New Age and Esoteric References in (Post-)Soviet Films
While preparing the conference “New Age Cultures in Late and Post-Soviet Russia” in June 2022 with recommendations of films to watch, we realized that so far no one has examined a single...
Tagged: Theosophical teaching
The Hippie Way of Spirituality or What а Piece of Soviet Hippie Samizdat Can or Cannot Tell us about Hippie Spiritual Beliefs
Author: Juliane Fürst In 2017, I took receipt of a strange delivery from Moscow. A friend and colleague of mine met me in Los Angeles, where I was working with the Wende...
The Unveiling of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Author: Marina Alexandrova The legacy of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), the Russian-American occultist, philosopher, and writer, whose Theosophical teachings influenced generations of spiritual seekers of every shade worldwide, has ignited intense debates...
Roerich’s Shambala Journey: Dany Savelli on Her Ongoing Project
Author: Dany Savelli Agni Yoga, the spiritual teaching that the painter Nicholas [Nikolai] Roerich (1874–1947) and his wife Elena Roerich (born Shaposhnikova) (1879–1955) elaborated in the 1920s–1930s, is endowed with the important...
