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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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April 1, 2010

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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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