Grail and swastika. Religion of Nazism Pervushin Anton Ivanovich

"Secrets of Tibet"

After returning from the third expedition, Ernst Schaefer was engaged not only in hardware intrigues, but also in rather unusual research. Let's dwell on them in more detail.

Among the materials brought to Germany from Tibet was a huge collection of unique plants and crops. On arrival they were sorted and described in detail. In 1943, Ernst Schaefer, in a summary report, set out the tasks for further experiments with the Tibetan flora:

Our aspirations have always been associated with the goal of collecting everything that could be useful for our own people. The 1,500 barley crops mentioned here, which are mostly the result of primitive breeding, can have a number of very important hereditary factors - for example, drought resistance or frost resistance.

Thus, Ernst Schaefer also understood Tibet as an enclave flora, which has adapted perfectly to the hostile high-mountain environment. From the point of view of agronomy, crossing Tibetan crops with European ones was not only logical, but also very profitable. The instillation of special properties in European cereal crops, by design, was to make them more unpretentious and increase productivity.

The leadership of the SS expected from Schäfer the appearance of frost-resistant and fast-growing "miracle varieties" of barley and wheat. Their cultivation would allow the start of "Germanization" of Eastern Europe, which was supposed to be built up with the same type of agricultural settlements. Himmler demanded that cross-breeding of different crops would allow German peasants to have multiple crops a year. However, it was not only the colonization of the East. The Reichsfuehrer consoled himself with the conceited thought that under his patronage Germany's food problem would be solved, to which Adolf Hitler himself attached special, almost mystical significance. It was the SS who were supposed to bring the supply of the Third Reich with grain to a fundamentally new level.

In the spring of 1942, Heinrich Himmler ordered Ernst Schaefer, as head of the Ahnenerbe department, to prepare for the formation of the Institute of Wild Plant Varieties. However, it quickly became clear that this project was difficult to implement. In those days, Schaefer's "Asian" department was heavily influenced by the above-described confrontation with the management of the Filchner Foundation. The emergence of a new institute threatened no less problems, only this time botanists could come out against the SS scientists. After lengthy negotiations and consultations, it was decided to limit the organization of a special institution that operated under the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Society. The new structure, which was proudly called the Institute for the Study of Plant Cultures, was led by botanist professor Fritz von Wettstein. Himmler had to put up with the adjustment of grandiose plans, since the professor was directly subordinate to the powerful imperial minister of food and agriculture.

Realizing that it was futile to enter into another political conflict, Ernst Schaefer tried to avoid competitive situations with botanists. In October 1942, he began negotiations with representatives of the Reich Ministry of Agriculture, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society of Berlin, and the new institute to be located in the Tuttenhof. It was then that he was clearly given to understand that instead of an institute, he could only count on the research department of wild plant crops within the Ahnenerbe. Moreover, the emphasis in the forthcoming work was again placed on the eastern regions, and priority was given to the Caucasus. How the planned cooperation of all these structures with Ahnenerbe was to be carried out in practice remains unclear. One gets the impression that he simply did not exist: Schaefer calmly handed over samples of the crops he had collected to Tuttenhof and did not meet with either von Wettstein or representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture again. When, at the end of November 1942, the SS Main Office announced that the Reichsführer, together with the Kaiser Wilhelm Society of Berlin, planned to create an "Institute of Grain Breeding, extremely important for the entire German economy," Schaefer's name did not even appear on the lists of employees. The well-known botanist Heinz Brücher became the head of the institute.

Another project of Ernst Schaefer was related to horse breeding. Even during the second expedition, he very carefully studied the horses living in the wild. After the start of the war with the Soviet Union, the Tibetologist had the opportunity to try himself as a zoologist-breeder: he had to breed a new breed of horses that were not susceptible to the harsh Russian winters.

Not much material has survived on this topic. Most of them came out of the walls of the Institute for Military Scientific Targeted Research, created at Anenerbe. Some documents were addressed to the SS Main Economic and Economic Directorate, commanded by Oswald Pohl. At the same time, Ernst Schaefer maintained contacts with Rudolf Brandt, who helped him select the necessary scientists and specialists.

Selection experiments were undertaken in 1942-1943. At the same time, Schaefer relied on Mongolian horses and Przewalski's horses. Where selection work was carried out can only be established approximately, but it is known that it was about the occupied eastern territories. In 1944, with the retreat of the German army to the west, Ernst Schaefer decided to transfer all the horses to the stud farm in Poznań. From there they were to go to Hungary, where three special enterprises had already been prepared.

Another major project of Ernst Schaefer was the film released following the results of the third expedition. During the trip, Ernst Krause filmed almost every step with a portable movie camera. Immediately after returning, the idea arose to create a documentary film from the footage (more than 50 hours), which would increase public interest in Tibet.

In the autumn of 1939, the film materials were transferred to the Berlin company Tobis Film for development and processing. Schaefer was interested in a quick release of the film on the screens, if only for mercantile and financial reasons, but the tape had to be censored beforehand.

The entire subsequent history of the creation of the film can be traced through the correspondence between Ernst Schäfer and Rudolf Brandt, the head of the personal staff of the Reichsfuehrer SS. From the very beginning it was clear to them that there was no way to keep the work on the film materials secret. As a result, Brandt warned Helmut Schreiber, who headed Tobis Film, that there should be no official mention of the film until the Reichsführer SS personally gave the order to hold the premiere. Not only Schreiber's work was to be kept secret: at the end of January 1940, Himmler issued a directive in which he demanded that the text of all publications and reports on the Tibetan expedition be coordinated with him personally. As a result, during the development of the project of the Sven Hedin Institute, information about the third Tibetan expedition of Ernst Schaefer was limited to general declarations and statements about its sensationalism. However, in all publications there was a lack of factual material. In some places it was briefly mentioned that the expedition members were planning to prepare a film, but no one could say anything about the date or the approximate content. Schaefer had to be very careful, as he was constantly invited to various radio programs, offered to give interviews, asked to write an article or read a report. After consultations with Himmler, the Tibetologist in almost all these cases refused all tempting offers.

It is clear that such a ban hurt the pride of the scientist. So, for example, the Brussels Encyclopedic Society in the spring of 1940 invited Ernst Schaefer to make a report on the past expedition and the research planned for the future. Schaefer immediately informed the Reichsführer SS of the proposal. Despite the fact that there was no official ban on reading reports abroad, Himmler asked the researcher to show up ill and politely decline the invitation. As a result, Rudolf Brandt transmitted the following information to Brussels:

Unfortunately, currently time dr Schaefer suffers from a serious eye disease, for the treatment of which he was sent to a Munich clinic. For this reason, the preparation of the report is temporarily unavailable.

To be more credible, the Tibetologist had to find some kind of eye disease that is widespread in the East. Even in this situation, Heinrich Himmler wanted everything to look realistic. As a result, to Schaefer's great regret, the general public never learned about the essence of his research. Perhaps at such moments, Schaefer regretted that he was under the patronage of the Reichsführer SS.

Despite the strict ban on reporting any information about the upcoming documentary, in the spring of 1940 there was a leak. An article appeared in one of the Hamburg newspapers, which reported that a film dedicated to the Tibetan SS expedition led by Ernst Schaefer was being edited at the Tobis Film studio. Himmler was furious. On March 12, 1940, he wrote to Schaefer and again demanded secrecy.

It was at this time that a large-scale military operation in Tibet was being prepared. Keeping the fact that the film was being prepared a secret acquired a military-tactical significance, becoming a precautionary measure against the actions of British intelligence.

Ernst Schaefer refused to take responsibility for the leak. Then Himmler forbade Helmut Schreiber to make the film: he was afraid that other leaks might occur. Rudolf Brandt sent a notice to Tobis Film that information about the Tibetan film is confidential, so the film company's employees are responsible for taking precautions. In response, Schreiber broke down and clarified the situation. It turns out that the information got into the newspaper after a report in a narrow circle, which Schaefer did in Hamburg. The Tibetologist received a severe reprimand.

In June 1940, Ernst Schaefer sent the first report on the activities of the Ahnenerbe department headed by him to Rudolf Brandt. In it, the Tibetologist described in detail the work on the film, as well as the principles of interaction between his department and Tobis Film. At that time, the film lacked only synchronous sound and background music. In general, a full-length popular science film was obtained from the presented material. Not without a sense of pride, Schaefer cited Helmut Schreiber's words that this is "not just a good film, but an achievement, the best German film." The Tibetologist also reported that the film would be ready for distribution in October 1940. To start its demonstration, only the permission of the Reichsfuehrer SS was required. In addition, Schaefer emphasized that it would be a good idea to prepare a special propaganda article dedicated to the Tibetan film.

Schaefer believed that the screening of the film would stimulate a wave of public interest in Central Asia, and this, in turn, will become a prerequisite for more active funding of his department as part of Ahnenerbe and support for other initiatives. Helmut Schreiber was interested in the box office that, with the right presentation, this film could collect. But the directive received from Himmler crossed out the hopes of both. The SS chief once again forbade drawing the attention of state bodies and the European public to the problems of Tibet.

After reviewing the report, Brandt again drew Schaefer's attention to maintaining complete secrecy:

Please take care that neither from your pen, nor from the pen of any member of your expedition, articles and materials appear that have not been agreed with the Reichsfuehrer SS. The Reichsfuehrer SS considers it unacceptable that our enemies could establish a connection between Dr. Schaefer's trip to Tibet and the possibility of repeating the expedition to this region with military purposes. For this reason, the film can not appear in the near future at the box office. <… > As soon as the Reichsfuhrer considers that the time has come, he will immediately take advantage of your proposals regarding the organization of advertising for the film. Until this moment, you should not talk about the film either among your acquaintances or among newspaper workers. <… > Reichsfüpep is looking forward to the private screening that you have to do for him after the tape has been edited.

Such a “closed film screening” really took place. On June 10, 1942, the prepared material was shown to the Reichsfuehrer in the circle of his close friends. Fun fact - the demonstration took place in the sacred for the SS castle Quedlinburg, where the remains of Heinrich I Ptitselov are allegedly buried. But we remember that Heinrich Himmler considered himself the reincarnation of this German king.

The film "Secrets of Tibet" nevertheless became an event, but much later, when it passed through the Popular Science Film Center of the Imperial Propaganda Ministry. In December 1942, Minister Joseph Goebbels first saw the 105-minute release version of the film and gave it a very high rating. The premiere was to take place on January 16, 1943, in the presence of Sven Hedin, who was arriving at the opening of the institute named after him.

One of the Ahnenerbe employees, who worked in the Schaefer department, shared his impressions with a friend:

The film made a splash no less than the Schaefer expedition itself. The tape is magnificent, in some places I was suffocated with delight. It is understandable why, for political reasons, it has not yet been shown to the general public. In connection with the opening of the Institute of Asian Studies, this film was officially demonstrated for the first time. I perceived it not as a popular science, but as a full-length feature film. Distinguished foreign guests are also impressed. Everyone honored Sven Hedin. Then a big press conference was given at the Ministry of Propaganda for the foreign press. A much-conceived promotional campaign for the film will soon kick off. Almost all newspapers have photo reports or past reports of the expedition. All newspapers, even tabloids, write about Tibet.

Indeed, a lot was written about the film in German newspapers. At the same time, reprints of Ernst Schaefer's past essays often appeared, in which he spoke about the cultural and everyday life of Tibet. In total, about three hundred articles were published, not counting small notes, about the film "Secrets of Tibet", but not one of them even mentioned the Department of Central Asia and Expeditions, not to mention the "Ahnenerbe".

Schaefer himself got involved in advertising the film. He attached great importance to the fact that his name and the names of the members of the Tibetan expedition appeared as often as possible on the pages of newspapers. After obtaining Himmler's permission, Schaeffer drew up a detailed plan of how he thought the film's distribution should be arranged. In particular, he listed the cities in which, on the eve of the film screening, he should make short reports. In some cases, other members of the Tibetan expedition could replace him. The premiere of the film in the capitals of the German states "should have been carried out in close cooperation with all SS structures." Schaefer constantly focused on the "political and propaganda significance of the film," which was supposed to help cover the financial costs of his department at Ahnenerbe. But first of all, he wanted "Secrets of Tibet" to be shown in cities that were university centers.

As expected, the release of the film on wide screens greatly contributed to the growth of German society's interest in Tibet. For the first time, the German public was invited to see for itself authentic footage from the life of a country lost in the mountains somewhere between India and China. And due to the fact that the release of the film "Secrets of Tibet" coincided with the Battle of Stalingrad, it also performed a considerable psychotherapeutic function: National Socialist propaganda needed a reason to once again approve the achievements of the "glorious Germans". And even if in this case they were not soldiers, but scientists, in the situation of an impending national catastrophe, the difference between them did not matter much.

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This secret of Tibet became famous in the following way. In 1937-1938. in Qinghai province on the border of Tibet and China on the Bayan-Kara-Ula ridge, a group of archaeologists explored a remote area. Suddenly they discovered a rock, in which blackened niches turned out to be burial places. Of the many mysteries of Tibet, this mystery stands apart. Scientists faced a serious problem when they discovered the remains of buried people, whose height did not exceed 130 centimeters. Their bodies had disproportionately large skulls and thin limbs. Archaeologists could not find a single inscription on the walls of the crypts - only a series of drawings resembling the constellations, the Sun and the Moon, interconnected by pea-sized dotted dots and mysterious stone discs with incomprehensible hieroglyphs.

Initially, it was assumed that these were burials of extinct species of monkeys, and the disks and drawings belong to a later culture. But this idea was clearly ridiculous. How did the monkeys bury their relatives in a strict order? In addition, when the top layer was removed from the discs, it turned out that they contained a high percentage of cobalt and other metals. And when examining the disk on an oscilloscope, a special rhythm of oscillations appeared. This suggested that these disks may have once "charged" or served as a conductor of electricity. However, the questions did not end there.

In 1962, a partial translation of hieroglyphs from granite discs was made. According to the deciphered hieroglyphs, this amazing secret of Tibet had an extraterrestrial origin, since an alien crashed in the mountains of Bayan-Kara-Ula 12 thousand years ago spaceship! Here is an excerpt from the translation: “The Dropa descended to earth from behind the clouds in their airships. Ten times men, women and children local tribe the kham hid in the caves until sunrise. Finally they understood: this time, the drop came in peace.” It follows from the text that humanoids flew to Bayan-Kara-Ula more than once, and their appearance was not always peaceful. However, as expected, a refutation of this story soon followed, since the professor who made this discovery allegedly did not exist.

This unsolved mystery received a second life in 1974. Austrian journalist Peter Krassa, who dealt with the mysteries of stories related to aliens from outer space, once met engineer Ernst Wegerer, who in 1974 visited China with his wife and saw something resembling granite discs.

The Wegerer couple were passing through one of ancient cities China - the city of Xi'an. There is a Banno Museum here, built on the site of a village where archaeologists unearthed a Stone Age settlement. Looking at the museum's exposition, the guests from Austria suddenly froze when they saw two discs with holes in the middle in a glassed-in display case. On their surface, in addition to concentric circles, spiral grooves were visible, going from the center. When asked if it was possible to photograph these exhibits, the woman, the director of the museum, did not mind. However, she reacted with some delay to the request to tell about the origin of the discs. In her opinion, the objects have a cult significance and are made of clay, since only ceramic products are exhibited in the museum. But the discs clearly did not look like ceramics. Wegerer asked permission to hold them in his hands. The discs turned out to be weighty. According to the engineer, the material from which they were made was a stone of a greenish-gray color and had the hardness of granite. How these objects got into the museum, the director did not know.

In the spring of 1994, Peter Krassa visited China and the Banpo Museum, but he did not find the granite discs photographed twenty years ago by the engineer Wegerer. For some reason, the headmistress was recalled from here, and her current fate is unknown. The director of the museum, Professor Wang Zhijun, explained that the discs were removed from the exhibition, and no one else saw them. When asked where they are now, the professor replied: “The exhibits you are interested in do not exist, and, being recognized as foreign components of the exposition, they were moved (?)” How can a non-existent exhibit be moved? Someone wanted not to disclose this secret of Tibet.

Naturally, Crassus was not satisfied with such a strange answer, and he continued to ask questions about the Bayan-Khara-Ula disks. Finally, the Chinese led the guests to the back office of the museum and showed them a Chinese textbook on archeology. Flipping through the pages, dotted with hieroglyphs, one of the owners of the office showed the drawing. It depicted a disk with holes in the center, from which arcuate grooves stretch along the edges. This disc was similar to the one shot by Vegerer and completely corresponded to the descriptions of the Bayan-Khara-Ula discs!

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The distance between the Mexican pyramids and Easter Island, as well as between the Egyptian and Tibetan pyramids, is exactly the same. All this suggests that someone from above took part in the construction of the world pyramid system.

The main purpose of the erected pyramids is the connection of space with our planet. Scientists were able to prove this by drawing an axis on the map from Easter Island in the opposite direction and at the same time got into the mountains of Tibet, Kailash. And if you draw a meridian from Mount Kailash to the side Egyptian pyramids, then again you find yourself on Easter Island.

The secrets of Tibet are still not fully disclosed. Take, for example, Mount Kailash. This Mountain peak recognized as the main Pyramid of Tibet. Kailash differs from other mountains in its layered structure.

As you know, the Tibetan group of pyramids is recognized as the largest on the globe. They are located in strict dependence on the four cardinal directions.

Tibetan pyramids sharply differ from other world mountain sculptures. Their main difference lies in the peculiar stone structures located among the pyramids and having a concave or flat surface.

Such surfaces are called "mirrors". An old Tibetan legend says that there was a time when the sons of the Gods descended from heaven to Earth. The sons were endowed with the amazing power of the five elements, which helped them quickly build a giant city. According to Eastern religions, it was in this city that the North Pole was located before the Flood.

According to legend, Mount Kailash was also built using the power of five elements: water, air, fire, wind and earth. Therefore, she is considered holiest place on the planet.

The energy of Tibet is something inaccessible and inaccessible to the human mind. Take, for example, the famous "Valley of Death", located at an altitude of 5680 meters. It can only be crossed by the sacred road. As soon as you leave the sacred path, you will immediately fall under the influence of tantric power.

Stone mirrors also stand guard over the Death Valley. They are able to change the course of time for wanderers in such a way that they can turn into deep old men in a short time period.

As mentioned above, the secrets of Tibet lie in stone mirrors Oh. Scientists still have not been able to find an explanation for the ability of stone mirrors to change the course of time.

Among the pyramids of Tibet there are several such mirrors. One of them, the largest, has a height of eight hundred meters. This mirror is called the "Stone Palace of Happiness". According to legend, it is a place of transition to parallel worlds.

If you follow the logic, then you can see that the energy of Tibet is hidden in these stone mirror sculptures. All this is perfectly confirmed by the story told about mirrors by Kailash.

From his words, it turns out that all mankind has its own spatial great mirror - the sky above your head. If the sky is destined to roll up into a scroll in order to destroy the "bad time", all of humanity will begin to age rapidly.

During the entire two-hour flight from Chengdu, I never once looked up from the window. Below, a beautiful landscape was opened, smoothly turning from mountains covered with greenery to mountains covered with snow, all kinds of small and large lakes, long rivers and tiny houses. Somewhere in the middle of the flight, we appeared " vision" in the form of a rainbow, beautifully shimmering in the rays of the sun.
This is how Tibet met us, one of my old dreams and magical places on earth. At the exit from the airport, we were met by our guide named Lakpa, a local Tibetan resident and a wonderful storyteller, as we were convinced during our journey. mysterious land Tibet.
Having loaded all our belongings into the car, we headed to the very heart of Tibet, the city of Lhasa, the journey took about two hours, during which we did not get bored, our eyes opened picturesque landscapes and one of the longest rivers in Tibet, the Brahmaputra (Yarlung Tsangpo).
I could not believe that after so many years of dreams I see something that has long excited the minds of people - Tibet. Small world amazing nature, history, amazing people, magic and Tibetan lamas, whose faith is still strong and unshakable.

Many mysterious stories are connected with the appearance of this city, but it is reliably known that the founder of the first Tibetan state was Srontsang Gambo(617? - 649), it was he who transferred Lhasa from the valley of the Yarlung River to its present place. Before that, the city that was located on the site of Lhasa was called Race, which means " enclosure"Yes, it's not surprising enough to look at the landscape to understand why this is so. Lhasa, located at an altitude of 3650 meters on the Tibetan Plateau, and from all sides, as if protecting this small town, it is surrounded by mountains. In the 10th century, with the onset of feudal fragmentation, the importance of Lhasa falls. The rise of Lhasa as the secular and spiritual center of Tibet is associated with the activities Gelug-ba sects("yellow hats") in the 15-17 centuries and the establishment of the power of the Dalai Lama.

The most amazing of the palaces of Lhasa, and indeed of all Tibet - Potala Palace, which is the winter residence of the Dalai Lama (which he unfortunately cannot use: because of his struggle for the independence of Tibet from China, he had to leave Tibet).

The word "Potala" itself comes from Sanskrit, and means " Mystic Mountain". Potala is located at 3700 meters above sea level on the Red Hill (Marpo Ri) in the middle of the Lhasa valley. Its height is 115 meters, divided into 13 floors, total area which are more than 130,000 square meters. There is no exact data on how many rooms and halls are in the Potala. Their number is "somewhere over a thousand", and there are very few people who have been able to get around them all. Palace in his modern form construction began in 1645 on the initiative of the 5th Dalai Lama. In 1648, the White Palace (Potrang Karpo) was completed, and the Potala began to be used as the winter residence of the Dalai Lamas. The Red Palace (Potrang Marpo) was completed between 1690 and 1694. The name of the palace comes from the legendary mountain Potala where the bodhisattva Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara) lives, who is represented on earth by the Dalai Lama. The best masters of that time from Tibet, Nepal and China took part in the grandiose construction. A myriad of stone, wood, gold and precious stones were spent on the construction.

They say that even a few incarnations are not enough to get around the Potala Palace, I’m sure that this is exactly the case, but unfortunately, on this moment most of the halls are closed to the public by the decision of the Chinese authorities, after the events of March 13 last year. So we had to enjoy only what is open to the public, and this is quite a lot, but this left an indelible impression. Many different statues of Buddhas and Dalai Lamas are located in this amazing place, many of the previous Dalai Lamas are also buried here, to be honest, I was shocked by the number of gods that Tibetans believe in, I read about it, but when you see it with your own eyes, it causes great respect for people who remember each god by name and know his story, and there are a lot of them. Another big disappointment was that it is forbidden to take photos inside the palace, or you can pay from 300 to 1000 dollars for a photo, depending on the value of what you want to shoot. But this is usually done by people who prepare materials for magazines or websites, and I just kept all the greatness of this place in my heart.
But I found some photos on the internet:

When you leave the palace, there are amazing tablets with inscriptions in Tibetan along all the roads, so if you are ripe for a trip to Tibet, you can start learning Tibetan, then tell me what is written there.

And Russia since ancient times, which has become more widely recognized by contemporaries, thanks to the discovery in recent years of some documents, according to which, more than a century ago, Old Believer hermits had some connections with the servants of Tibetan monasteries and sought to comprehend ancient Eastern secrets.

Tibet has long been famous for its secret knowledge, and therefore strings of secret, then scientific research expeditions stretched there. So, at the beginning of the XX century. Nicholas II sent a secret expedition to Tibet, which, already in a reduced composition, successfully returned, bringing some information. The emperor himself received the members of this expedition and ordered that its participants be generously rewarded. By the way, at that time, not only the Russian Emperor was interested in Tibet. During the Russian mission there were also British military formations, whose secret service also carried out a covert operation.

However, let us return to the Old Believers of the Kostroma lands, who, presumably from the middle of the 17th century. created their own sect, called simply - "Wanderers". They sent their members to Tibet, and according to some scarce data, one of them, called Elder Nikitin, achieved his goal and was accepted by the monks. For a long time he lived in several monasteries and some of the mysteries of the Dyunkhor-Kalachakra teaching were revealed to him, which consisted in the study of cosmic knowledge, secret natural phenomena and human abilities, as well as the method of controlling the masses.

At the beginning of the XX century. the elder also successfully returned, but it is obvious that the Old Believers failed to use the secret knowledge they received, and perhaps they did not pursue large-scale revolutionary goals, but only strengthened their faith. Be that as it may, a revolution took place in the country, and history developed in a way known to everyone now.

The Soviet government that came and strengthened later also turned its gaze to the Old Believers, by the way, at that time V.I. Lenin was no longer alive, who sought to put an end to the carriers of any theological knowledge. Gleb Boky, who was a member of the OGPU, was actively interested in the secret knowledge of the Old Believers, who was also supported in his quest by the great Russian scientist Academician Bekhterev. He was aware of the telepathic abilities of a person, and he sought to search for new sources of this knowledge.

The Old Believers were forced to cooperate with the Bolsheviks and some artifacts brought from Tibet fell into their hands. Based on the materials received, the secret laboratory initiated an expedition to search for Shambhala, known in the legends, but the participants in this laboratory were soon shot.

At about the same time, at the direction of Stalin, all the famous clairvoyants and astrologers of the country were repressed. It is assumed that the same fate went to the Old Believers.

Now it is not known what happened to the Tibetan artifacts, whether they are kept by someone or not. The mystery of this story is still shrouded in darkness.