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virtual world in which modern society finds itself, the | The Wisdom of Anastasia virtual value of banknotes provides for real, everyday VM: Imagine a deserted bank of the Siberian Ob River, necessities. These are, of course, different for everyone. thousands of kilometres from our so-called civilisation. On The royalties I receive personally are completely sufficient the bank stands a woman in an old jacket, long skirt, for my everyday needs. But when I accumulate more wearing rubber galoshes, and so wrapped up in a shawl that money, I will direct it to the creation of feature films, which only her eyes are visible. I was looking for a guide who T hope will help me and many others to define our destiny in could show me the path leading to the place in the taiga space and time as we conceive it. In general, I have a where the ringing cedar grew. So I approached her. She balanced attitude toward money. I certainly don't worship —_ answered that you had to walk twenty-five kilometres it. across the taiga to get there, and she agreed to take me. RJ: Vladimir Nikolaevich, currently many people are This woman's name, as it later turned out, was Anastasia. discussing "the Megré phenomenon". She, just as many researchers now You became involved in business as an consider, is indeed the most unusual ordinary photographer, without any initial phenomenon of our time—and not only capital or education in economics, and in because she was born and lives in the a short time you became chairman of the heart of the Siberian taiga. Recluses are Association of Siberian Entrepreneurs, a also found in other places on Earth. But businessman known throughout Russia. Anastasia possesses some mysterious You suddenly gave up business, all your "As shown by later abilities and knowledge of the savings, and began to write books, while . primogenitors. She considers the basic having no specialised education and no events, she is able to science to be the science of imagery— mene pls ton egg | Aesign the future and, kewl ht ws parily posswsd nd again, . y the priests of ancient Egypt. The of time you have become a well-known following her thoughts, curing of all kinds of diseases and writer in modern Russia and all the . * teleportation are not at all the most countries of the former Soviet this future begins important of her abilities. As Union. The ideas contained in your shown by later events, she is able books are discussed at the highest to design the future and, following levels of power, and the name her thoughts, this future begins to Vladimir Megré is frequently at the materialise in the real centre of social and political circumstances of our lives. In conversations. doing so, she asserts that every Moreover—correct me if I am person living on Earth possesses wrong—your books have been these same abilities. They begin to translated into 20 languages and manifest themselves in people in a their total circulation is more than 11 certain way of life. million copies. The ideas described During the first hours of our in your books have found response meeting, Anastasia did not in any in the souls of people living in the way differ from the ordinary USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, United —_ dwellers of the Siberian backwoods. More probably she Kingdom and many other countries. Your creative work is very skilfully disguised herself as one of them. And I had a compared to the work of the "later" Tolstoy [following his feeling of superiority over the ordinary woman walking in spiritual awakening], and John Woodsworth, a Canadian front of me along the path through the taiga. After all, at researcher and poet, has written an interesting paper in this that time I was a well-known businessman, travelling in a regard. Tell me, how do you, yourself, explain "the Megré — comfortable boat, and who was she? phenomenon"? I would imagine that so much fame can be But at a stop, when I decided to have a rest and quench quite a burden. my thirst, the first startling event occurred. The woman VM: Fame is not a burden. It does, after all, have a life —_sefysed to share my meal, went off by herself, took off her of its own, beyond the walls of my office. When I walk shawl and outer clothing down to a short summer dress, and along the street, I in no way draw attention to the fact thatI_ —_Jaid down on the grass under the weak rays of the Sun. am a writer, which allows me to observe life around me. I When I tore myself away from my meal and glanced at do not consider myself a phenomenon or special in any _ her, I was struck by what I saw. On the grass was lying an way. I was the most ordinary businessman, made trade uncommonly beautiful woman, about twenty-three, with expeditions on ships down rivers into the heart of Siberia, Jong, golden hair. The features of her face were regular, her and did not have any spiritual or moral goals before me. It well-tended skin did not at all resemble the weather-beaten was simply thanks to fate that I ended up at the right place —_faceg of the dwellers of the Siberian backwoods. She had at the right time. large, kind, grey-blue eyes, and lips that smiled slightly. An to materialise in the real circumstances of our lives." "As shown by later events, she is able to design the future and, following her thoughts, this future begins to materialise in the of our lives." 38 ¢ NEXUS real circumstances www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2008