There is ample evidence that there is life after death. Basic science used to disdain these kinds of stories. But, as the famous scientist, Natalya Bekhtereva, who has studied the activity of the brain all her life, says, our consciousness is such matter that it seems that the keys to the secret door have already been picked up, but there are ten more behind it … So what is behind the door of life?
She sees right through …
Galina Lagoda and her husband were returning from a country trip in a Zhiguli. Trying to pass on a narrow road with an oncoming truck, the husband swerved sharply to the right … The car was crushed by a tree standing by the road.
Galina was taken to the Kaliningrad regional hospital with severe brain damage, ruptured kidneys, lungs, spleen and liver, with multiple fractures. The heart stopped, the pressure was at zero.
“Having flown through the black space, I found myself in a shining space that was flooded with light,” Galina Semyonovna told me after twenty years. “Before me stood a huge man in dazzling white clothes. I did not consider his face because of the light flux directed at me. "Why did you come here?" he asked sternly. "I am very tired, let me rest a little." - "Rest and come back - you still have a lot to do."
Having regained consciousness two weeks later, during which she was balancing on the verge of life and death, the patient told the head of the resuscitation department Yevgeny Zatovka how the operations were carried out, which of the doctors was where and what they did, what equipment was brought in, from which cabinet what was taken out.
After another operation on a shattered hand, Galina asked an orthopedic surgeon during the morning round, "How is your stomach?" From amazement, he did not know what to answer - indeed, the doctor suffered from stomach pains.
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Now Galina Semyonovna lives in harmony with herself, believes in God and is absolutely not afraid of death.
I flew like a cloud
Reserve Major Yuri Burkov does not like memories of the past. His wife Lyudmila told his story:
- Yura, having fallen from a great height, broke his spine and received a traumatic brain injury, lost consciousness. After his heart stopped, he was in a coma for a long time.
I was terribly stressed. On one of the visits to the hospital, she lost her keys. And the husband, when he finally regained consciousness, first of all asked: "Did you find the keys?" I got scared and shook my head. “They're lying under the stairs,” he said.
Only many years later he confessed to me: while he was in a coma, he saw my every step and heard every word - and no matter how far from him I was. He flew in the form of a cloud, including to where his deceased parents and brother live. The mother tried to persuade her son to return, and the brother explained that they were all alive, only they no longer had bodies. Years later, sitting by the bedside of his seriously ill son, he reassured his spouse: “Lyudochka, don't cry, I know for sure that he will not leave now. She will be with us for another year”. A year later, at the commemoration of his deceased son, he admonished his wife: “He did not die, but only before you and I moved to another world. Trust me, I was there."
Savely Kashnitsky
Childbirth under the ceiling
This is the memory of Anna R., 19 years old who experienced clinical death.
“While the doctors were trying to pump me out, I observed an interesting thing: a bright white light (there is no such thing on Earth!) And a long corridor. And now I seem to be waiting to enter this corridor. But then the doctors resuscitated me. During this time I felt that THERE is very cool. I didn't even want to leave!"
Light in the tunnel
Pictures from life passing before the eyes, light at the end of the tunnel, a feeling of love and peace, a meeting with deceased relatives and a certain luminous creature - this is what patients who returned from the other world tell about. Although, not all, but only 10-15% of them. The rest do not see or remember anything at all. The dying brain does not have enough oxygen, so it is "buggy" - the skeptics assure.
Disagreements in the scientific community have reached the point that they recently announced the start of a new experiment. Over the course of three years, American and British doctors will study the testimony of patients who have had heart failure or brain shutdown. Among other things, the researchers are going to spread various pictures on the shelves in the intensive care units. You can see them only by soaring to the very ceiling. If patients who have experienced clinical death retell their content, it means that consciousness is really capable of leaving the body.
One of the first who tried to explain the phenomenon of near-death experience was Academician Vladimir Negovsky. He founded the world's first Institute of General Reanimatology. Negovsky believed (and since then the scientific view has not changed) that "the light at the end of the tunnel" is due to the so-called tubular vision. The cortex of the occipital lobes of the brain dies off gradually, the field of view narrows to a narrow strip, giving the impression of a tunnel.
In a similar way, doctors explain the vision of pictures of a past life sweeping before the gaze of a dying person. Brain structures fade away and then recover unevenly. Therefore, a person manages to recall the most vivid events that have been deposited in his memory. And the illusion of leaving the body, according to doctors, is the result of a failure of nerve signals. But skeptics get stumped when it comes to answering more tricky questions. Why do people who are blind from birth at the time of clinical death see and then describe in detail what is happening around them in the operating room? And such evidence exists.
Leaving the body - a defensive reaction
Interestingly, many scientists do not see anything mystical in the fact that consciousness is able to leave the body. The only question is what conclusion can be drawn from this. Dmitry Spivak, a leading researcher at the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who is a member of the International Association for the Study of Near-Death Experiences, assures that clinical death is just one of the variants of an altered state of consciousness. “There are a lot of them: dreams, drug experiences, stressful situations, and a consequence of illness,” he says. “According to statistics, up to thirty percent of people at least once in their lives felt a way out of the body and saw themselves from the outside.”
Dmitry Spivak himself researched the mental state of women in labor and found out that about nine percent of women during childbirth experience "out of the body"! Here is the testimony of 33-year-old S.: “During childbirth, I had a lot of blood loss. Suddenly I began to see myself from under the ceiling. Pain sensations disappeared. And after about a minute, she also unexpectedly returned to her place in the ward and again began to feel severe pain. " It turns out that “going out of the body” is a normal phenomenon during childbirth. Some kind of mechanism inherent in the psyche, a program that works in extreme situations.
Of course, childbirth is an extreme situation. But what could be more extreme than death itself ?! It is not excluded that "flying in a tunnel" is also a protective program, which is included in a moment fatal for a person. But what will happen to his consciousness (soul) next?
“I asked one dying woman: if there really is something THERE, try to give me a sign,” recalls Andrei Gnezdilov, MD, who works in the St. Petersburg hospice. - And on the 40th day after death, I saw her in a dream. The woman said, "This is not death!" Many years of work in the hospice convinced me and my colleagues: death is not the end, not the destruction of everything. The soul continues to live."
Dmitry Pisarenko
Polka dot cup and dress
Andrey Gnezdilov, MD, told this story: “During the operation, the patient's heart stopped. The doctors were able to get it on, and when the woman was transferred to intensive care, I visited her. She complained that she was operated on by the wrong surgeon who promised. But she could not see the doctor, being unconscious all the time. The patient said that during the operation, some force pushed her out of the body. She calmly examined the doctors, but then horror seized her: what if I died and did not have time to say goodbye to my mother and daughter? And instantly her consciousness moved home. She saw that her mother was sitting, knitting, and her daughter was playing with a doll. A neighbor came in and brought a polka-dot dress for her daughter. The girl rushed to her, but touched the cup - it fell and broke. The neighbor said, “Well, that's good. Apparently, Yulia will soon be discharged. "And then the patient again appeared at the operating table and heard: "Everything is in order, she is saved." Consciousness returned to the body.
I went to visit the relatives of this woman. And it turned out that during the operation … a neighbor with a polka-dot dress for a girl dropped in to see them and a cup was broken."
This is not the only mysterious case in the practice of Gnezdilov and other employees of the St. Petersburg hospice. They are not surprised when the doctor dreams of his patient and thanks him for the care, for the touching attitude. And in the morning, having arrived at work, the doctor learns: the patient died at night …
Church opinion
Priest Vladimir Vigilyansky, head of the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate:
- Orthodox people believe in an afterlife and immortality. In the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, there are many confirmations and testimonies of this. We consider the very concept of death only in connection with the coming resurrection, and this mystery ceases to be such if we live with Christ and for the sake of Christ. “Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die,” says the Lord (John 11:26).
According to legend, the soul of the deceased in the first days walks to those places in which it worked the truth, and on the third day it ascends to heaven to the throne of God, where until the ninth day it is shown the abodes of the saints and the beauty of paradise. On the ninth day, the soul again comes to God, and it is sent to hell, where wicked sinners stay and where the soul goes through thirty days of ordeals (trials). On the fortieth day, the soul again comes to the Throne of God, where it appears naked before the judgment of its own conscience: has it passed these tests or not? And even in the case when some trials convict the soul of its sins, we hope for the mercy of God, in whom all the deeds of sacrificial love and compassion will not remain in vain.