Book Review; Anastasia (of the The Ringing Cedars Series)

Anastasia

by Vladimir Megré
Revised 2nd Edition Released: June 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9801812-0-3

Vladimir Megré didn't want to write a book. Vladimir simply wanted to get on with expanding his business to outlying communities in Eastern Russia and Western Siberia. This all changed when Vladimir met Anastasia, a young Siberian woman who lived alone in the Siberian taiga with no dwelling and no earthly possessions other than a dress, a cardigan, a kerchief and a pair of galoshes that were her deceased mother's. Valdimir had been told of the ringing cedars of Russia, a sacred part of the Siberian Vedic culture, a year earlier by Anastasia's grandfather and great grandfather and he wanted to see one. Anastasia, knowing that her grandparents had spoken to this Russian businessman about the ringing cedar offered to show him both the ringing cedar and her forest home.

Valdimir spent the next three days with Anastasia and found her to possess incredible physical, intellectual and spiritual abilities along with internal and physical beauty. She exhibited an immense and perplexing wisdom and knowledge without the benefit of schooling or access to information in any conventional sense. She had a unique relationship with and knowledge of the natural world around her, living in complete harmony with bears, wolves, squirrels and all the various plants and trees. Anastasia outlined to Vladimir her belief that the plight of man will not improve until we re-connect our lives with nature - our pristine origin. Through the three days in the Siberian taiga Anastasia showed Vladimir the degree to which she appreciated and respected the magnificence of nature and how she utilised nature to fulfill all facets of her life.

Anastasia also outlined to Vladimir that she had a dream. A vivid and exceptionally detailed dream to raise the consciousness of mankind. A dream in which despair yields to joy, desperation yields to abundance, narcissism yields to cooperation and war yields to peace. In this dream Vladimir is the messenger who carries her dream to the far corners of the world through writing a series of books that outline her teachings and prescription for fulfilling this dream. This, of course, came as quite a shock to Vladimir, but over the course of their three days a love story began to unfold culminating in the conception of their son and Vladimir's promise that he would write the book. Perplexed by a multitude of issues around the writing of the book such as how to pay for it, advertise it, distribute it, remember everything that she had said and most of all, how he was going to be able to write this book without any prior writing experience, he put these questions to Anastasia. In short, Anastasia told him not to worry - the writing skill would come, he would remember all that he needed, the resources would come, advertising would not be necessary and the book would sell millions of copies worldwide. And so it did!

Vladimir writes with an endearing sincerity and in fulfillment of his promise has now completed and published a series of nine books in the Ringing Cedars series that outline Anastasia's dream and her teachings. If your interest is traditional medicine, organic gardening, education, spiritual development or romance you won't be disappointed. Anastasia, through Vladimir, will put a smile on your face and cause you to question some of the choices that we all make in life and in so doing bring mankind one step further towards fulfillment of her dream. As Anastasia points out, human thought and the words we choose to represent those thoughts, constitute an energy capable of changing the destiny of man. The journey begins with book 1: Anastasia.

 

 
 
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