What survivors of clinical death say. "Seven Tastes of Death": what people who have experienced clinical death remember

Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences N.P. Bekhtereva notes about autoscopic perceptions that also arise in stressful situations: ” the soul that separated from the body. But the body does not react, it is clinically dead, it has lost contact with the person himself for some time! .. "

“I was in the intensive care unit, and at the same time I was with my mother in the bedroom. It was amazing to be in two places at the same time, and even in such a remote place from one another, but space seemed to be a meaningless concept ... I, being in my new body, sat on the edge of her bed and said: “ Mom, I had a heart attack, I could die, but I don't want you to worry. I don't mind dying."

However, she did not look at me. Apparently she didn't hear me. “Mom,” I kept whispering, “it's me, Martha. I need to talk to you." I tried to get her attention, but then the focus of my mind returned to the intensive care unit. And I was back in my body."

Later, when she came to herself, Marta saw her husband, daughter and brother, who had flown in from another city, by her bed. As it turned out, his mother called his brother. She had a strange feeling that something had happened to Martha, and she asked her son to find out what was the matter. Calling, he found out what happened, and the first plane flew to his sister.

Was Martha really able to travel without a physical body a distance equal to two-thirds of the length of America and communicate with her mother? The mother said that she felt something, i.e. something was wrong with her daughter, but she could not understand what it was, and she could not imagine how she knew about it.

Martov's story can be considered a rare, but not the only case. Martha, in a certain sense, managed to get in touch with her mother and convey to her "a sense of unease." But most fail to do so. However, observations of the actions of doctors, relatives, including those who are at a certain distance from the operating room, are amazing.

She, Lyudmila, dreamed that she left the body, is somewhere above, sees her body lying on the operating table, doctors around her and understands that she most likely died. It became scary for the mother and daughter. Thinking about her family, she suddenly found herself at home. She saw that her daughter was trying on a blue polka-dot dress in front of the mirror. A neighbor came in and said: "Lyusenka would have liked it." Lyusenka is she, who is here and invisible. Everything is calm, peaceful at home - and here she is again in the operating room.

The doctor, to whom she told about the amazing "dream", offered to go to her house, to calm the family. The surprise of the mother and daughter knew no bounds when she told about the neighbor and about the blue dress with polka dots, which they prepared as a surprise for Lyusenka.

“At some point, I realized that I was losing consciousness. He tried to call for help - only a wheeze escaped from his throat. But then the pain stopped. Warmth spread through my body (which body?) and I felt extraordinary bliss. Scenes from childhood appeared before my eyes. I saw the village guys with whom I ran to the river to catch crayfish, my grandfather, a front-line soldier, the deceased neighbors ...

Then I noticed how the doctors with confused faces bent over me, someone began to massage the chest. Through the sweet veil, I suddenly felt the disgusting smell of ammonia and ... woke up. The doctor, of course, did not believe my story. But I don’t care if he didn’t believe me - now I know what cardiac arrest is and that dying is not so scary. ”

1975 - he was struck by lightning. Doctors did everything possible to save him, but ... he died. Brinkley's first trip is amazing. He not only saw luminous Beings and crystal castles there. He saw the future of mankind there for several decades to come.

After they managed to save him and he recovered, he discovered that he had the ability to read other people's thoughts, and touching a person with his hand, he immediately sees, as he himself says, "home cinema". If the person he touched was gloomy, then Brinkley saw "like in a movie" scenes that explained the reason for the gloomy mood of the person.

Many of their people, upon their return from the Subtle World, discovered in themselves parapsychological abilities. Scientists became interested in the parapsychological phenomena of the “returned from the other world”. 1992 - Dr. Melvin Morse published the results of his experiments with Brinkley in the book Transformed by Light. As a result of the study, he found that people who have been on the verge of death appear approximately four times more often than ordinary people.

Here is what, for example, happened to him during the second clinical death:

I burst out of the darkness into bright light into the operating room and saw two surgeons with two assistants who were betting whether I could survive or not. They looked at my chest x-ray while they prepared me for the operation. I saw myself from a position that seemed to be largely above the ceiling, and watched my arm being attached to a shiny steel brace.

My sister smeared my body with brown antiseptic and covered me with a clean sheet. Someone else injected some liquid into my tube. The surgeon then made an incision across my chest with a scalpel and pulled back the skin. The assistant handed him a tool that looked like a small saw, and he hooked it to my rib, and then opened the chest and inserted a spacer inside. Another surgeon cut the skin around my heart.

After that, I was able to directly observe my own heartbeat. I couldn't see anything else as I was in the dark again. I heard the ringing of bells, and then the tunnel opened ... At the end of the tunnel, I was met by the same Being from Light as in last time. It drew me to Itself, while expanding like an angel spreading its wings. The light of these radiations swallowed me up.”

What a cruel blow and unbearable pain relatives receive when they learn about the death of a loved one. Today, when husbands and sons are dying, it is impossible to find words to reassure wives, parents and children. But maybe the following cases will be at least some consolation for them.

The first case was with Thomas Dowding. His story: “Physical death is nothing!.. You really shouldn't be afraid of it. ... I remember very well how it all happened. I waited in the crook of the trench for my time to take over. It was a wonderful evening, I had no premonition of danger, but suddenly I heard the howl of a shell. There was an explosion somewhere behind. I involuntarily squatted down, but it was too late. Something hit so hard and hard - in the back of the head. I fell while falling, did not notice even for a moment any loss of consciousness, found myself outside of myself! You see how simply I tell it so that you can understand it better.

After 5 seconds, I stood next to my body and helped two of my comrades carry it along the trench to the dressing room. They thought that I was just unconscious, but alive… They put my body on a stretcher. I always wanted to know when I would be inside the body again.

I'll tell you what I felt. It was like I ran hard and for a long time until I got wet, lost my breath and took off my clothes. This clothing was my wounded body: it seemed that if I didn’t throw it off, then I could suffocate ... My body was taken first to the dressing room, and then to the morgue. I stood next to my body all night, but I didn’t think about anything, I just looked at it. Then I lost consciousness and fell fast asleep.

This incident happened to US Army officer Tommy Clack in 1969 in South Vietnam.

He stepped on a mine. First he was thrown into the air, then thrown to the ground. For a moment Tommy managed to sit up and saw that he was missing his left arm and left leg. Clack rolled over on his back and thought he was dying. The light faded, all sensations disappeared, there was no pain. Some time later, Tommy woke up. He hovered in the air and looked at his body. The soldiers put his mangled body on a stretcher, covered him up and carried him to the helicopter. Clack, watching from above, realized that he was believed to be dead. And at that moment he realized that he had actually died.

Accompanying his body to the field hospital, Tommy felt peaceful, even happy. He calmly watched as his bloody clothes were cut, and suddenly he was back on the battlefield. All 13 guys killed during the day were here. Clack did not see their thin bodies, but somehow felt that they were near, communicated with them, but also in an unknown way.

The soldiers were happy in the New World and tried to persuade him to stay. Tommy felt happy and at ease. He did not see himself, felt himself (in his words) just a form, felt almost one pure thought. Bright light poured from all sides. Suddenly, Tommy found himself back in the hospital, in the operating room. He was operated on. The doctors were talking to each other about something. Clack immediately returned to his body.

Not! Not everything is so simple in our material world! And a man killed in a war does not die! He's leaving! He leaves for a clean, bright world, where he is much better than his relatives and friends who remained on Earth.

Reflecting on his encounters with Beings from non-ordinary reality, Whitley Strieber wrote: “I get the impression that the material world is only a special case of a larger context, and reality unfolds mainly in a non-physical way ... I think that the Luminous Beings, as it were, play the role of midwives when we appear in the Subtle World. The Beings we observe may be individuals of a higher evolutionary order…”.

But the journey into the Subtle World does not always seem to be a "beautiful walk" for a person. Physicians noted that before some people - hellish visions appear.

Feelings of loneliness and fear were sometimes recalled from the moment when a person felt drawn into a region of darkness or vacuum during near-death experiences. Shortly after a nephrectomy (surgical removal of a kidney) at the University of Florida in 1976, a 23-year-old college student collapsed due to an unexpected postoperative complication. In the first parts of her near-death experiences: “There was total blackness around. If you move very fast, you can feel the walls coming towards you… I felt alone and a little scared.”

A similar darkness enveloped a 56-year-old man and “frightened” him: “The next thing I remember was how I ended up in complete, total darkness ... It was a very gloomy place, and I did not know where I was, what I was doing there or what is happening and I was scared.

True, such cases are rare. But even if a few had a vision of hell, this suggests that death is not a deliverance for everyone. It is the way of life of a person, his thoughts, desires, actions that determine where a person will end up after death.

There are a lot of facts about the exit of the soul from the body in stressful situations and in clinical death! .. But for a long time there was not enough objective scientific verification.

Does this, as scientists say, phenomenon of continuation of life after the death of the physical body really exist?

Such a check was carried out by carefully comparing the facts indicated by patients with real events, and empirically, using the necessary equipment.

One of the first such evidence was received by the American doctor Michael Sabom, who began research as an opponent of his compatriot Dr. Moody, and completed them as a like-minded person and assistant.

In order to refute the "crazy" idea, Sabom organized verification observations and confirmed, and in fact proved, that a person does not cease to exist after death, retaining the ability to see, hear and feel.

Dr. Michael Sabom is Professor of Medicine at Emory University (America). He has vast practical experience in resuscitation. His book Memories of Death was published in 1981. Dr. Sabom confirmed what other researchers have written about. But the main thing is not this. He conducted a series of studies, comparing the stories of his patients who experienced temporary death with what actually happened at the time when they were in a state of clinical death with what was available for objective verification.

Dr. Sabom checked whether the stories of the patients coincided with what was actually happening in the material world at that time. Were the medical devices and methods of resuscitation used, which were described by people who were at that time? Did the things that the dead saw and described actually happen in other rooms?

Sabom collected and published 116 cases. All of them were carefully checked by him personally. He drew up accurate protocols, taking into account the place, time, participants, spoken words, etc. For his observations, he selected only mentally healthy and balanced people.

Here are some examples from Dr. Sabom's posts.

“I must have fallen asleep. I don't remember how they moved me from this room to the operating room. And then suddenly I saw that the room was lit, but not as brightly as I expected. My consciousness returned… but they had already done something to me… My head and whole body were covered with sheets… and then I suddenly began to see what was happening…

I was a couple of feet above my head… I saw two doctors… they were sawing my breast bone… I could draw you a saw and a thing that they used to spread the ribs… It was wrapped all around and was of good steel… a lot of tools… the doctors were called with their clamps… I was surprised, I thought there would be a lot of blood, but there was very little of it… and the heart is not what I thought. It is large, larger at the top and narrower at the bottom, like the continent of Africa. The top is pink and yellow. Even creepy. And one part was darker than the rest, instead of everything being the same color...

The doctor was on the left side, he cut off pieces from my heart and twirled them this way and that and looked at them for a long time ... and they had a big argument whether to do a bypass or not.

And they decided not to do it ... All the doctors, except for one, had green covers on their shoes, and this weirdo was in white shoes covered with blood ... It was strange and, in my opinion, unhygienic ... "

The course of the operation described by the patient coincided with the entries in the operating log made by a different style.

The greatest thing I remember was that I felt so sad that there was no way I could let her know that I was okay. Somehow I knew I was fine, but I didn't know how to tell her. I was just looking… And there was a very quiet, peaceful feeling… In fact, it was a good feeling.”

Sadness is mentioned by a 73-year-old Florida French teacher when she talks about her near-death experience (NDE) during a serious infectious disease and grand mal seizures at 15 years of age:

I split up and sat much higher up there, watching my own convulsions, and my mother and my maid were screaming and yelling because they thought I was dead. I felt so sorry for both them and my body… Only deep, deep sadness. I could still feel sadness. But I felt that I was free there, and there was no reason to suffer. I had no pain and I was completely free."

Another happy experience, one woman was cut short by feelings of remorse over having to leave her children during a post-operative complication that left her on the verge of death and physical unconsciousness: “Yes, yes, I was happy until the time I remembered the children . Until then, I was happy that I was dying. I was really, really happy. It was just a jubilant, cheerful feeling.”

03.07.2016

A person continues to think even after death!?

As in our inner world appear images and sounds and thoughts associated with them? Is all this the result of the work of brain cells? Is consciousness really born in the brain?

The mechanistic approach that the brain is the center of human consciousness is questioned by many modern scientists. The reason for this is ongoing clinical death research. Their results suggest that consciousness can exist outside of the body.

Important! These studies were based on the stories of people who experienced clinical death. And this experience, although somewhat frightening, is certainly

Dutch scientist Pim van Lommel in the annotation to his scientific article “Consciousness without a place. concept based on scientific research people after clinical death”, released in 2013, wrote:

According to my research, at present, the materialistic view of the location of consciousness in the brain, which is held by most doctors, philosophers and psychologists, is too limited for a correct understanding of this subject.

There are good reasons to believe that our consciousness is not limited to the physical brain.

A person can think and be aware of the world even when his brain is dead.

Incredible, isn't it?

I learned about these studies of Pim Van Lommel recently, and I was really struck by what he came up with.

Consciousness is not equal to the brain. The thinking consciousness exists outside the brain.

How the scientist came to such conclusions, I will tell in this article.

It all started with a question:

What did people who survived clinical death see?

It has long been known what exactly people who have experienced clinical death see. We've all heard about the light at the end of the tunnel, the dark hallway, and the meeting with dead relatives.

According to research, most often people talk about leaving their body and how they see themselves from the outside.

“I barely glanced at the crowded operating room, the sirens called for my doctor to rush to me, I saw her looking at my body and talking to him (to me) while I hovered above - happy, healthy and overwhelmed with emotions.”

“I remember how they took me on a stretcher along a long corridor, they put a type of mask with a nasty smell on my face and said “breathe deeply, like in physical education,” I breathed a couple of times and don’t remember anything. Then the memories came very clear - I leave the body (from under the ribs, solar plexus?) and head along the trajectory to the left corner of the ceiling.

I see myself in the form of a pink cloud, not quite round, but slightly squashed above and below. It is alive and moves a little, and the shape also changes a little, but the dimensions are the same. Ease, close to bliss, is difficult to describe. With earthly sensations, it can only be compared to how to swim under water and there is not enough air, and you swim with the last of your strength and when you emerge, you swallow the air with a full breast. How can you convey these feelings? Only there they are different, lighter, as if they were in their own world. From such pleasure, I was not even surprised at my condition, there was a feeling that I had already been in it once, or, in any case, it should be so. No fear, no pain - complete "comfort". Below, I saw the operating table and my body.

Two doctors stood over my body and one next to my head. All of them were women. "Oh, am I there?" I thought indifferently, “what are they doing to me?”

I immediately became uninterested. I was much more interested in what I can see through the walls - the ambulance drove up, this is also not interesting.

“Wow, but the house is made of logs!” I exclaimed to myself. I was very struck by this, although it was plastered on both sides.

Then I looked in the other direction and through the walls I saw the chambers - there was nothing interesting there, I saw a man sitting in the corridor - he grabbed his head with his hands, his elbows on his knees. Then I remembered my parents, I thought that they might worry about me.

But, I didn’t feel any longing or craving for them. There was no love that I loved them on earth. I was also overcome by indifference - I enjoyed my condition. Suddenly there was a clear, well-placed voice "It's time to go back!". I even thought that as a radio announcer, but I realized that this concerns me.

“No, no, I don’t want to, I feel so good here! I got so worked up there! I do not want!"

Both of these women went out of their bodies and continued to "think". People who had no brain activity tell about similar experiences!

They were in a state of clinical death for several minutes.

Consciousness after death

It is this phenomenon of going out of the body during clinical death that is being studied by the Dutch cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel.

He observed near-death states from a scientific point of view. Colleagues around the world criticized his work.

“I wondered how these people could remain conscious during cardiac arrest. Prior to this, there were only retrospective studies conducted on individual patients. Based on this, scientists concluded that such a phenomenon could be caused by a lack of oxygen in the brain, fear, hallucinations, side effect medicines. However, no real prospective scientific studies have been conducted.

And in 1988 we started such a prospective study in ten Dutch hospitals. We studied 44 cases where patients survived cardiac arrest.”

These data confirmed that consciousness can exist outside the body..

“Consciousness was thought to be a function of the brain. This hypothesis has never been proven. And we must return to discussing it, because people who experience near-death experience, according to the study, lose consciousness within a few seconds. There are no reflexes in the cerebral cortex and in its stem part. Clinical studies have recorded dilated pupils, the absence of breathing, for which the respiratory center in the medulla oblongata is responsible.

When trying to measure the electrical activity of the brain on an electroencephalogram, we see a straight line after 15 seconds, and in the case of all patients, it takes at least 20 seconds, and often much more, before they are resuscitated.

Near-death survivors, according to our study, retained cognitive ability (vision, memory, etc.), the ability to think clearly, and the ability to experience emotions, even though their brains were not functioning.

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About 10% of people who have experienced clinical death tell extraordinary stories. Scientists explain this by the fact that after death, a certain part of the brain responsible for imagination works for about 30 seconds, generating entire worlds in our head during this time. Patients claim that this is nothing more than proof of life after death.

In any case, it is curious just to compare the visions of different people than we are in Bright Side and decided to do it. Draw your own conclusions.

There was a drunken fight. And suddenly I felt a very strong pain. And then I fell into manhole. I began to climb out, clinging to the slimy walls - smelly to the point of impossibility! I crawled out with difficulty, and there were cars standing there: an ambulance, police. People have gathered. I examine myself - normal, clean. I crawled through such mud, but for some reason it was clean. He came to see: what is there, what happened?
I ask people, they have zero attention to me, bastards! I see a man lying on a stretcher, covered in blood. He was dragged into an ambulance, and the car was already driving away, when I suddenly feel: something connects me with this body.
Shouted: “Hey! Where are you without me? Where are you taking my brother?
And then I remembered: I have no brother. At first I was confused, and then I realized: it's me!
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The doctors warned me that I could only count on a 5% success rate for the operation. Dare to do it. At some point during the operation, my heart stopped. I remember seeing my recently deceased grandmother stroking my temples. Everything was black and white. I didn't move, so she became nervous, shaking me, then turned to screaming: she screamed and screamed my name until I finally found the strength to open my mouth to answer her. I took a sip of air, and the suffocation passed. Grandma smiled. And I suddenly felt the cold operating table.
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There were many other people walking towards the top of the mountain, beckoning everyone with bright light. They looked completely normal. But I knew that they were all dead, just like me. I was torn with rage: how many people are being saved in an ambulance, why did they do this to me ?!
Suddenly my dead cousin jumped out of the crowd and said to me: "Dean, come back."
I hadn't been called Dean since I was a kid, and she was one of the few people who even knew that variation of the name. Then I turned around to understand what she meant by the word "back", and I literally hit the bed in the hospital, where doctors ran around me in a panic.
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I remember only 2 doors, similar to those that were in the Middle Ages. One is wooden, the other is iron. I just stared at them silently for a long time.
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I saw that I was lying on the operating table and looking at myself from the side. There is vanity all around: doctors, nurses turn on my heart. I see them, I hear them, but they don't hear me. And then one nurse takes an ampoule and, breaking the tip, injures her finger - blood accumulates under her glove. Then there is total darkness. I see the following picture: my kitchen, my mother and father are sitting at the table, my mother is crying, my father is knocking over a glass after a glass of cognac - they don’t see me. Darkness again.
I open my eyes, everything is in monitors, tubes, I don’t feel my body, I can’t move. And then I see a nurse, the one who hurt her finger with an ampoule. I look down at my hand and see a bandaged finger. She tells me that I was hit by a car, that I am in the hospital, my parents will come soon. I ask: has your finger already passed? You hurt him when the ampoule was opened. She opened her mouth and was momentarily speechless. Turns out it's been 5 days.

My car was wrecked, and a minute later a huge truck crashed into it. I realized that today I will die.
Then something very strange happened, for which I still have no logical explanation. I lay in blood, crushed by pieces of iron inside my car, waiting for death. And then suddenly a strange feeling of calm enveloped me. And not only a feeling - it seemed to me that through the car window arms were stretched out to me to hug me, pick me up or pull me out of there. I could not see the face of this man, woman, or some creature. It just felt very light and warm.

What could be more mysterious than death
No one knows what lurks there, beyond life. However, from time to time there are testimonies of people who have been in a state of clinical death and talk about extraordinary visions: tunnels, bright lights, meetings with angels, deceased relatives, etc.

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I read a lot about near-death experiences, and even once watched a program where people who survived it spoke. Each of them told very convincing stories about how they appeared in the afterlife, what happened there and all that ... Personally, I believe in clinical death, it really exists, and scientists confirm this from a scientific point of view. They explain this phenomenon by the fact that a person is completely immersed in his subconscious and sees things that he sometimes really wants to see, or is transferred to a time that he remembers very much. That is, a person is really in a state where all the organs of the body fail, but the brain is in working condition and a picture of real events appears before the eyes of a person. But, after a while, this picture disappears gradually, and the organs resume their work again, and the brain is in a state of inhibition for some time, this can last for several minutes, several hours, days, and sometimes a person never comes to his senses after clinical death ... But at the same time, the memory of a person is completely preserved! And there is also such a statement that the state of a coma is also a kind of clinical death ..

What do people see at the time of clinical death
Various visions are known: light, a tunnel, faces of dead relatives... How can this be explained?

Remember in the movie "Flatliners" with Julia Roberts, medical students decided to experience the state of clinical death. One by one, young doctors embarked on an unpredictable journey to the other side of life. The results were stunning: the flatmates met THE people they once offended...

You can return from that world. But no later than 6 minutes later.

What happens in those 5 - 6 minutes when the resuscitators return the dying from oblivion?

Is there really an afterlife beyond the fine line of life, or does it “trick” the brain? Scientists began serious research in the 1970s - it was then that the sensational book of the famous American psychologist Raymond Moody "Life after life" was published. Over the past decades, they have managed to make many interesting discoveries. At the conference "Clinical death: modern research”, held recently in Melbourne, physicians, philosophers, psychologists and religious scholars summed up the study of this phenomenon.
Raymond Moody believed that the process of "out-of-body experience" is characterized by

the following stages:
- stopping all physiological functions of the body (moreover, the dying person still has time to hear the words of a doctor stating a fatal outcome);

- growing unpleasant noises;
- the dying person “leaves the body” and rushes at high speed through the tunnel, at the end of which light is visible;
- his whole life passes before him;
- He meets deceased relatives and friends.

Those who “return from the next world” note a strange duality of consciousness: they know about everything that happens around them at the moment of “death”, but at the same time they cannot make contact with the living - those who are nearby. The most amazing thing is that even people blind from birth in a state of clinical death often see a bright light. This was proved by a survey of more than 200 blind women and men, which was conducted by Dr. Kennett Ring from the USA.
When we die, the brain "remembers" our birth!

Why it happens? Scientists seem to have found an explanation for the mysterious visions that visit a person in the last seconds of life.

1. The explanation is fantastic. Psychologist Pyall Watson believes he has solved the riddle. According to him, when we die, we remember our birth! For the first time, we get acquainted with death at the moment of a terrible journey that each of us makes, overcoming a ten-centimeter birth canal, he believes.

We will probably never know exactly what is happening at this moment in the mind of the child, says Watson, but, probably, his sensations are reminiscent of different stages dying. Are not, in this case, the dying visions a transformed experience of birth trauma, naturally, with the imposition of accumulated worldly and mystical experience?

2. Explanation is utilitarian. Russian resuscitator Nikolai Gubin explains the appearance of the tunnel as a manifestation of toxic psychosis.

This is somewhat similar to a dream, and somewhat similar to a hallucination (for example, when a person suddenly begins to see himself from the outside). The fact is that at the moment of dying, parts of the visual cortex of the cerebral hemispheres are already suffering from oxygen starvation, and the poles of both occipital lobes, which have a dual blood supply, continue to function. As a result, the field of view is sharply narrowed, and only a narrow strip remains, providing central, “tube” vision. FROM THE KP ARCHIVE
Even migraines give the effect of "split"

You can see yourself, your loved one, from the outside under other circumstances. Psychiatrist Patrick Dbavrin believes that people can experience out-of-body symptoms even with simple dental anesthesia. Split personality, which usually lasts no more than a few seconds, can be experienced with some forms of migraine and yoga. It is also often observed in climbers when they are high in the mountains and experience oxygen starvation, and in pilots and astronauts during flights.
Why do the eyes of some dying people flash pictures of their entire lives? And there is an answer to this question. The process of dying begins with newer brain structures and ends with older ones. The restoration of these functions during revival proceeds in the reverse order: first, the more “ancient” parts of the cerebral cortex come to life, and then the new ones. Therefore, in the process of returning to life of a person, the most persistently imprinted “pictures” first of all emerge in his memory.
How do writers describe the sensations at the time of death?

The incident that happened to Arseny Tarkovsky is described in one of his stories. It was in January 1944, after the amputation of his leg, when the writer was dying of gangrene in a front-line hospital. He lay in a small cramped ward with a very low ceiling. The light bulb hanging over the bed had no switch, and had to be unscrewed by hand. Once, while unscrewing it, Tarkovsky felt that his soul spiraled out of his body, like a light bulb from a cartridge. Surprised, he looked down and saw his body. It was completely motionless, like a man sleeping in the sleep of the dead. Then for some reason he wanted to see what was happening in the next room.

He began to slowly "leak" through the wall and at some point felt that a little more - and he would never be able to return to his body. This scared him. He hovered over the bed again and with some strange effort slid into his body as if into a boat.

In the work of Leo Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, the writer amazingly described the phenomenon of clinical death: “Suddenly, some force pushed him in the chest, in the side, squeezed his breath even more, he fell into a hole, and there, at the end of the hole, something lit up. -then. What happened to him happened to him in a railway car, when you think that you are going forward, but you are going back, and suddenly you recognize the real direction ... At that very time, Ivan Ilyich fell through, saw the light, and it was revealed to him that life it was not what was needed, but that it could still be corrected ... It's a pity for them (relatives. - Ed.), We must do so that they do not hurt. Deliver them and get rid of their suffering yourself. “How good and how simple,” he thought... He searched for his habitual fear of death and did not find it... Instead of death, there was light.

Rant Bagdasarov, head of the intensive care unit of the Moscow hospital No. 29, who has been returning people from the next world for 30 years, claims that during his entire practice, none of his patients during clinical death saw either a tunnel or light.

Chris Freeman, a psychiatrist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, believes that there is no evidence that the visions described by patients occurred when the brain was not working. People saw “pictures” of another world during their lifetime: before a cardiac arrest or immediately after the heart rhythm was restored.

A study conducted by the National Institute of Neurology, which involved 9 large clinics, showed that out of more than 500 “returnees”, only 1 percent could clearly remember what they saw. According to scientists, 30 - 40 percent of patients who describe their journey through the afterlife are people with an unstable psyche.

The secret of hell and heaven

Surprisingly, the descriptions of people who have been in the next world - even if only a few minutes - coincide even in detail.

– Hell? These are snakes, reptiles, unbearable stench and demons! - nun Antonia told the correspondent of Zhizn. She experienced clinical death during an operation in her youth, then a woman who did not believe in God. The impression of the hellish torments experienced by her soul in a matter of minutes was so powerful that, having repented, she went to the monastery to atone for sins.

- Paradise? Light, lightness, flight and fragrance, - Vladimir Efremov, the former chief engineer of the Impulse Design Bureau, described his impressions after clinical death to the journalist of Zhizn. He presented his posthumous experience in the scientific journal of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

“In paradise, the soul knows everything about everything,” Efremov shared his observation. - I remembered my old TV and immediately found out not only which lamp was faulty, but also which installer installed it, even his entire biography, up to scandals with his mother-in-law. And when I remembered the defense project that our design bureau was working on, then the solution to the most difficult problem immediately came, for which the team later received the State Prize.

An experience

Doctors and clergy who spoke with resuscitated patients note common feature human souls. Those who visited heaven returned to the bodies of earthly possessors calm and enlightened, and those who looked into the underworld could not move away from the horror they saw. The general impression of people who have experienced clinical death is that heaven is above, hell is below. The Bible speaks in exactly the same way about the structure of the afterlife. Those who have seen the state of hell have described approaching it as a descent. And who went to heaven, they took off.

In some cases, when a person was absent from earth for a very long time, he saw on the other side of the border the same pictures of hell and paradise that the Holy Scripture paints for us. Sinners suffer from their earthly desires. For example, Dr. Georg Ritchie saw killers chained to their victims. And Russian woman Valentina Khrustaleva - homosexuals and lesbians, fused with each other in shameful poses.

One of the most vivid stories about the horrors of the underworld belongs to the American Thomas Welch - he survived after an accident at a sawmill. “On the shore of the fiery abyss, I saw several familiar faces who had died before me. I began to regret that I had previously taken little care of my salvation. And if I knew what awaits in hell, I would live very differently. At that moment, I noticed someone walking in the distance. The stranger's face radiated great power and kindness. I immediately realized that this is the Lord and that only He can save the soul doomed to torment. Suddenly the Lord turned his face and looked at me. Only one look of the Lord - and in an instant I was in my body and came to life.

Often, having been in the next world, people, like the nun Anthony, take church orders, not embarrassed to admit that they saw hell.

Pastor Kenneth Hagin suffered clinical death in April 1933 while living in Texas. His heart stopped. “My soul left my body,” he says. - Having reached the bottom of the abyss, I felt the presence of some kind of spirit around me, which began to guide me. At this time, an authoritative voice sounded over the hellish darkness. I did not understand what he said, but I felt that it was the voice of God. From the strength of this voice, the whole underworld trembled - so do the leaves tremble on autumn tree when the wind blows. Immediately the spirit released me, and the whirlwind carried me back up. Gradually the earthly light began to shine again. I was back in my room and jumped into my body the way a man jumps into his pants. Then I saw my grandmother, who began to tell me: "Son, I thought you were dead." Kenneth became a pastor of one of the Protestant churches and dedicated his life to God.

Somehow, one of the Athos elders managed to look into hell. He had long lived in a monastery, and his friend remained in the city, indulging in all the joys of life. Soon the friend died, and the monk began to ask God to let him know what had happened to his friend. And once in a dream a dead friend appeared to him and began to talk about his unbearable torment, about how the unsleeping worm gnawed at him. Having said this, he lifted his clothes to the knee and showed his leg, which was all covered with a terrible worm that devoured it. Such a terrible stench emanated from the wounds on his leg that the monk immediately woke up. He jumped out of the cell, leaving the door open, and the stench from it spread throughout the monastery. Over time, the smell did not decrease, and all the inhabitants of the monastery had to move to another place. And the monk in his whole life could not get rid of the terrible smell that stuck to him.

Heaven

Descriptions of heaven are always opposed to stories of hell. We know the testimony of one of the scientists, who, being a five-year-old boy, drowned in the pool. The child was found already lifeless and taken to the hospital, where the doctor announced to his family that the boy had died. But unexpectedly for everyone, the child came to life.

“When I was under water,” the scientist later said, “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 below people, probably angels, surrounding the throne. As I drew closer to God, He told me that my time had not yet come. I wanted to stay, but suddenly I found myself in my body.

American Betty Maltz

in her book "I Saw Eternity" describes how, immediately after her death, she found herself on a wonderful green hill.

She was surprised that, having three surgical wounds, she stands and walks freely, without pain. Above her was a bright blue sky. There was no sun, but the light spread everywhere. The grass under her bare feet was such a bright color that she had not seen on the ground - every blade of grass was alive. The hill was steep, but the legs moved easily, without effort. Around Betty saw bright flowers, bushes, trees. And then she noticed to her left a male figure in a robe. Betty thought it was an angel. They walked without speaking, but she realized that he did not know her. Betty felt young, healthy and happy. “I understood that I had everything I ever wanted, was everything I ever wanted to be, went where I always dreamed of being,” she said when she returned. “Then my whole life passed before my eyes. I realized that I was selfish, I felt ashamed, but I still felt care and love around me. My companion and I approached the wonderful silver palace. I heard the word "Jesus". The gates of pearls opened before me, and behind them I saw the street in golden light. I wanted to enter the palace, but I remembered my father and returned to my body.”

Pilipchuk
Surprisingly, our contemporary, policeman Boris Pilipchuk, who survived clinical death, also spoke about the shining gates and the palace of gold and silver in paradise: “Behind the fiery gates, I saw a cube shining with gold. He was huge." The shock from the bliss experienced in paradise was so great that after the resurrection, Boris Pilipchuk completely changed his life. He quit drinking, smoking, began to live according to the commandments of Christ. His wife did not recognize his former husband in him: “He was often rude, but now Boris is always gentle and affectionate. I believed that it was him only after he told me about cases that only the two of us knew about. But at first it was scary to sleep with a person who had returned from the other world, as if with a dead person. The ice melted only after a miracle happened - he named the exact date of birth of our unborn child, the day and hour. I gave birth exactly at the time he named. She asked her husband: “How could you know this?” And he replied: “From God. After all, the Lord sends us all children.

Sveta
When the doctors brought Svetochka Molotkova out of a coma, she asked for paper and pencils - and drew everything she saw in the other world. ...Six-year-old Sveta Molotkova had been in a coma for three days. Doctors tried unsuccessfully to bring her brain back from oblivion. The girl did not react to anything. Her mother's heart was torn from pain - her daughter lay motionless, like a corpse ... And suddenly, at the end of the third day, Svetochka convulsively clenched her hands, as if trying to grab onto something. - I'm here, daughter! Mom screamed. Light clenched her fists even tighter. It seemed to her mother that her daughter was finally able to cling to life, beyond the threshold of which she spent three days. Having barely recovered, the girl asked the doctors for pencils and paper: - I need to draw what I saw in the next world ...

Alan Rickler, 17 years old.
Died of leukemia.
“I saw doctors enter the ward, my grandmother was with them, in the same dressing gown and hat as everyone else. At first I was glad that she had come to visit me, and then I remembered that she had already died. And I was scared. Then some strange figure in black came in ... I cried ... my grandmother said, "do not be afraid, it's not time yet," and that I woke up.

Alexander Postremkov, 40 years old.
Died of a ruptured kidney.
“I don’t remember almost anything, only music. Very loud, like a march from some old movie. I was even surprised that, like, a serious operation was underway, and then the tape recorder was screaming at full speed. Then I realized that the music was getting kind of strange. Good, but strange. Some kind of extraterrestrial. I’ve never heard such a thing for sure ... it’s impossible to explain properly. The sounds are completely unhuman.”

Andes Ray Zagubin, 52 years old
Died of a heart attack.
“I saw myself from above and from the side. It was as if I was lifted up and pressed against the ceiling. Moreover, for quite a long time I watched the doctors and sisters try to revive me. It was funny to me:“ Here, I think, how cleverly I hid from everyone here "And then I was sucked into a whirlpool and "sucked" back into my body."

IN All memories of people who died clinical death are documented by doctors around the world.

Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences N.P. Bekhtereva notes about autoscopic perceptions that occur in a state of clinical death and in stressful situations: but from the "name" of the soul that has separated from the body. But the body does not react, it is clinically dead, it has lost contact with the person himself for some time! .. "

1975, April 12, morning - Martha became ill with her heart. When the ambulance took her to the hospital, Marta was no longer breathing, and the doctor accompanying her could not feel her pulse. She was in a state of clinical death. Later, Martha said that she witnessed the entire procedure of her resurrection, watching the actions of doctors from a certain point outside her body. However, Martha's story had another peculiarity. She was very worried about how her sick mother would take the news of her death. And just as Martha had time to think about her mother, she immediately saw her sitting in an armchair next to the bed in her house.
“I was in the intensive care unit, and at the same time I was with my mother in the bedroom. It was amazing to be in two places at the same time, and even in such a remote place from one another, but space seemed to be a meaningless concept ... I, being in my new body, sat on the edge of her bed and said: “ Mom, I had a heart attack, I could die, but I don't want you to worry. I don't mind dying."

However, she did not look at me. Apparently she didn't hear me. “Mom,” I kept whispering, “it’s me, Martha. I need to talk to you." I tried to get her attention, but then the focus of my mind returned to the intensive care unit. And I was back in my body."

Once a woman was operated on. In principle, she had no reason to die from the operation. She did not even warn her mother and daughter about the operation, deciding to inform them about everything later. However, clinical death occurred during the operation. The woman was brought back to life, and she did not know anything about her short-term death. And, having come to her senses, she told about the amazing “dream”.
She, Lyudmila, dreamed that she left the body, is somewhere above, sees her body lying on the operating table, doctors around her and understands that she most likely died. It became scary for the mother and daughter. Thinking about her family, she suddenly found herself at home. She saw that her daughter was trying on a blue polka-dot dress in front of the mirror. A neighbor came in and said: "Lyusenka would have liked it." Lyusenka is she, who is here and invisible. Everything is calm, peaceful at home - and here she is again in the operating room.

In "Arguments and Facts" for 1998, a small note by Lugankov "Dying is not at all scary" was published. He wrote that in 1983 he was tested with a suit for astronauts. With the help of special equipment, blood was “sucked” from the head into the legs, thereby simulating the effect of weightlessness. The medics fastened his “space suit” on him and turned on the pump. And either they forgot about him, or the automation let him down - but the pumping continued more than necessary.
“At some point, I realized that I was losing consciousness. I tried to call for help - only a wheeze escaped from my throat. But then the pain stopped. Warmth spread through my body (which body?) and I felt extraordinary bliss. Scenes from childhood appeared before my eyes. I saw the village guys with whom I ran to the river to catch crayfish, my grandfather, a front-line soldier, the deceased neighbors ...

The story of the American Brinkley, who was in a state of clinical death twice, is very curious. Over the past few years, he has spoken about his two post-mortem experiences to millions of people around the world. At the invitation of Yeltsin, Brinkley (together with Dr. Moody) also appeared on Russian television and told millions of Russians about his experiences and visions.
1975 - he was struck by lightning. Doctors did everything possible to save him, but ... he died. Brinkley's first trip to the Subtle World is amazing. He not only saw luminous Beings and crystal castles there. He saw the future of mankind there for several decades to come.

Many of their people, upon their return from the Subtle World, discovered in themselves parapsychological abilities. Scientists became interested in the parapsychological phenomena of the “returned from the other world”. 1992 - Dr. Melvin Morse published the results of his experiments with Brinkley in the book Transformed by Light. As a result of the study, he found that people who have been on the verge of death, paranormal abilities manifest themselves approximately four times more often than ordinary people.

Here is what, for example, happened to him during the second clinical death:

After that, I was able to directly observe my own heartbeat. I couldn't see anything else as I was in the dark again. I heard the ringing of bells, and then the tunnel opened... At the end of the tunnel I was met by the same Being from Light as the last time. It drew me to Itself, while expanding like an angel spreading its wings. The light of these radiations swallowed me up.”

This incident happened to US Army officer Tommy Clack in 1969 in South Vietnam.
He stepped on a mine. First he was thrown into the air, then thrown to the ground. For a moment Tommy managed to sit up and saw that he was missing his left arm and left leg. Clack rolled over on his back and thought he was dying. The light faded, all sensations disappeared, there was no pain. Some time later, Tommy woke up. He hovered in the air and looked at his body. The soldiers put his mangled body on a stretcher, covered him up and carried him to the helicopter. Clack, watching from above, realized that he was believed to be dead. And at that moment he realized that he had actually died.

But the journey into the Subtle World does not always seem to be a "beautiful walk" for a person. Doctors noted that some people have hellish visions.

Vision of an American from Roy Island. Her doctor said: "When she came to, she said, 'I thought I was dead and ended up in hell.' After I was able to calm her down, she told me about her stay in hell, about how the devil wanted to take her away. The story was intertwined with listing her sins and outlining what people think of her. Her fear increased, and the nurses were having difficulty keeping her in a supine position. She became almost insane. She had a long-standing sense of guilt, perhaps due to extramarital affairs that ended in the birth of illegitimate children. The patient was oppressed by the fact that her sister died from the same disease. She believed that God was punishing her for her sins.” Feelings of loneliness and fear were sometimes recalled from the moment when a person felt drawn into an area of darkness or vacuum during near-death experiences. Shortly after a nephrectomy (surgical removal of a kidney) at the University of Florida in 1976, a 23-year-old college student collapsed due to an unexpected postoperative complication. In the first parts of her near-death experiences: “There was total blackness around. If you move very fast, you can feel the walls moving towards you… I felt alone and a little scared.” A similar darkness enveloped the 56-year-old man and “frightened” him: total darkness… It was a very dark place, and I didn’t know where I was, what I was doing there, or what was going on, and I was scared.”
True, such cases are rare. But even if a few had a vision of hell, this suggests that death is not a deliverance for everyone. It is the way of life of a person, his thoughts, desires, actions that determine where a person will end up after death.

There are a lot of facts about the exit of the soul from the body in stressful situations and in clinical death! .. But for a long time there was not enough objective scientific verification.

Does this, as scientists say, phenomenon of continuation of life after the death of the physical body really exist?

Such a check was carried out by carefully comparing the facts indicated by patients with real events, and empirically, using the necessary equipment.

In order to refute the “crazy” idea about life after death, Seibom organized verification observations and confirmed, and in fact proved that a person does not cease to exist after death, retaining the ability to see, hear and feel.

Dr. Sabom checked whether the stories of the patients coincided with what was actually happening in the material world at that time. Were the medical devices and methods of resuscitation used, which were described by people who were at that time on the verge of life and death? Did the things that the dead saw and described actually happen in other rooms?

Here are some examples from Dr. Sabom's posts.

Dr. Sabom's patient was clinically dead during the operation. He was covered with surgical sheets and physically could not see or hear anything. He later described his experiences. He saw in detail the operation on his own heart, and what he told was completely consistent with what actually happened.
“I must have fallen asleep. I don't remember how they moved me from this room to the operating room. And then suddenly I saw that the room was lit, but not as brightly as I expected. My consciousness returned… but they had already done something to me… My head and whole body were covered with sheets… and then I suddenly began to see what was happening…

The doctor was on the left side, he cut off pieces from my heart and twirled them this way and that and looked at them for a long time ... and they had a big argument whether to do a bypass or not.

The course of the operation described by the patient coincided with the entries in the operating log made by a different style.

And here is the feeling of sadness in the descriptions of near-death experiences when they "saw" the efforts of others to resurrect their lifeless physical body. A 37-year-old Florida housewife recalled an episode of encephalitis, or a brain infection, when she was 4 years old, during which she was unconscious and lifeless. She remembered "looking down" at her mother from a point near the ceiling with these feelings:
The greatest thing I remember was that I felt so sad that there was no way I could let her know that I was okay. Somehow I knew I was fine, but I didn't know how to tell her. I was just looking… And there was a very quiet, peaceful feeling… In fact, it was a good feeling.”

Similar sentiments were expressed by a 46-year-old north Georgia man as he recounted his vision during a cardiac arrest in January 1978: “I felt bad because my wife was crying and seemed helpless, and I couldn’t help . You know. But it was nice. It doesn't hurt.” Sadness is mentioned by a 73-year-old French teacher from Florida when she talked about her near-death experience (NDE) during a severe infectious illness and grand mal seizures at the age of 15:
I split up and sat much higher up there, watching my own convulsions, and my mother and my maid were screaming and yelling because they thought I was dead. I felt so sorry for both them and my body… Only deep, deep sadness. I could still feel sadness. But I felt that I was free there, and there was no reason to suffer. I had no pain and I was completely free."