According to statistics, Russia ranks second among all countries in the world in the number of suicides. Our state is leading in the number of suicides among adolescents and the elderly.

All these people hoped to save themselves from suffering in this way, putting an end to it in one action. Death, from their point of view, was the cessation of intelligent life and the extinction of consciousness. But does non-being really exist? Where does the soul of a suicide go after death?

In different cultures

In Orthodoxy, suicide is considered the worst sin. It is forbidden to funeral service for those who passed away voluntarily, to pray for them at liturgies. They seem to be deleted from the lists of people who have ever existed. This act is condemned in all three world religions: Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Often people who have committed suicide are buried separately from everyone.

However, not all cultures were so categorical. So, in some oriental cultures, in Rome, this action was an important ritual in society.

For Japanese samurai, hara-kiri was considered a matter of honor, which allowed them to avoid captivity and atone for their own misdeeds. There are cases when permission to commit such a ritual suicide was considered a pardon for the emperor.

In India, the elderly, in order not to be a heavy burden on their families because of their own illnesses and weakness, burned themselves. There was when wives jumped into the fire at the funeral of their husbands, burning alive in it.

The ancient Celts considered life in old age and weakness shameful. They had separate “ancestral rocks”, from where they left life voluntarily, still having remnants of strength.

History knows many acts of self-sacrifice in honor of the gods. Usually they were preceded by many years of preparation, the study of ideology, so that a person understands why and what he is going to. And this was also encouraged in the community.

Among the proud and ardent Roman aristocrats, suicide was considered an act of strong will. Sometimes the best friend of the deceased committed suicide in order to share with him the hardships of a posthumous life. This act, committed in order not to be taken prisoner, was positively accepted.

Therefore, there is no unanimity on this issue. But at the moment, when three world religions dominate, suicide is considered a sinful act.

Our ancestors

The Slavic people left to descendants a lot of information about what happens to the soul of a suicide after leaving the world. This is detailed in his myths. The ancient Slavs believed that the soul of a suicide after death becomes a ghost and wanders the earth for centuries. Usually she is at the place where she committed a sin, emitting crying and whistling, luring lost passers-by with evil intentions. For this reason, our ancestors for centuries cut down trees, covered their tracks where the soul of a suicide found a refuge for itself. And they buried them in a special way, away from everyone.

The soul of a suicide person was considered an evil spirit. The ancient people believed that because of his death on the same day the weather changed, the winds suddenly rose, hail fell. On full moons, the soul of a suicide appeared in cemeteries, anomalous zones, causing animal horror in everyone he met.

The body of the deceased in this way was subjected to a special ritual. Nails were driven into the mouth, and a stake was driven into the heart, it was mutilated, sprinkled with sacred herbs. All this was done so that the soul of the suicide after death could not return to the body and the dead did not rise from the grave. Thus, he would not have been able to do harm by turning into a vampire. It was believed that the soul of a suicide lived in terrible torment that lasted for centuries.

Psychological research

After communicating with people who were saved from suicide, or their attempt was unsuccessful, psychologists say that 99% of people in the last minutes of their lives realize that they have done a stupid act and do not want death (for example, those who hang themselves start look for a chair with your feet). But for some reason, they are no longer able to prevent the inevitable. The torment they are experiencing at these moments cannot be compared with anything. A sea of ​​energy, adrenaline is thrown out. All moments of life fly by before their eyes, they not only see, they feel the memories of the first experience of kissing, sex, a gift, a fall, a broken leg, about everything that aroused emotions in them. It holds the soul back. She does not leave the place in which the person died in this way. There is a theory that due to the excessive amount of emotions that arose at this moment, the release of adrenaline and energy, she remains in the place where it happened.

In other words, this is how the “anchor” is created, which holds the soul. Since she left the physical shell, and the person changed his mind in the last minutes, because of this synthesis of energy, a circle is closed. It is he who outlines this "hell on earth", where the soul of a suicide falls. Here, she relives her horrible death over and over again on a daily basis. This is the case with the majority of suicides. It is not known where the souls of the suicides, who remained faithful to their decision to the end, end up. Only the gods can know about it.

condemned?

It is believed that in the other world, into which we all will one day find ourselves, there will be no oblivion, which the person who commits suicide hopes for.

There the life of reason continues in accordance with the karma of life on earth, the consequences of actions on it. A mentally burdened person will continue to suffer from unresolved difficulties. She will only feel more acutely the painfulness of her position. However, she will no longer have a chance for correction, it will remain in earthly life. The soul of a suicide will only experience a painful emotional reaction to the pictures that appear in front of it, full of the dramatic events of his life. This is what the lines from the Gospel say: "What you untie on Earth will be untied in heaven."

You can fix anything only in your physical embodiment. If a person leaves this world of his own free will, unresolved situations will haunt him with a vengeance, hallucinatory memories will haunt him, being experienced like real events.

Suicide violates the most important karmic law - about the purpose of human life and its timing. The fact is that everyone comes to this world with a specific mission that concerns personal growth. If a person's spirit has talents, is great, it will touch many others. Even before the beginning of its life in the physical shell, the soul understands what its task is. Entering the body, because of physical matters, this knowledge is obscured, the destination is forgotten.

For the fulfillment of a personal task, certain periods of life on earth are always given, a certain amount of energy necessary for this.

If someone dies earlier than these dates, the destination remains unfulfilled.

The energy allocated for this task is not realized, which begins to pull the soul of the suicide towards the physical world for many years to come.

Research scientists

A scientist from St. Petersburg K. Korotkov was actively involved in the study of what happens to the soul of a suicide. He studied this phenomenon using the Kirlian effects, which made it possible to see a person's energy immediately after death and for several days after.

According to his findings, the posthumous state of those who died naturally was very different from the energy of suicides. For example, he established three different types of glow of the bodies of persons who died for different reasons. It was fixed using the Kirlian method.

For those who died naturally, the glow had a small amplitude of energy fluctuations. In the first few hours after leaving this life, she gradually fell.

In the second type of glow, which was formed during sudden death as a result of accidents, the fluctuations were also not large, but there was one bright peak.

The third type was observed in those who died as a result of a preventable circumstance. The glow there was characterized by very large energy fluctuations that lasted for a very long time. The same thing happened with the death that was provoked.

According to the scientist, these vibrations reflected the state of the astral body, which lost its physical embodiment as a result of violence, after which it had no chance to naturally exist in another world. That is, the soul of a suicide goes into another world and continues to rush between the body and the astral, trying to find a way out.

Hellish voices

There is another eerie moment that relates to the astral world. Many people who tried to commit suicide and were rescued by specialists stated that they were informed about the decision to die by some voices in which they supposedly recognized their deceased relatives.

This phenomenon acts as an indirect and sometimes a direct cause of suicide very often.

This is a certain class of creatures called elementals by the greatest medieval physician Paracelsus. They are positive and negative. The latter seek to capture the vital energy of people, preferring theft to self-development. When a person dies, they release a large amount of energy that feeds these astral vampires. Therefore, the elementals cling to people who are in prolonged depression and process them, summing up their accounts with life.

Such eerie connections are often found by psychics in other people's auras. They call them "bindings" or "subkeys". At times, potential suicides are processed on more subtle, subconscious levels. Then they are not voices, but extremely depressive thoughts with self-destruction programs. Over time, these imposed thoughts, under the pressure of numerous attacks, are accepted by people for their desire.

Captivity

It is believed that with the death of a person, his spirit begins to go through ordeals for 40 days. These are difficult trials for him, and this time is considered tragic. He does not understand what will await him next.

First, he spent six days in paradise, staying there with the righteous and blessed people, then for the rest of the time he goes to hell, where he is responsible for his sins. But during this period, he can repent of them and receive forgiveness.

The soul of a suicide after 40 days does not get such a chance. Due to the unused energy, it remains in the lower layers of the other world. Even being a righteous person, a person does not escape the fate of going to hell.

If he was given 70 years, and he lived only 25, then for the remaining 45 years he will be in the lower astral layers, where the soul immediately after the death of a suicide falls. She rushes about there for a long time in agonizing anticipation.

Since ancient times, suicides have been considered ghosts. Voluntary departure from life is also unacceptable in the opinion of clairvoyants. Many of them instantly understand from the photographs whether a person is still alive or not. However, about those who committed suicide, they say that they do not exist both in the world of the living and in the world of the dead. The rescued people who survived clinical death as a result of settling accounts with life also told about what happens to the soul of a suicide after death. Usually this moment is very strongly imprinted on the psyche.

Even a fleeting glance at the other world, which opened up to a person in those moments, gives a lot of information about where the soul of suicides goes. The studies of the posthumous world, which the doctor conducted together with other scientists, are known all over the world.

One of his patients, who was miraculously saved after a suicide attempt and survived from a coma, recounted the following. Once there, he clearly felt that two actions are subject to the prohibition: killing himself and others. The woman, who was pumped out after taking a lethal dose of sleeping pills, said that she felt that she had done something wrong according to the highest commandment. She was sure of this and desperately tried to return to her body in order to survive.

This panic was fundamentally different from that felt by those who died naturally, but managed to get out (for example, due to illness). They described a sense of calmness and a feeling that everything is as it should be.

Edwin Schneidman on the soul of a suicide

He is one of the most famous investigators of everything related to suicide. Schneidman's book "The Soul of Suicide" is popular all over the world. In it, he makes an attempt to realize what motivates those who decide to commit suicide. He identified 10 characteristics that all suicides have in 95% of cases. So, one of the main features is mental pain. These people experience constant suffering and excitement. It is she who serves as the driving force in making the last decision in life. Pain is also the source of thoughts of suicide. This action is a unique human reaction to mental anguish.

This is difficult to investigate, since no analysis of brain cells with all kinds of devices will help to form an opinion about what is actually happening in the soul.

Schneidman notes that even those who suffer greatly when they are diagnosed with a fatal disease, commit suicide not because of physical, but mental anguish caused by extreme anxiety. They are immaterial, not measurable. However, one thing is clear: they are unbearable. Thoughts of killing oneself arise at the moment when pain becomes impossible to endure, and people strive to die in order to stop this awareness of pain.

A serious tragedy deep inside, results in the laying on of hands. It is interesting that often in this way those who were in the middle class in terms of material wealth, were an ordinary consumer, a worthy member of society, are summing up their own lives. Only a small percentage are added to their number by the insane.

This study once again refutes the opinion that most often a person voluntarily dies due to poverty, lack of material values. Most of all suicides are among those in the prime of life, the most cheerful representatives of the human race.

In terms of child deaths, 70% of suicide children came from well-to-do families.

How to help the soul of a person who committed suicide

Can the soul of a suicide be helped? Seraphim Sarovsky described a case from his own practice. Once he was approached by a family in which one of the members committed suicide by drowning in the river. Relatives who were in terrible agony could not mention him in their prayers.

But suddenly the holy elder answered them that their father was not a suicide. Sarovsky received a vision from God that at the moment when their loved one fell down, he turned to God and received forgiveness. Prayers in churches for those who have passed away are voluntarily prohibited, but those who wish to help them can mention them in cell prayers performed at home. They can save those who have sinned so.

He called for prayer on a rosary. He talked about a woman he knew who died after committing suicide. He began to pray for her with a rosary, and one night she came to him in her dreams and thanked him for it. She said that a wonderful moment had come for her, and thanks to his efforts, she was going to a place where she would live forever. She was saved from eternal suffering thanks to his prayers, although she lived unrighteously.

Contact

It is believed that spirits from other worlds can be contacted. In particular, you can talk to the soul of a suicide. It is worth doing this with the help of images. It will not be possible to address her with a word, a question, but you can translate them through figurative thinking. Then she will respond to the call and also send a response in the form of an image that will appear in a dream.

To convey a message to the deceased, it must be encrypted, and to receive it, it must be decrypted. You should not use dream books, interpreters of dreams, in this case they will not help anything, since they decipher symbols, and images will need to be interpreted. They are compiled individually.

First you need to have an idea of ​​figurative thinking, how it works in humans. If it is absent, which is extremely rare, then a person will not be able to send messages to another world. In any case, he will see the answer in a dream, but he will not be able to correctly interpret it.

The best way to understand how imaginative thinking works is in this example.

One interlocutor agrees with the other to cross near a shop familiar to both, next to which there is a bus stop. A person with dominant logical thinking will start asking which side to approach the store where the bus will stop. And the one who has developed imaginative thinking will draw this picture in his head and easily find this place on his own, without asking any more questions.

The following example is also suitable for illustration. It is enough to tell someone from the household that the book is on the table. If he does not possess imaginative thinking, he will ask where exactly it lies - on the right side of it or on the left. This will be very important for him, since he relies on logic, he needs to understand exactly where the object is located. This happens in all areas of life. Anyone who is able to work with images will understand from the first time that one needs to look for a book on the table. It is extremely difficult to induce logicians to think figuratively. Before talking to the soul of a suicide at home, you need to take this into account in order to create the codes of images for such people correctly.

The encrypted question is transmitted to the soul through a mental link. The answer from the place where the soul of the suicide went will come in night dreams and can be deciphered using the code of images. He is always individual.

To choose the right code and ask questions to someone in another world, you only need to contact a loved one. You need to have knowledge of his character, manner of thinking, physical appearance.

If a connection is planned with one of the great souls, then you need to stock up on knowledge about his habits, biography, tune in to his wave by viewing his photos or portraits.

You need to fully concentrate on this person, otherwise the message will get to someone else, and the answer will seem incomprehensible. 100 billion people have already lived on Earth, and there is such a possibility.

To send a message to the other world, you must first prepare. It is important to bring your body into a suitable state. First of all, you need to give up smoking, alcohol, drugs for a day, otherwise the information will be distorted. Also, do not do this while experiencing any pain.

To get the right message during sleep, you need to adjust your behavior during the day. For a day, you need to give up TV, movies, loud music, swearing, communication with the opposite sex. The most optimal solution would be to refuse a heavy dinner, tea and coffee. All this is reflected in the quality of the transmission of messages. It is best to relax before bed by taking a walk outside. Any event that affects the emotional background during the day will definitely leave an imprint on dreams, and the data will be distorted.

If a person does not remember his own dreams, cannot retell them, then it hardly makes sense to contact the other world. It is best to choose sincere people for this.

Conclusion

Attitudes towards suicide vary across the world. But most often it is believed that the soul of a suicide experiences unbearable suffering in the afterlife. This is because life is too amazing to set off a chain reaction of suicide into the world, which is always caused by the one who committed suicide.

In the Christian tradition, the concept of the ordeal of the soul after death is a test of strength, something that is used to test the soul after it leaves the body, and before it goes to the other world, to Hell or Heaven.

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The ordeal of the soul after death

According to various revelations, after death, each spirit passes twenty "Ordeals", by which are meant trials or torture by any sin. Through ordeals, the soul is either purified or thrown into Gehenna. Having overcome one of the trials, the spirit steps over to another, higher rank - to serious sins. Having passed the test, the soul of the deceased has the opportunity to continue along the path without constant demonic temptations.

Ordeals after death, according to Christianity, are terrible. They can be overcome by prayer, fasting and strong, unshakable faith. There is evidence of how terrible demons and trials after death are - the Virgin Mary herself begged the son of Jesus to save her from the torment of the ordeal. The Lord responded to the prayers and took away the pure soul of Mary in order to turn the Virgin Mary to Heaven with his divine hand. The icon of the Assumption, revered by Orthodox Christians, depicts the salvation of the Mother of God from many days of torment and ascension to Heaven.

The tests of the holy fathers and hagiographic texts about the ordeal of the soul describe these tests in a similar way. The individual experience of any person influences his own torture and the perception of it. The severity of each trial is increasing, from the most common sins to the most serious. The spirit of a person after death is under a small (private) judgment, where life is reviewed and the results of all the deeds committed by the living are summed up. Depending on whether the convicted person fought against fallen spirits or succumbed to passions, a sentence is passed.

The first ordeal is idle talk - words spoken in vain, love of chatter. The second is a lie, spreading rumors, deceiving others for their own benefit. The third are slander and disapproval, slander about someone else's reputation or condemnation of the actions of others from their place. Fourth - gluttony, indulging the base passion of the body, hunger.

20 ordeals of the soul of blessed Fedora, painting before descending into a cave in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Fifth - laziness, idleness. Sixth - theft, appropriation of someone else's property that does not belong to a person as a result of an honest exchange. Seventh - love of money and avarice as a symbol of excessive attachment to things of the material, temporary world. Eighth - covetousness, that is, a craving for unrighteous acquisitions, obtained dishonestly. Ninth - deception, lies in business, wrong judgment without fair judgment. Tenth - envy, the scourge of God, the desire to dispose of what the near and far have. Eleventh - pride, excessive conceit, an inflated ego, self-esteem.

Twelfth - anger and rage, symbols of incontinence and lack of meekness befitting a Christian. Thirteenth - rancor, keeping in the memory of other people's bad deeds in their address, the desire to take revenge. The fourteenth ordeal is murder, the deprivation of the life of another person. Fifteenth - sorcery, charm, the call of demons, demons and spirits, the use of magic for their own and other people's needs as a path to the death of the soul. Sixteenth - fornication, disorderly intercourse with a change in many partners in life, unfaithfulness before the face of the Lord.

Seventeenth is adultery, betrayal of a spouse. The eighteenth is a sodomistic offense when a man lies with a man, and a lady with a woman. For this sin, Sodom and Gomorrah were thrown into the dust by God. Nineteenth - heresy, falling into doubts, rejection of God-given faith. The twentieth and last is recognized torture - mercy and cruelty, keeping a callous heart and lack of compassion for people.

The path of the soul that left the physical body is through these trials. Every sin to which a person was inclined during his earthly life will return after death, and demons, called publicans, will torment the sinner. Sincere prayer, coming from the very depths of the repentant soul, will help to save oneself from one's own sins and ease the torment.

Where does a person go after death

This question has tormented the minds of people since ancient times. Where do the dead go, where does a person go after death? Where does the soul fly away after the death of the physical shell.? The traditional answer is given by all religions, speaking of another kingdom, the afterlife, where every deceased will follow. This name is no coincidence: the otherworldly - "on the other side" and the afterlife - "behind the grave".

In the Christian tradition, ordeals occur on, lasting for everyone as long as the sins are strong. The past soul bows to God, and in the next thirty-seven earthly days after death, the soul's path passes through the palaces of Heaven and the abyss of Hell. The spirit does not yet know where it will have to stay until the coming of the Last Judgment. Hell or Paradise - reported on the fortieth day, and it is impossible to appeal against the judgment of the Heavenly Court.

For the next forty days after the death of a dear person, close people and relatives of the deceased should ask for help for his soul. Prayers are the feasible help that a Christian provides to another on a long posthumous path. This eases the lot of the sinner and helps the righteous, it turns out to be that spiritual gold that does not burden the spirit and allows one to atone for sins. Where the soul goes after death, prayer is dearer than gold, sincere, pure, honest, which is audible to God.

Venerable Macarius of Alexandria

Having overcome the ordeals and finished earthly affairs, discarding them, the soul gets to know the true world on the other side of being, one of the parts of which will become its eternal home. If you listen to the revelation of the Monk Macarius of Alexandria, prayers for the dead, the commemoration accepted to be performed (three times three, a sacred divine number, similar to nine angelic ranks), is due to the fact that after this day the soul leaves Paradise, all the abysses and nightmares of Hell are shown to it ... This continues until the fortieth day.

Forty days is a total number, an approximate model that is guided by in the earthly world. Each case is different, examples of the posthumous journey will vary infinitely.

There is an exception to every rule: some deceased complete their paths earlier or later than the fortieth day. The very tradition of an important date came from the description of the posthumous journey of Saint Theodora, in which her path in the depths of Hell was completed after forty earthly days.

Where do the souls of people live after death?

Christian books promise that the physical universe, subject to decay and dying, will disappear and the Kingdom of God will ascend to the throne, eternal and inescapable. In this, the reign of the souls of the righteous and those whose sins have been atoned for will be reunited with their former bodies, immortal and incorruptible, in order to shine forever in the glory of Christ and lead a renewed, holy life. Until then, they are in Paradise, where they know joy and glory, but partial, and not the one that will come at the end of time, when a new creation is accomplished. The world will appear renewed and washed, like a youth full of health after a decrepit old man.

Where the souls of dead people who led a righteous life dwell, there is no need, sorrow and envy. Neither cold nor scorching heat, but happiness to be near Him. This is the purpose that God gave for people, creating them on the sixth day of creation. Few can follow him, but everyone has a chance for atonement for sins and salvation of the soul, for Jesus is merciful, and everyone is dear and close to him, even a lost sinner.

The one who did not receive the divine blessing, was not saved, will abide in Hell forever. Hell - Gehenna Fiery, Tartarus, Underworld, a place where souls undergo great suffering. Before the beginning of the Apocalypse and the onset of the Last Judgment, sinners suffer in a spiritual form, and after the accomplishment they will begin to suffer, reuniting with their earthly bodies.

And where does the soul go after death, until the Last Judgment took place? First, he goes through ordeals, after, until nine o'clock, he travels to Paradise, where he eats its fruits. On the ninth day and until the fortieth day, she is taken through Hell, showing the torment of sinners.

Where do the souls of dead people go after that? To Heaven, Hell or Purgatory. Purgatory is a dwelling place for those who did not sin fully, but did not observe righteousness either. These are atheists, doubters, representatives of other religions, who have deserted there from the Christian faith. In Purgatory, where the soul is after death, there is neither bliss nor torment. The spirit dwells between Heaven and Earth, waiting for a chance

A person who passes away from life in an unnatural way has no right to count on peace in the other world. Statistics show: in Russia, for every 100,000 people, there are 25 suicides annually. Psychologists believe that the main motive for suicide is the desire to break once and for all the damned knot of problems and torments, to find peace in nothingness ...

But is it, this non-being? And is there a long-awaited peace in him? Alas, all who hope to find it by suicide instead of peace fall into the trap of even greater moral torment.

The other world is not a complete and eternal loss of consciousness, not oblivion of everything and everything, as it seems to many. After the death of the physical body, consciousness not only continues rational existence, but also reaps the karma of earthly life, that is, it enters the world of the posthumous consequences of earthly thoughts and actions. A person burdened by difficult life circumstances in his posthumous life will also suffer from problems that he could not solve on Earth. The one who has passed into another world will feel his earthly problems there with even greater acuteness. But, unlike the physical plane, in another world he will practically not have the opportunity to correct anything - only an emotional reaction to the scenes passing before his eyes will remain. This is precisely what is expressed in the incomprehensible words of the Gospels: "What you untie on Earth will be untied in heaven."

It is possible to untie the knots of difficult karmic circumstances only on the physical plane!

If, instead of a denouement, a person leaves this plan for another world of his own free will, this means that the untied knots will torment him even more in the afterlife, tormenting his soul with memories-hallucinations, which are perceived and experienced as acutely as the real events of earthly life. ...

The horror of suicide lies not only in the fact that the problems that led to such an end remain just as acute and torment the mind even more painfully. Suicide, in addition, is associated with a violation of the most important karmic laws - the life purpose of a person and the duration of his life on Earth.

Prisoners of the astral hell.

Each person is born on Earth with a specific mission related to his personal spiritual development, and if this spirit is talented and great, the mission can cover not only himself, but also many other people. The soul of a person, even before his incarnation on Earth, knows what this highest spiritual purpose consists of. But when she is clothed with a body, physical matter obscures the knowledge of the soul and the life purpose is forgotten.

To fulfill his destiny, a person by karma itself is given a certain period of life on Earth and a corresponding amount of vital energy. If someone leaves the physical world before the due date, he accordingly does not fulfill his destiny. The potential of the energy given to him also remains unrealized.

This means that the unreleased vital energy will attract the soul of the suicide to the physical plane for as many years as he was destined to live on Earth.

The soul (or, in modern scientific language, the energy complex) of a person who died a natural death easily and painlessly breaks away from the physical plane and rises into the astral plane, full of enchanting music and bright colors. Evidence of this is the experiences of people who have experienced a state of clinical death.

But with an unnaturally interrupted life, the energy complex of a person, due to the unused energy potential, turns out to be tied to the lower layers of the astral world, close to the physical world, and - alas! - filled with heavy, negative energy.

It is in the lower, dark layers of the astral plane that, according to esoteric teachings, the souls of sinners live. In religions, these layers of the parallel world are called hell. Even if the suicide was a good person, he will not be able to avoid the attraction of the lower, hellish layers. And therefore, if a person was destined to live, say, 70 years, and he committed suicide at twenty, then the remaining half century he will be a prisoner of astral hell, will be doomed to a painful, painful wandering between this and another world.

Even in antiquity, it was noted that posthumous ghosts, ghosts and other phenomena, as a rule, are the consequences of precisely suicides. It is also known that the astral bodies of suicides, together with their souls forcibly chained to the Earth, unable to escape to the higher layers of the astral plane, often appear in the form of ghosts in those corners of the Earth where they made a fatal decision.

Another proof of the inadmissibility of suicide as an attempt to resolve a difficult life situation is the testimony of clairvoyants. Many clairvoyants can determine whether a person is alive or not from his photograph. But in the case of suicide, clairvoyants claim that they "do not see" a person either among the living or among the dead.

How painful this condition is, testify to people who have experienced clinical death as a result of a failed suicide attempt and have been brought back to life. It turns out that even such a short-term opportunity to look into another world, which is provided to a person's consciousness during clinical death, can already provide a lot of knowledge about the other-worldly being. And this is convincingly evidenced by modern studies of death and the posthumous existence of consciousness, carried out by Dr. R. Moody from the USA.

One of Moody's patients, who was comatose as a result of a suicide attempt, said: “When I was there, I felt that two things were completely forbidden for me: to kill myself or to kill another person. If I commit suicide, I will throw him in the face of God. gift. By killing someone, I will break the commandment of God. " And here are the words of a woman who was brought back to life after taking a lethal dose of sleeping pills: “I had a clear feeling that I had done something wrong. Not according to the norms of society, but according to the higher commandments. I was so sure of this that I desperately wanted to body and live. "

As noted by the British researchers A. Landsberg and C. Faye, Dr. Moody established that the aftermath of patients shows that natural death is characterized by a feeling of calmness and the feeling: "That's right, this is the completion of my destiny." While suicide is characterized by mixed feelings, anxiety and a certain feeling that "this is not true, I should go back and wait for my death."

And the soul rushes in fear.

The conclusions of Dr. Moody are confirmed by the studies of the Russian scientist from St. Petersburg K. Korotkov, who studies the phenomenon of death using the Kirlian effect, which allows observing the energy state of the human body in the first hours and days after death.According to Korotkov's observations, the posthumous states of people who died a natural death from old age and an unnatural one - as a result of suicide - have a different energetic nature. The scientist, for example, identified three types of glow of the fingers of people who died from different causes.

This glow was captured using high frequency photography.

The first type of glow, characteristic of natural death, has a small amplitude of energy fluctuations. After the rise in energy in the first hours after death, there is a smooth and calm decline.

The second type of glow, which is characteristic of "abrupt" death as a result of accidents, also has a small amplitude of energy fluctuations in the presence of one pronounced peak.

The third type of glow characteristic of death that occurred as a result of a combination of circumstances that could have been avoided under more favorable conditions.

This type of glow is characterized by a large amplitude of energy fluctuations occurring over a long period of time. It is precisely this state of energy that is precisely characteristic of death resulting from suicide.

According to the St. Petersburg researcher, the sharp ups and downs of energy in the body of a person who committed suicide is due to the state of his energy counterpart - the astral (or subtle) body, which has prematurely lost its physical shell, thus forcibly "pushed" from the physical plane into another world and is unable to begin a natural existence in the latter. In other words, the subtle body of the suicide literally rushes between the discarded physical shell and the astral plane, finding no way out.

There is also another terrible secret in the phenomenon of suicide, which has to do with another world. Many people who tried to commit suicide, but were saved by doctors, assured that the decision to commit suicide was prompted by some "voices" from the other world, in which they often recognized the voices of their deceased relatives.

This phenomenon serves as an indirect, and in some cases - and a direct cause of suicide much more often than some believe. The voices of the other world, processing the consciousness or subconsciousness of future suicides, of course, have nothing to do with deceased relatives and the light forces of the astral plane. They belong to a very dangerous, harmful class of creatures that the great physician of the Middle Ages, Paracelsus, called elementals, or primordial spirits.

Among them there are positive, and there are also harmful creatures. The latter hunt for the vital energy of people, preferring not to obtain energy on their own, but to steal it. For at the moment of a person's death, a huge amount of psychic energy is released into space, which can become a coveted food for other material vampires. It is in order to get it that the elementals often cling to the aura of people in a stressful or depressed state and begin their mental processing, provoking the victim to commit suicide.

Psychics can often identify such channels of communication with astral vampires in a person's aura, calling these channels "bindings", "sub-connections", "settlers". Sometimes the processing of potential suicides is more subtle, at a subconscious level. In such cases, it is not voices that incite suicide, but obsessive thoughts with the same self-destruction program. And, as a rule, people take these thoughts inspired from the outside for their own desire.

The dispute about whether a person has the right to arbitrarily dispose of his life has a rather ancient origin.

Hot, ardent Romans, for example, considered themselves entitled to dispose of a divine gift - life. But that was the right of ignorance - nothing more. Of course, a person's free will can decide: "To be or not to be." But in the other world, no one will free the one who has decided to end his life from the natural consequences of a wrong decision.

Roman aristocrats considered the act of suicide a sign of a strong will - and they were deeply mistaken in this.

The true aristocracy of the spirit lies not in the desire to avoid mental suffering, but in the ability to courageously accept and endure them in order to appear in the arena of a harsh life struggle as a warrior, and not as a victim. In addition, the ancient wisdom says: each person suffers in life exactly as much suffering as he can endure - nothing more.

There are no such circumstances that could not overcome the will and mind of a person.

But for this it is necessary to realize the power hidden in the spirit of man.

For his will and reason are truly a divine gift.

To dispose of them fairly is the task of each of us, and especially of those who are faced with a difficult intertwining of life problems.

Natalia Kovaleva, Candidate of Philosophy.

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This topic sounded like an answer to the phrase of my friend from Donetsk: “We stayed with my daughter and baby for 10 months. How to live now? I don’t want to live ...” She wrote this after the death of a loved one in their family.

At the request of many children, we will again talk about the souls of those who themselves decided to end their path forcibly.

People who seek help often either roll the thought of committing suicide in their heads or have already tried to do so.

Basically, these are young girls and women.

I have no statistics, but they are the ones who appeal to me. The processes are the same, but the afterlife itself is far from the same as with ordinary death ..

Let's take a closer look at this issue.

So let's take an example. Young girl, 22 years old. Unhappy love. The young man left her with the child. The child is four years old. They live with their parents. The family has another small child of about the same age. Her brother. Children are very friendly with each other. But then a tragedy occurs. The world has collapsed. The guy left. He, too, is quite young and was not yet ready for adulthood. The girl climbs to the 12th floor and stands on the edge.

But at the last second, when she almost physically felt the flight and felt her body hitting the asphalt and her internal organs bursting and bones breaking, she retreated.

The girl came to me. And we began to figure out what would happen to her after she left the body. After all, how she thought. Now bam on the ground. I'll break up and all the problems will disappear instantly.

But the fact is that at this moment they will only begin. A person has no idea what he will have to go through.

I showed her that having lost your body, in which you can still fix everything, you will be a spiritual being with the same problems.

But imagine how it will be for you to see and every second feel the suffering that you will inflict on your loved ones and children.

Your son will shout MOM, and you will stand nearby, unable to convey to him that you are there.

This is where true suffering begins.

There is no physical body in the spirit world. Tears cannot relieve tension there. Everything is exposed. Man himself becomes pain.

In a state of suicide, a person's path usually lies in the lower strata of the spiritual world. But before going down there, a person will wander like a restless soul next to his loved ones.

As long as the person is remembered, and therefore nourished. In order to be near, our soul needs energy in this state. And whether she wants it or not, she will take this energy from her loved ones.

The worst thing is that a person thinks once and for all. But everything will remain the same. You will think, feel, feel, only without a dense body. And without him, nothing can be changed. When a person dies, he passes into another state, without a dense body.

At the same time, everything that he felt, felt, loved, hated, that is, his essence, remains exactly the same as in life.

Isn't this hell ?.

To wander with a restless soul and watch how your loved ones mourn you. Shout to them that he is alive, that he is not dead.

But nobody hears.

The human soul in suffering and pain walks to the places of attachment. Visiting the places that were dear to her during her lifetime. There are a huge number of such unwilling souls.

It is with such souls that all spiritualists, white noise, etc. are associated. Under the normal course of events, that is, death from old age, a person is greeted. And very often, a few days before death, a person already sees a partially spiritual world. He sees dead friends, relatives. And he wonders how others do not see them. This is very common. I've encountered this many times.

Many unwilling souls DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE because they know that they will have to go through the so-called purgatory.

Purgatory is the level to which this or that soul falls in accordance with its subconscious programs. This is the world of our fears, thoughts, actions.

A simple example.

The killer is a maniac. What's in his head? It is clear that: blood. And also crying and fear. Fear of their victims. And so he dies and falls into the subtle world. Where every thought immediately materializes.

So imagine what this means to him.

Your consciousness forms, so to speak, the place where you find yourself at the moment of death. Although all these places are only the subjective reality of each individual in the bundle of his programs.

It is not for nothing that all religions teach to think about God and have pure thoughts, and repentance before death matters ..

If a person killed himself, this in any case means that he had serious problems that he could not process. These problems will not go away after he leaves.

They will materialize. And he will be in the world of his fears.

When the girl realized that she had just nearly done something that would take a very long time to fix, there was a hysteria. But she was liberating. Now everything is moving towards improvement very quickly.

Knowledge and information comes from those who KNOW. From spirit guides or guardian angels.

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I took material from different sites. I know that the topic can cause a violent reaction, but it seems to me that the time has come to remind that suicide awaits in that other world.

A person who has made a decision to die has no right to expect that the soul of a suicidal person after death will find peace in another world. According to statistics, there are twenty-five suicides per one hundred thousand of its citizens on the territory of Russia every year. According to psychologists, the main motive for suicide is the desire to get rid of the damned knot of problems and torments once and for all, finding peace in nothingness.

But what non-existence are they counting on? And is it possible to find the longed-for peace in him? Regrettably, it must be said that all these hopes are in vain. And the soul of the suicidal man, instead of the expected peace, is faced with a multitude of moral torments.

What awaits suicide after death

The other world does not grant complete and eternal loss of consciousness, as suicidal people hope. After the death of the physical body occurs, consciousness continues to exist rationally and reap the karma of earthly life. Simply put, the soul is responsible for what a person thought and did.

Those who have passed into another world will have to feel even more acutely in it the problems that tormented on earth. But if in physical life it was still possible to correct something, then in the afterlife there is no such possibility. All that remains is to react emotionally to the scenes of earthly life that pass before the soul's gaze. This is what the Gospel says: "What you untie on Earth will be untied in heaven."

To achieve a solution to tangled karmic circumstances is possible only with a physical shell. If, instead, a person has made a decision to leave this life as an option for solving these problems, then this burden of unresolved problems will be an unbearable burden on his soul in the afterlife. She will be tormented by memories-hallucinations, which will be perceived as really happening.

The horror of suicide is that the problems that prompted this step do not become easier and endlessly torment the mind. And this, not to mention the fact that, by performing such an action, a person violates the most important karmic law - does not fulfill his life purpose and interrupts the life on Earth established for him.

Captured by Astral Hell

The birth of each person into the light of God occurs in accordance with a specific mission related to his personal spiritual development. And in the case when the spirit is endowed with talent and greatness, its mission may concern several more people. The human soul, even before its earthly incarnation, knows about what kind of higher spiritual purpose it is talking about. But after gaining a body, physical matter manages to obscure the knowledge of the soul, completely removing the memories of life's purpose.

In order for a person to fulfill his destiny, a certain amount of vital energy is allocated to him and a specific period of his residence is allotted. Premature departure from the physical world does not allow to realize all the allocated energy and fulfill the destiny. As a result of this, the connection between the soul of the suicide and the physical body will continue for as long as the person was supposed to live.

The soul of a person, whose death was natural, leaves the physical flesh without any difficulty and rushes into the astral plane, which is filled with divine music and bright colors. This is evidenced by people who have experienced clinical death.

When life is interrupted deliberately, the energy complex of a person is bound, due to his unused potential, to the lower layers in the astral world. They are very close to the physical world and they are overwhelmed with negative, heavy energy.

Isoteric teachings claim that the souls of sinners go to the dark, lower layers of the astral plane. Religion gave these layers of the parallel world its name - hell. Even in the case when the suicide was a wonderful person during his lifetime, his soul will not be able to escape the path to the hellish astral.

Suppose a man was destined to live 90 years, and he committed suicide at 20. So for the remaining 70 years he will be in captivity of hell, doomed to wander painfully and painfully between the worlds.

Even the ancients noted that suicides are most often the sources of such phenomena as ghosts and ghosts. Another piece of evidence is the testimony of clairvoyants. Many of them can determine from a photograph whether a given person is alive or has already died. So psychics cannot see suicides either among the dead or among the living.

This painful condition is described by people who have experienced clinical death after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. It turned out that even after looking into another world for a short time, a person receives a fairly large amount of knowledge about being in the other world.

Scientists cite the statements of people who have been in this state. So, a man who fell into a coma after attempting suicide and who came out of it said that during his arrival there he managed to understand for himself the impossibility of murder, whether it concerns him or someone else.

And one woman said that she had a clear feeling that she had done something wrong. Moreover, the act was assessed not according to social norms, but according to the commandments from above. And she was so imbued with this that she immensely desired to continue living, returning to her body.

Temptation by evil demons

A large number of people from among those who have undertaken unsuccessful attempts at suicide, having returned to life, assured that they were pushed to this act by voices from the other world. And that in these voices they recognized the familiar intonations of relatives or close people who had gone to another world.

Suicide is very common under the influence of these voices. Back in the Middle Ages, the great physician Paracelsus gave them the name elementals, or primary spirits. This is a very dangerous and harmful class of creatures, among which, in all fairness, there are positive ones.

The main goal of negative spirits is the life energy of people, which they do not extract, but steal. They catch the moment when there is a surge of a large amount of psychic energy, and for this a person must die. For this to happen, demons penetrate the aura of people in a depressed or stressful state and process them, pushing them to commit suicide.

There are no circumstances that would not be able to overcome the will and reason of man. To do this, it is enough for him to recognize the power hidden in his spirit. The Lord rewarded people with the will and mind of people, and using them to the fullest is the task of each living person. And this is especially true for people who find themselves in a difficult life situation. God is with us, which means there are no insoluble problems that a person could not cope with.

While the souls of people, in a natural way, experience relief and even joy in that world, the souls of suicides, on the contrary, having got into that world, experience confusion and suffering there. One expert in the field of suicide expressed this fact with the following apt phrase: "If you part with life with a restless soul, then you will enter that world with a restless soul." Suicides lay hands on themselves in order to "end everything," but it turns out that everything is just beginning for them.

Here are some contemporary stories that illustrate the otherworldly state of suicide. One man who loved his wife dearly committed suicide when she died. He hoped to be so connected to her forever. However, it turned out quite differently. When the doctor was able to resuscitate him, he said: "I ended up not at all where she was ... It was some terrible place ... And I immediately realized that I had made a huge mistake" (Raymond A. Moody, MD, Life after Life, Bantam Books, NY 1978, p. 143).

Hieronymus Bosch. Fragment of the triptych "The Last Judgment" - right wing "Hell", 1504

Some of the suicides who were brought back to life described that after death they ended up in some kind of dungeon and felt that they would stay here for a very long time. They realized that this was their punishment for breaking the established law, according to which each person must endure a certain amount of sorrow. Having unauthorizedly overthrew the burden imposed on them, they must bear even more in the other world.

One man who survived a temporary death said: “When I got there, I realized that two things are absolutely forbidden: to kill myself and to kill another person. a gift. To take the life of another person would be to disrupt God's plan for him "(Raymond A. Moody, MD, Life after Life, Bantam Books, NY 1978, p. 144).

The general impression of resuscitators is that suicide is punished very harshly. Dr. Bruce Greyson, psychiatrist in the Emergency Department at the University of Connecticut, who has studied this issue extensively, testifies that no temporary death survivor wants to hasten the end of his life for anything (Raymond A. Moody, MD, The Light Beyond , Bantam Books, NY 1990, p. 99). Although that world is incomparably better than ours, the life here has a very important preparatory meaning. Only God decides when a person is ripe enough for eternity.

Forty-seven-year-old Beverly described how happy she was to be alive. As a child, she suffered a lot of grief from her abusive parents, who bullied her on a daily basis. Already in adulthood, she could not talk about her childhood without excitement. Once at the age of seven, driven to despair by her parents, she threw herself headfirst and smashed her head on the cement. During clinical death, her soul saw familiar children surrounded. her lifeless body. Suddenly, a bright light shone around Beverly, from which an unknown voice told her: "You made a mistake. Your life does not belong to you, and you must return." To this Beverly replied: "But nobody loves me and nobody wants to take care of me." “It's true,” the voice replied, “and in the future no one will care about you. So learn to take care of yourself.” After these words, Beverly saw snow and a dry tree around her. But here from somewhere warmth blew, the snow melted, and the dry branches of the tree were covered with leaves and ripe apples. Approaching the tree, she began to pick apples and eat them with pleasure. Then she realized that both in nature and in every life there are periods of winter and summer, which make up a single whole in the plan of the Creator. When Beverly came to life, she began to relate to life in a new way. As an adult, she married a good man, had children and was happy (Melvin Morse, MD, Closer to the Light Ivy Books, published by Ballantine Books, 1990. "To Hell and Back", 1993, p. 184).

Heaven and Hell

What is Heaven? Where is it? In colloquial speech, people mean Heaven "above" and hell "below." People who saw the state of hell during their clinical death invariably described the approach to it as a descent. Although, of course, "up" and "down" are conventional concepts, it would still be wrong to consider Heaven and Hell only as different states: they are two different places, although they cannot be described geographically. Angels and souls of the dead can only be in one specific place, be it Heaven, hell or earth. We cannot designate the place of the spiritual world, because it is outside the "coordinates" of our space-time system. That space of a different kind, which, starting here, extends in a new direction, which is not perceptible for us.

Numerous cases from the lives of the saints show how this other kind of space "breaks through" into the space of our world. Thus, the inhabitants of Spruce Island saw the soul of St. Herman of Alaska rising in a pillar of fire, and Elder Seraphim Glinsky - the soul of Seraphim of Sarov ascending. The prophet Elisha saw how the prophet Elijah was taken to heaven in a chariot of fire. No matter how much we want our thought to penetrate "there", it is limited by the fact that those "places" are outside our three-dimensional space.

Most modern stories of people who have experienced clinical death describe places and states "close" to our world, even on this side of the "border". However, there are also descriptions of places reminiscent of heaven or hell, about which the Holy Scriptures speak.

So, for example, in the messages of Dr. Georg Ritchie, Betty Maltz, the Rawling Matrix and others, hell also appears - "snakes, reptiles, unbearable stench, demons." In his book Coming Back from Tomorrow, Dr. Ritchie recounts what happened to him in 1943 when he saw pictures of hell. There the attachment of sinners to earthly desires was insatiable. He saw killers who were chained to their victims. The murderers wept and asked forgiveness from those who had been destroyed by them, but they did not hear them. These were useless tears and requests.

Thomas Welch describes how he slipped and fell into a river while working at a sawmill in Portland, Oregon, and was crushed by huge logs. It took the workers over an hour to find his body and retrieve it from under the logs. Seeing no sign of life in him, they considered him dead. Thomas himself, in a state of his temporary death, found himself on the shore of an immense fiery ocean. At the sight of the rushing waves of burning sulfur, he was dumbfounded with horror. It was fiery hell, which cannot be described by human words. Right there, on the bank of the fiery hell, he recognized several familiar faces who had died before him. They all stood in a daze with horror, looking at the rolling waves of fire. Thomas understood that there was no way to leave here. He began to regret that he had cared little about his salvation before. Oh, if he knew what awaited him, he would have lived quite differently.

At this time, he noticed someone walking in the distance. The stranger's face displayed great strength and kindness. Thomas immediately realized that it was the Lord and that only He could save his soul, doomed to hell. Thomas hoped that the Lord would notice him. But the Lord walked by, looking somewhere into the distance, "He's just about to hide, and then everything will be over," thought Thomas. Suddenly the Lord turned His face and looked at Thomas. That's all that was needed - just one glance from the Lord! In an instant, Thomas was in his body and came to life. Before he could open his eyes, he clearly heard the prayers of the workers who were standing around. Many years later, Thomas remembered everything he saw "there" in all the smallest details. It was impossible to forget this incident (he described his case in the book "Oregon" s Amazing Miracle ", Christ tor the Nations, Inc., 1976).

Pastor Kenneth E. Hagin recalls how, in April 1933, when he lived in McKinney, Texas, his heart stopped beating and his soul left his body. "After that I began to descend lower and lower, and the more I descended, the darker and hotter it became. Then even deeper I began to notice the flickering of some ominous fires on the walls of the caves - obviously hellish ones. Finally, a large flame burst out and pulled Many years have passed since this happened, and I still see this hellish flame in front of me as if in reality.

Having reached the bottom of the abyss, I felt the presence of some spirit near me, which began to guide me. At this time, an imperious Voice sounded over the infernal darkness. I did not understand what he said, but I felt that it was the voice of God. The power of this voice trembled the entire underworld kingdom, like leaves on an autumn tree with a breath of wind. Immediately the spirit that pushed me released me, and the whirlwind carried me back up. Gradually the earthly light began to shine again. I found myself back in my room and jumped into my body, like a man jumps into his pants. Then I saw my grandmother, who began to say to me: "Son, I thought you were dead."

After some time, Kenneth became a pastor of one of the Protestant churches and dedicated his life to God. He described this incident in the brochure "My Testimony".

Dr. Rawlings devotes an entire chapter in his book to the stories of people who have been to hell. Some, for example, saw there a huge field on which sinners in combat without rest crippled, killed and raped each other. The air there is filled with unbearable screams, curses and curses. Others describe places of useless labor, where cruel demons depress the souls of sinners by carrying heavy burdens from one place to another.

The intolerance of hellish torment is further illustrated by the following two stories from Orthodox books. One relaxed, tormented by many years, finally prayed to the Lord with a request to end his suffering. An angel appeared to him and said: "Your sins require cleansing. The Lord offers you, instead of one year of suffering on earth, by which you would be cleansed, to experience three hours of torment in hell. Choose." The sufferer thought about it and chose three hours in hell. After that, the Angel took his soul to the underworld places of hell. Everywhere there was darkness, crampedness, everywhere the spirits of malice, the cries of sinners, everywhere the same suffering. The soul of the relaxed fell into inexpressible fear and anguish, only a hellish echo and the bubbling of hellish flame responded to his cries. No one paid attention to his groans and roars, all sinners were busy with their own torment. It seemed to the sufferer that whole centuries had already passed and that the Angel had forgotten about him.

But finally an Angel appeared and asked: "How are you, brother?" “You deceived me!” The sufferer exclaimed. “Not for three hours, but for many years I have been here in inexpressible torment!” “What years ?!” the Angel asked, “only one hour has passed, and you have to suffer for another two, hours.” Then the sufferer began to beg the Angel to return him to earth, where he agreed to suffer as many years as he wanted, just to get away from this place of horrors. "All right," the Angel replied, "God will show you His great mercy."

Finding himself again on his painful bed, the sufferer from that time on with meekness endured his sufferings, remembering the hellish horrors, where it is incomparably worse (from the letters of Svyatogorets, p. 183, letter 15, 1883).

Here is a story about two friends, one of whom went to a monastery and led a holy life there, while the other remained in the world and lived sinfully. When a friend who lived in sin suddenly died, his monk friend began to pray to God to reveal to him the fate of his comrade. Once, in a dream, a deceased friend appeared to him and began to talk about his unbearable torment and how an unbroken worm was gnawing at him. Having said this, he raised his clothes to his knee and showed his leg, which was all covered with a terrible worm that was eating it. Such a terrible stench emanated from the wounds on his leg that the monk immediately woke up. He jumped out of the cells, leaving the door open, and the stench from the cells spread throughout the monastery. Since the stench did not diminish from time to time, all the monks had to move to another place. And the monk, who saw the hellish prisoner, all his life could not get rid of the stench that clung to him (from the book "Eternal Secrets of the Underworld", publication of the St. Panteleimon Monastery on Athos).

In contrast to these pictures of horror, descriptions of Heaven are always light and joyful. For example, Thomas N., a world famous scientist, drowned in a pool when he was five years old. Fortunately, one of the relatives noticed him, took him out of the water and took him to the hospital. When the rest of the relatives gathered at the hospital, the doctor announced to them that Thomas had died. But, unexpectedly for everyone, Thomas came to life. “When I was under water,” Foma said later, “I felt that I was flying through a long tunnel. At the other end of the tunnel, I saw a Light that was so bright that you could feel it. There I saw God on a throne and people below. or, probably, the angels surrounding the throne. When I approached God, He told me that my time had not yet come. I wanted to stay, but suddenly I found myself in my body. " Thomas claims that this vision helped him find the right path in life. He wanted to become a scientist in order to gain a deeper understanding of the world created by God. He undoubtedly made great strides in this direction (Melvin Morse, MD, Closer to the Light Ivy Books, published by Ballantine Books, 1990. "To Hell and Back," 1993, p. 167).

Betty Maltz, in her 1977 book I Seen Eternity, describes how she found herself on a wonderful green hill right after her death. She was surprised that with three surgical wounds, she stood and walked freely and without pain. Above her is a bright blue sky. There is no sun, but light is everywhere. Under her bare feet was grass of a color she had never seen on earth; every blade of grass is alive. The hill was steep, but the legs moved easily, without effort. Bright flowers, bushes, trees. To her left is a robed male figure. Betty thought, "Isn't that an Angel?" They walked without speaking, but she realized that he was not a stranger and that he knew her. She felt young, healthy and happy. "I felt like I had everything I ever wanted, was everything I ever wanted to be, went where I always dreamed of being." Then her whole life passed before her gaze. She saw her selfishness, and she was ashamed, but she felt care and love around her. She and her companion approached a wonderful silver palace, "but there were no towers." Music, singing. She heard the word "Jesus". A wall of precious stones; gate made of pearls. When the gate opened for a moment, she saw the street in golden light. She did not see anyone in this light, but she realized that it was Jesus. She wanted to enter the palace, but remembered her father and returned to the body. This experience brought her closer to God. She loves people now.

Saint Salvius of Albis, a sixth century Gallic hierarch, returned to life after being dead for most of the day, and told his friend Gregory of Tours the following; "When my cell shook four days ago and you saw me dead, I was lifted up by two angels and carried to the highest peak of Heaven, and then under my feet, it seemed, could be seen not only this wretched earth, but also the sun, moon and stars. Then I was led through a gate that shone brighter than the sun and into a building where all the floors glistened with gold and silver. That light is impossible to describe. The place was filled with people and stretched so far in all directions that the end was not visible. The angels cleared away. before me the path through this crowd, and we entered the place to which our gaze was directed even when we were not far.Above this place hovered a bright cloud that was brighter than the sun, and from it I heard a voice like the voice of the waters many.

Then I was greeted by certain beings, some of whom were dressed in priestly robes, and others in ordinary clothes. My guides explained to me that they were martyrs and other saints. As I stood, such a pleasant fragrance enveloped me that, as if nourished by it, I did not feel the need for food or drink.

Then a voice from the cloud said, "Let this man return to earth, for the Church needs him." And I fell on my face to the ground and cried. "Alas, alas, Lord," I said. "Why did You show me all this just to take it from me again?" But the voice replied: "Go in peace. I will look upon you until I return you to this place." Then, crying, I went back through the gate into which I had entered. "

Another wonderful vision of Heaven is described by St. Andrew for Christ's sake, a Slavic, who lived in Constantinople in the ninth century. Once, during a harsh winter, Saint Andrew was lying in the street and was dying of the cold. Suddenly he felt an extraordinary warmth in himself and saw a beautiful youth with a face that shone like the sun. This young man took him to paradise, to the third heaven. That's what St. Andrey told, returning to earth:

"By Divine will I stayed for two weeks in a sweet vision ... I saw myself in paradise, and here I marveled at the ineffable charm of this beautiful and wondrous place. There were many gardens filled with tall trees, which, swaying with their peaks, amused my eyesight, and a pleasant fragrance emanated from their branches ... These trees cannot be compared in beauty to any earthly tree, In those gardens there were innumerable birds with golden, snow-white and multi-colored wings They sat on the branches of the trees of paradise and sang so beautifully that from their mellifluous singing, I did not remember myself ...

After that, it seemed to me that I was standing at the top of the heavenly firmament, and in front of me was a young man with a face as bright as the sun, dressed in a purple robe ... When I followed him, I saw a tall and beautiful cross like a rainbow, and around him - fire-like singers who sang and praised the Lord, crucified for us on the cross. The young man walking before me, coming up to the cross, kissed it and gave a sign to me to do the same ... Kissing the cross, I was filled with unspeakable joy and felt a fragrance stronger than the previous one.

Going further, I looked down and saw under me, as it were, an abyss of the sea. The young man, turning to me, said: "Do not be afraid, for we need to rise even higher," and gave me his hand. When I grabbed onto it, we were already above the second firmament. There I saw marvelous men, their joy that is not conveyed in human language ... And so we ascended above the third heaven, where I saw and heard many heavenly powers singing and praising God. We came to a curtain shining like lightning, in front of which the young men stood, looking like a flame ... And the young man who was leading me said to me: "When the curtain opens, you will see the Lord Christ. Then bow down to the throne of His glory." ... And now some fiery hand opened the veil, and I, like the prophet Isaiah, saw the Lord Himself sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the seraphim flew around Him. He was dressed in a crimson robe; His face shone, and He looked at me with love. Seeing this, I fell on my face before Him, bowing to the Most Bright and the Throne of His glory.

What joy gripped me at the contemplation of His face, that cannot be expressed in words; Even now, remembering that vision, I am filled with inexpressible joy. In awe I lay before my Master. After that, all the heavenly host sang a wonderful and ineffable song, and then I myself do not understand how I found myself in paradise again. "

(It is interesting to add that when Saint Andrew, not seeing the Virgin Mary, asked where She was, the Angel explained to him: “Did you think to see the Queen here? Its holy place, but now there is no time, for you must return. ")

So, according to the lives of the saints and stories in Orthodox books, the soul goes to heaven after it left this world and passed the space between this world and Heaven. Often this passage is accompanied by intrigues on the part of demons. At the same time, the Angels always lead the soul to Heaven, and it never gets there on its own. Saint John Chrysostom wrote about this: “Then the angels took Lazarus away ... for the soul does not by itself depart to that life that is impossible for it. in the guidebooks the soul is plucked out of the body and presented to the future life. " Obviously, modern stories about light and places of wondrous beauty do not convey actual visits to these places, but only "visions" and "anticipations" of them at a distance.

A genuine visit to Heaven is always accompanied by clear signs of Divine grace: sometimes a wondrous fragrance, accompanied by a miraculous strengthening of all the powers of a person. For example, the fragrance so nourished Saint Savely that he did not need food and drink for more than three days, and only when he spoke about it, the fragrance disappeared. The deep experience of visiting Heaven is accompanied by a sense of reverence for the greatness of God and a consciousness of one's unworthiness. At the same time, the personal experience of Heaven is inaccessible to an accurate description, because “I didn’t see that eye, didn’t hear that ear, and it didn’t come to man’s mind that God had prepared for those who loved Him” and “now we see as if through a dim glass, fortuitously, then but we see face to face "(1 Cor. 2: 9 and 13:12).

Alexander Mileant,
From the book "On the Threshold of Life and Death".

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