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."

The best minds of mankind saw the spiritual side of the world and believed in God and in the immortality of the human soul. All the great philosophers of antiquity, including Plato and Socrates, believed in immortality. Plato taught: "The soul of man is immortal. All her hopes and aspirations have been transferred to another world. A true sage desires death as the beginning of a new life."

Believers were Newton, Galileo; closer to us: Pascal, Pasteur, Einstein, the founder of the science of the brain and psyche Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, our Russian writers and thinkers, such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, V. Solovyov, and now Solzhenitsyn. Leo Tolstoy said: "Only those who have never seriously thought about death do not believe in the immortality of the soul."

People who live a simple working life, especially people who are close to nature, instinctively feel the presence of God. Great minds confirm this feeling with their knowledge. And those who do not feel and do not believe are usually those who are in the middle – they left one and did not come to the other. There is a wonderful English saying: "Superficial knowledge is very dangerous." This is very true, those who do not think seriously do not believe. A. I. Solzhenitsyn gave a good answer to the question put to him by a journalist: "I think that the feeling of God's presence is available to every person, if he does not allow himself to be dragged away by the vanity of everyday life." This is the answer to why many people "don't believe." They don't think, there is no time to think.

In general, many people tend to notice only what catches the eye, only what is really tangible. Invisible, though unconditionally existing. is ignored or simply not noticed. The person will see that the deceased has stopped moving, has stopped breathing, and the eyes have stopped. That's all. And he passed by without stopping, without thinking and without drawing any conclusions for himself. And when you stand next to a dying person, you clearly feel that something invisible is happening, something deep and big is happening, inexplicable to us.

V. A. Zhukovsky wrote the poem "On the Death of Pushkin". It was written in 1837, and for some reason it was published only many years later, after Zhukovsky's death. Here is this poem:

He lay motionless, as if on hard work