UKRAINA SHENGENSKAIA – UKRAINE AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
january 24 2008 - 12:55 (http://www.zaistinu.ru)

“Access denied” Recently, Representatives of the Moldovan Orthodox Association “Blessed Mother Matrona” posted an open letter to His Beatitude, His Holiness Aleksey II, the Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in support of archbishop Diomid of Chukotka and Anadyr Diocese of Moscow Patriarchate on the various web sites as well as Ukraina Shengenskaia.  We made suit to His Beatitude to answer all the questions of public concernment in front of a public, on television or other means of mass communication. Orthodox people called upon His Most Eminent Beatitude Patriarch Aleksey to stand up and be counted. We wished His Beatitude to solve problems hurting and bewildering people of God. Priests of various Orthodox rites from various churches did not get desired answers.  Authors of the open letter got immediate as well as unexpected answer as soon as we posted it. We got the answer from completely different side having nothing to do with the whole affair. To our surprise, we did not expect to get challenged in the way we were.  On the other hand only a blind man could not observe or remain untouched putting the link between above mentioned address and followed reaction out of account.  Web-site www.patriarchia.ru made an announcement: “Web-site of Orthodox society is...

LAROUSSE ENCYCLOPEDIA- INSTRUMENT OF MANIPULATION
january 1 2008 - 06:28 (Public Center for Monitoring and Strategic Analysis) Hieromonk Savatie

LAROUSSE Encyclopedia of Religion for children, Rao publishing house, 2007 as an instrument of manipulation.Do you know that little Lenin did not fear a frank avowal of guilt when he broke the vase? To my mind you don’t. Do you wonder why? Probably, you did not have the possibility to look through illustrative books making part of “Steluta”( “Star”) collection. Possibly, you have never heard about many other curious facts because you have never been supposed to know. This is because you do not read books for children. What do you know about Vladimir Volkoff’s tractates?  Did you read any of them?  Some of you probably did, others did not. Former officer Vladimir Volkoff made some startling statements. Not only newspapers but also encyclopedias and dictionaries should be qualified as instruments of manipulation, he said.  Have you ever ask yourself the question: Who compiles dictionaries and encyclopedias? Encyclopedias are the inventions of French revolution. Do you wonder who compiled them during the communism times? Of course the communists did. If so, they should be changed. Here emerges the question as to who is going to recast them? Well, some of them are already compiled! What are we to do? The only thing that remains for us is to translate them.  Is translating the way out of the situation? You do not believe Larousse? Larousse knows everything! It really does… I paid particular attention to a book on the shelf...

“CIVILIZED” CATHOLICS COME AND SEE “BARBARIAN” ORTHODOX
december 28 2007 - 12:57 () Archimandrite Ghervasie PARASCHEVOPOULOS

If you trace the history back you will observe Byzantium paid a special attention to unification between Eastern Orthodox Church and the heretical Pope of Rome. A special attitude towards unification in question is justified and is understood because Michael VIII Palaeologus (1259-1282) expected from Pope Urban IV (1261-1264) to help him conduct the policy of The Byzantine Empire. Though, Michael’s attempts to capture the Pope’s attention got the frozen mitt on the part of the patriarch Joseph I (1267-1275). Patriarch was faithful to his Emperor until the moment he refused to make any contribution to unification. Patriarch swore solemnly that he would never sign an agreement on unification with the heretical pope.  He would never acknowledge pope’s authority because he did not live by Holy Tradition, Holy Scripture and Church Canons. Pretensions with regard to unification were as follows: Every cleric should make a public Oath of Faith before pope; Catechization of people should be performed in accordance with faith of pope of Rome; Showing distinct preference for “Filioque” ( Latin word meaning “and from the Son” ) being the Symbol of Faith which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father; Pope should be considered to be a servant of god, appointed by god. He should be allowed to judge and decide irrevocably and should not subject dogmatic...

The T.V. and the Computer – can they kill?!
november 12 2004 - 14:33 (Public Centre for Strategic Analysis and Monitoring)

1. The image – a way to (de)form the personality The psychologists claim that 90% of the information about reality that the human receives is perceived visually. We can firmly sustain that the image has a major role in the development of the personality. All that we see has a direct impact upon the psyche (consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly). The means that have the biggest visual influence upon the human are the TV, the computer, the Internet and the cinema.   The modern human looses (or gains) at least two hours per day in front of the TV (to relax, to get informed, to gain knowledge). These hours of „in-formation” can harm or benefit us. If we want to use the TV and the computer as a way to develop our personality, and not as a purpose itself, we must create a well-structured selection system that would be based on an accurate set of values. In order to acquire such a system, one must have a good educational background, enabling to make a distinction between values and non-values, between what is good and what is bad. We are in need of such a culture of distinguishing the information, so that we do not become “slaves” of the modern sources of information. Abusing the usage of these informational sources causes a “state of addiction”, an “artificial need” to use them. The mechanisms to manipulate the human consciousness...

The public area as manifestation of intolerance
august 6 2004 - 16:40 (Public Centre for Strategic Analysis and Monitoring)

“Surrealism is the knowing of the absolute idea” – Rene Magritte                                                                                                  The human condition I 1934 (Rene Magritte) About the public area Public area represents the place or the framework in which people display their actions. This place offers the human openness to the others but also imposes some restrictions. With all the freedom offered by the public area it imposes a certain behavior, does not accept things that go over the edge of the framework, i. e. things is considered “normal” by the majority. Along with the written rules which regulate the behavior in public, there are non-written rules which make to the social actor to behave in accordance with those rules. In this situation the public frame acquires authority. On...

Syncretism- a new religion
may 26 2004 - 17:15 (Public Centre for Strategic Analysis and Monitoring)

The ethnographer Aura Arriola from Mexico describes in her book “Religiosity of people in the south of Mexico”, the religious syncretism as a normal thing for inhabitants of this territory. Shamans, the pagan rituals, scarification of animals, catholic and Gospel rituals- all these interfered with natives’ life. The author of this monograph studied 10 years the problem of the religious character of the Southern part of her country. She states:” All these faiths create a palette of colors in the soul of people from Mexico and Guatemala”. Regardless the fact that the official religion of this territory is Catholic, shamanism is a natural element for native people. Inherited techniques from their ancestors in communicating with spirits and the treatment with medical herbs are their basic occupations. An interesting fact is that a lot of people, who go to church on Sunday, during the week visit magicians, make rituals to purify the soul and get cured by applying shamanist techniques. “Shamans are considered intermediaries between the dead and the living. Who is not curious to know what will happen after death? In this way “prophet’s” door are never closed”, Arriola lets us know. This kind of magician is Don Jile, who states that he can enter in contact with the souls of Mexican artists from ’30 - ’40 of XX- century. A very popular ritual is praying to the “saint” Simon, a catholic original from Maya’s population. People who come to this statue put in his...