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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13)

May 3, 2011.

PART ONE. ACTIVITY.

In this program, I will return to the activities of AKSIO, the Agency for Cultural and Social Research of the Society, because the survey that we have discussed in our previous programs has been completed. Not only has it been completed, but it has already been processed. And a group of sociologists led by Yulia Sergeevna Krizhanskaya has presented the survey’s results. The people who conducted it now all know that this work did not sink into oblivion, that it did not evaporate, but brought about a certain practical result. I will discuss this result discussed in the first part of our program: Activity. Because this is important, because it is not every day that we get results like these, and because these results are rather significant. Contine reading →

(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12)

April 26, 2011.

PART ONE. ACTIVITY

We have conducted a sociological study as part of “AKSIO” (Agency for Cultural and Social Studies of Society), the second area of activity out of the twelve that we are engaged in. Here are the intermediate results. Contine reading →

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( Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapter 11)

April 19, 2011.

As I mentioned before, in the second stage of broadcasts (from 11 to 20) we are going to split each chapter into four parts.

Contine reading →

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( Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I)

April 12, 2011.

Ten chapters of the “Essence of Time” program have passed, and we can consider the first stage to be finished. The sociological research activity that we are currently carrying out draws the dividing line between the first and the second stages. Contine reading →

( Links to previous Chapters are available here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9)

April 4, 2011.

On April 1st, 2011, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published an article by Mr. Sergey Karaganov entitled “Not de-Stalinization, but a modernization of consciousness. The proposal of the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights is a real path to national reconciliation.” Contine reading →

(If you haven’t already, please read Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 first)

March 22, 2011

We will slowly go about solving the central problems which separate us from our intended undertaking. But we will solve them, one by one. Just don’t try to make us out to be more naïve, than we are. Don’t try to transform the tasks that we set for ourselves into other goals, which are related, but which are not ours. Contine reading →

(If you haven’t already, please read Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 first)

March 15, 2011

I will begin with a poem not because I want to enrich our discussions with some kind of beauty, but because we need images and symbols, which would speak not just to the mind, but also to the heart. Without this, the conversation would be pointless.

Here is an excerpt from Blok’s “Retribution”. Contine reading →

(If you haven’t already, please read Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 first)

March 8, 2011

I often have to answer the question, “What is metaphysics? To what degree, and to what extent it is equivalent to religion? And if it is equivalent to religion, then to which religion?”

I myself think that metaphysics is not exactly and not entirely religion. It is a certain awareness of the mystery of the universe, which today is very consistent with modern science, with the theory of evolution, the theory of all forms of the material world increasing in complexity, including those forms, which were created immediately after the Big Bang, and which continued to develop afterwards. First, within the boundaries of the non-living world, and then within the world of humanity.

Contine reading →