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The Altaic exploration of Nicholas Roerich in search of Belovodye, "the Land of the Living Gods"

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Among the places visited by Nicholas Roerich during his Asian expeditions in the 20s, a special mention goes to the area of ​​the Altai Mountains, where the Russian painter and explorer went in search of the mythical Belovodye, underground "Land of the Immortals" equivalent to Himalayan Shamballah, where according to legend the mysterious Chud lineage was hidden in an antediluvian past, and from which it is believed that in the near future the holy Oirot Khan, last descendant of Genghis Khan and "Savior of the World", will come.

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Roerich, Gurdjieff, Blavatsky: the secrets of the Gobi desert

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During the 1927 expedition to Central Asia, the Russian painter and explorer Nicolas Roerich moved towards the Gobi Desert, in Mongolia, crossing the Qaidam (Tsaidam) salt marsh. Traditions reported by Madame Blavatsky and Georges Ivanovič Gurdjieff, as well as the tales of local folklore, said it was the site of an ancient sea, within which it was handed down that advanced civilizations, now forgotten, and legendary cities, now buried by sands, had developed.

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Underworld civilization in science fiction fiction

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The topos of underground civilizations seems to be recurrent in the history of human thought, whether it is myth, folklore, esoteric knowledge, alternative reality or "simple" science fiction, to the point that sometimes it is difficult to label the various versions of the topos in a rather category. than in the other. Here we will deal with the variations of the topos in science fiction literature between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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"Underground" civilizations in myth, occultism and "alternative reality"

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Simultaneously with the publication of our article on "Underworld Civilizations in Fantastic Literature" appeared in Cosmic Dimension, we have drawn up here a brief excursus on the same topos in the sacred traditions, in the esoteric sphere and in the "alternative reality" of the twentieth century

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The secrets of Twin Peaks: the "Evil that comes from the woods"

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di Marco Maculotti

Β«We will meet again in 25 years"β€”So Laura Palmer promised, trapped in the parallel dimension called" Black Lodge ", to agent Dale Cooper in the last episode of the second season of The secrets of Twin Peaks, which aired in the USA on 10 June 1991. What until recently seemed destined to remain a promise without a sequel is now on the verge of being kept: on 21 May the first episode of the third will be broadcast in America, highly anticipated season of the serial, which will pick up the subject exactly where we left off, with a gap of a quarter of a century. Waiting for the pilot episode of the new season to arrive on our television screens (May 26, on the channel Sky Atlantic) we want to propose to our readers an analysis of the more specifically "esoteric" themes they have made Twin Peaks a real media event of the nineties.

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