St. Martyr Sebastian and His Retinue (On the Existence of the Afterlife) I. St. Sebastian, whose memory is being celebrated today, was the head of the palace guard under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian. The kings loved him for his bravery in war and his wisdom in council, and always kept him with him,

What if there is no afterlife? Belief in God, in the immortality of the soul and the afterlife seems to atheists-atheists to be something like a muzzle that contradicts the inner disposition of their soul and, of course, prevents their sinful plans, deeds and pleasures ... They didn’t “taste

6. ON THE AFTERLIFE "For in death there is no remembrance of You in the tomb, who will praise You?" (Psalm 6:6). One day, as I was leaving the temple, I bought a small book from the church kiosk. Now I don’t remember what it is called, but it described the afterlife of the soul after death.

10. ABOUT THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL AND THE AFTER LIFE It would be better not to raise this question at all. Some believe in an afterlife, others do not. But let's make one thing clear: the entire Christian religion is built on the common dogma of the universal resurrection. All, without exception, Christian Churches

There is nothing more beautiful than hearing children's laughter from the next room, of course, except if it is night and you live alone and there are no children in your house. But of course this is all a joke.

Various mystical stories often come to the editors of the site, but not everything is published immediately, it just waits for its time. Here we have collected 9 stories about strange things told by children that happened in real life. All the stories are told by different people, completely unfamiliar with each other.

9 mysterious stories

1. My brother grew up with a panic fear of water. I was 4 years older than him. And when he was about 5 years old, I asked him why he was so afraid of water, because from childhood I was accustomed to water and felt comfortable. My brother then answered me: “I was on a big ship that crashed into a piece of ice, everyone around started running and screaming. Then I got into the water and I got very cold.” But this shocking story is very similar to that drowned on April 12, 1912. But my brother was born in April 1992. Exactly 80 years later. Was he talking about his past life?

2. When my son was about 4 years old, he periodically crawled strangely, arching his back in the opposite direction. It was very incomprehensible. At the same time, he made a long squeaky sound, as if in an inhuman voice. One night, he crawled, thus, through the entire hall straight to my room and stopped, right in front of my face, making the same strange meowing sound. And then he crawled under my blanket and fell asleep. After a while, he began to get scared of some monster in the basement. My wife and I, of course, went downstairs, but found nothing there. And when I turned on the light, my son said that "he" was standing behind us. Of course, we didn't feel comfortable. But the strangest thing that happened was when I scolded my son for his bad behavior and he hid under the covers in his room. I pretended not to be able to find him saying, "Where's my little Billy???". At that moment, the son lifted the blanket and, with a terribly distorted grimace on his face, said in a voice that was not his own: “Billy is no more!”. I was shocked, I got the impression that my son had become possessed. I have never seen him in such a wild state. The next morning, I woke up to find my three-year-old son standing next to me, staring at me with a big smile on his face. He stood and stood like that, continuing to look at me, and smiled. "What are you doing?" I finally asked. "Nothing," he replied smiling. At this time, I realized that he was hiding something behind his back. "Do you have something in your hand?" I asked. "No," he replied. Then I looked behind him and saw a large kitchen knife in his hand.

3. My girlfriend and her husband bought an old house that was many years old. They were remodeling the basement when I came to visit them. I went down there with their 2-year-old son, who hasn't really learned how to talk yet. He took my hand and led me to an old brick stove with a metal door. He looked at me and then clearly said, "That's where dead kids go." I was shocked. Firstly, as I said, the child did not yet know how to speak clearly, and then he said something that made the hair on my head move. I'm sure no one told him that.

4. My daughter stood near the open closet and laughed. When I asked her why she was laughing, then she said it was because of the man. "Which person?" I asked. Then she pointed to the closet and said, "The man with the rope around his neck." I looked in the closet, but there was no one there. After this incident, I was afraid to study the history of my house, in order not to find out if someone had been hanged in it.

5. When I was a child, Mr. Rand came to my room several times a week. He talked to me and talked about the second world war and how he was killed there. Of course, Mr. Rand was a figment of my imagination and then, when I started to grow up, he stopped coming to me. Now I am an adult woman and my son is 5 years old. Once he left his room late and said that there was a person in his room. I jumped up and ran there. Naturally, there was no one there. To this my son said that it was Mr. Rand, and he asked me to betray that he was all right.

6. My mother told me this story. When I was little (I was about two years old), my grandmother was in the hospital dying of cancer. At that time, I did not understand what was happening and one day I looked at my mother and said that I had only one grandmother. My mother, in tears, tried to explain to me that I have two grandmothers. But I continued to insist that my grandmother was alone. Then the phone rang, my mother was told that my grandmother had died a few minutes ago.

7. Once my daughter came up to me and said that there is a woman in her room who looks at her while watching movies, and she also sleeps on the ceiling while the girl sleeps in her bed. The daughter also said that this woman does not love her and wants to rip out her heart. My daughter only watches children's channels on TV. Therefore, I am very scared and cannot understand where she got it from.

8. My friend has a 4 year old son who lives with his mother. Once, his mother's neighbors had puppies, and they did not know where to attach them. Mom brought one home. After some time, a strange incident occurred: the child put the puppy in the washing machine. Then he calmly went to his room to play. My friend, the boy's father, was visiting them at that time and heard how the washing machine began to work. He went to look and saw a puppy in it. He realized what had happened and stopped the laundry. At that moment, he thought that his son did not understand what he was doing. Therefore, he quickly took out a dead puppy so as not to injure the child's psyche. The boy noticed that his father was walking from the washing machine to the door, then he went to the car and asked: “Is the puppy already dead?”. The man was in shock. He still cannot find an explanation for this.

9. My 3 year old niece asked me many times about some strange woman appearing in the room. She pointed to a distant dark corner, but somehow I did not attach any importance to this and thought that it was just her imagination. Friends often come to me and once they took their little daughter with them. She never saw my niece, but she asked me twice about this strange woman and pointed to the same place in the room as my niece. After that, I didn't know what to think. Once on New Year's Eve, the whole family came to me. We started looking at old family photos, and my niece pointed to a photo of my wife and said that this was the woman she had seen. Then she asked if she would come to us for the holiday. The fact is that my wife died 10 years ago due to a serious illness.

These mystical stories may seem incredible. But in our time, you can no longer be surprised at such strange things. But decide for yourself whether to believe it or not.

Is there life after death? Probably every person asked this question at least once in their life. And this is quite obvious, because the unknown scares the most.

In the scriptures of all religions without exception, it is said that the human soul is immortal. Life after death is presented either as something wonderful, or vice versa - terrible in the form of Hell. According to Eastern religion, the human soul undergoes reincarnation - it moves from one material shell to another.

However, modern people are not ready to accept this truth. Everything requires proof. There is a judgment about various forms of life after death. A large amount of scientific and fiction literature has been written, many films have been shot, where a lot of evidence of the existence of life after death is given.

Here are 12 real proofs of the existence of life after death.

In medicine, a statement of the fact of death occurs when the heart stops and the body does not breathe. Clinical death occurs. From this state, the patient can sometimes be brought back to life. True, a few minutes after the circulatory arrest, irreversible changes occur in the human brain, and this means the end of earthly existence. But sometimes, after death, some fragments of the physical body, as it were, continue to live.

For example, in Southeast Asia, there are mummies of monks who grow nails and hair, and the energy field around the body is many times higher than the norm for an ordinary living person. And perhaps they have something else alive that cannot be measured by medical devices.

2: Forgotten tennis shoe

Many near-death patients describe their feelings as a bright flash, light at the end of the tunnel, or vice versa - a gloomy and dark room with no way out.

An amazing story happened to a young woman, Maria, an immigrant from Latin America, who, in a state of clinical death, seemed to leave her ward. She drew attention to the tennis shoe, forgotten by someone on the stairs, and regaining consciousness told the nurse about this. One can only try to imagine the state of the nurse who found the shoe in the indicated place.

3: Polka dot dress and broken cup

This story was told by a professor, doctor of medical sciences. His patient's heart stopped during surgery. The doctors managed to get him started. When the professor visited the woman in intensive care, she told an interesting, almost fantastical story. At some point, she saw herself on the operating table and, horrified at the thought that, having died, she would not have time to say goodbye to her daughter and mother, she was miraculously transported to her home. She saw her mother, daughter and a neighbor who came to them, who brought the baby a dress with polka dots.

And then the cup broke and the neighbor said that it was for luck and the girl's mother would recover. When the professor went to visit the relatives of a young woman, it turned out that during the operation, a neighbor really dropped in on them, who brought a dress with polka dots, and the cup broke ... Fortunately!

4: Return from Hell

A well-known cardiologist, professor at the University of Tennessee Moritz Rooling told an interesting story. The scientist, who many times brought patients out of a state of clinical death, was, first of all, a person very indifferent to religion. Until 1977.

This year an incident occurred that made him change his attitude towards human life, soul, death and eternity. Moritz Rawlings carried out resuscitation of a young man, which was not uncommon in his practice, by chest compressions. His patient, as soon as consciousness returned to him for a few moments, begged the doctor not to stop.

When they managed to bring him back to life, and the doctor asked what scared him so, the excited patient replied that he was in hell! And when the doctor stopped, he returned there again and again. At the same time, his face expressed panic horror. As it turned out, there are many such cases in international practice. And this, of course, makes one think that death means only the death of the body, but not the personality.

Many people who have survived the state of clinical death describe it as a meeting with something bright and beautiful, but the number of people who have seen fiery lakes, terrible monsters, is becoming no less. Skeptics argue that these are nothing more than hallucinations caused by chemical reactions in the human body as a result of oxygen starvation of the brain. Everyone has their own opinion. Everyone believes what they want to believe.

But what about ghosts? There are a huge number of photographs, videos, which allegedly contain ghosts. Some call it a shadow or film defect, while others firmly believe in the presence of spirits. It is believed that the ghost of the deceased returns to earth to complete unfinished business, to help solve the mystery in order to find peace and tranquility. Some historical facts are possible proofs of this theory.

5: Napoleon's signature

In 1821. King Louis XVIII was placed on the French throne after the death of Napoleon. Once, lying in bed, he could not sleep for a long time, thinking about the fate that befell the emperor. Candles burned dimly. On the table lay the crown of the French state and the marriage contract of Marshal Marmont, which Napoleon was supposed to sign.

But military events prevented this. And this paper lies before the monarch. The clock at the Church of Our Lady struck midnight. The bedroom door opened, although it was locked from the inside with a latch, and into the room came ... Napoleon! He went to the table, put on the crown and took a pen in his hand. At that moment, Louis lost consciousness, and when he came to his senses, it was already morning. The door remained closed, and on the table lay a contract signed by the emperor. The handwriting was recognized as true, and the document was in the royal archives as early as 1847.

6: Boundless love for mother

The literature describes another fact of the appearance of the ghost of Napoleon to his mother, on that day, May 5, 1821, when he died far away from her in captivity. In the evening of that day, the son appeared before his mother in a robe that covered his face, he blew icy cold. He said only: "May fifth, eight hundred and twenty-one, today." And left the room. Only two months later, the poor woman found out that it was on this day that her son had died. He could not help but say goodbye to the only woman who was his support in difficult times.

7: The Ghost of Michael Jackson

In 2009, a film crew traveled to the ranch of the late king of pop, Michael Jackson, to film footage for the Larry King program. During filming, a certain shadow fell into the frame, very reminiscent of the artist himself. This video went live and immediately caused a strong reaction among the singer's fans, who could not survive the death of their beloved star. They are sure that Jackson's ghost still appears in his house. What it really was remains a mystery to this day.

8: Birthmark Transfer

In several Asian countries, there is a tradition of marking a person's body after death. His relatives hope that in this way the soul of the deceased will be reborn again in his own family, and those very marks will appear in the form of birthmarks on the bodies of children. This happened to a boy from Myanmar whose birthmark on his body exactly matched the mark on the body of his deceased grandfather.

9: Handwriting revived

This is the story of a little Indian boy, Taranjit Singh, who at the age of two began to claim that his name was different, and earlier he lived in another village, the name of which he could not know, but called it correctly, like his past name. When he was six years old, the boy was able to remember the circumstances of "his" death. On the way to school, he was hit by a man riding a scooter.

Taranjit claimed that he was a ninth grade student and that day he had 30 rupees with him, and his notebooks and books were soaked with blood. The story of the tragic death of a child was fully confirmed, and the handwriting samples of the deceased boy and Tarangit were almost identical.

10: Innate knowledge of a foreign language

The story of a 37-year-old American woman who was born and raised in Philadelphia is interesting because, under the influence of regressive hypnosis, she began to speak pure Swedish, considering herself a Swedish peasant.

The question arises: Why can't everyone remember their "former" life? And is it necessary? There is no single answer to the eternal question about the existence of life after death, and there cannot be.

11: Testimonies from near-death survivors

This evidence is, of course, subjective and controversial. It is often difficult to appreciate the meaning of the statements "I separated from the body," "I saw a bright light," "I flew into a long tunnel," or "I was accompanied by an angel." It is difficult to know how to respond to those who say that in a state of clinical death they temporarily saw heaven or hell. But we know for sure that the statistics of such cases is very large. The general conclusion from them is the following: approaching death, many people felt that they were not coming to the end of existence, but to the beginning of some new life.

12: Resurrection of Christ

The strongest evidence for the existence of life after death is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Even in the Old Testament, it was predicted that the Messiah would come to Earth, who would save His people from sin and eternal death (Is. 53; Dan. 9:26). This is exactly what Jesus' followers testify that He did. He voluntarily died at the hands of the executioners, "was buried by a rich man" and three days later left the empty tomb in which he lay.

According to witnesses, they saw not only the empty tomb, but also the resurrected Christ, who appeared to hundreds of people for 40 days, after which he ascended to heaven.

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This is the story of a man whose life was cut short by tragedy. British journalist William T. Stead (1849-1912) contributed to various newspapers in his time and, in addition, showed an increased interest in parapsychology. He wrote several books on the subject, such as From the Old World to the New; moreover, he possessed the gift of a medium. William Stead himself, as a reporter, took part in the maiden voyage of the infamous Titanic in 1912. The ship was heading to the United States, and as a result of this voyage, it was supposed to receive the Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic. Due to frivolous mistakes that were made in the management of the ship, on the night of April 14-15, a collision occurred with an iceberg in the northern part of the Atlantic.

The Titanic, which was called nothing less than unsinkable, split into two parts and sank in a few hours, taking 1517 human lives with it. Among them was William Stead. Two days later, through the mouth of Mrs. Wreedt, a medium from Detroit, he gave accurate information about the catastrophe. He told in more detail later, controlling the hand of his daughter Estelle Stead, who also had the gift of a medium. Here are excerpts from the detailed account she recorded of the late Stead:

“I want to tell you where a person goes after he dies and ends up. I was glad that in everything that I heard or read about the other world, there was such a weighty share of truth. Since, although in general, even during my lifetime, I was sure of the correctness of these views, doubts did not leave me, despite all the arguments of reason. That is why I was so happy when I realized to what extent everything here corresponds to earthly descriptions.

I was still near the place of my death and could observe what was happening there. was in full swing, and people fought a desperate battle with the inexorable elements for their lives. Their attempts to stay alive gave me strength. I could help them! In an instant, my state of mind changed, deep helplessness replaced by purpose. My only desire was to help people in need. I believe that I actually saved many.

I will skip describing those minutes. The denouement was close. It felt like we were going on a trip on a ship, and those assembled on board were patiently waiting for all the other passengers to board the ship. I mean, we were waiting for the end, when we could say with relief: the saved are saved, the dead are alive!

Suddenly, everything around us changed, and it was as if we were actually on a trip. We, the souls of the drowned, were a strange team that set off on a journey with an unknown goal. The experiences that we experienced in connection with this were so unusual that I will not undertake to describe them. Many of the souls, realizing what had happened to them, plunged into painful reflections and thought with sadness about their loved ones left on earth, as well as about the future. What awaits us in the coming hours? Are we to face the Master? What will be His judgment?

Others were as if stunned and did not react at all to what was happening, as if they did not realize or perceive anything. There was a feeling that they were again experiencing a catastrophe, but now - a catastrophe of the spirit and soul. All together we were a truly strange and somewhat sinister team. Human souls in search of a new haven, a new home.

During the crash, in just a few minutes, hundreds of dead bodies were in the icy water. Many souls simultaneously rose into the air. One recent cruise ship passenger guessed he was dead and was horrified that he couldn't bring his belongings with him. Many desperately tried to save what was so important to them in earthly life. I think everyone will believe me when I say that the unfolding events on the sinking ship were by no means the most joyful and pleasant. But even they did not fall under any comparison with what was happening at the same time beyond the limits of earthly life. The sight of the unfortunate souls so abruptly pulled out of earthly life was absolutely depressing. It was as heartbreaking as it was repulsive, disgusting.

So, we waited for everyone who had fallen that night to go on a trip to an unfamiliar to gather. The movement itself was amazing, much more unusual and strange than I expected. The sensation was such that we, being on a large platform, which is held by someone's invisible hand, take off vertically upwards with incredible speed. Despite this, I did not have any feeling of insecurity. There was a feeling that we were moving in a precisely defined direction and on a planned trajectory.

I can't say exactly how long the flight was, nor how far off the ground. The place we ended up in was fabulous. It felt like we were suddenly transported from a gloomy and foggy area somewhere in England to a luxurious Indian sky. Everything around radiated beauty. Those of us who had accumulated knowledge about the other world during our earthly life understood that we were in a place where the souls of suddenly dead people find shelter.

We felt that the very atmosphere of these places has a healing effect. Each newcomer had a feeling that he was filled with some kind of life-giving force, and soon he already felt cheerful and gained peace of mind.

So we arrived, and as strange as it may sound, each of us was proud of ourselves. Everything around was so bright, alive, so real and physically tangible - in a word, as real as the world we left behind.

Friends and relatives, who had died earlier, immediately approached everyone who arrived with heartfelt greetings. After that, we - I'm talking about those who, by the will of fate, went on a journey on that ill-fated ship and whose lives were cut short overnight - parted. Now we were all our own masters again, who were surrounded by dear friends who had come into this world earlier.

So, I have already told you about what was our extraordinary flight and what was the arrival in a new life for us. Next, I would like to talk about the first impressions and experiences that I experienced. To begin with, I’ll make a reservation that I can’t say exactly at what time, relative to the moment of the crash and my departure from life, these events took place. Everything seemed to me a continuous sequence of events; As for being in the other world, I had no such sensation.

Next to me was my good friend and my father. He stayed with me to help me get used to the new environment where I now had to live. Everything that happened was no different from a simple trip to another country, where you are met by a good friend who helps you get used to the new environment. I was surprised to my core when I realized this.

The eerie scenes I witnessed during and after the shipwreck were already in the past. Due to the fact that in such a short time in the other world I experienced such a huge number of impressions, the events of the catastrophe that occurred the previous night were perceived by me as if they had happened 50 years ago. That is why the worries and anxious thoughts about loved ones who remained in earthly life did not overshadow the joyful feeling that the beauty of the new world evoked in me.

I'm not saying that there were no unfortunate souls. There were many of them, but they were unhappy only because they did not realize the connection between life in the earthly and the other world, could not understand anything and tried to resist what was happening. Those of us who knew about a strong connection with the earthly world and our possibilities were overwhelmed with a sense of joy and peace. That state of ours can be described in these words: give us the opportunity to enjoy a little new life and the beauty of the local nature before we announce all the news about the house. This is how carefree and serene we felt upon arrival in the new world.

Returning to my first impressions, I want to say one more thing. I'm happy to say with good reason that my old sense of humor hasn't gone anywhere. I can guess that the following can amuse a lot of skeptics and scoffers, who consider the events I have described to be nonsense. I have nothing against it. I'm even glad that my little book will impress them even in this way. When their turn comes, they will find themselves in the same position that I will now describe. Knowing this makes it possible for me, with a certain amount of irony, to say to such people: “Stay with your opinion, for me personally it means nothing.”

In the company of my father and my friend, I set out on my journey. One of the observations struck me to the depths of my soul: as it turned out, I was wearing the same clothes as in the last minutes of earthly life. I absolutely could not understand how it happened and how I managed to move to another world in the same suit.

My father was in the suit I had seen him in during his lifetime. Everything and everything around looked completely "normal", the same as on earth. We walked next to each other, breathed fresh air, talked about common friends who are now both in the other world and in the physical world we have left. I had something to tell my relatives, and they, in turn, told me a lot about old friends and the peculiarities of life here.

There was something else that surprised me about the surrounding area: its extraordinary colors. Let us recall what a general impression that particular play of colors that is characteristic of the English countryside can make on a traveler. We can say that it is dominated by gray-green tones. Immediately there was no doubt about this: the landscape concentrated in itself all shades of pale blue. Do not just think that houses, trees, people also had this heavenly hue, but still the overall impression was undeniable.

I told my father about this, who, by the way, looked much more cheerful and younger than in the last years of his earthly life. Now we could be mistaken for brothers. So, I mentioned that I see everything around in blue, and the father explained that my perception did not deceive me. The heavenly light here actually has a strong blue glow, which makes this area especially suitable for souls in need of rest, because the waves of blue have a miraculous healing effect.

Here some of the readers will probably object, believing that all this is pure fiction. I will answer them: don't there exist such places on earth, one stay in which contributes to the cure of certain diseases? Turn on your mind and common sense, understand, in the end, that the distance between the earthly and the other world is very small. As a consequence, the relations that exist in these two worlds must be similar in many respects. How is it possible that an indifferent person after death would immediately pass into a state of absolute divine essence? This does not happen! Everything is development, ascent and progress. This applies to both people and worlds. The "next" world is only an addition to the already existing world in which you reside.

The sphere of another life is inhabited by people whose destinies are mixed in the most bizarre way. Here I met people of all social classes, races, skin tones, physique. Despite the fact that everyone lived together, everyone was busy thinking about himself. Everyone was focused on their needs and immersed in the world of their interests. What in earthly life would have had dubious consequences, here was a necessity from the point of view of both the general and individual good. Without immersion in this kind of special state, it would be impossible to talk about further development and recovery.

Because of such a general immersion in one's own personality, peace and tranquility reigned here, which is especially noteworthy given the eccentricity of the local population described above. Without such concentration on oneself, it would be impossible to enter this state. Everyone was busy with themselves, and the presence of some was hardly recognized by others.

This is the reason why I had the opportunity to meet not many local residents. Those who greeted me upon my arrival here disappeared, with the exception of my father and a friend. But I was not at all upset about this, as I finally got the opportunity to fully enjoy the beauty of the local landscape.

We often met and took long walks along the seashore. Nothing here reminded of earthly resorts with their jazz bands and promenades. Silence, peace and love reigned everywhere. Buildings rose to our right, and the sea lapped softly to our left. Everything around her radiated a soft light and reflected the unusually rich blue of the local atmosphere.

I don't know how long our walks were. We talked with enthusiasm about everything new that was revealed to me in this world: about local life and people; about relatives left at home; about the opportunity to communicate with them and tell what happened to me during this time. I think we traveled really long distances in such conversations.

If you imagine a world roughly the size of England, with every imaginable species of animals, buildings, landscapes, not to mention people, then you will have a vague idea of ​​what the terrain of another world looks like. It probably sounds incredible, fantastic, but believe me: life in the other world is like a trip to an unfamiliar country, nothing more, except that every moment of being there was unusually interesting and fulfilling for me.

Further, William Stead describes in detail the new places of the afterlife and the events that happened to him. But one should not assume that every dead person ends up after death in such a world. Even if this happens, this does not mean at all that the deceased can or will have to be in such a place for eternity. And after death, the opportunity for further development of the soul does not disappear anywhere ...