We place at the head of our ancestral path spiritual accompaniment and the study of near-death experiences. We help people to be ready for their transition, and we share our knowledge of the careful and proper accompaniment of man in the final moments of his earthly life, as well as during the transition and the encounter with the Great Light of Heaven. The path of transition of each spirit can only be unique. No path is like another. Therefore, this path cannot be repeated in another Fate.

 

We elevate this as the foundation of upbringing and transmit our knowledge as the foundation of our heritage; therefore, acquaintance with this path by each of our guests and readers constitutes reverence for the inviolable foundation of our spiritual life. This knowledge is the living heritage of our people’s tradition, which has preserved conceptions of the nature of the human spirit, death, transition, and the path that the spirit passes after the completion of earthly life. Let everyone who comes into contact with this knowledge become a witness to the sacred tradition of the Veps indigenous tribal people of the Laksha clan, preserved in an unchanged form.

 

Lemboi!

 

Listen attentively to our voice. Go to Jumal, the Great Light of Heaven. He opens His Clear Light to the spirit whose name is Lemboi and shows the true road. Do not be afraid. Go to the Clear Light of Heaven. Listen attentively to our voice.

 

Great Light of Heaven, First Source of life and Creator of the world order. You illuminate for each spirit the path to Your Clear Light of Heaven, protect the balance between the worlds of the living and the departed, and You are the One Who meets each spirit making its transition. You do not judge and do not punish. Your Clear Light of Heaven opens to the one who sees the truth about himself. The path to you frees the spirit from fear, lies, and darkness.

 

Lemboi, go to the Light. Do not be afraid. Come to know the Clear Light. Recognize everything that you see as manifestations of your pure consciousness. Remember our agreement, remember our instructions, pray as you can, do not yield to fear before the visions, listen to our voice.

 

We brought the promised gift for you. It will help you reach the Clear Light of Heaven. This gift is an interpretation of a story from the childhood of your earthly life. In the body of a living boy, you climbed onto your sisters’ writing desk. Open notebooks lay on the desk, and an inkwell stood nearby. When your sisters stepped away, you urinated into the inkwell. The ink mixed with the urine, spilled over the desk, and soaked the notebooks. The pages became saturated with ink. Your sisters cried. You were punished. You were asked: “Why did you do this?” But you did not know the answer.

 

Now we know why you did this. You wanted there to be more ink and for it to be enough for writing a story for you. In the absence of knowledge about yourself and the surrounding world, you increased the quantity of ink so that it would cover all the sheets of paper. In this creative way, you determined: all the paper and ink were intended for your story.

 

We fulfilled your wish and wrote a story for you, upon hearing which you will be able to make proper use of the realization that it will bring you. Our gift will help you make a choice that is good for you, and, if you decide to incarnate again in a human body, you will know what to do.

 

Then listen to this story, Lemboi!

 

Once, the wife of a well-known artist approached us. Her elderly husband was preparing to die. Despite his extremely grave condition, the artist remained conscious. He said that he could not cross the boundary of death and could not die in any way. This tormented him.

 

When we arrived, we asked him to tell us a dream. The artist told us: “Everyone drowned. We were sailing on a ship. A shipwreck occurred. And Akim drowned too. But I remained alone inside an air bubble.” Then he closed his eyes and fell asleep. While the artist was sleeping, we addressed his wife: “Tell us, are there among your husband’s paintings works depicting ships?” She answered: “Very many.” A few minutes later, several canvases lay before us. On one was an enormous sailing ship in the middle of the open sea, which was about to be caught in the elements. On another was a ship standing at a quiet harbor, but all the water was the color of blood. On the third, two ships were about to find themselves beneath gigantic waves in the middle of the sea. In every work without exception, there were ships that stood on the threshold of wreck. And in every painting without exception, depicted people were absent. The ships looked as though they had been abandoned long before the artist transferred them onto the canvases.

 

 

When the artist woke up, we said that we were ready to make an interpretation of his dream: “We saw your paintings depicting ships. But there were no people on any ship. If the ship was empty, then there was no one to drown. If the ship belongs to you, then who should be its captain? The answer is obvious. You should be the captain. And if the ship found itself without a captain, then it means that throughout your whole life you did not feel yourself to be the one who truly governs your fate.”

 

The artist quietly asked: “Then who governed my ship?” We answered: “The elements, deciding for you. And this means that you were ready to suffer endlessly, so long as you did not suffer. In this way, you avoided even greater suffering. Close your eyes. Return to your dream. Look at the sea. A wave equally washes away a man’s footprint in the sand and destroys a majestic ship. A wave or the elements may punish, or may show mercy. Is that not so? And a man who does not want to make his own decisions lives as though the elements govern his fate. The decision about your wreck was made by the elements. You were always ready to suffer, never arriving at reality. And instead, you constructed a consoling lie so as not to suffer. In the dream you said: ‘Akim drowned too.’ The meaning of the name Akim is ‘Established by God,’ ‘The One Whom the God Will Raise Up.’ In the dream, it was not a man who drowned at all. Your chance to live life differently drowned. This was the possibility of becoming the one whom you were capable of becoming by discovering the spiritual principle within yourself. The dream belongs to you. This means that you yourself drowned your chance. In the dream you said that you remained alone inside an air bubble. But at the same time, this is also salvation. While the air bubble exists, it is possible to lie about the shipwreck and about everyone having drowned. You are lying to yourself – the bubble was created by you yourself, and this bubble protects you from the truth.”

 

The artist asked: “If I tear this bubble apart, what will be on the other side?”

 

We answered: “The truth. You need to tell about your lies; in this way, you will tear the bubble apart.”

 

The artist answered: “Yes, I lied to my wife. I was unfaithful to her throughout our entire life. I have large debts. Our joint documents with my wife are in complete disorder. Part of the property is registered in the names of other people. There is real estate that I acquired secretly, without telling my wife about it.”

 

He took a deep breath: “I will tell my wife about my lies.”

 

On that same day, he opened himself to his wife. We came later. His wife was sitting beside him. It was evident how difficult the truth she had heard had proved to be.

 

When in the evening we again entered the hospital room, he said: “After our conversation, I dreamed that I tore the bubble apart and found myself on the deck of an empty ship. Scattered documents lay on the deck. On many of the documents there were my photographs.”

 

We said: “This is your next lie. You equated all possible others’ masks with your living self.

You identified yourself with documents and photographs of masks. You still have not comprehended who you are. You need to hurry. Ask yourself: ‘Who am I?’

 

After this conversation, we no longer returned to the interpretation of his dreams. Everything most important had already been said. Now he had to take the final step. We helped him undergo an important Veps practice for eliminating fears when approaching the transition. And after this, a Miracle happened. The artist regained consciousness and quietly said: “I realized who I am. I am an eternal sufferer, a madman, a fantasist dreaming of death with glory, that is, of death once and forever. But for me, as an eternal martyr, this never succeeded. For this, I painted and painted pictures with ships that were about to be struck by the elements. I dreamed of death with glory. My paintings were an appeal for this. But nothing came of it. I suffered eternally, so long as I did not suffer, but throughout my whole life I drew nothing from my sufferings, because I myself did not change. I did not enter into a new position of myself, in which I could have done at least something new for myself and my wife. I was never able to renounce all my pleasures, vices, and narcissistic demands toward the people around me, for the sake of which I eternally postponed changes and the courage to learn the truth about myself.”

 

Then he fell asleep. A day later, the artist regained consciousness and, according to his wife, whom he saw for the last time, whispered: “I am a divine spirit incarnated in the body of a living boy on August 15, 1945, according to the Gregorian calendar. My spiritual name is Lemboi.”

 

The next day after the completion of the ritual of guiding the spirit to the Clear Light of Heaven, the artist’s wife called us. She said that her daughter had shared with her a dream that she had dreamed and asked us to help with its interpretation. In the dream, she is in her parents’ apartment and hears a knock at the door. The daughter opens the door and sees her father on the doorstep – young, healthy, and handsome. He says that he has come for his paintbrushes and paints because he has begun new work. The daughter gives him the brushes and paints and asks: “How are you?” The father answers that everything is wonderful with him and that he is in a relationship with a woman. This woman is standing behind him. The daughter looks at this woman and realizes that the woman is a severe alcoholic. The daughter says: “Dad, you will perish with her.” The father calmly answers: “We will figure it out ourselves.”

 

We made an interpretation of this dream: “Through the dream, the daughter informs her mother that the mother refuses to grow spiritually. The daughter comprehends that her mother does not hear her directly and therefore hopes that her mother will hear the psychoanalysts. The woman standing behind the father is an image of the artist’s wife herself, who has her own deep flaws. In a family union, there is no situation in which one man is entirely at fault and the other from a pair is entirely blameless. In a married couple, difficulties always belong equally to both. If one is physically unfaithful, the other is unfaithful, if not physically, then mentally. If one conceals something, then the other also conceals something. Therefore, the father’s words, ‘We will figure it out ourselves,’ are an important message. No matter how strongly the daughter may want to help her parents, there are matters that concern exclusively the married couple. The dream instructs and warns the woman about the necessity of already preparing for her own transition. It is important for every man to engage in this spiritual preparation. It is best to begin in youth. But the closer a man comes to mature age, the more responsibly he must approach this spiritual practice. Upon finding itself in a near-death experience and after the death of the biological body, the spirit must find the proper road, not become frightened by the terrifying images of its own narcissistic distortions, and not find itself consumed by terrifying visions of darkness. The artist’s wife must recognize that everything that happened with her husband is an absolute copy of who she herself was in her relationship with her husband. This is a difficult spiritual practice that the artist’s wife will have to undergo, but the result of this labor will be the complete release of pain and guilt, which will lead to love and forgiveness. After this, it is important to determine one’s spiritual name and transmit this knowledge to one’s loved ones so that they may help and properly address the spirit after the death of the biological body.”

 

Now you know the whole story. There was more than enough ink. All the empty sheets have been filled with a story for you. You labored well. Everything turned out as you wanted. Go into what you have chosen. Your choice is the very best. We will remember your name, Lemboi, and will always send you our love, tenderness, and joy, wherever you may be. And we know – you will know of our love every time we call your name, Lemboi!

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We thank You, Great Jumal, for everything that You gift us: for life, for light, for the path, and for wisdom. We thank You, Great Light of Heaven, for all Your gifts. May Your Clear Light of Heaven remain with us.