Leela: Physical Death — The Great Return

Описание: A contemplative film exploring what happens as the body falls silent and consciousness awakens beyond form.
Blending insights from medical science, neuroscience, and near-death research with the wisdom of the world’s mystical traditions, Leela traces the passage from matter to light — from heartbeat to eternity. Each stage reveals how life dissolves not into nothingness, but into a deeper field of awareness and love.
Created as a meditation on peace and remembrance, this film invites doctors, seekers, and mystics alike to witness death not as an ending, but as the Great Return.

Research & Lineage
Grounded in studies of medicine, neuroscience, and near-death experience —
and inspired by the Christian mystic tradition, where Yeshua reveals the Word and the Light that guide the soul home, as well as the Eastern paths of Light and Sound, particularly the Sant Mat lineage, where death is understood not as an ending but as an awakening to the Sound and Light within.

0:00 — Introduction
2:13 — Pre-Death (Biological, Chemical, Energetic)
5:00 — Clinical Death (0–5 minutes after cardiac arrest)
7:50 — Biological Death (5–30 minutes)
11:28 — Early Post-Death (0–24 h)
13:02 — Full Detachment (3–7 days)
18:48 — Beyond Seven Days — Continuum of Consciousness

References & Sources:

1. Pre-Death (Biological, Chemical, Energetic)
Hospice and end-of-life physiology:
Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin. Fast Facts #3: Recognizing Imminent Death.
MedlinePlus, “End-of-life symptoms and management.”
P. Twycross, Symptom Management of Terminal Illness (Oxford Univ. Press).
Energetic / Yogic perspective:
Prashna Upanishad (II.3-4) — description of prāna flows at death.
Sawan Singh, Spiritual Gems, letters on the withdrawal of consciousness.

2. Clinical Death (0–5 minutes after cardiac arrest)
Cardiac arrest and near-death physiology:
Jimo Borjigin et al., “Surge of neurophysiological coherence before cardiac arrest,” PNAS 2013.
Sam Parnia et al., Resuscitation (2023): AWARE II study on recalled experiences during CPR.
Karlis Bardis et al., “Electrocorticographic activity following asystole,” Frontiers in Neuroscience 2022.
NDE phenomenology:
Raymond Moody, Life After Life (1975).
Bruce Greyson, After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond (2021).
Spiritual framing:
Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thödol).
Sant Kirpal Singh, The Mystery of Death.

3. Biological Death (5–30 minutes)
Cell and tissue breakdown:
Hall & Guyton, Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th ed., ch. 4–5.
R. Knight, “Post-mortem cellular processes,” Forensic Science International (2016).
DMT & neurochemistry debate:
Dean et al., Frontiers in Neuroscience 2019, “Biosynthesis and role of endogenous DMT.”
J. Borjigin et al., “Evidence of DMT in rat brains,” Nature Sci. Reports 2019.
Esoteric parallels:
Julian Johnson, The Path of the Masters — stages of withdrawal of the soul current.

4. Early Post-Death (0–24 h)
Forensic sequence of post-mortem changes:
Madea, B. Handbook of Forensic Medicine (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Cultural & ritual significance of waiting period:
Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane.
Sikh and Hindu rites (antyeshti) — Garuda Purana, Book II.

5. Full Detachment (3–7 days)
Accounts of transition and “silver cord”:
Ecclesiastes 12:6–7 (“…the silver cord be loosed…”).
Param Sant Huzur Maharaj Sawan Singh, Philosophy of the Masters, Vol V.
Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, §§437-448.
Life-review research:
Greyson, B. & Stevenson, I., “Life reviews in NDEs,” Psychiatry (1980).

6. Beyond Seven Days — Continuum of Consciousness
Consciousness studies & metaphysical models:
Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life (2010).
Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven (2012).
Thomas Campbell, My Big TOE (2003).
Esoteric cosmology:
Sar Bachan Poetry, Soami Ji Maharaj — regions of the inner ascent.
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, “The Seven Lords.”
Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe.

Spiritual Lineage & Influence:

Ishwar Puri Ji — Exploring Illusion and Reality talks (Great Master’s teachings on beyond the mind).
Jesus & Christian mysticism: The Gospel of John 1:1–5, The Gospel of Thomas logion 22, The Cloud of Unknowing.
Comparative: Ken Wilber, The Spectrum of Consciousness; Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy.

General Interdisciplinary Sources:

Michael Newton, Journey of Souls (case studies of between-life regression).
Peter Fenwick & Elizabeth Fenwick, The Art of Dying (2008).
Mark Mirabello, A Traveler’s Guide to the Afterlife (2016).

Research informed by publications in medicine, neuroscience, and near-death studies and by writings within Sant Mat, Christian, and universal mystical traditions.