Author: Roza and Margarita Riaikkenen
Title: The Laws of Life
Dates: January 2004
Bio: Roza Riaikkenen 

Roza was born in Lithuania, in 1938. She survived the Holocaust at a very young age, saved by a Lithuanian family, and was later reunited with her family. She received a musical (1956) and scientific (1960) education. She graduated as Doctor of Philosophy in technical science from Moscow State Forestry University in1970. She then worked as the chief of a scientific laboratory, publishing scientific books and articles, and making some inventions in her field of endeavour at that time.
Roza has had a varied career in engineering, musical education, and in the environmental science. 


Margarita Riaikkenen 

Is the single daughter of Roza, born in Moscow in 1962. She graduated from Moscow State Forestry University in technical science in 1984, and later completed courses of study in Russia and Australia in parapsychology (1993), spiritual midwifery (1994) and commercial art (2002). As an artist, she has painted many paintings based on inner spiritual realisations and insights. She is the mother of four children.


Both mother and daughter participated in the movement for ecological and spiritual renaissance in Russia in the 1980/90s. As long-term spiritual students, they have studied sources of spiritual knowledge from many different traditions, conducted personal consultations, created personal spiritual drawings, and expressed their life experiences and resultant understanding in books, at first in Russian and now in English.
In 1995, the family immigrated to Australia. From then on, Roza and Margarita have published several articles on spiritual topics, together with creating artistic works and lecturing to spiritual groups in Melbourne.