Beautiful fields and forests, rivers and lakes filled with beautiful fish, gardens with wonderful fruits, there are no problems, only happiness and beauty are one of the ideas about life that continues after death on Earth. Many believers describe in this way the paradise into which a person finds himself, without having done much evil during his earthly life. Is there only life after death on our planet? Is there evidence of life after death? These are rather interesting and deep questions for philosophical reasoning.
Scientific concepts
As in the case of other mystical and religious phenomena, scientists were able to explain this issue. Also, many researchers consider the scientific evidence of life after death, but they have no material basis. Only this later.
Life after death (the concept of “the afterlife” is also often found) - representations of people from a religious and philosophical point of view about life that occurs after a person’s real existence on Earth. Almost all of these ideas are connected with the soul of a person who is in the body of a person during his life.
Possible afterlife options:
- Life is next to God. This is one of the forms of human soul existence. Many believers believe that God will resurrect the soul.
- Hell or heaven. The most common concept. This view exists both in many religions of the world, and in most people. After death, the human soul will go to hell or to paradise. The first place is for people who have sinned during earthly life.
- A new image in a new body. Reincarnation is the scientific definition of human life in new incarnations on the planet. Bird, animal, plant and other forms in which the human soul can enter after the death of a material body. Also, some religions provide for life in the human body.
Some religions provide evidence of the existence of life after death in its other forms, but the most common ones have been given above.
Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
The highest graceful pyramids were built for more than a dozen years. The ancient Egyptians used technologies that have not yet been fully studied. There are a large number of assumptions about the technologies for building the Egyptian pyramids, but, unfortunately, not a single scientific point of view has complete evidence.
The ancient Egyptians did not have evidence of the existence of the soul and life after death. They only believed in this opportunity. Therefore, people built the pyramids and provided the pharaoh with a wonderful existence in another world. By the way, the Egyptians believed that the afterlife is almost identical with the real world.
You should also pay attention to the fact that, according to the Egyptians, a person in another world cannot go down or climb the social ladder. For example, a pharaoh cannot become a simple man, and a simple worker will not become a king in the kingdom of the dead.
The inhabitants of Egypt mummified the bodies of the deceased, and the pharaohs, as mentioned earlier, were placed in huge pyramids. In a special room, subjects and relatives of the deceased ruler placed objects that would be necessary for life and government in the other world.
Life after death in Christianity
Ancient Egypt and the creation of the pyramids belong to ancient times, therefore, proof of life after death This ancient people refers only to Egyptian hieroglyphs, which were found on ancient buildings and pyramids as well. Only Christian ideas about this concept existed before and exist to this day.
The Last Judgment is a judgment when a person’s soul appears in judgment before God. It is the Lord who can determine the future fate of the soul of the deceased - he will experience terrible torment and punishment on his deathbed or walk with God in a beautiful paradise.
What factors influence God's decision?
Throughout the earthly life, every person commits acts - good and bad. It is worth saying right away that this is an opinion from a religious and philosophical point of view. It is on these earthly acts that the judge looks during the Last Judgment. Also, one should not forget about a person’s life faith in God and the power of prayers and the church.
Apparently, in Christianity there also exists life after death. Proof of this fact exists in the Bible, the church and the opinions of many people who have dedicated their lives to serving the church and, of course, to God.
Death in islam
Islam is no exception in adherence to the postulate of the afterlife. As in other religions, a person performs certain actions throughout his life, and it will depend on them how he will die, what kind of life he will expect.
If a person during his existence on Earth committed bad deeds, then, of course, a certain punishment awaits him. The beginning of the punishment for sins is a painful death. Muslims believe that a sinful person will die in agony. Although a person with a pure and bright soul will leave this world with ease and without any problems.
Basic evidence of life after death located in the Qur'an (the holy book of Muslims) and in the teachings of religious people. It is worthwhile to immediately pay attention that Allah (God in Islam) teaches us not to be afraid of death, because a believing person who performs righteous deeds will be awarded in eternal life.
If in the Christian religion the Lord himself is present at the Last Judgment, then in Islam two angels decide - Nakir and Munkar. They interrogate a departed from earthly life. If a person did not believe and commit sins that he did not atone for during earthly existence, then he will be punished. The believer is given paradise. If there are unredeemed sins behind the believer, then he will be punished, after which he will be able to get to beautiful places called paradise. Atheists are waiting for terrible torment.
Buddhists and Hindus about death
In Hinduism there is no creator who created life on Earth and who needs to pray and bow. The Vedas are sacred texts that replace God. Translated into Russian, “Veda” means “wisdom” and “knowledge”.
The Vedas can also be considered as evidence that there is life after death. In this case, a person (to be more precise, the soul) will die and inhabit new flesh. The spiritual lessons that a person must learn are the cause of constant reincarnation.
Paradise exists in Buddhism, but it has not one level, as in other religions, but several. At each stage, if I may say so, the soul receives the necessary knowledge, wisdom and other positive aspects and goes further.
In both of these religions hell also exists, but compared with other religious beliefs, it is not an eternal punishment for the soul of man. There are many myths about how, from hell, the souls of the dead went to heaven and began their journey on certain levels.
View of other religions of the world
In fact, each religion has its own ideas about the afterlife. At the moment, it is simply impossible to name the exact number of religions, so only the largest and most basic were considered above, but in them you can find interesting evidence of life after death.
It is also worth paying attention to the fact that in almost all religions there are common features of death and life in paradise and hell.
Nothing disappears without a trace
Doom, death, extinction is not the end. That, if these words are appropriate, is rather the beginning of something, but not the end. As an example, you can take a plum stone, which was spat out by a person who ate the immediate fruit (plum).
This bone falls, and it seems its end has come. Only in reality it can grow, and a beautiful bush will appear, a beautiful plant that will bear fruit and delight others with its beauty and its existence. When this bush dies, for example, it will simply move from one state to another.
Why this example? To the fact that the death of a person is also not his immediate end. This example can also be seen as evidence of life after death. Expectations and reality, however, can be very different.
Is there a soul?
Throughout all the time we are talking about the existence of the human soul after death, but there was no question of the existence of the soul itself. Maybe it does not exist? Therefore, it is worth paying attention to this concept.
In this case, it is worth moving from religious reasoning to scientific facts. The whole world - earth, water, trees, space, and everything else - consists of atoms, molecules. Only none of the elements has the ability to feel, reason and develop. If we talk about whether there is life after death, evidence can be taken on the basis of this reasoning.
Of course, we can say that in the human body there are organs that are the causes of all feelings. We must not forget about the human brain, because he is responsible for the mind and mind. In this case, you can make a comparison of a person with a computer. The latter is much smarter, but it is programmed for certain processes. To date, robots have begun to be actively created, but they have no feelings, although they are made in human likeness. Based on the reasoning, we can talk about the existence of the human soul.
It is also possible, as another proof of the above words, to cite the origin of thought. This part of human life has no scientific beginning. You can study all kinds of sciences for years, decades and centuries and “sculpt” thought from all material means, but nothing will come of it. Thought has no material basis.
Scientists have proven that life after death exists
Speaking about the afterlife of man, you should not pay attention only to reasoning in religion and philosophy, because, in addition to this, there are scientific studies and, of course, the necessary results. Many scientists have puzzled and puzzle over to find out what happens to a person after his death.
The Vedas were mentioned above. These scriptures speak of the transmigration of the soul from one body to another. That is the question Ian Stevenson asked - a famous psychiatrist. It is worth saying right away that his research in the field of reincarnation made a great contribution to the scientific concept of life after death.
The scientist began to consider life after death, the real evidence of which he could find on the whole planet. The psychiatrist was able to consider more than 2000 cases of reincarnation, after which certain conclusions were drawn. When a person is reborn in a different way, then all physical defects are also preserved. If the deceased had certain scars, then they will also be present in the new body. There is necessary evidence for this fact.
During the study, the scientist used hypnosis. And during one session, the boy recalls his death - he was killed with an ax. This feature could be reflected in the new body - the boy, who was examined by a scientist, had a gross growth on the back of his head. After receiving the necessary information, the psychiatrist begins to search for a family where, possibly, there was a murder of a person with an ax. And the result was not long in coming. Ian managed to find people in whose family in the recent past, they hacked a man with an ax. The nature of the wound was similar to the growth of a child.
This is not one example that can indicate that evidence of life after death has been found. Therefore, it is worth considering several more cases during the research of a psychiatrist.
Another child had a defect on his fingers, as if he had been chopped off. Of course, the scientist became interested in such a fact, and not in vain. The boy was able to tell Stevenson that he lost his fingers during field work. After talking with the child, a search began for eyewitnesses who could explain this phenomenon. After some time, people were found who spoke about the death of a man during field work. This man died as a result of blood loss. The fingers were chopped off with a thresher.
Considering these circumstances, we can say that there is life after death. Evidence could lead Ian Stevenson. After the published works of the scientist, many people began to think about the real existence of the afterlife, which was described by a psychiatrist.
Clinical and real death
Everyone knows that with severe injuries, clinical death can occur. In this case, a person’s heart stops, all life processes stop, but oxygen starvation of organs does not yet cause irreversible consequences. During this process, the body is in a transitional phase between life and death. Clinical death lasts no more than 3-4 minutes (very rarely 5-6 minutes).
People who were able to survive such minutes talk about the “tunnel”, about the “white light”. Based on these facts, scientists were able to discover new evidence of life after death. Scientists who studied this phenomenon made the necessary report. In their opinion, consciousness has always existed in the Universe, the death of a material body is not the end for the soul (consciousness).
Cryonics
This word means freezing the body of a person or animal so that in the future there is an opportunity to revive the deceased. In some cases, the whole body is not subjected to deep cooling, but only the head or brain.
An interesting fact: experiments on the freezing of animals were carried out in the XVII century. Only after about 300 years, humanity more seriously thought about this method of obtaining immortality.
It is possible that this process will be the answer to the question: "Does life after death exist?" Evidence may be presented in the future, because science does not stand still. But at the moment, cryonics remains a mystery with the hope of development.
Afterlife: Latest Evidence
One of the latest evidence in this issue was the study of the American scientist theoretical physicist Robert Lanz. Why is one of the last? Because this discovery was made in the fall of 2013. What conclusion did the scientist draw?
It is worthwhile to immediately pay attention that the scientist is a physicist, so this evidence is based on quantum physics.
From the very beginning, the scientist drew attention to color perception. He cited the blue sky as an example. We are all used to seeing the sky in that color, but in reality everything is different. Why does a person see red color red, green - green and so on? According to Lanz, the whole thing is in the receptors of the brain, which are responsible for color perception. If these receptors are affected, the sky may suddenly turn red or green.
Everyone is used, as the researcher says, to see a mixture of molecules and carbonates. The reason for this perception is our consciousness, but reality may differ from general understanding.
Robert Lantz believes that there are parallel universes where all events are synchronous, but at the same time different. Based on this, the death of a person is only a transition from one world to another. As evidence, the researcher conducted a Young experiment. For scientists, this method is proof that light is nothing but a wave that can be measured.
The essence of the experiment: Lanz passed the light through two holes. When the beam passed through the obstacle, it was divided into two parts, but as soon as it was outside the holes, it merged again and became even brighter. In those places where the waves of light did not merge into a single beam, they became dimmer.
As a result, Robert Lanz came to the conclusion that it is not the Universe that creates life, but quite the opposite. If life ends on Earth, then, as in the case of light, it continues to exist in another place.
Conclusion
Perhaps one cannot deny that there is life after death. Facts and evidence, of course, are not absolute, but they exist. As can be seen from the above information, the afterlife exists not only in religion and philosophy, but also in the scientific community.
Living this time, each person can only speculate and think about what will happen to him after death, after the disappearance of his body on this planet. There are a lot of questions about this, many doubts, but no one living at the moment can not find the answer he needs. Now we can only enjoy what we have, because life is the happiness of every person, every animal, you need to live it beautifully.
It’s best not to think about the afterlife, because the question of the meaning of life is much more interesting and useful. Almost everyone can answer it, but this is a completely different topic.