Unraveling the Mystery of Holy Russia with Gary Lachman

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Gary Lachman is the author The Return of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World as well as over twenty other books about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He has written biographies of Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson. Here he describes the many mystical threads that run through Russian history. He describes the interplay of Slavic and Mongol shamanism with the Orthodox Christian faith. He highlights many paradoxes associated with the Russian character, such as a penchant to fuse devout religious feelings with a violent temperament. He focuses on Russia's unique geography that is both European and Asian. (Recorded on March 4, 2020) To download an edited, English transcript of this video, see https://bit.ly/2yCXB9V To download an edited, Russian translation of this video, see https://bit.ly/3cjZ6Zm For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see https://newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm. If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to [email protected] For opportunities to engage with and support the New Thinking Allowed video channel -- please visit the New Thinking Allowed Foundation at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. You can help support our ongoing video productions while enjoying a good book. To order The Return of Holy Russia by Gary Lachman, click here: https://amzn.to/2IxQot7. LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS, VIDEO & AUDIO MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO INTERVIEW: Gary Lachman, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson – https://amzn.to/3daXSPT Gary Lachman, Jung the Mystic – https://amzn.to/2L807Yx Gary Lachman, Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work – https://amzn.to/3fbCjRj Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination – https://amzn.to/3dfeoyz Gary Lachman, The Quest for Hermes Trigmegistus – https://amzn.to/35q7kMG Gary Lachman, Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World – https://amzn.to/2W001YQ Gary Lachman, Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality – https://amzn.to/2Sx5jch Gary Lachman, Swedenborg: An Introduction to His Life and Studies – https://amzn.to/3fi10LC Gary Lachman, In Search of P. D. Ouspensky – https://amzn.to/2yn88WA Gary Lachman, Dark Star Rising: Magicking and Power in the Age of Trump – https://amzn.to/3aZaDLV Jack Weatherford, Ghengis Khan and the Quest for God – https://amzn.to/3dhTVsZ W. B. Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium (audio) – https://amzn.to/35saGyJ Nikolai Berdyaev, The Russian Idea – https://amzn.to/2YttGvj Alexander Dugin, Eurasian Mission – https://amzn.to/2WsBzia Lesley Chamberlain, The Philosophy Steamer – https://amzn.to/3d9I6Vw John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – https://amzn.to/3d8WYDF Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala – https://amzn.to/35sxhLz G. I. Gurdjieff, Meetings With Remarkable Men – https://amzn.to/2z27ldE Nicholas Roerich, Realm of Light – https://amzn.to/35zjsLy P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous – https://amzn.to/3deKTN0 P. D. Ouspensky, Letters from Russia 1919 – https://amzn.to/2WkxSLj Nicolas Berdyaev, The Divine and the Human – https://amzn.to/3fbM4yK Pitirim A. Sorokin, The Crisis of Our Age – https://amzn.to/2KSgvfz Pitirim A. Sorokin, The Ways and Powers of Love – https://amzn.to/2WlqPSC The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowski – https://amzn.to/3c1JFEX Alejandro Jodorowski, The Holy Mountain (video) – https://amzn.to/2W1Jmo6 Alejandro Jodorowski, El Topo (video) – https://amzn.to/3fbN8me Herman Hesse, Blick Ins Chaos – https://amzn.to/3b1itF1 Rene Furor-Miller, Rasputin: The Holy Devil – https://amzn.to/3f9ZVWp Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment – https://amzn.to/35ug984 Ivan the Terrible: A Life From Beginning to End – https://amzn.to/2Syvi35 Colin Wilson, A Criminal History of Mankind – https://amzn.to/2z96wzW Colin Wilson, Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs – https://amzn.to/2YtkiYx Nikolai Fedorov, What Was Man Created For? – https://amzn.to/2Wg3EZC Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle – https://amzn.to/2xs3m9I Jeffrey Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religions – https://amzn.to/3fg3HgV (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.) Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/newthinkingallowed/ Our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/newthinkallowed Our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/jeffreymishlove/