Club of Mystical Travel
The international Club of Mystical Travel deals with the research of spiritual heritage of indigenous cultures of the world, the organization and conducting of meetings, seminars and conferences, cooperates with spiritual teachers from different countries, invites researchers from Europe, Asia and America, organizes expeditions and esoteric tours to Russia, Southern and Northern America, Africa, India, Tibet, Nepal and China.
We travel to the beautiful and marvelous places of our planet - to the places where the myths and legends are still alive, where everything is saturated with mystery, where the environment is in its virgin beauty. We work out special routes together with our friends from different countries of the world. And we invite to our expeditions everyone who is interested in such special trips, during which you are not only moving to external space, but you get a deep internal transformation. Such trips give more than just bright memoirs; they create the real changes in comprehension of yourself and in perception of life in general. Our journeys have one significant difference from the usual 'tours'. In comparison to the travel agencies that also undertake the organization of trips to the mysterious places of the planet our aim is not only meeting with places of nature of tremendous beauty or fascinating with its mysterious force monuments of ancient culture, but also meeting with real people of Knowledge: yogis, shamans, healers, the masters representing alive spiritual traditions of native peoples.
We are fond of helping to make the most bold and unbelievable dreams of people come true. By the example of our own life we know that the things which are considered to be hard accessible or even impossible, are possible!
The Club is engaged in organizing and carrying out of seminars and conferences in different directions of ethnopsychology and in traditional directions of the spiritual knowledge, such as shamanism, archaic magic, sorcery, Zen, Sufism, Daoism, tantra, yoga. But the main mission of our Club is conducting of the research expeditions and travel worldwide.
We are opened for interaction with the free creative people who are in search and research of Sacred and Mystical. People engaged in scientific researches, but thus not limited by dogmatic frameworks of scientific conservatism and room snobbery, are also interesting for us. We welcome those people who have an object for self-knowledge and self-realization who travel to the Unknown and open new measurements of life. We are interested in any contacts with the traditional spiritual doctrines of the East, and the West, and also of the North and the South. We are interested in contacts with the representatives of the ancient cultures who have kept the spiritual traditions of their peoples. We are opened for creative interaction with the researchers who could find out the bearers of such traditions in different small corners of the Earth.
The Archaic. The Shamanism. The Nature.
The subject of the special interest of the Club of Mystic Travel is the archaic spirituality and the primitive culture. Nowadays the Archaic and primordial religiousness sometimes is misinterpreted as something "out-of-date", or "obsolete". However the origin of the words "Archaic" and "primitive" specifies "seniority", "domination", 'leading position ', and "superiority'. And it is no accident. The Archaic has given a life to all without an exception the traditional world and local religions. No late ' a philosophical reflection ' could be without myths, legends and archetypes of the antiquity. The idea of the existence in time of a certain axis, which was moved out once by German philosopher Charles Jaspers, is the convenient metaphor justifying the accelerated catastrophic withdrawal from the integrity of life.
The Buddhism, the Hinduism, the Daoism, the Early Christianity and many other religions - all these are branches of the mighty tree of the Archaic (not without reason "antiquity"(drevnost') and "tree"(drevo) in Russian are single-root words, and a synonym of a word "traditional" - radical (korennoj)l, in other words concerning the roots(korni), implanted(ukorenennyj)).. Not understanding the vital importance of the "primitive culture ', and losing the connection with the roots and the traditions, many contemporaries hang up a label "paganism" on the ancient Weltanschauungs. Alas, but it is in the most direct sense - the display of boorish behavior, that is to say the disrespectful attitude to our parents, who gave us our life and feed us.
Shamanism was the expression of the archaic spirituality from the immemorial time. Widespread practically everywhere, shamanism played the leading part in formation of the ancient culture. But shamanism is not only the ecstatic intercourse with spirits of the Upper and Lower worlds. Shamanism is, first of all, LOVE to the NATURE and its SACRED GIFTS. Only love and the respectful attitude to the Nature (to mountains, forests, seas, lakes, rivers, springs and its inhabitants) can open us a mystical track to the secrets and magic of the complete life.
Understanding and keeping that precious gift which was given us by the Nature, we study how to live in the complete world. Shamanism is a way to get the knowledge of the nature and to find the strength. The word "shaman" taken from the tunguso-manchurian languages (Russia), is connected with the verb sa - "to know". Traveling to the Places of Strength and meeting with people of Knowledge, adjoining, absorbing the ancient Wisdom, we receive a chance to get out of that desperate position, which the modern person of city turned out to be in.
Infinite dry abstractions, lifeless heap of circuits and models of being, book shelves piled high with mental dust is the destiny of the city inhabitants, of the pale blue-green shadows who have put in pawn their souls in exchange for the doubtful blessings of a civilization. Modern thinking is on the one hand gripped in a vice of fanatical dogmatism and scholasticism, and on the other in the permissive relativity, postmodernism and sophistry. If we add to this such "gains" of the society of consumers as fast-food, preservatives and other 'food additives', which cause oncological diseases and adiposity, AIDS, alcoholism and narcotics, means of mass degradation (mass-media) and the destruction of the planet ecosystem we receive the diagnosis of the present global civilization which have won "primitive barbarity", " dark centuries " and "paganism".
However it is erroneous to assert, that comfort kills the soul. The Price we must pay for this comfort is fatal. And this price is a life in harmony with the whole universe, with the Spirit of Space. Comfort in exchange for a high-grade life in unity with the Nature, self-isolation and self-ejection from uniform family of all the real on the Earth and behind its limits. What would become to us, when we in perfection develop technologies of the information transfer (the Internet, mobile communication, etc.), but the most valuable information (instead of the dust-spam information) won't anymore exist? The goods are in exchange for Gift. A very expensive price!
In the modern world democracy is considered to be the most advanced and perspective idea. But the true democracy should protect not only the momentary interests of the human tribe. Unless we understand, that many other kinds of living essences also live on this planet, our democracy will hardly differ from the ancient Greek democracy with bloated minority living due to a slave labor of the majority.
Conceiving 'fair wars', people do not count the losses among peace flora and fauna. And when one part of naked primates of a Homo sapiens kind by virtue of its nonsense turns to addicts, the other part of primates in the form of guards of the order inconsiderately starts to destroy innocent plants - poppies, hemp and coca. Unless we learn to take into account the interests of ALL inhabitants of our planet, we cannot consider our future and especially the future of our descendants to be happy. The nature is not our enemy whom we should conquer and turn into slavery. The nature is our best ally! Alas, unless people don't continue to pine in cocoons of mega cities, it is impossible to understand and feel the beauty of the nature and places of its Strength. And the unique way out of the situation is to overcome inertia and prejudices, to collect a knapsack and to go to an expedition.
The future of the mass tourism is an ecological tourism. However our expeditions are not a component of the "industry of tourism". At the same time, they're not ethnographic expeditions in habitual sense of the word as the ethnographic research approach assumes the discharged supervision of the passionless researcher not involved in the process. Our Club is more likely the union of free Pilgrims of the Sky and the Earth, Holy Spirit of the Nature, which are not alien to the ideas of absolutology*.
*Absolutology is the opening up of the Great Way to Self-realization, and realization of Divine in us. The main thing is that this opening up combines harmony of the theory and practice, and also the unbiased free from prejudices approach.
Absolutology is a science of the mystical experience, of the Absolute and its display in being. The term "Absolutology" is wider, than "theology" (divinity) as in last, as a rule, it is aprioristic (initially and unconsciously) The absolute is perceived identical to the personal creator of space. However there are religious-philosophical systems which don't consider the Absolute as the person or as ' the personal God ' (the brightest example - the Buddhism and the Daoism). Therefore in order to analyze such views in a context of "theology" - means beforehand to doom them to the status of "derelicts" in religious-philosophical research of mystical experience and the absolute basis of life.
Technical questions
What does our Club represent?
Our club unites free travelers. Therefore the Club is not a commercial organization and does not pursue the purpose of a personal profit of expedition organizers. However we adhere to a principle "each work is worthy of livelihood ". Therefore we should award our 'stalkers', taking the responsibility for the certain route (and, certainly, well knowing it). And, accordingly, this means some collective charges. You also can offer your own route and we will necessarily consider your offer.
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