In the history of nations, there have been periods similar to our time. Satiety with life and decay of morality, depravity and lack of spirituality led to the loss of vitality and threatened the people with death, degeneration or conquest by a less civilized, but strong and viable enemy. It is enough to read the Bible or the history of Rome to understand how or why great civilizations perished. The reason was the illness of the people – the loss of spirituality, which was followed by inevitable death. It was not so much vices and depravity per se that ruined, but the tolerance and indifference of the people to any vice.

It happened differently. Already on the edge of the abyss, the people found living strength within themselves and overcame the disease. Something new was entering the world. In antiquity and in the Middle Ages, prophets and saints called on people to come to their senses and abandon a vicious way of life. Their calls were heeded by statesmen, laws were introduced that severely punished those who spread vice and helped those who went out on the right path. There were enough people who responded to the calls, and the people restored their undermined vitality. Night was replaced by day again.

Can we, the people of the late twentieth century, hope that we will find the strength to overcome the crisis that threatens to destroy European Christian culture?

Solzhenitsyn recently published his call "Not to live by lies." Christian and other religions with their eternal, bright commandments are still alive. There are still many honest pastors of the Church, writers, scientists who call us to think, stop and draw conclusions. But grains of truth are drowned in the mass of the most diverse and contradictory opinions and proposals on any issue. TV screens, radios, newspapers, popular lectures – what do all these brainwashing tools talk about and teach? There are many lies, many appeals to pleasure, to all kinds of pleasures, and most importantly, so many more and more new opinions and "discoveries" that there is no way to think and understand all this. The word has been shredded, and it is given any meaning, often the opposite of the true one.

All this leads to the fact that people get used to not believing anything except what they can check with their five senses. Fewer and fewer people believe in "fairy tales" about the immortality of the soul and in the life of the soul after the death of the body. The modern man of the masses believes only in tangible reality, only in facts. He believes in science, or rather in what he considers to be science, but he does not believe in anything immaterial, and the requirements of religion are non-essential and unnecessary for him. For him, the world is matter, and non-spiritual matter at that. What the Apostle Paul foretold comes true: "For the time will come when they will not receive sound doctrine, but according to their own desires they will choose for themselves teachers who will flatter their ears" (2 Tim. 4:3). Humanity is rolling down to a bad end.

It might have seemed that if a miracle did not happen and something new and irrefutable did not appear, which would force people to reconsider their materialistic worldview, then Christianity and the Christian way of life that grew out of it would soon disappear forever from the face of the earth.

And then suddenly such a miracle happened, although many people do not notice it yet. The new that has entered the world will inevitably affect each of us. It is more important than anything else in our lives. Medical science has clearly shown us that after the death of the body, our personality, our "I" will not die, but will continue to exist, albeit in completely new conditions. This existence will not be passive, the personality will develop or at least change as it did during its earthly life.

This has always been taught by Christianity, but many, brought up from childhood on materialistic theories, are accustomed not to attach much importance to religion. Materialists have always opposed religion and science. And suddenly, over the past 15-20 years, science confirms what Christianity has always taught. .

New methods of resuscitation, that is, bringing recently deceased people back to life, have allowed medical scientists to lift the veil on the mystery of death and see a little more than was possible until now. It turned out that the death of the body is not the end of the existence of the personality. Some part of a person, call it whatever you want – "personality", "consciousness", "I", "soul", it's not about the name, leaves the dead body and continues to live in new conditions. The researchers were amazed by the results obtained and at first met them with bewilderment, almost with disbelief. But the new data were not the fruits of fantasy, but indisputable facts obtained by science.

The Christian teaching could be believed or not believed, the Christian way of life could be accepted or rejected and lived as it was more convenient. It will not be possible to do this with facts. You can turn away from them, but they will remain, and after a while the new knowledge will inevitably become the property of everyone.

Will it change anything? Each big discovery changed the way people lived in some way. The use of the power of steam, electricity, and the energy of the atom made life more convenient and comfortable. These were major discoveries in the material sphere, and now a new and great discovery has been made in the sphere of spiritual life. This happened just at a time when everything spiritual was humiliated, ridiculed and almost forgotten, and unbelief became common and habitual.

But now it becomes obvious that death is not the end of the existence of a person. My life on earth is only a part of my whole life, only the beginning of the development of my qualities and myself.

For the broad masses of modern people, these discoveries are so unexpected and huge that it will take time to understand and assimilate their significance. Probably, two or three generations should change. But the new knowledge is already with us, and it will definitely cover the whole world. Dead materialism is being replaced by a different, fuller and brighter understanding of the world and the fate of each person.

Since death is not the end, then the meaning of life on earth will be perceived differently by me, regardless of my will, even if I try not to think about it. The way of life on our planet will begin to change. People will become more responsible, they will be more attentive to themselves and others, and this will make our existence here cleaner and better.