Do people meet in heaven? Do the dead see us after death: the connection between the soul and a living person

In the first days after separation from the body, the soul communicates with its native places and meets with deceased loved ones, or rather, with their souls. In other words, he communicates with what was precious in earthly life.

She gains a wonderful new ability - spiritual vision. Our body is a reliable gate with which we are closed from the world of spirits, so that our sworn enemies, fallen spirits, do not invade us and destroy us. Although they are so cunning that they find workarounds. And some serve them without seeing them themselves. But spiritual vision, which opens after death, allows the soul to see not only the spirits present in the surrounding space in huge numbers, in their true form, but also their deceased loved ones, who help the lonely soul get used to new, unusual conditions for it.

Many of those who have post-mortem experiences have spoken of encounters with deceased relatives or acquaintances. These meetings took place on earth, sometimes shortly before the soul left the body, and sometimes in the setting of the otherworldly world. For example, one woman who experienced temporary death heard a doctor tell her family that she was dying. Coming out of her body and rising up, she saw her dead relatives and friends. She recognized them, and they were glad that they met her.

Another woman saw her relatives greeting her and shaking her hands. They were dressed in white, rejoicing and looking happy. “And suddenly they turned their backs on me and began to move away; and my grandmother, looking over her shoulder, told me: “We will see you later, not this time.” She died at 96, and here she looked, well, forty to forty-five years old, healthy and happy.”

One man says that while he was dying of a heart attack at one end of the hospital, at the same time his own sister was dying of an attack of diabetes at the other end of the hospital. “When I left my body,” he says, “I suddenly met my sister. I was very happy about this because I loved her very much. While talking to her, I wanted to follow her, but she, turning to me, ordered me to stay where I was, explaining that my time had not yet come. When I woke up, I told my doctor that I had met my sister who had just passed away. The doctor didn't believe me. However, at my persistent request, he sent a nurse to check and found out that she had recently died, as I told him.” And there are a lot of similar stories. A soul that has passed into the afterlife often meets there those who were close to it. Although this meeting is usually short-lived. Because great trials and private judgment await the soul ahead. And only after a private trial is it decided whether the soul should be with its loved ones, or whether it is destined for another place. After all, the souls of dead people do not wander of their own free will, wherever they want. The Orthodox Church teaches that after the death of the body, the Lord determines for each soul its temporary place of residence - either in heaven or in hell. Therefore, meetings with the souls of deceased relatives should be accepted not as a rule, but as exceptions allowed by the Lord for the benefit of recently deceased people who either have yet to live on earth, or, if their souls are frightened by their new situation, help them.

The existence of the soul extends beyond the coffin, where it transfers everything that it is accustomed to, that was dear to it, and that it learned in its temporary earthly life. Way of thinking, life rules, inclinations - everything is transferred by the soul to the afterlife. Therefore, it is natural that at first the soul, by the grace of God, meets those who were closer to it in earthly life. But it happens that deceased loved ones appear to living people.

And this does not mean their imminent demise. The reasons can be different, and often incomprehensible to people living on earth. For example, after the resurrection of the Savior, many dead also appeared in Jerusalem (Matthew 27:52-53). But there were also cases when the dead appeared to admonish the living who were leading an unrighteous lifestyle. It is necessary, however, to distinguish true visions from demonic obsessions, after which only fear and an anxious state of mind remain. For cases of the appearance of souls from the afterlife are rare and always serve to admonish the living.

So, a few days before the ordeal (two or three), the soul, accompanied by protective angels, is on earth. She can visit those places that were dear to her, or go where she wanted to visit during her lifetime. The doctrine of the soul's presence on earth during the first days after death existed in the Orthodox Church already in the 4th century. Patristic tradition reports that the Angel who accompanied the Monk Macarius of Alexandria in the desert said: “The soul of the deceased receives from the Angel guarding it relief in the grief that it feels from separation from the body, which is why good hope is born in it. For for two days the soul, together with the Angels who are with it, is allowed to walk on the earth wherever it wants. Therefore, the soul that loves the body sometimes wanders near the house in which it was separated from the body, sometimes near the coffin in which the body is laid, and thus spends two days, like a bird, looking for a nest for itself. And a virtuous soul walks in those places in which it used to do the truth...”

It should be said that these days are not a mandatory rule for everyone. They are given only to those who have retained their attachment to earthly worldly life, and for whom it is difficult to part with it and know that they will never again live in the world they left. But not all souls that part with their bodies are attached to earthly life. So, for example, the holy saints, who were not at all attached to worldly things, lived in constant anticipation of the transition to another world, are not even attracted to the places where they did good deeds, but immediately begin their ascent to heaven.

1. Elya
2. Alesya
3. Danil
4. Nailya
5. Anonymous
6. Igor
7. Maria
8. Alesya
9. Andrey
10. Anonymous
11. Sp
12. A...
13. Ivan
14. Karina
15. Natalia
16. Anonymous
17. Arina
18. Anonymous
19. Gala
20. Igor
21. Tatiana
22. Guzalia
23. Alyona
24. Love
25. Lena
26. Tanya
27. Anonymous
28. Anonymous
29. Anonymous
30. Anonymous
31. Tatiana
32. Andrey
33. Rose
34. Anonymous

Number of entries: 35

Hello, tomorrow my beloved fiance will be 9 days old, he died in the hospital, I want to know if we will meet after my death? And if we meet, will we still love each other, or will it completely disappear? I'm scared to think that he won't wait for me, for our meeting.

Tatiana

Dear Tatyana, only what is lost on earth will be completely lost. Those who have passed into that world do not forget their relatives, only the reality there is different and it is impossible to expect them to think about us the same way we think about them here. The deceased appears before God, and, of course, all his attention is directed to Him. But love for loved ones does not disappear because of this. Remember how it is during an exam: you take a ticket and only think about the answer. But at the same time love does not disappear! Pray for the deceased, do alms whenever possible, partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ, live the church life. This will serve both you and him for growth. God bless you!

Priest Sergius Osipov

Hello! After death, do family ties continue (marriage), or then, in eternity, we will not know each other that we are spouses?

Anatoly

Hello, Anatoly. We will definitely meet everyone, and we won’t forget anything. Not a single detail. But there will be no more family relationships. Here are the words of Christ: “In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but remain as the angels of God in heaven” (Matt. 22.30).

Priest Alexander Beloslyudov

Father! Tell me please. My grandmother reposed before God. I love her very much, and after my time to die comes, I want to find her. Do you think she will have the same appearance as she did on earth? Will she be my grandmother? And there is one more question: if souls are born or reborn into another earthly body, do they already take on a different form, and do they develop love and affection for other people and souls? How can I understand this? I so want to meet grandma later, hug her, see her and be with her forever! Sorry for asking this question, but please, if you know, tell me. Will I be able to find her?

Marina

In heaven everyone will be like angels, this is indicated in the Holy Scriptures (Matthew 22:30); there will be no kinship in the earthly concept as we understand it, but the souls will partly remember each other. But please forget the idea of ​​souls being reborn into another body, these are such fantastic ideas that there is no need to talk about them seriously. I'm not saying that all these Buddhist ideas have nothing to do with Christianity.

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello, I have always been interested in the question: it is said that after the end of the world, sinners will go to hell, and the righteous will go to heaven. How to live FOREVER?

Ivan

I don’t see a contradiction here, Ivan, everything is absolutely correct: the righteous will forever be in Paradise, and sinners will be in hell, this will be eternal life for both. Everything will be that way. However, I cannot help but make a reservation that in modern theology there are various doctrines about the finiteness of the torments of hell, that sinners, as if cleansed of their sins through torment, will be pardoned, or that, for example, that sinners will choose hell for themselves voluntarily, but we cannot know this for certain, and therefore it is more reasonable for us to trust the text of the Holy Scriptures, without further ado.

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

As you know, in Paradise there will be neither morning, nor evening, nor night, but always day. It seems to me that the morning is beautiful, the evening is sweet and the night on earth is good. There will be no autumn and winter, but always spring and summer. I love autumn very much, like Pushkin, and I also enjoy the beauty of nature in winter. I, like many people, love all seasons. Also, people will not need drink, food, or clothing. Why is that?

Olga

Olga, in Paradise it will be so beautiful that a person on earth cannot not only imagine, but even think about it. I think, looking at the beauty of the heavenly abodes, you will understand that all the beauties of the Earth in comparison with them are just a pitiful shadow.

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Tell me, will only baptized believers be saved and go to the heavenly Jerusalem, while baptized unbelievers and pagans will not? Or they will be judged according to their conscience, and those who lived with dignity will also go to heaven, but which one? Maybe there are different levels of heaven? I meet different points of view of the priests.

Julia

Hello Julia! No one can give you a definitive answer to this question. Our posthumous fate is in the hands of God. The Lord is an all-merciful judge, but also an all-righteous one, and God’s judgment is ultimately only a manifestation of the choice that man himself has already made during his life: whether he is with God or not. Let us think about what the Lord says: “No one will come to my Father except through Me.” This means that without Christ, outside the Church, there can be no salvation. It is true: without recognizing the Son of God in Christ, no one can be saved. But this does not mean that hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people who knew nothing about Christ and Christianity will be severely punished. Think, for example, of the American Indians before Columbus discovered America, or of the Africans, or of the Polynesians, or even of those people who may have heard something about Christianity, but never had the experience of preaching about it in their lives - which one could call it apostolic. But if a person saw the image of Christ in front of him, and suddenly for some reason he did not accept it and turned away, and, like the Jews during the life of Christ, said: “No, we have no king except Caesar, we do not want to be with you, Christ our God!” Whoever says this, we must assume, has no path to salvation, but about the fate of others, let us remember that the judgment is not ours, but the judgment of God and this judgment is just and merciful.

Priest Vladimir Shlykov

Hello! Is it true that in the Kingdom of God (when we die), only those spouses who were married in the church during their lifetime will meet? Thank you.

Christina

Hello, Christina! The Lord himself in the Gospel says that after death people will not get married, they will be like the angels of God in heaven. If in the life of a family there was not only a wedding, a good beginning, but also a path traveled such that people were united here on earth by something that already belonged to eternity on earth, something that can be continued in eternity, then they will meet there. This will be a meeting in the fullness of joy, which will never cease, and if on earth they were united only by common passions, whether bodily, or a passion for acquisition, or mutual repulsion from the rest of the world, or only joint care, be it even care for children, or simply social closeness in order to withstand certain circumstances, but internally they were alien to each other, then, of course, what can be continued here in eternity? The real result of life, and not something formal, makes this life here on earth the beginning of being beyond the limits of the visible world.

Priest Vladimir Shlykov

Hello. My beloved man and I did not have time to get married and get married. Is it possible, even though my beloved is no longer in this earthly life, to ask the Lord God to let us be together in eternal life? I know that this is my destiny, and prayer to God helps me every day. Could this be not only the salvation of our souls, but a test of our love? Thanks in advance for your answer.

Anna

Hello Anna. In eternal life there is no marriage, “for in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but remain as the angels of God in heaven.” You can completely ignore my words, but believe me, I wish you well. Beware of mystical dreams and fantasies. Adhere to sound Orthodox teaching as set forth by the Holy Fathers of the Eastern Church, and do not pay attention to the inventions of the ignorant. Everything is different in that life. There is not a single local concept known to us that would be applicable to that reality. “The eye has not seen, the ear has not heard, and the things that God has prepared for those who love Him have not entered into the heart of man.” The truth is simple and comprehensive, and It is revealed directly, and not in speculation and imagination, clothed in words. Christ gave a method for comprehending the Truth: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” This is already the sixth beatitude, and first we must learn humility, contrition of heart, meekness, constant thirst for God’s truth and mercy. These are the Commandments of the Lord, you can carry them out, because God accompanies those who follow them. Let us leave the fate of eternity to God’s judgment. We believe that God is good and only creates good things. And I have prepared the best for you, based on the state of your soul and heart in which you are now. Each of us can change this state of soul and heart. God help you.

Priest Alexander Beloslyudov

Hello Father! Do relatives, close people and close friends see each other after death? Or will there be one of each?

Anatoly

Hello, Anatoly. Sooner or later, we will all find out the answer to this question personally. The soul will not remain alone, but until the resurrection (restoration) the soul has no freedom. The soul is not a person, but only the soul of a person. He will meet someone. But what will happen after the Resurrection is impossible to even imagine. “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Cor. 2.9)

Priest Alexander Beloslyudov

Bless the Fathers! My son’s 7-month-old son (baptized, inveterate) died. They were told that if we become pregnant with a new child before the 40th day, the soul of our baby will move into him and will live in the new child. Is it so? Forgive me, a sinner.

Catherine

Why, Ekaterina, what nonsense! Who among the believers could say such a thing?! We need to throw these ideas out of our heads, celebrate the days of remembrance for our little son, as it should be, and then think about the future.

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello. Explain how Christianity relates to the reincarnation of the soul? One woman, a Christian, said that in a past life she was in hell for her crimes, and now, when the LORD descends there, the repentant souls cry out, and he sends them to earth again for correction. How to relate to this and what to answer to a person who believes that we live more than one life? It’s a sinful thing, I used to think so too, but lately I’ve been thinking differently, but I can’t even explain to myself, neither the first nor the second. Forgive me and pray for me, a sinner.

Svetlana

Svetlana, the transmigration of human souls from body to body is an invention of the human mind, striving to explain, to the best of its ability, the incomprehensible aspects of existence. There is no such resettlement, and it is strange that a woman who calls herself a Christian can say such nonsense! What can you say to her? Let him try to bring evidence from Scripture for his point of view. They are not there!

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Where will a person go after death and will he meet his relatives there?

Zhenya

Zhenya, Scripture clearly speaks about the existence of Heaven and Hell, but where a person ends up depends on the person himself. In relation to relatives, such a meeting is quite possible if these relatives are in the same monasteries as the person himself.

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello, fathers! Quite a long time has passed, already 2 years, and I still cannot come to terms with the loss of my dearest person on earth, my precious mommy. There wasn’t a day that I didn’t cry, all my thoughts were only about her, nothing in life makes me happy. Do we have any consolation? Can we hope to meet our loved ones and consider our separation temporary? After all, in life everything cannot disappear without a trace. I do not know what to do.

Lena

Lena, we must approach death in a Christian way. There is not a single person on earth who would live forever. Every person is sentenced to death. “You will die,” God said to Adam when he expelled him from paradise. Dejection and despair are a sin, stop angering God, stop crying. You are harming not only yourself, but also your mother, you need to pray for the repose of her soul, and you are torturing her with your tears. Death is birth into a new, different life. The human soul does not perish, but lives forever, only where it will be later depends on our life. “By his deeds a person will be justified or condemned,” he will go to heaven or to hell. After death we will definitely meet, but whether we will be together depends on us now, on how we spend this life. Pray, repent, live like a Christian. Stop the useless tears.

Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)

Hello! I read the book "Notes of the Living Deceased." By Elsa Barker. It says about the afterlife from the perspective of a person who has already died. And that this is all a real story. How should we feel about this?

Faith

Vera, this is fiction, please treat it that way. And for the future - so as not to read something dubious, and then not be tormented by questions - read better, as St. advised. Ignatius Brianchaninov, holy authors.

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello! I would like to ask Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev) a question. Father Victorin, it has been said here more than once that when living relatives greatly grieve for their departed relatives, it was said that one must understand that they are better off there than here, and you said: “another life, life in the Kingdom of Heaven, is much better, than here on earth, and if a person visits there at least once, he will not want to return back to this world full of evil.” If baptized small children die, they go to heaven. Let's leave, okay, little baptized children, if they somehow end up in heaven - this should probably be a consolation for loved ones. What should you do if an adult loved one has left, and you pray, but how do you know where he ended up? After all, as I understand it, on the 40th day everything was already decided where he should be - in heaven or in hell. And the fact that the deceased relative is better off there than here and should seem to calm down and stop shedding tears, as has been said here many times... After all, how could it be better if he ended up in hell? After all, we don’t know where exactly? And then, yes, heaven is good, understandable, but how can it be good, for example, for a mother without her child, in whom she doted on her, even if she ended up in heaven, but without her child. Father, I am confused in these questions, help me figure it out. Thank you.

Lyudmila

Lyudmila, we were talking about babies. Baptized babies, if for some reason they die, always go to heaven. About an adult, when he dies, we cannot say specifically where he will go, to heaven or to hell. We can say affirmatively that a person has gone to heaven only if we clearly see that he leads a holy lifestyle, or if the person is completely atheist and an obvious sinner and does not repent of his sins, then we can say that the person perishes for the Kingdom of Heaven, and then presumably because only God decides. We orient ourselves based on the Commandments of God. After 40 days there is a private judgment - this is a preliminary place and this can be changed by our prayers to God and that is why we always pray for our departed ones. The final decision will be at the Last Judgment, when nothing can be corrected, the verdict will be final. As it is written in the Holy Scriptures, there a person will not ask about anything. If a mother has entered the Kingdom of Heaven, then she will be able to pray for her child. A mother's prayer reaches from the bottom of the sea. I think if they have such strong love during life, then they will be together after death. God is love. God loves man and does everything for our salvation. Everything depends on ourselves; if we want to be saved together with our children and do everything for this, then, of course, God will not leave us and will have mercy.

Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)

Hello! Do you think it’s possible to trust a site that contains stories of people who have experienced clinical death and the like? And in general, how to treat such people, people who saw something while unconscious? People who have seen something in a dream? People who have seen anything in similar states? What should I do? Thank you in advance.

Oleg

Oleg, you should not trust such sites, as well as similar “revelations” of people who experienced clinical death in general: there is so much mixed in them that it is not possible to sort out where the truth is and where the lies are. Therefore, it is better to completely discard this murky source of information.

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Hello, fathers. I apologize in advance for the question. I just don’t know how to ask more correctly and delicately so as not to offend the Lord and you. I wouldn’t want it to look like leaving the hospital or serving time, so I repeatedly apologize. Please explain, if after all, the soul of the deceased ends up in hell after God’s Judgment, then this is forever? Can his family beg for forgiveness for him by daily praying in home prayer for his lost soul? Can the Lord, after 40 days, later, ever forgive a sinner and take him to Paradise? Is such His mercy possible? Is this written anywhere? I probably have a clouding of my mind, but I’m ashamed to admit that I have bad thoughts in my head all the time (I confessed to this), I want to find out, check, make sure. Here we go again... It's like I'm turning to a lawyer. Lord, don't let me go crazy! Once again forgive me, a sinner. I would be very grateful for your answer.

On the 3rd day after death, the soul ascends to worship God and goes through ordeals, where it can be detained for sins. How to appear before God on this day, on the 9th, on the 40th, if there is no intercessor and prayer book on earth, and the Angel, because of stinking sins, retreated?

Valery

Valery, the Lord is merciful and is able to have mercy even if none of the relatives pray on earth. In general, you and I are delving into areas in which we cannot know anything for certain. We only need to know one thing: how to live without sins and not fall into the abysses of hell.

Hegumen Nikon (Golovko)

Our grief for our dying loved ones would have been boundless and unsuccessful if the Lord had not given us eternal life. Our life would be pointless if it ended in death. 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. “It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:27). Then a person leaves all his earthly cares; his body disintegrates to rise again at the General Resurrection. But his soul continues to live, without ceasing its existence for a single moment. St. Ambrose of Milan teaches: “Since the soul continues to live after death, good remains, which is not lost with death, but increases. The soul is not held back by any obstacles posed by death, but is more active because it acts in its own sphere without any connection with a body that is rather a burden to her than a benefit" (St. Ambrose of Milan, "Death as a Good"). Anyone who wants to show their love for the dead and give them real help can best do this by praying for them and especially by commemorating them at the Liturgy (baptized only), when the particles taken for the living and the dead are immersed in the Blood of the Lord with the words: “Washed “O Lord, the sins of those who were remembered here by Your honest Blood, by the prayers of Your saints.” They always need this, especially in those forty days when the soul of the deceased follows the path to eternal settlements. The body then feels nothing: 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. You have the wrong idea about the afterlife. They don’t get married there, they don’t get married - there life is endless in Christ Jesus, Our Lord. Whether you get married or not is your personal decision. The Apostle Paul says, “It is better for you to remain like me, unmarried, but not everyone can accommodate this,” so that you do not sin, do not become inflamed in the flesh, it is better to get married. A married man worries about how to please his wife, but an unmarried man thinks about how to please God.

Hieromonk Victorin (Aseev)

The article will tell you about what happens to a person’s soul after death and how to properly remember the deceased.

After a person dies, the vital activity of his body ends: the brain and heart stop working. It is generally accepted that the human soul is a separate substance that exists regardless of the physical body and dies much longer than a person. Others believe that the soul does not die at all.

There is no exact and definite opinion on this matter. Everyone draws their own conclusions based on religion and personal preferences. In Orthodoxy, it is generally accepted that after the body dies, the human soul lives exactly 40 more days in peace with living people and only then goes to heaven. It is on the 40th day that it is customary to remember the deceased, seeing him off to a “better world.”

Therefore, we can safely say that the souls of deceased loved ones are present next to their relatives for the first 40 days, which means they see, feel and hear people. Of course, this does not happen when it is convenient for the souls themselves, but when they are mentally or verbally remembered, remembered, and addressed to them.

How long does the human soul live?

Do deceased relatives see us in the cemetery?

Another question that worries people who have buried their loved ones is whether they see the souls of the deceased when they come to them at the cemetery. Emphasis should be placed on what kind of souls there are: rested and not rested. The first are the souls of those who died naturally or were killed, the second are the souls of people who committed suicide.

It is believed that unrested souls are not worthy of leaving for a “better world” and their punishment is to wander among the living, not finding peace. Such souls are often attached to their body, the place where they died or the grave in which they were buried. It is worth talking with such souls, because it is not customary to pray for them and light candles, and only memories can somehow make their existence easier.

It is also believed that after burial the soul does not have to go to the “other world” if it does not want to. She can exist among the living as long as she needs, if she watches over her loved ones and waits for the completion of unfinished business. In any case, the soul is always attached to the body and, if you cannot feel the person in a normal environment, you can feel him at the burial site.

What is the human soul and how does it exist?

Are the souls of dead relatives watching over us?

When a person’s soul leaves the body, it no longer has any meaning for existence, because all life goals and problems completely lose meaning. All that remains for her are feelings, and it is they that guide her soul, allowing her to keep an eye on her loved ones.

It is also believed that in addition to the fact that souls see everything that happens to people, they help loved ones in difficult life situations: they give signs, protect them from making mistakes, accidents, and allow them to make the right decisions.

Why do dead relatives come in a dream?

A dream is a parallel world in which the human consciousness lives. While the physical body is resting, many events take place in the soul and mind of a person. The soul, not burdened by the body, flies into the world of fantasies, memories, feelings, pictures of the future and past.

In this “subtle” world, the soul of a living person can meet the souls of deceased loved ones and relatives. It happens as if you are experiencing another scene from life or remembering something. You see people as you remember them.

The souls of the deceased can contact a living person who does not have paranormal phenomena only in a dream. There they can simply be present as observers, make requests and questions, hug and talk about what they miss.

It is believed that if you saw a deceased person in a dream, he misses you in his world. You shouldn’t be afraid of this; it’s good if you remember him the next day, go to his cemetery or light a candle in church. This way you will make their existence easier and do a service for them, because this is the only thing a living person can do for a deceased person.

Why do you dream about the dead?

How to properly remember deceased relatives?

Remembering the dead is an important action that should be done not only when you feel it, but according to all Orthodox rules. The following dates are considered especially important to remember:

• Commemoration after burial. It is believed that after the body is interred, the soul of the deceased should be given “breakfast” the next morning. A glass of vodka (other drink is possible) and a piece of bread are placed on the grave.
• Remembrance on the third day. The first memorial to be done after a person has died. The first commemoration is performed as an honor of paying tribute to the risen Jesus Christ, as well as veneration of the Most Holy Trinity. Interesting fact: for the first three days, the soul of a deceased person walks on the earth like a living person, but it is not visible to the eye. On the third day, the accompanying Angel must take the soul to another world. During these three days, the soul remembers its entire life, all the bad and good deeds, and mentally says goodbye to all its relatives.
• Commemoration on the ninth day. A mandatory tradition and custom that pays respect to the nine angels - the servants of the King of Heaven. After the third day (namely after the remembrance), an Angel takes the person’s soul to the “heavenly abodes” and for all 6 days she observes their beauty. It is believed that here the soul becomes lighter and forgets about any sorrow. Sorrow returns only when the soul enters the gates of heaven and if the soul has been sinful. The soul should appear before the Almighty and demand His mercy. On earth at this time, loved ones try to set the table, share food with loved ones and drink to the deceased in silence.
• Commemoration on the fortieth day. This is an important date that is very significant for the soul: at this time it worships the Lord for the second time and he decides where to go: to hell or heaven, where the Angels take him. On the fortieth day, loved ones not only set the table for remembrance, but also pray fervently to atone for all the sins of the deceased before the “Last Judgment.”
• Commemoration for 1 year after death. A year is a circular cycle of time that measures existence. It is customary to remember the year among the loved ones of the deceased by setting the table and saying prayers.

How is it customary to properly remember the dead?

Do the souls of the dead come to their relatives?

It is believed that the closest people to any deceased are his relatives. After a person dies, his soul becomes the ancestral spirit, protecting the younger generation of the family from mistakes, wrong steps and accidents.

Is it possible and how to summon the spirits of deceased relatives?

Summoning a spirit is always an unnatural and anomalous phenomenon, since a living person should be in the world with the living, and the soul of the deceased should be in the world of the dead. Therefore, any “thread” connecting the living with the dead is a bad sign and a threat not only to health, but also to life.

It’s better not to even try to summon a spirit. If you want to turn to him and say something, it is better to light a candle for his repose in the church and cry out all the boiling words with tears.

Is it possible and how to communicate and talk with a deceased relative?

It is not only possible, but also necessary to contact the souls of deceased loved ones. In this way, you not only make your life easier and calmer, but also calm the souls of the deceased, because the only joy for them is the love and memory of their loved ones and friends to whom they were dear.

You can communicate with the souls of the dead anywhere and at any time. Just focus on what you want to say. Imagine this person next to you and talk to him as if he were alive, without being embarrassed by your feelings. Of course, you can only imagine that the deceased person could answer a certain question for you, but if you want, you can hear his voice hidden in your memories.

Is it possible for the living to talk to the souls of deceased loved ones?

Why does a person see deceased relatives before death?

Some life events surprise a living person with their predictions, hints, and signs of fate. This may indeed be true, but it is believed that before its death, a person's soul feels its predecessor. Intuition and premonition can be so subtle that not everyone can feel such a feeling.

One of the “symptoms” of such a premonition is dreams in which a living person sees people who have passed away. More than one person can dream. It is important to remember what exactly people said in the dream and whether they called you with them. You may remember phrases such as: “we miss you,” “we want to see you,” “come to us, we’re doing well.”

INTERESTING: Some dreams turn out to be so prophetic that in them dead people tell their living loved ones in plain text that their death will come very soon, as if warning of danger or giving them the opportunity to say goodbye.

What do dreams mean in which a person sees dead people?

Can deceased relatives help living ones?

As already mentioned, everyone who passes away becomes a spirit. The goal of each spirit is to protect its family and contribute to its prosperity. That is why souls literally “take” a person away from bad people, places, and cases. A living person may experience this as a feeling of déjà vu or intuition.

How to ask for help from deceased relatives?

In difficult life situations or in case of poor mental state (illness, depression, apathy), you can ask for help not only from the Almighty, but also from the souls of departed ancestors. To do this, it is important to find a quiet place and fully concentrate on your thoughts, feelings, and requests. Make requests or prayers, talk to souls as if they were living people and wish them peace.

Of course, by asking the souls of departed ancestors for advice, you will not receive a direct answer and will not hear a loud voice. But if you do this with all sincerity and love, the spirits can send you a sign indicating any advice and answer.

How does he ask for help from the souls of the dead?

Can a deceased relative become a guardian angel?

A deceased loved one often becomes a Guardian Angel for a living person. You can ask the Almighty for this or not, but you can feel it by observing “signs from above,” dreams and sensations of the presence of the deceased nearby.

What to do on the birthday of a deceased relative, is it possible to celebrate?

The birthday of a deceased person is a date that is very important. It means life and therefore on this day they remember the deceased, remembering him alive, discussing and praising him for his good deeds. On this day, you can set the table and drink without clinking glasses, light a candle in the church for the repose, and pray.

Is it possible to have a wedding if a relative has died?

It is not customary to play a wedding or celebrate major personal holidays (matchmaking, anniversaries, anniversaries) if a close and significant person in the family has died. It is customary to observe mourning in the first year after death, as a tribute to respect and love for him.

Prayers for deceased relatives

The prayers of people who knew him alive and loved him will help ease the existence of the soul of a deceased person. You can read prayers in church or at home.

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We often wonder how the soul of a deceased person says goodbye to loved ones.

Where does she go and what path does she take? It is not for nothing that the days of remembrance of those who have passed on to another world are so important. Some people do not believe in the existence of the soul after the death of a person, others, on the contrary, diligently prepare for this and strive for their soul to live in paradise. In this article we will try to understand the questions of interest and understand whether there really is life after death and how the soul says goodbye to its loved ones.

What happens to the soul after the death of the body.

Everything in our life is important, including death. Surely more than once everyone thought about what would happen next. Some are afraid of this moment, some are looking forward to it, and some simply live and do not remember that sooner or later life will come to an end. But it should be said that all our thoughts about death have a huge impact on our life, on its course, on our goals and desires, actions.

Most Christians are confident that physical death does not lead to the complete disappearance of a person. Remember that our creed leads to the fact that a person should strive to live forever, but since this is impossible, we truly believe that our body dies, but the soul leaves it and moves into a new, just born person and continues your existence on this planet. However, before entering a new body, the soul must come to the Father in order to “account” for the path traveled and tell about its earthly life. It is at this moment that we are accustomed to saying that it is decided in heaven where the soul will go after death: to hell or to heaven.

Soul after death by day.

It is difficult to say exactly what path the soul takes while it moves towards God. Orthodoxy says nothing about this. But we are accustomed to setting aside memorial days after the death of a person. Traditionally, these are the third, ninth and fortieth day. Some authors of church scriptures claim that it is on these days that some significant events take place on the path of the soul to the Father.

The Church does not dispute such opinions, but does not officially recognize them either. But there is a special teaching that tells about everything that happens after death and why these particular days were chosen as special.

Third day after death.

The third day is the day when the burial ceremony of the deceased is performed. Why the third one? This is connected with the Resurrection of Christ, which occurred precisely on the third day after death on the cross, and also on this day the celebration of the victory of Life over death took place. However, some authors understand this day in their own way and talk about it. As an example, we can take St. Simeon of Thessalonica, who says that the third day is a symbol of the fact that the deceased, as well as all his relatives, believe in the Holy Trinity, and therefore strive for the deceased to fall into the three Gospel virtues. What are these virtues, you ask? And everything is very simple: it is faith, hope and love that are familiar to everyone. If during life a person could not achieve this, then after death he has the opportunity to finally meet all three.

The third day is also associated with the fact that a person throughout his life performs certain actions and has his own specific thoughts. All this is expressed through three components: reason, will and feelings. Remember that at a funeral we ask that God forgive the deceased all his sins, which were committed in thought, deed and word.

There is also an opinion that the third day was chosen because on this day those who do not deny the memory of the three-day Resurrection of Christ gather in prayer.

Nine days after death.

The next day on which it is customary to remember the dead is the ninth. St. Simeon of Thessalonica says that this day is associated with nine angelic ranks. A deceased loved one could be included in these ranks as an immaterial spirit.

But Saint Paisius the Svyatogorets reminds us that memorial days exist so that we pray for our deceased loved ones. He cites the death of a sinner as a comparison with a sober person. He says that while living on earth, people commit sins, like drunk people, they simply do not understand what they are doing. But when they get to heaven, they seem to sober up and finally understand what was accomplished during their lifetime. And it is we who can help them with our prayer. In this way we can save them from punishment and ensure a normal existence in the other world.

Forty days after death.

Another day when it is customary to commemorate a departed loved one. In church tradition, this day appeared for the “ascension of the Savior.” This ascension occurred precisely on the fortieth day after his Resurrection. Also, mention of this day can be found in the Apostolic Constitutions. It is also recommended here to remember the deceased on the third, ninth and fortieth day after his death. On the fortieth day, the people of Israel commemorated Moses, and so says the ancient custom.

Nothing can separate people who love each other, not even death. On the fortieth day, it is customary to pray for loved ones, beloved people, to ask God to forgive our loved one all his sins committed during life, and to give him paradise. It is this prayer that builds a bridge between the world of the living and the dead and allows us to “connect” with our loved ones.

Surely many have heard about the existence of the magpie - this is the Divine Liturgy, which consists of remembering the deceased every day for forty days. This time is of great significance not only for the soul of the deceased, but also for his loved ones. At this time, they must come to terms with the idea that a loved one is no longer around and let him go. From the moment of his death, his fate must be in the hands of God.

The departure of the soul after death.

It will probably not be long before people receive an answer to the question of where the soul goes after death. After all, she does not stop living, but is already in a different state. And how can you point to a place that does not exist in our world? However, it is possible to answer the question regarding to whom the soul of a deceased person will go. The Church claims that she ends up with the Lord himself and His saints, and there she meets with all her relatives and friends who were loved during her lifetime and who have gone before.

Location of the soul after death.

As already mentioned, after a person dies, his soul goes to the Lord. He decides where to send her before she goes to the Last Judgment. So, the soul goes to Heaven or Hell. The Church says that God makes this decision independently and chooses the place of residence of the soul depending on what it chose more often during life: darkness or light, good deeds or sinful ones. It is difficult to call Heaven and Hell any specific places where souls come; rather, this is a certain state of the soul when it is in agreement with the Father or, on the contrary, opposes Him. Christians also have an opinion that before facing the Last Judgment, the dead are resurrected by God and the soul is reunited with the body.

The ordeal of the soul after death.

While the soul goes to the Lord, it is accompanied by various ordeals and trials. Ordeals, according to the church, are the denunciation by evil spirits of certain sins that a person committed during his lifetime. Think about it, the word “ordeal” clearly has connections with the old word “mytnya”. At Mytna they used to collect taxes and pay fines. As for the ordeals of the soul, here instead of taxes and fines, the virtues of the soul are taken, and also the prayers of loved ones are needed as payment, which they perform on the memorial days, which were mentioned earlier.

But you shouldn’t call ordeals a payment to the Lord for everything that a person did during his lifetime. It’s better to call it the recognition of the soul of what burdened it during a person’s life, of what he could not feel for some reason. Every person has the opportunity to avoid these ordeals. The lines from the Gospel speak about this. It says that you just need to believe in God, listen to His word, and then the Last Judgment will be avoided.

Life after death.

One thing to remember is that for God the dead do not exist. Those who live an earthly life and those who live an afterlife are in the same position with Him. However, there is one “but”. The life of the soul after death, or rather, its location, depends on how a person lives his earthly life, how sinful he will be, and with what thoughts he will travel his path. The soul also has its own destiny, posthumous, and it depends on what kind of relationship a person develops with God during life.

Last Judgment.

The teachings of the church say that after the death of a person, the soul goes to some kind of private court, from where it goes to heaven or hell, and there it awaits the Last Judgment. After it, all the dead are resurrected and returned to their bodies. It is very important that in that very period between these two trials, loved ones do not forget about prayers for the deceased, about appeals to the Lord for mercy on him, forgiveness of his sins. You should also perform various good deeds in his memory and remember him during the Divine Liturgy.

Days of commemoration.

“Wake” - everyone knows this word, but does everyone know its exact meaning? Please note that these days are needed to pray for a deceased loved one. Relatives must ask the Lord for forgiveness and mercy, ask Him to grant them the Kingdom of Heaven and grant them life next to Himself. As already mentioned, this prayer is especially important on the third, ninth and fortieth days, which are considered special.

Every Christian who has lost a loved one should come to church for prayer these days; he should also ask the church to pray with him; a funeral service can be ordered. In addition, on the ninth and fortieth days you need to visit the cemetery and organize a memorial meal for all loved ones. Also special days for commemoration with prayer include the first anniversary after the death of a person. Subsequent ones also matter, but not as strong as the first.

The Holy Fathers say that prayer alone on a certain day is not enough. Relatives remaining in the earthly world should do good deeds for the glory of the deceased. This is considered a manifestation of love for the departed.

The path after life.

You should not treat the concept of the “path” of the soul to the Lord as some kind of road along which the soul moves. It is difficult for earthly people to know the afterlife. One Greek author claims that our mind is not capable of knowing eternity, even if it were omnipotent and omniscient. This is due to the fact that the nature of our mind is, by nature, limited. We set a certain limit in time, setting an end for ourselves. However, we all know that eternity has no end.

Stuck between worlds.

Sometimes it happens that inexplicable things happen in the house: water starts flowing from a closed tap, a closet door opens by itself, something falls from a shelf, and much more. For most people, such events are quite frightening. Some people rather run to church, some even call the priest home, and some do not pay attention to what is happening at all.

Most likely, these are deceased relatives trying to get in touch with their relatives. Here we can say that the soul of the deceased is in the house and wants to say something to his loved ones. But before you find out why she came, you should find out what happens to her in the other world.

Most often, such visits are made by souls who are stuck between this world and the other world. Some souls do not even understand where they are and where they should move next. Such a soul strives to return to its physical body, but can no longer do this, so it “hangs” between two worlds.

Such a soul continues to be aware of everything, to think, it sees and hears living people, but now they can no longer see it. Such souls are usually called ghosts, or ghosts. It is difficult to say how long such a soul will remain in this world. This may last several days, or it may drag on for more than one century. Most often, ghosts need help. They need help to reach the Creator and finally find peace.

The souls of the dead come to their loved ones in dreams.

This is a common occurrence, perhaps one of the most common. You can often hear that someone’s soul came to say goodbye in a dream. Such phenomena have different meanings in individual cases. Such meetings do not please everyone, or rather, the vast majority of dreamers are frightened. Others do not pay any attention to who and under what circumstances they dream. Let's find out what dreams can tell about in which the souls of the dead see their relatives, and vice versa.

The interpretations are usually like this:

A dream can be a warning about the approach of some events in life.
-Perhaps the soul comes to ask for forgiveness for everything that was done during life.
-In a dream, the soul of a deceased loved one can tell about how he “settled” there.
-Through the dreamer to whom the soul has appeared, it can convey a message to another person.
-The soul of a deceased person can ask his relatives and loved ones for help, appearing in a dream.

These are not all the reasons why the dead come to the living. Only the dreamer himself can more accurately determine the meaning of such a dream.

It doesn’t matter at all how the soul of the deceased says goodbye to his family when he leaves the body, the important thing is that it is trying to say something that was not said during life, or to help. After all, everyone knows that the soul does not die, but watches over us and tries to help and protect us in every possible way.

Strange calls.

It is difficult to unequivocally answer the question of whether the soul of the deceased remembers his relatives, however, based on the events taking place, it can be assumed that he does. After all, many see these signs, feel the presence of a loved one nearby, and have dreams with his participation. But that's not all. Some souls try to contact their loved ones via telephone. People can receive messages from unknown numbers with strange content and receive calls. But if you try to call these numbers back, it turns out that they do not exist at all.

Usually such messages and calls are accompanied by strange noises and other sounds. It is the crackling and noise that is a kind of connection between the worlds. This may be one of the answers to the question of how the soul of the deceased says goodbye to family and friends. After all, calls come only in the first days after death, then less and less often, and then disappear altogether.

Souls can “call” for various reasons; perhaps the soul of the deceased is saying goodbye to relatives, wants to communicate something or warn about something. Don't be afraid of these calls and don't ignore them. On the contrary, try to understand their meaning, maybe they can help you, or maybe someone needs your help. The dead will not call just like that, for the purpose of entertainment.

Reflection in the mirror.

How does the soul of a deceased person say goodbye to loved ones through mirrors? Everything is very simple. For some people, deceased relatives appear in mirrors, TV screens and computer monitors. This is one of the ways to say goodbye to your loved ones and see them for the last time. It’s probably not for nothing that mirrors are often used for various fortune telling. After all, they are considered a corridor between our world and the other world.

In addition to the mirror, the deceased can also be seen in the water. This is also a fairly common occurrence.

Tactile sensations:

This phenomenon can also be called widespread and quite real. we can feel the presence of a deceased relative through a breeze passing nearby or a certain touch. Some people simply sense his presence without any contact. Many people, in moments of intense sadness, feel that someone is hugging them, trying to hold them close at a time when no one is around. It is the soul of a loved one who comes to reassure his loved one or relative who is in a difficult situation and needs help.

Conclusion: As you can see, there are many ways in which the soul of the deceased says goodbye to his family. Some people believe in all these subtleties, many are afraid, and some completely deny the existence of such phenomena. It is impossible to accurately answer the question of how long the soul of the deceased remains with his relatives and how he says goodbye to them. Here, a lot depends on our faith and desire to meet at least once again with a loved one who has passed away. In any case, we must not forget about the dead; on the days of remembrance we must pray and ask God for forgiveness for them. Also remember that the souls of the dead see their loved ones and always take care of them.

Sometimes we want to believe that loved ones who have left us are watching over us from heaven. In this article, we will look at theories about the afterlife and find out whether there is a grain of truth in the statement that the dead see us after death.

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Do the dead see us after death - theories

In order to accurately answer this question, we need to consider the main theories about. Considering the version of each religion will be quite difficult and time-consuming. So there is an unofficial division into two main subgroups. The first says that after death we will experience eternal bliss in "elsewhere".

The second is about complete life, about new life and new opportunities. And in both options, there is the possibility that the dead see us after death. The hardest thing to understand is if you think the second theory is correct. But it’s worth thinking about and answering the question - how often do you have dreams about people you’ve never seen in your life?

Strange personalities and images that communicate with you as if they have known you for a long time. Or they don’t pay attention to you at all, allowing you to calmly watch from the sidelines. Some believe that these are just people whom we see every day, and who are simply inexplicably deposited in our subconscious. But where then do those aspects of personality that you cannot know about come from? They talk to you in a certain way that is unfamiliar to you, using words you have never heard. Where does this come from?

It's easy to appeal to the subconscious part of our brain, because no one can say with certainty what exactly is happening there. But this is a logical crutch, nothing more and nothing less. There is also the possibility that this is a memory of people you knew in a past life. But often the situation in such dreams is strikingly reminiscent of our modern times. How could your past life look the same as your current life?

The most reliable version, according to many opinions, says that these are your dead relatives visiting you in your dreams. They have already moved on to another life, but sometimes they also see you, and you see them. Where are they talking from? From a parallel world, or from another version of reality, or from another body - there is no definite answer to this question. But one thing is for sure - this is the way of communication between souls that are separated by an abyss. After all, our dreams are amazing worlds where the subconscious walks freely, so why shouldn’t it look into the light? Moreover, there are dozens of practices that allow you to calmly travel in dreams. Many people have experienced similar feelings. This is one version.

The second concerns the worldview, which says that the souls of the dead go to another world. To Heaven, to Nirvana, the ephemeral world, reunite with the general mind - there are a great many such views. They have one thing in common - a person who has moved to another world receives a huge number of opportunities. And since he is connected by bonds of emotions, common experiences and goals with those who remain in the world of the living, naturally he can communicate with us. See us and try to help somehow. More than once or twice you can hear stories about how dead relatives or friends warned people about great dangers, or advised what to do in a difficult situation. How to explain this?

There is a theory that this is our intuition, appearing at the moment when the subconscious is most accessible. It takes a form close to us and they try to help, warn. But why does it take the form of dead relatives? Not the living, not those with whom we have live communication right now, but the emotional connection is stronger than ever. No, not them, but those who died, long ago or recently. There are cases when people are warned by relatives whom they have almost forgotten - a great-grandmother seen only a few times, or a long-dead cousin. There can be only one answer - this is a direct connection with the souls of the dead, who in our consciousness acquire the physical form that they had during life.

And there is a third version, which is not heard as often as the first two. She says that the first two are true. Unites them. It turns out she's doing quite well. After death, a person finds himself in another world, where he prospers as long as he has someone to help him. As long as he is remembered, as long as he can penetrate someone’s subconscious. But human memory is not eternal, and the moment comes when the last relative who remembered him at least occasionally dies. At such a moment, a person is reborn to begin a new cycle, to acquire a new family and acquaintances. Repeat this whole circle of mutual assistance between the living and the dead.

What does a person see after death?

Having understood the first question, you need to constructively approach the next one - what does a person see after death? As in the first case, no one can say with complete confidence what exactly appears before our eyes at this mournful moment. There are many stories from people who experienced clinical death. Stories about a tunnel, gentle light and voices. It is from them, according to the most authoritative sources, that our posthumous experience is formed. In order to shed more light on this picture, it is necessary to generalize all the stories about clinical death and find intersecting information. And derive the truth as a certain common factor. What does a person see after death?

Right before his death, a certain crescendo, the highest note, comes in his life. The limit of physical suffering is when the thought begins to fade little by little and eventually goes out completely. Often the last thing he hears is the doctor announcing cardiac arrest. Vision fades completely, gradually turning into a tunnel of light, and then becoming covered in final darkness.

The second stage - the person seems to appear above his body. Most often he hangs several meters above him, able to examine physical reality down to the last detail. How the doctors are trying to save his life, what they do and say. All this time he is in a state of severe emotional shock. But when the storm of emotions calms down, he understands what happened to him. It is at this moment that changes occur to him that cannot be reversed. Namely, a person humbles himself. He comes to terms with his situation and understands that even in this state there is still a way forward. More precisely - up.

What does the soul see after death?

When dealing with the most important moment of the whole story, namely, what the soul sees after death, you need to understand an important point. It is at that second when a person resigns himself to his fate and accepts it that he ceases to be a person and becomes soul. Until this moment, his spiritual body looked exactly the same as his physical body looks in reality. But, realizing that the shackles of the physical no longer hold his spiritual body, it begins to lose its original outlines. After which the souls of his dead relatives begin to appear around him. Even here they try to help him, so that the person moves on to the next plane of his existence.

And, when the soul moves on, a strange creature comes to it, which cannot be described in words. All that can be understood with absolute certainty is that all-consuming love and a desire to help emanate from him. Some who have been abroad say that this is our common, first ancestor - the one from whom all people on earth descended. He is in a hurry to help the dead man who still does not understand anything. The creature asks questions, but not with a voice, but with images. It plays out a person’s entire life, but in reverse order.

It is at this moment that he realizes that he has approached some kind of barrier. It is not visible, but it can be felt. Like some kind of membrane, or thin partition. Reasoning logically, we can come to the conclusion that this is exactly what separates the world of the living from. But what happens behind it? Alas, such facts are not available to anyone. This is because the person who experienced clinical death never crossed this line. Somewhere near her, doctors brought him back to life.