New knowledge and teachings that contradict generally accepted stereotypes are difficult and slow to enter the minds of people. The reason is that many people are very inert, they have a habit of walking the beaten path. Their neural connections are not flexible, they are not adapted to the rapid perception of new things.
However, people awakened by this knowledge, selflessly and selflessly convey it to those who are able to perceive at least a small part of it. One of these people is Larisa Petrovna Dmitrieva. She devoted a lot of effort and time to convey to people the teachings of Shambhala and the legacy of the great Russians - Helena and Nicholas Roerichs.
Biography
Elena Petrovna was born in 1938. After leaving school, she entered the Faculty of Journalism, because she loved to write and wanted to convey to people the good and light that is in our life. True, this did not always succeed, but she was optimistic, and she continued her work.
Her writing life began with poetry. They were quickly published in the Kuban magazine. And soon after receiving her education, she became a journalist for the newspaper "On Guard" in the city of Baku. She worked in a military unit, so she was considered a war correspondent. It was restless in Azerbaijan in those years: there were many protests against the social policy of the authorities, but it was not allowed to write about it, and the girl did not agree with this.
Larisa moved from Baku to Kursk, where she also got a job in a local newspaper as a journalist. As was customary, it was the organ of the local branch of the CPSU, and the newspaper was called Kurskaya Pravda. Soon she was offered to move to the union republic of Moldova, and Dmitrieva became a journalist for the capital news publication Vecherniy Chisinau. She worked in this newspaper from 1979 to 1988, rose to the head of the department.
During that period, she had a fateful meeting: she met Svyatoslav Roerich, the son of Nicholas and Helena Roerichs. In the USSR, few people knew about the famous artist - except people close to culture. And in the world his name was known, and many knew what a huge contribution he made to the culture and art of India, which became his second homeland.
Larisa Petrovna was amazed at this meeting, she admired this man who thought on the scale of the world, like his parents. And he was a great artist, which could also be told to the readers of the newspaper.
As an experienced journalist, she understood that it would not be easy, but the newspaper was read by 200 thousand people, and she could not help but take advantage of it. Larisa Petrovna began to think about how to tell people about the ideas of the Roerich family, about the teachings of Shambhala.
Now you will not surprise anyone with the words "Teacher" in the sense of a spiritual teacher, "teaching" in the sense of again a spiritual teaching, but at that time it looked like some fantastic tales. After all, the main ideology in the country was communist materialism.
And at that time it was necessary to somehow talk about Agni Yoga, about Living Ethics, about Blavatsky and the Roerichs, about Saint Shambhala and teachers who live there in a state of samadhi.
Most of all, Larisa Petrovna was impressed by what the Lord of Shambhala conveyed through the Roerichs that people's morality is sharply falling, which can lead humanity to self-destruction. That each person is responsible not only for their actions, but also for their thoughts.
Start
Beginning in 1984, Dmitrieva found acceptable forms to convey to the readers of the newspaper these thoughts and information about the messengers of the Masters - Blavatsky and the Roerichs. For a party newspaper, this was something “out of the ordinary,” and one had to use every possible sophistication to pass the censorship. She translated the idea of the Roerichs' worldview and the complex postulates of Agni Yoga into a language understandable for a Soviet person and published articles, which were then replicated by many newspapers of the Soviet Union. She was the first in the country who began to speak and write on this topic - to carry the ideas of Light to the homeland of the great messengers.
However, as you know, where there is light, there is darkness. For four years Larisa Petrovna brought the teachings of Agni Yoga to people, but in 1988 she was fired from her job "on a political article." And if it were not for the bursting perestroika, it is not known how its fate would have developed.
After being fired from the newspaper, Dmitrieva could not get a job in any publication, even as a freelance correspondent - she was simply not hired. Then she went to work as a dressmaker: she sewed men's trousers. And I thought about how to acquaint Soviet people with the basics of the forbidden Teachings of Shambhala.
Fortunately, at that time scientific and technological progress reached the land of the Soviets, and then it was already possible to use slides and make presentations in order to tell with their help about the Roerichs' work. And at the same time talk about Shambhala and Agni Yoga.
Larisa Petrovna made a presentation, made her own poetic comments on it, picked up the music. And with this lecture I went to the USSR - to talk about the wonderful paintings of an unknown artist, so revered abroad.
Then people in more than twenty cities learned that the Earth is only a small part of the great cosmos, but it is also important for it, just like every person is important for the Earth. She talked about Cosmic laws, the power of thought, the Himalayas and Shambhala. And that this teaching is not just philosophical. That science is already coming to the same conclusions: that thought is material.
A tireless woman in 1989 founded the Scientific and Cultural Educational Roerich Center in Moldova and headed it. She continued to give her lectures, and with each meeting there were more and more interested people.
Public acceptance
In 1998 she was invited to the UNESCO Forum held in Chisinau. She spoke at this event, and one of the leaders of UNESCO noted that Dmitrieva's speech is close to the ideals of their organization.
After the enormous work that Larisa Petrovna Dmitrieva did, she was recognized as the most authoritative specialist who understands the scientific and philosophical heritage of H. P. Blavatsky and the Roerich family. No wonder: this was her whole life, including her personal life, she devoted to this mission.
Her creative portfolio includes several books about Blavatsky and her "Secret Doctrine", the book "The Messenger of the Morning Star Christ and His Teachings in the Light of the Teachings of Shambhala" - seven volumes, the children's book "Thinker", a series of documentaries and videos about the messengers of the Masters. All this can be seen on the author's website.
