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didn't say anything about him being christ except it as an eco village but the spiritual side is destructive is a u.f.o. enthusiast 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 yeah 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.
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tatiana lives in the so-called dorm callister 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 attend to our new. tania later 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 income alone need help if you ask me to. i don't. i don't like. being cut off i do
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a load. 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 palm 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 the. kind of world the women wore long beautiful dresses they seem to glide through the village with the blessed. and of course i could see there was something not quite
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right with their minds. but there were people from garia from italy from merica 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. first time visitors especially journalists and foreigners have to meet one of the syrians closest associates. for an introductory meeting.
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can we talk about this area now. where there's more of it you don't think that he's god is just the representative of god is god's word is that right yes that's the word of god on earth is he a reincarnation of jesus knows we're yes ok. person was 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 didn't 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 christ. originally from belgium guert who's lived here for ten years was the first person we met in petra published. he married here and as he puts it himself found peace of mind.
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i was traveling before i was always looking for a person because he wants things 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 garrett 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. garrett 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
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her life with the sari on community we went to a blue cloth 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 and petra powerful of. were invited to attend a wedding performed by one of the brotherhood priests. i
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don't think these people just get to. the clean air and they're here for the to turn to have the same opinion as i have a more i don't know exactly the same and i'm sure it's connected the teacher. 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
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was to bake with 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. the shame 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 on the way. 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.
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you know i thought it was pretty interesting the fact that so many people have made the effort to move out from 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 how can science fact 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. if the teacher considers the porton maybe you will have a chance to meet him along with the other guys so. give it some thought. some questions.
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there's a bus service from to trip to the other vissarion of 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 their apartments and big cities to settle here after following their teacher to siberia since then a local house prices have rocketed several times over from tetrapod of the village it's sixty kilometers to the sacred mountain. she 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 room from petra part of qur'an through the taiga there's no electricity in the remote final village before
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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 thick mud and slush. also in 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 guides the followers have
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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
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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 of the child with him. on the day we arrived at the mountain she and her husband were taking part in a 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
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to be filmed. tina and her new family live in a much bigger house than the one in belgrade that lou board has bought for her. thank god i have a house that's big enough for more than just tatiana. there are people who sold the city flats and now they have nowhere to go some have even cause of all contact with relatives and have no want to go back to i mean. 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.
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people here in the don't corps 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 so young traveled around the soviet union. you put up or you be held meetings in big holes and people came to listen to his teaching or if you noticed you know that's how i found out about his message. religion and faith shouldn't just be a decoration in your life it should be your life. i think 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
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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 at last set eyes on the man
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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 this event is for each one of the followers. and let the second meant to unite us with the spirits unites us with christ.
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was our teacher so be it was. as the fusion begins followers try to achieve a spiritual connection with this area their 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 followers. so that they would be perfect some of the spiritually. and physically.
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i love it. the following day we hear that sorry on has agreed to meet tom clarke a british tourist and answer 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 and see everything and i spoke to yesterday and he asked me. if i wanted to have some questions for this hour and maybe i'd get a chance to meet him so there's a prospect i'd be very interested. by that but it would be interesting i mean that's really why i came in you know i see what he's all about. this area and agree to meet us in the house his most trusted apostle.
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point of view. we get ready in a room overlooking this aryans mansion and wait for his appearance. his nvidia's houses appear much bigger and more luxurious than any of the other homes here on the mountain. and the man who calls himself god's envoy on earth turns out to be quite down to earth. he willingly and so that all of his foreign guests questions. to new teacher must not return in the same body. when the time comes for him to
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say something. he must be reborn into the same life experience as the people around him. and is there any reason why. you even arrived. in russia in the russian language. because conditions here are the most favorable some of the psychological state of society and the physical condition of the earth because during this period the earth's 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 traveled to the town of dead just outside moscow.
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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 you know are you let me give you a hug. here was achieved all the goals that you must really be churches in siberia and a death or a refuge. how is the strength. remember this 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 to st petersburg. we met that and we went to church to baptize the child. at first she seemed quite positive about it but in the end she left.
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without even saying goodbye to me or the children. people that came to you what kind of physical state where they. of course the thing is they were all mentally ill. they had developed a variety of psychological problems that very often sadly ended with. complete isolation from society is never ever good for people. it is with them i. was with you till it failed to save my daughter i guess it was safer in ways this only you know it. all you know she will come back i know it and i will wait. even if it means i must wait. until my dying day.
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fifth on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out. the shops were always full of goods. in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went to europe so that all the shelves were empty. in november they bombed the die of steel warehouses it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people would be eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. look at the lists incredibly heavy bombing. it was
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a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried under me. all of them went dead. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refused to notice. faces change the world lights now. on a full picture of today's events my own two sons from around the globe. drop to. fifty. the. gentleman i guess
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you'll only. see in. a few hundred a day come across it on the sleeve i'm going to. give you so. we've got people coming in with criminals we got people from who knows where in the world this is the united states and very tough by the way you know sure i was worried that they'd been on the way they live on mars you know mars. so we pick up things like. turbans prayer rugs so when we know they do they're coming from the middle east situation in. concentration camp. as if the wind is not even one in the fact that. a stranger.
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ukrainian leaderships concessions followed by fresh violence is rioters in kiev ignore the agreement with the opposition to clear the streets. western ukraine is rocked by more protests as local administrations are stormed or taken over by crowds in more than a dozen regional centers. the syrian government says women and children in the besieged city of homs are able to leave under the first deal reached with peace talks with the opposition but warns the situation depends on militant forces on the ground not to want a thing that will mean stand they have to leave and they have to find peace in life we can't give up i made bombs and bullets in syria we've been.

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