Animals can sometimes perceive the invisible presence better than humans. The cat arches its back, its fur stands on end; The dog begins to bark.

There were many different observations that spoke of the life of the soul; Faith in this has never left people. And now, over the past 15-20 years, beliefs in the continuation of existence after death have received objective confirmation. Many new discoveries were made. Modern methods of resuscitation – the return of life to the recently dead – have lifted the veil and made it possible to cast a glance "on the other side". It turned out that even after the death of the body, life continues. Many of the doctors and psychologists began their observations and reflections as skeptics who did not believe in the existence of the soul. They met new things with bewilderment and amazement, but seeing all the new cases, they radically changed their worldview.

Not so long ago, few scientists dared to express thoughts that disagreed with the official doctrine of materialism. But science does not stand still, people learn things that they did not know before. At present, scientists studying the problem of death have no doubts about the continuation of life after the death of the body.

There is a revision of the main scientific theories. Even the very primacy of matter is denied. Our understanding of the essence of life and death is also being revised.

We are on the verge of two eras. The era of materialism is becoming a thing of the past. It is replaced by a completely different worldview – the universe is not only matter; but much more...

Chapter 2

The modern science of death is a young but rapidly progressing branch of medicine. New data. Clinical death and organic death. Attempts to revive the dead in antiquity. Modern methods of resuscitation. Dr. Raymond Moody and his observations. Distrust of new data and its causes. K. Uexkul. Quotations from the Holy Scriptures. Several cases described in spiritual and secular literature.

There are people who, having gone through their entire lives, from the cradle to the grave, have never seriously thought about death. Of course, it was clear to them, like everyone else, that death was the end of earthly life as we know it, but they saw death as "the end of everything," the end of the existence of the individual. And this is not at all true. The body dies, but some part of the person continues to exist, retaining the ability to see, hear, think and feel.

Formerly, not so long ago, it was possible to think differently about death, it was possible to doubt the existence of life beyond the grave, it was possible to "believe" or "not to believe", and if the latter, that is, "not to believe", was more pleasant or simply more convenient, then they did so – they did not think and did not believe. However, now, in our time, a person who is not afraid of new things and is familiar with the latest achievements of the science of death can no longer have any doubts, because it is not theories that have to be seen and accepted, but facts.

Over the past decades, science has made many new discoveries. It became known more precisely what death is in its very essence, how a person dies, what a dying person feels, and science has even begun to lift the veil on the most important thing – what awaits all of us after death. What the Church used to know and tell us is now in many respects, one might say, mainly confirmed by science. The latest discoveries were completely unexpected, especially for the so-called non-believers, and not everyone knows about them.

The modern science of death is a young branch of medicine, but it is progressing very rapidly. Famous scientists give their strength to it. Observations and research are carried out in scientific and medical institutes and large hospitals. A number of serious scientific works were published.

New horizons in this area were opened by observations, experiments, and then the practice of resuscitation, that is, the revival of dead people. Now it is proposed to distinguish between two states of death – clinical death, what we have always called death, and organic death, when structural changes in tissues have already begun. Reanimation is possible only when it begins before the irreversible destruction of the tissues of the body has manifested itself, that is, while the tissues, although dead, still retain their normal structure; After the tissues have begun to disintegrate, no resuscitation will help1.

In the literature there is a description of cases when the deceased and already declared dead sometimes came to life, sometimes even without any outside help. This prompted people to try to revive those who had just died. The most ancient attempts were, of course, very primitive - they applied heat to the stomach, flogged with nettles, blew air into the lungs with bellows, put on a horse in the hope that the shaky ride would bring the deceased back to life. As now, with the use of electric shocks, they felt that strong irritation was necessary. Of course, all these early attempts were rarely successful. Nevertheless, people did not stop hoping that someday it would be possible to bring life back to the dead. And scientists not only hoped, but also worked on this problem.

Not so long ago, if a vital organ stopped working, a person died. For example, cardiac arrest meant death, and nothing could be done. However, medical scientists have developed new methods of resuscitation: artificial respiration, blood transfusion, injection of adrenaline into the heart, new pharmacological drugs. Cardiopulmonary machines appeared, it became possible to stimulate a stopped heart with electric currents. And so it turned out that if the state of death did not last too long and the irreversible disintegration of the body tissues had not yet occurred, it was possible to make the stopped heart beat again, the motionless blood to circulate again and supply the brain and other organs with oxygen, glucose and other vital materials.