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The Three Buddhas of Activity

August 25, 2025 Joseph Dewey

The Three Buddhas of Activity

DK mentions the Three Buddhas of Activity quite a few times, but unless you have read over a dozen of the Bailey books you are likely to be in the dark about who they are and what they represent.

These the Buddhas are three Kumaras which are part of the seven great entities who form the inner circle at Shamballa. These have two divisions. The first are the “exoteric four” who are Sanat Kumara and the Three Buddhas of Activity. Blavatsky gives their names as Sananda, Sanaka, and Sanatana. These three, plus Sanat, are said to be in physical bodies, but not the dense physical as we understand it, but have bodies composed of the higher ethers of the physical plane.

The second group are called the “esoteric three.” These have bodies of a nonphysical substance and work with evolution from a higher level.

It is said that the exoteric four had to make a great sacrifice to descend to the dense physical plane to help us, for that is not their comfort zone.

The names of the esoteric three are: Sana, Kapila, and Sanat-sujata.

The Three Buddhas of Activity arrived on earth from Venus with Sanat Kumara over 18 million years ago. Altogether there were 105 Kumaras involved. Concerning the three DK says “There remain still with Him the three Buddhas of Activity.” The sacred number of 105 remains, but many of these Kumaras have been replaced by entitles who evolved from the human kingdom. Then he adds this: “I would call attention to the dual significance of that name, ‘Buddha of Activity,’ bearing out, as it does, the reality of the fact that Entities at Their stage of evolution are active love-wisdom and embody in Themselves the two aspects. The three Buddhas of activity have a correspondence to the three persons of the Trinity.” TCF Page 387

Each one of these Buddhas represents a group life of thirty-five:

“These Entities are divided into three groups of thirty-five each, and in Themselves embody the three major centres of the planetary Logos,” TCF, Page 387

Again three times 35 equals the sacred number of 105.

Even though they are presently active in the second ray of love-wisdom they carry with them a strong influence of the third ray from the previous solar system:

“Forget not that these three great Buddhas summarise in a peculiar sense the transmuted essence of the previous solar system in which intelligent activity was the goal. Today, that essence underlies all the activity of this solar system but is motivated by love, which was not the case in the earlier manifestation.” Rays and Initiations, Page 273

But then, “In relation to Shamballa… the three Buddhas of Activity… represent conscious intelligent life, conscious, intelligent and active wisdom, and conscious, intelligent and active creation.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 185

We see then that they incorporate all three major rays of aspect in their work, but with emphasis on love-wisdom, the major ray of his solar system.

Students often figure Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World, is the most evolved entity working with human evolution, so it may be surprising to learn that these three Buddhas, along with some others, are even more evolved than he.

“Few of the great Lives Who form the inner group of the Council Chamber at Shamballa are now of greater advancement than he (Sanat); the ‘Supernal Three,’ the ‘Radiant Seven,’ the ‘Lives embodying the forty-nine Fires,’ the ‘Buddhas of Activity,’ and certain ‘Eternal Spirits’ from such centres of dynamic spiritual life as Sirius, or from the constellation which at any one time forms a triangle with our Sun and Sirius and a Representative from Venus are of greater—far greater—advancement.” Rays and Initiations, Pages 141-142

It is interesting that even though they are more evolved “They are three aspects of the one aspect, and the pupils of Sanat Kumara.” Initiation Human and Solar, Page 107

The question arises as to why they would be in a student relationship with Sanat if they are the more evolved?

The answer is quite obvious which is this. As we evolve certain aspects of ourselves may reach a much higher state than others. Obviously, Sanat Kumara and this planetary situation offers a unique opportunity to achieve a more balanced state in their development.

For instance, Nikola Tesla was a scientific genius, but lacked ability in business skills. He may come back some day and learn them from one lesser evolved than himself.

So, just how advanced are these three Buddhas? We are told this:

They do not belong to this solar system at all; They have passed through the human stage in such far distant and remote world cycles that the experience is no longer a part of Their consciousness… In the last solar system They were the planetary Logoi of three planets in which the mind principle reached its highest stage of development; Rays and Initiations, Pages 267-268

It appears that they are a solar system ahead of Sanat Kumara, for in the last solar system they were “planetary Logoi” which is the position occupied by Sanat Kumara in this one.

They are not only “pupils” here to smooth off a few rough edges, but “They act as advisors to Sanat Kumara where His initial purpose is concerned.” Rays and Initiations, Page 267 Thus as pupils they receive and as advisors they send.

DK tells us of a number of things these three Buddhas do. One assisted Sanat Kumara in stimulating the individualization of humans in our distant past. Another focuses on stimulating disciples toward higher initiation and a third works with bringing disciples in on the plan through a principle called “identification. (See Rays and Initiations, Pages 268-269)

Impressing the plan on the Hierarchy and humanity is an important part of their work:

“It might be said here that the three Buddhas of Activity are the prime impressing Agents and that the three Great Lords are the “impressed Recipients” at an exceedingly high level.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Pages 119-120

“They are Embodiments of the intuition, and control the inflow of intuitional energy into the minds of men.” Discipleship in the New Age, Vol 2, Page 200

Whereas the main focus of Sanat Kumara is the human kingdom the Three Buddhas work with the lower three:

“The three Buddhas of Activity, act as similar focal points for the energy which animates the three lower kingdoms, and which produces their differing grades of consciousness.” TCF, Page 728

This quote pretty much sums up their work with life on earth:

“These three Buddhas are the creative Agents of the planetary Logos and are Wielders of the Law of Evolution.” Rays and Initiations, Page 587

They also act as a higher correspondence to the Sixth Kingdom and the ajna chakra:

“The Buddhas of Activity Who are to Shamballa what the Nirmanakayas are to the Hierarchy…” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 45

“They are essentially the “eye within the Triangle”—a most familiar symbol to many today. They are the expression, in activity, of the “All-Seeing Eye”; through their agency God sees, and through them and the energy directed through them, He directs the creative process.” Rays and Initiations, Page 180

As such they transmit intelligence from sources outside this solar system to Shamballa:

“They function, in a peculiar sense, as linking intermediaries between the Logos of our solar system and the informing Life of the constellation Libra; They relate these two great centres of energy to our planetary Logos.” Rays and Initiations, Page 267

We thus see that three the super advanced beings called the Three Buddhas of Activity are very active in the evolutionary process in our solar system.

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Fun Facts

August 23, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Fun Facts

Over the years I have collected an interesting assortment of odd ball stories, articles and unusual information. I thought I would share a few light-hearted stories with you.

Here is the first one:

Einstein’s Brain

HERE’S WHY EINSTEIN WAS SMARTER THAN US

Researcher Marian Diamond has discovered why Einstein was such a genius. He had 73 percent more of a certain type of brain cell than the average guy.

The University of California anatomy professor studied four slices of the famous physicist’s brain and found that the left portion of Einstein gray matter contained more glial cells, cells which supply nourishment to other brain tissue and handle mundane chores.

“There I was, looking at the brain that came up with the theory of relativity,” said an awestruck Dr. Diamond, who admitted she found the experience “overwhelming.”

Einstein’s brain is owned by a Missouri pathologist who participated in an autopsy on the genius after his death in 1955 at the age of 76. It took Dr. Diamond three years to talk him out of a few chunks of brain tissue for her experiments and six months to study the samples.

Her efforts were rewarded when she discovered differences between Einstein’s brain tissue and the tissue of ordinarily intelligent people.

Diamond said she found 73 percent more glial cells for every neuron cell in the left lobe of Einstein’s brain, Neuron cells are responsible for thinking, while the gliais supply more fundamental needs. She theorizes that the abundance of glial cells explains Einstein’s superintelIigence.

“No one knows how cells think,” she said, “It’s a mystery.”

Diamond has been studying the neuron-glial relationship in rats for years and has found that rats that are stimulated with toys and activities develop more glials for every neuron.

WEEKLY WORLD NEWS March 26. 1985

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Diamond

Piggly Wiggly

FOLKS LAUGHED AT THE MAN WHO INVENTED TODAY’S SUPERMARKET

Clarence Saunders put the “super” in supermarket when he invented the self-serve market, but his competitors laughed in his face the day he opened his first Piggly Wiggly store in 1916.

Up until then, grocery shoppers told a clerk what they wanted and the clerk gathered all the items. But Saunders had a better idea. He put the groceries on shelves, stuck price tags in front of them and let shoppers pick what they wanted. Then the customers took their groceries to the checkout counter.

“Traditional grocery store owners thought Saunders first store in Memphis, Tenn., was a joke. They prophesied customers would steal him out of business inside a month,” said Melinda Ingram, communications manager for Piggly Wiggly Corp.

“Instead, a week after he opened the store, Saunders had to issue admission tickets.” That’s because Saunders was a public relations genius and he also made sure Piggly Wiggly had lower prices than its competitors.

“Saunders was the first to start a price war, running ads comparing his prices with his old-fashioned competitors,” Ingram said.

“Two months after his first store opened, Saunders had 43 stores.”

Saunders lost his fortune in the stock market during the 1920s. But Ed Matthews, vice president and director of trade relations for Piggly Wiggly, said; “Saunders store started a revolution in the movement of products from manufacturers to consumers.

“Piggly Wiggly and the invention of Saunders self-service has been described as the most significant change in the buying and selling of goods since the introduction of currency.”

CLIFF BARR

from 1990 tabloid Unknown Source

PEOPLE’S HANDS REVEAL WHAT THEY ARE FEALLY THINKING

You can tell what people are thinking by watching their hands, say experts.

“Hands can be a real giveaway to our inner feelings,” said Dr. Vernon Coleman, author of the book “People Watching.”

“For example, observe the way people shake hands. If they reach out and try to keep their hand on top with the palm facing down, they are trying to dominate.

“When people conceal their palms they are being aggressive and when they have their hands turned upward with the palms in full view they are open and receptive.

“When people put their hands behind their head and lean back, that is a generally aggressive and arrogant sign. They are saying they can expose their bodies to you, but have so much power they don’t need to defend themselves.

“When a man or woman constantly plays with their wedding ring it indicates something is wrong with the relationship. This is especially true if the person talks about their partner at the same time.

“The hands can also pinpoint, a liar. When people stray from the truth they often touch their faces, particularly around the mouth and: the nose.

“Somebody who fiddles with their neckline or puts their hands inside their shirt or blouse is probably not telling you the whole truth. They have something to hide. Putting the hands in the pockets is another way of attempting to hide something.

“But when a man repeatedly touches his tie he is very keen on making a good impression. It is his way of saying he’s really trying.”

Liars sometimes give themselves away by scratching their necks, added Dr. David Lewis, author of “The Secret Language of Success. How to Bead and Use Body Talk.”

“They usually scratch five times – seldom more and rarely less “ he said.

“Some people know their hands can expose their lies, and they try to keep them out of sight in their pockets or behind their backs. But even then they can. subconsciously fiddle with keys or coins? which shows they are not telling the truth. “

Another interesting and revealing hand movement is when someone makes a hair grooming gesture, like -running their fingers through their hair. This shows the person is suddenly filled with doubt and doesn’t know what to do next”

People also betray their secret anxieties by holding something in front of them, such as a newspaper or handbag, said Dr. Coleman.

“It can mean that person is receiving unwanted attention from the opposite sex – and is trying to reject these advances by hiding. “

On the other hand, people who put their hands on their hips or their thumbs into their belt loops are trying to make themselves look attractive.”

Colin Brennan

Unknown source 1990

Excellent Drivers

37% THINK THEY’RE EXCELLENT DRIVERS

Some 37 percent of drivers think they are excellent behind the wheel, and 55 percent consider themselves good, reveals a poll of 500 motorists commissioned by Valvoline Oil.

But only 2 percent of drivers feel that other motorists are excellent… and 55 percent think that the other guy is generally a poor-to-fair driver.

NATIONAL ENQUIRER 1989

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Power of Thought

August 22, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Power of Thought

A reader asked about Prahlad Jani, an unusual holy man from India who claims to not eaten or even drank water since he was eight years old. Since he is now 70 to 80 years old this means that if he is telling the truth he has not eaten food or drank water for over 60 years.

An article I found on him says:

“He was examined by a group of scientists in Sterlin Hospital, in a western Indian city of Ahmedabad. During 10 days of experiment under constant observation, he didn’t consume any food and “neither did he spent urine nor stool”. Yet, he is fine in mental and physical, says doctors. And he was watched 24 hours a day, prohibited to take a bath, and was not given even a drop of water.

“Most people can live without food for several weeks, but without water, average human can survive only 3 or 4 days.

“Ahmedabad’s Association of Physicians say that despite no water entering in his body, urine formed in his bladder, and was RE-ABSORBED by the bladder walls. Scientists checked his blood, scanned his brain, he went through almost all kinds of inner body checks, but after all there was no change to his body condition.

This article goes on to cover another guy who is 66 and hasn’t eaten in 8 years and ten a lady who hasn’t eaten in 4 years.”

The question in Tom’s mind is: Are these people masters incarnate? It would seem that only a master could accomplish such a feat.

Not necessarily. The first clue is given in the photos in the article HERE

Take a look at these three people and see if you can figure out what they have in common before you read further.

Okay, did you take a look? What they have in common is that all three look their age or older. Hira Ratan Manek is about my age and in my opinion looks much older.

Prahlad Jani, who has says he has gone 60 years without eating or drinking not only looks his age but doesn’t look that bright. Evidence supporting this is he doesn’t know his age within a decade. Sounds like he is pretty out of touch with our reality.

The Masters are called Masters of Wisdom.

Why?

Because wisdom is the last thing that we humans master before we graduate and move into the fifth kingdom. It is true that a Master is capable of performing the miraculous but it takes more than this to be a Master.

There are two major indications of a Master.

Great wisdom and power to extend life indefinitely for the purpose of service to humanity.

So how do some individuals go without food and water if they are not masters?

The answer is quite simple and to find it one can look at those who experienced the wounds of Christ, commonly called the stigmata. Such individuals are often of average intelligence and show no signs of possessing any extraordinary wisdom. The supposed miracle is brought about through the principle of energy following thought.

Ordinary thought which is focused is much more powerful than is generally supposed and can give the thinker tremendous power over his body. He can not only create a stigmata (who wants to?) but can go long periods of time without food and water and even slow or almost stop his heart and revive it.

Even an average person who is not a master can do miraculous things if his attention is focused.

This can be illustrated through hypnosis. A person in a deep trance can have a lighted cigarette pressed against his skin and not suffer a burn. He can gain super strength and even lift a car. He could be told to manifest a stigmata and it would happen.

I believe a deeply hypnotized person could be trained to go long periods of time without food and water though no experiments have been performed in this direction.

What happens in many of these cases, where people perform astounding feats, is the person is so focused through meditation that he puts himself in a state of deep self hypnosis and this gives him power over his body in a focused area.

A Master of Wisdom realizes this principle and will use it with knowledge of what he is doing to accomplish certain ends as wisdom dictates.

(Note from 2025: Prahlad Jani died May 26, 2020 at age 90)

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

A reader asks this: I have OCD. What does that mean? What energies is it telling me to do? Often my thoughts are negative from OCD an illness of the mind. Why? How to overcome it? How do I know that I am resisting a new energy and how do we find out the clues to what it is?

JJ: OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) would be caused by an accumulation of a number of things in your evolution.

A number of past lives where you were subjected to strict routine or suffer punishment
Possibly your last life where there was intense suffering over disease or torture.

If OCD is a major problem in this life it is because you are dealing with the subtle memories with feeling or the astral body rather than the mental.

Your soul doesn’t design this situation for you so much as it just occurs to us in certain lives caused by our own thinking and the beginning of mental polarization as we move along in our progression.

There is a great lesson to be learned from this disease as its purpose is to force us to deal with the problem through the mind rather than the emotional body. The mind can see the solution and right action seems very simple, but the emotional body as well the instinctual self doesn’t see the logic and tries to force you to go contrary to logic and stay polarized in your feelings.

With great effort the mind can take control and show the emotional body who is the boss. When it does this enough times, the emotional body will learn to submit and the disease will be under control. When this happens a great evolutionary step in the life of the seeker will be accomplished.

When people are highly motivated, it’s easy to accomplish the impossible. And when they’re not, it’s impossible to accomplish the easy. – Bob Collings

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Why We Forget

August 21, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Why We Forget

Question: Do we lose our memory and become childlike so the necessary lessons can be learned in a productive way and move us forward in our physical and spiritual progression?

JJ: The technical reason we lose our memory is because of our identification with our physical bodies and the material world. Fortunately, when the body dies the record of our lives remains in the permanent atom that we take with us.

Past lives can be recalled but to do so one has to have the knowledge revealed through the soul, or disconnect from the physical through meditation or relaxation techniques so the memory can be accessed.

To understand how much our memories are connected to our bodies it is helpful to study your dreams. If you think back to your many dreams you may recall that in many of them you remembered few accurate memories of your preset life. Sometimes you will have a different identity completely. Other times you will have a different spouse, friends, home, occupation, car, etc. The reason for this is you are partially disconnected from your body during sleep, so your memories are not accurate. Your dreams are composite of a hodge-podge of memories from this life, previous lives and impressions picked up from other entities.

When we awaken and focus on the physical then our memories in the physical are fairly accurate. But that focus overshadows all other memories from the past and makes them difficult to access.

So why does the Divine Plan allow for us to forget past lives as we enter into a new one?

The answer is quite simple. A new start with a blank slate in each life forces us to choose and focus on something new to learn.

Take a look at some of the aging rock musicians for example. Some of them have not had a hit for 20-30 years, but they still keep on playing the old hits over and over and any new music they write sounds stale. They’ve lost their edge, but still keep on doing the same thing instead of learning something new.

For many people like that the only thing that will direct them on a new path of learning will be death, forgetting and rebirth.

A few years ago, Michael Jordan quit basketball and decided to do something new for a star player. He tackled a sport that required new learning — baseball. This was a sport that he was not that good at yet. I thought — good for him. That’s a sign of an evolved soul to force himself to do something new when it is the path less traveled on.

I was cheering him on, but then after a season or two he decided it was too difficult and he missed the accolades of being the best at his chosen sport and he moved back into basketball.

This just illustrates how tough it is to move away from something we are good at to learn something new when the new learning is not only difficult, but sometimes humiliating.

Now in his next life, if Michael Jordan is a little shorter and has a dad that teaches him baseball, he is likely to persevere in it and succeed. It will be helpful to him that he will not be distracted by memories of the cheering crowds for him being the greatest basketball player of all time.

Jesus said, “you must be born again to enter into the kingdom of God.” Such a kingdom consists of entities who are learning new things and moving forward. We are born again so we can participate in that.

This is also a key to overcoming death. We die when we finish effective learning for a particular life. If one can internally be born again and be flexible enough to take an entirely new course of learning as prescribed by his soul then he can extend his life a significant amount.

(Note from 2025: A recent study shows that people with past life memories often have emotional problems caused by disturbing memories. 71% reported childhood phobias, far above typical rates, with most persisting into adulthood. Here is a LINK to the article)

Question: Where do you see the soul residing in relationship to the body?

JJ Good answers from the group on this and thanks Larry for your comments on my books. I’ll add my two cents.

Part of the confusion comes from the fact that, in our society, the word “soul” is used very loosely with many different applications. Often times the astral body or even the etheric double is called the soul, but these are only vehicles and not soul.

Technically soul energy is that which is created through the interplay of spirit and matter, or the formless worlds and the worlds of form.

The term “the soul’ can refer to the Solar Angel but can have wider applications. It can refer to our consciousness ascending to soul contact, meaning that the consciousness centers on soul energy which opens the door to all worlds. When this door is open then the consciousness can be outside the body as you describe – or it can be within the body.

Every living being has a consciousness that it owes to soul energy and has a certain frequency. Through soul contact any individual can tune into the frequency of any other being. Sometimes we do this without realizing it.

Many times when people think they are contacting the dead when they are merely tuning into the person’s frequency. When an entity’s frequency is contacted then one can receive from such frequency – very similar information to that which he would receive from the real person.

For instance, a psychic could tune into Napoleon’s frequency and channel him even if he is reborn in the physical and in his new identity and frequency is communicating nothing to the medium. Even so his old frequency and identity remains embedded in soul essence.

There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. – Eugene O’Neill

April 11, 2010

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Time Travel

August 20, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Time Travel

Question: Is there anything to time travel as related in the fictional books and movies out there?

JJ: The various models of time travel in fiction books are not correct, according to my teachings. If it were, we would have thousands of time travelers among us now. Within a physical body you can only move forward one hour per hour and there is no return to the past in the physical.

Question: Some claim to be able to see into the future and make predictions which could be seen as a means of time travel. What is the truth behind that?

JJ: This is not time travel as generally understood, but yes projecting oneself into the future and predicting it through a calculated effort is possible though one cannot grasp all the details.

If one can look into the past and see the cycles of events and study them then he will have clues about cycles to come.

In addition, all creation is the result of some decision by some intelligence somewhere. Scripture says that God knows the end from the beginning. This is the case with any creator. If you are going to paint a picture you visualize the end and you know where to begin. You thus know the end from the beginning. If you are a master of the art, you will also know roughly how many steps you will take in between the beginning and end of your painting.

On the other hand, you do not calculate in advance each brush stroke.

We are like bush strokes in the hand of God. We are moving things toward a grand design and not sure what that design is. Some strokes are productive and others are mistakes.

Within the range of our stroking power, we have free will, but within the greater picture we are being directed toward a purposeful end.

Question: What do you think of the idea that we are just reliving a life that has already happened, like watching a movie where all the happenings are predetermined and cannot be changed?

JJ: That’s an interesting twist, but what would be the purpose of reliving something we have already done?

An important principle is this: There is a purpose behind everything, and if we were just like robots repeating something then purpose would be void. Therefore, we are not robots but agents of free will.

It is true though that there are different factors of the speed of time in the universe, but one is not an exact duplicate of another.

JJ: Why would any great intelligence want to plan life that was to be endlessly repeated, or even repeated once with no changes? Monopoly, football, or any game is interesting because it is unpredictable and you have a chance to win. Would you even play Monopoly if you could make the dice roll any way you wanted each time or if you knew beforehand what each roll of the dice would be? That would take the fun out of it.

Every creator has an end in mind and is aware of various steps and cycles that will be taken in creation. It is possible for us to catch a glimpse of the next step as well as the end of some creations in progress, but just as no painter can predict all the brush strokes or the mistakes he will make along the way, even so many of the details of the future cannot be seen or predicted.

The only way to travel to the past or future and back is in the spirit out of the body. It is possible to visit it the “Eternal Now” and see creation as a whole. This wholeness includes time and space. Then in the spirit one can project into a point of time and/or space. Let us say you land in the year 2200. Then you return and plunge back two more times. One is to 1939 and the second to the present in 2010.

Could I prevent myself being born by killing my father in 1939 and therefore, I wouldn’t even be writing this?

No.

Why?

The reason is that incarnating into time is like incarnating into a body. When we are born we lose our memory and suffer many limitations.

Similarly when we plunge into an point in time we suddenly become limited and cannot see all the details of the future or the past. We cannot change the present by going back to the past and cannot change the year 2200, but we can create it.

Time and the eternal now is difficult to correctly absorb but the seed thought that will lead to understanding is the idea that time is a vehicle like our body is that we incarnate into. We are sometimes living in time and other times may not be. Even so, time is always there moving creation forward.

A reader asks: “If one drinks alcohol, likes to party, and also uses swear words, will he or she be unable to live in the physical Zion?”

JJ: I hope so or I will not be able to be there.

If you lived in an ideal society would you kick a guy out just because he let loose once in a while? I doubt it.

The societies of the future will not judge worthiness by the dogmatic standards of religions past. True immorality is when you intentionally do harm to another individual, not when you cuss because you hit your thumb with a hammer.

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, time stays, we go. – Robert W Service

April 10, 2010

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Shamballa

August 19, 2025August 20, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Shamballa, Part 1
Where is Shamballa?

Esoteric students often associate Shamballa with the name of the seventh kingdom on the earth, but that is not technically correct. Instead, DK says this about the sixth and seventh kingdoms:

“To these kingdoms no names have as yet been given, because the possibility of their existence is only now just beginning faintly to penetrate into the consciousness of the disciple and the initiate.” Rays and Initiations, Page 129

Even though the seventh kingdom has no name, in the next paragraph he does associate it with Shamballa:

“The seventh kingdom in nature is that of the Lives Who participate in full capacity of understanding with the group of Beings Who are the nucleus of the Council at Shamballa. Around the Lord of the World this group pivots;” Page 130

So technically, the seventh kingdom has no given name but consists “of the Lives Who participate in full capacity of understanding” with the great Council Chamber.

Why then has this great center been given no official name as far as humanity is concerned?

Apparently, it is thought that something does not warrant a name until it begins “to penetrate into the consciousness” of advanced humanity. A name is a special word that gives meaning, but if a thing is beyond the consciousness of a person or group then a name is meaningless. Only when humanity begins to have some conscious recognition and understanding of the seventh kingdom can a name be given by them.

You cannot name something if you do not know it exists and the name which the sixth and seventh kingdoms will eventually bear will be names given by humanity when humanity consciously has some understanding of them. Until then students will use the name Shamballa as given by the Hierarchy.

We have some understanding of the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms and have named them. Because of great lives like Jesus, the Buddha and others most of humanity understands there is at least one kingdom beyond human. Esoteric students have named this fifth kingdom, “The Spiritual Hierarchy;” whereas general humanity calls it “The Kingdom of Heaven,” or “Kingdom of God.”

General humanity sees the master teachers and the kingdom of heaven as taught by them as the ultimate and do not register the sixth and seventh kingdoms beyond them, so as yet there is no name for what which is not yet perceived. The name Shamballa merely causes us to stretch our minds to consider kingdoms above that which humanity can presently understand.

A seeker may consider this question: “Is Shamballa a place, and, if so, where is it?”

The answer seems to be yes and no.

On the yes side we find this:

“The central home of this Hierarchy (the seventh Kingdom) is at Shamballa, a centre in the Gobi desert, called in the ancient books the “White Island.” It exists in etheric matter, and when the race of men on earth have developed etheric vision its location will be recognised and its reality admitted. The development of this vision is rapidly coming to pass, as may be seen from the newspapers and the current literature of the day, but the location of Shamballa will be one of the latest etheric sacred spots to be revealed as it exists in the matter of the second ether. Initiation Human and Solar, Page 33

“Shamballa. The City of the Gods…It is the home of mysticism and the Secret Doctrine.” Initiation Human and Solar, Page 225

“Shamballa—The Sacred Island in the Gobi desert. The centre in central Asia where the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days, has His Headquarters.” TCF Footnote [xci] 89

So, you read along and see these quotes and you’re convinced Shamballa is a place and then you read this:

“This Council Chamber (at Shamballa) is not a location or a place, but a state of consciousness within the all-enveloping Life.” Rays and Initiations, Page 256

So which is it. Is Shamballa a place or a state of consciousness? I find that the answer to such conundrums in the Bailey writings is to carefully examine the wording. In this case note that DK refers to consciousness “within the all-enveloping Life.”

The etheric form existence of Shamballa does have a location and place, but the members are not restricted to that location. A member of the Council Chamber or one tuning into its consciousness could be anywhere on the planet.

It is roughly comparable to saying that Washington DC is a place and headquarters in the United States, but there are many citizens not physically present in the nation’s capital.

Similarly, Shamballa has a central headquarters, but members with the consciousness of the seventh kingdom are citizens no matter where they are.

Presently Shamballa resides in the second ether, invisible to human eyes, but this will not always be the case:

“When these two centres (Humanity and the Spiritual Hierarchy) can work in full cooperation, then Shamballa will take form and will no longer be found existing only in cosmic etheric substance, as is now the case.” Rays and Initiations, Page 382

It is interesting that DK equates Sanat Kumara with the Ancient of Days from the Bible (Destiny of the Nations, Page 95) and the Book of Daniel speaks of a future time when he will manifest to the planet. Daniel speaks of the current age where the forces of evil make war with the saints (the enlightened) “and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.” Daniel 7:21-22

It also says this: “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” Daniel 7:13-14

Thus, DK tells us of a day that Shamballa will materialize in the physical and the Bible says that Sanat Kumara will as well.

That will be an interesting time.

Shamballa, Part 2
Shamballa and the Rays

We’ve established that Shamballa is a foreshadowing of the seventh kingdom which will manifest on this planet. Since it represents such high consciousness to which we may attain it would seem advisable to see what the Bailey writings tell us about it.

First let us look at the rays that govern Shamballa. Most students are aware that the first ray of will-power-purpose dominates there as noted here:

“The Centre which is created by the Ray of Will or Power is called Shamballa and its major activity is bequeathing, distributing and circulating the basic principle of life itself to every form which is held within the planetary ring-pass-not of the planetary Life or Logos… This dynamic energy focuses itself through the Lives or Beings Who control and dominate Shamballa.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 183 & 129

Even though the first ray is very powerful there, the overall controlling energy is the second ray of love-wisdom:

“It is, however, equally true that Shamballa is primarily second ray as it is expressed, because that is the ray of the present solar system of which Shamballa is a part; and that the first ray, or its dynamic life aspect, is focused in the heart, for the heart is the centre of life.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 135

Then too the seventh ray plays a part for the “energy from Shamballa (embodying the will-to-good) is fused and blended with the organising energy of the seventh ray and then carried to humanity along the stream of love which emanates from the Hierarchy itself.” Esoteric Astrology, Page 445

In addition, all the three major rays (1, 2 & 3) are represented by the triad of the three Buddhas of Activity: “In relation to Shamballa, this Triangle is composed of the three Buddhas of Activity Who represent conscious intelligent life, conscious, intelligent and active wisdom, and conscious, intelligent and active creation.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 185

The other four rays, 4, 5, 6 & 7 are not left out for one of the Lords of Karma “represents the four minor Rays of Attribute. It is the Lord of Karma Who implements the destinies of Those Who are conditioned by the third Ray of Active Intelligence.” Rays and Initiations, Page 724

In addition, DK through numerology reduced Shamballa to numbers: “To this centre we give the name Shamballa, the component letters of which are numerically: S.H.A.M.B.A.L.L.A. or 1.8.1.4.2.1.3.3.1. This word equals the number 24 which in its turn equals 6… The number 6 is the number of form or of manifestation.” Rays and Initiations, Page 79

Notice that there are four ones in the name indicate the emphasis on the first ray of power.

If a resident of Shamballa were to describe it to the average seeker, how would he go about it? We are told that it would be difficult, for much of what it is, is beyond that which is conceived by general humanity. For instance, he says this:

“There is naught in the world of Shamballa which is of the same nature as the phenomenal world of man in the three worlds, or even of the soul world. It is a world of pure energy, of light and of directed force; it can be seen as streams and centres of force, all forming a pattern of consummate beauty, all potently invocative of the world of the soul and of the world of phenomena; it therefore constitutes in a very real sense the world of causes and of initiation.” Discipleship in the New Age, Vol 2, Pages 292-293

This tells us that even though Shamballa has a physical extension composed of the second physical ether in the Gobi Desert that its pure nature is a consciousness beyond time and space. We are even told that it is beyond “the soul world.”

That would be where our Higher Self and the Solar Angel resides. From our point of view the soul world would seem like an ultimate destination, but even an advanced disciple has difficulty wrapping his mind around all Shamballa represents.

For the disciple to get a sense of Shamballa in his consciousness he must pick up the aspect of purpose and follow it:

“Shamballa is the place of purpose. It is a purpose which cannot be understood until the Plan is followed. Herein lies a clue.)” Discipleship in the New Age, Vol 2, Page 519

DK does give us some hints as to what the focus is of the great lives in Shamballa. They “move entirely free from glamour; Their vision is one of extreme simplicity; They are concerned only with the great and simple duality of spirit and matter, and not with the many forms which the fusion of these two brings into being.” Rays and Initiations, Page 144

Then he tells us that “Shamballa which is essentially the energy of life itself, implemented by the will.” Rays and Initiations, Page 230 He equates this with the “divine potency, of embodied Purpose, expressing through evolutionary manifestation the divine Will.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 129

We conclude the essence of Shamballa is life itself animated by the first ray of Will, Power and Purpose, which is under the aspect of Love Wisdom of the Solar Logos.

We thus see that Shamballa exists in a very high state of consciousness relative to the human

kingdom. Those who think they have had the ultimate contact need to think again.

Shamballa, Part 3
Who Resides in Shamballa?

The question then arises as to who dwells in Shamballa.

Most students are aware that Sanat Kumara along with six other Kumaras dwell there, but are a little fuzzy who else may be there. Concerning these seven it is written:

“There are seven Kumaras connected with our planetary evolution, of Whom four are exoteric; the four exoteric have vehicles in etheric matter; three Kumaras are esoteric and have their vehicles in subtler matters still.” TCF, Page 181, Footnote

Only four of them inhabit the etheric-physical Shamballa but they all dwell in the Shamballa consciousness.

These seven Kumaras are mentioned several times in the Bailey writings giving some the impression that is all there is for now, but in the beginning “one hundred and four Kumaras came from Venus to the Earth; literally the figure is one hundred and five, when the synthesising Unit, the Lord of the World Himself, is counted as one”. TCF, Page 387

This event happened eighteen and a half million years ago when the foundations of Shamballa on Earth were laid:

“It was decided about seventeen million years ago (the coming of the Hierarchy and the founding of Shamballa being about eighteen and a half million years ago) to have on the dense physical plane an organization and a headquarters for the mysteries, and to have a band of Adepts, and Chohans who would function in dense physical bodies and thus meet the need of the rapidly awakening humanity.” A Treatise on White Magic, Page 378

Shamballa then started out with 105 Kumaras. Has the number then been reduced to seven?

It appears the number may still be 105 for the text says this:

“These Kumaras [the 105] (or Their present substitutes) can also be divided into the seven groups which correspond to the seven Rays, and are in Themselves the life of the centre for which They stand. Fifteen, therefore, of these Entities (again the ten and the five) form a centre in the body of the planetary Logos, and the three Kumaras about Whom we are told (Who in Themselves are fivefold, making the fifteen) are the entifying Lives of the particular centre which is involved in the coming Initiation of the Heavenly Man, and to which the human units at this time, and during this greater cycle, belong.” TCF, Page 388

Notice that in speaking of the 105 Kumaras in the present time that he speaks of “their present substitutes.” And he speaks of the seven Kumaras as “seven groups” totaling 105.

Apparently the 105 (7×15) is an important number to maintain for when the original Kumaras departed, human initiates took their place.

“Many posts held hitherto by Venusian Entities were vacated in order that our humanity might occupy them, and a vast interchain radiation went on as many of the Kumaras and certain lesser existences quitted our earth chain, and entered upon subtler, and more advanced work.” TCF, Pages 1078-1079

Here he speaks of “certain lesser existences” indicating others who are not of the rank of a Kumara who inhabit Shamballa. It is most probable that all of these have not been identified in available writings.

We do know that those who have passed the sixth initiation who remain on the Earth as Nirmanakayas have access to Shamballa. We are told that “that Gautama Buddha, with several of his Arhats” (TCF, Page 1193) are examples of these. It is quite possible that these entities have taken the place of some of the 105 original Kumaras.

Theses Nirmanakayas are one of two groups who have attained Shamballa:

“The Members of the Council at Shamballa… divide Themselves into two groups which are called in the ancient parlance, Registrants of the Purpose and Custodians of the Will. Will is active. Purpose is passive, waiting for the results of the activity of the will. These two groups are reflected in hierarchical circles by the Nirmanakayas or the Planetary Contemplatives, and the Custodians of the Plan. The function of the Registrants of the Purpose is to keep the channel open between our Earth, the planet Venus and the Central Spiritual Sun. The function of the Custodians of the Will is to relate the Council, the Hierarchy and Humanity, thus creating a basic triangle of force between the three major centres of the planetary Life.” Rays and Initiations, Page 69

Here DK talks about and “inner group” of very advanced beings in Shamballa, and some of them are more advanced than Sanat Kumara:

“Few of the great Lives Who form the inner group of the Council Chamber at Shamballa are now of greater advancement than he (Sanat); the “Supernal Three,” the “Radiant Seven,” the “Lives embodying the forty-nine Fires,” the “Buddhas of Activity,” and certain “Eternal Spirits” from such centres of dynamic spiritual life as Sirius, or from the constellation which at any one time forms a triangle with our Sun and Sirius” and a Representative from Venus are of greater—far greater—advancement.” Rays and Initiations, Pages 141-142

If there is an inner group there would also be an outer, which most likely would be the Nirmanakayas.

So this inner group consists of some of the most evolved entities within or solar system plus great beings external to it such as the Avatar of Synthesis:

“Shamballa—the planetary head centre—invokes energies outside the planetary life… The Avatar of Synthesis will draw very close to humanity and He will inaugurate the ‘reign of Avatars’ Who will be embodied Purpose and spiritual Will.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 134

We are told that the Lords of the Rays are “more advanced in the spiritual scale than are those great Lives who form the Council of the Lord of the World in Shamballa,” but they have representatives who “constitute a body of directing Forces in collaboration with the Lord of the World at Shamballa.” Esoteric Healing, Page 298 & Destiny of the Nations, Page 144

In addition, we are told that members of the Council Chamber at Shamballa “work in full unanimity with the Lords of Karma.” Rays and Initiations, Page 118 This indicates that these great Lords have a presence there.

We see from the writings that there is quite a wide selection of great entities who work in Shamballa.

The greatest of all in our solar system is the Solar Logos who dwells on its own plane but has strong influence in Shamballa:

“Shamballa, as it constitutes the synthesis of understanding where our Earth is concerned, is also the centre where the highest Will of the Solar Logos is imposed upon the Will of our planetary Logos.” Externalization of the Hierarchy, Page 534

Finally, we see that all of us dwell in Shamballa in a round-about way. The highest part of ourselves, our monads, have never left the highest spiritual realm and the human initiate will eventually “evoke response from the Spiritual Triad and thus reach the Monad in its high place of waiting in Shamballa.” Rays and Initiations, Page 61

And what is the highest part of ourselves, the monad, waiting for? It is waiting for the Prodigal Son to return home to share the high consciousness in Shamballa. After the long wait is finished, we are told that: “Life is now liberated, owning the quality of conscious knowledge and the fruit of all experience. These are the gifts of soul and form combined.” Esoteric Healing, Page 502

Shamballa, Part 4
The Shamballa Energy

We have already mentioned that Shamballa strongly represents the energy of the First Ray, but what does this mean as far as its influence goes on the lower kingdoms?

The first ray is commonly called the ray of power, but has three main aspects which are Will, Power and Purpose. All three of these are powerful agents projected to the Spiritual Hierarchy and humanity to further evolution upon the earth.

When we speak of Purpose in connection with Shamballa, we are not speaking of it as commonly understood, but it represents an alignment of the higher mind with definite plans from the Lord of the World as well as the Solar Logos.

Then we have the will aspect that goes far beyond what we see as human determination but is carried out when the higher mind aligns with higher lives and makes definite decisions to select and direct energies to further the Plan and the Purpose of the Plan.

Finally, we have the Power aspect which is the easiest for seekers to understand for power exercised on any level is pretty much recognized or what it is. Raw power is neither good or evil, but its results depend on the intelligence that receive it and put it to use.

These three aspects affect humanity through “three great energies… focused in Shamballa, the seat of fire:”

The first is the Energy of Purification. DK says that “It involves the elimination of all that hinders the nature of divinity from full expression… This necessitates the leaving behind, stage after stage, cycle after cycle, life after life, and plane after plane, of every tendency in the form nature which veils or hides the glory of God. It is essentially the energy which substitutes good for evil.

The second is “The Energy of Destruction: This is a destruction which removes the forms which are imprisoning the inner spiritual life, and hiding the inner soul light.”

The third is “The Energy of Organisation.”

This is basically that energy that creates and organizes in the worlds of time and space so material manifestation is brought in alignment with Spirit. Among humanity it inspires us to create better forms after old forms and impediments have been removed. (See Rays and Initiations, Pages 84-86)

We thus have this sequence. First purification removes that which hinders the release of divine power. Second this power is released that destroys forms that are hindering divine expression. Finally, the energy of purposeful organization and creation takes place that creates a new cycle of useful forms more in harmony with Divine Will.

This third aspect finally reveals the love divine which is behind all that God has made, but it often seems that there is not much love behind the first two aspects when they are released

The forces from Shamballa are extremely powerful, from a human point of view, and can overwhelm and even frighten a disciple when they are picked up. For this reason, “The individual must be protected by the group from the terrific potencies which emanate from Shamballa. These must be stepped down for him by the process of distribution, so that their impact is not focussed in any one or all of his centres but is shared by all the group members. Here is the clue to the significance of group work.” Rays and Initiations, Page 68

This energy is different from the second ray of Love-Wisdom radiated from the Hierarchy, but nevertheless, when perceived the disciple does not question its divine source.

Because of its immense power “Most of the response to the Shamballa activity is characterised by fear and terror, by sensitivity and distressingly developed reactions to the forces of hate and separation. Only a few, here and there, really grasp the vision of the future and realise what is going on, seeing truly the beauty of the emerging plan.” Destiny of the Nations, Page 20

Indeed, the power released from Shamballa is great and has even destroyed an entire civilization in the past for “The last major intervention in Atlantean days came via Shamballa and resulted in the partial destruction of entire continents and lands.” Esoteric Astrology , Page 441

This caused a great disruption, but it had to be done to prevent the imprisoning of the human soul by dark powers:

“In Atlantean days when the power of the Black Lodge was so great that defeat faced the Hierarchy and the destruction of the human soul. Shamballa then interfered, and the world of that time was destroyed. This period is recognised in modern history as the time of the Great Flood.” Externalization of the Hierarchy, Pages 438-439

Because the powers of Shamballa have been used mostly to destroy old forms interfering with Spirit this creates a great disturbance to those who are attached to those forms which no longer serve humanity.

The plan is always to release the third aspect of power to build the new, the good, the beautiful and the true, but because of human imperfection and focus on the forces of materialism we haven’t seen many examples of this aspect of divine creation, though there have been a few. But it is hoped that this creative aspect that reveals the love of God behind what appears to be unsettling times will finally manifest for all to see in the Aquarian Age.

Since the fall of Atlantis, the release of the Shamballa energy has mainly been channeled through the Hierarchy and then safely directed toward the human kingdom. They have been hesitant to release it directly to humanity for “the oft misunderstood fact that the same energy or identical force will produce results within the consciousness of a Christ or within the consciousness of anti-Christ.” Rays and Initiations, Page 232

Yet a direct release to humanity has more potential power for good so around 1745 the Kumaras in Shamballa noted that humanity had advanced enough that it was worth the risk to release this energy directly to us. It would create great disturbance but it was believed the end would be good.

After that time, “The will aspect of divinity made its first definite and direct contact with the human mind. The impact was direct and not deflected-as had hitherto been the case-to the Hierarchy and from thence to humanity. According to the type of man or group who responded or reacted to this contact, so were the results; they were very good or exceedingly bad. Great and good men appeared and enunciated the truths needed for the New Age, and of these Lincoln, Roosevelt, Browning, Briand and a host of lesser men could be cited. Evil and pernicious men also emerged, such as Hitler and the group he gathered around him, bringing much evil upon the Earth.

“At the same time, the will-to-good from Shamballa evoked the latent goodwill in man, so that today and increasingly over the past one hundred years, goodness of heart, kindness in action, consideration for others and mass action to promote human welfare have spread over the Earth.” Externalisation of the Hierarchy, Page 667

He says this release created all kinds of ideologies thought to be good at the time such as, “Fascism, Democracy (the U.S . Constitution) and Communism as well as that peculiarly distorted blend of Fascism and Communism which goes by the name of Hitlerism or Nazism.” Externalization of the Hierarchy, Pages 126-127

Numerous powerful men came forward of a very disturbing nature who destroyed the old forms: “The men who inspired the initiating French revolution; the great conqueror, Napoleon; Bismarck, the creator of a nation; Mussolini, the regenerator of his people; Hitler who lifted a distressed people upon his shoulders; Lenin, the idealist, Stalin and Franco are all expressions of the Shamballa force and of certain little understood energies.” Externalization of the Hierarchy, Page 133

A powerful and direct release of the Shamballa energy occurred in the 1930’s, but instead of being picked up by disciples it was picked up by the adepts of the Black Lodge. “These evil beings have responded to the will energy of Shamballa and to the life-giving vitality, but have used it in keeping with their own evil intentions and with the power conferred by their standing upon the cosmic ladder of evil. Hence the war.” (Word War II) Rays and Initiations, Page 232

Hitler’s Germany used this energy destructively, but fortunately was defeated by the Allied nations. Even though great destruction occurred humanity made a lot of progress because of the war. Many old forms were destroyed and replaced by newer and better ones.

The Shamballa energy continues to be released periodically but “the risks will then not be so great as in the first impact, owing to the spiritual growth of mankind. Each time this energy strikes into the human consciousness some fuller aspect of the divine plan appears.” Rays and Initiations, Page 716

Since World War II tremendous changes have occurred and many of them are due to advanced individuals picking up the will-to-good and creative aspects of the Shamballa force. Let us hope that humanity has matured enough to use this energy in a constructive mode.

To make this happen disciples cannot just sit back and let others use this energy, but DK encourages disciples to invoke it to draw down inspiration about the plan so they can assist in manifesting it.

He says that “the concentrated clear and dynamic invocation of the spiritual Beings Who have created—or more accurately—have formed Shamballa, is the highest form of meditation possible upon our planet.” Discipleship in the New Age, Vol 2, Page 197

Let the disciples who wish to be a part of the plan invoke this energy so light and love and power will restore the Plan on earth.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ringing Cedars Books, Part 3

August 16, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Ringing Cedars Books, Part 3

I’ve given a few details from my book report on Vladimir Megre’s nine books. Now I’ll give you my views on the positives and negatives.

First, the negative. Parts of the writings are quite fanciful and unbelievable. Anastasia has more power than is credible. If she truly had such powers then she alone could bring peace on earth pretty much by herself.

She attributes her great intelligence to being raised in the wild away from corrupting influences yet in real life those raised apart from much human contact usually suffer from stunted development.

It is fairly incredible that she is one of a kind and there are not more of her. She also does not mention the Masters. She may not agree with them if she did know of them for she doesn’t believe in hierarchy. At the same time, it is ironic that she is becoming a hierarchical head of a new world movement that many are looking to for guidance.

She teaches that our planet is the only place in the universe with humans like ourselves. There is life on other planets but they are not in the image of God.

This does not register with me correctly as I believe that there are many worlds out there with humans equal to ourselves, though such worlds may be somewhat far apart. The concept of the spiritual Hierarchy is built on the principle that many solar systems have passed away that were inhabited by humans that evolved into higher beings that now nurture the lower lives.

Her accumulating the power to physically teleport herself to any place in the universe, a power she acquired on her own with no teacher, is pretty fantastic. The coming alien invasion also stretches the imagination and looks like it was modeled after the television series “V”.

If she is an advanced spiritual being then why did she seduce a married man? Another mystifying thing is that Vladimir rarely mentions his wife and her reaction though he does say she was not jealous and accepted what happened. Doesn’t sound anything like the reaction I would get from my wife or any other wives I know.

Overall, Anastasia seems to be against technology and teaches that living close to nature will make you smarter and more developed. I conceded that being close to nature has its virtues but so does technology. If one compares those closest to nature in our real world with those who have the most advanced technology there is quite a difference. Obviously, those who live in the wilds, as does Anastasia, are the tribal people and these people do all kinds of things at we would not want to incorporate. They practice everything from cannibalism, to mutilation, to deforming their bodies to human sacrifice. As these people are introduced to our civilization along with technology they cease doing these things.

In our country, those living closest to Anastasia’s ideal would be the Amish. These people do not seem to have any spiritual or intellectual advantage over the rest of us except that their society as a whole is fairly peaceful. But they are fairly dogmatic and their main source of learning is the Bible to exclusion of many things civilization has available.

The detailed story of one little girl in the future forcing the nations to lay down their arms is very fanciful. A lot of people with a belief similar to Vladimir present the idea that children are really smarter than we are and we should listen to them. While it is true that there is a time and place to be childlike the hard truth is that children need direction from adults much more than the other way around. He does have a point though that the way we educate our children needs reform and they are capable of self-learning much more than educators realize.

He writes that we all should have a hector of land, which is about two and a half acres. This actually is possible in Russia since there are about 30 acres available for each person or about 100 for each family if all the land were equally divided. Russia has about four times the land per person as the United States. Other nations are so densely populated that a hector of land for each family would be impossible. For instance, Monaco has about 66 people for each acre available and Singapore has about 29. The United Kingdom has about one acre per person.

One must also keep in mind that much of the land on the planet is not usable for farming.

Overall I am prone to believe that the books are a combination of fact and fiction. He may have met a person who inspired him to create the character of Anastasia but I do not think she is to be taken literally. In fact, he hints at the idea that Anastasia is what we want her to be.

Does this then mean that Vladimir is not fulfilling the prophecy of creating the great new religion that is promised to come out of Russia?

Reader Comment: “I found it a very dry read in terms of entertainment and VERY thin in terms of spiritual teaching and likely would not have continued reading it had it not been the topic of conversation here. I did manage to finish it.”

JJ: Overall, I agree and not sure if the official translation is much better than the one you read. I found the books fairly dry going and then there would be a period where they would keep my interest.

The main reason I decided to read them is because of the wide circulation and acclaim they are receiving. It is no small feat to sell 10 million new age books, starting in Russia as a base. I always try to keep abreast of what is popular in the various spiritual movements.

Of the nine books, books 1 and 4 are the most interesting.

Reader: “In my opinion, it is NOTHING like ‘The Immortal,’ at least this possibly different version.”

JJ: I know I’m biased, but it amazes me that this series sells many millions and mine has only sold a few thousand. I’ve always felt that the right trigger could cause The Immortal to be a best seller.

That said let us move on to the positive aspects of the series.

First, the books stress returning to nature and living in harmony with it. The teachings minimize attention on technology but are not fanatical about not using it.

Now, as I said, good takes us forward into the future and progress and evil causes us to retrogress. But as we move forward into the good, we do not leave the good of the past behind. We take that which works and add it to the newly discovered which also works.

Living in harmony with nature will always be a good thing. It would only be evil if those attempting to do this became so dogmatic that they do not see other good things developing on the horizon.

It is a good thing that he has sold millions of copies and stimulated the minds of the Russian people who have been so suppressed in the past. They seem to have stimulated a new hope and faith in many.

Is he creating the prophesied religion? After all, he says he has no desire to start one. Even so, many see Anastasia through the eyes of religious devotion.

Since the fall of communism many cults have arisen in Russia but of them all I would say that Vladimir’s teachings are the only ones that come close to fulfilling the prophesy. If it isn’t him then a more enlightened one is to come.

One must keep in mind that the new religion is not likely to be a perfect one, but merely one that will give the people a new direction and hope.

There are several simple ideas presented by Vladimir that many in Russia are embracing with religious devotion.

The advantages of having your own piece of land, becoming self-sufficient and growing your own food. Because communism did not allow for private ownership this idea seems more exciting to Russians than perhaps to us.

The teaching that plants have a consciousness and seek to serve humankind. They are sensitive to the caregiver’s thoughts and touch and actually adjust the structure of the food they yield to benefit their caregiver.

This means that the healthiest food you can eat is that which you grow yourself because the plants will adjust their ingredients to benefit you.

He teaches that prisoners can become much more harmless and productive if they are each give a piece of ground to nurture and raise their own food.

He presents interesting ideas of educating children by using less structure and guiding them toward more self-discovery and self-learning.

He presents the image of a superwoman who is almost seen as a goddess by many to which many are giving an almost religious devotion. Readers are claiming they feel her thoughts and sense her watching over them. Looking at it logically Anastasia is probably a more sensible religious icon than many presently in use. With so many readers there is bound to be a powerful thoughtform of her emerging and I expect stories of visitations soon, if they have not already happened.

The teachings emphasize peaceful co-existence and harmony. If they spread then perhaps Russia will cease being a threat to the world and become the big helpful brother that Djwahl Khul said she would become.

One must also keep in mind that Djwahl Khul has told us that the religion of the future will be much different than the religion of the past. Whereas the religion of the past was black and white, dogmatic and highly structured the coming religion(s) will be a more natural evolution. People as a whole will recognize spiritual principles and incorporate them. Just as Christmas and the giving spirit of the times is universally seen as something good to observe so will humanity recognize certain universal principles and observe them without dogmatism.

Note from 2025. Here is the current situation with the movement according to Grok:

The movement emphasizes establishing “kin’s homesteads” (self-sufficient plots of land, ideally at least one hectare, for families to live in harmony with nature). By 2020, the movement had already inspired over 400 such settlements in Russia alone, with ongoing expansion globally.

The books are translated into 20 languages resulting in the establishment of reader groups in countries like Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, and the United States.

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Ringing Cedars Books, Part 2

August 15, 2025August 15, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Ringing Cedars Books, Part 2

After Vladimir gets home he dabbles in business and then finally gets around to writing the book. He can’t find a publisher and with a little help publishes it himself. The book turns into a great seller and he begins to receive all kinds of positive response. Apparently, there are many poets still in Russia as he receives many poems dedicated to Anastasia.

Various authorities apparently believe Anastasia is real and attempt to lure her into the real world to study her. She doesn’t want to go and they attempt to take her by force but are not successful.

After about two years he takes off on another trip to the Siberian taiga to see Anastasia again. He finds her and his son his who now a toddler. She doesn’t want him to interact directly with him as she has specific methods used in raising him and anything he does would just contaminate the kid. He doesn’t like this but cooperates.

He finds that the kid loves to inspect and play with insects, bugs and animals. Anastasia explains to him that he can learn much more from a bug than an expensive toy or the most sophisticated computer because a bug is more complex than anything man has made.

In the middle of play a great eagle landed upon the boy and grabbed under his armpits with his talons and flew off with him. He went high above the trees until the boy and the eagle were just a dot.

Vladimir was astounded, first that the boy seemed to not fear but enjoy the experience but was afraid for his life.

Anastasia calmed him down and explained the same thing happened to her when she as a child and it was a consciousness raising experience. She said the boy was safer with the eagle than a passenger is on an airplane.

A short time later the eagle returned the boy and then went off to die as he was at the end of his days.

Another highlight from the books was Anastasia’s teaching and demonstration of her ability to teleport. She first demonstrated how she could teleport herself short distances and then explained that she could project herself to any place in the universe. In fact, she had already traveled and explored many other star systems.

She explained that in all the universe that humanity on earth is the only creation that is in the image of God with unlimited potential. There is life on other planets and some in human form but none of them have the God spark within that the earthling does.

Vladimir asked about any advanced beings she might have visited and she responded by taking him on an astral journey to such a planet. There they observed their manufacturing plants built right into the planet and would automatically draw substance out and manufacture whatever the residents need.

Anastasia told him that the machine they were looking at could pick up his thoughts and told him to visualize something and it would be manufactured. He visualized a car he once owned and sure enough the machine spit one out. The trouble was he did not visualize completely enough and some parts were missing such as one of the doors and was not complete enough to function.

Their interference alarmed the authorities and they came to check out the apparent malfunction and were mystified by the creation of the incomplete car.

Anastasia then showed Vladimir how the people lived and he discovered that they were kind of like Vulcans from Star Trek. They were fairly emotionless and did not use sex to create children because they did not have the love and emotion to desire each other. They had very advanced technology and were totally dependent on it.

She said that humans were superior in that they could accomplish with their own natural powers more than these people could do with technology. She said that technology is making us lazy and diverts us from relying upon our own powers.

Next, she showed him something quite ominous. He discovered that they were planning on invading earth. Then she projected him into the future and what he saw was very close to the plot of the television series “V”.

They came apparently in peace with a willingness to share their technology, but they really wanted to enslave and control the people. Their plan was to make them so dependent on technology that they would not realize their own powers and that in reality earth people are much more powerful than they are. She was not clear on their ultimate aim.

Vladimir asked if there was anything we could do to prevent the invasion. Anastasia told him that she was powerful enough herself to supply 50 percent of the strength necessary to defeat them. Apparently we just need one more like her, or a group with her powers to defeat the whole bunch.

This account was made in Book 4 and she never mentioned the threat of invasion again in the five books that followed. I found that kind of curious since they were presented as a threat to our destiny. You’d think she would want to give more instructions on defeating them when they come.

Next to going back to nature perhaps the thing most stressed in the books is the idea that children are much smarter than we give them credit. Anastasia tells us that adults do much to hamper their development. We do this by implanting a limited belief system and directing them toward limited learning activities rather than maximum ones. If they are treated like intelligent beings and given the freedom to explore and learn on their own then they will achieve much more.

Vladimir describes a school that is using avant garde methods nurturing children toward higher education.

Perhaps the most interesting description of powerful children comes from a vision given him by Anastasia of the future where nations will lay down their arms. It will come because of children, one child in particular. The book doesn’t make it clear whether this is a probable future or one set in stone and the invading aliens are missing from the picture.

At some future time a scientist who works on weapons systems will have a daughter who will develop great powers of the mind. To make a long story short she develops powers to blow up weapons systems of the various nations throughout the world. Seeing that this is an opportunity to force all nations to disarm she is coaxed into demonstrating her power. Unfortunately she feels guilty that she caused explosions causing some loss of life and made a personal commitment to not do it again. The great opportunity seems lost but she pulls a trick out of the bag and uses another method. She commands bacteria to multiply and to consume the weapons. These bacteria are so powerful they can eat through steel or concrete and destroy most anything.

This causes the nations to realize that building nuclear or other arms is futile and they cease making their weapons paving the way for peace on earth.

I would assume that Anastasia would have a power like this now and a natural question is why she doesn’t do this feat to disarm the nations at this time?

Another unique teaching is that Anastasia claims that humans have been on the earth for not millions, but billions of years. She gives an unusual account of Adam and Eve but doesn’t say how many years back they existed.

Then she says that humanity has gone though million year cycles again and again. If we keep in mind that Adam was placed here over a billion years ago that would mean these cycles have repeated over 1000 times. This seems somewhat difficult to believe.

The million year cycle consists of three periods. The first is a pristine Vedic period covering 990,000 years. During this time humanity lives in peace and harmony with nature and each other. There are no governments or hierarchies, just family units living and cooperating together. Everyone has their own piece of land and are like artists making it beautiful and productive.

This is followed by a fall where humanity sets up authorities, hierarchies, laws, punishments, etc.

This then is followed by a third period (which we are in now) wherein man falls away from nature and develops technology. The technology within a few thousand years leads to a great catastrophe which wipes out civilization and most of the people A few survive and these start a new civilization where they again go back to nature and reestablish a Garden of Eden state.

This just happens over and over but she seems to present the possibility that we may reverse the trend by bringing peace on earth and returning to nature voluntarily.

These books are among the few in the new age department that says something good about President Bush. Anastasia says that there were more attacks planned on Sept 11, 2001, that were thwarted and says that Bush handled the crisis well because he had his own piece of land in Texas that he retreated to and renewed himself on his own land.

She tells us that each person needs to write a history of his own life. She places a lot of emphasis on ancestors and that our descendants would love to read our journals to understand us and how we live.

This sounds a lot like the teachings in the Mormon Church where each member is advised to write a “personal history.” Contrary to what Anastasia says though these histories are usually extremely boring and many of them are read by a very small number if any at all.

An exception is the autobiography written by my Father, but he did not write his because the church told him to. In fact he was not even a member of he church. Instead, my sister asked my father to write a personal history of himself.

I think she asked this more to fulfill church obligations than thinking something of real interest would develop.

Well, my father took her request to heart and instead of writing a drab recollection he wrote a quite exciting and fascinating autobiography. It stands head and shoulders above any ‘personal history’ I have seen written because they are commanded to write.

Personal journals can be valuable if one is living through historical times. Many early Mormon journals are fairly boring but they do include historical tidbits that are used by historians. The same applies to many personal writings and letters during the Civil War and other historical times.

There’s a lot more in these nine volumes but these are some of the highlights. If you do not want to read the whole series then books one and four are the most interesting.

If the ends don’t justify the means, what does? – Robert Moses

March 30, 2010

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Ringing Cedar Books

August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Ringing Cedars Books

There is a series of books by a Russian author named Vladimir Megre that has sold 10 million copies and is making a big impact on the world so I thought I would make a few comments.

One of the reasons this caught my attention is Djwahl Khul predicted that a great new religion would come out of Russia. Therefore, anything that may develop into a religion from that area is worth checking out. So far this is the closest thing available that could fulfill the prophecy.

The interesting thing about the series of nine books is that it is quite similar to “The Immortal” in that the man meets with a supernatural character who teaches him the material for his books. But where I say that my books are a combination of fact and fiction he maintains his is all true, though he does seem to give hints here and there that this may not be the case.

The series starts out with the author in search of a special wood called “ringing cedar” that is created from rare cedar trees that actually emit a ringing sound and has healing properties. (Another correspondence here to the ringing bells in my books.)

In the Siberian wilderness he came across a beautiful young blond female who lives in the wild. Her name is Anastasia and she is quite the gal. She speaks to animals and all the animals and plant life there are dedicated to serving and pleasing her. Her parents died when she was young and she pretty much raised herself in the forest with a little help from animals and her grandparents.

After spending a little time with her, even though he was married, he was so captivated with her that he made a romantic move in her direction. Suddenly he was overcome with some supernatural force that stopped him in his tracks. He found he could not invade Anastasia’s space without her permission.

As the story progresses Vladimir discovers that this female has all kinds of powers and knowledge. She has superhuman physical strength and agility and more. She has power to teleport herself anywhere in the universe. She has visited many worlds and familiar with all that goes on upon the earth. Even though she lives in the wilderness she can access anyone’s thoughts or project herself to any location. She can speak any language and has read many books through powers of psychic reading.

Her main message that she wants to send to humanity through Vladimir’s books is the importance of getting back to nature and live as did the ancients. She says that man has been here for billions of years and has destroyed himself many times and then started over. During most of our existence we lived in harmony with nature and each family had their own piece of land that they cultivated with their own hands.

She says that to save the world we must go back to this type of living again — that each person or family should have one hector of land — which is approximately two and a half acres. This she says is plenty to take care of a family if they work the land themselves.

She maintains that by growing our own food we place our own energy in it as we cultivate it and this makes the food much more health giving.

She then gives tips on what we can do to increase the healing potencies of our garden foods. She says to place the seeds in your mouth for nine minutes before planting and then water the plants with water in which you soak your feet. She maintains that this allows the plants to tune into your body’s specific needs and produce food that will heal anything wrong with you.

Then after a time of getting to know each other Anastasia warms up to Vladimir and decides she wants to have his son. They make blissful love and she becomes pregnant. Before he leaves Anastasia tells him to write a series of books about her. He then leaves her in the wilderness and returns home and starts writing.

I’ll add more comments in a future post. In the meantime, here is a synopsis of the nine books:

“Anastasia,” the first book of the Ringing Cedars Series, tells the story of entrepreneur Vladimir Megre’s trade trip to the Siberian taiga in 1995, where he witnessed incredible spiritual phenomena connected with sacred “ringing cedar” trees. He spent three days with a woman named Anastasia who shared with him her unique outlook on subjects as diverse as gardening, child-rearing, healing, nature, sexuality religion and more. This wilderness experience transformed Vladimir so deeply that he abandoned his commercial plans and, penniless, went to Moscow to fulfil Anastasia’s request and write a book about the spiritual insights she so generously shared with him. True to her promise this life-changing book, once written, has become an international bestseller and has touched hearts of millions of people world-wide.

“The Ringing Cedars of Russia,” the second book of the Series, in addition to providing a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the story of how Anastasia came to be published, offers a deeper exploration of the universal concepts so dramatically revealed in Book. It takes the reader on an adventure through the vast expanses of space, time and spirit — from the Paradise-like glade in the Siberian taiga to the rough urban depths of Russia’s capital city, from the ancient mysteries of our forebears to a vision of humanity’s radiant future.

“The Space of Love,” the third book of the Series, describes author’s second visit to Anastasia. Rich with new revelations on natural child-rearing and alternative education, on the spiritual significance of breast-feeding and the meaning of ancient megaliths, it shows how each person’s thoughts can influence the destiny of the entire Earth and describes practical ways of putting Anastasia’s vision of happiness into practice. Megre shares his new outlook on education and children’s real creative potential after a visit to a school where pupils build their own campus and cover the ten-year Russian school programme in just two years. Complete with an account of an armed intrusion into Anastasia’s habitat, the book highlights the limitless power of Love and non-violence.

“Co-Creation,” the fourth book and centrepiece of the Series, paints a dramatic living image of the creation of the Universe and humanity’s place in this creation, making this primordial mystery relevant to our everyday living today. Deeply metaphysical yet at the same time down-to-earth practical, this poetic heart-felt volume helps us uncover answers to the most significant questions about the essence and meaning of the Universe and the nature and purpose of our existence. It also shows how and why the knowledge of these answers, innate in every human being, has become obscured and forgotten, and points the way toward reclaiming this wisdom and — in partnership with Nature — manifesting the energy of Love through our lives.

“Who Are We?” — Book Five of the Series — describes the author’s search for real-life ‘proofs’ of Anastasia’s vision presented in the previous volumes. Finding these proofs and taking stock of ongoing global environmental destruction, Vladimir Megre describes further practical steps for putting Anastasia’s vision into practice. Full of beautiful realistic images of a new way of living in co-operation with the Earth and each other, this book also highlights the role of children in making us aware of the precariousness of the present situation and in leading the global transition toward a happy, violence-free society.

“The Book Of Kin,” the sixth book of the Series, describes another visit by the author to Anastasia’s glade in the Siberian taiga and his conversations with his growing son, which cause him to take a new look at education, science, history, family and Nature. Through parables and revelatory dialogues and stories Anastasia then leads Vladimir Megre and the reader on a shocking re-discovery of the pages of humanity’s history that have been distorted or kept secret for thousands of years. This knowledge sheds light on the causes of war, oppression and violence in the modern world and guides us in preserving the wisdom of our ancestors and passing it over to future generations.

“The Energy Of Life,” Book Seven of the Series, re-asserts the power of human thought and the influence of our thinking on our lives and the destiny of the entire planet and the Universe. Is also brings forth a practical understanding of ways to consciously control and build up the power of our creative thought. The book sheds still further light on the forgotten pages of humanity’s history, on religion, on the roots of inter-racial and inter-religious conflict, on ideal nutrition, and shows how a new way of thinking and a lifestyle in true harmony with Nature can lead to happiness and solve the personal and societal problems of crime, corruption, misery, conflict, war and violence.

“The New Civilisation,” the eighth book of the Series, is not yet complete. The first part of the book, already published as a separate volume, describes yet another visit by Vladimir Megre to Anastasia and their son, and offers new insights into practical co-operation with Nature, showing in ever greater detail how Anastasia’s lifestyle applies to our lives. Describing how the visions presented in previous volumes have already taken beautiful form in real life and produced massive changes in Russia and beyond, the author discerns the birth of a new civilisation. The book also paints a vivid image of America’s radiant future, in which the conflict between the powerful and the helpless, the rich and the poor, the city and the country, can be transcended and thereby lead to transformations in both the individual and society.

“Rites of Love” — Book 8, Part 2 (published as a separate volume) — contrasts today’s mainstream attitudes to sex, family, childbirth and education with our forebears’ lifestyle, which reflected their deep spiritual understanding of the significance of conception, pregnancy, homebirth and upbringing of the young in an atmosphere of love. In powerful poetic prose Megre describes their ancient way of life, grounded in love and non-violence, and shows the practicability of this same approach today. Through the life-story of one family, he portrays the radiant world of the ancient Russian Vedic civilisation, the drama of its destruction and its re-birth millennia later — in our present time.

THE AUTHOR, Vladimir Megre, born in 1950, was a well-known entrepreneur from a Siberian city of Novosibirsk. According to his account, in 1995 — after hearing a fascinating story about the power of “ringing cedars” from a Siberian elder — he organised a trade expedition into the Siberian taiga to rediscover the lost technique of pressing virgin cedar nut oil containing high curative powers, as well as to find the ringing cedar tree. However, his encounter on this trip with a Siberian woman named Anastasia transformed him so deeply that he abandoned his business and went to Moscow to write a book about the spiritual insights she had shared with him. Vladimir Megre now lives near the city of Vladimir, Russia, 190 km (120 miles) east of Moscow, devoting himself to writing.

To believe a thing impossible is to make it so. – French proverb

March 28, 2010

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