First of all, where did this almost universal unbelief that hung over humanity in the twentieth century come from and how did it develop? After all, it was not always so.

Christianity and all the great religions have always taught that man has not only a body but also a soul, and that when the soul dies, it leaves the body and continues to live in new conditions. Christianity has existed for almost 2000 years, and European civilization has grown and lived from its ideas. There have been periods of unbelief in history, and they have always been dark periods. They were characterized by a decline in morality, loss of peace and well-being, and a decrease in well-being. Wars, internal strife, epidemics, and famine raged more than usual. It was as if some life-giving force was leaving the nations. It is difficult to explain these dark periods of history by mere chance.

The French historian Taine writes: "Before our eyes and in the sight of history, the transformation of educated people and entire classes into beasts is taking place where the Christian faith is forgotten. Christianity is the great pair of wings necessary to raise man above himself... Always, during the 19th centuries, as soon as these wings weaken or are broken, public morality declines."

Only the true is eternal, the false is never durable. All religions, and even primitive pagan savages, in one form or another, believe in some other world and that. that death is not the end of existence. Belief in spirituality has embraced all mankind from the very beginning of its history to the present day.

The denial of God and all things spiritual has developed only in the last 100 to 150 years. It grew out of a materialistic philosophy that recognized only what was visible or accessible to other senses. This philosophy has now lost all scientific significance and is bankrupt, not only in theory and practical conclusions, but also in its very foundation, when it was discovered that matter is not something permanent, and that its primary basis is protons, electrons, and so on, energy. The understanding of the spirituality of the universe is inherent in people from eternity, the denial of any spirituality is short-lived and already leaves the world like any false teaching.

Many of us alive today have been brought up on materialistic ideas. Materialism prevailed not only in science and art, but also in schools, universities, in the press, in relations between people – everywhere. Nowadays, most people are still materialistic to the core.

Religion is in decline. God is no more. The afterlife is a fairy tale for the consolation of the dying. The mention of any spirituality testifies to your backwardness.

Materialists teach that a person consists completely, 100 percent, of matter. Life is a flow of various chemical and molecular processes occurring in the tissues of the body; Even a thought is something like the secretion of brain cells. Professor Howard Haggard of London wrote in the middle of the twentieth century: "The brain is as much an organ of the body as the liver or the heart... When stimulated, the liver secretes bile, the heart pumps blood when stimulated, and the brain secretes thoughts when stimulated." And so on. At death, the matter of which the human organism was composed disintegrates and the existence of the personality ceases.

That is the whole philosophy of materialism. For materialist scientists, everything is simple and clear. They do not ask themselves the question – why is all this and what is the meaning of life then. And they have no answer to such questions.

All, even obvious manifestations of spiritual life are ignored or ridiculed. Transcendental spiritual faculties, including premonitions, precognitions, mystical states, states of possession, prophetic dreams and visions, clairvoyance, clairaudiences, instances of exteriorization, and so on and so forth, do not exist for materialists. The works of Carl Jung and other leading psychologists and psychiatrists, testifying to the life of the soul, are not disputed, since facts are not argued, but hushed up.

Contemporary materialism has nothing in common with the scientific method, although it is still used for political purposes. In a number of countries, materialism has become a state philosophy and is supported by the rulers of these countries, since the soulless population is more obedient. The rulers themselves are well aware that the universe is much more than just matter, and they draw practical conclusions from this. For example, the problems of life outside the body and other transcendental phenomena are studied in special state institutions. These works are kept in strict secrecy from the population. This is understandable, since it clearly proves that some part of a person can leave the body and live without any connection with matter.

The world is arranged rationally, not randomly. You can not see this only by literally closing your eyes, examples at every step. This expediency of matter was also seen by one of the creators of materialist theories, Karl Marx. For him, only matter existed, and he explained the changeability in nature and the evolution of the plant and animal world, which was obvious to everyone, by the property of matter to develop itself. What this property means and where it comes from, Marx did not explain.

One of the philosophers, answering the materialists, said: "One can, of course, think that everything in the universe somehow came together by itself without the participation of a higher intelligence, but then one can think that after the explosion in the printing house, the letters, falling to the ground, formed themselves into the complete text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica."

The languages of all the peoples of the earth testify to the fact that there are material and spiritual concepts in the world. There are things that can be measured and weighed, we can see, hear, and perceive with one or all of our senses. And there are concepts of a different order: love, hatred, compassion, envy, desire, disgust, a sense of conscience, shame... They cannot be weighed or measured, but they all exist and are more real and more important than all the things and concepts of the material world. In d'Saint-Exupéry's book for children and adults "The Little Prince" there is a wonderful phrase: "The most important thing is invisible to the eye."