If a person dies, where will he go? Where does the soul go after the death of a person?
A person who passes away from life in an unnatural way has no right to count on peace in the other world. Statistics show that in Russia there are 25 suicides for every 100,000 people annually. Psychologists believe that the main motive for suicide is the desire to break once and for all the cursed knot of problems and torment, to find peace in oblivion...
But does it exist, this non-existence? And is there a long-awaited peace in it? Alas, all those who hope to find it by suicide instead of peace fall into the trap of even greater moral torment.
The other world is not a complete and eternal loss of consciousness, not the oblivion of everything and everything, as it seems to many. After the death of the physical body, consciousness not only continues its rational existence, but also reaps the karma of earthly life, that is, it enters the world of posthumous consequences of earthly thoughts and actions. A person, weighed down by difficult life circumstances, in the afterlife will also be tormented by problems that he could not solve on Earth. Those who have passed into the other world will feel their earthly problems there with even greater acuteness. But, unlike the physical plane, in another world he will have practically no opportunity to correct anything - only an emotional reaction to the scenes passing before his eyes will remain. This is exactly what is expressed in the incomprehensible words of the Gospels: "What you untie on earth will be unleashed in heaven."
It is possible to untie the knots of heavy karmic circumstances only on the physical plane!
If, instead of a denouement, a person leaves this plane for another world of his own free will, this means that ununtied knots will torment him even more in the afterlife, tormenting his soul with hallucinatory memories that are perceived and experienced as sharply as the real events of earthly life. .
The horror of suicide lies not only in the fact that the problems that led to such an end remain just as acute and torment the mind even more painfully. Suicide, in addition, is associated with a violation of the most important karmic laws - the life purpose of a person and the period of his life on Earth.
Prisoners of the astral hell.
Each person is born on Earth with a specific mission regarding his personal spiritual development, and if this spirit is talented and great, the mission can cover not only himself, but also many other people. Even before his incarnation on Earth, the soul of a person knows what this highest spiritual purpose is. But when it is clothed with a body, physical matter obscures the knowledge of the soul and the life purpose is forgotten.
To fulfill his destiny, a person is given a certain period of life on Earth and the corresponding amount of vital energy by karma itself. If someone leaves the physical world before the term measured for him, he accordingly does not fulfill his destiny. The potential of the energy given to him also remains unrealized.
This means that the inexhaustible vital energy will attract the soul of a suicide to the physical plane for as many years as he was destined to live on Earth.
The soul (or, in modern scientific language, the energy complex) of a person who died a natural death, easily and painlessly breaks away from the physical plane and rises to the astral plane, full of enchanting music and bright colors. Evidence of this is the experiences of people who have experienced a state of clinical death.
But with an unnaturally interrupted life, the human energy complex, due to the unused energy potential, turns out to be tied to the lower layers of the astral world, close to the physical world, and - alas! - filled with heavy, negative energy.
It is in the lower, dark layers of the astral that, according to esoteric teachings, the souls of sinners live. In religions, these layers of the parallel world are called hell. Even if the suicide was a good person, he will not succeed in avoiding the attraction of the lower, hellish layers. And therefore, if a person was destined to live, say, 70 years, and he committed suicide at twenty, then for the remaining half a century he will be a prisoner of the astral hell, he will be doomed to a painful, painful wandering between this and the other world.
Even in antiquity, it was noted that posthumous ghosts, ghosts and other phenomena, as a rule, are the consequences of suicides. It is also known that the astral bodies of suicides, together with their souls forcibly chained to the Earth, not being able to go to higher layers of the astral plane, often appear as ghosts in those corners of the Earth where they made a fatal decision.
Another proof of the inadmissibility of suicide as an attempt to resolve a difficult life situation is the testimony of clairvoyants. Many clairvoyants can determine whether a person is alive or not from his photograph. But in the case of suicide, clairvoyants claim that they "do not see" a person either among the living or among the dead.
How painful this condition is, testify to people who have experienced clinical death as a result of an unsuccessful suicide attempt and returned to life. It turns out that even such a short-term opportunity to look into the other world, which is provided to the human mind during clinical death, can already give a lot of knowledge about the other world. And this is convincingly evidenced by modern studies of death and the posthumous existence of consciousness, conducted by Dr. R. Moody from the USA.
One of Moody's patients, who was in a coma as a result of a suicide attempt, said: "When I was there, I felt that two things were completely forbidden for me: to kill myself or to kill another person. If I commit suicide, I will throw God in his face gift. If I kill someone, I will break the commandment of God." And here are the words of a woman who was brought back to life after taking a lethal dose of sleeping pills: “I had a clear feeling that I had done something bad. Not according to the norms of society, but according to the highest commandments. I was so sure of this that I desperately wanted to return to body and live.
As noted by British researchers A. Landsberg and C. Faye, Dr. Moody found that the post-mortem sensations of patients show that natural death is distinguished by a sense of calmness and a feeling: "That's right, this is the completion of my destiny." While suicide is characterized by mixed feelings, anxiety and a certain feeling that "this is not right, I should go back and wait for my death."
And the soul rushes about in fear.
The conclusions of Dr. Moody are also confirmed by the research of the Russian scientist from St. Petersburg K. Korotkov, who studies the phenomenon of death using the Kirlian effect, which makes it possible to observe the energy state of the human body in the first hours and days after his death.According to Korotkov's observations, the posthumous states of people who died a natural death from old age and an unnatural one - as a result of suicide - have a different energy nature. The scientist, for example, identified three types of glow in the fingers of people who died from various causes.
This glow was recorded using high-frequency photography.
The first type of glow, characteristic of natural death, has a small amplitude of energy fluctuations. After the rise of energy in the first hours after death, its smooth and calm decline begins.
The second type of glow, which is characteristic of "abrupt" death as a result of accidents, also has a small amplitude of energy fluctuations with one pronounced peak.
The third type of glow characteristic of death that occurred as a result of a combination of circumstances that could have been avoided under more favorable conditions.
This type of glow is characterized by a large amplitude of energy fluctuations that occur over a long period of time. It is this state of energy that is characteristic of death resulting from suicide.
According to the St. Petersburg researcher, sharp ups and downs in energy in the body of a person who committed suicide are due to the state of his energy counterpart - the astral (or subtle) body, prematurely deprived of its physical shell, forcibly "pushed out" in this way from the physical plane into another world and not having the ability to begin a natural existence in the latter. In other words, the subtle body of a suicide literally rushes between the discarded physical shell and the astral plane, finding no way out.
There is another terrible secret in the phenomenon of suicide, which is related to the other world. Many people who tried to commit suicide, but were saved by doctors, assured that the decision to commit suicide was prompted by some "voices" from the other world, in which they often recognized the voices of their deceased relatives.
This phenomenon serves as an indirect, and in some cases a direct cause of suicide much more often than some people think. The voices of another world, processing the consciousness or subconsciousness of future suicides, of course, have nothing to do with deceased relatives and have nothing to do with the light forces of the astral plane. They belong to a very dangerous, harmful class of beings, which the great physician of the Middle Ages, Paracelsus, called elementals, or primordial spirits.
Among them there are positive, and there are harmful beings. The latter hunt for the life energy of people, preferring not to extract energy on their own, but to steal it. For at the moment of death of a person, a huge amount of psychic energy is released into space, which can become a coveted food for other-material vampires. It is precisely in order to get it that elementals often stick to the aura of people who are in a stressful or depressed state and begin their mental processing, provoking the victim to commit suicide.
Psychics can often identify similar channels of communication with astral vampires in a person's aura, calling these channels "bindings", "connections", "settlers". Sometimes the processing of potential suicides is more subtle, on a subconscious level. In such cases, it is not voices that incite suicide, but obsessive thoughts with the same program of self-destruction. And, as a rule, people take these thoughts inspired from the outside for their own desire.
The dispute about whether a person has the right to arbitrarily dispose of his life has a fairly ancient origin.
Hot, ardent Romans, for example, considered themselves entitled to dispose of the divine gift - life. But it was the right of ignorance - nothing more. Of course, the free will of a person can decide: "To be or not to be." But in the other world, no one will free the one who decides to end his life from the natural consequences of a wrong decision.
Roman aristocrats considered the act of suicide a sign of strong will - and they were deeply mistaken in this.
The true aristocracy of the spirit lies not in the desire to avoid mental suffering, but in the ability to courageously accept and endure them in order to act in the arena of a harsh life struggle as a warrior, and not a victim. In addition, ancient wisdom says: every person has exactly as much suffering in life as he can endure - nothing more.
There are no circumstances that could not overcome the will and mind of man.
But for this it is necessary to realize the power hidden in the spirit of man.
For his will and mind are truly a divine gift.
To dispose of it fairly is the task of each of us, and especially of those who are faced with a difficult interweaving of life's problems.
Natalia Kovaleva, candidate of philosophical sciences.
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This topic sounded like a response to the phrase of my friend from Donetsk: "We stayed with my daughter and baby for 10 months. How do we live now? I don't want to live ..." She wrote this after the death of a loved one in their family.
At the request of many guys, we will again talk about the souls of those who themselves decided to end their journey in a violent way.
People who seek help often either have the thought of committing suicide in their head or have already attempted to do so.
Basically it is young girls and women.
I don't have any statistics, but they are the ones who contact me. The processes are the same, but the afterlife itself is far from the same as with ordinary death ..
Let's look at this issue in more detail.
So let's take an example. Young girl, 22 years old. Unhappy love. The young man left her with the child. The child is four years old. They live with their parents. There is another small child of about the same age in the family. Her brother. Children are very friendly with each other. But here comes the tragedy. The world has collapsed. The guy left. He, too, is quite young and was not yet ready for adulthood. The girl climbs to the 12th floor and stands on the edge.
But at the last second, when she almost physically felt the flight and felt her body hitting the asphalt and bursting internal organs and breaking bones, she retreated.
The girl came to me. And we began to deal with her, what will happen to her after she leaves the body. After all, as she thought. Now bam on the ground. I will break and all problems will disappear in an instant.
But the thing is, they're just getting started. A person has no idea what he will have to go through.
I showed her that if you lose your body, in which you can still fix everything, you will be a spiritual entity with the same problems.
But imagine what it will be like for you to see and feel every second the suffering that you will inflict on your loved ones and children.
Your son will scream MOM, and you will stand next to him, unable to convey to him that you are nearby.
This is where the real suffering begins.
There is no physical body in the spiritual world. You can't take the pressure off with tears. Everything is exposed. The person becomes pain.
In a state of suicide, a person's path usually lies in the lower layers of the spiritual world. But before going down there, a person will wander with a restless soul next to his loved ones.
As long as a person is remembered, and therefore nourished. In order to be near, our soul in this state needs energy. And whether she wants it or not, she will take this energy from her loved ones.
The worst thing is that a person thinks once and for all. But everything will remain the same. You will think, feel, feel, only without a dense body. And without it, you can't change anything. When a person dies, he passes into a different state, without a dense body.
At the same time, everything that he felt, felt, loved, hated, that is, his essence, remains exactly the same as in life.
Isn't this hell?
To wander with a restless soul and watch how your loved ones and relatives mourn you. Shout to them that he is alive, that he is not dead.
But no one hears.
The soul of a person in suffering and pain walks through the places of binding. Visiting those places that were dear to her during her lifetime. There are a huge number of such restless souls.
It is with such souls that all spiritualists, white noise, etc., associate. In the normal course of events, that is, death from old age, a person is met. And very often a person a few days before death already sees a partially spiritual world. He sees dead friends, relatives. And wonder how others don't see them. This is very common. I have come across this many times.
Many restless souls DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE because they know that they will have to go through the so-called purgatory.
Purgatory is the level to which this or that soul falls according to its subconscious programs. This is the world of our fears, thoughts, actions.
A simple example.
Maniac killer. What's on his mind? Obviously, blood. Also crying and fear. Fear of your victims. And so he dies and falls into the subtle world. Where every thought immediately materializes.
Imagine what that means to him.
Your consciousness forms, so to speak, the place where you find yourself at the moment of death. Although all these places are only the subjective reality of each individual in a bundle of his programs.
No wonder all religions teach to think about God and have pure thoughts, and repentance before death matters..
If a person committed suicide, this in any case means that he had serious problems that he could not process. These problems will not go away after his departure.
They will materialize. And he will be in the world of his fears.
When the girl realized that she had just almost done something that would take a very long time to correct, there was a tantrum. But she was liberating. Now everything is moving very quickly towards improvement.
Knowledge and information comes from those who KNOW. From spirit guides or guardian angels.
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I took material from different sites. I know that the topic can cause a strong reaction, but it seems to me that the time has come to remind you of what awaits a suicide in that other world.
In the first nine chapters of this book, we have attempted to outline some of the main aspects of the Orthodox Christian view of life after death, contrasting them with the widely held modern view, as well as views that have appeared in the West, which in some respects have departed from the ancient Christian teaching. In the West, the true Christian teaching about Angels, the airy realm of fallen spirits, about the nature of people's communication with spirits, about heaven and hell, has been lost or distorted, as a result of which the "post-mortem" experiences that are currently taking place are completely misinterpreted. The only satisfactory answer to this false interpretation is Orthodox Christian teaching.
This book is too limited in scope to give a full Orthodox teaching on the other world and the life after death; our task was much narrower - to expound this teaching to the extent that it would be sufficient to answer the questions raised by modern "posthumous" experiences, and point the reader to those Orthodox texts where this teaching is contained. In conclusion, here we specifically give a brief summary of the Orthodox teaching on the fate of the soul after death. This presentation consists of an article written by one of the last outstanding theologians of our time, Archbishop John (Maximovich), a year before his death. His words are printed in a narrower column, while explanations of his text, comments and comparisons are printed as usual.
Archbishop John (Maximovich)
"Life after death"
I look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the age to come.
(Nicene Creed)
Boundless and unsuccessful would be our grief for dying loved ones, if the Lord did not give us eternal life. Our life would be aimless if it ended in death. What would be the use of virtue and good deeds then? Then those who say: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die" would be right. But man was created for immortality, and Christ, by His resurrection, opened the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven, eternal bliss for those who believed in Him and lived righteously. Our earthly life is a preparation for the future life, and this preparation ends with death. Man is destined to die once, and then the judgment (Heb. IX, 27). Then a person leaves all his earthly cares; his body disintegrates in order to rise again at the General Resurrection.
But his soul continues to live, not ceasing its existence for a single moment. By many appearances of the dead, we have been given a partial knowledge of what happens to the soul when it leaves the body. When vision with the bodily eyes ceases, spiritual vision begins.
Addressing his dying sister in a letter, Bishop Theophan the Recluse writes: “After all, you will not die. Your body will die, and you will move to another world, alive, remembering yourself and recognizing the whole world around you” (“Soulful Reading”, August 1894).
After death, the soul is alive, and its feelings are sharpened, not weakened. St. Ambrose of Milan teaches: “Since the soul continues to live after death, there remains goodness that is not lost with death, but increases. The soul is not held back by any obstacles set by death, but is more active, because it acts in its own sphere without any connection with body, which is rather a burden than a benefit to her" (St. Ambrose "Death as a blessing").
Rev. Abba Dorotheos summarizes the teaching of the early fathers on this issue: “For souls remember everything that was here, as the fathers say, and words, and deeds, and thoughts, and none of this can be forgotten then. And it is said in the psalm: On that day all his thoughts will perish (Psalm 145:4), which refers to the thoughts of this world, that is, about the structure, property, parents, children, and every deed and teaching. All this about how the soul leaves the body perishes. .. And what she did regarding virtue or passion, she remembers everything and none of this perishes for her ... And, as I said, the soul does not forget anything from what she did in this world, but remembers everything after leaving body, and, moreover, better and clearer, as having been freed from this earthly body" (Abba Dorotheos, Teaching 12).
Great ascetic of the 5th century, St. John Cassian clearly formulates the active state of the soul after death in response to heretics who believed that the soul was unconscious after death: “Souls after separation from the body are not idle, they do not remain without any feeling; this is proved by the gospel parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke. XVI, 19-31) ... The souls of the dead not only do not lose their feelings, but do not lose their dispositions, that is, hope and fear, joy and sorrow, and something of what they expect for themselves at the universal judgment, they they begin to anticipate... they become even more alive and zealously cling to the glorification of God. And indeed, if, after examining the evidence of Holy Scripture about the nature of the soul itself, according to our understanding, we think a little, then whether it would not be, I do not say, extreme stupidity, but foolishness - to even slightly suspect that the most precious part of a person (i.e., the soul), in which, according to the blessed apostle, is the image of God and the likeness (1 Cor. XI, 7; Col. III, 10), after putting off this bodily in which she walks in real life, as if it becomes insensible - that which contains all the power of the mind, by its participation even the dumb and insensible substance of the flesh makes sensitive? It follows from this, and the property of the mind itself requires that the spirit, after the addition of this carnal corpulence, which is now weakening, bring its rational forces to a better state, restore them to be purer and more subtle, and not lose them.
Modern "post-mortem" experiences have made people tremendously aware of the consciousness of the soul after death, of the greater sharpness and speed of its mental faculties. But by itself this awareness is not enough to protect the person in such a state from manifestations of the out-of-body realm; one should master ALL Christian teaching on this subject.
The Beginning of Spiritual Vision
Often this spiritual vision begins in the dying before death, and while still seeing those around them and even talking to them, they see what others do not see.
This experience of the dying has been observed for centuries, and today such cases with the dying are not new. However, here it is necessary to repeat what was said above - in Chap. 1, part 2: only in the grace-filled visits of the righteous, when saints and angels appear, can we be sure that these were really beings from another world. In ordinary cases, when a dying person begins to see deceased friends and relatives, this can only be a natural acquaintance with the invisible world into which he must enter; the true nature of the images of the deceased, appearing at this moment, is known, perhaps, only to God - and we do not need to delve into this.
It is clear that God gives this experience as the most obvious way to communicate to the dying person that the other world is not a completely unfamiliar place, that life there is also characterized by the love that a person has for his loved ones. His Grace Theophan touchingly expresses this thought in the words addressed to the dying sister: “Batiushka and matushka, brothers and sisters will meet you there. You'd be better off than here."
Encounter with spirits
But upon leaving the body, the soul finds itself among other spirits, good and evil. Usually she is drawn to those who are closer to her in spirit, and if, while in the body, she was under the influence of some of them, then she will remain dependent on them after leaving the body, no matter how disgusting they may be when they meet.
Here we are again seriously reminded that the other world, although it will not be completely alien to us, will not turn out to be just a pleasant meeting with loved ones "at a resort" of happiness, but will be a spiritual clash that our soul's disposition experiences during life - did it bow more to the angels and saints through a virtuous life and obedience to the commandments of God, or, through negligence and unbelief, she made herself more fit for the company of fallen spirits. The Right Reverend Theophan the Recluse well said (see above the end of Chapter VI) that even a test in aerial ordeals can turn out to be rather a test of temptations than an accusation.
Although the very fact of the judgment in the afterlife is beyond any doubt - both the Private Judgment immediately after death, and the Last Judgment at the end of the world - the external judgment of God will only be a response to the internal disposition that the soul has created in itself in relation to God and spiritual beings. .
First two days after death
During the first two days, the soul enjoys relative freedom and can visit those places on earth that are dear to it, but on the third day it moves to other spheres.
Here Archbishop John is simply repeating a doctrine known to the Church since the 4th century. Tradition reports that the angel who accompanied St. Macarius of Alexandria, said, explaining the church commemoration of the dead on the third day after death: “When an offering takes place in the church on the third day, the soul of the deceased receives from the Angel guarding her relief in sorrow, which she feels from separation from the body, receives because the doxology and the offering in the church of God has been made for her, from which a good hope is born in her. For for two days the soul, together with the angels who are with her, is allowed to walk the earth where she wants. Therefore, the soul that loves the body sometimes wanders near the house, in where it parted from the body, sometimes near the tomb in which the body was laid, and thus spends two days like a bird, looking for nests for itself. risen from the dead, commands, in imitation of His resurrection, to ascend to heaven for every Christian soul to worship the God of all "(" The words of St. Macarius of Alexandria on the outcome of the souls of the righteous nyh and sinners", "Christ. reading", August 1831).
In the Orthodox rite of burial of the departed Ven. John of Damascus vividly describes the state of the soul, parted from the body, but still on earth, powerless to communicate with loved ones whom she can see: “Alas, what a feat for me to have a soul that is separated from the body! lift up your eyes to the angels, idlely praying: stretching out your hands to people, not having someone to help. In the same way, my beloved brethren, having thought of our short life, we ask the reposed rest from Christ, and to our souls we have great mercy "(Following the burial of worldly people, stichera self-voiced, voice 2).
In a letter to the husband of her dying sister mentioned above, St. Theophan writes: “After all, the sister herself will not die; the body dies, but the face of the dying remains. It only passes into other orders of life. In the body lying under the saints and then carried out, she is not, and they do not hide her in the grave. She is in another place. Just as alive as now. In the first hours and days she will be near you. - And only she won’t speak, but you can’t see her, otherwise here ... Keep this in mind. We who remain weep for those who have departed, but it is immediately easier for them: that state is gratifying. Those who died and were then introduced into the body found it a very uncomfortable dwelling. My sister will feel the same way. She is better there, and we are hurting ourselves, as if some kind of misfortune had happened to her. She looks and, of course, marvels at it ("Emotional Reading", August 1894).
It should be borne in mind that this description of the first two days after death gives a general rule that by no means covers all situations. Indeed, most of the passages from Orthodox literature cited in this book do not fit this rule - and for a completely obvious reason: the saints, who were not at all attached to worldly things, lived in constant expectation of transition to another world, are not even attracted to places, where they did good deeds, but immediately begin their ascent to heaven. Others, like K. Ikskul, begin their ascent earlier than two days by the special permission of God's Providence. On the other hand, all modern "post-mortem" experiences, no matter how fragmented they are, do not fit this rule: the out-of-body state is only the beginning of the first period of the disembodied wandering of the soul to the places of its earthly attachments, but none of these people has been in a state of death. long enough to even meet the two Angels who are supposed to accompany them.
Some critics of the Orthodox doctrine of life after death find that such deviations from the general rule of "after death" experience are evidence of contradictions in Orthodox teaching, but such critics take everything too literally. The description of the first two days (as well as the subsequent ones) is by no means dogma; it is simply a model that only formulates the most general order of the "post-mortem" experience of the soul. Many instances, both in Orthodox literature and in accounts of modern experiences, where the dead instantly appeared alive on the first day or two after death (sometimes in a dream), serve as examples of the truth that the soul does indeed remain close to the earth for some short time. (Actual apparitions of the dead after this brief period of freedom of the soul are much rarer and always by God's Will for some special purpose, and not by anyone's own will. But by the third day, and often earlier, this period comes to an end. .)
ordeal
At this time (on the third day) the soul passes through the legions of evil spirits, which block its path and accuse it of various sins, in which they themselves have involved it. According to various revelations, there are twenty such obstacles, the so-called "ordeals", at each of which this or that sin is tortured; having gone through one ordeal, the soul comes to the next. And only after successfully passing through all of them, can the soul continue its path without being immediately plunged into hell. How terrible these demons and ordeals are can be seen from the fact that the Mother of God Herself, when the Archangel Gabriel informed Her of the approach of death, prayed to Her Son to deliver Her soul from these demons, and in answer to Her prayers, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself appeared from Heaven accept the soul of His Most Pure Mother and take Her to Heaven. (This is visibly depicted on the traditional Orthodox icon of the Assumption.) The third day is truly terrible for the soul of the deceased, and for this reason prayers are especially needed for it.
In the sixth chapter there are a number of patristic and hagiographic texts about ordeals, and there is no need to add anything else here. However, here we can also note that the descriptions of ordeals correspond to the model of torture that the soul undergoes after death, and individual experience can differ significantly. Minor details such as the number of ordeals, of course, are secondary in comparison with the main fact that the soul is really subjected to judgment soon after death (Private Judgment), which sums up the "invisible battle" that it waged (or did not wage) on earth against fallen spirits. .
Continuing the letter to the husband of the dying sister, Bishop Theophan the Recluse writes: “For those who have departed, the feat of crossing through ordeals will soon begin. She needs help there! - Then stand in this thought, and you will hear her cry to you: "Help!" all attention and all love should be directed towards her.I think that the most truly testifying of love will be if, from the moment your soul departs, you, leaving the worries about the body to others, step aside yourself and, secluded where possible, plunge into prayer for her in her new condition, about her unexpected needs. Starting like this, be in an unceasing cry to God - for her help, for six weeks - and beyond. In Theodora's legend - the bag from which the Angels took to get rid of publicans - these were prayers her elder. So will your prayers... Don't forget to do this... Behold love!"
Critics of Orthodox teaching often misunderstand that "bag of gold" from which the Angels "paid for the debts" of Blessed Theodora during the ordeals; sometimes it is erroneously compared with the Latin concept of the "excessive merits" of saints. Here, too, such critics read Orthodox texts too literally. Here we have in mind nothing more than the prayers for the departed of the Church, in particular, the prayers of the holy and spiritual father. The form in which it is described - there is hardly even a need to talk about it - is metaphorical.
The Orthodox Church considers the doctrine of ordeals so important that it mentions them in many divine services (see some quotations in the chapter on ordeals). In particular, the Church especially expounds this teaching to all her dying children. In the "Canon for the Exodus of the Soul", read by the priest at the bedside of a dying member of the Church, there are the following troparia:
"The prince of the air, the rapist, the tormentor, the terrible ways of the defender and the vain words of these words, grant me to pass unhinderedly departing from the earth" (Song 4).
“Holy Angels, lay me to the sacred and honest hands, Lady, as if I covered those wings, I don’t see the dishonorable and stinking and gloomy demons of the image” (Ode 6).
“Having given birth to the Lord Almighty, the bitter ordeals of the head of the world-keeper are far from me, whenever I want to die, but I will glorify Thee forever, Holy Mother of God” (Song 8).
Thus, the dying Orthodox Christian is prepared by the words of the Church for the coming trials.
forty days
Then, having successfully passed through ordeals and worshiped God, the soul visits heavenly abodes and hellish abysses for another 37 days, not yet knowing where it will stay, and only on the fortieth day is a place assigned to it until the resurrection of the dead.
Of course, there is nothing strange in the fact that, having gone through ordeals and finished forever with the earthly, the soul should get acquainted with the real other world, in one part of which it will stay forever. According to the revelation of the Angel, St. Macarius of Alexandria, a special church commemoration of the dead on the ninth day after death (in addition to the general symbolism of the nine ranks of angels) is due to the fact that until now the soul has been shown the beauties of paradise, and only after that, during the rest of the forty-day period, it is shown the torment and horrors of hell, before on the fortieth day a place is assigned to her where she will await the resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgment. And here too, these numbers give a general rule or model of the after-death reality, and, of course, not all the dead complete their journey according to this rule. We know that Theodora really completed her visit to hell on the fortieth - by earthly standards of time - day.
State of mind before the Last Judgment
Some souls after forty days find themselves in a state of anticipation of eternal joy and bliss, while others are in fear of eternal torment, which will fully begin after the Last Judgment. Before that, changes in the state of souls are still possible, especially thanks to the offering of the Bloodless Sacrifice for them (commemoration at the Liturgy) and other prayers.
The teaching of the Church about the state of souls in Heaven and hell before the Last Judgment is set forth in more detail in the words of St. Mark of Ephesus.
The benefits of prayer, both public and private, for souls in hell are described in the lives of the holy ascetics and in patristic writings.
In the life of the martyr Perpetua (III century), for example, the fate of her brother was revealed to her in the form of a reservoir filled with water, which was located so high that he could not reach it from that dirty, unbearably hot place where he was imprisoned. Thanks to her fervent prayer throughout the whole day and night, he was able to reach the reservoir, and she saw him in a bright place. From this she understood that he was delivered from punishment (Lives of the Saints, February 1).
There are many similar cases in the lives of Orthodox saints and ascetics. If one is inclined to be overly literal about these visions, then it should perhaps be said that of course the forms that these visions take (usually in dreams) are not necessarily "photographs" of the state of the soul in another world, but rather images that convey the spiritual truth about the improvement of the state of the soul through the prayers of those who remained on earth.
Prayer for the dead
The importance of commemoration at the Liturgy can be seen from the following cases. Even before the glorification of St. Theodosius of Chernigov (1896), the hieromonk (the famous elder Alexy from the Goloseevsky skete of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, who died in 1916), who was reclothing the relics, was tired, sitting at the relics, dozed off and saw the Saint in front of him, who said to him: "Thank you for your work for me. I also ask you, when you serve the Liturgy, to mention my parents"; and he gave their names (Priest Nikita and Maria). Prior to the vision, these names were unknown. A few years after canonization in the monastery, where St. Theodosius was the abbot, his own memorial was found, which confirmed these names, confirmed the truth of the vision. "How can you, saint, ask for my prayers when you yourself stand before the Heavenly Throne and give God's grace to people?" the hieromonk asked. “Yes, that’s true,” replied St. Theodosius, “but the offering at the Liturgy is stronger than my prayers.”
Therefore, a memorial service and home prayer for the dead are useful, as well as good deeds done in their remembrance, alms or donations to the Church. But commemoration at the Divine Liturgy is especially useful for them. There were many appearances of the dead and other events confirming how useful the commemoration of the dead is. Many who died in repentance, but failed to manifest it during their lifetime, were released from torment and received repose. Prayers for the repose of the departed are constantly lifted up in the Church, and in the kneeling prayer at Vespers on the day of the Descent of the Holy Spirit there is a special petition "for those who are held in hell."
St. Gregory the Great, answering in his "Conversations" the question "is there anything that could be useful to souls after death", teaches: "The holy sacrifice of Christ, our saving Sacrifice, brings great benefit to souls even after death, provided that their sins can be forgiven in the future life.Therefore, the souls of the departed sometimes ask that the Liturgy be served for them... Naturally, it is safer to do what we hope others will do about us after death. make an exodus free than seek freedom in chains.Therefore we must despise this world from the bottom of our hearts, as if its glory had already passed, and offer daily the sacrifice of our tears to God as we offer His sacred Flesh and Blood. this sacrifice has the power to save the soul from eternal death, for it mysteriously represents to us the death of the Only Begotten Son" (IV; 57, 60).
St. Gregory gives several examples of the appearance of the dead alive with a request to serve the Liturgy for their repose or thanksgiving for it; once also one captive, whom his wife considered dead and for whom she ordered the Liturgy on certain days, returned from captivity and told her how he was freed from chains on certain days - precisely on those days when the Liturgy was served for him (IV; 57, 59).
Protestants generally believe that church prayers for the dead are incompatible with the need to gain salvation first of all in this life: "If you can be saved by the Church after death, then why bother fighting or seeking faith in this life? Let's eat, drink and be merry" ... Of course, no one who holds such views has ever achieved salvation through church prayers, and it is obvious that such an argument is very superficial and even hypocritical. The prayer of the Church cannot save someone who does not want salvation or who has never made any efforts for this during his lifetime. In a certain sense, it can be said that the prayer of the Church or individual Christians for the deceased is another result of the life of this person: they would not have prayed for him if he had not done anything during his life that could inspire such prayer after his death.
St. Mark of Ephesus also discusses the issue of church prayer for the dead and the relief it brings to them, citing as an example the prayer of St. Gregory Dialog about the Roman emperor Trajan - a prayer inspired by the good deed of this pagan emperor.
What can we do for the dead?
Anyone who wants to show his love for the dead and give them real help can best do this by praying for them, and especially by commemoration at the Liturgy, when the particles taken for the living and the dead are immersed in the Blood of the Lord with the words: "Wash, Lord, sins commemorated here by Your precious blood, by the prayers of Your saints."
We can do nothing better or more for the departed than to pray for them, commemorating them at the Liturgy. They always need this, especially in those forty days when the soul of the deceased follows the path to the eternal villages. The body then does not feel anything: it does not see the gathered loved ones, does not smell the smell of flowers, does not hear funeral speeches. But the soul feels the prayers offered for it, is grateful to those who offer them, and is spiritually close to them.
Oh, relatives and friends of the dead! Do for them what is necessary and what is within your power, use your money not for the external decoration of the coffin and grave, but to help those in need, in memory of your dead loved ones, in the Church, where prayers are offered for them. Be merciful to the dead, take care of their souls. The same path lies before you, and how then we would like to be remembered in prayer! Let us ourselves be merciful to the departed.
As soon as someone has died, immediately call the priest or tell him so that he can read the "Prayers for the Exodus of the Soul", which are supposed to be read over all Orthodox Christians after their death. Try, as far as possible, for the funeral to be in the church and for the Psalter to be read over the deceased before the funeral. The funeral should not be carefully arranged, but it is absolutely necessary that it be complete, without reduction; then think not of your own comfort, but of the deceased, with whom you part forever. If there are several dead in the church at the same time, do not refuse if you are offered that the funeral service be common to everyone. It is better that the funeral service be served simultaneously for two or more deceased, when the prayer of the assembled relatives will be more fervent, than for several funeral services to be served consecutively and services, due to lack of time and effort, were shortened, because each word of the prayer for the deceased is like a drop of water for the thirsty. Immediately take care of the magpie, that is, the daily commemoration at the Liturgy for forty days. Usually in churches where the service is performed daily, the deceased, who were buried in this way, are commemorated for forty days or more. But if the funeral was in a temple where there are no daily services, the relatives themselves should take care and order a magpie where there is a daily service. It is also good to send a donation in memory of the deceased to monasteries, as well as to Jerusalem, where unceasing prayer is offered up in holy places. But the forty-day commemoration should begin immediately after death, when the soul especially needs prayer help, and therefore the commemoration should begin at the nearest place where there is a daily service.
Let us take care of those who have gone to the other world before us, so that we can do everything for them that we can, remembering that blessed are mercy, for they will receive mercy (Matt. V, 7).
Resurrection of the body
One day this whole perishable world will come to an end and the eternal Kingdom of Heaven will come, where the souls of the redeemed, reunited with their resurrected bodies, immortal and incorruptible, will forever abide with Christ. Then the partial joy and glory that souls in heaven even now know will be replaced by the fullness of the joy of the new creation for which man was created; but those who did not accept the salvation brought to earth by Christ will be tormented forever - along with their resurrected bodies - in hell. In the final chapter of the Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, Rev. John of Damascus describes this final state of the soul after death well:
“We also believe in the resurrection of the dead. For it truly will be, there will be a resurrection of the dead. But, speaking of the resurrection, we imagine the resurrection of the bodies. For the resurrection is the second resurrection of the fallen; define as the separation of the soul from the body, then the resurrection is, of course, the secondary union of soul and body, and the secondary exaltation of the living being resolved and dead. from the dust of the earth, can resurrect it again, after it again, according to the Creator, was resolved and returned back to the earth from which it was taken ...
Of course, if only one soul practiced the exploits of virtue, then only she alone will be crowned. And if she alone was constantly in pleasure, then in justice she alone would have been punished. But since the soul did not aspire to either virtue or vice separately from the body, then in justice both will receive a reward together ...
So, we will rise again, as the souls will again unite with the bodies, which become immortal and take off corruption, and we will appear before the terrible judgment seat of Christ; and the devil, and his demons, and his man, that is, the Antichrist, and wicked people, and sinners will be delivered into eternal fire, not material, like the fire that is with us, but such as God can know about. And having created good things, like the sun, they will shine together with the Angels in eternal life, together with our Lord Jesus Christ, always looking at Him and being visible by Him, and enjoying the uninterrupted joy that flows from Him, glorifying Him with the Father and the Holy Spirit in endless ages of ages . Amen" (pp. 267-272).
Do the slain go to heaven?
From a letter:
“Dear Natalya Ivanovna, if you remember, it was I who called and told that once, out of the kindness of my soul, I gave your books to my ex-girlfriend, and after reading them, she decided to earn extra money, began to receive people on your behalf. You then also asked me to go to her and tell her to stop doing this immediately. I went to her, but she pushed me out, insulting and cursing me in every way. Then I, outraged by her behavior, gave an announcement so that people would not believe her, since she was a false healer, and not N. I. Stepanova from Novosibirsk. You would know what she did after that ...
This person does not understand well, she rented a room in a trading house and hosts a reception there, but only now she does not say that she is Stepanova, but says that she is your sister. I'm sorry if I upset you again, but she must be stopped, because she can harm many people, and the shame will go to you. I am writing to you for another reason. I am tormented by the question of where people who were killed by a violent death end up, because the person who was killed did not have time to confess before his death, and is it true that all sins are forgiven for them? The fact is that almost two years ago my husband was killed (we were not married to him), and I always think about whether his soul has found peace?
I also wanted to ask you when the second coming of Christ will be, so I'm already tired of everything. I feel very sad and bad without him, there is no support. I remind you that the name of the false healer is Natalya Sergeevna Tereshchenko (nee Skripchenko), born in 1980. I am very sad that she was once my friend. But you should know that her tongue is serpentine and deceitful, she will definitely start spreading all sorts of dirty rumors in revenge and will try to slander you in every possible way. So you, if anything, will now know who should be responsible for this!
My dear, first of all, thank you for trying to defend my name. Everything I can, I will help you. Many messages of this kind come to me, for the sake of money, announcements are given that say that N. I. Stepanova is conducting a reception (here and there), and, of course, not me, but another person is conducting this reception. And you are right that after the proceedings these enterprising people are trying in every possible way to annoy me. They spread false rumors, they write on the Internet that I do not exist, that I am already too old to heal people, or that I have died. Every time such a fuss ends in trouble for those who organize such a vicious game. There is nothing hidden that would not become obvious - this should not be forgotten.
Now about your question: “Is it true that all sins are forgiven for a murdered person?” I think that only the Lord God can know the answer to this question. He alone decides who to pardon and who to execute. Judge for yourself, for example, that person who himself killed people and was killed in a shootout or in a fight, how can you say here, whether his sins will be forgiven if he, even against his will, did not have time to confess and take communion before his death. On the other hand, there is an opinion that those people who died on Easter are forgiven for all sins. Each of the people wants to believe that there is an excuse for his sins, probably this is so, but, nevertheless, it is up to God to decide whether to forgive sin or not. You can only alleviate the fate of your deceased husband. Do good deeds and deeds in his memory. Read psalms and prayers according to his soul. Ask the Mother of God for protection for his soul, justification and mercy from Her Son Jesus Christ, and your labors will not be left without God's reward.
Not only you, but also many of my readers ask me about the fate of the souls of dead people. No one can know everything, but I will say what my grandmother explained to me, what the holy elders, for example, St. John Larch, said: “When a person confesses, the sins committed are destroyed by repentance and are not mentioned anywhere (three days after death), nor at the judgment of God. Immediately, as soon as a person dies, light and dark angels come to him in order to determine which of them the person (his soul) should follow. Light angels declare his good deeds in earthly life, while dark angels convict the soul of committing sins.
There are twenty ordeals of the soul after the death of a person. Here is how St. Theodora tells about these painful steps: “After parting with the body, on the path to the Lord, the soul meets its first ordeal, where sins are presented to it: verbosity, idle talk, idle talk, foul language, ridicule, blasphemy, singing obscene songs, passionate hymns , wanton exclamations, impudent laughter, etc.
Then the second ordeal: perjury, failure to fulfill the vows given to God, mentioning the name of God in vain, etc.
The third ordeal: the ascension of slander and slander against one's neighbor, as well as humiliation, defaming, ridicule and mockery of other people, etc.
The fourth ordeal: breaking fasts, drunkenness and greed for satiety, gluttony, voluptuousness, eating food without prayer, etc.
The fifth ordeal: abandoning prayer (not praying to God), negligence in serving God, parasitism, stump, etc.
The sixth ordeal: secret and hidden theft, theft and unlocking from one's theft, etc.
The seventh ordeal: avarice, money-grubbing, avarice, etc.
The eighth ordeal: covetous men, buyers of stolen goods, usurers, bribe-takers, embezzlers of other people's property, etc.
The ninth ordeal: unjust judgments, lovers of discussing other people's sins, sowing injustice, inciting quarrels, etc.
The tenth ordeal: envious people who hate those who live better, harm from their evil, etc.
Eleventh ordeal: vanity, pride, self-greatness, not paying due honor to one's parents, not honoring the spiritual and civil authorities, self-conceit (those who do not consider other opinions), disobedience and disobedience to elders.
The twelfth ordeal: swagger, vindictiveness, inability to forgive one's neighbor, rage, blasphemy, malice, etc.
The thirteenth ordeal: secret and open revenge on one's neighbor, rancor, threats, etc.
The fourteenth ordeal: murders, abortions, bringing a person to suicide, etc.
Fifteenth ordeal: seduction, temptation, introduction to sin, etc.
The sixteenth ordeal: voluptuous views, fornication from spouses in marriage, fornication of persons not bound by the sacrament of marriage, fornication in thoughts, thoughts, desires and deeds, defilement by touch, etc.
The seventeenth ordeal: the prodigal falls of persons who have dedicated themselves to God, the fall in their faith in God, etc.
Eighteenth ordeal: unnatural, fornication sins, sodomy (depraved) behavior, incest (marriage between people related by blood), temptation to incest, etc.
The nineteenth ordeal: blasphemy, apostasy from the Orthodox faith, doubting the faith and calling against the faith, spreading unbelief in God, etc.
The twentieth ordeal: mercilessness to the weak, mockery of the poor and the weak, mercilessness and cruelty, the use of one's power against the weak, the orphans and the defenseless, etc.”
All sources about the ordeals of souls come from the apostles, and it becomes known to us that all the passages of ordeals take place on the third day after death. That is why the relatives of the deceased also rush the church to offer prayers for the soul going through ordeals, trying to facilitate its passage through prayers, begging forgiveness from the Lord. After all the ordeals, the soul receives permission from God to visit the cloisters of all the saints and experience the beauty of paradise. The journey of the soul to the holiest and purest places lasts exactly six days. A righteous and sinless soul, contemplating paradise and the abodes of the saints, rejoices tenderly and glorifies the Creator. At the same time, the soul forgets the sorrow that it could know while in the body. The same soul that was sinful and did not have time or did not want to repent, at the sight of the pleasure and joy of pure souls and saints, begins to grieve and reproach itself for living in sin, and not serving God. On the ninth day, the soul, after its journey through paradise, again, together with its Angel, ascends to the second worship of God. On the same, the ninth day, relatives and friends of the deceased person gather to commemorate his soul.
They pray for him themselves and ask the church to pray for the reckoning of the departed soul to the nine angelic faces. It is after the second worship that our Heavenly King and Lord commands his angels to show their souls hell and all the torments of hell. The soul sees and hears the gnashing of teeth, the weeping and groans of sinners, and so thirty days pass. All this time, having bypassed all the circles of hell, the soul trembles in fear of being in this hell. And when the fortieth day of the parting of the soul with the body comes, it must appear for the third time before the Heavenly Judge. The fortieth day is the decisive day for determining the fate of this soul, where, in what place, the promise is prepared for it until the universal Last Judgment. On the fortieth day, a commemoration takes place on earth. Memorial services are ordered, prayers for a sinful soul, relatives and close people gather at the table, which must necessarily serve as a prayer for the soul of the one who has reposed. Having the prayers of these intercessors, our Merciful Lord can have mercy on a sinful soul.
So, my dear readers, I answered your questions regarding the newly deceased soul, who did not have time to repent before death. A very striking example of caring for the soul of the deceased is Ksenia of Petersburg, who, in order to receive complete forgiveness for the soul of her husband, who died without repentance, turned her whole life into serving this holy goal. I think everyone knows about her glorious feat.
According to statistics, Russia ranks second among all countries in the world in terms of the number of suicides. Our state leads in the number of suicides among adolescents and the elderly.
All these people hoped in this way to save themselves from suffering, by one action putting an end to it. Death, from their point of view, was the cessation of intelligent life and the extinction of consciousness. But does non-existence really exist? Where does the soul of a suicide go after death?
In different cultures
In Orthodoxy, suicide is considered the worst sin. It is forbidden to bury those who died voluntarily, to pray for them at liturgies. They seem to be crossed out from the lists of people who have ever existed. This act is condemned in all three world religions: Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Often people who kill themselves are buried separately from everyone else.
However, not all cultures were so categorical. So, in some Eastern cultures, in Rome, this action was an important ritual in society.
For Japanese samurai, hara-kiri was considered a matter of honor, which allowed them to avoid capture and atone for their own misdeeds. There are cases when permission to commit such a ritual suicide was considered a pardon from the emperor.
In India, the elderly, in order not to be a heavy burden on their families due to their own illnesses and weaknesses, burned themselves. Existed when wives jumped into the fire at the funeral of their husbands, burning alive in it.
The ancient Celts considered it shameful to live in old age and weakness. They had separate "rocks of ancestors", from where they passed away voluntarily, still having the remnants of their strength.
History knows many acts of self-sacrifice in honor of the gods. Usually they were preceded by many years of preparation, the study of ideology, so that a person understands why and what he is going for. And it was also encouraged in society.
Among the proud and ardent Roman aristocrats, suicide was considered an act of strong will. Sometimes the best friend of the deceased committed suicide in order to share with him the hardships of the afterlife. This act, committed in order not to be captured, was positively accepted.
Therefore, there is no unanimity on this issue. But today, when three world religions dominate, suicides are considered a sinful act.
Our ancestors
The Slavic people left to their descendants a lot of information about what happens to the soul of a suicide after leaving the next world. This is detailed in his myths. The ancient Slavs believed that the soul of a suicide after death becomes a ghost and wanders the earth for centuries. Usually she is at the place where she committed a sin, uttering crying and whistling, luring the lost passers-by with evil intentions. For this reason, our ancestors cut down trees for centuries, covering their tracks where the soul of a suicide found refuge. And they were buried in a special way, away from everyone.
The soul of a suicidal man was considered an evil spirit. The ancient people believed that because of his death, the weather changed on the same day, the winds suddenly rose, hail was falling. On full moons, the soul of a suicide appeared in cemeteries, anomalous zones, causing animal horror in everyone he met.
The body of the deceased in this way was subjected to a special ritual. Nails were driven into the mouth, and a stake into the heart, it was mutilated, sprinkled with sacred herbs. All this was done so that the soul of a suicide after death could not return to the body and the dead man did not rise from the grave. That way he wouldn't be able to do any harm by turning into a vampire. It was believed that the soul of a suicide lived in terrible torment that lasted for centuries.
Psychological research
After communicating with people who were saved from suicide, or their attempt was unsuccessful, psychologists say that 99% of people in the last minutes of their lives realize that they have committed a stupid act and do not want to die (for example, those who hang themselves begin look for a chair with your feet). But for some reason, they are no longer able to prevent the inevitable. The torment they are experiencing in these moments cannot be compared with anything. The sea of energy, adrenaline is thrown out. All the moments of life fly before their eyes, they do not just see, they feel memories of the first experience of a kiss, sex, a gift, a fall, a broken leg, everything that aroused emotions in them. It holds the soul. She does not leave the place where the person died in this way. There is a theory that due to the excessive amount of emotions that arose at that moment, adrenaline and energy releases, she remains in the place where it happened.
In other words, this is how the “anchor” is created that holds the soul. Since she left the physical shell, and the person changed his mind in the last minutes, because of this synthesis of energy, the circle closes. They outline this "hell on earth", where the soul of a suicide falls. Here she relives her horrific death over and over again every day. This is what happens to most people who commit suicide. Where the souls of suicides go, who remained faithful to their decision to the end, is unknown. Only the gods know about this.
condemned?
It is believed that in the other world, in which we all will one day find ourselves, there will be no oblivion, which a person who commits suicide hopes for.
There, the life of the mind continues in accordance with the karma of life on earth, the consequences of actions on it. A person weighed down with a mental load will continue to suffer because of unresolved difficulties. She will only feel the pain of her position more acutely. However, she will no longer have a chance for correction, he will remain in earthly life. The soul of a suicide will only experience a painful emotional reaction to the pictures that appear before her, full of the dramatic events of his life. This is what the lines from the Gospel say: “Whatever you untie on earth, it will be untied in heaven.”
Something can be corrected only in its physical incarnation. If a person leaves this world of his own free will, unresolved situations will haunt him with a vengeance, hallucinatory memories will haunt him, being experienced like real events.
Suicide violates the most important karmic law - the purpose of human life and its timing. The fact is that everyone comes into this world with a certain mission, which concerns personal growth. If the spirit of a person has talents, is great, it will touch many others. Even before the beginning of its life in the physical shell, the soul understands what its task is. Entering the body, due to physical matters, this knowledge is obscured, the destination is forgotten.
For the fulfillment of a personal task, certain periods of life on earth are always given, a certain amount of energy necessary for this.
If someone passes away before these dates, the destiny remains unfulfilled.
The energy allocated for this task is not realized, which begins to pull the soul of a suicide to the physical world for many more years.
Research scientists
The scientist from St. Petersburg K. Korotkov was actively engaged in the study of what happens to the soul of a suicide. He studied this phenomenon using Kirlian effects, which made it possible to see the energy of a person immediately after death and for several days after.
According to his findings, the post-mortem state of those who died naturally was very different from the energy of suicides. For example, he established three different types of glow of the bodies of those who died for various reasons. It was fixed using the Kirlian method.
For those who died naturally, the glow had a small amplitude of energy fluctuations. In the first few hours after her death, she gradually fell.
In the second type of glow, which was formed during a sudden death as a result of accidents, the fluctuations were also not large, but there was one bright peak.
The third type was observed in those who died as a result of a circumstance that could have been prevented. There, the glow was characterized by very large energy fluctuations that lasted a very long time. The same thing happened with the death that was provoked.
According to the scientist, these fluctuations reflected the state of the astral body, which lost its physical incarnation as a result of violence, after which it had no chance to naturally exist in another world. That is, the soul of a suicide goes to another world and continues to rush between the body and the astral, trying to find a way out.
hellish voices
There is another terrible moment that relates to the astral world. Many people who tried to commit suicide and were saved by specialists stated that they were informed about the decision to die by some voices in which they allegedly recognized their deceased relatives.
This phenomenon acts as an indirect, and sometimes direct cause of suicide very often.
This is a certain class of beings called elementals by the greatest medieval physician Paracelsus. They are positive and negative. The latter seek to capture the vital energy of people, preferring theft to self-production. When a person dies, he releases a large amount of energy, which serves as food for these astral vampires. Therefore, the elementals cling to people who are in prolonged depression and work on them, leading them to settle accounts with life.
Such eerie connections are often found by psychics in other people's auras. They call them "bindings" or "plugs". Sometimes potential suicides are processed on more subtle, subconscious levels. Then they are not voices, but extremely depressive thoughts with programs of self-destruction. These imposed thoughts over time, under the pressure of numerous attacks, are taken by people for their desire.
Captivity
It is believed that with the death of a person, his spirit begins to go through ordeals for 40 days. This is a difficult test for him, and this time is considered tragic. He does not understand what will be waiting for him next.
First, he spent six days in paradise, staying there with the righteous and blessed people, then for the rest of the time he goes to hell, where he is responsible for his sins. But during this period, he can repent of them and receive forgiveness.
The soul of a suicide after 40 days does not get such a chance. Due to unspent energy, she remains in the lower layers of the other world. Even being a righteous person, a person does not avoid the fate of falling into hell.
If he was allotted 70 years, and he lived only 25, then for the remaining 45 years he will be in the lower astral layers, where the soul immediately falls after the death of a suicide. She rushes about there for a long time in painful expectation.
Since ancient times, suicides have been considered ghosts. Voluntary departure from life is also unacceptable in the opinion of clairvoyants. Many of them instantly understand from photographs whether a person is still alive or not. However, about those who lay hands on themselves, they say that they are not both in the world of the living and in the world of the dead. Rescued people who survived clinical death as a result of settling accounts with life also spoke about what happens to the soul of a suicide after death. Usually this moment is very strongly imprinted on the psyche.
Even a fleeting glance at the other world, which was revealed to a person in those moments, gives a lot of information about where the soul of suicides goes. The studies of the posthumous world, which were conducted by the doctor together with other scientists, are known all over the world.
One of his patients, who was miraculously saved from a suicide attempt and survived from a coma, recounted the following. Once there, he clearly felt that two actions were forbidden: to kill himself and others. A woman who was pumped out after taking a lethal dose of sleeping pills said she felt she had done something wrong according to a higher commandment. She was sure of it and desperately tried to return to her body in order to survive.
This panic was fundamentally different from that felt by those who died naturally, but managed to get out (for example, due to illness). They described calmness and a feeling that everything was as it should be.
Edwin Shneidman on the soul of a suicide
This is one of the most famous researchers in everything related to suicide. Shneidman's book "The Soul of a Suicide" is popular all over the world. In it, he makes an attempt to realize what drives those who decide to lay hands on themselves. He singled out 10 characteristics that all suicides have in 95% of cases. So, one of the main features is mental pain. These people experience constant suffering, unrest. It is she who serves as the driving force in making the last decision in life. Pain is the source of suicidal thoughts. This action is a unique human reaction to mental anguish.
This is difficult to investigate, since no amount of analysis of brain cells with all sorts of devices will help form an opinion about what is really happening in the soul.
Shneidman notes that even those who suffer greatly when they are diagnosed with a fatal disease commit suicide not because of physical, but mental anguish caused by extreme anxiety. They are intangible and cannot be measured. However, one thing is clear: they are unbearable. Thoughts of killing oneself arise at a time when the pain becomes unbearable, and people tend to die in order to stop this awareness of pain.
A serious tragedy happening deep inside results in the laying on of hands. It is interesting that often those who were in the middle class in terms of material wealth, were an ordinary consumer, a worthy member of society, often sum up their lives in this way. Only a small percentage of them are added by the insane.
This study once again refutes the opinion that most often a person voluntarily leaves this life because of poverty, lack of material values. Most suicides are among those in the prime of life, the most cheerful representatives of the human race.
In terms of child deaths, 70% of child suicides came from well-to-do families.
How to help the soul of a person who committed suicide
Can the soul of a suicide be helped? Seraphim of Sarov described a case from his practice. Once he was approached by a family in which one of the members committed suicide by drowning himself in the river. Relatives who experienced terrible torment could not mention him in prayers.
But suddenly the holy elder answered them that their father was not a suicide. Sarovsky received a vision from God that at the moment when their loved one was falling down, he turned to God and received forgiveness. Prayers in churches for the departed are voluntarily prohibited, but those who wish to help them can mention them in private prayers performed at home. They can save those who have sinned in this way.
He called to pray with the rosary. He spoke about a woman he knew who had died by suicide. He began to pray for her with the rosary, and one night she came to him in dreams and thanked him for it. She said that a wonderful moment had come for her, and thanks to his efforts, she was going to where she would live forever. She was saved from eternal suffering thanks to his prayers, although she lived unrighteously.
Contact
It is believed that spirits from other worlds can be contacted. In particular, you can talk with the soul of a suicide. Do it with the help of images. It will not be possible to address it with a word, a question, but you can broadcast them through figurative thinking. Then she will respond to the call and also send an answer in the form of an image that will appear in a dream.
To transmit a message to the deceased, it must be encrypted, and to receive it, it must be decrypted. You should not use dream books, interpreters of dreams, in this case they will not help in any way, since they decipher the symbols, and you will need to interpret the images. They are compiled individually.
First you need to have an idea about figurative thinking, about how it works in a person. If it is absent, which is extremely rare, then a person will not be able to send messages to another world. In any case, he will see the answer in a dream, but he will not be able to correctly interpret it.
The best way to understand how figurative thinking works is with this example.
One interlocutor agrees with another to cross near a store familiar to both, next to which there is a bus stop. A person with dominant logical thinking will begin to ask which side to approach the store where the bus will stop. And the one who has a developed imaginative thinking will draw this picture in his head and easily find this place on his own, without asking any more questions.
Suitable for illustration and such an example. It is enough to tell someone from the household that the book is on the table. If he does not have imaginative thinking, he will ask where exactly it lies - on its right side or left. This will be very important for him, because he relies on logic, he needs to understand exactly where the object is. This happens in all areas of life. Anyone who is able to work with images will understand the first time that you need to look for a book on the table. Logicians are extremely difficult to induce to think figuratively. Before talking with the soul of a suicide at home, you need to take this into account in order to create image codes for such people correctly.
An encrypted question is transmitted to the soul with the help of a mental connection. The answer from the place where the soul of the suicide went will come in night dreams and can be deciphered using the code of images. It is always individual.
To choose the right code and ask questions to someone in another world, you need to contact only a loved one. You need to have knowledge about his character, manner of thinking, physical appearance.
If a connection is planned with one of the great souls, then you need to stock up on knowledge about his habits, biography, tune in to his wave by viewing his photos or portraits.
You need to fully concentrate on this person, otherwise the message will get to someone else, and the answer will seem incomprehensible. 100 billion people already lived on Earth, and there is such a possibility.
To send a message to the other world, you must first prepare. It is important to bring your body into the right state. First of all, you need to give up smoking, alcohol, drugs for a day, otherwise the information will be distorted. Also, do not do this while experiencing any pain.
To get the right message during sleep, you need to adjust your behavior during the day. For a day, you need to give up TV, movies, loud music, swearing, communication with the opposite sex. The most optimal solution would be the rejection of a heavy dinner, tea and coffee. All this is reflected in the quality of the transmission of messages. It is better to relax before going to bed by taking a walk outside. Any event that affects the emotional background during the day will certainly leave an imprint on dreams, and the data will be distorted.
If a person does not remember his own dreams, cannot retell them, then it hardly makes sense to contact another world. It is best to choose sincere people for this.
Conclusion
Attitudes towards suicide are different around the world. But most often it is believed that the soul of a suicide experiences unbearable suffering in the afterlife. This is because life is too amazing to set off a chain reaction of suicides into the world, which is always caused by the one who killed himself.
A person who has made a decision to die does not have the right to expect that the soul of a suicidal person after death will find peace in another world. According to statistics, every year there are twenty-five suicides per one hundred thousand of its citizens on the territory of Russia. According to psychologists, the main motive for suicide is the desire to get rid of the cursed knot of problems and torment once and for all, finding peace in non-existence.
But what kind of non-existence do they count on? And is it possible to find the longed-for peace in it? It is regrettable, but it must be said that all these hopes are in vain. And the soul of the suicidal, instead of the expected peace, faces a lot of moral torment.
What awaits a suicide after death
The other world does not bestow complete and eternal loss of consciousness, as the suicidal hope. After the death of the physical body, the consciousness continues to intelligently exist and reap the karma of earthly life. Simply put, the soul is responsible for what a person thought and did.
Those who have passed into the other world will have to feel even more acutely the problems that tormented them on earth. But if in physical life it was still possible to correct at least something, then in the afterlife there is no such possibility. It remains only to emotionally react to the scenes of earthly life that pass before the soul's eye. This is exactly what the Gospel says: “What you untie on earth will be untied in heaven.”
To achieve a solution to the tangled karmic circumstances is possible only with a physical shell. If a person instead decided to die, as an option for solving these problems, then this burden of unresolved problems will be an overwhelming burden on his soul after death. She will be tormented by hallucinatory memories that will be perceived as actually happening.
The horror of suicide is that the problems that prompted this step do not become easier and endlessly torment the mind. And this, not to mention the fact that, by performing such an action, a person violates the most important karmic law - he does not fulfill his life purpose and interrupts the period of life set for him on Earth.
Trapped in an astral hell
The appearance of each person into the light of God occurs in accordance with a specific mission associated with his personal spiritual development. And in the case when the spirit is endowed with talent and greatness, its mission may concern several more people. Even before its earthly incarnation, the human soul knows what kind of higher spiritual destination it is. But after gaining the body, physical matter manages to obscure the knowledge of the soul, completely removing the memories of the life purpose.
In order for a person to fulfill his destiny, a certain amount of vital energy is allocated to him and a specific period of his residence is assigned. Premature departure from the physical world does not allow you to realize all the allocated energy and fulfill your destiny. As a result of this, the connection between the soul of the suicide and the physical body will last as long as the person was supposed to live.
The soul of a person whose death was natural leaves the physical flesh without any difficulty and rushes into the astral plane, which is filled with divine music and bright colors. This is evidenced by people who have experienced clinical death.
When life is interrupted on purpose, the energy complex of a person is tied, due to his unused potential, to the lower layers in the astral world. They are very close to the physical world and they are filled with negative, heavy energy.
Isoteric teachings claim that it is to the dark, lower layers of the astral plane that the souls of sinners go. Religion gave these layers of the parallel world its name - hell. Even in the case when the suicide during his lifetime was a wonderful person, his soul will not be able to avoid the path to the hellish astral plane.
Suppose a person was meant to live 90 years, and he committed suicide at 20. So for the remaining 70 years he will be in the captivity of hell, doomed to wander painfully and painfully between the worlds.
Even the ancients noted that the sources of such phenomena as ghosts and posthumous ghosts are most often suicides. As another proof, one can cite the testimony of clairvoyants. It is possible for many of them to determine from a photograph whether a given person is alive or has already died. So psychics fail to see suicides either among the dead or among the living.
This painful condition is told by people who experienced clinical death after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. It turned out that even having briefly looked into the other world, a person receives a fairly large amount of knowledge about being in the other world.
Scientists cite the statements of people who have been in this state. So, a man who fell into a coma after a suicide attempt and came out of it said that during his arrival there he managed to understand for himself the impossibility of killing, whether it concerns him or someone else.
And one woman spoke about the presence in her of a clear feeling that she had done something bad. Moreover, the act was regarded not according to social norms, but according to the commandments from above. And she was so imbued with this that she immensely desired to continue living, returning to her body.
Temptation by evil demons
A large number of people from among those who made unsuccessful suicide attempts, returning to life, assured that voices from the other world pushed them to this act. And that in these voices they recognized the familiar intonations of relatives or close people who had gone to another world.
Under the influence of these voices, suicides very often occur. Even in the Middle Ages, the great physician Paracelsus gave them the name elementals, or primary spirits. This is a very dangerous and harmful class of creatures, among which, in fairness, it must be said, there are also positive ones.
The main goal of negative spirits is the life energy of people, which they do not extract, but steal. They catch the moment when there is an outburst of a large amount of psychic energy, and for this a person must die. To make this happen, demons penetrate the aura of people who are depressed or stressed and process them, pushing them to commit suicide.
There are no circumstances that would not be able to overcome the will and mind of man. To do this, it is enough for him to recognize the power hidden in his spirit. The Lord rewarded people with the will and mind, and using them to the fullest extent is the task of each of the living. And this is especially true for people who find themselves in a difficult life situation. God is with us, which means that there are no unsolvable problems that a person could not cope with.
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