^New Ecopsychology
or Spiritual Ecology

Borovik

Once, walking through the forest and gathering mushrooms, we came upon a high hill with a very steep slope. Despite being tired and carrying heavy rucksacks with mushrooms, we felt an unaccountable urge to climb up it.

We climbed and found on the top of the hill, above and beneath it, the purest Divine Light, which streamed up like a fountain.

We entered inside the “fountain” and studied it. This place turned out to be remarkable for work, for example, for cleansing the chakras.

We understood that this is a working site of one of the Divine Teachers.

Then we saw Him.

He said that He was called Borovik.

We asked Him to tell about Himself. He replied:

“I was a young son of a local landowner. In that life I studied the Divine wisdom. These lands were Finnish, but we were a Russian family.”.

“When was it?”

“1905 — 1945. I was a member of a Lutheran community.”

“Who was Your Tutor?”

“The Pastor Whom you know.

“I developed Myself on this hill. There is a remarkable place of power here, which can help your students as well. Here, there is a ‘fountain’ of the Divine Energy streaming from the Abode of the Creator. With its help, one can ‘inflate’ oneself as a consciousness, like a balloon. In this way — by doing it again and again — one can grow the consciousness quickly, grow it — with the Creator’s Energies!

“I found this place Myself and brought others here. Everyone would take here as much as they could.”

… A Divine Woman — His Mother — came to us.

“I took Her, too, into Me.”

Nearby, a group of other Divine Souls was also present.

“Are They Your Disciples?”

“Not exactly. This was a community where no one considered himself or herself ‘higher’ or ‘superior’ to others. We were all companions on the Path to the Creator. I walked first.

“You know My Mother very well. Many years ago She helped you to gather mushrooms in this forest.

“Pay attention to the possibility of connecting quite easily, on this place, one’s heart with the Heart of the Absolute and attuning it to the subtlety of the Creator.

“The same can be done on the place of Bartholomew, though in a slightly different manner.

“In this way, one can easily achieve Mergence with the Creator on this place. This is the minimal program that I had mastered.

“Bartholomew told you that Jesus took Him into His Anahata. And I was taken by the One Universal Creator into Him. I did not have apprenticeship with Jesus personally, but I followed His precepts concerning seeking the One Universal Creator — it is this that constitutes the essence of Christ’s Teachings!

“I will be with you always. Remember how I cognized God-the-Father here! And bring your students to this place!”

“Why do You call Yourself by such an unusual name*?”

“In childhood I fell very ill… Neither doctors nor priests could help Me… And once My mother appealed to God as she never did: ‘If you really exist, You must help me!’

“And she leaned against the fence of a park.

“A person passing by asked her, ‘Are you okay?’ And helped her to sit onto a bench nearby… It was a Pastor.

“My mother burst into tears and told Him everything.

‘Why don’t you ask advice from God?’ He asked.

‘How?’

‘In the same way as you ask Me. Do you think that God can’t hear you?

‘Don’t you see that His reply came instantly?! And now I will help you to hear the rest. Try to hear Him yourself: not with the ears but with the heart!

‘Move with your son to live in the forest. Buy a house in the pine forest near a lake. And live together with God! He will heal your son! Once you move, let Me know; maybe I will help you more!…’

“The mother believed Him. They together with the father sold what they could and bought a small house in this place.

“And I began to recover. I gained not only health and the beauty of nature, but also a spiritual Tutor. People gathered in our home to listen to the Pastor and to learn to love God. In this way, we lived as a community.

“When I grew up, I Myself began spiritual work with those few who were with us.”

“But Why do You have such an unusual name?”

“Pastor jokingly called Me so! He told My mother: ‘Your son will recover! And he will grow healthy as borovik!’ And I grew up!”