Swamp world of the dead world of the living. The world of the living and the world of the dead. Music as the key to the world of the dead

People with superpowers very often have such a problem as an open portal to the World of the Dead. And this is the result of previous incarnations, especially for those who lived in Ancient Egypt and owned that Great Magic, where the boundaries between the Worlds were erased.

How does an open portal to the World of the Dead interfere with a psychic?

Any person has a blocked memory of past incarnations, and a psychic is no exception. Of course, with the help of diving into the deep, you can find out some information, but these are just fragments of the past that do not give a general picture, and this is not enough.

If any catastrophe happens on planet Earth (especially with the innocently killed), so the souls of the departed begin to come in droves to the psychic and talk about the causes of misfortune, transmit messages to the living ... And the heart bleeds, looking at all this! So much pain and tears!

Not every psychic has the psyche to withstand such a load. And also the vital energy flows out of a person into That World.

Sometimes relatives of a murdered person rely on the superpowers of a psychic, trying to find out the cause of death, and here the surest way to find out the truth is to ask the murdered person himself, his Soul. And for this you need to get in touch with the victim.

In this case, difficulties of a different nature may arise. It is not possible to establish contact when the portal¹ is closed.

The portal to the World of the Dead² "lives" at its own rhythm and decides when it opens and when it closes. Or is it decided by the souls of the dead. At the same time, no one asks for the consent of a psychic!

And it's very sad...

Therefore, we take under personal control the opening and closing of the portal to the World of the Dead!

First you need to determine where in your aura³ this "tunnel" is located. Usually, it happens on the left side, but it happens otherwise. If the portal is in front, then this is the worst option! The future of a person is blocked, or rather, the future becomes obvious - this is an imminent departure There.

Therefore, by an effort of will and work of thought, it is necessary to move this portal and place it on the left. This will take some time, but you must patiently and methodically do this every day until the portal is clearly on the left!

If necessary, you can directly “move” the portal in the right direction with your hands. At the same time, ask the Higher Powers for help and thank them when it works out.

You can work with the portal to the World of the Dead only when it is on the left!

The World of the Living and the World of the Dead are different in their density. And the portal does not have clear boundaries, it is vague. Energies need to be densified to form a door.

First, we form a doorway (i.e., being in the World of the Living, you condense the vibrations of this World into a clear shape of a doorway). Then we form door hinges, and on them we hang a door with a lock and a door handle.

The lock must be of such a type that it can only be opened by a key and only from your side.

You can make any door you like! Whether wooden or gold! The main thing is that it is strong and reliable!

The door remains ajar!

Now let's ask the Higher Forces (God, the Guardian Angel) to give us the key to close and open this door, and keep this passage under personal control. We just say, “Lord! Give me the key to close and open this door to the Other World when I need it, and keep this passage under personal control!”

To do this, we stretch our right hand in front of us with the palm up so that the key lies exactly on the right palm. The key can be anything - it is individual. It may be the Golden Key from a fairy tale, or it may look like a bent wire - it doesn’t matter! The main thing is that it is only yours!

Remember! Globally, you will not affect the World of the Dead, as well as this World. But you will gain personal control over your connection to the World of the Dead. You will establish good neighborly relations in which communication will take place only with mutual consent!

If the Higher Powers give you the key, great! You are a worthy magician who has been entrusted with high order control! Be sure to give thanks for this honor!

Hold the key in your right hand! Do not let the key out of your right hand at all!

Now let's close the door with the key with the right hand. Take the key out of the keyhole. Use your left hand to pull the handle of the closed door to make sure it is closed. And now again we will open the door with the key with the right hand. Let's take out the key from the keyhole (the key remains all the time in the right hand!). Open the door with the left hand.

It is not necessary to open the door completely! Everything opens - very good! And again we will close the door with the key with the right hand. Take the key out of the keyhole. With the left hand, check if it is well locked.

How to store the key?

Remember, when we were little, our parents attached mittens to a fur coat with an elastic band (the Soviet version). When you pull the mitten, the elastic stretches, release it, and the elastic immediately pulls the mitten right into the sleeve.

The key must be stored according to the same principle. We imagine that the key lies on the right palm. From the right hand, we begin to “grow” the rubber band. Somewhere inside, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe elbow bend or higher (as you like), we create an energy elastic band. The flagellum grows, becomes longer and emerges directly from the center of the palm. Now you need to attach the key to this harness - you can tie it “weld by welding”, you can simply splice them.

How to get and hide the key?

The tourniquet (at your command) pulls the key straight into your hand and places it above your wrist inside your right hand. Then we give the command to get the key - and the key comes out of the hand directly onto the palm. Again the command to hide the key - and the tourniquet draws the key into the hand. This is how we work!

VERY IMPORTANT!!!

Never, under any circumstances, let the key out of your hand!!! If you inadvertently leave the key in the keyhole, it can be stolen by entities of a subtle plane⁴, despite the rubber band attached! And then no one can help you!

When you ask the Higher Powers for this key, you take full responsibility for it! And if you lose it, it's your own fault! Therefore, it is very important to bring the principle of working with the key to automaticity: I took out the key - opened the lock - hid the key - opened the door - did what I needed - closed the door - took out the key and closed the lock - hid the key. Now you can live in peace!

I wish you good luck and success!

Notes and feature articles for a deeper understanding of the material

¹ A portal in science fiction and fantasy is a technological or magical opening that connects two distant locations separated by space and time (Wikipedia).

² The underworld is the world to which people go after death, the abode of the dead or their souls (Wikipedia).

⁴ The astral plane is a concept in occultism, esotericism, philosophy, in the experience of lucid dreams, denoting a volume (layer) of the universe (nature) different from the material (

“They buried their dead in the ground,” wrote S.G.F. Brandon, - since they were convinced that the abode of the dead was underground ... The provision of the dead with objects that they needed in this life, apparently, can be explained by the fact that primitive people were completely unable to imagine life after death in any other way than the life they knew here on earth.”

This statement of the largest religious scholar in a special work devoted to the posthumous judgment in the beliefs of various peoples is remarkable for its specificity. But in reality, it is very stupefying to the ancient man, who knew perfectly well that the interred dead man lies where he was buried, does not use any tools and does not eat anything from the food left in the grave.

The funeral rite of prehistoric man should at least assume that in the minds of those who performed it there was an idea of ​​the duality of human nature, of the body rotting in the grave, and of the soul that descends into the "abode of the dead." Accordingly, the soul needs not the material objects themselves, but their “souls”. Just as on earth a corporeal person eats material food from an earthen cup and strikes the enemy with a battle ax, so in the world of souls, the soul of the deceased is able to eat the soul of food and strike the soul of the enemy with the soul of an ax.

In order for a person to “give up his spirit”, for the soul to be separated from the body, the death of the material body must necessarily occur. In order for the souls of objects to become part of the world of the deceased, they, as material objects, must also die. Hence - a fairly common custom of later centuries - to kill slaves and wives on the graves of their masters and husbands, and the tradition dating back to the Neolithic of breaking dishes and other household items on the grave. The tearing of clothes as a sign of mourning for the dead goes back, perhaps, to the same series of symbols.

But, although knowledge of the fact of the dual, and even ternary (spirit, soul and body) nature of man can already be found in the earliest eras of the existence of the genus Homo, in the middle and even in the early Paleolithic (Zhou Koudian's Sinanthropes), his explanation of the fullness of the funeral ritual hardly possible.

First, the body is buried, the body is given a fetal or sleeping position. This means that they believe in awakening, in the rebirth of the body, which means that the ancient otherness of man is not limited by the life of the soul, but they are waiting in the future for some wonderful moment when the souls will reunite with the bodies and the dead will wake up.

Secondly, the breaking of gifts for the dead is a rather late and not universal custom. Rather, here we are faced with a secondary rationalization of the funeral ritual. Initially, the posture that was given to the body of the deceased, and food, and objects of labor, and weapons placed in the grave, emphasized, symbolically denoted that the deceased was alive, that death was his temporary state.

In other cultures, to signify this fact, they resorted to other symbolic rows and did not accompany burial with objects of earthly life. Yes, and the tradition of the earth, recorded from the Mousterian burials of the Neanderthals, arose not from the desire to “bring” the deceased to the underground abode of souls, but rather from a simple and at the same time infinitely deep conviction that Mother Earth, from which the body was taken, should be returned to her. And she, the Earth, when the time comes, will revive the seed of heavenly life, the Eternal Sky.

And again, only a secondary rationalization connected the abode of souls, the realm of the dead, with the underworld, precisely because the bodies of the dead were placed in the earth from ancient times in anticipation of the resurrection. We will see how they fight, how the heavenly, extraterrestrial and underground locations of the souls of the dead coexist in the most ancient written cultures - in Sumer, in Egypt.

Neolithic burials, in comparison with the Upper Paleolithic ones, may surprise you with the poverty of grave goods. In the protoneolithic and early neolithic period, the dead become part of the world of the living, and therefore their life does not need to be marked with funeral "gifts". The skulls of the dead stand in the house next to the hearth, the bones rest near the altar. With those who no longer “exist”, this cannot be done. The dead in that era were not only considered alive, but their life was the most essential support for the life of the living.

In those cases where burials were made in the open air, we find a thick layer of ash on the mortuary altars. In Nahal Oren, it reaches half a meter. To whom sacrifices were made on the graves of ancestors - the dead themselves or their Creator - is not clear. But one thing is absolutely clear - the fiery sacrifices could not be offered to those who live "under the earth."

Fire ascends from earth to heaven and the object of the sacrifice of the Natufians (Nakhal-Oren - one of the Natufian settlements in Palestine) had a heavenly nature. When the ideas about the underground topography of the world of the dead became fixed, the sacrifices to the dead began to be performed differently - the blood of the sacrificial animals was supposed to nourish the earth, and the altars themselves, for example, in the Greek hero cult, were arranged below ground level.

Burials with hoofed horns in the hands or on the chest of the deceased (for example, Einan), and later with amulets in the form of bull heads (Sesklo, Thessaly, VI millennium BC) certainly indicate the purpose of the posthumous journey - to Heavenly God. The expectation of a journey is indicated by the frequent finds of dog skeletons near human burials (Erk el-Ahmar, Ubeid, Almiera). The dog, the guide of the hunter in this world, turns out to be an understandable symbol of the right path during the transition to other existence. Dog-headed Anubis, Kerberos are a late memory of this early Neolithic image.

Burials under the floors of houses and inside settlements, characteristic of the early Neolithic, remain common in the sacred cities of the 7th-6th millennia. More than five hundred burials were found in Catal Huyuk on an excavation area of ​​​​half a hectare. They buried under the beds of residential buildings, and men - under the corner bench, and women along the long wall. Mellart suggests that living men and women slept on these same benches.

In addition, many burials were found in oval pits outside the houses. Quite a few people are buried in shrines. In the sanctuary VI. 10, 32 skeletons were found, in the sanctuary of vultures (VII.8) - six burials. Mellart notes that the clothes, jewelry, and belongings of those buried in sanctuaries are usually much richer and more varied than those of those buried in houses and oval pits. The scientist suggests that the remains of high priests rested in the sanctuaries, who during their lifetime performed sacred rites in them.

It is noteworthy that burials are completely absent in utility yards and storehouses. This indicates that the choice of burial places by the Chatalhuyuk people was not accidental. They were buried not there "where it is simpler", but where they considered it necessary.

The location of the bones of the skeleton, the incompleteness of the skeletons indicate the secondary nature of the burials in Catal Huyuk, and it was impossible to do otherwise with the desire of the townspeople to live in the same houses with their dead. A number of sanctuary wall paintings show that the bodies of the dead were left outside the city on light platforms for excarnation (disintegration of soft tissues). Then the cleaned bones were wrapped in clothes, skins or mats and buried in houses and shrines. The remains were sent in ocher and cinnabar, the skulls in the neck and forehead were painted with blue or green paint. Small “gifts” were placed with the buried, but there are no figurines and ceramics in the graves of Çatal Huyuk. Sometimes the skulls, as in the beginning of the Neolithic, were separated from the skeletons and placed openly in sanctuaries.

The "Holy Cities" seem to complete the tradition of the 10th-8th millennia BC. Since the 6th millennium, a new trend towards the division of the worlds of the dead and the living has become more and more noticeable. In the Hassun culture (Mesopotamia, 7th-6th millennium), the dead, as a rule, are already buried outside the settlements. Only the bodies of children and adolescents continue to be buried under the floors of houses.

In Byblos of the 6th millennium, only children's burials were found under the houses, in which human bones are sometimes mixed with sheep's. Such burials were made in special small vessels. The almost complete absence of adult burials indicates the presence of special cemeteries.

Such "cemeteries" or transitional forms such as "houses of the dead" were soon discovered. In Byblos, this is the building "46-14", under the floor of which more than 30 people are buried, in Tell as-Savan (Middle Mesopotamia) - the building "No. 1" of the VI millennium, under which in the pits 30-50 cm below the one hundred secondary burials.

At the same time, the skulls of deceased relatives, which used to be often placed along the walls and around the hearth, also disappear from the interiors of dwellings. The same tendencies are noticeable in the burial customs of the Danube Plain of the 6th millennium. Adults are now rarely buried under houses here, but usually outside the settlements, in caves or in special cemeteries.

The reasons for the change in a seemingly established custom can be understood, since the change did not extend to children. For some reason, the inhabitants of the Middle Neolithic believed that it was those who died in adulthood that needed to be separated from their homes, interred in the ground or in cemeteries or in special "houses of the dead." But how are children different from adults?

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Numerous historical facts, documented and confirmed by independent investigations, confirm that this is not a myth, but an objective reality.

Usually such intermediaries are called "mediums" or "mediators" - since the word "mediator" itself is translated as "intermediary".

One of the well-known mediators was the English woman Rosemary Brown. Despite the lack of a serious professional musical education, the woman became famous for composing works in the style of famous but long-dead composers.

Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov - when professional music researchers analyzed the opuses written by Rosemary Brown, an almost literal match of styles with the manner of composition of great authors was confirmed.

Once, during an interview, Rosemary Brown told a correspondent that the spirit of Franz Liszt was currently in the room. The journalist decided to check the reality of the presence of the great composer and began to speak in German, which Rosemary Brown did not know. For Liszt, German was his native language.

After that, the female medium told the correspondent that, as confirmation, Liszt had put the dead mother of the interviewer into the room. What was the reporter's astonishment when Rosemary described in detail the appearance of her dead mother. Although, it is clear that the possibility of their meeting with Rosemary in the past is practically zero.

Music as the key to the world of the dead

Talented musicians often perform as mediators between the world of the dead and the living. Some modern composers are distinguished by their ability to create works in the style of famous composers of the past with the utmost precision, down to the smallest detail.

In particular, the members of the Beatles in their later work released collections of songs, each of which was very accurately written in a style that the guys definitely did not have enough time to study in detail.

Imagine - twice a year the Beatles, who did not have a regular musical education, released two albums of 12 songs, written in completely different styles of different times and peoples.

There is only one conclusion left here - John Lennon and Paul McCartney acted as mediators between the world of the dead and the living.

There is a case with the British pianist John Lill. As the performer himself said, during the concert he suddenly noticed that a certain vague figure was watching him, in which the musician saw the famous composer Beethoven.

The presence of such a great musician from the past inspired John Lille and helped him perform his part superbly.

Another British musician, Clifford Entiknap, recounted that the spirit of Handel appeared to him and handed over for publication and performance an oratorio that had never been performed or known at all. Music critics have confirmed that the work exactly corresponds to the style of the legendary polyphonist Handel, moreover, in the smallest details.

Here we can assume that the famous composers of the past, now deceased, did not have time to fully realize their creative ideas. Thus, through intermediary mediums, composers who have gone to another world, often by a very premature death, are trying to realize interrupted creative plans.

From the point of view of rigorous science, these amazing facts are quite understandable.

• The universe is a kind of information-time continuum, in which, like in a broth, absolutely all the information that has ever appeared is “boiled”.
• Mediums have an incomprehensible ability to enter the space-time continuum of the universe and extract from there some information that dead people possessed, who did not have time to publish their creative products during their lifetime.

However, mediators between the world of the dead and the living found not only in the world of art, but also in other spheres of life.

Healing Mediums

The Brazilian miner Jose de Freitas, who received almost no education and did not study at medical schools, over the years of his life managed to make accurate diagnoses and help several million people heal.

José de Freitas received about 1,000 sufferers a day and instantly, after one glance at the patient, sketched out a diagnosis and prescription on a piece of paper.

Doctors analyzed the treatment methods of Jose de Freitas, conducted research and found out that more than half of the recommendations helped people to recover. By the way, the rest of the exact diagnoses turned out to be unconfirmed only because the researchers did not have the necessary modern medical equipment at their disposal.

How could a simple miner without education make such accurate diagnoses and prescribe effective treatment? Presumably, José de Freitas became an intermediary between the deceased doctors and patients.

Famous healers of the past, who are now deceased, were invisibly present at every reception of patients by José de Freitas. It was they who gave the healer and the medium exact recipes and recommendations on how to treat this or that patient.

How to become an intermediary between the world of the living and the dead

Unfortunately, such "schools of wizards" as described in Emily Rose's Harry Potter novels do not exist in the real world. Often the reason that appear mediators between the world of the dead and the living become tragic events.

• Often, people who have received complex injuries of the head and body, who have experienced severe mental shocks, become mediums.
• Some people are born with the ability to mediate, but do not know about it until they come to the attention of professional psychics.
• With long and intense practice, almost anyone is able to master psychic abilities.

How do mystics explain all this? The bottom line is that the average, ordinary person is overloaded with everyday worries, as a result of which there is simply no energy left for the perception of other worlds.

People who have experienced serious traumas and tragedies suddenly begin to realize and understand that everything that we pay so much attention to in everyday life does not really matter much.

Having ceased to worry about the routine, a person accumulates excess mental energy. And then, upon reaching a critical level of energy, the perception of other worlds occurs by itself.

And traditional rituals such as mirrors and glass balls, dark rooms - all this is just a way to get rid of the remaining doubts and blockages of the mind.

The world of the living and the land of the dead

Another symbol of the spiritual world was the realm of the dead - "an unknown land from which there is no return to earthly wanderers" (79) .

“A common idea regarding the fate of the souls of the dead,” writes the famous historian and ethnologist S. A. Tokarev, “is the belief in a special world of souls (“the other world”), where they go after the bodily death of a person. Almost all the peoples of the world have this faith, although with great differences” (80) .

Concepts about the location of the world of souls are very diverse. The location of the land of the dead among different peoples depends on the living conditions, the surrounding landscape (steppe, mountains, forest, sea, island), on the level of development, on acquaintance with the outside world, on burial customs.

Among the most backward peoples, ideas about this are extremely vague: the world of souls is “somewhere out there” (sometimes a certain direction is indicated) - beyond the forest, beyond the river, beyond the mountains.

Talking about the ideas of Australian aborigines, J. Fraser writes: “When asked where a small body (that is, a soul. - Auth.) left after death, some answered: it went behind the bushes, others - it went into the sea, and still others said they did not know ”(81).

Usually in such cases, the realm of the dead is separated from the world of the living by a water barrier - a river, a sea.

Among the coastal peoples and islanders, especially in Oceania, the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe afterlife, located somewhere overseas, on an island. Among the peoples of Oceania and Eastern Indonesia, one can observe various shades of the idea of ​​an island world of souls; for some it is one of the neighboring islands, for others it is a mystical island somewhere far to the west. Since the islanders of Oceania do not know any other form of earthly land, except for the island, then the land of the dead is drawn to them as an island; where the souls of the dead go. This is the case, for example, with Polynesian beliefs.

Perhaps these beliefs reflected the influence of the practice of water burial, especially in its more complex form - sending the corpse in a boat to the open sea: it is, as it were, sent to the overseas world of souls. Such, perhaps, is the origin of this belief in Melanesia, where the island of souls is not the mythical Far Island, but one of the nearby islets.

It should not be thought that such ideas are peculiar only to the primitive peoples of Oceania or Australia. In ancient times, they existed everywhere, including in continental Europe, where the role of the "island of souls" was played by "foggy Albion" - the current Great Britain, separated from Europe by a strait. Procopius of Caesarea, historian of the Gothic War (6th century), gives a story about how the souls of the dead are sent by sea to the island Brittia.

"Along the coast of the mainland (France. - Auth.) live fishermen, merchants and farmers. They are subjects of the Franks, but they do not pay taxes, because from time immemorial they have had a heavy duty to transport the souls of the dead. Every night the transporters wait in their huts for a conventional knock on the door and the voices of invisible beings calling them to work. Then people immediately get up from their beds, impelled by an unknown force, go down to the shore and find boats there, but not their own, but others', completely ready to go and empty. Carriers get into the boats, take up the oars and see that, from the weight of numerous invisible passengers, the boats are sitting deep in the water, a finger from the side. In an hour they reach the opposite shore, and meanwhile, in their boats, they could hardly have managed to overcome this path in a whole day. Having reached the island, the boats are unloaded and become so light that only the keel touches the water. Carriers do not see anyone on their way and on the shore, but they hear a voice that calls the name, rank and kinship of each arrival, and if this is a woman, then the rank of her husband ”(82) .

At a time when a significant part of the Oikumene had already been explored and settled and there was no place left for the land of the dead, the world of souls began to be placed underground, under water, in the sky. There was an idea of ​​three tiers of the world, in which the middle tier is the ordinary world - the “world of the living”, and the other two tiers - the upper (“sky”) and the lower (“underworld”) belong to the world of spirits. The main division remained the same: into the world of the living and the kingdom of the dead.

ill. 29. The world of the living and the country of the dead according to the ideas of the inhabitants of the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia.

“According to the views of many peoples, the universe consists of three spheres: the underworld, the world of people and the heavenly world. Through this three-part division, the more ancient one, the two-part division, is clearly visible” (83) .

In Oceania, there is a belief about the world of souls under the water: it is noted in New Caledonia, in the Bismarck archipelago (the souls of the dead are in the river under water), in the Marquesas Islands, in Samoa, etc.

The idea of underworld shower. It is possible that this idea was influenced by the custom of burying the dead in the ground or burying them in caves (84) . But there were other roots of this belief; in particular, they point to its connection with volcanism: where there are active volcanoes, there is often a belief that the souls of the dead descend through the crater of the volcano into the underworld. This is the case, for example, in South Melanesia.

Finally, many peoples place the world of souls On sky. This idea is, for example, among some Australian tribes: Kurnai, Wakelbura, in some places also among the peoples of Oceania.

Sometimes the location of the souls of the dead is localized more precisely: the stars, the Milky Way, the Sun. The connection of the dead with the stars is noted in the beliefs of various peoples - from the same Australians to the peoples of Europe. Some authors point to the connection between the idea of ​​the heavenly world of souls and the practice of cremation: the rising smoke from a burnt corpse symbolizes the rise of the spirit of the deceased to heaven.

With the complication of religious ideas and the development of social differentiation of society, the geography of the kingdom of the dead also became more complicated. It began to appear heterogeneous, divided into different areas intended for the spirits of various categories of people.

“Among the overwhelming majority of peoples,” noted S. A. Tokarev, “and even among relatively backward ones, the idea of ​​the location of the souls of the dead is differentiated and the same place is not indicated for all the dead (just as the same place is not used for all funeral ritual). The motives for which one place in the afterlife is destined for one dead, and another for the other, are different. Sometimes moral motives are indicated: they say that the good will go to some bright place, and the evil ones to a dark one.<…>Various afterlife is associated among many peoples with the type of death, and with the performance by relatives of the funeral ritual, with their observance of established customs and restrictions ”(85) .

In developed religions, combined options for the location of various parts of the afterlife are offered. For example, Christian church tradition places the abode of righteous souls in heaven, and the prison of the souls of sinners, where they endure torment, in the underworld.

However, in all cases, the "realm of the dead" was presented as a kind of parallel reality, inhabited, unlike the world of the living, not by bodily beings, but by the souls (more precisely, spirits) of the dead (86) . That is, by and large, there are two worlds - our ordinary world and the world beyond the grave. “In my opinion, he is somewhere outside this world,” shared his opinion, who lived in the 4th century, St. John Chrysostom in conversations on the epistle to the Romans (31, 3-4).

And our contemporary American Orthodox ascetic Seraphim Rose spoke more extensively. In his opinion, “these places are outside the ‘coordinates’ of our space-time system; an airliner does not fly "invisibly" through paradise, and the Earth's satellite - through the third heaven, and with the help of drilling it is impossible to get to the souls awaiting the Last Judgment in hell. They are not there, but in a space of a different kind, starting immediately here, but stretching, as it were, in another direction” (87) .

Thus, being seemed to be split into the physical world and the spiritual world.

According to the beliefs of the ancient Greeks, Death and Sleep were brothers, the sons of Night, who lives in a country that the sun never illuminates with its rays.

“There are chambers of motionless sleep.

Does not reach there, neither ascending, nor ascending, nor descending,

The sun from the century as a ray: clouds and fogs in a mixture

There the earth evaporates, there is a vague twilight forever.

With its song never there, a sentinel bird with a crest

There are no dogs, no geese, the minds of dogs surpassed.

There is no cattle, no beast, no branches under the windy wind

They can’t make a sound, no human disputes are heard there.

Complete peace reigns there,

Reported by Ovid (88).

From this we can conclude that the parallel world we are considering is devoid of ordinary life manifestations, material properties.

Researchers of ancient cults and superstitions note the opposite of the properties of the world of the dead and the world of the living. In the “other world” everything is different, “everything is the other way around” - a thing broken in the human world will turn out to be whole there, a person who died here will live there. The image of spirits walking "knees back" (89) also belongs to similar ideas.

According to the Ainu, pokna mosir(the lower world where the dead dwell) everything is different than on earth ainu mosir- Ainu country): people walk upside down, trees grow upside down, etc. (90)

Thus, it is emphasized that earthly laws do not operate in another world, and the properties of this world are opposite to the properties of ours, the physical world.

The idea of ​​the inversion (reversal) of the “other world” in relation to this was also preserved by later religions, in which this idea was interpreted in the spirit of the doctrine of posthumous retribution. Let’s take a look at Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount:

“Blessed are the poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God (as opposed to this world, which belongs to the rich and noble. - Auth.);

Blessed are the hungry (hungry. - Auth.) now, for you shall be satisfied;

Blessed are those who mourn now, for you will laugh;

Blessed are you when people hate you (in this life. - Auth.) and when they will excommunicate you, and will vilify<…>Rejoice in that day and rejoice, for great is your reward in heaven<…>.

On the contrary, woe to you rich! for you have already received (here. - Auth.) your consolation. Woe to you who are now satiated! for you will hunger (you will starve in the other world. - Auth.). Woe to you who laugh today! for you shall mourn and mourn” (Luke 6:20-26).

It turns out that this and that worlds are mirror opposite, like the world and the anti-world. Knowledge of this made it possible to give quite practical recipes for how to secure a better fate for oneself in the "other world."

In the physical world, the life of people is short-term, transient, because the inhabitants of this world are mortal. And in that parallel world there is no death, but there is eternal existence. You can, of course, try to get along well in this life, get all the pleasures that it can provide from it, but all this will soon pass, as a hangover or love ecstasy passes, and then you will have to pay for these short-term pleasures for an eternity, dragging out a miserable existence in "underworld". Is it not worth sacrificing the fleeting pleasures of this temporary life for the sake of eternal bliss in that one? And for this, you must deliberately deprive yourself here of what you want to receive there and, on the contrary, subject yourself to those troubles that you would like to avoid in eternal life.

Sell ​​all your possessions and give money to the poor - in this way you will secure wealth for yourself. Leave your family and children - this will allow you not to be left alone in toy life and live forever surrounded by loving relatives. Put on rags, take a beggar's bag - and go begging. Then you will never be in need and will always be fashionably dressed. Even better, catch some nasty disease that will ensure you eternal health. If you are afraid of physical pain - ask to be whipped or something heavy dropped on your leg, at worst, pinch your finger in the door. If ambition gnaws at you, if you secretly dream of fame and fame - well, try to lead a lifestyle that everyone condemns, dishonor your honest name with bad deeds, or better yet, commit such meanness that your fellow citizens curse you as a traitor and expel you. from the city - then for sure in the next life they will honor you as their ruler and erect a monument during your lifetime.

It may be said that we are exaggerating, but how else can the following statements be understood:

“Indeed, this is the highest asceticism when [a person] suffers from an illness. Who knows this, acquires the upper world ”(Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, V, I).

“Whoever leaves houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands,<…>receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life. Many who are first will be last, and the last will be first” (Matthew 19:30).

Nemo sine cruce beatus - “There is no happiness without the cross (suffering. - Auth.)” ( lat.).

Via cruces via lucis - "The Way of the Cross is the way of salvation" ( lat.).

Some early Christian heresiarchs, on the basis of such considerations, prescribed strict asceticism, and sometimes castration - in anticipation of endless centuries of pleasures, others, on the contrary, recommended unbridled debauchery and all forms of crime in order to enter a new life as unshakable righteous. It is difficult to judge the reliability of such testimonies, because they are drawn from the indictments, while the heretical writings themselves were usually burned, often along with their authors.

We are interested in something else, namely, similar statements from various sources that the properties of the parallel world are completely opposite to the properties of our world. From this we draw a simple and obvious conclusion: if our world, as we reliably know, is material, then that other world, in everything opposite to ours, is non-material.

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1. River of death

In several religions, a river has been described that separates the earthly world from the afterlife. Perhaps the most famous is Styx, which is mentioned in many Greek myths. It was in this river, flowing in the realm of the dead Hades, that Hephaestus tempered the sword forged for the Faun. Achilles was immersed in the waters of the Styx to make him invulnerable (only the heel, which his mother held, remained vulnerable).

Hubur is the legendary river of Mesopotamia. Like Styx, she is directly connected with the gods, but we are not talking about invulnerability. Just as in the ancient Greek legends, the boatman transported the dead across this river.

Shinto describes the Sanzu River, which one must cross to reach the underworld. The Shinto version is slightly more humane than the Greek and Mesopotamian versions, as the dead could return to Earth on the seventh day instead of finally leaving for the afterlife.

2. Hamistagan

In the Zoroastrian concept, Hamistagan is the place where the souls of those who have committed equally good and bad deeds during their lives go. In this place, where there was neither sorrow nor joy, they waited for the day of judgment. Hamistagan is located between the center of the Earth and the "star sphere" and has the hallmarks of both areas. Although it is not a place for punishment, the souls there suffer due to extremely cold or hot (depending on the location) weather.

There are also different areas for those who are considered orthodox and wicked: good people who made a few blunders went to the "good" part of Hamistagan. At the same time, the Zoroastrians believed that all people would eventually be saved and go to heaven.

3. Abraham's bosom

In the Gospel of Luke, a place called "Abraham's bosom" was described, where the soul of a beggar named Lazarus went after death. Some Jewish scriptures compare Abraham's bosom to paradise, but Christians usually consider it to be the place where the righteous fell before the resurrection of Christ.

Subsequently, the underworld was described as consisting of two parts - Gehenna and Abraham's bosom, which were divided by a large gulf between them. On the one hand, the souls of wicked people were in a state of eternal torment. On the other side were the souls of the righteous, who lived in almost heavenly conditions.

The New Testament says that Jesus allegedly "descended into hell," but the exact meaning of these words has been the subject of debate among Christian theologians for many centuries. Although many modern Christian views consider this phrase a metaphor, traditional Catholic doctrine says that Jesus descended into hell to forgive the righteous there for their original sins and take them to heaven with him.

4. Bardo

Bardo is a Tibetan variety of limbo, where the souls of the dead saw terrifying and peaceful scenes for 49 days. These images, which were called "mandalas of peaceful and wrathful deities", are a reflection of the fears and memories of the deceased. It is necessary that the soul during this time not succumb to fear or temptation and be aware of the illusory nature of the pictures it sees. After that, the soul could go to heaven.

5. Barzakh

Islamic barzakh is often compared to Catholic purgatory, but there are many differences between the two. Although barzakh is generally considered the boundary between this world and the other world, Muslim theologians often argue even about the very basic principles of this place.

Some believe that Barzakh is an incorporeal place where there is no physical pain, where food is not needed and nothing makes sense. From Barzakh, the souls of the dead can calmly observe the whole world, but cannot influence it. Others believe that staying in Barzakh depends on the actions of a person during life.

There are supposedly punishments for the souls of the wicked in Barzakh, and this place itself acts as a kind of prelude to Hell. Some traditions claim that living people can interact with those in Barzakh through dreams. The word "Barzakh" is mentioned only three times in the Qur'an and only once as an intermediate state between this world and the next.

6. Life before your eyes

Those who were on the verge of death often claim that their whole life flashed before their eyes in just an instant. Sometimes it was a whole life from beginning to end, while others saw a few selected moments. Some claim that they communicated at this time with deceased family members or some heavenly luminous beings. Studies have shown that approximately 25 percent of people see their past life. Near-death survivors also often reported flying through a tunnel with a light on at the end, or some kind of existence in the void.

7. Summerland

Summerland is often referred to as "Wiccan Heaven," although the place is actually more like a kind of intermediate, limbo state. This is the place where the dead come to rest and think about their lives before their next reincarnation. Since Wicca is a decentralized religion, the specifics of Summerland may differ in different interpretations.

Some believe that the soul's previous experience will influence its next incarnation. For example, if someone treats others badly, then in the next life he will have exactly the same attitude. It is believed that the next reincarnation of a person is an event that can be planned. The supposedly immortal soul learns more with each incarnation until it learns enough to reach the level of higher existence. After the soul reaches this peak of existence, it stops in the cycle of rebirth and remains in Summerland.

8. Spiritual world and spiritual prison

The Mormon Spirit World is the place where righteous souls go in anticipation of the day of resurrection. Relationships and desires of souls are no different from the desires of people on Earth. Souls have the same form as mortals, but their spirit and body are perfect because Mormons believe that all souls were adults before they were born into this world.

Mormons claim that the Mormon Church is organized in the spirit world in exactly the same way as it is on earth. The priests perform the same tasks there, even after their physical death. While the Spiritual World is for the righteous, the Spiritual Prison is for sinners who did not believe in Jesus on Earth.

9. Limbo for babies

The question of where unbaptized infants go after death was of great concern to the ancient Catholic Church, since the New Testament does not say a word about this. The Church believes that original sin separates a person from God, and that baptism is necessary for admission to heaven. However, children are not evil and naturally should not be sent to hell. Several theories have been proposed in response.

One of them is "Limbo for babies" - the eve of hell, where children will not be under the care of God, but will not suffer any punishment. The point is that the children were not sinful and do not deserve punishment, but they are not worthy to go to heaven. Modern Catholics claim that God must save unbaptized babies and take them with him to heaven.

10. Hall of Two Truths

In the ancient Egyptian religion, before the soul ascended to the Kingdom of Heaven, it fell into the Hall of Two Truths. There she confessed all kinds of sins on 42 different points, after which she was evaluated by the goddess of justice and truth, Maat. Sins and good deeds were weighed on special scales. If the soul was recognized as "pure", then it fell into the Field of Reeds, where there were no diseases, disappointment and death, and lived the way it wanted during its mortal existence. "Black" souls did not go to hell, which the ancient Egyptians simply did not have. Such souls were thrown into the abyss, where they were devoured by crocodiles.