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The BOOK of KNOWLEDGE
a phylosophical & mystical novel,
the winner & laureate of the following awards:
• “LITERARY OLYMPUS” 2011
League of Writers of Eurasia
• “The BEST BOOK of the YEAR” 2008—2011
The Union of Writers of Russia
• “LIVING WORD” E. Blavatskaya, 2015
Creative Union “Not indifference”
• “MAGICAL REALISM of the 21st CENTURY” 2020
C. Castaneda and G. I. Gurdjieff nomination
Open Literary Club “Response”
• “The BOOK of the 21st CENTURY” 2021
C. Castaneda nomination
The Union of Writers of Russia & NP “Literary Republic”
The novel is based on the film “The Miracles of Healing”
shown on TV Channel 1 of Russia 01 September 2009,
which the writer took part in.
ABOUT the BOOK
“The Book of Secret Knowledge from the Library of the Universe” by E. Zhmachinskaya
There are books that are timeless. “The Book of Knowledge” by Alexandra Kryuchkova, written in the spirit of magical realism and based on a series of documentary films about Raisa Akhmetovna Mansurova, the first of which, “Miracles of Healing”, shown on the Channel 1 of Russian Television on September 1, 2009, has already been reprinted 13 times, with a total circulation exceeding 10,000 copies.
“Who is Mansurova?” the reader might ask.
R. A. Mansurova, a doctor of psychology, has worked closely with the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as with international medical and scientific organizations, for many years. Having conducted a series of studies with famous geneticist, professor, and academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Peter Gariaev (1942—2020, founder of the Institute of Quantum Genetics, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine), Raisa Akhmetovna has been organizing trainings and seminars around the world for over 20 years. Her students learn the art of self-regulation and understand the unlimited resources and potential given by God to each of us. Thousands of people have not only overcome serious illnesses but also firmly embarked on the path of spiritual self-development. In “The Book of Knowledge”, unlike other authors, Alexandra Kryuchkova, a participant of the TV film “Miracles of Healing”, a seminarian, and a student of Mansurova, managed to present serious material (from Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle to modern discoveries in DNA and stem cells, neurolinguistics and psychosomatics) in a simple and accessible form – through dialogues with the main characters, who found themselves with her at a mountain seminar in China.
The novel consists of two parts: “A Path to the Light” and “The Book of Knowledge”. If at the beginning of the book the door to Another Reality only opens slightly, and a person learns to truly live here and now, without playing games invented by society and people, in order to realize their purpose and embark on the Path to the Light, the main part of the book, “The Book of Knowledge”, is a fascinating journey through Another Reality, where step by step the reader comprehends its spiritual content and learns to separate Good from Evil, ascending ever higher up the Stairway to Heaven.
The novel is autobiographical. In the interview with Evgeny Stepanov for the magazine “Children of Ra”, A. Kryuchkova, who makes no secret of her experiments with Time and Space, answered the question, “Alice walks barefoot on broken glass and hot coals, enters the Temple of the Soul, listens to the Music of the Spheres, merges with Heaven. Could this book be based on real events?” gives a clear answer, “Even as a child, someone told me, ‘Never write about anything you haven’t experienced yourself’.”
In the interview with journalist Margarita Palshina for Kulturologia news (April 2016, “A Path to the Light. The Book of Knowledge”), Alexandra shared the backstory of writing the book. The writer’s answers to questions about what magic is, whether she is a Teacher, and about the rules for those who have chosen the way to the Light, are very interesting.
“The Book of Knowledge” has been published since 2009 under various titles and by various publishers (West-Consulting, RIPOL Classic, etc.). Some chapters have been published in the prestigious magazines “Children of Ra”, “Russian Bell”, “Persona Plus”, and in the anthology “M.A.G.I.” The presentation marathon began at the Union of Writers and reached Red Square, where the author met with fans of “Another Reality” at the stand of the editor RIPOL Classic at the book fair 2016.
The book has got numerous positive reviews from Russian and international readers and was awarded from professional writers’ organizations: “Best Book of the Year 2008—2011” (Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia), “Literary Olympus” award in the Prose category (League of Eurasian Writers, 2011), the “Living Word” E. P. Blavatsky award (Creative Union “Indifference”, 2015), and the “Magical Realism of the 21st century” Carlos Castaneda and George Gurdjieff award (Open Literary Club “Response”, 2020), the “Book of the 21st Century”, nomination “The Path of Knowledge” Carlos Castaneda (Moscow City Organization of the Union of Russian Writers, “Literary Republic”).
I’ll allow myself to quote some reviews of the book, published in the prefaces of the previous editions, with which I fully agree after reading “The Book of Knowledge” myself.
“Alexandra Kryuchkova is a true Warrior of Light, and her novel is a reference book for those walking the Stairway to Heaven.”
Dmitry Tseselchuk, Chairman of the Union of the Literary men of the Russian Federation
“I am amazed by the author’s encyclopedic knowledge… Kryuchkova never ceases to amaze me with both her style and the plot. She is a master of literature, parapsychology, and a sensitive individual. How gracefully and stunningly the story of the clairvoyant Alice is woven into the fabric of scientific material and presented to the astonished reader in an accessible form. Bravo!”
Vadim Shiltzyn, writer, member of the Union of Writers of Russia
“My hat’s off to the author, it’s impeccable! A treasure trove of knowledge, indeed! The Path to the Light is thorny, but worth it!”
Irina Lezhava, writer, member of the Union of Writers of Russia
“Infinitely talented! The plot captures the mind, like a mystical treatise that cannot be deciphered immediately, but the truth is already there. The parable-like nature of the text transports you to a world of ancient wisdom, answers all questions, and returns the reader to our reality completely refreshed! Incredibly, A. Kryuchkova truly manages to connect with any reader, even the most skeptical. There’s an invisible author-reader connection, something so rare in contemporary Russian literature…”
Elizaveta Azarova, literary critic
“A book beyond time and for all times. The author’s Another Reality is our life, full of miracles we don’t notice. A kind, bright, and intelligent novel, the original of which is in the Library of the Universe!”
Alexey Ponomarenko, reader
“The main character, Alice, is a clairvoyant. She writes amazing poetry and paints wonderful intuitive pictures, experiments with space and time, and becomes aware of her dreams while asleep. Alice lives, unlike other characters caught up in games. She is real. And everything that happens to her is the absolute truth. Alice follows her destined, often very difficult, path, and signs sent from above suggest that she is on the right path. As a result of her captivating adventures, Alice finds herself on a higher rung of the endless Staircase leading to Heaven, she becomes a Teacher, transmitting Knowledge to the world. For me, the novel became a global metaphor of life, and the image of Alice is a universal symbol, a chorus of voices representing all the people who inhabit this world. I’ll pass on ‘The Book of Knowledge’ to my children and grandchildren, just as treasures are passed down from generation to generation…”
Elena Erofeeva-Litvinskaya, journalist, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, Vice President of the International Association of Citizens of the Arts, Spain
“By reading this book, you will understand your purpose in the world and change your destiny, learn to solve problems and find a way out of seemingly dead-end situations, gain the key to healing your body, soul, and spirit. You will also discover your hidden resources and talents, boldly realize your dreams, master the language of nature and the stars, recognize signs, travel in dreams, move through time and space, connect to the information field, and, realizing and feeling that the world is like a mathematical formula or a symphony, where each of us has his own sign, own note, you will become a true White Magician, using the energy given from above for the benefit of yourself and the world. This book, written in beautiful literary language, with a touch of irony and self-irony, will become your true friend and assistant, to whom you will return again and again for advice at different periods of your life. And, of course, it will be forever treasured on a shelf in the Library of the Universe, as one of those books that Time has no power over…”
Margarita Palshina, writer, journalist, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, winner of the international Golden Pen of Russia award
For me personally, Alexandra Kryuchkova has become a beacon in the realm of the Unknown. If you are truly interested in learning something new about Another Reality, don’t hesitate to read “The Book of Knowledge”! It’s quite possible that it really did come to our world from the Library of the Universe!
Elena Zhmachinskaya,
member of the Union of Russian Writers,
Head of the Creative Union “Indifference”
Newspaper “Literary News” / “Literaturnye Izvestia”, No. 1 (199), 2022
“A Path to the Light. The Book of Knowledge”, interview with A. Kryuchkova by M. Palshina (2016)
Readers have been awaiting Alexandra Kryuchkova’s new edition of the book about Another Reality (“The Book of Black and White Magic. Another Reality”, RIPOL Classic Publishing House, Moscow, 2016, Secret Knowledge Series), which consists of two parts, “A Path to the Light” and “The Book of Knowledge” for a long time.
Even during its writing, when Alexandra posted individual chapters online, readers from all over the world sent letters asking, “Where can I buy this book?” This is what usually happens with Books of Knowledge and true Wisdom, which can provide answers to numerous questions of existence and help a person change their destiny for the better.
The first author’s edition, in a print run of 3,000 copies, immediately sold out across Russia and ex-countries of USSR. A portion of the print run reached the United States, where it was highly praised at seminars by Raisa Akhmetovna Mansurova, a doctor of psychology and parapsychologist who teaches people the art of destiny management and self-regulation.
This Book of Revelation, a rare combination of theory and practice of Secret Knowledge, is truly multifaceted and unique, as it touches on various areas of the Unknown, that have come down to us from the depths of centuries, and also recounts the discoveries of our contemporaries. The writer reveals the laws, principles, and mechanisms of magic not only through examples from the mysteries and teachings of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Chaldeans, Sufis, and Christian theosophists, but also in dialogues with real people from the modern world, walking with the main character along mountain paths at R.A. Mansurova’s seminar in China.
Finally, the Book of Knowledge was reissued by the Russian publishing house RIPOL Classic and has arrived in bookstores.
We publish an interview with the writer of the book, Alexandra Kryuchkova.
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M.P.: Alexandra, why and for what purpose did you write this book?
A.K.: Having experienced the death of my parents and my own near-death state in early childhood, I constantly encountered manifestations of Another Reality in my life, both in dreams and waking life. I really wanted to find answers to the questions: Who am I? Why and what for was I brought back here, to Earth? What am I doing here? Why are people born if they have to die? What are life and death? What will happen to us afterward? What is there, in the world my parents left for? How is it structured, where is it located, and can one enter it while in a physical body? What are dreams, time, another dimension? Who are ghosts, and why do some see them and others don’t? Who are magicians, sorcerers, psychics, fraudsters or true wizards? How do miracles work? What is our soul, spirit? What about angels? Who is God? Is everything predetermined, or can we really change our destiny? I read relevant literature, met interesting people, traveled to Places of Power, and conducted research in the sphere of Another Reality, until one day I decided to compile the information I had got in order to share it with readers. I wanted to convey the Knowledge in the form of a book, written in a simple, human language, accessible to everyone.
M.P.: Is the clairvoyant protagonist Alice a fictional character, or is your book a true Magician’s Diary?
A.K.: When I started writing my first stories, as a child, a wise man told me, “Never write about anything you haven’t experienced yourself.” And I followed his advice.
M.P.: In this book, the reader is introduced to both the secret knowledge of ancient civilizations and the achievements of modern science, which is fundamentally different from the generally accepted understanding of magic. So what is “Magic”?
A.K.: Magic is our life. Everything that surrounds us in the world is Magic. Our every step, every action, every word, every thought is Magic, because all of this entails certain consequences in our lives, depending on which our destiny is constantly changing one way or another. Therefore, every person from birth is a Magician, the creator of their own destiny, their own Reality.
M.P.: So, does the title “The Book of Black and White Magic” refer more to the global, universal concepts of Good and Evil?
A.K.: Absolutely correct.
M.P.: But Evil tends to wear the mask of Good. How can an inexperienced Magician distinguish between these two complex categories?
A.K.: By analyzing actions and their consequences.
M.P.: Can a White Magician use Evil’s methods to defeat Evil?
A.K.: A person who calls himself a White Magician but uses Evil’s methods is a Black Magician. Good will triumph over Evil in any case, it’s a matter of time. And this is one of the laws of the Universe.
M.P.: You dedicated the book to your Teachers, Raisa Akhmetovna Mansurova and Vladimir Grigorievich Kurilov. Aren’t you a Teacher yourself?
A.K.: I am one of the links in the chain of transmission of Knowledge. I pass on to people the keys to those doors to Knowledge that have been opened by me to one degree or another, although, as Socrates said, “All that a man knows and can understand is nothing in comparison with what he does not know, he doesn’t understand.” But people ascend the Stairway to Heaven at different rates, so each Soul is a Teacher for someone and a Student for others. Simultaneously.
M.P.: In the book, you also talk about your acquaintance with Nonna Khidiryan, the winner of the “Battle of Psychics” on TV TNT. Did communicating with her help in writing the book?
A.K.: Not only in writing the book. Nonna is a true White Magician; she has always supported me in difficult moments on my way to the Light.
M.P.: What do you think is the most important rule for a person who has chosen the Path to the Light?
A.K.: One should remember that each of us faces our own Life Exam, where it will no longer be possible to lie or bribe our way out. Don’t think about rewards, do your best as good deeds, for those around you and for the world as a whole. Live every day as if it were your last before the Exam of Life.
M.P.: The book explores in detail the causes of various diseases, including instructions for working with oncology. What is fundamental to healing?
A.K.: The most important thing for everyone to remember is that nothing in their life happens by chance. Cancer, like any other disease, is the result of a cause, but it’s curable, and this is a scientific fact… The cure rate, unfortunately, is low because finding the true cause and eliminating it is the most difficult part of healing, but it’s possible.
M.P.: You describe the mechanisms of interaction with the Information Field, working with time and space, and give practical advice on creating a Wish-Fulfillment Program, but still… What advice would you give to people who have decided to turn to magicians and healers? How can they avoid making the wrong choice of specialist?
A.K.: Read my book and start creating your own destiny.
Margarita Palshina,
writer, journalist, member of
the Union of Writers of Russia,
winner of the international
Golden Pen of Russia award
Magazine “Literary Moscow”, No. 2, 2022
“The Library of the Universe in One Book!”
ISBN 978-5-7949-0970-8,
The Union of Writers of Russia, Moscow City Organization,
NP “Literary Republic”
Moscow City Portal, News: April 27, 2016
“The Book of Black and White Magic Will Help Change Your Destiny”
Kulturologiya. rf, April 2016
“A Way to the Light. The Book of Knowledge.”
“Love doesn’t demand anything”, Interview with A. Kryuchkova by E. Stepanov (2010)
Today our guest is Alexandra Kryuchkova, poet, writer, artist, author of 17 published books of poetry, as well as co-author of more than 60 collective editions, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, the International Association of Citizens of the Arts (Spain), the regional public fund for the promotion of modern poetry “Svetoch”, the Open Literary Club “Response”, etc.
For faithful service to the national literature, she was awarded literary prizes of A. S. Griboedov, V. V. Mayakovsky, A. P. Chekhov, etc. She got a diploma of O. E. Mandelstam as a laureate of the poetry contest “Gallery of Selected Poems” in the nomination “Philosophy of the Soul”.
Alexandra Kryuchkova is interviewed by Evgeny Stepanov.
E.S.: Alexandra, first of all, please tell us a little about yourself.
A.K.: I was born and live in Moscow. I started writing poetry and prose at about the age of eleven. I remember that my mother was categorically against my creativity, because she believed that the fate of all poets was far from the best, and she was probably right. But I continued to write without thinking about what I was writing for. It was an urgent need of the soul for self-expression. I was just following my own Path. Every person in this world is a creator.
E.S.: How do you come up with poems?
A.K.: Sometimes they come on their own. First you feel vibration at a certain frequency, it is always different, then the lines come. As a rule, you don’t know what will be in the next line, what you will hear about, what you will write down. But it doesn’t happen always that way. Sometimes you just need to throw out on paper what has accumulated inside, in this case, it’s a feeling turned into words.
E.S.: Do you have any favorite poets?
A.K.: The poetry of the Silver Age is closest to my soul. As a child, when I sang in a church choir, I read Blok, then I discovered Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva and Mayakovsky. It’s difficult to single out any person and his works in its entirety, rather, some poems by various poets.
E.S.: You write poems on different topics, but poems about love prevail. What does love mean to you?
A.K.: Love is a feeling that is familiar to everyone, although everyone understands it in their own way. Love for me personally is the most important feeling in life. It can be different: love between a man and a woman, love for parents, for children, for God, for nature, and so on. When a person is filled with love, no matter what kind of it, he is able to create miracles. The power of love is the greatest power in the world. It’s stronger than death. Love is Life, and the absence of Love is Death. The power of Love in me speaks in verse.
E.S.: Should love be mutual?
A.K.: It’s wonderful when love is mutual, but True Love doesn’t demand anything in return and doesn’t even ask for it; one’s soul needs to grow up to such Love, going through fire, water and copper pipes. Unfortunately, most people are accustomed to living in order to consume, and if they give, they want to take something in return.
E.S.: One of your recent books is in the series “Playing Another Reality”, a very mystical and esoteric one. Why did you name it that way?
A.K.: Many people believe that Another Reality is a game. People think that Alice, the main character, is playing, but in fact, people are playing. They play different games in the Earthly Reality. Alice lives in Another Reality without playing. It’s like a look from Another Reality to the Earthly one.
E.S.: Alice walks barefoot on broken glass and hot coals, ends up in the Temple of the Soul, listens to the Music of the Spheres, and merges with Heavens. Is this book based on real events?
A.K.: Even as a child, I was told by a person, “Never write about anything you haven’t experienced yourself,” although there is some fiction in the book.
E.S.: Alice is a clairvoyant. Can you predict events?
A.K.: At the age of eleven I visited the place where people usually don’t return from, and after that the knowledge of upcoming events sometimes really comes down to me from There.
E.S.: Despite possessing this gift, Alice is unhappy. Why?
A.K.: The Open Door to the Space where there is information about everything, or, in other words, hypersensitivity, as a rule, doesn’t make life easier and doesn’t bring happiness in itself. I knew about the upcoming death of my parents, but I couldn’t change anything.
E.S.: So is the future predetermined?
A.K.: Not exactly. The future is multivariate, being created by a person every second, every moment, with every word, deed or lack thereof, which instantly affects the future. Every step a person takes changes the possible options of the future, which are like an open fan. At some point, you just know that at a given period of time in a particular situation there is only one option left, no other options. If this case, you can’t change anything. You just have to take it for granted, and this is the most difficult thing in life.
E.S.: One of the main characters is the Man Who Was Not. You don’t even give him a name. Does he still exist in our earthly reality or not?
A.K.: This question is asked to me by almost everyone who has read the book. Let everyone answer it themselves, because whatever the answer is, it doesn’t change anything.
E.S.: The first edition of the book is illustrated with your paintings of the Girl with the Moon Cat. Were they painted after the book was written, as illustrations for the text?
A.K.: No, both the Moon Cat and the Girl appeared earlier. I just wanted to paint something. I sat down at the canvas and saw the pictures I painted later.
E.S.: Did you study painting?
A.K.: No, but I believe that everyone knows to paint since childhood. Everyone paints differently, and that’s great. My paintings are purely intuitive painting, self-expression of the soul. There is no need to look for correctness in them, but they do have meaning. Many people told me that they had seen what I depicted in my paintings, and this once again confirms the existence of a certain Primary Source, Information Database or Another Reality, it doesn’t matter what they call it, but hypersensitive people living in the Earthly Reality can get there. Many famous artists, such as Salvador Dali, painted Another Reality.
E.S.: Do you like Salvador Dali?
A.K.: I feel some of his paintings. It’s difficult to explain and cannot be characterized by the word “like”. I like individual paintings by many artists, but, as in the case with poets and writers, I cannot single out one of them as my favorite.
E.S.: Is your book just a story about the supernatural and our hidden resources or something more?
A.K.: This book makes everyone think. Who are we in this world? What are we doing here? Why did one come down here? What mark will one leave on Earth? And for those who have entered a dark period in life, the story, on the example of the main character, will help to realize that the Void is temporary, it can be overcome by being filled with Light.
E.S.: In conclusion of the interview, what would you like to wish our readers?
A.K.: To know themselves, find their own Path and follow It, giving Light, Good and Love into the world.
Evgeniy STEPANOV,
President
of the Union of Writers of the 21st Century,
poet, writer, PhD in Philology
Magazine “CHILDREN OF RA” / “DETI RA” No. 11, 20101
Magazine Hall “GORKY MEDIA”2
