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Anastasia (The Ringing Cedars, Book 1) | 
| Author: Vladimir Megre
Creator: Leonid Sharashkin
Publisher: Ringing Cedars Press LLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 29840
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 210
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0976333309
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780976333302
ASIN: 0976333309
Publication Date: February 1, 2005
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 Get this book! October 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Out of all the books I read this one probably has had the biggest impact on me so far. It doesn't matter if the story described in the book really took place or if Anastasia really exists. It is Anastasia's viewpoint on God, Nature and Man's destiny what really matters. Direct answers are given here to these eternal questions by down-to-earth personality of a woman living in the depths of taiga. It is totally up to you to agree or not to agree with her viewpoint, but they are life's most important questions and the book gives you another chance to think about them. More so, to think about them in the uplifting and positive way. I highly recommend the book.
cultural context important~ October 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am up to book 7 of the series, and can understand some others' frustrations with the writing style. Vladimir, the author, is one person, Anastasia is another. Vladimir gets annoying, as he has no spiritual background and so doesn't understand some of the things that Anastasia tells him. But there are enough footnotes and mention of real people that I am convinced that Anastasia is a real person. If you read the books with that in mind, she is an amazing person and they are worth reading to see an example of what the full human potential really is. She also has some good pointers for people to realize the full potential of their gardens and home spaces. Her points on raising kids are highly important and something I haven't come across in standard U.S. spiritual books.
The books are from Russia and they describe a spiritual awakening happening in Russia. Some of it is not completely relevant to the U.S., but it was interesting to read just for that glimpse of spiritual awakening happening in other parts of the globe. Americans are notorious for being ignorant of anything happening anywhere else - here's your chance to remedy that! It could well happen that America loses its place as 'super-power', in which case these teachings may become more relevent. These books bring us back to a life that is love.
My main complaint about this series of books is that to really get anything out of them, you need to read at least half of the series. The price tag adds up - an abridged version where you could get more of just Anastasia and less of Vladimir in one or two volumes would be a better value.
I also had a problem with the 'everything is for Man's benefit' theme - I don't see the reason for mosquitos and wasps, for one thing!! But I think her point is that Man is a powerful creative force, and with great power comes great responsibility. As Barbara Hand Clow says, Man is keeper of the 3rd Dimension. Anastasia show us what that can look like.
 HMMM! September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It was recommended that I read this series of books and so I bought the first 6 all at once. I have almost completed the 3rd book in the series, "The Space of Love". Thankfully, the writing has improved somewhat and the concepts put forth are beginning to gel. But this work seems neither channelled nor inspired from any higher source other than an "aware" human being. I slogged through the first book and it's constant references to the "technocrats" of Russia and it's new "entrepreneurs". I thought I had entered some kind of time-warped and yet oddly "Twilight Zone" way of thinking that smacked of the cold war wordplay of past decades. 1984 anyone? If this were truly information that was divinely inspired, there would not be the endless references made to a particular culture, but rather it would be more inclusive of mankind's experience as a whole and each citizen of this planet. There are interesting insights that actually address some issues discussed in "Conversations with God", but the Ringing Cedars books can in no way be compared with Neale Donald Walsch's series. On the one hand these books are curiously 101-er, and at the same time, if the reader does not have a certain level of understanding of metaphysics in general, they might get lost pretty early on. Since I have 3 more books, I will complete them. At this point I am just plain curious what is coming up next. Better recommendation, Ekhart Tolle's "The Power of Now".
Instant Spiritual Classic August 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After "Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch these books are perhaps the best I have ever read. The book describes the philosophy of Ananstasia - a spiritual hermit who lives in the woods of the the Siberian Taiga. She presents a very positive and spiritual life style with which humans can achieve happiness and live in harmony with nature. If you are looking for a positive and joyful perspective on life this is the book for you.
Don't Swallow it Whole... August 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm severely torn about the "good" of these books, as their printing has encouraged many people to go back to the land and live in a more ecologically sensible manner. It's just that the _wording_ of its message puts up red flags for me...
One should always be leery of any philosophical or religious statement which says..."everything on Earth, from grass and trees to smallest insects and biggest animals was created to serve for benefit of man."
Notice it's only "Man" that seems to benefit.
Not only do such statements ignore millions of years of evolution when humankind wasn't even a thought on the Earth, it's just such a typically anthropocentric, arrogant view towards the rest of life on our planet.
Please keep this in mind if you read these books.
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