“…So, I left my physical body forever. Although I left it every day for a few hours, I always returned - this was called sleep. And this time I took it off completely - so that, like a worn old dress, I no longer wear it ... "
This is exactly how Nicholas Roerich described the moment of death in his philosophical and mystical work “Seven Traditions about Planetary Humanity”. The philosopher designated it with a phrase that is mysterious to the layman, but understandable to the initiate: “I am leaving the dense world.”
According to esoteric teaching, the dense world is visible to us. The dense bodies also include the physical body of a person, which is a certain set of chemical elements and is designed to contain a vital body, a body of desires and a body of thoughts - these three bodies together make up the human soul.
From the point of view of medicine, the death of a person consists in stopping cardiac activity, stopping breathing and brain function, after which the decay of biological tissues begins, called decomposition. According to esotericists, it is the exit of the soul from the dense shell that leads to the destruction of the material human body that has become unnecessary.
According to most researchers of paranormal phenomena and mystical scientists, the main reason that the soul, or, according to Buddhist teaching, atma, leaves the bodily shell is the fulfillment by it of the main tasks set by the Logos for the soul shortly before its earthly incarnation. In rare cases, this happens due to the magical effect of sorcerers who "lure" the soul out of the body of the victim, as well as as a result of the inept use of the secret practices of astral travel, when an insufficiently trained adept initiates the exit of the soul from the body, not having the strength and experience to return it after that into the material shell.
Soul Path
So, the mechanism for the exit of the soul from the human body is launched. Outwardly, on the material plane, this can be expressed in death cramps. At this time, the invisible ethereal substance - atma, which was previously in the solar plexus area of a person, leaves its "earthly home". In some cases, this happens instantly. Then it is believed that the deceased had a pure and light soul, and they say about such a death, “God forbid everyone.”
However, the process often takes longer: the ethereal and formless soul substance rises up inside the convulsing body to break out through the so-called Brahma Hole - an invisible energy hole in the back of a person's head. Once outside the body shell, the soul is connected with it for some time by an energy thread, or, as they say, by a “silver spiral”. It is this situation that people who have experienced clinical death describe.
After a while, the thread breaks, and from that moment irreversible changes begin to occur in the body.
Dangerous Delusions
After the astral connection between the atma and the body breaks, the human soul, which has turned into a dense energy clot, sees its entire earthly life in reverse order: from the last day to the moment of birth.
This event plays a decisive role in the "education" of the soul, helps to dispassionately analyze everything that has been done in life and rise to a new stage of one's karmic evolution. Crying, heard over a lifeless body, distracts the atma from contemplating instructive pictures, which may adversely affect its next incarnation.
Other actions dangerous for the soul of the deceased, which have spread over many millennia among different peoples and cultures, are cremation and embalming of the body during the first days after death. When such procedures are performed, along with the destruction of the physical body, the energy-informational panorama is also destroyed, which is so necessary for the soul, peering into its earthly path.
Great harm to the soul that has already left the physical body is also brought by the attempts of doctors and close people of the deceased to bring him back to life.
Until the connection is interrupted
However, resuscitation actions are not always contraindicated for a soul leaving the dense world. Without much harm to the immortal atma, this can be done only until the “silver spiral” is broken.
Similar cases have been repeatedly described in the literature and confirm the postulate of physicians about the rigid time limitation of resuscitation processes. In particular, Andrei Makarov from Izhevsk recalls an incident that happened to him in 2007, when he got into a serious traffic accident. After the jeep that drove into the oncoming lane was in front of his car, Andrey felt at first a strong push, and then a sharp, but short-term pain. When he came to, to his surprise, he saw his own body, surrounded by a group of doctors who were trying to resuscitate him. Very soon, Andrey felt himself being carried away somewhere upward, while he seemed to himself unusually light and peaceful. Soon A. Makarov guessed that he was drawn to the milky-white light, flickering somewhere ahead. He flew quite a distance until he realized that some force was trying to bring him back. This discovery at first upset Andrei, as he knew that freedom awaited him ahead: from troubles and worries. And a moment later, Makarov found that his motionless body was rapidly approaching him. Here it, like a vise, squeezed him from all sides, severe pain pierced every cell, and in the next second Andrei opened his eyes.
Death is not accidental
The concept of "premature death" is usually attributed to death on the battlefield, from an accident, a crime, or from a transient illness. However, esotericists and followers of karmic teachings believe that death is never accidental or premature. The well-known phrase from the Holy Scriptures that not a single hair will fall from a person’s head without the permission of the Almighty characterizes this postulate quite accurately. But each case of such death has its own characteristics.
For example, the soul of a person who died at the hands of a criminal or from an accident avoids Purgatory, rapidly - in the very first minutes after leaving the biological body - falling (this also applies to the souls of dead children) to the so-called First Heaven (there is also the Second, and Third), where love and bliss reign.
Sudden deaths on the battlefield, more than others going against the natural laws of the universe, deprive the soul of the opportunity to consider the panorama of their earthly life and therefore postpone the stage of the next reincarnation for a long time. Moreover, the soul that has rapidly left the dense body experiences all the horrors of the unnatural death of its biological receptacle for a long time.
According to the American psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who observed dying patients for two decades, only 10 percent of people who were on the verge of death or experienced clinical death could clearly remember what happened to them in the next world. Other researchers call more significant figures - from 15 to 35 percent. According to survey results, half of those who have made the transition from life to death are psychologically ready to participate in this sacrament again. A quarter of them expressed great regret at the fact that they had to return to our mortal world again.
Watching myself from the ceiling
Approximately a quarter of the resurrected dead - those who survived clinical death and then remembered their journeys to the afterlife - saw themselves from the outside. Mystics believe that this is irrefutable evidence that the soul exists. After all, besides her, there is no one to look at the temporarily abandoned body.
The most amazing thing is that scientists - psychiatrists, neurophysiologists - have no doubt that a person can look at himself from the outside. The phenomenon even has a name - "out-of-body experience". It has been seriously studied for many years, but is not associated only with near-death experiences.
Studies show that people "lose their temper" under the influence of stress, drugs, during certain diseases. For example, Professor Leonid SPIVAK, a leading researcher at the Institute of the Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg), recorded the phenomenon in parturients. Every tenth of those surveyed by him reported an "out-of-body experience".
As a rule, women saw themselves, and the medical staff, and neighbors in the ward from a height of 2-3 meters, - notes Leonid Ivanovich. - As if from the ceiling. “Soared” suddenly, ceased to feel pain, did not hear anything, experienced peace. They "reunited" with the body in about a minute - just as suddenly as they "parted". The pain returned.
There are thousands of facts of "out-of-body experience" - enough to recognize its reality. However, before the scientists had to believe the "natives" at the word. And there was no way - at least not an easy one - to experience the same. Now it has appeared thanks to a trick used by researchers at University College London.
Eyes from behind
According to the formulation proposed back in 1968 by Celia Greene, who headed the Institute for Psychophysical Research in England, “out-of-body experience” is “one in which objects of perception are clearly located in such a way that the observer experiences a sensation of their perception from a point of view that does not coincide with the position his physical body." A long but very accurate characterization, according to Celia's current colleagues, who published the results of their experiments in a recent issue of the authoritative journal Science. They managed to reproduce literally what the scientist was talking about.
The man was wearing a helmet with video displays on his head. The stereo image was sent to them by two video cameras installed a couple of meters behind the subject. They were like eyes. In other words, the person saw only what these cameras broadcast: himself from the outside. For greater persuasiveness, scientists stroked the "observer" with a stick - the one that he did not see - and at the same time moved the other stick in front of the cameras. It seemed to the subject that they were touching his "virtual body" - as if they were scraping his soul.
Reviews of those who went through a “split personality” are frightened and enthusiastic. Everyone, without exception, felt that they had indeed left their bodies. And some were naturally frightened when the scientists joked: they waved a baseball bat in front of the cameras, aiming it at the groin area. The subjects instinctively covered it with their hands. Like football players in the "wall" before a free kick.
And here's what's even more interesting: after the experiments, the volunteers were asked to show where they were in the room. They showed where their “virtual body” was, but they didn’t remember about their present.
- "Out-of-body experience" is not something supernatural, - concludes the head of the experiments Hendrik ERSSON. - This is an illusion, which may well be generated by certain processes in the brain: it easily takes "deception" for reality.
A similar opinion is shared by Professor Spivak, who believes that the cortex of the temporal region is responsible for the "out-of-body experience".
convolution of the soul
Dr. Olaf BLANKE from the University Hospital in Geneva reproduced the "out of body" and without video cameras, and without clinical death. In an article published in the most respected scientific journal Nature, he described an experiment with a 43-year-old patient suffering from epilepsy. To investigate her illness, the scientist implanted electrodes in the woman's brain that stimulated the right temporal lobe, and accidentally excited the angular gyrus located there - a structure that is associated with the organs of vision, touch and balance. As a result, a completely alive patient saw herself from the outside.
Blanke, amazed, suggested that, perhaps, during stress, the brain also somehow excites this gyrus and, with its participation, sends information about the position of the body in space to the visual cortex. She perceives it in her own way, mixes it with existing pictures and projects it onto the retina of the eye. There is an effect of vision turned inside out, and at the same time it seems to a person that he sees himself from the outside. Approximately in the same way, according to the scientist, the well-known effect of a split personality arises in psychiatry.
By the way, materialist skeptics also refer to recent experiments in English Wales. Local doctors observed the clinical death of 39 patients. At the same time, they drew and placed leaflets with large symbols drawn on them near the temporarily deceased. And none of those who "left their body" "saw" the symbols.
skeptical opinion
"It doesn't prove anything"Susan Blamore, parapsychologist at the University of the West of England:
The discovery that "out-of-body experience" is a perfectly natural phenomenon does not prove that the astral body, or soul, or spirit, does not exist. But it clearly shows that there is no need to invent them. “Out-of-body experience” can be seen not as proof of the existence of the supernatural or life after death, but as a fascinating and exciting phenomenon that all of us can potentially experience.
“…So, I left my physical body forever. Although I left it every day for a few hours, I always returned - this was called sleep. And this time I took it off completely - so that, like a worn old dress, I no longer wear it ... "
This is exactly how Nicholas Roerich described the moment of death in his philosophical and mystical work “Seven Traditions about Planetary Humanity”. The philosopher designated it with a phrase that is mysterious to the layman, but understandable to the initiate: “I am leaving the dense world.”
According to esoteric teaching, the dense world is visible to us. The dense bodies also include the physical body of a person, which is a certain set of chemical elements and is designed to contain a vital body, a body of desires and a body of thoughts - these three bodies together make up the human soul.
From the point of view of medicine, the death of a person consists in stopping cardiac activity, stopping breathing and brain function, after which the decay of biological tissues begins, called decomposition. According to esotericists, it is the exit of the soul from the dense shell that leads to the destruction of the material human body that has become unnecessary.
According to most researchers of paranormal phenomena and mystical scientists, the main reason that the soul, or, according to Buddhist teaching, atma, leaves the bodily shell is the fulfillment by it of the main tasks set by the Logos for the soul shortly before its earthly incarnation. In rare cases, this happens due to the magical effect of sorcerers who "lure" the soul out of the body of the victim, as well as as a result of the inept use of the secret practices of astral travel, when an insufficiently trained adept initiates the exit of the soul from the body, not having the strength and experience to return it after that into the material shell.
Soul Path
So, the mechanism for the exit of the soul from the human body is launched. Outwardly, on the material plane, this can be expressed in death cramps. At this time, the invisible ethereal substance - atma, which was previously in the solar plexus area of a person, leaves its "earthly home". In some cases, this happens instantly. Then it is believed that the deceased had a pure and light soul, and they say about such a death, “God forbid everyone.”
However, the process often takes longer: the ethereal and formless soul substance rises up inside the convulsing body to break out through the so-called Brahma Hole - an invisible energy hole in the back of a person's head. Once outside the body shell, the soul is connected with it for some time by an energy thread, or, as they say, by a “silver spiral”. It is this situation that people who have experienced clinical death describe.
After a while, the thread breaks, and from that moment irreversible changes begin to occur in the body.
Dangerous Delusions
After the astral connection between the atma and the body breaks, the human soul, which has turned into a dense energy clot, sees its entire earthly life in reverse order: from the last day to the moment of birth.
This event plays a decisive role in the "education" of the soul, helps to dispassionately analyze everything that has been done in life and rise to a new stage of one's karmic evolution. Crying, heard over a lifeless body, distracts the atma from contemplating instructive pictures, which may adversely affect its next incarnation.
Other actions dangerous for the soul of the deceased, which have spread over many millennia among different peoples and cultures, are cremation and embalming of the body during the first days after death. When such procedures are performed, along with the destruction of the physical body, the energy-informational panorama is also destroyed, which is so necessary for the soul, peering into its earthly path.
Great harm to the soul that has already left the physical body is also brought by the attempts of doctors and close people of the deceased to bring him back to life.
Until the connection is interrupted
However, resuscitation actions are not always contraindicated for a soul leaving the dense world. Without much harm to the immortal atma, this can be done only until the “silver spiral” is broken.
Similar cases have been repeatedly described in the literature and confirm the postulate of physicians about the rigid time limitation of resuscitation processes. In particular, Andrei Makarov from Izhevsk recalls an incident that happened to him in 2007, when he got into a serious traffic accident. After the jeep that drove into the oncoming lane was in front of his car, Andrey felt at first a strong push, and then a sharp, but short-term pain. When he came to, to his surprise, he saw his own body, surrounded by a group of doctors who were trying to resuscitate him. Very soon, Andrey felt himself being carried away somewhere upward, while he seemed to himself unusually light and peaceful. Soon A. Makarov guessed that he was drawn to the milky-white light, flickering somewhere ahead. He flew quite a distance until he realized that some force was trying to bring him back. This discovery at first upset Andrei, as he knew that freedom awaited him ahead: from troubles and worries. And a moment later, Makarov found that his motionless body was rapidly approaching him. Here it, like a vise, squeezed him from all sides, severe pain pierced every cell, and in the next second Andrei opened his eyes.
Death is not accidental
The concept of "premature death" is usually attributed to death on the battlefield, from an accident, a crime, or from a transient illness. However, esotericists and followers of karmic teachings believe that death is never accidental or premature. The well-known phrase from the Holy Scriptures that not a single hair will fall from a person’s head without the permission of the Almighty characterizes this postulate quite accurately. But each case of such death has its own characteristics.
For example, the soul of a person who died at the hands of a criminal or from an accident avoids Purgatory, rapidly - in the very first minutes after leaving the biological body - falling (this also applies to the souls of dead children) to the so-called First Heaven (there is also the Second, and Third), where love and bliss reign.
Sudden deaths on the battlefield, more than others going against the natural laws of the universe, deprive the soul of the opportunity to consider the panorama of their earthly life and therefore postpone the stage of the next reincarnation for a long time. Moreover, the soul that has rapidly left the dense body experiences all the horrors of the unnatural death of its biological receptacle for a long time.
According to the American psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who observed dying patients for two decades, only 10 percent of people who were on the verge of death or experienced clinical death could clearly remember what happened to them in the next world. Other researchers call more significant figures - from 15 to 35 percent. According to survey results, half of those who have made the transition from life to death are psychologically ready to participate in this sacrament again. A quarter of them expressed great regret at the fact that they had to return to our mortal world again.
Incredible Facts
For centuries people have been talking about out-of-body experiences or astral travel when the soul leaves the body and floats somewhere else.
Scientists have never understood how such moments occur, but Canadian researchers from University of Ottawa found this out recently.
Scientists studied the brain activity of a woman, a psychology graduate who claims to be able to leave her body at will.
Typically, out-of-body experiences are part of the clinical of death . The patient reports how he floats above his body, while the surgeons perform their operations on him. Such experiences are often attributed to drugs in the patient's body or hormones that are produced due to injury.
Out-of-body travel
According to the study, A 24-year-old woman experiences an "out of body" state shortly before sleep, imagining herself from above, and began to do this even during a quiet hour in kindergarten.
She was able to see herself floating in the air above her body, but aware that her physical body remained motionless.
She described these experiences as follows:
"I feel like I'm moving, or rather, I can make myself feel like I'm moving.
I know full well that I'm not really moving. When this happens, there is no bifurcation of body and soul.
In fact, I am hypersensitive to my body at this point, as I am concentrating so much on the sensation of movement.
It is I who move, me, my body. For example, if I spin for too long, I get dizzy, I can't see myself above the body.
Rather, my whole body is moving. I feel like it's on top where I know it really is.
I also often imagine myself moving mentally, but my soul is not material. She doesn't move unless her body moves.".
Astral exit from the body
Scientists have used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the girl's brain before entering the "out of body" state. They compared the data with those that arise in the ordinary imagination.
They believe that this is the first person without a brain disorder who can induce an out-of-body experience on demand.
Researchers have found that out-of-body experiences cause shutdown of the visual cortex.
But it activates the left side of several areas that are associated with the mental representation of movements.
During the experience, she did not have any special emotions, so it seems that it's not a hallucination, which the girl can call at will.
Scientists are convinced that this is not an invention of the girl, and something is obviously happening in her brain that allows her to experience the world in a different way. In addition, they believe that such experiences are more common than we think.
The girl was surprised to learn that not everyone has this ability. Researchers believe that many people do not report their abilities because they do not consider them exceptional.
The changes they observed may be similar to how you train your brain while meditating.
The Bible says that "the dust will return to the earth from where it came from, and the spirit will return to the Creator, Who gave it" ... Pardon the pun, but today only the dead do not try to find out or find out what happens to the soul when the person dies. This is what I was wondering about.
Human death - what is it?
From a biological and physical point of view, the death of a person is a complete stop of all processes of his life. This is an irreversible phenomenon that none of us can avoid. At the moment of death of a person, processes occur that are inversely proportional to his creation. The brain is irreversibly destroyed, losing its functionality. The emotional world is erased.
Where is she - the edge of being?
The Bible says that "the dust will return to the earth from whence it came, and the spirit will return to the Creator, Who gave it." In accordance with this, today some scientists have derived a formula. In writing, it will have the following two options:
- earthly dust + breath of life = the living soul of a person;
- lifeless body + breath of the Creator = living person.
The formula shows that each of us is endowed with a body and a thinking mind. And as long as we breathe (we have the breath of God in us), we are living beings. Our soul is alive. Death is any cessation of life, it is non-existence. The human body becomes dust, the breath (the spirit of life) returns back to the Creator - to God. When we leave, our soul slowly dies, subsequently being reborn. A decaying corpse remains in the ground. More on this later.
What happens to the soul when a person dies?
Our soul is released from the body for several days, having gone through several stages of purification:
So what happens to the soul when a person dies? From all of the above, we can conclude that she returns back to the Creator, and does not go to heaven or hell. However, let me! But what about the Bible, which says that ours goes either to heaven or to hell? More on this later.
Where do the souls of dead people go?
Today, scientists are trying to prove the existence of heaven and hell, collecting testimonies of people who have returned "from the other world." Who did not understand - I'm talking about the survivors. Their testimonies coincide to the smallest detail! Unbelieving people say that they saw hell with their own eyes: they were surrounded by snakes, demons and a terrible stench. Those who "visited" paradise speak of light, fragrance and lightness.
Where are the souls of dead people?
The clergy and doctors who communicated with such people noticed an interesting feature: those who "visited" paradise returned to their physical body enlightened and calm, and those who "saw" hell tried for a very long time to recover from the nightmare. Experts summarized all the testimonies and memories of "dead" people, after which they concluded that heaven and hell really exist, with the first being at the top and the second at the bottom. Everything is exactly the same as in the description of the afterlife according to the Bible and the Koran. As we can see, there is no consensus. And this is absolutely fair. In addition, the Bible says that "the day of judgment will come, and the dead will rise from their graves." Friends, it remains to be hoped that the zombie apocalypse will not fall in our age!
It is important!
So, friends, we have considered some aspects of a person. I have tried to most accurately state some of the opinions of modern scientists regarding this problem. Now seriously. Do you know what happens to the soul when a person dies? So I don't know! To be honest, no one knows the answer to this question: neither I, nor you, friends, nor scientists ... We can only speculate based on certain unproven facts of clinical death of people. There is no direct evidence of life after death or death after death, so we can only operate on the unproven arguments that science provides us with. As they say, all the dead take the secret with them to the grave...
