Have you ever felt that someone you know was about to die, and then your premonition was confirmed? Have you thought about someone dying, and then found that the thought was real? Isn't the ability to predict death an innate, although mostly hidden, human ability?
In December 1970, Linda Wilson, a housewife and mother from New Jersey, went to a neighbor's house for Christmas dinner and immediately felt something unpleasant. “I smelled death,” she says. “All the time I felt that my nostrils were freezing, as if I were outside in the cold.” She found the smell disgusting, overlapping the scent of the Christmas tree and the delicious food on the table. The husband of a neighbor who invited Linda to dinner had Parkinson's disease, but no one, including his doctors, expected his death. (The disease itself is usually not fatal.) Linda Wilson's holiday dinner that day did not bring joy. “I kept my eyes on Peter all evening. It was madness, but I was convinced that he would soon die. He ate with a wolfish appetite, and he had a blush all over his cheek, but as soon as I glanced at him, I trembled. Nothing like this has happened to me before. A week later, Peter fell ill with pneumonia. He died five days later. Did Linda really smell death?
One famous psychic said that he saw death, standing on one of the upper floors of a skyscraper, waiting for an elevator. When the elevator arrived and the door opened, he was horrified. All four passengers of the elevator did not have an aura. Another person entered the elevator, and immediately its glow disappeared. "This is a sign of death," says the psychic, "I wanted to tell them to come out and wait for another elevator, but I knew that no one would obey." The door closed and the elevator car flew twenty-two floors, killing five people inside. For some mysterious reason, the emergency brake did not work.
There is evidence that some animals can sense death. Rosalie Abryu, who first started breeding chimpanzees in captivity, told us a case concerning the death of a female from her nursery. At that moment, when a chimpanzee was dying indoors, its male, who was in the park, began to shriek. “He screamed for a long time, looking around as if he knew about something, and then, when another chimpanzee died, he behaved the same way. He screamed and screamed and screamed. And he watched. His lower lip drooped, as if he saw something that is inaccessible to us. His cry was not at all like what I usually heard. His blood froze."
How do vultures detect a dying animal? We know that hyenas and jackals are attracted to a dying animal by sounds and smells. "But the vultures seem," says biologist Lyle Watson, "to pick up some other signal and find even a hidden corpse with incredible accuracy." Vultures have really excellent vision, due to the structure of the retina, which allows them to catch the slightest distant movement. As soon as one vulture finds food, others immediately flock to the meal. But sometimes this cannot explain their appearance. Watson states: "I have seen vultures fly in in the dark and sit around the wounded antelope like patient funeralists, although in this case there were no scavengers around to get their attention." Many scholars believethat a dying organism can give a rather powerful signal if it is subjected to a sudden and violent attack.
Cleve Baxter's work on what he calls “primary perception” in plants is well known, and it's worth dwelling on one of his most exciting experiments. Baxter is a lie detector recorder specialist. As one of the leading authorities on the use of the lie detector, Baxter was called in 1964 to testify before Congress on the use of recording devices in government. He is currently the director of his own school in New York City, where police officers are trained.
Baxter made an accidental discovery; he found that plants connected to a lie detector obviously sensed when he approached them with the intention of causing harm. They seemed to read his mind.
Months of research began. In one experiment, three philodendrons were placed in three separate rooms. Each was connected to a writing device, and the room was sealed. In a separate room, a large pot of boiling water was on fire.
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A device was constructed that was programmed to drop large numbers of live ocean shrimp into boiling water at random times. There was no one in the rooms where the plants were, and no one knew for sure when the shrimp would be boiled alive. Previous experiments convinced Baxter that plants respond to human thought; now he wondered if there was communication between all living things. Will plants respond to the mass death of shrimp?
The experiment was repeated seven times. In five cases out of seven, after the shrimp were thrown into boiling water, the writing devices registered strong manifestations of activity. Baxter was interested in the following: "Could it be that when a living cell dies, it sends a signal to other living cells?" Now, after seven years of experimentation, he is confident in the answer. “I would say this: any living organism that is suddenly killed must send a message. More gradual dying involves preparations for death, and we find that few or no plants react in this case. " If this is also attributed to the death of a person, then sudden, accidental, violent death should be one of the most often "recognized" by friends and family.
Later, Baxter found that his plants "sympathize" not only with dying shrimp, but also respond to all kinds of life forms. They reacted very strongly to an egg being broken in the room. This makes it possible to believe that plants are aware of all life manifestations and that when these life manifestations die, they send signals in all directions - messages that can be received by receptive recipients.
Obviously, this is exactly what happened to the twin twins Bobby Jean and Betty Joe Eller of Pearley, North Carolina. From the very birth, the girls were inseparable so much that they did not fully become personalities. Betty Jow was her sister's shadow in every way - in thoughts, desires, actions. As soon as Bobby Jean got sick, her sister got sick.
Shortly after the twins graduated from high school, their parents noticed that the character of Bobby Jean and Betty Joe began to change. Bobbie could sit for hours staring into space, refusing to talk to anyone. And, as usual, after a while the sister began to behave just as strange. The girls, deeply attached to each other, continued to move further and further from the outside world. They did not leave their room and cut off their communication with friends and family. In January 1961, Bobby and Betty were admitted to the Bronton State Mental Hospital in Morgantown, where they were diagnosed with schizophrenia. For a whole year they were kept on medication and underwent intensive psychiatric therapy. But no one could penetrate their world. In 1962, the doctors decided to separate the sisters and place them in opposite wings of the building. They shouldn't have been in contact with each other. The doctors hoped that mental isolation would break the strange bond between the sisters.
For several weeks it seemed like it might work. And then one spring evening Bobby had a catatonic seizure. Shortly after midnight, the head nurse discovered that she was dead. Realizing the extraordinary closeness of the girls, in alarm for Betty Joe, she called her department. Betty Joe was found dead on the floor. Both girls lay curled up in a fetal position, both on their right side.
Dr. John C. Rees of the North Carolina Pathology Society performed an autopsy and ruled out suicide. Leaving the “cause of death” column blank on the death certificate forms, he said, “I find no visible evidence of injury or illness that could result in death.” As usual in life, so in death, Betty Joe followed her sister. The psychiatrists who studied this case were forced to admit that the first death, the death of Bobby Jean, was felt by her sister, who immediately lost her will to live.
The case of the sisters from North Carolina is not isolated. At Jeffersonian Medical College in Philadelphia, Dr. Thomas Duane, head of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Dr. Thomas Berendt studied brain biorhythmic variants of a large number of twin twins. Each of the twins was placed in a separate room and an electroencephalogram (EEG) was taken for both. Dwayne writes in Science magazine that when one of the twins had an alpha rhythm (8 to 12 hertz), the EEG sensors of the other in a distant room recorded the same. The same coincidence of the rhythms of brain biocurrents is observed even when the twins are placed on different floors of the building.
There is no particular telepathic communication between twins; synchronization of rhythms occurs quite naturally on a subconscious level. The researchers believe that twins may be predisposed to telepathy due to the close similarity in the structure of their central nervous system and brain. The genetic commonality of twins is known to cause the appearance of similar wrinkles, gray hair, baldness, destruction of the same teeth and even the simultaneous appearance of cancer. This explains the tendency observed in twins to die at the same age.
There is evidence that death can be predicted as well as recognized. Even for several months. In recent years, scientists have been studying the possibility of predicting death long before any physical sign - thinness or pallor. Scientists from the University of Chicago, after a serious study of developmental psychology, found that old people have various psychological changes about a year before their end.
Dr. Morton E. Lieberman of Preitzker Medical School began looking for psychic signs of impending death after talking with a nurse. She claimed that she could predict the death of her patients in a private hospital in about a month, because, as she put it, "they begin to behave differently." Dr. Lieberman became so interested that he took up research.
In an experiment that lasted three years, Dr. Lieberman offered elaborate tests to eighty men and women, ages sixty-five to ninety-one years old, who had no physical or mental illness at the time the study began. In the year after the end of the study, forty people of the subjects died. Dr. Lieberman compared the test results of the deceased and those of those left who lived on average three years longer. He found that those who died within a year had a lower level of adaptability to reality, less energy. For example, they performed poorly on so-called “cognitive function” tests, such as being able to memorize pairs of unrelated words, and were less prone to introspection than members of the other group.
Those who are approaching death, - explains Lieberman, - avoid introspection, fearing that they will notice it.”Those who are approaching death lacked persistence and aggressiveness, they were more submissive and dependent compared to others. Finally, in thirty four out of forty deaths in a year showed an awareness - usually on a subconscious level - of impending death. When they were shown a series of images of old people in different situations and asked to tell about what was drawn, this group showed a tendency to either directly describe deaths (for example, saving a drowning man), or abstractly, like mysterious journeys to unknown lands, which suggests that dying is a much longer process than doctors believe.
Dr. Lieberman believes that the psychological changes in the elderly show how the approach of death relates to the physical process of dying. Perhaps, he says, "these are signals from the body that receive mental expression." Sometimes the patients themselves have a premonition of death. "Several patients told me: 'I won't live a year," says Dr. Lieberman, "and they were right." However, for everyone, the knowledge of impending death could exist on a subconscious level. Dr. Lieberman believes that if someone from those whose death was near, indulged in introspection, he could receive the call of death. It is quite possible that after proper training we will be able to learn to recognize the moment of our natural death in years or months.
The nurse, who interested Dr. Lieberman in studying the psychology of aging, was able to understand subtle changes in the mood and behavior of her charges, although she did not realize how she could predict death so accurately. But psychics are more sensitive to these and other changes that herald death. In his autobiography, “Beyond Coincidence,” psychic Alex Tanu cites numerous cases when he accurately predicted the death of a completely healthy person in weeks or months.
Reading the aura, Tanu advised the young woman not to marry the man to whom she was engaged: he had almost no aura. “I didn't have the heart to tell her that he was on the verge of death,” writes Tanu. A few weeks later, this woman wrote to Tan: “You told me in response to a question about the person accompanying me that you do not see a future for me with this person. He was found dead of a heart attack next to his bed on Sunday morning. Sincerely yours, Florence Wilson."
Another time, a woman wrote to Tanu about her husband's poor health. "What do you see in the future for him?" she asked. “And this time,” Tanu replies, “I saw death. And since the woman asked me the question so directly, I decided to answer her also directly. I wrote to her that her husband had brain cancer and he would die from it. " Subsequently, this woman wrote to Tan: “Regarding your prediction about a malignant tumor in my husband, which, in your opinion, should have brought about his end. Eight months after your prediction, my husband died of lung and brain cancer. Sincerely yours Mrs. Eleanor D. Murray, South Portland, Maine.
Hundreds of doctors and nurses reported seeing “ghosts,” “haze,” “clouds,” and “multicolored light” around a person's body at the time of death. There are also more subtle harbingers of death - physical, psychological and mental. Doctors William Green, Sidney Goldstein, and Arthur Moss of Rochester, New York, studied the medical histories of suddenly died patients. The data show that the majority of these patients were depressed for a week to several months before sudden death. In an article in Akivez Internap Medicine, doctors argue that depression can * be caused by hormonal changes, preparing the central nervous system to accept death. What leads to depression in the first place? Perhaps their depression came from the realization, albeit peripherally, that they would soon die.
One man, fifty-five years old, worked for a long time at the Eastman Kodak Plant in Rochester, New York, and was always rather disorganized and irresponsible in both work and family. One summer he began to tidy things up at work and at home. He was just crazy about it. He felt depressed but physically healthy, but he double-checked his insurance, paid overdue bills, texted friends he hadn't spoken to for several years, and ended all business correspondence. Soon after completing these labors, he died of a heart attack. Looking back, the wife of the deceased realizes that he knew something about the approach of death. If you collect the testimony of doctors, it turns out that the depression they observe in all patients is not the cause of death,a is the result of a premonition of death.
Another type of major depression is one of five "stages of dying," as defined by thanatologist Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. The case of Mary Sparks, a Florida businesswoman, illustrates the five stages of Dr. Kubler-Ross.
Mary Sparks felt that she would soon die. She did not know if she had this feeling before or after she first noticed the bump under her right breast. “I put the thought out of my head,” she told her twenty-five-year-old daughter Katya shortly before her death. Mary was so successful in supplanting her fear of death that for over a year she ignored the lump she suspected was growing. When the tumor was presumably diagnosed as malignant and the radical mastectomy failed to keep the cancer from spreading, Mary allowed herself to die. But not at once. She first went through the phases of "denial," "anger," "deal," "suppression," and "acceptance."
Denial is the first reaction of a dying person: "No, not me." This is a typical reaction, according to Dr. Kubler-Ross. “This allows the patient to pull himself together and, over time, resort to other, less drastic remedies.
Denial ultimately leads to deep anger: “Why me?” A fifty-five-year-old dentist dying of cancer told Dr. Kubler-Ross: “An old man I remember from my childhood walks down our street. He is eighty-two years old, and no one in the world needs him. And it hurts me: why did this happen not to old George, but to me?"
Anger turns into a deal - an act that often subtly delays the moment of execution. A difficult patient may suddenly become outgoing; he expects a reward for good behavior, that is, an extension of life.
During the bargaining phase, the patient usually becomes deeply depressed. This stage, according to Dr. Kubler-Ross, has a positive side: the patient weighs the terrible cost of death, preparing to part with everything and everyone he loves.
Finally, acceptance comes when the doomed obeys the judgment. During this phase, some begin to talk about visions, voices, tunnels, and bright lights - things that people usually see when they are near death. About a week before the death of Mary Sparks, telling her daughter about the peace she is experiencing, she said: "If I knew what would happen this way, I would have accepted death from the very beginning, and not resisted it and would not behave like a child." …
If Mary Sparks had been a patient of Dr. Kubler-Ross, she would have been told about the five stages of dying at once. More importantly, she would be assured that there is a sixth stage - life after death. "I know there is life after death," says Dr. Kubler-Ross, "I have no shadow of a doubt." This is a powerful statement from one of the leading professionals in the field of death and a highly regarded expert. How can Dr. Kubler-Ross be so sure?
In the early 1970s, having already worked for some time in thanatology, Dr. Kubler-Ross experienced her first OBT - just this kind of separation from the physical body, which coincides exactly with what happens in a state of clinical death. After a busy day with about eight dying patients, Dr. Kubler-Ross was able to rest. Her OBT began spontaneously. Later, she could not believe the woman who was in the same room and told that she looked dead - no breath, no pulse. Knowing about the images associated with clinical death, but not being well informed at the time about OVT research, Dr. Kubler-Ross began to read everything that was done in this area.
She soon visited Robert Monroe in Virginia. Dr. Kubler-Ross read about his OBT in his book Traveling Out of the Body and was impressed by Dr. Charles Tart's experiments with Monroe of the University of California. Applying the relaxation technique, Monroe developed his abilities while teaching people how to experience OBT, and Dr. Kubler-Ross learned instantly. One night in Virginia, while trying to sleep, Dr. Kubler-Ross had a profound experience:
“I had the most incredible experience in my entire life. To put it in one phrase: I went through the death of every one of my thousand patients. I mean physical pain, shortness of breath, agony, pleading for help. The pain defies description. There was no time for thought, or for anything else, I managed to breathe twice between two unbearable bouts of pain. I could only catch my breath for a split second, and I prayed - I think I prayed to God - for a shoulder to lean on, a man's shoulder, and imagined a man's shoulder to lean his head on.
And a thunderous voice rang out: "You will not be given." Exactly. And then I went back through the agony and ended up in bed. But I was not sleeping, it was not a dream. I have lived every death of each of my dying patients."
She continued to beg the Lord to help her, and again a voice rang out: "You will not be given." She was beside herself with rage: "I helped people so much, and now no one will help me." This outburst of rage suddenly made her realize that she must do it alone and that no one can help her, and immediately her suffering ceased and was replaced by "the most incredible experience of rebirth."
The experience of rebirth has been described by mystics, mediums and ordinary people, but perhaps no one before Dr. Kubler-Ross had such experience and did not undergo special training. She is a discerning observer, and her journey should be considered in detail, as she described them in an interview with Anne Nietzke of Human Behavior. Light, as we shall see, plays a huge role in the revival of Dr. Kubler-Ross.
“It was so beautiful that there are not enough words to describe it. It all started with the vibration of the walls of my stomach, I looked - with open eyes, in full consciousness - and said to myself: “This cannot be,” I mean that anatomically, physiologically it was impossible. They vibrated very quickly. And then everything in the room I looked at: my legs, the closet, the window - everything began to vibrate with a million molecules. Everything vibrated with incredible speed. And in front of me was something that most resembled a vagina in appearance. I looked at her, focused on her, and she turned into a lotus bud. And as I looked - in ever-growing amazement - the incredibly beautiful colors, smells and sounds filled the room, the bud opened up into a beautiful flower.
Sunrise rose behind him, the brightest light imaginable, but he didn't hurt his eyes. And since the flower opened, all its fullness appeared in this life. At that moment, the light was open and full, as if the whole sun was concentrated here and the flower was open and full. The vibration stopped, and a million molecules, including me - it was all part of the world - merged into one. I was part of it. And in the end I thought: "I feel good, because I am part of all this."
Later, Dr. Kubler-Ross added: “I understand that this description will seem insane to anyone who has not experienced it. But it is closest to what I can share with you. It was so incredibly beautiful that if I conveyed the sensations I experienced as a thousand orgasms at once, the comparison would be very distant. There are really no words for this. We have the wrong language."
The impression of Dr. Kubler-Ross was so deep that it lasted for months.
“The next morning I went outside, everything seemed incredible. I was in love with every leaf, every bird, even gravel. I tried to step without touching the gravel. And I said to the gravel, "I can't walk on you lest I hurt you." They were as alive as I am, and I was part of this whole living universe. It took months for me to describe all this at least to some extent in appropriate words."
Dr. Kubler-Ross's experience with what the mystics call "cosmic consciousness" only gave her the opportunity to assume that there is life after death, that there is the duration of things not only in space but also in time. She was finally convinced of the existence of life after death by the visit of a former patient Mrs. Schwartz, who appeared after her death and funeral. As Dr. Kubler-Ross tells about her encounter of the fourth kind with death, Mrs. Schwartz appeared in a fully human form to thank the doctor for his care and encourage her to further work with the dying. At first, Dr. Kubler-Ross thought she was hallucinating, but as Mrs. Schwartz's presence continued, she asked the guest to write a few words and sign. The note is now with the priest,who also took part in Mrs. Schwartz's funeral and who confirmed the authenticity of her handwriting.
Since then, Dr. Kubler-Ross has seen many deceased patients and even recorded the voice of one of them, Willie. “I know this is too much,” notes Dr. Kubler-Ross, “and I don’t want people to take everything for granted. I'm pretty skeptical myself. The scientist in me wanted Mrs. Schwartz to sign the note, although I knew it was she who had visited my office. And I needed to tape Willie's voice. I listen to him and sometimes I think that all this is a huge incredible dream. A thrill and a sense of miracle does not leave me."
Dr. Kubler-Ross, once considered by her colleagues to be the leading scientist in the field, lost her credibility with many of her colleagues because of her advanced ™ and stories about the world she saw. But Dr. Kubler-Ross holds firm to his belief in life after death. Her experience, proving the duration of space, time and matter, completely coincides with the fact that Dean W. R. Matthews offers a working definition of life after death. His hypothesis, which obviously has a biological meaning, says that "the center of consciousness that exists during life does not cease to exist after death, and therefore the experience of this center after death continues the experience of life, just as if a person woke up after a short sleep."
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