Is there life after death: simple answers to a complex question

What happens to the soul after death? At first glance, the question may seem a little unnecessary and unhelpful. After all, this will supposedly happen later, and who knows whether it will happen?

But!

Firstly, human death is inevitable. And avoiding this question can be equated to a kind of avoidance, avoidance. And accordingly, this can be regarded as an attempt to hide from death itself, which is impossible. And no matter how much we want it, we will all meet her. Absolutely and without exception.

Secondly, as it turns out, the question is not only necessary and useful, but is one of the main ones.

How long does it take for a person to die

Quick death is the highest good; unfortunately, not everyone can take advantage of it.
Depending on the cause of death, the process of extinction of body functions can occur instantly or last for hours, days and even months. No specialist can name the exact time of brain death: classical textbooks on physiology indicate an interval of 3–4 minutes.
But in practice, it was possible to “resurrect” people even 10–20 minutes after cardiac arrest! There is a whole science dedicated to the rituals and features of farewell to life - thanatology. Thanatologists distinguish 3 types of death:

1. Clinical death - a person’s heart and breathing have already stopped, but the body still has a reserve for medical intervention, and one can get out of this state.
2. Biological death is the death of the brain, today it is an irreversible phenomenon, although a number of body functions are preserved, cellular memory has not yet disappeared.
3. Information death is the final point of no return, the body is completely dead.

Today, doctors are able to bring a person back from clinical death, and the latest developments of scientists in 10 years will reach such a level of development that a person will be brought out of biological death. Perhaps someday death will no longer be considered an irreversible phenomenon.

Doctors can bring a person out of a state of clinical death if not too much time has passed

Everyone's feelings before their last breath are extremely individual. A person remains alone with himself and his thoughts: we come into the world alone, and we leave it alone. Everyone will experience their own unique sensations, but the stages until the end of life are approximately the same.

The process of physical death by stages, their duration and symptoms is shown in the table.

Lama Ole Nydahl will talk about the process of death and biological dying, the separation of the soul from the body: in addition, he will share useful practices that will make a complex process easier.

Air ordeals

In theological literature one can find many descriptions of what happens to the soul after death. Together with the angels, she has to overcome the cordons of demons, answering for every unseemly act or sin committed in real life. A popular subject in Orthodox iconography is the aerial ordeal of Blessed Theodora. Similar icons can be found in many churches, but this example is not the only one.

The Anglo-Saxon priest Boniface in the 8th century retells the story of a monk who managed to return to life a few hours after his death. If you believe him, he was able to continue living after death. His soul was taken up by angels who were so beautiful and bright that he simply could not look at them. Next, a fierce dispute for the soul began between the angels and evil spirits. Demons aggravated the sins committed, and the Angels sought to soften them, to lighten this burden.

In the Orthodox tradition, going through aerial ordeals is a stage of an honest trial, with the help of which it is decided where after death the soul can go - to hell or to heaven.

A man feels his death

Many people are actually able to feel the icy breath of death years and months before its physical onset. But more often death is predicted a few days in advance; this can be explained by simple changes in the body:

1. There are no pain receptors in the internal organs, but they can make themselves known, signaling the imminent cessation of functioning.
2. A person even feels an impending cold; it is not surprising that he can feel something more serious.
3. The body is in many ways wiser than consciousness, and its reluctance to fade away is colossal.

Do not panic because of a sudden deterioration in health and immediately write a will. But a trip to the doctor will come in handy.

A few hours before the expected death, you can predict a quick outcome based on the following symptoms:

• pain in the chest, it’s hard to breathe and from lack of air the chest feels like it’s being torn from the inside;
• dizziness - a person becomes partially insane, he is no longer responsible for his actions and words;
• fear - even if a person is completely ready for what is happening, a feeling of fear hovers somewhere nearby;
• fever - body temperature does not increase, but the person feels that the room is stuffy.

Some artists and poets predicted their death in creativity long before its actual occurrence: for example, A.S. Pushkin described the death of his literary prototype Lensky in a duel 11 years and 11 days before Dantes’ fatal shot.

Celebrities who predicted their deaths

Psychological aspect of death

Death is one of those phenomena, the anticipation of which is much worse than the process itself: many people poison their existence with constant thoughts about the horrors of transition to another world. It is especially difficult for older people and those who are terminally ill: constant thoughts about physical death can lead to severe depression.

There is no need to panic and devote too much energy to questions about studying the mechanisms of death. This can lead to panic and a general deterioration in well-being.

Death is an inevitable process, it is part of life, so we must treat it calmly. You can't be upset about something that you can't change. If you can’t look at death with optimism, you should at least try to maintain your presence of mind. As a result, no one can say with complete certainty what awaits a person outside of life. But many testimonies from survivors of clinical death set a positive tone.

What after death

It is impossible to say with certainty what awaits a person, but most agree that death is far from the end. This is just parting with the physical shell and moving it to a new level.

Separation of the soul from the body

The difference in views on death and its consequences between religion and science is reflected in the summary table.

After the death of the physical soul, it does not immediately go to another world: for some time it gets used to the new form and continues to be in the human world. At this time, consciousness practically does not change, the etheric soul continues to feel like the same person as during life. Only on the 3rd day the soul is finally separated from the body and is ready to move on to another world.

Facts about the existence of the afterlife

Scientists have been able to prove the existence of the soul. To do this, doctors weighed terminally ill people at the time of death and immediately after it. It turned out that all the deceased at the time of death lost the same weight - 21 grams.

Opponents of this scientific theory of the existence of the soul tried to explain the change in the weight of the deceased by certain oxidative processes. But modern research has proven with a 100% guarantee that chemistry has nothing to do with it. And the weight loss of all the deceased is strikingly the same. Only 21 grams.

What happens to the soul after death in different religions

Peoples who developed in cultural isolation demonstrate surprisingly similar systems for organizing the afterlife: for the righteous there is a place of eternal bliss - Paradise, for sinners endless suffering is prepared in Hell. This overlap of plots speaks of something more than poor imagination: the ancients could have more extensive information about the afterlife than modern people, and their records may turn out to be not just a fairy tale, but reality.

Christianity

The concept of Paradise resembles a real state - it is not for nothing that it is called the Kingdom of Heaven, the angels have their own hierarchy, at the head of the sacred monastery are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Souls who have entered heaven are in a state of blissful peace and joy. The world opposite to Paradise - Hell - is a place for those who sinned a lot and did not repent of it.

Judaism

Ancient religion does not have a single concept of the afterlife. But descriptions from the Holy Talmud indicate that this place is completely different from reality. People awarded heavenly places do not know human feelings: there are no discord and quarrels, envy and attraction between them. They do not know thirst or hunger; the only occupation of the righteous soul is enjoying the true light of God.

Aztecs

Beliefs boil down to a three-level system of organizing Paradise:

1. The lowest level is where those who have sinned fall. Most resembles earthly reality. The souls of the deceased do not know the need for food and water, they sing and dance a lot.
2. Middle level - Tlillan-Tlapallan - a paradise for priests and those who have comprehended true values. Here the spirit is more pleasing than the body.
3. The highest level - Tonatiuhikan - only the most enlightened and righteous go to the House of the Sun; they will spend eternity side by side with the deities, not knowing the worries of the material world.

Greeks

The dark kingdom of Hades awaited the soul that left the physical body: the entrance there can even be found in the vast expanses of Hellas. Nothing good awaited those caught: only endless despondency and lamentation about the wonderful days gone by. A different fate befell the souls of heroes and people endowed with fame and talent. They ended up on the famous Champs Elysees for endless feasts and conversations about the eternal.

Charon transports the soul to the kingdom of the dead

Buddhism

One of the most popular religions in the world thanks to the idea of ​​reincarnation. To determine what kind of body a particular soul deserves, Yama Raja looks into the mirror of truth: all evil deeds will be reflected in the form of black stones, and good ones - in the form of white ones. Based on the number of stones, a person is given the bodily shell that he deserves.

Buddhism does not deny the concept of Heaven - but you can get there only after a long process of reincarnation, when the soul reaches the highest point of development. In Paradise there is no place for sorrow and sorrow, and all desires are satisfied instantly. But this is the impermanent abode of the soul - after resting in heaven, it will return to earth for further rebirths.

Indian myths

India is a country of bright sunshine, delicious food and the Kama Sutra. It is from these components that the idea of ​​an afterlife for brave warriors and pure souls is formed. The leader of the dead - Yama - will take the worthy to Paradise, where endless sensual pleasures await them.

Nordic tradition

The Scandinavians prophesied heaven only for famous warriors. The souls of men and women who fell in battle were collected by beautiful Valkyries and taken straight to Valhalla, where endless feasts and pleasures unavailable during life awaited those who found eternal life.

Valhalla

The Scandinavian ideas about the afterlife are primitive and based on the dominant part of the life of ancient tribes - military operations.

Egyptian culture

Humanity owes the appearance in world religions of the Last Judgment description to the Egyptians: the famous “Book of the Dead,” dated 2400 BC. e. details this chilling process. After the death of the physical soul of the Egyptian, it entered the Hall of Two Truths, where it was weighed on double-sided scales.

Fragment of the Book of the Dead - judgment in the Hall of Two Truths

If the soul turned out to be heavier than the feather of the goddess of Justice Maat, it was devoured by a monster with the head of a crocodile, and if sins did not pull the soul down, Osiris took it with him to the kingdom of eternal bliss.

The Egyptians viewed life as a severe test and practically expected their death from the first days of their existence - it was there that they were supposed to comprehend true bliss.

Islam

In order for the human soul to find eternal peace and taste the joys of Eden, it must undergo a severe test - crossing the Sirat Bridge. This bridge is so narrow that its thickness does not even reach a human hair, and its sharpness is comparable to the sharpest earthly blade. The road is complicated by a squall wind that tirelessly blows towards the etheric body. Only the righteous will be able to overcome all obstacles and move to the heavenly kingdom, while the sinner is doomed to fall into the abyss of hell.

Zoroastrianism

According to this religious worldview, the fate of the eternal soul will be decided by the just Rashnu: he will have to divide all human actions into bad and worthy of respect, and then appoint a test. The soul of the deceased will have to cross the Bridge of Separation in order to get into the kingdom of eternal bliss: but those whose sins were great will not be able to do this - the unrighteous souls will be picked up by a demonic creature named Vizarsh and taken to a place of eternal torment.

Can a soul get stuck in this world

After death, a person’s etheric body is in a state of stress, and many paths open before it. Sometimes the soul does not dare to go through one of them and remains between the worlds, which is tantamount to endless suffering and torment, compared to which hell is an entertainment establishment.

Even the most ardent righteous person can find himself imprisoned between worlds and experience terrible torment until the end of time if his spirit is not strong enough.

Physical death continues with the separation of the soul from the body shell: several days are spent saying goodbye to the material world. But it doesn’t end there, and the soul has to begin a journey through the invisible world. But if a person was lack of initiative, sluggish and indecisive during life, he will not be able to change after death: it is precisely such souls that risk not making a choice and remaining between worlds.

Peace and tranquility

People who managed to continue their earthly journey after the clinical death of their body talk a lot about what they managed to experience in a matter of minutes of being on the other side. More than half of those saved talk about meeting some intangible entity that has human outlines. Someone claims that this is the Creator of the Universe, someone speaks of an angel or Jesus Christ - but one thing remains immutable: next to this creature, a complete understanding of the meaning of existence, all-encompassing love and boundless peace envelops.

Sounds

At the moment of separation of the ethereal essence from the physical shell, a person can hear unpleasant and disturbing sounds, similar to the sound of a raging wind, an annoying buzzing and even the ringing of a bell. The fact is that the etheric body, at the moment of separation from the physical shell, is sent to a completely different space through a tunnel: sometimes before death a person connects to it unconsciously, then the dying person says that he hears the voices of relatives who are no longer alive and even angelic speech.

Light

The phrase “light at the end of the tunnel” can serve not only as a beautiful turn of phrase, it is used by everyone who has experienced a state of clinical death and has actually returned from the other world. The ethereal essence of the reanimated people saw a dazzling stream, the contemplation of which was accompanied by extraordinary calm and tranquility, the acceptance of a new form of existence.

After death, a person sees a brightly lit tunnel

No one will say for sure whether there is life after the death of the physical body: but numerous testimonies of people who have been on the other side inspire optimism and hope that the earthly path is only the beginning of a long journey, the duration of which is infinity.

Tags: Astral, Reincarnation

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"Luminous Creature"

When telling what will happen after death, most people compare this state with the appearance of light, the brightness of which increases very quickly. Almost everyone recognizes him as a certain person who is filled with love and warmth, moreover, to whom the deceased has an attraction comparable to magnetic attraction.

Everyone identifies this creature differently, with religious preferences playing a decisive role. It can be stated unequivocally that it does not have any clearly recognizable shape.

Eyewitnesses say that when they heard from the doctor about their death, they felt as if they were starting to sink or swim somewhere. There was complete darkness all around, except for this bright source of light that could be seen in the distance. As it approached him, it constantly increased in size. Some managed to float into this crystal clear and pure light, which immediately began to be associated with perfect love and understanding of everything that was happening in the world.

Some who know what awaits us after death, or at least claim it, talk about angels, emphasizing their positive qualities. They are full of love, inspire responsibility for their lives, and are kind. It is impossible to establish for certain whether these are really angels. At least from what is known about them in Christianity, it can be concluded that they must be more defined in function and appearance.

Not much credible evidence has come down to us about encounters with angels. Since very few people reached this contact, who were then able to return. Most returned to their body much earlier.

From famous stories it is known that a deceased person is usually greeted by two angels. They have a human or similar appearance, in contrast to the “luminous creature”, which does not accompany the soul, but draws it into conversation, showing footage of the life it has lived.