Uplifting and heart warming for people who wants to reconnect with nature
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For me this book has been tremendously benefitial and has had an uplifting effect on my everyday life.
It has given insights on how one can bring up children, how one can prepare for crops, how to build bee-hives and most importantly - it has starten to reveal our connection to nature - and this in a far more deeply understanding than I earlier was able to grasp. It also affirms the destrucitve way of our present way of living - called technocratic world - which is perhaps not a revelation to most of us. But did you know that the technical noise from man made items actually disconnects us from nature? While natural sounds like waving leaves in the wind, rippling and swashing water, humming insects, singing birds, the warm touch of sunrays etc is soothing to the human soul. Ok, this we might now through experience - but is there a deeper connection between Man and nature which aren't obvious to our dulled senses? Is there a mere coincidence that Buddha had his revelation while meditating under a tree? Why don't you try it out for yourself and read this book leaning your back against the bark of a tree of your liking... this is, I think, the optimum way of receiving the message of this book.
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This book is not about sex - on the contrary it states that one actually should restrain oneself from sexual intercourse just for the sake of sense gratification, and instead have it when there are a mutual feeling of co-creating. A child created in that way - in love and strongly wished for - says to have great positive impact on the child. And who doesn't want to be created and brought forward in this world through love and positive aspirations... well, this attitude might be a little mind boggling in these days.
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Sorry - Not Convinced
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Imagine having to come up with a book that will sell like hotcakes to all the 'New Agers' out there with money to spend and a longing for answers.
So you come up with some characters: The 'worldly' entrepreneur who fornicates, smokes, drinks and needs to make the next big deal to survive. The magical 'ageless' people who seems to get their boundless energy from bits of Cedar hanging around their necks. And the main character - a beautiful nymph who lives on cedar nuts and spends her time cavorting about the woods, talking to the animals and bouncing off the trees (yes, she's also a gymnast/dancer). She is full of insights, advice and lust for our skeptical sailor and manages to turn his head with a few dances, some hidden knowledge and a romp under the stars.
As with most of these money-spinners, the 'insights' are drip fed to the reader, with much more promised in future books. Maybe is is true, but to me, there are too many textbook marketing techniques barely hidden under a thin veneer of 'new age sprituality' themes. I can predict that very expensive bits of cedar will be available for hanging round gullible necks very soon.
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Pure Fantasy
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I was very disappointed after reading this book; it is basically pure sexual fantasy. It's about a Russian Man whom meets a fairy-nymph like beautiful blonde woman deep in the forest in the Russian Taiga.
He fornicates with her after which she tells him she will bare him a son, he finds her living alone in the forest with a variety of animals Bears, Wolves etc.
She lives apparently off of nuts (yes the whole book is nuts!) which are fed to her by, wait for it, squirrels! The only thing amazing about this book is that it's had so much hype, and has sold so well, and that's all it is, hype! There are no revelations to be read here only obvious truths about society today which any idiot with half a brain could conclude for himself if you thought about it long enough.
The rest of the book basically deals with the modern "technocratic" (as the book puts it) society, environmental issues, child birth, money etc are all explored.
The only thing though is I was concerned this book had been read by children which I find inappropriate because it does contain a lot of course sexual references!! An interesting read but basically a load of old rubbish, this book has been said to make all others a complete waist of paper! Well I disagree, go and buy one of the Dan Brown books, you'll get a much better read, I suspect Vladimir Merge may have been a hippy in the 70's!!! A load of old twaddle!
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Amazing book
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Summary: Inspiring, heart warming. philosophical and poetic. Full of revolutionary new ideas.
Reviewer: A reader from South Devon, England
I fell in love with this book. It's extraordinary, uplifting, heart warming, mind provoking, emotionally stirring. It's simply amazing! The philosophical ideas of the book are so deeply profound, spiritual but also firmly grounded. It's beautiful and fantastical but full of down to earth practical advise. It made me jump up and down with joy and enthusiasm, it made me cry a bit, it made me think hard. In fact I'm still thinking about it now. What I crave most is the opportunity to talk to somebody about the book, but so few people have heard about it. I've got questions. There are bits I don't fully understand. There is some controversy, a mystery. Certain things are not fully explained. Is Anastasia a living person or just a symbolic figure? A beautiful image? Who is the real author of the book? Is this all true or is it just a fantasy? A lie? Brain washing? Manipulation for a good reason? O, please dear fellow reader, grab the book, don't hesitate to buy it! Read it, share your opinion of it. Will it touch you the way it touched me? Will you be similarly inspired? Will you be put off by the book's rather primitive and over-sentimental style? Will you rush to your garden the way I did and find a space to plant couple of more fruit trees and bushes? I keep lending my copy to my friends and they return it with eyes shining. "I want to go to Russia and see it for myself", Michelle said. "What if Anastasia doesn't exist?", I asked. "It doesn't matter. The ideas in the book are so exciting! And all the knowledge in the world has been channeled to us from the higher reality anyway. All the writers, scientists, philosophers are just the messengers." Michelle is very spiritually advanced . "Perhaps Anastasia does exist ", Christopher speculates, "but she is an old and wrinkled Russian Babushka (a wise woman, Baba-Yaga?), so the author made her young, beautiful and sexy for the book's wider appeal?" Funny... But even if it is just a fiction, somebody really wants to change the world for the better.
My intuition tells me that deepest sacred truth has been revealed, hidden secret knowledge has been shared with everyone. Luckily I can read in Russian too and of course I didn't stop at volume one. I went through all eight books. Absolutely fascinating! Jaw-dropping. This book has changed my life.
Thank you.
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Amazing...
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This book may change your life. It presents some of the ancient truths of the meaning of life that have been lost by our technocratic society. It allows you to put things in a completely different and real perspective.
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