IN THE NEAR FUTURE
Exclusive interview with Vladimir Megre for THE EARTH Newspaper PART II.
Mr. Megre talks about his new book and answers important questions.
(Interview by Regina Jensen)
In the next issue.
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IN THE HEADLINES:
The Winds of Change - Naturally
Science, Consciousness and the Indigenous Way
by Regina Jensen, Ph. D.
This year marked the tenth time in which people in the forefront of exploring the limits - or lack of limits - of human consciousness have gathered for The International Conference on Science and Consciousness in sunny New Mexico, under the auspices of The Message Company, for a common, noble purpose: welcoming scientists, mystics and indigenous folk alike to present and compare their research and experiences under the same roof.
Thoughtful about the fact that these strange cousins, Science, Consciousness and Nature, were convening to address our collective yearning for individual and planetary healing, I was inspired to see Vladimir Megre's books represented there, because I had been deeply impressed by the amazing material the author discusses in his writings. Vladimir Megre is one of the founders of an amazing and unusual spiritual eco-movement in Russia and the author of a substantial series of books which seems to have taken his homeland by storm. Some have claimed that its heroine Anastasia, a mystic/seer/visionary, has been changing the very soul of Russia with her enchanting, life-changing philosophy and what appear to be super-human capacities.
Many of Vladimir Megre's readers would describe Anastasia rather as a phenomenon than a mere woman, having lived basically by herself, out in nature in the harsh environment of the Siberian Taiga all her life. Her philosophy delivers refreshingly new, intelligent ideas to us well-educated, demanding folks, such as the concept of nature, specifically the plant-kingdom, as a living consciousness ready to relate with us in a way that seems almost magical. She also relates with wild animals in ways which are unheard of in any tradition and has methods of producing information and even physical movement which only the most advanced representatives of a few ancient cultures have been able to demonstrate. Although science is beginning to confirm that such capacities are possible.
Known under the name of Ringing Cedars of Russia, the book-series representing her philosophy seems to have literally swept over our ailing planet Earth with people sharing these volumes and its unlikely story, mostly by word of mouth, around the world. Eleven million books have been sold world-wide to date, in twenty languages and without traditional marketing, attesting to the deep hunger for its messages. What might the reader find in those nine, soon to be ten, books? Some would say: inspiration for a tender reconnection with nature, notably the plant-kingdom, via the philosophy of this unlikely young visionary, a woman of unusual beauty, courage and other-worldly powers which are not easily described nor explained. Unusual are also her visions for humanity which include delightful and realistic blueprints for human happiness on a harmonized planet.
For instance, Vladimir Megre shares one of Anastasia's unlikely suggestions: namely a list of things to do to prepare a seed by exposing it to our own DNA and certain other elements so that the developing plant will know what to extract for us from the ground and from the environment in accordance with our personal health needs. Too novel to consider? A part of the Anastasia material communicates the same empowering message we have been given by our indigenous folk, namely nature as a loving force standing ready to relate with us humans in more conscious, supportive and personable ways, but it clearly adds even more novel ideas for a reclaiming of our organismic sanity and reconnection with nature. According to Steven Foster, author of A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs, "Anastasia will impact a new generation of readers, like the works of Carlos Castaneda did for a previous generation - only this time through awakening the latent spiritual connection each of us has with nature. These books catapult us to an entirely new way of being on planet Earth."
Anastasia and "Vladimir," the simple first-name which has made the author and this recluse of the Taiga household words in millions of homes, reawaken in the reader a hauntingly beautiful, long-forgotten way of autonomous tribal living, still familiar to some of our traditional people. Anastasia attributes much of the profound wisdom shared in these books to the values of her ancient culture, to which she is privy by way of unbroken ancestral transmissions, along with her "ray," a visionary capacity to look at basically anything she wants to learn about, no matter the distance or time-frame. And more importantly, she seems to deeply know and respect our modern needs and predicaments.
In keeping with our indigenous philosophies, but much more specifically so, Anastasia explains that Mother Earth literally benefits from and enjoys even the single, loving touch of someone working the land by hand. In addition, she has devised a plan to help people free themselves from the fear and threat of hunger by learning to live off the land and reclaim their individual and communal health by way of a form of grazing from carefully designed plantings on what she calls Kin's Domains. (In Russia, the government has actually begun to support some of these noble efforts by extending specific land-grants.) Her suggestions feel so simple and inspiring that tens of thousands of people all over the world are scheming for ways of doing just that.
More and more people, of all colors and traditions, are experiencing increasing alienation, survival fears and ill health and are looking longingly to reconnect with nature, themselves and each other again. "All the wisdom of the Universe is included forever in each soul right from the moment it is created," says Anastasia. "...it is just that wise men slyly intellectualize for their own interests, and thereby lead people away from the most important thing." (from interview with Mr. Megre, VladimirMegre.com) The most important thing, to her, is that even today everyone can build a safe and comfortable home and live in their own paradise, connected to and guided by Divine Intelligence and Love.
Anastasia is convinced that such wholesome activities, simple as they sound, would act as multi-faceted catalysts for profound change for each individual, our communities, our society and our Mother Earth as a whole and offers stimulating ideas and guiding road-maps. Thousands of people in Russia and other parts of the world have already translated their inspiration into simple steps to a more wholesome, natural life. She even has ideas for city-dwellers. Bill Mollison, who coined the term Permaculture along with colleague David Holmgren, wrote in 1990 in that same spirit that "...the only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children," hoping that more and more individuals would learn to design their own environments and develop self-sufficiency through eco-villages which would "...reduce society's reliance on industrial systems of production and distribution that Mollison identified as fundamentally and systematically destroying the earth's ecosystems." (see: Permaculture One and Two)
"In the early days we were close to nature," said native American chief Crazy Horse, one of our beloved American Indian chiefs, "we lived by God's hand through nature and evaluated the changing winds to tell us or warn us of what was ahead. Today we are again evaluating the changing winds. May we be strong in spirit and equal to our Fathers of another day in reading the signs accurately and interpreting them wisely..." (Excerpt from: nativeamericans.com)
In one of my interviews with Mr. Megre he offered powerful words of wisdom which deeply resonated with my soul: "The whole Earth could be a Motherland for each one of its inhabitants, and Man could be caressed by everything in the Universe, but for that to happen, he would need to join together all planes of being into a single point, call it his Motherland, and create with his own self a Space of Love therein. Then all the best things of the Universe would come into contact with it firsthand - come into contact with the Space of your Motherland. You in yourself will feel the whole vast Universe through this point, and possess power unsurpassed. They will know about this on other worlds. Everything will serve you, as God, our Creator, wanted it."
All the best things of the universe, and power unsurpassed - may we be ready to inherit and willing to co-create the wonderful birthright Anastasia promises us.
by Regina B. Jensen, Ph.D.
(c) 2008 fullyalivewellnesscenter.com
Regina Jensen holds licenses as a psychotherapist, physical therapist, certifications as Master Executive Coach, and Somatic therapies with professional training and experience for ovr 35 years. She works as a consultant to the Media, as a metabolic counselor and is a co-author of a forthcoming book with Wayne Dyer and others, which is part of a best-selling series. She is a writer and independent researcher with a commitment to finding intelligent, expedient and joyful solutions for the predicaments we have co-created for each other on our Mother Planet.
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INTERNATIONAL READER'S CONFERENCE
WITH VLADIMIR MEGRE, AUTHOR OF
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Anastasia Foundation for Culture and Creative Support of the City of Vladimir along with "Ringing Cedars Ltd." announces that, from 10th of October to 17th of October 2008, it will hold an international readers' conference with the participation of Vladimir Nikolaevich Megre, author of the "Ringing Cedars of Russia" books.
The conference is planned to be held for 7 days.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Day 1: 10 October 2008. Arrival, assigning accommodations, registration of arrivals, familiarization with the detailed schedule of events, familiarization with additional information and the grounds of the hotel. Viewing of a television programme on closed-circuit television entitled "Allow me to introduce myself," which talks about the participants in the conference and about villages under construction and in operation.
Day 2: 11 October 2008. Arrival, assigning accommodations, registration of arrivals, familiarization with the detailed schedule of events, collection of additional information, announcements, beginning of the operation of the internal mail service, operation of the close-circuit television system, programme "Allow me to introduce myself." Get-acquainted party.
Day 3: 12 October 2008. Meeting of Vladimir Nikolaevich Megre, the author of the "Ringing Cedars of Russia" books, with readers.
From 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. - beginning of the international conference and answers to questions from readers.
Day 4: 13 October 2008.
Presentations by scientists, economists, on the idea of creation of Kin's Domains.
Exhibit and sale of folk art products. Demonstration of individual models of clothing. Exchange of experience in the construction of kin's domains.
Day 5: 14 October 2008.
Exhibit and sale of folk art products. Demonstration of individual models of clothing. Exchange of experience in the construction of kin's domains.
Day 6: 15 October 2008.
Exhibit and sale of folk art products. Demonstration of individual models of clothing. Exchange of experience in the construction of kin's domains.
Also: "The readers who came to the conferences had a noble goal, identical for women and men. Their advantage consists in the fact that the men and women created their own image of their life and future family in their dreams. When they came together, they had a topic of conversation interesting for both." Rites of Love, Book 8, Part 2.
Day 7: 16 October 2008. Free interaction day. Amateur talent concert by the conference participants.
Day 8: 17 October 2008. Free interaction day, farewell party.
For those who wish to participate in the "Allow me to introduce myself" programme and talk about their eco-village and its residents to the participants of the conference and to clubs in various countries, we ask that, prior to 1st of September 2008, to fill out the form by the address: https://www.ringingcedarsofrussia.org/conference/allow-me-to-introduce-myself.php, or send us a short video on a DVD about your settlement, with a duration of no longer than 15 minutes (if a group presentation), to one of the addresses listed below. It is advisable to show a general view of the area and individual details of the landscape design and, of course, the people. Each member of the settlement may also be presented on in the film; the duration of each individual presentation should be no more than 3 or 4 minutes. Conference participants who do not live on a kin's domain may also send their presentation. Recommendations: film using a tripod, pay special attention to the sound, choose a house or a festival as the background for an individual shot. If problems arise in hiring a qualified video operator, you can produce a photo report, but be sure to put it on a disk with accompanying text.
The organizing committee of the conference will invite professional interpreters to Turkish, English, German and Russian for a synchronized translation of Vladimir Megre's presentation. However, we cannot guarantee that we can provide interpreters for individual personal interactions, so we suggest that groups consisting of individual settlements should select an interpreter from among their participants.
During the entire period, a mail service and information-inquiry service will be operating, through which you will be able to contact any conference participant of interest.
In the event you wish to submit your hand-made articles for exhibit, you must inform us prior to 15September 2008 by e-mail which is listed below.
The schedule of events has been considered put together by us based on financial resources. If you have any suggestions or comments that are within our means, we are prepared to listen to and discuss them.
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Eco Settlement Mayskoe
We are a group of friendly neighbors who are building the settlement of Mayskoe, which is located in Melenki District of Vladimir Oblast.
For the time being, Mayskoe is simply a large meadow 180 ha in size, surrounded by the forests of the Murom District, and, at present, a group of 30 persons (families), who have decided to become the first residents of the settlement.
At one time there was a farmstead in this spot. But in due time, as everywhere in the Soviet Union, villages began to amalgamate at the expense of small villages and farmsteads. The farmstead and small state farm that were in this meadow lost their electrical power. And in the 1960s, the last residents dispersed among the nearest promising collective farms and state farms.
But the meadow still loved people and continued to wait for them. It would attract them with its abundance of berries and mushrooms. For a long time it still had lush pastures and hayfields. But with time even they ceased to interest people. Cows and goats are no longer kept in the closest villages.... Now they are a rarity in the yards.... The meadow began to become seriously overgrown....
But something happened that seemingly made the meadow wake up and be transformed! Each time we show up there, it is as if it revives, perks up, tries to show us new places yet unseen by us.... Just recently we discovered an unusually beautiful lake next to the settlement!
It is as if the meadow senses that documents are everywhere being prepared in order for this land again to become inhabited by people.
The meadow is located in the possession of the district administration. We are acquiring it as property as a peasant farm. The process of registering the land in the appropriate levels of government has started and is now ongoing.... Any day now the agreement of purchase and sale will be drawn up.
At the same time we are developing the architectural plan for the settlement, which plan will be approved at a general meeting. Following this, parcels 1.4 ha in size, roads, areas for common fields, workshops, for hayfields and pastures will be actually assigned, and the future residents will be able to orient themselves as to the location and quantity of parcels for their domains in the settlement as a whole.
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Ecovillage Lyubavushka
The Lyubavushka Ecovillage is located approximately 40 km from Almaty, in the Turara District. Presently five families are quietly setting up their domains, the members of the village live in the city and on their days off manage to get out onto the land. The overall area of the village is 27 ha. There are still unoccupied parcels! The land has already been purchased as private property, however at the present time the documents are still being registered.
There are no open bodies of water on the territory of the ecovillage, although this fact is not hindering planting or setting up the area of the domains, in the future, of course, an artesian well is planned. Everything is planted in accordance with the principles of permaculture, correspondingly, with a careful approach, the plantings do not require watering. For the time being we are planting trees and shrubs that have adapted to the dry conditions of the harshly continental climate of Almaty, such as elms, oaks, ash trees, lilac, cherry, bird cherry, dog rose, and others.
In my opinion, the most important virtue of the Lyubavushka Ecovillage is the established backbone of families that are kindred in spirit and philosophy of life, and the presence of common interests and common goals.
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RODNIKOVOE KIN'S SETTLEMENT
Village of Konskie Razdory, Pologi District
We are located on the southern edge of the village of Konskie Razdory, Pologi District, Zaporizhzhya Oblast (117 km to Zaporizhzhya, 80 km to Berdyansk, 17 km to Pologi), along the Mokraya Konka River, on the Priazovskaya Upland. Our terrain is steppe-like, there are many gullies and springs, closer to the river is a sharp slope, there are forest stands. The edge of the village where we are located is gradually becoming deserted, there are many houses for sale from 1000 up to 5000 hryvnya. With no papers, it is true. The local village authorities are not opposed to the arrival of new residents. Two families have already registered their land. Whoever is called by the land will resolve all these questions.
On the village's flag is a steed.
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In creating his civilization for thousands of years, man has attempted to drive himself to all possible limits.
In striving to make his life better, he has created this enormous machine of society, in which he himself is only a cog.
People who have been able to break loose from this eternal hustle and bustle always elicit admiration, amazement, and...bewilderment.
But they are always interesting. After all, they have managed to do what for the majority is beyond their strength.
Having heard of the unusual villages which were based on kin's estates in Pologi District, correspondents of MIG set out to look, learn, and, most important, to understand.
In Konskie Razdory we met Aleksey, who recently moved from Zaporizhzhya to the steppes of Pologi. He had come here by bicycle on business from the small settlement, which brought together several kin's estates not far from the village. It took him a long time to give directions to his settlement. All the turns and zigzags took up a half a page in my notebook. But all the same, it didn't help: skidding in the mud of the country road our company car overshot the turn we needed. After several minutes of telephone consultations, though, we found our way to the settlement and, following a short delay in a pothole, we reached our destination.
We were met by Olga, a fascinating woman. She has been living here for more than a year already. Olga showed us an old house, the parcel of land registered to her husband, and talked about her everyday life.
"Nikolay Fedorovsky, my present husband, came here first. He is a very educated person, has travelled a great deal throughout Ukraine, and has been in Russia and the Baltic States. The path to his present life was a long one, in the end he returned to his native land, he himself is from Konskie Razdory, you know. I was working as a medical assistant in Genichesk. Last year I came to stay a while with friends in Zaporizhzhya. That's where I met Nikolay. He brought me here. On April 2 of that year we were married according to an Old Russian ceremony....
"We often have guests here," my companion said. "My children and Nikolay's come frequently. Although they came with misgivings, they really liked it here! They even made us small benches with inscriptions that they love and understand us. There was a large village here earlier. And the Konka River was wide, but when they built the dam, it became narrow. And here is our vegetable garden," she indicated, as we went down to the river. "We don't till it. We are growing everything according to the technology of Nikolay Kurdyumov, the author of the books The Smart Vegetable Garden in Detail and The Smart Orchard in Detail. We work the land using the Fokin cultivator, which replaces all our tools."
Then our hostess showed us her future house. For the time being, there is only the foundation (not concrete, by the way, but made of stone) in the form of an oval. In Olga's words, we were not the only ones amazed by such an unusual notion, but also many guests before us.
"It's a pity that its construction is going slowly," she frets. "Nikolay had to get a job, that's why you didn't find him at home. He works a week out of every two according to his schedule. He still has small children. He has to pay support. Ideally, of course, we would like to escape from the system entirely. We want to get rid of the electrical transmission lines, it's better to use our own electrical generator. We don't need televisions, or computers, or cell phones. People used to communicate using ideas. And we shall learn as well, after all, we do live forever!"
Catching my puzzled glance, Olga added, "We believe in reincarnation. Sometimes it happens that you see a person and can't get rid of the feeling that you've known him for a long time. You probably met in previous lives."
Olga also showed us a small bridge across the Konka, a bridge made by her husband, and a small bathing area. According to her, ten families already live in the settlement. People have come here from various areas. A month ago, one couple, who had come from Zaporizhzhya, had a daughter. She was born at home. The process was "supervised" by the father himself (Aleksey, who had given us directions to the settlement).
"Of course, I examined the baby afterwards," said Olga. "I am, all the same, a former medical worker. By the way, I am now developing recommendations for young mothers for deliveries at home. I believe that it is better to give birth in the conditions of one's home. True, it is necessary that the woman herself wants to do it and has complete faith in her husband, who will deliver the baby. If she doesn't have this confidence, then it is better to go to a maternity hospital."
People can manage without medical assistance, but they have to eat every day. What do the settlers eat? Olga proudly admitted that this summer she learned how to dry squash, eggplant, scallions, to say nothing about the preparation of dried fruits. The family buys only sugar, salt, and groats. Some of the settlers have switched to eating cheese. The local residents even want to sew their own clothing. And what's more, in the words of my companion, all the residents here have a solicitous attitude toward nature. They want to preserve everything in its primordial state and do not under any circumstances want to leave scars on the earth in the form of plowed up land.
But just what unites the people who have gathered here - farther from cities, from civilization, from life on a grand scale? Religion? Faith? A sect? Olga listened calmly to this inevitable question.
"We are Orthodox Christians. Everybody at one time read Vladimir Megre's books about Anastasia (an original philosophy that provides for the creation of kin's estates. Ed.) We are simply an association of people. Here everyone helps each other. Each is building his or her own kin's estate, a so-called space of love. After all, everything in the world comes from it alone. You may not believe it, but after one year of life here, I have become completely different: I don't feel tired, in a day I can do more than I ever could have managed previously. Even my son, when he came to visit, didn't recognize me. He asked for permission to call me by my first name, Olga...."
Toward the end of this original tour of Olga and Nikolay's space of love, MIG's photographer, who had carefully preserved images of the charming little goats, and the stove, and the vegetable garden, and the future house, mistrustfully asked our hostess, "So, then, you don't regret coming here?"
"Not in the least," Olga answered sincerely.
On that, we said our farewells.
Aleksey Vinichenko
By the way, not far from this settlement lives another amazing person, Viktor Vasilev (MIG wrote about him in the November 29 issue), but we were unable to drop in on him. He said that he had been attempting to read through the Bible, the book of books. And only after ten years did he begin to understand it. It turns our that the true meaning of life cannot be understood immediately. It can be found only after assiduously searching in oneself and the surrounding world. And not everyone is successful. These people, possibly, have already found the meaning of life for themselves.
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