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Serg Levine27.05.2022

“Do not look at what is against the rules, do not listen to what is against them, do not say what is against them” – Confucius (孔子 Kung Tzu), “Conversations and Judgments” (論語 Lun Yu). In many countries of the world, today it is customary to give friends and relatives as a sign of a […]

Yuri Chekalin10.03.2022

During the period of transition from this world to yukai, the hidden world of subtle energy, the spirit-soul is at its most vulnerable. It can be likened to a delicate butterfly, at the moment of emergence from its chrysalis. Therefore, there are spirits entrusted with the task of protecting the spirit-soul from danger at this […]

Yuri Chekalin15.12.2021

In Shinto, the term jinja is used for a shrine, or more literally the dwelling place of Kami. Many people probably have a mental picture of a building whenever they think of a Shinto shrine. It is said that we now have 80,000 such buildings in Japan, of which 6,000 have resident kannushi (Shinto masters).Out […]

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See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil

The spirits of Kami protect the dead during the transition to the other world (yukai)

No need for a “building”

Olga Chekhova — the “Queen of the Nazi Reich” and Russian Spy

Do Animals have Conscious Thought?

Gavriil Popov — the First Post-Communist Mayor of Moscow

“Bulgakov — Get Out the Russian Chauvinist from Kyiv!”