About the book: 2007 / This book has a twofold purpose: firstly, from the point of view of Orthodox Christian teaching about the afterlife, to provide an explanation of modern “posthumous” experiments that aroused such interest in some religious and scientific circles; secondly, cite the main sources and texts containing Orthodox teaching about the afterlife. If this teaching is now so poorly understood, it is largely a consequence of the fact that in our “enlightened” times these texts are in oblivion and have completely gone out of fashion. We tried to make these texts more understandable and accessible to the modern reader. Needless to say, they are infinitely more profound and useful reading than the currently popular books about “after-death” experiences, in which, even if they are not just mere sensationalism, there can still be nothing more than superficial showiness , because they do not contain a complete and true teaching about the afterlife. The Orthodox teaching presented in this book will undoubtedly be criticized by some people as too simple and naive for a person of the twentieth century to believe in. Therefore, it should be emphasized that this teaching is not the teaching of a few isolated or atypical teachers of the Orthodox Church, but the teaching that the Orthodox Church of Christ has proposed from the very beginning, which is set forth in countless patristic works, in the lives of saints and the services of the Orthodox Church, and which the Church continuously transmits right up to the present day. The “simplicity” of this teaching is the simplicity of truth itself, which, whether expressed in any teaching of the Church, is a refreshing source of clarity amidst the confusion caused in modern minds by the various errors and idle speculations of recent centuries. Each chapter of this book attempts to point to patristic and hagiographical sources containing this teaching..