From time to time I receive letters from readers of my books or magazines with various questions. Not so long ago I received a letter from a man of mature age who had lost his beloved wife. It seems to me that his questions and my answers to them will be of interest to many people, especially those who have recently experienced the pain of losing a loved one.
"How can you ease the ordeal of the soul of a deceased person?"
Ordeals - being in the interworld - is the lot of very few souls (mostly, these are the souls of suicides, those who, for some subjective reasons, left the earth plane earlier than the period provided for by the Life Program). Therefore, I assure you, the soul of your spouse will not get lost in the interworld, but, having passed through various purifying worlds-filters (approximately on the 3rd, 9th and 40th days), it will rise to the layer (world) of the supermundane world, where approximately after the 40th day after the earthly “death”, the Judgment will await her.
Judgment is a comparison of the energy accumulations of the soul, which she gained during her past earthly life, with those indicators that were planned for her according to the Life Program. This is an assessment by the soul itself, by its conscience, of its life, deeds, words and thoughts that the soul, being in the shell of the earthly body, made.
The Higher Souls evaluate the "harvest" of the energies collected by the soul or the amount of energies not collected (according to the Plan, the Life Program of the past incarnation), and also look at how the soul itself evaluates its life and actions. Then they make a decision, based on the needs and development plan of this soul, where to send it - again into incarnation on Earth, or - "home", to the cosmic "homeland" of the soul.
(All souls have their own cosmic homeland - one of the planets of our Universe. There are a lot of cosmic civilizations. The cosmic homeland of the Slavs, Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians is the Extraterrestrial Civilization Dessa. our earthly world.For this reason, people live there for 10,000 years or more.Returning to their cosmic homeland, the soul receives its native body (which is in a state of artificial sleep during the journey to Earth).
On Dessa, people have exactly the same human biological body, only a little more perfect (due to a different environment - it is more high-frequency there, therefore, the biological composition of the body is slightly different from ours on Earth).
Why do more perfect souls leave their more perfect bodies on Dessa and incarnate into earthly bodies less perfect in terms of quality and duration of life? To prolong your life in your Dessite body indefinitely. The fact is that over time, the body of the Dessit begins to age. The cause of this process - as the scientists of Dessit discovered - was imperil (low-frequency destructive energy that the soul collects during the life of the soul). So: if this imperil is cleansed from the soul, then it will be able to stay in the same body for a very long time and be “forever young”. To do this, the body is immersed in an artificial sleep, and a part of the soul (triat) with all the imperil is sent (lowered into lower material worlds) to the aboveground world, in order to send this triat (or soul) to the earthly incarnation (the biological body of a newborn person).
After a certain number of years spent on Earth, after the death of the earthly body, the triatom will leave the body and begin its ascent to higher-frequency above-ground worlds (each such world is a kind of filter where the soul will get rid of its temporary layers). Finally, having reached the highest-frequency supermundane world, the soul (triatome) will first pass through the Judgment, and then Purgatory.
Purgatory is something like an x-ray room, in which machines will automatically cleanse the soul of imperil. After that, a pure soul (triatom) will fly home, will again enter into the composition of its soul, and the body will be brought out of artificial sleep. That's it - the earthly business trip for this soul (person) will be over.
From now on, the soul (man, dessit) can again live for the next thousand or more years on Dess, having a young and healthy body. And when, after some time, the soul again collects a large amount of imperil, the soul will again be sent on an earthly business trip - an incarnation, in order to drop the entire imperil there (through a posthumous passage through Purgatory).
The need for incarnations of Dessite souls to Earth is necessary because only there is a special cleansing filter (purgatory). It is probably on some other planets of the Universe, but the Earth is closest to Dessa and does not require huge energy expenditures to travel to it.
How to help the soul while it has not yet passed the Judgment? You can only help one thing - energy. Because everything in the universe is energy. To do this, you just need to mentally send your love, kind words, words of gratitude, warmth to this soul and mentally wrap it around the image of your loved one. All this energy will certainly reach the addressee and help the soul (which will have more strength and energy thanks to this) to quickly rise to higher worlds and stand before the Court.
You can pray and ask the Highest Ones (God, Guardian Angels ...) for help for the departed person (soul). You can order in the church (or better in three different churches) magpie (the priest will commemorate the name of the deceased person in a special prayer for forty days in a row ...). But the best and most effective help, in my opinion, is still a personal mental message of energy to a loved one. The energy of the soul is given by words of love, gratitude, gratitude to it for the joy, happiness, care, affection, attention, time and life given to us ... This is the guaranteed and most powerful energy help to the soul.
The only thing you can’t do is cry, grieve to your heart’s content, reproach yourself (that “I didn’t save!”) Or her (that “left me alone!” Etc.). Why not? Because by doing so, we send to the soul not high-frequency, positive (strengthening power) energies of love, but low-frequency, negative (power-removing) energies of fear, grief, sadness. And the soul, receiving negative energies from the earth plane, will not want to go up, where it should go, but will always be distracted down to the Earth, on the pain energy of those relatives and friends whom it has left (and will also grieve and sympathize with the remaining ). This means that her ascent to higher worlds can be delayed for an indefinite period of time.
Neither the soul itself, nor those who will moan and cry for it on Earth, this, as you understand, is not good. The best and wisest behavior is the constant words of gratitude and love that we should speak (mentally and aloud) about the person who has left us. This is the best we can do for our loved ones who have already completed their Life Program and left their earthly bodies.
This should be done not only for 40 days after the person’s departure (but these are the most important days for helping the soul), but also throughout the year (cleaning of souls especially contaminated with imperil sometimes takes just that much time; after a year, the soul, having cleansed itself, as a rule, is already leaving the supermundane world for the cosmic homeland or, remaining in the supermundane world and preparing for a new incarnation, no longer needs our energy replenishment).
“How does the soul feel in the other world?”
How does a person feel after a bath? "It's like being reborn." The soul throughout its earthly life wears many clothes, the heaviest of which is the physical body. Freed from it, the soul feels relief. Imagine: all day long, from the moment you got out of bed until late at night, you wore a heavy, to the toe, sheepskin casing. They wore, wore, puffed, sweated, and then suddenly abruptly removed it from themselves. How will you feel after that? You will probably feel lighter and freer. This is what our soul feels when it is freed from the body. It becomes light and literally winged, able to move in space and fly over the Earth.
Our physical body is one of the most perfect forms of obtaining the energies (wisdom, information, experience) necessary for the soul in all material worlds. The body is the most dense shell of the soul. The soul itself or, more precisely, a person by design resembles a nesting doll, consisting of seven bodies (or layers, or “nesting dolls”): spirit (matrix), buddhial layer, causal layer, mental, astral, ethereal and material layer (physical body).
The body, as well as the other three outer layers of the soul - ethereal, astral and mental - are temporary layers, and which fall away from the soul on the 1st, 3rd, 9th and 40th days after the "death" of a person. During its earthly life, the soul in all these time layers accumulates (making one or another choice and receiving appropriate life lessons) energies of various qualitative and quantitative characteristics.
These energies are what the soul comes to Earth for. This is the "honey" that she collects here. In this "honey" is the whole meaning of any life, private and general evolution, the essence of which is the increase by each soul, each life of its energy potential (that is, the increase of its consciousness or Mind).
After the death of a person, all information from the temporary layers is overwritten in turn, passes from one layer to another (no important and necessary information (read: energy) collected by the soul during earthly life will be lost!): it is written from the body to the ethereal layer, from from the etheric layer to the astral layer, from the astral layer to the mental layer, and finally, from the mental layer, all information is copied to the permanent (causal) layer of the soul. This occurs by the 40th day after the death of the body. Thus, the soul appears before the Court with all the collected energies (all information) for the last earthly life.
With each lost time layer (material, ethereal, astral and mental) the soul feels lighter and more airy. Therefore, if we talk about the “feelings” of the soul after death, then they are mostly positive.
“Do the souls of relatives meet (after death)?”
Most often not (because these souls can already be both in their cosmic homeland and in incarnation). If the soul, rising after earthly death to the higher near-earth worlds, is too attached to its native (dead earlier) people and at the same time it does not have enough of its own energy to quickly rise and free itself from temporary bodies-layers, then a hologram shell is sent to its aid (phantom) of these relatives. The soul will think that it is communicating with its previously deceased relatives, but these will not be real souls, but their holographic copies, phantoms that will disappear as soon as they provide the moral support and help necessary for the soul.
People often think that our earthly relatives remain relatives in another, “other world”. Sometimes it is, but often it is not. People are gathered into earthly families not because they are relatives in that world, but because it is necessary to complete the current task that is set before the soul, to pass certain lessons and collect a certain quality of energy by the soul.
All souls, regardless of the world in which they live, must develop, accumulate energies in their matrix. These accumulations in each soul are not at all chaotic and spontaneous (as it may seem), but planned: each soul has Determinants, Founders and Rulers - higher Essences (highly developed Souls that have long since risen into the energy, non-material world and are connected with us by matrix kinship), which make up for each of its soul Programs of life - life conditions, situations and lessons, passing through which the soul collects the necessary energies (needed both for the soul itself, its development, and for the higher worlds - because every soul, except for collecting energies for itself , always gives a part of the collected, produced energy to the higher worlds).
People are too attached to each other, living here on Earth, and hope that in that world they will meet all their relatives. Unfortunately, this is not so. Each soul has its own evolutionary path: for some it is slower, for others it is faster. Someone needs to gain some energies, someone needs a little different ... This means that today we live next to some people, and in a hundred, a thousand or ten thousand years we will live surrounded (family) by other people.
The higher the soul rises in its development, the fewer relatives it has on the one hand, and on the other hand, the more friends it becomes - souls that resonate with it in vibrations. In the highest, heavenly worlds (the matrix of the Creator) - all souls live next to those "who understand you even without words." There are all friends and relatives (because we are all particles of a single Organism - particles of the consciousness of the Higher Mind).
“Is it true that souls in clinical death do not want to return to Earth?”
Many do not want to, because they see how much more beautiful, harmonious and perfect are those worlds that exist above the earthly world. Some want it because they see worlds that are below the earth. And some want to return because they feel responsible for their relatives and neighbors, they want to repay their debts or fulfill what they have planned in life.
“The soul of the deceased can incarnate into a new person on earth. So, will she cease to be my soul or not?
The soul can incarnate in many human bodies and collect different experiences, different energies through them. At the same time, the soul changes its outer shells, but its basis, its essence, does not change.
All our incarnations, all our earthly personalities are private experiences of our soul. All these experiences the soul retains in itself. In one life you could be, say, Julius Caesar, in another - the writer Mikhail Lermontov, in the third - the actor Oleg Dal. In that world, your soul will realize itself not as Caesar, Lermontov or Dahl, but as a Personality who had experiences of life in the bodies of these earthly personalities. It will be a soul that has accumulated the experience of these earthly personalities.
The soul changes earthly bodies, like clothes, as another form of passing lessons in an earthly class. So, in one earthly life you can have the experience of a son, the experience of a husband, the experience of a father, the experience of a grandfather or great-grandfather - these are all different experiences of one earthly personality. Similarly, different earthly personalities are different biological forms of manifestation of the same soul.
All earthly personalities are particles, private experiences of our true Personality. We are not mortal earthly, material bodies, we are an immortal spirit, a matrix. Therefore, one should not associate oneself, one's personality only with our earthly personality, living on Earth today. Our current life is the current private experience of our true Personality.
Do the souls of deceased close relatives meet after death in the Other World?
Of course they meet. They communicate with each other there and even help those who remained in the world of the living. But unfortunately or fortunately, they cannot stay there for a long time. Sooner or later they must be reborn again, but it is not at all a fact that they are back on planet Earth.
Most probably not. After all, the soul has no relatives. Relatives appear only when the soul moves into a newborn person.
If you believe the stories of those who returnedquot ;, that is, people who have been in a state of clinical death, many claim to have seen their dead parents and friends. But it is impossible to prove this, this mystery is great.
It seems to me that the question is not quite the right starting point. I think that kindred souls from the Other World inhabit bodies related by blood in This World, and after the death of the physical body they only return to their afterlife family. This is how we travel from world to world as a friendly company.
Those who have experienced clinical death say that they saw and talked in the Other World with their close relatives and even with dead friends.
For example, our friend, with whom we worked together earlier, had a heart attack and was resuscitated for several minutes, she was no longer breathing and there was no pulse for 2 minutes.
Then she told me that she saw her grandmother there, who she raised and died many years ago.
I don’t know if that light exists or not, but when my grandmother died 10 years ago, I saw one thing at night. I wake up in the middle of the night and don’t understand whether it’s a dream or not, My husband is sleeping next to me, and she is standing next to the bed, stroked my shoulder and said do not turn around, you can not look, I say goodbyequot ;. Then I heard steps to the door to the room and seemed to wake up.
And in the morning, the daughter, who was 13 years old, said mothers who walked around the apartment at night? came up to me, straightened the blanket, then slammed the front door? I told my daughter that dad went out for cigarettes so as not to scare the reenka
Yes, they meet, because they did not come into this world separately, but first having discussed all the subtleties of the education of souls in the subtle world. Each of them must play a role in a person's life, and leave, having fulfilled their destiny. Everything is very complicated and confusing. It happens that one person comes back twice to let another understand something very important. Sometimes it happens that a dead mother, yearning for her son who has left, dies and again finds her son in order to live next to him again in the role of not a mother, but a daughter. It looks strange, of course, from the outside, and sometimes it seems that someone's roof has completely gone, but the facts are a stubborn thing.
From Last Journey R. Monroe
Controlled out-of-body experiences are the most effective means of accumulating Truths known to us for the transition to a Different World Perception. The most important of these is probably the Truth about the continuation of life after death. If there is a better way to realize this realization, and not just hope, faith or conviction, then we do not know it. This truth is very quickly comprehended by any of those who have achieved the simplest OBE skills. In addition, after death, life continues, regardless of whether we like it or not, and regardless of what we did in this life. There is no difference. The continuation of the existence of a person after physical death is a natural process. It is simply amazing that at some point in their history, man so limited his own thinking that he ceased to be aware of it.
Numerous experiments over more than 30 years of employees of the Monroe Institute, and a lot of data around the world confirm the existence of that world.
Of course they meet. They communicate there and even help those who remained in the world of the living. But they can't stay there for long. Sooner or later they must be reborn again, but not the fact that they are back on Earth.
With absolute certainty, no one can answer this question, of course, since there is no scientific evidence for this, however, any believer will give an affirmative answer - the human soul is immortal, it can move freely in time and space, so nothing should prevent relatives from uniting souls. Even the fact that deceased relatives sometimes appear in a dream can serve as an indirect confirmation of this - in the process of falling asleep, the human brain is in an intermediate position, between consciousness and subconsciousness - some scientists tend to consider this fact as a transition to another dimension.
In fact, perhaps the most difficult thing in life is the loss of a loved one. Neither material damage, nor any earthly blessings can be compared with the death of a person. Therefore, I really want to believe and hope that the souls of the dead still meet in the other world and exist there, looking at us, now living, from heaven.
When someone from your family dies, of course, it is very difficult, you experience this tragedy incredibly difficult. But I reassure myself with the thought that sooner or later we will meet anyway, albeit in a different state and in a different place, no longer on this earth.
Probably, on the account of whether there is life after death, or not, disputes will go on as long as humanity exists. However, many mystical facts that happen to us in this life give hope that life after death does exist.
And the souls of deceased relatives are still next to us and protect us.
I can give one example. When my close relative died, he seemed to be out of his mind, he began to talk. And a few days before his death, he began to see his dead relatives, who, according to him, came to him and sat near his bed.
So the souls of the dead still exist, they are somewhere. Why did he see them before he died? Apparently they came for him. So, I still hope that there is life after death.
Taking for truth the position that a person has an immortal soul, this question should be answered positively. The souls of close relatives can meet in the next world, especially at first, when the connection between the soul and its perishable body is still strong. This means an emotional connection, because the soul gets used to living in this body, gets used to the emotions that it gives it, gets used to family ties. This is one of the possible points of view, the truth of which can only be verified by death. Maybe family ties of people remain the same important thing even after death, in the world of souls. However, if the soul of a relative has already overpowered into a new body, or has risen to a new astral level, such a meeting may not occur. In any case, we can only guess for now, so let's hope for what we think is best for us.
Few people can talk about it so that you believe it. For some reason it seems to me that every soul flies in a dark abyss alone, the soul is given eternity to reflect on the meaning of life where life was not valued. And relatives are no exception. No wonder when one person in a family dies, another is born. One soul leaves, another returns. a person has 9 lives, count how many souls fly there.
The big question is whether That light at all? And, if so, in what format? Is it possible to meet there, in our understanding? I think the soul after death finds its peace, it is no longer up to meetings with relatives.
In the first days after separation from the body, the soul communicates with its native places and meets with dead loved ones, or rather, with their souls. In other words, he communicates with what was dear in earthly life.
She has a new remarkable ability - spiritual vision. Our body is a reliable gate by which we are closed from the world of spirits, so that our sworn enemies, fallen spirits, do not invade us and destroy us. Although they are so cunning that they find workarounds. And some serve them without seeing them. But the spiritual vision that opens after death allows the soul to see not only the spirits that are in the surrounding space in large numbers, in their true form, but also their deceased loved ones, who help the lonely soul to get used to new, unusual conditions for her.
Many of those who have post-mortem experience have spoken of encounters with deceased relatives or acquaintances. These meetings took place on earth, sometimes shortly before the soul left the body, and sometimes in the setting of an unearthly world. For example, one woman who experienced temporary death heard a doctor tell her family that she was dying. Coming out of the body and rising up, she saw the dead relatives and friends. She recognized them, and they were glad to have met her.
Another woman saw her relatives who greeted her and shook hands with her. They were dressed in white, rejoiced and looked happy. “And suddenly they turned their backs on me and began to move away; and my grandmother, looking over her shoulder, said to me: "We will see you later, not this time." She died at 96, and here she looked, well, forty or forty-five years old, healthy and happy.
One person says that when he was dying of a heart attack at one end of the hospital, at the same time his own sister was dying of an attack of diabetes at the other end of the hospital. “When I got out of my body,” he says, “I suddenly met my sister. I was very happy about this, because I loved her very much. Talking to her, I wanted to follow her, but she, turning to me, ordered me to stay where I was, explaining that my time had not yet come. When I woke up, I told my doctor that I had met my sister, who had just passed away. The doctor didn't believe me. However, at my insistent request, he sent to check through the nurse and found out that she had recently died, as I told him. And there are many such stories. A soul that has passed into the afterlife often meets there those who were close to it. Although this meeting is usually short-lived. Because great trials and a private judgment await the soul. And only after a private trial is it decided whether the soul should be with its loved ones, or another place is prepared for it. After all, the souls of dead people do not wander of their own free will, where they want. The Orthodox Church teaches that after the death of the body, the Lord determines for each soul the place of its temporary stay - either in heaven or in hell. Therefore, meetings with the souls of deceased relatives should not be taken as a rule, but as exceptions allowed by the Lord for the benefit of people who have just died, who either still have to live on earth, or, if their souls are frightened by their new position, to help them.
The existence of the soul extends beyond the coffin, where it transfers everything to which it is accustomed, what was dear to it, and what it learned in its temporary earthly life. The way of thinking, life rules, inclinations - everything is transferred by the soul to the afterlife. Therefore, it is natural that the soul at first, by the grace of God, meets those who were closer to it in earthly life. But it happens that dead loved ones are living people.
And this does not mean their imminent demise. The reasons may be different, and often incomprehensible to people living on earth. For example, after the resurrection of the Savior, many of the dead also appeared in Jerusalem (Matthew 27:52-53). But there were also cases when the dead appeared to admonish the living, leading an unrighteous way of life. However, one should distinguish between true visions and demonic delusions, after which only fear and an anxious state of mind remain. For the cases of the appearance of souls from the afterlife are rare and always serve to enlighten the living.
So, a few days before the ordeals (two or three), the soul, accompanied by the Protecting Angels, is on earth. She can visit those places that were dear to her, or go where she wanted to visit during her lifetime. The doctrine of the stay of the soul on earth during the first days after death existed in the Orthodox Church already in the 4th century. The patristic tradition reports that the Angel, who accompanied the Monk Macarius of Alexandria in the desert, said: “The soul of the deceased receives from the Angel guarding it relief in sorrow, which it feels from separation from the body, which is why a good hope is born in it. For in the course of two days the soul, together with the angels who are with it, is allowed to walk the earth wherever it wants. Therefore, the soul that loves the body sometimes wanders near the house in which it was separated from the body, sometimes near the tomb in which the body is laid, and thus spends two days, like a bird, looking for nests for itself. And a virtuous soul walks in those places in which it used to do the truth ... "
It should be said that these days are not a binding rule for everyone. They are given only to those who have retained attachment to earthly worldly life, and who find it difficult to part with it and know that they will never live in the world that they left. But not all souls who part with their bodies are attached to earthly life. So, for example, the saints, who were not at all attached to worldly things, lived in constant expectation of a transition to another world, are not even attracted to places where they did good deeds, but immediately begin their ascent to heaven.
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How a person develops relationships, in life after death, with those whom he loves or with those who cause him a feeling of devotion or adoration. Again and again one hears disturbing questions - is it possible to be sure that we will meet in life after death those whom we loved so much and whether we will recognize them in this new life? Fortunately, this question can be answered quite definitely. Yes, we will find our friends there, and this is without the slightest shadow of a doubt, and our relations with them will be fuller and more real than it was in the physical world.
In addition, it is often asked: “Can friends who have already moved to the heavenly world see us here, are they watching us and are they waiting for us? Hardly; for there are insurmountable difficulties for this. And indeed, how could a departed person maintain a happy state if he looked back seeing those he loves in grief and suffering, or, even worse, at the moment of a crime being committed?
And the second suggestion, that he expects them, is not much better than the first. In this case, the person would have a long waiting period in which his friend may change so much that he loses all his attractiveness. In the natural order, so wisely established for us by nature, there are no such difficulties; those whom a person loved most of all remain always with him and at the same time in their most noble and perfect form, and not a shadow of discord or change can be between them and him, since he receives from his friends only what he himself wishes . Reality is incomparably more perfect than anything that a person could invent with his imagination; all existing theories are human inventions, while the truth is the thought of God himself.
In fact, every time we love someone very deeply, we create a mental image of them and they often appear in our minds. We take this image of a friend with us into, because in the natural order this image corresponds to the highest level of mental matter. The love that creates and maintains such an image is a powerful force - a force sufficient to affect the soul of the one we love. The soul of a friend responds to the impact of this force with the appropriate energy, and this energy fills the mental image that we have created, and thus our friend actually remains with us, and moreover, more directly than is possible in earthly life. Let us not forget that love is caused not by the body, but by the soul of a friend, but we have here with us the soul of a person. To this they may say: “yes, it could be so if the friend died, but suppose that he is still alive, and then his soul cannot be in two places at the same time.” In fact, the soul can be in two places at the same time and even more than two; and the fact that our friend is alive or dead in our opinion does not make the slightest difference. Let us try to understand more clearly what the soul is in essence, and then we will better understand the actual course of things.
The human soul belongs to a higher plane, it is something incomparably greater than all its manifestations. Its relation to its manifestations is the relation of one dimension to another; square to line or cube to square. No number of squares could make a cube, since a square has only two dimensions, while a cube has three. In the same way, no amount of manifestations on one of the lower planes is able to exhaust the fullness of the soul, which belongs to an absolutely different world. She puts a small part of herself into the physical body in order to gain an experience that is possible only on the physical plane; she can use only one such body at a time, because such is the law; but if she could use a thousand bodies, even then they would not be able to fully express her real essence. She can have only one physical body, but if she has managed to evoke such love in her friend that this friend has her image everywhere in front of him, then she can pour her own life into his mental image, revitalizing it to the degree of true expression of her own. essence on this high plane; the latter, as we know, exceeds the physical world by as much as two planes and therefore provides incomparably better conditions for the expression of spiritual qualities.
For someone who finds it difficult to imagine his consciousness being active simultaneously in different manifestations, it is useful to make a comparison with ordinary physical experience. Each of us, sitting in our chair, experiences several physical touches at the same time. He touches the seat of the chair, his feet touch the floor, his hands touch the arms of the chair, or perhaps hold a book; and yet it is not difficult for his brain to perceive all these contacts at the same time; why, then, is it impossible for a soul, which is so much greater than its physical consciousness, to be conscious at the same time of more than one manifestation on planes so much below its own level? We know that all these different contacts are actually experienced by the same person; and the same soul really feels all such mental images in the same way, and in all of them it is equally real, full of life and love. Here we have the best side of the soul, for here it can express itself incomparably more fully than is possible for it under the most favorable conditions on the physical plane.
But can this affect the evolution of a friend? - they can ask me. Of course he can, because it gives him an extra opportunity to prove himself. If he lives in a physical body, he is already undergoing physical lessons, but at the same time this will give him the opportunity to develop much faster the ability to love through the medium of that thought-image on the mental plane that the dead friend created for him. Thus, the love of the latter does great good for him.
As we have already noted, the soul is able to manifest itself in many similarities that others have created for it. A person greatly loved by many people can participate in many celestial experiences at the same time and thus develop much faster; but this possibility is a direct consequence of those loving qualities which attracted the affection of many people to him. Thus, he not only enjoys the love of many, but thanks to this he himself grows in love, no matter whether his friends belong to the living or to the dead.
But it should be added that there are two limitations to such communication. First, the image of your friend that you have created may not be perfect - it may lack some of his higher properties, and then these properties will not be able to manifest through him. And secondly, the difficulty may arise from the side of the friend himself. Your idea of it may not be entirely correct; perhaps you have exaggerated it in some direction, in which case it will not be able to fill one of the aspects of your mental image with its content. But this is hardly acceptable and can only happen when an absolutely unworthy object is unreasonably deified. But even then the creator of the mental image will not feel a change in his friend, because it is incomparably easier for the latter to realize his ideal now than during the communication of both friends in the physical world. Not being perfect, he will still manifest better than he did on earth, and the joy of the one in heaven will not be clouded.
Your friend may imbue hundreds of his likenesses with the qualities he possesses, but if some quality is not developed in him, it cannot arise just because you attributed that quality to him. This is the great advantage of people who create only images that are not capable of disappointing them, or rather, those that can rise above all the ideas created about them by the lower mind. The student who creates the image of his Teacher is aware that all dissimilarity will come from the imperfection of this image, for here he draws from such a depth of love and spiritual strength that he cannot measure with his mind.
But, it may be asked, since the soul spends so much time enjoying the bliss of the heavenly world, what is the possibility of its development during this stay? This possibility can be of three kinds, although each of them admits of many modifications.
First, thanks to certain inner qualities, man has opened certain windows to the heavenly world; by training in these qualities for so long, he will greatly enhance them and return in the next incarnation richly gifted on this side. All internal processes are strengthened by their repetition, and a person who has been trained for a long period - say, in selfless devotion - will learn at the end of this period to love strongly and completely.
Secondly, if his striving brings him into contact with one of the categories of spiritual beings of which there has been talk, he will inevitably gain much of value from intercourse with them. So, in music, he learns from them many overtones and variations, until then unknown to him; also in painting and in the plastic arts, he will learn what he had no idea on earth. All this newness will gradually be imprinted in him, and he will return from the heavenly world incomparably richer than he was before.
Third, he can learn new things with the help of those likenesses of beloved and revered people that he created. If these are people who are much higher than him in development, he can acquire a lot of new knowledge through them; the higher the being corresponding to such a mental image, the more new knowledge can be obtained through it.
But what matters most is the life of the soul itself in that imperishable body (causal, or causal), which it carries with it from life to life in an unchanged form, except for its natural evolution. When the celestial experiences come to an end, the mental body of man is shed in turn, as the two lower bodies were shed, and then life begins in the causal body. Now the soul does not need windows, for here is its homeland and here all the walls have collapsed before it.
Most people are deprived of almost all consciousness on this high plane: they rest in a state that can be compared to drowsiness, unable to perceive the life of this world too high for them, although the visions that flash before them are not a product of fantasies, but a phenomenon of this world; nevertheless, each time they return, their limitations will diminish, and the consciousness of this true life of the soul will be revealed to them more and more fully. At the same time, the duration of life in this high state will increase more and more in comparison with existence on the lower levels of being.
As a person grows up, he becomes able not only to receive, but also to give. He approaches the crown of human evolution more and more, he learns the lesson given by Christ, he recognizes the greatness and joy of sacrifice, he experiences the highest delight of pouring out his life to help others, giving his self to everyone, bringing all his enlightened forces to the aid of struggling humanity.
This is part of the life after death that awaits us; here before you are some of the rungs on the ladder of life, which we, who are at the very bottom of it, can still see, see how they rise to an unfathomable height, and having seen them, convey to you our vision, so that you too can open your eyes to that unfading the eternal light that surrounds us all, imprisoned in the darkness of everyday life. This is part of the good news that Theosophy has brought into the world - the assurance of a divine future that awaits all. It is certain, for it already exists, but in order to inherit it, we must make ourselves worthy of this future.
After death, what awaits us? Probably each of us asked this question. Death scares many people. Usually it is fear that makes us look for an answer to the question: "After death, what awaits us?" However, not only him. People often cannot come to terms with the loss of loved ones, and this forces them to look for evidence that there is life after death. Sometimes simple curiosity drives us in this matter. One way or another, life after death interests many.
Afterlife of the Hellenes
Perhaps non-existence is the most terrible thing in death. People are afraid of the unknown, the emptiness. In this respect, the ancient inhabitants of the Earth were more protected than us. Ellin, for example, knew for sure that he would be brought to trial, and then passed through the corridor of Erebus (the underworld). If she turns out to be unworthy, she will go to Tartarus. If she proves herself well, she will receive immortality and will be on the Champs Elysees in bliss and joy. Therefore, the Greek lived without fear of uncertainty. However, our contemporaries are not so simple. Many of those living today doubt what awaits us after death.
This is what all religions agree on
Religions and scriptures of all times and peoples of the world, differing in many provisions and issues, show unanimity that the existence of people after death continues. In ancient Egypt, Greece, India, Babylon, they believed in the immortality of the soul. Therefore, we can say that this is the collective experience of mankind. However, could he have appeared by chance? Is there any other basis in it than the desire for eternal life, and from what do modern church fathers start, who do not doubt that the soul is immortal?
You can say that, of course, everything is clear with them. Everyone knows the story of hell and heaven. The Church Fathers in this matter are like the Hellenes, who are clad in the armor of faith and are not afraid of anything. Indeed, the Holy Scriptures (New and Old Testaments) for Christians are the main source of their faith in life after death. It is reinforced by the Epistles of the Apostles and others. Believers are not afraid of physical death, since it seems to them just an entrance into another life, into existence together with Christ.
Life after death in terms of Christianity
According to the Bible, earthly existence is a preparation for the future life. After death, the soul remains with everything that she did, good and bad. Therefore, from the very death of the physical body (even before the Judgment), joys or sufferings begin for her. This is determined by how this or that soul lived on earth. The days of commemoration after death are 3, 9 and 40 days. Why exactly them? Let's figure it out.
Immediately after death, the soul leaves the body. In the first 2 days, she, freed from his shackles, enjoys freedom. At this time, the soul can visit those places on earth that were especially dear to her during her lifetime. However, on the 3rd day after death, she is already in other areas. Christianity knows the revelation given by St. Macarius of Alexandria (died 395) as an angel. He said that when an offering is made in the church on the 3rd day, the soul of the deceased receives from the angel guarding her, relief in grief due to separation from the body. She receives it because an offering and a doxology have been made in the church, which is why a good hope appears in her soul. The angel also said that for 2 days the deceased is allowed to walk the earth along with the angels who are with him. If the soul loves the body, then sometimes it wanders near the house in which it parted with it, or near the coffin where it is laid. And the virtuous soul goes to the places where it did the right thing. On the third day, she ascends to heaven to worship God. Then, after worshiping him, he shows her the beauty of paradise and the abode of the saints. The soul considers all this for 6 days, glorifying the Creator. Admiring all this beauty, she changes and ceases to mourn. However, if the soul is guilty of any sins, then it begins to reproach itself, seeing the pleasures of the saints. She realizes that in her earthly life she was engaged in the satisfaction of her lusts and did not serve God, therefore she has no right to be rewarded with his goodness.
After the soul has considered all the joys of the righteous for 6 days, that is, on the 9th day after death, it again ascends to the worship of God by angels. That is why the church on the 9th day makes services and offerings for the deceased. God, after the second worship, now commands to send the soul to hell and show the places of torment that are there. For 30 days, the soul rushes through these places, trembling. She doesn't want to be condemned to hell. What happens 40 days after death? The soul ascends again to worship God. After that, he determines the place that she deserves, according to her deeds. Thus, the 40th day is the boundary that finally separates earthly life from eternal life. From a religious point of view, this is an even more tragic date than the fact of physical death. 3, 9 and 40 days after death - this is the time when you should especially actively pray for the deceased. Prayers can help his soul in the afterlife.
The question arises about what happens to a person after a year of death. Why are commemorations held every year? It must be said that they are no longer needed for the deceased, but for us, so that we remember the deceased person. The anniversary has nothing to do with ordeals, which end on the 40th day. By the way, if the soul is sent to hell, this does not mean that it has finally died. During the Last Judgment, the fate of all people, including the dead, is decided.
Opinion of Muslims, Jews and Buddhists
The Muslim is also convinced that his soul after physical death moves to another world. Here she waits for judgment day. Buddhists believe that she is constantly reborn, changing her body. After death, she again incarnates in a different guise - reincarnation occurs. Judaism, perhaps, speaks least of all about the afterlife. Extraterrestrial existence in the books of Moses is mentioned very rarely. Most Jews believe that both hell and heaven exist on earth. However, they are convinced that life is eternal. It continues after death in children and grandchildren.
According to Hare Krishnas
And only Hare Krishnas, who are also convinced of turning to empirical and logical arguments. Numerous information about clinical deaths experienced by different people come to their aid. Many of them described that they rose above the bodies and soared through an unknown light to the tunnel. also comes to the aid of the Hare Krishnas. One well-known Vedic argument that the soul is immortal is that we, while living in the body, observe its changes. We turn through the years from a child into an old man. However, the very fact that we are able to contemplate these changes indicates that we exist outside the changes of the body, since the observer is always aloof.
What do the doctor's say
According to common sense, we cannot know what happens to a person after death. It is all the more surprising that a number of scientists hold a different opinion. First of all, they are doctors. The medical practice of many of them refutes the axiom that no one managed to return from the next world. Doctors are familiar firsthand with hundreds of "returnees". Yes, and many of you probably at least heard something about clinical death.
The scenario of the exit of the soul from the body after clinical death
Everything usually happens according to one scenario. During the operation, the patient's heart stops. After that, doctors ascertain the onset of clinical death. They begin resuscitation, trying with all their might to start the heart. The count goes to seconds, since the brain and other vital organs begin to suffer from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia) in 5-6 minutes, which is fraught with sad consequences.
Meanwhile, the patient "leaves" the body, observes himself and the actions of the doctors from above for some time, and then floats towards the light along a long corridor. And then, according to the statistics that British scientists have collected over the past 20 years, about 72% of the "dead" end up in paradise. Grace descends on them, they see angels or dead friends and relatives. Everyone laughs and cheers. However, the other 28% describe a far from happy picture. These are those who after "death" find themselves in hell. Therefore, when some divine entity, appearing most often as a clot of light, informs them that their time has not yet come, they are very happy, and then return to the body. Doctors pump out a patient whose heart starts beating again. Those who managed to look beyond the threshold of death remember this all their lives. And many of them share with close relatives and attending physicians the received revelation.
Arguments of skeptics
In the 1970s, research began on so-called near-death experiences. They continue to this day, although many copies have been broken on this score. Someone saw in the phenomenon of these experiences proof of eternal life, while others, on the contrary, even today strive to convince everyone that hell and paradise, and in general "the other world" are somewhere inside us. These are supposedly not real places, but hallucinations that occur when consciousness fades. One can agree with this assumption, but why then are these hallucinations so similar for everyone? And skeptics give their answer to this question. They say the brain is being deprived of oxygenated blood. Very quickly, parts of the visual lobe of the hemispheres are turned off, but the poles of the occipital lobes, which have a dual blood supply system, are still functioning. Because of this, the field of view is significantly narrowed. Only a narrow strip remains, which provides "tube", central vision. This is the desired tunnel. So, at least, says Sergei Levitsky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.
case of dentures
However, those who managed to return from the other world object to him. They describe in detail the actions of a team of doctors who, during a cardiac arrest, "conjured" over the body. Patients also talk about their relatives who grieved in the corridors. For example, one patient, having come to his senses 7 days after clinical death, asked the doctors to give him a denture that was removed during the operation. The doctors could not remember where they had placed it in the confusion. And then the waking up patient accurately named the place where the prosthesis was located, while saying that during the "journey" he remembered it. It turns out that medicine today does not have irrefutable evidence that there is no life after death.
Testimony of Natalia Bekhtereva
There is an opportunity to look at this problem from the other side. First, we can recall the law of conservation of energy. In addition, one can refer to the fact that the energy principle underlies any kind of substance. It also exists in man. Of course, after the death of the body, it does not disappear anywhere. This beginning remains in the energy-informational field of our planet. However, there are also exceptions.
In particular, Natalya Bekhtereva testified that her husband's human brain became a mystery to her. The fact is that the ghost of her husband began to appear to the woman even during the day. He gave her advice, shared his thoughts, suggested where to find something. Note that Bekhterev is a world-famous scientist. However, she did not doubt the reality of what was happening. Natalya says she doesn't know if this vision was a product of her own mind, which was in a state of stress, or something else. But the woman claims that she knows for sure - she did not imagine her husband, she actually saw him.
"The Solaris Effect"
Scientists call the appearance of "ghosts" of loved ones or relatives who have died, the "Solaris effect". Another name is materialization according to the Lemma method. However, this happens extremely rarely. Most likely, the "Solaris effect" is observed only in cases where the mourners have a fairly large energy force in order to "pull" the phantom of a dear person from the field of our planet.
Experience of Vsevolod Zaporozhets
If the forces are not enough, mediums come to the rescue. This is exactly what happened to Vsevolod Zaporozhets, a geophysicist. He was a supporter of scientific materialism for many years. However, at the age of 70, after the death of his wife, he changed his mind. The scientist could not come to terms with the loss and began to study the literature on spirits and spiritualism. In total, he performed about 460 sessions, and also created the book "Contours of the Universe", where he described a technique by which one can prove the reality of the existence of life after death. Most importantly, he managed to contact his wife. In the afterlife, she is young and beautiful, like all the others living there. According to Zaporozhets, the explanation for this is simple: the world of the dead is the product of the embodiment of their desires. In this it is similar to the earthly world and even better than it. Usually the souls that dwell in it are represented in a beautiful form and at a young age. They feel material, like the inhabitants of the Earth. Those who inhabit the afterlife are aware of their physicality and can enjoy life. Clothes are created by the desire and thought of the departed. Love in this world remains or is found again. However, the relationship between the sexes is devoid of sexuality, but still different from ordinary friendships. There is no procreation in this world. One does not need to eat to sustain life, but some eat for pleasure or earthly habit. They mainly eat fruits, which grow in abundance and are very beautiful. This is such an interesting story. After death, perhaps this is what awaits us. If so, then, apart from your own desires, there is nothing to be afraid of.
We examined the most popular answers to the question: "After death, what awaits us?". Of course, this is to some extent only guesswork that can be taken on faith. After all, science in this matter is still powerless. The methods she uses today are unlikely to help figure out what awaits us after death. Probably, this riddle will torment scientists and many of us for a long time to come. However, we can state that there is much more evidence that life after death is real than the arguments of skeptics.
