M.I.C.E. – the KGB, the FBI, and Me. Part 2
Author: Jim Hickman The John Denver adventures began in 1984, shortly after the first meeting of the ASE in France. Through a mutual friend, John asked me to arrange a series of...
Author: Jim Hickman The John Denver adventures began in 1984, shortly after the first meeting of the ASE in France. Through a mutual friend, John asked me to arrange a series of...
Author: Jim Hickman Beginning in the late 1970s and ending as the 20th century came to a close, I traveled extensively between the US and the USSR. For seven years, I was...
Author: Margarita Meshkova As it may suggest, the occult landscape of Russia is heterogeneous, and occult communities are not monolithic. So, the perception of the Russian invasion of Ukraine varies from group...
Author: Nestor Manichkin Formulas expressing good wishes spells and blessings have long become one of the traditional objects of scientific attention. While folklorists consider these ethical or religious speech formulas a ritual...
Author: Boris Falikov The re-enchantment that started in the USSR after many years of forced secularization was unique as the continuity from pre-revolutionary Russia was mainly broken, and the iron curtain separated...
Eleven international scholars presented their current research at the conference „New Age Cultures in Late and Post-Soviet Russia,” held in hybrid form. Two roundtable discussions addressed the global perspective of esotericism in...
The New Age research project team would like to announce International Conference, which will take place on June 16th–18th, 2022, at the Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies in Germersheim....
Author: Agnès Kefeli I entered the field of New Age spirituality by accident. For years, I focused on the history of conversion to Islam in Eurasia. Then, an encounter with one particularly...
On October 23–24, 2021, an international webinar on New Age Studies in Russia was held at the University of Mainz by the German research group of the project “New Religious Cultures in...
Author: Sergey Pakhomov Gurdjieffism in Russia – its Heyday and Subsequent Development The third period in the development of the Gurdjieff Movement in Russia falls into the post-perestroika years. As Communist ideology...
Author: Sergey Pakhomov Terminology, Chronology, and Early Stages of Development The terms “Gurdjieff Movement” and “Gurdjieffism” are used here in their broadest sense, referring to the entirety of George Gurdjieff’s (1866–1949) ideas...
Author: Svetlana Tambovtseva The small project I undertook as a contribution to this blog focuses on the last few seasons of the long exhibition year in Russia’s two capitals. Although this time...
Author: Andrei Tiukhtiaev In this essay, I am going to talk about one paradox of social belonging that can be found among followers of New Age spirituality. I encountered this paradox during...
Author: John Middleton Following the reception, I was summoned across the park to the director’s office of the Naval Engineering Institute and ushered through the neo-classical columned halls to the head of the...
Author: Emanuel Landolt Evgeny Shiffers was a spiritual seeker and charismatic personality whose life and works had an impact on underground intellectuals in the two Russian capitals in the 1960–1990s. Shiffers embodies...