Vladimir Antonov

How God Can Be Cognized.
Autobiography of a Scientist,
Who Studied God

Translated from Russian
by Mikhail Nikolenko

Some chapters were translated by Tatiana Danilevich,
Vadim Kastritskiy, Maxim Shafeyev

Polus, 2002
ISBN 5-89455-002-5
© Antonov V.V., 2002

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This book is an autobiography of the Russian scientist-biologist, theorist, and practical man, spiritual Master Vladimir Antonov, who is known for dozens of articles and for more than 40 books dedicated to the methodology and methods of spiritual development. In particular the author narrates about his studying from Divine Teachers, his mistakes and success in helping people spiritually, about his personal cognition of the multidimensional structure of the Absolute, about cognition of the Creator.

The author is the founder of a new branch of modern science — Methodology of Spiritual Development.

The book will be useful for psychologists, physicians, teachers, philosophers, and for all those who walk the spiritual Path already or who seek it.

Previous Lives and Beginning of This One

I remember my two previous incarnations.

Of course, I had other incarnations before, but those more early human incarnations were too “common” and “plain” to mention them. Although they had prepared me for the next ones.

In the first of these two last incarnations I was a chieftain of an Indian tribe in Cuba. It means that the experience of previous lives already supplied me with necessary quantity of personal power to become a leader. Such features continued to strengthen during the chieftain’s life. The main feature of a good chief — caring for others — was also growing.

I intentionally emphasize these details now. After all, we are sent to the Earth by our Highest Teacher — the Creator — not just to live, enjoy and suffer. We all get here from the world of non-material living energies in order to develop ourselves.

So, I would like to illustrate by the example of my own how it goes.

The next incarnation was in Germany in Reformation time, being male again. I got medical education (continuing the line of caring). But when the struggle for liberation from the absolute power of degraded Catholic church started — I took up arms and fought being one of the closest associates of Martin Luther.

The next episode was important from the karmic standpoint (i.e. from the point of forming the following fate-karma). During defense of an estate I was shooting at assailants. One of them was wounded by me in his leg; another one caught a bullet in his breast. Later I will tell about the consequences.

I was killed in one of the further battles.

This life God gave me male body again. (It shows that the features, which are more favorable to develop in female bodies, had been mastered by me before the last three incarnations). The Creator placed me in modern Saint Petersburg — one of the intellectual centers of Russia.

About my family. My mother was a doctor (it was necessary for supporting my interest to medicine, striving to help people). My father was a typical choleric character, short-tempered with reckless actions at times, a fellow of drunkards though he was not a drunkard himself, a son of dispossessioned by Bolsheviks kulak. He was eager to strive together with Bolsheviks, but they threw him out as a son of kulak. He managed, however, to participate in the felonious war against Finns and was very proud of it. He was a member of Communist Party and a “militant atheist”.

Nevertheless, he showed me not only the example of what one should not be. There were some light features in him — namely, love for nature, although it was peculiar.

He accustomed me since childhood to dawns upon a lake in reeds, to water splashes under the boat’s bottom, to dusk with woodcocks and singing of thrushes, to nights at a fire, to snow creaking under skis in winter.

But his love for nature had sadistic elements. All his numerous contacts with nature were aimed at killing: he was a fisherman, a hunter and did not take into account the right of other beings to live — and taught me the same.

So, we both were admiring the beauty of nature and its inhabitants… including the moments when they were suffering and dying maimed by us.

I remember how I was caressing them wishing them pleasure sincerely! But then the eyes of my victim grow dim and I, proud of a “trophy” put it into the rucksack. Love and cruelty existed together. But it is sadism, the feature of the lowest primitives! And how I was suffering later experiencing all it anew when I matured and get understanding!

Yes, at those years the ability to compassionate was not present in me — as well as in most people around.

More memories about the father — when he got weak shortly before his death, demons began to torment him with terrible experiences like nightmares that he recalled as real. I — well acquainted at that time with mystical phenomena — tried to explain: you, I said, play now with demons, but turn to God! Look for God! Try it!

Then at the first time he was not indignant over my religiosity: he saw I was right. He even did some efforts… But it was too late. He told me bitterly: “Now it’s too late to me…”

… Years after father’s death once I was skiing through the places where we had fishing, recalled the beauty of those dusk and dawns in a boat, and thanked the father mentally for all it… And suddenly his voice sounded:

“Do you still remember me, sonny?…”

“Peace to you, dad! Come here again to become better!^*”

… Also all my childhood was spent with grandmother — a spiteful person used to be constantly angry, blaming and hating people around. Her characteristic feature was the internal dialogue passing with such emotions. She was absorbed in it so much that often it was “splashing out” as shouts of damnations to the “interlocutor”, especially when she was alone.

Her profession was a schoolteacher…

The grandmother played very important role in my life as well. She taught me not to be like her.

From my school memories the most bright ones remained: a schoolmistress beating children with a big ruler till bleeding, and another one, who was explaining for whole lesson that multiplication by zero gives the number itself and that since this is incomprehensible one needs just to believe it. So we, habituated to believe, believed her.

I remember also one of my coevals: he always took voluntarily the part of a “traitor” in all boyish “military” games. It is interesting to find out what were his past lives…

… I had the desire to help everyone since early years. Even in games I liked to dig channels between puddles and make streambeds deeper: “to help the water to run”. It seemed so naturally to me… And I was stupefied when other children seeing running water were trying to block it with stones, dirt…

Then, being more mature, after university and postgraduate study I again naturally was trying to help everybody. I always gave with pleasure a lift when driving my car — free of charge — or when seeing someone hauling, loading, unloading — even strangers — it was natural to me to join and help without wasting words.

Owing to this trait almost all respected and liked me. Once the fellows even gave me the nickname Guru — for the mentioned feature, for my beard and wide biological and medical knowledge, which I was always glad to share.

Though at that time I knew nothing about real spirituality yet. A true Guru — i.e. a spiritual leader, who has cognized God and has the ability of leading people to Him — I became much later, after decades of years…

… For the first time I showed my “character” and readiness to stand against “totalitarianism” in about fifth class^*. I begin to stand up for the right of combing hair back, not forth as all boys had to do. The head of studies, the director “conversed” with me, called my parents to school… But I — single, small — won! Then I was only of the schoolboys with hairs combed back!

The second conflict arose when I stood to write with a fountain-pen in classes, not to dip a pen into an ink-pot. (At that time fountain-pens were a novelty). And after all I had defended the right not to be like others!

The next child’s feat was in the middle of the ninth class. At that time an 11-years school education was introduced instead of 10-years one. But in this age for the first time one of the features developed in my previous lives began to manifest — the skill of intensive life.

I moved to an evening school^*, which remained of 10-years education, and went to work in a medical institute: to wash floors and windows, to give injections to rats, to look after dogs. It was not easy to move from a regular school to an evening school: it was too extraordinary. Besides the direction of my school did not want to let a good pupil leave. Yet I won again: the skills of a warrior developed in the previous lives got manifested!

I had moved to a new school, but differences in study programs were significant so that I had to overcome “arrears” in education.

In this way God started to train me to intensive intellectual work.

This tendency continued: when applying to the university I had a lack of 0.5 points for the day classes pass mark — but I was accepted to the evening classes. And the education in evening classes lasted 6 years, not 5 like in day classes, so in my second year I moved to day classes. With “arrears”, endless overworks… victory again!

I studied to be a biologist-zoologist-ecologist — the line of development established in me by the father since childhood and proved to be very useful later…

I struggled in the university as well. Once KGB arranged a provocation for students: let’s speak about the Komsomol^*, it’s disadvantages, how can we make it better… They offered “open debates”.

Then I had a speech and said about the Komsomol all I thought.

For this I was nearly dismissed from the university but students’ fellowship defended me. So I was just reprimanded for “thoughtless expression”.

But after that episode, KGB opened a file on me…

… I got interested in philosophy since the university’s lectures on Marxism-Leninism: I realized quickly that “something is wrong” there and after gaining deeper understanding with the help of many books became certain that everything is wrong there. Existentialism with its main question of the meaning of life had appeal to me.

Yet, I was very far from the religious answer to this question: there was no one real religious person around me!

A lot of help in understanding the political matters was given to me by Gennady Andreevich Shichko — a fervent fighter against any lie, any baseness. He was the first one in our country to argue against the Stalin’s policy of “total alcoholization” of the population. He began to organize sobriety clubs, to treat alcoholism.

The Communist Party assailed him: he was blamed for “extremism”, “attempts to undermine the state economy”, and so on. But he had stood up!

… One of my distinguishing features developed in the past German life was a tendency to closest scrupulosity. It became my credo — the main principle of life. I was as thorough in this regard as I can. And expected the same from others.

Once during a repast on some event the people present arranged a playful opinion poll: what do you value most in:

a) men;

b) women.

About men there were such answers as wit, force, etc.

About women slightly drunk men noted various parts of their bodies.

My reply in both cases was: “Scrupulosity.”

When answers were read aloud all guessed with laugh who gave the current answers. I was identified without any problem.

But now I see with shame the defects of my “scrupulosity” of those days…

… The scrupulosity can be a feature of a mature person only — a person who included God in his or her outlook and understood the meaning of life. Only such person can accept for himself or herself scrupulosity as an absolute credo — as a basic principle of life, which must be fulfilled even to the detriment of oneself if necessary. Only such a person may be considered as man with pure soul, worthy of approaching to God.

In those years, I lived in moral blindness. I considered my scrupulosity only in regard to people. But what about animals?

How it was for each worm to be stuck onto my fish-hook?

Or how did feel every fish thrown onto boat’s bottom to die?

Or birds wounded by my shots?

Yes, most of us live in blind unresponsiveness to sufferings of our victims…

In this way we create pain for ourselves — in future destiny. Because, if we do not repent in time, if do not reform, — God will give us the same experience of pain to make us understand what it is, and through this understanding He will teach us to compassionate the pain of other beings.

It is called the law of karma — the law of cause-and-effect in destiny formation. I will demonstrate it below on my own mistakes and pain…

… After graduating from the university I hardly (because of KGB’s meddling) entered the post-graduate courses in a medical institute (medicine again!). The subject of the thesis was influence of various factors on psyche formation.

On the one hand, three years of study were the time of reading a lot of literature on psychology, psychiatry, physiology, the time of getting experience of scientific experimentation. On the other hand — there were overworks again on the background of contacts with a scientific supervisor-tyrant. He intentionally humiliated subordinates — to make them “respect” him. One of the employees-women committed suicide at that time.

… Those years the Communist Party conducted another anti-Semitic campaign. They launched “cleansing” on enterprises that were called “staff reduction”: the number of staff position was reduced by a directive “from above” and then restored back. But the dismissed employees were mainly Jews. After dismissal it was hard to them to find new job given their fifth point (the fifth field in the standard form where one has to fill in his nationality). Moreover, Jews were not allowed to emigrate from the country at those times…

And all it was on the background of hypocritical blaming of fascism, ceaseless lying propaganda of the “brotherhood of peoples of USSR”.

I experienced their pain as my own.

My Jewish fellow-student — well-cultured and very intelligent young man — after graduating from the university got an obligatory assignment to the position… of a laboratory assistant in a small town. He had to serve post-graduates who used to talk in obscene language and come to work drunken…

Scientific Work in Biology and Medicine

Preparation

I started to gain the first skills of scientific experimentation during the last school years working as a laboratory assistant with my first wise tutor — Gennady Andreevich Shichko. He was conducting research on influences of some preparations on dogs’ heart work, blood pressure and breath. Apart from washing floors I was helping him in experiments. I do not remember their purpose, but it is not important now. The important is the following: he laid down in me one of the most important principles of the team scientific research. When somewhat was going wrong, for example, when we cannot manage to attach firmly to dogs sensors developed for human bodies and thus the recording to charts did not work properly we had to invent new solutions right during the experiment. The ideas were invented mainly by me. Sometimes my suggestions seemed to him inefficient. However, in such cases he never discarded them, objected, or disputed. He just says simply and wisely: “Try it!”

I tried constructing new facilities, he helped. Sometimes we achieved success at once, and sometimes in the process of making unsuccessful attempts we found new successful solutions.

Thus check-up of ideas in practice (in the scientific language: verification — experimental testing) — is the best criterion of the truth. This is much more efficient than philosophizing without practical examination.

Later, when Shichko was dismissed “due to reduction of the staff” because of his uncompromising scrupulosity, I worked in other medical laboratory — with pharmacologists. There the famous experiments on rats with cholesterol were conducted. On account of their results eggs as food were “anathematized”: people allegedly get ill with atherosclerosis because of eating them.

Each day the poor rats were feed by myself as a laboratory assistant with tens of grams of chemically pure cholesterol dissolved in oil. Indeed, cholesterol “plaques” got formed on the surface of animals’ blood-vessels. But if one relates those doses to a 200-grams rat and the amount of cholesterol in a chicken egg to the weight of a human body, then it turns out that the rat’s testing dose is a million times larger! That is all these experiments were conducted incorrectly and their conclusions advertised to the whole planet are nothing but a scientific lie!

Cholesterol is the substance in organism of which both male and female sex hormones are formed. Eggs supply the organism with very good bioenergy too. They are very auspicious for spiritual work on its initial stages. Together with milk, eggs supply the organism with a set of indispensable amino acids (component parts of proteins).

However I understood nothing of this in those years and only performed mechanically my work being an involuntary participant of scientific absurdity…

One has to seek the reason of atherosclerosis in something else. I can offer the following hypothesis: cholesterol “plaques” form on the surface of those vessels which are already affected with deposits of salts of the uric acid (that is one of the manifestations of gout — the most typical illness of those people who eat “killed” food: bodies of killed animals).

… In the same school years I had an occasion to work in a zoological expeditionary group of the university. My basic duty was catching small rodents (mice, voles) and shrews by traps and specially dug trap ditches where animals were fallen to and could not get out. Then I lanced their stomachs and registered what was found there: rests of acorns, bodies of insects, etc. For the sake of this nonsense needed only for reporting to the supervisor about my “scientific” activity thousands of animals died in severe suffering: either of starvation or of pain being clamped by a trap at some part of the body. I do not remember that I had any compassion towards them at those years. I did it because the “order” was so, it was “my duty”. And somebody else’s pain was not known to me yet. I needed to go through a lot of suffering myself — to become capable of understanding the pain of others, to learn to compassionate…

And now, when the principles of our destiny regulation by God are clear to me, I can answer all suffering people, who ask: “Why do I endure so much pain?” or “What for do I suffer?” I hope the answer is clear to you, my dear readers: God teaches us to compassionate the pain of others through our own pain. We can not get rid of it until we root out in ourselves forever, for all future personal evolution — the ability to hurt other beings in vain.

… My graduate work in the university was on the ecology of beavers. I collected materials, living near a small river with beavers in a swamp with numerous gnats.

From the beginning of the work my scientific adviser stated to me his basic principle of interaction with students: it is not the teacher who must run after students to make them working, but they must seek his help. I had no choice but to work under such terms. This formed the basis of me as an independently thinking scientist — a strategist and a tactician who accepts personal responsibility for his project from the beginning till the very end.

So I started my graduate work from studying all literature on this subject. Then I travelled over almost all forests in the local district on my car Zaporozhets and afoot to find beaver’s places of settlement.

I saw so much during that travelling! Bodies of numerous drunken men and women lying in the mud of village road, I had to drive around them… Drunken fights… Men chasing their wives with axes… Suicides, murders… Total degradation of village because of alcohol!… There was no youth of childbearing age left…

I remember a scene, which I called “Russian love”. Two drunken men were “dancing” a drunken dance on a village road. “Dancing” because they could neither stand nor go: their bodies were out of control. One of them was swearing love to another in drunken voice. The other one was “thrilled” with happiness from balmy voice of his fiend. And the friend hardly standing afoot was saying with pathos:

“Vanya! I love you so! Vanya! You are my most dear, most beloved! Vanya! Friendship — forever! Vanya! Aren’t you my friend? Tell me! Vanya! Sorry, if something is wrong!… Vanya! Make my last dream come true! Vanya! Come closer! Let me punch you! Vanya, dear friend! Vanya, my faithful! Let me punch you! E-eh! Can’t stand it! Do you love me? Come closer!”

And though Vanya wanted to help his best friend — he was not against it, he did not go — yet he was a little afraid… They were “dancing” for a long time like this in such unfinished “loving scene” until both fell asleep in mud…

And on the background of all these vileness and degradation there was a strict control of KGB even in such distinct places. In a village people told me about a villager who decided to start living separately, by himself. He went into wood, made a cottage, dug up and planted a kitchen garden. No one knew where he was.

But when rumors about this reached the local KGB authorities they organized a special operation of combing the wood by means of hundreds of officers of KGB and police! They found! All the housekeeping was destroyed, the “criminal” was brought back to the state farm (so-called sovkhoz): “You want freedom?! You must work not for yourself, but for the State, for the motherland, for the country!”

Two weeks later this man commited suicide… It is allowed!…

… When I reported to the scientific adviser the results of my exploration of beavers’ habitat, he pointed his finger to one of most distinct from the city points on the map: “The farther from people — the better!”

It was swamps near a small wood river about 200 km from Saint Petersburg. I had to live there among beavers, gnats, and other forest inhabitants, seeing no man for months. I mapped places of beavers’ inhabitation, studied their daily activity, studied what they feed on in winter and in summer, made photos. It happened to me to fall under the ice in winter, to sink in a swamp in summer. Once at night a storm brought down a big pine right onto my tent. But this time I was not there: I went to another beaver’s place and spent the night there.

There were so many mosquitoes in those places that I had to work during that hot summer in a jacket. Water and mosquitoes were everywhere, dry places were very few, so I moved across the water without undressing and the clothes then dried on my body.

There is an interesting observation: since beavers are nocturnal animals I as a researcher had to watch them during nights and to sleep at daytime. So my eyesight adapted to see in the dark: I got used to move around in the swamps at night without a torch.

I remember how one day I was going home after one and a half months of such life in swamps. First I went on a truck, then by bus, by underground. I noticed that people are looking at me somewhat strangely and then step aside… When at home I looked at mirror I became frightened myself: my beard was densely covered with a gray thick mold-like deposit. It’s a disease! I even got cold sweat! I was close to cut it with scissors, but then understood and laughed: it was an anti-mosquito ointment, which I used all that time, accumulated and dried on the hairs!

In a word, the experience I gained at those years was really great!

… The official opponent on the defense of my graduate work was a senior laboratory assistant of the chair. He had no time even to read its content. But since he had to say something he made a number of absurd remarks. In my response I showed that all of them are improper. The chairman of the council did not like the “impudence” of the student and wanted to lower the mark. Only “owing to high laboriousness of the work” it was decided to give it the excellent mark.

… One of the students of my year spent only 4-5 days for collecting the information for his graduate work: he walked along a beach on Gulf of Finland, counted mollusks of several species on sand after ebb. And thereafter had defended too. On satisfactory mark. And he got a diploma of the university…

But at that time I learned a lot that became the basis of me as a scientist. As to him — he learned nothing.

In particular I learned to feed on the woods products. Edible herbs, which can be ate raw or dried for winter for soups, brews, vitamin helpings to other dishes; medicinal plants; self-cooked honey of dandelions, meadow-sweets and other flowers; jam of forest berries, and especially mushrooms — all it allowed me to live on a healthy food whole year and to spend on nutrition much less money.

Later, such forest storages allowed me to survive (literally) in this body during years of political persecution and later when a gang formed by one of my ex-disciples made me an invalid…

… Many people “know” that food is only that which is sold in shops. They may suffer of starvation, be nearly dying, but the food is under their feet. Gout-weed, nettle and many other wild plants can be used for food all over the year till the next spring!

Moreover: one can be healed with the help pf herbs! Nettle (raw or dried) could be very efficient against inflammatory and infectious diseases. Also it is worth to study gout-weed in respect to prevention and treatment of cancer (in the latter case as a mono-diet for long period of several months at least).

Mushrooms are also remarkable! From May-June (marasmius oreades and idem fairy ring mushrooms, collybia dryophila) until December (oyster mushrooms and flammulina velutipes) they can be gathered and used as substantial, tasty, and good-for-health food. “Mass” mushrooms, which grow from August to October, are better to conserve for the whole year — till the next season of mushrooms!

Especially good are fermented mushrooms (salted, i.e. fermented with salt). They are assimilated better than others, and very well normalize digestion. They can be considered as healing food because they supply the digestive system with lactic bacteria. They contain a lot of vitamins and microelements as well. And proteins from fermented or preserved mushrooms are assimilated very well because the acid destroys the walls of cells that are “hard” for digestive ferments.

Fermented mushrooms one can keep in an enameled metal tank even in a city flat. One needs only to take away mold from the surface of the liquid about once a week.

One can also store berries, dried leaves of mint, currant or even willow-herb! One does not need to buy them — just to gather! Even needles from fallen down branches of firs or pines are a wonderful source of vitamin C!

* * *

One day an old acquaintance of mine, an “indoor” man that I have not seen for a long time got sick.

… It was spring and we gathered and ate young nettle with pleasure. It is the most delicious to chop nettle, boil it for a minute not more and eat with mayonnaise or with marinade from mushrooms!

… When I called this man and got to know about his sickness, I said:

“So, nettle is a good remedy! It will give the effect at once!”

“Wow! Good idea! Why didn’t I guess it myself?! I’ll ask someone to buy it!”

“To buy?!… Where?!”

“In a drugstore, of course! Where else one can get it?”

I told him that all space around the city is overgrowing with nettle. We laughed for a while.

Then I fed him with fresh nettle. He liked it a lot!

… Some days later I called him again on some matters. He told me that he was out of the city yesterday, here and there. I joked:

“Well, do you know now where nettle grows?”

“Where?…”

“At the place where you were yesterday — it is full of nettle!”

“But I didn’t watch underfoot…”

Scientific Research

During the years of my activity in the field of materialistic science I managed to perform a lot of important research. These materials were published in scientific periodicals, but who have read them except for the circle of specialists-scientists? The rest of people come to know about results of scientific research from popular scientific literature or other mass media.

So I am going to tell you about them in this book.

Sexual Autoidentification

When in this life I was 5 years old our family lived in one of terrible communal flats, which Vladimir Vysotskiy mentions in his song: “… for thirty-nine rooms — only one lavatory^*.” Apart from constantly coughing and expectorating consumptives I remember one of the inhabitants: Kuzya, a tomcat.

He was a little kitten taken in. Then he grew up and suddenly… — to surprise of everyone — gave birth to several kittens. He turned out to be a female…

I was stupefied the most. Because I could not solve the problem and stuck with it to adults:

“And Kuzya himself, does he know that he is — a she-cat?…”

… Yet, behind this childish naivete there was one of the most interesting problems of biology and psychology: sexual autoidentification, i.e. relating oneself to a certain sex.

We come to know that our physical bodies are of one or another sex from upbringing. Parents call, dress, comb us accordingly, saying that you and they are — of one sex, and those — of another.

But the problem is that sometimes the perception of own sex conflicts with this knowledge.

For example, one objects internally to his evident anatomic signs since childhood. Sometimes it may be related to remembrance of the previous life in a body of the opposite sex. In this case such protest will disappear with time. But in other cases the protest becomes stronger with one’s puberty. Attempts to behave “properly” or “as one should”, including “normal marriage” leads to inner and outer discomfort that can be tremendous sometimes. These are events of inversion (morbid perversion) of sexual autoidentification. Since these incidents are always traced from childhood therefore no doubts that such inversion is of the congenital category.

The mechanism of distortion of sexual autoidentification was intensively studied by scientists during last decades, especially in Germany (G.Dörner and others; see in [23]). It was discovered that the brain of a fetus and of a maturing child develops non-uniformly. Tissues of various brain parts ripen in a certain sequence. There are genetically fixed terms of differentiation and formation of their cells. And during these terms, called critical, according brain parts are extremely vulnerable to damaging influences. Once an injury was done its consequences remain for the whole life.

In particular, it was discovered that there are two specific cerebrum centers — male and female — that are responsible for sexual autoidentification in animal organism and in human too. Various damaging factors — hormonal, medicinal or even such as severe illness, strong negative-emotional stress, etc of pregnant woman at the time of the critical period of fetus development — can entail the abnormalities of fetus’ brain development that will manifest brightly only after puberty [10-15,23]. Such people are doomed to form a part of sexual minorities becoming homosexual or bisexual (it depends on the severity of the injury).

… But there is another mechanism of formation of homosexuality and other sexual deflections. It is the conditioned reflex.

… But to understand it we must talk about pubescence stages first.

… In fact, a child (normally) has no inclination to sexual intercourse at all. Also there is no erogeneity of genitals or it is minimal, though blood filling of the cavernous bodies may happen occasionally. On the contrary, there is natural erogeneity of the mouth, in particular, that stimulates an inclination for mother’s milk nutrition [6]; it was first noted by Z.Freud [16].

And only at puberty — under the influence of sex hormones production — the erogeneity of the external genital organs gradually develops. But — and it is important! — the inclination to coitus appears not at this time, but only after several years.

This second stage of the development of sexuality is called stage of undifferentiated adolescent sexuality. At this age the sexual interest only begins to develop: boys talk over sex subjects, girls often “try themselves” by teasing sexually men — it is interesting to them to see: “what will happen…” But the prospective of real beginning of the sexual life is usually scaring to them at this age. This is understandable: the process of anatomical maturing of the human reproductive system under the influence of sex hormones lasts for years.

The third stage of sexuality development is sexual maturity. It starts for people of both sexes with real urge to sexual intercourse. At that age in male individuals of all studied in this respect animal species and in men appears for the first time the innate reaction of sexual arousal to their species-specific (i.e. peculiar to this species) key sexual signals. For insects and mammals, except primates these signals are odorous substances secreted by the female genitals (sex pheromones). Birds and primates have visual signals. In case of primates, including humans, such key sexual signal for males is a view of the female’s genitals^*.

… Within the theme of this chapter the most interesting subject is the stage of undifferentiated sexuality: when the proper sexual orientation has not manifested fully, but sexual arousals, that often accompanied by masturbation and orgasms, take place. It is at this age that the sexual conditioned reflexes may appear, sometimes so strong that they remain for the rest of life accompanying the normal sexuality or even displacing it completely.

In this way such sexual abnormalities as fetishism, zoophilias (sexual attraction to animals), masochism, necrophilia and many cases of homosexual attractions are formed. I succeeded in proving it experimentally [23,27] and verifying on researches with people [23].

In particular, I raised male dogs with various forms of sexual inversions that displace the normal sexuality in their maturity. Such distortions developed through the mechanism of the conditioned reflex provided that in early age the dogs did not have adequate contacts with coevals of their species [23,27].

As to homosexuality, I managed to provide for the first time an integrated concept of this abnormality, despite that it may develop in different ways [23].

* * *

The penal code of the USSR at those years contained an outrageous in its absurdity, and I would even say wicked article added by a Stalin’s personal direction. It reflected the absurdity and criminality of the regime at that time: the article declared punishments in the form of imprisonment in concentration camps for many years men who have homosexual attraction and formed homosexual couples.

I was the first scientist in the USSR who stood up — from the scientific positions — for theirs rights. Precaution required that I put the name of a known sexologist professor A.M. Svyadosch on my first publication [44]^*. Only later I published my own book [23].

Nevertheless I fall under investigation.

It turned out that I — a scientist conducting questioning among homosexuals — was suspected to be a homosexual and that I use questionnaires to establish new personal homosexual contacts…

Then God showed me two opposite types of investigators.

One of the investigators was — by his vile soul’s features — a criminal.

… Well, who does became an employee of the state power structures? “Healthy” part of their contingent includes people who are ready to sacrifice themselves fighting with social evil for the other’s good. But others go there for the sake of satisfying “on legal ground” their most vile aggressive and sadistic inclinations! It is they who torture their victims with pleasure! It does not matter to them whether the suspected person is really guilty. They are not interested in justice, but only in their attraction to humiliate, torment, destroy others! When you are in their grip — even if you have never heard that what you are imputed of — there is no way out! That is because discharge of the suspected is not in the plans of such incarnated devils. They are worried only about personal sadistic satisfaction.

… And one of them started to interrogate me…

But soon the chief officer of the criminal investigation department interfered. He promptly understood the situation, send the investigator-devil out, asked me some questions using non-verbal suggestion (see below), got fully satisfied with answers, determined that I have “medical” handwriting, requested me to write an explanatory note (that I am a scientist), closed the file and let me go.

… And the penal prosecution of people with sexual deviations in Russia was repealed.^* (Except for cases of sexual seduction of infants and sexual coercion, of course).

Species Autoidentification and Imprinting

In the previous chapter we discussed that the perception of one’s own sex is not always in agreement with the sex of the body. But there is even more “deep” problem — it concerns one’s subjective knowledge about to what biological species one belongs.

No doubt most my readers consider this knowledge inborn. But it is not true.

Scientific press reports some cases of nursing and upbringing of human children in packs of wolves, monkeys and other animals. These children moved on all fours, ate the same food as the animals that raised them. And when people appear — these children did not recognize them as “kinsmen”, but on the contrary behaved with fright or enmity.

In special experiments I brought up male dogs so that they had never seen other dogs up to the age of approximately 2 years: I weaned them off their mothers before their eyes opened and nursed artificially; they grew in isolated cages and had contacts with people only.

Their attitude to people was fine. But when I made them meet other dogs for the first time (even friendly to them) they got so frightened of these “monsters” that fall down on the back and stay “paralyzed” in cataleptic poses! They could remain in such stupor for an hour or more! Only my caressing interference returned them gradually to the normal state.

Their attitude to other dogs changed radically when they suddenly realized that she-dogs at the time of heat emit the odor of sex pheromones… (I.e., the sexual factor created conditions for accelerated process of socialization).

It turns out that these dogs… did not perceive themselves as dogs… They perceived themselves… as people.

As it was with those human children, who were raised by wolves or monkeys — they perceived themselves as wolves or monkeys.

The matter is that the perception of own species is not inborn. It is formed during a certain critical stage of organism’s development through the mechanism called primary socialization (in contrast to the secondary socialization that may go on long and hardly in a later age).

During the critical stage of the primary socialization so-called imprinting of the adult individuals of one’s species (usually they are one’s parents) happens. It is on this basis that the knowledge of belonging of oneself to certain biological species forms.

In the case of humans this stage lasts from 2 to 6-7 months (see [1,7]). At this period and during about 2 years after it child’s psyche is extremely sensitive to disturbances of harmonious relationships with the mother or with the person who substitutes for her. According to many observations over children’s growth and special experiments with monkeys (H.F. Harlow and others; see bibliography in [7]) disturbances of this harmony (for example, a long absence of the imprinted person at this period or attempts to substitute someone for this person) lead to hardly reversible or non-reversible derangements of the child’s psychical development that have consequences even for the adult age. They may be psychological difficulties in contacts with other people, unsociableness, hyper-aggressiveness and so on.

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The mechanism of imprinting ensures not the primary socialization only.

… What mechanisms of education exist in general?

— Cut-and-try method.

— Conditioned reflex.

— Studying the experience of others through verbal (oral) contacts, books, radio, TV, movie.

— Imitation, etc.

But there is also imprinting and it is not well known in Russia yet.

It is very much alike imitation but the mechanism of imprinting works only during the corresponding critical stages of the organism’s development in childhood and its effect is much stronger.

For example, songs of songbirds are not their inborn calls. Males learn singing when they are nestlings sitting in the nest and their father is singing nearby. They imprint the song but will sing themselves only after reaching the sexual maturity. (This concerns males. Females will not sing but will react to the songs of male coevals as to sexually significant calls of the representatives of their biological species).

If the father does not sing near the nest then descendants do not receive the ability to sing and will become socially impaired. Their participation in reproduction will be distorted or not possible at all.

Sometime it happens that males learn the song of a different biological species and try to reproduce it as much as their vocal apparatus allows.

Thus, professor Alexei Sergeevich Malchevskij — a remarkable enthusiast of his work, a wonderful teacher — demonstrated on lectures on ornithology in the university a tape recording of a male canary’s call. The birds hatched and grew up in a cage in old woman’s flat. She was single and had no one to talk with except for her dear birdies. And they had no canary-father. When the young canary male grew up he began to sing in pure Russian language a song in that lady’s voice: “Ah, what birdies, lovely birdies! Ah, what birdies, lovely birdies!…”

It is the same with human children: they listen to adults speaking, especially the mother (or the nurse)… And then try their voice. The adult’s speech gets imprinted and the native language is learned quite easily during the corresponding critical stage. To learn a foreign language for an adult is much harder: one has to use other mechanisms here, including memorizing of words…

… But if the parents do not talk to their baby and it has no possibility to listen the voice of its beloved person, then the baby does not learn to speak properly, and the native language becomes like a foreign language for it…

This is one of the manifestations of the disease that was widely studied in the Western countries in orphanages after World War I: children that are just fed and swaddled but are deprived of individual emotional care and attention — such children grow into asocial people, unable to speak fluently, and quite often aggressive. A special term was invented for designating this syndrome — hospitalism.

However, hospitalism is not necessarily the destiny of all children brought up without their mothers. It does not matter whether own or adoptive mother brings up the children. It is only important whether she is a person with a full set of parential emotional features. Plus certain scientific knowledge.

For example, the experience of truly communistic way of life realized after World War II not in the USSR “building communism”, but in Israeli communes (kibbutzes), demonstrated that common fostering of children without participation of mothers can give remarkable results provided that the process of upbringing is right organized (see bibliography in [7]).

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Knowledge of these laws of the development and upbringing of children inheres in pedagogy of all developed countries of the Earth. But it was not known in the USSR and the child orphan institutions “stamped” masses of mentally defective people. In the USSR this subject was “closed” from public, that is forbidden to discuss.

… At that time in the USSR there was no even psychology; there was just “Pavlov’s” physiology of higher nervous activity, which operates only with the concept of conditioned and unconditioned reflexes. According to this mechanistic (materialistic!) doctrine behavior and thinking are just reflexes to signals from the outer and inner (bodily anatomico-physiological) surroundings. And all living beings including humans — are not units of consciousness evolving in the process of Absolute’s Evolution, but some strange living organic mechanisms: they live some time for some reason, produce descendants for the sake of continuing the existence of their species, left them (at best) some wealth — and died…

To incorporate into this stupid scheme any new ideas one has to fight under political risk (“an attempt of undermining the basis of materialistic outlook!”).

… I was the first one in the USSR who started to speak seriously about these problems in the scientific press (before it there was only one mentioning made by another author). My publications caused a great positive response from scientists and doctors.

But now… again I hear with pain on radio that children in Russian orphanages still do not learn to speak…

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The models of social behavior peculiar to the sex also form through the mechanism of imprinting. This kind of imprinting is called identification. Special critical stages of this phenomenon were discovered (see bibliography in [16]). The results of research showed that a child needs, in particular, healthy contacts with adults of the same sex. (At that, boys — with the father — since the age of 3 years and girls — with the mother — both before this age and after). These people must be the persons whom the child loves and respects, though they do not necessarily have to be one’s mother and father.

Parents must know: your child unconsciously imprints your patterns of behavior, both good and bad ones. He does not repeat them immediately but will do it when grow up. Your child will use your turns of speech, emotional reactions, nutrition habits, will (or will not) smoke, drink hard, will adopt your professional skills, ways of spending spare time, your attitude to nature, people… And only at the age of approximately 20 years he may start to analyze these patterns critically…

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Here is an interesting example of food imprinting.

Once my puppy got ill and I decided to try to use garlic among other remedies: I gave him some garlic, but he did not want to eat it: distasteful! And spat it out.

Then I started to chew garlic cloves myself — specially for him to see. I demonstrated that like it very much, what bliss it gives me… He was looking at me, examining, tasting, spitting it out… But then started to eat it himself — just imitating!

… About 2 years later when he became a grown-up dog I recalled that occasion and decided to find out how he likes garlic now.

To my surprise he was delighted with garlic: chewed it with pleasure, asked for more!

For sure, he was the only dog in the whole Earth’s history that reeked of garlic that much!

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If we wish to help our children to become better — we should not only tell them about it but also show them patterns of our own right behavior.

Love in the aspects of tenderness, care, respect, compassion for all living creatures, readiness to help everyone with everything good, aspiration to knowledge, diligence are the virtues that adults must adhere to and demonstrate them to children.

… Sometimes it may be too late — the child grows as an egoistic, wicked person…

In this case one cannot manage without “extinction of vicious reflexes by methods of negative confirmation” (in terms of the physiology of higher nervous activity).

… In researches on dogs I found out that, first, egoism and aggressiveness appear not in all individuals under equal other conditions (i.e. the main determining factor here is the features of souls incarnated into given bodies), and second, the mentioned negative features can be destroyed by “pedagogical measures”, i.e. suppressed through “adequate measures of punishment”. Namely, when there was a strong non-aggressive dog in a group who could suppress by force aggressive “tricks” of other dogs with such vices — the vices of the latter were decreasing gradually and vanishing eventually [9].

Regulation of the Reproductive Function

Manifestations of various components of the reproductive function depend on a number of inner and outer reasons and may be regulated — in the case of abnormalities — by various meas.

For successful treating an expert always use a complex approach that takes into account all possible causes of the disease or weakening of the reproductive function as well as the possibility of correction or treating — also through different “entries” into the organism: neural, hormonal, antibacterial, explanatory, suggestive, bioenergetical, and others. He also foresees long-term effects of his action beforehand.

At those years when publications on sexology just started to appear in Russia I was astonished by total incompetence of the most recommendations on drug therapy. In the case of impotence treating, for example, in a list of drugs were present — without any comments — substances of the opposite influence! Each of them could really help — but only to the patients with a certain cause of the pathology. For the rest of the patients it could have only harmful effect making stronger the influence of the factor that caused the weakening of the reproductive function.

Or another example of “narrowness”, incompetence of the treatment approach. A young woman asked help from a paid sexologist: every time at the beginning of coitus she experiences pain. He advised her: you shouldn’t start it immediately, one needs to caress first, to excite oneself… His statement is correct, in general. But her pain was due to another reason: due to a venereal infectious disease…

… Now I would not like to go deeply and widely into sexology — into this very important and interesting problem: otherwise, it would be “a book in a book”. Besides, my interests have moved into a much more significant and less investigated field of knowledge. I have not been reading the modern literature on sexology for a long time: I cannot spend time for this. Though, probably there are some good books on sexology now.

Since I began to describe my “sexological past” on the base — among others — of the Sexology Center headed at that time by the professor Abram Moiseevich Svyadosch, let me tell you briefly what I managed to do in this field of knowledge (in addition to what was described above).

… By me, in particular, the role of the seminal vesicles — glands located near the prostate and the urinary bladder — in regulation of the male sexuality was proven for the first time experimentally — in experiments on mammals. I implanted pieces of PVC rod into rabbits’ seminal vesicles. They stimulated baroreceptors insides the seminal vesicles. As a result, the intensity of the males’ sexual drive increased by five times in average and sometimes — more than by 10 times! [23]. I.e. the more liquid secreted by this glands have accumulated in them — the higher is sexual readiness, sexual desire. In the case of inflammation in seminal vesicles one may expect weakening of the reproductive function or even disappearance of its manifestations.

However, one should take into account that seminal vesicles are only one of the numerous mechanisms of regulation of the male reproductive function.

… For example, overfatigues or exhausting diseases lead to decrease of the production of sex hormones by the organism. And this is clear: the strength should be spared. And the posterity will be more healthy from a healthy and strong father.

But… the “family situation” may call for a drug treatment.

In such cases one should not use sex hormones: taking them into the organism from outside leads to decrease of their production by the organism itself. It is much better to stimulate the own production of the hormones. Ginseng or eleutherococc preparations may be of help (the first one gives the effect promptly, the second — in some days, but with steady background of stimulation of the production of androgens); both act through the hypothalamohypophysial system of the cerebrum [23].

These preparations are also useful for recovering from fatigues and increasing the organism’s resistibility.

I may add, that ultraviolet irradiation (under the sun or using a quartz lamp) gives the effect in the same direction.

Negative emotional stresses in the form of long uneasy states, anger, etc., ruin one’s reproductive function irrespective of sex. The best solution in such cases will be acceptance of God in own life, comprehension of the meaning of own life, and mastering the methods of psychical self-regulation based on work with chakras (see below).

But if you have not mastered this yet, you can use medicinal preparations.

Our psychical states influence the functions of the organs of the physical body through the two parts of the nervous system being in reciprocal relations. They are the sympathetic system that participates in body control during stress and the parasympathetic system that dominates during the states of calm, comfort.

Sexual characteristics, lactation, maternal conduct — all these can be improved against the background of a stressor with the help of medicinal preparations suppressing the sympathetic nervous system (adrenolytic agents) or activating the parasympathetic nervous system (cholinomimetic agents). It was confirmed both in my researches on treatment of men with weak potency or with premature ejaculation [23] and in experiments on animals where improvement of lactation and maternal conduct was demonstrated using proserine [8].

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… One of the main reasons of parturition disorders — higher or lesser degree of the so-called discoordination of labor activity, i.e. non-synchronous contraction of the uterus’ muscle fibers. This causes pain, the contractions of the uterus become less effective, the child suffers from compression of the umbilical cord… And in the tired muscle fibers the lactic acid gets accumulated what makes them be tired more…

In such cases obstetricians inject preparations that stimulate the contractile activity of the uterus or give medical sleep for relaxation or even make the operation of cesarean section.

At the time when I studied this subject there were attempts to stimulate the labor by means of passing electric current through the parturient’s body (and fetus too!). Special expensive apparatuses to be used for this purpose were developed and actively imposed “from Moscow” on all obstetric institutions of the USSR and abroad. But once bought, they were rejected: the apparatuses did not help in labor but only made the poor woman feel worse. And — what is probably more important — all possible long-term consequences of the current’s influence on the bioenergetic structures of the child’s organism were ignored…

I thought this way:

One should seek the cause of the discoordinated labor in “killed” nourishment that contaminates the body with salts of uric acid and with extraneous coarse energies, and in “contamination” of the bioenergetic channels of the body caused by other factors (diseases, traumas, bioenergetic contamination from other people including sexual contacts with ill or coarse men). All it should be explained to women (and to men as well) in advance, far before the labor! But now it is too late, it is necessary to help in labor with no or minimal injury to the mother and to her child!

Thus, I proposed a non-drug method for neutralizing the lactic acid in the uterus’ muscles. Two my assistants constructed quickly a simple apparatus. It was used just for establishing local electric potential. We carried out clinical testing. The results showed a remarkable success! It remained only to work out exact indications for applying this method… But at that time KGB started to persecute me…

Later on the engineer who helped to create the apparatus published the method without my consent and demonstrated his total incompetence even in the title of the publication… But the regulation of labor activity was already outside of my interests: God hurried me to study Him and to pave the Way to Him!^*

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At that time, when I worked with beavers and in the field of sexology and obstetrics, I did not know yet about much more significant factors that affect our health and well-being. And the first of them is the ethical component of our lives, which defines how our Teacher God forms out destinies. This includes, in particular, what we dedicate our lives to, the nature of our nutrition, our relationships with people of different evolutionary-age groups, mastering of the methods of psychical self-regulation, etc.

A simple example: man constantly lives with the concentration of the consciousness in the head only, and that results in bioenergetic depletion of the trunk’s chakras and thus in problems of the functions of the corresponding organs. But if one masters to move the consciousness freely into any charka — needed in the current circumstances — and to keep all chakras pure, open, and full of subtle energies, — then owing just to this many chronic inflammatory diseases disappear, the functions of the organs and systems of the organism recover and normalize. The above said fully concerns the sexual function and the whole reproductive system as well.

“Museum” of Freak People

Preparing me for great spiritual service God made me a broad scientist of wide type. Among other things, I studied professionally many aspects of medicine, and even taught physiology in a medical institute. I also became deeply acquainted with life of many animals, worked even with dolphins in a scientific dolphinarium. Particularly, I showed that dolphin’s sexual drive can be induced by injecting oestrogen folliculin to females.

What a spectacular sight — the sexual love of dolphins! A pair swims in loving ecstasy on their sides snuggling up with bellies. They move absolutely synchronously: dive as a single whole, in a few seconds come to the surface to make a breath and then swim underwater again… It creates strong energetic field of joy and happiness. Afterwards, they look gratefully at the man who made it possible, smile, thank quite distinctly!…

… In this scientific organization I had occasions to hear about villainous abuse of these magnificent animals by the people in white medical coats.

For example, one of them had to “prove scientifically” owing to which parts of the body dolphins swim.^* He takes animals out of water, chops off their tails with an axe and throws them back. Dolphins, impregnating water with blood that spurts from wounds, choke and drown.

Well…, it proves that the tail with fin is really needed for dolphins to swim and to float.

Then what flippers are needed for? He shops off flippers of other dolphins and observes how for a long time they try to float with the help of the tail only. And, exhausted, they drown eventually…

Excellent! The material for the scientific publication is collected!…

… Dolphins can make sounds intended specially for people, i.e. within the frequency range perceivable by the human ear. In such a way they tell people about their joy, gratitude, friendship!

But they cry of pain in their ultrasonic range, which is non-perceivable by people. Thus, dolphins became convenient “units for tests” for doctors and physiologists: no need to bother about anesthetizing the patients for surgical operations! To beginners, asonished with this cruelty, they explained: as you can see they do not cry, so it is not painful to them; the pain sensitivity of dolphins is very low…

And cut them without anesthesia, just having bound tight…

Among other things, surgical operations on cerebrum were carried out. They make trepanation of the skull and stick electrodes into various parts of the cerebrum to see what comes out. When the workday of doctors-experimenters ends they go home leaving the dolphin alive in a bathtub with open skull and exposed brain for tomorrow. Next day they, with fresh energy, came back to continue sticking pins into his brain… It lasts for several days until the dolphin dies.

In this organization I got involved into a vivid episode of scientific falsification.

At that time I was a head of laboratory. Two incapable and lying women “researchers” from another similar organization decided to publish an article and to make it more trustworthy they made me a co-author without my knowledge. The article was based on extensive experiments with rich material. Yet, these experiments were never conducted: they made up all the material. An interesting detail: at the beginning of the article it was said that the experiments were conducted on rats, but at the end of the article — on mice… They had no wits even for devising a logical lie!

Before this case I had conversations with one of these “scientific researchers” and expressed softly my amazement about her total incompetence in the subject of her thesis. When I recommended her to read certain scientific publication she always reacted in the same way. She shouted in response: “How can you talk to me in such a way! I’m a mother of two children!”

And as a proof she brought her poor sons — pallid, dejected, reserved…

… I saw many similar pseudo-researchers of various ranks.

For example, I worked along with a spinster who was making a thesis on sexology. Since she has no personal sexological experience and, in general, all this was alien and incomprehensible to her she could not learn the difference between two “foreign” words: erection and orgasm… Yet, she defended the thesis successfully!

… Or a Doctor of Medicine stating that it is necessary to eat food, which causes intensive flatulence: for it is only due to gases that the food moves through the intestine…

… Or a fat old alcoholic and morphine addict occupying the position of a director of a medical institute. He became “famous” by writing “ordered” ideological publication against Sigmund Freud and was promptly “advanced” in the scientific rank by functionaries of the Communist Party. During last ten years of his directorship in the institute the only his business on the work place was lifting up women’s skirts (not in the figurative, but in the strict sense). Such was the morphine’s effect on him causing disgusting lustfulness of insane moronic man. Being a director he used to sign papers only after harassing the woman — a laboratory assistant, a post-graduate, a researcher — who brought the paper for signing into his office. When a man comes to him (me, for instance), he led him out into the waiting room and, giving him a wink, addressed each woman waiting there:

“Let’s see what you have here…”

And lifted up one after another their skirts.

His death was remarkable. He died not as a hero fighting for people’s good and not by serene good death. He died sitting on a lavatory pan.

Another similar director — not a drug addict, but a Corresponding Member^* of the Academy of Medical Sciences — was governing another medical institute, fortunately not for a long time, until he died. Apparently, he was a gorilla in his last incarnation. His intellectual level was quite low even in ordinary situations. But when got angry he posed as an excited gorilla male (very stooping with dangling straight arms) and losing his self-control made jerky rotary body movements. At that he shouted always the same: “Fine him! Dismiss! Imprison! Arrest!”

During the time of his directorship the institute lost all best doctors and leading scientists…

… There was another interesting “exhibit” in that institute— a quarrelsome woman with quite low intelligence occupying the position of chief-doctor. In the language of the old psychiatry such types were diagnosed with physiological feeble-mindedness. Physiological here means not pathological yet, i.e. not oligophrenia, but very close to it. I tried to find out asking the “veterans” of the institute: why that silly woman is on the chief-doctor position? They replied me with expressive gestures: she CANNOT be discharged…, to let her work with patients is not possible too, since she will maim them; so to keep her on this “pedestal” is the lesser of the evils…

… Another academician was a Ukrainian biologist. Fidgety-jerky-important, he always spoke so rapidly that nothing of his speech could be grasped but few words. Nobody understood him. The most interesting thing was to observe scientific meetings where he as an academician and director of the institute was giving a speech, which somebody had to comment, to praise, to thank for valuable advice and instructions… Subordinates had to compose what he seemingly meant in his speech. At the same time they needed to watch attentively his mimicry to adjust their praise and thanks if something is wrong…

… How such directors advanced in the official career? — by pleasing the bosses of the Communist Party and KGB: for example, by providing someone with a good position (someone’s son, daughter, or wife), dismissing someone, informing against someone, slandering someone, defiling someone publicly…

… Preparing me for great social work God showed me various psycho-types of people. It was like an excursion in zoo to me, where He presented to view typical exhibits…

They were moronic scientists…

There were also mentally ill doctors who needed treatment themselves, yet they “treated” patients and maimed them…

There were thieves justifying their deeds by blaming the people whom they robbed: “He is such a fool: he hid it not well! It’s his fault! Fools need to be given lessons!…”

Or — sadists who tortured others through physical pain or slander and felt pleasure when doing that.

Or — such a typical “exhibit”. To my father, who worked as a chief accountant, an auditor from Moscow came from time to time for conducting an audit. It was customary to please and entertain the auditors. Therefore, this auditor (it was always the same person) every time stayed not in the hotel but in our home. During the “audit” he was doing nothing, just drinking vodka (the report about the audit he made afterwards in Moscow taking from the father corresponding papers prepared for him by the accountants). Having had spent on drinks all his money, he stole money of my parents. They noticed, frowned, but bear with it.

Another obligatory part of the “audit” was fishing. Usually they took me too. All were fishing there in order to give him “fresh catch” to Moscow. And he was only drinking vodka. Also, winking at me drunkenly, he proposed that I rape someone of the fishing men. But it was completely incomprehensible to me, so I said nothing, just smiled confusedly…

… Violence (any kind of it) against people was unacceptable and incomprehensible to me from the very childhood. There was no single case in my life when I had to use violence against a person for the sake of reaching some my goal or, as others do it, for no particular reason, for fun, or out of “bad mood”.

When my schoolmate at the senior school grades — straight A student — shared his dreams about taking part in gang rape of a woman, I could not understand him: it was something beyond my comprehension. But he only laughed at me! … Later he became a medical officer, served in Moscow leading “merry” way of life, got a good salary and laughed about it: “Is it really money in Moscow?!”

… When in 1968 Soviet intervention into Czechoslovakia was under preparation there was a danger that I can be conscripted for military service. I firmly decided to shoot myself, but not others.

But I was not drafted: I managed to enter post-graduate study and my conscription was postponed.

However, tens of other conscientious youths from the Soviet forces, which were sent to enslave Czechoslovak nations, shot then themselves. They became heroes in the face of God contrary to aggressors…

… Some years later I had an occasion to hear a story from a member of a tank crew, who participated in the intervention. He was in the leading tank of a column of advancing armored troops. The heroes of resistance set up a barricade on their way on the road. The crew of the tank opened machine-gun fire. The defenders of the barricade laid down in a ditch. Then the tank driver went down from the road to bypass the barricade but one of the tank’s tracks he set going in the ditch…

And the narrator — with pleasure, savoring it — showed how one after another the skulls of living people were crushing under the track: “like ripe watermelons!”…

… Jan Palach — a Czech hero — burned his body publicly in Prague as a demonstration of protest. And I had a serious intention to do the same in Moscow on the Red Square. At that time I did not value my life because I did not know its meaning. But highly valued scrupulosity and hated outrages on it.

… But I was stopped by God, Whom I did not know yet. He asked me a very reasonable question: how can I get enough amount of gasoline in a strange city, bring it to the Red Square, write and set up the corresponding placard? He “inhibited” sharply my intention to realize this action.

… At those days other men burned their bodies in Moscow. But God was preparing me for another service…

Beginning of the Spiritual Path. Healing

In this chapter I will start describing how God gradually turned my face on to Himself.

Once I met in the street my old acquaintance. He invited me to go to a course on hatha yoga.

“No,” I replied, “I’m practicing it already and got bored with it.”

Few days later I met him again. (And before we had not seen each other for many years!)

“A lecture on healing is going to be arranged,” he said, “Varvara Mikhailovna Ivanova will come from Moscow to give it. Will you come?”

“No,” I replied, “it’s not interesting to me.”

He gave me the address where this lecture will be delivered and left.

Right away I met another acquaintance of mine and told her about the lecture. She became interested and persuaded me to go to it together.

Varvara Mikhailovna Ivanova was one of the heroes of that epoch. Parapsychology, which she adhered, was forbidden at those years. K.G.B. agents were watching her constantly. Many times they took her away from the stage during her public lectures. But she continued her fight and won: parapsychology was at last “acknowledged” and “permitted” in our country — thanks to her efforts, in particular.

On the lecture that we attended (for conspiracy reasons it was arranged in a private house out of city) Ivanova related about famous healers, demonstrated the methods of healing with hands, conducted a seance…

My companion and I had some minor sicknesses.

She recovered; I did not.

She refused to believe in it; I did not refuse.

To put it more exactly, I did not believe: as a scientist-experimenter I used not to take something on trust. I had to verify it myself, to make an experiment.

I tried — and... it really worked! All “tricks” of a scientist to make the experiment clean demonstrated that there was an effect!

For instance, directing an energy stream from the palms and fingers of the hands at a patient against the background of compassion leads in most cases to recovering: it removes headaches, inflammations caused by burns, paralyses etc.

Yet, I was unable to help some patients despite making every effort. (Years later I realized the reason: God wanted them to make their own efforts on transforming themselves).

Galina Vaver joined me at this time and for many years we sought the Truth together.

… One case from the healing practice stuck in my memory. Once in a village I was asked to examine a cow. The owners had changed four cows, this one was the fifth, and with all of them there was the same problem: their milk yield reduced significantly few days after they came to the new cow house. Moreover, coming back from the pasture they refused to enter the cow house, and the owners had to push them inside with the help of “all the village”, as they said. To them it was a shame: what neighbors would think about people whose cow does not want to come home!

I entered the cow house and saw with clairvoyance bright black spots in a corner and between the cow’s horns: it was spoiling!

I managed to wash them off with an energy stream flowing through my body.

But the next day… the cow fell ill: it had running eyes, nose…

The mistress cried: whatever problems the cow had, it was a cow — but now it is dying…

At that day we had to leave: our vacation was over. We left sad and confused.

But few days later we received a joyful letter: the cow has recovered! Now it willingly enters not only the cow house but the owner’s house too when it is overlooked, so that it is hard to push the cow out!

… Thus, the phenomenon of bioenergetic healing became a certain fact for us. The medical desire to help suffering people began to grow in me again. It called for increasing our healing abilities. Following the invitation of that yogi — an acquaintance of mine — we came to him to practice hatha yoga.

Thanks to conducting the healing practice our healing abilities were growing, new healing methods appeared. In particular, it turned out that in healing one can use chakras apart from hands. We started to seek new methods of chakra development.

In parallel, the broadness of our outlook was growing thanks to reading the samizdat^* publications on bioenergetics and yoga.

We had to part with the hatha yoga instructor: his interest moved only to the stories about yeti, he began to drink alcohol, though he preached lately a nonalcoholic way of life; he began to eat meat, though he preached lately the opposite… Because of this, his energetics soon became so coarse that it was hard to have contacts with him… This energetical coarseness, suppressing other people, allowed him to enjoy his “power”, especially over women…

This is how people turn toward hell…

… One day I met him with a spinning rod:

“Why?…”

“What’s wrong? I help them to reincarnate!…”

A yogi-killer?

Or not a yogi at all?

Before we parted with him, he acquainted us with a woman-medium. Through her we received the next impulses for advancement.

About the Methods of Healing

I would like to describe here some results of my study of the problem of healing.

As a preface let us discuss some aspects of bioenergetic interactions that occur every day regardless of whether people are aware of them or not.

Relationships between parents and children, teachers and students, supervisors and subordinates, spouses, as well as our sympathies and antipathies in any group of people etc. — all of them to a large extent are determined by the bioenergetic characteristics of the participants of those situations: the distinctive features of the energies that each organism emanates and the ways other organisms react to these emanations.

People differ from the bioenergetic standpoint on the series of criteria, the most significant of which are the following: a) excess or shortage of bioenergy in the organism, b) bioenergetic coarseness or subtlety, c) purity of the bioenergy or its contamination due to various diseases, incorrect lifestyle or unfavorable external influences, d) the level of development of the bioenergetic centers of the organism (chakras) and domination of specific centers at the current moment. (There are also other factors, but it is too premature to discuss them at this point).

Excess of bioenergy is not necessarily an indication of good health of the particular person, like some people think. For example, intensive emanation of pathogenic energies is a typical phenomenon that occurs during acute stages of many diseases. Harmful energies can get emanated when a person experiences aggressive emotions, as well as emotions of despondency or those of inner weeping. The only way to distinguish bioenergies by the qualitative criteria is their assessment by extrasensory individuals who developed an ability to perceive a wide range of such emanations. For example, some of them can valuate the state of another person (up to making a precise diagnosis of diseases, assessment of the condition of chakras and meridians etc.) just by his clothes or by any object that this person used and which has traces of his bioenergy.

Bioenergetic shortage is mostly observed in patients who have been weakened by their disease, as well as in people with consumeristic attitude towards others, be it a specific person or the society as a whole. Such incorrect ethic orientation forces those who possess them to constantly feel unhappy. Communicating with them is often onerous for other people, since the person who always wants something from someone demonstrate a so called bioenergetic vampirism, which can be exercised even at a large distance. The only way one can help those ever-miserable “vampires” is by reorienting them from the consumeristic attitude towards everybody and everything — to an active and creative position in life, in other words by changing their vicious orientation towards demanding love for themselves into desire to give their love to other people and to the world as whole.

It is emotions that represent the most important mechanism of setting bioenergies in motion. This is why ethic self-correction and mastering the ability to control one’s emotions by using psychic self-regulation methods allow one to learn to never harm other people with one’s disharmonious bioenergetic emissions or with stripping them of their energy.

When talking about bioenergetic interactions between people we cannot disregard the sphere of sexual relationships. An intensive energy exchange between partners takes place during a sexual intercourse. This implies the exchange of both pure, healing and coarse, pathogenic, harmful energies. The readers can make their own conclusions from this.

Bioenergetic factors are the causes of many sexual disharmonies: such as impotency and quick ejaculation in men and frigidity and anorgasmia in women. Among the specific causes can be undeveloped or contaminated chakras (primarily svadhisthana), vampirism from the side of the partner as a consequence of his or her perverted concept of love, i.e. “love” for him- or herself, desire to receive for him- or herself as opposed to willingness to give his or her love to the partner.

Incompatibility of partners by the level of refinement of their bioenergies can also play a significant role here. This can be the cause of various derangements in the energy system of the partner, whose energetics is more refined (more perfect). Apart from health disorders contacts with partner who possesses more coarse bioenergy can lead to sexual indifference up to the development of an aversion to the given partner or even to sex in general.

Regarding incompatibility of svadhisthanic energies, I should mention that if a woman’s bioenergy is coarser than her partners’, this may be the cause of his quick ejaculation due to irritating influence of such energy on the man’s svadhisthana. This is to say that one should look for the reasons of this type of sexual disharmony not only in men (as it is popular), but also in women. The reasons of sexual disharmonies that have been discussed can be eliminated by using the methods of raja yoga [22].

All examples that were given above were supposed to demonstrate the variety and complexity of the so to say “everyday” issues of bioenergetic interactions between people as well as the importance of taking them into account. In most cases such contacts occur without control from the side of their participants, and they are not aware of the causes of their consequences.

But there exist spheres in which people apply their knowledge in bioenergetics consciously and in a controlled way. One of them is healing.

Healing consists of bioenergetic diagnostics and bioenergetic therapy. Let us discuss their major forms.

The simplest method of bioenergetic diagnostics, which extrasensory individuals usually start studying first, is diagnostics using the palm of one’s hand. This method is based on the fact that the body of every living being, including human being, is surrounded with energy field called a cocoon. This energy field is created by vital activity of all body cells, the configuration of the boundaries of the cocoon and the density of the energy inside it reflect the health state of the organism. The boundary of a human body’s cocoon is usually located at about 50 centimeters from the body. But if a patient is weakened, the boundary of the cocoon may be closer to the patient’s body and be difficult to identify. And on the contrary — boundaries of the cocoons of people with high bioenergetic activity may be located at 2 meters or farther from their bodies.

Almost everyone can learn how to feel the boundary of the cocoon with the hands. One should first practice feeling one’s palm in a more dense environment, i.e. as if it is in the air that turned into a thick transparent liquid that impedes its movement.

Then one starts move one’s palm towards the partner’s body from a distance, making smooth palpating movements. At some moment the hand bumps into an invisible barrier — a boundary of a more dense space. This is the cocoon. Moving the hand within the cocoon causes in the palm pricking sensation and a feeling of something like an energy “wind” that is blowing through it.

Upon learning how to locate the boundary of the cocoon we may proceed to the next stage of study. Now we will palpate the boundary around the entire body of our partner. If the partner is healthy, the boundary will be at the same distance from the body. But if the partner is sick, then saliencies or depressions will be observed against the affected areas. The former correspond with zones with pathologically increased bioenergetic activity, while the latter indicate zones, which bioenergetic activity is decreased.

This method allows identifying also the latent (hidden) stages of diseases, as well as the nidi of the sluggish diseases that the person may not even be aware of.

Having trained ourselves like this we may learn to identify so small problem areas as dental caries or a common pustule covered by clothes.

This method just like all the others can also be applied when examining animals and even plants.

In some cases (when the cocoon is too large, for example) it may be more convenient to set perform the diagnostics not by studying the boundary of the cocoon but changes in the density and other characteristics of the energy field inside the cocoon. The palm of the healer should be moving parallel to the patient’s body. Many extrasensory healers use the latter variant only. But if the patient’s chakras are developed, their fields will create interference, which will render this method inapplicable to them.

By the way, it is very difficult or even impossible to make any kind of diagnostics through synthetic or sometimes wool clothes.

Another bioenergetic diagnostics technique relates to so called clairvoyance, i.e. seeing the energies that cannot be perceived with regular vision, in this case. Some people have inborn clairvoyance abilities (i.e. from their previous incarnation), but virtually anyone can develop them as a result of systematic raja yoga practice [22].

In order to make it easier to master this technique one may place the part of the body being under examination in the energy field of one’s hands (between one’s palms). Let us keep in mind that this kind of clairvoyance is performed not with the eyes, but with the consciousness, which for best results one should concentrate in one’s own cocoon behind the anahata chakra or in the chitrini meridian.

The scientific understanding of this phenomenon is possible only through acceptance of the following three postulates:

The first of them is the fact of a multidimensional nature of the whole universe, and also of a particular living organism.

The second — that the human consciousness is capable to penetrate — thanks to special methods of training [20-22,25] — into the depths of the multidimensional universe and cognize directly various spatial dimensions.

The third postulate defines that the consciousness if of the energy nature; an individual consciousness is a bearer of self-perception and self-awareness; it evolves changing both qualitatively and quantitatively (i.e. by its “mass”).

The primitive materialistic thinking that was dominating in our country resulted in an actual identification in the layman and pseudoscientific lexicons of two completely different concepts: mind and consciousness; this impeded the development of psychology and the sciences related to it.

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In the given chapter I will not describe the methods of development of consciousness and clairvoyance. Let me just note, that this development proceeds through refinement of the emotional sphere, work with the chakras and main meridians.

Those extrasensory healers who mastered clairvoyance gain an ability to observe dark (gray or black) energies inside the affected parts of the patients’ bodies, driving out which leads to disappearance of the symptoms of the diseases — immediately or after some time.

Apart from the techniques that were described above, there are other — more complicated — methods of bioenergetic diagnostics. Among them is, for example, recreation of the patient’s image (the phantom), while the patient can be far away from the healer, and subsequent using this phantom for making the diagnosis. One may transfer the concentration of consciousness close to the patient (regardless of the distance to him) and perform healing procedures there. Healing without making a diagnosis first is also possible, which we will talk about below.

Let us proceed to discussing methods of bioenergetic therapy.

The first and most commonly used one is using the healer’s own bioenergy, which he emits through the palms of his hands (either with imposing the hands accompanied by massage or at some distance from the patient’s body). The distinctive feature of this method is that it uses considerable amounts of energy that has been accumulated in the organism of the healer. The drawback of this method consists in that by giving his energy to the patient the healer’s organism becomes weak and thus vulnerable to damaging factors. In order to alleviate this negative effect the healer should eat and sometimes sleep well right after the difficult healing sessions.

The other therapeutic technique is less fraught with these drawbacks; it also creates more favorable prospects of further progress of the healer. This method implies using not the energy accumulated in the healer’s organism, but external one. The external energy can be channeled through the healer’s chakras, which in this case play a role of something like focusing lenses. The stream of healing energy gets channeled through the healer’s body from the behind his back forward. The healer controls the session using clairvoyance. The general task of the healer in this type of therapy is to cleanse the patient’s organism of dark energies in all space dimensions, which he has the access to. Through-the-chakras influence may be accompanied by manipulations by hands and sending energy through them as well.

I should note that wearing synthetic clothes makes it either impossible or very difficult.

The latter method contributes to development of the energy systems of the healer, as well as teaches him to interact with various manifestations of the multidimensional space. The healers that practice this method usually arrive at expediency of preliminary attunement with help of proper kinds of meditation. As a result of this during the healing sessions they may achieve sensation that their organisms are simply being used by the Power of the Universal Love; at such moments the healers feel themselves rather witnesses of a sacrament that takes place.

The healer, in the process of acquiring experience, finds out that not all patients can be healed just by “washing” their bodies with flows of energy. It makes the healer look for more complicated methods of healing, for example, using images for performing various “surgeries” in the depths of the multidimensional organism of man. There — in those space dimensions — images that he creates by means of using his personal power turn out to be possessing real effectiveness, which is confirmed by facts of instantaneous changes of the patient’s condition after being influenced in such a way.

Another example of an effective application of energy images in healing is use of special medical yantras (graphic pictures), which produce three-dimensional healing energy structures.

One of the ways of treating patients that suffer from serious illnesses is combining efforts of two or more healers. One of them may supervise the process using clairvoyance, while others play roles of “surgeons”.

Healers who acquired mastery are capable of conducting energy-anesthesia during complex physical (and not with imaginary instruments) surgeries. And some Philippine surgeons perform painless surgeries inserting their physical hands into bodies of their patients, without using any cutting instruments^*.

It is also important to understand that infectious diseases (unlike those that are caused by energetic or mechanical damages) may not necessarily get cured completely as a result of healer’s influence. Since bacteria, viruses, fungi and other parasites do not die because of this. But in these cases bioenergetic therapy allows: a) cleanse the organism of the patient of the energetic consequences of the inflammation, b) temporarily eliminate or alleviate the symptoms of the disease, c) increase resistance of the organism. The rational way of treating inflectional diseases will be combination of bioenergetic and drug therapies.

A beginner healer must also know that it would be dangerous for him to take up healing certain diseases, such as flu or cancer.

Here we will also list rules of healing that allow avoiding causing unintentional harm to the patients:

First — a healer must not use alcoholic beverages: the healer’s bioenergy acquires pathogenic qualities as a result of his taking alcohol (it can be observed as a grayish coloring of the energy flows that he emanates).

Second — a healer who is sick himself must not attempt to heal other people, since in this case he will share the energetic information of his disease with the patient.

Third — a healer must not influence those patients whose energy is significantly more subtle compared to his own so that he does not damage their energy system.

Fourth — a healer who uses meat or fish for food should not influence the people who adhere to the killing-free diet, since their energy is incomparably purer and subtler.

Fifth — during the sessions a healer must not allow himself any coarse negative emotions or bustling, as well as to get distracted in his thoughts from the only admissible subject: compassion for the patient and trying to find possibilities to help him. Any other thoughts or emotions distort and contaminate the energy flows that he emanates.

Deviation from the rules listed can lead to causing harm to the patient’s health, even if the main symptom is eliminated as a result.

We should also mention that arrogance and desire of fame and personal enrichment do not embellish the image of a healer. Although there is no doubt that he may accept — if he wants to — a material remuneration for his hard work. And this kind of work is connected not only with significant energy losses but also with bioenergetic contamination from the patients, which often leads to development of diseases in the healer’s own organism.

If a healer who strives for perfection in his art endures ethic tests that he encounters on this path, in particular, if he always unsatisfied with his level of development, then healing becomes a wonderful means of spiritual self-perfection for him. By helping others he develops unselfish self-sacrificial love, increases his knowledge of the multidimensional world, including knowledge of man’s nature and of methods of helping people in various ways, as well as increases his personal power through active service.

Use of the methods of raja yoga and later of buddhi yoga for more efficient healing, mastering the ethical steps of karma yoga and bhakti yoga, accumulating knowledge (jnani yoga) allow him to approach the highest methods of healing, such as those that Jesus Christ was demonstrating. Such a Healer would not even need to know the diagnosis, send energy flows or create images of surgical instruments… He would only need to know with absolute certainty that the patient deserves to be healed and touch him with His perfect Divine Consciousness…

But to be able to heal like this one should go through stages of Samadhi, crystallization, and Nirvana. We will discuss them in details in the next chapters; here I will only shortly clarify the meanings of these terms.

The word Samadhi denotes emotional state of Bliss of the highest order, which one usually experiences in first contacts with the Holy Spirit inside one’s own body. Crystallization is a process of increasing the volume of individual consciousness.

Nirvana — is the state of Mergence of an individual consciousness with the Holy Spirit or the Creator; it allows one to direct the attention into the multidimensional world — from within its Primordial Depth.

One should understand that crystallization can be either true or false. The true crystallization is that which is performed in the highest spatial dimensions; the false one — in more dense layers of the universe. The latter may enable one to work “nice” wonders and to suppress other people’s will. But the state of the one who possesses it cannot be called close to the Perfection.

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The last question to dwell on in this chapter may sound paradoxically to someone: should one heal at all? And if one should then in what cases?

We discussed already that the healing practice is beneficial for the healer. But is it beneficial for the one being healed?

You see, any disease is a result of man’s falling out of ecological harmony, in most cases it is a consequence of his violations of certain ethic principles, of which the most fundamental is love for all people, all living beings, the entire multidimensional Macrosystem, including the Highest Forms of Its Consciousness.

In other words, a disease, as a rule, is an indication for man that he has to improve something in himself.

And thoughtless (from the healer’s side) healing often deprives the sick person of urgent need to think and to change himself.

So, by healing the body we may do harm to the soul. Therefore, it would be more appropriate to help a person to understand the cause of his disease and to direct his efforts towards self-healing and only after that to help him heal his body, if necessary.

Of course, in this multi-aspect and complex issue there cannot be any “prescription” fit for all cases. And the truth, as a rule, lies in the middle between two extremes. For example, purely corporal healings (i.e. those that go without any explanations and recommendations) are sometimes regarded by the patients and the witnesses as an impulse that awakens them from a dull sleep of ignorance, which stimulates their efforts on searching spiritual truths and acquiring healing skills — in order to develop through it their potential of Love.

Woman-Medium

She was a member of the Communist Party machinery, middle-aged. One day she got severe headaches that did not cease. Medicine could not help this case.

Suddenly she began to hear a voice, which said that he is a spirit, a famous Russian poet of the past. He was allowed to enter her body for several years — for the years, which, as he said, he missed to live in his fate in his body because of premature disembodiment. And the headaches were caused by his entering.

The member of the Party retired promptly from the district committee and became engrossed by studying of the mystic world that has opened to her.

First the spirit directed her to take a course on hatha yoga, then he started to conduct healing seances through her body that were really helpful to people.

One day he ordered to arrange a seance for healing the diseased with cancer. She had to invite to the seance as many healers as possible. It is there that we got acquainted with each other.

Since that day a group of people of various age formed around her. The spirit described to them — to former atheists — the life in the other world, gave advices and predictions, healed.

It is from him that we heard for the first time that animals live not for the sake of being slaughtered by us and that eating their corpses contaminates our bodies with harmful salts and energies. All we changed immediately our nutrition.

Also he acquainted us with another spirit, who was a hatha yogi in the Himalayas in his last incarnation. That spirit began to guide our hatha yoga exercises, prescribed special diets and 3-day fasts for ridding of consequences of the wrong nutrition.

Though the existence of the other world populated with spirits became a certain fact for us the question of the existence of God never come to us seriously. God was substituted in our outlook of that time with spirits, which seemed to us omnipresent, omniscient, perfect.

Now I realize that this is the cognition way of all, who start from scratch — whether they are whole nations or individuals — except if they get from the beginning into mature spiritual milieu.

During our hatha yoga exercises under the guidance of the new tutor we experienced indubitable separations from the physical body occurring repeatedly. For example, while doing shavasana — relaxation when lying on the back — we suddenly experienced ourselves standing on heads or hovering over the floor. Thus, the reality of the non-material existence was perceived by us and became our own experience.

Since we can exist without physical bodies we are… actually immortal? That is, after death of the bodies we too will appear living in the world of spirits. In this way we began to think about our future presence in the discovered world of spirits.

And what are relationships in the world of spirits? Obviously, spirits are very different. Is there some hierarchy among them? What if there is God — “the Main Boss” of all existing spirits?

Thus we advanced to a higher stage in our development where spirits are in the center of attention, but there is also an idea about God, though the understanding of Him is not correct.

… At that time my personal experience as a medium began.

First, I tried to establish a contact with our Himalayan hatha yogi. I formulated questions in the way that the answer can be received as “yes” or “no”. The answer was perceived as the state of inner comfort or discomfort accordingly. It required complete relaxation of the mind and emotional sphere. The received answer could be clarified with the help of questions like: “Or it doesn’t matter? Have I understood right?”

We also tried to communicate with spirits using a saucer. We drew a pointer on it, put on a wooden table without nails a sheet of paper with drawn circle of letters and digits, put a saucer on it, lighted candles. And spend many night hours holding tired hands over the saucer…

It repeated several nights — all in vain…

At last one of us exclaimed desperately: “Volodya! Ask: what’s the matter?!”

I asked and heard for the first time a clear answer from God: “I intentionally prevented spirits from participating in your game. You don’t need ‘devices’ for such a contact. It’s more prospective to learn perceive thoughts directly.”

And I began to teach this all members of the group. Many of them succeeded.

At that I discovered a phenomenon amazed me: some companions of mine had nothing to ask! For instance, a young woman, who liked sweet buns and was fat because of that, asked God questions only in bakery: which bun is better to buy, which of them is tastier?

Thus I understood that spiritual needs of people are different.

… It is interesting to note that spirits can be recognized by individual vibrations, which they create just by their presence. Such vibrations are perceptible like sounds in the space around the head. Usually (but not always) they are monotonous and differ by the tone. The higher is the tone of spirit’s vibration — the higher is the stage of his or her spiritual advancement.

… At that time I had my first contact with Helena Petrovna Blavatskaya. She came surrounded by a retinue of another spirits and addressed me as no one before: “My dear Antonov! I wish that you write a sequel to my Secret Doctrine.”

I think I managed to realize the Helena Petrovna’s request.

… I recall a funny story narrated by an acquaintance of mine.

Once a group of students collected at examinations time. A friend of one of them came as well. She could communicate with spirits through a saucer. When she told about it, all wanted to see how it works.

They invited a well-known Russian poet killed by Bolsheviks and asked him what marks they will receive on the next exam. He answered. Later, all his predictions realized exactly.

One young man in this group asked what he will become in the future? The spirit answered: “Stand firm, man, you’ll be an impotent!…”

Then someone asked: “Does God exist?”

The saucer fell down and got broken on the floor… The seance was over.

… And another case from my own practice.

In the epoch of governing of the marasmic dictator Brezhnev in the Russian empire many scrupulous people dream that he will leave this world. And so did we.

One day through the woman medium forecasts came stating that at the named date and at the named time Brezhnev will die. These predictions began about two months before the named date.

This date was coming. Several days before it Brezhnev stopped to appear and there was no news about him both in the Soviet press and the radio. On the other hand, the western broadcasting stations began to speak about his serious illness and his possible successor.

We were waiting more and more impatiently.

At last, this day had come. Comrades were hanging around me: “What do you hear? Has it come true?”

The named hour drew near. It was 2.00 p.m.

Exactly at two o’clock I heard a strong man voice from the non-material world as if it was that radio announcer who always announced the most important messages. The voice “broadcasted” a paraphrased communist slogan:

“Brezhnev is alive! He will live forever in our hearts and memory! Brezhnev is alive! He will live forever…”

These phrases were being repeated like a record on a tape.

I understood that all it was nothing but a joke…

And Brezhnev recovered in some days and continued to booze and tyrannize for long.

Only when I managed to find out what and who is God, I understood the meaning of that joke: do not wish death to other — this is not people’s matter, this question is of the Omnipresent and Almighty Lord’s competence only. Later I found that God said the same through the prophet Muhammad; it is written in Sunna’s hadithes [20].

… The group that we worked with existed not for long. First its head left since she had not stand the ethic test. Namely, through her more and more prophesies were received about soon disasters such as earthquakes, epidemics, which will destroy all “infidels”. Naturally, all people except of us belonged to these “infidels”.

All her predictions had not realized to 100%; the cataclysms were “deferred”, new disasters were forecasted…

Some members of the group savored openly forthcoming sorrows and deaths of the “infidels”, others were indifferent to such predictions.

The spirit started to give her tasks like this: she went to a wash-house or a library, stayed near the doorway and rebuked everyone who slammed the door…

Once she planned to herself the next day of our meeting, but forgot to tell us about it. We did not come, of course. Then she sent all us post cards with damnations and such words: “Who is not with me is against God!”

In this way we parted with her: some with spits refusing all received through her, some — with gratitude and compassion…

It was found soon that she had neglected diabetes. Insulin injections were prescribed. But the spirit commanded to stop injections. She complied and died soon…

Also she wrote down many poems, which famous Russian poets communicated through her. They were poems of religious and political content. I remember the following verse about “planned economics” in the USSR:

In the state where planned economics

Exists for the sake of the plan, not for the reason’s sake,

There remained nothing unstained,

Neither pure river nor lake...

Also Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin communicated the following message:

Live, my good friend,

Do your holy work!

Love your hard century

And trust the Truth!

Don’t be afraid of storm and tempest

And be calm in the face of fate:

You have sown the seeds of good — and there will be a harvest!

And the help of God is with you!

It seems that only two people from that group — Galina Vaver and I — went further on the spiritual Path.

Orthodox Church Stage

So, two of us left. We worked in a medical institute. All spare time we dedicated to healing: went to people in various corners of the city who called us for help. We did not ask money from the patients, but if they made a meal for us, we did not refuse. At the same time we tried to talk with the ill about ethical reasons for their troubles.

Most of our patients recovered. Some of them were grateful, regarding the recovery as a miracle, as a manifestation of other reality through us. Often they began to seek the truth, which was forbidden in our country at that time.

But there was other reaction. For example, we ask at the next day after the seance:

“Has it helped you?”

“Ah, don’t make me a fool! It ended by itself!…”

… At that time we managed to read the New Testament for the first time. To the modern Russians it may seem strange. But at those years even a simple act of giving or selling religious literature was regarded as “ideological sabotage from the West”. It was famous KGB that fought against this kind of “saboteurs”, such as spreaders of religious literature, healers, parapsychologists etc. We had to carry our healing activity in secret from the authorities.

But the New Testament changed our lives.

… People regard this book very differently: everyone sees in it that layer of information, which he is able to encompass.

For us the sermons of Jesus meant a description of the Path to God-the-Father.

But many people, who also call themselves Christians, get convinced by ignorant preachers that, for example, “our God” is Jesus Christ and that Jews, Muslims and other nations have “other Gods”.

And that Jews are damned forever, for they crucified OUR God (despite that Jesus too was a Jew, lived among Jews, and preached also to Jews).

And that Muslims are “damned infidels” and “pagans” (though it is Islam that is a continuer of clear monotheistic line of religious outlook established by the Jewish prophets and confirmed by Jesus Christ)…

… So we became Christians and thus it was necessary to receive baptism.

Within our field of view there was only Orthodox church. But it was a problem to receive baptism in it in those years. The fact is that KGB required clergymen to register obligatory all people receiving baptism. These lists were studied in KGB — and many baptized people suffered persecution: one could be fired due to “staff reduction”, students could be expelled from the university etc. And I had the position of senior researcher, which I valued at that time.

After many unsuccessful efforts, we managed to find a priest who consented to baptize us illegally, without registration.

In this way the Orthodox temple became our “second home”. In it we began to master mental quietness, felt flows of sacred energy emanated from some icons.

With its help we accustomed ourselves to be watchful about our deeds, words, and thoughts — to feel responsibility for own mistakes in front of God.

There we mastered repentance.

And, the most important — in response to our sincere aspiration for God, He allowed us to experience fully the power of Holy Communion, when then body is filled from within with the subtlest joy of the Touch happened. Frequent, even every day communions had a special effect.

… We got aquatinted with other seekers and formed a group of associates who were united by aspiration to cognition of God and eagerness to transform oneself according to His Will.

He became for us the Essence of the world, the Ultimate Goal, the Supreme Teacher. Now we asked Him for advice and received from Him guidelines and instructions.

For example, He told through Galina Vaver or through me:

“Learn to love Me as I love you, as I love everyone! Having mastered this, you will become One with Me!

“Be perfect as God is perfect! This thought must not leave you — not for a single minute!

“Joy should take residence in your soul! And nothing should ever darken this joy! Let the light of this joy stream from your eyes — the light of joy of the soul!

“Dare not frown! This is an insistent instruction to you, almost an order!

“Practice the meditation: ‘God and everything existing are one’. This will help you perceive God’s Grace in all earthly manifestations: from a speck of dust to cosmic sensations, solar eclipses, and pure thoughts that visit you.

“It is most essential for each one of you to understand that God is present everywhere and in everything, in you — He takes care, guards, perfects, loves!

“I want you to think of Me constantly — with love, joy, and light in the soul! I will help you every minute to experience Me in everything; I will direct your eyes and show Myself in all manifestations of life! Love is also Me: love of parents, relatives, beloved men and women. You should experience this, rather than just understand! I am your love for all!

“You should not be absorbed in fuss. You should always concentrate, think, and see My Manifestations in everything. It is not an ordinary work — to search for Me in the every day’s fuss. But as a consequence, you will learn to see the non-accidentalness of fussy things and find regularity in obvious nonsense. I will teach you this later.

“Now try to keep a close look at everything you have been detached from before: atheists, profligates, drunkards, or just good fellows. All they are people! All this is I! All this is not accidental! You have to understand every one, feel his connection with your destiny, with Me in your destiny, and accept his presence in your life as Me Who teaches you!

“Try to keep this in mind, I ask you! Do not turn away from seemingly meaningless people! Love them, love people, and remember about Me!

“I love you all, grant My Light and My Presence to all! Learn to let this light through yourselves and carry it to people. Rejoice, love, radiate the Light! This is the primary thing you should do now!

“Learn to explain to people their predestination, so that they feel their destiny in your words!

“Do you remember what you had been before you came to Me? Learn to feel another person through this, as if it is you who is sitting in this ruined, contaminated physical body and seeking the way out of the dead end.

“Relax at your meetings. Physical strain, intense emotions, or obsessive thoughts should be excluded. It is the state of peace alone that makes it possible to open up to each other! The state of relaxation is the state of openness and calm kindness towards other people.

“Always live in an emotionally light and positive state! Never allow yourselves any negative emotions, fear, and impatience! No excuses are accepted!

“Create a favorable energy field for others. Think not of yourselves, but of others!

“Avoid any preoccupation with your own problems!

“Learn these rules by heart!

“Never allow any controversies or discords among you! Eliminate any mutually repulsive moments completely. Do your best to promote mutual attraction!

At every word or action think about whether it may harm anyone around or arouse negative emotional reaction in another person.

“Think about the contribution to My work that you can make: each one must feel the degree of their involvement!

“If you want to be perfect — be perfect: act like God, think like God, love like God!

“Learn to love God the way He loves you! Ask — and you will be given! Ask — and I will teach you this!

“Your passionate and loving yearning for Me must be unceasing! Remember Me every second, try to observe Me and love Me! Let it be constant, no matter what you are doing! Your hands may be busy with doing anything, but your head must be thinking of Me and your heart must be brimming with love for Me!

“You have to learn to love Me! When you feel that you love Me, you will forget everything that worries, troubles you now. All this will be no more! It will vanish, like darkness vanishes with the first rays of the Sun!

“Always be kind-hearted to people near you — kind by the heart! Let the meaning of these words penetrate deeply inside you!

“I am giving you the prayer-meditation:

‘Lord! Unite our hearts in You!

‘Radiate us with Your light, permeating the darkness of our passions!

‘May all-consuming love expand

‘And fill our souls with Your exultation!

‘Oh, spread and grow in us, the seed of Lord!

‘Filling our hearts with the light of wisdom and knowledge!

‘May we always aspire towards You!

‘Amen.’

“Here is the subject for you to reflect upon. There exist three approaches:

“1. Self-perfection depends only on God.

“2. Only on personal efforts.

“3. On joint efforts.

“Hence the existence of different schools.

“You have to find your place in the Evolution on the Earth and in the Evolution of the universe!”

* * *

Our activity was watched by KGB officers. Their patience snapped, when I spotted bioenergetical darkening in the neck of an employee in our institute and told her that I see she is sick with angina. She — a physician — was amazed with this miracle and told about it to her friends. The husband of one of these friends was a KGB officer. As a result, I was immediately fired due to “staff reduction”. Though, according to the law, they could not do it: I was the leader of the local trade-union cell and recently registered several rationalization proposals. But I decided not to oppose, for it could make the situation even worse.

The director — a wise scientist and able physician — notified me in advance: shaken my hand and apologized that he could not help.

Some time later he too run into trouble. His daughter died and a burial service was arranged in church. It was denounced to KGB; he was fired and died of infarction.

… After my dismissal I felt that there was God’s Will behind it: He made good for me by setting KGB against me. I accepted this event more calmly than other people, though I did not know what to expect next.

My father worried most of all. He was exasperated at my composure. He shouted at me:

“Why do you keep silence? You were… fired!!!”

He expected violent reactions from me. But I was already a Christian and mystic…

Soon my father died…

When death came to him for the first time, he got a pain in the heart and called me. I came and saw by clairvoyance a black energetical entity like a swaddled baby; it touched the father’s heart. I managed to move it away and asked God to give the father easy painless death. The answer was:

“Your prayer is accepted.”

He died several days later of a stroke, when I was not at home. He fell to the floor, said calmly:

“Don’t worry, I will stand up now.”

And he stood up… without the body.

* * *

… After dismissal with remark in the file “creation of a religious sect”, for a long time I could not find a job. The way to official science was closed for me.

With some troubles I got a position of a laboratory assistant in botanical gardens. My job was to water the plants, to sweep the walks. I dined under a banana tree, swam in a pool with lotuses. The body worked and the mind was free for contemplation about God and the Path to Him. This is why God led me out of the institute!

I spent spare time in libraries. Now I read not medical works but spiritual literature. The strongest impression I gained from Philokalia [22,30], the Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching [20], and the books of G.I.Gurdjieff’s School [62 and other].

Being adherents of the Orthodoxy, we strictly observed all its fasts. Of course we understood that the fast is intended and has to be observed not as a simple limitation of nourishment but first of all as spiritual efforts of higher than usual level.

And the Lent I want to describe was especially ascetic for me.

At that time I had to dig frozen soil with a crowbar and pry it with a spade. God nevertheless advised me more and more limitations of the nourishment: I ate once per 2-3 days and it was mainly uncooked grass from a market.

I did it not in dejection and not for personal achievements, but in Commemoration of Jesus suffered for us.

At the end of the Lent, in Easter, we gathered in my home. Before the festal repast we said the prayer cited above — and suddenly felt the presence of Jesus in the room.

He thanked us for the fast and, addressing me, said that I have to create a spiritual School and that all its students have to give up drinking any kind of alcohol. Then He said:

“Now, you may eat!”

And left us overfilled with joy of so close contact with Him.

… I fulfilled these commandments of Him. I warned all people, who followed me and used the methods of the School, about inadmissibility of drinking any kind of alcohol. But some of them decided to try: can something wrong really happen because of a glass of wine drunk in New Year? … And they got to hospital with symptoms of strange sickness alike to an acute infectious disease.

… In some time KGB informed the direction of the botanic gardens that they employed “notorious sectarian”. Soon all the staff came to know about it. People started to come to look at the “notorious sectarian” as coming to excursion. I understood that it is time to quit and retired.

I got the job of stoker in countryside. For the first time I had my own cell — a small room in the boiler-house. I tended the furnace, read books, chopped firewood… — beatitude!

… But once I got a pain in a leg’s joint. The pain was so severe that I had to lie in bed.

“Lord, why?”

“You have to repent!”

I analyzed again everything of the deeds in this life that I could recall. But the pain relief did not come.

“Lord! What is the matter?”

“You have not repented the sins of your past life.”

I attuned to analysis of the past incarnation and He showed me what I have described in the beginning of the book.

Then He revealed to me the “prospects”. According to the law of karma I was to get in this life the following: for shot to the leg — that pain, which I had already, and for shot to the chest — a cut wound in my chest from hooligans in the village where I worked.

I thanked the Lord, and the leg recovered very quickly.

… Every one may think now what he or she would do having received such information…

… I used not to give up at difficulties. And I wanted to get rid quickly of all burden of the past, which prevented me to go further, to God.

I put on poor garments, which I did not pity to be cut and stained with blood, put a pouch with mumijo — to heal oneself with it in hospital — and went to seek these hooligans.

I approached one group of alcoholics — no, they do not attack me, to other group — again not, to the third, to the fourth — nothing again!

“Lord, what is the matter?!”

“It’s all right, relax! You have found the correct decision, and I score up your mental engagement as realization of your karma. You are free from those vices. Go to your boiler-room!

… That boiler-room belonged to a dorm of a musical college. The student of the college came to me, asked various questions. I answered many of them from the religious standpoint. The direction got to knew about this, and it caused dismay.

At that time a pipe broke. I was dismissed due to “premature end of the heating season”. Then the tube was replaced and a new stoker was employed…

Thus God changed educational situations and enriched me with experience of communication with many different people…

* * *

Soon after that I and Galina Vaver worked in forestry with alcoholics. Then — worked as pickers of medicinal herbs in a drugstore, then — in nursery school.

… The esoteric work in our group at that time was concentrated on searching for methods for chakra development. We continued to heal the sick. During seances demons were driven out of the sick. They can be seen by clairvoyance as dark moving energies. The healed people felt the moment of the demon exiting for example thus: “It was like a balloon burst — and I felt easier.”

God told us:

“Come to stay in the world of beauty! Let your life be filled with light and music of Nature, Harmony, Sun, and Love! I need you to advance into the subtle, higher state. Only after that will your further progress be possible!

“To ensure the mutual understanding in the group, — you have to use a language common to all. You should learn this language. This is the language of love, of emotional love!

“Let the principle of non-interference guide you in your relations with other people who have some mystic experience. Only observing this principle will you be able to help such people. You should not “edify” anyone or “make anyone open his eyes” now, you should just love them, forgiving them everything, without focusing attention on anything, and then help as much as possible.

“This is the general principle of work that must be strictly complied with in absolutely all cases. Then any disharmony will be eliminated.

“So, the first is anahata. Give it the maximum attention. This is what you should master first of all and in full measure and practice as well! Watch the people with whom you fail to contact adequately: it is through relations with them that you will get the best opportunity for developing anahata.

“Energy depletion during the healing process expands and strengthens your energy capacities, which allows channeling increasingly more intense energy streams through them. But it is not this that I want from you now. Use your powers to transform energy vibrations qualitatively. Power is not needed here, what is required is another quality of the work.

“Working in the conditions I am talking about, you will not exhaust your energy and will supply others with more subtle vibrations, that is with “food” of a better quality. This kind of help is of higher qualification.

“The work with energy also calls for tenderness, ability to let only subtle vibrations pass, deterring everything that is gross. This is the real art!

“Everyone should have a clear idea of what he is composed of, “dismantle” oneself into separate parts and mechanisms so that to “assemble” them later into the whole one and use this “machine” of the organism in line with his purposes.

“The system of chakras itself must be well-arranged too. Then the work will proceed as if on the keyboard, automatically.

“You know that each person has a system of chakras. The chakras are links of one chain constituting one large energetic system. Each chakra has the miraculous capability to ensure penetrating into other planes of the universe.

“With the help of chakras one can shift from one dimension into another and then come back.”

* * *

We started to visit Orthodox monasteries, lived and worked in them. This provided many valuable observations.

For example, in a monastery the rites of “exorcism” were performed. They were attempts to drive out demons with the help of special magical incantations-damnations. The ill people squeal, bark, croak, get seized with convulsions; the temple gets filled with obscene words.

These torments of the ills are of no help. Even if a demon exits from the ill inside the temple, he enters when the ill again outdoors. On the other hand, the rites of exorcism results in developing in the congregation such qualities as hatred and mystical fear. People are taught to fear and hate demons as well as other people suspecting them to be warlocks who set demons against you.

But it is the energy of the emotions of hatred and fear that is consonant to demons and is a pleasant food to them…

Demons enter the human bodies of the Will of God — and exit of His Will. They exit when the person withstood this trial by giving up hatred, fear, egoism and started to make efforts on growing love in oneself.

Such Orthodox centers performing the rites of exorcism gather hundreds and thousands of people — victims of the religious ignorance…

… We started to visit the temples of other religious confessions: a synagogue, a mosque, a Roman-Catholic church, prayer houses of Baptists, Pentecostalists, Lutherans, Adventists.

A direct observation of that which takes place in the non-material world in Protestant churches during the consecration of bread and wine is the same as that which happens in Orthodox churches during the consecration of Presanctified Gifts. Thus the statement of the Orthodoxs that Protestants allegedly “lost the Sacraments” is baseless: God gives His Love to all who aspires to Him!

… From some point, I decided for myself: I am a Christian but do not belong to any of existing Cherches. I belong to Christ!

* * *

In the Pskov-Pechorsky male monastery in the Pskov region a monk Savva lived. I had an occasion to meet him. He had the ability to know everything about people coming to him. One did not need to ask him questions aloud: he knew them already. And began to answer immediately.

… Once two woman came to him from Gatchina — a suburb of Saint Petersburg. They met him in a corridor. He greeted them and asked:

“Where did you come from?”

“From Petersburg”.

“Really? I thought you are from Gatchina. Well, then sometime I err…”

When he had left the body, he took the chance to make one more miracle: while the body was kept in a chapel for three days, in a well nearby the water disappeared. After the body had been moved away, the water appeared back…

… Another monk from this monastery who became famous at these years was Ioann Krestyankin. Formerly he was married, had children, received the education of physician, served as an army doctor during the World War II. But he had lost his family and after the war he took the vows and became a monk.

He did not perform the miracles described above. His miracle was of other kind: it was an intense field of blissful love of large spiritual heart present around his body! One could recognize his approaching at the distance of tens of meters even before having seen him with the eyes…

I knew Ioann Krestyankin very well, visited him in the monastery. Years later he came as a pure consciousness to visit me. And always repeated to me the same advice in different ways:

“Beware! There are so many enemies around you! Save yourself: only then will you serve deserving people!”

Incipience of a Spiritual School

Once being in Moscow, I visited for the first time the Tretyakovskaya gallery. The picture “Christ in desert” had a special impression on me. On it the artist I.N.Kramskoy portrayed Jesus deciding to go, despite the threat of Calvary, to save people by preaching to them the Heavenly Father and the Path to Him — the Path of Love.

I stood before this picture-icon for a long time making the same decision. And asked God to help me in this. I felt that my prayer was accepted.

But how to realize this in the conditions of total spying, in the country governed by a criminal atheistic gang — this I could not imagine.

After coming back to home I felt the urge to describe the methods of spiritual work based on the techniques that had been developed already: exercises of relaxation, of dynamical meditation, for chakras and meridians, for refinement of consciousness, and of course conversations on ethics.

When I finished it, God told me:

“Dress yourself and let’s go walking! I’ll guide!”

I dressed and went outdoors. He led me through the streets to a blind people’s home.

“Do you want,” He asked, “to help these people?”

“Yes.”

And in few days, “all of sudden”, I became acquainted with an instructor of a circle in a blind’s house of culture. He helped me to get employed there as an instructor of autogenic training.

In this way a broad approbation of the new methods started. I gave lectures on ethics, practical psychology, taught the methods psychical self-regulation. A lot of people attended these studies — the blind, their sighted friends, simply those who come to know about them.

The word chakras was forbidden for publications at that time in USSR. The official position of politicians, who were in control of the science then, consisted in the statement that “existence of chakras is not confirmed by the science”.

But I managed to find for the first time in USSR correct and at the same time “scientific-like” words by using which it was possible to legalize the problem of work with chakras. I denoted them as reflexogenic zones of the emotional-volitional system.

Indeed: only by moving the concentration of the consciousness in one or another of these reflexogenic zones, we achieve stable psychical states, which can be reproduced by all successful students!

This is why it the work with chakras that gives the most striking transformation of a person at the initial stages of mastering the psychical self-regulation.

In our work, the anahata chakra was always considered as most important one. This chakra is the initial “dwelling” of the spiritual heart, the structure known in ancient times to Orthodox mystics Hesychasts as well as to adherents of other religion trends.

These exercises develop the capability for cordial emotional love. On our courses people “unfroze”, cried of joy, learned subtle emotions!

After several years we published excerpts from responses of our students. It was the book Complex System of Psychical Self-regulation, which is available in main scientific and medical libraries. But one should read it paying no attention to “camouflaging” turns of speech that we had to use to make this material publishable at those years. Let me cite some statements of these students:

“During five months of taking the course I observed how my mood changes: the state close to neurasthenia changed to joyful attitude to life, pleasure of communication with other people; my capacity for work has increased significantly… Irritability and languor went away as well as painful reaction to variations of the air temperature and barometric pressure that distressed me very much. This obvious to me success I relate solely to exceptional effectiveness of the course of psychic self-regulation.”

“It was a big change in me from the point of view of ethics and morals. My attitude to the outer world and people has changed significantly. I understood that he can be truly happy whose life is for all society and not for oneself!”

“Who was I before taking the course? A 34 years old egoist, who could justify any own weakness and forgive oneself any unethical (putting it mildly) deed. The “conditions” provoked me for drinking wine weekly (or even more often), though I was sure that can stop it any moment (yet this went on for 15 years). It was the same with smoking. Moreover, so often I could not (and did not want) to stop my outbursts of anger, boorishness; I could humiliate, intentionally inflict pain. Subduing other people for the sake of satisfying my whims became naturalness of my life justified by the philosophy. A little more — and there would be no way back for me…

“I am afraid to tell that all this and many other things have been changed and corrected. I got the possibility to reappraise this and, having been terrified, began the work on transforming oneself. I see no other way for myself and hope to use the strength gained from this work for helping other people! Most of them live now as I lived before…

“I can only wonder at the fact that so much good, right knowledge was lying in me athwart because of the absence of the foundation.

“I don’t want to claim that others are the same monsters as me, but since I was able to get it, it was helpful to the others all the more…”

“My old ailments were osteochondrosis, intercostal neuralgia, tracheitis, laryngitis, gastritis, and some other troubles. Gradually all they go away; I got an appetite; at present there is no pain anymore; I became more cheerful and active on work. The last months I am in a good mood…

“This course brings love, good, generosity, unselfishness, honesty, scrupulosity, endurance, and many other positive qualities essential to every human.”

“… After a lot of emotional troubles I broke down. I didn’t want to see people; I wanted just to withdraw and keep silent. Often I didn’t want even to stay at home, so I run away somewhere…

“Now I’ve overcome this problem. I am not ill. During the course I watched myself and felt as with every day of exercises I became more confident and strong… I am so glad that I became a human again! I see the life in a different light now. I want to live!”

“… The main thing — sunny, joyful, youthful experience of life has come to me!… If I had been told about this a year ago, I would not have believed it.”

“I came to the course for the sake of health — and gained it indeed: got rid of a stomach ulcer and hypertension. But we were taught more important things as well. We’ve learned how to take off physical fatigue and stress; we were given the methods of physical, mental, and spiritual training; we’ve learned how to find ethically correct decisions in conflict situations. We were taught to love the nature, to see harmony and beauty in it, to love and conserve it. This made my life much richer. We have mastered the important skill of coming to an understanding with other people. We were taught the art of communicating with others — an indispensable part of the spiritual culture of a person. The life became more joyful, more harmonious, became filled with love and beauty!”

“I am 22 now. At 19 I saw neither purpose nor interest in life. I forgot what it means to be joyful. I felt only cold and pain in the soul. In childhood the spring awakening filled me joy, but in later age it could only emphasize the gloomy darkness of my inner world. I felt disharmony with life; I saw no meaning in it; I saw no light any more…

“Now I feel that I was born again! I have come to a new path, the only correct one. I gained again the light, the joy of life! I am able again to see the beauty of the world, nature, art! Now I know that I have to share the highest I have with other people, to serve people, to try to change this world to better — only in this case one can achieve the highest happiness and the highest harmony with the outer world! One has not to take from people but to give! And now I have that which I can give to everyone!”

“The awful feeling of depressing loneliness has gone away… The feeling of wonderful happiness has come!”

“I was diagnosed with ischemic heart disease, atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis, stenocardia. In addition to it: spondylosis, lobe density, frequent bronchitis, chronic pharyngitis, otitis etc. Also: chronic insomnia, hypertension. I constantly took erinit and other medications for heart pain and for edema of the face and legs. Chronic renal insufficiency. I breathed mainly through the mouth due to chronic nasopharyngeal diseases. Memory impairment. The mood is bad most of the time.

“After the course: insomnia went away after the first lessons; I became stably calm, even, restrained; there is no high blood pressure even at physical activity; to be honest, sometimes I got out of breath when going upstairs to the fifth floor; headache, vasospasms, edema of legs went away. At the beginning of the course pains in the heart remained for some time, but I feel no pain in the heart for more than one month. I take no medicine: there is no need for it…”

“My state half a year ago: bronchial asthma (5 years), frequent asthmatic attacks, short breath; I was depressed, short-tempered, unsociable. I lived on medicine and “ambulance”… Due to this — difficult situation in family, bad relationships with the husband, children annoyed me…

“Now there are no problems with breathing. I sleep without a pillow (before I could sleep only in the sitting position). I want to live! I want to care for children, seek creative activity. Children now feel much easier at home… I like to be with people, feel myself good with them. Thank you very much!”

“After the course I am in wonderful spirits as if the soul and heart are washed. I feel love for everything around me, and this is so wonderful!…”

“Since 15 years old I suffer from severe pains in the head, which sometime drove me to vomit; the fits lasted for several days… During the last months after the course I feel good…”

“Before the course my state was awful: I was exhausted of unbearable pain in the spine, despair, asphyxia… Now — revived!”

“The life in the communal flat became very quiet. Before the neighbors irritated me a lot. Sometime I hated them only for that I have to see them every day.”

“My body that was very ill, almost disabled, has lost 28 kg of weight; it became lively, mobile, lissome, agile! There was no serious sickness during the last year! Before I was sick three-six months yearly! All ominous symptoms, that frightened my physicians and predicted me blindness and paralysis in the near future, have gone away by now…”

“The course has given me so intense joy of communication with nature and people that my only desire is to master perfectly the ability to share it with other people in order to help them with realizing their dreams about harmonious and happy life!”

“The world around has changed to better, and now it’s so wonderful to live in this world; there are so many good, kind people around; and I want to give them warmth and joy!”

“We think that such course should take everyone!”

“Now I know: the meaning of life consists in serving people, in doing good to them, dedicating own life to this! Only for this purpose it makes sense to develop oneself!”

There were hundreds testimonies like this. But one should take into account that the students did not write about their religious motives: one could not write about this at those years.

* * *

… I managed to give in this house of culture several courses until two incidents took place almost simultaneously.

First, a son of a drunkard took our course and told the father is not going to drink with him any more. The father became indignant at this and complained to the direction of the house of culture and to the district committee of the Communist Party that I “destroy families”.

Second, as always I tried to heal all the sick whom I met. In particular, I decided to “wash” with the energy the eyes of a blind student, who could not distinguish between even light and darkness. After the first seance he exclaimed:

“Oh! I see: this is a window!”

I did the same to another blind, a friend of the first one, and he immediately saw my face for the first time.

But… the first one came to hate me for reminding him… how it is good to be sighted. It became senseless to continue the healing seances for him.

And to the second my face seemed too attractive for women, and his hatred grew from envy… They teamed up and wrote a complaint to the director that I distribute religious literature.

I was dismissed.

* * *

… Yet the foundation of the work was laid: I became confident in my abilities and in the value of the methods, and the methods themselves became famous.

I was promptly invited into another house of culture.

There were more and more students.

Special exercises allowed the atheists to experience themselves as souls, as lumps of consciousness. This fact prompted them to searching for the religious truths.

All students successfully advancing during the course received also direct baptism of the Holy Spirit through the meditation called Pranava.

Galina Vaver developed an esthetical program that supplemented and consolidated mine. It included classes on music, dance, painting, ikebana, studying the principles of the esthetics of creating so-called landscape gardens and parks, and meditations for refinement of the consciousness. Thus the second course was formed.

Let me give some meditations from it, which were intended for futher development of the consciousness as a spiritual heart and establishing it in subtle states:

Let’s feel the Earth below our feet — as a living organism.

The huge mass of the Earth, and we are on its surface.

The Earth — carrying on itself so many units of life!

Let’s submerge into the depth of its body, feel the pulsation, the rhythm of the Earth!

Become resonant with this rhythm!…

It fills the whole body, reverberates in each particle of the consciousness!

Together with the light of the Sun it nourishes with the energy of life all plants growing on the Earth’s surface!

Experience the world of plants.

Flood over the fields and meadows permeating into the life of grass and flowers!…

Feel the melody of the waving of wind…

Experience the green crowns of trees…

Hear the twittering of bird…

Look at the forests, fields, rivers and lakes, rising sun…

… Fly into the mountains.

Contemplate the mountainsides, rocky ledges, piled stones.

Penetrate into the character of mountains, experience their steadfastness, firmness, steadiness.

Each mountain has its own character

                        and its own song.

It’s possible to hear it if one flies on the top — and then submerge into the center of the mountain.

The mountain sings from within when it’s warmed by the sun, fanned by the wind.

Each mountain has its own song.

Fly from one mountain to another, see their tops aimed up — to the subtle harmony of the heaven!

See the endless sand of desert

                    and experience ourselves in all its grains...

Feel warm, velvet moss

                and sink in its soft carpet…

Become waving steppe grass…

Turn into trees

and rustle with green leafage…

Experience ourselves a young birch…

Turn into a branchy maple…,

      into a tall pine filled with evening light…,

      into a big, flat, covered with green moss stone under a tall birch…

Feel relaxation, calm, coolness…

The stone lied down to take a rest under a tree.

Nearby — a little stone, “a child”. Feel it.

In it there is reserved energy, spryness, and curiosity.

The little stone is firmly connected with the large one: they are family.

In full harmony the large stone teaches the small one about life…

Let’s fly to a seaside.

In shallow water there are a lot of stones.

Smooth, with sleek backs

                 they are basking in the sun…

Soft lap of waves, calls of gulls, and voices of stones

                     talking to each other…

We are on the seaside.

Early morning.

Slightly waving surface of the sea…

Through clear water one can see smooth stones, delicate seaweeds soaring in the volume of water…

Submerge into the pleasant coolness, feel its soft touch to the skin…

Dissolve in the water, experience ourselves in every bit of the sea…

… Light wind is blowing, it is touching slightly the surface…

Feel its tenderness…

We like the wind and want to become like it!…

We slip out of the water and become a wind!…

Rise to the heights of the sky, experience the expanse!…

Dissolve in the blue sky!…

… The wind blows flocks of white clouds on the sky…

We approach a cloud — and become it!…

We shine with our joyful whiteness!…

Approach a group of other clouds and join their united dance-flight!…

Spring. The snow has almost melted away. The fragrant ground appeared.

We are in the forest hearing the merry sounding of a creek.

It merges with songs of birds — into a single spring symphony!…

Everything has awaked in the forest!

From the unfrozen ground first blades of grass appear.

Buds are swelling…

Inhale the fragrance of the spring morning forest!

Experience the subtlest emotions in the smells, sounds, colors of spring!

Get imbued with the spring freshness!

… Let’s move to summer.

A summer morning, the sun is warming.

We are on a meadow full of flowers.

Butterflies are flying one after another, bumblebees are humming, bees are collecting nectar in the flowers…

Flowers and grass are drinking the sunlight.

The air above the meadow is permeated with summer languor…

Breathe in — and fill ourselves with the fragrance of the sweet-scented grass!

Flood as this scent over the meadow

                        and get imbued with summer!…

… Autumn has come.

The trees in the forest are dressed in festive attires.

The forest scents have become more pungent, they allure and excite those who like to gather mushrooms…

Autumn is rich and generous!

Enjoy the play of the colors of leaves!…

In the light of the setting sun and in the cries of migrating birds hear the autumn melody…

The forest colored by the bright sunset bewitches

                                and immerses us into contemplation…

… Winter.

Tenderness and purity of the white decoration gold-tinted by sun gives us subtle joy.

Quietness…

Firs are wintering cozily under the fluffy caps of snow…

Skis are creaking…

On the face — reflection of the deep joyful CALM permeated deeply everything around and inside — down to the bottom of the heart!…

* * *

In 1984 I was proposed to publish the methods of the first course. Thus my first book Art of Being Happy appeared. It was a sensation in those years. Samizdat increased its circulation by several times.

But KGB awakened, at last, and we were fired.

This was followed by a writ to appear in a prosecutor’s office. There was present also a newswoman from a newspaper — a spiteful aggressive communist, one of those who seek to hate others.

They made for me a “cross-examination”: How did I dare to write such a book with the word Love with a capital letter?! Who permitted me to publish it?! How could I recommend not to eat meat?! why do I call all this nonsense “spirituality” while everyone knows that “spirituality” means to visit cinema?!…

I defended myself by giving excerpts from the Program of the Communist Party. The prosecutor “diagnosed” me: “utopian communism”. He let me go. Good man!

But the newswoman published a dirty “denunciatory” article. She edited our dialog so that my words looked like sayings of a moron.

I decided not to distract to “vindicating my honor”, but to go further.

I felt pity only for the mother: she read it and was very upset.

An atheist or a skeptic may ask: “And what about your God — why didn’t He help you, didn’t save, didn’t protect?”

But it was He who created these cataclysms by directing the actions of people capable of dirty deeds! It is just that the situation had to change and we had to get new impulses for further development!

God planned to create the third course of our system.

… We lived without job and money, stored mushrooms, dried herbs for winter, collected and sold for recycling empty bottles.

Suddenly we were invited by our acquaintance to take a course in Tibetan lung-gom — meditative running. In Russia this technique was introduced by Jan Ivanovich Koltunov, a founder of a well-known spiritual School in Moscow.

The essence of this technique is that the meditations or pranayamas are given not to standing, sitting, or lying students, but to a group of students that runs in a park or forest. This makes running more easy and joyful and makes it possible to work with some meditations on a more favorable, higher energy level.

We mastered this technique, modified it to “our taste”, supplemented with winter swimming and new exercises for work in a room — and just in that time we were offered a job in a youth club headed by an enthusiast of the work of saving the people of our country from spiritual ignorance — Vladimir Vladimirovich Mikhailov. It is interesting that this club was called Cosmos as the club created by Koltunov.

We invited our former students who took the first two courses and began the work on the new place.

At that time our students grew up so that we could entrust them the initial stages of instruction. The work based on our methods expanded over the city. The new students bloomed like spring flowers!…

They were not only adults who bloomed and got healed but also children taken by parents to the forest. Winter swimming healed children from a number of diseases, including such typical and serious ailment as nocturnal incontinence of urine. These facts made me to pay more attention to spiritual work with children. Soon we began in the School various kinds of training for children including healing ones conducted in a psychoneurological child sanatorium. The experience accumulated in this work was summarized in the form of articles and published in the book [26].

“Flight of Dandelion Seeds”

… Hundreds of students took our courses. The School grew.

But several months later God put a stop to this felicity: He does not tolerate stagnation of the development of those who can advance further! He needed this system of methods to be developed “depthward”.

He told us:

“You perform your mission; I control the events.

“Your new program will be quite severe. Its purpose is to lift you to a principally new level. The old techniques will be used as well, but they will yield different results. You have to become strong warriors with unbending will!

“I am starting the second course of My School on the Earth, the second stage of trials. I will not tolerate your shortcomings! Only he will go with Me who proves capable of following My plan!

“Renunciation of earthly concerns and attachments should accompany your ascent! Everything earthly has to stay on the Earth!

“New conditions have to created so that you could be detached and go up! It will be a ‘vertical’ ascent! Your present earthly situation is unfavorable; this is quite serious. The way out is only upwards!

“Remember how I have been leading you before — step by step. And now there is a new height to be mastered!

“On the new stage you have to stop experiencing yourselves material… Be attentive to My information: you are My School!

“To be in God means to be totally included in the Ocean of His Consciousness!

“You have to be able to change the methods easily. Do not be afraid of breaking away from the final point of the old program!

“Dandelion can be an example for you. Its seeds break off and fly away without knowing where they will land. But on the place where they land, the new life will begin. This is the element of non-attachment, of freedom. Being detached from the old allows one to gain the new!

“You are to grow and to develop now, having found yourselves on the new place. In that new point, to which you will arrive, you will be able to see everything from a different angle. This moment will provide a new, fresh look at the world and at many truths.

“On the forthcoming stage of your work with Me you will come to a new landmark, where you will have to end the current stage, then make a take off again and begin a new cycle.

“You should never use any old method just out of habit. Always put emphasis on new techniques!

“Regard a spiritual School in the image of a snake. The snake moves forward; bad cells of its body fall away, and the healthy cells moves forward with the head.

“The head is a special organ. It is composed of several elements. The head determines the direction of movement. The head overcomes the obstacles first.

“The head as a part of the body signifies a vanguard group. Tongue is the personal search of each of its members. The destinies of all members of the group may be individual, but this does not prevent them from going together.

“You have little time, and there are a lot of things to be accomplished! I take to the path those who have come to Me and lead them by narrow trails. You cannot know all obstacles on the path; therefore you have to hold on to My Hand! Your attention must be directed at Me!

“At this stage, seek perfection through accepting everything! I am everywhere — in every manifestation of every creature!”

* * *

It started with an incident when my camping pot, which I used in our work in the forest to boil tea for the group, burned through on a fire. I took this as a “sign”, as a mark of the coming end.

Indeed, the authorities decided to battle us.

First, through the network of KGB informers, they spread slanderous gossip that I allegedly give lessons of “group sex”. “Participants” of these lessons, who in reality had never attended my group, told everyone special “details” of how it happened: “After the running, on a glade Antonov divided us into couples… With whom he himself? No, no! He himself didn’t do it. He just walked among us and… directed…” Could one not believe it?

The situation was aggravated by the fact that in parallel with me another instructor was giving lessons, whose name was also Vladimir. And in gossips and rumors some of his deeds were attributed to me.

He publicly “elaborated a theory” that “people like him have a right to have in the bedroom several beds”.

When a schoolgirl became pregnant from him, he haughtily told her that she has to have an abortion — otherwise she should leave the city.

… Once a student of him telephoned me and asked to give him a letter of recommendation.

“For what organization?”

“For police.”

“Why?”

He wavered, asked to write at least that he is a good person and that I know him…

I refused…

At last he told me that influenced by the subjects of studies in that group he once undressed and began, as he put it, “to pose” on the sill of a window of his flat located on the ground floor. This window faced a busy street.

“What for?!”

“They told us that if women pay attention, an energy exchange will happen…”

Women indeed paid attention — and called police…

“But why do you need a letter of recommendation?”

“I am in danger of being expelled from the Party^*…”

He did not manage to persuade me to write this leter. I suggested that he ask it from his instructor…

There were lovers of dirty gossiping among esotericists. One of them also recounted publicly those “details” adding to them more… Before I heard from him a very good statement that ethics is the main thing in one’s spiritual development. Yet, he did not apply this statement to his own life!

I decided not to “settle the affairs” with him^*. To such people I always had the emotion of so strong rejection that simply wiped them from my memory, even forgot their faces. And continued to go further without distracting attention to such things. Later I read the advice of Babaji [20]: “If you cannot respect someone, let him go away from your life!” I felt no hatred toward such people, but rather compassion: poor guy — he ruins his destiny!

… Then criminals of sport mafia were sent to punish me. But by mistake they came to our club when not I but other instructors — women — were conducting the class. The criminals decided not to attack the women, just took away the logbooks where all students were registered and “pressed” the director of the club who tried to stand against them. Then they sent these logbooks to the prosecution department with a letter where they accused us of activity with “elements of anti-sovietism”.

The prosecution department started an “investigation”: during half a year they searched for financial transgressions, information about “group sex”, “elements of anti-sovietism”… Since this investigation was ordered by KGB, they did it very thoroughly. They interrogated not only those who attended our courses but even their acquaintances… Yet the only transgression they found was use of hatha yoga asanas on our courses. Hatha yoga was forbidden in those years…

The prosecutor turned out to be a scrupulous person and advised us to retire “on our own will”. We retired.

… But how to continue the work? To construct the next courses? Of what?

We collected all the best students and began the search together. We tried to practice oriental martial arts, took some their methods for our program, the methods of work with hara, in particular.

At this time, Samzidat translations of the books of Carlos Castaneda appeared, which were remarkably done by Vladimir Maximov despite the risk of persecutions.

… Some people learned from these books only the information about use of the narcotic mushrooms and cactuses, but this was not interesting for us at all. We obtained from these books the information about places of power and exercises for bubbles of perception. So the work proceeded. New courses were developed.

With the help of yantras drawn by God through the hands of Galina Vaver we, for the first time, entered the Nirvanic state.

On this stage of work even the students chosen by us lost the understanding of the meaning of work and dropped out themselves.

Again only we two left and two other persons, who fell away little later. The closer we were to the summit — the less companions were going with us.

Then God set a new task for us: to expand the School’s activity to other cities and countries.

Thus Galina Vaver began the work in Moscow, and I — in Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Ukraine, and in some cities in Russia. Everywhere there were people capable of mastering several courses of our program — some mastered only one course, others — two, and some others — more courses. The capabilities of every person are different and correspond to one’s stage of psychogenesis (development of soul) and ontogenesis (development in the current incarnation).

God was telling us:

“Someone is preparing oneself for living, while another one is getting ready for dying… This is the difference between people.

“Neither of these tendencies should be considered absolute: children have to prepare themselves for the life on Earth, otherwise they will learn nothing. But if an old person acts in the same way and never thinks of death — it is ridiculous.

“A turning point must come at a certain moment. This moment is individual for everyone. This should happen naturally, no coercion is permitted. But people have to be informed about this.

“I repeat once again: you should not try to move to the second stage those who have not finished the first stage — this may be dangerous to their mental health!

“Only energetic and passionate people can go through the both stages. After the first stage is mastered, their energy has to be directed to mastering of the second stage.

“… It is important to find the methods of developing vigor in those students who lack it.

“Prior to advancing to Nirvana every one has to go through the period of getting maturing on the material plane. Otherwise, one may get confused and lost. Renunciation of the earthly should be voluntary and natural, and not forced or done as a volitional act. Intellectual decision has to be the incentive, in accord with the emotional ‘center’, with the blessing of the latter. Renunciation has to be timely.

“Each of you has to become completely included into Me — then no problems will remain!

“In particular, you have to discard your manner of thinking of yourselves as of separate beings.

“The borders of your self-awareness have to dissolve.

“The separate being must vanish, dissolve, sink in the Ocean of Unity of all the living!

“Every action has to originate not from oneself and return not to oneself. There is no individual energy at this; there is only the universal one. (In the ordinary religious practice, performance of certain rituals contributes to this). Such unity has to be experienced on all planes: from the dense to the subtlest ones. Realization of oneness with all people constitutes the fulfillment of the Law of Love that Jesus Christ brought to the Earth.

“Nothing has to be done without Me! You should always feel a constant contact with Me!

“Transcend the scale on which you operated before! Take a look at your life and the life around — from the new positions, using the cosmic time! You have to open yourselves up so that new — cosmic — time can enter you!

“To make it possible for Me to put this program into you, you had to get to where you are now. That which you have done is the minimum required for changing your way of being. I want to initiate you into the techniques that allow one to do much more. The next cycle of work will be dedicated to this.

“I want to see you ever free and loving Me! Get rid of everything that prevents you from being like this!

“To enter Me completely is difficult. To accomplish this, you have to have more power. And you can develop it only through interacting with Me in everything I say, in whatever I tell you to do.

“When you realize that there is nothing else for you to do on Earth — then you will be with Me. Otherwise, you will be always preoccupied.

“To become One with Me — this should be the central thought for you now! Hurry to put it into practice!

“The reason of the soul’s confusion and suffering is rooted in its being separate from God.

“Adequate existence on the non-manifested plane will be possible solely for those who possess wisdom. One has to become baked — like a pancake — on the both sides. When this is realized, the soul acquires tranquility and only then the smooth existence will begin.

“Always be facing God!

“Remember: everyone goes to God only by oneself. No one can be lead into Him by the hand. Let people — each one of them! — be guided to Me only by their desire to know Me, rather than by your or someone else’s example! People must enter Me not because of their inherent imitative tendency! The meditation technique is not the main thing. It is only love that decides everything here — Love for Me!

“Learn from Me in everything! And leave everyone alone with Me.

“Submerge into the Beingness of God! Those who are invited — enter the eternal life!”

* * *

Don Juan and Genaro^* described by Carlos Castaneda saw our serious interest in using the spiritual heritage of their School and became our Companions during the work in the forest and our Teachers. This allowed us to expand significantly the ecological aspect of our activity. First, it concerned the work with plants of power and places of power and later — with Divine Fire as well.

About the Work with Plants

We tell you all the time about love. It is not possible to come to God without having learned to love His Creation and then God Himself.

Love is altruism, a giving of oneself!

The true love can not be egocentric!

“Love” to oneself is a perversion of the very idea of love!

On the spiritual Path there can be no such a formula: “I love you therefore you have to belong to me and love me!”

We can learn the true altruistic love in the sphere of sexual relationships, in upbringing of children, through service to people in the workplace (if we regard our work as a service rather than a means of making money and getting other boons), and even waiting in line for something of which very little is left and I see that another one needs this more than I do…

Love as compassion, tenderness, patience, readiness for self-sacrifice and so on is the basis of ethics. And the ethical component is the foundation, the pivot of a growing spiritual person.

Not only spiritual leaders can help us learn to love, not only other people, but ordinary plants as well — if we want to learn it!

Plants also are living beings, even capable of reacting emotionally! Plants, as we are, are physical bodies with incarnated units of life in them; they are evolving souls going through of the vegetal level of development.

It is in this way we have to regard plants if we want to learn love!

Plants are also living beings! And we can learn to love any such being, thus developing the capacity for emotional love in ourselves! The more objects every one of us has learned to love — the wider, more perfect our love will be!

But there are other possibilities of esoteric work with plants.

For example, every plant, like any other incarnate being, has a bioenergy shell — a cocoon — around its body. One can train oneself in perceiving the bounds of cocoons with the hands; one can develop clairvoyance by trying to learn to see them. And it is easier to see cocoons of other beings from one’s own cocoon having spread the consciousness in it.

But there are even more interesting possibilities. For example, for training oneself as a consciousness, one can become a tree. To do this one has to stand, for example, at the tree’s trunk, the back turned towards it, attune to the tree with emotional love — and “flow” with the consciousness from anahata through the back into the body of the tree. Then we can easily experience ourselves as a pine, for example; we can look at the world around from its body, as if with its eyes. At that, one’s “I” disappears.

It is extremely important to learn to disappear! There is the opposite way typical of some occult and black magic schools — the way of growing one’s “I”: “I am the master here! I will command! Everyone has to revere me!…” Contrary to this, in sound religious schools they cultivate lowliness of mind — lowly sense of oneself. And this is not a dogmatic goal as an end in itself! There is a really principal meaning in this. One becomes able to merge with God and thus to finish victoriously the personal evolution only having learned to be nothing, having learned to disappear — to disappear in God: disappear in Him in order to become Him!

One cannot “break into” God. One can only disappear in God. This is why in buddhi yoga the stage of Nirvana in Ishvara is preceded by the stage of Nirodhi where one learns to transfer the “I” into the state of “non-I”.

One should keep this in mind from the very beginning of the Path and be very cautious about the growth of arrogance, pride, egocentrism in oneself. Otherwise it will be very difficult to overcome it later.

… Also with the help of plants we can become subtler by attuning to them. Plant species differ in the subtlety-coarseness characteristic. For instance, the oak is energetically the coarsest type of trees of the North European part of Russia. On the contrary, pines, spruces, birches (namely, downy birch species), some poplars — one can learn much from them!

He who easily falls into the coarse energetic states, who is not able of abandoning them cannot be called a spiritual person! But the trees mentioned above always live in the state of calm and subtlety!

Bioenergetical activity of a tree depends on the season. Birches give their subtlety to us most intensely in spring, in the period of active sap movement. The best season for working with pines is summer, when it is hot. And with firs it is better to work during the cool seasons of the year.

There exist also bioenergetic differences between plants of the same species.

Plants growing in unfavorable conditions, for example in thicket or on inadequate soil, etc, are weak bioenergetically. And healthy, sound trees growing in open space are usually full of energy.

* * *

And in conclusion of this chapter, let us dwell on the ethics of relationships with plants.

Some bioenergetic specialists in Russia fantasized that some trees share their energy and other trees take energy. And that one can get energy from the former and should beware of the latter as of “vampires” and so on. One of the reasons for such fantasy is scarcity of information that can be obtained with the help of a divining rod and pendulum compared to the possibility to enter into harmonic relations of emotional love with plants, merging by the consciousness with them.

In reality there are no plants whatsoever that “drain” energy from people! And we too have no ethical right to have the consumeristic attitude toward the vital force of other living beings!

Let us pay attention to this! This is the principal point of the spiritual ethics. On the spiritual path there is no place for consumerism! There is only place for love-giving, love-harmony!

The one who advances spiritually establishes relationships of love with plants. Let us approach a tree with love, attune with it in the harmony of subtle emotions, give it our love-tenderness, — and then it will respond with its love!

Only when each one of the partners directs the vector of own love not toward oneself, but toward the partner — only then is it possible to achieve the true harmony between a human and a plant, between a human and a human, between a human and God!

Places of Power

Now we are going to discuss a very interesting ecological phenomenon, which has a great significance for spiritual work. This is so called places of power.

This term was introduced by Juan Matus; we discussed His Teachings in detail in the book [20].

Places of power are geographic zones, sometimes large, sometimes small, which possess energy fields that are of significance for people.

It should be noted right away that there is a similar and sometimes closely related phenomenon — energy fields created by plants and technical devices (transformers, high voltage lines and so on).

Places of power may be found on the surface of the Earth, underground (for example, in the subway), above the surface, as well as in water reservoirs.

The nature of the majority of places of power can be explained as follows. The Earth (as a planet) is a multidimensional structure. In it, all manifestations of the multidimensional space are present — from the physical matter — to the plane of the Creator. Depending on the structure of the crystal lattice of the Earth as a whole or of some parts of its crust, the energy fields of certain spatial dimensions in certain places may dominate or, on the contrary, may be manifested weaker. So places of power look like “holes” in dense spatial dimensions “filled” with the energy of a certain subtle energy layer.

According to Juan Matus, places of power are subdivided into positive and negative ones. To the first category He assigned the places which give their energy to people, to the second — the places which take energy.

However our experience demonstrates that the first ones are not necessarily favorable and the latter — unfavorable. For example, there are places of power that take away energy, and this can be used for purging the organism of coarse, pathogenic energies, that is for healing. And vice versa, some places of power possessing excessive energy are detrimental rather than beneficial if their energy is coarse or contains undesirable informational characteristics, inducing, for example, anxiety, depression and so on.

This is why it is better to subdivide places of power into positive and negative ones according to the criterion of their objective significance. In this case places with excess of unfavorable energies belong to the category of negative places of power.

It is necessary to point out that some authors sometimes try to define places of power through the terms abnormal or geopathic zones. This is not right. They are not “abnormal”, i.e. “incorrect”. All the more, neither fits all places of power the term geopathic zones, that is “inherent to the Earth zones that cause diseases”.

Places of power can be found with the help of divining rods and pendulums. But, in contradistinction to a developed consciousness these tools provide very poor information about this phenomenon. With the help of a divining rod or pendulum one can only say that here is a place of power, only that “there is something over here”. The biolocation method in this case is akin to the situation when a poor-sighted person tries to determine whether it is light or dark here. But a person with normal vision perceives the whole spectrum of colors, and not only colors but also the emotional quality of their combinations and iridescence, and sees life in them! This is the difference between mechanical, instrumental determination of the energy gradients on places of power and perceiving them directly with one’s own organism through attuning oneself as a developed consciousness with their multidimensional manifestations.

Places of power are, truly, multifarious!

There are places that selectively activate anahata, or vishudha, or the front meridian, giving us bliss.

And there are places causing “hypertrophied” sense of one’s “I” — inflated and arrogant! One may show to the disciples how disgusting such an “I” is — so that they learn not to be like this.

There are also places that cause “unmotivated” joy, laughter in everyone present there.

Also there are places of power depleting people energetically; this can result in “dead” tiredness and diseases if one settles there to live or just to take a rest.

On other places, one can heal oneself, quickly restore one’s strength.

About 50 kilometers from Saint Petersburg, there is a negative place of power approximately 100 meters in diameter inducing a strong feeling of sadness and loneliness. Unfortunately this place covers a part of a village. The destiny of the families settled here is pitiable: on this place it is not possible to experience any joy of communication with each other…

Still other places of power induce anxiety, fear. A person who understands the reason can make just a few steps backwards. But ignorant one easily can fall a prey to mystical horror.

There also exist places that cause aggressiveness, the state of “drunken animosity”. And so forth. (Other examples one can find in the book [20,22]).

So we see that this knowledge can make the life of each one of us easier, while ignorance can result in a lot of unnecessary difficulties.

Knowledge allows one to use negative places of power for good. For example, we used in our work the place of “loneliness and sadness” mentioned above for cognizing the state of solitariness. Not loneliness of one’s body in isolation from other people but the state of being solitary in front of the Creator — that is detachment from everything earthly, when I remain with Him face-to-face in the Ocean of the multidimensional universe.

* * *

Therefore, negative places of power can be subdivided into two groups:

1) those draining the energy needed by the organism;

2) those creating undesirable psychical states.

Now let us list the variants of positive places of power.

The first group is the places of power containing a surplus of favorable energy, which they easily give to people. In some cases this energy can be more subtle, in others — less subtle. Sometimes there is a narrow range of energies which differ by the criterion of “subtlety-coarseness”, sometimes — a wide range. The energy, which is not sufficiently subtle, can be used by means of moving it around the microcosmic orbit and sublimating it this way into subtler energies. And these subtler energies can be used for filling the organism, and thus for performing crystallization. That is the energy for crystallization can be obtained not only from food: one can get it directly from space on places of power.

The second group of positive places of power consists of those which activate and develop certain energy structure of the organism (a chakra, a meridian, or something else), and produce thus useful activation of the emotional-volitional or intellectual function of the organism.

In the third group there are places of power making a consciousness to assume certain form (or, in the language of Juan Matus, shifting the location of the assemblage point). Such their quality allows one to train mobility, “elasticity” of the consciousness, developing oneself as a consciousness — active and strong.

Places of power of the fourth group shift the consciousness (provided it is sufficiently developed) into a certain spatial dimension. This is also a kind of gymnastics for consciousness. Juan Matus said that prior to starting really large, serious work, a seeker has to shift the assemblage point tens of thousands times. The consciousness has to become mobile, moving easily along the whole scale of the range of emanations within the multidimensional space, become able of acting at any distances. This is what a developed consciousness is!

The fifth group corresponds to the places of power which imprint in themselves the state of a person (or people). Such are, for example, places of power formed in places of meditations or on graves of spirituality highly advanced people^*.

And there are places of power which are working sites of Divine Teachers. (See more details about this in [20,22]).

Places of power exist everywhere. I came across them in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Warsaw, Prague, in towns, in woods, in swamps, in mountains.

… A question may naturally arise: how to find them?

The first thing to do is to move the consciousness out of the head; the mind has to be silent.

Secondly, during this we have to search for God, the Path to Him rather than solving our earthly problems.

Thirdly, in the beginning of such practice the following technique may prove helpful. Let us feel ourselves dressed in wide, bell-formed skirts, which start right from the neck. Then fill the space under this skirt with ourselves. Draw also the head of the consciousness under the skirt. And in this state roll easily along the surface of the Earth, among fields, meadows, woods…

This is it — a wonderful lesson in the ecology of multidimensional space!

* * *

Ecology is the science that studies relationships of an organism with its environment. There is ecology of plants, ecology of animals, ecology of human being. The task of the latter, in the higher sense, is to establish the Harmony of each person with the entire environment, including other people, air, water, all forms of life around, God. The art of psychic self-regulation as a powerful means of such harmonization may be considered as one of the practical methods of the ecology of human being.

Stones of Power

Sometimes even stones possess unique energetical qualities.

For instance, I had a small piece of silicon from a Krishna’s favorite place of power. In it one may see with clairvoyance as if a holographic portrait of Krishna.

Once I found a piece of granite which contained a self-replenishing charge of energy adequate to the subtle energy of anahata. I used it to charge the anahatas of the beginner students — as an exercise for training their sensitivity. It was enough to take it in hand — and its energy, on itself, flowed through the arm into the chakra. After that, the stone became empty. But twenty minutes later it could be used again.

* * *

Most often I found such stones in the Moravian mountains in Czech Republic. Once I was walking there with a group of students from one of the Czech spiritual centers. In this walk, I picked up from the ground pieces of granite, which possessed strong healing properties. Some of the students had diseased organs, which could be treated with these stones. Some of the stones weighed 2-3 kilograms, but people, having had felt their power, “clung” to them, put them carefully into the rucksacks, and carried reverentially.

But then I saw that the students got anxious about something… They spoke with agitation in Czech, with looks and nods in my direction… Soon a “delegation” came to me for “negotiations”. It turned out that the Czechs became worried: whether I am going to take these stones with me when leaving to Russia?…

I exclaimed jokingly:

“No! Czech stones belong to the Czechs! In Russia there are a lot of native stones! How could you think that I am going to take these stones from you?!”

“Why, after all you are a ‘big brother’”… (In that epoch, it was ordered to call Russian people “big brothers” in all countries occupied by the Soviet Army…)

Psychosomatics

During the last two decades of the twentieth century, in Russia they spoke a lot about a crisis of the modern “western” medicine. It manifested as a fact that despite the number of physicians has increased, new drugs have been invented, the medicine equipment has been improved, etc, the number of the sick has not decreased, it increases. In the medical world they had even a sad joke: “The more doctors, the larger is the number of the sick”… Among the signs of this crisis is poor health of the physicians themselves — it is hardly better than the health of other people…

As a justification of this situation, a concept emerged that diseases are something natural for man.

Some of the sick became even proud of their serious illnesses and believe that they deserve more respect because of this; they spent a few months per year on sick leave.

The majority of people adopted a passive attitude to own health. “Our task is to be sick; your task is to treat us!”, they say to doctors…

… The main methodological fault of the “western” medicine consists in its directing the efforts of doctors and scientists not to removing the causes of diseases but to “smoothing down” their symptoms.

Every disease has a whole chain of interrelated causes. For example, one got a runny nose. An obvious cause of this is inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes. One of the possible causes of this inflammation is multiplication of microbes or viruses, whose activity resulted in it. If we decide that the reason is someone’s sneezing near our patient and direct all our efforts only to suppression of the microbes or viruses, we would be wrong and can make harm to the patient. Yet, such cases happen quite often.

The really important reason for such a situation lies deeper. The point is that microbes, viruses and other similar parasites affect mainly the organisms which are potentially sick already, which are weak, vulnerable. Thus, the main cause can be, for example, contamination of the organism with bad energies and salts of uric acid — which is a result of using bodies of killed animals for food… And this causative factor has a deeper cause — ethical one — which led to such a way of nutrition. Therefore, it is the ethics that we have to consider first…

Another factor is one’s disregard of the methods of cold tempering (tempering the body).

… One of the factors harmful for health is one’s staying in rooms where there is much tobacco’s smoke; usually such rooms are filled also with bad human energies…

Even more harmful are one’s own pernicious habits — smoking, drinking, etc…

All these are violation of the personal ecology…

So, who is to be blamed for this?

… One of the reasons can the habit to live in coarse emotional states, which are destructive for the organism…

It can be also close communication with energetically coarse people…

… Let’s ask ourselves: how often do we enjoy the healing harmony of communion with living nature?

Do we often address God for help and guidance, trying to feel His Will for us?

We should seek the ecological harmony in relationships not only with our environment around but also with God!

He teaches us that the Path to Him goes through the development of the SPIRITUAL HEART, through LOVE and CALM!

He Himself is LOVE! He dwells in CALM — in His Abode! Therefore, if we want to become closer to Him — to the Master of our destinies — we have to grow ourselves as LOVE in CALM!

… It happens very often that one falls sick as a result of getting emotionally involved in some difficult situation and entering the state of negative-emotional stress!

Such negative emotions as fear, irritation, anxiety in many cases result in loss of the energy potential of the organism and lead to the state of vulnerability to adverse outer influences, including energetical ones. This concerns not only infarctions and strokes, but even mere tonsillitis can result from excessive emotional agitation caused by haste!

Training in psychical self-regulation allows one to eliminate this cause of diseases and even more — to change one’s own future destiny!

After all, those who used to live in coarse negative emotional states continue to live in these states after the death of the body. And this is what hell is!

Yet, it is enough to develop oneself as a spiritual heart and learn to live steadfastly in the states of calm and love — and paradise is guaranteed!

… It is known that the probability to become ill with cancer is much higher for the people who smoke and drink alcohol, and for those who eat “killed” food. Cancer became so usual that it is called “century illness”… But isn’t its main reason irresponsibility of people who surrendered to pernicious habits?

… From my personal experience of work with thousands of people, I can conclude that anyone can be healthy if wants to. But for this, one has to make efforts on the path to spiritual Perfection!

By the way, I tried to recall when I was sick with common cold last time — it was 10 or 20 years ago…

And when were you?

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In medicine there is a direction called psychosomatics. Its main concept, based on established facts, consists in asserting that somatic (i.e. corporal) ailments are of “nervous” (and looking deeper — of ethical) origin.

But in general, psychosomatics was not widely recognized, because it had no general theoretical basis explaining the origin of all diseases, not just some of them.

And the reason for this is clear: psychosomatics was created as an atheistic direction of thought.

However, if one takes into account

— that there is God — the Main Goal of our aspirations, our Main Teacher,

— that there is religious meaning of our lives, which consists in the necessity to develop ourselves — according to the intent of the Creator,

— that He constantly tries to guide us to the true Path, using sometimes painful means — when we behave wrong, —

then everything becomes clear. This constitutes the missing main part of the theoretical basis of psychosomatics!

Based on the knowledge presented in this and our other books, we can trace the cause of concrete ailments to ethical imperfections.

Such an approach allows one to regard any illness as a sign of an ethical error or fault of the ill person. When this deeper reason is understood, one just needs to plan out the way to its elimination and thus to somatic recovery.

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Vulnerability of the body’s organs to outer harmful factors increases significantly if they lack energy, which is provided by chakras corresponding segmentally to the organs.

For example, there is a clear dependence between

anahata’s defects or a lack of its development — and cardiovascular or pulmonary diseases,

energetical disharmonies in the manipura — and diseases of the digestive apparatus,

the same problems of the svadhistana — and chronic diseases of the urogenital organs,

the same problems of the muladhara — and neurotic manifestations,

of the vishudha — and diseases of the neck,

of the head chakras — and disorders in the head organs.

Dedicated work with chakras supplemented by conversations on ethics and by other psycho-energetical methods can be an effective means of helping people sick with various serious diseases.

From the information about correspondence between the level of chakras’ development and the features of the character [22], it becomes clear that there is interdependence between our ethical flaws and predisposition toward certain diseases.

The state of the chakras and main meridians of the organism is that cause-and-effect link which relates one’s ethics with one’s health.

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The system an organ and its function can be developed through natural functioning (or weakened, made atrophy through inactivity).

Another approach is special “artificial” methods of training such a system. For example, they can be exercises for cleansing and development of the chakras and meridians, which are a part of the system of psychical self-regulation developed by us.

These both approaches can yield a positive result, but the latter yields it much quicker.

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The idea of man’s achieving ecological harmony implies, first of all, benevolence and making no harm (as much as possible) to other people and all living beings; this should go together with an active constructive position in life.

The path of transforming oneself is hard and long (yet, it is infinitely joyful)!

On this path, the knowledge about the spiritual Perfection has to transfer, as G.I.Gurdjieff said [62], into the beingness of each one of us. That is, we have to really transform, under influence of knowledge and practical efforts on changing oneself, and not just to memorize some fine words, quotes, and sayings.

Different is deepness of encompassing of the ethical principles by different people. A former criminal may pledge oneself not to kill anymore and see this as the acme of perfection. But another person harms others neither by deed, nor by word, nor by thought. Such a person would not drop a used ticket on a pavement, would not leave garbage in the forest — in order not to make to others even this little harm of violation of the purity and esthetical harmony of the environment.

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The Perfection comprises three main components: Love, Wisdom, Power. And all three of them we have to develop in ourselves to full realization.

The way of spiritual self-perfection, which is free from serious errors, begins with development of Love in oneself. It is Love that forms the basis, foundation of the true Wisdom and Power.

Wisdom is stayed on Love. It is composed of broad knowledge about the world, God, and man, of the ability to create intellectually. It is manifested, in particular, in the ability to lead other people to the Perfection, understanding the vast diversity of the different people’s paths.

The true Power has to base on Love and Wisdom. It consists not just in the power of the muscles. And, of course, it is not about the aggressive desire to become superior to the adversaries: this is the false path of developing egoism in oneself. The true power is, in particular, the perfection of the body, but, first and foremost, it is the perfection of the egoless Will of the Consciousness based on Love and Wisdom. The concept of Power includes also an energy component called personal power. A power lacking Love and Wisdom is of no value.

… In this connection, let us view once again “withdrawals” from the society with the purpose of living in seclusion in mountains, woods, deserts, advertised by some religious preachers. It is one thing if one spends a vacation in solitary reflections, but is quite another if one unconditionally withdraws from the society as from the “enemy” of spiritual self-perfection. It is an illusion to try to develop love for everything without having learning to love some particular people! And what kind of wisdom can be found in self-isolation if the wisdom’s foundation is laid through aquatinting oneself with the knowledge contained in books, through a living communion with spiritually advanced people, through developing in oneself the ability to help people by serving them. And is it true power that develops when one avoids “worldly” difficulties? (With kind, soft humor V.Sventsitskii narrates about such monks-hermits fearing women and robbers — [43]).

… Many believe that power is about one’s being armed or hard-fisted, being able to abuse, to play mean tricks on others, to express outbursts of anger. Yet the true spiritual Power is the power in Love and Wisdom, in subtlety and purity.

The Laws of Spiritual Development

Now we are going to discuss the laws of yoga formulated in part by our predecessors and in part — in the process of work of our School.

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The first of them is the law of LOVE.

From the very beginning and till the very end of our spiritual advancement we have to learn Love! It is not enough to desire to learn Love! It is not enough to learn the precepts of Love by rote!

There is a love “from mind” and there is a love “from heart”.

The former is a necessary preparatory stage on the Path of mastering love: we have to develop a strong desire to become able to love and we should first try to comprehend this intellectually.

But the love “from heart”, that is an emotion born in the anahata chakra is that stable foundation on which the Divine Love can be grown — subtle, wise, powerful, all-embracing.

The whole spiritual Path consists of mastering love, for it is not possible to learn to love the Creator if we do not have a developed ability of emotional love! And let me repeat once again that love can not be developed unless we have a developed structure generating this psychical state — the spiritual heart!

Therefore, harmonious development of a disciple of a spiritual School is ensured only in the case when work with the spiritual heart is given the highest priority.

Love is that which unites man with man, allows one to find harmony with the whole of the environment in the multidimensional space, that which being fully developed allows one to reach the union with God.

Man has no other possibility to realize the supreme religious precepts set forth in the New Testament, in the Bhagavad Gita, and in other Messages of the Creator to people — other than through developed Love!

That School is true one which professes the principle of Love.

“God is Love”, taught Jesus. What does it mean? It means that if we are to fulfill the principal precept of the New Testament: “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect!”, we must here, on the Earth, in these bodies, transform ourselves into the Divine Love.

In other words, we have to learn to love each other, all beings, the whole Creation — as God loves. Only then we can merge into Him and become Him, a Part of Him.

God constantly tells people about this Mergence [20-22,25]. In the Bhagavad Gita, in particular, there are the following words of God: “Direct your thoughts to Me, submerge yourself as a consciousness into Me — verily then you will live in Me!”. Jesus told the same to His disciples (it is written in The Book of Thomas the Contender Writing to the Perfect of Apostle Thomas): through our religious efforts we must merge with the King (that is with God-the-Father) forever [46]. The same was taught by Babaji and is being taught now by Sathya Sai Baba [20-22,25,34,41,42,60 and others].

So the Teachings of Jesus Christ and the Avatars working in India and other countries agree in what concerns both the final Goal as They define it and the methodology of the spiritual progress. These Teachings of different Avatars complement one another very well. The same truths are expressed in them in slightly different language, and this helps us to comprehend them.

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The second law is the law of gradual development.

What is the difference between people? We are used to see the differences in age and sex of our bodies, color of the skin, nationality and so forth. But all this is not that important as, for example, differences in the psychogenetic age — the age of a soul, which lives many times in different physical bodies on the way to its final and full self-realization.

The knowledge about this was lost in mass Christianity, though Jesus Christ did teach this. For instance, Jesus said that John the Baptist is Elias who came but was not recognized. Due to this misunderstanding the modern mass Christianity lacks an integral, strictly scientific concept of man’s evolution as well as serious methodology of spiritual development.

So there is a distinction between people by the age of the soul. Another distinction — is how people have used the possibility of self-development given to them in their incarnations. For example, some are diligent in studying while others are lazy. There are also those who prefer rowdy behavior — instead of studying…

People differ very much from each other from the point of their desires and abilities. Taking this into account, we can understand why God encourages the development of different spiritual trends and schools on the Earth. The more numerous they are the greater number of people can choose for themselves the program of self-development optimal at the given moment of one’s personal evolution. In this they acquire both positive and negative experience. And gaining the latter is no less important!

Let us remember: only well experienced and therefore wise person can quickly advance on the spiritual Path. Yet how can one become like this? — only by gaining life experience…

So everyone needs one’s own methods at the given moment. And the fact that some people have gathered for having a class in yoga does not mean that all of them will come together to the Perfection. No They may go a part of the Path together and after that most of them will disperse in search for their own ways. And again they will make both correct and erroneous steps, suffer because of the latter, watch mistakes of other people, learn from their mistakes — it is not so painful as learning from own mistakes.

No one is entitled to coerce someone else to go specific path, because everyone is free to choose one’s own path! God, in particular, precisely declared it through the Quran: there must be no compulsion in religion! [20].

… There are various schemes reflecting the regularities in man’s spiritual growth. There are schemes of psychotypes expounded by Gurdjieff [62], or the scheme given by Yukteswar [64], or the stages of psychogenesis described in the Bhagavad Gita [20].

Now let us consider one of such schemes known in Hinduism.

At the beginning any person — both in psychogenesis (development in a series of incarnations) and in ontogenesis (individual development within one incarnation) is a student. On this state people are unable to create anything on their own. He is learning. He is learning, in particular, by helping others in the capacity of a servant (in the widest and positive sense of this word, not just as a domestic help).

Later, having acquired a lot of knowledge and experience, having developed an intellect, one becomes a grihastha (householder).

That one can be called grihastha who having reached certain age in the current incarnation possesses own household and family, is able of supporting materially not only oneself but also others and has raised children. A person who is “standing firmly on the feet” — that one is grihastha!

But grihasthas can be of a different scale. That is a grihastha can be “minor” and “major”. “Major” grihastha is the one who, for example, heads a whole spiritual direction. For such a grihastha his or her “family” is all his/her followers, or all people of the Earth.

Many religious trends and Schools lack this idea of regularity of man’s development and make attempts to bring all adepts immediately to the state of sannyasi (monk) which is only detrimental to them.

… In Hinduism there is one more scheme, described in the Bhagavad Gita — the stages of varnas.

The first stage in it is analogous to the stage of a disciple of the previous scheme. At the beginning man is capable of nothing on his own. His social role can be only auxiliary. Rendering help to others he learns. On this stage one is called shudra.

The next stage is vaishya. This includes peasants, craftsmen, merchants, that is people who are successful in managing own business. Such people are grihasthas.

Then they become kshatriyas — leaders. This is a still higher execution of the grihastha’s functions, ascent to the next stage of social activity. It is on this stage that such aspects of the Perfection as Wisdom and Power develop best, and also the background for expansion of Love is created.

A true grihastha-kshatriya must possess both strong intellect and power, which cannot be developed merely by lifting weights. Only then he or she can advance successfully.

One has to master all these stages in order to become able to cognize Brahman (the Holy Spirit) and become in this way a member of the brahman varna.

There are no stages leading to the Perfection other than these. That is why it is necessary to emphasize that the tendency to abandon prematurely the social activity is wrong. After all, only by going through many “earthly” situations we can acquire that which is absolutely indispensable on the final stages of approaching to God.

… According to the three main aspects of the Perfection, there are three directions of the spiritual work.

The first is the ethical one, represented by two stages: karma yoga — the teachings about ethically correct action, and bhakti yoga — the teachings about love-devotion to God.

The second is the intellectual direction: jnani yoga.

The third is the psychoenergetic direction represented by hatha yoga (preparatory stage), raja yoga (work with the organism’s energies) and buddhi yoga — the stage where the consciousness is developed on the scale much larger than the size of the physical body. Buddhi yoga is the highest stage on the spiritual Path. It is on this stage that one realizes in full the cognition of God and Mergence with the Creator.

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The third law is the law of three octaves formulated by Georgii Gurdjieff [62]. It states that only that one can advance quickly and surely on the spiritual Path who works in three directions simultaneously. The first direction is concrete work on changing oneself. The second one is spiritual help to some particular people. The third direction implies taking an active part in the life of a spiritual association of people — a spiritual School, a community, a group — and experiencing oneself a member of it.

If one of the “octaves” is omitted, that is if we do not work in one of these directions, then unavoidably we come to a standstill in the development.

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The fourth law is the law of sinusoid.

Each spiritual ascent is inevitably followed by the tendency of descent. This is manifested especially clearly in the psycho energetic aspect of the development. After we have had an achievement, we begin to lose the attained level. But if we desire, we can make efforts and super-efforts to come back to the height achieved! In this way we can secure ourselves on the levels we have reached. And thus God tests our yearning for Him by taking away our achievements for a time. By this means He also prevents us from moving at speed which is too high for us. In other words, this clearly shows how much we need our last achievements at the given moment.

And let us remember that it is God Who fulfills this law for us. It is He Who puts us to trial by taking away that which He has just given to us Himself. He does this to make us stronger in our achievements, to make us firmer, so that we do not “break” under the burden, which is beyond our capacities yet.

So, they who are capable and willing to advance quickly and ceaselessly can successfully go through the descending parts of the path if they know about this law.

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The fifth law is the law of moving into the depth of the multidimensional space on the Path to God.

We know already that God is not in the sky and there is no sense in flying into space or climbing mountains in search for Him. There is no localized God there. He is present there, of course, but not to a greater extent than elsewhere. The Divine Consciousness is present everywhere, both outside of our bodies and inside them. But one can perceive It only through mastering the ability to submerge into the depth of the multidimensional space.

This path starts with refinement of the emotional sphere, with refusing coarse emotional states, with mastering the ability of living in positive emotions only, with purging the organism of coarse energies. The latter is impossible without switching to the killing-free diet. Killing-free diet is also in accordance with the Bible’s commandment “You shall not kill!”.

Contributing to the task of refinement is attunement with subtle states of nature, with corresponding works of art, communication with children, with spiritually advanced people.

Helpful for this is meditative work, techniques of raja yoga and later of buddhi yoga, including the work on places of power.

Only through this we can enter into the Abode of God-the-Father, settle there and dissolve in Him. In this way we come to the state which Jesus described by the words “I and the Father are one” [20,22].

Let me stress that only a strictly monotheistic outlook comprising the knowledge about the multidimensionality of space where the Creator is understood as the Primordial Consciousness existing in the subtlest plane of the universe — only such an outlook allows one to traverse this Path quickly.

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The sixth law is the law of intellectual readiness.

The higher truths that we are discussing now cannot be understood by people who are on the initial stages of their evolution in human bodies as well as by those who are moving with the “downward” stream. One has to have a preliminary intellectual readiness for encompassing each new portion of the high spiritual skills.

In this process it is very important that the one desirous to receive new initiation into sacred knowledge has to develop harmoniously in all three directions: intellectual, ethical, and psycho-energetic ones. If this harmony is violated and development proceeds just along the latter line, it can be only detrimental. In particular, a weak intellect can break under the load induced by penetration into the depths of multidimensional universe.

Let me note also that adequate ethical development is not possible if the corresponding intellectual basis is absent. Otherwise one gains only superficial understanding of the ethical principles.

An example of this is realization of the commandment “You shall not kill!”. Whom and when is it forbidden to kill?

Only I must not be killed?

Or I must not kill as well?

But what if I am attacked?

And what if a war is waged?

And if my friends are attacked?

And what about animals — not to kill them also?

Is it permitted to kill mosquitoes?

And what about killing plants for food and other needs?

Similar “difficult” questions can be asked concerning any of 10 commandments received by Moses. And all these questions God asks us in theoretical and practical tasks in the School called “Earth” as we are gaining maturity.

Another example — observance of the commandment “Do not steal!”.

One can refrain from stealing money and property of other people.

But what about stopping stealing the freedom of other people when we impose our will on them — how many of us reach this level of morality?

And what if we consider the same approach to our relationships with animals?

And what about stealing bioenergy from other people when we desire something from them?

And how can we reconcile the commandment “Do not commit adultery!” — with the commandment of the New Testament “Give to everyone who asks of you!”?

Also, it is quite difficult to abstain from the sin of judging others! But first of all, it is necessary to understand the distinction between judging and critical evaluation of other people’s actions.

And what about “righteous wrath” or the “right” of “denunciation”, which some people “legitimatized” in contravention of the prohibition to judge? Do we realize that “righteous wrath” and “ denunciation“ pave the road to hell just the same as the anger of condemnation does? Not those go to hell who formally “sinned” once or several times but those who accustomed themselves while living in the body to coarse emotional states, who did not learn the emotional cordial love, did not refine themselves through tenderness — fearing maybe to “commit a sin”?

And they who try in some Catholic countries to deprive others of the right to abortion — are not they sinners even greater than those having abortion?

All these are complicated questions of ethics; to solve them one has to have a developed intellect. And it is so easy to frighten people of weak intellect by their “deadly sin”, cast them into the deep of chronic fear and thus dooming them to hell!…

… And so many difficult questions arise to those who are getting acquainted with life in other spatial dimensions! It is so easy to become confused and get lost there!

There is no sense in trying to teach junior schoolchildren the things that are studied in universities! The same is true for the spiritual work. To receive confidential knowledge a student should be mature enough.

First the student has to master the skills of a grihastha. Only a kshatriya can become a brahman!

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The seventh law is the law of power in subtlety.

It is important to know that we should develop not the coarse power, but the refined one.

Therefore, one should be taught first the refinement and only then — power. In other words, it is better to make powerful the subtlety rather than the initial coarseness!

Harmonious development of one’s power begins with making the body healthy, lithe, pure, physically strong. This can be achieved through hatha yoga and other systems of body training.

The second stage is the development of bioenergetic structures of the organism: chakras and hara. This is a stage of raja yoga.

The third stage is buddhi yoga, where a student, who is prepared in every aspect, crystallizes the consciousness and practically cognizes the highest spatial dimensions.

Let me emphasize that it makes sense to develop the aspect of Power only if considerable potentials of Love and Wisdom are accumulated. Otherwise, possessing power may be extremely harmful.

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The eighth law is the law of aspiration to God. Let me remind you the words from the Bhagavad Gita: “Direct your thoughts to Me, submerge yourself as a consciousness into Me — verily then you will live in Me!”

In Hinduism there is a very valuable likening of our senses (functions of the organs of sense) to tentacles (indriyas). When looking we stretch from our eyes “tentacles” and touch the objects with them. When listening we do the same from our ears... Even when we think about an object, we direct the indriyas of the mind to it.

On the religious Path, the task is to direct the indriyas of the mind and later of the consciousness towards God in order to merge finally with Him. The latter is realized through the methods of buddhi yoga: it is they that allow one to solve this problem radically.

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The ninth law is the law of destroying the “I”. The ultimate goal of man — Mergence with the Creator — can be achieved only through taming of the lower “I”.

This is realized with the help of special techniques of buddhi yoga. A preparatory stage for it is mastering the state of Nirodhi — one of the steps of Nirvana, when the consciousness is transferred into the state of “non-I” or total reciprocity.

But it makes sense to strive to realization of this task from the very beginning of the Path by fostering humility, lowliness in oneself.

Let us note how much attention Jesus Christ paid to this direction of the spiritual work with disciples. It is describe in the New Testament and presented in the integral form in our book Ecopsychology [22].

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The tenth law is the law of breaking ties with the” earthly”.

Realization of this principle results in attainment of the state of Mukti (Moksha). It is reached through mastering the techniques of control over the indriyas and destruction of the lower self in the state of Nirodhi.

The state of Mukti can be achieved only through the methods of buddhi yoga preceded by the stages of raja yoga.

… Let me emphasize that it makes no sense to try to realize this without having mastered the preceding stages of personal growth in “earthly” affairs and on the path of the spiritual ascent. Merging with the Creator must be necessarily preceded by fulfillment of the tenth law.

On all stages of the spiritual ascent man may remain involved into the social life, what was demonstrated in particular, by Krishna, Gautama Buddha and after Them — by Jesus, Babaji, Rajneesh, Sathya Sai Baba, and Others.

The social role of such Adepts becomes more and more perfect as They advance on the higher steps of the Path, because They act not out of personal interest or attachment to the activity itself — but for the good of all, using the ever-growing Wisdom.

Raja Yoga and Buddhi Yoga: Their Place in the Evolution

The word Yoga (starting with a capital letter) means Unity, Mergence with God in the aspect of the Creator, Ishvara. If this word starts with a small letter, it means Path to this ultimate Goal of the evolution of individual souls (consciousnesses). These meanings fully correspond to the meaning of the Latin word religion.

But what is God?

We have to understand that by this word people mean different things. G.I.Gurdjieff was quite right when he said that everyone has their own religion. Indeed it is difficult to find two persons who regard similarly their religious path, even if they belong to the same religious tradition.

Some people use this word to denote a god-spirit from a mythological, fairy pantheon.

Some groups of people knew concrete Divine Teachers — Representatives of the Creator — and worshipped Them.

But later — in India through Krishna, in Judaea through Jewish prophets, in China through Huang Di, in Arabia through Muhammad — people received a more valuable — from the methodological standpoint — concept of One Primordial Consciousness of the Creator dwelling in Its Abode. Of course, in different languages this Consciousness was called by different words. It is present in the deepest (related to the material world) plane (layer, loka, eon) of the multidimensional universe. This understanding of the word God is the central one, and it formed the basis of monotheism.

There is one more monotheistic meaning of the word God: God as the Absolute, that is ALL (the Creator coessential with His Creation and thus composing with it One Organism).^*

One may speak of God in personal aspect. Such approach is admissible within monotheism since the Universal Creator can incarnate Parts of Himself into human bodies. But here one has to be careful — to avoid becoming a worshipper of the material body of a Divine Teacher — instead of aspiring to cognition of Him as a Divine Consciousness and to Mergence with Him in the Abode of the Creator.

The concept of God also includes His Manifestations as the Holy Spirit (Brahman). This concerns, first of all, non-incarnate Divine Teachers coming out from the Abode of the Creator into the Creation.

In order to be able to understand other people speaking of God and to make it possible for them to understand us, we have to keep in mind these differences.

… Now let us come to the topic of Evolution.

The most complete knowledge about this can be found in the Bhagavad Gita [20]. This book comprises spiritual talks of Arjuna with Divine Krishna. It is the Bhagavad Gita that gives the most comprehensive knowledge about what is God, what is man, what is the meaning of human life and what main laws determine the way of man’s evolution.

One may view the evolution of humankind, the evolution of some particular person, and the evolution of God. All these are very closely related, as you will see from the further information.

God’s evolution proceeds in cycles; in the modern astronomy they are called cosmic pulsations. In Sanskrit these cycles are called Manvantaras. Each Manvantara consists of Kalpa: the time period when there is a manifested world on the material plane and Pralaya: the time period when the manifested world disappears. In the Bhagavad Gita these stages are likened to a “Day” and a “Night” of Brahman (the Holy Spirit).

Each Manvantara begins with the “creation of the world” (in Bible’s language) and ends with the “end of the world” — when the conditions of in the given part of the Creation are exhausted.

By the beginning of each Manvantara, God in the aspect of Absolute is manifested in His three main components:

a) Supreme Purusha — that is the Creator, who remains the Witness and Master of the purusha’s evolution in prakriti; He is also the Goal of the personal evolution of each unit of life.

b) Higher Purusha — Units of Divine Consciousnesses coming out from the Supreme Purusha; They are Divine Teachers representing the Creator. In the aggregate sense, They are called Brahman or Holy Spirit.

c) protoprakriti — that is protomatter (energy of which matter is formed later);

d) protopurusha — that is energy of which souls are created, which will develop in the conditions created for this purpose in prakriti.

As a result of each Manvantara, the Creator adds to Himself those units of purusha evolving in physical bodies which managed to go the whole cycle of their personal evolution and attained the Divine Perfection.

Everything in the Creation is meant for that purpose. This is the meaning of everything taking place in the universe. The Evolution of God Himself goes by this and consists in this.

By the way, some mystics raise the question of disappearance of time in meditations, hence, they infer, objective time does not exist. No, it does exist, but it can be different. The earthly time is measured by periods of Earth’s rotation around its axis (24 hours) and around the Sun (year). These units of objective earthly time were divided by people into conventional units: months, hours, minutes, seconds. But on the scale of galaxies, the time is measured by Manvantaras.

Now let us consider the evolution of purusha.

It starts with formation of the first rudiments of the initially diffusive energy on the crystalline lattice of planet’s minerals.

Then the formed lump of energy is incarnated into bodies of protozoan organisms, later into more complex vegetal, then animal bodies and develops in them from incarnation to incarnation.

Then the evolution of such souls proceeds in human bodies.

That is each one of us, humans, has a vast prehistory of incarnations into various bodies.

Some of us went through a number of human incarnations, while others became humans for the first time. And one should not expect that the latter can embrace the religious field of thinking. Such people lead a different life now — not because they are bad, but because they are young, whatever age of their present physical bodies may be. At some time in the future they will also become highly educated thinkers. And later they will possibly fulfill the supreme predestination of man — will become Souls developed to the Perfection and will merge with the Divine Consciousness.

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Jesus said: be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect; that is, aspire to the Divine Perfection, become like God (Matt 5:48).

How can one approach the realization of this supreme goal?

There is also the following precept in the New Testament: God is Spirit and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). That is man has to perceive oneself not as a body but as a spirit, i.e. a consciousness, a lump of consciousness. And as a consciousness, man must build relationships with God-Spirit, with the Universal Supreme Consciousness — in order to achieve Mergence with Him as a result.

In the Book for the Perfect of Apostle Thomas the following is said about this final act of human evolution: by making spiritual efforts man has to merge with the Father (in the book — “with the King”) and stay in this Mergence forever [20,46].

The Bhagavad Gita discusses the same subject to a far greater detail: it presents the fundamentals of buddhi yoga — the teachings about development of the consciousness [20].

There are also such words in it: if you devote the whole of your life without reservations to Me, you will finally come to Me being consumed by the Atman. (9:34)

These are great and magnificent words, one of the best meditations brought to us by the Bhagavad Gita: we reach Mergence with God by letting ourselves be consumed…

This was emphasized not only by Krishna and Jesus: the same idea was achieved also by Chinese alchemists, Tibetan Buddhists, Mexican Indians-Toltecs, and Muslim Sufis [20,25,33,38] — adepts from spiritual traditions which may seem to be quite different to first look… Why did it happen so? Because all people are guided on the spiritual Path by the same God!

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So we have a real possibility to submerge forever in the Embrace of our Great Universal Beloved — in the Embrace of God!

But for this, first, our love for Him must be strong enough and second, we have to become worthy of this Mergence, that is become Perfect.

What do we need to do to realize this purpose?

… Let us come back to considering the evolutionary chain: stones — plants — animals — human beings — God.

It turns out that stones have some kind of peculiar rudiments of memory. And the one who has certain experience can read the information from stones’ memory.

To do this, one need to move with the consciousness inside the stone — to the time when the stone was lying on the seashore and gulls were flying over it… One may see episodes of war… It is possible to read strong human emotions from the stone’s memory… For instance, on the former Finnish lands of Karelian Isthmus, I found a stone that served as a bench near a house and witnessed a high harmony and love of a young Finnish family and later — its utter distress when at the time of the Word War II, Stalin’s troops approached and this family had to abandon their dear home… Many of my companions could not restrain tears on this place…

Plants possess not only memory, but also emotions (of course, of their — “vegetal” — level). All of us, no doubt, heard or read about the experiments of Baxter, which later were repeated in many other laboratories of different countries [39 and other]. Their essence is in instrumental registration of the plant’s electrophysiological response to one’s emotion directed at the plant from a distance of a few meters; for example, an aggressive intent to sear its leaf…

Animals possess not only memory and emotions, but also intelligence; they can think — sometimes even better than many people…

As for the humans, they have an additional possibility — the possibility to develop the consciousness.

But one should not think that everyone has a developed consciousness. This is not true! To gain it one has to go through a number of evolutionary stages in human bodies.

What is a consciousness? In the primitive atheistic materialism they spoke of “public consciousness”, or the term consciousness was identified with the term intellect. But in the fundamental psychology this word denotes a lump of self-aware energy.

Drawing a parallel with Sanskrit — in it the mind is termed manas and the developed consciousness — buddhi.

But to comprehend this in fullness is possible only for those who have developed themselves as consciousnesses with the help of the methods of buddhi yoga. Yet, for them the consciousness is an empirical reality rather than a mere word. Even in India there are religious schools for whose followers consciousness has not become a reality yet, and the word buddhi they interpret as supreme mind. The same error is typical of translations of the Indian philosophical literature to European languages.

So, a consciousness is energy — the energy which is perceived as an individual “I”.

And the mind is just one of the functions of the consciousness. The brain is an apparatus meant for linking the consciousness incarnated in the body — with the outer environment.

While the consciousness is poorly developed, one cannot separate it in self-perception from the mind and the material body.

Hence, man’s task is to develop, increase the amount of this energy to the cosmic scale, doing it in the highest, subtlest planes of the multidimensional space, — so that later, having destroyed one’s own “I” with the help of special techniques of buddhi yoga to infuse oneself — as a developed consciousness — into the Consciousness of the Creator.

Practical experience of our School demonstrates that an individual normally has the volume of consciousness approximately of the size of a tennis ball. But after a few courses of buddhi yoga, one can reach any point within the bounds of Earth and space around it with the crystallized (i.e. developed) consciousness. (Of course, not all who came to the first course are capable to achieve this).

Such an effect is achieved through the methods of increasing the mobility of consciousness, along with making it more subtle, and later by “growing” (crystallizing) it with the help of special techniques — first within the bioenergetic shell around the body (cocoon), and then — outside of it.

The main provider of energy for the consciousness in the process of crystallization is ordinary food. That is the energy released in the process of biochemical conversion of prakriti particles in our bodies is used for forming the lower purusha at first and then — the Higher and the Supreme Purusha. It is for this purpose that incarnations are needed for, in particular! And this is the reason why the evolution of human consciousnesses cannot proceed in the non-incarnate state!

Once again — purusha “feeds on” prakriti — in order to grow. It is for this purpose that the whole material Creation exists: to place material physical bodies in it, to give them the mechanism of self-reproduction, and to grow in them the energy of purusha.

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But to grow the lump of consciousness is not a simple matter: this is not at all a mechanical process. To make it all clear, let us consider in detail the problem of man’s evolution in a series of incarnations.

There are many schemes of people’s psychotypes that reflect the stages of psychogenesis. The simplest scheme is the description of gunas presented in the Bhagavad Gita.

The first guna is tamas, that is darkness, stupidity, ignorance.

The second guna is rajas, that is the stage when man starts the active process of self-development, transcends dumb primitiveness, grows as a fighter, and then — as a leader, organizer of other people.

The third guna is sattva, that is purity, harmony, bliss, happiness.

But Krishna taught in the Bhagavad Gita that one should not be fall into the trap of sattva, because sattva may become an attachment due to the happiness that man experiences on this stage of development. Krishna calls us to disengage ourselves resolutely from sattva and go further — to the Creator — through further efforts on self-transformation.

But it is not possible to bypass the guna of sattva, since it is the only one that can secure man in subtlety and harmony, in peace.

Even so it is not possible to bypass the rajas guna, since it is in this guna that one develops vigor, gains the power of the consciousness necessary for further advancement. Sattva in man has to be supported with the power and vigor developed in the rajas guna. Sattva has to be powerful!

In the past I made several serious mistakes in estimation of the abilities of some of my companions, when I mistook the ones who were weak in energy and intellect but had achieved subtlety thanks to taking our first courses, — for those possessing the true sattva. Then these people fell very painfully down to their initial tamas when the classes were over and work with them in our School ended. It turned out that they were not capable of standing firmly on their feet yet.

Thus I had to conclude the following:

— first — it is necessary to discern true sattva from the tamas dressed up with sattva;

— second — the serious spiritual work is not meant for the weak;

So instructors of the high stages of yoga must thoroughly study the psychogenesis of their students: whether they have mastered rajas, whether they have become firm in sattva, and so on.

It is also helpful to determine the students’ psychotypes by applying several different scales to them. This allows one to get a more full picture and avoid mistakes.

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We have considered already another scale — Indian varnas as they are outlined in the Bhagavad Gita.

According to this scale, in the beginning one belongs to the varna of shudras. These are incarnate young souls. Such people are capable of nothing on their own. They need to learn from more mature (psychogenetically) people, helping them in their work.

Then one becomes a vaishya, having developed the intellect so that becomes able to start one’s own business, becomes a craftsman, or a farmer, or a merchant, etc.

Having developed oneself in the preceding varna, one naturally comes to the varna of kshatriyas, that is one becomes a leader, organizer, a selfless fighter.

Having gained the supreme spiritual knowledge and went practical religious path first as a disciple and then as a religious leader, man attains with the help of the methods of buddhi yoga the Nirvana in Brahman, becomes a brahman, a representative of the highest varna. From this stage onecan advance further.

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Let us review now one more scale of psychotypes.^*

According to it, in the beginning one is aware of oneself as of the physical body only. This takes place both in psychogenetic and in ontogenetic youth. And this in necessary: a child has to learn first living on the Earth, on the material plane, developing through this. Children should not be taken away from the material plane with by teaching them, for example, complex meditations. They also should not be initiated to the religious truths too profound for their age.

Let me repeat once again: any individual, first, has to gain strength in interactions with the material plane — to gain intellectual power, knowledge, experience of solving arising problems. Only after this, one can safely engage into serious spiritual practice! Only those who have learned to stand firmly on their feet can be selected for such practice.

So, man on the first stage sees only the material plane and perceives oneself only as a material body.

The second stage is called the astral plane. On this stage, people start to understand and feel that there is more to the physical matter. They begin to feel non-identity with the physical body, make attempts to gain better understanding of this by means of the mystical practice, in particular. They are not capable of perceiving the Divine levels of consciousness yet, since they are not subtle and therefore cannot enter these levels. Thus they often get involved in relations with non-incarnate beings of the coarse spatial dimensions and sometimes consider them as their “teachers” and often as “God”.

The cosmic astral plane is the abode of less developed, less evolutionary advanced non-incarnate beings, including people.

It is the state on the subtlety-coarseness scale habitual during the life in the body that defines where the soul finds itself after death of the body — in hell, in paradise, or in the Creator’s Abode. That is why the salvational tendency to avoid gross emotional states and to make the consciousness more subtle is of so great importance from the evolutionary standpoint.

Hell is the coarsest non-material layers of the multidimensional universe, the destiny of those who have developed in themselves the hellish qualities during the life in the body. This can result from neglect of fighting one’s own vices, active cultivation of them, as well as from attunement with inhabitants of hell.

This is why it is most advisable for everyone to “pass” the astral stage of the development as quickly as possible, since it is very easy to slip off to hell on this stage. For this purpose, one has to pay the most serious attention to ethic work on oneself in accordance with the commandments of God.

The evolutionary stage following the astral plane is the mental plane. People come to this stage when they begin serious intellectual search of the Highest Truth and develop the intellect through this. In particular, one has to understand that on the Path to God, to happiness the ethics should be given the most serious attention. A person preparing mentally for the further spiritual work is a representative of the mental plane.

Those who have achieved a high stage of ethic purification, who have cognized the subtle states of consciousness, and have become steady in them — those are on the next stage — on the supramental plane.

The next stage of development is the subdivine plane. It is the stage of true spiritual leaders.

After this stage, man ascends to the stage called in Sanskrit Brahman, or the Holy Spirit in English. Who are they who have attained this stage? — Those entered with their consciousnesses — developed both qualitatively and quantitatively — into the Consciousness of Brahman, and accustomed themselves to living in this state.

Through further efforts on self-development one can reach the last stage — to settle with the consciousness in the Abode of the Creator and merge with Him. Thus man finishes personal evolution, personal ascent, and then learns to live in the Abode of the Creator and to act from it.

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According to another scale of psychotypes, in the beginning of the spiritual Path man is a disciple.

Then man has to become a householder — a grihastha. In the narrow sense, a grihastha is the one who got a family, have learned to support oneself and other people. In other words, a grihastha is the one who has developed oneself to such an extent that is capable of doing this. In a wider sense, a grihastha is an organizer of people working on the social scale, for example, a good manager, a political leader, etc.

The grihastha stage incorporates two stages of the varna scheme of psychotypes: vaishyas and kshatriyas.

The next stage is sannyasa, when one has to abandon the “fuss”, in which he or she has been developing up to now, and has to stay face-to-face with God, being busy only with spiritual service and with further self-development.

There are some religious trends where people believe that it is enough only to pray day after day using a few standard prayers, to lament over one’s own faults, to take part in some religious ceremonies — and that is all. They even bar children from sports, from reading books other than religious ones, from going to cinema, from watching TV… This perniciously affects the children’s development. Why? Because man is represented not by a single growing feature but by a great number of them. Every sprout is a feature, quality. And every one of us has to come to the Perfection not through one feature, but through the whole field. Each good quality has to be grown to maturity, and all the weeds have to be rooted out.

Only the complex development allows one to advance on the Path quickly. This is why one has to know sexual love, maternity or paternity, to change as many jobs as possible — in order to learn more, to travel on the Earth — to observe the life of other nations; one’s body has to be strong and developed, for only in a harmoniously developed body one can go successfully though the stages of the Spiritual Path.

This is why sport is essential for man, especially when the body is young.

One needs to go also through dynamic, rhythmic dances, when young, because they help to develop the ability of being energetic.

People lacking this ability cannot succeed on the spiritual Path, for they have no inner power.

And one’s education has to be broad as much as possible, since the development of Wisdom starts with accumulation of specific knowledge.

When people asked me: what should we read? — I answered: everything! Read even the leading articles of the Pravda^* newspaper — to learn to distinguish false from truth, to develop in oneself the capability for critical evaluation of information. Through this one develops Wisdom.

Wisdom is a) possession of a large amount of various kinds of specific knowledge, including the supreme one, plus b) the ability to use and integrate it, and the ability to create intellectually. Each one of us has to become a creator! This quality is mastered on the stage of grihastha. It is not possible to become Brahman without having become an intellectual creator on the grihastha stage!

Let us note the fact that the technically and scientifically developed modern society provides its members with richest possibilities for developing the intellect! There is no doubt, that the progress of science contributes much to the evolutionary process!

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And now let us discuss the psychoenergetic aspect of spiritual development, spiritual work. It consists of three stages:

Among the tasks of the first stage is initial efforts on putting the body and its energies in order. This helps to get rid of some diseases. These tasks can be accomplished by the methods of hatha yoga and, for example, with the help of dynamic exercises of the Chinese gymnastics, or some European gymnastic systems, and so on. Yet, without ethical self-correction (it concerns the subject of nutrition as well) one cannot achieve success.

The second stage, that of raja yoga, implies special work on cleansing and developing specific energy systems of the organism — chakras and meridians and also refinement of the consciousness. Among other things, one has to learn:

1. — to move with the lump of consciousness from one chakra to another. The criterion that the exercise is done correctly is the ability to look from the chakras. The main emphasis in this work has to be put on the chakra anahata.

2. — to work with the microcosmic orbit, what facilitates cleansing and refinement of the energies inside the body and the cocoon.

3. — to make sushumna and the middle meridian clean [22].

If the student has mastered this and is ready to come to next stages (by the intellectual and ethical criteria; this depends to a big extent on student’s psychogenetic and ontogenetic age), then student’s development can be continued with the help of buddhi yoga. It consists of the following stages:

1. — Withdrawal of the consciousness from the body into the cocoon, distributing it there and then — dividing the cocoon into two parts — the upper one (the region of the head and neck) and the lower one (the region of the trunk and legs).

2. — Development of the lower bubble of perception in the scale of the planet by filling the planet’s form with oneself as a subtle spiritual heart.

3. — Cognition of Nirvana, including its dynamic aspect. Mastering the state of Nirodhi through the meditation of total reciprocity. At that, one achieves the stage of “non-I”. All this and the subsequent is possible to achieve only through transformation of oneself as a spiritual heart, and doing it on the scale of the planet.

— The advanced consciousness established in the state of subtle spiritual heart — easily merges with various Manifestations of God. Having cognized empirically the entire structure of the Absolute, such a spiritual warrior is accepted by the Creator in His Abode, gradually accustoms oneself to the state of Mergence with the Creator, and then acts from the Abode in the world of evolving purusha. The latter is possible both from non-incarnate state and from the state possessing a physical body.

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So we have considered the place of raja yoga and buddhi yoga in the Evolution of the Universal Consciousness. We started this analysis from the point when individual forms of life come into being and traced their development to the very end — that is when they lose their individualities in Mergence with the Creator.

This is the Evolution of God. And this is our place in it.

About Meditation

Meditation is the highest method of the religious practice in various directions of religion.

It is meditation as a method that allows one to cognize Living God and — at the very end — to come to Mergence with Him.

Meditation is the work of the consciousness. The mind occupied with worldly concerns has to be silent in meditation, and there are special techniques which help one to learn stopping the work of the mind for the time needed for meditation. This is called mastering the mental pause. [22]

A consciousness (in the fundamental psychology) is energy aware of itself. This is human being itself, in the embodied or unembodied state. A synonym of the word consciousness is the word soul.

To any reasonable person it must be clear that such expressions as “my (his, her) soul”, say nothing of “to lose soul” or “save our souls” are wrong and cause by misunderstanding. I repeat: soul is human being itself.

As for the mind, it is a function of the consciousness, thus a person who parted with the body due to its death still possesses the mind and the memory.

But the mind of an incarnate person works in connection with the brain.

A consciousness can be developed from tiny sizes up to the cosmic sizes. The process of such development of the consciousness is called crystallization. It is meditation and crystallization that Jesus talked about when He said “God is Spirit, and they who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). That is, one must perceive oneself not as the body but as spiritual substance —consciousness — and one, as a developed consciousness, has to aspire to the Consciousness of the Creator, Who is Spirit, the Most Perfect Consciousness.

Man can go through the initial stages of the development in raja yoga.

The further advancement is realized on the stage called by Krishna buddhi yoga — the yoga of consciousness which is actively developed.

In the classic scheme of advancement through the stages of spiritual self-perfection developed by Patanjali [22], meditation (dhyana) is on the seventh place. It is preceded by learning the ethical principles, the rules of hygiene, bringing the body into a healthy state with the help of special complexes of physical exercises (hatha yoga), cleansing and development of chakras and bioenergy channels, learning to control the mind and many other thins. In the Patanjali’s scheme, meditation leads to Samadhi, where large work with the help of the methods of buddhi yoga takes place.

Sathya Sai Baba says the following about the highest stage of mastering meditation: “The correct meditation is merging of all thoughts and senses with God,… when all actions originate from the God’s Consciousness and not from the mind of man” [20,60].

There are three aspects of the Perfection: Love, Wisdom, and Power.

The three corresponding directions of the spiritual work, which help one to master these aspects, are ethical, intellectual, and psycho-energetical directions. The priority should be given to the two first directions. Meditation is the main method of the third direction. It is in this way that all true spiritual schools work.

About Love

To approach God we, first of all, have to possess the developed ability to love “from the heart”.

What can unite one consciousness with another? — Only love!

It is love that unites man with man and man with God! Therefore, it is most essential to develop the ability to love!

In order to come to the Creator one has to learn to love first the elements of His Creation: people, all living beings, and all other components of the manifested world.

Learn first to love Me in My “manifested” (in the material Creation) form — God teaches us in the Bhagavad Gita.

Start mastering Love through loving people — all of them, as they are — and only after that you will be able to love God — emphasizes Jesus Christ.

It is impossible to start loving God at once. First, we have to develop in ourselves the capability of cordial love.

Moreover, we have to learn to love passionately! We have to be able to fall in love — so that at some time in the future we become capable of falling in love with God!

Being in love with God is the essence of Sufism, the highest bhakti yoga, that which composes the core of all sound religions.

Yes, we have to be capable of being passionate! We develop this ability here, on the Earth — in a dramatic and long way. We love each other, love our cars, our academic papers, earthly titles and degrees, etc. Objectively, this is not bad (as a temporary phenomenon, as a stage of development), though quite painful, because the fruit of earthly passions is suffering.

Earthly passions are rajas. But it is impossible to enter the sattva guna without going first through rajas! Only that sattvic state is firm and steadfast which is based on personal power developed in the rajas guna.

Let me draw your attention to the fact that Krishna regarded as righteous, people of four categories: those striving to break away from suffering, those seeking knowledge, those seeking personal achievements, and the wise. That is, people of the first three categories are not wise yet, but unlike people of demonic nature, they are also on the path to Perfection.

So we have to become passionate in our love so that when we mature, we can redirect this passion toward God. “To mature” means to reach that level when work on the stage of buddhi yoga becomes possible for us. And then the techniques of buddhi yoga will allow us to really turn toward God. And the passionate love for Him will enable us to become firm in this state and to advance further.

Various religious books deal with dispassionateness. Much attention is given to it in the Bhagavad Gita. But in Sanskrit this word bears a somewhat different meaning as compared to the Russian language, for example. In the Bhagavad Gita, dispassionateness implies, first, elimination of negative emotions, such as various kinds of anger, grief, etc; second, abandonment of lust, i.e. sexual passion^* that enslaves man; third, refraining from fervent expressions of positive emotions (for example, exultation); one should maintain an even, positive, and loving emotional state. This is one of the intermediate goals on the path of spiritual transformation of oneself, which is quite difficult for a beginner to achieve.

The question may arise: what is this needed for?

It is needed for directing one’s entire love-passion, all the power of one’s emotions, without wasting them for other things, — to the Main Object of one’s love — to the Creator.

There are many esoteric methods for preparing oneself to ascent to the highest stages of religious practice. They are asanas, pranayamas, work with images refining the consciousness (visualization), special kinds of dancing, meditative running, yantras, etc. Ignorant people combine all these under the term yoga. But this is incorrect. Even the one who diligently practices asanas of hatha yoga is not necessarily a yogi, because occultists and even black magicians can practice them too.

So who can be called a true yogi? What are the criteria?

The criteria are two. The first one is religiousness. Yoga is the Path to God, to Mergence with Him. The second criterion is love, an aspiration to cultivate, to develop it in oneself.

Those practicing asanas, pranayamas, and so on for the sake of spiritual self-perfection, with the aim of approaching God, — those people are yogis, though their task for now is rather minor — to improve their physical health. But those who do the same exercises, but do not meet the criteria mentioned above, — those can be called occultists, magicians, sportsmen but not yogis. Yoga cannot be atheistic or without love.

Mystical non-spiritual pseudo-yoga can result is a gravest spiritual degradation. Such pseudo-yogis can be easily recognized. Their characteristic feature is coarse, harsh bioenergy radiated by them and, as a rule, cultivation of ethical vices. These are demonic people in the literal meaning of these words, because they are preparing themselves for hell, for the role of demons.

Let us remember: only if everything that we do in our everyday life and in special esoteric systems of training is inspired by love and aspiration to God — only then this is true spiritual Path, only then this is yoga.

Development of the spiritual heart located initially in the anahata chakra (in the middle dantyan) is of the primary importance on the path of mastering love. First, this “organ” of the emotional love must be cleansed and developed within the body, then — as crystallization of the consciousness proceeds — one should learn to expand oneself as a spiritual heart over the surrounding space both around the body and in other — higher — spatial dimensions. God called the latter Correct Meditation of Eternal Peace and Dissolution. It is only by means of this meditation that one can perceive, having entered the higher spatial dimensions, not empty space (emptiness) but Divine Consciousness abiding in them, and later — to master the Mergence with It.

In this way one can cognize God in one’s own spiritual heart — in the heart expanded in the Abodes of the Holy Spirit and then in the Abode of the Creator as well.

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We have already mentioned that the self-development of a person is conducted along three major lines: ethical, intellectual, and psychoenergetical ones. At that, the ethical one is the most important.

As Juan Matus put it [20], God provides according to our impeccability. In other words, He allows us to approach Him, to experience increasing joy, happiness from the contact with Him, and bliss of spiritual life — as we proceed in terms of our ethical self-perfection.

Per Juan Matus, impeccability means ethical perfection, i.e. correctness (objective correctness from the God’s point of view) of our actions, words, thoughts, and emotions.

It is also essential to understand that advancement along any of the three mentioned lines of development contributes to mastering the other two.

But it is understanding and observance of ethical principles that serves as the foundation of all practice. Ethics is the core of the spiritual self-development. It is around this core that forms and grows everything else that makes up the essence of the spiritual seeker: knowledge, skills, psychoenergetic abilities, and other qualities. The height and durability of this core is what the success of one’s spiritual efforts depends on. It is with this ethical core that we grow towards God. And God allows us to approach Him according to the degree of our ethical perfection.

The basis of ethics is love: love primarily in the aspects of compassion, ability to forgive, tolerance, tenderness, self-sacrifice, etc. Love has many aspects: we must remember that and make sure we cultivate all aspects of love.

We can develop “cordial” love in two ways:

The first of them can be call exoteric, i.e. natural. For example, through motherhood, raising children, sexual relationships, love for nature, for animals, etc.

In order to succeed, we have to learn to do everything not out of our self-interest but for the sake of others, i.e. not in egoistic manner but in altruistic one.

If one’s love is directed in this manner, one has a chance, instead of getting deeper into the mire of sufferings caused by a growing burden of unsatisfied desires, to advance towards increasing happiness, which is a natural consequence of spiritual growth. In this case the exoteric options of development create opportunities for natural growth of the “organ” of emotional love — the spiritual heart.

When there is an organ — there is its function. The system “organ — its function” can develop thorough regular functioning of the organ, or it can be developed by means of direct training of the organ.

The most illustrative example is our muscles. One can make one’s body strong by performing physical work. In this case one develops organs (one’s muscles) through letting them function — as a result, the entire system becomes more efficient.

But one do another thing — go to gym and work out in order to “pump up” one’s muscles by lifting weights — this may seem to be a rather dumb activity, which brings no evident economic benefit. But one’s muscles become stronger as a result. And after that they can be used in order to perform useful work for the other people’s benefit. This is an example that explains the meaning and the essence of esoteric, i.e. in this context — “artificial”, “unnatural” approach to development of the “organ — its function” system.

This is the approach used by esoteric schools in their activity aimed at spiritual development of a person that consists in the usage of “artificial” methods of development of psychic “organs”.

In esoteric spiritual practice, among such organs the primary importance must be given to the main organ of emotional love — the anahata chakra.

Exercises for development of the spiritual heart and its functions are the fundamental ones on one’s Path to God, on the path of service, on the path to one’s own happiness.

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Passing from rajas on to sattva, man enters the world of tenderness, bliss, and peace. But peace is not laziness and idleness. Peace has to do with intensive spiritual doing in the state of inner quietness — hesychia.

The word hesychasm originates from the Greek word hesychia — inner quietness. No spiritual work on the advanced stages is possible unless one has acquired mastery of hesychia! Only after we have stopped boiling inside from various anxieties and emotions, when we have eliminated internal dialogues and monologues, when we have learned to refrain from “shooting out” with the “tentacles” of our senses — indriyas — at objects of the material plane, when we have learned to live without a TV or radio set being permanently turned on, without ceaseless chatting with other people “about anything” — just for the sake of the chatting, — it is only then that the real religious practice can become possible for us to perform. In order to direct actually one’s look — the look of consciousness — in the direction of God, in order to strive towards the Mergence with Him, we have to acquire the inner peace first.

There are various techniques for attainment of the inner peace. One can start with doing hatha yoga exercises, Chinese dynamic gymnastics Tai Chi Chuan, or practicing similar systems. But radical solution of this problem can come only through shifting the concentration of the consciousness from the head to anahata, followed by expanding the spiritual heart beyond the body in the subtle and subtlest spatial dimensions.

We know from history that Greco-Slavic mystics (Hesychasts) were doing something like this. I am talking about the technique known as Jesus Prayer.

Let us look: who was Jesus to the early Christians? He was their Savior! In what sense — Savior, how should we understand this word? It is not only because the name Jesus is translated as Savior. Jews had many Jesuses, but only One of them is known as the Savior. Jesus Christ was the Savior, because He gave His saving Teachings to people! He gave them Teachings, by following which people could be saved from suffering both now and after the death of the body, can get closer to Perfection, to the happiness of cognizing God-the-Father, to the Mergence with Him! Jesus brought Teachings, which were principally new for that region of Earth — the Teachings about the saving power of love, the Teachings that declared that it is love that saves us from suffering and degradation in spiritual darkness!

But various myths sprang up immediately that Jesus “descended” not only into earthly hell (i.e. to the crowds of sinners here, on the Earth), but also into the hell of the netherworld, and that He took all its inhabitants out of it, that He delivered all Christians from all their sins in advance — with His Death of the Cross, etc…

Everyone interprets the same event in their own way, according to the level of their intellectual and ethical development. If one is intellectually mature, then one is capable of understanding of the Teachings adequately and applying them in one’s life in order to become better. But other people make an idol out of any spiritual leader right away and start praying “to him”, asking and demanding material welfare for themselves…, instead of practicing his teachings!

But, be that as it may, historical facts say the following. When persecutions of Christians began in the Roman Empire and authorities began to massively crucify Christians along the roads — Christians started to give themselves up to be crucified so as to become similar to their Teacher at least in this!..

The name of Jesus Christ is sacred — as it has been and it will be! For all developed people it is a synonym of Love. Jesus not only preached love and did the deeds of love, be it caressing a child or working wonders, but He also was deliberately going towards His Death on the Cross for three years, knowing that it is this kind of destiny was made ready for Him if He would be fulfilling His Mission on Earth! He sacrificed Himself for those whom He loved — for people, for us!

The image and the name of Jesus invoked a sincere gratitude, compassion, and admiration in His true followers! His image and name were associated with the concept of Love itself!

So, the technique emerged that consisted in pronouncing the name of Jesus in one’s anahata, using it as a mantra.

In Orthodoxy there is an acathistus called To Jesus, the Sweetest. The Sweetest — in the old Slavic meaning — is “the most beloved one”. Let us address Jesus:

“Jesus — the Sweetest! Jesus — the most Beloved! Come to me! I love You! Help, me, oh Lord, to know You, to know your Love! Help me, oh Lord, to become better! Help me to learn Your Love!”

Hesychasts would repeat this appeal to Jesus, first in their mind — for a very long time, dedicating their entire time to this. If this method was practiced with due emotional mood, with time (sometimes, after years) this prayer, as Hesychasts were saying, would “descend into the heart”: when the emotion of love for Jesus was reaching its peak, the concentration of the consciousness of the seeker would shift to anahata.

From this moment on, the whole world was different for such a person! It was as if the person started seeing everything through “rose-colored glasses”: it was not any longer a hostile and frightening world, against which one had to fight and which one had to fear, but the world full of harmony and love!

Such a person gradually becomes a true torch of Love, producing the corresponding emotional-bioenergetical field around himself or herself. The attitude of other beings towards him or her dramatically changes: they respond to love with love!

These are facts, which we have observed numerous times: relationships in families, at the workplace, in a communal flat — change; children are attracted to such people, adults seek their company just because it feels good to be around them… Such a person becomes a source of auspicious bioenergetic field — and the attitude towards him changes whether people understand anything in bioenergetics or in religion or not. almost all people (except a certain category of them) respond to love also with love!

University students, who attended the groups that I was conducting, were asking me how they could use this at the exams. I recommended that they looked at the examiner from anahata during the exam. Later, after the exam, they were recalling, laughing, how the examiner had been answering for them himself and gave them the highest mark. Why did it happen? One has to understand the examiner as well! It is not easy for him to conduct examination when every next student who comes to him adds the next portion of his anxiety, exhaustion, and other negative emotions! The examiner grows exhausted in this stressful atmosphere — and suddenly a person comes to him, with whom he… feels good! How can he offend such a person by giving him anything less than the highest mark?..

… In the early 80’s, when we were just beginning our activity at that time, when it was forbidden to talk about God — we taught people how to work with anahata, and the effect was remarkable: people would transform, they started to search for religious books, accepted Christian baptism by the whole groups…

Even anahatas of stubborn atheists would “open up”, but in their case, the effect could not be lasting, of course. For example, I knew a psychologist who considered himself a “fighter” with other people’s vices. He would “crush” their vices in a fierce and violent manner; when he was leaving the place, people would hope they would never see him again! But he believed that it was the task of a true psychologist…

I tried to teach him to work with anahata. He achieved the effect — and was staggered by the fact that he suddenly experienced love for people, whom he had hated and despised before. He was surprised so much that even woke me up in the middle of the night, came over to my place, told me how it had happened! It astounded him!

But what happened next? He played with this wonderful method for some time as a psychological game — and then reverted to his previous state: his outlook and aspirations remained the same, he even became a member of the Communist Party — right before it collapsed…

The following intellectual resolution must form first: “I want to become better; I know that in order to do it I have to learn to love!”. Only in this case will the methods of esoteric psychology be helpful! Only then these exercises will become a step in the big stairway of spiritual ascent.

Schizophrenics and Others

Spiritual work with people turned out a remarkable psychiatric practicum for me. Fortunately, I studied psychiatry before!

For example, schizophrenic women, at least two times, included me into their astral sexual adventures. At first, they enjoyed it, but later suddenly decided that I “draw their energy”; then their love turned into hatred. Of course, I was not aware of it, until learning from rumors about their afflictions.

In the similar way some male instructors got into trouble.

What is the cause and mechanism of this phenomenon typical in psychiatry?

The cause and mechanism lie beyond the framework of the materialistic psychiatry. The cause here is ethical, and the mechanism is mystical. The cause is lust, which got manifested in this case in the form of sexual fantasies with use of a particular image. In such case this image gets used by spirits, and it becomes really animated for the sick person. Those women “played” not with me, but with demons.

And schizophrenic men went around me with divining rods, which were controlled by demons, claiming that I “pave the road to hell” by doing that which is not prescribed by the Russian Orthodoxy.

Schizophrenic “mages” started “astral fights” with me and with some other instructors. As a response, we submerged into the Pranava opposing them with love.

The schizophrenic husband of one of my students attacked the instructress accusing her of draining the energy from all members of the group. The reason for this accusation is the fact that her wife after taking the class comes home tired and always sleeps off for few hours… But it is hard work to give classes! Such meditative and bioenergetical work is very tiring! And it is the instructor who gets tired most of others. The tiredness of the instructor, when he gives to the group the exercises on cleansing the chakras, for example, is much higher than in other cases! Usually, beginner instructors fall sick as a result of such overload! Their work is heroism, self-sacrifice for the sake of the students’ good!

Once, a young woman-instructress got an inflammation of the genitalia and urinary bladder. She asked me: “Why?! I have had no contact…” I saw with clairvoyance a dark energy “hose” running to that part of her body. I cut it with an image of a sword, and the pain disappeared immediately. We traced this “hose” — one of the students on her classes turned out to be a sexual maniac! It was enough to burn the head-sucker of this “hose-tentacle” and the sickness went away completely.

I remember also the following case. A “veteran” schizophrenic person (registered in the mental hospital) came to know my students. His face was masklike already — as of the heroes of old horror films.

In the past he was engaged in exorcism performed for the possessed in the Orthodox church and got a belief that he is a “Messiah”. Some “voice” convinced him that his task is to ensure advent of the Lord Maitreya — a new Buddha.

This required, firstly, accumulation of the necessary amount of energy. What kind of energy? The energy released by irritated people! To make them to release the energy, he “irritated” them: brawled, broke windows, did not let people sleep calling them by phone… If they beat him, he was glad: he took suffering for the sake of “saving the mankind”.

The second part of his “mission” consisted in begetting the Lord. The mother necessarily had to be one of our School’s students. He even made attempts of raping. But his face was so terrifying and he was so disgusting that his victims collected enough strength for opposing him.

Strikingly enough, he managed to made up a group of disciples-“apostles”, which included two of my former disciples — a student-physicist and a student-medic. Later, the former became an Orthodox priest, and the latter repented of this telling me, “Why didn’t I recognize it?! We studied all this in psychiatry!”

Fortunately, the acts of the “Messiah” were not long: he was attacked by a similar schizophrenic in the past, who committed suicide. The deceased began to “suck energy” of the “Messiah” and drove him to jumping out of a window…

… Yes, Gorbachev liberated the people of the Earth from the atheistic “infection”. Among other things, he gave to people the freedom of talking and listening about the non-material phenomena, about the religion. Yet, in our country there were almost no true spiritual culture, true spiritual preachers! And when the freedom of speech was proclaimed and people got the possibility to preach the mystico-religious ideas, then this field was immediately occupied to a large extent by the ignorant seeking glory and fame and also by mentally ill people.

… Once in Saint Petersburg an alcoholic appeared who proclaimed himself a prophet. Of course, some people immediately became his followers, and he taught them. The basic idea of his course consisted in living in two opposite regimes alternately: two months — in the “yes-program”, then two months — in the “no-program”. This means either accepting all offers and actions of other people or rejecting them…

On the “yes-program” he mangled, at least, two young women I knew.

The first of them met a drug addict, abandoned her family, and got completely immersed in drug addiction. (Apparently, about she never recalled the “no-program”).

Another woman, immersed in the “yes-program”, got into the following situation. Once, a group of guys seeking sexual entertainment approached her and asked whether she wants to spend time with them. “Yes”. Let’s go out of the town? “Yes”. Get into the car (“Yes”); came somewhere. Now, undress!… At this point she got completely confused: it must be “No!”

She tried to resist. They, of course, got angry: spent so much time on her, and now she “poses”. They beat her, raped, even wanted to kill…

She described all this to me two months later: complained about total disorder of the activity of all organs of the abdomen. I looked with clairvoyance — the abdomen was filled with their devilish black malice…

… I also remember very well the first conference on bioenergetics arranged in Moscow,

Some of the speakers demonstrated slides with defects, which appeared as a result of bad development of the film (bubbles, which were not shook off the film, produced light spots), and presented these defects as an “instrumental registration” of invisible for eyes aliens, who control us…

Another speaker dedicated all his speech to praising oneself impudently. Though, it was unclear — for what?

Someone argued that he is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. The proof: making mathematical manipulations with the number of his passport and numerical values of the letters in his address results in a cross (?)…

Someone began his absurd speech by proclaiming pathetically that he is the best psychic in the world!…

Another “best psychic”, seeking a seat for himself in the auditorium, simply thrown off from the chair he liked a youth who was sitting there…

It is interesting to note that in our country two subjects became the most popular among the mystically inclined part of the population: urinotherapy and vampires.

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Urinotherapy is use of urine with therapeutic and other purposes. In our country, it started with a “boom” around the silly book titled The Water of Life, which became paradoxically popular in a certain group of society. And many people began… to drink urine, to wash thmeselves with urine, etc.

Yes, the urine of those using much salt when used externally in the form of lotion, compresses, rinsing can give the same healing effect as hypertensive solution of common salt — a well known preparation in medicine which is used for relieving edemas and inflammations including purulent ones.

Yes, one-time use of urine or a short course of taking it inside causes a physiological stress in the organism, as a reaction to the poison. This stress activates protective systems of the organism; activated, they eliminate some inflammatory processes in the internal organs of the body. There are cases of such recovery.

Yet, for many people excessive and constant use of urine became a kind of means for total rejuvenating of the organism and… for spiritual self-development…

I remember the following instance: in the room of a single woman advanced in years, a member of a “juvenology club” (juvenology is the science about rejuvenation), in the “front corner” on a shelf above an icon-lamp there are two icons: Mary the Mother of God and Vladimir Lenin in identical frames. In front of them, a jar with urine of that woman is being “sanctified”.

I was invited into that club for giving a lecture about rejuvenation. I had been telling them for a long time about distressing, about the role of chakras in regulation of emotions and work efficiency, about efficacy of winter swimming and meditative running, about meditative merging with the light of rising sun and attunement to the songs of robins…

After the lecture one woman stood up and told me; “But you didn’t tell us about the main thing. We waited your advice concerning in what doses and in what courses we should drink urine?”

I was perplexed.

I did not know the specifics of this club. And I answered, “But do you need to drink urine? One mustn’t do it at all!”

This resulted in much agitation! The women surrounded me: “How can you say things like that?! This professor advised us to drink urine, and that doctor gave us a lecture, and he, too, drinks urine!”

… But doctor Yevgeny Schadilov [51] writes about many known to him cases of resuscitation of people who were too keen about this perversion.

I observed stable intellectual degradation of virtually all people known to me, who drank urine for long time.

Two of such acquaintances of mine were even registered in the mental hospital as ill with schizophrenia.

When I came to know about their hobby, I tried to persuade them to give it up, but it was too late…

He… proclaimed himself a genius and even invented a machine for development of anahatas…

And she… talked about wonderful states of easiness, divine joy and about flights with angels to other planets that she experiences after each good dose, recited the charter of the Communist Union of Youth and the Program of the Communist Party…

She got registered in the mental hospital not due to the latter, but after the following case. In the state of psychic disorientation, she went to the forest, walked there the whole night, lost her clothes, and in the morning came to the town naked and plunged under a bus…

Yet another illustrative example. We gave a psychological seminar. Several hundred people came, and among them there was one insane woman physician from other town. She heard the voice, which told her, in particular, to stay after the seminar and promised that Antonov will accept her as a student if she shows enough persistence.

And for about 40 days she fasted and slept on the grass in a garden pleading the grace of Antonov who did not know about it at all…

Her husband came to seek her. For several weeks he walked in the city hoping to meet her, informed the police, and they began searches…

At last, she beaten with blue-black face came to a barbershop. They informed me, I informed the police, and they sent her to mental hospital…

Since that time, I took an oath never to arrange such seminars…

But it was not all to this. One year later her colleague and student, also a doctor, came to me. She could not remember even simplest information… Even attempts to write it down were of no success: she forgot everything immediately! Yet she told me about a plead from that first woman to display merci and allow her to come to take our courses… My refusal bewildered her: that woman is the leader of their spiritual “School”; she is a highly respected person and did so much for the entire town, she initiated so strong spiritual movement…

I asked what their spiritual work is about?

“Why, urinotherapy of course!”

… The main preacher of Russian urinotherapy, who contributed by his many books a lot to spreading of this disaster in our country, also has been drinking urine for a long time. In particular, for cleansing the kidney, he recommends drinking urine either one’s own or… wild boar’s. Clever doctor Evgeny Schadilov [51] who has never drunk urine, asks about this; how can you make this wild animal in the forest to urinate in a jar that you brought from the town?…

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… Now let’s talk about vampires and vampirism.

In ancient time, people, in their folk tales, called by vampires those “arising from the dead”, werewolves, etc, who allegedly attack ordinary people and suck their blood. Such vampires became heroes of many horror films.

Among “ordinary” people also there are some who like to drink blood coming out from a wound of the victim. I knew one personally.

But with spreading of knowledge about relationships between people, this term — with a different meaning — became very popular among schizophrenics and those disposed to schizophrenia. By this term they began to denote incarnate or non-incarnate people, animals, and even plans which, allegedly, hunt for other’s energy.

It is interesting that very often it were physicians specialized in psychiatry who became the preachers of mystical fear of vampires in those years in Russia. The subject of their passionate appeals to people was the means of defending oneself from vampires by creating around the body protective energetical shells, capsules, etc…

One such physician wrote an article where he claimed, in particular, that vampires are especially dangerous at night. It is at night that one has to exert most efforts for keeping integrity and resistance of these “protective constructions” of oneself…

Such physicians produced so many patients for their colleagues-psychiatrists!

Yet God suggests that we learn love, not fear, and keep in the focus of our attention Him, not our enemies!

Yet bioenergy vampires are not mythical, but real — they really exist. Anyone who wants strongly something from another becomes a vampire!

… There are people whose characteristic feature is the need to serve others, to share with others own property, to give oneself to others.

And there are people of opposite kind — people-parasites living in constant wanting from others — money, boons, care, attention, “emotional warm”, sex.

Their emotional wanting is really bothering and sometimes even destructive — for their victims. Why, bioenergy is driven into motion by our emotions!

People who radiate, gift their love to others have the possibility for intensive spiritual self-perfection.

People-parasites, who drain love and power from others, do not have it.

These traits are not inherent, but features of character; and whether they are good or vicious depends on the person himself/herself.

This is a paradoxical and important fact; it is people-parasites that are disposed to blaming others for vampirism; they always feel bad, because they waste their energetical power in their own negative emotions, but believe that someone “steals” it. And until they transform by their own efforts from parasites — to the giving, from the wanting love — to the giving it, they will not achieve relief!

And if someone indeed fell under the influence of a real bioenergy vampire, as it happened to me many times, then the following advice may be useful.

First of all, we have to remember that all difficulties, which fall on us, are created for our own good by our Highest Teacher — God. What for? In order that we become better!

The true victory in all earthly difficulties is not victory over one’s enemies, but victory over one’s lower self!

Thus, if we find ourselves in a difficult situation, it makes sense, first of all, to ask oneself, “Lord, for what purpose You did this? What kind of answer are You expecting from me?” And then seek the answer with his help.

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Now — few words about schizophrenia in general. One has to distinguish its true form from the diseases with similar symptoms which in the materialistic psychiatry are also called schizophrenia.

The mechanism of the main form of schizophrenia is always possession (i.e. control of thinking and behavior of the sick person by a spirit or spirits who entered the body of that person). Such spirits can be people or animals according to the last incarnation. This is their work: everyone in the non-material world works by the qualities which they developed in themselves during the life on the Earth.

But the activity of all spirits — both good and evil — is controlled by God.

Symptoms similar to the main form of schizophrenia (mental confusion, non-adequate behavior, hallucinations, and so on) can be caused by other factors: such as intoxication of the brain by poisons, for example, those contained in urine (if the kidney’s work is deranged, or the ureter is damaged, or if one drinks urine; this is called uraemia, which may lead to decease) and also by tumors of the brain or by the consequences of its traumas.

In all such cases, this is the fate (karma) of the diseased person defined by his or her mistakes in the past lives. In the latter case, one gets not the illness itself, but a predisposition to it.

But the most clear and bright analysis of the cause-and-effect relations is possible in the case of the main form of this disease. God sends it if one insists too much in such vices as:

a) mystical fear;

b) anger of judgement or jealousy;

c) being too obscessed with sexual fantasies;

d) excessive fear about own material well-being and health of the body,

e) conceit (pride and vanity).

God warned us about this in the Holy books. Therefore, deeply religious people who possess strong intellect are not subject to schizophrenia.

On the contrary, atheists and those of weak faith sometimes get sick with it. And it is especially peculiar to those who fell under influence of perverted religious organizations or occult schools where the followers are introduced into mystical world without acquainting them with the rules of the conduct in it and without understanding of the essence of some its manifestations.

Dangerous schizophrenia-like inadequacy of thinking and behavior leading sometimes to a real schizophrenia can arise also in case of too strong for particular person intellectual overload. It happens, for example, when children are initiated into meditative techniques inadequate for their age or when their attention is focused on demons, aliens, astral travels, and so on.

Even not all adults can withstand such trials.

For example, I heard such a story. The mother of a girl who was made famous by journalists for her “travels” to other planets also decided to keep up with her daughter. Once standing on tram stop and she was emotionally “talking to herself”. A policeman approached her:

“I’m sorry, are you all right?”

“Stay away from me! Don’t interfere! Don’t you see? — I am talking to aliens!”

He apologized, went away, and called ambulance; they took her to mental hospital.

If such people are not isolated and are not calmed down with the help of drugs, they can become socially dangerous. It may happen when they receives orders from “voices” or when they believe that they are shown not enough respect for their “special cosmic role” or something like this.

For example, the mother of one of my acquaintances, when the daughter asked her to speak not so loudly when “talking” to aliens aloud, got angry, beat her, and threw her away to the street in winter without clothes…

Sometimes it can be even worse…

Of the utmost importance on the spiritual Path is the intellect of the seekers. It is the intellect that defines to which step of the spiritual stairway man can safely ascend in this particular moment of his personal evolution.

Spiritual leaders who esoteric techniques must understand this very well! In particular, it is inadmissible to teach just psycho-energetical techniques, even in the form of the best meditations! Supplementing the energetical work with the lectures will be not enough as well. One always has to try the intellectual abilities of each student. And at first symptoms of inadequacy of learning, students have to be given other — strengthening — techniques or the whole group has to be disbanded.

I observed many times in different towns situations when instructors for the sake of keeping their status of a spiritual leader or for the sake of their authority (wow! — he knows so much!) without differentiating student’s abilities, give to them the methods of inadequate complexity.

Yet, poor is that instructor who works of with people for the sake of himself not for their sake! In such a case he surely harms them!

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There are three lines of spiritual development: intellectual, ethical, and psycho-energetical. They result in development of the three aspects of the Divine Perfection in man in a series of his incarnations: Wisdom, Love, and Power.

The psycho-energetical aspect in no case must go ahead of the other aspects! Let the best followers learn by heart the Holy books, as is customary in many religious confessions. This is much more useful and safer than involving them there where they risk go insane!

It is also unwise to grow in the students the psycho-energetical power which they can not adequately use themselves.

Let me give the following example. Let us see what happens in prospect with those who achieve much success in psycho-energetical work without paying enough attention to the other two lines of development. I knew personally five such persons, who in the past lives “pumped” huge crystallized consciousness. Lacking true wisdom and love, they again found themselves on the Earth. In the current incarnation all they in a certain moment gained “instant enlightenment” experiencing themselves not in the physical body but in a giant energetical one. But none of them has cognized the Creator… Moreover, they had no clear idea of where to seek Him…

Some of such people become false gurus, who think only about personal well-being. Such a guru collects around himself or herself a lot of followers and is interested only in personal fame and money…

Other such persons feeling own large strength and power over people turn into successful criminals…

Others yet, out of good intents, try to help people to become like them. But they do not remember the path of the previous life, nor do they have own methods, nor understand the true needs of other people with non-crystallized consciousnesses… And thus, such help turns out to be incompetent and ineffective…

Let us remember that having magical power without intellect and love is very dangerous situation on the steps of the spiritual stairway!

I want to address once more all instructors who teach esoteric techniques: you must take into account the psychogenetic age of the students! Man in an adult body can be younger by the age of the soul than other person in a child’s body! The criterion here, first of all, is the level of the intellect development.

The second important criterion in choosing students is the ethical one. One must not teach power to ethically defective people! I will illustrate later the consequences of such mistakes.

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A moment ago I received a telephone call. A woman asked me:

“In a few hours, a comet is going to hit Jupiter. What meditations could you recommend for practicing before and after this catastrophe?”

“Nothing.”

“So, you believe that Jupiter does not influence us at all?”

“It doesn’t.”

“But you taught all us meditation!”

“But what Jupiter has to do with this? There is God!”

“Well, God… He is far…”

… By association I recall a TV-interview with a satanist — a killer of two Orthodox monks. He voluntarily decided to serve the devil, listened his voice and fulfilled his orders. When he was asked why he chose to serve the devil and not God he replied:

“God is far… And the devil is always near…”

For some people the devil is closer than God, for others — Jupiter. And all this is their truth…

But to me the closest one is God!

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Now let us dwell on important question: how not to mix the voice of God with one’s own fantasies or with voices of demons, for instance?

People do a lot of mistakes in this matter.

One wicked doctor in Saint Petersburg began to teach methods of listening to the “voices” to a completely unprepared audience. Many indeed began to hear them. And some even started to speak with voices of demons: to croak inadvertently for example…

My former student who came to these classes was warned by the “voices” that it is dangerous for her to stay in the city, someone is “hunting” her, and that she has to escape to Riga.

She went to Riga.

But where to go in a foreign city? The “voices” told her the address and names of the owners of some flat. She went there; the owners’ names indeed were as she was told.

She asked to guard, to save her, insisted that she had to stay in their flat… to live here.

They were bewildered…

Naturally, this story ended up with mental hospital.

Of course one can laugh at this case and say that probably doctors treated her and now she lives as a common materialist…

Unfortunately this is not the case. It is not so easy to break free from the fetters of the inhabitants of hell with the help of drugs. One can only weaken for a time the outer manifestations of the illness and then the sick is sent home.

I met this woman many years later in winter on a market where I came with a rucksack to buy potatoes. Without a smile she approached me, but I did not recognize her. She told me:

“At last I met you! Give me a kiss at my cheek!”

And put her cheek out.

I kissed her in order not to offend: in case if this is my acquaintance, one of my former students. I had many of them and naturally cannot remember most of them by face. But also I got a thought that this is an alcoholic woman seeking a man for night; her face was so awful and she was so coarse energetically.

“How are you?” she asked me,

“I’m fine.”

“I don’t see that!… Why are you in a hat?! Why do you wear a rucksack?!”

“What?”

“Why do you wear a rucksack?! No one wears rucksacks now!”

At this moment I understood that she is an aggressive insane person.

“You,” I told her, “go! Go!”

And I slightly turned her and pushed to the exit. She submitted, but turned her head and shouted as if threatening:

“I will go! But it will turn out worse for you! So you do: with a rucksack!…”

And my body got filled with her low-frequency vibration, which is peculiar for agitated schizophrenics.

Only by entering the meditation of total reciprocity I managed to restore the calm inside the body.

It is only now that I recalled who was that woman: my former student who gladdened me and others with her harmony… The link established with owners of those “voices” had turned her during those years in coarse, dull, aggressive being similar to them…

And all it started with “classes” of that doctor…

… And so many people get caught up receiving the information from “voices” that they are reincarnated “Jesus Christ” or “Mary the Mother of God” and so on!

One of my acquaintances — a man of “breadth” — asked once my opinion about the idea of arranging a “conference” for all “Jesuses” and “Marys” known to him. He intended to invite every such person as if for individual appearance for giving a holy sermon to the needed… And see what will come out… Ha ha ha!

I objected that it will be cruel. They believe in it sincerely…

But there are more simple cases. One of my Orthodox acquaintances — a drunkard and thief — once “God’s angel” came and told him:

“Take a crowbar and destroy the guests of your wife!”

(The guests where decent people sitting at the table in the next room).

He took a crowbar and went “destroying”. As a result his skull was crushed by that very crow-bar. Of months spent in hospital, he suffered headaches for long time, sought healers… But he did not become a Christian.

Or I was told about the following case. “Jesus Christ” started to come to a young beginner mystic. “Jesus” complained that he feels so bad, so bad… He asked to give him some energy. Then again and again… And then told this mystic that now it is over and he is all right. And that he got as a reward the ability to fly! Just jump out of the window and fly!

The mystic jumped of a window and… fortunately below there was a lawn, not pavement…

… And to one of my acquaintances “Jesus Christ” dictated the “New Gospel”. The work continued for months; a lot of paper was used!

And then with large pomposity the “chosen” were collected who were allowed to became acquainted with excerpt from the “Holy Message”.

It was written in amazingly beautiful language; just the rhythm of this prose gave bliss.

But its meaning…

One of the chapters, for instance, was about the “karma of stones”. It said that the life of stones is also subject to the law of karma — the law of cause-and-effect relations in formation of the destiny…

Thus it means that stones form their destinies themselves? But the destiny is formed on the base of ethically important decisions that one takes…

Probably I was the only one of the entire group, who understood that all this is absurdity, a joke!…

Sometime later “Jesus” commanded to burn all this down.

This joke was intended by God as a “test on intellectuality” which only I managed to pass.

Sometime later through the same medium the “group of chosen” received “top-secret information” that the “Second Advent of Jesus” is starting and therefore…(!) the north part of Europe will submerge into the ocean at the specific date… The “chosen” were given a chance to save themselves.

For this purpose they were divided into groups which had to move to various south cities.

Those who believed sold everything they could and went away… Yet, the “Flood” did not happen. They had to come back…

… There are different mechanisms of receiving information from non-incarnate intelligence.

About “technical means” used for this purpose we said already; there is no point in repeating it. Let us discuss the possibility of the direct perception.

So, the most common means is to hear the voice or to perceive the thought against the background of inner mental quietness (hesychia).

There are also means of the laya kind (laya means dissolution, see [25]) when against the background of hesychia an mediator “gives up” to the spirit or to God his hand with a pen, which begins to write down, or his speech apparatus, which begins to speak. The mind of the mediator in the process of receiving of information does not play an active role: the mediator himself observes with interest what his hand writes or what his voice says. It is also interesting that in psychic writing the mediator writes not necessarily with his own handwriting; in the process of writing one foreign handwriting can be substituted with another — also foreign. By this means in past whole books were written (for example — E.Bakers Letters of the Living Dead [28]).

The same principle is used in the so-called meditative painting and meditative music playing.

There is a similar phenomenon — laya-dance — when one surrenders the body to God for dancing.

That psychic who wrote the “New Gospel” and organized the “Flood” used the means of giving up her speech apparatus. The quality of her ability of psychic perception and her honesty is not to be doubted. But what was the problem?

Of course, there are apparent liars who just wear the guise of a psychic (mediators in communication with spirits) or prophets (mediators in communication with God).

There are people who just want to become such mediators and probably sometimes they succeed in this to some extent… In both such cases one cannot expect trustworthy information.

Sometimes “failures” in contact happen in case of beginner mediators when it is just seems to them that they hear something…

But normally expert psychics and prophets receive information correctly.

It is another point — by whom this information was given?

And this depends, first of all, on the person who receives it.

If that person is alike to devil (as that one with a crowbar, for example), then only devil and demons will speak through such a mediator.

But if we go the true path, then as we master more and more subtle states of the consciousness and learn to enter into more and more subtle spatial dimensions, the circle of our interlocutors will also change to better.

I should note that God, when necessary, can give information through any psychic. It is another point that for the receivers of this information it will be difficult to discern it.

When the spiritual warrior enters with confidence Nirvana, then with the same confidence he prophesizes.

It is important to know that God likes sometimes to joke or to teach His student by giving him or her wrong information. In the Quran it is sad about this: “Allah is the best of schemers” (3:47) [20].

He taught me about this feature of Him long time ago, before I had read the Quran. It happened in the following way.

Once He told me to go to the forest for four-days “seclusion”. It was beginning of May; in night the temperature was below zero. The condition of this seclusion was to spend the nights in the forest without a tent or a sleeping-bag.

I spent the whole day meditating, stored for the night enough amount of firewood, built a fire, arranged a “wall” of a piece of canvas, and lay on dry brunches between the “wall” and the fire.

I slept, but from time to time it was necessary to wake up: sometimes a piece of burning coal came off the log — and my jacket began to smolder, sometimes I had to move or add firewood.

On the next day, I felt myself broken, sleepy. Meditations were not successful.

At the second night it was the same.

The third day after bad sleep I spent even worse.

And the third night was coming.

The third day I spent in bewilderment: what use of such “seclusion” if I lose my meditative ability?! This is just waste of time!

Yet God demanded to keep to the plan.

By the evening I developed neurotic state! It seemed to me that I lost the ability to hear His voice!

At the end I took the decision:

“It’s enough! This is absurdity! I go home! I will sleep enough and tomorrow will be able to meditate again!”

At that very instant I heard very clear and tender voice:

“It is this decision that I was waiting from you! It is for the sake of this decision that I arranged this “seclusion”! Remember the rule: “Rely on God, but do not blunder!”

… Many times I observed situations when young beginner mystics who had not developed the intellect yet tried to switch it off by relying completely on the Intellect of God. What is the mistake here? It is that their intellects stop developing. But the Creator does not need such “feats” at all: He does not let in people who have not developed in themselves the aspect of Wisdom, He does not need them in Himself!

And in order to teach them He begins to play a joke on them — first softly, then, if they “don’t get it” more and more harder.

Let me give the following example.

A young woman was mastering laya. On a lonely field he took off her clothes and “surrendering herself to God” went far along a path among fields, singing of skylarks, fragrance of flowers, under tender sun and blue sky. Paradisiacal harmony!

Then she went back.

Suddenly a group of villagers appeared on this path going toward her. She saw them, but submerged more deeply into laya. And God leaded her body forward!

The villagers saw: a naked woman firmly walks right toward them… She is insane! What if she is going to attack us?! We have to run!

They run over the field to the forest and walked far around the “insane”…

This case convinced her even more that “ with God one has nothing to fear!”.

Then once in the city, standing in line in a shop, she began to whirl softly and fell down…

Or once her colleagues came to work and found her sitting under table…

And no one reproached her, they pretended that nothing strange happens…

They behaved like this out of pity for her, fearing to harm her with embarrassing word or gesture; they hoped she will recover some day…

But she… interpreted their tactfulness in a wrong way and became more convinced that she is on the right “path”…

Then one day God made her to look at this situation “from the outside”: she understood and… suddenly recovered.

* * *

How one can distinguish a true prophet from a false prophet?

The first criterion is the quality of energetics of the person. Man with non-refined consciousness cannot be a prophet. (Say nothing of a drunkard crossing himself and uttering something).

The second criterion is the intellectual level. God would not say wise things through a fool person: the fool cannot use correctly the information received.

For example, people with sectarian thinking cannot be counted wise.

Differences between people who started the Path in different religious systems disappear when they achieve significant spiritual heights. And they understand each other very well.

The lower people are on this stairway the more significance they attach to unessential differences and there are more enmity, condemnation, hatred in them.

The third criterion for differentiating a true prophet from a false one is the quality of information they pass.

In common language, people often confuse the concepts prophet and foreteller. In reality prophets and foretellers are in opposite to each other.

In Bible and in Islamic Sunna there is reproaching of those who listen to foretellers. Why? … Because the interest to foretelling is vain, useless interest of non-spiritual people. Truly spiritual people do not look to the future, but work in the present: they perfect their knowledge, bodies, energy, help others, meditate…

They who fill their sermons with foretelling are not prophets. They can be either ignorant, or liars, or schizophrenics.

A prophet preaches about that which was taught by the Highest Teacher through all Messiahs and prophets of all times and nations. Briefly and clearly these principles were formulated by Avatar Babaji: Truth — Simplicity — Love — Karma yoga (Service) — Abandonment of the lower self for the sake of merging with the Higher Self of the Creator [20].

Prophets also impart to people concrete and personal recommendations on spiritual development and service.

* * *

God warned us then:

“Keep it in mind, all who pass information from Me! None of you should insist on the acceptance of what was said through you!

Everyone has their own free will and their own intellect. Everyone is free to use the received information according to their abilities and aptitudes.

No one must impose to other people their interpretation of the God’s opinion. For what one person accepts as a law, another may take as a mockery.”

* * *

The main principle of healing — both bodies and souls — do not harm!

Every man can make mistakes due to young age, out of lack of knowledge; Babaji said about this the following: “There is no saint without past; there is no singer without future”.

But if one violates the principle “do not harm!” out of selfish motives, then this is a crime!

* * *

Once I had misunderstanding with one of the instructors, and this agitated slightly my emotional sphere.

Suddenly I heard the voice of my father who departed from the body long time ago. He was exasperated by the lack of intensive emotional reactions from my side.

I objected:

“This is a trifle, dad! Better cling to God!”

He replied sadly-perplexedly:

“But where is He, your God?”

I entered completely into his spatial dimension and said:

“Look! Let’s do it together!”

And I submerged before his eyes into the depth of the multidimensional Ocean. I repeated it again and again inviting him with me. But every time he… just lost sight of me and looked around in confusion…

Thus I became convinced in practice about that which I read and supposed before: spirits cannot enter the spatial dimensions which they had not mastered in their past lives. They spend time between incarnations in that dimension to the energetical level of which (on the subtlety-coarseness scale) they accustomed themselves.

And no prayers or other kinds of help can change this situation!

Moreover, God remains unsolved mystery for those who have not cognized Him during the time of incarnation.

* * *

An Orthodox old woman fell seek and “went to church” to light out a candle for Nicholas the Wonder-worker.

“Why not for Jesus?”

“But Jesus died!...”

“Haven’t you heard that He then ‘rose from the dead’?”

“Really? But how should I light out a candle for Him then — ‘for peace of the soul’ or ‘for well-being in life’?”…

Women

When I began teaching the spiritual science, some women began to hate me — those who came to me not with the purpose of approaching the Perfection, cognition of God. As one of them confessed later, all they just wanted to improve their “family status” using me… But I did not yield. Perhaps, in the most cases I even did not notice such their desires: I was already “betrothed” to God and did not want to betray Him.

However, once I was officially registered in marriage. That woman had no place where to leave, and I invited her to my flat. We should make this understandable for other people around including my parents and neighbors in our communal flat. When the situation changed, we got “divorced”.

And I had no children (in the direct sense) — I was immersed into caring for many adult spiritual children of mine and could not imagine weakening my care for them, in case of switching to only one of them.

And even to trust raising of my child to some woman, who wanted to become a mother, I considered unfair and absolutely inadmissible.

Though, in indirect way I gave birth to some children: few women were healed by me of infertility, they successfully became mothers with the help of their husbands

… The beauty of women… It is so easy, due to lack of experience, to confuse it with spiritual prospectiveness! But God helped me to understand this. Once, when I dreamed about involving into the spiritual work young women with beautiful bodies, He told me pointing at them:

“Ready to multiplication…”

By this He gave me the complete answer: exquisite physical beauty is given according to one’s karma for the sake of creating the best conditions in the maters of the earthly love. And the spiritual beauty, which is reflected also in the beauty of the body, is received during the process of the spiritual work, when the spiritual heart blossoms and especially when the fire of the Light Atman begins to shine “through the pores” of the matter of the body

… Among my students, women dominated always. They — in average — much more sensitive and receptive to subtlety and purity, and therefore they are closer to God. But they have to be led, since they do not know the Path. To seek and to find the way, the male type of the character is needed: energetic, unsatisfied with the achieved, strong…

I remember very well the words said by Indira Gandhi, which are addressed from all women seeking Light — to spiritual leaders-men: “You take me with you — and then I will show what can I do!” And I always happily took them with me and gifted them all of myself: all that I had and knew. and even my personal power, the energy of the consciousness, i.e. “myself” in the very direct sense.

And once, when there were only female students around me, I joked:

“What if God will see that only women are around to me — what He will think about me!?”

All we laughed, and God laughed too.

… But my students were successful to a different degree. This depends not only on the readiness to give oneself completely to the spiritual work, but also by the potential that was accumulated in the series of past incarnations. The latter predetermines also the intellectual abilities and the amount of accumulated energy called kundalini [22].

Who of my disciples achieved the biggest success in those years? Let me describe in a few words their previous incarnations

— A direct student of the spiritual School of Assyris, who lived in the fourteenth century in Russia.

— A boy who lived in Burma and educated successfully in Indian Buddhist School, where God was substituted with dead “void”; God disembodied him at that time when his further education in that School became dangerous for his future destiny.

— A king of one of the countries of South-East Asia with religious traditions of Buddhist and Hinduism; he ruled righteously, but yielded to regale oneself with “killed” food. Because of this, in the current incarnation he suffered stomach derangement, according to the law of karma.

— A samurai who mastered perfectly martial art and taught it to other samurais at the Emperor’s court. He lived that life in harmony, wisom, love, and calm. In this life in Russia, he again was attracted much to orient martial arts. His former Emperor (now Divine) led him to our School. And now, the Divine Emperor guides His faithful samurai in this life. Several times He gave him directions through me and congratulated on success.

— A successfully working Catholic nun. In this incarnation her life turned out to be full of problems caused by primitive people. She asked me, “Why it is so?” I found out and explained her: you yourself asked God to create conditions for further mortification of your “I”! Now — endure, resign yourself! She understood, accepted it, and submitted.

— A powerful healer in one of the past incarnations. Yet, he didn’t manage to cognize God. In the next incarnation — from the childhood he was aware about his superiority over people and, as a result, developed the desire to humiliate them. He became a robber-“revolutionist”. Then — incarnation in Scandinavia; the profession is boat constructor; actively studied religion under the guidance of wise Lutheran Pastor, Who attained the Divinity in that incarnation. That Pastor led her through the present life, directed her again on the path of healing, then brought to me, and began to help all of us. Then she got the possibility to “open” the reserve of the Atmic power of kundalini, which was accumulated in the past…

All listed above are incarnated now in female bodies. They are best of all whom I managed to help. Even on the color photographs, if their bodies are photographed during meditation, one can see nimbuses — the aureoles of Sanctity. Or Light is so intensively radiated through their faces, that one could not distinguish the face on the photograph: there is only the body against the background of the forest, and instead of the face — only a beam of Light…

… But in the past, among the women who came to the School there were some completely deaf to the word God. They were capable of thinking only in terms of sex.

There were also those who, being “raised” by me on the spiritual Path and gained crystallization of the consciousness, all of the sudden manifested themselves as “werewolves”. For example, they began to slander me publicly, with the only purpose of raising in the other people’s opinion: look, how bad he is, and since I condemn him — I am so much better than he is!

There were those who had no positive experience of previous incarnations could not master the spiritual matters, whatever hard they tried. They either left the School themselves and switched to more “slow” programs of other instructors, or, to my regret, I had to exclude them softly from the work.

I also met bright diabolic women. One of the members of the band, which killed me later, send me later letters afterward. I never read them, immediately throwing them away or burning. Because it was impossible to read them: they were so full of strong diabolic energy, that it was enough to take them into the hands — and this energy began to flow into the body, and the body became full of its black dirt, it began to shiver… After one of her mails, which I just hold for some time before throwing it into a trash can, I had pain in all muscles of my body for several days…

… Drunken women, women consisting of the sole hatred…

My former neighbor of the communal flat — with Ph.D. degree — when coming back to home from the work, always every day for a long time squealed in her room, when sharing with other family members her impressions of the day. Her squeal was very similar to the squeal of pig (pigs can grunt and also squeal). Then, after squealing, she came to the kitchen with face red of hatred, angry eyes, blowing sides and nostrils. At night, through the door slits of their room, dense smell of valerian emanated into the corridor.

Her profession was orientalist. Studying the East for many years, she remained an atheist.

Sometimes guests-colleagues visited her. Having got drunk, they yelled songs with drunken voices, made puddles on the floor in the toilet… Such were our “orientalists”…

… God showed to me the whole spectrum of human abilities: from Divine — to diabolic. They are as much characteristic to the female incarnations as to the male ones…

* * *

In the middle of 1980s I, been guided by Jesus and Babaji, began to introduce spiritual nudism (apparently, I was the first in Russia to do it). It was not just about naturism — aspiration for becoming “closer to nature”, but about swimming naked as one of the methods of liberation of the meditating consciousness from the bondage of the material world.

This is achievable only for those people who perfectly mastered, at least, stable staying with the consciousness in the anahata chakra. In this case, “sexualization” of the meditators does not occur. (This nuance is not understandable to those who have not mastered the functions of the spiritual heart yet). On the contrary, sexual attitude toward a naked body of the opposite sex is substituted with caring tenderness, which is very important on the way of the refinement of consciousness.

“I am not the body, I am not among material bodies! I am a pure consciousness! My attention is directed toward purifying and perfecting oneself as a consciousness, toward the cognition of God!”

It was as yet the period of tyranny of the Communist Party; nudism was officially forbidden (since 1936), though about this fact as well as about nudism itself only a few knew in the USSR at that time.

In that time we began our out-of-town training in meditative running [22]. It was a hot summer; without swimming it was unreasonable to run for many hours. I planned the course of the run between several forest lakes. When coming to the next week, we undressed and plunged into the water. Then, having cooled the bodies, we dressed and run further. It was very blissful swimming!

I coerced no one to undressing. Simply, when for the first time we came in a group of about hundred people to the place of first swimming, I declared: let’s swim undressed! Then I undressed and plunged into the water.

Not everyone brought themselves to follow this; about half of the people swam dressed: it was too unusual at that time.

But since the second time almost all people undressed: they saw that nothing wrong happened to them!

The only person in the group who did not swam naked was the head of a department of the discreet Communist Party committee: he was afraid of been dismissed. But all we understood this, and no one bothered him. Moreover, he became a very good person under the influence of our work.

… During the classes of meditative running, we were organized very strictly, and no incidents occurred. But what happened, there in the forest, when we stopped and had spare time! My female students enjoying the “naked freedom” walked in the forest to eat berries, taking no clothes with themselves! I was nervous, run after them, scolded, arranged special discussions, explained that this is not only unsafe but also tactless in regard to other people who can meet us… They unwillingly submitted to me, but…

Later, rumors reached me that they began to “try themselves” outside of our classes by swimming naked on the public beaches…

It turned out that to “dress” women is much harder than to “undress”…

… My numerous followers, who, in the latter years, introduced in the various parts of the USSR the technique of the meditative running along with “naked” swimming, did not observed strictly the rules of decency in regard to other people, and sometimes this resulted in incidents.

At the end, in 1995, as I read with pleasure in the paper Evening Petersburg of 24 July 1999, Russia was officially accepted into the International Federation of Nudists at UNESCO…

“Big” and “Small” Souls

Our work was developing successfully; no one chased us, no one spied on us: Perestroika began; the Communist Party and KGB were abolished.

From the Ashram of Babaji in India, a woman came: Babaji sent her to Russia to seek His School. She had found it! She brought photos, the shroud in which the body of the Divine Teacher, after His departure, was wrapped. The shroud shined with invisible for physical eyes Divine Light.

Babaji sent her to study that which He taught to us. Yet she did not want to accept this and started teaching herself, trying to instill in Russian lands, where there is plenty of native paganism, Shaivistic pagan ritualism. It turned out that she understood the Teachings of Babaji only as ritualism which, though was used by Babaji in order to please “adult children” around Him, but at the same time Babaji laughed at it. She could not realize that to her the Path must be work with the consciousness and not at all feeding statuettes of pagan “gods” with milk…

By that moment, we had been in contact with Babaji for several years. For the first time, He began showing me new meditations for crystallization of the consciousness by changing my perception of one of His photographs. In this way, I received new valuable methods.

Later He continued taking part in guiding our work, but only showing and saying nothing.

The first word which I heard from Him was said in English when I was relating to the guest from India the history of our apprenticeship with Babaji. He said then in English:

“Agreement!”.

I did not know the meaning of this English word; I just repeated it, and others translated it.

Later Babaji began speak with us in Russian as well.

Approximately at the same time, we had first direct contacts with Sathya Sai Baba — another Great Avatar (Messiah) living in body in India in our days.

They began with my discovering most interesting kinds of places of power, where there are passages through the body of the Earth to distant places on its surface — sometimes to very distant — to the Himalayas, Tibet, Arabian deserts, and so on.

For example, on the bank of Dnieper in Ukraine, I found passages to the ashrams of Babaji and Sathya Sai Baba.

And Sathya Sai Baba, when He was not busy, right from His room in the Indian ashram showed me new methods of meditative work. One of those His meditations I managed to master only after several years…

And later They — together or individually — met us on certain places of power in Saint Petersburg region and gave instructions, pieces of advice, in particular about the students.

Another important event for us was acquaintance with Huang Di — one the first Avatars of the Earth, the founder of the Chinese spiritual culture.

He worked with us only on His favorite part of forest near Saint Petersburg. There He showed us meditations, narrated about His Incarnations as an Avatar, about the technique of dematerialization of the body.

In particular, He said that the book Tao Te Ching [20] was dictated by Him to one of His Chinese Disciples, whose name was Lao Tse.

It was also He Who taught the art of dematerialization of bodies to don Juan and His companions described by Carlos Castaneda. It was He Who played with the Naguals (leaders) of that Indian School by appearing to them either in the male or in the female body of the tenant and teaching them ethics, wisdom, meditation.

… And God taught me the following:

“I am always with you — wherever you go.

“You every step has been foreseen by Me.

“You yourself have to submerge into Me completely. These steps, that you have to make, are also predetermined by Me. So, don’t worry. And grow your roots into Me!”

“Lord, how can I overcome the death and dematerialize my body?”

“It is I Who will do it. Don’t hurry: you only impede the process by this. Become Me!

“There is tiny Earth in the Ocean of the universe. On it, there is an infinitesimal point — a body called Vladimir. It costs Me nothing to dissolve it and the Earth, too, — as it will happen some day. I easily densify and dissolve any Part of Myself. For you, the most important thing is to become capable of entering the Highest Abode, to love the Creator, to aspire to Him always!”

“Lord, is there something more that I have to know about You?”

“No. You know everything you needed to know.”

“What do I have to do?”

“Find peace and comfort in Me. Become One with Me! Not only the gunas but the Earth itself have to disappear for you now! The peace for you is only in God!”

“Will You advise me how to live on the Earth: it’s uneasy, cold here!”

“Sooner dematerialize your body, as I demonstrated it many times when visiting the Earth! In order to approach this goal, you have to learn not to leave the higher meditative states. Never!

“I don’t forbid you staying among people, being helpful to them. Yet, I forbid you going the path which those people walk! Go the Path of God — then you will attain Me fully, and I will finally merge you with Me.

“Now any your activity other than the life of God is not needed to anyone, including Me. So, don’t think about the earthly! Renounce yourself for the sake of life in Me! So does everyone coming to the Kingdom of God!”

“Lord! I want to be closer to You, to merge with You!”

“I understand. But it is not soon that your path will go as you wish. I play with you! I play with those who are not One with Me yet! And with every round of the spiral, I take new people with You to Myself. And I put aside the old ones, so that they may go their paths — also to Me. So be happy that I send to you My best sons and daughters!

“In the center of Brahman, it is warm and cozy! Here I meet guests; from here I offer to them the further Path. Invite here all who are ‘large’!

“Souls can be large, small, and intermediate.

“In order to become a large soul, one has to have a positive experience of the previous incarnations.

“In the beginning of this earthly life, you grew among small souls, because you were a small soul yourself. But you had a good growth tendency: you grew as a kshatriya^* — a kshatriya of good!

“Only in this way one can become good enough for becoming closer to God (I bring people closer). It is intermediate souls that are kshatriyas of good.

“There are also unkind, evil souls — they too can be large or small. Evil small souls are demonic ones. Evil large souls are diabolic.

“You have earned peace! The Earth is not yours anymore! You are Mine! Die for the world^*! Live in Me! Find the peace in Me! Be conscious, aware of yourself as of a part of Me! Become One with Me! Act from within Me through your body! Then we will take here^* your body too.

“That which I have given you is not for three or four or five people; I have given it for the entire mankind on the Earth! I am glad that you have established on the Earth a foundation of the spiritual discipline!”

“Lord! I want to feel You as You feel Yourself!”

“Amen! Tomorrow I will tell you how to do this!”

“Lord! What do I have to do to make this happen sooner!?”

“You love God, love Him stronger!”

* * *

What is the meaning of life of every one of us? It consists in qualitative and quantitative growth of the consciousness.

In our bodies, the evolution of lumps of consciousness takes place, under the guidance of God. As the ultimate result, they will either attain the Perfection and infuse into the Consciousness of the Creator, or, due to their worthlessness, will be cast “to the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth” (in the language of the New Testament) and will perish in the direct meaning of this word.

What do we have to do in order to avoid going to the outer darkness?

We have to refine ourselves and grow ourselves — as soul, consciousnesses — to the sizes of the planet and more. And in the end, we have to to abandon our separateness from the Creator by learning merging with Him. In this case after the death of the body, we will infuse into Him and become His Part.

But in order to traverse this Path, one needs not just a healthy body with properly functioning energy structures, but also a developed intellect capable of comprehending all described above and of ensuring advancement along this difficult and long Path. This constitutes the main difficulty of the progress on this Path: everything can be developed relatively quickly but the intellect! Yet, without developed intellect one cannot comprehend and solve even ethical problems.

This is why God always recommends paying great attention to intellectual self-perfection!

But even with a developed intellect, man can not approach the Goal by himself. It is only God who decides who and how can approach Him and to what degree. People with defective ethics, for example, are prevented by God from further advancement and stay on the current step of the Path for working on their defects.

The first preposition for beginning the conscious advancement on the Path to the Creator is faith, which transforms with time into love for Him. Only passionate love for the Creator is capable of ensuring the intensity of aspiration, which is needed for overcoming the difficulties of struggle against one’s own imperfections!

By the end of the Kalpa, when prakriti, intially condensed to the state of dense matter, dissolves again, only those souls who have managed to attain Mergence with the Creator or with the Holy Spirit remain to live forever. The others perish.

Our development is possible only during incarnations, because growth of consciousness is ensured mainly by the energy which is formed in our bodies from food.

So let us ask ourselves: do I want to go this Path already now in this body? Or I want to be born on the Earth again and again — every time with new childhood, with new ignorance, with unavoidable mistakes and suffering, with possibility of choosing, out of ignorance, the path of degradation?

Or it is better to try to develop in oneself a definitive intent to complete everything here and now?

From Conversations with Babaji

“It would be good if you describe in your films how the work of God is perverted, in particular, under the disguise of My name. Tell about it on My behalf.”

“Babaji, tell us please how did You become Divine?”

“Since the time when the Himalayas rose up — Babaji has been on the Earth. I became One with the Ocean of the Creator so long ago that feel Myself as Eternal as He is. I cannot even recall that in the past I was a separate soul.

“Do you know, for what purpose Avatars come to the Earth? They come to reestablish the link between man and God, to manifest on the Earth the reality of God, to remind people who they are and why they are here…

“Avatars come when the light in souls and righteousness in lives of people fade, when people look only at the world of matter and want to know nothing more.

“From age to age, I come to the Earth!

“I manifest Myself so that one can touch Me with one’s hands and not be burned…

“I speak so that My words are heard by many and spread throughout the Earth, and thus people may remember that there is God…

“I restore the Eternal Law of God…

“I work miracles to make people know that I am not a small body, but God — the Creator of the manifest universe…

“Yet, the most important of everything I do is change of the direction of the souls’ movement, growth:

“from darkness — to the Light,

“from fear — to fearlessness,

“from hatred — to love,

“from wanting for oneself — to giving to others,

“from laziness and sleep of the soul — to karma yoga, that is selfless service to God through serving people.

“Every Avatar does this.

“Be heirs to My art of redirecting souls, ‘smelting’ them in the Divine Fire in order to rid them of vices and evil, growing them so that their heart lotuses blossom with Love for God!”

“Babaji, how can one learn not to leave the state of Mergence with You?”

“One has to become the Ocean! One’s awareness of oneself has to be that of (One has to perceive oneself as) the Ocean — the Ocean where there is only Babaji!

“Babaji means Father!

“With the arms stretched in Me and from within Me one has to caress, support, heal!

“One has to feel oneself an integral, inseparable Part of the Whole, coessential to the entire Primordial Consciousness! Then no power in the world of matter can separate you from Me!

“In general, everything goes well! No one expected so quick success from you! We supported, helped you, but did not expect that you manage to ‘break through’ all together!

* * *

Once we were walking over a wonderful place of power, where one can always meet Babaji. Vladimir and others, gathering mushrooms, went forward, and I stayed for a while to embrace Babaji…

“Don’t fall behind, follow him: your babaji! He is a Great Master equal to Me!”

“Babaji, do You know what he said a moment ago? He said that has not mastered yet the siddhis demonstrated by You, like control of matter…”

“I know!” Babaji was smiling radiantly, embracing with His Love Me and Vladimir with his friends walking through the beautiful Dale of Babaji. “Of course, I know it! Yet, I know also that he would not exchange the great art of transforming souls mastered by him for any kind of siddhis like materializing smells or making objects disappear…”

* * *

“Having students does not make one a Master…

“Possessing knowledge and meditative methods is not enough for leading people to Me.

“One has to learn loving them as I love!

“The miracle of love is in its selflessness and, as a result, in absence of wanting something from others.

“Love is that ‘foundation’ which can help you to solve ‘troubling’ situations. Only love — as a thing completely void of egoism — can show you the way out of the ‘thicket’ of problems born by the ego (lower self).

“When in you there remains nothing but love, there are also no problems, by which the lower self torments itself.

“All negative emotional states result from attachment of the lower self to earthly matters.

“Everyone goes through life situations where one’s lower self gets manifested — until it is erased completely.

“If you act consciously in such situations — you can reach the success quite quickly.

“Success here means that, having cognized Me and merged with Me, you do not exit from Me — in any circumstances.

“Learn to look at the earthly affairs with the eyes of God!”

“Is it You Who supervises Russia now?”

“Yes. I also take care of everyone worthy of it, including you.”

“How the duties are distributed between You and other Representatives of the Creator?”

“Everyone has their own fields of activity in Divine Service depending on one’s personal developments in the past. Someone protects, cherishes, educates children. Another supervises those engaged in sports. Others, including Me, provide help on the Path of cognizing the Highest and spreading the higher knowledge.

“As you know, every One of Us has something to share. Thus We serve, first of all, with the highest abilities We have.

“Every One of Us has favorite work. I am One of Those Who help you directly, in any moment of your lives. And I stretch My hand toward any appeal if it originates from you or your friends.

“I know about all your affairs. And I never forget about the needs of every one of you!

“Every One of Us exerts every effort so that the School may grow and the situation may develop well!

“From every one of you I expect maximal efforts for fulfilling the Plan which I designed for creating a spiritual Revolution on the Earth — Mahakranti.”

* * *

“Everyone who crosses the last border on the spiritual Path meets the Full Freedom. Yet, crossing this border requires one’s desires and aspirations be directed to My World — the World of My Freedom!

“People’s desires and aspirations can be likened to ropes which either bound one to the world of matter or help one to move to the other side of the border.

“I will help everyone worthy! Yet, until they throw their ‘ropes’ across the border to My side, while they are attached by the ‘ropes’ to their side — they can hardly cross the border.”

Translation will be continued.

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