In 1962, the German magazine "Vegetarian Universe" published a note about the mysterious 716 tablets with writings from Tibet. They were like gramophone discs, 30 cm in diameter and 8 mm thick, with a hole in the center and a double spiral groove. The tablets were carved from granite and contained hieroglyphs on their surface.

This the mystery of Tibet became known as follows. In 1937-1938 in Qinghai province on the border of Tibet and China on the Bayan-Kara-Ula ridge, a group of archaeologists explored a difficult-to-reach area. Suddenly they discovered a rock in which there were blackened niches that turned out to be burial places. Of the many secrets of Tibet, this mystery stands apart. Scientists faced a serious problem when they discovered the remains of buried people whose height did not exceed 130 centimeters. Their bodies had disproportionately large skulls and thin limbs. Archaeologists could not find a single inscription on the walls of the crypts - only a series of drawings reminiscent of constellations, the Sun and the Moon, connected by dotted dots the size of a pea and mysterious stone disks with incomprehensible hieroglyphs.

Initially, it was assumed that these were burials of extinct species of monkeys, and that the disks and drawings belonged to a later culture. But this idea was clearly ridiculous. How did monkeys bury their relatives in strict order? In addition, when the top layer was removed from the disks, it turned out that they contained a high percentage of cobalt and other metals. And when examining the disk on an oscilloscope, a special rhythm of oscillations appeared. This indicated that these disks may have once been “charged” or served as a conductor of electricity. However, the questions did not end there.

In 1962, a partial translation of the hieroglyphs from the granite disks was completed. According to the deciphered hieroglyphs, this amazing secret of Tibet was of extraterrestrial origin, since an alien spaceship crashed in the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains 12 thousand years ago! Here is an excerpt from the translation: “The Dropa descended to the ground from behind the clouds in their airships. Ten times, the men, women and children of the local Kham tribe hid in caves until sunrise. Finally they understood: this time the dropas came in peace.” It follows from the text that humanoids flew to Bayan-Kara-Ula more than once, and their appearance was not always peaceful. However, as one would expect, a refutation of this story soon followed, since the professor who made this discovery allegedly did not exist.

This second life unsolved mystery received in 1974. Austrian journalist Peter Krassa, who was working on historical mysteries related to aliens from outer space, once met engineer Ernst Wegerer, who in 1974 visited China with his wife and saw something resembling granite disks.

The Wegerer couple were passing through one of the oldest cities in China - the city of Xi'an. There is the Banno Museum, built on the site of a village where archaeologists excavated a Stone Age settlement. While looking at the museum's exhibition, the guests from Austria suddenly froze when they saw two disks with holes in the middle in the glass display case. On their surface, in addition to concentric circles, spiral grooves were visible running from the center. When asked if these exhibits could be photographed, the woman, the director of the museum, did not object. However, she responded to the request to tell us about the origin of the disks with some delay. In her opinion, the objects have cult significance and are made of clay, since only ceramic products are exhibited in the museum. But the discs clearly did not resemble ceramics. Wegerer asked permission to hold them in his hands. The discs turned out to be heavy. According to the engineer, the material from which they were made was a stone of a greenish-gray color and had the hardness of granite. The director did not know how these items got into the museum.

In the spring of 1994, Peter Krassa visited China and the Banpo Museum, but he did not find the granite disks photographed twenty years ago by engineer Wegerer. For some reason, the headmistress was recalled from here, and her current fate is unknown. Museum director Professor Wang Zhijun explained that the discs were removed from the exhibition and no one else saw them. When asked where they are now, the professor replied: “The exhibits you are interested in do not exist, and, being recognized as foreign components of the exhibition, they were moved (?).” How can a non-existent exhibit be moved? Someone wanted not to disclose this secret of Tibet.

Naturally, Crassus was not satisfied with such a strange answer, and he continued to ask questions about the Bayan-Khara-Ula disks. Finally, the Chinese led the guests into the service room of the museum and showed them a Chinese textbook on archeology. Flipping through the pages dotted with hieroglyphs, one of the owners of the office showed a drawing. It depicted a disk with holes in the center, from which arched grooves stretch along the edges. This disc was similar to the one filmed by Wegerer and fully corresponded to the descriptions of the Bayan-Khara-Ula discs!

Thus, this secret of Tibet was still known to Chinese archaeologists. Local traditions and legends contain references to yellow-skinned dwarfs descending from the heavens and distinguished by their extremely repulsive appearance. According to legend, they were hunted by people similar to the Mongols. They killed many dwarves, but some of them managed to survive. In the English archives there is a mention of Dr. Caryl Robin-Evans, who visited the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains in 1947. The scientist discovered a tribe there, whose representatives called themselves Dzopa. Representatives of this tribe were no more than 120 cm tall, and practically did not communicate with the outside world. Robin-Evans lived with them for six months. During this time, he learned their language, learned their history and studied their traditions. The most interesting discovery The scientist discovered a legend about the origin of this tribe. Their ancestors flew to Earth from the star Sirius, but were unable to fly back and remained forever in the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains.

According to the Associated Press, in 1995, a previously unknown tribe numbering about 120 people was discovered on the border with Tibet in the Chinese province of Sichuan. Their most noticeable feature is their exceptionally small height, not exceeding 115-120 cm. Perhaps these are the descendants of those very “dzopas” associated with the mystery of the granite disks of Tibet - so far unsolved...

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The mysterious country of Shambhala, into which only “those whose Thoughts are Impeccably Pure” had the opportunity to enter, still excites the human imagination and attracts researchers to this day. The sages of ancient times argued that the search for Shambhala has a beneficial effect on the karma of any living person, and for a conscious and constant desire for the heights of Shambhala, a person is rewarded during his lifetime

The teachings of Shambhala are so sacred and high that even an insignificant grain of Shambhala knowledge is in itself beneficial and can radically change human life.
The mysterious Asian Shambhala (Tib. Sham - BHA - LA, shambhala, translated from Sanskrit "Source of Happiness"), like the Atlantis of the Greek sage Plato, has given rise to many conflicting opinions and disputes both in scientific circles and among readers. They tried to find the legendary Shambhala in Himalayan mountains, in Afghanistan and the Gobi Desert. The first news of Shambhala in Europe appeared in 1627 - it was written about in the letters of Jesuit missionaries Stefan Casella and John Cabral. During their visit to Bhutan, they learned about the existence of the country of Shambhala, located in the territory “Which is designated on European Maps as Great Tartary.” This served as the basis for the hypothesis that this northern Shambhala could be located in the center of the southern part of Central Asia.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Hungarian Tibetologist C. de Keres came to the conclusion that the legend of Shambhala reflects the fact of the existence in the first centuries of our era of Buddhist centers in Central Asia, which were destroyed by the Arab conquerors in the 7th century. He even determined their coordinates - between 45 and 50 degrees north latitude beyond the Yaksart River (Syr Darya.
At the end of the 19th century, Shambhala was mentioned in her writings by the founder of the Theosophical Society, Helena Blavatsky, who gave the following definition: “Shambhala is exclusively mysterious place, due to its connection with the future. A city or village from which, as prophecy proclaims, the coming messiah will appear. Some orientalists identify modern Muradabad in Rohilkhand (northwestern provinces of India) with Shambhala, while occultism places it in the Himalayas." However, in the book "The Secret Doctrine" Blavatsky locates Shambhala in another place - in the Gobi.
Historian - orientalist b. Kuznetsov, after deciphering an ancient Tibetan map, substantiated the hypothesis of identifying Shambhala with Iran. His teacher, historian L. Gumilyov, connected the birth of the legend of Shambhala with the stories of Syrian merchants who came to Tibet about their homeland.
And the Third Reich was searching for Shambhala at the state level. The idea of a master race endowed with mystical powers and supernatural capabilities was quite attractive to Adolf Hitler. Organized the Third Reich expeditions to Tibet, which followed one after another almost continuously until 1943. The German scientists Escard and Karl Haushoffer, who became the ideological inspirers of the Thule spiritual society, were based on ancient legend, indicating that 30 or 40 centuries ago there was a highly developed civilization. It was the surviving representatives of the Gobi civilization, who moved to the kingdom of Shambhala, who were the main race of humanity, the ancestors of the Aryans.
Attempts were made to penetrate into Tibet by the leadership of the Soviet Ogpu in 1921-1922, 1923-1925. The main goal of the expeditions was to establish contact with the spiritual ruler of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, counter the English invasion and consolidate influence in the region.
The real Himalayan kingdom of Shambhala in northern India (near the Sita River surrounded by 8 snowy mountains resembling lotus petals) existed, according to historical chronicles, until the 15th - 16th centuries. In Tibetan historical writings and in the extensive literature on the Kalachakra Buddhist system, there is constant mention of Shambhala. There it appears as a Himalayan principality or kingdom. In the kingdom of Shambhala, which was ruled by priest-kings, Kalachakra was proclaimed the state religion and then from there it spread to India and Tibet. “To Help the Residents of the 96 Regions of His Country, the King of Shambhala Suchandra Went to India and Asked the Buddha for the Kalachakra Teaching.” In the folk legends of Tibet and the Himalayas, Shambhala is a kind of heaven on earth; it is a country of powerful mahatmas, or great masters, who control the destinies of mankind.
Over time, Shambhala began to be identified in Buddhism with the “Pure Land”, in which all true Buddhists strive for rebirth. They began to talk about Shambhala as a place that is located in another reality or in another dimension, accessible only to spiritually developed individuals. The teaching about the spiritual sphere of Shambhala occupies a central place in Kalachakra. The search for the spiritual sphere of Shambhala (a special quality of spirit) is the ultimate goal of all followers of Kalachakra, the essence of which is possible only through complex meditative practices, achieving an enlightened state of soul. A modern retelling of ancient Asian legends says that sages live in Shambhala, keeping knowledge that gives man power over the world. Only a select few can enter Shambhala. Numerous searches for Shambhala have led nowhere, so it is generally accepted that it has now become invisible and moved to another world, but the sages of Shambhala still maintain contact with their chosen representatives of humanity. There is also an ancient Tibetan prophecy according to which the warriors of Shambhala will in the future come to the aid of humanity and become the winners in the last battle between the forces of light and darkness on earth.
The spiritual Shambhala of Buddhists at the beginning of the 20th century became widely known in Europe, where this theme was further developed. At the beginning of the last century, scientific ideas about the universe were very different from modern ones: people believed in Atlantis, a hollow earth, theosophical and occult ideas existed on a par with scientific ones (theosophy is a religious and mystical doctrine of the unity of the human soul with deity and the possibility of direct communication with the other world .
The dissemination of information about Shambhala was facilitated by the publication in 1914 of "Roads of Shambhala", written in 18th century Tashi - the third Lama, one of the most revered leaders of the spiritual and political life of Tibet, as well as the publication of reports of the Central Asian expedition of 1925-1932 under the leadership of N. Roerich and his essays “the heart of Asia”, “shining Shambhala”. In his expedition diaries, N. Roerich writes about the importance of the concept of Shambhala for the peoples of Asia. "This is the place where the earthly world comes into contact with a higher state of consciousness. Shambhala is the most sacred word in Asia." N. Roerich, based on information received from Tibetan lamas, speaks of the reality of Shambhala, lost somewhere in the Himalayan mountains, north of Kailash. But in N. Roerich’s works there was nothing concrete except poetic words and vague legends without reference to their source.
The totality of historical evidence makes it possible to conclude that initially the principality or kingdom of Shambhala did not possess any mystical properties, did not stand out in any way among the neighboring territories and was preserved in history as the custodian of the Kalachakra commentaries and the guarantor of the preservation of this Buddhist teaching.
In various written sources, Shambhala is the “Land of the Immortals,” “the kingdom of magicians,” “the country of great masters,” “the hidden center of the world,” “an oasis of cosmic culture,” “the legacy of a vanished civilization,” “the hinge of time,” “the country of the great white.” brotherhood", "the abode of light - a lost paradise on earth", "a world of harmony and perfection, where all human dreams come true", "a forbidden territory in the center of the Gobi", "a well-organized community of sages in the heart of Asia."
Russian scientist - Tibetologist A. And. Klizovsky gave the following universal synthetic definition: “Shambhala is the most sacred word of Asia, in which all the best human expectations and aspirations are embodied. This is an era, a teaching, and a locality.”
Shambhala in ancient legends and tales is the holy land of the immortals, where the physical world is united with the abode of the gods, the world of matter - with the spiritual world, an eternal land that cannot be destroyed by either fire or water. It is located on a lake of nectar surrounded by eight mountains resembling lotus petals. There people live in happiness and prosperity, there are no poor, no illnesses and no hunger, bread will be born of extraordinary size, there is a lot of gold, there is no oppression and justice reigns. Plots of this kind are characteristic of all fairy-tale legends about paradise life in remote promised lands (legends about the promised lands, the city of Kitezh, Belovodye, the white island, the sanctuary of the grail.
Over time, the original concept of real Shambhala became more and more mixed with the mystical one. In the publications of the authors of the 20th century, superhuman beings appear, sent by an extraterrestrial civilization from the constellation Orion to the earth in Shambhala - to control and accelerate the development of humanity. The “New Legend” about Shambhala contains such subjects as: the abode of the Mahatmas (beings “pure in heart” and visible only to prophets), the Himalayan brothers (white brotherhood); the hidden center of the world from where humanity is controlled. The “Treasure of the World” is associated with Shambhala - the Cintamani stone - a meteorite with unusually powerful radiation; a center of the highest scientific and technical potential, possessing devices integrated with the human psyche.
The repetition of identical plots in the myths of peoples significantly distant from each other suggests a conclusion about a single source of this information. The mythical features of the "Pure Land" are repeated in the traditions of various cultures and have the same characteristics. Currently, the hypothesis about the possible existence in warmer ancient times of an island that became the prototype of the “Abode of the Gods” - the “country of the living”, the inhabitants of which knew neither disease nor death, has gained popularity.
In modern times, Tibet has become accessible and the legends born of its closeness in the recent past are gradually becoming clearer and revealing the very real roots of their origin. Legends about Shambhala are also in demand among modern humanity. The understatement and mystery of these myths still arouse interest in reading books on this topic and traveling to find the legendary country. Perhaps new translations of Tibetan texts or research expeditions in the near future will reveal the secret of earthly Shambhala.

In 1962, the German magazine "Vegetarian Universe" published a note about the mysterious 716 tablets with writings from Tibet. They were like gramophone discs, 30cm in diameter and 8mm thick, with a hole in the center and a double spiral groove. The tablets were carved from granite and contained hieroglyphs on their surface.

This secret of Tibet became known in the following way. In 1937–1938 in Qinghai province on the border of Tibet and China on the Bayan-Kara-Ula ridge, a group of archaeologists explored a difficult-to-reach area. Suddenly they discovered a rock in which there were blackened niches that turned out to be burial places. Of the many secrets of Tibet, this mystery stands apart. Scientists faced a serious problem when they discovered the remains of buried people whose height did not exceed 130 centimeters. Their bodies had disproportionately large skulls and thin limbs. Archaeologists could not find a single inscription on the walls of the crypts - only a series of drawings reminiscent of constellations, the Sun and the Moon, connected by dotted dots the size of a pea and mysterious stone discs with incomprehensible hieroglyphs.

This unsolved mystery received a second life in 1974. Austrian journalist Peter Krassa, who was working on historical mysteries related to aliens from outer space, once met engineer Ernst Wegerer, who in 1974 visited China with his wife and saw something resembling granite disks.

The Wegerer couple were passing through one of the oldest cities in China - the city of Xi'an. There is the Banno Museum, built on the site of a village where archaeologists excavated a Stone Age settlement. While viewing the museum's exhibition, the guests from Austria suddenly froze when they saw two disks with holes in the middle in the glass display case. On their surface, in addition to concentric circles, spiral grooves were visible running from the center. When asked if these exhibits could be photographed, the woman, the director of the museum, did not object. However, she responded to the request to tell us about the origin of the disks with some delay. In her opinion, the objects have cult significance and are made of clay, since only ceramic products are exhibited in the museum. But the discs clearly did not resemble ceramics. Wegerer asked permission to hold them in his hands. The discs turned out to be heavy. According to the engineer, the material from which they were made was a stone of a greenish-gray color and had the hardness of granite. The director did not know how these items got into the museum.

It looks like Russian researchers have found this mystical country

A Russian expedition, led by full member of the Russian Geographical Society Alexander Selvachev, returned from Tibet. According to legends, somewhere there, high in the mountains, on the border of China and India, Shambhala is supposedly located - the abode of the gods and a repository of secret knowledge.

The mountain washes away sins

We began our search for Shambhala with mysterious mountain Kailash, says Alexander Selvachev. - Approximately one and a half billion people - Buddhists, Hindus, Jains and followers of the pagan Bon religion in Tibet itself - consider it the most sacred place on the planet. Supposedly here you can achieve enlightenment and even go to nirvana. The height of the mountain is 6714 meters. At the top of Kailash, the god Shiva himself meditates.

Those who want to achieve enlightenment must walk around the mountains. This is called making Koru. Cora removes sins. The entire road is 56 kilometers. And the pass is at an altitude of 5700 meters above sea level.

Buddhists love the swastika sign. Near each such figure you need to stop and read mantras.

For enlightenment and the opportunity to fall into nirvana, 96 Koras are not enough - you need to complete 108. Koras on a full moon are counted as three. Bark in the year of the Horse - for 13.

Among the members of the expedition, Andrei Chernyshev went to make Kora.

The sacred route begins near the village of Darchan. And after three kilometers the well-trodden path disappears. On the rocky plateau, every now and then you come across cemeteries of mahasiddhas (translated from Sanskrit - great saints). These are people who completed the Kora 108 times, but did not immediately go to nirvana, but took a vow to help others pass the Kora and achieve enlightenment.

It is impossible to dig graves in Tibet - the soil is rocky. There is no firewood to burn the dead. Therefore, the corpses are either thrown into the river or cut into pieces and fed to mountain eagles. And in the “cemeteries” only their clothes, nails, and hair are left. Sometimes - bones.

How do you feel after Cora?

Here even the stones are painted with spells...

A joyful emptiness in my head. Very pleasant lightness. But perhaps there is nothing “divine” in this - oxygen starvation simply makes itself felt.

Enlightenment of dogs

Have you seen miracles on Kailash?

I'm not sure if this can be called a miracle. But... In the vicinity of Darchen there are a huge number of dogs. On Cora's first day, one of them followed us. I thought he was hungry. And he threw the sandwich. But the dog showed no interest in food. I went further. The next day others appeared.

Then in Darchan they explained to me that dogs also perform Kora. There are even special people who tie a red ribbon on them, like a collar. Such dogs are respected and fed. Tibetans believe in the transmigration of souls. Today you are a man, but in your next life you become a dog. But he retained all his previous sins. The souls that inhabit dogs, in fact, perform Kora.

...and the pilgrims go to nirvana.

What's there at the top?

“No mortal has ever been to the very top of Kailash,” continues Alexander Selvachev. - "Why?" - I asked the locals. They answered me: “It’s impossible.” “What if I still climb in?” They shrug their shoulders: “You won’t live long”...

No one is forbidden to climb the neighboring mountain - Gurla Mandhata, which is a kilometer higher (7694 m); it is a hundred kilometers away, and Kailash is clearly visible from it.

It is believed that the male essence of Shiva lives on Kailash, and the female essence lives on Gurla-Mandhata.

So, is it possible to visit a female essence?

It seems possible, but for some reason none of the locals have ever been there. And we went...

The RATT (Russian adventure & travel team) expedition of the Russian Geographical Society included climbers, a geologist, an archaeologist, a translator and a cameraman. In Tibet, the guys had to split into several groups to inspect all the “suspicious” areas.

People fly here

In 1833, the Hungarian Chema de Kereshi, in the journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, spoke about the mythical country of Shambhala and its wonders: people who fly and can go without food for years, about caves in the area of Mount Kailash, in which the scientific achievements of previous civilizations are hidden. Then the Russian woman Elena Petrovna Blavatsky picked up the baton. Having become interested in spiritualism and visiting India, Tibet, China, in 1885 she published the book “The Secret Doctrine”, where she spoke about five races that allegedly lived in Shambhala at different times. She described this country as a real state, where communities of Mahatma yogis who preserve ancient knowledge still live.

At the legendary Top of the World, the Nazis tried to find a mythical city - “ underground capital» Earth. With her help, the Reich dreamed of gaining power over the entire planet.
The secret materials of the SS expeditions, both those that fell as war trophies to the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, and those that continue to be stored in Germany, still remain under seven seals. The governments of Germany, Great Britain and the USA announced that it is planned to open secret dossiers only... in 2044 - that is, 100 years after the expeditions!
Tibetan secrets of Haushofer
It was no coincidence that the leaders of the Third Reich paid close attention to the study of the occult practices of the East. Adolf Hitler and his closest associate Rudolf Hess called themselves students of Munich University professor Karl Haushofer. He was an amazing, extraordinary person.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, he became the German military attaché in Japan. There Haushofer was initiated into the most mysterious organization of the East - the Order of the Green Dragon, then passed special training in the monasteries of the capital of Tibet - Lhasa. During the First World War, Haushofer quickly made a military career, becoming one of the youngest Wehrmacht generals. His colleagues were amazed by the successful officer’s amazing ability to foresight when planning and analyzing military operations. Everyone was sure that the general was characterized by clairvoyance and that this was the result of his study of the occult practices of the East.
It was Karl Haushofer who not only introduced Hitler and Hess to mystical secrets, but also subsequently opened the doors located in deep gorges Himalaya monasteries of the ancient religion Bon-po (translated as “Black Path”), which for many hundreds of years did not allow Europeans to visit them.
Largely under the influence of Haushofer, the rituals of Tibetan occultism, associated primarily with the technique of psychophysical training according to the Tibetan yoga system, were introduced into the practice of the “black order” of the SS. Nazi symbols, including the swastika, also came to Hitler's Germany from Tibet.
They were again brought by Haushofer, who back in 1904-1912. repeatedly visited Lhasa in search of ancient manuscripts unknown to European scientists, containing esoteric texts on occult cosmogenesis. It was these trips that laid the foundation for future expeditions organized by Himmler to the Himalayas.
At the same time in some Buddhist monasteries, especially the Bon-po monasteries, there was a desire to use the interest of Western politicians for their own purposes. One of the many dark rituals still performed by the Bon-po priests was ritual murder. The spirit of the deceased was transferred to a small figurine specially made for this purpose. She was handed over to the enemy, and he, not suspecting anything, took her with him. The spirit of the sacrificed person could not find peace and brought down its anger on the owner of the figurine, causing him incurable illnesses and painful death.
In the early 1920s, a strange Tibetan monk appeared in Berlin, nicknamed in narrow circles “the man with green gloves.” This Indian surprisingly accurately notified the public three times in advance through the press about the number of Nazi deputies who would take part in the elections to the Reichstag. He became famous in high Nazi circles and regularly hosted Hitler.
It was rumored that this eastern magician possesses the keys that open the door to the kingdom of Agharti (a secret center in the Himalayas, which is a stronghold of the “Higher Unknowns” on Earth and an astral window of communication with extraterrestrial forces). Later, when the Nazis came to power, Hitler and Himmler did not make a single serious political or military move without consulting a Tibetan astrologer. An interesting fact: it is unknown whether the mysterious Indian had a real name or whether it was a pseudonym, but his name was Fuhrer!
Mystical connections grow stronger
In 1926, colonies of Tibetans and Hindus professing Bon-po appeared in Berlin and Munich, and the Green Brothers society, akin to the Thule occult society in Germany, opened in Tibet. The Nazis also established the closest connections with the Tibetan lamas.

Shambhala grass. Plant names

Trigonella foenum-graecum is native to India. But the amazing adaptability of the legume plant allowed it to spread throughout all areas where a subtropical climate reigns. And this happened at the dawn of civilization. IN Ancient Egypt the plant was part of ointments for mummification. In ancient Europe, “Greek straw” was fed to livestock. In the Middle Ages, fenugreek received the status of a medicinal plant. In the Arab world, it was used by women to give an attractive roundness to the figure. In Pakistan the plant was called abish, camel grass. In Armenia, the plant is known as chaman spice. In Ukraine and Moldova, in the south of Russia, a close relative of Shambhala grows - blue fenugreek. This is a low plant with leaves like clover. But the shamballa spice with an intense odor in the territory of the former Soviet Union is found only in the republics Central Asia- there it is called “mushroom grass”. This species is called "fenugreek". This plant, half a meter high and with clover-like leaves, is used in medicine, cooking and cosmetology.

Video Shambhala. Search between worlds. Secret territories

Secrets of Tibet. Tibet - place of the gods

The Tibetan group of pyramids is the largest in Globe. Imagine hundreds of pyramids, which are located evenly, in strict mathematical dependence on the four cardinal directions, near the main pyramid - the sacred Mount Kailash. The height of this mountain is 6714 meters. All other pyramids of Tibet amaze with their diversity and shapes; their height ranges from 100 to 1800 meters. For comparison height Egyptian pyramid Cheops is “only” 146 meters. All the pyramids of the world are similar to each other, but only in Tibet among the pyramids there are interesting stone structures, which are called “mirrors” due to their flat or concave surface. An old Tibetan legend tells that once upon a time the Sons of the Gods descended to Earth from heaven.

It was a long time ago. The sons possessed the amazing power of the five elements, with the help of which they built a giant city. It is in it, according to Eastern religions, that the North Pole was located before the Flood. In many eastern countries Mount Kailash is considered the holiest place on planet Earth. It and the surrounding mountains were built using the mighty power of the five elements: air, water, earth, wind and fire.

In Tibet, this force is considered as the psychic energy of the Universe, as something inaccessible and unattainable for comprehension by the human mind! And here, at an altitude of 5680 meters, there is the famous “Valley of Death”; you can only pass through it along the sacred road. If you go off the road, you will find yourself in the zone of action of tantric power. And stone mirrors change the course of time so much for those people who got there that in a matter of years they turned into old people.

Agharti

Agarti, or Agartha, or Agartha (which supposedly translates from Sanskrit as “invulnerable,” “inaccessible”) is a mythical underground country mentioned in esoteric and occult literature. Sometimes interpreted as a semblance of Shambhala: “ mystical center sacred tradition, located in the East."

It was first mentioned in the novel “Sons of God” by Louis Jacolliot (1873) and in the occult treatise of Saint-Yves d’Alveidre “The Indian Mission to Europe” (1910). F. Ossendovsky, in the book “Beasts, People, and Gods,” with reference to the stories of Mongolian lamas, cites a legend about an underground country that controls the destinies of all mankind. Having compared the stories of Ossendowski and Saint-Yves d'Alveidre (in the work "King of the World"), Rene Guenon came to the conclusion that they have a common source - pseudoscientific ideas about the hollow Earth.

The traditional location of Agartha is considered to be Tibet or the Himalayas. In Agartha live the highest initiates, keepers of tradition, true teachers and rulers of the world. It is impossible for the uninitiated to achieve Agartha - only the elite become accessible to it. There are legends about underground passages, connecting Agartha with the outside world. F. Ossendovsky and N.K. Roerich fantasized about devices that would serve its inhabitants for rapid movement.

Russian Shambhala. Since ancient times, humanity has been searching for the promised land. First, Atlantis, the kingdom of John and other places of power, mystery, mysticism, and new knowledge. In the 19th century, humanity found a new object for search - Shambhala.

The first time they heard about Shambhala in Europe was from the Jesuits in 1627. These monks walked around Asia, telling the inhabitants about Jesus, but they answered that we have a place where the Great Teachers reside - Shambhala and showed the Jesuits towards the north. They searched for the mysterious Shambhala in the Himalayas, the Gobi Desert and the Pamirs, but not in Russia...

The famous explorer of Siberia and author of the wonderful book “The Gloomy River” Vyacheslav Shishkov wrote down many Siberian legends. Here is one of them: “There is such a strange country in the world, it is called Belovodye. And it is sung about it in songs, and it is reflected in fairy tales. She is in Siberia, beyond Siberia or somewhere else. You have to go through the steppes, mountains, the eternal taiga, all towards the sunrise, towards the sun, to set your path, and if happiness was given to you from birth, you will see Belovodye in person.

The lands in it are rich, the rains are warm, the sun is fertile, the wheat grows by itself all year round growing - no plowing, no sowing - apples, watermelons, grapes, and in the flowery grass, endlessly, countless herds graze - take it, own it. And this country does not belong to anyone, all the will, all the truth lives in it from time immemorial, this country is outlandish.”

Modern isotericists claim that it is in Belovodye that the entrance to the mysterious Shambhala is located. Altai shamans protect the peace of Shambhala. Due to the large number of tourists, shamans often have to restore the energy level of this zone.

The famous artist, traveler and seeker of Shambhala, Nicholas Roerich, glorified Mount Belukha and its unique surroundings in his works. But the main goal of any trip to the Altai mountains is still considered to be the path of self-determination.

The watchmen talk about an unusual stone in the Yarlu River valley. They called it the Stone of Power because it has the strongest energy and gradually increases in size. The stone has a mystical aura, so shamans perform rituals next to it, and yogis have chosen this place for their meditations. The stone depicts ancient symbol: a circle, and in its center there are three circles. This design can be seen on some icons of the early Christian period. In N. Roerich’s painting “The Oriflame Madonna” the Holy Virgin holds in her hands a panel with the image of this sign.

But not only Altai attracted seekers of the mysterious Shambhala. In Russia there are many legends and traditions about a certain holy land located in Siberia. This place, like the legendary Kitezh, has remained invisible and inaccessible to the forces of Evil for centuries. There is a legend that the Grand Duke of Kiev Vladimir in 979 sent people towards Asia, led by the monk Sergius, to look for the Kingdom of the White Waters. A few decades later, in 1043, an old man came to Kyiv, claiming that he was the monk Sergius and he managed to fulfill the prince’s order by visiting the Camp of Miracles or, as it was called, the Land of White Waters. He said that all the members of his squad died on the way, and he alone managed to reach the wonderful country. The monk said that when he was left alone, he managed to find a guide who brought Sergius to the “white lake”, the color of which was given by the salt that covered all the water. The guide refused to go further, telling the old man about certain “guardians of the snowy peaks” that everyone was afraid of. Sergius had to continue his journey alone. After a few days of travel, two strangers came out to him, speaking a language unknown to the monk.

Tibet is perhaps one of the most mysterious countries in the whole world. Many have heard about her amazing yoga, secret practices of magic, the legendary country of Shambhala and much more. But few people know that this mystical place is fraught with another secret - its hidden sacred valleys(in Tibetan - “bayul”), inextricably and deeply connected with the realm of the esoteric.

What are hidden valleys?

According to Tibetan legends, hidden valleys are areas where highly spiritual people live without sorrows and worries, completely devoting themselves to understanding the universe through meditation and reflection. In other words, the hidden valleys are paradises where pleasant music is heard everywhere, and anyone who is lucky enough to get here simply bathes in sensual pleasures, eats delicious food, contemplates beautiful landscapes, and so on.

Naturally, what the hidden valley looks like varies from one legend to another, filling with new details and shifting the emphasis either towards spirituality or towards material wealth.

But in any case, it is believed that only good people who have good karma and have distinguished themselves by their compassion, kindness and mercy. Everyone else won't be able to get into these Amazing places, even if they are right in front of them, because the hidden valley “protects” itself, since it is located in the spiritual plane, as if in some kind of parallel space, but, nevertheless, having a very real projection onto this or that territory.

Geographic Facts about Hidden Valleys

It is interesting to note that the hidden valleys are not a figment of the imagination of the Tibetans, but a fact that has a very real geographical basis. So many famous travelers While wandering around Tibet, indeed, among the high mountain deserts and lifeless mountain slopes, we discovered green valleys of amazing beauty, apparently fed by hot springs. They stand in stark contrast to the harsh surrounding landscape, suggesting that these places became the prototype for the legendary hidden valleys.

Hidden valleys and their connection with termas and tertons

Tibetan hidden valleys keep many secrets, and not only geographical, but also esoteric, since they are inextricably linked with such an amazing phenomenon of Tibetan mysticism as terma - sacred treasures and, of course, with tertons - spiritual seers who have the gift of finding “hidden places” "

Terma is a unique phenomenon of Tibetan mysticism, practically not found in other esoteric traditions. The term literally means “hidden treasure.” These treasures can be books, religious objects, new teachings, guidebooks, and so on and so forth. Terma were “hidden” in other planes of reality or, with the help of magic, hidden from the consciousness of people until a certain time, when they were discovered by a “treasure opener” (terton), who has the ability to see through realities, or when a certain hour came and humanity was ready to accept a new spiritual gift for your development.

Very often, a valley or cave became “hidden” only after some mystic hid a terma in it. The outstanding spiritual master, the central figure of Tibetan Buddhism, the founder of the Nyingma tradition, tantric guru and magician Padmasambhava, was especially distinguished in the field of creating hidden valleys. It was he who hid many spiritual treasures (terma) in the mountainous regions, and this was the reason that the very territories in which they were located began to have magical properties, became places of power and received additional “dimensions.”

Hidden Valley - sacred place

Due to the fact that secret valleys are inextricably linked with the spiritual treasures hidden in them, such places received a special status and turned into sacred places. It was believed that any person entering such territory would be spiritually transformed and, with a certain internal purity, could even receive enlightenment or some kind of superpower. Therefore, it is not surprising that ordinary people and yogis, adventurers and scientists spent a lot of effort in order to discover hidden valleys. There were periods when it was somewhat reminiscent of the Western boom of the gold rush, the search for treasures. But... Tibetan esotericists claim that not all terms have yet been discovered and not all hidden valleys have yet been revealed to the world.

Hidden Valleys - Paradise Options

Legends claim that in the hidden valleys there are healing springs that give strength and health, there is always warmth and the earth bears fruit, and there are also hidden spiritual treasures - terma, accessible only to spiritual seers-tertons. Just being in the territory of the hidden valley gives a person enlightenment, longevity and magical abilities.

It was also believed that one who reached the hidden valley and remained there would never be reborn in the lower realm of existence. Although sometimes you can come across beliefs that the inhabitants of the hidden valleys, living almost like gods, go to hell at the end of their earthly days.

Hidden Valley Guides

Naturally, descriptions of hidden valleys encouraged many to find these amazing places - some sought to find long-awaited spiritual salvation there, and others to get rich, because almost all the legends about such places said that there were countless treasures in the form of gold, silver and various precious stones. Therefore, it is not surprising that over time, various guide texts appeared, indicating routes and describing the obstacles that a traveler must go through in order to achieve his desired goal.

Here is an excerpt from one such guide: “There is a blue cave that looks like a tigress, it has four corners and four sides. There are three other caves above it. They contain ancient coins, four turquoise stones, two skull bowls full of gold, a leather bag containing ancient zi stones, and written instructions on how to find eighteen types of hidden treasures."

Yogic Guides to the Hidden Valleys

And yet, no matter how attractive the hidden valleys were for people dreaming of getting rich, the main “consumers” of the guidebooks were yogis, moreover, most of these texts were written by yogis for yogis. Hence their imagery and diversity of meaning. Most the instructions in them were to be understood allegorically and only in states of heightened awareness, which is why it was argued that where the gaze of a simple person would meet only rocks, glaciers or forest thickets, yogis would see something different, more sublime.

Many researchers argue that guidebooks to the hidden valleys were nothing more than treatises containing instructions on revealing the inner light, one’s original nature, and they have nothing to do with specific geographical realities.

Hidden Valleys and Levels of Reality

Many mystics argue that the hidden valleys, although they are geographically bound, are in fact a kind of “superstructure” over reality, that is, they are astral regions, parallel to realities, accessible only to highly spiritual individuals. This is why beliefs claim that the hidden valley may be inhabited by ordinary people. But they will not realize that in the same place there is another level in which there is its own, special life. This is what makes it difficult to find such places, since they do not lie in a plane familiar to the average person. So even if a simple person finds a hidden valley, he still won’t see anything, unless he feels a certain elevated state of soul.

Hidden valley in hidden valley

Not only is the hidden valley itself a mysterious place, but some mystics claim that even in the valley itself there is an even deeper sacred level of existence, and it is to this, as the only real reality, that a spiritual practitioner should strive - to penetrate even further into the secret hidden valley. There he will find deeper spiritual knowledge that will allow him to practice higher levels meditation and quickly achieve enlightenment. To discover this level one must gain a special vision or awareness. And at the deepest level, the valley is no longer located outside, but in the heart and mind of the yogi, who has ceased to feel any differences between himself and the world around him.

Emphasizing the enormous importance of the inner level of the hidden valleys, enlightened yogis and lamas say that even the subtlest contact with the hidden valley, even the thought of it, can dissolve negative thoughts and emotions that are the cause of suffering. If you know how to use the invisible power of the hidden valley, you can make your meditation extremely effective. One ancient guidebook says that it is much better to meditate for one year in such a place than for a thousand years in some other place. The greatest treasure that can be found in the hidden valley is nirvana itself.

The biggest secret of the hidden valley

If you look at the phenomenon of the hidden valley from the point of view of spirituality, then after analyzing all the legends, tales and “guidebooks” it becomes clear that the most important treasure that the traveler will discover there is his own original nature, and all its levels are the versatility of his own existence.

Grail and swastika. Religion of Nazism Pervushin Anton Ivanovich

"Secrets of Tibet"

After returning from the third expedition, Ernst Schaefer was engaged not only in hardware intrigues, but also in rather unusual research. Let's look at them in more detail.

Among the materials brought to Germany from Tibet was a huge collection of unique plants and grain crops. Upon arrival they were sorted and described in detail. In 1943, Ernst Schäfer, in a summary report, set goals for further experiments with the Tibetan flora:

Our aspirations have always been associated with the goal of collecting everything that could be useful for our own people. The fifteen hundred barley crops mentioned here, which are mostly the result of primitive selection, may have a number of very important hereditary factors - for example, resistance to drought or resistance to frost.

Thus, Ernst Schaefer also understood Tibet as an enclave flora, which is perfectly adapted to the hostile high-altitude environment. From an agronomic point of view, crossing Tibetan crops with European ones was not only logical, but also very profitable. Instilling special properties into European cereal crops, according to the plan, was supposed to make them more unpretentious and increase productivity.

The SS leadership expected Schaefer to produce frost-resistant and fast-growing “miracle varieties” of barley and wheat. Their cultivation would make it possible to begin the “Germanization” of Eastern Europe, which was to be built up with similar agricultural settlements. Himmler demanded that the crossing of different crops would allow German peasants to obtain several harvests a year. However, it was not only about the colonization of the East. The Reichsführer consoled himself with the vain thought that under his patronage the food problem of Germany, to which Adolf Hitler himself attached special, almost mystical significance, would be solved. It was the SS that had to take the grain supply of the Third Reich to a fundamentally new level.

In the spring of 1942, Heinrich Himmler gave Ernst Schäfer, as head of the Ahnenerbe department, the order to prepare for the formation of the Institute of Wild Plant Varieties. However, it quickly became clear that it was difficult to implement this project. In those days, the work of Schaefer's "Asian" department was strongly influenced by the above-described confrontation with the leadership of the Filchner Foundation. The emergence of a new institute threatened no less problems, only this time botanists could act against the SS scientists. After lengthy negotiations and consultations, it was decided to limit ourselves to the organization of a special institution that operated under the Kaiser Wilhelm Society of Berlin. The new structure, which was proudly called the Institute for the Study of Plant Crops, was led by professor of botany Fritz von Wettstein. Himmler had to come to terms with the adjustment of his grandiose plans, since the professor reported directly to the powerful Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture.

Realizing that it was futile to enter into another political conflict, Ernst Schaefer tried to avoid competitive situations with botanists. In October 1942, he began negotiations with representatives of the Reich Ministry of Agriculture, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society of Berlin and the new institute that was to be located in Tuttenhof. It was then that they made it clear to him that instead of an institute, he could only count on the research department of wild plant crops within the Ahnenerbe. Moreover, the emphasis in the upcoming work was again placed on the eastern regions, and priority was given to the Caucasus. How the planned cooperation of all these structures with Ahnenerbe was supposed to be carried out in practice remains unclear. One gets the impression that he simply did not exist: Schäfer calmly handed over to Tuttenhof samples of the grain crops he had collected and never again met with von Wettstein or representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture. When, at the end of November 1942, the SS Main Office announced that the Reichsführer, together with the Kaiser Wilhelm Society of Berlin, was planning to create “an Institute of Cereal Breeding that is extremely important for the entire German economy,” Schäfer’s name did not even appear on the list of employees. The head of the institute was the famous botanist Heinz Brucher.

Another project of Ernst Schäfer was related to horse breeding. Even during the second expedition, he very carefully studied horses living in the wild. After the start of the war with the Soviet Union, the Tibetologist had the opportunity to try himself as a zoologist-breeder: it was necessary to develop a new breed of horses that would not be susceptible to the harsh Russian winters.

Not much material has survived on this topic. Most of them came from the walls of the Institute for Military Scientific Targeted Research, created at Ahnenerbe. Some documents were addressed to the Main Economic and Economic Directorate of the SS, commanded by Oswald Pohl. At the same time, Ernst Schäfer maintained contacts with Rudolf Brandt, who helped him select the necessary scientists and specialists.

Selection experiments were undertaken in 1942–1943. At the same time, Schaefer relied on Mongolian horses and Przewalski's horses. Where the selection work was carried out can only be determined approximately, but it is known that it was about the occupied eastern territories. In 1944, as the German army retreated to the west, Ernst Schäfer decided to transfer all horses to a stud farm in Poznan. From there they were to go to Hungary, where three special enterprises had already been prepared.

Another major project of Ernst Schaefer was a film released as a result of the third expedition. During the trip, Ernst Krause filmed almost every step with a portable movie camera. Immediately after returning, the idea arose to create a documentary film from the footage (more than 50 hours) that would help increase public interest in Tibet.

In the fall of 1939, the film materials were transferred to the Berlin company Tobis Film for development and processing. Schaefer was interested in a quick release of the film, if only for mercantile and financial reasons, but the film first had to pass censorship.

The entire subsequent history of the creation of the film can be traced through the correspondence between Ernst Schaefer and Rudolf Brandt, the chief of the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS. From the very beginning it was clear to them that there was no way to keep the work on film materials secret. As a result, Brandt warned Helmut Schreiber, who headed Tobis Film, that there should not be a single official mention of the film until the Reichsführer SS personally gave the order for the premiere. Not only Schreiber’s work had to be kept secret: at the end of January 1940, Himmler issued a directive in which he demanded that the text of all publications and reports on the Tibetan expedition be coordinated with him personally. As a result, during the development of the Sven Hedin Institute project, information about the third Tibetan expedition of Ernst Schäfer was limited to general declarations and statements about its sensationalism. However, in all publications there was a shortage of factual material. Here and there it was briefly mentioned that the expedition members were planning to prepare a film, but no one could say anything about the date or approximate content. Schaefer had to behave very carefully, as he was constantly invited to various radio programs, offered to give interviews, asked to write an article or read a report. After consultations with Himmler, the Tibetologist in almost all of these cases refused all tempting offers.

It is clear that such a ban hurt the scientist’s pride. For example, the Brussels Encyclopedic Society in the spring of 1940 invited Ernst Schaefer to make a report on the past expedition and planned future research. Schäfer immediately informed the Reichsführer SS about the proposal. Although there was no official ban on reading papers abroad, Himmler asked the researcher to call in sick and politely decline the invitation. As a result, Rudolf Brandt conveyed the following information to Brussels:

Unfortunately, at present time dr Schaefer suffers from a serious eye disease, for the treatment of which he was sent to a Munich clinic. For this reason, preparation of the report is temporarily impossible.

For greater plausibility, the Tibetologist had to find some eye disease that was widespread in the East. Even in this situation, Heinrich Himmler wanted everything to look realistic. As a result, to Schaefer’s great regret, the general public never learned about the essence of his research. Perhaps, at such moments, Schaefer regretted that he was under the patronage of the Reichsführer SS.

Despite the strictest ban on disclosing any information about the upcoming documentary, a leak occurred in the spring of 1940. A note appeared in one of the Hamburg newspapers, which reported that the Tobis Film studio was editing a film dedicated to the Tibetan SS expedition led by Ernst Schaefer. Himmler was furious. On March 12, 1940, he wrote to Schaefer and again demanded secrecy.

It was at this time that a large-scale military operation in Tibet was being prepared. Keeping the fact of the film's preparation secret acquired military-tactical significance, becoming a precautionary measure against the actions of British intelligence.

Ernst Schäfer refused to take responsibility for the information leak. Then Himmler forbade Helmut Schreiber to work on the film: he feared that other leaks might occur. Rudolf Brandt sent a notice to Tobis Film that information about the Tibetan film is secret, so the film company's employees are responsible for taking precautions. In response, Schreiber could not resist and clarified the situation. It turns out that the information came to the newspaper after a report in a narrow circle that Schaefer gave in Hamburg. The Tibetologist received a severe reprimand.

In June 1940, Ernst Schaefer sent Rudolf Brandt the first report on the activities of the Ahnenerbe department he headed. In it, the Tibetologist described in detail the work on the film, as well as the principles of interaction between his department and Tobis Film. At that time, the film only lacked synchronized sound and background music. In general, the presented material resulted in a full-length popular science film. Not without a sense of pride, Schäfer quoted Helmut Schreiber as saying that this was “not just a good film, but an achievement, the best German film.” The Tibetologist also reported that the film would be ready for distribution in October 1940. To begin its demonstration, only the permission of the Reichsführer SS was required. In addition, Schaefer emphasized that it would be a good idea to prepare a special propaganda article dedicated to the Tibetan film.

Schaefer believed that the screening of the film would stimulate a wave of public interest in Central Asia, and this in turn would become a prerequisite for more active funding for his department within the Ahnenerbe and support for other initiatives. Helmut Schreiber was interested in the box office that this film could collect with the right presentation. But the directive from Himmler dashed the hopes of both. The SS chief once again forbade drawing the attention of government agencies and the European public to the problems of Tibet.

After reviewing the report, Brandt again drew Schaefer's attention to maintaining complete secrecy:

Please take care that neither from your pen nor from the pen of any member of your expedition any articles or materials appear that have not been agreed upon by the Reichsfuehrer SS. The Reichsfuehrer SS considers it unacceptable that our enemies could establish a connection between Dr. Schäfer's trip to Tibet and the possibility of repeating the expedition in this region for military purposes. For this reason, the film cannot be released in the near future. <… > As soon as the Reichsfuehrer considers that the time has come, he will immediately take advantage of your suggestions regarding the organization of advertising for the film. Until this moment, you should not talk about the film either among your friends or among newspaper workers. <… > The Reichsfürp is looking forward to the private film screening that you must hold for him after editing the film.

Such a “closed film screening” actually took place. On June 10, 1942, the prepared material was demonstrated to the Reichsfuehrer among his close friends. Fun fact - the demonstration took place in the Quedlinburg Castle, sacred to the SS men, where the remains of Henry I the Fowler are supposedly buried. But we remember that Heinrich Himmler considered himself the reincarnation of this German king.

The film “Secrets of Tibet” nevertheless became an event, but much later, when it passed through the Center for Popular Science Films of the Imperial Ministry of Propaganda. In December 1942, Minister Joseph Goebbels was the first to see the 105-minute theatrical version of the film and gave it a very high rating. The premiere was supposed to take place on January 16, 1943, in the presence of Sven Hedin, arriving at the opening of the institute named after him.

One of the Ahnenerbe employees, who worked in Schaefer’s department, shared his impressions with a friend:

The film created a sensation no less than Schaefer's expedition itself. The film is magnificent, in some places I was gasping with delight. It is clear why, for political reasons, it has not yet been shown to the general public. In connection with the opening of the Institute of Asian Studies, this film was officially shown for the first time. I perceived it not as popular science, but as a full-length feature film. High foreign guests are also impressed. Everyone celebrated Sven Hedin. Then a large press conference was given at the Ministry of Propaganda for the foreign press. The film's extensive promotional campaign will soon begin. Photo reports or past reports from the expedition appear in almost all newspapers. All newspapers, even tabloids, write about Tibet.

Indeed, much was written about the film in German newspapers. At the same time, reprints of Ernst Schaefer's past essays often appeared, in which he talked about the cultural and everyday life of Tibet. In total, about three hundred articles were published, not counting small notes, about the film “Secrets of Tibet,” but not one of them even mentioned the Department of Central Asia and Expeditions, let alone “Ahnenerbe.”

Schaefer himself joined in promoting the film. He attached great importance to ensuring that his name and the names of the participants in the Tibetan expedition appeared on the pages of newspapers as often as possible. Having received Himmler's permission, Schaeffer drew up a detailed plan for how, in his opinion, the film's distribution should be organized. In particular, he listed the cities in which he should give short reports on the eve of the film screening. In some cases, he could be replaced by other members of the Tibetan expedition. The premiere of the film in the capitals of the German states “had to be carried out in close cooperation with all SS structures.” Schaefer constantly emphasized the “political and propaganda significance of the film,” which was supposed to help cover the financial costs of his department at Ahnenerbe. But first of all, he wanted “Secrets of Tibet” to be shown in cities that were university centers.

As expected, the appearance of the film on wide screens significantly contributed to the growth of interest in Tibet among German society. For the first time, the German public was invited to see for themselves authentic footage from the life of a country lost in the mountains somewhere between India and China. And due to the fact that the release of the film “Secrets of Tibet” coincided with the Battle of Stalingrad, it also performed a significant psychotherapeutic function: National Socialist propaganda needed a reason to once again confirm the achievements of the “glorious Germans.” And even if in this case they were not soldiers, but scientists, in a situation of an impending national catastrophe, the difference between them was not significant.

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Secrets of Flight 007 The Boeing 747 of KAL airlines, flying Flight 007 from New York to Seoul, began its flight on September 1, 1983 at 4.05 GMT. At 11.30 he completed the first part of the route, touching runway in Anchorage, Alaska. He was supposed to fly from here to Seoul

From the book Tsushima - a sign of the end of Russian history. Hidden reasons for well-known events. Military historical investigation. Volume I author Galenin Boris Glebovich

6. Secrets of the Nerchinsk sages The time has come to explain the inner essence of the political insanity, the crown of which was the Treaty of Nerchinsk. Insanity is for us. And for some, a brilliant political move. And in vain the general attributes it to decrepit China and the wild Manchus

From the book Jackal (The Secret War of Carlos the Jackal) by Follane John

4. SECRETS AND LIES I am not a professional killer. Killing a person who looks you in the eye is very difficult. Carlos in an interview with Al Watan Al Arabi magazine. Even after the hostage-taking at the French embassy in The Hague and the grenade explosion at the Saint-Germain pharmacy, the French

From the book The Atomic Project. History of superweapons author Pervushin Anton Ivanovich

The secrets of “X-rays” After the discovery of the electron, researchers tried to link both types of particles with each other. In 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen, working with cathode rays, noticed a strange phenomenon. A piece of paper coated with a barium compound while approaching

From the book Essays on intelligence warfare: Koenigsberg, Danzig, Berlin, Warsaw, Paris. 1920–1930s author Cherenin Oleg Vladimirovich

The secrets of Major Zhikhon

From the book “The Godfather” by Stirlitz author Prosvetov Ivan Valerievich

From the book Lubyanka. Feats and tragedies author Luzan Nikolay Nikolaevich

From the book Essays on the history of Russian foreign intelligence. Volume 4 author Primakov Evgeniy Maksimovich

Lifting the veil of secrecy Intelligence and counterintelligence are a special form of art, held captive by secrecy. The activities of any special service, including domestic ones, are no exception in this regard. Only sometimes omnipotent time for a short moment

From the book The Defeat of Khazaria and Other Wars of Svyatoslav the Brave author

15. Secrets of the codebreaking service On February 6, 1934, a fascist demonstration took place on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, which ended in bloodshed. The French fascists acted in the manner of their German mentors, organized pogroms, started fights, as a result of which

From the book Invasion of Aliens [Why enemies come to power] author Shambarov Valery Evgenievich

Secrets of the Slavic gods Surprisingly, the preconceived views of scientists impede not only the objective study of Slavic statehood, but even Slavic paganism. And there are claims that our ancestors worshiped only primitive "tribal

From the author's book

25. Secrets of the Brest-Litovsk negotiations For services provided to the Bolsheviks, Germany expected payment - a separate peace. However, the Soviet government had no choice. The army was completely destroyed, a significant part of it had already gone home. Right after

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