Scientific-Spiritual Ecological Center “Swami”
Through the pages of this website, you can acquaint yourselves with a new and modern direction of science called the methodology of spiritual development.
The founder of this direction is Dr. Vladimir Antonov, a scientist-biologist who has extended the scope of his scientific interests to non-material forms of life, including God in His diverse Manifestations. Vladimir Antonov is not only a theoretician, who has carefully studied all the historical background, but also a spiritual practitioner, who has successfully combined the knowledge gained from God with his own personal experience of cognition of Him.
This integral knowledge includes:
— Historical information, including competent translations of philosophical texts and selections of quotes from the Teachings of Thoth-the-Atlantean (known as Hermes Trismegistus in His next Incarnation), Pythagoras, Krishna, Lao Tse, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Babaji from Haidakhan, Sathya Sai Baba, and many other Divine Teachers — Representatives of the Primordial Consciousness (the Creator).
— A description of God, including accurate and complete explanations of such terms as God, the Absolute, the Primordial Consciousness, the Creator, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, (real) multidimensionality of space, hell, paradise, the Abode of the Creator, the Evolution of the Universal Consciousness, and others.
— An exhaustive explanation of the meaning of our lives from the perspective of the Evolution of the Primordial Consciousness.
— A description of big and small stages of spiritual ascension of a person towards the Perfection. These stages lead to the direct personal cognition of God in the Aspect of the Holy Spirit (Brahman) and in the Aspect of the Primordial Consciousness, and then a practitioner can attain Divinity in Mergence with the Creator.
All this and much more is described — from different points of view and in relation to different situations — in the writings of Dr. Vladimir Antonov and of other authors on this site. Among other things, Vladimir Antonov describes his mistakes committed in the spiritual field during his own growth. He also describes common mistakes of other spiritual seekers.
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What is — in general and in brief — the methodological concept presented here?
1. The aspiration for ethical purity, as God understands it (and not as it is understood by different groups of people in different historical epochs) is the basis for the spiritual development of every person.
2. The meaning of our lives on the Earth consists in active self-perfection with the purpose of cognizing our common Creator and merging with Him in perfect mutual Love. God does not need bows and begging prayers from us. He needs our efforts to BECOME BETTER in accordance with His Teachings.
3. God is Love. Therefore, in order to gradually approach Him by the quality of ourselves as consciousnesses, we also must gradually become Love. The “organ” in which the emotions of love are born is the spiritual heart. It can start its development in the anahata chakra located in the chest. Only by developing ourselves as spiritual hearts, can we grow up to sizes that are incomparably larger than the size of our material bodies. And only by being such spiritual hearts, can we cognize God in His Greatness.
4. Another essential direction of self-perfection is the refinement of the consciousness, first of all, by means of controlling our own emotions. We can fulfill this task by mastering the art of psychical self-regulation. You can find more details about this in the book Ecopsychology and in the film Psychical self-regulation.
5. The level of intellectual development of followers of the spiritual Path determines their success.
5. The level of intellectual development of followers of the spiritual Path determines their success.
Therefore, it is necessary to strive to increase one’s own intellectual level and the intellectual level of people who are under one’s charge, including children.
For the same reason, the instructors of spiritual disciplines should not try to “drag” their disciples to the stages of development at which these disciples are not yet able to remain confidently and stably.
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May all those who want to perfect themselves do this — with the help of God — through manuals presented on this website.
We wish you success!
Vladimir Antonov, Ph.D. (in biology), and collaborators.
