About Ringing Cedars Series by V. Megre

This Chapter was written by V. Megre to remind the readers of the events that took place in Siberia in 1995 and later, so as to make the book easier to grasp for people who haven’t read the earlier books in the “Ringing Cedars of Russia” series. V. Megre introduced some additional information about his first meeting with the unusual Siberian hermit Anastasia.

## **Where does Anastasia Live?**

Anastasia lives in the heart of the Siberian taiga, in the same spot where her parents and her ancestors once lived. The distance from the spot where she lives to the nearest god-forsaken Siberian village is about twenty-five to twenty-seven kilometers. There are no roads and not even any paths. You’d have a very difficult time managing a trip like that without a guide. The actual glade where she lives doesn’t differ much from all the other taiga glades. Except in that it looks somewhat cared for, and in the number of flowers. There are no structures in Anastasia’s glade, no fire pits. But it's precisely this spot that Anastasia considers her family space.

## **When did Vladimir first meet Anastasia?**

 The first time I met Anastasia, in 1994, she was twenty-six years old.

## **Anastasia’s appearance**

 The Siberian woman Anastasia is a very beautiful woman, even extraordinarily beautiful. The words “extraordinarily beautiful” are not an exaggeration. Imagine a young woman, a bit more than a hundred seventy centimeters tall, with a good figure – not waiflike, like contemporary models – but genuinely well built, and lithe, as if she were a gymnast. She has regular facial features, gray-blue eyes, and hair the color of golden wheat spikes that cascades to her waist.

 Perhaps you could see a woman anywhere who looks like her – on the outside. But I don’t think you’d ever come across the other, special qualities deep inside her that make the taiga-dwelling Anastasia extraordinarily beautiful. Everything about her external appearance speaks of ideal health – it comes through in the fluidity and lightness of her gestures, in the springy way she walks, as if she were flying. You get the impression that her body contains within it some kind of other-worldly energy, whose abundance warms the surrounding space with invisible rays.

## **Anastasia's extraordinary ability # 1: special gaze**

Your body warms up slightly when Anastasia looks at you, and by squinting at you with some kind of special gaze, she can heat up your body to such an extent at a distance, that your whole body begins to sweat, especially around the feet. Toxins leave the body, and afterwards, you feel significantly better.

## **Anastasia's extraordinary ability # 2: to cure any illness**

In general, I surmise that Anastasia’s knowledge of the properties of the taiga plants and some kind of internal energy enable her to cure a person of absolutely any illness. At least, she cured my ulcer with her gaze in the course of a few minutes. However, she categorically refused to do any subsequent healing.

### **What is Illness according to Anastasia?**

  “Illness is a serious conversation between God and man,” says Anastasia. “Through this pain, which is both yours and His at the same time, He’s letting you know that you’re living in some unacceptable way. Change the way you live, and the pain will pass, the illness will recede.”

## **Anastasia’s extraordinary ability # 3: show picture-perfect images of the past, present and future**

  Anastasia has one extraordinary ability: when she’s telling a story about something, pictures of the events she’s narrating arise in the listener’s consciousness, or in actual space. And the images she shows are much more picture-perfect than any modern television picture. They’re three-dimensional, complete with the smells and sounds of the time she’s describing.

  It’s quite possible that at one time many people possessed these capabilities. If you bear in mind that in our technocratic time, man hasn’t invented anything that wouldn’t have existed in nature, then it’s possible that something perfectly analogous to our modern television and telephone also existed in early human civilization.

  Anastasia has shown me pictures from the lives of people of a variety of periods, starting from the very creation of the world. Pretty much all of the events she shows are connected with her ancestors.

  Anastasia has one extraordinary ability: when she’s telling a story about something, pictures of the events she’s narrating arise in the listener’s consciousness, or in actual space. And the images she shows are much more picture-perfect than any modern television picture. They’re three-dimensional, complete with the smells and sounds of the time she’s describing.

  It’s quite possible that at one time many people possessed these capabilities. If you bear in mind that in our technocratic time, man hasn’t invented anything that wouldn’t have existed in nature, then it’s possible that something perfectly analogous to our modern television and telephone also existed in early human civilization.

  Anastasia has shown me pictures from the lives of people of a variety of periods, starting from the very creation of the world. Pretty much all of the events she shows are connected with her ancestors.

  If you were to try to **characterize Anastasia’s capabilities in one phrase**, here’s what you could say: the taiga-dweller Anastasia preserves the experiences and emotions of the members of her extended family – starting with the creation of the very first human – in her genetic memory, and she is able to call them up at will.

  She can also model pictures from the lives of people in the future.

## **How does Anastasia’s life differ from the lives of people in modern cities?**

### **What is Taiga?**

So that you’ll be able to understand the conditions in which she lives out her life, I have to say a few words about what the Siberian taiga is.

It’s Russia’s largest expanse of open land, ancient and snow-covered. In European Russia, it extends for 800 kilometers, while in Western and Eastern Siberia, it stretches out for 2150 kilometers. As you can see, this is an impressive land mass. Today the taiga is considered the Earth’s lungs, and rightly so – it produces the majority of free oxygen.

  You have to bear in mind that the taiga zones began forming even before the onset of the glaciers. So, by studying life in today’s taiga zone, we can learn about life on the planet Earth before the Ice Age.

  Remains of a well-preserved baby mammoth, now kept in the Zoological Museum in Saint Petersburg, were discovered in the **permafrost**.

  It’s hard for us to get a good idea of the **animal world** in taiga zones before the Ice Age. In today’s taiga, lynxes, wolverines, chipmunks, sables, squirrels, bears, foxes and wolves are numerous and widespread. The ungulates you’ll encounter include noble and northern deer, elk and roe deer. There are numerous rodents: shrews and mice.

  Among **birds**, woodgrouse, hazel-grouse, nutcrackers and crossbills are ubiquitous.

### **Anabiosis or hibernation**

During the winter, the great majority of animals settle into **anabiosis or hibernation**. This state of living organisms has been little studied by scientists and is generating greater and greater interest among those who study outer space.

As far as the **plant world** is concerned, various types of bushes grow in the taiga: juniper, honeysuckle, currant and willow, and others. You find bilberries, cowberries, cranberry and cloudberries, all with marvelous vitamin content. Among grasses suitable for consumption, sour grass, wintergreen and ferns predominate.

### **Siberian Cedar**

  You’ll find majestic trees reaching forty meters in height: spruce, fir, larch, pine and a tree with unique qualities – the cedar, which scientists sometimes call **cedar pine**. I’ll say right off that, in my opinion, they really shouldn’t call it that at all. But what can you do? Let science focus on the pine they mistakenly call a cedar – I’m going to talk about the incomparable Siberian cedar. **Why is it incomparable?** Because the cedar gives unique fruits – **cedar nuts** – and deserves its own, separate name.

More info on Siberian Cedar by V. Megre

### **Other food products**

  In telling about the Siberian taiga, I’ve given special attention to the cedar. But in the taiga region **there are also many other food products** that are of much higher quality than those we’re already aware of. For example, cranberries, raspberries, cloudberries, currants and mushrooms.

## What and how does Anastasia eat out there in the taiga?

And to answer the question, what does Anastasia eat out there in the taiga, I can tell you that she eats world class ecologically pure food of a type that you can’t possibly buy, not even for a million dollars.

   Back in my first book I described how Anastasia lives out in the taiga and how astonished I was by her way of life. Now that so many years have passed since we first met, in thinking about her, I’ve come to the conclusion that the way people live in today’s giant cities looks unnatural and absurd if you juxtapose it with Anastasia’s life out in nature.

   At first glance it seems extraordinary, the way the wild animals bring food to Anastasia when she gives them a certain signal. But even a hunting dog today will bring its prey to its master. And a falcon released to hunt also turns its prey over to its master. Goats and cows in a village farmyard are happy to feed their owners by giving them milk.

   The wild animals inhabiting the area around the glade where Anastasia lives mark their territory, and within this territory they consider a person something like a pack leader. I think that over the generations, they were trained by Anastasia’s forebears, and then they themselves trained their offspring.

### **Anastasia's food habits**

   Anastasia actually eats very little. She never makes a fetish out of food.

## **How Anastasia makes it through the severe Siberian winter?**

   Many people have been asking recently about how Anastasia makes it through the severe Siberian winter – when the temperature reaches thirty-five to forty degrees below zero – if she doesn’t have any warm clothing or a heated dwelling. I’ll start by saying that if the air temperature out in the open gets down to minus thirty, it’s always significantly warmer in the taiga, and there can be up to a ten-degree difference in temperature.

   Anastasia has dug-outs at various locations in the taiga. The main one, where I myself have had occasion to pass the night more than once, consists of a spot hollowed out in the ground, about two and a half meters long, two meters wide and also about two meters high. The entrance to the dug-out is narrow, about sixty centimeters wide and a meter and a half high. The entrance is covered over with cedar branches. The walls and ceiling of the taiga bedroom are woven of vines with bunches of dried grasses and taiga flowers stuffed into them. The floor has been carpeted with dried hay.

   It’s very comfortable sleeping in that kind of bedroom in the summer. No sounds penetrate it, to say nothing of all those radio and electrical emissions that a person living in a multi-story building is subjected to.

### **Anastasia's Anabiosis**

   In late fall, Anastasia fills the entire area of her bedroom with dry hay and enters into an extended sleep similar to the state scientists call anabiosis.

   Anabiosis, as modern science explains it, is a state in which all of a living being’s vital processes, including metabolism, slow down to such an extent that there are no visible signs of life.

   Scientists have been focusing on this unique biological phenomenon as they develop plans for extended space travel. What primarily attracts them is the fact that creatures in an anabiotic or hibernation state use much less oxygen and do not need food. It’s been proven that their resistance to negative environmental factors increases. So, for example, it’s been shown that infectious diseases don’t develop in such animals, even when they’re artificially infected, and that many poisons which would be fatal for their organism under normal circumstances are entirely harmless to them when they are hibernating or in an anabiotic state. It’s even been proven that if you subject such animals to a fatal doses of ionizing radiation, they will still survive, since their metabolism has greatly decelerated, and that once they awaken, their vital functions resume entirely normally.

## **Anastasia has become the heroine of the “Ringing Cedars of Russia” series of books**

And so, Anastasia, the hermit of the Siberian taiga, has become the heroine of the “Ringing Cedars of Russia” series of books. She has borne me a son and a daughter. She now lives in the taiga, in my heart, and in the image of the heroine of my books.

   I don’t think I’ve been able to do this amazing woman’s beauty, her intelligence and her extraordinary capabilities justice in my descriptions. Really, it’s probably not even possible to do this using ordinary language.

   Even now, I only sometimes see Anastasia as someone who is close to me, as a loved one. More often I see her as unattainable and mysterious, as someone who possesses an inexplicable strength of spirit that she can use to create the future.

   **Birth of a beautiful phenomenon in society: Ringing Cedars Movement**

Anastasia's characterization of our modern day reality and her story – or more precisely, the image she has created of the beautiful future of Russia and of the whole earth – have given birth to a beautiful phenomenon in society. Without waiting for decrees to be handed down from on high, or for government financing, tens of thousands of people have independently set about turning this image created by Anastasia into actual reality. You can understand the main idea for building our future country by reading the books in order. But if I were to try to briefly – not in its entirety – present the idea that is helping these positive transformations take place, I could characterize it using the following words.

### **Family Homestead/Kin Domain/Space of Love**

Anastasia thinks that every family should have its own plot of land that’s no less than one hectare in size. The family needs to transform this plot, which the taiga hermit calls a family homestead, into a heavenly living oasis that can provide for all of man’s material needs. The external appearance of the person’s living creation and the way the creator himself lives on it are indicators of the person’s spiritual makeup. She considers it unacceptable to bury family members in a cemetery. They must be buried only on the family homesteads. Then the souls of relatives who have passed on won’t suffer because their bodies seem to have been tossed into some deep hole in a cemetery, far away from their loved ones. People who are buried on the family homestead will – with their spirit – help and protect those living on it.

   Cemeteries analogous to our modern ones did exist back in antiquity, too, but they were intended for animals that dropped dead from disease, criminals with no family, and warriors who died in a foreign land.

   Anastasia has told us how to set up our own family homestead so that we can free ourselves from physical ailments with its help.

### **Ancient Rite of marriage**

   She has talked in relatively great detail about the ancient and very lovely **rite of marriage** that helped newlyweds – along with the power of their thought – create the design for their future family homestead, and about how at the moment of marriage, with the participation of the parents, relatives and friends, what they had conceived in thought would materialize in the space of several minutes. I think that this rite is one of the greatest discoveries of our millennium. After all, by using it, newlyweds even today can acquire a house, a garden and a family homestead right during their wedding.

### **Love never fades, but actually grows stronger**

   Anastasia also asserts that for newlyweds who create their family homesteads in this way, love never fades, but actually grows stronger over the years. And she explains why this happens: “When a husband looks at his wife, he subconsciously associates her with his glorious homestead, too, and also with his child, who must also be born on the homestead.” And one can believe in this. After all, the very best place on earth for each person is always his small motherland. His child will always be the most beautiful and best of all children.

### **The whole earth will be transformed**

   And Anastasia also asserts that if all people, or the majority of them, begin consciously creating their own family homesteads and turning them into heavenly oases, then the whole earth will be transformed. Natural disasters and wars will not occur on earth. Man’s inner spiritual world will change, and new knowledge and capabilities will open up to him. Man will be able to create beautiful worlds resembling the earthly world on other planets.

### **The sensible way to explore the planets is through psychoteleportation**

   She considers today’s technocratic method of exploring space and other planets a dead end, harmful for the planet Earth and the people living on it. The sensible way to explore the planets is through psychoteleportation. But if people are to be able to do this, they first have to demonstrate their ability to develop the Earth and express their spirituality in their way of life, not in words.

### **Hundreds of large and small settlements that have arisen**

   Official critics might respond to the subjects of the books and to the taiga hermit’s statements in any of a number of ways, but their opinions aren’t really so very important. The people – the most important critics – have already expressed their approval in tens of thousands of letters and hundreds of thousands of emails. They’ve expressed it not only in words, but in concrete actions, too, and the hundreds of large and small settlements that have arisen and continue to arise throughout all of Russia are confirmation of this.

## **What kind of power lies behind Anastasia's phrases?**

   Now, here’s where a riddle arises, one that’s as yet insoluble and cryptic: if a mass movement has been set in motion solely by the statements of a taiga hermit that have been introduced in books, then what kind of power lies behind her phrases? Perhaps they’re constructed in such a way that the letters combine into some kind of code. Perhaps, a certain rhythm of her phrases has significance.

   Anastasia usually tries to adopt the speaking mannerisms of those she’s talking with, to use his lexicon and way of constructing phrases, but at certain moments she’ll suddenly begin speaking in some different kind of language that’s emphatic and flowing and rhythmical. She pronounces each letter of the phrases she utters very precisely, and you clearly sense an extraordinary energy behind each sound. And then you remember what she’s said verbatim, as if there’s some recorder at work in your brain. And that’s not all. Living pictures appear before the listeners, and the subconscious grasps the meaning of what’s been said. By way of example, I’ll give you an excerpt from Anastasia’s retelling of a conversation between God and the first man, from the book “Co-Creation”: “Where is the edge of the Universe? What will I do when I come to it? When I have filled everything with myself, when I create that which I have thought?” a man of the wellspring people asks God. And he receives this answer: “My son, The Universe is thought. A dream was born of the thought, and it is partially visible as matter. When you come to the edge of everything, a new beginning and continuation shall your thought discover. Out of nothing will arise the new, beautiful birth of you, and of the aspiration, reflecting in itself your Soul and your dream. My son, you are endless, you are eternal, your creating dreams are within you.”

## **Theories regarding Anastasia’s abilities**

   **There are several theories regarding Anastasia’s abilities.** I’ll share mine with you, too.

   Anastasia’s abilities, which seem extraordinary at first glance, were actually inherent in all or the majority of the wellspring people. The effect the taiga hermit’s statements have had on many people’s actions is due not to some mystical force, but rather to people’s very own ability to embrace them with their heart and Soul. You get the impression that some memory has been preserved in modern day people’s genes, or in their subconscious: a memory of the way individual families and human society as a whole lived, starting back in the time of the wellspring people, when Man still understood how to communicate directly with God.

## **People’s actions were NOT connected to any specific religion. This Movement is not Religious**

   This way of life – the wellspring people’s – is significantly more advanced than today’s. Maybe it’s from those times when people still knew what heaven was. But I don’t think these people’s actions were connected to any specific religion.

   All the homesteads that readers of the books are building turn out differently from each other. The houses they put up don’t just differ in their external appearance. Some are two-story wooden houses, while others are one-story wattle and daub affairs. And the gardens, living fences and ponds are also constructed differently.

   It’s common knowledge that religious ritual requires all its participants to strictly observe standardized ways of acting and speaking. But here, we clearly see each individual’s personal creativity in the way they realize this beautiful idea. If people are thankful to Anastasia for anything, it’s probably for the fact that she has awakened within their Souls the aspirations of a human-creator.