Clinical death - what people see when they die
Almost everyone who was outside the body, at the time of clinical death, notes that time does not exist. Many people say that although they must describe their stay in a spiritual body in terms of time (since this is a human language), in reality, time was not one of the elements of their out-of-body experience, unlike being in a physical body. Thinking in a spiritual state is distinguished by clarity and speed."
The reanimated man said about this: “Things were possible that are impossible now. Your consciousness is absolutely clear. This is so nice. My consciousness could perceive all the phenomena, immediately resolve the questions that appeared, without returning again and again to the same thing. Much later, everything that I have experienced in life has reached such a state where somehow it began to make sense."
What other properties of the spiritual body? None of the respondents noted taste and olfactory sensations. In some cases, it was said about the absence of a sensation of temperature, although in most cases it was said about pleasant warmth. Probably, the word warmth in this case served only as a synonym for another pleasant sensation, for which there is no word. With regard to hearing, vision, thinking, they are incredibly improving. Many have testified to this. For example: "I simply could not understand how I can see so far." A woman told: "It seemed to me that this spiritual vision had no boundaries, since I could see anything and anywhere."
Probably, speaking of hearing, survivors of clinical death actually mean something different, which is associated with the transfer of information. Of course, we are not talking about sound vibrations of air and their perception. There is some way of perception of information without this kind of hesitation. One woman described it this way:
“I saw the people around me and was able to understand everything they were talking about. I didn’t hear them the way I hear you. It was more like finding out what they were thinking, but it was perceived only by my consciousness, and not through what they said. I already understood them literally a second before they opened their mouths to say anything."
Loneliness for many comes from the fact that in a state of clinical death they are completely cut off from living people. Rather, not completely, but half: they see, hear and understand everything, but the living do not see them, do not hear and do not perceive them in any way. The attempts of the dead to contact the living are in vain. This cannot be accomplished by touch, by voice, or by mere appearance. Nothing is impossible. Therefore, oppressive loneliness appears, which many talk about. Some of the sayings:
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I was completely alone
“Everything that I saw and experienced then was so beautiful that it is simply impossible to describe it. I wanted others to also be there with me, to see everything I see. And even then I felt that I would never be able to retell what I saw to someone. I felt lonely because I really wanted someone to be near me and feel the same as I feel. But I knew that no one else could be there. I felt at the time that I was in a world completely isolated from everything else. And then I was overcome by a feeling of deep depression."
Another saying:
“I could not touch or move something, I could not contact someone from the people around me. It was a feeling of fear and loneliness, a feeling of complete isolation. I knew that I was absolutely alone only with myself."
Once in this position, the young man describes his feelings as follows:
“I was simply amazed. I couldn't believe this was happening. I was absolutely not preoccupied or bothered by thoughts like “Oh, I died, my parents lost me, what a grief for them. I will never see them again. " I didn't think of anything like that. All this time I was conscious of my complete, complete loneliness, as if I were a guest from another world. All communications were cut off. I know it was like there was no love or other feelings there. Everything was somehow mechanical. I didn't really understand what it all meant."
The feeling of loneliness is short-term (if it is possible to put it this way, because the entire stay of a person beyond the last line, that is, during the time of clinical death, is short-lived in itself). After a while, the spiritual body forgets about loneliness, because it plunges more fully into the new world. There, the "dead" person meets his own kind and not only. This question is extremely fundamental from the point of view of a philosophical, world outlook. Patients interviewed by Raymond Moody told that they met there (beyond the fatal line) certain persons who helped them to get comfortable in a new situation for them, in their transitional state. Most often it was noted that these were the faces, or rather the souls of other people - close relatives or friends of the deceased. One such evidence:
“I had this experience during childbirth, which was very difficult and I had a lot of blood loss. The doctor had already lost hope of bringing me back to life and told my family that I was dead. But I watched everything very closely, and even when I heard the doctor say this, I felt quite conscious. At the same time, I understood that all the people present here - there were quite a few of them - were hovering under the ceiling of the room. These were people whom I knew in my life, but who have already died. I recognized my grandmother and the girl whom I knew while studying at school, as well as many other relatives and friends. It looked like I saw mostly faces and felt their presence. They all looked very welcoming. It was very good that they were there. I felt that they came to protect or accompany me. All this time the feeling of light and joy never left me. It was an amazing and glorious moment."
According to the testimony of those interviewed by Moody, they met there not only with relatives and friends, but also with previously unknown persons (souls). So, one woman met there a previously deceased, whom she did not know. She says: “I saw this man, his spirit, as if he did not have a certain age. Yes, I myself had no sense of time."
The man says the following:
“I heard a voice, but it was not a human voice, and its perception was beyond physical sensations. This voice told me that I had to go back, and I did not feel fear of returning to my physical body."
Some have met there spirit beings of undefined form:
“When I was dead and in this emptiness, I talked to people. But I cannot say that I spoke with people who had a certain body. And yet I had the feeling that there were people around me, I could feel their movements, although I did not see anyone. From time to time I spoke with one of them, but could not see. When I wanted to know what was going on, I always received a mental answer from one of them that everything was fine, that I was dying, but that everything would be fine, so that my condition did not bother me. I invariably received a mental answer to all the questions that interested me that I asked. They did not leave my mind alone in this emptiness."
Here is some evidence from other sources on this topic. Thus, in 1926, William Barrett published the book "Visions on the Deathbed" (London). W. Barrett was one of the pioneers of modern parapsychology. This book has inspired other scientists to research this problem. Thus, in 1977, scientists Karlis Osis and Erlendur Haraldson published the book At the Hour of Death (New York, 1977). This book, like Raymond Moody's, is scientific. It is quite informative. After all, scientists have collected material for many years and analyzed it. Special questionnaires were compiled and interviewed with a randomly selected group of doctors and nurses in eastern America as well as northern India.
Data for India was used specifically to find out whether the fact that the people who experienced disembodied experience were of different nationalities, religions, etc. played any role. More than 1000 phenomena and visions of the dying were analyzed. Among them were those who were able to return to life after clinical death. The data obtained in this way are in principle consistent with the less numerous data obtained by Moody and published in his book "Life After Life." But there are also many clarifications and differences. For example, the dying people in India were not the souls of relatives, friends and acquaintances, but numerous Hindu gods. It must be said that the aforementioned authors, on the basis of a huge amount of material, are inclined to "accept the hypothesis of the afterlife as the most understandable explanation of all data."