And for my Good Readers, here’s the new reviews and articles for this month. The ARJ2 ones are new additions to the top of A Reader’s Journal, Volume 2, Chronological List, and the ART ones to A Reader’s Treasury.
1.) ARJ2:
The Space of Love The Ringing Cedars Series Book 3 by Vladmir Megré
After the success of Vlamir's first book, people came to find Anastasia and none were more persistent than Boris and his group of six who planned to kidnap her and her son and spirit them away from their Space of Love to a Nature Preserve outside of Moscow. Boris has even selected a mate for Anastasia to replace the unworthy Vladimir. Their guns and helicopter proved useless against Anastasia, however, and they left their base to return home haunted by what happened to them. They endured a Hell of their own making and watched Anastasia performing a "grand miracle" on a small girl.
Vladimir sought out Anastasia's foremother's dolmen, the one in which she sacrificed her life to help mothers everywhere learn the truth about breast-feeding. He fell from the side of a cliff and was unconscious for days while the foremother in her spirit helped him to stay alive. Recovering finally, Vladimir takes three roses to her dolmen in her memory — the first person since her death many generations ago to pay their respects for her sacrifice.
He returned to find Anastasia, and was warned away by local guides, but continued on his way, only to be beset by ferocious dogs from the city returned to the wilds. Anastasia got there in the nick of time to save him and to escort him to meet his son. This was a grand meeting for Vladimir and he was astounded by what he found when he reached the space of love, the small glade where his son was growing up.
Later Vladimir visited the special school in Gelendzhik, which is a prototype of a school run by the school children themselves. In addition to the joyful song of children’s voices singing, he saw children creating the two-story school building by themselves. But what about the academic side of things, you ask? Read for yourself, and decide if this kind of academic achievement could be possible in public school systems which create soulless slaves who only strive to escape their enslavement as soon as possible.
[page 131] At this school children take but a year to master the whole ten-year public-school maths syllabus, along with studying three foreign languages. They neither recruit nor produce child prodigies. They simply give kids a chance to discover what already lies within.
What can we learn from this book? Anastasia tells us that we should not put our lamp under a bushel basket. When its light is not visible anymore, much discussion will be generated, but little light will be shed upon the subject until we raise the basket. What is this basket which shields us from the light of wisdom? She names it, “the erudition of invented dogmas.” Academic gobbledy-gook, in other words.
[page 108] “It is the parents’ duty not to hide the creative Light under the erudition of invented dogmas. For ages upon the Earth debates have arisen as to which system might be the wisest. But think about it yourself, Vladimir. Debates arise where Truth is hid from sight. Fruitless debates can go on forevermore as to what might be found behind the closed door. But one has only to open the door and it will be clear to all, and there will be nothing to debate, since everyone will be able to see the Truth for himself.”
You are Man, each of you reading this text. You have latent within yourself all the power that Anastasia has, and she is willing to tell you how to use your power. The choice is in your power. Read the book or not.
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2.) ARJ2:
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Euxpéry
So you think you know the Little Prince because you saw the movie with Gene Wilder and Robert Fosse? Unfortunately fairy tales do not convert to the big screen very well. Too much stuff going on visually to comprehend the truth behind the screen.
The Fox's Gift reveals this truth to us if we ponder it: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye." If you were looking for the truth on the screen, you probably missed it. Here's your chance to begin over, to make a fresh start.
Read the book.
Learn about the people around you and about yourself. Do you know business people, people who drink too much, people who wish to be treated as royalty? Antoine de Saint-Euxpéry is a lamp lighter, read his works directly allow him to turn on one light after another in your mind as you read this gentle story.
Read the book.
He will lead you to remember how to view the world of big people as you did as a child again. Remember when you thought adults were strange. . . . and you had a special friend that meant the world to you in a way no friend since has . . . remember when a special friend of yours died and left a hole too big for adult words to fill . . . the author remembers such a friend . . .
[page 14] For I do not want anyone to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures . . .
You are older now and concerned with grown-up things. You have solved all the riddles in the world, haven't you? What riddles? Oh, like where we go after we die? No one has the answer to that riddle, you say? The snake does:
[page 60] “Oh! I understand you very well,” said the little prince. “But why do you always speak in riddles?”
“I solve them all,” said the snake.
And they were both silent.
A movie is noisy and a book is silent. Read this book and you will find out things in silence that you cannot find out by asking other people or watching noisy movies. You will learn to hear the stars laugh . . .
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3.) ARJ2:
Co-creation — The Ringing Cedars Series, Book 4 by Vladmir Megré
In the short 260 pages of this book, we are given the story of creation of a paradise on Earth
for Man, we are taken on a trip with Anastasia and Vladimir to another planet, and finally we are
shown how you and I can make for ourselves a Paradise on Earth today, beginning where we are. After
reading this book, we can be passive readers no longer. Anastasia lays out a plan for each of us to
construct our own piece of Paradise on a hectare of land (2.5 acres) in which we may live healthy and
productive lives without depending upon some federal agency to provide us health care, medicines,
or any of the other obtrusive interventions which have progressively reduced both the quality of life
and independence of human beings across the globe.
If you have read the first three books of the Ringing Cedars Series, you know about Anastasia's
beloved dachniks, Russians who work in the city, but have a small plot of ground about the size of a
city lot in the USA on which they cultivate fruits and vegetables on the weekends. Over half of all
Russians get most of their fresh produce this way. You have also heard about the concept of the "Seed
as Physician", and if you have read my review of Book 3, The Space of Love, you have heard how the
discoveries of biochemists in the last two decades have revealed the mechanism of "transposable
genes" in plants which provides a pathway for the information from your own body to modify the
proteins made by plants you grow so that your body will receive nutrients which are vital for your
health. This happens on a one-on-one basis. Only the foods you individually plant, harvest, and eat
provide such fine-tuning of their proteins directly for your individual body. The seed can thus become
your personal diagnostician and pharmacist to heal what ails you before any outwardly visible disease
appears, and, in fact, forestall indefinitely the onset of any disease. Clearly, not many drug companies
or physician networks would acknowledge such a mechanism, up until now.
In this book, Anastasia, under prodding by Vladimir, goes further and shares her dream for a
world in which the concept of dachniks evolves into people living on the hectare-size plots of ground
with trees, berry hedges for fences, a pond, a tree plot, a garden and a house. Photos of drawings of
these plots appear on color plates between pages 186 and 187. Anastasia is openly and gladly sharing
with us the opportunity to build our own Space of Love on such a plot of ground which will live on
for generations as a place of veneration and living love for our descendants.
If you think this is unrealistic, then I agree, to you it seems unrealistic, but what Anastasia
proposes is realizable and people around the world are already beginning to build these garden
paradises in which to live and raise their children and themselves. If you are convinced it is unrealistic,
then it would be best to stop reading here. If you continue reading, either of two things will happen:
1) you will come to grasp that her plan is realizable or 2) you will justify your original position by
trying to undermine those who believe it is realizable. For your on peace of mind, simply stop reading
now.
"What kind of dreams do God's children have today?" she asks Vladimir. What do you use
your creative dreams for? This is the question she poses for all of us. Vladimir, representing everyman
in the book, answers, "Money for food, car, clothes, furniture, etc." She spoofs him, saying that we are
already given these things by God. Vladimir wants to know where these are hidden and she tells him
and us a paraphrase of what the Fox told the Little Prince, "It is only with the heart that one can see
rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." Our feelings, what we feel with our heart, are invisible
to the eye, and only the most heartless of Bacon's adherents would deny that they possess such
feelings. We are given a charge in this next passage to allow our feelings to lead us into the new
millennium in which our culture of frailty, need, and want will fade from view and a new vision of
robustness, abundance, and joy will begin to replace it.
My dad always had a large garden with a lot of produce; usually he had green beans, bell
peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, okra, and tomatoes. He shared them with all six of us children and I
never tasted a better tomato or cucumber than that which came from his garden. It wasn't until reading
the Ringing Cedar Series that I came to understand about the significance of the difference in flavor.
Those plants were grown in soil that I had worked as a child and an adult. Those plants had modified
themselves to my own body's requirements using their transposable genes to create proteins and other
nutrients my body needed. My body recognized the presence of these nutrients and signaled me of their
presence by the enhanced flavor presented to me from my palate.
This concept of enhanced flavor due to the presence of the body's needs may seem far-fetched
to you, dear Reader, so let me give you a down-to-earth example from my own experience. Growing
up in South Louisiana summers were hot and sweaty with temperatures in the 80s and 90s into
September and humidity less than 60 percent was considered dry. In the 1940s and 50s as a growing
boy, a special treat was an ice cold watermelon on a steamy summer afternoon. Along with the
watermelon, my mother, as was the custom in our area, always placed a salt shaker on the table to
sprinkle on the watermelon, "to make it taste better." I remember trying the watermelon with and
without the salt and sure enough, the watermelon tasted better with the salt sprinkled on it. Even as
a child, I was an experimenter, and I wondered at times about how something salty could make
something sweet like watermelon taste better. I held that unanswered question for about six decades
until recently.
One day I was invited to have watermelon with an 87-year-old friend of ours, Rosie. She placed
a salt shaker on the table. Neither one of us used the salt, but it was there. Why? Why was the shaker
there, and why did we not use it? If salt in fact made watermelon taste better, as I had confirmed as a
child, why did we not use it some today? What was different? Then it hit me! Air conditioning! As a
child, neither Rosie nor I had air conditioning in our homes. We were outside playing, running around,
working, etc., and perspiring profusely. That perspiration contains salt and our bodies were depleted
of salt, so we sat down to eat watermelon, which contains little or no salt within it, our bodies needed
salt, and by sprinkling a bit of salt, we restored a healthy balance of salt to our bodies. That's simple
biochemistry stuff. But note our body let us know that we were doing the right thing by adding salt by
changing the flavor so that the watermelon actually tasted better when we added the salt! Our bodily
wisdom actually encouraged us to add salt by enhancing the taste. Nowadays with air conditioning we
do not sweat as much and while someone might, out of habit, place a salt shaker on the table with the
slices of watermelon, no one uses it anymore.
It is a short step from the salt-watermelon to the home-grown cucumbers tasting better because
they contain nutrients with designer genes created by the plants specifically for our bodies. Vladimir
discovers the special taste of the cucumbers grown by Anastasia in her cedar glade, and notes it for us.
[page 85, 86] You see, this ordinary-looking cucumber was utterly different in
taste from any I had ever eaten before. This taiga cucumber had a pleasant
unique fragrance. You'reno doubt aware that cucumbers grown in hothouses
taste quite different from those raised in garden beds in the open air. The ones
growing in the open have a significantly superior taste and fragrance. But
Anastasia's cucumber surpassed all the open-air cucumbers I had tasted before,
and possibly by an even greater margin of difference.
I quickly picked up a tomato, tried it and polished it off on the spot. Its
taste, too, was extraordinarily delicious. Like the cucumber, it was far tastier than
any other tomato I had ever eaten. Neither of them required any salt, sour cream
or salad oil. They were delicious in and of themselves. Just like a raspberry, or an
apple or an orange. Nobody would ever think of either sweetening or salting an
apple or a pear.
Our bodily wisdom, by flavor enhancement of what it requires, helps us to select and favor
those things. Anastasia tells Vladimir she had prepared the feast in the taiga so that his body could
begin taking over the cure which she had been doing on two previous visits but would do no more. He
asks, "What might cure me?"
[page 88] "Your own body. Once you try a bit of everything, the body itself selects
what it needs. You will feel like eating more of what you have chosen. Your body
itself will determine what it needs."
Then he asks her why she will not take the pain away from now on. Her answer contains a deep
insight into the healing profession. She offers us the words, "Pain is a conversation between God and
Man." Translated into karmic terms, God represents the spiritual burden of karmic debt each one of
us carries, and the pain is our bodies way of balancing that karmic debt. No one else can remove that
karmic debt, only defer it for a time. But if we change our diet and other addictive habits, we can bring
some balance into our karmic debt and the pain will cease. By providing him with foods that could
help Vladimir, she offers him a chance to do exactly that. The signal of accomplishment will come if
and when his pain ceases.
[page 89] "I shall not take away your pain any longer. Pain is a conversation
between God and Man. But, I can now... since I am just offering you food - that
does not go against Nature, although it does go against them."
"Who's them?"
"The ones who thought up the regime that is so harmful to Man."
The regime is simply that followed by most people — buy what is made available at
supermarkets. Isn't that your regime, up until? Have you given any thought as make the regime you follow healthful from now on? Have you thought of a way to provide a new regime for you and your family in your own life?
Here is a solution for you to ponder: Sow and grow and eat food grown with your own hands. You already have the
ease of acquiring food, but pains which accompany your choices, and a large industry of drug
companies eager to sell you drugs designed to minimize your pains which your store-bought food cannot alleviate. The drugs do not take it away, do not cure your underlying deficiencies, but instead merely reduce your pain to a level of tolerance, and create in their wake a plethora of unwanted and unpleasant side-affects which are often as bad as the original pain. Do you really want to continue to provide your body as a dart board for medicine's latest miracle cures? Miracle cures? Does that mean it'll be a miracle if it helps more than it hurts? You have lived with pain,
up until now. Is there a practical solution for you today?
[page 90, Anastasia, Vladimir] "All systems under a technocratic way of living
invariably work only for themselves, Vladimir. Do you consider it 'convenient' to
get those lifeless frozen or tinned foods, or water that is half-dead? Was it your
body that determined the selection of foodstuffs available in grocery stores and
supermarkets?
"The technocratic world's system has taken upon itself the role of
supplying you with the necessities of life. You have agreed to this, you have
complete faith in it, to the point that you have even ceased to wonder whether you
have been supplied with all the necessities."
"But we're still alive — we aren't dying from using these stores!"
"Of course you are still alive. But the pain! Where do you think your pain
comes from? Think about where pain comes from with the majority of people.
Disease and pain are not natural for Man, they are the effect of choosing the
wrong and then take what you like with you. Three days is sufficient for these
little herbs — which you yourself will select — to overcome your pains."
I began trying a little of everything while Anastasia was still speaking.
Some of the clumps of herbs were tasteless, while others I felt like eating more of.
Before my departure Anastasia put the things I had taken a liking to into my
backpack. I ate them over a three-day period. And the pain completely
disappeared.
Vladimir asks for more details about creating sustainable land without artificial fertilizers and
exactly what crops to plant, etc. So she outlines the plan starting from the hedge fence of berry plants
and trees.
[page 189] "Let us say our lot is on a barren section of land, and is now enclosed
on all sides by a hedge. Let us divide it, reserving half or three-quarters of the lot
for a forest, and there plant a variety of trees. On the edge of the forest, where it
borders on the remaining part of the lot, we shall plant a hedge in such a way that
animals cannot pass through it and trample the crops growing in the garden plot.
"In the forest we shall set up a pen using densely planted saplings, which
in time will be home to a goat or two. And we shall also use saplings to construct
a shelter for egg-laying hens.
"In the garden plot we shall make a pond approximately 16 meters across.
We shall plant raspberry and currant bushes among the trees in the forest, and
wild strawberries around the edge. Later, after the trees in the forest have grown
a little, we can set up two or three empty log hives there for bees. And we shall use
trees to make a gazebo where you will have a cool place, safe from the heat, to talk
with your children or your friends. And we can make a summer sleeping area out
of living things, along with a creative workshop for you. And sleeping places for
the children, and a living room."
"Wow! It won't be a forest we end up with, but more of a palace!"
There is a tremendous lot of barren land in the USA where such hectare plots of land could be turned into such a Space of Love in perpetuity for a family using the general plan outline set down by Anastasia and modified for local flora and fauna.
Anastasia builds a scenario for a marriage between a man and a woman living in the Space of Love, their own bit of Paradise, a Kin’s domain built as she laid out the plans. One such plan was designed by Irina Labountsova ©2003, and a color plate facing page 186 is reproduced below to give you a visual of how the various pieces of Anastasia’s plan might fit into the hectare plot of land.
In this book and the rest of the series, Vladimir is a hardened entrepreneur who is constantly lodging objections which are overcome and he ends up being wowed by Anastasia’s descriptions , such as how young people, who will be reading these stories in the coming years, will create out of their thoughts Spaces of Love containing homes which will be palaces in their own Kin’s Domain where they will conceive, give birth to, and raise their children in living love, a place where all the planes of being will be woven into one tapestry of love.
What are you waiting for to begin building your own Space of Love and participating in your true vocation as a co-creator in the Universe? The time is now, the place is where you are, and it all begins with the most powerful weapon in the Universe which you as a Man possesses, your thoughts. Think about that.
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