Anastasia

"The Rites of Love" by Vladimir Megre. Volume 8 part 2 of the Anastasia series. In 1994 Vladimir Megre met a mysterious young woman named Anastasia on the bank of the River Ob. She led him deep into the Siberian taiga, where she revealed her philosophy on Man's relationship to Nature, the Universe and God, as well as lifestyle, education, nutrition, spirituality, love, family, sexual relations and other plants. These teachings became the basis for the best-selling series, The Ringing Cedars of Russia, first published in 1996. In ten years more than 10 million copies have been sold. The series has been translated into 20 languages. The Rites of Love (part 2 of Book 8 but published as a separate volume) contrasts today's mainstream attitudes to sex, family, childbirth and education with our forebears' lifestyle, which reflected their deep spiritual understanding of the significance of conception, pregnancy, home - birth and upbringing of the young in an atmosphere of love. In powerful poetic prose Megre describes their ancient way of life, grounded in love and non-violence, and shows the practicability of this same approach today. Through the life-story of one family, he portrays the radiant world of the ancient Russian Vedic civilisation, the drama of its destruction and its re-birth millennia later - in our present time. The Ringing Cedars series offers material about living close to the Earth in a village of Kin's domains by creating a 'Space of Love'. The books have become the basis for a Russian and increasingly worldwide Back to the Land movement based on the Russian tradition of self-reliant simple living on the land, providing physical subsistence and spiritual fulfillment. It is one of a number of such projects in Russia. The books and communities combine deep ecology with traditional, even conservative family values, quite unlike the conventional Western hippie alternative lifestyle. This is based on the idea of "kin estates" or self-sufficient family homesteads. Before the publication of the first book in the series, there were virtually no eco-villages in Russia. By June 5, 2004, eight years later, a conference of the Ringing Cedars Movement in Vladimir, attracted delegates from over 150 eco-villages from across 48 of the 89 regions of Russia. Megre's ideas are similar to those of Russia's agricultural economist Alexander Chayanov eighty years earlier, referring to harmonious relationship with nature based on sustainable rural settlements consisting of individual family-owned homesteads. Also like Chayanov, Megr� presents his ideas in a novel-like format. He admits using this strategy to minimize initial resistance to his writings. In addition to Russia, Anastasia centers can be found in Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands,[12] New Zealand, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States. Book details: published 2013. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.