No such person was born on the planet who can calmly relate to death. Such thoughts cause fear in more than half of humanity. What is the reason for the fear? Illness, poverty, stress, difficulties do not frighten us, but why does death make us afraid, and why do the human stories of survivors make us shudder? Maybe the reason is that there are even a couple of lines about a serious illness, but we don’t know who to ask about life in the afterlife.
Past upbringing proves once again: after all, almost all the inhabitants of the planet are sure that life after death does not exist. There will be no more sunrises or sunsets, as well as meetings with loved ones and warm hugs. All important senses will disappear: hearing, sight, touch, smell, etc. What happens after death and are the stories of people who survived clinical death, this article will help you figure it out.
What is our body made of?
Everyone has physical body and incorporeal soul. Scientists and esotericists have discovered such a factor that a person has several bodies. In addition to the physical, there are subtle bodies, which, in turn, are divided into:
- Essential.
- Astral.
- mental.
Any of these bodies has an energy field that, when combined with subtle bodies form an aura or, as it is also called, a biofield. As for the physical body, it can be touched and seen. This is our main body, which is given to us at birth for a certain period of time.
Etheric, astral and mental body
The so-called double of the physical body has no color (invisible) and is called ethereal. It exactly repeats the entire shape of the main body, moreover, it has the same energy field. After the death of a person, it is finally destroyed after 3 days. For this reason, the funeral process does not begin earlier than 3 days after the death of the body.
"The body of emotions", it is also astral. experiences and emotional condition a person is able to change personal radiation. During sleep, it is able to disconnect, which is why, waking up, we can remember a dream, which is only a journey of the soul while the physical body rests in the bed.
The mental body is responsible for thoughts. Abstract thinking and contact with the cosmos distinguishes this body. The soul exits the main body and separates at the time of death, rapidly heading towards the higher world.
Return from that world
Practically for everyone, the stories of people who have experienced clinical death cause shock.
Someone believes in such luck, while others are skeptical in principle about this kind of death. And yet, what can happen in 5 minutes at the time of rescue by resuscitators? Is there really an afterlife afterworld Or is it just a brain fantasy?
In the 70s of the last century, scientists carefully began to study this factor, on the basis of which the book “Life after Life” by Raymond Moody was published. This is an American psychologist who has made many discoveries over the decades. The psychologist believed that for the sensation of out-of-body existence, such stages are inherent as:
- Disabling the physiological processes of the body (it has been established that the dying person hears the words of a doctor who declares death).
- Unpleasant noisy sounds with increasing intensity.
- The dying person leaves the body and moves with incredible speed through a long tunnel, where a light is visible at the end.
- His whole life flies before him.
- There is a meeting with relatives and friends who have already left the living world.
The stories of people who have experienced clinical death notice an unusual split in consciousness: it seems like you understand everything and realize what is happening around you during “death”, but for some reason you cannot contact living people who are nearby. Surprising is also the fact that even the blind from birth sees bright light in a lethal state.
Our brain remembers everything
Our brain remembers the whole process at the moment when clinical death occurs. The stories of people and the research of scientists have found explanations for unusual visions.
Fantastic explanation
Pyall Watson is a psychologist who believes that in the last minutes of a dying person's life, his birth is seen. Acquaintance with death, as Watson said, begins with a terrible path that everyone must overcome. This is a 10 cm birth canal.
“It is not in our power to know exactly what is happening in the creation of a baby at the time of birth, but perhaps all these sensations are similar to the different phases of dying. After all, it may be that the dying pictures that pop up in front of the dying person are precisely the experiences in the process of birth, ”says psychologist Pyell Watson.
Utilitarian explanation
Nikolai Gubin, a resuscitator from Russia, is of the opinion that the appearance of the tunnel is a toxic psychosis.
This is a dream that is similar to hallucinations (for example, when a person sees himself from the outside). In the process of dying, the visual lobes of the cerebral hemisphere have already undergone oxygen starvation. Vision narrows rapidly, leaving a thin band that provides central vision.
For what reason does the whole life flash before one's eyes when clinical death occurs? The stories of survivors cannot give a clear answer, but Gubin has his own interpretation. The stage of dying begins with new parts of the brain, and ends with the old ones. The restoration of important brain functions occurs the other way around: first the old areas come to life, and then the new ones. That is why in the memories of people who returned from the afterlife, more imprinted fragments are reflected.
The secret of the dark and light world
"Another world exists!" medical experts say in amazement. The revelations of people who have experienced clinical death have even detailed coincidences.
Priests and doctors who had the opportunity to communicate with patients who returned from another world recorded the fact that all these people have a common property of souls. Upon arrival from heaven, some returned more enlightened and calm, while others, returning from hell, for a long time could not calm down from the nightmare they had seen.
After listening to the stories of survivors of clinical death, we can conclude that heaven is above, hell is below. This is exactly what is written in the Bible about the afterlife. Patients describe their feelings as follows: those who went down met hell, and those who flew up went to heaven.
Word of mouth
Many people were able to survive and understand what clinical death consists of. Survivor stories belong to people all over the planet. For example, Thomas Welch was able to survive after a disaster at a sawmill. Subsequently, he said that on the shore of the burning abyss he saw some people who had died earlier. He began to regret that he cared so little about salvation. Knowing in advance all the horrors of hell, he would have lived differently. At that moment, the man saw a man walking in the distance. The unfamiliar face was light and bright, radiating kindness and mighty strength. It became clear to Welch that it was the Lord. Only in his power is the salvation of people, only he can take the doomed soul to torment. Suddenly he turned and looked at our hero. That was enough to bring Thomas back to his body and his mind to come to life.
When the heart stops
In April 1933, Pastor Kenneth Hagin was consumed by clinical death. The stories of near-death survivors are very similar, which is why scientists and doctors consider these to be real events. Hagin's heart stopped. He said that when the soul left the body and reached the abyss, he felt the presence of a spirit that led him somewhere. Suddenly, a powerful voice sounded in the darkness. The man could not understand what was said, but it was the voice of God, in the latter he was sure. At that moment, the spirit released the pastor, and a strong whirlwind began to lift him back up. The light slowly began to emerge, and Kenneth Hagin found himself in his room, hopping into his body the way one usually gets into trousers.
in heaven
Paradise is described as the opposite of hell. The stories of survivors of clinical death are never left without attention.
One of the scientists at the age of 5 fell into a pool filled with water. The child was found dead. The parents took the baby to the hospital, but the doctor had to say that the boy would not open his eyes again. But the greater surprise was that the child woke up and came to life.
The scientist said that when he was in the water, he felt a flight through a long tunnel, at the end of which he could see the light. This glow was incredibly bright. There, the Lord was on the throne, and there were people below (perhaps they were angels). Having got closer to the Lord God, the boy heard that the time had not yet come. The child wanted to stay there for a moment, but in some incomprehensible way he ended up in his body.
About Light
Six-year-old Sveta Molotkova also saw reverse side life. After the doctors brought her out of the coma, a request was received, which consisted of a pencil and paper. Svetlana drew everything that she could see at the moment of the soul's displacement. The girl was in a coma for 3 days. Doctors fought for her life, but her brain showed no signs of life. Her mother could not look at the lifeless and motionless body of her child. At the end of the third day, the girl seemed to be trying to grab onto something, her fists clenched tightly. The mother felt that her little girl was finally clinging to the thread of life. Having recovered a little, Sveta asked the doctors to bring her paper with a pencil in order to draw everything that she could see in another world ...
Soldier's story
A military doctor was treating a patient for a fever. different ways. The soldier was unconscious for some time, and when he woke up, he informed his doctor that he had seen a very bright glow. For a moment it seemed to him that he was in the "Kingdom of the Blessed". The military remembered the sensations and noted that it was the best moment of his life.
Thanks to medicine that keeps pace with all technologies, it became possible to survive, despite circumstances such as clinical death. Eyewitness stories about life after death scare some, while others are interested.
Private from America George Ritchie in the 43rd year of the last century was declared dead. The doctor on duty that day, a hospital officer, determined the death, which occurred because the Soldier had already been prepared to be sent to the morgue. But suddenly the military orderly told the doctor how he saw the movement of the dead man. Then the doctor looked at Ritchie again, but could not confirm the orderly's words. In response, he resisted and insisted on his own.
The doctor realized that it was useless to argue and decided to inject adrenaline directly into the heart. Unexpectedly for everyone, the dead man began to show signs of life, and then doubts disappeared. It became clear that he would survive.
The story of a soldier who survived clinical death has spread all over the world. Private Ritchie was not only able to cheat death itself, but also became a doctor, telling his colleagues about his unforgettable journey.
Clinical death - how many scientific conclusions and mystical judgments exist on this topic! But a single, confirmed point of view about what a person feels at this moment has not been developed. LADY met with girls who had experienced clinical death and discussed with them what the phrase "I almost died" really means.
Maria Andreeva, Gestalt psychotherapist
I consider the circumstances in connection with which I almost died rather shameful: in principle, this is a story that I was unable to take care of myself and save myself. And most importantly, I could not ask for help when I needed to do it.
The situation was this: on Thursday I had a very bad stomach ache and the classic symptoms of appendicitis appeared. Having “successfully” diagnosed myself with a rotavirus infection, I began to self-medicate. There were no positive developments. But, according to my feelings, the stomach ached no longer so badly that I needed to seek help. When they talk about appendicitis and the risk of organ perforation, they predict some absolutely unbearable pain. It seemed to me that I did not experience such pain.
It got worse and worse, but I ignored my feelings. By Tuesday, I began to go blind, my blood pressure began to drop. Despite my resistance, my mother arrived and took me to the clinic. Consciousness was already losing its sharpness. I was examined by an infectious disease specialist and said that most likely it was peritonitis. The appendix came off a long time ago, and all the contents spilled into abdominal cavity. The doctor told my mother: your daughter has practically no chance of surviving, get ready for the worst. Then they called an ambulance.
Memories, in spite of everything, I have some soft and bright. Maybe that's how psychological defense works. In that state there is no despair, no sharp struggle, anger and irritation. I felt only gratitude for the attention to me and care.
I remember how I was going to the hospital, looking out the window, and there the sky was unusually beautiful - it somehow calmed me. And in general, I didn’t think then about the need to somehow overcome it all, overcome it and everything will be fine. In my opinion, everything was so good. And that's an amazing observation.
When people now talk about being afraid of death, I understand that there is nothing terrible in the very experience of its immediate proximity. At least my near-death experience says so. Gracious acceptance of what is happening, peace, calm ... Fears, rather, are taken from the thought of one's finiteness and from uncertainty.
I was taken to the hospital and they took x-rays. I took a swallow of the tube, and that's the last thing I remember before I woke up. In fact, during the operation I had to be resuscitated and clinical death was registered. But I don't know anything about it. Periodically, people ask me if I saw any tunnels, light. No, I didn't see anything. Well, my experience is this. There was nothing mystical, esoteric or divine about it. I just fell asleep in one body, and woke up in a completely different one. Although, of course, I am curious about what happened to my consciousness then, but I will not romanticize.
I was operated on on August 21st, and I came to my senses probably on the 23rd. I remember how I realized myself in an unfamiliar environment. I tried to be scared, but I couldn't. Now I understand that this is the action of tranquilizers. And the next memory is this: a nurse comes up, greets me and is like: “And they pulled you out of the other world, you almost died.” I didn't even believe it.
I remember trying to figure out what date it is today. Probably three times I asked, forgot and remembered. I had to spend enormous forces so that the thought would not go anywhere, it went away anyway, and it was as if I reinvented it anew.
I lost a lot of weight, I quickly developed bedsores. The body was already preparing to die. In addition, I could only speak in a whisper - my voice was gone. At that moment, I began to realize how important he is in our lives. Literally: neither call nor answer. A lot of energy is spent on communication.
Maybe that's when the real fight began. I wanted to go back to my life "before" at all costs. I was sad because I missed two weeks of training, because I haven’t been tweeting for a long time. Yes, those are the simple things that crossed my mind. And I missed my family very much. It was then that I first crystallized the value of my family as something unshakable. Despite quarrels, claims and the bitterness of some memories, these are the only people who are by default nearby.
I spent ten days in intensive care, and I can say that during this time my arrogance has diminished. When I talk about it, I always use this expression. I may still seem a little arrogant now, but I used to be a much more arrogant person, very caustic and very defensive. But when you stay in a situation of powerlessness for a long time, there is more humanity and simplicity.
After 10 days of resuscitation, perhaps the happiest day of my life came in terms of depth, sincerity and severity of feelings. I still rate him that way. That was the day I was transferred to the general ward. A whole new phase of my daily life has begun. I had to get angry and annoyed a lot because absolutely simple things that are done by all people on the machine simply do not work out for me. I could not swallow normally, read for a long time, spoke in a whisper. And this is how my days should have gone. I was engaged in auto-training: “Masha, we are getting together, recovering, working.”
In this period, it is significant how difficult the meetings with some relatives and friends were. Most came to me with a kind of horror on their faces, with a kind of fussy care and great sympathy. And it didn't resonate with me at all. I had the impression that it was I who should take care of them now. Naturally, I didn't have the strength to do so. I myself felt normal and was glad that I survived. And at that moment I needed resilient people who would support me in my endurance.
Some time later I was discharged. And I got hungry. I was literally hungry, I wanted to eat everything. I remember walking into a store, seeing an onion, and salivating violently. I imagine how I would take an onion and bite off a piece straight. And I felt so delicious from these thoughts! But I was unable to do this, because I could not even swallow properly.
What gave me the proximity of death? I realized that life is somehow easier than I thought. Many decisions and many actions are much easier for me now. I can now stand up and walk through an open door, metaphorically speaking. And before, I invented some kind of labyrinths for myself, I didn’t see this door, I tried to invent it, or find it where it didn’t exist. And there was a bunch of imaginary obstacles, doubts, fears.
I became much bolder, but this impudence is not arrogantly narcissistic, but naively spontaneous. It doesn't cost me anything to leave the lecture if I'm not interested. I became less dependent on other people's criticism and other people's opinions, because the truth became available to me: if you undertake to do something, then this will inevitably entail some kind of aggression, some kind of depreciation - this is just the natural course of things.
I did an exercise recently. Its essence is as follows: a person plunges into the situation “what would he do if he had a year left to live”. And then this period of life is reduced - and if only six months, a month. I was surprised to find that I wouldn't change a thing. This does not mean that I live at the limit of my abilities, but I do feel some kind of simplicity of life and basic satisfaction. I can afford to be lazy and fall into childhood, and in this I accept myself, live it safely and move on. I think this is directly related to the fact that I was faced with dying, with the fact that everything is finite. And the only point is to do what you want. Only in this, there is simply no other meaning.
As for the negative side of the near-death experience, I developed hypochondria. It did not take any destructive forms, but nevertheless I felt anxiety, and if I found some kind of ailment in my body, I could not be distracted and think about something else. So great was the fear that the situation could repeat itself.
I also had one specific sensation. I discussed it with my friend, who also experienced clinical death - and it responded to him. The feeling is as follows: as if I have learned something, but I cannot put it into words. As if I know some secret, but this is a secret from myself. It haunted me for 4 years before I discussed it with my friend. He said yes, I have the same. And I felt a little better.
Over the past two years, I have accepted this experience of mine - not without regret that it was. But I have a clear inner conviction that this could not have happened in my life.
Tatiana Vorobieva, parapsychologist:
- I experienced clinical death when I had surgery on my spine. A normal dose of anesthesia was introduced, and I had to endure this state well. But something went wrong - it turned out that I had an individual intolerance to anesthesia ...
I woke up from the cry of the doctors: “Breathe, breathe, just breathe!”. I didn't understand how it happened, but it felt like I was being "pulled" back into my physical body. I didn’t dwell on this state then, because that day I was told that I would not be able to walk - it was full of other emotions.
I was in a state of clinical death for a few seconds, but for 3-4 days after the incident, I fell into a strong trance state. My brain did not turn off, my heart rhythms were normal. But it felt like I was going out of my body - and I couldn't stop it.
It even seemed to me that I was at a consultation of doctors, where my case was being analyzed: they were discussing how to restore my ability to walk. Like, the operation did not go as planned. And I heard one phrase: clinical death lasted 40 seconds. I was very interested in this fact, and I began to think: how long does it take for the brain to die? ..
The next day I discussed what happened with the doctor. He treated me with great confidence, assured me that nothing catastrophic for the body had happened, and joked, they say, “you will be a psychic - you know such stories when unusual abilities were revealed after clinical death.”
When I fell asleep, I had the feeling that I was literally being sucked into sleep. Of course, our brain creates different images. I saw a very bright light, insanely white. He doesn't hit the eyes. You can look at him endlessly. You look at it - and you see the continuation. It's like there's something behind the light.
If describe physical changes that happened to me after clinical death, then my level of vision began to fall. Now I have severe myopia. Also, thanks to NDEs, my sensitivity became really extremely strong. It seems that I understood the essence of all things - from the branch outside the window, to the bed in the room.
Having survived stressful conditions, I clearly understand: the brain began to work differently. Including as a neuropsychophysiologist, I can clearly explain that during any stressful effect on the body, a huge amount of free energy is released. Resentments, feelings, memories come out. A person does not discover something ingenious. It's just that the brain becomes clear and perceives information in a new way.
Everything happens for a reason. And you need to ask not “why did this happen to me?”, But “why do I need this?”.
Natalya Yakovenko, psychologist, psychoanalyst, head of the PsychoAnalitik.by Center for Psychology and Psychoanalysis:
“To touch death is like touching a hot frying pan. This is a very strong feeling. A person suddenly realizes something important - finiteness own life. Because we don't really believe in our own death. This is how our psyche works.
When we come into contact with the reality of death in one way or another, we experience shock. It is valuable in that we have the opportunity to reconsider our lives and somehow distribute resources, realizing that we are not eternal and that it is impossible to live indefinitely with an unloved person or do an unloved thing. We understand that we have a certain amount of time, and, accordingly, this time increases in value. Because people quickly rethink many things, they are ready for change much more than others. At the same time, it cannot be said that all people who have experienced such states have changed their lives. This only works if the person is able to interpret events and draw conclusions.
In a state of shock, the body enters a large number of adrenaline. And since we biological beings and our main task is to survive, the body reacts to danger in a certain way: it turns on all its resources to the maximum and the brain, among other things, uses additional reserves. There is a very interesting phenomenon - dissociation, a kind of exit from the body. A person, being in a situation of acute trauma, which he is unable to survive without being destroyed, separates from his body and observes what is happening from the side. This saves him from destruction - "what is happening now is not happening to him." Dissociation is a psychological defense mechanism. What our psyche uses in a stressful situation in order to save itself.
IS DR MOODY RIGHT?
“I once had a heart attack. I suddenly discovered that I was in a black vacuum, and I realized that I had left my physical body. I knew I was dying, and I thought, “God, I wouldn't live like this if I knew what was going to happen now. Please help me". And immediately I began to come out of this blackness and saw something pale gray, and I continued to move, to slide in this space. Then I saw a gray tunnel and went towards it. It seemed to me that I was not moving towards it as fast as I would like, because I realized that by moving closer, I could see something through it. Behind this tunnel I saw people. They looked the same as on the ground. There I saw something that could be mistaken for pictures of mood. Everything was permeated with amazing light: life-giving, golden yellow, warm and soft, completely different from the light that we see on earth. As I got closer, I felt like I was going through a tunnel. It was an amazing, joyful feeling. There are simply no words in human language to describe it. Only my time to cross this fog has probably not yet come. Right in front of me, I saw my uncle Carl, who died many years ago. He blocked my way, say: “Go back, your work on earth is not finished yet. Now come back.” I didn't want to go, but I had no choice, so I returned to my body. And again I felt this terrible pain in my chest and heard my little son crying and screaming: “God, bring mommy back!”.
“I saw how they lifted my body and pulled it out of the car, then I felt like I was being dragged through some kind of limited space, something like a funnel. It was dark and black in there, and I quickly moved through this funnel back to my body. When I was "poured" back, it seemed to me that this "pouring" began from the head, as if I was entering from the head. I didn't feel like I could talk about it, I didn't even have time to think about it. Before that, I was within a few yards of my body, and all of a sudden everything took a reverse turn. I didn’t even have time to figure out what was the matter, I was “poured” into my body.”
“I was taken to the hospital in critical condition. They said that I would not survive, they invited my relatives, because I must die soon. The family came in and surrounded my bed. At that moment, when the doctor decided that I had died, my relatives became distant to me, as if they began to move away from me. 
It really looked like I wasn't moving away from them, but they were starting to move further and further away from me. It was getting darker, and yet I could see them. Then I lost consciousness and did not see what was happening in the ward. I was in a narrow Y-shaped tunnel, like the curved back of this chair. This tunnel was shaped to match my body. My arms and legs seemed to be folded at the seams. I began to enter this tunnel, moving forward. It was as dark as dark in there. I moved down through it. Then I looked ahead and saw a beautiful polished door without any handles. From under the edges of the door, I saw a very bright light. Its rays came out in such a way that it was clear that everyone there, behind the door, was very happy. These beams kept moving and rotating. It seemed that there, behind the door, everyone was terribly busy. Then they brought me back, and so quickly that it took my breath away.
“I heard the doctors said I was dead. And then I felt how I began to fall or, as it were, to swim through some kind of blackness, some kind of closed space. Words cannot describe it. Everything was very black, and only in the distance I could see this light. Very, very bright light, but small at first. It got bigger as I got closer to it. I tried to get closer to this light, because I felt that it was something higher. I aspired to get there. It wasn't scary. It was more or less pleasant…”
“I got up and went into another room to pour something to drink, and at that very moment, as I was later told, I had a perforated appendicitis, I felt very weak and fell. Then everything seemed to float strongly, and I felt the vibration of my being, torn from the body, and heard beautiful music. I floated around the room and then through the door I was transported to the veranda. And there it seemed to me that some kind of cloud began to gather around me through a pink mist. And then I floated past through the partition, as if it were not there at all, towards the transparent clear light.
It was beautiful, so brilliant, so radiant, but it didn't blind me at all. It was an unearthly light. I did not really see anyone in this light, and yet there was a special individuality in her ... It was the light of absolute understanding and perfect love. In my mind I heard: “Do you love me?” It wasn't stated in the form of a specific question, but I think the meaning can be expressed as: "If you really love me, go back and finish what you started in your life." And all the while, I felt surrounded by all-consuming love and compassion.”
The phenomenon of post-mortem visions in people who were in a state of clinical death is not denied by anyone. However, Moody, as a conscientious researcher, also considers other explanations for OVS, dividing them into three types: supernatural, natural (scientific), and psychological. I have already spoken about the supernatural. As scientific, Moody offers pharmacological, physiological, and neurological explanations. Let's consider them in order.
*Moody, however, is forced to point out that his RVO patients described their experiences in terms that are only analogies or metaphors. Due to the different nature of the “other world”, these sensations cannot be adequately conveyed.
STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN IN HELL
Most often, after clinical death, people remember something pleasant: extraterrestrial light, communication with benevolent beings, a feeling of happiness.
But, sometimes there are stories that describe a terrible place full of suffering and despair, i.e. hell.
Assistant engineer Thomas Welch from Oregon stumbled and fell from a height, hitting the rungs of the scaffolding, into the water while working on a future sawmill. This was seen by several people, and a search was immediately organized. About an hour later he was found and brought back to life. But, the soul of Thomas in this period of time was far from the place of the tragedy. Having fallen from the bridges, he unexpectedly found himself near a huge fiery ocean.
This sight struck him, inspired horror and reverence. A lake of fire stretched around him and occupied all space, it seethed and rumbled. There was no one in it, and Thomas himself watched him from the side. But, around, not in the lake itself, but next to it, there were quite a lot of people. Thomas even recognized one of those present, although he did not speak to him. They once studied together, but he died as a child from cancer. The people around were in some kind of thoughtfulness, as if they were confused, puzzled by the spectacle of a terrible lake of fire, next to which they found themselves. Thomas himself realized that together with them he was in a prison from which there was no way out. He thought that if he had known in advance about the existence of such a place, he would have tried during his lifetime to do everything in his power not to return here. As soon as these thoughts flashed through his head, an angel appeared before him. Thomas was delighted, because he believed that he would help him get out of there, but he did not dare to ask for help. He walked past without paying attention to him, but before leaving, he turned and looked at him. After the soul of Thomas was returned to his body. He heard the voices of people nearby, and then he was able to open his eyes and speak.
This case was described in the book Moritz S. Roolings "Beyond the threshold of death." There you can also read a few more stories about how, during clinical death, souls ended up in Hell.
Another patient started severe pain due to inflammation of the pancreas. He was given medication, but they did not help much, he lost consciousness. At that moment, he began to leave through a long tunnel, surprised that he did not touch his feet, moved as if floating in space. This place was very similar to a dungeon or a cave, filled with eerie sounds and smells of decay. He forgot part of what he saw, but villains emerged in his memory, whose appearance was only half human. They spoke their own language and mimicked each other. In desperation, the dying man shouted: "Save me!". Immediately a man in white clothes appeared and looked at him. He felt an indication that it was necessary to live differently. The man didn't remember anything else. Perhaps consciousness did not want to keep in memory all the horrors that he saw there.
Kenneth E. Hagin, who became a minister after a near-death experience, described his visions and experiences in the booklet My Testimony.
April 21, 1933 his heart stopped beating and his soul separated from his body. She began to descend lower and lower until the light of the earth completely disappeared. At the very end, he found himself in pitch darkness, absolute blackness, where he could not even see the hand raised to his eyes. The further he descended, the more hot and stuffy the space around him became. Then he found himself in front of the road to the underworld, where the lights of Hell were visible. A fiery sphere with white crests was approaching him, which began to attract him to itself. The soul did not want to go, but could not resist, because. attracted like iron to a magnet. Kenneth was engulfed in heat. He ended up at the bottom of the hole. There was a creature next to him. He ignored him at first, mesmerized by the picture of Hell spread out before him, but this being placed a hand between his elbow and shoulder to guide him into hell itself. At this time, a voice was heard. The future priest did not understand the words, but he felt his strength and power. At that moment, his companion loosened his grip, and some force pulled him up. He found himself in his room and slipped into his body the same way he had come out, through his mouth. The grandmother with whom he spoke, waking up, admitted that she thought he was already dead.
There are descriptions of Hell in Orthodox books. One man, tormented by an illness, prayed to God to deliver him from suffering. The angel sent by him suggested to the sufferer that instead of one year on earth, spend 3 hours in hell in order to cleanse his soul. He agreed. But, as it turned out, in vain. It was the most disgusting place that can be imagined. Everywhere there was crowding, darkness, spirits of malice hovered, the cries of sinners were heard, there was only suffering. The patient's soul experienced inexpressible fear and languor, but no one responded to his cries for help except for the infernal echo and the bubbling of the flame. It seemed to him that he was there for an eternity, although the Angel who visited him explained that only an hour had passed. The sufferer begged to be taken away from this terrible place, and was released, after which he patiently endured his illness.
Pictures of Hell are scary and unattractive, but they give a reason to think about a lot, to reconsider your attitude to life, to your desires and goals.
THE STORY OF A FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOY
This amazing real mystical story happened seven years ago. During a family vacation in Colorado. Colton Burpo, 4, has a burst appendix. As the doctors said, peritonitis has begun and the child's condition is critical. The operation was very difficult, even the doctors did not strongly believe in a successful outcome.
His parents Todd and Sonya were very worried about their son. It was their only child, a year before the birth of Corlton, Sonya had a miscarriage, then doctors told her heartbroken mother that it was a girl. Some time after the operation, waking up, the son told them an amazing, real story full of mysticism.
In his story, he told why the angel is dreaming. At first, he watched for some time, as if from the side of praying parents, and then ended up in an incredibly beautiful place. The first person he met there was his unborn sister. She explained to him that this amazing place is called Paradise, that she does not have a name, since her parents did not give her one. The boy then said that he met his great-grandfather, who died more than 30 years before the birth of Corlton. Grandpa was young, and not the way the boy remembered in the photographs recent years life.
The child told about the incredibly beautiful streets of gold. There is never night, and the sky plays with all the colors of the rainbow. Each inhabitant has an incredible radiance above their heads and they dress in long white robes with multi-colored ribbons. He was also struck by the gates of Paradise, they were made of pure gold with many precious stones inserted into the gate in the form of a mosaic.
Corlton currently lives with his parents in the small town of Imperial, Nebraska. The boy is perfectly healthy and studies at a local school. He is already 11 years old, but as he says, everything that he saw during the operation still stands before his eyes today.
Parents wrote and published a book about this real mystical history what happened to their son. The book was sold in large numbers. It was also published in the UK. These are the sometimes seemingly fantastic cases that happen to people. This happens when it seems that a person has already crossed the line from which there is no return. But they come back to life, which confuses both doctors and materialistic scientists.
BILL WISS. 23 MINUTES IN HELL
… We were on our way to the meeting. Suddenly a blow, a bright light. I remember that I ended up in a cell with stone walls and bars on the doors. That is, if you imagine an ordinary prison cell, that's where I ended up. But in this cell I was not alone, there were four other creatures with me.
At first I did not understand who these beings were, then I realized and saw that they were demons. I also remember when I got there, I had no physical strength, I was powerless. There was such weakness and impotence, as if I had no muscles at all. I also remember that there was a terrible heat in this cell.
The body looked like my real ones, only a little different. The demons were tearing at my flesh, but when they did, no blood came out of my body, there was no liquid, but I felt pain. I remember that they picked me up and threw me against the wall, and after that, all my bones kind of broke. And when I was going through this, I thought that I should die now, I should die after all these injuries and from this heat. I wondered how it was that I was still alive.
There was also the smell of sulfur and burning flesh. At that time, I had not yet seen anyone who would burn in my presence, but I knew this smell, it was the familiar smell of burning flesh and sulfur.
The demons that I saw there and that tormented me, they were about 12-13 feet tall, about four meters, and in their appearance they looked like reptile reptiles.
I know, because I saw what came from them, the level of intelligence, considerations they had was zero. I also noticed that they did not have any mercy at the time when they hurt me and I was tormented, they did not show any mercy. But their strength, their physical strength was about a thousand times greater than the strength of an ordinary person, so the person who was there could not fight with them and resist them.
When the demons continued to torment me, I tried to get rid of them, I tried to crawl out of this cell of mine. I looked in one direction, but there was impenetrable darkness, and there I heard millions of human screams. These were very loud screams. And I also had this knowledge that there are so many prison cells like mine and there were like pits in a burning fire. And when I looked in the other direction, I could see tongues of fire emanating from the earth, which, as it were, even illuminated the sky. And there I saw such a pit, or lake of fire, that was maybe three miles wide. And when these fiery tongues rose, they illuminated, so that I could see what was happening around me. The air was full of stench and smoke. The landscape of this area, the landscape was all brown and dark, there was no greenery. There was not a drop of moisture or water anywhere around me in that place, and I had such intense thirst that I wanted even a drop of water. It would have been precious to me to receive even a drop of water from anyone, but there was no such thing.
I know that I was there very a short time, but for me then it seemed that I had been there for an eternity. And there I especially understood the meaning of the word "eternity."
BOB JONES. JOURNEY TO HEAVEN
This happened on the seventh of August 1975
My son and daughter-in-law brought me home and put me to bed. It fell on my body unbearable pain in all entrails. I started bleeding heavily from my mouth. The pain grew stronger and stronger and suddenly, in an instant, everything stopped. I saw that my body was separating from me. Rather, I separated from the body, not really understanding what was happening, and headed towards the light emanating from the entrance to the unusual corridor-tunnel. This light attracted me, and I flew along this corridor filled with light. And suddenly, it dawned on me - I died. An angel in white flew beside me.
We went out with the Angel from the tunnel-corridor into the space of a completely different world. There was a sky reminiscent of the earth, but its color was an indescribably lively, blue-gold color, constantly changing its modulations. I saw a lot of people like me who left the Earth. We gathered together, and in a single stream, moved somewhere, but where only the angels who accompanied us knew where. After a while, we approached the border dividing the spaces. The border was unusual and resembled the shell of a soap bubble - transparent and very thin. The passage through it was accompanied by a strange sound resembling cotton. The shell seemed to break through, throwing each of us into another dimension and instantly slamming behind each one.
Passing through this border, I saw that we were moving towards a distant, luminous point. As we approached, our hearts sank at the splendor emanating from the heavenly settlement. It was one of the cities of the Heavenly Kingdom. The angels slowly began to build our moving line to the gates of the city.
In front of the gate, the Angels divided the line into two - left and right. The left one was huge. If we compare them in percentage terms, then in the left there were 98% of people, and in the right - only 2%. The closer we got to the gate, the brighter the inner essence of each was manifested. If a person was an egoist, strove for power, enslaving others, this was evident. One could distinguish between bank employees cheating depositors, musicians, computer scientists, businessmen, and so on. I became uncomfortable.
I thought: “What if something is wrong with me?” And furtively looked at his angels. They told me that I would return to Earth to tell about what I saw. And they added that few would believe me.
HISTORY OF BORIS PILIPCHUK
Surprisingly, our contemporary policeman Boris Pilipchuk, who survived clinical death, also spoke about the shining gates and the palace of gold and silver in paradise:
“Behind the fiery gates, I saw a cube shining with gold. He was huge."
The shock from the bliss experienced in paradise was so great that after the resurrection, Boris Pilipchuk completely changed his life. He quit drinking and smoking. His wife did not recognize his former husband in him:
“He was often rude, but now Boris is always gentle and affectionate. I believed that it was him only after he told me about cases that only the two of us knew about. But at first it was scary to sleep with a person who had returned from the other world, as if with a dead person. The ice melted only after a miracle happened he called the exact date the birth of our unborn child, day and hour. I gave birth exactly at the time he named.
VANGA AND GOD
The extraordinary abilities of the Bulgarian clairvoyant from Petrich shocked the whole world at one time. It was visited by heads of powers, famous actors, artists, politicians, psychics and ordinary people. Every day, Vanga received many people who came to her for help, sometimes a visit to her was the last consolation for them. Grandmother Vanga not only predicted, but was also a healer, treated with herbs. In her selfless help to people, Vanga denied herself rest and treatment, even when she was already well over eighty. After all, hundreds of suffering people gathered near her house every day, sometimes coming to her from thousands of kilometers away. Vanga could not refuse ....
Grandmother Vanga always said that her gift was from God, since he took her eyesight from her, but in return gave another. According to her, it was impossible to somehow study her gift, or explain it logically, because God himself gave her knowledge and guided her fate. And God has his own logic, which is different from human.
Vanga saw God. According to her, they look completely different from what is commonly believed. She described it as a ball of fire, woven from light, which hurts the eyes to look at. Vanga warned of the need to lead a righteous life in order to see with your own eyes a new, joyful life after the second coming. She perceived God as a higher being, consisting of love and light, she thanks him for her extraordinary fate and the bestowed gift of foresight. Vanga trusts God until the last day of his life, praying for the health of his family and friends and for the future of all mankind.
Here are some of her words:
“Be kinder so as not to suffer anymore, a person is born for good deeds. The bad guys don't go unpunished."
“My gift is from God. He deprived me of sight, but gave me other eyes with which I see the world - both visible and invisible ... "
“How many books have been written, but no one will give a final answer if they don’t understand and admit that there is a spiritual world (heaven) and a physical one (earth) and a supreme power, call it whatever you want, which created us.”
JENNIFER REZ. HELL IS REALITY
My name is Jennifer Perez and I am 15 years old. I was visiting friends, we drank something. I became uncomfortable, I lost consciousness. Suddenly, I felt my spirit leaving my body. I saw my body lying on the bed. When I turned around, I saw two people. They said, “Come with us,” and grabbed my arms. And told me that I was meant to go in Hell
An angel came and took my arm. Then we began to fall down at a very high speed. As we fell, it got hotter and hotter. When we stopped, I opened my eyes and saw that I was standing on a high road. I began to look around and saw people tormented by demons.
There was a girl there, she suffered a lot, the demon mocked her. This demon cut off her head and stabbed her everywhere with his spear. It didn't matter to him where, in the eyes, in the body, in the legs, in the hands. Then he put the head back on the body and continued to prick it. She sobbed with cries of agony. Her body was dying and rebuilding again, endless agony of death.
Then I saw another demon, this demon was tormenting a young man of 21-23 years old. This man had a chain around his neck. He was standing near the fire pit. The demon stabbed him with his long spear. Then he grabbed him by the hair and with the help of a chain threw the guy into a pit with fire. After that, the demon pulled him out of the fire and continued to stab him with a spear. This went on and on, without end.
I turned around and looked at my Angel, he was looking up. I thought he didn't want to watch other people being tortured. He looked down at me and said, "You have another chance." We moved back to the gate.
I was shown the Earth on something like a screen. They also showed me the future. People will know the truth. You should check how you live and ask yourself the question: “Am I ready for this moment?” He showed me this, but told me not to tell anyone, but to wait and watch the moment come. I warn you that advent is near!
JOHN REYNOLDS. FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN HELL
During 1887 and 1888, horse thief prisoner George Lennox worked in a coal mine. One day the roof collapsed on him and completely buried him. Suddenly, complete darkness fell, then a large iron door seemed to swing open and I stepped through the opening. The thought that pierced me was - I'm dead and in another world. 
Soon I was met by a creature that is completely indescribable. I can only give a faint outline of this terrible phenomenon. It resembled a human to some extent, but it was much larger than any human I had ever seen. He was 3 meters tall, had huge wings on his back, black as coal, which I mined, and completely naked. In his hands he held a spear, the handle of which was probably 15 feet long. His eyes burned like fireballs. The teeth were like pearls and one and a half centimeters long. The nose, if you can call it that, is very large, wide and flat. Her hair was coarse and coarse and hung long over her massive shoulders. I saw him in a flash of light and trembled like an aspen leaf. He raised his spear as if he wanted to pierce me. With his terrible voice, which I seem to hear even now, he offered to follow him, saying that he was sent to accompany me ...
…I saw a lake of fire. The fiery sulfur lake stretched before me as far as the eye could see. Large fiery waves, were like sea waves during a strong storm. People were lifted high on the crests of the waves and then promptly thrown down into the depths of the terrible fiery inferno. Once on the crest of the fiery waves for a moment, they let out heart-rending cries. This vast underworld resounded again and again with the lamentations of abandoned souls.
Soon I turned my gaze to the door through which I entered a few minutes ago, and read these terrible words: “This is your doom. Eternity never ends." I felt something begin to pull me back and I opened my eyes while in the prison hospital.
CLINICAL DEATH
The case, which will be discussed further, is also not something special, except for the moment that the protagonist, Tatyana Vanicheva, managed to reasonably take advantage of her incorporeal state and looked twice at the clock lying on her nightstand: at the moment of leaving body and at the time of return. Interestingly, at least half an hour passed between these events. Moreover, the resuscitators took up her body just after this period. Well, for half an hour of being in the astral world, the woman managed to see and experience very curious things.
She sent her story in 1997 to the editorial office of one of the Rostov newspapers, of course, knowing nothing about Professor Spivak's research.
“It was November 3, 1986 at 4:15 pm. I was in the hospital. But since it was not the first time she gave birth and practically did not scream, the medical staff rarely approached me. I was alone in the antenatal ward and lay on the bed. Nearby, on the bedside table, on the opposite edge from me, lay my watch. This moment is very important: it was the watch that gave me proof that everything that happened to me was not nonsense and not a dream.
Feeling the onset of labor, I call the midwife, but she does not come. And then, with my last cry, I gave birth and ... died. That is, only a few minutes later I realized that I had died, but for now there was only a short-term loss of consciousness. I woke up and found myself standing next to the bed. I looked at the bed, and I was lying on it myself! She shook her head, felt herself with her hands: no, no, here I am! I stand, alive and normal! Who is lying?
It became uncomfortable. I can even feel the hair on my head moving. She stroked them mechanically with her hand. At that moment I looked at the clock: 16.15. Does that mean I'm dead? This explains why I am standing and lying on the bed at the same time. But what about my child? She stepped from the bedside table and did not feel the floor, but I was barefoot! She ran her hand over the body - but I'm completely naked, the shirt remained on the one that lies on the bed! Is it still me? F-fu, disgusting! Is this fat carcass me? Once again she ran her hands over her body: a strong, slender body, as in her youth, about fifteen years old. She remembered that she wanted to look at the child, leaned lower ... God, freak! My baby is ugly! Lord, why? And then I feel something pulling me. I began to look for a way out of the room and flew out of the hospital. I'm flying! All up and up. Already the sky has turned black, here is space - I'm flying! She flew for a long time. There are billions of stars around - how beautiful! I feel, I'm getting closer ... where, why? Do not know. And then there was light. Warm, lively, infinitely native. An incredibly blissful feeling spread through my body - I'm at home! Finally I'm home!
But then the light turned a little colder, and a voice was heard. He was strict: “Where are you going?” I feel that it’s impossible to speak loudly here, and I quietly answer: “Home ...”
It was cold and dark all around. I fly back. Where exactly, I don’t know, I moved like a thread. Even though I didn't see her. She returned to her home. I'm standing by the bed. Again I look at myself. What a disgusting body! How you don't want to go back. But you can't argue with the voice. We must return. And then it occurred to me that I (that is, the one on the bed) needed help - she died!
Went into the staff room, feeling quite real. And there I faced the fact that they can’t see or hear me! I push the midwife, the baby nurse, but my hands go through them. I scream, but they don't hear! What to do? There is a child, he will die without help! Let the freak, but it's my child! I have to help him!
Came out. I hear the midwife say: “Something Vanicheva stopped talking, should I go take a look? Haven't you given birth yet? She's always not like people. I'll go and see."
The midwife got up and ran into the room. And I, before returning to my body, mechanically looked at the clock: 16 hours 40 minutes. And - returned. True, not immediately. I also saw how frightened the midwife was, how she ran after the doctor and how they began to prick me. I hear: “Lord, she died! No pulse, no pressure… Oh, what should I do?”
All right, I have to go. Came close to the head, an instant loss of consciousness - and here I am lying on the bed and opening my eyes. “Well, not bad this time, huh?” I ask. In response, a relieved sigh from the midwife: “Ugh, how you scared us, Tanya.”
For a while I thought that everything told here was just a dream. But no matter how I tried to see the clock on the nightstand from the bed, it didn’t work. If she had risen from the bed and sat down, she would certainly have crushed the child. And he is alive and well to this day.
I also asked the doctor if I could be delusional? She replied that this only happens with childbed fever, but I have never had a fever for as long as I gave birth. One thing I know for sure that it was all! Few believed me, whom I told. I even visited a psychiatrist: everything is fine with my psyche.”
MARVIN FORD. I GO TO THE SKY
Marvin Ford was in the hospital after a serious heart attack. He survived clinical death. … I saw such a dazzling sight that I had never seen and could not even imagine in my entire life! The beauty, grandeur, splendor of that city was breathtaking! The golden color and rays of light that emanated from this city were blinding to the eyes. Just not for my eyes. My spirit saw it.
I saw jasper walls! The walls were completely transparent because the light from within that city was so bright that absolutely nothing could resist it. And I saw precious and semi-precious stones in the foundation of these walls. The Pearly Gates look like they are at least 1,500 kilometers in diameter.
And I saw, from wall to wall, streets, millions of kilometers of solid gold streets. Not paved with gold, as one poet wrote, but those streets of solid gold, completely and absolutely transparent. Oh, what splendor and beauty, and the rays of light that emanated from those streets!
And I saw, on every side of the streets of gold, mansions. I saw huge estates and I saw small houses, I saw mansions of all sizes in between. And being a builder, I'm interested in building and I'm good with buildings. And I looked at everything in this city, even more than the city itself, to find out what these mansions are built of. And you know what? I could not find! All of them have been completed...
MY WAY TO SALVATION WAS THROUGH HELL
…I ended up in hellish hell. There was absolute darkness and silence all around. The most painful thing was the lack of time. But the suffering was absolutely real. Just me, suffering and eternity. And now chills run through the body at the memory of this horror. Here he was screaming for help. Then he returned to reality.
But five minutes later, I completely forgot about it. I wanted to poke again. Now this seems very strange to me. My life began to crumble. I lost everything I had: home, job, family, friends. Everything crumbled like a house of cards. All those values that I was guided by have lost their significance. My life has become like a series of nightmares. Whatever I took on, it led me to best case to big trouble.
Once I tried to do a scam to get a large amount of money. And everything seemed to have ended happily, but my accomplices decided to do without me. Under a far-fetched pretext, they lured me to Rostov and tried to kill me. Some poison was put into my vodka. According to the doctors, it was a "cardiotoxic substance."
I vaguely remember how it all happened. Suddenly came clinical death. And hell again. Or at least its prelude. I felt like I was tied to a table, like those in a morgue, and some terrible demonic creature was preparing to cut me open, sorting through jingling instruments. I screamed and struggled, but to no avail. I was brought back again ... I survived ...
DESCRIPTION OF PARADISE
Paradise is a wonderful place filled with light, pleasant smells, where the soul soars and enjoys.
Visions of paradise are also experienced by people who have experienced clinical death.
So, Betty Maltz spoke about her visions after clinical death. She traveled on a green hill, walked on grass of an unusually bright green color. She was surrounded by multi-colored flowers, trees and shrubs, and although the sun was not visible, the whole space was flooded with bright light. She was accompanied by a tall man in loose clothing, most likely an angel. Together they approached a silver structure that looked like a palace. The melodious singing of a harmonious choir of voices could be heard all around. Before them appeared a gate about 4 meters high, made of a single pearl sheet. An angel touched them and they opened. Inside, a golden-colored street was visible with a ceiling of something shiny, resembling either glass or water. There was a bright yellow light inside. She was invited to enter, but then the woman remembered her father. The gates slammed shut and she started down the hill, only seeing the sunrise over the jeweled wall as parting.
John Myers' book "Voices at the Edge of Eternity" describes the experience of a woman who also went to heaven. As soon as her soul left her body, she entered a place flooded with light. She believed that all earthly joys were incomparable with what she experienced there. Her soul reveled in beauty, constantly felt the presence of harmony, joy, sympathy, she herself wanted to merge, become part of this beauty. Around her were trees, both covered with fruits and fragrant flowers, and she herself dreamed of frolicking with a crowd of children in an apple orchard.
Virginia physician George Ritchie had only a few moments of admiring the pictures of paradise. He saw a radiant city in which everything shone: houses, streets, and walls, and the inhabitants of this world were also woven of light.
There is an entire chapter in R. Moody's Reflections on Life After Life called "Cities of Light". It also tells about the people who visited these fabulous places.
One man who survived a cardiac arrest flew through a tunnel and was caught in a bright light, beautiful, golden, coming from a source unknown to him. He was everywhere, occupied all the surrounding space.
Then music began to sound, and it seemed to him that he was among trees, streams, mountains. But it turned out that he was mistaken, there was nothing similar nearby, but there was a feeling of the presence of people. He didn't see them, he just knew they were there. At the same time, he was filled with a sense of the perfection of the world, he felt satisfaction and love, he himself became a particle of this love.
A woman who survived clinical death left her body at that very moment. She stood by the bed and saw herself from the side, felt how the nurse went through her, heading for an oxygen mask. Then she floated up, found herself in a tunnel, and went out to a shining light. She found herself in a wonderful place filled with bright colors, indescribable and not similar to earthly ones. The whole space was filled with sparkling light. There were many happy people in it, some of whom also glowed. In the distance was a city, with buildings, fountains, sparkling water... It was filled with light. There were also happy people was playing great music.
Colton Barpo, a four-year-old boy, was between life and death. To save him, an urgent operation was needed, the success of which the doctors themselves were not sure of. But, the boy survived, and, besides that, he told about his amazing journey to paradise. His description of the place is similar to the stories of other eyewitnesses: streets of gold, many shades of color, etc. But, most surprisingly, Colton was able to prove the authenticity of what he saw. He said that he had met a sister in heaven who was very much like him. She began to hug her brother, saying that she was very glad to meet a member of her family, told that she missed her parents. When the boy asked her name, she said that they did not have time to give it to her. As it turned out, a year before the birth of the boy, his mother had a miscarriage, i.e. sister really could be born. However, Colton himself did not know about this. The boy also met his great-grandfather in Paradise, who died 30 years before his birth. After this meeting, he recognized him in a photograph where he was depicted as a young man. According to the boy's stories, the inhabitants of Paradise forgot what old age is, and lived in it forever young. Colton's father, Pastor Todd Barpo, wrote a book about everything his son experienced, called Heaven and Truth, which became a bestseller.
People who visited Paradise were amazed not only by its unearthly beauty, but also by their feelings: a sense of serenity, universal love and harmony. Perhaps this is the key moment of heavenly bliss. The ability to love, to give love to others is rewarded even on earth, and in heaven souls are immersed in this world of light and love in order to stay in it forever.
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE FROM SHARON STONE
On the Oprah Winfrey show, which took place on May 27, 2004, actress Sharon Stone shared with the public her experience of near-death experience.
"I saw a lot of white light," Stone said. It happened after she had an MRI. She was unconscious during the session, and when she woke up, she told the doctors that she had experienced clinical death.
"It's like fainting, only you can't get over it for longer," she says. Stone suffered a stroke in 2001.
Her out-of-body experience began with a flash of white light.
“I saw a lot of white light and my friends who have already died, they spoke to me. My grandmother came up to me and told me to trust the doctors, and then I returned back to my body, ”said the actress.
However, the experience did not surprise Sharon, she felt "an incredible sense of well-being" and described her condition as wonderful: "It is very close and very safe ... a feeling of love, tenderness and happiness, and there is nothing to be afraid of."
JOURNEY TO HELL
Each person who has experienced a short trip to the next world has his own story, his own experience. Many researchers have repeatedly been surprised at how similar the pictures described by people in different parts of the world are, regardless of their lifestyle, education, religious views. But, sometimes there, beyond, a person finds himself in a reality that looks more like a terrible fairy tale, which we call hell.
What is the classic description of hell?
You can read about him in The Acts of Thomas, where everything is presented accessible and plain language. The story is told on behalf of a sinful woman who visited this place of darkness and told in detail about everything she saw.
She, accompanied by a terrible creature in soiled clothes, found herself in an area with many abysses, from where deadly fumes rose.
Peering into one of the pits, she saw flames swirling around like a whirlwind. Souls swirled in it, colliding with each other, making screams and noises. They couldn't get out of this cycle. In this place, those who on earth entered into illegal relations with each other were punished.
Those who abandoned their spouses in order to unite with others suffered in the second abyss, in the mud, among the worms.
Elsewhere there was a collection of souls suspended by various parts of the body. As the guide explained, each punishment corresponded to sin: those hung by the tongue were in life slanderers, liars, foul-mouthed; the shameless and loitering were hung up by the hair; by the hands of thieves and those who did not come to the aid of those in need, but preferred to take everything wealth to yourself; they hung by the legs those who lived dissolutely, walked in bad ways, not caring about other people.
Then the woman was taken to a cave filled with stench, from where the captives tried to escape at least for a second to take a breath of fresh air, but were stopped. The guards also tried to send the soul of this traveler to carry out punishment, but the creature accompanying her did not allow this to be done, because. he was not ordered to leave her in hell.
The woman managed to get out, after which she decided to change her life so as not to be there again.
Reading these and similar stories, you involuntarily begin to think that they are like a fairy tale. The punishments are too cruel, the pictures are implausible, the content is frightening. However, there are more modern and reliable sources from which we can learn that not everything described above is the product of the fantasy of religious fanatics, and there is a place full of horror and suffering. Doctor medical sciences Moritz S. Roolings was unsure of the existence of the afterlife, as were most of his colleagues. But one case in practice made him take the experiences of people who survived clinical death more seriously, and later even reconsider his views on life.
One of his patients with heart disease during testing felt worse, fell to the floor, and the instruments at that moment showed a complete cardiac arrest. The doctor, along with his assistants, did everything to revive the man, but the results were short-lived. As soon as the doctor interrupted the manual massage chest breathing stopped and the heart stopped beating. But, in the intervals when his rhythm was restored, this man screamed that he was in hell and asked the doctor not to stop and bring him back to life. His face was distorted by a terrible grimace, horror was written on his face, the pupils were dilated, and he himself was sweating and trembling. The man asked the doctor to get him out of this terrible place. Later, the doctor, impressed by everything he saw, decided to talk to this man to find out all the details of what he saw in hell. After clinical death, the man became a believer, although he rarely went to church before.
This is not the only case in the practice of Rawlings, when his patient is in the underworld. It also talks about a girl who decides to kill herself because of a bad report card and minor fights with her parents. The doctors did everything they could to bring her to her senses. In those moments when she regained consciousness, she asked her mother to protect her from someone who hurt her. At first, everyone thought that she was talking about doctors, but the girl said something else: “them, those demons in hell… They didn’t want to leave me… They wanted me… I couldn’t go back… It was so terrible!”… she later became a missionary .
Very often, those who have been between life and death talk about unusual meetings, about flights in unknown distances, but rarely does anyone describe their short-term death full of torment, suffering and fear. But, as it turned out, many people could have such memories if the caring subconscious did not hide them as deep as possible so as not to poison life with thoughts of torment, or, for some other reason unknown to us.
DON PIPER'S CLINICAL DEATH STORY
Piper had an accident on January 18, 1989. He was declared dead. After 1.5 hours, life returned to Piper. During this time, he managed to make an unforgettable journey to the next world.
At the moment of death, Piper felt that he was flying through a long dark tunnel. Suddenly, he was enveloped in a very bright light beyond description. He recalled that joy vibrated in him. Looking around, he noticed a very beautiful gate to the city and a group of people in front of it. It turned out that all these people were his acquaintances, who died during his lifetime. They were very happy to meet, smiled. There were a lot of them and they were very happy. This whole picture was filled with the brightest colors, warm light and delighted with beauty, unprecedented sensations. Piper felt that everyone loved him, he absorbed this love, enjoying what was happening. The people around him were beautiful, without wrinkles or signs of aging, they looked the same as he remembered them in life.
The gates of Paradise sparkled brighter than the light that surrounded them. Everything there literally shone in such a way that human speech is not able to convey it. They went ahead as a group. There was also a bright light outside the gate. That radiance that was at the beginning, emanating from those who met, began to gradually pale in comparison with this light. The further they moved, the more light there was. Then the music appeared, very pleasant and beautiful, which did not stop. She filled his soul and heart. Piper felt that he had returned home, he did not want to leave this place.
Above the whole group appeared the gates of the city, huge, but with a small entrance. They were mother-of-pearl, iridescent, shone and shimmered. Behind them was a city with cobbled streets of solid gold. Those who met went to the gate and called Piper with them. But, unexpectedly, he left this place, filled with peace and joy, and found himself on Earth.
After his miraculous return to life, Don Piper was bedridden, underwent 34 operations. He talks about all this in more detail in his book 90 Minutes in Heaven. His courage and steadfastness helped many to believe in themselves and to accept with humility and gratitude all the trials that so often fall on the lot of a simple person.
STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED NEAR DEATH
What could be more mysterious than death?
No one knows what lurks there, beyond life. However, from time to time there are testimonies of people who have been in a state of clinical death and talk about extraordinary visions: tunnels, bright lights, meetings with angels, deceased relatives, etc.
I read a lot about near-death experiences, and even once watched a program where people who survived it spoke. Each of them told very convincing stories, how he appeared in the afterlife, what happened there and all that ... Personally, I believe in clinical death, it really exists, and scientists confirm this from a scientific point of view. They explain this phenomenon by the fact that a person is completely immersed in his subconscious and sees things that he sometimes really wants to see, or is transferred to a time that he really remembers. That is, a person is really in a state where all the organs of the body fail, but the brain is in working condition and a picture of real events appears before the eyes of a person. But, after a while, this picture disappears gradually, and the organs resume their work again, and the brain is in a state of inhibition for some time, this can last for several minutes, several hours, days, and sometimes a person never comes to his senses after clinical death ... But at the same time, the memory of a person is completely preserved! And there is also such a statement that the state of coma is also a kind of clinical death.
What do people see at the moment of clinical death?
Various visions are known: a light, a tunnel, the faces of dead relatives... How can this be explained?
The term "clinical death" was fixed in the official medical lexicon at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, although it was used as early as the 19th century. It is used in cases where the patient's heart has stopped beating, which means stopping the blood circulation that supplies the body with oxygen, without which life is impossible.
However, cells have some metabolic reserve on which they can survive for a short time without oxygen enrichment. Bone, for example, hours can be stored, and nerve cells brains die much faster - from 2 to 7 minutes. It is during this time that a person needs to be brought back to life. If this succeeded, then in such cases they say that the person survived clinical death.
It is believed that it is in the brain that those amazing experiences are formed, which are evidenced by people who have experienced clinical death.
The striking similarity of memories of near-death experiences
Many are amazed at how similar the memories of people who have experienced clinical death are: they always have light, a tunnel, visions. Skeptics ask questions - are they fabricated? Mystics and apologists of the paranormal believe that the similarity of the experience of those who have risen from a state of clinical death proves the reality of the other world.
Visions are generated moments before clinical death
From the point of view of modern science, these questions have an answer. According to medical models of the functioning of the body, when the heart stops, the brain freezes, its activity stops. This means that no matter what experience a person experiences, in the very state of clinical death, he does not and cannot have sensations, and hence memories. Consequently, the vision of the tunnel, and the presence of supposedly otherworldly forces, and light - all this is generated before clinical death, literally a few moments before it.
What determines the similarity of memories in this case? Nothing but the similarity of our human organisms. The picture of the onset of clinical death is the same for thousands of people: the heart beats worse, oxygen enrichment of the brain does not occur, hypoxia sets in. Relatively speaking, the brain is half asleep, half hallucinating - and each vision can be compared with its own type of disturbed work.
Real clinical death
An overwhelming feeling of euphoria, unexpected peace and kindness are not the harbingers of the underworld, but the result of a sharp increase in the concentration of serotonin. V ordinary life this neurotransmitter regulates our feelings of joy. Studies conducted in Germany under the leadership of A. Wutzler showed that during clinical death, the concentration of serotonin increases at least three times.
tunnel vision
Many people report seeing a corridor (or tunnel) as well as a light at the end of the tunnel. Doctors explain this by the effect of the emergence of "tunnel vision". The fact is that in ordinary life we see with the help of our eyes only a clear colored spot in the center, and a muddy black and white periphery. But our brain from infancy is able to synthesize pictures, creating a holistic field of vision. When the brain experiences a shortage of resources, signals from the periphery of the retina are not processed, which causes a characteristic vision.
The longer the hypoxia, the stronger brain begins to mix external signals with internal ones, hallucinating: believers at these moments see a god/devil, the souls of their deceased loved ones, while episodes of their lives flash over intensely in people who do not have a religious consciousness.
Exit from the body
Before the "disconnection" from life vestibular apparatus of a person ceases to behave in a normal way, and people experience a feeling of ascension, flight, out of the body.
Regarding this phenomenon, there is such a point of view: many scientists do not consider out-of-body experience as something paranormal. It is experienced, yes, but it all depends on what consequences we attribute to it. According to Dmitry Spivak, a leading specialist at the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, there is little-known statistics, according to which about 33% of all people have experienced an out-of-body experience at least once and perceived themselves from the outside.
The scientist studied the state of consciousness of women in the process of childbirth: according to his data, every 10th woman in labor felt as if she saw herself from the outside. From here it is concluded that such an experience is the result of a mental program that works in the limiting states, built deep at the level of the psyche. And clinical death is an example of extreme stress.
People after clinical death - are there any consequences?
One of the most mysterious in clinical death is its consequences. Even if a person managed to be "returned from the other world", is it possible to confidently say that the same person returned from the "other world"? There are many documented examples of personality changes that have happened to patients - here are 3 stories from near-death reports in the US:
- teenager Harry returned to life, but did not retain traces of his former cheerfulness and friendly disposition. After the incident, he became so angry that even his family found it difficult to deal with "this man." As a result, his relatives made a separate guest house his place of permanent residence in order to contact him as little as possible. His behavior became violent to a dangerous level.
- a 3-year-old girl, who had lain in a coma for 5 days, behaved in a completely unexpected way: she began to demand alcohol, despite the fact that she had never tried it before. In addition, she developed kleptomania and a passion for smoking.
- married woman Heather H. was admitted to the department with a skull fracture, which resulted in impaired blood circulation in the brain and clinical death. Despite the severity and extensiveness of the injuries, she returned to life, and more than rich: her desire for sexual contact became constant and irresistible. Doctors call it "nymphomania". Bottom line: the husband filed for divorce, and the court satisfied him.
Clinical death removes the blocking of social prohibitions?
There are no studies that would give an unambiguous answer about the nature of such changes, but there is a fairly realistic hypothesis.
Clinical death testimonies
As you know, science and doctors are not very enthusiastic about helping in the study of the phenomenon of clinical death. The fact is that they consider this to be purely their own business, where unprofessionalism can only create unnecessary rumors and speculation. However, in "Inexplicable, but a fact" several people took part, who told about their amazing experiences during the cessation of life processes.
The first man's name is Andrei Zabolotsky.
Andrey Zabolotsky - 37 years old; successful businessman; survived a dangerous attempt on his life with very serious injuries. Higher education, married, has a son.
They shot at me. The bullet passed a centimeter from the heart. Painful shock. clinical death. Life passed in seconds before my eyes. Youth. Childhood. The birth of a son. A corridor leading somewhere. I remember seeing my father, who shouted that it was still early for me and I had to leave here. But I kept thinking that I owe money. I myself must. It is necessary to raise a son so that there is no fatherlessness. Cases, apartment, car, friends, girlfriends. I thought and woke up in the ward.
It should be noted that Andrei was in a critical situation between life and death for several hours. Initially, there was practically no chance of survival. Suffice it to say that the attending physicians think that he was the worst they have ever experienced, and they consider it a real miracle that he was saved. During clinical death, he heard the conversations of doctors and perfectly understood what they were doing. It was especially indescribable to hear doubts about the outcome. Andrei spent many months in the hospital, and all this time his father returned to him in a dream and each time dissuaded him from leaving for another world. About how long his father continued to visit him, Andrei says the following:
It all ended when I believed in myself and realized that I wanted to live. The father is no longer dreaming. Only when I'm sick.
And here is a description of a woman who refused to advertise her name. Little is known about her, but her story is instructive and sad, and in some places even very comical. Once, a couple of years ago, during the treatment of a simple disease, she was injected with a certain drug that caused an unexpectedly very strong allergic reaction. She was on the verge of life and death and survived clinical death and after that she stayed in the hospital for several more months. Her descriptions of what happened during the cardiac arrest are very different from the “shot” businessman Andrey:
At first I felt bad. Three days later, I could not stand it and lost consciousness. At the very moment when I was being taken to the hospital, my heart went into cardiac arrest. A minute or two... When they pumped me out, the first thing I asked, of course, was where the corridor was, the light at the end of the tunnel. It's a pity, since this happened, so it was necessary to see everything. The attending physician explained to me that such experiences occur mainly during clinical death, for example, a person receives a sharp injury. When he was conscious and once - cardiac arrest.
Like this. Not every clinical death means tunnels and the other world. But there is also a comedy in this case. Even during her lifetime, as if anticipating something, she left a will, in which she indicated that a monument must be erected at the place of her burial. Since the woman was in a very serious condition for a long time, relatives showed amazing promptness and managed to fulfill her posthumous wish, however, during her lifetime. I wonder whose money? What's the difference though? Sooner or later, the monument will still come in handy.
But the teenager Igor, although he was not erected a monument, just like the businessman, remembers what happened to him during clinical death. Moreover, their descriptions are seriously different.
Igor Goryunov - 15 years old; polytechnic student.
The guys arrived in the evening. They asked me to remove the earring. I didn't take it off. They beat me. I fainted. Then they found me. The doctors said I was dead. I remember being in a dark well. First flew down, then up. I saw a bright light. Emptiness. Woke up with chest pain. The doctor gave me a cardiac massage. At the same time, he said all the time: “Live, live ...”
but simple descriptions experiences in clinical death are not enough to understand the essence of this mysterious phenomenon. We need comments from experienced and knowledgeable people. They can be given by one well-known person in parapsychology - Vadim Chernobrov.
Vadim Alexandrovich Chernobrov - coordinator of Kosmopoisk, an organization that is an international movement and an All-Russian public research association that studies little-studied, including cryptophysical, anomalous phenomena and other frontier and breakthrough areas in science for the subsequent applied application of the acquired knowledge for the benefit of all mankind . As a public research association - since 2002, the largest in the world, as a UFO organization - one of the largest in the world.
One of the founders of the organization are Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev (1906–2002), the man who began to study UFOs the earliest in the world (1945 - a year and a half before the Americans), and cosmonaut Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy. The organization has almost 200 groups in 20 countries with several thousand members, which anyone can become.
On account of "Cosmopoisk" hundreds of expeditions, their result was a lot of useful finds and discoveries around the world. It is especially worth noting the contribution of this organization to research and popularization of the unknown aspects of life on Earth. V.A. Chernobrov, for many years the head of this public association, wrote dozens of books and many articles on the subject of the unknown.
Deliberately, a person returns or makes attempts to return not because he felt bad there, but because he still has a debt, relatives remain. Especially often returns awareness of duty to children, society, parents. Yes, and work, oddly enough. People who have experienced clinical death are not only not afraid of death - they know the value of life. I noticed that people do not commit suicide if they once visited the "other world", as they themselves claim. Those who have experienced clinical death will never lay hands on themselves just because it seemed to them that life is difficult and difficult and there is absolutely no reason to live.
But not everyone returns to the physical world by own will. This is not always the case. This is evidenced, for example, by Viktor Rogozhkin, who also described his own experience.
Viktor Rogozhkin is the president of the Enio psycho-correction society, a witness of 25 clinical deaths and 22 returns from the "other world", a representative of the science of eniology, which studies the processes of energy-information exchange in the universe, the author of books and many articles.
I heard that it's too early for you, you haven't worked yours there yet. And moreover, everyone says that it is with such difficulty that they return to their body, because it is so good there, but here is a mortal body. It is clear when it is young, and when it is aged, flabby, with sores? It's hard to come back. But they still come back, and everything changes for them. As a worldview, so is the look and expression of the eyes. Wang confirms this.
Vanga or Gospel Dimitrov, is the most famous clairvoyant. She was born on January 31, 1911 in Bulgaria, in the village of Petrich, where she lived all her life until she died on August 11, 1996. Her powers were unlocked after a childhood accident.
Rogozhkin continues:
Everyone claims that after the girl was struck by lightning and went blind, she began to see life in the perspective of other people. Major politicians and leading experts went to her for advice. This is a real fact. Moreover, it has been proven that some physical indicators also change.
The lines of the hand are changing. That is, a person's fate changes. For example, if my life line was interrupted before clinical death, then after it it became normal.
All this, of course, causes a certain interest. But to what extent can such statements be trusted? For example, Rogozhkin claims that Vanga survived clinical death, and this despite the fact that it is reliably known that she became blind and became a seer for completely different reasons. Even as a child, she fell into a very strong sandstorm, and so much sand and dust got into her eyes that she gradually began to go blind, and her father and stepmother did not have money for the operation. So she became blind, and after a while those very world-famous oddities began, forcing people from all over the world to go to her to find out their future.
By the way, how serious is it to refer to Vanga at all, remembering the episodes when her providence really seems to be something fantastic? For the sake of objectivity, the opinions of skeptics must also be taken into account. For example, they not only consider Vanga a charlatan, but also a kind of tourist project in Bulgaria, because the pilgrimage organized to her could really be compared with the same Egyptian pyramids.
It is estimated that about two million people from all over the world visited the places where the clairvoyant lived, and this flow continues to this day after her death. As for predictions, in addition to all known coincidences, she often “saw” events that cannot be treated otherwise than with irony. For example, in 1973, the USSR was supposed to send troops to Chile, and in 1997, Seraphim of Sarov was supposed to be resurrected and the pharaoh's mummy was supposed to speak. How sane was she if she could allow the mummy to be revived? There are many such absurdities, but still ten times less than those that hit the mark. Who needed to keep them if no one was interested? In addition, imagine Baba Vanga at a psychiatrist's appointment ... It is unlikely that the invisible entities that, as she said, always surrounded her and whispered truths from the past and future, would help her avoid the toughest diagnosis. She would not have been saved from this by historical figures who, hundreds of years ago, sunk into another world, with whom she loved to communicate so much. Evil tongues claim that after such an appointment with a doctor, she would have found like-minded people and colleagues for a long time, though, let's say, not quite enjoying such sincere universal trust as she herself.
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