Questions & Answers — Dr. Vladimir Antonov answers questions and explains details concerning different aspects of self-realization and cognition of God.

Please, tell us about the history of your school. It would be interesting to hear it in connection to your biography.

You said that you managed to attain a certain spiritual level. Would you elaborate on this, please?

I am an Orthodox priest and I am pleased to hear ...

In what way cosmic planes (lokas) are correlated with structures of the human organism? I mean etheric, astral, mental, and other "bodies".

What dimension does buddhi belong to?

How do buddhis of different people differ?

What is the size of a kid's buddhi?

Does the size of buddhi always increases in a series of incarnations?

Which is the best way of cognizing the Absolute?

Are spatial dimensions cognized inside or outside of one's body?

How is one to study all this? How can one develop one’s buddhi? How can one come to the Father and cognize the Absolute?

What is the fundamental difference between "total reciprocity" and "crystallization"?

What happens to consciousness during performance of "total reciprocity"?

How can one imagine this?

What is H-0 on the "Hydrogen scale" of Gurdjieff?

Lao Tse said: Tao is a tender Being. How one should interpret this?

Would you say a few words about Castaneda, please? When did what he describes take place?

What is the assemblage point?

What is schizophrenia?

What is your attitude towards fasting?

What can you say about sexual life in relation to our courses?

In some families, where only one of the married couple practices our system, a tension grows. What is your advice in such a case?

Are the terms Salvation, Liberation, Samadhi, Nirvana, and Moksha are identical in your opinion?

Please, tell us about Tantrism.

The negative attitude of Russian Orthodox Church towards yoga is well known. What is the reason for it?

How is "resurrection from the dead" spoken of in Orthodox Christianity to be understood?

Please, tell us about holotropic therapy.

Why do you recommend that one does not wear earrings?

When should one give to those who ask from one, and when — one should not?

There are people-"vampires", who are ready to use giving away of other people without end. Should they be barred?

Is it allowed to give "by force"? Maybe we save someone's life in such a way? Is this mercy?

So we should not feed the sick by force? Is this love?

Do you agree with the concept of the existence of Devil?

Carlos Castaneda writes about the assemblage point first as a point on the cocoon, but in other places — differently...

Juan Matus said that with a child's birth a person loses "completeness" of oneself, which results in formation of the "hole" in the person's cocoon, through which his/her energy leaks out. Is it how it is?

How does insufficient sleep influence one’s meditative ability and bioenergetics?

Why does God need us to love Him?

Jesus said: I am the door. But you quote Krishna and others so often...

What are the specifics of teaching children by your system?

What is the objective sense in observance of sathya — the principle of truthfulness? Lies do not necessarily cause harm to other living beings.

Are there any contra-indications to practicing your system?

How can we come to love God?

What is the difference between love and attachment?

What about unscrewing that nut? I am having the same problem at the moment.

When do we have to fight in "earthly" situations and when — to exercise humility?

What is humility?

The Bhagavad Gita states that God sends sinners to incarnate into increasingly worse conditions. How does it accord with your statement of "totality" of Divine Love?

Why do you accept so few people for senior courses? Why do you abandon students on the half way to Perfection? How would you explain this in line with your concept of Love?

They say that time disappears when one enters Nirvana. Is it so?

Is practice of raja-yoga necessary? In the Bhagavad Gita it is said: "Direct your mind to Me..."

Do you kill mosquitoes?

There are various opinions as to when the last Kali yuga ends. What is your opinion on this?

What is the reason that even now there are pagan tendencies in religion?

In the Porfiriy Ivanov's school it is not forbidden to eat meat. Why?

About what “segments” of the cocoon they tell in the School of Juan Matus?

How does the way we perform our home exercises influence our success? What is the mechanism of this?

What should I do if I do not see the progress that I would like to see, though I try to practice daily?

What is your opinion of Daniil Andreev's book "Rose of the World"?

Do I understand correctly that paganism is oriented at the "astral plane"?

What sense does it make that God allows such books to be published?

Will you, please, sum up the basic principles of your school?

Please, tell us what we must beware of to avoid "breaking down"?

There is a point of view in literature, that one necessarily goes through the stage of astral plane. Is it so?

How can I know if I get into the "astral" plane during meditation?

So, does it make sense to develop one’s "astral" body?

What is Truth?

What does Evolution of God mean?

How can I make my husband attend our classes? I am persuading him without end — and to no avail...

What should I do if this stereotype is already formed in my children regarding me? Children have already grown up; will I ever be able to re-establish correct relationships with them?

How does God teach us?

So, it is God who sends murderers?...

Does it mean that criminals should not be punished, since they execute God's Will and will be punished by Him for their sins?

If my Goal is clear to me and this Goal is the path to God, should I abandon everything right now and go into this alone?

I have not eaten meat for a long time, but sometimes I give it to my son when he asks me. Do you think I do a right thing?

Who are those beings from other planets who are spoken and written about so much lately?

You told us about holotropic breathing, but did not explain its physiological mechanism

All of us, who attend classes, started to feel much better. Do you have any statistics regarding this? Are there any observations in relation to children?

Is it true that it is possible to direct the soul of the deceased to those regions of multidimensional space that are called paradise? This is dealt with in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. There are also special techniques known in some Buddhist schools. They believe that it is possible to avoid hell in such a way.

Does the place where disincarnated get depend on the cause of his death? Does not a position of a person who is forcefully disincarnated improve? And is not the next incarnation accelerated after forceful cessation of the previous one?

So, is it useful to see off a deceased one with prayers for him as with those means that are mastered by Buddhists, who practice "bardho yoga"?

And those prayers for the deceased that are used in the Orthodox Church, do they have any positive meaning?

Is it true that we chose this country for incarnation, as well as our parents, ourselves?

Why do some people remember their past lives while others do not?

Does not it seem to you that we all were "placed" into the Soviet Union as a punishment for certain similar crimes we committed in our past lives?

Why does God make it possible that little children die?

But Yogananda told that the cause of our incarnations is our earthly desires...

I heard many times that each person has his double-reciprocal and that meeting with it has certain significance. Can you clarify what it is?

Is abortion a sin?

Apart from your School there are others that employ methods or raja-yoga. Our friends from other places often ask us how they should be treated, which are the best to attend? Do you have any recommendations?

We come across facts when some teachers acting from the name of your School perform gross ethical violations, striving only to personal enrichment, resorting to explicit lies, and displaying incompetence. You know, whom I mean. Do you take any measures against this?

You are speaking about big heights... And what if a person does not make large progress on the Path to God, but leads a lot of people?

You speak of immortality as of mergence with God, and Gurdjieff told that immortality is achieved through "crystallization" of consciousness. How is this correlated?

Is there a possibility to attain mergence with God and Perfection not through the way you are going, that is, a long and thorough work on oneself, but having accomplished one bright and glorious feat?

Why do people view death as a suffering?