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ANASTASIA
The Ringing Cedars
Book i
Series
John Woodsworth
Edited by
Leonid Sharashkin
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Anastasia by
Vladimir Megre
Translation, Translator's Preface
and footnotes by
John Woodsworth
Editing, Editor's Afterword, footnotes, design
and layout by
Leonid Sharashkin
Cover
art
by
.Alexander Razboinikov
Front cover font: ShangriLaNF by
Nick Curtis
No
part of this
or
ISBN
0-9763333-0-9
First edition,
2005
Published by
from the
Contents
Translator's Preface
vii
i.
2.
Encounter
3.
Beast or
Man?
23
4.
26
5.
A forest bedroom
31
6. Anastasia's
7.
17
morning
Anastasia s ray
32
35
8.
Concert in the
9.
48
10.
60
11.
64
64
67
Morning!
yi
Eveningroutine
72
72
Hello,
taiga
42
12.
75
13.
77
Forest school
82
14.
Man
84
16.
89
17.
The brain
15.
Attentiveness to
a supercomputer
94
vl
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of men"
102
18.
"In
19.
105
20.
A mortal sin
108
2i.
Touching Paradise
112
22.
116
23.
120
24.
A strange girl
122
25.
Bugs
130
260
Dreams
27.
light
window of time
.....133
144
28.
Strong people
154
290
164
30. Author's
31.
message to readers
Editor's
Afterword
Series at a glance
168
190
195
201
..204
Vladimir Megre
Series
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Anasiasia
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Anastasia herself has stated that this book, written about her, consists
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Translator's Preface
Series that
became
(I
first
it
gradually
dawned on me
that
much
of my
stories of
mention
my own
status as the
religious
with the
(as
it
it
new
at
home
in this
new lit-
erary environment.
But even
after
fact, I
am
I still
still
do
asking
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viii
would
a rather crude
tell
the Bible?
My
beyond this primitive attempt at jocularity Of the four disparate genres mentioned above, I
would have to say Anastasia has elements of all four, and then some.
First the book reads like a novel. That is to say, it tells a firstperson story in a most entertaining way, bringing out the multifaceted character of both the author and the title personage in a
manner not unlike what readers of novels might expect. It tells a
tale of adventure in the raw Siberian wilds where even sex and violence make an occasional appearance, though with a connection to
feelings
far
have read.
Secondly
count of
book
the
real-life events,
even
me
if one's
documentary
book
itself,
experience
fit
ac-
many of the
me
to
specifics
institutions, scientific
phenomena etc.)
utterly fantastic.
Much
of the cor-
commentary by the
publisher.
And yet
there
is
a significant area of
still
be judged by
thinking
meaning of human
dous
new
life,
but
much more.
a treatise
would even go so
One
of
ideas
ideas
on
(a)
comes
to
my mind
is
chronicle
ix
Translator's Preface
everything outside
itself, (b)
ing but even the fluffy and attractive variety) of mistaken belief that
have, over the years, hid this relationship from our sight and
com-
Deeply metaphysical
is
set forth
can be read
it
any of these three in isolation, but only by taking the three dimen-
Yes, indeed,
I
com-
was
transla-
tor.
Anastasia
is
feel,
prose
is
series.
own
smiled
whom writ-
when one of
first
few chap-
about the
initial rejection
publisher, telling
him
his language
was too
"stilted".
And
yet his
These poems were written by readers with varying degrees of poetic experience.
Every effort was made to reproduce the poetic features of the original (or, on occasion, their absence)
3
on
poem-by-poem basis.
a
15:
'Attentiveness to Alan"
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Book i waxes
referred to above.
The
It will
be up to the
is
also
There were two Russian words, of frequent occurrence throughout the book, that presented a particular translation challenge.
on
just
is little
One
own
But
is
already
known
to
many English
speakers (and
is
included in
it
as well,
difficulty
however
one that formed the subject of several dozen e-mails between publisher
it
was
finally resolved
is
the
common term
1:
27).
Muskoka Lakes
namely, the
trees
around and
(in
some
cases) a
view of a
lake.
According to
70%
Translator's Preface
(as In
human
being) is that
xi
It
whereas chelovek
is
associated
is
i.e.,
an expression of
and reason
The problem with the word man Is that, especially In our age, It has
become so closely associated with only one half of the total number
of sentient, thinking beings on the planet that the other
understandably
feels collectively
half,
quite
contrast, does not have this problem: chelovek can designate either a
man or a woman. 8
In the end, partly through reason and partly through revelation,
It
was decided to translate chelovek, wherever appropriate to the context, by the term Man with a capital M, In an effort to retain the association of the term with a divine as opposed to a material, earthly
origin, as well as to
show the
link
Is
In conclusion,
must express
my gratitude
first for
to
my editor, Leonid
me with
entrusting
is
closely tied to
its
work
as the
portraying a superficial appearance, rather than the inner essence of the indi-
vidual.
in
theatre performances to suggest the thoughts and feelings of the character being
portrayed.
o
its
is
grammatically
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xii
me
throughout this
initial project,
namely, in illuminating
and Anastasia's
that
my
concepts of God,
made
a significant difference in
me for. These
how particular
making allowances
all
and
knowledge of Russian.
English language as
we
journey together to
all
an experience
collectively in-
Ottawa, Canada
January 2005
John Woodsworth
ANASTASIA
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The
;/
k 1
ringing cedar
ties
Ob
in Siberia,
I car-
from
expedition was
memorating.)
The
expedition
The
such
as Tomsk,
Nizhnevartovsk,
as well,
summer
where
navigation
season.
The convoy would dock at a populated settlement during the daytime. We would offer the wares we had brought for sale and hold
talks about setting up regular economic links. Our travelling was
Maria Ulyanova
Ulyanova
{nee
Lumumba (1925-1961)
formed the
ship
is
historical figures:
first
Emery
(1 875-1946)
Patrice
the Kalinin
Maria Alexandrovna
Blank, 1835-1916)
retains
its
original
as Chairman
first titular
Head of State;
name.
the book.
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done
at night.
If weather
places offered
little
in the
Clubs
entertainment.
?
USSR, and
there were
al-
around
From
village.
many
kilometres
I
itself.
was
not yet aware at the time that somewhere amidst the uninhabited
vastness of forest along the riverbank a surprise meeting was await-
ing
dock the
best, some
to
of the
taiga.
The
as the leader
of the expedition
was
elder of the
kept silent the whole time, leaving his younger companion to do the
talking.
total) to
go with them
where the ship was berthed. They would be taken into the depths
of the taiga to cut
taiga
the Russian
name
a 'ringing cedar
Siberia
is
5
.
The
much of
word
Siberian pine (Siberian cedar, Pinus sibirica) or to the Lebanese cedar (Cedrus
libant).
The
recommended
to the ship.
We must,
up
the rest to relatives, friends and anyone who wished to accept a piece
as a gift.
worn on
Hang
it
standing barefoot in the grass, and then press it to your chest with the
palm of your
left
hand.
It
takes only a
moment
warmth emanating from the piece of cedar, followed by a light tingling sensation running through the whole body. From time to time,
whenever desired, the side of the pendant facing away from the body
should be rubbed with one's fingers, the thumbs pressed against the
other side. The old fellow confidently assured me that within three
months the possessor of one of these 'ringing cedar pendants will
5
feel significant
improvement
and
will
be
"Even AIDS?"
what
had learnt
this,
all
diseases!"
task.
more
I
successful and
more
benefit was
kinder,
talented.
did know a little about the healing properties of the cedars of our
and
The main
would become
abilities
it
ability The thought came to me that maybe these old men wanted
money from me for this 'unusual cedar', as they themselves called it.
And I began explaining that out in 'the big wide world', women were
used to wearing jewellery made of gold and
a
dime
for
some
forty metres
about
that,
131 feet.
silver
The
metre
is
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Anastasia
i:
"They don't know what they're wearing/' came the reply. "Gold
well, that's dust in comparison with one piece of this cedar. But we
don't need any money for it. We can give you some dried mushrooms
in addition, but there's nothing we
Not wanting
I said:
his
look to
Then
it."
first his
old
worn
jacket
and then
his shirt
had occasion to visit picture galleries. The world's great masters had
not called forth any particular emotions in me, but the object hanging around this man's neck aroused significantly greater feelings and
emotions than any of my visits to the Tretyakov Gallery.
asked.
"Ninety-three," the old fellow responded.
"And
attention to them. In
persuade
me
my
or, if
he had, he paid no
started in trying to
Tretyakov Gallery
by human
fingers
it
Then it would
start looking even better and better, especially when worn by a woman. The body of its wearer would give off a pleasant and beneficial
alone,
would
also
artificially
produced by Man!
could feel
it,
(like all
common
Some of them
remember to this day, even the intonations associated with them. Here is what the old fellow told me:
"God created the cedar to store cosmic energy...
"When someone Is in a state of love they emit a radiant energy.
the North.
It
it
life
to everything that
breathes.
"The Sun
is
one of those
celestial bodies,
and
it
reflects
but a tiny
"Only bright rays can travel into Space from Man on the Earth.
And only beneficial rays can be reflected from Space back to Earth.
"Under the influence of malicious feelings Man can emit only dark
These dark rays cannot rise but must fall into the depths of the
Earth. Bouncing off Its core, they return to the surface in the form
rays.
etc.
"The culminating achievement of these dark rays Is their direct efon the Man originating them, invariably exacerbating this Man's
fect
own malicious
feelings.
live to
be
five
light.
Man-made
an-
tennas are but an imitation of branching pattern in trees. Both the structure of trees
and the materials composing them betray natural wave-receptors. Tree sap is a great
conductor of electricity
(this is
why a tree
hit
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"Even in one tiny piece of cedar there
is
it
up and
at the right
moment
give
back.
it
They give
it
back
on the Earth.
been storing up energy but not giving back what they have
After five hundred years of their
they talk to
us,
life
to
This
this is
stored.
is
how
how they
make use of
their
they
start to ring.
is
they don't have contact with living human beings, then in three years,
deprived of the opportunity to give back what they have received and
stored from Space, they lose their ability to give
start
it
back directly to
tor-
it
Perhaps
it is
time, but
trying to
still, it
draw out
its
It
away to people."
The old man spoke at length, and for some reason I heard him out.
The voice of this strange old Sibiriak* sounded at first quietly confident, then very excited, and when he got excited, he would rub the
piece of cedar with his fingertips as though they were lightly tripping
static electricity
was
Dr
in
first
visions:
Chapter
16:
The magnetic
a fossil resin
(see footnote 2 in
life
Sibiriak
trees.
and
This statement
Chapter
26:
"Dreams
is
corroborated by
from conifer
Lakhovsky
Dr Georges
life
on
a cellular level.
the river. Gusts ofwind ruffled the hair on the old men's capless heads,
on
his chest,
still
fin-
exposed to
climbed aboard.
couldn't act
on
their request
for
two reasons:
to
me,
at the time, to
company meeting
suddenly
own. Later she would tell me that after I'd gone aboard she stayed behind for a while. She noticed that when
started hurrying
away from
them, the oldster that had been talking with me stared after
me with
"Now how can that be? Why didn't they get it? I really don't know
how to speak their language. I couldn't make them believe, I simply
couldn't! Why? Tell me, Father!"
The elder man put his hand on his son's shoulder and replied:
"You weren't convincing enough,
son!
it."
Lidia Petrovna
(Petr,
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"As
happy! Please
called after
Well be
As the
waving
ship pulled
Amidst the flurry of my subsequent commercial dealings, accountkeeping and end-of-voyage farewell banquets I completely forgot
about the strange Siberian oldsters.
on
my four-month expedition
and to draw up
it
front of my thought.
I
The
Siberian cedar
wood
it
for furniture
read
it
was
Back
10
fruits
of
virility
number of
and
diseases.
There
is
whole host of
historical
phenomena
Here
is
one of them.
who
directly or indi-
named Gregory
hailed
live.
assassination, onlookers
body he con-
This
how
is
contemporary
power:
"At age fifty
ness he would go directly to the church for morning prayers and stand
P.S. Pallas
a reference to Peter
Simon
Pallas (1741-1811), a
German zoologist,
As a member of
the
St.
Siberian taiga.
Gregory Efimovich Rasputin (i8yi?-i9i6; sources do not agree on the date of his
birth)
a monk from the Tiumen region of Western Siberia who appeared to have
on
He
(espe-
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io
home
for a
as
accompany them
to the baths.
ous night's
activities.
No
From
where he would begin repeating the previnormal person could ever keep up a regime
like that."
tler
a Siberian, also
strongman
A co-incidence?
mention only those facts which can be easily verified in popularwhich can be confirmed by witnesses. Lidia
Petrovna, who was given the 'ringing cedar' pendant by the Siberian
I
science literature, or
oldster,
is
now one
of those witnesses.
She
is
husband, whom
now
He also
But
more
him
more respect
and, quite
love.
all
son to the main point, which you can look up for yourself
covery which has
Bible.
God
In the
left
Book of Leviticus
teaches us
how to
After comparing
of...
all
in the
treat people,
the
and that
a disis
the
cedar!!!
miracles
known
was reading.
Cedars are mentioned forty-two times in the Bible, all in the
Old Testament. 13 When Moses presented humanity with the Ten
Commandments on stone tablets, he probably knew more than has
been recorded in the Old Testament.
We are accustomed to the fact that in Nature there are various
tures
as
Old Testament
Academician
Pallas,
and
seri-
this
is
scriptures.
When the
Old Testament
is
Nature?
to be used?
talks
14
And
it is
doesn't the
Old
But
that's
not
all.
lies
behind
felling timber".
What
15
What knowledge
did they
possess?
I3
cedars)
I4
There
fact,
Kings
5:
number of trees
(e.g., fir,
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i2
have heard that even now, in the far-flung reaches of the taiga
16
5
.
What kind of a cloud was that? How and from where did it enter
What could it have been? Energy? A spirit? What kind
the temple?
The
it
some
kind of energy.
the ones in
Lebanon or Siberia?
would be the
stronger.
know them."
17
In
all this?
rent one are all of the same opinion regarding the cedar.
18
notes in her
"...a
kings of the ancient Khorassan. Druids also called the chalice of ce-
was the
Kings
Matth.
Elena
result
8: ii
7:
fire
of the re-
of Zoroaster
20 (Authorised KingJames
Ivanovna Roerich
[Rerikh]
Version).
(1879-1955)
Russian
religious
thinker.
This translation
is
2.4.18.
how much
So, then,
13
its
Is it
my
spine.
perestroika I
One day
got a
call
from
we still had
Communist Party committees and 'Executive Councils'), asking me
to come to a meeting with a prominent Western businessman. He
the Novosibirsk District Executive Council (back then
had a
letter
from the
external ap-
He was wear-
ing a turban, and his fingers were adorned with precious rings.
The
operation in various
would
fields.
remember the
wondered why
his
like that.
him came up to me. She said he would like to speak with me.
The businessman made me a confidential proposal: If I could arrange delivery of cedar nuts for him - and they had to be fresh
then I would receive a handsome personal percentage over and above
the official price.
The
kind of oil.
I
some
would think It over.
would find out for myself what kind of oil he was talk-
decided
ing about.
said
And I
did...
On the London market, which sets the standard for world prices,
cedar nut
oil
fetches anywhere
up
to five
hundred
dollars per
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kilogram!
20
extraction.
its
A month later he
sent
me
powers so involved
just to forget
about
After that
a reply:
And
"No way
We weren't
able to
it
would be better
it."
turned to
my good
friend,
Consumer
Konstantin Rakunov,
21
Co-operative Institute.
a
I
bought a shipment of nuts and financed a study And the laboratories of his institute produced approximately 100 kilograms of cedar
nut
oil.
I also
tion
hired researchers,
from
archival documents:
Before the Revolution (and even for some time afterward) there
was
in Siberia
oil,
Co-operator.
in Harbin,
oil.
22
York and rather large Western bank accounts. After the revolution
the organisation eventually collapsed, and many of its members went
abroad.
A member
23
of the Bolshevist government, Leonid Krasin, met
with the head of this organisation and asked him to return to Russia.
kilogram
Konstantin Petrovich
Rakunov
(1954-),
is
22
Management
Department
In
at
fact, prior to
oil
generated
activist.
10%
furs.
as Foreign
Paris.
new
15
he would be of
how they were processed. But I was unfrom the archives or the institute, exactly
which season was being indicated. The secret had been lost. There
are no healing remedies with properties analogous to those of cedar
oil. But perhaps the secret of making this oil had been passed along
by one of the emigres to someone in the West? How was it possible
that the cedar nuts with the most effective healing properties grow in
Siberia, and yet the facility for producing the oil is located in Turkey?
After all, Turkey has no cedars like those found in Siberia.
And just what 'Western powers' was the Warsaw entrepreneur
talking about? Why did he say it would be better just to forget about
this issue? Might not these powers be 'smuggling' this product with
extraordinary healing properties out of our Russian- Siberian
its
properties, a treasure
forebears yet
And what about the Bible's description of that extraordinary hapWhat kind of unknown pow-
wipe
it
out.
own
busi-
And, indeed,
was seized by a
fit
of anger.
it is
and tried
it.
The
oil is
sold
bought a
think,
was no more than a couple of drops the rest was some kind of diluting agent. Compared to what was produced in the Consumer Cooperative Institute
well, there
24
So what
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16
we
didn't buy it abroad, but sold it ourselves? Just the sale of this
would be enough to raise the whole of Siberia above the poverty
level! But how did we ever manage to let go of the technology of our
if
oil
forebears?!
Well, okay
produce the
think 111
myself
oil
I decided I would
up north, using only
all
the same.
I'll
and
try a
my headquarters
back
Lumumba. I
loaded a variety of goods for sale into the hold, and turned the film-
my firm. As things
stood,
people', to put
bers to
mildly
it
mem-
pay for
agreed to
when
to
go on a volunteer
up
Others asked
it
for work. It
signing
basis.
away Besides,
After
all,
all
it
should be given
my main interest was not the cedar tree itself, but the
My
oil.
it.
spies? I
And who
it,
and
to out-
fifty
thousand roubles
change rate
approximately 16
equivalent to
20%
US
dollars at the
November 1994
ex-
Encounter
tK""
Without a word to anyone, I arranged to have the ship stop not far
from the place where I had met the old men the previous year. Then
I took a small motorboat and reached the village. I gave orders to
the captain to continue along the trade route.
hoped
would be
able,
look up the two old fellows, see the ringing cedar with
my own eyes
the
little
the riverbank,
"It
here
Tying
one of
standing alone on
many
woman
for
tell just
ship.
On
fully covered. It
said hello
was hard to
last year,
Vladimir/' the
woman replied.
was amazed. Her voice sounded very young, her diction was
She called me by my first name and right off used the
informal form of address. I couldn't remember the names of the
I
crystal clear.
'And
informalform ofaddress
oivous in French).
as using tu instead
18
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'Anastasia", the
as
standing on a deserted shore and trying to act like a lady of the world,
amused me no end.
is,
it's
rather
far.
taiga,
me
the ringing
cedar?"
"Yes,
can."
me?"
two big
cities:
into
some other
Tomsk and
Moscow. But only for one day each. Not even to stay the night. She
wanted to see whether she might have been mistaken in her perceptions about the lifestyle of city people. She had saved the money
for the trip by selling berries and dried mushrooms. A local village
all
among
passport
good people.
would be snatched up by
evildoers as well as
in this case, an internal identity document required for any kind of travel
Encounter
19
my encounter with
looked through
miliar with
lived
a true story
?5
many Russians
are fa-
taiga.
as
people
had
for-
who knew
Nature pretty well, but had a rather fuzzy concept of our modern civilised life.
sion of someone
something
fathom
at
all.
seemed to know it
at
first-hand.
We walked along, getting deeper into the woods, and after about
five
kilometres stopped to
skirt,
rest.
At
now was
I saw. If I
tree. All
the
Lykovs
taiga
unknown
to the outside
his
book
is
told
by Komsomolskaya
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20
would be hard to Imagine how any of the winners of the world's most
prestigious beauty contests could rival her appearance, or, as
it
later
turned out, her intellectual prowess. Everything about this taiga girl
We sat down right on the grass, and I was able to get a closer look
at
Her
Her
something
that her
As
had
a kindly look,
and her
lips
betrayed
indicated, she
like a night-shirt, at
peratures.
knew who
a gentle smile.
eat.
reached Into
It
filled
my bag
and took
While
was snacking,
Anastasia lay on the grass, her eyes blissfully closed, as though inviting the sun's rays to caress her.
The
upturned
legs,
God-given law?"
common
throughout
is
Encounter
21
"There
is
nothing
"How
thought:
is it
young
this
still
makes me
feel
uncomfortable, even to
body The
last
thing
grasp
at
home
all
When I woke up, she was on her knees, bending over me. One
hand lay upon my chest, while the other was waving to someone up
above, or to either side. She was smiling, though not at me, but rather, it
us.
seemed,
at
Anastasia seemed to be
invisibly surrounding us or
literally
looked
above
me in the eye:
it?
It's
it all later."
you!
It's
"And
I sat
"Come
It
was offensive
Oh you women!
bare your
it.
You
legs, stick
to me."
was offensive
way...'
us!
You
wriggle with
all
to her...'
as
What do you
as...
"Oh,
it!
don't
need
that!
Hypocrites!
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22
I've
all
act
It
out differently. So
why
all
want
did you,
that hot!
And then you lolled about on the grass here, with that alluring smile
ofyours..."
"I
I
leave the
like
put
everyone
so
it
on when
can look
woman wanting to attract a man's attention, but not just to her legs
and breasts. What she wants is not to let pass by the one man who
can see more than just those things."
"But nobody's been passing by here!
must be
seen,
women, you're
And what is
this
more' that
Oh you
so illogical!"
you rested?"
The thought
crossed
my mind:
let's
go."
is it
I replied:
this phi-
Beast or
Man?
still
wearing the
and graceful
We
most
step,
ease.
on any
own
subject
was
strange ideas
about everything.
much as a
glance
the taiga.
leaf or a twig
from what
could
But,
landed with
my chest on her
my body
Book
24
Anastasia
i:
During
all
this
It
regain
Its
normal position.
in
my bag.
looked around.
Not
my house, Vladimir.
is
not to light a
axe, Vladimir.
And
It
at least
would be best
fire."
"What are you talking about? She doesn't even have a kettle?! The
water in my bottle is all gone. You saw when I ate. I even threw the
bottle
away
Where
Seeing
my
showed
Is
To
signs of concern.
to
Beast or Man?
up
it
to
25
my
face.
"Here
is
"What,
puddle in
are
chlorinate
"It is
ter!
ozonise
is
Good wa-
this water,
through a special
it."
Not
just like
it,
river water
lips
blurted out:
'Anastasia, are
is
not
like yours?
There
are
no
"Because you live like a beast, in the forest, you haven't any possessions,
"Ifes, I
"Do you
all
made my point."
is
what distinguishes
his possession
Man from
of manufactured
objects?"
"Yes!
am Man!"
borzhomi
of
in
civilised? Yes,
its
health-giving properties.
(with a capital
being of any gender. For details on the word's usage and the important distinction
how this
strange
Siberian taiga,
style,
young woman
lives all
began to understand a
little
own.
sufficient to
order?
Does
it
make
It is
on the
in kindergarten,
accordance with
some happiness
it.
Through
for ourselves.
all
its
help
we
basis of this
It is this
We structure our
strive to construct
sorts of
But there
all
is
we
stories in
sion that
system
it.
We are afraid,
I say,
because
commonly accepted systems of education and scientific deductions and make a mockery of
the objects inherent in our lifestyle! And we try to pretend that such
a phenomenon does not exist. But it does! And it will continue to
exist, however much we try to turn away from it or avoid it.
it
Isn't it
human minds
all
maybe, through
27
it
the forest!
Not
Why
desert,
forth
to
to
a mountain-top
set
tablets of stone?
off,
away from
which
this recluse
forest,
call
human
minds.
this day,
many cen-
known as Buddha. 2
And what about our own not-so-ancient forebears (now acknowl-
self eventually
came
to be
Radonezhsky? 4
Incidentally,
who
become
or Sergiy
recluses in the
off to
member of the
Imperial Shakya
and devoted
'a
recluse
{lit.
human
departer)
suffering.
He
is
oc-
(ne:
Rostov
area,
who devoted
a monastic reformer
from the
the practical needs of the less fortunate; he also mediated disputes between warring
princes. In the 1330s
Moscow (now the site of the town of Sergiev Posad, until recently called Zagorsk).
He was canonised in 1452.
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28
forest,
so
and
Anastasia
i:
how were
this
world made
How did they live, what did they do, what did
These questions confronted me some time after my conversations with Anastasia after I had started reading everything that I
could lay my hands on regarding recluses. But even today I haven't
found answers. Why has nothing been written about their solitude
experiences?
The
answers,
think,
collective ef-
I shall
sence of this
someone
will
es-
way of life.
For now, on the basis of
thing
Is
crystal-clear to
all
that
me: people
what
Is
who live
going on in our
lives
from a point of
Is
commonly accepted.
Who Is closer to
My task is simply to record what I have seen and heard, and thereby give others an opportunity to come up with answers.
Anastasia
call
lives in
her own, she hardly wears any clothes and does not store any pro-
visions.
She
Is
is
literally a
living here
whole
differ-
ent civilisation. She and those like her have survived to the present
no
29
different
It is
not
such places
is
of, like
is
sur-
there seems to be quite a simple explanation for the strong fear that
an eagle, and so on, here everything around has been Earned'. 5 And
ger,
this everything
her.
is
Anastasia told
under a year
'And you
The
old,
me that when she was born and while she was still
didn't die
from hunger?"
asked.
me
plained:
One
should eat just as one breathes, not paying attention to the food, not
distracting one's thought
has
left
his
own destiny"
that task
up
to others, so that
fingers,
things.
The Creator
squirrel
fulfilling
popped up
beside her, hopping onto her hand. Anastasia lifted the creature's
muzzle up to her mouth, and the squirrel passed from Its mouth Into
hers a cedar nut seed,
to
me
its shell
lot
seem
at the
tamed'
(lit.
and researchers
live as
well as work.
30
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used to people and would beg for food from passers-by, and even get
angry
if
on
at a privately-run ki-
"Who is to blame if Man has decided to change the Creator's creative design?
to
you to
This
is
Whether
it is
is
up
divine."
thought on things
like food,
is
simple
it is
sinful to
it
happens,
we
waste
it.
But
it
thought.
TV programmes,
taiga gen-
Anastasia:
of the
so
my case
I
their ability
this capacity
special clothing."
small enclosed stands selling food and many other items under
opposed to State) control, which began proliferating during the latter
days of perestroika and are still popular today
1
privately-run kiosk
private (as
'
A forest bedroom
I
wasn't at
all
Anastasia put
me
to
bed
in sorne
my wearying trek,
forest.
quickly
fell fast
asleep.
When I woke up, I felt a sense of bliss and comfort, as though I were
lying in a magnificently comfortable bed.
The
cave, or dugout,
filled
something of a hunter.
to
its
frightened."
Then
was horror-struck
at the realisation that this was no pelt. Out of the cave a huge bear
began to gingerly crawl. Receiving a pat of approval from Anastasia,
the bear licked her hand and began lumbering off into the forest. It
turned out that she had placed some belladonna herbs under my head
for a pillow and made the bear lie down beside me so I wouldn't get
cold. She herself had curled up outdoors in front the entranceway.
"Now how could you do such a thing to me, Anastasia? He could
she clapped her hands, and the
have torn
'pelt'...
of
all, it is
it
and
little
just
kept blissfully
still,
shudder when you waved your arms about in your sleep and
6
Anastasia's
morning
by the creatures of the forest, most often In the bear's dugout. When
it Is warm, she can sleep right on the grass. The first thing she does
upon waking is offer an exuberant outburst of joy to the rising Sun,
to the new sprouts on all the twigs, to the new shoots of growth popping up from the earth. She touches them with her hands, strokes
them, occasionally adjusts something into place. Then she runs over
to the
little
trees
tree-
Her
watch Anastasia
proach
Is very much
Many of them
her,
but
as she
all
she has to do
tiniest
Is
wolf just
as
on the run, suddenly jumped in the air, repelled herself with both
feet off the trunk of a tree, and dashed off In another direction. The
wolf couldn't stop but kept on running past the tree, finally making
an about-turn and chasing after the laughing Anastasia.
Anastasia gives absolutely no thought to feeding or clothing her-
Anastasia s morning
mushrooms. She
ing for nuts or
mushrooms
herself,
visions,
33
is
up nuts for the winter is nothing out of the orwhat they do everywhere, following their natural
instincts. I was struck by something else, though: at the snap of
Anastasia's fingers any squirrels nearby would compete to be the first
to jump onto her outstretched hand and give her the kernel of an
already shelled cedar nut. And whenever Anastasia slaps her leg bent
at the knee, the squirrels make some sort of sound, as if signalling
the others, and they all start bringing dried mushrooms and other
supplies and laying them out before her on the grass. And this they
do, it seemed to me, with a good deal of pleasure. I thought she had
trained them herself, but Anastasia told me that their actions were
Squirrels storing
dinary
that's
instinctive,
ones by example.
"Perhaps one of
my early forebears
likely this
is
has set
as
it
To
ter
in,
itself.'
of her own: "In your world are there no examples of people able to
in a minus-twenty-degree frost
motorcycle.
tving
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34
was able to draw upon the milk of many different animals. They freely allowed her access to their nipples. She makes absolutely no ritual
of mealtime, never
sits
her as
had done
at
our
activities.
encounter. After
all I
had seen
and heard Anastasia had been transformed for me into some kind of
being
but not a beast, since she has such a high degree of intelli-
course, forgets nothing of what she has seen or heard at any moment
in time.
At times
it
is
this
we
beyond the
her.
all
or in her
keep
it
in
self,
world no time
is
find themselves in a situation like the Lykovs' are obliged to constantly give thought to
There
are
all
how
to feed
it is
be-
cause their thoughts are not pure enough. Nature and the animal
world
feel this.
See footnote
in
Chapter
2:
"Encounter".
7
Anastasia's ray
phenomenon
witnessed during
my time in the forest was Anastasia's ability to see not only individuals at
great distance but also what was going on In their lives. Possibly
She did
this
know about
it
this
and
"Man has still not invented anything that Is not already in Nature.
The technology behind television Is but a poor imitation of the possibilities
The
of this ray"
didn't believe In
it,
how it worked,
to find
It's
own future,
"That
don't deny"
"Intuition... It's
alysing
In
Man there
exists
something besides
him determine
his
own and
others' behaviour?"
"Well,
let's
The night-dream what is that? The dreams almost all people have
when they are asleep."
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36
know what
don't
I really
that's...
that
Is.
exists?
state,
Let us
all right.
call It just a
someone
In a
dream
when his body Is almost beyond the control of a part of his con-
"Well that,
"But
still
think,
Is
and
all
In a
empathise?"
"Yes, they can."
In
"And what do you think, can a person control his dream? Call up
the dream Images and events he would like to see? Just like on
how, comes
all
by itself."
everythi
Man is designed to
lg.
control everything.
"The ray
sesses
am
telling
in a dream.
absolute accuracy
everybody on the
something
it
ahead."
"Lie
down c n
energy
way?
Well,
it Is
fact,
almost
try helping
you see
tired brain.
I
sho
'Id
In
th
grass and
elaj
le
go.
><
that your
body draws
you think
Ms
maybe
"Go
less
Earth..,.
she aiigl
how
know best
le
your imagination."
Iren embered
it
our co
m try home
imagined the
jfc
>i
se*
"
Anastasia's ray
and things.
see anything.
let
go
all
all this,
and she
37
didn't
replied:
In different directions.
Closing my eyes,
I felt
began to immerse
My wife was making coffee on the gas stove. And something else,
My wife's face was gloomy and unhappy Her
movements were
sluggish. All at
The
the stove was spilling over. She picked up the pot with
its
coffee
on
overflow-
ing liquid but didn't frown or get upset as she usually did. She took
off the cardigan...
woke up.
"Well? Did you
I
But maybe
"How could It be
it
was
ordinary?
just
an ordinary dream?"
in particular?"
"Yes, I did.
And I saw her. But where Is the proof that she was acmoment I saw her in the dream?"
"Remember this day and hour, Vladimir, if you want to have proof.
ask her. Was there not something else out of
"You mean to say you did not notice a smile on your wife's face
when she went over to the window? She was smiling, and she did not
get upset when the coffee spilled."
"That
the
"So,
"I
why was
she smiling?"
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38
up
Too
cold?"
"You were only looking out of curiosity you did not put any feeling
into
it."
it
can do
'And what
else
up
at a distance?"
that."
can
it
do?"
it
"Of course."
"The past too?"
"The future and the past
It is
remains unchanged."
different
But that
They had
people
all
capable of loving a
woman with
exactly the
this?"
intuitions,
who managed to impose a degree of unity on the warring princes of what was then
Kievan Russia, consolidate its southern and western borders and establish dynastic
liaisons with a number of European nations.
2
Prince to proclaim
and
His reign was marked by bloody reand wealthy aristocrats, stronger ties with England, politi-
social reforms at
eastward.
Anastasia's ray
39
only
exercises could
be developed?"
"Some
is
is
one
will..."
that?"
"Now there you go Just when everything was starting to get clear.
What have pure thoughts got to do with it? 'Radiant feelings?"
!
ray."
be adding something
Next you'll
else."
all
sorts of
life.
and what they have been going through mentally. She's a con-
summate
actress
talk,
even think the way they do. She concentrates her thought on the
and
life
is
helping them.
only later that I found out that similar rays invisible to the eye,
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4-0
i prikliuchenia
Unfortunately,
Anastasia's world-view
is
special
literature a
If so,
seen Him?"
"God
is
is
the
is
He is
not to be
energies.
"You mean to say that all our scholars are immature beings who are
leading us into a dead end?"
"I
mean to say that they are accelerating the process, they are bring-
'And
"Yes."
"These primitive things you mention, Man has possessed them right
from the very beginning, only in a more perfect form. I have them."
Anastasia's ray
41
mation
what
is
is
television?
A device
situations
of any
story,
human
Imagination and
my own imagina-
clear,
infor-
can, through
suppose
just like
I
having an influ-
eh?"
is
needed
is
aid of
\!#-'
Concert in the
taiga
And
matters
9'
Anastasia
began
mod-
on a catwalk.
I was amused at her imitation of a fashion model, placing one foot
in front of the other in turn as she walked, showing off imaginary
outfits. Finding myself getting into the act, I applauded and anel
nounced:
into the middle of the glade and executed an incredible flying somersault first forward, then backward, then to the side, both left
and
right,
air.
Grasping a tree-
branch with one hand, she swung herself around it twice before
fling-
ing her body over to another tree. After yet another somersault, she
began to
the glade and hid behind some thick bushes. Anastasia peeped smilingly out from behind them, as though they were a theatre-curtain,
impatiently awaiting
I
remembered
my next announcement.
a videotape
artists. I
43
it)
as I
announced:
now present
to
you the
hits.
star singers
of
Your attention,
please!"
Pugachova's
could
more
clearly.
Once lived an
artist alone,
He loved an actress,
he thought,
artist's
known
Canada and America. Her Alia entertainment company grew out ofAlia Pugachova's Theatre ofSong which she has headed
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44
create
i:
Anastasia
and here he
is
giving
for the sake of his loved one. Later, as she sang the
went off on the train, Anastasia tenderly portrayed the artist in love,
looking longingly after the departing train which was carrying off his
loved one forever. She portrayed his pain, his despair, his perplexed
state of mind.
I
at
the end of the song. Anastasia bowed, anticipating the applause and,
She performed
all
many times
before,
clearer
Upon completing
still
9
.
still
hearing no ap-
Too dumbfounded
to speak,
from what I had just witnessed. Then I jumped up, began applauding
and cried:
"Terrific, Anastasia!
bow
kept on
shouting:
"Encore! Bravo!"
clapping
Encore
does that
mean Again?"
And
And
"Yes, again!
again!
again!...
cried:
top
stars!"
I fell
silent
thought
how multifaceted her soul must be if she could infuse her singing performance with so many new, splendid, clear features. She too stood
motionless, silently and enquiringly looking at me.
'
hear
but
my song
it?"
sing
Would you
still
And
screamed
like a
45
first
tender and caressing. She stood beneath a tree, her hands clasped
et,
little
tender.
to
grow
Her
soft voice,
silent
voice
the
first
too
little
felt this
her song,
all
around.
I joyfully
And when
she finished
exclaimed:
"And now, my dear ladies and gentlemen, a unique and never- to-berepeated number by the top animal trainer In the world! The most
agile, brave,
air,
Something
the glade.
First the she-wolf made her entrance.
and stopped
at the
In the trees farthest from the glade squirrels sprang from branch to
branch.
Two
eagles circled
little
creatures of
of Anastasia.
at
him disapprovingly
since
according to
commands
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4.6
He
stood stock
still,
trying to understand
Anastasia took a running leap and, grabbing hold of the thick scruff
creat-
fall.
He was no doubt
meantime the wolf was become more and more concerned she
was already standing at the place of the action, thrashing from side
to side, growling or howling with displeasure.
At the edge of the glade there appeared several more wolves, and
when Anastasia was on the point of yet another routine 'toss of the
bear over her shoulder, the bear, attempting to do the trick properly,
5
fell
At
last
the wolf,
now
at
who
obediently
The forest around us began to make a rustling sound not threateningly, but with some agitation. The agitation was felt as well in all
the big and
little
her on the back and sent her off out of the glade as though she were a
pet dog.
like a fallen
scarecrow
up,
all
at
as
extraordinary exercises at
47
any-
all.
55
"You're
terrific,
Anastasia, but
show
circus trainers
we
already have
all
that,
and our
you don t have a hope of breaking through all the red tape to even
get started. There are so many formalities and machinations to deal
with. You don t have any experience in that.
55
where could Anastasia get a job in our world and how would
she overcome the formalities in the way? But no easy alternative
natives:
presented
itself,
since Anastasia
had neither
might
stories
about her
be.
said:
"Of course I would like to visit one of the big cities again, maybe
Moscow, to see how accurate I was in visualising certain situations
thing, I
And once
to choose
suffer for
since..."
sex, family
think:
55
detail!
beside me.
all
as she
was beside
down
me she wouldn't
be up to any tricks.
In your home.
imagined
there would be at least a few buildings here, but you won't even let
me
light a fire,
me
a beastie to keep
me company
at
a guest?"
'AH
right, Vladimir.
Do
afraid.
Nothing bad is going to happen to you. If you want, I shall lie down
beside you and keep you warm."
This time in the dugout cave there were even more cedar branches strewn around, along with neatly arranged dry grasses, and there
were
I
also
got undressed.
for a pillow.
lay
put
my
my head
ce-
dar twigs gave off that same bacteria-killing aroma described in the
to breathe.
is
air.
The
still
more
down
beside me.
sensed the
longer
felt
lay
thought: Wouldn't
Anastasia! She
my
And
to me.
The
child, then,
me.
lot.
I
If
Is
be wonderful
It
imagined our Infant son sucking at his mother's nipple and Invol-
my hand
didn't take
raised
my
face.
The white
more
attractive.
eyes looked at
couldn't take
me
tenderly
my gaze
Her
off her.
greyish-blue
bent closer
and, quickly and carefully, with just the slightest touch, planted a kiss
had no
fear at
all.
was
still
I felt
stroked
my hair and ga
realis
had never
ditlon, I
had the
feelii
m^
>nct experienced in
e,
:
hei
something Indescribable!
And
^ some
v<
entire
woman
Another
life,
lifferen
of great :o-creati
thi;
dor was
had always
was
tig
tha
satisfa
In
:.
My
felt
a<
l-
sat-
couldn't qi Ite
extraordinarily lovely
my mind
wh] had
that
1
life
vas
d joyful
thi
had been
all
feeling
till*
that even
sor
of
througl
done
Ajid
imc close to
omen
1 lo ve
beaut
til
iful
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50
Anastasia was a
girl.
A tender,
quivering
girl.
woman
my night-time
resting-place. It
thick.
In this
A little
stretched arms.
when It
And
air,
stretched out her legs In a split just like a ballerina, flew over the layer
new
cloud around her, through which could be seen the rays of the
and
body
It
was
"Ama-sta-SI-ya!
Good
morning,
my
splendid
forest
fairy
Antastasi-ya-ya!"
cried as loud as
Why Is
that?"
could.
Anastasia lifted up her hands toward the Sun, and began laughing
one
else besides,
me
(and some-
"Only
Man
new
star In the
heavens!
"Only Ma-a-an
and co-creation!
me
"Only Man striving for creation and co-creatlon, and not for satisfaction of his carnal needs."
Ana-sta-SI-ya
'see').
51
air,
stretched her legs into a split as though soaring over the mist.
down
beside
me
at the
Then
entrance to our
her fingers,
"So,
lifting
Anastasia
re-
sponded:
"Was
that the
And If not,
Man can come into the world, or to hold back and not allow a Man to
be born?
I
A real Man!"
started thinking.
In actual fact,
my
And why
What
last night?
?
.
asked:
happen with me before or, for that matter, I would venture to say,
with hardly anybody else in the world?"
"You see, Vladimir, the dark forces are constantly trying to make
Man give
God-given grace. They try all sorts of tricks to persuade people that
satisfaction
nal desire.
Is
of car-
And at the same time they separate Man from truth. The
women who are Ignorant of this spend their lives ac-
poor deceived
cepting nothing but suffering and searching for the grace they have
lost.
can restrain a
to
man from
him merely to
marital
life will
it
In the
fornication
If
wrong
places.
No woman
happened, their
Is
52
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Anastasia
i:
exists.
"Then you,
to
anyone
in
who
situation, has
at
But nothing,
And to persist in
it.
is
a frightening thing.
ficiality,
lie
tell
Children!
And
this
They sense
makes them
the
arti-
sceptical
on them.
"Tell
world
me who
as a result
to be
as a result
of someone's
carnal pleasure.
who
"People
false
union
will
They will strive to possess body after body or make paltry and fateful use of their own bodsatisfaction in secret, apart
ies, realising
from each
other.
sex?
Is
situation?"
is.
have been looking for them in the past and in the future. But
not found them. Perhaps they are right in front of me, after
Matth.
5:
28
have
all?
And
will appear,
new words
will
be born
53
words capable of
an approximation...
What else
is
needed
Sincerity and
purity of motive."
it
to the world
Veles, Krishna,
ked women in erotic poses, why are there so many films with erotica
and sex?
ply So, you're trying to say that our humanity is completely bad?"
"Humanity is not bad, but the devices of the dark forces obscuring
by provoking base carnal desires these are very power-
spirituality
ful devices.
is
artist,
to engender
They act
real pur-
and support in
If there is
A beauty whose
Triglav (Trinity)
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fleshly charms.
the
In the upshot,
men are deceived and the women must suffer their whole lives on
is
the result?"
"It
is
doubt it.
way things
it
are.
did
"What
it
with you."
I'm
now... impotent?"
"On the contrary, you have now become a real man. Only the usual
sex will be repugnant to you.
last night,
you
It
and the
is
woman wants
life!"
happy You
enough
same way
for your
eventually...
whole
life
to be
People enter
many
not reattain. A
55
Man
alone.
No
this experience to
It
never can
compare with fleeting, fleshly gratification. As you cherish the feelings from it over time, all planes of being will, with influence sublime,
happify your life and the woman too a woman who can give birth
to a creation in the Creator's own image and likeness, His design!"
Anastasia held out her hand toward me, trying to move closer. I
quickly darted away from her into a corner of the cave and cried:
"Out of my way!"
She got up. I crawled outside and backed off from her a few steps.
"You have deprived me, quite possibly, of my chief pleasure in life!
Everybody strives for it, everybody thinks about it, only they don't
talk about
"They
it
out loud."
have
terrible,
doesn't
make any
difference.
It's
a pleasure
me from
get
I'll be...
no relations with women, no drinks or appeno smoking! That's not something most people are used to
in normal life."
"Well, what good is there in drinking, smoking, senseless and harmful digestion of such a huge quantity of animal meat, when there are
out of here
tizers,
so
A lot
down
to a
if you like.
do you understand?
That's how!"
is
down
at the table
and
I tell
be bad."
"Is that the
friends
most important
thing,
when you
to sit right down at the table and drink, eat and smoke?"
Book
^6
Anastasia
i:
"Whether It's the most Important thing or not Is beside the point*
That's
have
ritual dishes
all
Some
countries even
"That
people."
"Why
normal?"
"That
"It's
Is
It's
something Impossible
to explain to you."
My
me
to fix
It.
somehow
"Okay Anastasia.
I
would be able
I said:
Let's
make
thank you for the wonderful night. Only don't you try saving
I'll
fix
me
the situation
with the help of our doctors and modern medicines. Let's go for a
swim."
I
lake,
my good mood was beginning to come back, she well, there you go
again!
It
Stunned,
stopped In
felt."
my tracks.
Again
was overwhelmed by
and, at
fear.
You brazen! You poke your nose In where It doesn't bemy life upside down! So, you played a nasty trick on
me! And now you say you can't fix It?"
"I did not play any nasty tricks. After all, you wanted a son so
badly But so many years had gone by, and you still did not have a
"You!
57
And none of the women in your life would bear you a son. I also
wanted a child by you, a son too. And that is something I can do...
And why are you getting so concerned ahead of time that things
son.
are going to
still
ofme, Vladimir,
come
to understand.
to meddle with your mind. This happened all on its own. You got
what you wanted.
"And I would still very much like to save you from at least one
mortal
sin."
live all
so
inhuman that it
frightens you?"
animals.
tered.
"
Your dachniks 4
mals, only not consciously. But they will understand one day
Many
Now she's
know
a lot, but
a dachnik?
And
this ray
of yours. You
mystic!"
"I shall try to explain
once,
all at
It is
something Man was given right from the start. Back in the days of his
primal origins.
Nevertheless,
It will
be a
"What about your 'concert'? You sang in all sorts of different voic-
es,
you portrayed
on
my videotape."
dachniks
people
who spend
off,
especially
summer
holidays)
tending a garden at their dacha, or cottage in the country See further details in the
Translator's Preface
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"That
is
right, Vladimir.
You know,
I shall tell
the songs?"
"Yes,
is
so
that?...
I am muddle-headed and tactless! My grandme that. I thought he was just being affectionate.
But in
fact I
probably am
human
me.
My whole
feelings
my son.
Only please try to be a bit more restrained. Remember your grandfather told you that."
"Yes. And grandfather... But here I am talking and talking. I have
such a strong desire to tell you everything. Am I a chatterbox? Yes?
"Okay, I'm no longer
But
I shall
try
I shall
afraid...
I shall
try to
"So, you'll
"Of course!
Only,
it
will
it
it
I said.
not be on time."
will
not be on time?"
help
that decision, if
it's
so risky for
child?"
I shall
try to hold
on till the
spring,
itself then."
life.
Then she ran off and jumped into the little lake. The spray of the water in the sunlight
took
lay,
as
it
later
were, on the
59
one of her
when
she
lies
cry of despair
all right.
They will
nurse him."
"You read
"No,
my thoughts?"
I just
is
quite
natural."
to help you?"
"They
and
their
work."
"What are they busy with, Anastasia? What do you do all day
long, when in fact you are so completely served by your natural environment?"
"I
you
keep
busy...
call dachniks
And I
or gardeners."
the ones
i-
10
oppor-
dachniks
on the
other.
we would
all
need
her the dachniks have not only managed to save the whole nation
also
In people's hearts,
to enumerate here
and are
many points
And Anastasia
this:
"You see, the society you are living In today can learn a lot from
communication with the plants to be found around dachas. Yes, I
am talking about the dachas, where you personally know every individual plant in your garden-plot,
fields cultivated
ter
when they
up
living longer.
by monstrous, senseless machines. People feel betworking in their dacha plots. Many of them end
They become kinder. And it is these very dachniks
are
way
'Anastasia,
the point.
for society to
What
is
destruc-
your role In
all
this?
is,
What
offer?"
Taking
me by the arm.,
she led
^ee footnote 4
In
Chapter
9:
Right
saying.
tance,
now
let go,
I'll
my ray
bit,
have
and
just
The
soaking.
can see
am
softly:
in
which cu-
sprouts.
little
locate, at a dis-
is
and
much
I just
Anastasia told
how
it.
This
that.
And
that
is
partially
bit.
little
deed
is
done."
sorts
all
comes
visualised
When
plants.
as
It
feel
what
this
Is
person
Is
suffering or sensing.
shares her expertise with them. Anastasia said that plants react to
people, to
influence
6
And
here
Is
where
a positive or negative
dren
them
own
is still
travel
chil-
pretty
much on the level of Intuition. They still do not have the foundation
that
comes with
relationship.
"Everything
every Insect, has been created for Man, and everything has
ual appointed task to
its
Individ-
know very little about how to benefit from the opportunities they are
about how to take full advantage of them."
presented with
I
efits
of conscious communication
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and subjected to
little
scientific investigation.
exclaimed:
it
before?"
Some kind of brand new idea made her bubble over with joy
The whole time I was with her, not once did I see Anastasia sad.
She can be serious, thoughtful and concentrated, but more often
than not delighting in something. This time her joy literally bubbled
over
as
seemed to me
and begun to stir,
brighter,
it
birds.
of dance. Then,
all
as
said:
All
my dear dachniks.
everything!"
little
interrupted conversation,
on account of them,
noted:
"Not necessarily You say that every insect has been created
Man's benefit, but
so
much
tables?
that
for
What
can
it
benefit?"
render them
If there are
human
eye to see.
too
par-
vating various
colossal that
and
will certainly
commonly accepted methods of planting and cultigarden-plot crops. Her affirmations, however, are so
it
seems to
me
their
plot,
it,
63
especially since
much
of
plants,
itself
an enormous amount
human hands
fully
and
effectively than
this
and withstanding
Its fruit
he has
it
or
Is
prone to
it.
"In order for the seed of a cucumber, tomato or any other plant
grown in
necessary:
"Before planting, put into your mouth one or more little seeds, hold
them in your mouth, under the tongue, for at least nine minutes.
"Then place the seed between the palms of your hands and hold It
there for about thirty seconds. During this time
It is
important that
you be standing barefoot on the spot of earth where you will later be
planting
it.
"Open your hands, and carefully raise the seed which you are
holding to your mouth. Then blow on it lightly, warming It with
your breath, and the wee little seed will know everything that is
within you.
to hold
It
help
determine the
it!
moment
65
of
its
awakening.
The
And
the seed
planets will
all
And will give the sprouts the light they need to produce fruit
In no case should
wash away the saliva which is now
covering it, along with other information about you that the seed will
"After that you
you water
take
In.
It
it
(people already
is
planting.
"It is
all
ity
cut back..."
of its fruit
it
will
left in place.
is
cultivation
Some weeds
vital to
growth period.
a full
at least
once during
Its
moon.
Anastasia maintains that the fruit cultivated from the seed In this
is
capable
not only of curing him of any diseases of the flesh whatsoever but
also
abilities
and giv-
him a sense of inner peace. The fruit will have the most effective
when consumed no later than three days after harvesting.
The above-mentioned steps should be taken with a variety of plant
ing
influence
etc., in this
manner;
just a
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66
The fruit of plants grown like this will be distinguished from other
plants of the
If analysed, it will
be seen
that they are also distinct in terms of the substances they contain.
When
it is
toes,
and
spit into
come
substances
(toxins,
diseases.
which
will thus
be enabled to counteract
diseases. Anastasia
to time.
Anastasia replied:
exists in
most garden-plots
is
quite suffi-
'definites',
one
plant).
There should
it
would be
one of them
and flow-
also
is
difficult
sunflow-
be one-and-a-half or two
herbs
have not
left
any
of them growing around your dacha, you can bring in some turf from
the forest and thereby create an island of natural growth."
I
asked Anastasia
if it
'definites' di-
rectly in the plot, if there were already some wild-growing herbs close
by
not
them
and
this
of plants that
is
is
is
to infuse the
little
life-giving
from the
and the
fruit alone.
Out
you
call
them)
67
there are a
great many plants that can help us cure all and I mean all existand Nature
really
is
not wild,
it is
just unfamiliar to
you
ing diseases. These plants have been designed for that purpose, but
she replied:
"The chief physician is your own body Right from the start it was
endowed with the ability to know which herb should be used and
when. How to eat and breathe. It is capable of warding off disease
even before
its
outward manifestation.
this
is
it
am
telling
"If you
effective
medicine especially
monastery archives."
You
many
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"Come on, now, Anastasia! You read church literature too? Where?
When? You don't even have a single book!"
"I have at my disposal a much more complete method of retrieving information."
After
circles!
all,
you have to do is build the same kind of hive for them they
would have under natural conditions, and that is it. After that the
only thing required is to go to the hive and gather part of the honey,
wax and other substances they produce that are so useful for Man."
"All
Now,
if you
at
could
me how to
tell
do
it
myself
thing feasible."
"All right,"
to visualise
it, I
bit.
need
it
added.
"I shall
our
carefully
living situations,
As she
lay
on the
grass,
(specifically,
or,
her
Her
fingers
were partly
hand) were also positioned so that their soft parts faced upward.
say:
69
"You need to make the hive in the shape of a hollow block. You
can either take a log with a hole in it and hollow it out to enlarge
make
The boards should be no
a long hol-
less
cm
long.
than 6
40 centimetres. Triangular strips should be inserted into the corners where the inner surfaces meet, to make the cavity somewhat
rounded.
The
strips
can be
just lightly
One end
should be fully
at
the other end. For this the panel needs to be cut in such a way so that
it fits
Make
slit
some kind of
or a series of
slits (to
provide access for the bees) along the bottom edge of one of the sides
slits
at least
20-25 centi-
facing south.
be bothered by them. In
zontally at a 20-30 degree angle, with the opening at the lower end.
The hive could even be installed in the attic, provided there is proper
ventilation, or
it
to the
it
from the
sun,
and
heavy,
the house.
prised,
What
to
at
me
little sur-
"The thing
right way.
is
My grandfather
have concocted a
lot
told
me
about
this.
it
the
Beekeepers today
all
they
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move
the
fa-
cilitate
human
Intervention breaks
down
this system.
Instead of spending
their time gathering honey and raising offspring, the bees are obliged
been broken.
live in tree
is
all
the plants
much more effectively than other agent, thereby increasing the yield.
But you must know this pretty well already
"What you may not know is that bees' mouths open up channels
in the plants
tion reflected
quently
by the planets
good rest
at a
"Bees only sting when people act aggressively toward them, wave
them
off,
become
The bees
feel this
not necessarily
at the
body where there are channels connecting with some diseased Internal organ or where the protective aura has been torn, and so forth.
"You know that bees are already effectively used In treating the
disease you call radiculitis, but that Is far from being the only thing
they can do.
"If I
you about everything, especially showing the eviasking for, you would have to spend not just three days
were to
tell
world,
all I
have done
Is
Is
but please
like that Is
Introducing a swarm of bees Into the hive, put In a little chunk of wax
frames or
cells.
Afterward,
when
yi
by
empty hives."
"Open the
honeycomb and
extract
It is
important
it is
better not
to collect any
honey at
all
during the
first year."
Hello Morning!
,
dacha plot:
"In the morning, preferably at sunrise, walk out to the garden-plot
like.
moved, or as one
Then
desires.
But
it
one
it.
is
If not,
plot,
or, for
or,
And
after
washing you
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should not dry off right away. You should shake off the water drops
from your hands, spreading them onto the surrounding plants. And
use your hands to brush off the water from other parts of your body
After this you can go through the usual procedures of washing and
using any conveniences to which you are accustomed."
Evening routine
"In the evening, before going to bed
feet,
it is
feet,
but no
if necessary,
you can
still
This
is
can our visible and invisible environment work out and pick up from
the Universe and the Earth everything
it
It will
I
was still interested in knowing what Anastasia had to say about food.
all, she has a rather unique dietary regime, and so I asked:
After
73
"Anastasia, tell
what should he
Our world
huge quantity of
recipes, advice
all
sorts of literature
on
on losing weight..."
The dark
goes against
I
human nature."
It
in
sitting
down, expend-
all
some kind
up many times more energy, and yet both are expected to eat at
exactly the same time. A person should take in food at the moment
advised by his body and there can be no other advisor. I realise that
under your world's conditions this is practically impossible, but the
ing
opportunity does exist for people at their dachas with their attached
garden-plots, and they should take advantage of it and forget about
their unnatural, artificial regimes.
"The same applies to your second question: What should one eat?
The answer is: whatever Is available at the moment whatever is on
hand, so to speak. The body itself will select what it needs. I could
offer
household pet
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like a cat
it
will find
This
a week
is
is
thresh
is
it.
You
to your
once or twice
sufficient.
"You should
This
it
it,
also take
grind
it
it
cereal grain,
up a store of energy capable of awakening his inner spiritual powers not only calming his soul but also
exerting a beneficial influence on his physical condition. This bread
can be shared with relatives and close friends. If shared with sincerity and love, it will have quite a beneficial influence on them as well.
once or twice a year
will build
It is
least
was
oil
or two, put
cided to give
it
try.
I can't
seems
ment and
as
it
home
left
life-support
own plot of land, has the opportunity of ridding his body of abso-
lutely every
kind of disease.
Disease perse
is
ural systems designed to take care of his health and life-support. For
this
is
diseases.
little
who
However,
far
%
r*J*
12 V1
,.
'to,
.J
wl
how
thought that,
living in
She
Nature
literally feels
them.
They
never touch the complex processes which, out of all the animal and
plant world
on the
Man
to
this
brain
information
human
or,
more
pre-
An altogether
when weather
stars.
You should
your
situate
ar-
where
must be
free
celestial
bod-
Your thought
and unencumbered.
"First, try to
your eye; then you can dream about what you treasure in
life,
about
the people closest to you, people for whom you wish only good.
Do
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j6
wishing
evil
upon anyone
for that
many
little cells dormant in your brain, the vast majority of which never
wake even once during a person's whole lifetime. The cosmic forces
will be with you and help you attain the realisation of your brightest and most unimaginable dreams, will help you find peace In your
crease
or
call Into
being
and
In-
It Is
effective only when carried out at the location of your constant contact
next morning.
It is especially
Important to go through
this proce-
dure on the eve of your birthday To explain how all this works would
take too long right now, and
tion
It
can be discussed
it
is
much more
who
how a plot
manner she described and mainMan, could facilitate the raising of chil-
actually said
in its simplicity of
argument and in
a king!
it
He Is like an angel
that every
pure and
In
each newborn child are such as to allow him to become the wisest
It
takes
him very
little
time to
bestow grace and happiness upon his parents. During this period
amounting to no more than nine earth-years he becomes aware
of what constitutes creation and the meaning of human existence.
And everything that he needs to accomplish this already exists. Only
the parents should not distort the genuine, natural structure of creation by cutting the child off from the
in the
Universe.
to
He
some
And
in this
world he finds
He
will
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"One
after
is
into
him
has arrived.
Still
Is
again he
Is
as
where he
most perfect
an imperfect
artificial
world.
Not until the age of nine does he hear a passing mention of the
exist-
ence of the world of nature, and then only as an adjunct to that other,
And so
that
is
in the natural
all
love.
far
more
assuming his
life
Man
is
obliged (rightly or
but he
Is
it.
Someone brought
wrongly
that
cifically In
as
and
world has a
up
indeed,
"Stop, Anastasia!
ture,
as
up
seems
your world
it
5
Is
is
you propose
another question)
will certainly
call
a feeling for
It,
just
surpass
all
field,
he
79
will easily
others."
is
"I
have already
they should do, only there was no way they could have grasped the
questions...
These par-
who could
crucial point
which
Oh, if only they had not
done that! Just think, the child could have been occupied and entertained with something far more interesting than senseless and even
his favourite toys. Artificial toys
of
all,
in
all
him
ask
If you
seedbeds, or have
like this:
'"We
it
will
be putting the
with earth.
the
little
little
one.
At
sun,
this point
Its
It will
warms the
little
earth,
blade of grass.
'If
will
prepare
Its fruit
It
for you.'
will
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8o
"Whenever you
he awakes
first
arrive
thing in
at the
dacha
plot, or
when
new shoots have come up. If you should notice one, show your
delight. Even when you are putting young plants rather than seeds
any
it is
tomato
him
hand you the stalks one by one. If a stalk should inadvertently break,
take the broken stalk into your hands and say: 'I do not think this
one will live or bear fruit, since it is broken, but let us try planting it
anyway' And plant at least one of the broken ones right along with
the others.
and the
stalks
one and remind him that it was broken during the plant-
to your little
ing,
later,
but do not use any preaching tone of voice in doing so. You need
him
to talk with
that he
is
as
superior to you in
some
respects
He is an angel!
If you
intuitively,
succeed in understand-
this
is
really
all by itself.
you like looking at the shining stars, and ask your
child which star he likes best of all.
to
tell
him
that
"In general,
questions.
it is
The
very important to
know how
own
seedbed,
up and
give
remarked to Anastasia,
still
not
fully
81
convinced. "Maybe
become
from in other
areas?'
It is
knowledge and feeling about what grows and how The main thing is
that the child
his brain
is
and
cells are
awakening in
which will operate throughout his life. They will make him
more talented compared to those whose corresponding
brighter and
cells are still
dormant.
life
goes
what you
call progress
make him an
all
he
the
may
more
exceptionally
happy person. The contact he has established with his planets will
allow him to constantly take in and exchange more and more information. The incoming messages will be received by his sub-conscious and transmitted to his consciousness in the form of many newthoughts and discoveries. Outwardly he will look like everyone else,
but inwardly... This
is
call a genius."
Forest school
"Tell
me, Anastasia,
is
this the
was brought up by
much
is
as I
perhaps
my
on
for
see, I
me
details
not the important thing when one has a feeling for it. Grandfather
recall
own purity."
some
specific question
and an-
swer.
"Once I was playing with a little snake. I turned around, and there
were Grandfather and Great-Grandfather standing right beside me,
smiling.
different.
it
who
same rhythm
me on his knees.
and
on
spoke.
as
his
beard as
I
I
bowed
to
it
me,
my
and
here/ pointing to the top of his head and his beard, 'and not here?
had to understand
it.
Forest school
83
said:
"'Well, I
"Great-Grandfather looked at
I
thought: perhaps
it is
asked:
Grandfather replied:
"'No, not really
"'Then that
not want
"He
is
it to!'
reflected
on
means
"I
because
it is
want
and mused,
And
if it
as
though
it to?'
thought you
I,
up.'
me rather excitedly:
where
is
he,
show
I replied.
to me.
"I
me more
questions, but
up
and
me
any
new
ques-
Attentiveness to
Man
asked Anastasia
my first
ability to
'different?
one language?"
"Yes," she replied.
speak your
language."
is
too general.
words and phrases you yourself use when you talk. At first it was a
little challenging for me, since your vocabulary is not very large and
you repeat yourself a fair amount. Nor do you have much expression
of feeling. That is not the kind of language which easily lends itself
to accurately saying everything
"Wait, Anastasia
one wishes to
say."
me an answer."
and then
in French.
She answered
me right off.
Unfortunately
In school
learnt
by rote.
recited
it
to Anastasia:
did re-
my schoolmates and
Attentiveness to
Man
85
you my hand."
Amazed by what I had heard, and
"I give
not believing
still
my
ears, I
asked:
had an
what
it
was so
could
'Anastasia, perhaps
to do
it
tell
others about
it.
this in
can understand,"
asked somewhat
excitedly
'AH
only calm
"I
shall write a
book."
"That's impossible."
"It
is
possible! It
is
quite simple."
me
"You
I
replied.
see, that is a
call
what
answered.
"It's
just
an ordinary alphabet,
that's
all.
Ordinary letters."
"Yet
all
not see
and give
Thirty-three
This
me your hand."
is
the correct
monk St.
made up of these
"Do you not agree? Do you
It is
number of letters
in the
It later
spread to
all
where the Orthodox Church predominated. The number of letters in the alphabet
varies from language to language. In other areas, under the influence of the Roman
Catholic Church, the Latin writing system was adapted to the local Slavic language.
Book i: Anastasia
86
"Yes, but in
books they're
all
The
people's imagination.
result
is
from
feelings outlined
by
approximately the same feelings as the writers, and such feelings can
situa-
"Yes, I can,"
gan to
tell
"You
tell
3
recalled Lermontov's Hero of our time,
and be-
you can
see,
me what
since
they
still
book and
felt,
tell
me in what sequence
the thirty- three letters of the Russian alphabet were set forth in that
in,
it
would be very
difficult.
been con-
veyed from one Man to another with the help of all sorts of combina-
mained to be remembered
"So
it
if
off,
marks to appear
And if in the
more simply, more clearly, more specifishow me through some kind of an example how languages are
Ironically,
second
came to prominence especially after writing an inflammatory powhen the latter was killed in a duel ("Death of a poet", 1837).
Lermontov himself was killed in a duel only four years later
who also had several novels and stories to his credit, includ-
Attentiveness to
to be taught.
Man
me
87
first:
in a hurry.
'All right,
all
"For us
tell
me,
it's
It is
find a
I shall still
I shall
way to
help
try teaching
all."
And
at
said:
problems...
would say
it
months, possibly
six,"
she
replied.
"Enough, Anastasia!
Tell
Tell
me."
Let go!
cannot understand
why you
are so
impatient!"
me, and
then get
looked
at
me tenderly as usual, but his lips were saying some kind of abracadabra.
unintelligible. I could
not take
it
else,
equally
to him.
Book i: Anastasia
88
even a bit
out.
was
it
was
game
first it
age of eleven,
ing attentively at the person you are talking with and being able to
understand what they are saying, no matter what language they are
expressing
it in.
is
far superior to
speech
it
more rapid and conveys far more information. You would call it
You think it is abnormal, something out of fantasy,
but it is simply an attentive attitude toward Man, drawing upon a
developed imagination and a good memory. It involves not just a
more efficient method of information exchange, but getting to know
a person's soul, along with the animal and plant world, and what conis
thought-transfer.
to
'Anastasia,"
I said,
do with
what
this
is
their role in
all
this?"
"What do you mean, what have they to do with it? At the same
time as the child is getting to know the world of plants as a part of
the functioning of the Universe, he
his planets.
With
their help
is
know the
with
quickly,
your dis-
ciplines.
lost.
But
if the
the Universe."
"I
child could
become an agronomist.
final analysis
Now where
would
his
such a
knowl-
16
Flying saucers?
Nothing extraordinary!
Then
me
technical subject.
"You want
me
to tell
you how
all
world operate?"
say?"
"That is what
been here."
have been doing for you the whole time you have
"Not just for me, for the world of science a discovery they
would be prepared to recognise. Go ahead, make a verifiable discovery in some technical field like space ships, the atom, automobile
since
stone age!"
"That's perfect!
I'll
be able to understand
it.
is
at least
show
pretty
me on my guard,
since
madwoman,
how
is."
or she really
continued
my questioning:
primitive?"
words to sink
in.
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90
is
you resort
to such primitive,
And
The
is
simply laughable
rise a
wee
awkward
range of your
now
method has practically reached its ceiling, do not you agree? But
that is ridiculous! An exploding or burning substance propels some
this
monstrous structure that you call a space ship. And the greater part of
this ship is designed precisely to 'solve' this problem of propulsion."
"Of course
know
It is
I felt
my throat go dry,
"Tell
me, Anastasia,
quickly...
and in a way
when you
are excited.
The
can understand."
is
it
"Well,
so that
into
"
.
add to
I'll
it!" I
and I began to quickly name all the words that just popped
Anastasia broke
in:
already
still
and besides
that, there
it
may take an hour or two. That is a lot, and I really wanted to tell you
about something else, something much more meaningful."
"No, Anastasia. Tell me about flying saucers and their propulsion
methods,
tell
me
about energy
carriers.
Until
understand that,
'All right,"
curs
when
91
Everyone, of
lighter.
"Yes,"
fuel
another
state,
In Nature
do
this in fact,
"Take a look around you, and you will see that plants take in liquid
from the earth and breathe air, and then process these into a hard and
solid body let us say, wood, or something even harder and more
solid, like a nut-shell
or a plum-stone.
the eye can see does this with fantastic speed, feeding,
on
air alone.
It is
flying saucers.
it
would seem,
They
But they carry out this function to perfection and they can accelerate
a flying saucer to one-nineteenth the speed of the average
modern
Earth-dweller's thought.
its
double
Many non-traditional scientists have criticised the generating of energy from exploOne of them, the so-called
Schauberger has gained deep insights into the workings of Nature and, among other
things,
was involved
for propulsion.
forestry,
in research
(or energy
from
vacuum)
water purification and other areas, see Galium Coats' book Living energies.
Book
92
walls,
i:
which
Anastasia
are set approximately three centimetres apart.
The up-
per and lower surfaces of the outer walls are porous, with micro-sized
pinholes.
as
they pass
Then
a centimetre in diameter.
They lose
their firmness,
saucer,
and
slide
down
decompose into a gaseous substance. You can even eat them, if you
can do this before they decompose.
"What about the walls of the flying saucer what are they made of?"
"They are cultivated grown."
9'
"How so?"
"Why the surprise? Just give it a little thought, you will figure it
out. Many people cultivate a fungus in various kinds of containers.
gus
is
it is
and takes the shape of the container. This funit creates a double wall around
itself.
another microorganism
is
added to
its
water,
it
produces a
generated
like a vivid
will,
or the brain,
much
concept or imagery."
"Can you do
this?" I asked.
about a year
all
told."
or
This fungus, famous for its medicinal properties, is known zsKombucha (Medusomyces
gisevii).
It
flat
multi-layered jellyfish
(its
scientific
name
is
actually derived
93
"Of course one can. The Earth has everything that the Universe has/
"But how do you get the microorganisms inside the walls of the
saucer if they are so small you can't even see them?"
"Once the upper wall is cultivated, it will attract and collect them
in huge numbers, just as bees are attracted to cells. But this process
also requires the collective will of several dozen people. In any case,
what is the use of elaborating further if you cannot cultivate it for lack
of people with the right kind of will, intelligence and knowledge?"
"Isn't there some way you could help?"
9
"I could."
"So,
"I
do
it!"
have already."
was
still
perplexed.
dren raised in this manner will have the intelligence, knowledge and
will permitting
them
to
flying saucer,
but
significantly more..."
'Anastasia,
that too
I,
well, I
their ship."
"Not at all. They have a long way to go to attain the level of Man
they are afraid of us, afraid to approach people, even though they are
They trained their mental paralysers on me. Put on quite a show. They tried to frighten me,
shock me. It was quite a challenge to calm them down and convince
them I would only treat them with affection."
very curious. At
"Well,
how
first
can they be
less
smart than us
if
is
than
is
superior to
Man in
The brain
a supercomputer
The
new one.
is
me.
just as a hypothesis,
If
it Is
wanted to hear something that would be underaway I wanted a 'something that did not require
Anastasia to
come
began asking
How can
at least
solve
put
it
In
more
something when
in
mind?"
I
began thinking:
What was
the
Is
so
cities right
realise that.
ing about
and so
ies
Please, hear
how we must be
me
that
is
most
for example,
how
logical
of
purer ourselves,
all
around
cit-
the government,
and everyone
It
will
else
be capable
cannot
fail
to
it."
terms?"
trees
understand
air in
go philosophis-
have more
The
it."
thing
are confronted
"We
now
environmental pollution.
The brain
a supercomputer
95
abilities really
our
thought
added:
'Are
live
"Yes."
But
have enough
I
over for a
left
this expedition
and
for Russia..."
thought: What
if Anastasia were
even
asked:
But
all
at
me
"How
about
Anastasia:
this,
let's
Anastasia exclaimed.
have finished,
Seeds... Or...
I shall
is
to work.
a wonderful idea!
that's
enough
for now."
institutions
self,
Anastasia lay
down on
itself,
I still felt
abilities a solution to
con-
the problem
With
you
but especially over the free seeds for her dachniks. Yet
tific
If
"No, Anastasia,
I felt
now get
"What
many scien-
ago.
Her
stillness,
Booki: Anastasia
96
She lay there for about twenty minutes, then opened her eyes,
up and
sat
said:
"I
mare
it is!"
5'
man bodies. The most frightening thing is that these substances are
mixing with earth- or dust-particles, and Impregnating the dust. The
movement of the automobiles
It
and then settles on the grass and the trees, covering everything
around. This
is
very bad.
It is
It's
'All I
did just
dealt with a
problem
it...
need to concen-
I'll
So that you
will
have never
not be bored,
walk in the
forest, I
found
her, as
it
I said:
see, Anastasia,
like you,
haven't
it
is
going on.
They
yet."
but
my mind,
I believe, all
percent."
fifty
The brain
a supercomputer
97
My mind was at once set on the alert: she had found some sort of
solution after all
"So,
asked.
She sighed.
managed to achieve...
my excitement, I said:
"Let's
it
this foul
as well."
Talk faster!"
"Bumpers?"
offered.
little
For the
and
first
time
began to laugh
little
boxes
Book i: Anastasia
98
to
all
to imagine
how
could
it
all
was beginning
be: orders
filters for
new ones
A routine regu-
All
to!
it
had taken back then was one stroke of the pen, and pres-
cleaner
of the
tough
of course, cleaner
"Wait,"
I said,
air!
turning once
those boxes?"
something.
'And where
is
It is
You
will
come up with
She stopped.
didn't
tain conditions
"So,
we
5
,
should patent
it?
Otherwise
'cer-
else:
freewill?"
"Why would they not pay? They will pay, and I can even set the
now From the production of these boxes, Russia will get
rates right
when
it
comes
to business you're
still
a complete
The brain
a supercomputer
99
who
will
prosper."
tell
me you're
in the
racket business?!"
"What are you imagining now? Think about It! They themselves
And
me
is
Nature do not allow her to make a mistake: It means that before stating any conclusions, she must have processed in her brain an enor-
mous amount of Information, made zillions of mathematical calculaand taken into account a whole mass of psychological characteristics of the people who would be participating In her project. In
tions,
our terms, she not only solved the most difficult question of purifying
the
air,
"Tell
and so
thought
had
still
all
that In
asked her:
amount of money
boxes,
filter
to be realised
from the
sale
of your car-accessory
"Calculations were
made
and not
just
brain..."
Book i: Anastasia
ioo
me
Let
Quiet!
"Stop!
tell
you what
Does
I think...
mean
this
let's
say
that's
is
primitive and
that
is
is
tantamount to hands or
With
full prosthesis,
missing.
is
feet
and
the com-
is... feelings"
are
do
and then
finally agreed,
"So,
can
officially
made
the invitation
still
failed
me and
this for
more
specific:
in a
It will
be better
to ask
if I
do
it
with
all
of them at once, so
it
with
all
of them,
'AH
right,"
to waste time
let
them
start, so as
not
you put to
pothesis.
If
they refute
it,
let
them put
them
to
come
not be
come
for their
The brain
"So be
but
it,
would
still
like to talk
a supercomputer
101
children..."
it.
about
my idea
happy
Now
want
was very
to invite
all
had to
clarify a
asked.
replied.
"Why did you think just of yourself? Are you so absolutely certain
you're going to win?"
"Of course.
"Well, okay
the firm
who
takes
first
place
after you?"
"Well,
could give
primitive computer."
"Then it's
settled."
them some
advice
on how
to perfect their
fH
The
tree,
which
was not
neighbours, but
its
It
its
from
tall,
principal distinguish-
its
glistening
crown
was
into Space
told me.
who happened to
discover a
distributed here
it
way to send
its
That is where the bear was climbing it. It was quite a challenge to get
her to carry me up to the first branches. I clung on to the fur on her
neck. She would climb and then let out a roar, climb and roar. After
reaching the lowest branches, I was able to clamber up from branch
to branch, right to the top.
I sat
everything
up into the
sky,
me
they tell
climb down.
in turn
demanded
that
me what could be done with the tree. How to save the ring-
arrived.
that they
knew the
"In
"This was a
him was life; and the life was the light ofmen' 103
woman
very
much wanted
to help.
my desire to
Earlier
spend so much
knew that he
could
hold of a branch, ran around the cedar tree and beat the
branch, shouting that
family that
vice
threat,
air
with the
he beat the
He seized
air
too gave a
voice, serious,
"'Don't
fully.
"I
tree,
on which more
and more branches were beginning to glow. Then a ray formed, pointing upward.
little
ray
it
give everything
it
had saved up
through its
ex-
plained that the ray had formed in the exact spot where
had shout-
was laugh-
ing.
if I
ray.
Anastasia put her hands on the mighty trunk of the ringing cedar
she had saved, and pressed her cheek against
it.
"They,
this one.
my Papa and Mama, once came upon a ringing cedar just like
Only Mama had been doing everything a little differently
from which she reached out and touched one of the lower branches
of the ringing cedar and broke it off, inadvertently exposing herself to
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the ray which flamed up out of the broken branch. The branch had
been pointing downward, and the ray went down into the Earth. It is
the Earth.
"When Papa came, he saw this ray, and saw my Mama, who had been
left
still
In the other hand she held the broken branch of the ringing cedar.
"Papa, no doubt, had an immediate grasp of everything that had hap-
pened.
Grandfather
and Great- Grandfather saw him break off the upper branches, but
they did not glow, while more and more of the lower ones began glowing.
its
rays shining
downward.
would not be
was going on
"When
it
The upward-beam-
it
still
and pointed it
managed
at
And
even
himself
the branch straightened and the ray from the branch directed itself
toward the
sky,
at the last
able, in
Anastasia once more stroked the cedar trunk with her hands, once
against
it
still,
smiling,
lis-
oil,
are
its
that?"
"Yes, I do."
"Will you
tell
me?"
you."
cedar.
If:
';
v-,,4
/lit";
woman
over
world
whom
flji^
this contact
was necessary
"You
see," Anastasia
two people
"it is
very important,
when
the carnal For example, you see a beautiful girl and desire to be close
to her.
soul.
You
still
the
Man
or her
Very often people join their destinies together only on the basis
someone
else.
transferred to
it is
spirit
man who
finds or
meets up with
is
spirit,
one with
child capable of bringing so much good into the world. Because they
would create this child with the same impulsion as we did.
But there is no way this man can bring himself to tell this wom-
an that he loves
the apple of his eye, while she, as soon as she feels someone's gaze
right away,
and "unwittingly"
tries to lift
her skirt
higher.
not
is
more
accessible, but
still
led
on by
Booki: Anastasia
io6
"I
want
to suggest to this
woman what
can-
not break through to her. Her brain will not open to the awareness
of
new
me
What
constantly pre-occu-
It is
Can you
living.
for not
a terrible sight!
the dachniks and for spreading myself too thin, and sticking my nose
in where
it
"When this woman wakes in the morning, her first thought is not
to delight in the coming day but how to prepare something to eat.
She gets upset over some missing food item, and then gets upset over
like
face-cream or
rouge. She spends her whole time thinking how she is going to get
She
is
is
it.
first
put
it
all
fulfil
overloaded with
is
from
my
how
point of view.
is
ex-
is
on around
her.
is
is
repeated
"On her way home, when people notice her, she can put on the appearance of an almost happy woman. But she
dows
above
all,
is
continually thinking
at clothes in
shop win-
posing that this will result in some kind of miracle, except in her case
everything happens the wrong way around. She gets
house-cleaning. She thinks she
is
for a
mo-
tell
me what
at the
one's
loy
to
tell
detail. I shall
only
with a white
collar
make-up, and
listen
and no cleavage.
is
so
much
her."
explanation.
In or-
der for her to choose that particular dress, change her make-up and
look at that person with genuine interest, she will have to change her
J/..'/
20-4
A mortal sin
"I still
need to
will receive
tell
money
when
a pleasant experience,"
I replied.
However,
here
Is
present."
lieve
sunk
in, I
of her words
"First they're
do
at least nine
"Yes,"
deep knee-bends
am to
able to release
believed you.
was
Now I
A mortal sin
opinion, any sane person would agree with me. Ha! Don't
you
still
"Yes.
in
tell
109
me
your book?"
95
"Now you've
really
gone mad.
Do you mean
to
tell
me you were
it
in the book,
would be good
for him, as
strict
it
will
conditions as
my benefit? Do you have the slightmockery you've made of me? See what the love of a
can spill over into! Only it won't work not one single
what
crazy recluse
which
are willing to
to them,"
using, to put
it
saying,
and here
She stood there, leaning with her back to a tree, her head just
bowed. One hand was clasped to her chest, the other was
raised upward, lightly waving.
slightly
it
of
it,
and
realised
why
wouldn't get
them down on
this occasion.
flesh,
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again on the grass, turned away from
Anastasia, deciding
riverbank,
her voice
down
I sat
I fell silent.
call
better calm
I'd
it
of resentment or rebuke:
"You know, Vladimir, everything bad that happens to Man is
brought on by Man himself, whenever he disobeys the laws of spirslightest hint
itual
way of life, to make them forand commandments set forth way back in the
it,
sins
not
of Man
at the
is
pride.
moment go
Most people
into
all
are subject
it
campaign.
this
concept of
money
Money is like
a high-tension zone.
of this invention.
Man
is
at
its
centre.
But
it
either.
But I really, very much, want to save you from this mortal danger
which can corrupt the spirit. That is why I thought up a special situation just for you, one that would cause this device of the forces of
darkness to be broken, or
extermination of the
sin.
fail,
A mortal sin
"That
Is
in
implanted in you, and you for your part started shouting your insults
at
never do that.
precisely and
realised that
now
it is
me
what
I will
I shall
be broken. Right
now I
people too.
less
I thought: Improbable as
her brain or
something besides
may have put into this comic, utterly abnormal
She
fell silent,
and
it is,
be some
It.
I'd
better think
uneasy
guilt.
my inner state.
began talking
at
She
top speed.
at
simply
it
turned
Touching Paradise
tired of listening to
"Your brain
is
want to
you.
tell
again for a
We
little
to...
have so
I still
rest.
much
Let us
sit
while."
down on
sat
do so want
me by
the shoulders
and drew me close to hen The back of my head touched her breasts,
which gave me
a pleasant
warm feeling.
"Do not be afraid ofme, let yourself go," she quietly said and lay
down on the grass so that it would be more comfortable for me to rest.
She ran the fingers of one of her hands through my hair, as if combing them., while the fingertips of her other hand quickly touched my
forehead and temples. Occasionally she would lightly press down
with her fingernails at various points on the top of my head. All this
gave me a feeling of tranquillity and enlightenment. Then, putting
her hands on
tell
all differ-
trees,
the chirping and clicking of insects in the grass, the rustle of the
leaves, the fluttering
thing
and flapping of
fell silent
birds' wings.
and went on
named
listening.
every-
This was
I replied.
"Well,
maybe
I didn't
I left
catch
"Vladimir, do
my
heart
is
beating?" asked
Anastasia.
Could
really
The
Touching Paradise
" Yes," I
well,
it is
hear
it, I
hear
it
113
very
"Try to memorise the intervals of the various sounds you hear. You
some
insect, the
"Now I
see
what happens
all
around."
rhythm of sounds
away the
tonality.
you
exclaimed.
"What
are
rhythm of your
heartbeat?"
of
my
heart.
The
and work
how
"Is this
all
react?" I asked.
and you do not try to make contact with them. Besides, you
do not understand the purpose of such contact, and do not give them
react,
who work on
rything
would do eve-
Do
plants.
you want
me
to
will feel
when he
will
feel it."
She
slid
against
my
chest.
began beating in
amazing happened:
Little
I felt
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ii4
the truth
thing
I felt
into a single
is
But
me and communicated
some-
it is
this sensation
called happiness.
as
soon
as Anastasia
"More! Please,
"I
just
intuitively I
joyous feelings
that
caressed
me.
asked:
let
And
bit
more,"
pleaded.
me with a small taste of the pleasant and radiant sensation as a memory of it. We remained silent for a while, and then I felt
out leaving
like
"Was
lie
it
this
good
around, enjoy
life
and prosper
if there's
Instead of answering
my
asked:
You
just
it
nothing to do."
question, Anastasia asked one of her
own:
"Tell
as
first
Man,
in
Paradise? It was only later that Man started to develop and thought
up everything. Man developed through labour. He became smarter
thanks to labour."
"Yes, labour
is
Man
was
infinitely smarter
than his descendants today and his labour was more meaningful,
it
activity"
Touching Paradise
"If the Bible told everything in detail,
read through
Bible
it
there
so
much
would be impossible to
One must understand the
it
human lifetime.
in a single
is
115
Do
you
remember
that it is the Bible that tells us that God assigned Adam to give names
and specify the purpose of every creature living on the Earth. And
he Adam did this. He did what all the scientific institutions in
want
to
did?
I shall tell
you. But
first,
the world taken together have not yet been able to do."
'Anastasia,
do you turn to
ask
ask,
when
so
much has
me?
v4g
J%!
On
the
motorboat,
Anastasia,
asked her:
And when
up.
him
are
I can't
you the
fact
of your existence
is
incredible,
and in
"Calm down, Vladimir, please. I do not know what logic you have
in mind, but do try and make sense of it, calmly."
"What am
to
of,
efits, as
ludicrous.
It's
Grade One.
"You want
to bring the
your
own
If you
self-satisfaction:
'Oh look
at
caring!'
think that you will do some good by offering your son a car or
line, well, he can get it himself just by wishBe calm and think about something specific you could tell
it.
in life that
made me
"You
will
see, Vladimir,
want
that,
a dimwit?
your
level
You must
I
tremble.
do you
really want
Do you really
like
The only
of mental
purity,
is
realised that
it
was absolutely
and
around in
my brain.
I felt like
with
my might.
recluse's face
I
all
understood everything.
Now it's
smashing
all
these swirled
all
child.
clear to
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know
son
little
is
But
was
of myself.
right?
all
still
grabbed a
stick.
all
broke.
Then
turned to look
at
now
to myself: oh,
I've
like
the
it
again
last time,
I lost
thought
control of
when I swore
how
at her.
of a hurricane.
began looking
body
at her.
closer
and
me with
at
stood
And I
start-
lines:
it
she
is
incapable of lying.
but...
We
truth,
went
slightly trembling. She didn't speak, only her kind, kind eyes
were looking
is
How can you possibly live if you must always tell the
and say only what you think?! But what can you do
if that's
the
is
way it happened.
if
she said
so.
strange mother.
That
Oh, well,
Still,
Nature
liar
there's
lifestyle
she's physically
well,
knows the
way, at least.
very strong.
animals.
And
her.
And
kind.
She
she's smart. In
really
her
knows
own pecu-
119
She kept
wanting to talk about children the whole time. Shell nurture the
Somebody
boy.
like
them
in the
And I
"I'm
said:
sorry, Anastasia, I
was
just
love.
all,
yourself.
Do not
afraid
human
But you must not worry. You must not get upset. You talked
you did not know, you did not know anything about
my love, my darling."
Through
5 a window of time
'Anastasia, if you are so smart
wo
help me?"
She looked up
at the
is
"What
Do
is it
you want
me
to cure
all
"That
is
months
ago,
only in the principal area of need no benefit came about: the dark
back
again...
'You witch,
instant!' you're
"Yes,"
thinking
"I
is
mad-woman
answered in amazement.
"That
written
all
exactly
is
what
was
is
her eyes.
it
not... well...
you
you spend
all
She gave
me
a smile
A short while
dressed in a long
in a
121
later
and ran
off.
skirt, a
brown buttoned
done up
shawl But without the quilted jacket in which she had greeted
me on the riverbank. And the shawl was tied differently Her clothes
were
clean,
though not
stylish,
remembered her.
A strange
'
gij
The summer
before, our convoy ship had docked at one of the vilfrom these parts. We needed to buy bulk meat for the
restaurant and spend some time in port.
Sixty kilometres farther on there would be a particularly dangerous
travel
through
there at night (certain sections of the river were not equipped with
navigation
So
lights).
as
we began announcing
over our outdoor loudspeaker system as well as the local radio that
village to
from
a huge
it
Inev-
such occasions.
Its
way to the
ship's
gangplank.
they immediately
about taking a look around the whole ship to see what they could
see.
After touring the main, middle and upper decks, they ended up
The female
contingent, as a
ways engendered a
crew Almost always there was not enough time, and the
party-goers
longer
state
al-
made a collective
say, by half an hour, and then more and more into the night.
On this
particular occasion I
was alone
In
my cabin,
listening to
make
I felt
trip.
window
glass.
A strange girl
I
23
got up and opened the window. She didn't go away. She contin-
ued looking
at
something for
my cabin.
and she
somehow unhappy?
nodded.
silently
offered to
took her
all
visitors
with
its
elegant appointments: the rug covering the floor, the soft leather
furniture, the computers.
Then
my cabin, which
fine furniture,
at the
achievements of our
TV and VCR.
was probably
girl
with the
civilised world.
pagne
glass to
"It's
her
lips,
a challenge, eh?"
expected
just
We were
arrival
had been
prived
"Never mind,
something
like,
Viktoria (Vika) Tsyganova (nee Zhukova) a popular Russian singer born 1963 in
Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. Her singing and stage career began in the mid1980s. Since then she has produced numerous albums. The song "Love and death"
was recorded in 1994.
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once more
at the
gangplank.
was something very strange and unusual about this woman, and I was
left with an unexpected feeling of lightness and brightness after talking
with her. That night I had my first good sleep in many days. At long
understood why: the woman on the ship had been Anastasia.
last I
They were
You
"I
see
was interested
After
all,
Vladimir,
in seeing
I
care of dachnlks.
"That day
which the
squirrels
had
collected,
village, sold
the dried
mushrooms
party-
cruise. Now know a lot more about the class of people you call entrepreneurs. And I know you pretty well too.
"I feel I owe you a huge apology. I did not know how things would
I
about,
all
pass."
Itself to
asked Anastasia to
tering
simply
my destiny
(
'
tell
in
more
detail
start be rig
me
at the time, I
ealised in real
more bringing me
"Back then, on the
al-
life.
me
me everything,
me champagne, and
"you showed
to candies, offered
A strange girl
then escorted
right away.
125
could see
through the lighted windows of the bar how the young people of the
village
were
still
I really
on account
It
mushrooms
exchanged
my
for
pair of shoes
would need
all I
When
at the time.
cleaned
is
would be
for dancing,
it.
And what
"You were,
me that night?"
if you had taken me to
suppose, offended at
the bar, I do
good or a bad thing, but
events might have turned out differently, and all this might not have
happened. But I do not now regret that things happened the way
"I
not
know whether
that
they did."
"So what happened?
What happened
was so
terrible?"
you escorted me off the ship, you did not return right away
to your cabin. First you dropped in to see the captain, and then the
two of you headed for the bar. For you that was a normal thing to
'After
do.
public.
were very elegant and gave a most respectable appearance. You were
known to many in
this village
The owner of a
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126
ear...
compliments,
understand they
Then you danced with her several times and the conversation continued. The girl's eyes were radiant, as if she were in another
are called.
"I
I
it
tell
more modern.
2
The next morning Captain Senchenko and I once again had a
laugh at their night-time antics on the dock. Then in my cabin I re-
but
was
didn't
was
and she
her.
replied:
you had stolen her heart. The two of you went out on deck,
and you threw your jacket over the girl's shoulders.
drizzling,
Karsk
Sea.
A strange girl
127
"That was nothing. The drizzle was good and caressing. Only
it
go
power, including their hearts, and you were intoxicated with this
The young people of the village were grateful to the girls, and
the girls too felt imbued with a sense of power, through you. They
completely forgot about the young lads who were with them in the
power.
pull
girl
who had
waited
off.
its
night-time riverbank.
after saying so
many
and
alluring.
'And
all
that
to
do something
fist
for ever.
She
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And she
did
It
again,
and
again.
her shouting?"
"Yes," I replied.
"You could not help hearing her, and members of your crew
heard her too. Some of them went out on deck and began laughing
at the girl.
"I did
ing, as If
come out on
come
to their senses.
thought you could not hear her, and she continued stubbornly crying
out:
'I
"Then some of her girlfriends joined in, and they all cried out together. I wondered what that feeling was like love, which makes
people lose control of themselves, or, perhaps, I wanted to help that
girl,
and so
'I
Information.
"Now
know how
Is,
and
it Is
hardly subject
to reason.
"The country girl later began to go into a slump and take to the
bottle, and it was a challenge for me to help her. Now she is married
and burdened down with everyday cares. And I have had to add her
love to mine."
The
me
little
on me. After seeing her lifestyle and getting to know how she
looked at the world, I saw her more and more as some unreal personage, even though she was sitting right beside me and I could simply reach out my hand and touch her. A consciousness accustomed
sion
to judge things
reality
by other
And while
at the
criteria
asked:
had been
me the emotions
at-
once had.
A strange girl
"So,
feelings
appeared in you
129
just
by
chance?"
"And that
is
in a hurry,
you
as I should.
and
was anxious,
for
myself am to blame.
some
reason,
all
have
the time.
Perhaps
it all
just
turned out
silly?
Eh?
Do
need
to reform myself?"
I at
was
That day
had decided
little
down
lay
but even
to join In Anastasia's
first
me
wasn't cold
was
In a splendid
I felt
a pinching sensation
on my thigh.
my head
lower leg
held
it,
saying:
avail.
felt
that
Anastasia seized
mood.
my
I felt
me as well
It all
routine.
morning
raised
my thigh and
my arm
I lifted
tried to free
with
great effort. She kept restraining me, with very little effort, her smile
all
And
still
tickling, biting
was
in her
hands both
literally
and more
came
to the
me alive.
and
figuratively
Taking stock
In,
In desperation
grip
Upon
sunk
on her breast. Anastasia loosened her hold, jumped up, one hand
Bugs
131
holding her breast, the other stretched upward, waving. She tried to
smile.
do next
some
time, thinking
how would
headed
what
I
should
Nevertheless,
her.
little
while
before asking:
"Does
It
hurt?"
The
little
in fact
saw, wouldn't
It
it is
rather pleasant."
have stung
me in the leg?"
"It was not doing you any harm. Even if It had released its venom,
would have been only on the surface, and I would have rubbed it in
at once. The skin and muscles on your heel are deteriorating."
it
rubbed it in
It
ity
of snakes
is
the blood-stream
all
at once,
it
levels.
132
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"That's
1 said.
The whole
began to
of grass,
down
feel
rubbed
was
smiling.
And when
between my hands
as
hard as
tened palms.
help you
my
mois-
'"^..
L*
26
i**
Dreams
feelings,
about her
Man
human
is still
what mental anhad caused her that morning. Once again I apologised to her.
Anastasia responded that she wasn't angry, but now, after what she
guish
a normal, natural
realised
"What
I
being,
afraid for
me.
heard for the umpteenth time a story noseriously if they expect to be considered as
Nobody talks
that
way
about themselves.
"When
the ship
left,"
village, I
I felt
good.
Then
down on
when the
by myself on the
all
my
ran off to
stars
The day
had already come
forest.
know
known by various
know practically
everything, only they do not fully understand how it works. Then I
went and fancied how you will go to a large city and tell many peo"You
see,
ple about
me
and
live in.
are partially
Collectively they
same
methods by which you usually spread any kind of information: you
will write a book. A great many people will read it and the truth will
do
unfold to them.
I shall
try to inspire
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134
Anastasia
i:
call a
at all this
told
"You
human
being.
realise that I
It is just
that
am
have
more information inside me than other people. What you write will
interest, and you will become rich. You will have
money in the banks of nineteen countries, and you will visit holy
places and cleanse yourself of all the darkness that is in you. You will
remember me and begin to love me, you will have the desire to see
me again and to see your son. You will desire to become worthy of
be of tremendous
your son.
"My dream was so clear, but possibly a bit pleading, too. That is
probably why everything happened the way it did. They took it as a
plan of action and decided to carry people through the dark forces
No
dweller.
doubt
they
took
at
this
is
why the
perhaps they
forces of darkness
work of late. They have never been this active befrom the ringing cedar. Its ray has become a lot
As
its light
and
its
the cedar
is
energy"
and here
had gone
her!
tried to
and so
listened to Anastasia,
indeed!
there's
no need
is
obviously unrealisable,
and
light to fight
each other. Y)u don't have a detailed enough knowledge about our
everyday life,
its
The
thing
is
of books are being published right now, but, for some reason, even
the works of well-known authors aren't selling. I'm no writer, and so
Dreams
"That
correct.
is
would print
"But
lieve
it,
fears,
exist.
now
in response.
do
135
"even
whom I
if I tried,
nobody
exist.
them.
They will
be-
make sense of what she was saying right off, and once
made an effort to calm her down:
shan't even make an attempt to write anything. There's abso-
couldn't
more
"I
lutely
no sense
in
it,
don't
you get
it?"
"Believe me, you shall. They have already created a whole network
this."
"Ajid so
to stop
you with
all
try to
drive
your fantasies."
just fantasies?"
And
on me
as I calculated the
stopped short.
timing in
me
my
It
began to dawn
head, and
understood.
had thought up
long before
last year,
slept
with
long before
her.
line
hind and
you
me
to ruin
and
inflicted
And here
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136
ability.
hermit.
and
that's
it.
Or a crazy
and
do
can give you any items you need. But what can you give me?"
What
"I?
derness and
"It will
give you?
As your image
cleverness.
"Image?
can
I
You will be
rest.
I
a genius of bright-eyed
am blest."
you
"I
you
normal person,
sure?"
human
being!
am Man!
If
you
are so
never can.
am
to see
it
"Excuse me!"
and you
like that,
human being?!"
human being, a woman!"
still
want
to
be treated as a normal
"I
am Man,
Anastasia's agitation
the good,
I
and
I still
was
only want,
They have accepted this, and the forces of darkness are always fighting
with them, but never have the dark forces scored a major victory"
energy, are
countered. "With
you
just
all
your intelligence,
the sidelines?"
"In a confrontation on this scale between two great principles
own
efforts
little
I shall
help
is
my
going to be needed
Dreams
develop a
come
little
137
in hospital
"I'd like to know just what's so bad within myself what did I do
wrong when I was in hospital? And how could you have treated me
when you weren't there beside me?"
"Back then you simply did not feel my presence, but I was right
there with you. When you were on the ship, I brought you a little
branch of the ringing cedar which Mama had broken off before she
died. I left it in your cabin when you invited me in. You were ill even
then. I could feel it. Do you remember the branch?"
"Yes," I replied. "In fact, that branch hung on the wall of my cabin
for some time, many of my crew noticed it, and I brought it back to
Novosibirsk. But
I didn't
had no
idea..."
When you
tal...
illness. If you
it."
out."
it
out.
illness.
into hospi-
that,
mention of it
sort
in
it,
oil.
Now, according
to
was not a
single
Do you remember?"
"Yes."
is
the best clinics in your city But this sector had nothing to do with
your particular
illness. She left you there, even though just one floor
up there was another sector specifically corresponding to your ill-
ness
right?"
"Yes!"
"She would prick you with needles, and turn on some music in the
half-darkened room."
Anastasia's account
ally
happened to me.
was
in
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hospital"
And
you
then
all
at
Fine...
like?...
Not too
Like that?
loud?"
And
phrases in exactly the voice and with the intonation used by the sector
'Anastasia!" I exclaimed.
She didn't
"Keep
let
me finish.
Do not be
listening.
Do try...
try
is
kind and
forthright. It was I
got
who did
not want you to be transferred to the other sector. That sector would
have corresponded to your particular illness, but hers did not. She
requested her supervisors to leave you with her, assuring them she
felt
'And
else'.
She
is
up
to
else'.
it.
And
a doctor!
ulcer.
salty
and
drinking to
Somehow your
you were not aware of it, that there was nothing terribly wrong with
you, that nothing would happen to you.
"I did not accomplish anything good rather, the opposite. The
darkness in your consciousness did not lessen, nor did your will or
sense of awareness improve.
When you
high-ranking
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139
call her,
call,
Or you, Anastasia?"
"She?
"We, if that
I
clearer to you."
is
got up and for some reason took a few steps away from Anastasia,
who was
sitting
on
a fallen tree.
The mixed-up
state of
as to
my feelings
how
should
"Now look, once again you are not understanding how I do things,
you
are
it is
do
sible situations.
She
fell
all
talk-
Still, I
of hair
acteristic:
"'She's just
now
you are overwhelmed by the very fact of my existence and do not believe
fully believe,
and
as a
as
am a human be-
"You consider
something
else
my way of life
seem just
as
amazing, but
why does
not a certain
Why
all its
original
components
are
supreme system.
as
something
made of bro-
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"Imagine a being
and uses
its
parts to
who
does not understand that one cannot keep breaking pieces off a
fly-
like
that?...
"The computer
is
human
may simply be compared to
healthy legs
Naturally, their
leg muscles
the brain
is
brain, provided
stemming from
At the time
minds of scholars
astir
would arouse
and, even as mere
said
is
something
like a mirror.
It
some
other radiant feeling. Reflecting off the Sun, they return to Earth in
the form of sunlight and give
life
and
to everything
Its
on the
own
is
planet.
Dr Georges Lakhovsky
pioneer, author of The secret oflife: Cosmic rays and radiations ofliving beings and one of
the most respected European scientists of his time, has suggested that "The Sun
a cold black body", Viktor Schauberger (see footnote
cers?
in
Chapter
lines, as
16:
is
"Flying sau-
discussed in Galium
them in solar
gis).
rays
light,
a spiritual thinker
whose thought
Dreams
141
"If the
"it
words of the
Bible:
'And the
is
and can be
was the
life
light
of men". 3
Anastasia also stated that one Man's feelings can be transmitted to
another by reflecting off the celestial bodies, and she demonstrated
this
person
who
is
you can
call it intuition.
when somebody
when you are with a
feel
especially noticeable
You
loves you.
that
In
strong enough,
This
what you
is
call miracles,
warmer, more
"Yes,"
its
mysticism or incredible
with
do wonders.
abilities. Tell
me now? Somehow
fulfilled?"
replied. "For
strongly"
sensation of pleasant
lessen,
and to
it
was added
beautiful:
^John
1:
4 (Authorised'King James
Version).
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142
another
through
my veins,
as
my body The
soles of
my
feet
little
vein in
"You see?
phantly re-appeared from behind the tree, confident that she had
proved something to me. "You see, you felt all that when I went behind the tree-trunk, and your sensations even Increased when you
could not see me. Tell
I
told her,
me about them."
turn:
from
me
to you.
When
hid myself,
went
the tree-trunk was
light
began
and even
feet
upon you,
falling directly
intensified.
"I didn't
it
failed to
was important.
mention that
your
fact.'
stitute a miracle?"
"I
chased
all
feet.
out-
more or less."
"And does what you dream about always come
"That describes
it,
to pass
even
As long
down
as
It is
It is
it
will definitely
In the lives
Dreams
Perhaps you will find some among them
who
fully or partially."
all
in detail too?
143
Tell
me,
"Extraordinarily quickly.
it's
it will."
else
at the time?
You've
"Not everything."
"Then tell me everything."
to hear
it,
Vladimir? Really?"
"Yes."
by a
flash
of
light.
It
was with inspiration and excitement that she continued her in-
credible monologue.
Mi
^m
/ \
window of time
"During that night of my dreams
ple across this
and
forces.
realistic,
book you are going to write there will be unobtrusive combinations, formulations made up of letters, and they will arouse in
the majority of people good and radiant feelings. These feelings are
capable of overcoming ailments of body and soul, and will facilitate
"In the
me, Vladimir,
this
is
not mysticism
it
is
in accord
the Universe.
"It is all
ings
will
feel-
feel-
ings you can do anything. These feelings are already within you. Both
mine and yours. They are not something you can comprehend just
yet. But they will be understandable to many When they are embodied in signs and patterns, they will be stronger than Zoroaster's
fire. Do not hide anything that has happened to you, even your most
intimate experiences. Free yourself from any sense of shame and do
1
afraid of
them.
am
stronger and
will
succeed in seeing
known
as Zarathustra,
my plan
known
who
Zoroastrianism
as Parsees)
and
in
145
come true, and I will succeed in giving birth and raising my son. Our
son, Vladimir.
and
it
know
will cause
on people destruc-
are
that
all relative.
majority
Universe.
"You believe
in horoscopes,
you believe
in your
complete de-
pendence on the position of the planets. This belief has been attained through the aid of the devices of the dark forces. This belief
is
slowing
down
the
size.
allowing
its
ing you away from a conscious awareness of the truth, the essence
about
how God
created
Man
in His
image and
likeness.
Man
has
relationship to God
to love Him or not to love Him. Nobody and
nothing can control Man apart from his own will. God wants Man's
love in return for His love, but God wants the love of a free Man,
darkness and the
world
is
light.
subject to
Man, and
see Gen.
1:
26, 27.
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control
Man
Man, but
controls their
movements through
his sub-
conscious.
flare
up
In the sky,
would not appear. Things are arranged this way so that planetary
catastrophes do not happen. But If everybody together wanted a second sun, It would appear.
"In making up a horoscope, it Is necessary first of all to take Into
It
It
and his
spirit,
participates in the
life
low pressure
am
when
In the
not believe
me because you do
not understand.
And yet
put
I shall
their experience.
You do
in fact
It Is
so simple.
"You see,
right
in-
many people.
Idioms.
It is
It
but only a
therefore,
Right
little.
whenever you
now you
have changed,
just a
you will
and
recall everything I
in
your book.
specific
After
all,
are
nations and patterns are strung together, with God's help, by people
tried to deprive
Man
147
of the
To
binations.
this
intro-
duced new words and removed old ones, and distorted the meaning
ofwords.
stirring
astray
by
fleshly lusts
will write.
'As
you can
see, it is
Universe
and
"You yourself
will
be convinced of
this,
Vladimir.
it
when a dozen,
or a hundred, or a thousand
you will then believe and write down eveBelieve in yourself. Believe in me.
combinations,
people confirm
little.
for you,
Only believe.
I can tell you things even more significant, and people will
understand and feel them too. I am talking about the raising of children. You were interested to know about flying saucers and how they
work, rockets and planets. But I so wanted to tell you more about
rything.
"Later
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I shall
do
so.
I shall
explain
it
when
instil in
is
no
interfer-
artificial
the truth.
Let only
They
car-
Then
more powerful.
"Once again, of course, you have your doubts when you think of
me, and do not believe in the healing power of words. But there is
no mysticism here no mere fantasy or contradiction of the laws of
cantly
spiritual being.
"When these radiant feelings appear in Man, they cannot help but
on literally every organ of his body. It is
these radiant feelings that are the most powerful and effective remeexert a beneficial influence
help of such feelings, as did the Biblical prophets and saints. Read
the Old Testament and see for yourself. Certain people in your world
are healing through the help of these feelings.
know about
Ask them
if you
all, it is
feeling,
my ray. Great-Grandfather
me and explained everything when I was still a child. I have
done this many times with my dachniks.
"Now my ray is many times more powerful than Grandfather's and
"I
taught
Great-Grandfather's. That
me another feeling,
"This feeling
to share
to be
it
good
is
is
because, they
say,
too. I want
want things
God wanted them
little fiery
and everything,
just as
to be."
and confidence,
she
fell silent.
is
that
it?
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in your plans
or dreams?"
"The
rest,
Vladimir,
is
just trifles,
little
things as simple
as I
was
formulating the plan. There was just one sticking point, concerning
you, but
managed to
resolve
ing-point was
"You
see, I
it,
it."
more
detail here.
What
kind of stick-
richest person
on
earth.
And I
also
made you the most famous. This will happen in the near future. But
when the details of my dream unfolded... As yet it had not taken off,
so to speak, it had not yet been taken up by the forces of light. The
forces of darkness they are always trying to inject their own harmful input, like all sorts
on the person
of side
at the centre
"My thoughts were dashing along ever so quickly, but the forces of
still keeping pace. They had left many of their other
darkness were
caused
all
on
outwitted them.
my
And
forces of darkness lost their bearings for less than a split second, but
that was
light
enough
for
my dream
to be snatched
infinity,
well
up by the forces of
beyond their sight
and reach."
es
my ray to help you. They were confounded, failing to see any logic on
my part. And during this moment I very quickly shone my light on
people who will be in touch with you in the future."
all
this
mean?"
my
But there will be a lot of them, and together you will make the dream
come true in physical reality. You will be carried across the dark forces' window of time. And you will carry others with you.
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"And becoming rich and famous will not make you greedy or arroyou will understand that money is not the point it
will never buy you the warmth or the genuine compassion of the hugant. Because
man soul.
"You
will
understand this
window of time,
they too will understand. As for the deep knee-bends... This kind of
relationship with the banks
is
something
also
thought up because
At least you
will be getting some exercise whenever you withdraw money from
your account. Some of the bank officials will do it, besides. And
never mind if it looks a little funny. It means you will find yourself
you are altogether negligent in taking care of your body.
free
from the
"So
it
sin
of pride.
all
to strengthen
And
it
is
why
"Oh...
actions will
Now
my dream!"
My
How good of you to say that!
A dreamer.
own
your
you from
which the
trials
My fantasy-maker!"
you
It
a fantasy-maker.
"Not at all. You do not know yet, how accurately my dreams always
come true, when they turn out so clearly and in such detail. This one
will
will start
call
people to action..."
"Wait, Anastasia!
down."
Calm
151
zine
me
my
prikliuchenia
manuscript containing
Vlail
as well as
about certain
from Man.
rays, invisible to
Scientists have
normal
sight,
emanating
cial
rays
known from
talk about
life,
How was
me
to
know
gan
this girl
knowledge
named Anastasia
human
destinies.
Or
Mikhail A. Fyrnin
Guard) for more than 25 years, where he worked in particular on a series entitled
"Lives of remarkable people". One of his more recent major projects was the compilation of Sobranie myslei Dostoevskogo (Collection of Dostoevsky's thoughts), published
in Estonia in 2003.
4
Kaznacheev (1924-)
Man
World War
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:
Or
that the
ting that even after spending such a long time with her
understood
her.
Many people were to feel the energy of a tremendous power emanating from the book.
Following the
first
which
Staying there alone in her glade in the taiga, Anastasia will use her
ray of goodness to eliminate any barriers standing in the
dream.
And
come
way of her
And she will gather and inspire more and more newcomers to
so, at
to
true.
my challenging moments
three
any
signifi-
cant compensation for their efforts and will even end up helping
financially Earning their living wherever they can, they
Lyosha Novichkov
will
me
especially
But even before this, the journalist Evgenia Kvitko of the agricultural
Vladimir Andreevich Mironov & Doctor of Alternative Medicine, who runs his
own natural therapy clinic in south-central Moscow, and has published several books
and numerous
articles
on the
subject.
153
first
magazine Chudesa
prikliuchenia (Wonders
Rossiya.
The
issues to Anastasia,
explaining:
of thought makes
woman
of the Siberian
taiga.
Purity
of creation."
Anastasia will be published only by the major press outlets in
Moscow. Anastasia herself seems to have made that choice in preference to the tabloids, in a careful effort to preserve the purity of her
dream.
But
all
this did
at the time,
Strong people
on public
spirituality,
it
we
call
those
around you.
entrepreneurs, about
middle of each one. Off to the side there were more circles. It
was like a map of the planets around the Earth, and she kept adding
in the
still
"The
circles inside,
little circles
Earth
and
said:
The
The dots are the people in charge of these collectives. The way
these heads relate to the people in their group, what they make them
tives.
what kind of psychological climate they create through their influence will determine whether the people around them fare well or
poorly. If the majority fare well, a bright ray emanates from each of
do,
as a whole. If poorly,
is
circles,
making them
dark.
well, but in the space of time during which they are in this group, the
principal thing
is
emanate from the Earth. The radiance of the light of love and good.
This is mentioned in the Bible, as well: 'God is love'.
1
difficult for
John 4:
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in our
people.
He
An
155
afford
entrepreneur
all
about."
"What
specifically, for
"Well, even if
example?"
will
have a
modern car and apartment. He will not have any problems with food
and clothing."
What
joy?
Come
Once again Anastasia led me to the grass and, like the first time,
when she showed me the woman dachnik, she began to show me
other scenes.
You
see
air-conditioned
is
is,
sitting right
now
in a car
you would
it
call
call
sitting in the
is
how wor-
back seat
is
a telephone.
He
is
upset... Yes,
he
he
he has
some news... Now he must quickly evaluate the situaand make a decision. He is all tensed up... Thinking. Now he
just received
tion
is
been made.
he appears
there
is
And
no joy"
moment
what he has. His attempts to fence himself off from these by what
you call bodyguards, a house more of a citadel, actually do not
bring any complete sense of peace, since fear and worry have crept in
and will forever remain with him.
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"This goes on until his dying day, and just before the end of his
he
feels a sense
of regret that he
is
obliged to leave
joys," I
fulfils
it all
life,
behind."
place
its
more
complicated plan, and the whole process begins again from scratch,
only with greater challenges."
"You
me
a rather sad
class,
I felt
attempted a counter-argument:
life,
and obtain
To which she
"Sheer
replied:
illusion.
There
nothing of the
is
sort.
and irritation.
is
just said.
These
Not a single
mixed
in
woman,
for there
is
free
cannot
re-
up enough room
one
else.
circles to
whine or complain
of joy
everyone
tries to
show himself
as
This
is
the inner recesses of one's heart. She was measuring a person's state
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157
I felt I
was picturing
she responded:
"I shall help
you now.
It is
lie
the grass, hands out to the sides, and relax. Picture in your
down on
mind the
whole Earth, try to see its colour and the pale bluish glow emanating
from it. Then narrow the focus of your imagination's ray so that it
does not take in the whole Earth. Rather, make
it
Look for people where the bluish light is stronger than in other places. Keep on narrowing your ray
and you will eventually focus on one person, or a small group. Now
rower until you see concrete
details.
my help."
me by the hand, ran her fingers along mine, resting her
fingertips in my palm. The fingers of her other hand, which was lying
on the grass, were pointed upward. I went through in my mind all
try again, with
She took
the steps she outlined, and began to get a fuzzy image of three people
sitting at a table
engaged in a
lively conversation.
couldn't under-
all.
ment, we
shall find
some."
ray,
"Look
it is
is
that one,
by pretty
girls.
sitting alone in a
He
is tipsy,
but there
is
no
glow.
He
is
simply try-
is
artificial...
"This one
is
at
home. There
is
his wife,
and his
little
one
is
asking
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sticky tape.
head hanging
his
over, his
one
hair.
Her mouth was also taped over, and she was tied to
the chair with her linen sash bound tight around her waist. Both her
in an arm-chair.
legs
undergarment. Next
legs.
On
a small table in
weren't drinking.
it
alight.
could see
A break-in, I surmised.
cried out:
replied:
earlier,
but
watched spellbound and suddenly got a clear glimpse of the woman's eyes, filled with sheer horror and not even pleading for mercy.
I
"Do something!" I
do
at least
"It is
all,
something!"
not within
my
power.
cannot interfere
directly.
your powers?"
Then
the older
denly disappeared.
All at once
I felt
a weakness throughout
my body
could also feel the arm Anastasia was touching start to grow numb.
say,
with evident
dif-
"Take your hand away, Vladi ." She couldn't even finish saying
my name.
I
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159
My
slightest response to
my cry Then
grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her body which was no longer
supple but had
somehow gone
limp.
lips
remained
her
silent.
"Carry me over
I lifted
grass,
there... to
the tree."
it
and laid
started to
she
succeeded."
have.
That required
all
am surprised that
all."
"Why did you take such a risk, if you knew it was so dangerous?"
"I had no choice. After all, you wanted me to do something. I was
afraid that if I did not fulfil
all
respect
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for
And that I
Her
all I
can do
me
eyes looked at
is talk,
that
am all words...
life."
Her
soft voice
I feel it,
how to do
it,
it
either."
Then
her strength.
and
fell silent
she looked at
though mustering
for a while, as
me
said:
"Now you
are going to
am
abnor-
mal, or a witch."
All at once
her,
I felt
but what?
human being,
didn't feel
wanted
a beautiful
and
intelligent
woman, but
in
all
normal
honesty
about her the way I usually felt about women, and she with
And then I suddenly recalled her story about how her great-grandfather customarily greeted her as a child. About how this old greyhaired fellow would stand on one knee before the
kiss
her hand.
hold of her
"If
you
still
got
little
you
Anastasia and
it
and
said:
the cleverest and the most beautiful of all abnormal people ever!"
At long
last a smile
lips,
and
her cheeks.
"Anastasia, that
scene.
it
deliberately?"
"I
all
as
an example, but
could
They are constantly facing their problems all alone. They have
no spiritual communication."
can be done? What can you suggest, apart from pitying
what
"So
them? And I should tell you: these are strong people, these entre-
practically
preneurs."
Strongpeople
One
lives in one.
life is
them
ple around
see.
is
known
It is as
though
them and
which peo-
only to
the outward
life,
161
increasing
They need
other.
And
I shall
all
probability
I shall
try to
way that
can under-
stand."
"It will
be
cient help,
have
little
strength
with
my
ray.
am
I shall
It will
left.
I shall
suffi-
my
now with my
ordinary eyesight."
"Don't
"I
shall
tell
think
it
Only it
is
some time
"You don't need to help me, Anastasia. Just try to keep yourself for
your son and help other people."
needed to
leave, to catch
up
to
my ship.
mo-
current.
The hem of
her long skirt got wet and flapped about in the waves.
I
into
life,
break-
days.
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all
itself from
All at once Anastasia rushed out of the water and started running
tail.
trailing
fast,
probably using up
Wanting
less efforts.
Then
The
distance
moments of parting,
my might.
thought flashed through my head that Anastasia might
the
I
her
catch up to
that.
all
like
all
water,
began to
decrease.
On the path ahead of her loomed a steep slope, leading to an almost vertical drop-off. Continuing to press the gas lever to the limit,
I thought that the incline would stop her in her tracks and bring this
difficult
But Anastasia continued her headlong rush, occasionally stretching out her arms in front of her, as though using
them
to sense the
space ahead.
Could it be that her eyesight had become so poor that she couldn't
see the slope?
up the
slope. Reaching the top, she fell on her knees, threw up her arms
toward the sky, turned slightly in my direction, and began shouting
something. I could hear her voice over the wild roar of the motor
and the noise of the waves. I heard as though in a whisper:
"There
lo-o-ogs!"
are
sha-a-allows
ahe-e-ad,
sha-a-allows,
su-u-unken
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I
quickly jerked
163
happening, and gave such a hard pull on the rudder that the lower
side of the sharply tilted boat almost
ing
on water.
A huge sunken log, one end grounded in a sandbar, the other barely
visible
boat.
If it
cliff
and whis-
Jf
The
ship
awaiting
was waiting
for
my instructions.
me
Anastasia?
at Surgut.
The
could concentrate
promotion and
sales exhibits.
In addition,
all
girl
amount of suitable
Anastasia
and views on
life
and lifestyles?
And there
it
was
my answer.
it
struck me
Surgut
its
John
1: 1
165
meaningless words.
"It
seemed
as
though
had forgotten
at that
be behind them
moment
that
it
was
feelings,
information." 3
ral
With
her degree of inner purity she deserves someone else entirely But
who
could
with
in love
fall
her, given
as
though
is
It
is
due to
my im-
ception of her.
1
sire to kiss
or embrace her.
wanted me
to or not. Anyway,
her telling
ise a fellowship
was
it all!
She
is
good one
convinced that
promised
that's
more
fantastic
dreams about
girl"
above.
realistic.
She might
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An
my heart.
could imagine her sitting there in her forest waiting and dreaming
me
what she could do with her ray and attempted to explain to me how it
works, somehow my consciousness still can't accept it as something
and believing
real.
in the impossible.
And
goodness and
just
think that
am
"Man
my advice. Only
their liking,
invis-
feelings
light.
reject
Man, with an
am
is
free
remem-
to accept or
and mind,"
will they
it
be able to
lighter
to
ac-
and
brighter in their appearance too, and your diseases will leave them,
either partially or completely
can do
this,
and
Great- Grandfather
now my
when he played with me in my
become many times stronger than Grandfather's and Great-
taught me,
ray has
childhood. But
Grandfather's, because in
ing called love.
It is
little fiery.
There
I want to share
"With whom, Anastasia?" I had asked.
"With you, with others, with anyone who can accept it. I want
everyone to experience good. When you begin to do what I have
dreamt of, I shall bring many of these people to see you, and together
is
it."
you..."
Remembering
all this,
picturing her in
See Chapter
27:
my mind,
suddenly
window of time"
above.
real-
out her
167
wishes. If
I didn't, I
made my
decision,
full
steam for
Novosibirsk.
dream come
true.
To be continued..
Dear
readers,
Thank you
thank you.
all
who
have responded to
many feelings
and emotions.
ally,
would so
last lines
like to
answer
at least, this is
all
your
letters individu-
physically impossible.
The
have
mens Anastasia spoke about. And we found them. Saw them with
our own eyes. Took pictures. These are ancient stone constructions,
ten thousand years old. They have functional significance even for
1
They are
not
far
They
from the
cities
But the
local
dolmen
a megalithic
tomb
(also
known
of heavy upright
stones (each weighing between 5,000 and 13,000 kg) with an even larger
flat
one on
top and a small sealed entry portal at the front. While this specific type of tomb construction
is
is
also applied
Northern
Europe.
Novorossiysk
a
200,000, founded after the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-29; Gelendzhik
resort town on the Black Sea about 45 km south-east of Novorossiysk, dating from
the 1840s; Tuapse a small port on the Black Sea just a few kilometres south-east of
just over
Gelendzhik, mentioned as early as the Byzantine chronicles of the 6th century B.C.
(in
the
Greek variant:
Topsida),
life
here
is
said to date
phemy. Perhaps
it
was
off,
amazing, but a
fact:
were cruelly
revolutionary pe-
169
all
firmed.
facts.
took
me
much
pretty
was,
finally,
convinced. But at
it
on
It
off, I
my
and
to him.
got a chance
A most unusual
In addition,
Beregovoe
30
ferried
me
Kuban region
the area of the Krasnodar region that forms the basin of the Kuban
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170
who
who
ferried
me
also told
me
set
only ask people not to touch her, to leave her alone. Now, after
them shoot.
It
it
upon
pangs of conscience for having told about her without hiding the location, especially in the first edition of the book, and for not changing the
names of people
Anastasia calmed
ship.
to everybody."
And in future
now
I shall
shouldn't have
try to be
mentioned
specific names.
more circumspect.
still I
what we have already done to one Siberian family the Lykovs, described by Vasily Peskov in his Komsomolskaya Pravda article "Deadend in the taiga". As far as I know, the only member of this family
remaining
the taiga.
Agafia,
is
who
is
left helpless,
dying of cancer,
many
civilisation.
taken out
The Lykov
Which way
of
life,
then,
is
the
dead-end"?
"Encounter".
in
Chapter
2:
Since this
has returned to
2.
Authors message
I
But
can understand
all,
171
to contact Anastasia.
it is
after
to readers
There
is
in Gelendzhik,
thirty years'
from a variety of professions, who are senlegacy of their region and its ecological prob-
the spiritual
Anastasia book.
first
now
tours to the
mentioned by Anastasia.
About Gelendzhik, for example, Anastasia had this to say: "This
city could have been richer than Jerusalem or Rome, but because of
places
its rulers'
I
is
dying."
not by 'the rulers of this world' but by the hearts of ordinary people
aroused by Anastasia.
And
there's
more. Anastasia
is
now
com-
bear personal testimony to the healing value of Anastasia's advice as set forth herein.
More will be
said about
Ms Larionova in Book 2.
grown
VladimirAndreevich Mironov
es'
window of time".
cities in
movement.
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172
He
and level of intellect far surpasses that of our population today" This
video
is
is
currently
studying our life, she has not yet managed, unfortunately, to meet up
with a
like
I,
far
real
man. Later
is
from
it,
even in
my thinking.
But perhaps
it is still
And it
isn't
premature to
right to idealise
ognition of what she has done. Just think calmly and rationally about
There
is
a child.
He is
He will grow up
What
tal
is
he a citizen
of?
documents
The
country
for you.
checked with a
You just
What
shall
we
tell
him
legal firm
certificate.
then, even if she didn't have a medical record, they could have
at least issued
certificate.
"The other alternative," said the lawyer, "would be for her to abandon her child to an orphanage. They would issue him documents
there. Orphanages can do that. And then have him adopted." But
somehow this alternative was not at all appealing. And I doubt that
Anastasia would ever agree. So what to do? When I talked with her
about a birth
certificate, she
responded:
173
"Of course, it would be fine if he had one, just like everyone else.
suppose
that slip
I let
still
work out."
suppose
by without really
wonder how many other things she has let 'slip
said: "I
I
it."
I let
things
On
am
another point,
not being able to print enough copies to keep pace with the
demand!
Indeed.
I really can't at
book
the
to any
moment.
have refused to
one publisher.
sell
exclu-
certainly don't
want
anyone to have exclusive control over the manuscript and put out
whatever print-runs they fancy
The
publishers
to be edited
anything at
me
needs
In
its
all."
being.
She
herself, after
Of course
in confrontation
wasted on
I
all,
my
human
lot
of time would be
that.
So things
will
10
initial
If someone
is
happy to
listen,
A reference
to
Moscow
Printshop
Number
window of time").
rights.
27:
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174
I
my
relationship with
after distribution
telephone
and
calls
letters to
about
this.
response.
Now
calls
my
firm
is
my next book.
falling apart.
And
there has
beg
then
I shall
I shall definitely
respond to
all
maybe
are
letters
Living ethics.
13
girls
ll
and I am
in
Kolomna
am
13 years
12
a city 100
km
1.
Moskva River
flows
^Nastia
a diminutive
ern Russian).
(a
in
mod-
Anastasia".
word here
(it
happy feeling
got a serious
really, really
my
illness,
and I have
about
that's
I got a
it in
warm and
hospital
I've
me?
'liked'
to go to hospital every
own
Not just
And your book was like a ray of light amidst all this
Right
it.
They told me a
heart.
ally
liked
175
thinking:
that's the
told the whole story, but you've told a goodpart of it, that's for certain.
and then
still,
it
to
blame
that's strictly
my personal opinion
if, let's
say, she's
it).
Vladimir
(sorry,
child or not,
is it
14
),
of that?
And my last question: you wrote that Anastasia's grandfather and greatgrandfather rubbed the piece of cedar with their fingers, but you never said
that Anastasia did this
too.
to leave it out?
Please answer me (I know you get whole bagfuls ofletters, but please, just
afew lines).
Good-bye!!!
Anastasia
1A[
'
patronymic
1.
adult.
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DearNastia,
illness
Yes,
Anastasia has a
as a conversation between
later in
her.
Though
she's pretty
stubborn about sticking to her views. She says it's only Man himself, through
his spirit
side-effects,
is
often harmful.
lot
ofpeople, and that's the main thing. I'm becase. As far as whether people around
loud voice: 'Took, people! You're holding in your hands an impulse ofinspira-
tion,
It's
What more do you want? A sample of her blood, urine andfeces for
analysis? Is there no way you can do without that? After all, the greatest and
hands.
You
see,
didn't exist at
is
all.
an uncomAfter all,
we suddenly
start to become aware ofour own filth, and that's not always what we want.
Especially when we like to think of ourselves as so good and smart and conscientious, no matter what we do.
orities.
Anastasia said:
I5
I didn't think there was anything special hidden in this statement. Anyone
who wants
have
to.
to believe
Others...
want
"Dreams
177
people
is
ready to help
brought me yours.
Tou say
it
wrong. I would never do anything like that again. The same people can
its
Our son was born. He's such a strong little lad. Smiles all the
Anastasia is happy and enjoying her life.
My best to you, and to your Mama.
I wish you joy and happiness in your life. Tou deserve it.
You're
a strong girl.
consciously
And you
too,
And
more
aware of things.
time.
their enquiries
and questions.
some apprehension,
that she's
most
likely a
heathen
it's
it is
I'll
just
mention
me,
"it is
worthy?
am unable to say."
are already
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been banned.
Now
"The
countered.
"Do you think so? Then think of this: a group of soldiers is out on
One of them in the lead has broken off or gone to one side
and gets blown up by a mine. Yes, you can say: 'He took the wrong
patrol.
you can
same
is
closest to
them. You would probably be happy to hear anyone talk about them.
Even
if
truth
lies,
you
As
child.
for
little differently.
you
me, though,
you
Where
the
on everything
some rather
pleasant phenomena that Anastasia has somehow managed to bring
Well, okay.
about in our
reality.
There
are
tions'
nity.
16
and rhythms,
But
after the
coming from the depths of etercame out, in a run of only four thou-
as she said,
first
edition
moved by
in
all
so
by themselves. There
are a
whole
lot
'combinations'
see Chapter 27: "Across the dark forces' window of time" above.
There
are
of them.
a whole separate
179
volume
17
they say that nowhere In the world, in the past or present, has there
ever been a person or figure capable of provoking such a huge poetic
is
first
book there
is
almost nothing said about faith, or Russia, the majority of the readers'
poems speak
And
aspirations.
seems to
says
it
"By their
fruits
ye shall
18
know them."
And if Anastasia's
such radiant poetic
And
aspirations
feelings,
even thought:
If this
goes on
much
fruits.
all
sorted the
egories of people
ficials.
Their hearts
all
all
these categories there are people sincerely striving for the light, for
the good.
As
something we probably
all
produce
by ourselves.
In this edition of the
from each
book
poem
category.
In the meantime, a 544-page volume of readers' poetry, art and letters has been
title:
Matth.
7:
Version).
ray.
A people's book).
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i.ANASTASIA'SRAY
Into our busy, bustling
life
It
call.
give myself to
"Wait, there,
all.
know...
"Dear people!
Because
am your friend!"
feet,
But
the dirty
all
at
slush...
tear.
In a water-spring crystal-clear.
18
'All they've
For that
is
what
want
for you.
whom many
cities.
182
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You
I
see, I
think
hear
it,
can do
yes
it,
hear
it...
too."
life
2.
ANASTASIA (ANAS)
In
new idea
not the
first
And yet it is
still
not that
I've
heard spoken,
common a name:
glimpse a
20
Ana-sta-SI-ya
fair
taiga, in a cedar-ringed
Goddess
see footnote
in
tive
meadow,
Chapter
9:
in English). In this
poem she
is
also called
Anas
Authors message
to readers
all
all
stages,
N. Mikhailov, Moscow
3.
Gelendzhik's
Dolmens.
a crack,
To be understood,
Felt through
evaluated,
Stepping over
my threshold-limit
as fact.
girl.
183
184
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You are
Shed light on
ideas,
all
even stronger
now today,
4.
ANASTASIA'S LOVE
To the
I shall
as I
best.
life,
to
open up to him,
You
my son,
are
his fancy
and steps
in."
send you
A ray of sunlight
To
relieve
seem
to
And I
shall
I shall
be able to
185
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5.TOANASTASIA
To
I
a woman
flyer.
My engine failed...
Visibility
nil...
By your fingers
tenderly caressed.
Author unknown
6.
The
The
The
art.
Through people's
holiness of heart.
calls to action,
for
give to
all
a bright awakening
Pay heed to
all
lives.
light!
187
188
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for the
one
favour,
'Awaken,
Reach out
N. Koltunov
7.
TWO GODDESSES
lift
my poor chest.
It will
born
The afterlife
not see a
final breath!
are
random
G. Pautov, physicist
Krasnodar
189
//
Author's message to
entrepreneurs
The
entrepreneurs.
expenditure.)
many
The
seem unrealisable.
During
no dead-end situations, only that I should not have altered the sequence she had prescribed. The book should have come first, which
would have spread the right information and prevented the organisa-
past record
day
is
may well
Subsequently,
Nobody has
qualities.
the
One's
to
eligibility.
specific terms
the eligibility
cri-
on which applicants
the fellowship."
The blame
by Anastasia falls,
of course, on me. To all those Moscow entrepreneurs who wanted to
for altering the sequence prescribed
Authors message
join the fellowship I
postponing the
hereby offer
initial
my sincere
to entrepreneurs
apologies
first,
191
for
The
made up of dedicated
entrepreneurs.
Many of you had limited time to devote to the project. But you found
it from something else, you worked on drafting
documents and the principles for the future society The secretariat
by enthusiasm.
Moscow students put together a magnificent computer version of the future society s catalogue. It made it all the more
painful for me to look back, once I realised my mistake, and see the
hopelessness of the situation. The only way out was to muster the
strength needed to correct the mistake and write the book. Without
a word of explanation to anyone (explanations seemed impossible at
that point!) I went off by myself and began to write.
It is only now that the book exists and is spreading more and more
right across Russia and starting to fulfil the function specified for it
by Anastasia that I can talk about the future. I am more confident
too, similarly
fuelled
In addition,
now about the possibility of seeing such a society actually come into
being.
worked alongside me
in
Moscow
who gave
their
to assisting
all
and participating
Moscow
students
in the secretariat of
first
three
Moscow students
dow of time".
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192
any of you,
apologise for
If that ap-
temporary disappearance.
I'd like to
bring
it
about and
reclusive
is
feels
life.
It's
like these
is
but
pre-
it is
some-
thing on the order of a master business plan which she has formu-
of psychological probabilities.
come
on us
its details
to participate in
its realisation.
ex-
Anastasia affirms:
"Just the organisation alone, the spiritual
tact
as entrepreneurs, is
yes, spiritual
is
no need
to dictate
out
con-
a salutary reaction of
its
what
will
happen
set its
of daily life."
wish you
all
ms
*&&
\^X
J,.y?
W/'*
;/
In the
corner in
in his
A woman
stopped
by,
looked
to
she knew.
What happened next was as miraculous as the stoMegre had written down: new print-runs first of 2,000,
then of 10,000, sold out within weeks. Not long afterward, millions
more were printed and sold. By 1999 Vladimir Megre was one of
Russia's most popular authors, and the seven books published to date
a matter of weeks.
ry Vladimir
have sold over 10 million copies in their original Russian alone, not
counting their translated editions in more than a dozen languages.
felt
by readers alone before it was accepted by even a single bookstore? How can it be that one copy from
this first 2,0 00 -copy print-run actually found its way to the stacks of
al
best
seller,
distributed initially
been included
2,
(LCCN 98216313).
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Why have people of all ages from schoolchildren to pensioners and in all walks of life from teachers to public officials and
from scientists to clergymen felt such inspiration from the book
to the point of writing poetry
Megre and Russia'sfuture, stating that the Ringing Cedars was becoming Russia's
made
read
them and
once bring
home
read
it?
American
universities, I
fact,
offered
was accepted by
me
full financial
my Ph.D.
dissertation
on the
signifi-
cance of ideas from the Ringing Cedars for the future of forestry and
agriculture in Russia
as a whole.
As
it is,
true to
lions of people
what Anastasia
all
inspired
Putin,
Mufti
Number 2003710013.
is
also
found
at the Library
of
Editor's Afterword
195
Russia and Europe have brought together thousands of people, asking questions they had never even thought of before. In just the scant
initial publication,
move
to
formidable
artists,
peasants;
young
families, single
The answer is
fail
of this instant recognition: people who have been searching for years
or decades for meaningful answers to questions on the purpose of
life,
Anastasia,
self?
After
all,
Do we not want
on mutual help and co-operation, rather than com-
petition?
But, you
Megre's
196
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Is it
Tm a dreamer,
one.
tury,
beautiful?
Now,
it
True enough.
is
work Small is
What we
this
is
society,
we
develop a
needs of human
real
may still be
averted, as
image of radiant
then get
The
spiritual
See Chapter
E.F.
unparalleled in so
7:
many
in this
book
fill
are
entire
"&nastasia's ray".
Editor's Afterword
volumes. Let
me
197
first
tsifrakh,
over 35
tion
far
know practically
how it works".
7
Take communication with plants, for example. It sounds incredbut it only requires a reading of Peter Tompkins and
ible at first,
secret life
ofplants* to gain an
But could
it
be possible that
all
not necessary, as
testimonials
The
in addition to a
there
is
factual evidence
great detail in
198
at
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living in a valley in
not a
individual person
studies,
ity to live
lessly relying
on Nature
for a
abil-
effortIs
not
"He who
watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not
10
reap" or "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink".
11
Also, in our
own
not-so-distant past,
Nobel Laureate
little
work nature
12
Looking around, should one doubt that truly happy children can
only be raised in Nature? Jean Liedloff, who spent two and a half
years in a society living in close relationship with Nature and consequently knowing no such things as crying children, crime or depression
13
with
as Anastasia.
people.
IO
Ecclesiastes
"Matthew 6:
12
11:
A. Schweitzer,
in Equatorial Africa
I3
London: Duckworth,
p. 112.
From
Editor's Afterword
Again, this
list
could continue. In
fact,
researchers could
199
and
probably will
do creep
It still
in.
sounds
all
too improb-
accept
it
as real.
This
is
fully
experienced
more poetic
it
could
be "simply thought
all
You hold in your hands a flower which will unfold its petals to reveal a most remarkable masterpiece, unique in all of Russia's literature and, possibly, the world's as well. Indeed,
its
all
the
arts,
on
and enhance
life
more people
this planet as
take
on planetary proportions.
St.
in
certain to
it.
downtown Moscow
my office
dream is
14
just
metro
copies of his
Petersburg,
first
window:
At the time
ofWWF Russia
painstakingly described in
Book 2.
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200
"Wouldn't
it
English?"
"It
would,"
agreed.
more or less."
"Then why are you sitting here?!"
"Yes,
The
you
are
now
I shall
really
do come
true.
Leonid Sharashkin
'"'<A^
Series at a glance
Anastasia, the
first
trees.
He
spiritual
phenomena connected
named Anastasia who shared with him her unique outlook on subjects
as diverse as gardening, child-rearing, healing, Nature, sexuality, reli-
Moscow
to
fulfil
Anastasia's request
bestseller
Series, in ad-
1.
It
takes
and
spirit
city,
visit to
third
Anastasia.
book of the
how
and
where
BOOKI: ANASTASIA
202
dramatic
ty's
living
place in
shows how and why the knowledge of these answers, innate in every human being, has become obscured and forgotten, and
points the way toward reclaiming this wisdom and in partnership
ence. It also
with Nature
Who
are
we?
Book
ous volumes. Finding these proofs and taking stock of ongoing global
environmental destruction, Vladimir Megre describes further practical steps for putting Anastasia's vision into practice.
ful realistic
images of a
Full
of beauti-
Earth and each other, this book also highlights the role of children in
making us aware of the precariousness of the present situation and in
leading the global transition toward a happy, violence-free society
The book ofkin, the sixth book of the Series, describes another visit
by the author to Anastasia's glade in the Siberian taiga and his conversations with his growing son, which cause him to take a new look at
education, science, history, family and Nature. Through parables and
revelatory dialogues and stories Anastasia then leads Vladimir Megre
and the reader on a shocking re-discovery of the pages of humanity's
real history that have been distorted or kept secret for thousands of
years.
to future generations.
203
The energy of life, Book Seven of the Series, re-asserts the power of
human thought and the influence of our thinking on our lives and
the destiny of the entire planet and the Universe. Is also brings forth
a practical understanding of ways to consciously control and build
up the power of our creative thought. The book sheds still further
light on the forgotten pages of humanity's history on religion, on the
roots of inter-racial and inter-religious conflict, on ideal nutrition,
and shows how a new way of thinking and a lifestyle in true harmony
with Nature can lead to happiness and solve the personal and societal
problems of crime, corruption, misery, conflict, war and violence.
The new civilisation, the eighth book of the Series, is not yet complete.
The
first
and
offers
new insights
by Vladimir Megre
to Anastasia
and their
detail
applies to our
already taken beautiful form in real life and produced massive changes
in Russia
tion.
in
The book
which the
conflict
civilisa-
future,
and the poor, the city and the country, can be transcended and thereby
lead to transformations in both the individual and society
Rites ofLove
trasts today's
mainstream attitudes to
and edu-
cation with our forebears' lifestyle, which reflected their deep spiritual
understanding of the significance of conception, pregnancy, homebirth and upbringing of the young in an atmosphere of love. In powerful
poetic prose
Megre describes
grounded in
life-story
of one
family,
same ap-
he portrays the
drama of its
To be continued...
Readers' reviews
all
my
trees.
(I've
I
them
in
my mouth,
finally I
can take
my place as
most
the
in their lives.
Ana, Portugal
In 1996
self
This was
and
all
is
time in
be me.
harmony with
us that which is our
in total
1.
Readers' reviews
I truly found lots
which
205
exactly as she
will
Inheri-
tance through Right Action and Right Use of Will, attuned to Spirit!
love,
is
to
move back to the work of the Creator and away from ways
In
my own
life,
sured in dollars, which is a much richer life than working for material
wealth.
the earth.
In a very humble way, our work with native plants on our farm could
be seen as demonstration of a way people can take some of the Ringing Cedars ideas and put them to work.
I
think
lives
than collecting
material goods, everyone will be happier rediscovering the scope of humanity's tools
than
USA
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There has been a very significant change taking place within me since
reading the Series. It has been a casting off of the selfish elements
within me and walking into a vast chasm of blessings. What is possible I do not yet know; only that an awareness and a consciousness is
possible in this
life.
At work
which
spiritual
cosmos,
saw a reflection of my own attitudes towards concepts I was uncomfortable with. Although Anastasia herself is a little odd, I had no difficulty
believing in her presence, her existence. After reading the book, I slept
under the
stars,
a tarot read
now look forward to next spring and "coding" the seeds and creating
a space of love for both
work of birthing, caring for, and parenting children. I am a doula, a home-birth mama, a dancer-singer
who has been inspired by Anastasia's reminder that we all are born to
further illuminated the Divine
home
in
my
Earth will
feel
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My acquaintance who paid a visit to the Altai several years ago, received
a few tiny scraps of cedarwood
from a
mer he
did
some major
around anymore.
He
day,
received
I really
some
him
to
he
didn't
want
slivers
of
superstition, shall I
was breathtaking!
at that point
mere
by
dant and
told
woman. She
local
it
his story
it
was so moving
to see
it...
Many more stirrings over here, really trust that this will be worldwide.
Dickie, Netherlands
As
a 75 year-old
its
substance.
on American
soil will
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and
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