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== Vladimir Antonov (scientist and mystic) new article content ... == Vladimir Antonov was born 1946 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He worked in different scientific fields such as medicine, psychology, and ecology - earning a Ph.d. in Biology. He later turned his attention to non-material phenomenon and religion, eventually founding a spiritual school. The school gained popularity before being closed to the public due to internal conflict. He is the founder of a new branch of science called the methodology of spiritual development, and has written over 40 books on the subject; as well as many articles and films. He asserts the possibility of cognizing God in the aspects of the Holy Spirit, Creator, and Absolute, and that this is the predestination of every living being. He also claims to have created a perfect system of psychical self-regulation which allows a person complete control over their emotional states. He currently lives in Russia as a monk who writes books and articles about God, and helps people on the Path to Him.

Vladimir Antonov is a mystic, and scientist-biologist who turned his attention to studying the non-material phenomenon and founded the modern branch of science the methodology of spiritual development. Among other things, he has written over 40 books about God, about the multi-dimensionality of space, about the meaning of life for all living beings, and practically offers a methodology for achieving this. He created a perfect system of psychical self-regulation which gives a person full control over their emotions. He is known for broad scientific research, creating the spiritual school Vajrayana in Russia, and publishing the first serious scientific information about the chakras and main meridians within the human organism. He leads a quiet and monastic life serving God and people, and no longer accepts personal student as he feels all the information is available in his many books, articles, and films.

Early life:
He grew up in Saint Petersburg, born in 1946. Their family lived in a communal flat, and most of his time was spent with his grandmother; a school teacher who he described as spiteful and constantly in dialogue with herself. His mother was a doctor who taught at Saint Petersburg University, and his father was an accountant, who enjoyed hunting and fishing. Since childhood, his father accustomed him to contacts with nature - enjoying the beauty of sunrises on a lake and the calmness of dusk in the forest. For the most part, these contacts were aimed at killing animals and fish.

In ninth grade he switched to an evening course in order to finish school in ten years, as opposed to the newly commissioned eleven year school term. He took a job as a laboratory assistant to sweep floors, and do other errands.

Effects of cholesterol on rats:
During his time working as a laboratory assistant, he took part in the famous experiments on rats with cholesterol. He remembers injecting 'tens of grams of chemically pure cholesterol dissolved in oil, which did result in plaques forming in the blood vessels.' Based on a humans weight however, a few eggs relative to the weight of a 200g rat - the doses given to the rats exceeded the human intake of cholesterol by over a million times. He regretted taking part in these experiments, which "were broadcasted to the world as a scientific lie", and described performing his duties mechanically as an assistant.

He recommends using eggs for a healthy persons nutrition, as combined with milk, they form a complete set of amino acids. This diet eliminates the necessity for using the bodies of animals for food, the uric salts from which are the main contributor to plaques on the walls of blood vessels.

University:
In University he studied to become a biologist-zoologist-ecologist. Once the KGB organized a open debate to discuss the Komsomol and, after speaking his mind on the subject, was almost expelled from the school. After this the KGB opened a file him.

He became interested in philosophy, and felt attracted to Existentialism and question of the meaning of life.

He entered a graduate program in medicine; where the subject of his thesis was on the influence of different factors on the formation of the psyche. In the University many of the staff were let go due to staff reductions: Jewish people were fired, and the positions were immediately filled with non-Jewish staff.

Thesis on ecology of beavers:
His graduate thesis was on the ecology of beavers. While traveling to different swamps and rivers he witnessed the total alcholization of many Russians which resulted in murders, suicides, thefts, and degradation of entire towns.

He claims to have developed the ability to see in the dark after spending months alone in the woods due to observing beavers, which are nocturnal animals, at night. From the experience of this work he also learned to live and sustain himself living all year with food found in the forest: herbs, jams, honey, mushrooms, berries, etc. This would later allow survival when living homeless due to KGB 'staff reductions', and after suffering several clinical deaths due to being attacked by a gang led by an ex-student of his spiritual school.

Sexual self-identification:
When growing up in the communal flat, a seemingly male cat was taken in. After some time, the cat gave birth to a litter of kittens. This was confusing to the five year old. Later, this turned out to be an interesting problem in biology and psychology: sexual self-identification – i.e. perceiving oneself as a certain sex.

People come to know during childhood that their bodies are of a certain sex – male or female. Sometimes, though, the perception of some people does not coincide with the sex of the body. Sometimes this problem disappears, although sometimes it grows stronger after puberty. This can create sometimes extreme discomfort, and is an example of inversion of sexual self-identification.

The problem is that the brain of a fetus develops non-uniformly. If there is damage done during the critical stage, its effects last for the entire life. In the brain there are two cerebrum centers - male and female - which are responsible for the sexual self-identification in animals and humans. Different harmful factors during the critical period can have lasting effects on the brain tissues which may appear only after puberty. These factors can lead to the child growing up with homosexuality of bisexuality depending on the severity of damage.

He also studied the so-called conditioned reflex - another mechanism of the formation of homosexuality and sexual abnormalities. Its mechanism lies in that during the stages of pubescence, a child under normal condions has no desire for sexual intercourse. At puberty, the errogeneity of the genitals develops gradually under the influence of sex hormones which are being produced. The desire for sexual intercourse develops after several years. At this stage, the second in the development of sexuality, is called the stage of undifferentiated adolecence sexuality. The interest in sex usually appears here - but the desire for intercourse usually does not develop for several years.

The third stage of the development of sexuality is sexual maturity. The desire for sexual intercourse appears with key signals, which for male humans can be a view of the female’s genitals.

He verified in research, and proved experimentally that during the stage of undifferentiated sexuality, when the proper sexual orientation has not fully manifested yet, but sexual arousal, which are often accompanied by masturbation and orgasms, take place. It is at this age that the sexual conditioned reflexes may appear, sometimes so strong that they remain for the rest of life accompanying the normal sexuality or even displacing it completely.

Species self-identification and imprinting
Along with the above, he also studied the problem of species self-identification, the perception of oneself belong to a certain species. Research indicated that this is not inborn, but rather imprinted during the critical stage of primary socialization. For example, dogs which were weaned off their mothers before opening their eyes were exposed only to humans during the first two years of life. The dogs acted fine towards people, but when they met other dogs for the first time they would go into shock and remain paralyzed on the ground. When the male dogs smelled the sex odor of females in heat, this transformed their attitude to other dogs and accelerated the socialization process. This indicated that the dogs perceived themselves as human due to imprinting, and that the children being raised by monkeys and running on all fours, etc... perceived themselves as monkeys.

Other examples of imprinting, and it's effects in relation to species self-identification were studied in birds who could not sing if the father was absent during the critical stage of primary socialization, as well as those who had human speech patterns imprinted when living among humans during this stage. This was seen also as the explanation for the phenomenon of hospitalization, which was common in Soviet Russia. Children in orphanages were fed, and cared for without anyone speaking to them or interacting emotionally. The children grew up with social problems, were unable to speak fluently and could be aggressive.

He claimed based on the research that models of social behavior are also developed through a form of imprinting which is called identification. The child during critical stages imprinted the behavior, speech patterns, qualities, etc. of the parent, or the person acting in their place. Many of these imprinted patterns of behavior would appear only after puberty. His opinion based on this is that parents need to be aware that their own behavior sets a standard for how children grow up.

"Parents must know: your child unconsciously imprints your patterns of behavior, both good and bad ones. He or she does not repeat them immediately but will do it after growing up."

"If we wish to help our children to become better — we should not only tell them about it but also show them patterns of our own right behavior.

Love in the aspects of tenderness, care, respect, compassion for all living creatures, readiness to help everyone in everything good, aspiration for knowledge, and diligence are the virtues that adults must adhere to and demonstrate to children."

Regulation of the reproductive function:
He also worked in the field of sexology, and was disappointed with the literature and opinions at that time in USSR.

Through experiments on mammals he proved what the role of the seminal vesicles were in regulating the reproductive function in males; rabbits had pieces of PVC piping inserted into the seminal vesicles, stimulating the barroceptors inside. This was found to increase the sex drive 5 times on average.

He recommends mastering psychical self-regulation through working with the chakras in order to regulate the reproductive function most effectively. If this is not possible he recommends using several drug therapies including ultra-violent irradiation, ginseng, or eleutherococcus - which act through the hypothalamohypophysial system of the cerebrum.

He also designed an apparatus to regulate the dis-coordination of labor activity, when the contractions of the uterus are not synchronized and cause pain. His opinion of the root cause was that it was found in contamination of the organism from uric salts of eating meat, as well as sexual contacts with sick or energetically coarse partners which caused damage to the bio-energetic channels. The apparatus established a local electric potential and neutralized lactic acid in the uterus.

His opinion is that there are much deeper causes of the dysfunctional reproductive function in men and woman. Staying with concentration in the head depletes the energy from chakras located in the trunk of the body. One's attitude towards God, other people, nutrition, etc. is one of the significant factors that determines a persons health. By developing the chakras and keeping them open and pure, he claims many chronic health problems disappear and organs of the body, including the reproductive system, begin to function normally.

Turning attention to non-material phenomenon:
One day, he met an old acquaintance on the street who was going to a class on yoga, and extended an invitation to come. He wasn't interested and went on with the day. The next day they met again, and had not seen each other in years - again he was invited to a demonstration on healing by Varvara Ivanova. She talked about healers in history, and gave a session. They each had some minor sicknesses, from which she was healed and he was not. His friend dismissed it, and he decided to use the scientific method and recreate the experiments in a controlled setting. Everything that had happened that night was repeated and proved effective. Directing waves of compassion from the palms would result in healing. His interested in spirituality and religion developed from this moment onward.

They took his acquaintances original offer, and came to him to start learning hatha yoga, parting soon after. The yogi introduced them to a lady medium before parting. Their healing abilities were growing, and it turned out one can use chakras to direct waves of healing energy. So, they started to seek new methods of developing the chakras.

The group that formed around the lady medium attracted different spirits - including poets, physicians, and a Himalayan hatha yogi. 'A famous Russian poet' was the first one to tell them about the ethics of nutrition, and that it was not necessary to eat the bodies of animals - except for enjoyment of the taste. He helped them with yoga exercises and gave advice.

Vladimir began his own experience as a medium, trying to make contact with the Himalayan yogi. With the mind and consciousness totally relaxed, answers to questions could be felt as inner comfort for yes, or discomfort for no. As a group, they also tried using a saucer and needle, which sat on a piece of paper with letters and numbers. For a few nights nothing happened, and when they asked why - he says for the first time God spoke to him - saying that it was He who prevented the spirits from speaking in order to teach them that they do not need such tools to interact as one can perceive thoughts directly.

The lady medium soon started listening to voices telling her to go places and talk to certain people, and listening began to develop schizophrenia. She would forget to tell the rest of the group about a meeting, and react with anger to them when they did not show up. The group disbanded, and together with Galina Vaver, they continued to develop themselves.

The New Testament became available for the first time in Russia, illegally translated and distributed under Soviet laws. They read it, and immediately became Christians, seeing for themselves in the words of Jesus a description of the Path to God. In the Orthodox Church they mastered inner quietness and repentance.

Once at work in the scientific institute, he mentioned to a coworker that she had angina; seeing with clairvoyance a dark spot in the neck. She was amazed and told some friend, one of whom was married to KGB agent. He was shortly fired due to 'staff reduction'. The note in his KGB file was being fired for 'creation of a religious sect'.

He got a job as a laboratory assistant sweeping walkways and watering plants - and spent time in libraries studying religious works like Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, works of George Gurdgieef, the Philokalia, etc.

Once at lent, after fasting hard for the month, just before the Passover dinner the guests felt the strong presence of Jesus - who thanked them and told Vladimir that he had to start a spiritual School in which none of its members were allowed to drink alcohol.

Continuing the healing practice, people were healed and demons were driven out. Soon they began living and working in different monasteries and witnessed the orthodox rite of exorcism - in which coarse emotions are channeled to the victim and the problem grows worse. He began to consider himself as a Christian - belonging only to Christ - and not any organized religion.

The spiritual School Vajrayana:
In the seances they had managed to come into contact with God Himself - and he began to teach them, in particular, giving them information about chakras and the main meridians. God also gave them knowledge about the methodology of the spiritual Path.

Vladimir formed the spiritual School Vajrayana, for which he created a program consisting of exercises to cleanse the body, and then the chakras and main meridians. These included winter swimming, meditative running, and promoting nudism as a means of dropping identification with the body. Galina Vaver created a program which complimented and enriched his, which included classes on art, music, dance, harmonious design of parks, and contacts with living nature.

From this work, a perfect system of psychical self-regulation was created. It was tested by thousands of students in Russia and surrounding countries. The system included purifying and developing the chakras in order to gain the ability to effortlessly move from one to another - depending on what was needed in the current situation. Therefore gaining mastering of the chakras, one could choose in what emotional states to live, and gain the ability of quickly changing from irritation - to deep states of love and peace.

Along with the above system for mastery of emotional states, a scheme for studying the Absolute was created which was based on Gurdgieff's 'Scale of Hydrogen's'. This scale is based on multi-dimensional space being organized in layers which became subtler and subtler. H1 on the scale was the level of subtley of the Creator, and H2 was the level of the Holy Spirit, H3 was Paradise, and so on.

Closing the School & Clinical deaths:

For some time he felt the need to close the school down, but was too attached.

A woman came to him for sexological help, being unable to reach orgasm. He agreed to help and worked with her for around a year. Later, she met him at a class and began talking about her new sexual adventures. He was shocked and gave her a copy of a recent lecture on the inadmissibility of letting sex become the dominant interest in the life - rather than God. She became offended, and spread a rumor saying that he had raped her. A former student heard about this, and formed a group of other ex-students. They waited outside his apartment, and attacked him coming home. The injuries were broken teeth, broken ribs, a broken spine, and concussion. The girl was disturbed at the outcome of her story, and came to apologize several days later. Two clinical deaths took place over the following six months. It was at this time that he began writing books.

After ignoring the need to close the school, after the attack it was impossible to continue. Afterwards he heard about deviations of some teachers from the Path. He wrote a letter and distanced himself - collecting a few of the best students to continue work in private. In the following years very few people have been invited to work with their inner group. His feeling is that everything is described adequately in the books, articles and films - and that everyone can find a program to fit their needs at the current stage, whether it is in the beginning of the Path or the highest peaks.

Healing
http://autobiography.swami-center.org/methods-of-healing.shtml

System of Psychic Self-Regulation:
The system of psychical self-regulation created by Vladimir Antonov involves working with the chakras and main meridians of the human organism. Based on his experience studying religion and spirituality, and practically testing these teachings,it became clear that there are seven chakras and several main meridians, which among other things, are responsible for the generation of emotions. In his first scientific papers of this subject, due to it being illegal to mention the word chakra in Soviet Russia, they were referred to reflexogenic zone of the emotional-volitional sphere.

The essence is contained in the development of the chakras, which are responsible for different functions like thinking, generating certain emotions, reproductive, and vigor; as well as the main meridians. In Chinese Taoism the chakras are further combined into dantians. The three upper chakras form the upper dantian, the lower three form the lower dantian, and anahata form the middle dantian. These dantians, or 'bubbles of perception' in Juan Matus' terms, correspond to the three lines of develop in a human being - Love, Wisdom, and Power.

Mastery of psychical self-regulation is achieved when each chakra and meridian is purified and developed, and it is effortless for the person to shift the concentration of the consciousness within each one - thus mastering control over the emotional states.