Probably, among the adult population of the entire planet, you cannot find even one person who, in one way or another, did not think about death.
Now we are not interested in the opinion of skeptics who question everything that they have not touched with their own hands and have not seen with their own eyes. We are interested in the question, what is death?
Quite often, polls cited by sociologists show that up to 60 percent of respondents are sure that there is an afterlife.
Slightly more than 30 percent of those surveyed take a neutral position in relation to the Kingdom of the Dead, believing that they will most likely face reincarnation and rebirth in a new body after death. The rest of the ten do not believe in either the first or the second, believing that death is the final result of everything in general.
In fact, these are not absolute figures, in some countries people are more willing to believe in the other world, relying on the books read by psychiatry specialists who have studied the issues of clinical death.
In other places it is believed that one must live to the fullest here and now, and what awaits them later does not bother them much. Probably, the range of opinions lies in the field of sociology and living environment, but this is a completely different problem.
From the data obtained in the survey, the conclusion is clearly seen that the majority of the inhabitants of the planet believe in an afterlife. This is a really exciting question, what awaits us in the second of death - the last breath here, and a new breath in the Kingdom of the dead?
It is a pity, but no one has a full-fledged answer to such a question, except perhaps God, but if we recognize the existence of the Most High in our equation for faithfulness, then of course there is only one answer - the World to Come!
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Raymond Moody, there is life after death
Many prominent scientists at different times asked the question, is death a special transitional state between life here and moving to the other world? For example, such a famous scientist as Edison believed in life after death, the inventor even tried to establish communication with the inhabitants of the afterlife. And this is just one example out of thousands of others, when people sincerely believe in life after death.
But if there is anything that can give us confidence in life after death, at least some signs that speak of the existence of the afterlife? There is! There is such evidence, say researchers and psychiatrists who have worked with people who have experienced clinical death.
As such a well-known expert on the issue of "life after death", Raymond Moody, an American psychologist and physician from Porterdale, Georgia, assures us, there is no doubt about the afterlife.
Moreover, the psychologist has many adherents from the scientific community. Well, let's see what kind of facts they give us as proof of the fantastic idea of the existence of an afterlife?
I will make a reservation right away, we are not touching upon the issue of reincarnation, the transmigration of the soul or its rebirth in a new body, this is a completely different topic and God willing, but fate will allow, we will consider this later.
I will also note, alas, but despite many years of research and travel around the world, neither Raymond Moody, nor his followers, could find at least one person who lived in the afterlife, and returned from there with facts in hand - this is not a joke but a necessary note.
All evidence for the existence of life after death is based on the stories of people who have experienced clinical death. This is the so-called "near-death experience" for the last couple of decades and has gained popularity. Although a mistake has crept into the definition itself - what kind of near-death experience can we talk about if death did not actually occur? But well, let it be as R. Moody says about it.
Near-death experience, journey to the afterlife
Clinical death, according to the findings of many researchers in this area, appears as a reconnaissance path into the afterlife. What does it look like? Resuscitation doctors save a person's life, but at some point, death turns out to be stronger. A person dies - omitting physiological details, we note that the time of clinical death is from 3 to 6 minutes.
The first minute of clinical death, the resuscitator carries out the necessary procedures, and meanwhile the soul of the deceased leaves the body and looks at everything that happens from the outside. As a rule, the souls of people who have crossed the border of two worlds for some time fly up to the ceiling.
Further, those who have experienced clinical death see a different picture: some are gently but surely carried away into a tunnel, often a spiral funnel, where they gain insane speed.
At the same time, they feel wonderful and free, clearly aware that a wonderful and wonderful life awaits them ahead. Others, on the contrary, are frightened by the picture of what they saw, they are not drawn into the tunnel, they rush home, to their family, apparently looking for protection and salvation from something bad there.
The second minute of clinical death, physiological processes in the human body freeze, but it is still impossible to say that this is a dead person. By the way, during the "near-death experience" or forays into the afterlife for exploration, time undergoes noticeable transformations. No, not any paradoxes, but the time that takes a few minutes here, in "there" stretches to half an hour or even more.
Here is what a young woman who had a near-death experience said: I had a feeling that my soul had left my body. I saw the doctors and myself lying on the table, but it didn't seem like something scary or frightening to me. I felt a pleasant lightness, my spiritual body radiated joy and absorbed peace and tranquility.
Then, I went outside the operating room and found myself in a very dark corridor, at the end of which I could see a bright white light. I do not know how it happened, but I flew along the corridor in the direction of the light at great speed.
It was a state of amazing lightness when I reached the end of the tunnel and fell into the arms of those who surrounded me from all directions of the world …. The woman came into the world, and it turned out that a long-dead mother was standing next to her.
The third minute of resuscitators, the patient was torn out of death….
“Daughter, it's too early for you to die,” my mother said to me… After these words, the woman fell into darkness and no longer remembers anything. She regained consciousness on the third day and learned that she had acquired the experience of clinical death.
All the stories of people who have experienced the borderline state between life and death are extremely similar. On the one hand, it gives us the right to believe in an afterlife. However, the skeptic sitting inside each of us whispers: how is it that “the woman felt her soul leaving her body”, but at the same time she saw everything? It's interesting, she felt or still looked, you see, these are different things.
Attitude towards the issue of near-death experience
I am never a skeptic, and I believe in the other world, but when you read the full picture of a clinical death survey from experts who do not deny the possibility of life after death, but look at it without liberty, the attitude to the issue changes somewhat.
And the first thing that amazes is the "near-death experience" itself. In most cases of such an event, not those "cuts" for books that we love to quote, but a complete survey of people who have experienced clinical death, you see the following:
It turns out that the surveyed group includes all patients. All! No matter what the person was ill, epilepsy, fell into a deep coma, etc. … it can generally be an overdose of sleeping pills or drugs that inhibit consciousness - in the overwhelming majority, for a survey, it is enough to declare that he experienced clinical death! Amazing? And then, if doctors, fixing death, do it due to the lack of breathing, blood circulation and reflexes, then it does not matter for participation in the survey.
And yet another oddity, which little attention is paid to when psychiatrists describe the borderline state of a person close to death, although this is not hidden. For example, the same Moody admits that in the review there are many cases when a person saw / experienced a flight through a tunnel to the light and other attributes of the afterlife are not the name of any physiological damage.
This is indeed from the realm of the paranormal, but the psychiatrist admits that in many cases, when a person “flew into the afterlife,” nothing threatened his health. That is, the vision of flying into the Kingdom of the Dead, like the near-death experience, a person acquired without being in a near-death state. Agree, this changes the attitude towards the theory of life after death.
Scientists, a few words about the near-death experience
According to experts, the above pictures of "flying to the next world" are acquired by a person before clinical death, but not after it. It was mentioned above that critical damage to the body and the inability of the heart to provide a life cycle destroy the brain after 3-6 minutes (we will not discuss the consequences of a critical time).
This convinces us that, having passed the mortal second, the deceased does not have the ability or way to feel anything. A person experiences all the previously described conditions not during clinical death, but during agony, when oxygen is still carried by the blood.
Why are the pictures experienced and told by people who have looked "on the other side" of life are very similar? This is fully explained by the fact that during the death throes, the same factors affect the work of the brain of any person experiencing this state.
At such moments, the heart works with great interruptions, the brain begins to experience starvation, surges in intracranial pressure complete the picture, and so on at the level of physiology, but without an admixture of the otherworldly.
The vision of a dark tunnel and flights to the next world with great speed also find a scientific basis, and undermine our faith in life after death - although it seems to me that this only breaks the picture of "near-death experience". Due to the strongest oxygen starvation, the so-called tunnel vision can manifest itself, when the brain cannot correctly process signals coming from the periphery of the retina, and only receives / processes signals received from the center.
At this moment, a person observes the effects of “flying through the tunnel to the light”. Hallucinations are rather well enhanced by a shadowless lamp and doctors standing on both sides of the table and in the head - those who have had such experience know that vision begins to "float" even before anesthesia.
The feeling of the soul leaving the body, the vision of doctors and oneself, as it were, from the outside, finally coming relief from pain - in fact, this is the action of medications and a malfunction of the vestibular apparatus. When clinical death occurs, then at these minutes a person does not see or feel anything.
So, by the way, a high percentage of people taking the same LSD confessed that at these moments they acquired the "experience" of communicating with aliens and went to other worlds. But not to consider this as the opening of a portal to other worlds?
In conclusion, I would like to note that the survey figures given at the very beginning are only a reflection of our belief in life after death, and cannot serve as proof of life in the Kingdom of the Dead. The statistics of official medical programs look completely different, and may even discourage optimists from believing in the afterlife.
In fact, we have very few cases where people who actually experienced clinical death could tell at all anything about their visions and meetings. Moreover, this is not the 10-15 percent they are talking about, it is only about 5%. Among them there are people who have suffered brain death - alas, but even a psychiatrist with hypnosis cannot help them to remember anything.
The other part looks much better, although of course there is no question of complete restoration of speech, and it is rather difficult to understand where they have their own memories, and where they arose after conversations with a psychiatrist.
But in one thing, the inspirers of the idea of "life after death" are right, clinical experience really changes the lives of people who have experienced this event. As a rule, this is a long period of rehabilitation and restoration of health. In some stories, they say that people who have experienced a borderline state and have looked into another world suddenly discover in themselves previously unseen talents. Allegedly, communication with angels who meet the dead in the next world radically change a person's worldview.
Others, on the contrary, indulge in such grave sins that you begin to suspect either those who wrote in the distortion of facts and kept silent about it, or … or some fell into the underworld, and realized that nothing good awaits them in the afterlife, so it is necessary here and now " get high "before dying.
And yet it exists
As the ideological mastermind of biocentrism, Professor Robert Lanz of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, said, a person believes in death because he is taught to. The basis of this teaching lies on the foundations of the philosophy of life - if we know for sure that life in the World to Come is happy, without pain and suffering, then why should we value this life? But this also tells us that the other world exists, death here is birth in that world!