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- Herausgeber: Bedrettin Şimşek
- Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
- Sprache: Englisch
A novel full of mysteries about death and life for those who have lost God and are searching for Him.
An example of a new, different, alternative literature of thought.
So far, authors have written countless books about death without being able to tell us anything meaningful about it. This time, Bedrettin Simsek's novel, inspired by real cases of reincarnation that took place in Turkey, is not about those who die mysteriously, but about those who are mysteriously born.
When he asks, "Is there a connection between reincarnation, God and schizophrenia?", he gives answers that have not been given before. He asks the questions that have not been asked.
In a mysterious murder investigation, the search for the killer eventually leads us to find God. When a murder is solved, the mysteries of existence are solved. What comes out of the criminal's mind reveals that birth is actually a much more mysterious event than death.
For those who want to think while reading, to encounter new and daring ideas.
"I see not only the great truth behind everyday events, but also what happens in this world and in other worlds, even before birth and after death, and I describe these mysteries in my writings"
Bedrettin Simsek
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
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Table of contents
1. A Miracle of Birth
2. The Desert we are in After Death
3. Lost Prophet
4. A Strange Death
5. Gods and Ghosts
6. High Security Forensic Hospital
7. Meeting with a SCHIZOPHRENIC
8. Criminal with two Faces
9. A Strange Birth
10. Selfish Man, Passionate Woman
11. Murder at Hunting party
12. A Dark Case
13. Hunter and Prey
14. Usurper leaping out of his grave
15. Revenge and Remorse
16. Established beliefs, Extreme ideas
17. A Bizarre Phenomenon
18. Schizophrenia, Reincarnation and God
19. The Ghost in the Machine
20. Searching for God in a lab
21. The Secrets of a Sleepwalker
22. Giants and Humans
23. A Woman who Died of Love
24. Dead or not Yet Born?
Bedrettin Simsek was a promising writer when his first two books were published by major Turkish publishers in 1996 and 1997. His combination of philosophy, humor, and literature set him apart from other writers, and he stood out for his skeptical attitude toward religion. When his third book, "The Discussions of an Atheist and a Clergyman" was published in 1998 by one of Turkey's leading publishers, he was sued over complaints and both he and the publisher were sentenced to prison terms for insulting religious values. This sentence was suspended on the condition that he would not commit the same offense again and was noted in his record. His conviction made Bedrettin a criminal forever. All publishing houses closed their doors to him; he was excluded from the literary world. His later works were always rejected by publishers, some for fear of punishment, others for fear of the reader's reaction.
Translated into English by Bedrettin Simsek
1
A Miracle of Birth
I've always been interested in the supernatural. My curiosity for mystery has given me a deep imagination. I can say that my life has been spent chasing cases that no one can explain. Although this fascination has led many to call me crazy, it has actually helped me. The strange things I have witnessed have shown me that there is life beyond death, another reality beyond reality, and have lifted for me the veil that fell over our eyes at birth. More importantly, it gave me new friends who made the world less boring.
An acquaintance of mine, a faculty member at the Institute of Social Sciences, had a wide circle at the university. These people, all open-minded, were leading figures in the world of science. They included physicists, philosophers, and doctors. Since they always had to appear rational in public, they were able to give credence to the craziest ideas among themselves. Cases that science considered nonsense aroused great interest, so they were kept secret. We often met and talked about the supernatural. One day one of our group came with a book called "Love Poison" by an unknown author. He had found this book, which was no longer on sale, in a bookstore under a mountain of dusty books. In the first story of the book, titled "The Miracle Device," it was mentioned that death appears as a photon of light just before we take our last breath and then enters our body to take our life. This claim, which no one would take seriously, caught the attention of some of us. However, physicists did not find this thesis worthy of attention. This discovery, which, if confirmed, would have been the greatest of our century, was left to be lost in a scattered book by an unknown author. My academic friend then pointed out to me the reluctance of scientists to put forward ideas in a field where religion had a say. Death was a topic monopolized by religion. A Ph.D. in philosophy was in the room at the time. The philosopher, with wild eyes and unkempt hair, expressed his opinion as follows:
"According to the soul, having a body is a disease. The soul sees the possession of a body as a malfunction. We know this from the mishaps that happen to us, from the fact that there is always something wrong around us. So when we die, we get rid of a disease.
Months passed. But the unknown author's thesis continued to haunt me. One day, when I went to visit my academic friend, I found him arguing with a group of faculty members. The subject of the dispute was a master's thesis submitted by a student for approval by the rectorate. In the room were the director of the institute, the thesis advisor, an associate professor, and an assistant. The student had passed the defense, but there was no consensus among the panel as to whether he had been successful. The thesis, compiled from reincarnation cases, was entitled "Memorates. The director of the Institute of Social Sciences considered the work unscientific, even though these experiences had actually occurred. The student's advisor argued that the fact that the thesis was based on the book "Reincarnation and Biology" by Ian Stevenson, an American professor of psychiatry, refuted this claim. The thesis presented biological evidence for reincarnation. These were people who had been murdered in some way and then reborn. Not only did they remember their past lives, but they were reborn with the same marks they had died with. In fact, Stevenson's 1993 article "Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons" in the Journal of Scientific Exploration was included in the thesis. The Turkish boy in this article claimed that the birthmark on his right face was the result of a point-blank gunshot wound in a previous life. The bullet pierced the right side of his skull, damaging his brain, and he died in the hospital after struggling for life for six days. Stevenson had obtained a copy of the hospital records, which showed that the birth and death marks of the case matched. What was surprising was that the entry and exit marks of the bullet in the head were in the same place in both the deceased and the born. The thesis raised the following questions: Was the entity that came to life in two separate bodies and appeared to have been shot with the same gun one person or two separate persons? Or was it all an illusion? Did the event, which seems to have happened at different times according to the calendar in our minds, happen at the same time in an eternity where time does not exist? Did the one person appear as two separate persons, like an electron in two different places at the same time? Could our vision be deceiving us?
Stevenson's 2005 article "Some Bodily Malformations Attributed to Previous Lives" was widely cited in the thesis. According to this article, A.D. was born in a district of Hatay and began speaking at the age of 1.5-2. In his previous life, he was a laborer named SalihGirisken who died when he was trapped under a collapsed building during construction. However, before the fall of the concrete pile that caused his death, a piece of debris fell on him and severed A.D.'s left hand. As a result, A.D. was born without his left hand and with blood still flowing from the wound.
The fact that the thesis presented cases with such concrete evidence was not a problem, of course. After all, reincarnation has given us many examples of gunshot victims being born with a bullet scar. But there has never been a case of someone who was shot in the leg being born with a bullet in his leg. It was case number 14 in the thesis that sparked the panel's debate. Allegedly, when a man who was shot with a gun while smuggling is reincarnated, he brings with him the bullet lodged in his leg from his previous life. In fact, when the baby is born, the wound in his leg is bleeding and the bullet is still there. For some unknown reason, the bullet cannot be removed, and later the child remembers his past life and tells at length how he was killed.
The director of the institute insisted that this case, which offered no evidence, be excluded from the thesis. The advisor was in favor of a detailed investigation. When the student was called in and asked if he could corroborate the allegation in case number 14 with hospital records or judicial records, he replied that he had not spoken to the person in question and that he had been told about the incident by the reincarnated case number 13. By a strange coincidence, he too had died of a gunshot wound to the head. Even today, the marks left by the bullet that entered through his left temple and exited through the back of his head are clearly visible. The entry point of the bullet resembled the hole where a finger would have entered at the moment of birth. He said he often dreamed of and recognized people from his past life, such as his wife and children, but could not remember their names. He longed for them but did not know where they were. He would wake up crying at night. He met Case 14 when they worked in the same assembly plant in Arabia. In the desolation of the desert, far from the city, they had much to tell each other at night. They remembered not only their past lives, but also the moment of their deaths and even beyond. The veil of mystery over death was lifted for them, but the mystery of life remained unilluminated: they did not know why they were reborn. Who had thrust them back into the world? Number 13 became more religious in his new life, while number 14 became a skeptic. But again, there was a contradiction. Number 13 was a sinner who had committed crimes in his past life. Number 14 had been a smuggler in his previous life, but he was religious. So death had taken one man out of religion and brought the other back into it. Number 13 believed in the existence of the soul. Number 14 claimed that there was no soul, even though he had died and risen from the dead.
"If there was a soul, this bullet would not be here," said Case 14, pointing to the location of the bullet in his leg from a previous life.
Although the student who presented the thesis had tried many times to interview Case 14, he could not reach him. At the time, he was working in a company run by his brothers, and his family would not allow him to see anyone. Could this be due to his skepticism about religion? Because his brothers were very conservative and found the claim of reincarnation absurd. They accused their brother of being mentally ill because he claimed to be reincarnated even though he had a bullet or a gunshot scar from a previous life. It was as if they had built a wall around him. The family was horrified by his words denying the existence of the soul and God. They thought it was the worst thing that could happen to them. When the Ph.D. student asked to interview the case, the brothers dismissed him, saying that all these claims were made up. The student made several more attempts, but was insulted. Why did the family hide the case if the claim of reincarnation was a lie? Why did they not let anyone interview him? If the bullet incident was a fabrication, they could have let the person explain it and then dismissed the interviewers.
The subject was very intriguing. After much discussion, the panel decided to seek the opinion of an obstetrician. The dissertation file was brought to the attention of a professor at a university hospital. I was told that I, as a curious person, could be present when the expert gave his opinion.
2
The Desert we are in After Death
Although the obstetrics professor was seventy years old, he managed to stay young. He explained that every time he learned something new, he became a year younger. His baldness commanded respect because he had lost his head of hair for the sake of science. Though his body was decadent, the reflections of the fire rising from his soul could be seen in his eyes, which radiated vitality. As we showered him with compliments, the old man seemed dizzy with happiness and said:
"Although young people are capable of setting the world on fire, you can't even find a spark in them to ignite their souls."
Besides me, the director of the institute and the thesis advisor were in the room. The associate professors had left the decision on the file to these two.
Before the topic was discussed, the professor said that he was open to all opinions. This was because his sense of curiosity had not left him. For old men could be attractive to young people, not with their knowledge, but with their love of learning. Scientists should not rule out any possibility. Even if it was as controversial as reincarnation.
"Only by searching in uncertain territory can new things be found," he continued. "And the saddest thing for a scientist is to die without having discovered anything. Can a man who has never seen anything extraordinary in his life, who has never witnessed a miracle, be said to have lived at all? Only those who have experienced great surprises in life have lived to the fullest. That's why you have to keep exploring. Never think that you know everything, that all questions have been answered. Yes, there are scientists who say that reincarnation is nonsense. They are busy putting those who have come out of their graves back into their graves."
These words gave us an idea of what the obstetrician was going to say. First, he said that he had no knowledge of the subject of the thesis. He had been present at many births, but he had never seen a baby born with bleeding wounds. Therefore, it would not be right for him to say "it exists" about something he had not witnessed.
"Science makes a mistake when it dismisses a claim as false, when it never thinks about it again," he said. "The thing to do in this case is to think about what conclusions it would lead us to if the claim were true. If the results are great, if it has unheard of and unprecedented qualities, then the thing to do is to revisit that claim again and again. Because our testing methods change over time, so we should not trust ourselves either.
The director of the institute looked over his glasses and asked, "Can you be more specific?"
The obstetrician replied, "I cannot say that reincarnation exists. But if there were such a thing as reincarnation, then many questions that we cannot answer now would be answered. At least I think so from the point of view of my profession.
Advisor: "Does that mean we have to approve the thesis?"
Professor: "That is a difficult question. But I would approve it, because in science not everything has to be proven. Besides, this is an open question, and even if we cannot prove it, future generations may prove it one day. So I think it's a waste of time to discuss a claim about whether it can be proven or not. Let's look at the possible consequences. Let's think about where the consequences would lead us if this claim were true."
I was surprised by the literary imagination of the obstetrics professor. I thought then that it is intuition rather than knowledge that can open the horizons of scientists.
