Communication with dead relatives. How the souls of the dead communicate with the living. Questions about remembrance of the dead

There is an opinion that some people have the gift of not only seeing the dead, spirits and other otherworldly entities in their dreams, but can also communicate and receive information from parallel worlds. Usually such people are called clairvoyants or mediums. Such stories of communication with the other world in a dream have not been proven by science, but scientists are not able to refute this evidence. Believe it or not, it is the choice of each person.

But there are examples from the lives of different people that raise a huge number of questions. Whether there is a life after death? What are the souls of dead people trying to convey to us? Is it possible to contact the dead in a dream when it is significantly necessary? There are no clear answers, but encounters with the mysterious and inexplicable have always been and will continue to occur.

According to Edgar Cayce, an American mystic of the twentieth century, death is like moving from one place to another. And when we move, we do not stop communicating with loved ones through means of communication: telephone, Internet, letters. Sleep is the very remedy communication with souls in other dimensions.

Prophetic dreams as a method of communicating with the dead

People have dreams in which a person receives information from sources unknown to science. In such dreams, a person can see a warning about something in the future or predict an event. As a rule, prophetic dreams are a rare and exceptional event. A famous example in history is the prophetic dream of the scientist Dmitry Mendeleev, in which he saw his table of chemical elements. But there are also examples from the lives of ordinary people: friends, acquaintances or neighbors. The most common stories you hear are about dreams of warnings.

if you dreamed of a dead person or a ghost, you shouldn’t be afraid of such a dream. We need to think about what accompanied such a dream, who or what did you have to face? What did the dead want to convey to the living, in what mood is the soul in that world? It is no coincidence that such meetings occur in dreams. A dream is an intermediate state of consciousness. During daytime activity, a person’s brain is loaded with worries and affairs of everyday life, and therefore is not attuned to the subtle energy wave of his inner consciousness. In the sleep state, everything happens the other way around: brain activity slows down, the person is in a motionless state, and it becomes possible to accept information that the brain had no idea about when awake. In most cases, the deceased dream of their close relatives, with whom they were closely connected during their lifetime. Contact may occur when the person leaving is under one year old. During this period, it is believed that the soul is in places dear to it during life. Sometimes the dead come to ask for help. When you wake up, you should say your request out loud and do what your soul asked.

Dead people can appear in a dream in different images. It’s worth remembering the details: how he’s dressed, how old he is, whether there’s a smell. Clean and beautiful clothes speak of a harmonious state of mind; youth and beauty are also a good sign. A pleasant smell speaks of a cozy place in the soul. Be sure to pay attention to your state after sleep. With a positive awakening, one can judge that the deceased person feels good in the afterlife.

Examples of contact with dead people in a dream

The Story of Edgar Cayce

This story was told by Edgar Cayce's son, based on his father's recollections.

The not yet old woman with whom E. Casey had previously worked suddenly died of illness, and after some time, several years later, she appeared in a dream to her colleague. The story got everyone very excited. The father said that in his sleep he heard a knock on the window. Then he began to hear a voice, realizing that someone was speaking to him from another world. He found out who wanted to talk to him, it was a girl who worked with him many years ago. She was well brought up during her lifetime and strictly observed the rules of lady behavior, so she asked, without changing her habits, to open the door for her in accordance with the rules of etiquette. Which is what Casey did, letting her into the house. Having examined the girl, I noticed that her body was smoky and slightly transparent. In the conversation, she said that she was confused and asked for help, realizing that she had died and no longer knew who to turn to. She told about the cause of her death, that she died from a stomach disease during surgery. After her death, she continued to suffer from the disease, so the doctor who operated on her died, and being already dead next to her, he completed the operation. Now she is healthy. She was no longer aware of the time after death; the years flew by in minutes. In order to understand time, they explained to her that she needed to wait for the white light, which would lead her, but in the meantime she needed to pray and meditate.

Mother comes to her son

Jay's mother was a heroin addict and when he was 14 years old, she went missing. Jay believed that she was dead because of drug deals. Due to her addiction, the woman’s social circle included criminals. But, despite this mother’s lifestyle, the son remained faithful and close to her, even in the most difficult periods, since he loved her very much, and the mother took care of her son as best she could. Two months after her disappearance, Jay saw his mother in a dream. In his dream, he was driving along the road and crossed an old railway bridge, just beyond the bridge he saw the spirit of his mother, who wanted to warn him about something. In the dream, he also realized that his mother had died a violent death, and her body was severely tortured. His mother took him to a vacant lot behind the bridge and began to explain something, pointing down with her hand. This place turned out to be a fresh grave. Jay was filled with a feeling of liberation from invisible shackles, and he suddenly woke up. After waking up, the son felt deep relief that he now knew for sure that his mother was dead, but her soul felt good.

Father communicates with daughter

The adult daughters learned of their father's death. After the funeral took place, Janet, one of the daughters, dreams that she is sitting in a chair, very worried about her father's departure. The father's spirit appears in the same room. According to Janet's story, she clearly understood that she could speak to the soul. Her father was busy getting himself in order. The daughter began to ask her father if she could have helped him during his lifetime, since she felt guilty for not making an effort to save her father’s life by treatment in another clinic. To which the father replied to Janet not to worry, since he felt better after his death. After the dream, Janet realized that this was a real contact with her father, because she felt lightness in her soul, and also all her endeavors went sharply uphill.

A way to communicate with the deceased in a dream

And finally, about one way to try to tell a deceased person in a dream about something important.

Before going to bed, make up your mind about what you need to say to the person who is no longer alive. While lying in bed, begin to repeat your sentences with the goal of falling asleep with these thoughts. Perhaps this exercise will help you meet a deceased person, and if you are very lucky, you will be able to remember this contact. But if this meeting in a dream cannot be remembered, but it happened, upon awakening a feeling of joy and relief will come, and then everything will become clear whether there was contact with the deceased or not.

It is believed that when a person dies, he leaves his body and continues to exist in the form of a spirit, soul, consciousness, and a clot of energy. The etheric body enters another form of reality, which cannot be seen from the world of the living. It is very difficult to feel the presence of a deceased person using the five senses, but this does not mean that it is impossible to communicate with him.

After a person's spirit reaches the "other side", they still remain in emotional contact with the people who loved them while they were alive. Many are trying to send the message that they are okay.

How do they do this?

After the spirit just gets to the “other side,” he most likely still does not know how to contact the people remaining on earth. But, probably, other inhabitants of the other world, deceased relatives, angels and spiritual mentors give a hint on how to do this. But the fact that the spirit of the deceased sends a message does not mean that someone will be able to receive and understand it.

It is very difficult to imagine how a deceased person feels, watching the suffering of loved ones without being able to calm them down.

As time passes, the spirit of the deceased person tries to give a sign that he still exists. There are quite a lot of signs sent from the “other world”. The most common signs are flickering light bulbs, changing position or falling of a photograph hanging on the wall, malfunction of household appliances, deviation in the behavior of pets, the appearance of butterflies or birds, the appearance of smells that the deceased person loved, special songs playing on the radio, etc. .

The most common method of communication used by deceased people is communication through dreams. Quite often people have dreams in which a loving person appears and conveys a message. Such a dream seems very clear and real.

During sleep, a person's mind and consciousness are relaxed and open to receiving information. It is much easier for the spirit to make contact than during daytime wakefulness, when a person’s head is a “mush” of thoughts and emotions.

Not all dreams in which the image of a deceased person is present are real contact. Very often the subconscious can itself cause such dreams in a person. Typically, genuine contact with the spirit of the deceased conveys a message of love, confidence and emotional connection. Often, deceased people convey knowledge or warnings about the future.

How to independently contact the other world?

You can contact your loved one simply by addressing him mentally. The fact is that the souls of loved ones are able to hear a person’s thoughts. There is no guarantee that at the exact moment when they are addressed, they are not busy and listening. But, with due persistence, you can wait for an answer. Such a response, as a rule, will come with some time delay.

Communicating with the spirit of the deceased in real time can be quite difficult. This is exactly what professional mediums do. Without proper training and talent, it is quite difficult to make such contact on your own.

There is a way that allows you to communicate with the spirit yourself. To do this, you need to relax, imagine a well-lit place in which pleasant music is playing and mentally invite the deceased to a conversation. If everything is successful, then the person will have the opportunity to ask several questions to the spirit.

The difficulty is not to confuse real contact with your imagination. But this can be easily verified. With real contact, things will be discussed that are difficult to think of and imagine in everyday life. Images and pictures of unfamiliar things will appear in your head. Thoughts will come from outside.

It’s hard enough to live knowing that you will never be able to communicate with your loved one again. But you shouldn’t be upset in advance. The dead do not leave us forever, they just change the form of existence.

From 20 to 40% of people say that they have come into contact with deceased relatives at least once. But scientists simply brush aside these kinds of stories, simply chalking it up to a rich imagination. Relatively recently, Dr. Camille Wortman from Duke University, who became famous for her attention to, began researching this phenomenon.

Wortman and his colleagues found that about 60% of people are able to sense the presence of their deceased spouses, parents or children, and 40% believe that they have been able to come into contact with the deceased. According to researchers, such contacts can serve as a kind of psychotherapy for the loss of someone close.

However, society does not take them seriously. “Grieving relatives, despite the emotional relief that contact with the deceased brings them, are afraid to discuss this kind of experience with someone, because they are sure that they will be considered abnormal,” Wortman commented. “Therefore, due to lack of information, society does not believe in otherworldly communications.”

Alexey M., lost his wife. She died of cancer very young. And a year after her death she began... to visit her husband. This happened every night. After midnight the doorbell rang. For some reason, Alexei felt that there was no need to open it right away, he waited for the deceased to knock... Svetlana always looked beautiful and healthy, and not emaciated, as before her death. She was wearing her favorite lilac dress and the shoes in which she was buried. At first they drank tea in the kitchen and talked. The most curious thing is that the woman sincerely believed that she was alive! She insisted that she had not died at all, but had moved to another apartment building. She talked about her neighbors, calling them all by name...

She said that she missed her husband a lot, so she came to visit. She called Alexei to her place several times. But he refused, realizing that this would mean his earthly end. Then they went to bed. At the same time, Svetlana did not even take off her clothes and shoes. One day her husband tried to take her shoes off, but it didn’t work out. And she, grinning, said: “Don’t be afraid, they are clean!” And indeed, the shoes did not leave any marks on the linen.

Because of such visits, Alexey refused to meet with other women, and even quarreled with his mother, who believed that her son should marry again. And his work colleagues began to look at him strangely - he was a healthy, handsome man, but he lived like a bastard. Of course, he was silent about visiting the deceased. However, realizing that this was not normal, he told his story to paranormal researcher Viktor Afanasyev. He asked if he could be present when Svetlana’s ghost appeared.

At the appointed hour, when Victor was in Alexei’s apartment, a sharp knock on the door was heard. A young beauty in a lilac dress stood on the threshold... She looked at the guest in bewilderment... and before his eyes she melted into thin air. The ghost turned out to be quite real!

Back in 44 of the 20th century, Bernard Ackermann’s book “One Hundred Cases of Life After Death” was published. One of the stories there tells of a manufacturer from Glasgow. One day he had a dream that he was sitting in his office and a young employee of his factory named Robert McKenzie, whom he had literally once saved from starvation by giving him a job, walked in. “I want to warn you, sir, that I am being accused of something I did not do,” he said. “I want you to know about this and be able to forgive me for what I am accused of, because I am innocent.”

In the morning, when the manufacturer woke up, he learned that McKenzie had died. He allegedly drank from a bottle of a toxic substance used in the factory to stain wood. Meanwhile, the owner of the factory insisted on a more thorough investigation, and it turned out that it was not suicide at all, but an accident: the unfortunate man wanted to take a sip of whiskey, but mixed up the containers...

One Ukrainian family is convinced that their dead son rang the doorbell with a broken bell on the 40th day after his death. There were five witnesses in the house at the time. The family has not slept peacefully for several months now. The deceased son sometimes reminds of himself. At night, tightly closed doors open spontaneously, a broken bell goes off, and the dead son appears in dreams.

Several months have already passed since Yaroslav first dreamed of his father. The mother cannot bring herself to forget about her son. Every night the woman cries, and then the whole family shudders from strange sounds filling the apartment. You can hear the creaking of doors and floors, footsteps, and sometimes even quiet crying. The parents are sure that it is their son who is coming, since in the morning after such nights they have already had to straighten the portrait of their son, crooked on the wall, several times.

This kind of research into “posthumous communication” is carried out by the spouses Bill and Judy Guggenheim. Since 1988, they have interviewed about 2,000 people in America and Canada who said they had contact with the deceased. Bill Guggenheim, a simple broker who had never been interested in science or the paranormal, became interested in this topic after he himself had such an experience. One day, while at home, he suddenly heard the voice of his late father: “Go outside and check the pool.” Bill came out and saw that the gate leading to the pool was slightly open. When he went to close them, he saw his two-year-old son in the water.

The baby was supposed to be in the bathroom at that time, but somehow he managed to leave the room... Having fallen into the pool, the child, who could not swim, naturally began to drown... Fortunately, help arrived in time. Subsequently, the same fatherly voice told Bill to conduct research on the topic of communicating with the dead and write a book about it. This is how his and his wife’s book ““ was born.

1995 - Dr. Allan Botkin developed “directed communication” therapy. Using this technique, his patient Julia Mossbridge was able to contact her close friend who died while they were still in college. The fact is that Julia felt guilty about Josh's death. She persuaded the young man to go to the party, although he had other plans for that evening.

On the way, the car got into an accident and Josh died. Botkin asked Julia to imitate rapid eye movements, which can usually be observed in a person in the REM phase. At the same time, he asked her to focus on the emotions associated with the loss of her friend. This is how Julia Mossbridge described what happened to her during a psychotherapy session: “I saw Josh walking through the door. My friend, with his characteristic youthful enthusiasm, was delighted when he saw me. I also experienced great joy from being able to see him again, but at the same time I could not understand whether all this was really happening. He said he didn't blame me for anything, and I believed him. Then I saw Josh playing with the dog. I didn't know whose dog it was. We said goodbye and I opened my eyes, smiling.

Later I learned that Josh’s sister’s dog, the same breed my friend had played with, had died. I am still not sure about the reality of what happened. The only thing I know for sure is that I managed to get rid of the obsessive images in my head where I call for him or see his death in a car accident.” “It doesn’t matter whether the patient believes in such things or not,” says Dr. Botkin. “Either way they can have a positive effect.”

After a loved one passes away, our consciousness does not want to accept the fact that he is no longer around. I would like to believe that somewhere far away in heaven he remembers us and can send a message.

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The connection between the soul and a living person

Followers of religious and esoteric teachings consider the soul as a small particle of Divine consciousness. On Earth, the soul manifests itself through the best qualities of a person: kindness, honesty, nobility, generosity, the ability to forgive. Creative abilities are considered a gift from God, which means they are also realized through the soul.

She is immortal, but the human body has a limited lifespan. Therefore, at the end of earthly life, the soul leaves the body and goes to another level of the universe.

Basic theories about afterlife

Myths and religious views of peoples offer their vision of what happens to a person after death. For example, the “Tibetan Book of the Dead” describes step by step all the stages through which the soul passes from the moment of dying to the next incarnation on Earth.

Heaven and Hell, Heavenly Court

In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, a person after death awaits a Heavenly court, at which his earthly deeds are evaluated. Depending on the number of mistakes and good deeds, God, angels or apostles divide dead people into sinners and righteous people in order to send them either to Heaven for eternal bliss or to hell for eternal torment.

However, the ancient Greeks had something similar, where all the dead were sent to the underground kingdom of Hades under the guardianship of Cerberus. Souls were also distributed according to their level of righteousness. Pious people were placed in Elysium, and vicious people were placed in Tartarus.

The judgment of souls is present in different variations in ancient myths. In particular, the Egyptians had a deity, Anubis, who weighed the heart of the deceased with an ostrich feather to measure the severity of his sins. Pure souls headed to the paradise fields of the solar god Ra, where the rest were not allowed to go.

The souls of the righteous go to heaven

Evolution of the soul, Karma, Reincarnation

The religions of ancient India look at the fate of the soul differently. According to traditions, she comes to Earth more than once and each time she gains invaluable experience necessary for spiritual evolution.

Any life is a kind of lesson that is passed in order to reach a new level of the Divine game. All actions and deeds of a person during life constitute his karma, which can be good, bad or neutral.

The concepts of “hell” and “heaven” are not here, although the results of life are important for the upcoming incarnation. A person can earn better conditions in the next reincarnation or be born in the body of an animal. Everything determines behavior during your stay on Earth.

The space between worlds: the restless

In the Orthodox tradition there is the concept of 40 days from the moment of death. The date is important, since the Higher powers make the final decision about the residence of the soul. Before this, she has the opportunity to say goodbye to places dear to her on Earth, and also undergoes tests in the subtle worlds - ordeals, where she is tempted by evil spirits.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead names a similar period of time. And it also lists the trials encountered on the path of the soul. There are similarities between completely different traditions. Two beliefs tell about the space between the worlds, where a deceased person resides in a subtle material shell (astral body).

In 1990, the film “Ghost https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/prividenie-1990-1991/” was released. Death overtook the hero of the film suddenly - Sam was treacherously killed on a tip from a business partner. While in the body of a ghost, he investigates and punishes the culprit.

This mystical drama perfectly outlined the astral plane and its laws. The film also explained why Sam was stuck between worlds: he had unfinished business on Earth - protecting the woman he loved. Having achieved justice, Sam gains passage to heaven.

Restless souls become ghosts

People whose lives were cut short at an early age, as a result of murder or an accident, cannot come to terms with the fact that they are gone. They are called restless souls. They wander the Earth as ghosts and sometimes even find a way to make their presence known. This phenomenon is not always caused by tragedy. The reason may be strong attachment to spouses, children, grandchildren or friends.

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Is it true that dead people can see us?

There are many similarities in the stories of those who have experienced clinical death. Skeptics doubt the reliability of such an experience, believing that post-mortem images are hallucinations generated by a fading brain.

The famous healer Mirzakarim Norbekov talks about how he led a study of clinical death for four years. 380 out of 500 patients described the experience exactly the same, the difference was only in the details.

The person saw his physical body from the outside, and these were not hallucinations. Another vision was turned on, allowing one to observe what was happening in the hospital room and beyond. Moreover, a person could absolutely accurately describe a place where he was not physically present. All cases are carefully documented and verified.

What does a person see?

Let’s take the word of people who have looked beyond the physical world and systematize their experience:

1. The first stage is failure, a feeling of falling. Sometimes - literally. According to the story of a witness who received a knife wound in a fight, he first felt pain, then began to fall into a dark well with slippery walls.
2. Then the “deceased” finds himself where his physical shell is located: in a hospital room or at the scene of an accident. At the first moment he does not understand what he sees from himself. He does not recognize his own body, but, feeling the connection, he can mistake the “deceased” for a relative.
3. The eyewitness comes to the realization that in front of him is his own body. He makes the shocking discovery that he is dead. There is an acute feeling of protest. I don’t want to part with earthly life. He sees the doctors working their magic on him, observes the anxiety of his relatives, but can do nothing.
4. Gradually, a person gets used to the fact of death, and then the anxiety recedes, peace and tranquility comes. A person understands that this is not the end, but the beginning of a new stage. And then the way up opens before him.

What does the soul see?

After this, the person receives a new status. Humanity belongs to the Earth. The soul is sent to Heaven (or a higher dimension). In that moment everything changes. The soul perceives itself as a cloud of energy, more like a multi-colored aura.

The souls of loved ones who passed away earlier appear nearby. They look like living substances emitting light, but the traveler knows exactly who he has met. These essences help to move on to the next stage, where the Angel awaits - a guide to the higher spheres.

The path the soul follows is illuminated by Light

People find it difficult to describe the image of the Divine being on the path of the soul in words. This is the embodiment of Love and a sincere desire to help. According to one version, this is a Guardian Angel. According to another, he is the progenitor of all human souls. The guide communicates with the newcomer using telepathy, without words, in the ancient language of images. He demonstrates the events and misdeeds of his past life, but without the slightest hint of condemnation.

The road passes through space filled with Light. Those who have experienced clinical death talk about the feeling of an invisible barrier, which probably serves as the border between the world of the living and the kingdom of the dead. None of those who returned comprehended beyond the veil. What lies beyond the line is not given to the living to know.

Can the soul of the deceased come to visit?

The religion condemns the practice of spiritualism. This is considered a sin, since a tempting demon may appear under the guise of a deceased relative. Serious esotericists also do not approve of such sessions, since at this moment a portal opens through which dark entities can penetrate into our world.

The Church condemns seances for communicating with the dead

However, such visits can occur on the initiative of those who left Earth. If there was a strong connection between people in earthly life, then death will not break it. For at least 40 days, the soul of the deceased can visit relatives and friends and observe them from the side. People with high sensitivity sense this presence.

The deceased uses the dream space to meet the living. He may appear to a sleeping relative to remind him of himself, provide support or give advice in a difficult life situation.

Unfortunately, we do not take dreams seriously, and sometimes we simply forget what we dreamed at night. Therefore, the attempts of our departed relatives to reach us in a dream are not always successful.

Can a deceased person become a guardian angel?

Everyone perceives the passing of a loved one differently. For a mother who has lost a child, such an event is a real tragedy. A person needs support and consolation, because the pain of loss and longing reign in the heart. The bond between mother and child is especially strong, so children feel suffering acutely.

Children who die early can become guardian angels

However, any deceased relative can become a guardian angel for a family. It is important that during his lifetime this person is deeply religious, observes the laws of the Creator and strives for righteousness.

How can the dead contact the living?

The souls of the deceased do not belong to the material world, therefore they do not have the opportunity to appear on Earth as a physical body. In any case, we will not be able to see them in their previous form. In addition, there are unspoken rules according to which the dead cannot directly interfere in the affairs of the living.

1. According to the theory of reincarnation, deceased relatives or friends return to us, but in the guise of a different person. For example, they may appear in the same family, but as a younger generation: a grandmother who has passed on to another world may return to Earth as your granddaughter or niece, although, most likely, her memory of the previous incarnation will not be preserved.
2. Another option is spiritualistic seances, the dangers of which we discussed above. The possibility of dialogue, of course, exists, but is not approved by the church.
3. The third communication option is dreams and the astral plane. This is a more convenient platform for those who have passed away, since the astral plane belongs to the immaterial world. The living enter this space also not in a physical shell, but in the form of a subtle substance. Therefore, dialogue is possible. Esoteric teachings recommend taking dreams involving deceased loved ones seriously and listening to their advice, since the dead have greater wisdom than the living.
4. In exceptional cases, the soul of the deceased may appear in the physical world. This presence can feel like a chill down your spine. Sometimes you can even see something like a shadow or silhouette in the air.
5. In any case, the connection between the departed people and the living cannot be denied. Another thing is that not everyone perceives and understands this connection. For example, the souls of the departed can send us signs. There is a belief that a bird that accidentally flies into a house carries a message from the afterlife calling for caution.

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Scientists' opinions on the soul and the afterlife

Representatives of science took the position of materialism, and the church always condemned atheists.

In earlier times, scientists believed that there was no soul. Consciousness and psyche are the activities of the brain and nervous system. Accordingly, with the cessation of life of the physical body, consciousness also dies. Scientists also did not take the afterlife seriously. They were convinced that in church they talked about heaven and hell in order to achieve obedience among parishioners.

About a century ago, Albert Einstein put forward the general theory of relativity, which revolutionized scientific views on the structure of the Universe. It turned out that such categories of matter as time and space are unstable. And Einstein questioned matter itself, declaring that it was more reasonable to talk about energy in its various manifestations.

The development of quantum physics has also made adjustments to the worldview of scientists. A theory has emerged about many variants of the Universe. And it has been experimentally proven that consciousness can influence processes in the world of microparticles.

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What individual scientists say

As they moved into outer space and immersed themselves in the processes of the microworld, scientists pushed the boundaries of perception and came to the idea of ​​the existence of a Universal Mind, which religions call God. They became convinced of the animation of the Cosmos not through blind faith, but during numerous scientific experiments.

Russian biologist Vasily Lepeshkin

In the 1930s, a Russian biochemist discovered energy emissions emanating from a dying body. The bursts were recorded on ultra-sensitive photographic film. Based on observations, the scientist came to the conclusion that a special substance is separated from the dying body, which in religions is usually called the soul.

Professor Konstantin Korotkov

Doctor of Technical Sciences has developed a method of gas discharge visualization (GDV), which makes it possible to record fine-material radiation from the human body and obtain an image of the aura in real time.

Using the GDV method, the professor recorded energy processes at the moment of death. In fact, Korotkov’s experiments gave a picture of how a subtle component emerges from a dying person. The scientist believes that then consciousness, together with the subtle body, goes to another dimension.

Physicists Michael Scott from Edinburgh and Fred Alan Wolf from California

Adherents of the theory of many parallel Universes. Some of their options coincide with reality, others radically differ from it.

Any living being (more precisely, its spiritual center) never dies. It is simultaneously embodied in different versions of reality, and each individual part is unaware of its counterparts from parallel worlds.

Professor Robert Lantz

He drew an analogy between the continuous existence of humans and the life cycles of plants, which die in the winter, but begin to grow again in the spring. Thus, Lanz’s views are close to the Eastern doctrine of personal reincarnation.

The professor admits the existence of parallel worlds in which the same soul lives at the same time.

Anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff

Due to the specifics of my work, I observed people on the verge of life and death. Now he is sure that the soul has a quantum nature. Stewart believes that it is not formed by neurons, but by the unique substance of the Universe. After the death of the physical body, spiritual information about the personality is transmitted into space and lives there as free consciousness.

Conclusion

As you can see, neither religion nor modern science denies the existence of the soul. Scientists, by the way, even named its exact weight - 21 grams. Having left this world, the soul continues to live in another dimension.

However, while remaining on Earth, we cannot voluntarily make contact with departed relatives. We can only keep good memories of them and believe that they also remember us.

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11 QUESTIONS ABOUT REMEMBERING THE DECEASED

Is it possible to talk with deceased loved ones, will we meet our husbands and wives after death, and is there any hope of salvation for suicides and atheists? Priest Stefan Domusch, candidate of theology and philosophical sciences, answers these and other questions.

No. 1. Can you talk to the deceased, ask for their help and their prayers?

As with almost all questions concerning the afterlife, there cannot be a definite answer. It is no coincidence that the Monk Anastasius of Sinaite says that a person who tries with his weak mind to find out the secrets of the afterlife will fall into the most terrible delusions, because it is not useful to him. What is useful to us, says the monk, God has revealed to us, and to the extent that it is useful.

As for prayer, the custom comes from ancient times to pray to departed Christians, or, more precisely, to ask them to pray to God. In ancient times, the Church very clearly distinguished between a deceased Christian and a deceased non-Christian. A person who died being connected with Christ, died a member of the Church, although he is physically separated from his brothers and sisters, through Christ he remains deeply connected with them! When we say at Easter that Christ “trampled death underfoot,” we are talking about the fact that He conquered our death, and physical death too, but first of all, He conquered death as the separation of the soul and God. Therefore, the one who dies in Christ, although he dies physically, no longer dies spiritually, that is, he is not separated from God and remains alive in Christ. And when the Church buried its dead, it felt that these people remained connected to the rest of the living members of the community.

In this vein, naturally, one could ask the dead to pray. We are accustomed to asking prayers only from saints, but in ancient times all members of the Christian community were called saints, because they are a chosen race, a sacred race: the Apostle Paul writes, for example, to the saints who are in Corinth, thus addressing all Christians of Corinth. Therefore, people could ask for the prayers of all deceased members of the community. For example, in the catacombs they find inscriptions on tombstones in which people address deceased relatives. On one of the tombstones in the ancient Roman catacombs of the 4th century there is a request from the Christian Pectorius that they remember him every time they look at Christ. Moreover, it is clear that his relatives were simple Christians and died an ordinary death, they were not martyrs.

And in this sense, of course, communication with the dead is possible.

On the other hand, the Monk Anastasius Sinaite says that after death the soul loses the ability to manifest itself and perceive anything. That is, a person sees through the eyes, hears through the ears, speaks through the tongue and cords, and, accordingly, when all this dies, the soul does not see, does not hear, does not speak, does not communicate. However, he further explains that souls who have passed into immortality, being enlightened by the Holy Spirit, are still able to see, and hear, and pray for their neighbors, and show their love. And those who are not enlightened by the Holy Spirit are in some remorse - and nothing more...

Often for people, talking with the dead is a form of psychotraining, a psychological practice that helps a person calm down. The Church supports prayer for the deceased more than “talking” with him. Probably the only context in which such a conversation is possible is the context of prayers. To do this, a person must really live a spiritual life - he must be a faithful member of the Church.

No. 2. Is it an Orthodox tradition to hang a photograph of a deceased loved one on the wall?

Of course, you shouldn’t hang a portrait in the red corner, next to icons. But we can absolutely calmly hang portraits of relatives anywhere else in the house - there should be no superstitious fear here: the deceased cannot do anything to us, they cannot bring a person good luck or bad luck. The obvious benefit of such a portrait is prayerful memory: seeing a photograph of a relative or loved one, we will remember him and pray for him. It often happens that a person dies, is lost from sight, and soon disappears from memory.

No. 3. They say: “The deceased became my guardian angel” or "He helps me". This is right?

There is no trace of any cult of ancestors who protect, protect, in Christianity - this is typical for many pagan beliefs that are still found today. In Christianity there is respect for ancestors, there is prayer for them, but of course there is no concept that they protect the living. As I already said, the deceased can help with his prayers if he was a pious Christian, a faithful member of the Church, his love does not leave his loved ones, although he has already left this world. But, of course, a person does not become any kind of guardian angel.

No. 4. It is sometimes believed that if a baby died before it could live, it can return to the family in the next child. Is it acceptable to think so?

The Church clearly does not allow any reincarnation. A baby who dies is with the Lord and, of course, cannot return anywhere. So this is a mistake.

No. 5. For suicides, people who died unbaptized, or for those who were ardent atheists during their lifetime, is there no hope of salvation?

There are people who claim here and now about others that they are lost, that they will not be saved, but will be in hell, but still the Church has never denied the possibility of prayer for all people who have left this world. There is even Trinity Parental Saturday, on which, according to Basil the Great, you can even pray for “those who are kept in hell.” On this day, as the first song of the canon says, we pray for all “those who have died from time immemorial,” that is, for all people. And this is very important! This means that God is merciful, and the final judgment is in His hands; we have no right to anticipate it and say whether such and such a person will be saved or perish.

The following “formula” was revealed to the Monk Silouan of Athos: keep your mind in hell and do not despair. We can doubt our salvation, but hope for it, and as for the salvation of other people, the Apostle Paul directly writes in his Epistle to the Corinthians: Therefore do not judge in any way before the time, until the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things hidden in darkness and will reveal the intentions of the heart (1 Cor 4:5). We do not know the relationship of a particular person with God - how can we judge whether he is saved or not? In the end, many saints are confident that people who were unable to hear the message of Christ during their lifetime or heard it in a distorted form will be judged differently by the Lord than those who heard the Gospel in full. So there is always hope! And hope, as Scripture says, does not disappoint (Rom. 5:5).

No. 6. Will we recognize each other after death, will we maintain family ties, because Christ said: “There will be no marriage or marriage there”?

Christ does not say that there will be no family attachments; one should not attribute to Him something that He did not mean. Saint John Chrysostom said that husband and wife will know that they are husband and wife, but there will be no more family relationships, marital relationships: the spouses will love each other and grow together in love for the Lord. Therefore, those who claim that beyond the grave we will not recognize each other, no one will care about anyone, are wrong. When Christ says that people no longer get married there, this means that people no longer create new families, do not give birth to children, and do not live the kind of everyday family life that we are accustomed to here. This is obvious, that’s why the Kingdom of Heaven is a completely different state, and not just some next stage of earthly existence.

About our bodies after the resurrection, the Apostle Paul writes that they will be the same as the body of Christ was after his resurrection. From this they sometimes conclude that we will all be 33 years old... Yes, we know what the properties of our body will be - like the body of Christ, but nothing can be said about age, there is no such unambiguous church teaching about this! If only because it is easy to imagine how an 80-year-old man will be resurrected in a 33-year-old body, but how, for example, at this age will an aborted baby, not formed either physically or as a person, be resurrected?.. We don’t know.

If you look at the patristic works, you will hardly see any detailed descriptions of the afterlife in them. Because the emphasis in Christian theology has always been placed on something else - on the resurrection of the dead and on the life of the next century. Often we find all the detailed descriptions of the afterlife in apocrypha, that is, in non-canonical books, whose authority is not absolute: “The Ordeal of Blessed Theodora,” for example, is also an apocrypha, a pious pedagogical narrative, quite late, which at a certain level of church consciousness is useful, but is not an accurate, completely adequate depiction of what will happen after death.

Therefore questions “Will we recognize each other?”, “What age will our relatives be in the afterlife?” and so on - these are questions about the world after the resurrection of the dead, about the Kingdom of Heaven, and not about the afterlife. But I think that such close attention to what will happen in the Kingdom of Heaven is a big mistake, it’s wrong. An Orthodox Christian should not be interested in this, he should pray, hope in God and not ask Him how He is going to contain souls in His Kingdom - this is none of our business! They are with God, and the Lord knows where they are - that’s all, nothing more is needed. This is also a question of trust in God. The Lord is merciful, and we must understand that He will deal with the dead with love and as kindly to man as possible.

Leibniz once wrote that our world is the best of worlds. The same can be said about the afterlife of a person: God will deal with him in the best way - to the extent that the person himself allows himself to be treated (here we must not forget about human freedom).

No. 7. How to remember the dead outside the temple: is it necessary to read the Psalter or can you pray in your own words?

Prayer is always very individual. Despite the fact that there is a general rule, a person, by agreement with the priest or according to his own understanding, if the priest is not nearby, according to his own strength, according to his conscience, can read those prayers that he considers appropriate for himself.

Prayers for the departed are in any prayer book; they can be read both in church and at home. And, of course, no one forbids praying in your own words. Traditionally, in the first 40 days, the Psalter is read for the deceased, and there are certain rules for reading the Psalter - one kathisma every day, but at the same time a person is not limited by these rules! He can easily read the Psalter at other times, and to the extent for which he has the strength, in Church Slavonic or in Russian - as is convenient for him.

Why is the Psalter read? Other books of the Old Testament are mainly historical, where the narrative is told, teaching, where worldly wisdom is recorded, or prophetic, in which there is a conversation about the future, a reminder of the Judgment of God, and so on. And the Psalter is a book of prayers, a constant appeal to God in hope, in faith, in trust in Him, in a request for salvation. Therefore, of course, this is the best reading for both the living and the deceased. And, it seems to me, there is no need to separate whether we read the Psalter on behalf of the deceased or on our own behalf, even if only due to the fact that we, as members of the Church, are united, and therefore we pray not so much for the deceased, but together with the deceased .

No. 8. Is it necessary to celebrate the birthday of a deceased person and the day of his death?

Usually people simply order a memorial service on this day and pray.

We must be aware that the wakes that are usually held have a double meaning and historical origin. On the one hand, unfortunately, it often happens at wakes that people simply drink alcohol, start laughing, joking and just having a good time. The reason for which people gathered is lost, no one remembers much about the deceased. On the other hand, wakes have deep Christian roots: the fact is that different people gathered for the wake, everyone who could, both acquaintances and strangers, both the poor and the rich - all people were fed so that in gratitude for This treat was used to remember the deceased and pray for him. That is, the wake was perceived as a mercy on his behalf.

No. 9. People worry that they rarely come to the grave of a loved one. How important is it?

It would be better for people to worry not about the fact that they can’t get to the grave of a loved one at the cemetery, but about the fact that they can’t pray sincerely for him, they can’t become a member of the Church, receive communion, confess and remember their relatives in prayer! And the fact that we don’t go to the cemetery often and this will entail some bad consequences is just a superstitious fear that shouldn’t exist.

In relation to the grave of the deceased, to the body of the deceased, unfortunately, there is still an element of paganism: if we are talking about attempts to somehow “appease” the deceased, to make sure that “everything is fine with him there” and he does not disturb the living, as people very often think. Sometimes they believe that the deceased begins to dream that he himself influences this in this way, and people begin to carry out some rituals so that this does not happen anymore. It is not right.

As for the general attitude in the Church towards the bodies of the dead, there were different traditions. We know that we have a special relationship with the bodies of saints - they are revered as relics. But the bodies of ordinary Christians are also treated with reverence and respect. Therefore, the Orthodox Church does not approve of cremation, although it accommodates those who cannot do otherwise - we still serve funeral services and requiem masses, regardless of the method of burial.

No. 10. Is it a sin to go to the cemetery on Easter and Bright Week?

On Easter you need to go to church: Easter is the time to celebrate victory over death!

So the Soviet tradition of going to the graves of relatives on Easter is wrong. In general, many different traditions developed in Soviet families, often quite erroneous, and we must fight them.

The best option for visiting cemeteries is, of course, Radonitsa, Tuesday of the second week after Easter, a special day set aside for a special commemoration of the dead. But you can go to the cemetery in advance, before Easter, many people do this, put things in order at the graves of their relatives after the winter, and try to clean them up for the holiday, if possible. You can go there the next Sunday after Easter, if there is no other time, if a person works and knows that there is no way he can get away from work on Radonitsa. This is better than trying to get to the graves of your loved ones on Easter Day!

No. 11. If a person has been grieving the death of a loved one for years, how can he overcome grief and feelings of despair?

Grief and sadness are natural, but St. John Chrysostom says that Christ, who shed tears at the tomb of Lazarus, showed us the measure of our sadness. That is, it should be precisely sadness, sadness that a person lived next to us and has now died, but it should not be excessive grief, which, as many authors write, offends God.

There are three main themes in the funeral service: the theme of obligatory prayer for the deceased, the theme of mortal memory (i.e. you yourself must remember death) and the hope of resurrection. The Gospel reading at the funeral and the apostolic reading speak specifically about the resurrection!

Accordingly, if a person grieves immensely, then with his life he shows that he has no hope, that he does not fully trust in God, does not believe in His support, does not believe in His consolation and, as a result, it turns out, does not believe in the immortality of the soul and resurrection of the dead. If he doesn't believe, how can the Church help him? And if he believes, then he should not grieve excessively, and here the Church gives him consolation. As the Apostle Paul writes: I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant about the dead, so that you do not grieve like others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then God will bring those who died in Jesus with Him (...) The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel and the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first; Then we who are left alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).

Recorded by Valeria Mikhailova

Priest Stefan Domusci