Hegumen N. “Someone is possessing you...”
It should be noted that the creatures of the parallel world for their work more often select those people who have the same creative abilities as the SPM[1]. This, on the one hand, makes it easier for the SPM (in the act of co-creation) to work on a work, allowing one to achieve better results, and on the other hand, it does not allow one to reveal oneself as clearly as in the case of children.
Facts indicating such co-creation between SPM and man can be found in the biographies of many poets. The statements of the famous Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) are very characteristic and very interesting for our study. They were preserved for us by another little-known poetess, an admirer of Tsvetaeva, Olga Kolbasina-Chernova, who in 1923 recorded her frank conversations with M. Tsvetaeva in Prague. Here, in exile, two poetesses, “by the will of fate,” turned out to be neighbors in an apartment they rented together. They were brought together by their common emigrant fate, poetry, and the fact that both had daughters with the equally rare name Ariadne. There was also a common kitchen where women prepared food. There, in the kitchen, in between household chores, Tsvetaeva shared with Olga her observations and thoughts about creativity.
M. Tsvetaeva: “The state of creativity is a state of obsession <...> Something, someone takes possession of you, your hand is the performer - not of you, but of what wants to be through you <...> The influx of the elements is the creativity of the poet.”</…></…>
O. Kolbasina-Chernova: “Her creativity is truly, as she says, “the influx of the elements,” under the pressure of which she creates, expressing not her own will, but the will of the elements, with rhythms characteristic of her. Genius, by its definition, is the highest degree of susceptibility to inspiration, this is the first thing. Controlling this influx is the second thing.”
M. Tsvetaeva: “Artistic creativity in other cases is a kind of atrophy of conscience. That moral flaw, without which it, art, cannot exist <…> All my things are elemental, that is, sinful <…> I obey inevitable necessity. Who called me? I must name, i.e. create the one who called me. It’s as if my things choose me themselves, and I often wrote them against my will.”
O. Kolbasina-Chernova: “Her element was the tragedy of heroism, sacrifice, poverty and pride, Marina’s unsurpassed pride: I am - and I go against it.”
One should not, however, rejoice prematurely when reading about sacrifice, because M. Tsvetaeva understood sacrifice somewhat differently than most people. She did not sacrifice herself for the sake of others, but quite the opposite - she could sacrifice everything and everyone for the sake of poetry, or rather, for the sake of that ambitious self-satisfaction that poetry gave her. The proud consciousness of herself above the crowd, the “genius complex,” gave her the strength to endure all external hardships and sorrows. She and Olga K.-Ch. taught the same thing: “Until you learn to eliminate everything, to go ahead through all obstacles, even to the detriment of others, until you learn absolute selfishness in defending your right to write, you won’t get much work done.”
In the above statements of the famous poetess, who has already developed as a person, the ability for critical perception and analysis of mental processes associated with creativity is clearly manifested, which, as we have already seen, is absent in children of preschool and partly adolescence. M. Tsvetaeva quite consciously speaks about the autonomy of some of her works, which she does not identify with the products of her “I”: “... I often wrote them against my will,” which clearly indicates the influence of extraneous consciousness (Kandinsky’s pseudo-hallucinations in the form of violent thinking, i.e. e. mentalism) on her own consciousness. She called this phenomenon of the influx of a stream of thoughts “the influx of the elements,” but unlike the children’s version, Tsvetaeva tried in some cases to control this “stream of consciousness,” i.e. was involved in creative collaboration with him.
As in the first (children’s) version, in Tsvetaeva’s work we can observe a slightly veiled atheistic, sinful orientation, which is generally very characteristic of the work of contactees. This is understood by the poetess herself, who was still Orthodox by origin and upbringing, although she remained very far from the Church. Her own confession speaks volumes: “Artistic creativity in other cases is a kind of atrophy of conscience <...> All my works are spontaneous, that is, sinful.” The initial state into which cooperation with SPM resulted led the poetess to suicide. Thus the earthly life of this intelligent and talented woman ended sadly and ingloriously.
As our research shows, long-term contacts of people of art with SPM lead the former either to death or to various forms of insanity (cf. the last years of the life of Mozart, Lermontov, Tsvetaeva, Blok, Bryusov, Yesenin, Vrubel, Modigliani, Van Gogh, Salvator Dali and many others). We find similar observations in the Italian psychiatrist Prof. C. Lombroso in his book “Genius and Insanity” (St. Petersburg, 1892, p. 59). In addition, such people, as noted in the 2nd chapter by Prof. Lombroso, are subject to many vices, the main ones of which he calls boundless, painful pride, sexual promiscuity and drunkenness. These vices, and especially the first, made it extremely difficult to communicate with them: “all their lives,” says the famous psychiatrist, “they remain lonely, cold, indifferent to the responsibilities of a family man and a member of society” (p. 15). And a little further he writes: “Everyone who had the rare “fortune” of living in the company of brilliant people was amazed at their ability to interpret every action of those around them in a bad way, to see persecution everywhere and in everything to find a reason for deep, endless melancholy” (with 24).
Creatures of a parallel world very often prepare a person with whom they collaborate in advance for violent death or suicide. Often, several years before the tragedy, they inform the victim (often in poetic form) about imminent death, as if predicting it in advance. So, for example, V.-A. Mozart, warned by visions of imminent death, wrote his Requiem in advance, and M. Tsvetaeva, 2.5 years before her suicide, wrote in the cycle “Poems to the Czech Republic” (March 15-May 11, 1939):
Oh, black mountain, Eclipsing the whole world! It's time - it's time - it's time for the Creator to return the ticket.
I refuse to be!.. In the Bedlam of non-humans I refuse to live!.. With the wolves of the squares I refuse to howl.
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I don’t need any ear holes or prophetic eyes. There is only one answer to your crazy world - refusal!
These lines contain despair, pride, a challenge to the Creator, and blasphemy against God, which burst out in the words: “Your crazy world.” According to Tsvetaeva, God is to blame for the fact that people do evil and the world has become insane. Born in an Orthodox country, she never understood that God-like human freedom lies in the fact that people can choose evil of their own free will, but at the same time they can resist it, with the help of God, and win, no matter what , again by my own choice. But this requires, of course, faith.
Another very talented Russian poet, Nikolai Rubtsov (1936-1971), was also warned about his death in advance, who was smothered with a pillow by his cohabiting poetess during a quarrel. Several years before his death, Rubtsov was even given the exact month when this would happen. He wrote: “I will die in the frosts of Epiphany...” and, indeed, the poet died on the frosty night of Epiphany (i.e., on the very day of the Epiphany!), January 19, 1971, at the hands of the woman whom he was going to call his wife.
A modern contact poet, Nika Turbina from Yalta, received information from the SPM about her tragic death in infancy. Let us remind the reader once again what the Crimean newspaper wrote about in 1997: “Already at the age of four, Nika wrote a poem predicting a terrible fate. It came true."
Hegumen N From the book “What do UFOs, psychics, occultists, magicians want to “save” us from?”
[1] Creatures of a parallel world. Perhaps not the most successful definition, partly explained by the context of the book “What do UFOs, psychics, occultists, magicians want to “save” us from?” — Approx. ed.
Hegumen N answers the questions: “How to teach a child the rule of prayer?”
Schema-Abbot Gabriel (Vinogradov-Lakerbaya) is widely known in our country and abroad as Hegumen N - the author of many books devoted to pressing issues of the existence of an Orthodox person in modern society. Father Gabriel carries out his ministry as the head of the Caucasian metochion of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery.
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Firstly, the prayer rule should not be burdensome in terms of volume and time. Secondly, it is very important that the child understands absolutely everything in the prayers that he will say. For a preschooler, 3 or 4 prayers may be enough, but the main thing is that the parents explain their meaning to him, so that he understands what he is asking the Lord God for. Thirdly, they must explain to the child why prayer is needed at all, why one needs to pray. Who needs it? It's the most important.
Our Russian saint, Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov), once said very beautifully and figuratively about prayer: “Prayer is a spiritual magnet that attracts the Grace of God to a person.” Based on this formula, the child needs to explain what grace is and why it needs to be attracted to oneself through prayer.
It can be explained something like this: the grace of God is Divine power, Divine energy. A person needs it so that his willpower does not weaken to fight sin. For example, if the battery in your phone is dead, you can no longer call your mother, even if you really need to. Our will can also weaken and be tempted into something sinful; it does not have the strength to fight temptation. You know what to do if your phone is dead? Of course you need to charge the battery! But to charge the battery, you need an energy source and a wire to connect to this power source. In the same way, in order to strengthen the will, it also needs to be connected to a power source. For us, the source of energy is God the Holy Spirit, who gives us His uncreated energy (grace), and the wire that transfers this divine energy to the soul is prayer. Without the grace of the Holy Spirit, a person cannot save his soul from sins, and it is also impossible to receive the grace of God without prayer and church Sacraments (confession, communion).
But in addition to the fact that divine energy strengthens a person’s will, it also enlightens his mind, making him capable of understanding divine truths, understanding people and events, seeing relationships and cause-and-effect patterns in human life and society. Here we can give another simple and understandable comparison for a child: the source of energy is the Lord, prayer and the Sacraments are a wire, and a person is a light bulb that shines not only for himself, but also for other people.
And finally, children must know about the existence of spiritual, intelligent beings present and active in the invisible spiritual world, which permeates our entire visible, material world, the entire universe. It is necessary to tell that this spiritual, parallel existing world, although invisible to us, but it constantly and actively influences every person living on earth, starting from the moment of his birth. The intelligent spiritual beings of this world, called angels, are the first of the intelligent beings created by God. He created them before the material universe even existed.
However, among the angels (as, indeed, somewhat later among people) a division occurred. A third of the angels, led by Satan-Lucifer, became proud, renounced their Creator and, having completely lost divine grace, turned into evil demons who hate God and all of His creation, especially people.
At birth, each person receives from God his Guardian Angel, who instills in him good thoughts and through conscience shows him what, from a divine point of view, is good and what is evil. But Satan did not stand aside either. He also assigns his demon curator to the newborn, who imparts to the person all those sinful thoughts and feelings that are well known to each of us from a very early age. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary for parents to explain to their children that not all the thoughts and desires that they have belong to themselves. Very often (and children know this very well) they commit harmful and unmotivated actions, and then children (and, unfortunately, many adults) cannot explain to themselves or others why they acted so stupidly. In all such cases, a person acts at the suggestion of a demon-curator, since he has not been taught to analyze and recognize what kind of thoughts and impulses are born in his soul.
It is precisely this analysis that parents should teach their child, who, as practice has shown, is able to understand such things from the age of three. It is best to teach a child using real examples of his own wrong actions, but at the same time you should not shout, swear, and, especially, beat him. You need to pull yourself together and calmly, together with him, sort out his wrong action, showing the child all the harmful consequences of his actions for others or even for himself. In this case, you should ask the child a question: did you want to hurt this person or offend him, or spoil some thing and thereby upset its owner?
The child himself does not understand why he did it, and therefore answers that he did not want to harm anyone and that he himself does not know why he did it. This is where it is necessary (and not just once, but many times) to explain or remind him that all the bad thoughts in his head, all the sinful desires are instilled in him and in general to all people by demons. Again and again, you need to remind your child of the need to think before he says or does anything: is this good or bad? This must be taught to the child over a sufficiently long period of time in order to develop the habit of analyzing his thoughts and actions. The positive results of such a skill, as life has shown, cannot be overestimated, especially later!
When teaching such an analysis, you should also draw the child’s attention to the good internal hint of his Guardian Angel, who gently inspired him not to commit a bad act. Most often, the child is not yet accustomed to hearing and recognizing this soft and kind prompt from the Angel. But if the child’s attention is specifically paid to this hint, which is usually called the voice of conscience, he will gradually learn to hear it through the violent suggestion of the demon. This practice of distinguishing between demonic suggestions and suggestions of conscience, as well as the practical ability to reject sinful thoughts, unkind impulses, emotions and words by force of will, all this, brought up from childhood, will provide an invaluable service to a person at any age and, especially in adolescence and beyond. mature.
The opium of unbelief. Psychics or zombies
Their task: to lead humanity away from the true knowledge of God, in order to prevent people from learning and fulfilling the goal set by the Creator for every person, to tear him away from God, to force him to bow to Satan. Interview with Abbot N about the “opium of unbelief.” Part 3.
Such teaching of a child to be attentive to his inner world, to his thoughts and feelings using real examples of his own right and wrong actions will make him understand that prayer and the Sacraments of the Church are necessary not for God or his parents, but for himself. Even the smallest practice in dealing with sin will show a child that without the help of God’s grace, which people receive through prayer, he will be a toy, a doll in the hands of evil spirits.
In the learning process, one should not forget about the strong impact on the child’s feelings and memory of real life examples of God’s help to children who find themselves in trouble, but saved thanks to their children’s prayer. I remember one such case that was published in newspapers in the mid-90s. A boy of 9-10 years old stayed behind to ride the slide after the other children had gone home. Evening came and it got dark. But he did not return home. They searched for him all night and only the next day they accidentally discovered a deep well covered with snow, in which the boy stood knee-deep in icy water all evening, all night and part of the next day. After he was pulled out healthy and unharmed, the boy was asked: how did he survive, how did he not freeze in a cold well, in icy water?
The child said that when he fell into a well with his sled and realized that he could not get out, he began to read the “Our Father” prayer, which his grandmother taught him, hoping only for God’s help. And a miracle happened. Some kind grandfather appeared nearby, who began to talk to him and feed him something tasty. It became light in the dark night well, the cold disappeared somewhere and he quickly warmed up. Time flew by so quickly that when the boy was pulled out of the well, it seemed to him that everything happened very quickly. The grandmother easily figured out who could appear to her grandson in the well, and brought an icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, in whom the boy instantly recognized the kind grandfather who appeared to him in the well. Such examples, of which there are many, will help the child become stronger in his understanding of the need for prayer and the specific benefits for him personally.
In addition to everything said above, parents should be reminded that by helping their child realize the need for prayer, they will protect him from many troubles that evil people can cause him using occult methods and witchcraft (magic). It’s no secret that after the fall of the Iron Curtain, book markets in Russia were filled with literature on black magic (“white” does not exist, it’s a hoax). Many periodicals from that time to this day print all kinds of conspiracies, as well as descriptions of magical rituals for causing damage, love spells, attracting money, getting rid of rivals, and the like. All these actions are a direct appeal to demonic forces in order to use them to influence this or that person in the right direction. And, of course, people who are not protected by the grace of the Holy Spirit become victims of such influences. What will help protect a child from such negative effects on his physical and mental health? Of course, only divine power, the divine energy of the Holy Spirit! And this is already an incentive for parents, which should motivate them in the fight against their laziness and force them to work hard in teaching their child the spiritual foundations of life and prayer.
Of course, there are unique children. They have always been there, but there have always been few of them. They still exist. These special children, they feel the grace of God so clearly and strongly that they themselves strive for prayer, which, like a magnet, attracts God’s grace to them. And at this moment they feel such spiritual joy that they want to pray again and again. But, unfortunately, there are only a few of them, these are God’s special chosen ones. These kids don't need to be told, “Let's go! Come on, get up and pray! Here, take your prayer book! You must, you must...” None of this is needed! The child himself runs to the icons, prays himself, reads the Gospel with pleasure, and goes to church with joy. But exceptions are not the rule, so we must explain everything in great detail to all other children (and they are the majority).
