“Flight of Dandelion Seeds”
… Hundreds of students took our courses. The School grew.
But several months later God put a stop to this felicity: He does not tolerate stagnation of development of those who can advance further. He needed this system of methods to be developed “depthward”.
He told us:
“You perform your mission; I control the events.
“Your new program will be quite severe. Its purpose is to lift you up to a principally new level. The old techniques will be used as well, but they will yield different results. You have to become strong warriors with unbending will.
“I am starting the second course of My School on the Earth, the second stage of trials. I will not tolerate your shortcomings. Only he will go with Me who proves capable of following My plan.
“Renunciation of earthly concerns and attachments should accompany your ascension. Everything earthly has to stay on the Earth.
“New conditions for ascent have to be created. It will be a ‘vertical’ ascent. Your present earthly situation is unfavorable; this is quite serious. The way out is only upwards.
“Remember how I have been leading you before — step by step. And now there is a new height to be mastered.
“On the new stage you have to stop experiencing yourselves material… Be attentive to My information: you are My School.
“To be in God means to be totally included into the Ocean of His Consciousness.
“You should be able to change methods easily. Do not be afraid to break away from the final point of the old program.
“Dandelion may serve as an example for you. Its seeds break off and fly away without knowing where they will land. But on the place they will, the new life will begin. This is the element of non-attachment, of freedom. Being detached from the old allows one to acquire the new.
“You are to grow and to develop now, having found yourself on the new place. In that new point, to which you will arrive, you will be able to see everything from a different angle. This moment will provide a new, fresh look at the world and at many truths.
“On the forthcoming stage of your work with Me you will achieve a new landmark, where you will have to end the current stage, then make a take off again and begin a new cycle.
“You should never use any old method just out of habit. New techniques have to predominate.
“Regard a spiritual School in the image of snake. The snake moves forward; bad cells of its body fall away, and the healthy cells proceed with the head.
“The head is a special organ. It is composed of several elements. The head determines the direction of movement. The head overcomes the obstacles first.
“The head as a part of the body signifies the vanguard group. Tongue is the personal search of each of its members. The destinies of all members of the group may be individual, but this does not prevent them from going together.
“You are short of time and there are a lot of things to be accomplished. I take to the path those who have come to Me and lead them by narrow trails. You cannot know all obstacles on the path; therefore you have to hold on to My hand. Your attention must be directed at Me.
“At this stage, seek perfection through accepting everything. I am everywhere — in every manifestation of every creature.”
It started with an incident when my mess kit, which I used in our work in forest to boil tea for the group, burned through on a fire. I took this as a “sign”, a mark of the coming end.
Indeed, the authorities decided to battle us.
First, through the network of KGB informers they spread slanderous gossip that I allegedly give lessons of “group sex”. “Participants” of these lessons, who in reality had never attended my group, told everyone special “details” of how it happened: “After the running, on a glade Antonov divided us into couples… With whom he himself? No, no! He himself didn’t do it. He just walked among us and … directed…” Could one not believe it?
Some Orthodox “parsons” liked this gossip and started to damn me and warn everyone against contacts with me.
The situation was aggravated by the fact that in parallel with me another instructor was giving lessons, whose name was also Vladimir. And in gossips and rumors some of his deeds were attributed to me.
He publicly “elaborated a theory” that “people like him have a right to have in the bedroom several beds”.
When a schoolgirl became pregnant from him, he haughtily told her that she has to have an abortion — otherwise she should leave the city.
… Once a student of him telephoned me and asked to give him a letter of recommendation.
“For what organization?”
“For police.”
“Why?”
He wavered, asked to write at least that he is a good person and that I know him…
I refused…
At last he told me that influenced by the subjects of studies in that group he once undressed and began, as he put it, “to pose” on the sill of a window of his flat located on the ground floor. This window faced a busy street.
“What for?”
“They told us that if women pay attention, an energy exchange will happen…”
Women indeed paid attention — and called police.
“But why do you need a letter of recommendation (of reference)?”
“I am in danger of being expelled from the party…”
There were lovers of dirty gossiping among esotericists. One of them also recounted publicly those “details” adding to them more… Before I heard from him a very good statement that ethics is the main thing in one’s spiritual development. Yet, he did not apply this statement to his own life!
I decided not to “settle the affairs” with him. To such people I always had the emotion of so strong rejection that simply wiped them from my memory, even forgot their faces. And continued to go further without distracting attention to such things. Later I read the advice of Babaji: “If you cannot respect someone, let him go away from your life!” I felt not hatred to such people, but rather compassion: poor guy — he ruins his destiny!
Then criminals of sport mafia were sent to punish me. But by mistake they came to our club when not me but other instructors — women — were conducting the class. The criminals decided not to attack the women, just took away the logbooks where all students were registered and “pressed” the director of the club who tried to stand against them. Then they sent these logbooks to the prosecution department with letter where they accused us of activity with “elements of anti-sovietism”.
The prosecution department started an “investigation”: during half a year they searched for financial transgressions, information about “group sex”, “elements of anti-sovietism”. Since this investigation was ordered by KGB, they did it very thoroughly. They interrogated not only those who attended our courses but even their acquaintances… Yet the only transgression they found was use of hatha yoga asanas on our courses. Hatha yoga was forbidden in those years.
The prosecutor turned out to be a scrupulous person and advised us to retire “on our own will”. We retired.
… But how to continue the work? To construct the next courses? Of what?
We collected all best students and began the search together. We tried to practice oriental martial arts, took some their methods for our program, the methods of work with hara, in particular.
At this time, Samzidat translations of the books of Carlos Castaneda appeared, which were remarkably done by Vladimir Maximov despite the risk of persecutions.
Someone took from the books of Castaneda only the information about use of the narcotic mushrooms and cactuses, but this was not interesting for us at all. We obtained from these books the information about places of power and exercises for bubbles of perception. So the work proceeded. New courses were developed.
With the help of yantras drawn by God through the hands of Galina Vaver we, for the first time, entered the Nirvanic state.
On this stage of work even the students chosen by us lost the understanding of the meaning of work and dropped out themselves.
Again only we two left and two other persons, who fell away little later. The closer we were to the summit the less companions were going with us.
Then God set a new task for us: to expand the School’s activity to other cities and countries.
Thus Galina Vaver began the work in Moscow, and me — in Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Ukraine, and in some cities in Russia. Everywhere there were people capable of mastering several courses of our program — some mastered only one course, others — two, and some others — more courses. The capabilities of every person are different and correspond to one’s stage of psychogenesis (development of soul) and ontogenesis (development in the current incarnation).
God was telling us:
“Someone is preparing oneself for living, while another one is getting ready for dying. This is the difference between people.
“Neither of these tendencies should be considered absolute: a child has to prepare for the life on Earth that, otherwise he will learn nothing. But an old person acting in the same way and never thinking of death — this is ridiculous.
“A turning point must come at a certain moment. This moment is individual for everyone. This should happen naturally, no coercion is permitted. But people have to be informed about this.
“I repeat once again: you should not try to move to the second stage those people who have not finished the first stage — this may be dangerous to their mental health.
“Only energetic and passionate people can go through the both stages. After the first stage is mastered their energy has to be directed to the mastering of the second stage.
“… It is important to find the methods of developing vigor in those students who lack it.
“Prior to advancing to Nirvana every one has to go through the period of getting maturing on the material plane. Otherwise, one may get confused and lost. Renunciation of the earthly should be voluntary and natural, and not forced or done as a volitional act. Intellectual decision has to be the incentive, in accord with the emotional ‘center’, with the blessing of the latter. Renunciation has to be timely.
“Each of you has to become completely included into Me — then no problems will remain.
“In particular, you have to discard your manner of thinking of yourselves as of separate beings. The borders of your self-awareness have to dissolve. The separate being must vanish, dissolve, sink in the Ocean of unity of everything living. Each action has to originate not from oneself and return not to oneself. There is no individual energy at this; there is only the universal one. (In the ordinary religious practice, performance of certain rituals contributes to this). Such unity has to be experienced on all planes: from the dense to the subtlest ones. Realization of oneness with all people constitutes the fulfillment of the Law of Love that Jesus Christ brought to the Earth.
“Nothing has to be done without Me. You should always feel a constant contact with Me.
“Transcend the scale on which you operated before. Take a look from the new positions, using the cosmic time. You have to open yourselves up so that new — cosmic — time can enter you.
“To make it possible for Me to put this program into you, you had to get to where you are now. That which you have done is the minimum required for changing your way of being. I want to initiate you into the techniques that allow one to do much more. The next cycle of work will be dedicated to this.
“I want to see you ever free and loving Me. Get rid of everything that prevents you from being like this.
“To enter Me completely is difficult. To accomplish this, you have to have more power. And you can develop it only through interacting with Me in everything I say, in whatever I tell you to do.
“When you realize that there is nothing else for you to do on Earth — then you will be with Me. Otherwise, you will be always preoccupied.
“To become one with Me — this should be the central thought for you now. Hurry to put it into practice.
“The reason of the soul’s confusion and suffering is rooted in its being separate from God.
“Adequate existence on the non-manifested plane will be possible solely for those who possess wisdom. One has to become baked — like a pancake — on the both sides. When this is realized, the soul acquires tranquility and only then the smooth existence will begin.
“Always be facing God.
“Remember: everyone goes to God only by oneself. No one can be lead into Him by the hand. Let people — each one of them — be guided to Me only by their desire to know Me, rather than by your or someone else’s example. People must enter Me not because of their inherent imitative tendency. The meditation technique is not the main thing. It is only love that decides everything here — Love to Me.
“Learn from Me in everything. And leave everyone alone with Me.
“Submerge into the beingness of God. Those who are invited — enter the eternal life!”
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Don Juan and Genaro described by Castaneda saw our serious interest in using the spiritual heritage of their School and became our Companions during the work in forest and our Teachers. This allowed us to expand significantly the ecological aspect of our activity. First, it concerned the work with plants of power and places of power and later — with Divine Fire as well.
