The fact that there are other worlds was reported to mankind already in the early stages of development. In Greek mythology, Hades existed - the kingdom of the dead, and the gods lived somewhere in the heavens in the region of Mount Olympus. In Indian religions, different worlds took place for many gods, and soul reincarnation was a generally accepted idea. In Christianity, there is a kingdom of heaven for the righteous and a hell for sinners. In our time, official science has also approached the need to recognize the existence of adjacent worlds. Although, it should be noted that outstanding scientists of the past never insisted on the uniqueness of our physical world.
• E. Swedenborg was one of the first to give a very detailed and systematic description of the other world.
“I wrote a separate book on the spirit world called Heaven and Hell; it describes much that belongs to that world. Because every person comes to that world after death, I also described the state of the people who are there. Everyone knows, or can know, that a person continues to live after death, because he is born of a person, created in the image of God, and because the Lord teaches this in His Word. But until now no one knew what that future life was like.
Now they believe that a person becomes a soul, the concept of which is no different from the concept of ether or air, that is, that it is something similar to the last exhalation of a dying person and carries the life principle of a person; but at the same time a person is deprived of the sight that was before his eyes, the hearing that was with his ears, and the speech that was with his mouth. And yet a man after death. to the same extent he is a person as before, and even to the extent that he does not notice that he has passed into another world. He can see, hear and speak as in the old world. He is able to walk, run and sit as in the old world. He lies down, sleeps and wakes up as before. He eats and drinks as before. Just as in the old world, he can experience the joys of married life. In a word, he is a man in every respect. Hence it is obviousthat death is not the end of life, but its continuation, that is, just a transition …
The difference between people in the natural world and in the spiritual world lies in the fact that in the spiritual world people are in a substantial body, and in the natural world - in a physical body, under which, nevertheless, they have a substantial body; and substantial people can see each other as well as material ones. But a substantial person cannot see the material, as well as the material - substantial, because of the difference between the material and the substantial. It is possible to describe this difference, but not in two words.
From what I have seen over the years, I can tell you the following. In the spiritual world, as in the natural, there are lands, there are plains and valleys, mountains and hills, springs and rivers. There are parks, gardens, groves and forests. There are cities with palaces and houses. There are manuscripts and books there. There are government offices and entrepreneurship. There is gold and silver and precious stones. In a word, everything that is in the natural world is there, but in heaven all this is distinguished by incomparably great perfection "(E. Swedenborg," The True Christian Religion ").
There is also a lot of evidence from people who have experienced clinical death. Of course, their individual experiences are different, but they also have a lot in common. There are attempts to explain all this by hallucinations of the brain, but this absolutely does not work. Cases when the brain did not work, and the patient saw and remembered what was happening around him, completely discard the version with hallucinations. Although, it cannot be ruled out that some of the pictures can be inspired by beings with a higher intelligence.
• The American researcher Robert Monroe (1915-1995) left his description of different layers of the external world. In the 1950s, he was a successful entrepreneur with his own radio company. “In 1956, the company began researching the effects of sound waves on human consciousness, including the possibility of learning while sleeping. Monroe did most of his testing on himself. 1958 - during one of the experiments, he experienced a state in which consciousness was separated from the physical body. Monroe applied to this state, in some sources called "astral projection", the term VTP (Out of Body Experience), which later became traditional in literature.
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The experience gained then completely changed the further life of Robert A. Monroe and the direction of his professional activity. While pursuing a successful broadcasting business, Monroe began experimenting with his mind. He outlined his early experiences with journalistic precision and, in 1971, published his first book on ECP, Traveling Out of the Body. His description of his experiences not only outside his body, but also space, time, human life, reassured many people who had previously experienced this kind of experience. The book also attracted the attention of scientific researchers, medical professionals and many others."
Monroe, surrounded by a growing group of assistants, began to work on the development of methods to control and stimulate the emergence of new states of consciousness in the laboratory. 1974 - the Monroe Institute was founded, in which research in the field of expanding the abilities of human consciousness, seminars, workshops and training courses is carried out today. Over the years, the Monroe Institute, founded and led by Robert Monroe himself, has conducted numerous studies of out-of-body experiences. Both carefully selected volunteers and Monroe himself participated in the experiments.
Based on the multitude of reports compiled from the stories of travelers, they made a definite picture of the world in which the subjects were immersed. In his book "Distant Travels" Robert Monroe talks about the rings that surround our planet. The rings of non-physical existence are energy layers inhabited by the souls of people who previously incarnated in the material earthly world. After we leave our physical body, we find ourselves in one of these layers.
• The Russian writer and poet Daniil Andreev (1906–1959) gave a very complete picture of adjacent worlds in his work. The years of his life fell on one of the most difficult periods in the history of Russia - two world wars, revolution and civil war, post-war famine and devastation. Mass repression not only claimed the lives of millions of innocent people, but also created a constant atmosphere of fear for those who remained at large. In 1947, not only D. Andreev himself, but also his relatives and friends were arrested for the manuscript of his novel. He was given the death penalty - 25 years in prison, since at that time the death penalty was abolished.
Here is a fragment from the memoirs of his wife A. A. Andreeva: “Those for whom the world is not exhausted by the visible and tangible (at least logically provable), for whom another reality is no less a reality than the surrounding material, will believe without proof. If our world is not the only one, but there are other worlds, it means that mutual penetration is possible between them - what is there to prove? Those for whom the universe is limited to visible, audible and tangible will not believe.
I spoke about moments in the life of Daniil Leonidovich, when another world powerfully burst into the world “this”. In prison, these breakthroughs became frequent, and over time, a system of the universe and a categorical demand arose before him: to devote his poetic gift to the message about this system. Sometimes this kind of state visited him in a dream, sometimes on the verge of sleep, sometimes in reality. In a dream, he was taken to other worlds (from what he understood and told me) Lermontov, Dostoevsky and Blok - such as they are now. This is how his three main works were born: "Rose of the World", "Russian Gods", "Iron Mystery". They are all about the same thing: about the structure of the universe and about the struggle of Good and Evil that permeates this structure …
In The Rose of the World, he introduces the concept of "messenger" - an artist who carries out in his work the connection between the worlds. That was what he was.
Vasily Vasilyevich Parin, a Soviet academician, physiologist, atheist, who became very friendly with Daniil in prison, told me with surprise: “The impression is that he does not write, in the sense of“composing,”but barely keeps up with writing down what is pouring on him.” …
Daniel could not help writing. He told me that two years at the front were more difficult for him than 10 years in prison. Not out of fear of death - death in prison was quite real and could turn out to be more painful than in war - but because of the impossibility of creativity.
At first, he wrote in a cell on random scraps of paper. With the "shmonah" these leaves were taken away. He wrote again. The entire cell took part in the preservation of the writing, including the "war criminals", the Germans and the Japanese, who, not knowing the language, did not know what they were helping to hide - that was the solidarity of the prisoners."
In The Rose of the World, the multilayer of our world is considered by Daniil Andreev as an objective reality: “The concept of the multilayer of the Universe is the basis of the concept of the Rose of the World. In this case, each layer is understood as such a material world, the materiality of which differs from others either in the number of spatial or in the number of time coordinates. Near us, for example, adjacent layers coexist, the Space of which is measured by the same three coordinates, but the Time of which has not one, like ours, but several dimensions.
This means that in such layers time flows in several parallel streams of different rates. An event in such a layer occurs synchronously in all its time dimensions, but the center of the event is in one or two of them. It is, of course, not easy to imagine this tangibly. The inhabitants of such a layer, although they operate mainly in one or two time dimensions, exist in all of them and are aware of them all. This synchronicity of being gives a special feeling of the fullness of life, unknown to us."
Here is a description of its location in one of these layers.
“I have sometimes met people who had this kind of openness of deep memory, but none of them dared to talk about it with almost anyone; no one even had a vague thought about attempts to capture these memories in writing. The reason for this was the conviction that such confessions can only cause ridicule, and the natural spiritual shame, which rebelles against the presentation of strangers and strangers to the court of what is intimate, inviolable and at the same time unprovable.
For a very long time, this is how I looked at the case, and now I am making a similar attempt without the slightest joy. But since absolutely everything I talk about in this book has an equally unsubstantiated source, I see no more reason to keep silent about the breakthroughs of deep memory; it was either necessary not to start the book at all, or, once already started, to talk about everything, in spite of fear. In addition, I am strengthened by the hope that readers who do not trust me have dropped out after the first chapters and that only people who are well disposed will follow my presentation further.
My last death took place about three hundred years ago in a country that is at the head of another, very ancient and powerful metaculture. All this life, since childhood, I have been tormented by longing for this old homeland; Perhaps, it is so burning and deep because I have lived in that country not one life, but two, and at the same time quite intense. But, leaving Enrof (our physical three-dimensional world) 300 years ago, for the first time in my entire journey through Shadanakar (the totality of all adjacent worlds connected to the Earth) I found myself free from the need for redeeming posthumous descent into the depths of those layers where sufferers untie - sometimes for centuries, even millennia, - karmic knots tied by them during their lifetime.
For the first time, I managed and was able to untie the knots back in Enrof, paying for the failures and mistakes made in my youth by long torment and bitter loss. And for the first time I was dying with a light heart, although according to the religious views of that country I should have expected a truly terrible afterlife. But I already knew that by exclusion from the caste and forty years of living among the pariahs I had redeemed everything. Death was easy and full of hope.
That was a prophetic hope: this does not deceive. To this day, I have not been able to remember anything about the first hours, even about several days of my new existence. But on the other hand, I remember several localities of that new layer in which I existed for a long time after that.
Common for all metacultures, this layer, however, is very variegated: in the ancient, tropical, huge metaculture, which twice embraced my earthly life, it was similar to its nature in Enrof, but softer - without the extremes of its cruelty and splendor, without violent tropical showers and destructive dryness of deserts. I remember how white tower-like clouds of unusually powerful and solemn forms stood almost motionless above the horizon, rising to the middle of the sky: nights and days changed, and giant radiant towers all stood above the ground, barely changing outlines. But the sky itself was neither blue nor blue, but deep green. And the sun there was more beautiful than ours: it played with different colors, slowly and smoothly replacing them, and now I cannot explain why this color of the light source did not determine the colors of what it illuminated: the landscape remained almost the same,and the colors green, white and gold prevailed in it.
There were rivers and lakes; there was an ocean, although I never saw it: once or twice I was only on the coast of the sea. There were mountains, forests and open spaces that resembled a steppe. But the vegetation of these zones was almost transparent and as light as the forests in the northern countries of Enrof are in late spring, when they are just beginning to dress with foliage. The ridges of the mountains and even the soil itself seemed the same lightweight, translucent there: as if all this were the etheric flesh of those elements, whose physical flesh we know so well in Enrof.
But neither birds, nor fish, nor animals knew this layer: people were its only inhabitants. I say - people, meaning by this not such as we are in Enrof, but such as we are after death in the first of the worlds of Enlightenment. Finally, I could be convinced that the consolation that we draw from the old religions in the thought of meeting with loved ones is not a legend or a deception - unless what we did during our lifetime carried us into the woeful layers of redemption.
Some of my relatives met me, and the joy of communicating with them became the content of entire periods of my life in that layer. It is very ancient, once upon a time the angelic prehumanity lived in it, and it is called Olirna: this musical word seems to me a successful find of those who gave it its name. Communication with loved ones did not contain any turbidity, bitterness, petty worries or misunderstandings that darken it here: it was ideal communication, partly with the help of speech, but more in silence, which is familiar here only when communicating with a few with whom we are connected especially deeply love, and especially deep minutes.
We were completely freed from the concerns about existence, which had such immense importance in Enrof. The need for housing was offset by the mild climate. It seems that in the Olirny of some other metacultures this is not entirely true, but I do not remember it exactly. The beautiful vegetation provided food, springs and streams served as drinks, which tasted, as I recall, differently.
Clothes, or rather, that beautiful, lively, foggy luminous that we are trying to replace in Enrof with products made of wool, silk or linen, was produced by our body itself: by that our etheric body, which we almost never realize on ourselves here, but which in our afterlife becomes as obvious and seems as important as the physical for us. And in the worlds of Enlightenment, and in Enrof, no life is possible without him.
And yet the first time in Olirna was poisoned for me by longing for those who remained in Enrof. There remained children and grandchildren, friends and an old woman-wife - that most precious being for me, for whose sake I broke the law of caste and became untouchable. The interruption of communication with them fed constant anxiety about their fate; Soon I was able to learn to see their vague forms, wandering along the thorny paths of Enrof. And some time later, I already met my wife as young as she once was, but more beautiful: her path in Enrof will end several years later than mine, and now the joy of our meeting was not overshadowed by anything.
One after another, new organs of perception were revealed: not those organs of sight and hearing, which in the etheric body completely coincide with the corresponding organs of the physical body - no! those organs of sight and hearing acted from the first minutes of my stay in Olirna, and it was through them that I perceived Olirna; but what we call spiritual sight, spiritual hearing and deep memory; that which the greatest sages strive to discover in Enrof; what is revealed there only in a few among many millions; that which in Olirna is revealed gradually for everyone. Spiritual sight and hearing transcend barriers between many layers; I perceived the life of those I left on earth precisely by them - still indistinctly, but still perceived”.
According to Andreev, in addition to the physical body, a person has several other bodies.
“Among the many layers of Shadanakar, there is a multidimensional world where human monads reside - indivisible and immortal spiritual units, the higher selves of people … Creative work leading to the enlightenment of the Universe is the task of every monad, except for the demonic ones; there are no demonic monads among people. Human monads carry out this work in the lower worlds, subject to their enlightening creativity, creating there material vestments for themselves and through these vestments they influence the environment of the corresponding layers.
First of all, the monad creates a shelf from the materiality of five-dimensional spaces, then - the astral body from the materiality of four-dimensional spaces. Both of these vestments are often combined in our understanding under the word “soul” … Not the monad itself, which remains in the five-dimensional Irolna, but it is the Shelt that is the “I” that begins its journey through the lower strata. Shelt is created by the monad itself; the great elemental, Mother Earth, takes part in the creation of the astral body. She takes part in the creation of the astral bodies of all creatures of Shadanakar - people, angels, daimons, animals, elementals, demons and even great hierarchies, when the latter descend into those layers where the astral body is needed. This body is the supreme instrument of the shelf. It concentrates the abilities of spiritual vision, hearing, smell, deep memory, the ability to fly, the ability to communicate with synclites,daimons, elemental, angels, the ability to sense cosmic panoramas and perspectives.
Further, Mother Earth, fertilized by the spirit of the Sun, creates an ethereal body for the incarnating monad: without it, no life is possible in the worlds of three and four dimensions. And when the Shelt with all its vestments, including the etheric, leaves in Enrof the most external, short-lived, the last of its vessels - the physical body, only a corpse remains in Enrof. The physical body is created for us by angelic hierarchies - they create matter itself - and by the great elemental of humanity - Lilith - the one that sculpts a family chain from this three-dimensional materiality. The influence of the monad itself in this act through the shelf lies in the fact that it gives a given link of the genus individuality.
This is how the descent process ends; the climbing process begins. The physical body can be received by the monad one time or, over and over again, many times. The etheric is created anew only if the bearer, having fallen under the law of retribution, was forced to make a path through the circles of great suffering."
“There is a widespread misconception that any religious worldview is hostile to life, replacing all the values of our world with the values of other worlds. Such a generalization is no more legitimate than, for example, the assertion that the art of painting leads away from the world, made on the basis that this was partly the painting of the Middle Ages. The religious credo of a certain phase is hostile to life, and even then only in its extreme manifestations. The same attitude to the world that I am talking about does not lead away from the world, but teaches to love it with ardent and disinterested love. It does not oppose "other worlds" to this world, but perceives all of them as a magnificent whole, like a necklace on the chest of the Divine.
Do we like the crystal lamp less because it is transparent? Are we going to love our world less because others are shining through it? For a person who feels this way, this life is good, and death may not be an enemy, but a good counselor, if a life lived with dignity on earth predetermines the transition to other - not less, but even more intense, rich and beautiful forms of the worlds”(D. Andreev, "Rose of the World").
Y. Nazarenko