The existence of life after death is a question that has always worried humanity. In ancient times, people tried to answer the question of the existence of life after death, inventing various myths and legends, based on their inner experiences and mystical experience. There is not a single religion in the world that would not predict an afterlife form of life for its followers, which is determined by actions that fit into the system of moral beliefs of a particular people.
For example, the ancient Scandinavians believed that the highest virtue in a person's life, which would secure his place in Valhalla, is death on the battlefield, a merciless attitude towards enemies and the plunder of weaker peoples.
Radical Islam offers its followers similar harsh moral values towards dissidents and followers of other religious practices. Wahhabism, as the pinnacle of radical Islam, offers an incessant jihad against all “non-Muslims”, which must end only with the creation of the World Caliphate. A ruthless attitude towards representatives of other religious movements, the destruction of dissidents is a moral virtue.
All religious practices, to a greater or lesser extent, teach their adherents that death is only the beginning of another form of being. However, it is rather problematic to check what the spiritual leaders said about the possibility of existence after death.
Historical excursion
Not a single world religion can clearly answer the question concerning all aspects of the posthumous existence of a person. A Christian literary monument dating back to the 8th century, called "The Ordeals of Blessed Theodora", offers a follower of this religion a description of what awaits a person after death. It should be noted that all the data presented in this literary treatise are the personal experience of the death of nun Theodora. The description of the posthumous fate of the soul, reflected in this book, boils down to the fact that a person will have to answer for all his deeds and receive a worthy reward for them. An interesting fact is that this work was already banned by various church authorities in the eleventh century.
Islam was formed on the outskirts of the Byzantine Empire and included various elements of Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism and other Vedic religions. Therefore, the idea of retribution for human actions on Earth is inherent in this religion.
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In Judaism, there is a teaching about the afterlife of a person after death. Unlike a Christian and a Muslim, an orthodox Jew ends up in Sheol, a place of special desolation, where a person's soul must dwell before the coming of the Messiah. There is a feeling that the Jews are a rather pessimistic people.
Thus, various world religions are trying to provide people with hope for existence after death, but none of them can give an unambiguous answer about the form of this existence.
Death experiences
In the following centuries, humanity could not come to an unambiguous solution to this rather urgent problem, for every rational creature. In world history, both supporters were confident that a person continues to exist after death, and opponents of this (Voltaire, Nietzsche, Foucault). Therefore, it is not surprising that at the beginning of the 20th century a book by the French researcher Professor Ixskyla appears. The scientist in his research is trying to give an unambiguous answer to this question. He uses the experience of death of more than a thousand people who were in clinical death, but then for some reason returned to life. Based on the results of his research, we can conclude that most of the people surveyed are sure that at the moment of cardiac arrest and the cessation of the body's vital activity, their minds did not stop working for a second. Many of those who survived clinical death are sure that only after cardiac arrest, the mind regained its original purity and began to work at full capacity.
Most opponents of this scientific work are sure that the reasons for such sensations lie in the release of adrenaline and oxygen deprivation, which the brain begins to experience during death. The combination of factors gives rise to certain hallucinations, if we take into account that various religious images are incorporated into our subconscious, the brain unconsciously begins to embody into reality what has been recorded on its subcortex for a long time. But still, none of the opposing sides can give an unambiguous answer.
Spiritualism: as a method of communicating with spirits
Spiritualism is a religious philosophical concept developed by the French mystic Alain Kardek in the 19th century. According to this doctrine, it is possible to contact the other world and the spirits and souls of deceased people that inhabit it.
Using a special ritual formula, one can get in touch with infernal entities. The medium is able to get in touch with the souls of dead people, which should confirm the existence of the otherworldly dimension and the fact that life does not end with the death of the physical body. In such contacts, a person can ask the dead not only about himself, his loved ones or the personal life of the spirit, but he can also find answers to solving more global problems.
At one time, spiritualism has become quite common. However, with the emergence of spiritualism, scientists are trying to find logical explanations and prove the possibility of such communication. In 1871, according to the initiative of D. Mendeleev, a special commission was created, which was supposed to give an unambiguous and final answer to the question of the possibility of communicating with otherworldly spirits. The commission came to unequivocal conclusions: spiritualism is a real deception, manipulation of human consciousness and behavior. Another attempt to find an answer to the question of what is beyond the threshold of death has failed.
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Technology and ghosts
The development of technology has led to an easier human life in many areas, but in the middle of the 19th century, a huge number of photographs appeared, the authors of which claimed that they were able to photograph ghosts during spiritualistic sessions. Unfortunately, most of these photographs are only a play of light, the result of the corruption of the negative or the hoaxes of the photographer himself. Scientists and researchers are wary and distrustful of such evidence, which may indicate the existence of life after death.
Today, there are facts that are irrefutable proof of the existence of the afterlife. Quite often, messages begin to appear with her on the occasion when the soul of a deceased person is trying to contact relatives or loved ones, using a mobile phone or an e-mail message. Let's take a closer look at several mysterious attempts to communicate with the spirits of the other world through mobile gadgets, social networks, and email.
In 2010, an incident occurred that still has not been given a logical explanation. In the city of Indianapolis (USA), the Johnson family, in an accident, lost a 14 year old child. Lizzie, the younger sister of the deceased, in the procession of parting with the body of the deceased, put a smartphone in the trune, which was recently acquired by the deceased brother and was his favorite thing. After some time, various messages began to arrive from the number of the deceased boy, first to his sister's phone, and then to the rest of the family. According to Lizzie, she corresponded with her deceased brother for some time. He told her in detail what awaits a person after death, where he is now, what he is doing. Further, messages began to flow to the parents, which led to the fact that they went to the police,to punish intruders and stop this bullying.
The police took this case quite seriously, because it already went beyond the usual hooliganism. After tracing the place where the messages were sent, the police were deeply confused, everything indicated that the messages were being sent from the territory of the cemetery, where the body of the deceased guy rested. Search activities were carried out, the employees of the cemetery were interviewed, but nothing strange happened to the grave of the deceased. The message did not stop. The parents even decided to change their mobile phone numbers, but after a while, messages began to come to them. Then the city police exhumed the coffin and remains of the deceased. What a surprise it was for everyone when a fully charged and working phone was found in the coffin, although several months have passed since the body was buried. After that, telephone communication with the deceased ceased. What it was is still a mystery and has no scientific explanation.
Another incident took place in Australia. Karen Rodnout lost her fiancé in a car accident. After several months of treatment and rehabilitation at the hospital, she returned home. Karen tried to start a normal life: attending classes, chatting with friends and hanging out on various social networks. After a while, she drew attention to the fact that the account of Derek, the deceased guy, is marked as active and someone is under him on the network. The girl thought that it was just a malfunction in Facebook.
However, when they wrote to her on behalf of Derek, from his page, she experienced real horror and shock, as she herself later told. In his messages, Derek said that he still loves Karen, but now he can never be with her. He also described that he was in a dark, cold place and he was very sad and scared. In addition to him, there were people still unknown to him, with whom he tried to talk, but they ignored him. Sometimes he saw scary creatures walking in search of someone. Some of his message consisted of several unrelated words. He also asked Karen to help him and do something that could free him from this terrible place. The messages stopped as suddenly as they started, Karen still doesn't know if it was just a prank or if Derek was really talking to her.
The question of the existence of life after death remains open at the present time. From the standpoint of various religions, ambiguity does not exist in this matter, most religions assume the existence of a person after his death. However, from the point of view of science, there is no solid evidence of the possibility of human existence after his death. But at the same time, every day a person is faced with mysterious things that defy scientific explanation. It is practically impossible to solve this problem, unless science succeeds in the near future to make a grandiose leap and finally prove the presence or absence of existence after death.