Christ, others claim that this is a guardian angel. But everyone agrees that he is full of kindness and compassion.

Of course, not everyone manages to admire the beauty and enjoy the bliss afterlife. Some people say that they found themselves in dark places and, upon returning, describe the disgusting and cruel creatures they saw.

ordeals

Those who returned from the “other world” often say that at some point they saw their whole life in full view. Their every action, a seemingly random phrase, and even thoughts flashed before them as if in reality. At this moment, the man reconsidered his entire life.

At that moment there were no such concepts as social status, hypocrisy, pride. All the masks of the mortal world were dropped and the person was presented to the court as if naked. He couldn't hide anything. Each of his bad deeds was depicted in great detail and shown how he affected those around him and those who were caused pain and suffering by such behavior.

At this time, all the advantages achieved in life - social and economic status, diplomas, titles, etc. - lose their meaning. The only thing that can be assessed is the moral side of actions. At this moment, a person realizes that nothing is erased or passes without a trace, but everything, even every thought, has consequences.

For evil and cruel people, this will truly be the beginning of unbearable internal torment, so-called, from which it is impossible to escape. The consciousness of the evil done, the crippled souls of oneself and others, becomes for such people like an “unquenchable fire” from which there is no way out. It is precisely this kind of trial of actions that is referred to in the Christian religion as ordeal.

Afterworld

Having crossed the line, a person, despite the fact that all senses remain the same, begins to feel everything around him in a completely new way. It’s as if his sensations are starting to work one hundred percent. The range of feelings and experiences is so wide that those who returned simply cannot explain in words everything that they felt there.

From the more earthly and familiar to us in perception, this is time and distance, which, according to those who have visited the afterlife, flows there completely differently.

People who have experienced clinical death often find it difficult to answer how long their post-mortem state lasted. A few minutes, or a few thousand years, it made no difference to them.

As for the distance, it was completely absent. A person could be transported to any point, to any distance just by thinking about it, that is, by the power of thought!

Another surprising thing is that not all of those reanimated describe places similar to heaven and hell. The descriptions of the places of individual individuals are simply amazing. They are sure that they have been on other planets or in other dimensions and this seems to be true.

Judge for yourself word forms like hilly meadows; bright greenery of a color that does not exist on earth; fields bathed in a wonderful golden light; cities beyond words; animals that you will not find anywhere else - all this does not apply to the descriptions of hell and heaven. People who were there did not find the right words to convey your impressions clearly.

What does the soul look like?

In what form do the dead appear to others and how do they look in their own eyes? This question interests many, and fortunately, those who have been abroad gave us the answer.

Those who were aware of their exit from the body say that at first it was not easy for them to recognize themselves. First of all, the imprint of age disappears: children see themselves as adults, and old people see themselves as young.

The body is also transformed. If a person had any injuries or injuries during life, then after death they disappear. Amputated limbs appear, hearing and vision return if it was previously absent from the physical body.

Meetings after death

Those who have been on the other side of the “curtain” often say that they met there with their deceased relatives, friends and acquaintances. Most often, people see those with whom they were close during life or were related.

Such visions cannot be considered the rule; rather, they are exceptions that do not occur very often. Usually such meetings act as an edification to those who are too early to die and who must return to earth and change their lives.

Sometimes people see what they expected to see. Christians see angels, the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, saints. Non-religious people see some temples, figures in white or young men, and sometimes they don’t see anything, but they feel a “presence”.

Communication of souls

Many reanimated people claim that something or someone communicated with them there. When they are asked to tell what the conversation was about, they find it difficult to answer. This happens due to a language unknown to them, or rather inarticulate speech.

For a long time, doctors could not explain why people did not remember or could not convey what they heard and considered it just hallucinations, but over time, some who returned were still able to explain the mechanism of communication.

It turned out that people communicate there mentally! Therefore, if in that world all thoughts are “audible,” then we need to learn here to control our thoughts so that there we are not ashamed of what we involuntarily thought.

Cross the line

Almost everyone who has experienced afterlife and remembers it, talks about a certain barrier that separates the world of the living and the dead. Having crossed to the other side, a person will never be able to return to life, and every soul knows this, even though no one told her about it.

This limit is different for everyone. Some see a fence or lattice on the border of a field, others see the shore of a lake or sea, and others see it as a gate, a stream or a cloud. The difference in descriptions stems, again, from the subjective perception of each.

Having read all of the above, only an inveterate skeptic and materialist can say that afterlife this is fiction. Many doctors and scientists for a long time They denied not only the existence of hell and heaven, but also completely excluded the possibility of the existence of an afterlife.

The testimony of eyewitnesses who experienced this condition themselves has led everyone to a dead end. scientific theories those who denied life after death. Of course, today there are a number of scientists who still consider all the testimony of those reanimated to be hallucinations, but no evidence will help such a person until he himself begins the journey to eternity.

Most people, having reached a certain age, begin to think about the questions of whether there is an afterlife, how our dead live. Most religions preach another world where a person is freed from all troubles and worries, but in order to get a place in Eden, it is necessary to earn it by pious behavior in earthly life. After atheism began to lose ground in recent decades, parapsychologists, psychics, and unconventional scientists have proven that the afterlife exists.
What happens on the other side of visibility and what gave rise to such conclusions?

Is there an afterlife - evidence:

Many seers (Vangelia Gushterov - Vanga, Grigory Rasputin - Novykh, the Tanzanian boy Sheikh Sharif) had no doubt about the existence of the other world and that each person has his own place there. Direct evidence of the posthumous existence of real, historical figures(mainly the Virgin Mary) can be considered the Miracles of Fatima (1915-1917) and the Lourdes healings. Some scientists who adhere to an atheistic worldview answer the question in the affirmative to the question of whether there is an afterlife, the evidence of which in most cases is indirect.

Afterlife: how our dead live

Academician neurophysiologist N.P. Bekhtereva, whose very profession does not accept any mysticism, in her autobiographical memoirs says that the ghost of her late husband repeatedly appeared to her. At the same time, the husband, who also worked in the region medical physiology, consulted with her about problems that had not been resolved during her life. If initially night meetings with a ghost caused concern in the woman, then after his appearance in the daytime, all fears disappeared. Natalya Petrovna did not doubt the reality of what was happening.

The famous American seer Edgar Cayce, putting himself into a somnambulistic state, made about 25 thousand predictions, in one of which he indicated the time of his death with an accuracy of an hour. When diagnosing diseases, E. Cayce achieved an accuracy of 80% - 100%. He was deeply confident about his reincarnation and reappearance in a different form.

Some researchers, based on real events, phenomena and phenomena, read as an indisputable fact that scientists have proven that the afterlife exists. However, contact with the other world is possible only for certain individuals - “conductors”: individuals who are in a stressful or borderline state, or people who have psychic abilities.

The latest evidence of the existence of an afterlife can be considered the search for Novosibirsk resident M.L. Grandmother's grave of her father, who died during the Great Patriotic War. Maria Lazarevna found his burial as part of the “Search” group. At the same time, according to the expedition members, she indicated the resting place with amazing accuracy. In an interview with television M.L. Babushkina quite convincingly explained to the correspondents that his voice led the searchers to the grave of her father, and he also indicated, with an accuracy of up to a meter, the location of the remains of the front-line soldier.

Similar cases were repeatedly reported by participants in search expeditions from Novgorod. According to their reports, the souls of front-line soldiers who were not properly reassured go out to lone searchers and report the coordinates of the burial. Largest quantity contacts with representatives of the afterlife were noted in one of the tracts of Myasnoy Bor (Death Valley), where in 1942 the 2nd Shock Army was surrounded by the Nazis, most of the soldiers and officers died trying to break through the encirclement.
Scientists have proven that there is an afterlife

Visions of the other world

***Galina Lagoda from Kaliningrad, during clinical death, while on the operating table, met a stranger in a white robe, who said that she had not completed her earthly mission, and to complete this mission, he gave the dying woman the gift of foresight.
***Yuri Burkov, after cardiac arrest, did not lose contact with the outside world, and after returning to life, the first thing he did was ask his wife if she had found lost keys, which the panicked woman did not tell anyone about. A few years later, while with his wife at the bedside of his sick son, whom doctors had given a fatal diagnosis, he predicted that his son would not die now and that he would be given a year to live - the prediction came true with absolute accuracy.
***Anna R., during her clinical death, observed a dazzlingly bright light and a corridor leading to infinity, which she was not allowed to enter by successful resuscitation procedures.

Numerous posthumous appearances of saints, prophets and martyrs, which with sufficient accuracy predict not only global world events, but also the future of a particular person, can be spoken of as real facts. This gives reason to believe that the afterlife exists, and how our dead live in it remains unknown to those inhabiting the material world. This knowledge is beyond human understanding, and only isolated cases remind us of the other world.

Svetlana Sushkevich
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PS: Whether you believe it or not, the dead come to me, about 30 years ago. Even those souls that must leave, they themselves, their souls, come to me to warn their relatives through me. I was not mistaken in my predictions. To be honest, I do not predict death, only when the souls themselves come. I very rarely predict death. My task is to warn about a dangerous tragedy. But the worst thing is that I actually see visions of people leaving this world. I see them even after death. I saw Paradise. I took souls into that world, along the road they follow. Of course it's short. Long to describe.

When someone close to us dies, the living want to know if the dead can hear or see us after physical death, is it possible to contact them and get answers to questions? There are many real stories, confirming this hypothesis. They talk about the intervention of the other world in our lives. Different religions also do not deny that souls of the dead are close to loved ones.

What does a person see when he dies?

What a person sees and feels when the physical body dies can only be judged by the stories of those who have experienced clinical death. The stories of many patients whom doctors were able to save have much in common. They all talk about similar sensations:

A man watches other people bending over his body from the side.
At first, a strong anxiety is felt, as if the soul does not want to leave the body and say goodbye to the usual earthly life, but then calm comes.
Pain and fear disappear, the state of consciousness changes.
The person doesn't want to go back.
After passing through a long tunnel, a creature appears in a circle of light and calls for you.

Scientists believe that these impressions do not relate to what the person who has passed on to another world feels. They explain such visions as a hormonal surge, the influence medicines, brain hypoxia. Although different religions When describing the process of separation of the soul from the body, they talk about the same phenomena - observing what is happening, the appearance of an angel, saying goodbye to loved ones.

Is it true that dead people can see us?

To answer whether deceased relatives and other people see us, we need to study different theories about the afterlife. Christianity talks about two opposite places where the soul can go after death - heaven and hell. Depending on how a person lived, how righteously, he is rewarded with eternal bliss or doomed to endless suffering for his sins.

When discussing whether the dead see us after death, we should turn to the Bible, which says that souls resting in paradise remember their lives, can observe earthly events, but do not experience passions. People who were recognized as saints after death appear to sinners, trying to instruct them on true path. According to esoteric theories, the spirit of the deceased has a close connection with loved ones only when he has unfulfilled tasks.

Does the soul of a deceased person see his loved ones?

After death, the life of the body ends, but the soul continues to live. Before going to heaven, she stays with her loved ones for another 40 days, trying to console them and ease the pain of loss. Therefore, in many religions it is customary to schedule a funeral for this time in order to escort the soul to the world of the dead. It is believed that ancestors see and hear us even many years after death. Priests advise not to speculate about whether the dead see us after death, but to try to grieve less about the loss, because the suffering of relatives is difficult for the deceased.

Can the soul of the deceased come to visit?

When the connection between loved ones was strong during life, this relationship is difficult to interrupt. Relatives can feel the presence of the deceased and even see his silhouette. This phenomenon is called a phantom or ghost. Another theory says that the spirit comes to visit for communication only in a dream, when our body is asleep and our soul is awake. During this period, you can ask for help from deceased relatives.

Can a deceased person become a guardian angel?

After the loss of a loved one, the pain of loss can be very great. I would like to know if deceased relatives can hear us and tell us about their troubles and sorrows. Religious teaching does not deny that dead people become guardian angels for their kind. However, in order to receive such an appointment, a person during his lifetime must be a deeply religious person, not sin and follow God’s commandments. Often the guardian angels of a family become children who left early, or people who devoted themselves to worship.

Is there a connection with the dead?

According to people with psychic abilities, the connection between the real and the afterlife exists, and is very strong, so it is possible to perform such an action as talk to the deceased. To contact the deceased from the other world, some psychics conduct spiritualistic séances, where you can communicate with a deceased relative and ask him questions.

In Christianity and many other religions, the possibility of inducing a resting spirit through some kind of manipulation is completely denied. It is believed that all souls that come to earth belong to people who committed many sins during their lifetime or who did not receive repentance. According to Orthodox tradition, if you dream of a relative who has gone to another world, then you need to go to church in the morning and light a candle and help him find peace with prayer.

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What is physical death?

Answer: Termination of all organic functions, death.

What happens after death?

Answer: Death has deep meaning. By discovering the essence of death, we learn the secret of life. What continues after the grave can only be known by a person with an awakened consciousness. You are asleep and therefore do not know what is on the other side of death. There are many theories, everyone can have their own opinion, but it is very important to experience from your own experience what relates to the secrets of the other world. I can assure you that the souls of the dead live in the other world of this great nature.

Why is there a fear of death?

Answer: Fear of death exists because of ignorance - a person is always afraid of what he does not know. When consciousness awakens, ignorance disappears and then the fear of the unknown ceases to exist.

We know that the physical body decomposes in the grave after death, but what happens to the soul? Where does she go?

Answer: The soul of the deceased continues to exist in the higher dimensions of nature. This actually means that disembodied souls can see the sun, moon, stars, rivers, valleys, mountains - everything that we see, only in brighter colors.

Is it true that if we commit atrocities and indulge in debauchery throughout our lives, and repent at the moment of death, then we can save our soul?

Answer: For an unworthy person, all doors are closed except one - repentance. Of course, if we repent, even if last minute, we can count on help in correcting our mistakes.

Why do we come to this world as ghosts after death?

Answer: You should know that on this planet there is a parallel universe - areas of the fourth dimension where the dead live; this invisible world intersects with ours without mixing with it.

Where does the soul of a person who takes his own life go?

Answer: Suicides suffer greatly after disembodiment. They live here and now in the area for the dead, then they enter a new body and are born again in this vale of tears, and when they reach the age at which they committed suicide, they die against their will, perhaps at the moment when they are most carried away life.

Are spirit and soul the same thing?

Answer: Spirit is what we are, and soul is what we have. That's why they are different.

Do animals and plants have souls?

Answer: Eat. Plant souls are found in the mythology of all nations - they are known as fairies, etc. Animal souls are innocent creatures. Let us recall that in Latin the word “animal” itself comes from the word “soul” (anima).

Is there a higher court after death and who administers it?

Answer: After death, we must review the entire life we just lived. We experience it again in reverse order - with our mind and heart. When this retrospection is completed, we must appear before divine justice - before the Angels of the law, who are oriental culture called the Lord of Karma. They judge us by our actions, and as a result of this judgment, we either immediately return to a new womb to be reborn here in a new body, or we are temporarily sent to rest in the worlds of light and happiness, or, finally, we have to penetrate inside the earth where hellish worlds full of torment and suffering.

When a child dies at birth, where does his soul go?

Answer: It is written that the souls of children fall into limbo - the zone of the dead, and then enter a new womb and are reborn in this world.

Why do people die at birth?

Answer: According to the Law of Fate; parents who were cruel to their children in past lives must go through this harsh lesson in order to become better people and learn to love because of this suffering.

Do rituals performed after death help souls?

Answer: Any ritual helps the souls of the dead. Of course, the prayers of the mourners provide comfort to the souls of the departed.