From Amazon – “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 best-seller and has touched hearts of millions of people world-wide. Thank you for the recommendation Magdalena.

Notes:
– The trees have healing purifying properties and helped Rasputin.
– Leviticus Old Testament 14:4 – the priest shall command that two living clean birds and cedar wood and crimson yarn and hyssop be brought for the one who is to be cleansed.
– All sorts of great teachers – why is it that before formulating their teachings they became recluses went into solitude in most cases to the forest? Even the word academy translated from Greek means groves.
– Porfiry Ivanovo – dekta writing about cancer cure with cold and 12 ethical formula.
– Everything even a blade of grass even cockroaches process remains and render them harmless before discarding them in a secluded spot, get a frog if there are too many.
– Stand barefoot and put a seed under your tongue for 9 minutes then in your hand and blow on it the it will know everything about how to fix you and you can plant it.
– How to construct natural beehives and how bees open up channels in flowers and exchange info about the planet with them.
– Morning and evening routine of what to do near plants.
– Eat when you feel like, what is at hand and watch your pets and pick what they pick in nature to have 1-2 times a week, baking bread capable of awakening inner spiritual power.
– Sleep under the stars.
– Raise child without rattles and useless toys instead ask them to help but don’t force in gardening and such.
– Older generations treat an infant or young child as a deity, and use the child’s responses as a check on their own purity.
– How she learned languages through games her great grandfather played with her.
– How flying saucers work and their connection to Viktor Schauberger’s theories and their walls are cultivated like the kombucha fungus.
– Aliens are not wiser or more superior than us, only God is.
– Solution for pollution: automobiles should be equipped to collect the foul dust, box in the front bumper that purifies the air.
– Dark forces created money to distract people from their true purpose.
– Majority of snake venom is only slightly toxic and as long as it does not penetrate into the blood stream at once. It can be used as ointment for skin and muscle disorders.
– Some poems
– Screenshot page 155 (see below).
– Summary: It’s a pretty good book when the author is not playing 50 shades of being an Askhole and reacting constantly instead of just shutting up and listening.

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Something I see myself and have put myself in the situation to make sense of –
“Here, do you see it? Here, he is sitting in the car, which you call a luxurious one. Do you see him? He is alone on the back seat. A microclimate is being contained inside the car. A driver is behind the wheel. He is driving very smoothly. Look at the boss. Do you see how strained and thoughtful his face is? He is thinking hard, creating some kind of projects. He is afraid of something. Just watch. Now he has gripped a thing, which you call a “telephone”. He is troubled… Well, he has got some information… Now he has to evaluate it very quickly and make a decision. He is all strained… He is thinking. He is ready. The decision has been made. Now watch, watch: he looks quiet but on his face one can read doubt and anxiety. There is no joy at all”.

“Well, this is work, Anastasiya”.

“This is a way of life and there is no break in it from the moment of his awakening in the morning till he falls asleep. Even during his sleep he is not free. He can see neither the newly arrived leaves in the trees nor the joyous spring brooks… He is surrounded only by ever-envious people who are eager to take possession of everything he has. Trying to protect himself from them with, as you call it “security”. To turn a house into a castle does not really bring complete peace as the fear and worries never leave him and so on and so forth till he comes at last to the very end of his life. The feeling of regret embraces him because he has to leave everything…”

“An entrepreneur has his joys. They come to him when he achieves a desirable result, accomplishes his project. It is the joy of fulfilment.

“It is not true. He has no time to enjoy anything he achieves because a new and even more complicated project is coming to replace the previous one and everything begins all over again though with greater difficulties”

The forest beauty was depicting for me a very gloomy and sad picture of a rather successful, if to look at it externally, layer of our society and I did not feel like accepting it as a true one. I made a remark as a disproving argument:

“Anastasiya, you forget to mention their ability to achieve the desired goal and get the good things of life. For instance, he gets the admiring looks of women, who adore this kind of man and respect on the part of the surrounding people”. Her response was:

“Illusion! Maya! None of these exist. Tell me, where did you see a respectful or an admiring look of a person who is gazing at the passenger of a splendid car or an owner of a most expensive house? There is no man who would agree with you. Those are the gazes, which are full of envy, carelessness and irritation. Even women are not able to love these people because their feeling gets mixed up with the desire to take pos- session of not only that very man himself but everything he has. In their turn these men are not able to love a woman properly as they can’t afford to leave enough space for such a great feeling”.

There was no sense in arguing, trying to find more proofs, as everything she had said could be proved or rejected only by those about whom she was speaking. Being an entrepreneur myself, I had never had an opportunity to stop and think over the subject Anastasiya had touched. I had never analyzed the duration of my joy and moreover I could not do it concerning somebody else. Somehow we are not used to complaining and snivelling in our midst. Each of us is trying to portray himself as a successful businessman who is quite content with his life. Evidently therefore the image of a man, who is getting only good things from life, has been adopted by the great majority of people.

CONTENTS
Translator’s Preface
1. The ringing cedar 2. Encounter
3. Beast or Man?
4. Who are they?
5. A forest bedroom
6. Anastasia’s morning
7. Anastasia’s ray
8. Concert in the taiga
9. Who lights a new star?
10. Her beloved dachniks
11. Advice from Anastasia
– The seed as physician
– Who gets stung by bees?
– Hello, Morning!
– Evening routine
– It will prepare everything by itself
12. Sleeping under one’s star
13. A helper and mentor for your child
14. Forest school
15. Attentiveness to Man
16. Flying saucers? Nothing extraordinary!
17. The brain — a supercomputer
18. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men”
19. The need to change one’s outlook on the world
20. A mortal sin
21. Touching Paradise
22. Who will bring up our son?
23. Through a window of time
24. A strange girl
25. Bugs
26. Dreams — creating the future
27. Across the dark forces’ window of time
28. Strong people
29. Who are you, Anastasia?
30. Author’s message to readers
31. Author’s message to entrepreneurs
Dreams coming true. Editor’s Afterword

A big Bravo to Jessica Schab for making an audio playlist for us.