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This section contains stories of people who know about death first-hand. The experience of each person, who, for various reasons, finds himself on the other side of life, is unique in its own way. However, everyone who has experienced clinical death clearly states that existence does not cease with the death of the physical body. Life exists THERE!

Based on materials from the newspaper "AiF".

There is life after death. And there are thousands of evidences of this. Until now, fundamental science has dismissed such stories. However, as Natalya Bekhtereva, a famous scientist who has studied the activity of the brain all her life, said, our consciousness is such matter that it seems that the keys to the secret door have already been selected. But behind it there are ten more... What is behind the door of life?

Based on the article “The nun came to life on the third day after death.” Grigory Telnov, newspaper "Life".

She saw her body from the side - lying on the operating table. Doctors were bustling around. An iron-like device was pressed to his chest. - Discharge! - Professor Psakhes shouted. The body twitched. But she didn't feel any pain. - Discharge! Discharge! More! More!..

Maxim, doctor.

A patient in the cardiology department of the clinic described his feelings during his exit from the body at the moment of clinical death that occurred during heart surgery... This story was recorded by a doctor who helps desperate people on the website Pobedish.Ru...

"Rebus", 1899

I had hope for recovery, although I had been ill for several years, suffering from a painful chronic illness that could only be cured by time, a good climate and constant care. And now the doctors have told me that surgery is necessary to speed up my recovery. Although my parents were still alive, I was alone abroad. I lived in Switzerland for the sake of mountain air and special treatment in a private sanatorium...

Voino-Yasenetsky Valentin Feliksovich, professor of medicine.

The appearance of ghosts at the moment of death is a well-known and undoubted fact. Richet gives many examples of this kind in his book. I will mention only a few of them...

Based on the book “The Past Unrolls a Scroll.”

In the winter of 1923/24 I fell ill with pneumonia. For eight days the temperature remained at 40.8 degrees. Approximately on the ninth day of illness, I had a significant dream. Even at the very beginning, in half-oblivion, when I was trying to say the Jesus Prayer, I was distracted by visions - beautiful pictures of nature, over which I seemed to float. When I listened to the music or looked at the wonderful landscapes, leaving prayer, I was shaken from head to toe by an evil force, and I quickly began to pray...

Rawlings Moritz, MD.

Do we have anything more valuable than life? Does death mean the cessation of our existence in general or is it the beginning of another, new life? Are there people who have returned from the afterlife, and do they know what happens there, beyond the threshold of death? What can this state be compared to? Society's interest in such issues is beginning to grow rapidly, since thanks to the currently available revival technology, otherwise called resuscitation technology, which helps restore the respiratory function and cardiac activity of the body, an increasing number of people are able to talk about the states of death they have experienced.

The leading designer of the Impulse Design Bureau, Vladimir Efremov, died suddenly. He started coughing, sank onto the sofa and fell silent...
At first the relatives did not understand that something terrible had happened. They thought that he had sat down to rest. Natalya was the first to come out of her stupor. She touched her brother on the shoulder:
- Volodya, what’s wrong with you?
Efremov fell helplessly on his side. Natalya tried to feel her pulse. The heart didn't beat! She began to perform artificial respiration, but her brother was not breathing.
Natalya, a doctor herself, knew that the chances of salvation were decreasing every minute. I tried to “start” my heart by massaging my chest. The eighth minute was ending when her palms felt a weak response push. The heart turned on. Vladimir Grigorievich began to breathe on his own.
- Alive! - his sister hugged him. - We thought you were dead. That's it, it's over!
“There is no end,” Vladimir Grigorievich whispered. - There is life there too. But different. Better…

Vladimir Grigorievich recorded his experience during clinical death in every detail. His testimony is priceless. This is the first scientific study of the afterlife by a scientist who has experienced death himself. Vladimir Grigorievich published his observations in the journal “Scientific and Technical Gazette of the St. Petersburg State Technical University”, and then spoke about them at a scientific congress.

His report on the afterlife became a sensation.

It is impossible to imagine such a thing! - said Professor Anatoly Smirnov, head of the International Club of Scientists.

Vladimir Efremov’s reputation in scientific circles is impeccable.

He is a major specialist in the field of artificial intelligence; he worked at the Impulse Design Bureau for a long time. Participated in the launch of Gagarin, contributed to the development of the latest missile systems. His research team received the State Prize four times.

Before his clinical death, he considered himself an absolute atheist, says Vladimir Grigorievich. - I trusted only the facts. He considered all discussions about the afterlife to be religious nonsense. To be honest, I didn’t think about death then. There was so much to do in the service that it would be impossible to sort it out in ten lifetimes. There was no time for further treatment - my heart was naughty, chronic bronchitis was tormenting me, and other ailments were annoying me.

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.

But for some reason my consciousness did not turn off. Suddenly there was a feeling of extraordinary lightness. Nothing hurt me anymore - neither my throat, nor my heart, nor my stomach. I only felt this comfortable as a child. I did not feel my body and did not see it. But all my feelings and memories were with me. I was flying somewhere along a giant pipe. The sensations of flying turned out to be familiar - something similar had happened before in a dream. Mentally I tried to slow down the flight and change its direction. Happened! There was no horror or fear. Only bliss. I tried to analyze what was happening. The conclusions came instantly. The world you've entered exists. I think, therefore I also exist. And my thinking has the property of causality, since it can change the direction and speed of my flight.

Everything was fresh, bright and interesting,” Vladimir Grigorievich continues his story. - My consciousness worked completely differently than before. It embraced everything at once at the same time; for it there was no time or distance. I admired the world around me. It was as if he had been rolled into a tube. I didn’t see the sun, there was even light everywhere, casting no shadows. Some heterogeneous structures reminiscent of relief are visible on the walls of the pipe. It was impossible to determine where was up and where was down.

I tried to remember the area I was flying over. It looked like some kind of mountains.

I remembered the landscape without any difficulty; the volume of my memory was truly bottomless. I tried to return to the place I had already flown over, imagining it in my mind. Everything worked out! It was like teleportation.

TV

A crazy thought came,” Efremov continues his story. - To what extent can you influence the world around you? And is it possible to return to your past life? I mentally imagined an old broken TV from my apartment. And I saw it from all sides at once. Somehow I knew everything about him. How and where it was constructed. He knew where the ore was mined, from which the metals used in the construction were smelted. Knew which steelmaker did it. I knew that he was married, that he had problems with his mother-in-law. I saw everything connected with this TV globally, being aware of every little detail. And he knew exactly which part was faulty. Then, when I was revived, I changed that T-350 transistor and the TV started working...

There was a feeling of the omnipotence of thought. Our design bureau struggled for two years to solve the most difficult problem related to cruise missiles. And suddenly, imagining this design, I saw the problem in all its versatility. And the solution algorithm arose by itself.

Then I wrote it down and IMPLEMENTED it...

The realization that he was not alone in the next world came to Efremov gradually.

My information interaction with the environment gradually lost its one-sided character,” says Vladimir Grigorievich. - The answer to the formulated question appeared in my mind. At first, such answers were perceived as a natural result of reflection. But the information coming to me began to go beyond the knowledge that I had during my lifetime. The knowledge gained in this tube was many times greater than my previous knowledge!

I realized that I was being guided by Someone who was omnipresent and had no boundaries. And He has unlimited capabilities, is omnipotent and full of love. This invisible, but tangible subject with my whole being did everything so as not to frighten me. I realized that it was He who showed me phenomena and problems in all cause and effect relationships. I didn’t see Him, but I felt Him acutely. And I knew that it was God...

Suddenly I noticed that something was bothering me. I was dragged outside like a carrot from a garden. I didn’t want to go back, everything was fine. Everything flashed and I saw my sister. She was scared, and I was beaming with delight...

Comparison

Efremov in his scientific works described the afterlife using mathematical and physical terms. In this article we decided to try to do without complex concepts and formulas.

Vladimir Grigorievich, what can you compare the world to which you found yourself after death?

Any comparison will be wrong. The processes there do not proceed linearly, like ours, they are not extended over time. They go at the same time and in all directions. Objects “in the next world” are presented in the form of information blocks, the content of which determines their location and properties. Everything and everyone is in a cause-and-effect relationship with each other. Objects and properties are enclosed in a single global information structure, in which everything goes according to the laws set by the leading subject - that is, God. He is subject to the appearance, change or removal of any objects, properties, processes, including the passage of time.

How free is a person, his consciousness, his soul in his actions?

A person, as a source of information, can also influence objects in the sphere accessible to him. By my will, the relief of the “pipe” changed, and earthly objects appeared.

Looks like the films “Solaris” and “The Matrix”...

And to a giant computer game. But both worlds, ours and the afterlife, are real. They constantly interact with each other, although they are isolated from one another, and together with the governing subject - God - they form a global intellectual system.

Our world is simpler to comprehend; it has a rigid framework of constants that ensure the inviolability of the laws of nature; the connecting principle of events is time.

In the afterlife there are either no constants at all, or there are significantly fewer of them than in ours, and they can change. The basis for the construction of that world is made up of information formations containing the entire set of known and still unknown properties of material objects in the complete absence of the objects themselves. Just as it happens on Earth under computer simulation conditions. I understand that a person sees there what he wants to see. Therefore, descriptions of the afterlife by people who have experienced death differ from each other. The righteous sees heaven, the sinner sees hell...

For me, death was an indescribable joy, incomparable to anything on Earth. Even love for a woman is nothing compared to what you experienced there...

Vladimir Grigorievich read the Holy Scriptures after his resurrection. And I found confirmation of my posthumous experience and my thoughts about the informational essence of the world.

The Gospel of John says that “in the beginning was the Word,” Efremov quotes the Bible. - And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It was with God in the beginning. All things came into being through Him, and without Him nothing came into being that was made.” Is this not a hint that in Scripture the “word” refers to a certain global information essence that includes the comprehensive content of everything?

Efremov put his posthumous experience into practice. He brought the key to many complex problems that have to be solved in earthly life from there.

The thinking of all people has the property of causality, says Vladimir Grigorievich. - But few people realize this. In order not to cause harm to yourself and others, you need to follow religious standards of life. Holy books are dictated by the Creator, this is a technology for the safety of humanity...

Vladimir Efremov: “Death is not scary for me now. I know this is a door to another world."

Seven-year-old Katie was found in the swimming pool; she drowned. Pediatrician and researcher Melvin Morse resuscitated her in the emergency room, but Katie remained—she had swelling on her brain, no gag reflex—and was breathing on a ventilator. Doctors estimated Katie's chances of survival at 10%.

Surprisingly, within three days she completely recovered.

When the girl arrived at the hospital to undergo a re-examination, she immediately recognized Morse and told her mother: “It’s him, the bearded man. At first there was a tall doctor without a beard, and then he came. “I was immediately in a large room, and after that I was transferred to a smaller room, where they took an x-ray.”

Katie reported other details, for example, how a tube was inserted into her nose - everything that was told exactly coincided with what happened, but she “saw” what was happening while her eyes were closed and her brain was in a deep coma.

Morse asked what she remembered about her nearly drowning. After all, if she choked because of a seizure, it could happen again.

Katie clarified: “Are you asking about how I visited Heavenly Father?” This answer seemed very interesting to Morse, and the doctor replied: “That would be a good place to start. Tell me how you met your Heavenly Father.”

“I saw Jesus and the Heavenly Father,” Katie replied. Perhaps she noticed the shocked expression on the doctor's face, or perhaps it was all due to her natural shyness. Be that as it may, Katie did not continue at that time.

A week later, the girl became more talkative. She didn’t remember anything about drowning, but she remembered that at first it was dark, then a tunnel appeared through which Elizabeth came. She described her as "tall and beautiful", with bright golden hair.

Elizabeth walked the girl through the tunnel, where she met several people, including her late grandfather, two little boys named Mark and Andy, and others. In addition, Katie said that she visited her earthly home, where she saw her brothers pushing a toy soldier in a jeep, and her mother preparing chicken and rice. She even remembered what everyone was wearing. Katie's parents were amazed at how accurately she described everything.

Eventually, Elizabeth took the girl to meet Heavenly Father and Jesus. The father asked if she wanted to return home. Katie wanted. Jesus asked if she wanted to see her mother. Katie said yes and woke up.

Katie talked for almost an hour, but that hour changed Dr. Morse's life. He began questioning the nurses in the intensive care unit. They recalled that, upon waking up, the girl first asked: “Where are Mark and Andy?” She asked about them several times. Morse thought for a long time about Katie and the way she talked about her experiences. Although the girl was very shy, she spoke “confidently and convincingly” about what happened to her.

The doctor spent several hours asking Katie's parents about the girl's childhood; about everything that could explain such sensations. Katie's parents are Mormons and didn't tell her about the tunnels or anything like that. When Katie's grandfather passed away, her mother explained that death was like seeing someone leave on a boat while friends and family remained on the shore.

Dr. Morse described this case in the American Journal of Diseases of Children and began to think about further research. He received a grant for cancer research, but Janet Lunsford, who was responsible for administering the grants, supported his desire to begin studying NDEs in children at Seattle Children's Hospital instead of cancer. Morse assembled a group of eight scientists, each with relevant experience. For example, Dr. Don Tyler, an anesthesiologist, studied the effects of anesthesia on the brain. Dr. Jerrold Milstein, director of pediatric neurology at the University of Washington, has studied the brain stem and hippocampus...

Here are the conclusions Dr. Morse came to after a 3-year study: “In medical faculties we are taught to look for the simplest explanations for medical problems. After going through all the other explanations, I think the easiest way to explain NDEs is that they are actually short-term visits to . Why not? I read all the complex psychological and physiological interpretations of NDEs, and none of them seemed completely satisfactory to me.”

When children experience NDEs, they mention the same elements as in adults. But it is extremely doubtful that they could have heard of NDEs before or had the same psychological expectations as adults. Children's spontaneity in describing events entirely outside their previous learning and experience provides a unique and compelling body of evidence. Part of the success of Heaven Is Really Is Thanks to the charm of little Colton's NDE. His story seems childishly spontaneous; In his own fresh and naive way, he spoke about things that only adults can fully understand.

If childhood experiences were based on what children wanted to see during a serious illness, they would probably see their parents in their dreams. But their reports indicate that during NDEs they often see deceased grandparents or pets. After an NDE, their lives, like the lives of adults, change dramatically. They become more empathetic than their peers; they guess the emotions behind spoken words.

Here's another childhood near-death experience. A 5-year-old boy fell ill with meningitis, fell into a coma and, upon waking up, said that he had met a little girl on the other side who said that she was his sister. She told him: “I am your sister. I died a month after I was born. I was named after your grandmother. Our parents called me Rietje for short.”

After waking up from the coma, the boy told his parents everything. They were shocked and left the room for a short time, and then returned and told the boy that he actually had an older sister named Rietje, who died of poisoning a year before he was born. They decided, while he was still young, not to tell him about it.

The supernatural explanation seems to be more consistent with childhood NDEs than the natural explanation, which is based on psychological attitudes or wishful thinking. The first explanation in particular is supported by extensive supporting evidence.

Life after death - described by NDE survivors

“I passed out in the store and went there to buy groceries. I woke up during the operation, but realized that I was floating above my own body. Doctors were crowded there, doing something, talking among themselves.

I looked to the right and saw a hospital corridor. My cousin was standing there talking on the phone. I heard him telling someone that I had bought a lot of groceries, and the bags were so heavy that my aching heart could not stand it. When I woke up and my brother came up to me, I told him what I had heard. He immediately turned pale and confirmed that he had spoken about this when I was unconscious.”

“I had the feeling that I was flying at great speed through a vertical tunnel. Looking around, I saw a huge number of faces, only they were distorted into disgusting grimaces. I felt scared, but soon I flew past them, they were left behind. I flew towards the light, but still could not reach it. It was as if he was moving away from me more and more.

Suddenly, at one moment, it seemed to me that all the pain had gone away. I felt good and calm, a feeling of peace came over me. True, this did not last long. At one point, I suddenly felt my own body and returned to reality. I was taken to the hospital, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the sensations that I experienced. The terrible faces I saw were probably hell, but the light and feeling of bliss were heaven.”

Ruby underwent a successful Caesarean section at a Florida hospital when she suddenly collapsed due to a rare complication known as amniotic fluid embolism.

After some time, Ruby said that when she lost consciousness she found herself in a different place. It was beautiful, everything was shining. There she met her late father, who said that this was not her time and she should return to Earth.

“I remember almost nothing, only music. Very loud, like a march from an old movie. I was even surprised that a serious operation was going on, but then the tape recorder was turned on full blast. Afterwards I realized that the music was becoming somehow strange. Good, but strange. She was somehow extraterrestrial. I’ve never heard anything like this before... I can’t really explain it. The sounds are absolutely not human.”

“I saw myself from above and from the side. It was as if I was lifted up and pressed against the ceiling. At the same time, I watched for a very long time as doctors tried to revive me. It was funny to me: “I’m thinking how cleverly I hid from everyone here!” And then it was as if I was sucked into a whirlpool and “sucked” back into my body.”

“...I found myself in a hellish hell. There was complete darkness and silence all around. The most painful thing was the lack of time. But the suffering was very real. Just me, suffering and eternity. And now a chill runs through my body at the memory of this horror. That’s when I cried out to Christ for help for the first time in my life. How could I know about Him? Nobody preached to me. Maybe this knowledge is innate. But Christ helped. I returned to reality and at the same moment fell to my knees and began to thank God.”

“I ate mushrooms bought at the market, and the next day I woke up in intensive care. My kidneys and liver failed. While I was unconscious, I saw hell: it was hot, there was a cauldron with devils running around it. And then fog and oblivion. I realized that death is not the key to all doors, it tears these doors off their hinges. hallucinations appeared. Voices were heard all the time giving orders. I quit my job and went to a monastery. There, after confession and communion, everything passed. Now I attend church weekly. Everything hurts, my hands go numb. I went to doctors - no one knows anything, but.”

“Three years ago I crashed on a scooter. My head hit the back door of a parked car. I switched off immediately. Suddenly I saw a man. He said: “It’s too early for you to die - you must save.” Afterwards the shots are like in a movie: a girl and a boy, and next to me and my future husband. I came to my senses in intensive care. The doctors said that one cannot live with such fractures, but a month later I went to university. What I saw came true: I work as a midwife, got married and gave birth to a child. Every year on that day I come to the scene of the accident and thank you for being alive.”

“It happened during recess, I was in third grade then. I was sitting at my desk, and suddenly my stomach started to hurt, it became very bad, and my vision darkened. Fell to the floor... and woke up in heaven. I saw my body, but without legs. It was as if I was in a cloud and looked down at my class from above. There are only clouds around. I thought: “We have to go back, otherwise mom will swear!” I started to feel strongly pulled down. I woke up with a terrible headache. “Of course, I’ll fall off my desk!” - friends said. It turned out that I have vegetative-vascular dystonia. But when I faint, I usually see or hear dreams, but here everything is different. I think about this often. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, life is very short.”

Deathbed Visions

The first known attempt to piece together accounts of deathbed visions was made by Professor Sir William Barrett. His wife, a doctor, prompted him to do the research.

One day, coming home from work, she told Sir William about a remarkable vision that Doris, a patient who was dying after a difficult birth, had told her about. Doris spoke with great joy about seeing her late father. Then, with a rather puzzled expression, she said, “Vida was with him.” Doris turned to her and repeated: “Vida with him.” Doris's sister, Vida, had died three weeks earlier, but due to Doris's health, her relatives did not tell her about it.

In the second half of the twentieth century, three full-scale studies of dying visions were conducted. The first work collected and analyzed reports from nurses and doctors, covering more than 35,000 cases. The second collected approximately 50,000 patient reports. Both of these studies were conducted in the USA. Later, a third work appeared, which collected 255 reports of dying visions in India. Surprisingly, "the Indian study's results were consistent with earlier studies in almost all respects."

Here is some interesting evidence from these studies:

1. Those who reported that deceased relatives or angelic beings came for them to take them away died faster than those who simply talked about seeing angels and angel-like beings in the other world.

2. Sometimes visions were reported by people who did not intend to die, which excludes the possibility of waiting for the event.

One young (about 30 years old) Indian man, educated at college, quickly recovered from his illness. They were going to discharge him that day; both the doctor and the patient hoped for a complete recovery. Suddenly the patient exclaimed: “There is someone in white clothes standing here! I won't go with you! After 10 min. he died.

If such visions are born of cultural expectations, it is possible to expect that expectations will vary greatly from person to person and from culture to culture. But a large percentage of coincidences are better consistent with a supernatural explanation (there is life after death!) than with a purely materialistic one (there is no life after death).

General NDEs are confirmed by numerous eyewitnesses

Often those close to the dying person (his relatives and loved ones) share near-death experiences with him. Reports of shared, or shared, NDEs are valuable from an evidentiary point of view: several people see and experience the same thing. In addition, such incidents do not lend themselves to natural scientific explanations, for example the hypothesis of brain dying, because many “accomplices” had a brain that was not in the process of dying! They did not have hypoxia, nor hypercapnia (a condition caused by an excess amount of carbon dioxide in the blood), nor; There are no other symptoms that could affect the brain at the time of death.

Here is an example of a near-death vision shared by several family members who were nearby.

5 Anderson siblings in Atlanta kept vigil at their dying mother's bedside. Because she was seriously ill for a long time, the children psychologically resigned themselves to the inevitable. According to one daughter, “suddenly a bright light appeared in the room.” He did not look like “any earthly light. I pushed my sister in the side to check if she saw the same thing as me, and, turning to her, I saw that her eyes had become huge, like saucers... My brother sat with his mouth open. We all saw the same thing, and we felt a little scared for a while.”

Then they saw lights that took the form of a portal, a passage. Their mother left her body and passed through this passage in a state of ecstatic joy. Everyone agreed that the passage resembled the famous Natural Bridge in Shenandoah Valley National Park.

Other shared experiences sometimes include a review of some events in the life of the deceased; “Accomplices” can see friends and relatives of the deceased whom they did not previously know. One of the survivors subsequently looked into the album and recognized the people whom he first saw during such a divided near-death vision.

Because such experiences are always something unexpected, it is difficult to attribute them to wishful thinking. And even if someone really wants to see someone's soul leave, it is unlikely that they will be able to jointly observe such unexpected things as the distortion of space in a room, which have been reported in many unrelated cases.

Reading Dr. Moody's book on shared near-death experiences, I came to the conclusion that these types of experiences are quite rare. Only Moody, I thought, is capable of writing about a large number of general experiences, since during his life he interviewed more than one thousand people who had been there.

Imagine my surprise when, while talking with my close friends, I learned that one of my relatives, a retired history professor, had told me about his own shared near-death experience.

Bucky woke up at three in the morning, feeling a terrible heaviness in his chest. All the symptoms he described reminded me of a heart attack. He saw a light in the distance, then came out of his body and looked at his body as if from the ceiling. Then celestial creatures approached him (in relation to the place of his observation, the light was now behind him). He experienced extreme peace, as many who have had near-death experiences report. Bucky woke up in his bed, sweating profusely, and the phone started ringing. His father, who lived 90 miles away and had never been seriously ill, died suddenly of a heart attack.

Reports of shared or shared NDEs seem to take the evidence to a new level. Often more than one person claims to have encountered the same strange phenomenon. I repeat, since friends and relatives did not experience the psychological and physiological symptoms of dying, it is unlikely that their sensations can be attributed to oxygen starvation or other signs of brain dying. Dr. Moody gives many similar reports; many of them mutually confirm each other in the 2010 book, Glimpses of Eternity: Watching Loved Ones Pass from This Life to the Next.

Face-to-face conversations

Dr. Moody writes that before the research began, he would have immediately dismissed such stories. Conversations with people who had experienced NDEs changed his mind. Dr. van Lommel was a committed materialist, but he never forgot that one extremely emotional patient, who had recovered from cardiac arrest, spoke of “a tunnel, bright colors, light, a beautiful landscape and music.”

Dr. Rawlings at first considered most of the stories he heard about life after death and near-death experiences to be “fiction, conjecture, or figments of the imagination,” until one of his patients, who had died and been resuscitated several times, each time enthusiastically reported what he experienced “on the other side.” The authenticity of the patient's stories led Rawlings to take the patient's stories seriously.

One of the people I spoke to personally was a person who had achieved success in life; an intelligent, respected, confident man about 60 years old. I started the conversation with some friendly small talk and then asked about his NDE. His excitement took his breath away. No, I don't mean that there were tears in his eyes while he was talking. At first, until he was unable to cope with his emotions, he could not speak at all. He apologized and asked me to wait a few seconds until he came to his senses.

As an interviewer, I had no doubt that my interlocutor was absolutely sincere - he was absolutely sure that he was leaving his body, moving to another dimension and talking with three beings about whether he should return to earth or not. He said that his experience was “very sharply different from the dream.” What he encountered was real, powerful, unforgettable, and life-changing.

Although this opinion may seem rather subjective at first, remember that clearly sincere testimony is considered legal evidence in court. If, for example, a wife is genuinely afraid of her husband who beat her, the court may prohibit the husband from approaching his wife. Of course, a wife can turn out to be a liar and a good actress. When it comes to near-death experiences, each case must be checked to see if its authors are looking for cheap popularity.

On the one hand, it seems that little Colton (“Heaven is real”) is childishly innocent in his messages. On the other hand, the skeptic in me tells me that children love to be the center of attention. And Colton's story about heaven certainly got him a lot of attention! This last consideration does not necessarily negate its veracity, but it would be unwise to overlook such a possible motivation. I saw interviews on YouTube with priests who vividly described their visions of life after death. Here one might suspect an intention to revive interest in the books they wrote.

But when it comes to the many reports of NDEs, their authors are unlikely to have hidden reasons for lying. Ordinary people are extremely reluctant to share their experiences, as shown in many studies. They are not at all seeking cheap popularity; they don't want to make money from their stories about the other world. On the contrary, quite often they have quite good reasons for not talking about their experiences or even pretending that their NDE was “just a very detailed and vivid dream.”

Deaf people “hear”

This is how a boy who was deaf from birth described his dying visions: “I was born completely deaf. All my relatives hear, and they always communicated with me using sign language. And so I directly communicated with about 20 ancestors using some kind of telepathy. An exciting feeling..."

“Exciting” indeed. The boy did not hear from birth and did not learn verbal communication. And yet it turned out that he communicates effortlessly, not using sign language, but directly, from consciousness to consciousness. He didn't have to learn a new way of communicating. His words do not fit in with what we know about how the brain works.

Blind people see

People who are blind from birth do not “dream.” People born blind perceive dreams through other senses. Even those who have lost their sight in the first 5 years of life are deprived of visual imagery.

However, as a result of a study of 31 NDEs of blind people (almost half of them cannot see from birth), it turned out that:

1. “...blind people, including those born blind, report classic NDEs common to sighted people; the vast majority of blind people tell what they saw during NDEs and OBEs (); in support they provide information based on the ability to see, which they could not have acquired in the usual way, which was confirmed by corroborating evidence from an independent source";

2. “...the study did not reveal any obvious differences between the subgroups of sighted and blind people in relation to the frequency of certain elements of near-death experiences. Thus, regardless of whether a person is born blind, loses sight later in life, or suffers from severe visual impairment but is able to see, NDEs appear to be very similar and structurally no different from those reported by sighted people";

3. “like sighted people, blind respondents described both their perception of this world and scenes from , often in great detail. Sometimes they had a feeling of extraordinary visual acuity - in some cases the vision was perfect.”

Let's take the case of Vikki, who was blind from birth. At the age of 22, she fell into a coma after a car accident. According to Vikki, “I never saw anything, did not distinguish between light and shadow, nothing... I did not “see” dreams. My senses of taste, touch, hearing and smell helped me sleep. There were no visual sensations."

After the accident, she suddenly realized that she could see perfectly clearly what was happening in the intensive care unit, where a team of doctors was energetically resuscitating someone. Vicky recognized her wedding ring (which she often felt) and gradually realized that this was her body and she was probably dead. She flew up to the ceiling and saw trees, birds and people for the first time. “...it was incredible, amazingly beautiful, and I was absorbed by this feeling because before that I could not really imagine what light was.” Before she returned, she met with her relatives who had died before her.

Regarding Vikki's sensations, Dr. van Lommel wrote: “By the standards of modern medicine, this is simply incredible ... Vikki reported observations that could not be the product of sensory perception or (visual) functioning of the cerebral cortex, nor could they be a figment of the imagination, given that all her observations could easily be verified.”

Regarding evidence for life after death, near-death experiences of blind people are very important from several points of view. If the evidence is genuine (and the authors of the studies make a strong case that they have complete confidence in their sources), then all natural hypotheses - physiological, psychological and other - are woefully untenable.

From a psychological point of view, it is impossible to “train” people born blind in advance for visual sensations of this kind, because they cannot even understand what light and darkness are, much less distinguish colors, halftones, shades, are not able to determine distance by eye, etc. From a physiological point of view, they do not have visual memories from which to build. Electrical stimulation of certain parts of the brain can awaken memories of tastes and sounds, but not visual memories.

If blind people see during an NDE, they do not see with closed eyes, which are useless in a hospital bed or next to an overturned car. Obviously, they see with a different, heightened vision of an immaterial body, devoid of the flaws that are left behind.

Supporters of natural scientific explanations should regard the description of life after death of the blind as a serious challenge to their worldview.

Everything that happens during NDE is extremely convincing

According to the results of five independent NDE studies, only 27% of respondents believed in life after death before their near-death experience. But even more than 20 years after their NDE, although they have had a lot of time to fully think about what happened to them and try to explain it all, 90%, by their admission, still believe in life after death.

Moreover, the more time they had to think, the more they believed in life after death. In one study, where before the NDE only 38% of respondents believed in life after death, after the NDE, 100% believed in it. Needless to say, there is a huge shift in fundamental beliefs that occurs after a single incident.

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Is there life after death? Probably every person has asked this question at least once in their life. And this is quite obvious, because the unknown scares us the most.

The sacred scriptures of all religions without exception say that the human soul is immortal. Life after death is presented either as something wonderful, or, on the contrary, something terrible in the image of Hell. According to Eastern religion, the human soul undergoes reincarnation - it moves from one material shell to another.

However, modern people are not ready to accept this truth. Everything requires proof. There is a discourse about various forms of life after death. A large amount of scientific and fiction literature has been written, many films have been made, which provide a lot of evidence of the existence of life after death.

We present to your attention 12 real proofs of the existence of life after death.

1: The Mummy's Mystery

In medicine, the fact of death is declared when the heart stops and the body does not breathe. Clinical death occurs. From this condition the patient can sometimes be brought back to life. True, a few minutes after blood circulation stops, irreversible changes occur in the human brain, and this means the end of earthly existence. But sometimes after death some fragments of the physical body seem to continue to live.

For example, in Southeast Asia there are mummies of monks whose nails and hair grow, and the energy field around the body is many times higher than the norm for an ordinary living person. And perhaps they still have something else alive that cannot be measured by medical devices.

2: Forgotten tennis shoe

Many patients who have experienced clinical death describe their sensations as a bright flash, a light at the end of a tunnel, or vice versa - a gloomy and dark room with no way to get out.

An amazing story happened to a young woman, Maria, an emigrant from Latin America, who, in a state of clinical death, seemed to leave her room. She noticed a tennis shoe forgotten by someone on the stairs and, having regained consciousness, told the nurse about it. One can only try to imagine the state of the nurse who found the shoe in the indicated place.

3: Polka Dot Dress and Broken Cup

This story was told by a professor, doctor of medical sciences. His patient's heart stopped during surgery. The doctors managed to get him started. When the professor visited a woman in intensive care, she told an interesting, almost fantastic story. At some point, she saw herself on the operating table and, horrified by the thought that, having died, she would not have time to say goodbye to her daughter and mother, she was miraculously transported to her home. She saw a mother, daughter and a neighbor who came to see them and brought the baby a dress with polka dots.

And then the cup broke and the neighbor said that it was luck and the girl’s mother would recover. When the professor came to visit the young woman’s relatives, it turned out that during the operation a neighbor had actually visited them, who had brought a dress with polka dots, and the cup had broken... Fortunately!

4: Return from Hell

The famous cardiologist, professor at the University of Tennessee, Moritz Rowling, told an interesting story. The scientist, who many times brought patients out of a state of clinical death, was, first of all, a person very indifferent to religion. Until 1977.

This year an incident occurred that forced him to change his attitude towards human life, soul, death and eternity. Moritz Rawlings carried out resuscitation actions, which are not uncommon in his practice, on a young man by means of chest compressions. His patient, as soon as consciousness returned to him for a few moments, begged the doctor not to stop.

When he was brought back to life, and the doctor asked what scared him so much, the excited patient replied that he was in hell! And when the doctor stopped, he returned there again and again. At the same time, his face expressed panic horror. As it turns out, there are many such cases in international practice. And this, undoubtedly, makes us think that death only means the death of the body, but not the personality.

Many people who have experienced a state of clinical death describe it as an encounter with something bright and beautiful, but the number of people who have seen lakes of fire and terrible monsters is no less. Skeptics claim that this is nothing more than hallucinations caused by chemical reactions in the human body as a result of oxygen starvation of the brain. Everyone has their own opinion. Everyone believes what they want to believe.

But what about ghosts? There are a huge number of photographs and videos that allegedly contain ghosts. Some call it a shadow or a film defect, while others firmly believe in the presence of spirits. It is believed that the ghost of the deceased returns to earth to complete unfinished business, to help solve the mystery, to find peace and tranquility. Some historical facts provide possible evidence for this theory.

5: Napoleon's signature

In 1821. After the death of Napoleon, King Louis XVIII was installed on the French throne. One day, lying in bed, he could not sleep for a long time, thinking about the fate that befell the emperor. The candles burned dimly. On the table lay the crown of the French state and the marriage contract of Marshal Marmont, which Napoleon was supposed to sign.

But military events prevented this. And this paper lies in front of the monarch. The clock on the Church of Our Lady struck midnight. The bedroom door opened, although it was bolted from the inside, and... Napoleon entered the room! He walked up to the table, put on the crown and took the pen in his hand. At that moment, Louis lost consciousness, and when he came to his senses, it was already morning. The door remained closed, and on the table lay a contract signed by the emperor. The handwriting was recognized as genuine, and the document was in the royal archives as early as 1847.

6: Boundless love for mother

The literature describes another fact of the appearance of the ghost of Napoleon to his mother, on that day, May 5, 1821, when he died far from her in captivity. In the evening of that day, the son appeared before his mother in a robe that covered his face, and an icy cold wafted from him. He said only: “May the fifth, eight hundred and twenty-one, today.” And left the room. Only two months later the poor woman learned that it was on this day that her son died. He could not help but say goodbye to the only woman who was his support in difficult times.

7: The Ghost of Michael Jackson

In 2009, a film crew went to the ranch of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson to film footage for the Larry King program. During filming, a certain shadow came into the frame, very reminiscent of the artist himself. This video went live and immediately caused a strong reaction among the singer’s fans, who could not cope with the death of their beloved star. They are sure that Jackson's ghost still appears in his house. What it really was remains a mystery to this day.

8: Birthmark Transfer

Several Asian countries have a tradition of marking a person's body after death. His relatives hope that in this way the soul of the deceased will be reborn again in his own family, and those same marks will appear in the form of birthmarks on the bodies of children. This happened to a boy from Myanmar, the location of a birthmark on his body exactly coincided with the mark on the body of his deceased grandfather.

9: Revived handwriting

This is the story of a little Indian boy, Taranjit Sinngha, who at the age of two began to claim that his name was different, and he used to live in another village, the name of which he could not know, but he called it correctly, like his past name. When he was six years old, the boy was able to remember the circumstances of “his” death. On his way to school, he was hit by a man riding a scooter.

Taranjit claimed that he was a ninth grade student and that day he had 30 rupees with him and his notebooks and books were soaked in blood. The story of the tragic death of the child was completely confirmed, and the handwriting samples of the deceased boy and Taranjit were almost identical.

10: Innate knowledge of a foreign language

The story of a 37-year-old American woman, who was born and raised in Philadelphia, is interesting because, under the influence of regressive hypnosis, she began to speak pure Swedish, considering herself a Swedish peasant.

The question arises: Why can’t everyone remember their “former” life? And is it necessary? There is no single answer to the eternal question about the existence of life after death, and there cannot be.

11: Testimonies of people who experienced clinical death

This evidence is, of course, subjective and controversial. It is often difficult to assess the meaning of statements such as “I was separated from my body,” “I saw a bright light,” “I flew into a long tunnel,” or “I was accompanied by an angel.” It is difficult to know how to respond to those who say that in a state of clinical death they temporarily saw heaven or hell. But we know for sure that the statistics of such cases are very high. The general conclusion about them is the following: approaching death, many people felt that they were coming not to the end of existence, but to the beginning of some new life.

12: Resurrection of Christ

The strongest evidence for the existence of life after death is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Even in the Old Testament, it was predicted that the Messiah would come to Earth, who would save His people from sin and eternal destruction (Isa. 53; Dan. 9:26). This is exactly what Jesus' followers testify that He did. He voluntarily died at the hands of the executioners, “was buried by a rich man,” and three days later left the empty tomb in which he lay.

According to witnesses, they saw not only the empty tomb, but also the resurrected Christ, who appeared to hundreds of people over 40 days, after which he ascended to heaven.

Since the dawn of humanity, people have been trying to answer the question of the existence of life after death. Descriptions of the fact that there really is an afterlife can be found not only in various religions, but also in eyewitness accounts.

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Is there life after death - Moritz Rawlings

Eh, people argue for a long time. Ardent skeptics are sure that there is nothing after death.

Moritz Rawlings

Believers believe that... Moritz Rawlings, a cardiologist and professor at the University of Tennessee, tried to collect evidence of this. He is known from the book “Beyond the Threshold of Death.” It contains many facts describing the lives of patients who experienced clinical death.

One of the stories tells about a strange event at the moment of resuscitation of a person in a state of clinical death. During the massage, which was supposed to get the heart pumping, the patient returned to consciousness and began to beg the doctor not to stop.

The man, in horror, said that he was in hell and when they stopped doing the massage, he again found himself in this terrible place. Rawlings writes that when the patient regained consciousness, he told what unimaginable torment he experienced. The patient expressed his readiness to endure anything in life, just not to return to such a place.
Rawlings began recording stories that were told to him by resuscitated patients. According to Rawlings, half of those who have experienced clinical death say that they were in a charming place from which they did not want to leave. They returned reluctantly.

The other half insisted that the world they contemplated was filled with monsters and torment. They had no desire to return.

But for skeptics, whether there is life after death is not a statement. It is believed that each individual subconsciously builds a vision of the afterlife, and during clinical death the brain gives a picture of what it was prepared for.

Life after death - stories from the Russian press

You can find information about people who have experienced clinical death. The newspapers mentioned the story Galina Lagoda. A woman was in a terrible accident. When they brought her to the clinic, she had brain damage, ruptured kidneys, lungs, multiple fractures, her heart stopped beating, and her blood pressure was zero.

The patient claims she saw darkness, space. I found myself on a platform that was filled with amazing light. A man in white clothes stood in front of her. I couldn't distinguish his face.

The man asked why the woman had come. It turned out she was tired. She was not left in this world, explaining that she had unfinished business.

When Galina woke up, she asked her doctor about the abdominal pain that was bothering him. Returning to the “world”, she became the owner of a gift; the woman healed people.

Wife Yuri Burkova told about an amazing incident. He says that after an accident, the husband injured his back and received a serious head injury. Yuri's heart stopped beating and he remained in a coma for a long time.

The husband was in the clinic, the woman lost her keys. When the husband woke up, he asked if she had found them. The wife was amazed, Yuri said that they should look for the loss under the stairs.
Yuri admitted that at that time he was close to his deceased relatives and comrades.

Afterlife - Heaven

The actress speaks about the existence of another life Sharon Stone. On May 27, 2004, a woman shared her story on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Stone claims that she had an MRI and was unconscious for some time and saw a room with a white light.

Sharon Stone, Oprah Winfrey

The actress claims that the condition is similar to fainting. The difference was that it was difficult to come to one’s senses. At that moment she saw all the deceased relatives and friends.

She confirms the fact who they knew. The actress assures that she experienced grace, a feeling of joy, love and happiness - Paradise.

We managed to find interesting stories, they received publicity all over the world. Betty Maltz assured about the existence of Heaven.

The woman talks about the amazing terrain, beautiful green hills, rose-colored trees and bushes. There was no sun in the sky, everything around was in bright light.

The woman was followed by an angel who took the form of a young man in long white robes. Beautiful music was heard, and a silver palace rose in front of them. Behind the gates was a golden street.

The woman experienced that Jesus was standing there, inviting her to come in. Betty thought she felt her father's prayers and returned to her body.

Journey to Hell - facts, stories, real cases

Not all eyewitness accounts describe life after death as happy.
15 year old Jennifer Perez claims that she saw Hell.

The first thing that caught the girl’s eye was a long snow-white wall. The exit in the center is locked. Not far away there is another black door - slightly open.

An angel appeared nearby, he took the girl by the hand and led her to door 2, it was scary to look at her. Jennifer tried to run away and resisted, but it didn't help. On the other side of the wall I saw darkness. The girl began to fall.

When she landed, she felt the heat, it enveloped her. There were souls of people around, they were tormented by devils. Seeing all these unfortunate people in agony, Jennifer stretched out her hands and begged, asking for water, she was dying of thirst. Gabriel spoke about another chance, and the girl woke up.

Descriptions of hell appear in the story Bill Wyss. The man talks about the heat in this place. The person begins to experience terrible weakness and powerlessness. Bill didn’t understand where he was, but he saw four demons nearby.