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A radical procedure, during which the patient’s blood is replaced with a chilled saline solution, can bring a person who is in a state of clinical death back to life, a correspondent claims.

“If your body temperature is 10⁰C, your brain shows no signs of activity, your heart has stopped, there is no blood in your body - it’s unlikely that anyone will argue that you are dead,” says Arizona State University researcher Peter Rea. “But we can bring you back.” you to life."

Peter Rea isn't exaggerating. Experiments he conducted with his colleague at the University of Maryland, Samuel Tisherman, proved that the body can be maintained in a state of suspended animation for hours. Their technique, which has so far only been tested on animals, is one of the most daring in medicine.

During this procedure, all blood is removed from the patient’s body, and the body is cooled by more than 20⁰C. After surgery, blood is pumped back into the body and the body slowly warms up.

“As soon as blood is pumped into the body, the skin immediately turns pink, and at a certain temperature the heart turns on spontaneously,” says Peter Rea. “This is quite curious: at a temperature of 30⁰C, the heart begins to beat on its own. Then, when the body becomes even warmer, it independently restores normal rhythm."

What's amazing is that the animals used in this experiment show very little sign of any side effects after being brought back to life. “They are unsteady on their feet for a while, but the next day they behave absolutely normal,” says Samuel Tisherman.

Tisherman gained worldwide fame after his announcement of his willingness to apply this technique to patients in Pittsburgh hospitals. According to him, these should be those who received bullet wounds and were in critical condition when the heart had already stopped. For such people, the technique proposed by Tisherman is the last hope.

“Cheat death with suspended animation” - this is how CNN reported about this idea. The New York Times wrote about Tisherman's technique under an even more scathing headline: "Killing a Patient to Save His Life."

Unnecessary sensation

Such sensational coverage of his experiments sometimes hurts Samuel Tisherman. During the conversation, he gives the impression of a thoughtful, balanced person who does not seek to present his research in a sensational light.

The scientist is especially careful in using the term “anabiosis.”

Illustration copyright Getty Image caption Peter Rea (pictured right) suggests that salt anabiosis could be used for quite some time

"I'm not worried that they might be inaccurate. But when people hear the term, they think of Han Solo from Star Wars or space travelers who can be frozen and sent to Jupiter where they will come back to life," he says .

"This distorts the meaning of my research. It is important to understand that this is not science fiction. This theory is based on experimental work and is tested in strict accordance with scientific methodology before it is used to save people from death," says Samuel Tisherman.

His research partner, Peter Rhee, gained widespread fame after treating US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. In 2011, an attempt was made on her life, she received a severe wound to the head, but doctors managed to save her.

Peter Rea has bolder plans for using “salt suspended animation” than Tisherman. He does not exclude the possibility of maintaining the body in this state for a long time. Although, according to him, this is a matter of the distant future. "What we're doing now is just the beginning of the experiment," he says.

40-year-old man survives without any brain damage after three and a half hours of CPR

Samuel Tisherman began studying the problems of resuscitation in medical school, where he was mentored by Peter Safar. In the 1960s, Safar pioneered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Nowadays, indirect cardiac massage or chest compression is a well-known procedure: rhythmic pressure is applied to a person’s chest to force the heart to start working again.

Peter Safar's work has changed our understanding of death as a momentary phenomenon. "We tend to think that death is instantaneous, and once we die, there's no going back," says Sam Parnia of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

"That used to be the case. But with the advent of CPR, we realized that the cells in our body do not die for several hours after we are in a state of clinical death. So, even after you have become a corpse, you can be returned to life," explains Sam Parnia.

Death: moment or process?

Tisherman considers death to be the moment (obviously subjective) when doctors stop cardiopulmonary resuscitation, seeing that it will no longer help. But, in his opinion, even after this some people could be brought back to life.

In December, a scientific article in the journal Resuscitation caught the attention of many physicians, claiming that half of the emergency physicians surveyed had at least once witnessed the so-called “Lazarus phenomenon” (autoresuscitation), when a patient’s heart spontaneously begins to beat after doctors had already given up all hope. .

Illustration copyright Thinkstock Image caption The stronger the decrease in body temperature, the higher the chances of resuscitation

But getting the heart back to work is only one of the tasks facing the resuscitator. Lack of oxygen as a result of cardiac arrest can cause serious damage to the most important internal organs and, above all, the brain. “Every minute that these organs are not getting oxygen, a process of dying occurs,” says Samuel Tisherman.

To solve this problem, his former mentor Peter Safar proposed using therapeutic hypothermia - cooling the body to about 33⁰C. To do this, the patient's body, for example, can be covered with ice. At low temperatures, the vital activity of cells slows down, their metabolism decreases, and, consequently, ischemic tissue damage, which is caused by a lack of oxygen.

The use of machines that maintain artificial blood circulation and supply it with oxygen has helped extend the time between cardiac arrest and brain death. A Texas clinic recently reported that a 40-year-old man survived without any brain damage after three and a half hours of CPR.

He was given an indirect cardiac massage, taking turns from doctors, nurses and even medical students who happened to be nearby. “Everyone in the room who could help was asked to participate,” recalls Dr. Scott Taylor Bassett.

However, such cases are rare. Bassett says doctors continued resuscitation only because the patient regained consciousness during the procedure, even though his heart was still not beating.

“During resuscitation, he was able to talk to us, and we understood that he had not yet suffered neurological damage,” says Dr. Bassett. “I had never seen anything like this, either before or after this incident. That is why we decided to continue.” .

Timing is everything

Such prolonged CPR is currently not possible for those who have suffered cardiac arrest as a result of a severe gunshot wound or trauma such as a car accident. Now the best option for a surgeon in this situation is to block the arteries leading to the lower part of the body, then open the chest and massage the heart to supply a small amount of blood to the brain while the wounds are treated and stitched up. But, unfortunately, in such cases only one person out of ten survives.

Illustration copyright Thinkstock Image caption Indirect cardiac massage in combination with other procedures can help maintain life for quite a long time

It is for this reason that Samuel Tisherman wants to cool the body to 10-15⁰C. This could give doctors more than two hours to operate. Such cooling is sometimes already used during heart surgery, but Tisherman’s technique is the first example of reviving a patient who is in a state of clinical death.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about this procedure is that doctors must drain all the blood from the patient's body and replace it with a cooled saline solution. Because the body's metabolism has stopped, it doesn't need blood to keep cells alive, and saline is the quickest way to cool a patient, Tisherman says.

Samuel Tisherman, along with Peter Rea and other colleagues, spent two decades building the evidence that the procedure was safe and effective. This is proven by numerous experiments on pigs that received injuries that were practically incompatible with life. During these operations, doctors saw that the animals were already far beyond the line of life and death, and, nevertheless, they were saved.

Patients with gunshot wounds were chosen for the first trials because in such cases it is easier to localize the site of bleeding

“The pig turned as white as possible,” says Peter Rea. “It turned into pale refrigerated meat.” However, if the animals could be cooled quickly enough - by about 2 degrees Celsius per minute - almost 90% of them survived when blood was pumped back into their bodies. Even after they lay there lifeless for over an hour. “It was an amazing sight for those present to see the animal's heart begin to beat again,” says Peter Rea.

After the test pigs returned to their normal state, the researchers ran a series of tests to see if their brains were damaged. To do this, before the procedure, they trained the pigs to open a container of a certain color in which an apple was hidden.

After being revived, most of the animals remembered where to look for the treat. Other pigs that were not taught this before the operation learned to do it soon after. They grasped the task as quickly as the others. This suggests that the procedure did not have any negative effect on their memory.

It is clear that it was very difficult to obtain permission for the same experiment with people. Earlier this year, Tisherman was finally allowed to use his technique as a test trial on patients who suffered gunshot wounds in Pittsburgh.

Many of us agree that to preserve the brain, the body needs to be cooled much more than is currently the case. But we don't dare to do this Sam Parnia

One or two such patients are admitted to hospitals in this American city for surgery every month. This suggests that over the past months, Tisherman’s technique has been tried on some of them. Although he himself does not want to share the results of this work yet. Tisherman intends to conduct similar trials in Baltimore, and if all goes well, Peter Rhee will begin the same work at a trauma center in Tucson, Arizona.

As with any medical research, transferring these trials from animals to humans presents some challenges. For example, animals receive their own blood at the end of the experiment, while humans will need donor blood that has been in storage for weeks. The animals were under anesthesia during the operation, but people will have to do without it.

All of this can affect how the body reacts. But Samuel Tisherman remains optimistic. "Dogs and pigs are thought to react to bleeding in the same way as humans," he says.

Doctors are watching these experiments with great interest. “This is very bold,” says Sam Parnia. “Many of us agree that to preserve the brain we need to cool the body much more than is currently being done. But we are hesitant to do this.”

If the trials go as planned, Tisherman intends to apply his method to treat other types of injuries. Patients with gunshot wounds were chosen for the first trials because in such cases it is easier to localize the site of bleeding.

But he hopes that eventually it will be possible to treat cases of internal bleeding in the same way - for example, as a result of the same road accidents. It is possible that someday this technique will be used to treat patients who have survived myocardial infarction and suffer from a number of other diseases.

The success of the tests may open the way to research into other forms of suspended animation. Some scientists would like to test whether a set of medications added to a saline solution could further slow down metabolism and prevent damage to body tissue.

Illustration copyright Thinkstock Image caption A defibrillator is a powerful tool, but often provides only a temporary effect

One promising candidate for this role is hydrogen sulfide, the chemical compound that gives rotten eggs their unpleasant odor. It has also been found to reduce metabolism in some animals. However, there is little evidence yet that hydrogen sulfide, a poisonous compound, can improve the chances of survival from cardiac arrest. Tisherman believes it would be better to instead find powerful antioxidants that can destroy cell-damaging chemicals.

Peter Rea is convinced that the “salt suspended animation” technique needs to be tested and implemented as quickly as possible. He told me about a patient whom he had seen in the hospital the day before our conversation.

“He was shot in the center of the abdomen, just below the rib cage,” he says. “The doctors did everything they could, but he died. This is exactly the kind of patient who we hope can be brought back to life when the doctors There will be more time for the operation."

Dear children of God! I would like to draw your attention to an instructive miracle performed by the prophet Elisha, which is recorded in the book of Kings. The hospitality of the Sonamite woman was rewarded with the birth of a son, but this joy, like all earthly blessings, turned out to be short-lived. After some time the child fell ill and died.

Filled with grief, the believing mother immediately hurried to the man of God. Through him, God promised to fulfill the desire of her heart, and she went with her grief to him.

Elisha's actions are described in the following verses: "And he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. And put down your staff. mine is on the baby's face.

And the mother of the child said: As the Lord lives, and as your soul lives! I won't leave you. And he got up and followed her. Gehazi went ahead of them and laid the rod on the child's face. But there was no voice, no answer. And he went out to meet him, and reported to him, and said: the child is not awakening.

And Elisha entered the house, and behold, the child lay dead on his bed. And he went in and locked the door behind him, and prayed to the Lord. And he rose and lay over the child, and put his lips to his lips, and his eyes to his eyes, and his palms to his palms, and stretched out on him, and the child’s body became warm. And he stood up and walked back and forth in the upper room; then he rose again and prostrated himself on him. And the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite woman. And he called her. She came to him, and he said: Take your son. And she came up and fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. And she took her son and went" (2 Kings 4:29-37).

The position of the prophet in this case was similar to your position, dear friends. Elisha had to deal with a dead child. This death was obvious, physical; but the death with which you have to fight is no less real, although invisible. It concerns the spiritual life of the child.

Children, no less than adults, are “dead in sins and crimes.” This is the real position of every person before God. It is impossible to provide true help to children without recognizing the disastrous state of their spiritual death. I beg you to treat them not as sleeping people who can be easily awakened, but as dead people who can only be revived by a power from above.

Elisha did not decorate the dead body, did not embalm it with aromas and myrrh, in order to leave it the same corpse, only in magnificent decoration. No, he wanted the child’s life and nothing else. Likewise, you are not satisfied with any minor successes, but strive only for one comprehensive goal - the salvation of the immortal soul.

Your job is not just to teach children to read the Bible and make them moral people. Your high calling is to be an instrument in the hands of God by which heaven can give life to dead souls. Everything you teach your children will be of no use if they remain “dead in sins.” Even if they become useful, moral members of society and orderly church goers, your highest goal is not achieved unless the Lord has quickened them to Christ.

So, our goal is resurrection. We are tasked with raising the dead! How can we complete this unusual task? If we give way to unbelief, we will stumble over the obvious fact that the work to which the Lord has called us is beyond our capabilities. We are not able to raise the dead. However, in essence, we are no more powerless than Elisha, since he himself could not resurrect the son of the Shunammite.

We may not be able to give our children spiritual life, but let us not lose heart. On the contrary, convinced of our complete inability, let us turn entirely to the true source of strength. A person who lives by faith dwells in the realm of miracles. Faith works miracles, it looks at what is promised and, regardless of everything else, loudly proclaims victory, regardless of the impossible.

Now that the Spirit of God came upon Elisha, calling him to the work of the Lord, he was no longer an ordinary man. Also, you, who are awake and languishing in prayer for children, are no longer simple insignificant creatures, you have become the temple of God, the Lord abides in you, and by faith you have entered the field of miracle workers. We were sent into the world to be participants in those works that the Lord God does by His Spirit through those who believe in Him.

We must work miracles, and therefore let us not consider the restoration of our dead children impossible and incredible. We are called to this, but let us remember the One who works in our weakness. Can't God raise the dead?

Please, look at your surroundings sensibly! Before you are spiritually dead children, and your heart longs for their revival. Fully aware that God alone can revive them, humbly pray that He will use you in His wonderful work and show you what to do.

If Elisha had remembered how he once served Elijah, and delved into the techniques of his teacher, he would not have sent Gehazi with his staff, but would have started immediately. to what he did only later. In 1 Kings 17 we see Elijah raising a dead child. Here the teacher left an example for his servant, and the miraculous power manifested itself only when Elisha followed him exactly. So we must learn at our feet. Teacher and in the matter of saving souls act like Him.

Filled with deep compassion, Christ was surrounded by corrupt humanity, empathizing with us in our deplorable condition. So we must approach the souls of children, languish with them in His longing, cry over them with His tears, otherwise we will not see their deliverance from destruction. We can only learn this wisdom of soul winning by following the example and spirit of the Lord Jesus.

Elisha, however, forgetting about the example of his mentor, chose a new method for himself, as more befitting of his prophetic rank. Handing the rod to Gehazi, he told him to place it on the child. It probably seemed to Elisha that the power of God was so abundant in him that any method would be effective, and therefore there was no need for his personal participation. But that is not what the Lord decided.

I am afraid that the truths that we proclaim to children often resemble Elisha’s rod, that is, they remain something alien, external, like a staff that is held in the hand, but which still does not form part of the body. We take such and such a teaching, such and such a truth, as Gehazi took the staff, and place it on the child’s face, but we ourselves remain indifferent and do not experience the pangs of birth.

No matter how we try to explain the truth more clearly, putting it in the most attractive form and using visual aids, if our words are not an echo of what is happening in our hearts and do not flow from the depths of our soul, they will never have an effect on the soul, as did the staff of Gehazi on the dead child. It is bitter to admit, but I have often proclaimed the Word of my Lord as the most faithful of all prophetic words, and yet without success! Oh, isn’t it because he preached the gospel without that fiery zeal and sincerity that is necessary for this?!

And you, my friends, don’t you admit the same thing? Haven’t you also happened to proclaim the Gospel, to speak correctly, to expound on what is undoubtedly true, and even to convey to others what was an ineffable treasure for your soul - and so what? - Unsuccessfully, unrequited!

Is it because everything that was said was not felt and you were indifferent to those to whom you testified about God? Was it not the same with you as with Gehazi, when he indifferently laid the staff on the face of the dead? In this case, it is not surprising that you also have to repeat the same words: “The child does not awaken.” True awakening power could not be manifested in lifeless, dry instruction. In fact, we don't even know if Gehazi was sure the boy was dead. From his words it can be assumed that the child is only sleeping.

God cannot bless those who are not wholeheartedly aware of the disastrous condition of their children. Therefore, if you are carried away only by illusory theories about human dignity, about the innocence of childhood and similar dreams and do not believe that children are sinners, do not be surprised if you do not see any fruit from your labor.

Can the Lord accomplish the work of resurrection through you if you do not see the need for it? If it had happened that the deceased had come to life, Gehazi would not have been surprised: “Well, that’s all I woke up from a deep sleep!” If the Lord were to awaken souls through the words of people who were not convinced of the death and complete corruption of the human race, they would certainly think: “What a moral influence the Gospel has! It is extremely useful and beneficial” and would not give glory and worship to the One who, sitting on the throne, creates “all things new” with His regenerating power.

Look at what Elisha does after his first failed attempt to resurrect the boy. He did not lose heart when he learned that the child had not regained consciousness, but he girded himself and energetically set to work. When you fail, you shouldn't quit because of it. If your children are still dead and all your efforts have failed, do not conclude from this that everything is in vain. Elisha did not despair and did not think that reviving the child was impossible. Failure does not mean quitting, but doing it differently. It didn’t work this time, try again and again.

Often you have to change techniques. If the first one turns out to be unsuitable, you need to try another, carefully examining the cause of the error. Thus, nurturing our spirit. The Lord can prepare us for such wide activities as we have never dreamed of.

Pay attention to where the child was placed. The Bible says that the deceased lay on the bed of the prophet. This was the very bed that the hospitable Shunammite woman had prepared for Elisha. The good woman did not think how famous this bed would become when, out of love for God's prophet, she prepared a place for him to rest.

The child was lying on Elisha's bed. This tells us that you should not leave your child away from you, somewhere outside the home. If we want to see him alive, we need to take him to the warmest place, closest to our hearts.

“And Elisha went in... and shut the door behind him, and prayed to the Lord.” Now he sets to work with all his heart; and we can learn from him how to begin the great task of raising a dead child. Looking at the account of Elijah, we see that Elisha completely followed the example of his teacher. "And he (Elijah) said to her, Give me your son. And he took him from her hands, and carried him into the upper room where he lived, and laid him on his bed. And he cried to the Lord, and said: Lord my God "Will You really do evil to the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son? And prostrating himself over the boy three times, he cried out to the Lord and said: Lord my God, may the soul of this boy return to him! And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah , and the soul of the lad returned to him, and he came to life" (1 Kings 17:19-22).

One ancient wisdom says: “True preaching is written in heaven.” This means that a true preacher must talk a lot with God. If we do not ask for blessings from the Lord, if we do not consider raising our children on our knees before Him, then our work cannot be successful. All power must come from above.

Can the Lord visit and delight you with the conversion of the children entrusted to you if you do not intercede for them before the throne of grace? I think it is an excellent way to invite the children one by one into your room and pray with them alone. Then you can expect their conversion, when you pray for each one separately, you watch over each one, you suffer for each one, you languish, you worry.

Often prayer alone has a much stronger impact on a child than general prayer in a congregation or family. Such prayers often serve as an answer in themselves, that is, the Lord can, while you pour out your soul before Him, through your prayer act on the child’s heart in a way that no admonitions have ever had.

Pray separately with your children and you will receive good fruits. If this is impossible, then, in any case, there should be a lot of prayer on your part - unceasing, constant, exciting prayer. People, flaming in spirit, overcame everything through prayer. They did not leave the throne of grace until they received the mercy they asked for. “The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force” (Matt. 11:12).

After praying, Elisha took action. Prayer and action should always go hand in hand. To act without prayer is to persist, and to pray without action is to be a hypocrite.

Here in front of us lies a child, and next to him stands a venerable man of God. Look how strange he acts: he bends over the deceased, puts his lips to his lips. The warm, living lips of the prophet touched the cold, dead lips, and a life-giving stream of fresh, hot breath penetrated the cooled, petrified larynx and lungs. Then the holy elder, full of zeal and love, put his warm hands on the cold hands of the dead child and his eyes on his eyes. Not only that, he extended his whole body over him, as if wanting to convey his life to him.

If we sincerely wish to revive a child spiritually, we must, first of all, be clearly aware of his situation. The child is dead, yes, completely dead. The Lord wants us to know this and see Him as dead in sins and crimes as we ourselves once were. God wants us to come into contact with this death, although it can be painful and depressing.

Let's see how our Teacher acted, wanting to raise us from the dead. He had to die himself: there was no other way. So you, if you want to resurrect your dead child, then you must certainly be imbued with the chilling horror of death.

It is impossible to remove a brand from a fire without feeling the heat of the flame. Without a proper consciousness of all the horrors of God's coming judgment and His wrath, you will not have the zeal to work on souls and you will not be able to achieve success.

When the deadness of your children arouses in you feelings of oppression, fear and despair, then know that the Lord wants to bless you. Having thus comprehended the child’s condition, one should then, as far as possible, become accustomed to his nature, habits and character. You must speak in a child’s language so that the child understands, look at things through his eyes, share his feelings with your heart, and be a friend to the child. In a word, you need to study the world of a child with its temptations and enticements in order to, as far as possible, enter into the position of your child, share with him his joys and sorrows.

If all this seems boring and burdensome to you, why did you start a family? Raising children should not be treated with disdain! Whatever is required for this, everything must be done willingly, without coercion. The Lord will not resurrect a dead child through you if you are not ready to do anything to save his soul.

It is said about the prophet that he prostrated himself over the child. We would say: squeezed over him. After all, he was an adult, and he was still a boy, so wouldn’t the word “shrink” be more correct? No, just “prostrated”. There is nothing more difficult for an adult than to “stretch out” according to a child’s standards. Getting children interested is no easy task. In order to teach little children, it is necessary to use all our wit, our deepest knowledge, our most sincere thoughts and all our strength.

You can't keep children busy with empty talk. We are required to exert all our strength, carefully prepare and deliberately work in order to properly educate these little ones. It is impossible to revive a child if you do not “prostrate” over him, no matter how strange it may seem. And the smartest person will have to apply all his abilities to this.

While Elisha shuddered from the cold wafting from the corpse, his own warmth penetrated the numb body. In itself, of course, this could not resurrect the child, but the Lord used the prophet’s vital warmth to warm the dead body and through this revived the deceased.

It is good for everyone to reflect on the words of the Apostle Paul: “We...were gentle among you, just as a nurse tenderly treats her children. So, out of zeal for you, we wanted to convey to you not only the gospel of God, but also our souls, because you have become dear to us" (1 Thess. 2:7-8). Anyone who sincerely longs for the salvation of their children will understand these words. The Lord, through His Spirit, blesses our heartfelt experiences and often uses them to accomplish what the truth itself, coolly conveyed, would not accomplish. This is the secret of successful evangelism. You must give your soul to your children in such a way that their death seems to you your own death. If the wrath of God is upon them, then it is upon you as well. Therefore, confess their sins to the Lord as your own, pray and continually intercede for them, as the high priest did.

The prophet's actions soon resulted in the child's body becoming warm. How happy Elisha must have been! However, we do not see him resting on this. Never be satisfied that your children are beginning to show some hope of improvement.

If tears appeared in the child’s eyes when you talked about the love of Christ, rejoice, it means that the body is warming up. But don't stop there! Is it possible to give up on this? After all, the goal has not yet been achieved. We need life, not just warmth! We must not just convince our children, but lead them to God; impressions are not enough - rebirth is needed, that is, new life from God, the life of Jesus Christ.

Let's look at Elisha again. “And he stood up and walked back and forth in the upper room.” He finds no place for himself, he is alarmed. The child warmed up, and thank God for this, but he is not alive yet; Therefore, the prophet does not sit down to rest at his table, but restlessly walks back and forth, sighs, yearns and languishes in soul. He is unable to look at his exhausted mother and hear her plaintive voice: “Has my son come to his senses?”

If you notice that a child's heart is touched, do not stop caring for him. The salvation of the soul is most precious of all and is never acquired easily. It is impossible to become a father in Christ without painful anxiety and suffering. You need to understand with your heart the words of the Apostle Paul: “I am again in the throes of birth until Christ is formed in you!” (Gal.4:19).

May the Holy Spirit give you the same mental anguish and the same anguish, worry and anxiety until your children become truly converted and saved.

Have you had a successful conversation with your children? Continue this way in the future. It’s very easy to destroy what was done before! If your warm attitude warmed children's souls, then God forbid that cooling on your part should cause them to freeze! Be sure that just as warmth emanated from Elisha, so coldness can emanate from you if there is no sincere zeal in your soul for the cause of their salvation.

Elisha again stretched out on the bed, and again the fervent prayer of faith and the sighs of the elder were heard. Finally the answer came, his wish came true: “And the child sneezed seven times...” The sound, in itself, was unattractive, but still meant life.

We cannot demand more from children when the Lord gives them spiritual life.

If a child has realized his worthlessness and relied on the finished work of Christ, then no matter how inarticulately and incoherently he expresses it, we should thank God. It is quite possible that Gehazi did not pay attention to the child’s sneezing, since he was not stretching over him. But Elisha was pleased. So we too will be sensitive to the slightest sign of grace and grateful to God if we really reached out in prayer for the lifeless souls of our children.

Following this, the child opened his eyes. Elisha probably thought those eyes were very beautiful. I don’t know whether they were blue or black, but I know that the eyes that we manage to open with God’s help will always be beautiful for us.

Dear friends, is Gehazi among you? I sincerely feel sorry for the one who only knows how to carry a baton. May the Lord grant you life by His mercy, otherwise you will not be able to revive another! If Elisha were dead, his body could not impart life to another, no matter how they were laid on top of each other. It is also useless to come into contact with the dead souls of children with your lifeless soul. A cold stove will not warm a chilled wanderer. A frozen, numb mother cannot caress her children.

May the grace of God touch you first of all and make it His instrument for awakening many souls to the glory of God.

based on the book V.A. Shemshuk "BABA YAGS - who are they?"
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How to revive a dead person

Russian healers could revive killed or dead people. I was particularly interested in this question and found ancient way of revival, described in the 19th century by Zabylin, but before that I myself discovered a similar method. I will give my observations and reasoning on this issue.

Most failures in resuscitation of people who died violently from suffocation (hanging), drowning, electric shock, freezing, shock, poisoning, heart attack are associated with ineffective methods of resuscitation And with the misconception that brain cells die within the first five to six minutes. In reality, this is not so; nerve cells, on the contrary, live much longer than all other cells, since they are most protected from external and internal influences.

As a student at the Medical Institute and working as a paramedic on a rescue team, I became familiar with the statistics of water rescues over many years.

As a rule, if a person was without air for 4-6 minutes, he was able to start his heartbeat and breathing, but it was not possible to bring him to consciousness and the ambulance taking him to the hospital was forced to turn into the morgue. People who were without air for more than this time never returned to life.

The reason for dying lies not in the weak viability of brain cells, but in a decrease in the temperature of the blood of the head, and since most of the vessels in the head are thinner than a human hair, the blood, thickened by cooling, becomes impossible to move through the thinnest capillaries, and therefore the power of the brain is turned off. This is why it is not possible to bring a person to his senses (consciousness), despite the fact that his heartbeat and breathing are restored, even after three hours of being in the water.

To the person clinically dead, it is necessary, first of all, to warm up the head, and if he has rigor mortis, then the whole body. Therefore, the Russians used a bathhouse when reviving.

It is known from physiology that biochemical reactions in the human body occur at a temperature of 36.6, and in order to start them, a temperature of 38 ° C is needed. Therefore, a bathhouse was necessary.

Working as a paramedic in a rescue team, my duties included checking the condition of divers before they dived. Since such dives were extremely rare, I was assigned to one of the city’s beaches. We didn’t have days off as such; it was believed that we took them off in the winter, so we had to be on the beach every day without any days off.

We agreed with my partner, also a lifeguard, to change periodically, and then one day, when it was my turn to be on duty alone, I did not have a rescue boat, because the motor was damaged, and the partner who was responsible for it could not fix the problem in time. I, like all the vacationers, was just sunbathing with everyone else on the beach.

And suddenly, the people lying next to me ran - an emergency occurred - a girl drowned. I first noted the time and, after questioning eyewitnesses, I also climbed into the water to save. The girl was pulled out of the water by those who came to the beach with her. I looked at the time - 12 minutes had passed. They pumped the water out of her and began giving her mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration. Although it was my job, no one perceived me as a rescuer, and also as a paramedic.

Fearing legitimate popular anger, they say, why do we need such rescuers who don’t even have a proper boat (and even more so possible dismissal, since for me, a medical student, there was no better job), I modestly stood nearby and gave advice, although the guys They did everything correctly and without my advice.

Her heart began to beat and she began to breathe, although every doctor knows; that this could only be a temporary effect, the main thing was that she regain consciousness. According to all today's canons, she had no chance of salvation.

When I suggested that someone warm it up with their body (as the peoples of the north do when they revive frozen people, and as the Germans learned to revive it in SS dungeons), my proposal remained unheeded. However, when her heart stopped again once again and I, after stimulating it, suggested rubbing her temples with vodka and applying a rag with vodka to her forehead (there was nothing else at hand) to warm up her brain and then turn her over on her back so that it would be fresh. blood entered the front lobes of the brain, my proposal was accepted and carried out.

On top of the vodka compress I put a plastic bag, which I pressed with my hands to her head. Although she did not come to her senses, her heart did not stop. And so, as it seemed to me, after an infinitely long time, she moaned and her body shook. She slowly came to her senses. The ancient method of revival worked.

I did not report this case to my superiors, because for me it would mean dismissal, since we could not repair the boat in time, and most importantly, I would have to say goodbye to my dream of graduating from the Medical Institute. But apparently, one of the vacationers nevertheless reported this incident to my superiors and that during the incident the rescuers were not on site. In any case, my relationship with them suddenly deteriorated and my partner and I were soon fired.

Of course, this revival could have been a pure coincidence and I could not prove it to anyone using one example. That's why I began to collect cases of revival when not 10 minutes passed, but several hours, days and even months. I did not stop my research and already, as a student at the Faculty of Biology (I had to leave the medical institute because there was no evening department there, and I had to work somewhere), I went to do coursework at the morgue.

As a result of my research, I discovered that up to almost three days in a person, biologically active points continue to function in the same way as in a living person, and in people who died a violent death they persist for up to a month, or maybe more, just other corpses during the period of my work they didn’t bring it over the coursework.

Although the topic of my course work was eventually changed, it was at this time that I came to the idea that there is no difference between suspended animation in animals, lethargic sleep, and death in humans.
Rodents, bears and other higher species of mammals, each time hibernating, actually seem to die, but come to life as the ambient temperature rises.

John Wright in his book “Witness to Witchcraft” described how African shamans revive warriors who were killed a day ago. Before being revived, he recorded a cat-like pupil and the absence of any pulse in all of them. And after the ceremony, to which he was not allowed, all the dead were alive.

The main thing when reviving is that the body temperature does not fall below 36.6, especially the head temperature.

And second, a person must periodically roll over onto his or her back, since the center of will (consciousness), located in the central frontal lobe of the brain, should not be drained of blood. Because when the heart stops as a result of prolonged lying on your back, there is a natural outflow of blood from the forehead.

There is no death at all, and there are, as it were, unfavorable conditions in which the body is forced to stop all the processes occurring in it, but if you correctly prepare the body for revival, then death can always be defeated.

Pathanatomists know well that if the heart of a deceased person is touched after opening the chest, the whole body shudders, and often the heart then begins to beat. In this case, teachers say; that these are residual reflexes, in fact, this is evidence that the deceased person is alive and ready to wake up and live if they do not cut him and then bury him in the ground.

If you have left your body and are watching how they are trying to resuscitate you, then know that these attempts will be ineffective on the part of the doctors if you do not enter back into your body.

If the doctors were unable to resuscitate you and gave up their attempts, and you know that you can still live and live, then leave the body again and begin to stimulate your life energy.

Mentally lift your right and left arms in the rhythm of your heartbeat - 12 times. Then, with the same frequency, tilt your neck forward and back, also 12 times. After this, bow 180 degrees also 12 times. After this, tense all the muscles in your body. If you fail to wince, repeat these exercises again in the same sequence. Don’t let yourself be distracted by any visiting relatives or “good beings.” You are more needed here.

There is practically no death as such. In our Russian language there are no words denoting death. The word “death” itself means “in moderation”, other words: introduce yourself, rest, move away, kill, die, play in the box, lethal outcome, etc. in the past meant completely different actions, which follow from the analysis of the roots of these words, but not death at all.

And this indicates that death on Earth as a phenomenon appeared quite recently, since the original meaning of the words meaning death today has not yet disappeared. The Old Russian name for a deceased person, preserved to this day, is “deceased”, i.e. asleep. In other words, our ancestors, unlike us, knew well that death is just a dream that ends one day.

Judging by the crypts and dolmens that are still found in some places in Russia, we can conclude that until quite recently our ancestors treated death not as a departure from life, but as a transformation. After all, you can leave both the crypt and the dolmen.

With the advent of Catholicism in Russia, it was prescribed to bury the dead in the ground, and crypts and dolmens were prohibited, despite this, the Cossacks continued to leave “pipes” for the dead so that the resurrected deceased could call for help and would not suffocate in his coffin.

If you look at the entire established tradition of funerals, you can come to the unequivocal conclusion that everything was and is being done so that a person, having recovered from suspended animation, could not get out of his burial place.

First they came up with the idea of ​​putting a stone on the grave. Since this did not help and some still managed to somehow get out, they came up with a gravestone covering the entire grave. However, there were cases when people somehow got out of it, tearing off their nails and tearing their fingers bloody, which, by the way, were preserved in stories written in the 19th century and told even in our time in pioneer camps.

Naturally, such cases excited the public. Therefore, it was invented to use wooden coffins with a lid nailed down, and the revived person had no chance of getting out of it.

After the establishment of Soviet power, when Catholicism, as a tradition, was freely introduced into Russian culture, mandatory autopsies of dead people were prescribed so as not to leave the dead any chance of resurrection, and cries for help that were periodically heard from the graves no longer aroused the public against doctors.

But doctors, of course, are not to blame. The occupiers are to blame for imposing the idea of ​​death on us.
There is no death as such in nature, there is only our idea of ​​it as a certain inevitable necessity, which affirms death on Earth. In fact, death is indistinguishable from lethargic sleep - suspended animation, through which many animals go through every year.

Lethargic sleep (death) was created by our ancestors specifically as a protective reaction of the body, having passed through - which, a person was rejuvenated, due to autolysis (dissolution) - of accumulated protein globules that clogged the cells of the body.

But in medicine, the opinion is being propagated that autolysis supposedly processes all the insides of the cell, which is absolutely not true. In a lethargic sleep, a person hears and even sees everything, but cannot move until transformation processes take place in him. It is no coincidence that people who have gone through lethargic sleep (death) have many sensitive abilities.

All of the above allows us to draw an unambiguous conclusion that the illusion of death, imposed on us by the invaders as a means of punishing a person, has become a reality, although in essence it remains imaginary.

It is no coincidence that excavations of old cemeteries when there were no autopsies yet show that buried people find themselves upside down in their coffins.

In other words, almost all people who have died, if there was no autopsy, come to life again and discover with horror that they are buried alive. Therefore, it is necessary to reconsider the modern conditions of burial of people. And again begin to bury (i.e., hide from animals and birds, and not bury in the ground) dead people in crypts.

Since for many today the crypt will not be affordable, you can use the ready-made premises of the upper Tartarus, which are located under all the currently existing cities and are now empty. Or caves where the temperature is the same in summer and winter.

Before placing a person in a crypt, he needs to cleanse his stomach, intestines, mouth and ears using modern methods and perform resuscitation every nine months using the ancient Russian method.

This raises a number of philosophical questions - is it necessary to do this? Is it worth reviving many dead?? A small survey on how long people would like to live showed that people do NOT want to live to a ripe old age, because of a difficult, joyless and unpromising life.

Modern science is working hard to solve one of the few problems of humanity that directly interferes with our lives... Taxes. Joke. For thousands of years, people have been looking for the key to immortality, and so far it is somewhere out there, far from our understanding. Now we can cheat death by freezing ourselves, uploading our minds into a computer, changing DNA, etc. But for now these are all games with death, and so far it wins us dry. Or not?

Luz Miraglos Veron

Analia Bouter was pregnant with her fifth child when she went into labor 12 weeks early. After the birth, the doctors told her that the child was dead, and her husband was given a paper in which the fact of the child’s death was recorded. But the parents decided to return 12 hours later to see their daughter’s body, which by that time was already lying in the refrigerated chamber of the morgue. After the birth, all doctors diagnosed death, but when the parents opened the refrigerator box, the child began to cry, and they realized that their daughter had come to life. The girl was named Luz Miraglos (Wonderful Light) and the latest data about her says that the girl is stronger and completely healthy.

Alvaro Garza, Jr.

Alvaro Garza Jr. was born and lived in North Dakota, USA. He was 11 years old when he fell through the ice. The rescuers took a very long time to get to the place and by the time they arrived, Alvaro had already been under water for a full 45 minutes. When he was pulled out of the river, doctors declared clinical death: he had no pulse, and his body temperature dropped to 25 degrees. When he was brought to the hospital, he was connected to a heart-lung machine and he came back to life.

The explanation for this whole story is that Alvaro fought for his life for several minutes before he went under the ice. During this time, the body realized that there was a struggle for life, the body temperature dropped and the need for oxygen decreased to almost zero. Four days after the incident, he was able to communicate, and 17 days later he was discharged. At first, his limbs didn’t obey him well, but gradually everything returned to normal. Now he is completely healthy.

Risen at the polling station

Ty Houston, a nurse from Michigan, was filling out her ballot in 2012 when she heard a cry for help. Running to the crowded place, the nurse saw an unconscious man. He had no pulse and no breathing. She began artificial respiration and after 10 minutes the man came to life. And his first phrase was: “Haven’t I voted yet?”

Resurrection in the morgue refrigerator

In July 2011, the owner of a morgue in Johannesburg (South Africa) was brought the body of a man who, by all indications, was dead. He was put in the refrigerator waiting for his relatives to pick him up. Twenty-one hours later, the dead man woke up and began screaming. It is clear that the owner of the morgue did not expect this. Frightened, the owner called the police and began to wait for them to arrive. The police opened the cell and pulled out a “dead” man who was showing signs of life. He was rushed to the hospital. The man fully recovered, and the owner of the morgue underwent a course with a psychiatrist.

Kelvin Santos

Kelvin Santos, a two-year-old boy from Brazil, died after complications from bronchial pneumonia that caused respiratory arrest. He was placed in a body bag and given to his family three hours later. When his aunt came to say goodbye to him, the body, as she said, began to move, after which the boy sat down in his coffin in front of the whole family, and asked his father for a sip of water. The family thought he had resurrected, but unfortunately he immediately lay down again and died again. He was taken to hospital, but doctors pronounced him dead a second time.

Carlos Camejo

Carlos Camejo was 33 when he was involved in a highway accident. He was pronounced dead and taken to the local morgue. His wife was notified of the death and invited to identify the body. Pathologists had already begun the autopsy when they realized that something was wrong. Blood began to flow from the wound. They began to stitch it up, and at that moment Carlos woke up, as he said, because the pain was unbearable. When his wife arrived, he was already conscious and was taken to the hospital. He has fully recovered (judging by the photo)

Erica Nigrelli

Erica Nigrelli, an English teacher from Missouri, was 36 weeks pregnant when she became ill and collapsed on the job. Her husband Nathan, a teacher at the same school, called 911 and reported that Erica was having a seizure. Erica's heart stopped. The ambulance arrived and took Erica to the hospital. The heart was still silent. The decision was made to save the child. After an emergency caesarean section, Erica's heart started beating again. She was kept in an induced coma for five days, and as a result it was discovered that she was suffering from a heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. She had a pacemaker installed. After some time, Erica and her daughter, Elania, were discharged alive and well.

Incident at the MaNdlo Hotel

In March of this year, prostitutes in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, stopped showing signs of life during the “work process” in a MaNdlo hotel room. An ambulance and police arrived to pronounce the death. A crowd of onlookers gathered around. She had already been placed in a metal coffin, when suddenly the prostitute began screaming: “You want to kill me!” Naturally, the number of onlookers immediately became much smaller. The client whom the girl was serving wanted to run away, but he was stopped and explained that the authorities and the hotel had no claims against him. And from the hotel he received a big discount for staying in a room. So if you are staying at a hotel and want to get a big discount, let a prostitute die in your room and come to life in front of everyone.

Li Xiufeng

Li Xiufeng was 95 years old. And one morning a neighbor found her lifeless on her own bed. The neighbor then called the police, who pronounced him dead. The grandmother's body was placed in a coffin and left until the day of the funeral. On the day of the funeral, relatives came and found the coffin empty. A minute later she was found in the kitchen drinking tea. As it turned out, this “death” was the result of a head injury suffered two weeks earlier.

Lyudmila Steblitskaya

Lyudmila was also diagnosed with death and placed in the morgue, where she later woke up. What makes her different from the guy who spent 21 hours in the morgue, she spent three whole days in the cell.

In November 2011, her daughter Nastya went to the hospital to visit Lyudmila and was met by a nurse who said that her mother had died. The body was in the morgue, and the morgue was closed because... It was already Friday evening. The daughter prepared for the funeral and invited 50 people. To pay for the funeral, the daughter borrowed about $2,000. On Monday, Nastya entered the morgue with the opening and found her mother in perfect health. After this discovery, the daughter ran out of the morgue screaming. The hospital declined to comment on the incident.

Nastya took a long time to recover from the shock, and Lyudmila paid the money in the amount of $2,000 from her salary for a long time. About a year later, she “died” again for an hour. Now the daughter has decided to wait at least a week before recognizing her mother’s death.

Tell me: is it easy to kill? Easily. Well, that means it’s not difficult to revive. It depends on who. And look: are I still alive? Up to x y and even more. Does that mean God gave them life? Gave. And if He ALREADY gave it the first time, then what problems might there be when repeating the experience? None. So, in principle, it is easy to resurrect: I prayed to God for the deceased, and let him continue to live. But the point is not how to resurrect, but the question: Why is he needed by someone who knows how to do this? Well, to me, for example: why the hell do YOUR DEAD people need me to bow to God for them, to bring them back to life? Why, aren’t there enough people alive who already exist to do the work that this corpse did? Yes, up to x y and more. So personally, I don’t see any point in this at all. But I pulled my uncle out almost from the Other World, because even though he was a shitty Orthodox Christian, he was my own, dear, younger brother of my own mother, and it was still too early for him to die then. Well, the fact that he doesn’t even suspect that it couldn’t have happened without me is even better: you know less, you sleep better, since he loves to boast that he babysat me when I was little and taught me to read and write. Well, why would I take this away from a person? Let him feel like a benefactor. Or look, our ex drove, who now helps me in some matters at work: I actually pulled this one out of intensive care twice, since he is a reliable person and is always happy to provide me with any help, regardless of our ideological differences on issues of God. But if before the first resuscitation he didn’t even want to listen to me at all, then after the second resuscitation he listens like a darling attentively. Well, what direct benefit do you bring to me, so that I would want to resurrect you if you accidentally die? Not at all. There are a hundred others in your workplace, even better than you, and replacing you is easier than peeing on your fingers. Well, why the hell am I going to resurrect any of you or your corpses if God decided to kill you? He knows better what kind of nits you are, and that you are just nits, I can see for myself. So, Slava, don’t even dream that those who know how to resurrect will begin to work on you and your corpses. There is a Ministry of Health for you, and if the doctor said: “To the morgue,” then there’s no fucking way that you can still live, and your job is to obediently follow the orderly to the morgue and lie down on the couch for autopsy to make a diagnosis: “Died from autopsy,” and that’s it. And fuck you, not the miracles of God, but for you only Science, Medicine, Technology, Glass, Concrete and the Kingdom of stuffy asphalt, electronics instead of brains, chemistry instead of food, silicone sex toys, purchased education diplomas without the education itself and so on, well, a brick instead of brains. So, Slava, what to kill a person, what to resurrect is elementary, it’s just that no one needs him from those who know how to do this with the help of God, since with the help of God nothing at all has ever been impossible, no and never will be. And the only thing that is necessary for this: to make yourself such that God WANTS to help you in your affairs, even if you need someone who is destined to die according to Fate, but you really need him, then God will meet you halfway, and to To the surprise of the luminaries of Medicine and to spite them, a person returns from the Other World, his body shows miracles of healing, and you receive him from intensive care, ready to continue to provide you with assistance in what you needed from him while he was lying in intensive care. And I look at my friend at work: he walks, mutters, sometimes swears, does different things, but this makes me happy and my heart is filled with gratitude to God. Well, the fact that he may not have wanted to come back doesn’t bother me one bit: I NEED him here for now, alive and relatively healthy, and I have this by God’s mercy towards me. Well, you guys, look closer to those who can bring you back to life, if only they need you, well, or you yourself become such that God Himself will resurrect you if anything happens. Well, no, no, live like all “normal” people and don’t bother with what you don’t believe in, because there is only benefit from what or who you believe in, and if you don’t believe, then you too x y to someone or someone in whom you do not believe, for the force of action is equal to the force of reaction, and showing disbelief in God, a person himself removes himself into the distant distance, while simultaneously remaining at a very close distance from Him, like that rocket that moves away from him , from which I received an impetus. But the charge will run out, and it will fall again to the ground from which it pushed off, because to enter orbit and further from it, excuse me, it’s not possible to fly with your fuse, and where the hell are you going to go from Space, even if you break away from the Earth ... And in general, those born to crawl cannot fly.