In February 1932, shamans from the Arctic regions of Siberia were brought to the GPU prison in the city of Yakutsk from the Arctic regions of Siberia, who were in an ecstatic state supposedly able to communicate with spirits and supernatural forces. The previously launched flywheel of the Yakut CEC resolution "On measures to combat shamanism" began to spin uncontrollably. And so one of the shamans, Konstantin Ivanovich Chirkov, was summoned from the cell for interrogation. And he, entering the investigator's office and glancing at the stool where he was supposed to sit, suddenly demanded: "Put one more!"
Two stools and a bullet in the wrong place
Requests within the walls of such institutions are usually not fulfilled. But that time, for some reason, they went to meet the arrested person - they put two stools. After that, the guards left the office, leaving the arrested person alone for some time. This is how the jailers affected the prisoner's psyche - let him be tormented by the unknown. Chirkov, a short middle-aged man, calmly sat down on one of the stools. And finally, the door swung open, and an energetic investigator appeared on the threshold. He threw a quick glance at the arrested person, then another and another …
- Which of us did you call? - Chirkov asked innocently. And the investigator clearly saw that two absolutely identical people were sitting on two stools in front of him. And as a duet they ask the same question.
- Take away! Take them away! - the gepeushnik shouted in horror.
Two guards immediately burst into the office, grabbed Chirkov by the arms and dragged him out into the corridor. And while they were leading to the camera, they kicked the arrested person, as they say. with all the foolishness and kicked into the cell. But then it suddenly became clear that they were not kicking the person under investigation, but each other. Chirkov, with his arms crossed on his chest, very pleased, admired what was happening.
One of the guards, coming to his senses, with his face twisted with hatred, put a pistol to Chirkov's temple:
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- What are you? scoundrel, are you doing? Yes, we will let you all go now!
“Beware,” the arrested shaman replied calmly. - As if the bullet did not hit another address.
The guard came to his senses: it turns out, he put a gun to his own temple!
And the snow kept falling and falling …
Word of mouth quickly spread the news of the miracles performed by Chirkov throughout the formidable organization, and the wives of the Chekists began to torment their husbands with requests to show them the outlandish prisoner. In the end, an "exposing" session of shamanic mysteries was organized in the NKVD club. Chirkov was told to change - not to go on stage in prison uniform! The storekeeper pointed out to him a pile of confiscated shaman clothes and props, and Konstantin Ivanovich, almost without looking, pulled out his things from there.
And then the ritual began on the stage of the club. The shaman beat the tambourine - at first slowly and slowly, then louder and faster. The bells sewn onto his costume tinkled subtly, and from the ceiling directly onto the heads of the audience … snow began to fall like flakes. People are confused: this cannot be! But there is. there is!
- Would you like to bring a wolf or a bear here? - Chirkov asks the audience.
- No no! Stop, that's enough!
After some time, Konstantin Chirkov was released. But he was now forbidden to shaman, so he will use his amazing abilities exclusively for healing people,
The shaman's task
Soon the newspaper Sovetskaya Sibir published an article entitled "What were the shamans guilty of?.. Its author, Secretary of the Siberian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) Emelyan Yaroslavsky (Minei Izrailevich Gubelman), wrote that the shaman" plays the same role as the Russian priest, as a Jewish rabbi, like a priest, like a mullah. " And at the end - the question: why, they say, to pursue the Yakut for the fact that "he persuades his gods with spells?" Quite a logical position of a sane person. By the way, Yaroslavsky knew the subject of the discussion quite well - after all, he once served in Yakutia a political link.
It is clear that the Bolsheviks did not go into such details, but the shamans were called upon to play the role of a kind of connecting link between the so-called subtle world and the earthly world. They passed on to their fellow tribesmen information about the structure of the Universe, about the future, about world laws. Not all witnesses of the ritual understood the meaning of what was happening, not everyone believed in the power of the shaman, however, regardless of faith, people were spiritually fed. The shaman influenced the energy of the entire people.
When a traditional healer sees a specific patient in front of him, he tries to eliminate his problem, and for a shaman, the main task is to saturate the subtle field of people with "food" from the higher strata of the universe. The shaman is a strategist primarily in the spiritual development of the team.
It was this idea that Emelyan Yaroslavsky tried to express in his article. He perfectly understood the power of influence on the northern peoples of their spiritual leaders - shamans. However, the frenzied flurry of revolution soon wiped out the remnants of sanity from the Bolshevik, and Yaroslavsky turned into a fierce fighter against "religious obscurantism", having at the same time got the opportunity to acquaint a wide readership with his conclusions, since he took the post of editor of the All-Russian magazine "Bezbozhnik".
Healing with love
Reading the memoirs of Chirkov's patients about him, you catch yourself thinking that you have already met such texts - they tell about the life of Christian elders. People are grateful to the shaman for his meekness, wisdom and mercy. "He saved me with his love!" - say many of those who turned to Chirkov for help.
Although the healing procedure itself was often not easy for the human psyche. Chirkov chewed burning coals, licked red-hot iron, stabbed himself with a knife, or ordered his assistants to pierce himself through with a sharp pest. He turned water into ice, walked through the wall, summoned wild animals that came and fawned on the shaman like domestic animals. Konstantin Ivanovich always knew in advance who was going to visit him in his distant village and with what request. He never received visitors at once, ordering them to "lie down" from the road for two or three days. What for? “I need to examine them outside the body, they have to adjust to my condition. Only then can I accept and help them truly,”the healer explained. Now we would say that diagnostics and treatment were carried out first at a subtle level, at the level of the biofield,and only then came the hour of physical impact.
The owl taking away the gaze
Sometimes Konstantin Chirkov transferred the "thickened lump" of the disease to third-party objects. In one distant village, a girl was dying of jaundice. A shaman who was passing in those places suddenly asked a friend to stop the deer: "Over there, from that edge of the forest, the soul of a little girl begs to save her." When Chirkov arrived in time, the patient was already in agony. Konstantin Ivanovich ordered the girl's parents to catch the pike and began to apply it to the patient's stomach. Before the eyes of the amazed father and mother, the fish turned yellow, and their daughter regained consciousness.
The blinded man tearfully asked Chirkov to help his trouble - in the north only hunting and fishing can feed a family, and without sight, what hunting? The healer said that he needed an owl carcass to perform the ritual. The patient's wife was saddened - they say, the bird is rare, how to get it? But Chirkov reassured the woman - do not be upset. On the day appointed for the ritual, a frozen owl suddenly appeared on a haystack. During the action, the shaman revived the bird and told the dumbfounded household to watch where it would fly. The owl flew into the chimney of the Yakut fire-burning stove and, according to Chirkov, carried the “frozen view of the world” into the winter forest. The man received his sight.
And once Konstantin Ivanovich "threw" death from a young man to a deer. However, we know of similar episodes from religious literature: the scapegoat of the Jews, for example, or the transmigration of a legion of demons from a man into a herd of pigs by Christ.
I don't blame anyone for anything …
Shaman Konstantin Chirkov once predicted the coming of "the time of wild morals": "Since 2000, people's morals will deteriorate, food will be poisonous, some plants will become poisonous to animals and people." Was he so far from the truth?
It is interesting that once at the opening of a forum of indigenous peoples of the North in Alaska, one Eskimo shaman saw Chirkov's daughter, Alexandra Konstantinovna, and immediately recognized her, although he had never seen her before: “The spirit of the great Siberian shaman came to me. He said that in three months the children of his land would come to Alaska, and his daughter would be among them.”
Speaking at the forum, Alexandra Konstantinovna recalled how her father had suffered from the Soviet regime. How he was forbidden to kamlan, was arrested, humiliated: “Once in my hearts it burst out:
- You would teach at least one villain a lesson, and let the others understand that this can happen to them too!
“It takes anger in the heart for that,” said the father. - And if a person has malice in his heart, he will never cure anyone. And I don't blame anyone for anything …"
… Today, probably, every inhabitant of Siberia knows the name of Konstantin Chirkov. And even those who did not have a chance to personally see the miracles he performed, do not doubt his power at all and speak of this man with exceptional respect.
Alexey Taas. Magazine "Secrets of the XX century" No. 47 2010