Questions of life after death have been worrying mankind for many centuries. There are many hypotheses about what happens to the soul after it leaves the body.

Each soul is born in the universe and is already endowed with its own qualities and energy. In the human body, it continues to improve, gain experience and grow spiritually. It is important to help her develop throughout her life. Sincere faith in God is essential for development. Through prayers and various meditations, we strengthen not only our faith and energy, but also allow the soul to be cleansed of sins and continue its happy existence after death.

Where is the soul after death

After the death of a person, the soul is forced to leave the body and go to thin world. According to one of the versions proposed by astrologers and ministers of religions, the soul is immortal and after physical death rises into space and settles on other planets for subsequent existence outside.

According to another version, the soul, leaving the physical shell, rushes to the upper layers of the atmosphere and soars there. The emotions that the soul experiences at this moment depend on the inner wealth of a person. Here the soul enters the higher or lower levels commonly referred to as Hell and Heaven.

Buddhist monks claim that the immortal soul of a person after death moves to the next body. More often life path soul begins with the lower levels (plants and animals) and ends with reincarnation into the human body. A person can remember his past lives by plunging into a trance, or with the help of meditation.

What do mediums and psychics say about life after death

Spiritualists claim that the souls of the dead continue to exist in the other world. Some of them do not want to leave the places of their lifetime existence or remain close to friends and relatives in order to protect them and guide them on the true path.

Some souls are unable to leave the Earth and continue their journey due to the unexpected death of a person or unfinished business. Also, the soul can be reincarnated as a ghost and stay at the scene of the murder in order to take revenge on the offenders. Or in order to protect the place of a person's lifetime existence and protect his relatives from troubles. It happens that souls come into contact with the living. They make themselves known by knocking, sudden movement of things, or they reveal themselves for a short time.

There is no single answer to the question of the existence of life after death. The human age is not long, and therefore the question of the transmigration of the soul and its being outside will always be acute. human body. Enjoy every moment of your existence, improve yourself and do not stop learning new things.

Our souls are eternal wanderers, and where does a person go after death, is there afterlife- No one can say for sure.

For several millennia, many nations have believed in this subtle matter - the immortality of the soul, and scientists are trying to refute any conjectures and theories.

Shepherds of different religions urge us to think about eternity, who give strong arguments about the existence of an afterlife, and psychics who, with their rituals, clearly demonstrate the presence in our lives of some higher beings from a parallel world.

Here are some versions of where people go after death.

Slavs before the advent of Christianity burned their dead. The Maya Indians did the same, and now Hindus and in some cases adherents of Buddhism adhere to this ritual. They represent the afterlife as an energy shell, where souls are in the form of phantoms and can, with the help of supernatural abilities, help their loved ones or interfere with enemies.

Since the body is only a physical shell that holds the soul on Earth, it needs to be burned so that it also gets into another world. If this is not done, then the soul will return to earth, will disturb living people or move into their bodies.

The Bible teaches us that after death, depending on the deeds committed during the period of earthly existence, people go either to hell or to heaven. And there they already indulge in oblivion and tranquility, or toil and experience hellish torments.

It is customary to bury the body, because in the history of Christianity there were real cases resurrection, when the soul, having parted with the body shell, does not cross the necessary barrier, but returns to the physical form, due to the fact that the time has not yet come or there are unfinished business on earth.

According to modern astral teachings, people who have lost their lives of their own free will cannot be reborn (reincarnation) for thousands of years and roam the earth as restless ghosts.



If they have committed many bad deeds during their lifetime, they are reborn for a worse and more difficult fate. The same people who did not want to leave, after the expiration, find new bodies, not always human, but also animals. Thus, they enter new levels of spiritual development.

Among the Aztecs, who followed the cult of the Sun, dead people fell into three different places. The first is the country of water and fog Tlalocan, where the experienced happiness and abundance were similar to earthly ones. Tlilan - the second level of paradise was intended for souls initiated into the mystery of incorporeal life, existence outside the physical shell. The third paradise - Tonatiuhikan - the house of the Sun, in which only souls who have reached full enlightenment live.

If a person after death went to hell (if the death was shameful or the position of the deceased was too low), then he was subjected to various judgments, he passed through 9 gates (as in the Gospel), then they went in such an intermediate state to the Creator, who returned them to the light and life in a new body.

Doctors know best what is really happening, because even during their studies at the institute they encounter the World of the Dead during visits to the morgue and laboratory classes. They often feel the presence of an otherworldly substance during surgical operations, but they deny any connection between the memory of the soul, which exists in the form of a clot of energy, and the body, which has lost its functionality.

When a person dies, surgeons and anesthesiologists believe, the oxygen-deprived cortex loses its activity. If a person experiences clinical death, then during this moment a gap gapes in his memory, and if he leaves for another world, then after 7 minutes the brain dies completely and there can be no soul looking down on the body or remembering earthly affairs.

There is another version of scientists, according to which human consciousness is quantum particles that, after death, go into space and become part of the Universe.



Thus, the human soul, consisting of charged microparticles, is part of a single energy field and carries encrypted information accumulated since the birth of the planet.

Meeting with the death of a loved one, a person is more persistent than usual looking for an answer to the questions, there is an afterlife, what is it - the afterlife? What will life be like after death, what will the soul feel after the death of the body? There is a tradition of the Church that describes the other world to the best of our perception. What are the ordeals that the souls of the dead experience on the 9th day after death, what is special about the 40th day? What is hell and heaven?
The answers to these questions can be gleaned from the tradition of the Church and the experience of her saints.

What does the Last Judgment mean? Do not think that throughout human history God has been love, and only at the Last Judgment he judges only by justice. It is unreasonable to represent God at this Judgment as some kind of despot dooming a person to hell. The Last Judgment is called terrible not because God “forgets” about love and acts according to some soulless “truth” - no, but because here the final self-affirmation, self-determination of the personality takes place: is it capable of being with God or will leave Him in hell, will remain outside of Him forever.

Hegumen Vladimir (Maslov).

The life of the soul after death is described by many authors. There is also a certain scientific description. But in different cultures we can observe differences in this kind of descriptions. And even within the same culture, in particular Orthodoxy, there are differences in the description of different holy fathers about the afterlife, about heaven and hell. Basically, these differences relate to particulars, but, nevertheless, all these ideas differ from each other in some way. There are doubts and a temptation to say that all these descriptions are fiction. How to be?

Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco.

Boundless and inconsolable would be our grief for dying loved ones, if the Lord had not given us eternal life. Our life would be aimless if it ended in death. What would be the use of virtue and good deeds then? Then those who say: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die" would be right. But the soul was created for immortality, and Christ, by His resurrection, opened the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven, eternal bliss for those who believed in Him and lived righteously.

Death is not what many imagine it to be. All of us at the hour of death will have to see and experience many things for which we are not prepared. For many, life after death is something like a dreamless sleep. Dark. Only the dream will end in the morning, and death is forever. Many are most afraid of the unknown: “What will happen? Where will the human soul go?” So we try not to think about death. But somewhere in the depths there is always a sense of the inevitable and a vague anxiety. Each of us will have to cross this frontier. You need to think and prepare...

Archimandrite Augustine (Pidanov).

From the point of view of Christianity, the soul is an essential part of a person, created in the image and likeness of God. Man is created eternal, and his soul is immortal. She received her immortality from God, who continuously communicates to her the energy of being. Death entered our lives after a tragedy that happened at the dawn of human existence - the Fall. The man began to grow old, and when his body wore out, became obsolete, the soul left him ...

Bishop Alexander (Mileant).

Although daily experience says that death is the immutable destiny of every person and the law of nature, however, the Holy Scripture teaches that initially death was not part of God's plans for man. Death is not God established norm, but rather the avoidance of it and the greatest tragedy. The book of Genesis tells us that death invaded our nature as a result of the violation of God's commandment by the first people. According to the Bible, the purpose of the coming into the world of the Son of God was to restore to man the eternal life he had lost. Here we are not talking about the immortality of the soul, because by its nature it is not subject to destruction, but specifically about the immortality of a person as a whole, consisting of a soul and a body.

Osipov Alexei Ilyich, professor of theology.

Church tradition says that the soul after death goes through twenty ordeals - twenty certain checks on the state of the soul before, if you like, its home, which we call the Kingdom of God, paradise. These are twenty steps of ascent to this house, which can become the steps of a person's fall - depending on his condition.

Hegumen Fedor (Yablokov).

What happens to the soul in the afterlife? According to church teaching, the soul spends the first three days on earth, near the places where it lived. The souls of the righteous, as you know, ascend upward like lightning. From the third to the ninth day, the soul ascends to worship God and get acquainted with the beauties of Paradise. From the ninth to the fortieth day, she goes through ordeals, after which the time comes for a private judgment. After the judgment, the soul goes to the place where it stays until the Second Coming of Christ. This is how the Church teaches us.

Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko.

Since pure spirit, by its very nature and its laws, is essentially different from the nature and laws of the earthly world, and since departed souls are purely spiritual beings, it is clear that, just as the life and activity of these beings in general, so in particular their manifestations in the earthly world must represent a lot of incomprehensible and inexplicable according to the laws of this world. Hence, people who recognize as an immutable law for the mind such a position that only that which can be understood and explained according to the laws of this world can and should be recognized as possible and real, reject the possibility and reality of these phenomena.