Is rebirth possible? Interesting facts about the transmigration of souls

The phenomenon of reincarnation - the transmigration of the soul after death into a new body - has been haunting the minds of mankind since ancient times. For some, belief in multiple rebirth gives the cherished dream of immortality, for others it helps to understand the causes of their illnesses and misfortunes in order to get out of the vicious circle.

IN last years many supporters of these Eastern views appeared in Russia (by the way, these views are at least four thousand years old).

Such a vivid interest is associated primarily with the active development in the West psychological methods reincarnation therapy, through which specialists promise to help almost everyone "see" their past lives.

From Pythagoras to Napoleon
We find the first mention of reincarnation in the Vedas (a collection of the most ancient Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit). In the Bhagavad Gita, which reflects the main meaning of the Vedas, it is said:

“Just as a person, taking off old clothes, puts on new ones, so the soul enters new material bodies, leaving old and useless ones.”

Belief in the rebirth of the soul is characteristic of many religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam.

But the main Christian trends now deny the possibility of reincarnation, although the early Christians accepted the doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul. The Byzantine emperor Justinian ordered to remove it from the dogmas of the church at the Fifth Ecumenical Council (sixth century) in Constantinople.

Many famous historical figures believed in reincarnation.
Among the ancient Greek philosophers, the theory of the transmigration of souls was supported and promoted to the masses by Pythagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Plutarch.

Giordano Bruno was condemned by the Inquisition and burned at the stake, including for his teachings on reincarnation.

Napoleon Bonaparte liked to tell his generals that in a previous life he belonged to the Charlemagne family.

Benjamin Franklin said, "Having found that I exist in this world, I believe that in one form or another I will always exist."

Reincarnation Therapy
Since the time when reincarnation (regressive) therapy began to be introduced into the practice of psychologists, designed to open the door to a past life, the theory of rebirth has gained particular popularity. Reincarnation therapy is a fairly new branch of psychology, which includes several techniques. Meditative and hypnotic techniques are especially popular among them.

Reincarnation therapy using meditation techniques. Homeland - Germany. The specialist invites you to mentally move into one of your previous lives. You relax the body, calm the mind and, under the guidance of the therapist, "go" into the past.

Past life regression (regression - from the Latin word regressio - to return) is a technique for using hypnosis to detect memories of past lives. Homeland - USA. A significant contribution to the development of the technique was made by well-known American regression hypnologists: Dolores Cannon, Sylvia Brown, Raymond Moody, Michael Newton and others.

For reference
The word "reincarnation" literally means "reincarnation" (re - "re", incarnation - "incarnation"). According to the theory of reincarnation, a certain immortal entity, which is called the spirit, soul, "divine spark", "higher" or "true Self", immediately or some time after the physical death of a person, incarnates in another body. The phenomenon of rebirth is closely intertwined with the concept of karma (actions, activity, deeds of a person that determine events in his next incarnation).

Bypassing all obstacles
Supporters of the theory of transmigration of souls argue that almost every one of us is able to "view" our past lives, for example, in a dream. And the state of deja vu, fantasy and imagination can be flashes of memory of our previous incarnations.

When it comes to goal-directed therapy, some people go on a mysterious journey with enviable ease. Others take a long time to "see" at least a brief episode from their life in another body.

According to the psychologist, a specialist in reincarnation therapy Maria Monok, both under hypnosis and in a state of meditation, 80 out of 100 people remember their rebirths. Twenty do not see anything. The reason is often the barriers that prevent us from getting into the past. Until you cross them, the road there is closed.

Attention!
It is contraindicated to "look" past lives with schizophrenia, taking psychotropic drugs, with high pressure and during pregnancy. The rest is better to resort to the help of a specialist. After sessions of reincarnation therapy, for several days, emotions of anger, irritation, and regret can roll over for no apparent reason. It will soon go away.

Barriers to the past:
Expectations to see certain pictures of one's other incarnation. Ideas about how things should be make it difficult to “view” what really is.

Feelings of shame, fears, painful memories. First you need to deal with your fears and tensions, and then try to "see" the past.

A firm belief that there are no past lives. In this case, in a state of meditation, you will not remember anything. Under hypnosis, there is a possibility of memories.

Why look back?
Experts are sure that the events of previous incarnations can affect the health and worldview of a person.

Very often, chronic pain, the cause of which doctors cannot find, finds an explanation in the hypnotherapist's office in one of the stories about a past life, - says researcher of psi-phenomena, psychologist, psychotherapist Ravil Sadreev. – It doesn’t matter at all what your previous incarnation was, but working with information about this can change your real life in many ways.

26-year-old Veronika from Moscow lived for many years with a sense of hopelessness and despair. During therapy, immersed in a state of meditation, a young woman found herself ... on the ship "Titanic". She understood that she was under water and wandering around the sunken ship, where there was not a single living soul, and that she was ... dead.

After the session of reincarnation therapy in Veronica, something has changed. When the shock of what she saw passed, she realized the origins of her tragic worldview and, with the help of a psychologist, was able to restore spiritual harmony.

When a person “looks” at his past incarnations, then he comes to an understanding of what is the cause of his problems in real life, says Maria Monok. “And with the knowledge he has gained, he can change everything in better side.

Reincarnation therapy, in addition to viewing life, includes communication with our “higher self” and with those spiritual mentors who help us through life. They can get an answer to a question that concerns you, ask for advice on how to act in a given situation.

Interesting fact
If in the 90s people overwhelmingly recalled ordinary life situations, now many in the process of reincarnation therapy describe their stay on other planets.

The view of science
In the world in recent years, a lot of research has been carried out on the nature of past lives, the state between life and rebirth. As a rule, in the process of studying a person is introduced into hypnosis or a meditative state and information is collected about his past incarnations. The information obtained is then compared with historical facts, if any. In case of coincidence, conclusions are drawn about the connection between the living person and the deceased.

According to a group of scientists, evidence of the existence of a physical process by which a part of a human being could move to another body after death has not yet been found. Skeptics also refer to the fact that people often talk allegedly about their previous incarnations, and then, under hypnosis, it turns out that these stories were heard by them in early childhood. It is also a well-known fact that hypnosis often causes fantasy.

However, there is an alternative scientific view to this phenomenon. Ravil Sadreev expressed his point of view:
- There is real scientific evidence that in certain states of consciousness a person is able to reproduce information that is completely unknown to him. In particular, to speak in an unfamiliar language, to describe previous incarnations and, most surprisingly, the experience after death. There are cases when a newly born child recalled his husband or wife from a previous incarnation.

Canadian-American biochemist and psychiatrist Ian Stevenson has studied more than 3,000 cases of children (aged 2 to 4 years) who have spoken about their past lives over 40 years.

The information received from the children was verified by the researcher using documentary evidence (the names of the people the children called themselves and various verifiable details of their lives). Stevenson compared moles and birth defects in children who reported a past life with wounds and scars on the bodies of the deceased (data supported by medical reports such as autopsies or photographs).

However, the scientific world was critical of Stevenson's work. Including also because most of the cases of reincarnation that he studied took place in Eastern societies, where mainstream religions recognize the existence of reincarnation. Critics say this casts doubt on the credibility of the research.

Interestingly, even reincarnation therapists themselves do not always believe that the phenomenon of rebirth is real. But they all admit that after therapeutic sessions, patients manage to get rid of many problems, recover from long-standing diseases and improve their emotional state.

What exactly people see in the course of therapy - their past life, situations created by the imagination, or events of distant childhood - is not completely known. The main thing is that they receive new and important knowledge that helps them heal and change their lives in the desired direction.

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The topic of reincarnation has always interested me. There are many articles in my archive and I will publish the most interesting.

"Reincarnation of the soul in a new body." Man is immortal by nature, only his physical shell dies. body. At the subconscious level, a person remembers everything about his previous incarnations on Earth. Oddly enough, either some kind of catastrophe or a nervous shock helps to turn on the memory mechanism. Proof of this is such a phenomenon as xenoglossia. Xenoglossia is observed everywhere, in whatever country a person lives. Learning at least one foreign language is not easy. Meanwhile, researchers of the paranormal are well aware of the phenomenon of xenoglossy, which is when people, for no reason at all, begin to speak in languages ​​that were not taught before. A person suddenly "remembers" his previous lives and begins to speak the language of the past incarnation, sometimes retaining the archaisms of the time in which he once lived. In the room of one of the hotels in Palm Springs, an elderly man was found unconscious. When he woke up in the hospital, it turned out that he had memory problems. Although documents were found on the man in the name of Michael Thomas Boatwright, a native of Florida, he claimed that his name was Johan and he was Swedish. The proof of the truthfulness of the words of the man was the fact that he spoke Swedish. It is curious that, looking at his own photograph, he did not recognize his face. Doctors diagnosed Boatwright with global amnesia. Social worker Lisa Hunt-Vasquez found out that Boatwright was the man's real name and that he was a 3D graphic designer and teacher English language in Japan and China. But a year before the incident, he returned home to the United States. It turned out that in the mid-80s, Boatwright visited Sweden. But it is unlikely that he could perfectly learn the language. It is curious that when representatives of the Swedish diaspora in the United States were allowed to listen to recordings of his voice, they stated that they could not attribute his speech to any of the national dialects. This case is far from unique. So, in the middle of the 19th century, the daughter of a member of the Supreme Court of Appeal in New York, Laura Edmone, suddenly spoke in many languages ​​\u200b\u200bat once, among which were Spanish, Polish, Native American, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian and Latin, as well as other languages ​​that are so and could not be identified. In 1927, the English teacher Evie B. discovered her gift for writing in ancient Egyptian. Four years later, she was able to speak this dialect. The archives of the English Society for Psychical Research contain two tape recordings of Evie's voice and ancient Egyptian texts written by her hand. On May 10, 1970, the pastor of the American Methodist Church, Carroll Jay, who was fond of hypnosis in his spare time, put his wife Dolores into a trance, wanting to save her from a migraine. When he asked her something while she was under hypnosis, the woman replied "nein", which means "no" in German. A few days later, the pastor decided to repeat the session, and suddenly his wife spoke fluent German, while calling herself a false name Gretchen. A total of 22 such sessions were held, in which prominent researchers also took part. They came to the conclusion that Dolores really speaks German as an ethnic German, although there were archaisms in her speech. But what happened in the mid-90s of our century. A plumber from the German city of Bottrop named Thomas one morning spoke to his wife Kirsten in an incomprehensible language. The day before, the couple quarreled because Thomas refused to go to visit his mother-in-law. The man went to bed with plugs in his ears. And in the morning it turned out that he had completely forgotten his native German! Moreover, he was terribly annoyed that Kirsten speaks a "foreign" language and does not understand a word of what he says! What was the surprise of the doctor who called the "ambulance" when he heard Russian speech from Thomas! At the same time, it turned out that the plumber never learned Russian and did not even finish high school. He also never left his native town. Kirsten even had to go to Russian language courses to learn how to communicate with her husband. In the end, they found specialists who helped Thomas restore his native language in his memory. In most cases, such phenomena are generated by physical or emotional trauma. So, a nurse from one of the Sofia hospitals was hit by a high-voltage current discharge. Doctors miraculously pulled the girl out of the other world, but when she came to, she spoke in Russian and completely forgot her native Bulgarian! True, this state lasted temporarily. And a peasant from Pakistan, struck by lightning, raved in Japanese for a week! However, upon waking up, the Pakistani completely lost the ability to speak a foreign language. Many versions are being put forward. For example, it can be assumed that all people demonstrating xenoglossy are agents of foreign intelligence who give themselves away in an "abnormal" state. But often the identity of the "agent" does not fit in with this version. The most common version is still connected with the transmigration of souls. Due to some kind of "shake" ...

In the poll of the rebirth of the soul - "Is there life after death?" - worries many. Some say that after human life comes eternal life for the soul, and depending on how you lived this life, it depends where this eternity will last, in hell or in paradise. Others are of the opinion that it is quite possible to be reborn again in such a world, but not only as a person, but also as another living being. Still others claim that we live once and will never be born again. There are different opinions on this matter, mainly religious movements are asking this question, building on this put forward moral and ethical principles, however, people from science periodically make attempts to prove the phenomenon of rebirth, while ordinary people are often motivated by knowledge of rebirth for a more blessed life today. .

The rebirth of the soul has been painstakingly studied by such researchers as Raymond Moody, Ian Stevenson, Michael Newton. In their writings, they described in detail the ongoing experiments and studies and tried in every possible way to scientifically prove the existence of this phenomenon. Of course, criticism did not pass them by, however, this does not mean that they were not right. Things are different in the eastern countries, where Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism are widespread. For these currents, rebirth is a central and integral concept of the teaching. But first things first.

Scientific evidence for the rebirth of the soul

The most famous scientists who studied the rebirth of the soul in their time were Raymond Moody, a psychologist and physician, and Ian Stevenson, a psychiatrist and biochemist. Naturally, not everyone in the scientific community was ready to accept their work. However, both Moody and Stevenson tried to approach the study of this problem as scientifically as possible. Raymond Moody used in his research regressive hypnosis, often used to study the rebirth of the soul. Possessing a great deal of skepticism on this issue, he first went through this procedure himself and, remembering several of his past lives, seriously engaged in the study of rebirth and published the book Life Before Life. Prior to that, he was known for his other work “Life after life” (or “Life after death”), which declared the unconditional existence of the soul and its further journey, it described the experiences of people who underwent clinical death. On this subject, there is another well-known book by author Michael Newton, Ph.D., hypnotherapist, Journey of the Soul, which also describes cases of immersing people in deep regressive hypnosis, through which clients experienced an out-of-body experience and recalled their past lives.

Ian Stevenson has been researching the rebirth of the soul for 40 years by looking for evidence of children's statements about their past lives. That is, the facts were compared, for example, the child claimed that he lived in a certain city, with specific people, was afraid of something, etc. And Stevenson went to this place and checked the data, raised the archives. Often what the children said was confirmed. Over the years, about 3,000 cases have been studied.

Why in scientific circles doubt the rebirth of the soul

The main reason for doubts about the rebirth of the soul in scientific circles is the not fully understood human brain and its capabilities. It has already been proven that any information, be it a sound, a picture or a smell, is immediately imprinted in our brain. And in critical situations, in illness or spontaneously, a person can remember this information and pass it off as his experiences. There is a case when a woman, being delirious, began to speak Hebrew and Ancient Greek, which she had never learned. It turned out that she worked as a maid for a pastor who often read sermons in ancient languages ​​at home, and these texts were involuntarily imprinted in her subconscious. From this one can understand the doubts of scientists in the rebirth of the soul, especially in modern world, where a huge flurry of information is poured into the heads of the population around the clock through the media, and it is not so easy to find out where the past life really takes place, and where the fantasy is.

Rebirth in Buddhism

If earlier we talked about the rebirth of the soul, then unlike other confessions, Buddhism speaks of the rebirth of the mind, represented by a stream of impressions, experience or cittas. In the Pali language, rebirth is punabhava, which means ‘existence again’. You can often find a comparison with a burning candle, where the wax is the physical body, the wick is the sense organs, the oxygen particles are the objects of perception, and the flame is the consciousness or mind. A burning candle is like a living person: from the side it may seem that the candle is always the same, but every time a new particle of wick and wax burns, and every second the flame interacts with a new particle of oxygen. When the candle burns out completely, which symbolizes death, the flame can go to a new candle, and this is a new body, rebirth, but can we say that the flame is still the same? According to the Buddha, yes. Buddhists are of the opinion that the new body is due to the accumulated impressions and karma. It is believed that rebirth occurs due to a passionate desire to continue to live, to enjoy, to receive impressions. The Buddha called this desire a seamstress: as a seamstress sews different pieces of fabric, so this passionate desire connects one life with another. The cycle of life and death is called samsara. Being in samsara is not considered the most favorable state of affairs, and one of the main themes of Buddhism is the practice to break this vicious circle.

Traditionally in Buddhism, there are six worlds of samsara, that is, six possible ways of rebirth:

• World of the Gods;
• Asura world;
• The world of people;
• Animal world;
• Hungry Ghost World;
• Hell worlds.

It is interesting to note that all six worlds are reflected in each of them. For example, in the world of people you can meet those who live as if in hell, that is, a person can be tortured, bullied; children in the hungry areas of Africa are like hungry ghosts, despite the fact that there is enough food and water on earth, it is practically inaccessible to them, and they are tormented by hunger and thirst; there are people who live like animals - they sleep on the street, eat whatever they pick up, etc.; there are those who live like human beings; people filled with envy, while not needing anything, are the world of asuras; there are, of course, those who live like gods, they already have everything in a human body, they are beautiful, healthy and do not know troubles. And, thus, it is possible to consider each of the worlds. Still, it is widely believed that the human birth is one of the most precious births, because there is development and the ability to move forward, which is difficult to achieve, for example, in the world of the Gods, since there is no incentive to develop due to the lack of need for anything. Rebirth into one world or another occurs on the basis of accumulated karma, that is, certain reasons must be created for birth in a particular world and circumstances. In general, for a soul to get into a Christian hell or paradise, conditions must also be created during life - why not karma?

The symbol of samsara in the Buddhist tradition is the wheel of rebirth, or bhavacakra. Traditionally, he is depicted clutched in the paws and fangs of the god of death, Yama. In the center are a pig, a snake and a rooster, symbolizing ignorance, anger and lust - the sources of suffering that keep the being in the wheel of samsara. Further, people are depicted striving upwards - to spiritual life, and downwards - non-virtuous, who are led to hell. Then the six worlds of samsara are located, and the twelvefold formula of being (causes and consequences) completes the picture.

According to the Dalai Lama XIV, the consciousness that we have now will pass into the next life, and we had it in a past life. Consciousness does not have an opposing factor that would lead to its stop, to its cessation. In the deep layers of consciousness there are memories of past lives, and a person with a sufficiently high level of development is able to turn to these memories. With further honing of consciousness, it becomes possible to foresee the future. The Dalai Lama also emphasizes that if you live a meaningful life every day, you can guarantee yourself a good next incarnation.

What gives us the recognition of the phenomenon of rebirth

This is perhaps one of the most important questions, the answer to which explains the position of the opponents of the rebirth of the soul. The fact is that when a person understands that he does not just live more than one life, but that the quality of this life affects the next, that nothing passes without a trace and he will have to atone for all his sins and reap the fruits of his actions, then the realization comes that to live like this the way most of us live today is simply not possible. But is such a position beneficial to those who promote unbridled consumption, life one day and put material values higher than spiritual? Of course not. It is worth considering why people who have experienced clinical death or experienced past lives, for the most part, change for the better. Apparently, they saw something that led them to the need to reconsider their lives now. In any case, the understanding that life does not end in this incarnation, and maybe even just begins, fills what is happening with meaning, allows you not to lose heart and realize your responsibility and involvement in what is happening. That is, what we have today is the fruit of our past actions, and blaming someone else for this, it turns out, is stupid.

In Tibet and India, the majority does not even have a question about rebirth, it is considered an undeniable and even obvious phenomenon. As mentioned above, in these cultures it is stated that the human birth is a precious birth that must be earned, I am silent about the birth in the body of a white person, for Indians this is comparable to a divine incarnation. If a person could not live this life in a human way, then welcome to the lower worlds: animals, pretas or hell. Such a theory undoubtedly makes us not just think, but appreciate and cherish the chance to go through this life in full awareness and with the opportunity to influence our development. For example, animals are practically deprived of such an opportunity, because, according to people who have experienced the memories of life in the body of an animal, instincts rule in that world and there is practically no place left for the manifestation of volitional conscious actions. Even a person, saving his life or being in need, is often not able to think about anything other than satisfying his needs, what can we say about animals.

The statement of one lama Dzongsar Khyantse Norbu Rinpoche is very close to me. According to him, from life to life we ​​develop habits. For example, depressed and embittered people may have developed the habit of being discouraged and angry for five hundred lives, and this habit is fixed from incarnation to incarnation in such a way that it is no longer realized by a person, and controls him. But as soon as he realizes that this is not him, but just his habit, then at that very moment he can begin to form another, more blissful habit, which from life to life will intensify and, conversely, make it easier. life path. Combining this thought with the common Buddhist view that birth is driven by craving, one can reflect on what desires and habits drive us in this incarnation, and where they will lead us in the future. Suppose a person constantly thinks about food and eats without noticing it, that is, this is his habit that cannot be controlled, then does he need a human body for this, or can the body of some animal be sufficient? Of course, all the qualities inherent in this individual are important here, perhaps they still outweigh in the direction of the world of people. However, as we discussed above, human life is also different, you can be born in such an environment where there will be no opportunity to regain consciousness.

In conclusion, I would like to say that regardless of whether we believe in the rebirth of the soul or know that it exists for sure, we must justify our involvement in the human world. Do you really need proof that in the future you will have to answer for everything? It may be enough of your personal conscience to live with dignity, respecting yourself and others now, striving for development not in order to deserve something in the future, but so that this life is filled with meaning and high ideals.

It is known that at the moment of death the soul leaves the physical body. But the abandoned body may not yet be entirely hopeless. For some time after the soul has left the body, it is likely to be revived. And in these very minutes, the soul of some other person who has just died can move into the body abandoned by his own soul.

That person died completely and irrevocably. His soul had no choice but to leave the physical flesh. But, having left it, the soul, for some reason, did not fly off to other worlds, but found a new body for itself - exactly the one that its own soul left and which it is still possible to revive. In life, it looks like this: sick. He has a clear mind, but he does not recognize any of his relatives and acquaintances and does not remember his life. But suddenly he begins to remember someone else's life ...

1970s - a lot was written in the foreign press about 12-year-old Elena Markard, from West Berlin. The girl suffered a serious injury and was unconscious for a long time, and when she regained consciousness, she stopped recognizing her relatives and understanding her native German language. But instead, she began to speak fluent Italian, which she had never learned.
According to her, her name was Rosetta Castigliani. She lived her life without a break in Italy and died there at the age of 30 after an accident. Helena-Rosetta aroused the interest of scientists. She was brought to Italy. The girl recognized her town and her home, and when she saw her aged daughter, she called out to her by a childhood nickname familiar to both of them.

A similar incident occurred in the 20s of the XX century at the height of the Spanish flu epidemic, which claimed, according to various estimates, from 50 to 100 million human lives. In a crowded Prague morgue, one of the corpses suddenly came to life. According to hospital records, it was a certain Karel Turny, a resident of Prague. He did not recognize the relative who came to visit him. On the same day he was discharged from the hospital. But he did not go to his city apartment, but somewhere in the countryside. In a certain village, he entered one of the houses and declared that he was the owner here. He called himself the name and surname of the owner and gave many details of "his" life here.

Later, the police found that the real owner died of a Spanish flu almost simultaneously with Karel Turny, and their corpses were in the same morgue. It remains unknown how Turnny learned so much about the deceased owner of the house, because no one in that village had ever seen him.

Maniac - he is a maniac in another body

1964 - Two dozen guards and prisoners were killed during a riot in a Texas state prison. Security guard Jimmy Home for a long time could not get out of a coma. When he came to himself, it turned out that he did not remember anything from what had happened to him before the injury. But he had uncharacteristic habits for him and a Mexican accent. After being discharged from the hospital, he left Texas without even saying goodbye to his family.

Some time later, a series of attacks on women took place in various places in the American Midwest. The police recognized the characteristic handwriting of a maniac known to them, a Mexican by birth. But this maniac was caught long ago, he was kept in a Texas prison and was killed during a riot of prisoners. To make sure that he was dead, his grave was opened and the body was examined. There was no doubt that it was his corpse. But, in this case, it turned out that his double, an exact copy, was chasing women ...

Home was eventually caught and subjected to a psychiatric examination. He confessed that he was not Home, but the same Mexican who was in prison and died during the riot. He became like this after his death and has no idea how he got Home's body. He was sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he soon died. His secret has remained unrevealed.

Resurrected artist

It is believed that most often occur during mass deaths - epidemics or wars. The most famous of these cases occurred during World War II.

David Chitlahe Paladin was a typical native of the American hinterland. He studied, like everyone else, in an ordinary school, did not differ in diligence, rather the opposite - several times he ended up in a correctional prison for teenagers. 1944 - he arrived in Europe as a soldier. In battle, he was seriously wounded, was captured and tortured. The Germans placed him, dying, in a concentration camp. The British who came here found him among the corpses. The body was identified by fingerprints and was about to be sent to America, when they suddenly discovered that the young soldier had a pulse.

David was treated in hospitals in Europe, then transported to his homeland. For two and a half years he did not understand anything and did not recognize anyone, and when he finally came to his senses, he told others in broken English: "I am an artist, my name is Wassily Kandinsky."

At first they decided that he was not himself, but the young man very soon proved to everyone that he was mentally quite healthy. True, in English he spoke with a strong accent, previously unusual for him. And, what is even more surprising, he knew Russian well and French who never taught. Moreover, he spoke Russian without an accent and quite competently.

Later, when journalists and scientists became interested in this case, it turned out that the famous Russian avant-garde artist Wassily Kandinsky died in 1944 in France at the age of 78 in those days when David Paladin was lying in the corpse barracks of a German concentration camp.

David tried to learn as much as possible about his life in America. To this end, he maintained an active correspondence with relatives and acquaintances of the Paladin. Then, without studying anywhere, he began to paint oil paintings. The art historians who were shown them were convinced that these were the originals of Kandinsky.

Later, David moved away from the pictorial manner of Kandinsky and generally began to pay less attention to drawing. He became interested in playing the piano. And this was explained in his previous life: the researchers found out that the real Kandinsky had a musical education and he played this instrument perfectly. Already 5 years after his miraculous revival, Paladin headed an art studio and at the same time (having completed only 6 classes of a regular school!) lectured on theology at the University of Denver.

A logical question arises: why, in the cases described, were the bodies animated by other people's souls, and not their own?
From scientists, we, for sure, will not hear the answer soon. But the occultists have their own opinion. They believe that the soul is strong and weak. A strong soul, unlike a weak one, is able to re-inhabit human body. Souls inhabit, as a rule, in the bodies of babies. But they can also inhabit the bodies of adults, replacing them with their own souls. According to this theory, the souls of Kandinsky, the Mexican maniac and the Czech peasant were strong. Therefore, they revived the practically dead Paladin, Home and Karel Turnoy.

Is there life after death? What is it, the afterlife - heaven and hell or relocation to a new physical body? It is difficult to answer these questions unequivocally, but there is strong evidence for the existence of reincarnation, karma, and the continuation of life after death.

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Is there life after death - what do people see in a state of clinical death

People who have experienced clinical death are well aware of the answer to the age-old question - is there life after death? Almost everyone knows that during clinical death a person is able to see the other world. Doctors do not find a logical explanation for this. The phenomenon of seeing the afterlife during clinical death began to be widely discussed after the publication of Dr. Raymond Moody's book Life After Death in the 70s of the last century.

There are statistics of what was seen during clinical death. Many people see the same thing. They could not agree with each other in any way, therefore, what they saw was true. So, 31% of survivors of clinical death talk about flying through a tunnel. This is the most common posthumous vision. 29% of people claim that they managed to see the starry landscape. About 24% of respondents talk about how they saw their body lying on the operating table from the side. At the same time, some of the patients who survived clinical death accurately described the actions of doctors that took place in the process of their resuscitation.

23% saw a bright blinding light that beckoned people to them. The same number of near-death survivors claim to have seen something in vibrant colors. 13% of people had pictures from their lives, and they managed to see the whole life path, in the smallest details. 8% talked about what they saw the border between the worlds of the living and the dead. Some managed to see and even communicate with deceased relatives and even angels. Being in an inanimate state, but not yet dead, a person can make a choice - to return to material world or go further. Only the stories of people who chose life are known. Sometimes they say to those who got to the other side that it is "still too early" for them and they let them go back.

It is interesting that people who are blind from birth describe everything the same as when they were “on the other side”. see the sighted. The American doctor K. Ring interviewed about two hundred blind from birth patients who survived clinical death. They described exactly the same thing as people without visual impairments.

People who are interested in facts about life after death are afraid of the end of physical existence. However, more than half of the people surveyed noted that the sensations during their stay in the afterlife were more positive than negative. In about half of the cases, there is an awareness of one's own death. Unpleasant sensations or fear are very rare during clinical death. Most people who have been beyond the line are convinced that beyond the line awaits better world and no longer fear death.

Feelings after entering another world seriously change. Survivors talk about the sharpening of feelings and emotions, the clarity of thoughts, the ability of an incorporeal soul to fly and pass through walls, teleport, and even modify its intangible body. There is a feeling that there is no time in this dimension, or maybe it flows in a completely different way. The consciousness of a deceased person gets the opportunity to solve many issues at the same time, in general, many things “impossible” in ordinary life.

This is how a girl who survived clinical death described her experience of being in the world of the dead:

When I saw the light, he instantly asked me: “Have you been of any use in this life?” And different pictures began to flash in front of me, as if I was watching a movie. "What is it?" - I thought, because everything happened quite unexpectedly. Suddenly, I was in childhood. And year after year she went through her whole life, from birth to the last moment. Everything I saw was still alive! It was as if I was looking at all this from the outside, in three-dimensional space and color, like in some kind of movie from the future.

And when I looked at all this, there was no light in my field of vision. He disappeared when he asked me that question. However, his presence was felt, as if he led me through my life, especially noting important and bright events. And in each of these events, this light seemed to emphasize something. First of all, the importance of tenderness, love and kindness. Conversations with loved ones, with his mother and sister, gifts for them, family holidays ... He also showed interest in everything that was connected with knowledge and its acquisition.

In all the moments when the light focused on events that related to learning, it seemed to say that I should continue to study without fail, so that when he comes for me next time, I will keep this desire in myself. By that time, I already understood that I was destined to return to life again. He called knowledge a continuous process and now, I think that the process of learning certainly does not stop even with death.

Another thing is suicide. People who managed to survive after a suicide attempt say that before the doctors managed to bring them back to life, they were in extremely unpleasant places. Often the places that suicides go to look like prisons, sometimes like Christian hell. They are there alone, their relatives are not in this part of the afterlife. Some complained that they were being dragged down, that is, instead of following up in an attempt to catch up with the bright light at the end of the tunnel, they were transported to some kind of hell. It is recommended not to let those who came according to your soul do this. The soul, which is not burdened by the physical body, is able to cope with this.

Almost everyone knows what other religious sources say about death. In general, description afterlife in various beliefs have much in common. However, nothing that would resemble heaven or hell in its traditional sense was observed by survivors of clinical death. This leads to certain reflections - perhaps the afterlife is not at all the same as many people are used to presenting it.

Rebirth, or reincarnation of the soul - evidence

There is a lot of evidence in the soul. These include the memories of children about past incarnations, and such children are encountered quite often in the last two centuries. Perhaps the fact is that it was not customary to make such information public before, or maybe we are on the verge of a certain special era, which is extremely important for all mankind.

Evidence of reincarnation is usually spoken through the mouths of children between the ages of 2 and 5. Many children remember their past lives, but most adults do not take this seriously. Children from 5 years old most often lose their memory of past incarnations. Some esotericists believe that babies have the memory of a person who died in a past incarnation for some time - they do not understand the language of new parents, they practically do not see the world, however, they understand that they have begun a new life path. This is only an assumption, but there are reliable facts confirming the possibility of transmigration of the soul into a new body after death.

Some children remember details of their death in a past incarnation. It is not uncommon for body parts that were damaged in a past life to have birthmarks or other marks. Often children are told such shocking details of the past incarnation that it makes even scientists believe in reincarnation and karma. Thus, the loudest claims that reincarnation exists are illustrated by biographical data that have been verified for authenticity. It turned out that the people the children told about in the first person actually existed at different times.

How little Gus Ortega surprised his father

As one of the world's most famous examples of children who remember past lives, consider the case of Gus Ortega:

Ron Ortega once witnessed a strange incident when his one and a half year old son Gus said a very strange phrase at the time when his father was changing his diapers. Little Gus said to his father, "When I was your age, I changed your diapers." It was very strange, his son was only 1 year old, and for his son Gus to say that, he had to be the same age as his father when.

After this incident, Ron showed Gus some Family Photos, one of which was of Gus' grandfather, named August. This photo showed a group of people, and when Ron asked Gus to point out who your grandfather was, little Gus, with ease, without thinking, pointed to the right person. Gus had never seen Grandpa in his life, and hadn't seen pictures of him before. Gus was even able to pinpoint where the photo was taken. Also looking at other photos, Gus pointed to Grandpa's car, said "it was my first car", and indeed, at one time, it was the first car that Grandpa August bought.

Adults tend to remember their past incarnations in a trance state or hypnotherapy session. In addition, there is a lot of literature on reincarnation from various authors. However, apart from numerous testimonies of cases of reincarnation, there is no other evidence. There are no scientifically confirmed facts about reincarnation, it is simply impossible to prove its existence. It is difficult to answer the question of whether there is a reincarnation of the soul, unambiguously.

Life after death - facts about the phenomenon of ghosts

Ghost of Uttuku

Numerous testimonies and facts about the phenomenon of ghosts were found in human history always - even in ancient Babylonian legends, it was reported about the most diverse types of ghosts that came to relatives and friends, or to those who were guilty of their death. Particularly famous was a ghost called Uttuku- such were the people who died from torture. They came both to their relatives and to the executioners and their masters in the form in which they left this world and at the very time when they were dying.

There are very, very many similar stories about the appearance of ghosts to loved ones at the time of a person’s death. So, one of the documented stories is connected with Madame Teleshova, who lived in St. Petersburg. In 1896, while she was sitting in the living room with five children and a dog, the ghost of the milkman's son appeared to them. The whole family saw him, and the dog literally freaked out and jumped around him. As it turned out later, it was at this time that Andrei died - that was the name little boy. This is a very common phenomenon when people report their death in one way or another - therefore, it is strong evidence of the existence of life after death.

But not always ghosts want to calm or just notify loved ones. Often there are situations when they begin to call relatives or friends behind them. And the consent to follow them inevitably leads to an imminent death. Not knowing about this belief, most often the victims of such exhortations of ghosts are small children who perceive such a call as a game.

Also, ghostly silhouettes passing through walls or just suddenly appearing next to people do not always belong to the dead. Many people who were distinguished by righteousness came to passers-by and pilgrims, helping them in various cases- especially often such situations were recorded in Tibet.

Nevertheless, similar cases took place on Russian territory - once, in the 19th century, a peasant woman Avdotya from Voronezh, who had sore legs, went on foot to the elder Ambrose to ask him for healing. However, she got lost, sat down on an old fallen tree and began to sob. But then an old man approached her, asked about the reason for her sorrows, after which he pointed with his cane in the direction in which the desired monastery was located. When Avdotya reached the monastery and began to wait for her turn among the suffering, the same old man immediately came out to her and asked where “Avdotya from Voronezh” was. At the same time, as the monks reported, by that time Ambrose had already been too weak and sickly for several years even to leave the cell. This phenomenon is called exteriorization and only exceptionally spiritually developed people have such capabilities.

Thus, this is another confirmation of the scientific theory that ghosts exist, at least in the form of a person's energy imprint on the information field of the Earth. The same was mentioned in his works on the noosphere by the famous scientist Vernadsky. Accordingly, the question of the existence of life after death, although not on the agenda, can be considered practically closed. The only reason for the non-acceptance of these theses by official science is only the need for experimental confirmation of such information, which is unlikely to be obtained.

Is there karma - punishment or reward for actions

The concept of karma, in one form or another, was present in the traditions of almost all peoples of the world, starting from ancient times. People around the world, who had much more time to observe the reality around them in times without technology, have noticed that many bad or good deeds tend to be rewarded. And often in the most unpredictable way.

The doctrine of reincarnation was widespread in the past, and continues to develop today. According to this teaching, when someone dies, his soul passes into another body, where he begins a new life.

Reincarnation is understood differently in different religions. The most famous Buddhist interpretation, according to which the ultimate goal of the soul is to break out of the eternal cycle of continuous reincarnations, in order to eventually reach Nirvana - the state of ... non-existence!

In some religions, it is believed that the soul can only move into the human body, in others reincarnations can occur between intelligent beings (people-angels-gods), and still others imagine that animals, plants and even minerals can also be included in this cycle!

In the West, the doctrine of reincarnation is found mainly in various movements like the New Age. Here, as a rule, a more “Western” version is also accepted, stating that the goal of reincarnation is self-improvement and subsequent rebirth in a higher form of life, and not final disappearance.

The above views are not just foreign - they are completely incompatible with Christian ones. The doctrine of reincarnation, although different forms, as a rule, asserts that a person is something that changes from reincarnation to reincarnation and which can be absorbed by a faceless deity and disappear like a drop in the ocean.

This, however, goes against Christian faith, where both God and each individual person have their own individuality, which is preserved forever, and each is aware of himself as a separate person.

The Christian doctrine of the resurrection states that the deceased person will regain his body with his own personal qualities that he possessed during life, and thus will be aware of himself as a person.

What problems arise in connection with the theory of reincarnation? Let's start with the fact that the emergence of such a theory was due to the need to explain the existence of evil in the world and satisfy the universal sense of justice.

The problem of evil

Every person is capable of going into a frenzy at the sight of the injustices of our world. Human suffering walks hand in hand with the suffering of other creatures: who among us has not wept, watching torment and injustice around us?! Why it happens? What is the deep meaning of this? It turns out that if this is the only life that exists at all, that is, the one that we see and which we live, then all this is absolutely unfair and useless. Who will return life to a person who died by accident? Who will rebuff the unrighteousness of those who, with all their sabotage, continue to live happily and die a peaceful death?

The answers to such questions, asked by people who have never heard of the Christian view of the existence of evil, seem very simple in the theory of reincarnation.

Obviously, when an unfortunate person dies, his next reincarnation is governed by the law of karma, which prescribes a reward to the victim and punishment to his offender in the form of the evil he caused, returned to him. Thus, the victim becomes a being of a higher order or blissful, and the one who offended him becomes a beggar or an evil, bloodthirsty beast. So, the universal sense of justice is satisfied, and suffering is no longer perceived so hard.

But is there any logic in these arguments?

According to this teaching, if someone was offended, then this is his karma, because in a previous life he was a bad person.

But if this is so, then the idea of ​​injustice does not exist at all, so it will be appropriate to offend him. After all, then he just gets what he deserves. Human pain should not be treated with compassion, there should be no attempt to help this person. The poor and the sick should not be offered any alms, but on the contrary, they should be blamed as the only ones responsible for their present fate, since they must have been evil people in their previous lives. Each person must accept his fate meekly and without any attempts to improve his (current) life, because in this way he pays for the crimes he committed in a past life, which, by the way, he does not remember anything.

Some questions related to reincarnation

There is another inconsistency in the theory of reincarnation. If a person does not remember his previous life, why should he be responsible for it? What's the point? It's like punishing a child without bothering to explain his guilt to him! Or just call it bad, but do not explain why.

Punishment makes sense only in direct connection with the offense. If karma simply performs a reciprocal action, then this is not called justice, but revenge. Paying karma would make sense only if one could remember previous lives and thus realize the reason for one's punishment and not repeat it again.

But even so, there will always be someone who will say that a person can simply proceed through life carefully in order to reach the heights of reincarnation until his soul gains enough experience to connect with the divine essence.

However, many questions still remain unanswered, such as the question of how good it is for a person in general. When evil person reincarnates into an evil beast, how can he rise to a higher level of reincarnation? Will the evil animal, in turn, be reincarnated into something worse?

So let's assume that all beings are parts of an omniscient god (as Eastern philosophy tells us); if the supreme being is omniscient, why should it be divided into so many parts that need to gain experience and then return to it? If the supreme being is omniscient, what need does he have of experience?

If beings do not remain definite persons, but lose their personality, why, finally, all this fuss and worry about multiple reincarnations, if everything eventually returns to the non-existence of nirvana?

And if a certain absolute, from which all beings supposedly arose, really represents the highest level of development, then where did the evil beings come from? After all, they must arise from something evil. And from such high degree development, nothing bad can come of it.

Where did microbes and worms come from? After all, it is impossible to speak with confidence about the benevolence or malevolence of the worm's soul! From what state did they reincarnate? And with what good deeds will they move forward?

Finally, if karma is what leads to reincarnation into something good or bad, then it is the true source of injustice in the world. Karma is to blame for everything that happens to someone, and not those who offended him, since both offended and offending are only pawns in a predetermined game based on immutable "moral" laws.

Thus, karma is seen as a grandiose transformer of the universe - more powerful than even this absolute, obliged to create or destroy other beings, based on the law of karma.

But then, if karma is the ultimate power and the cause of everything in the universe, then it must be the creator, and he must be wise and just, and not a blind force and the culprit of all troubles.

In this case, the absolute is neither omniscient nor the root cause of everything, but is subject to limitations and changes from the law of karma, cannot exist outside of time and space and, therefore, is not uncreated (as it seems).

So, if all of this is wrong, how then can the "past life memories" evoked by hypnosis be explained?

Alternate Interpretation of Past Life Memories

Many people do believe in reincarnation, and not because of their philosophical convictions, but because they simply could have witnessed one of these "memories", or perhaps heard about those who "remember" the events of their past life without living them. in the present, or knew such a person. But when there is an alternative answer that explains the mechanism of the phenomenon, it becomes impossible to agree with a theory like the theory of reincarnation, full of contradictions.

Let's look at three such alternative explanations.

Firstly, there is a certain spiritual connection between people, since they all have common nature. Therefore, under certain conditions (such as hypnosis), a person can be evoked memories from someone else's life, and he will perceive them as his own, and this does not mean at all that he personally experienced those events, but simply in another life.

Secondly, in our Universe there are dimensions that are not noticeable to us. Thus, again under certain conditions, it is theoretically possible to see events at different points in space and time; but it turns out that these events really took place in the life of the same person.

And finally, the third (and most likely explanation, in our opinion) is that people who spread the theory of reincarnation out of selfish interests, subject the hypnotized person to a huge impression, talking about what happened to someone else at another time. in order to convince participants that reincarnation is possible. At least some of us who have witnessed such incidents have had this idea of ​​what the hypnotized person said about "someone" who came to him.

But for those who want to believe experience, we are reminded of the vast experience of Christians who have had contact with dead people, who assured them of the reality of the resurrection and the unfaithfulness of reincarnation.

After setting out all the issues related to this erroneous theory, let's look briefly at the Christian point of view on the problem of evil and how it is solved without any contradictions within Christianity.

Evil is a consequence of our choice as free beings. Of course, not everything ends in this unfair life. Today's injustices will be justified when, after the resurrection, each of us will receive the body we deserve through God's just judgment based on how we have lived our lives. Each of us will be a specific person and will remember all our deeds very well.

Then, having risen, everyone will continue to exist as a person, in mutual love between people, united with the almighty God of the Universe, endowed with individuality, and not like a faceless drop in some faceless nirvana.