drama. stories others who refuse to see. faces changing the world. food pictures of to taste. from around the globe. look to. me. in the heart of the impossible siberian tiger lissa group dedicated to following a man who calls himself the seri and every year on august eighteenth members of this community gather on a mountain that they say sacred to see that man who claims to be the modern christ

the. a week before going to siberia we visited the belgorod region to meet lugo flood talking a form of a syrian follower she's one of very few former members of the sect willing to talk

about her experience. and i first heard about it when i was in st petersburg they showed a film that affected me deeply and i cried so hard you wouldn't believe. the film was about humility and pride and it really worked in my mind but it didn't say anything about him being christ except it as an ecovillage but the spiritual side is destructive is a u.f.o. enthusiasts and it occurred to him sometimes that he was the second coming with. you both explains how she finally came to join the community she worked as a physiotherapist there she gives confused accounts as if we looked in to discuss the hardest part of her own personal heartbreak when she left the community in the siberian tiger seven years ago her daughter to chose to stay behind yep all i bought this house for my daughter she wasn't married then she left her first husband and had nowhere to live so i thought i should keep. this can be

a living room this could be a kitchen. the air here is so beautiful and of course i'm waiting for my daughter and her family. tatiana lives in the so called dawn coaster that's what vissarion followers call the sacred mountain where only the most devout members may live it's a kind of a monastery where they celebrate a major religious event the fusion with the teacher it takes place every year on the eighteenth of august and we hope to to tend. i know. tanya the lady well tell me how you are my little grandson. i wanted

to ask you why don't you mayfair all of you leave you alone bring all the kids and come alone and help if you ask me to. i don't like i don't like. being cut off i do all alone. because of. this is petra power of the largest village in the area largely populated by followers of the sorry on this church of the last testament. we were to spend two days here before going to the mountain to see the man known as the teacher almost everyone in petra is a member of the religious community meat fish and poultry are strictly forbidden here only vegetarian food is allowed although milk and eggs once banned have

recently been accepted it's easy to tell the followers from the village locals by their appearance and dress. i remember them walking around there is if in some kind of world the women wore long beautiful dresses they seem to glide through the village with their blessed eyes and smiles and of course i could see there was something not quite right with their minds. but there were people from garia from it to the america from germany. tom clark a student from britain has stopped by this place on his way from australia well should i should i expect. that would be nice. because i'm curious. it's impossible to reach the

mountain aided first time visitors especially journalists and for a nice have to meet one of the syrians closest associates plenty of derek of for an introductory meeting. to talk about syria no. matter what you don't think that he's god is just a representative of god he's god's word right yes that's the word of god on earth is he a reincarnation of jesus knows he was yes ok person is really hard for me because why he's saying is christ makes a lot of enemies and things and i was looking looking deeper i couldn't find the answer and i did after a while and i don't want to have the answer to these questions because no one here

knows no one to connect say yes he's the christ it's just a belief that christ originally from belgium guert who's lived here for ten years was the first person we met in petra probably. he married here and as he puts it himself found peace of mind. i was traveling before i was always looking for a person because i want to stay in belgium because i want the family and i want to clean things in my are i want to clean air clean nature green water earth. at first cared worked as a carpenter but two years ago he contracted and so full light as from a tick bite. his hands were partially paralyzed and he lost flexibility in his wrist. guert had to give up woodworking he and his wife have three children who all live in the village.

talking is going to st petersburg to visit the grandchildren from her daughter's first marriage they stayed with their father after thirty on the left for siberia she also wants to see the man who helped her through the psychological effects of her life with the sari on community we went with luke off to learn more of her inside story about the sect and what motivated her to join the new religion. at first i had no idea it was a sect i went to work and when i finally arrived on the mountain i started to see things more clearly that i began to understand that it was a sect and not just an orthodox community. this is the main church for the community in petra problem. were invited to

attend a wedding performed by one of the brotherhood priests. i don't think these people just get. to move around to clean air and they're here for the to turn to have the same opinion as i have i don't know exactly in the same room and i'm sure it's connected to the teacher. or the choir but are there was a rule especially on the mountain when you hear the bells ringing and you have to

stand still and listen. you know most of what they did it wasn't physical work well providing for the family. even growing vegetables that was considered important. the crucial thing was to abate what the teacher said he's go. on and do the people who believe that. or society as we know is coming to some kind of end. the size as we now know it whether we believe it or not that ship that can carry on the way it does now. they said there will be a great flood and i wouldn't be able to return. ashamed to say it now i believed it but i was confused by what they said it was. you can take any aspect of human life and society and it doesn't matter what you look at you can clearly see that the

process of destruction is underway. i had to save my grandchildren well they would die that's what made me tell my daughter come here come here i used the exact words . had said to me. you know i thought it was pretty interesting the fact that so many people have made the effort to move out and the left i mean you know it's going to be quite a hard thing to do and i don't know i want to know fact and i want to say why have so many people believe it. tom. if you want to ask the teacher anything. i mean you can write it down tonight in question format. let me translate them and if the teacher considers them

porton maybe you will have a chance to meet him along with the other guys so. give it some thought. if i come with some questions of. as a new physician i swear to abide by the program to go. to the best of my ability and judgment. i will prescribe for the good dose of my patients. i will not give deadly doses to anybody. or advise of those to do so. i will never do harm to the.

doctors of the dogs are to. the united states is a very good example here because in earlier years they may if they had a pretty strong genuine democracy that by now i would argue has degenerated into a system where money and power mad at much more than a bit and then the deputy of the majority of the founding fathers of the united states would constantly say that they were not trying to instill democracy that saddam obviously was horrible they wanted top leaders that you. and they purposely designed to be institutions to as they put it on exclude the majority of from participation. put it under control marginalize the bank in new knowledge face to face or.

pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. there's a bus service from petra part of could to the other vissarion villages in the area the next settlement. is just ten kilometers away it was in the early one nine hundred ninety s. that many followers started to come here from all over the former soviet union now there are nearly five thousand. they also bear apartments in big cities to settle here after following their teacher to siberia since then

a local house prices have rocketed several times over from petra public a village it's sixty kilometers to the sacred mountain. he would use needle today anyone who wants to come here is very well come on up anyone can come and buy a plot of land and build a house but there's no question about that across. the road from petra pall of qur'an through the taiga there's no electricity in the remote final village before the mountain the road ends at a small car park. from here followers must begin their climb to the dong cloister where they will be part of the ritual fusion with their teacher they have to walk through four kilometers of click mud and slush. of film crew was given special dispensation and headed for the mountain only only a vehicle able to travel and headed to this quagmire a swamp buggy. will

finally arrive in the wooden gates of the dong cloister where visitors are greeted by the local guards the followers have a unique style of genuflection before passing through the gate adding a circle to symbolize the unity of all religions. yeah i tried to convince her to try to prove that it was

a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a study she had lost her mind she just wouldn't listen. in the left of this aryan brotherhood in two thousand and five as a true christian she regrets her years spent in siberia and still feels guilty about bringing her daughter into what she began to realize was a cult. she owned a studio flat in st petersburg she sold that to settle down in siberia she met her second husband. and i did child with him. on the day we arrived at the mountain she and her husband were taking part in the

liturgy of the sacred symbols at the heart of the settlement it seemed they had already heard of our early a meeting with you bush they were clearly not keen to talk to us. i really don't know why don't you come in for tea or something. we accepted her invitation left the camera running and went into the house the couple did not want to be filmed. tiana and her new family live in a much bigger house than the one in belgrade that blue book has bought for her. thank god i have a house that's big enough for more than just tatyana. there are people who sold the city flats and now they have nowhere to go some have even cut of all contact with relatives and have no want to go back to me. i have two grown up children they have been here where they leave with their father. how can

a woman what is specially a mother who abandoned two children. when they were just six and ten and a half years old say she is happy. i feel comfortable here i know there are many good people in other places but people find special things that are important to them i'm not here for the nature but because of the way people treat each other. people here in the don't course to come from diverse backgrounds adrian castro is a physicist who lives on the mountain with his wife and three children he was always interested in the esoteric. yes i'm scuba i'm from cuba a socialist country where that sort of thing is banned but i was still interested in the one nine hundred ninety s. i was a student at hopkins state university i studied physics and mathematics in those days was sort of young traveled around the soviet union. or you know they held

meetings in big holes and people came to listen to his teaching or if you noticed you know that's about his message. religion and faith shouldn't just be decoration in your life it should be your life. that's why we came here to be a part of life in the community like that where we try to live in harmony with nature grow our own vegetables and to produce our own food. for. the summer dry and above all we try to make our life for the community as if it was one big family and that's the most important thing. as a faithful member of the community adrian must open up his own home for the night to

guests who will attend the festival. at five o'clock in the evening the faithful begin to make their way to fusion valley on the mountain where exactly seven pm they will it last set eyes on the man they have made the journey to see. at first glance the procession might resemble a well directed performance every face down reveals just how serious the civil end is for each one of the followers.

and let the sacraments unite us with the spirits unites us with christ. was our teacher so be as good. as the fusion begins followers try to achieve a spiritual connection with this area that teacher. can see and

he used to say that he had god's energy running through him. and that through the fusion he was sending that holy energy to his fellow is. so that they would be perfect some of the spiritually. and physically. but. the following day we hear that the sari on has agreed to meet tom clarke a british tourist and for his questions we were invited to that meeting as well accompanied by eight. i well when i came here i i just thought i was coming out see everything and i spoke to. yesterday and he asked me.

if i wanted to have some questions. maybe i'd get a chance to meet him so i know there's a prospect of it would be very interested. but it would be interesting i mean that's really why i came you know to see what he's all about. this area and agree to meet us in the house his most trusted apostle. of the. we get ready in a room overlooking this aryans mansion and wait for his appearance. his nvidia's house is appear much bigger and more luxurious than any of the other homes here on the mountain.

the man who calls himself god's envoy on earth turns out to be quite down to earth . he willingly and all of his foreign guests questions. the teacher must not return in the same body. when the time comes for him to say something. he must be reborn into the same life experience as the people around him you. and is there any reason why. you even arrived. in russia in the russian language my boy your blood because conditions here are the most favorable some of the psychological state of society you physical condition of the earth because during this period surface will undergo

significant changes i came here to lay the foundations for the salvation of mankind and this was the most suitable place. after her trip to st petersburg you both travel to the town of dead just outside moscow. she's come to meet father on the twenty biggest if he works to rehabilitate people who have been cast off from society. bless you my child. oh are you let me give you a hug. here was achieved all the goals that you blessed really. churches in siberia and a death or a refuge. how is the sect. the members bad

really he once helped you worf to find her own path after leaving the sect inevitably she also wanted to talk about her daughter tatiana. she got married and had a baby and then came back. we met that and we went to church to baptize the child . she seemed quite positive about it but in the end she left. without even saying goodbye to me or the children. what it did to get the people that came to you what kind of physical state where they. are of course the thing is they were all mentally ill i suppose they had developed a variety of psychological problems that very often sadly ended with death. complete isolation from society is never good for people. it is

a. was with you till i fell to save my daughter. but safer in ways this only you know i. know you she will come back i know it and i will wait. even if it means i must wait. until my dying day. in the future. is here so we hit the road to focus on new technology.

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