Professor Yefremov's KGB Files (Part III)
Continued. Read Part I and Part II of the article
There remains one, the most fantastic explanation, of the case against Yefremov. A. N. Strugatsky, one of the most famous international science fiction writers, a beloved author in the former Soviet Union who with his brother comprised the best known team of the genre’s writers, proffered the explanation in his conversation with Izmailov. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the U.S. Armed Forces and the CIA had created departments that had seriously studied flying saucers, and possibilities of ET invasion of Earth. The Soviets might have similar ideas.
Mysterious Sky: Soviet UFO Phenomenon (2006), co-authored by Philip Mantle and the author of this article, describes Soviet military research of UFOs, as well as the KGB interest in the subject (dating back to 1920s). Hence, Strugatsky, perhaps unbeknownst to him, was right in the sense that the Soviets had similar agencies and programs. And the very unusual Soviet author interested them immensely.
At the same time, Soviet sci-fi fans came up with a persistent idea that leading sci-fi writers were agents of extraterrestrial civilizations. Many letters reached famous Russian sci-fi brothers Strugatsky. What if a KGB officer, who took over the newly created agency, with “romantic” imagination, believed in the absurd idea that sci-fi writers are ET agents…He ordered that Yefremov was to be under observation while alive, as they were afraid to capture a “live” alien whose actions could be unpredictable. But when the author, or” alien”, died, they could uncover some means of his communications with a civilization that was well advanced, in comparison with ours. Not knowing what the “means” would look like, the KGB grabbed whatever they could. Not finding what they were looking for, they later returned the objects.
This account explains the unusual KGB conduct: the search of the apartment after Yefremov’s death, confiscation of certain items, their attempt to open the urn, the KGB concern that the author was cremated on the second day after his death (no autopsy was performed); even strange questions asked of his wife; and the statement that Yefremov was not accused of anything. The KGB was simply interested in his work…He interested them, as a person, or…
IMMESURABLE EXTENT OF KNOWLEDGE
After all, the man was a visionary who wrote about alien artifacts found during paleontological expeditions (his novel Star Ships was not published until 1948, because of the ideas presented there that there are many inhabited planets in the Universe, that the evolution of sapient beings is quite similar, that all sentient beings are humanoid in appearance). Professor Yefremov was convinced that all claims to the effect that we will not be able to understand civilizations that have arisen on other planets in different conditions were groundless. The factual reality, in his words, was this: the universe is built according to the same plan, from the same bricks or elements, with the same properties and cause-and-effect relationships. Consciousness, thought, and intellectual matter throughout the universe are structured in accordance with these laws, and, as much as they originate from them, represent their product and reflection. Therefore we would definitely understand each other’s minds; we cannot fail to…
He wrote about holography any years before it was discovered.
Yefremov was only able to publish a story he wrote back in 1943, about genetic memory, in 1968 (A Secret from Hellas , proved to be too “mystical” for the ideologists…). His story of “life-giving” water, to be discussed later, written at the same time, as well as his story about mysterious Mongolian death worm was published in 1944.
There had to be knowledge in his possession that has not been revealed fully. Yefremov was the person who described such fascinating concepts as the ancient Imhotep directly seeking information and receiving accurate answers from the Egyptian deity Thot in his sanctuary in a place known as Ra’s Souls…The wise Imhotep, a great mind, statesman and scientist of ancient Egypt came back to his Pharaoh with the accurate answers, and much more: he was shown wonders that no previous Pharaohs had ever been shown.
Imhotep was given knowledge back in approximately 2880 BCE, in the period when many other centers of newly gained knowledge sprung up in China, Crete, Sumer, and India; when men received knowledge from “gods” who arrived on our planet…Imhotep kept objects, similar to powerful modern computers, in a special sanctuary.
The KGB, likely interested in Yefremov’s precognition of holography, would be no less interested in his knowledge of such computers. The state security service no doubt found other talents and abilities of the Russian Jules Verne to be of interest to them.
This was a man, who knew English, French and German and who knew and discussed Agni Yoga, an esoteric teaching founded by the Russian painter and philosopher Nicholas Roerich and his highly adept empathic wife, Elena. Inspired by the Vedic traditions, as well as by Buddhism and writings of H.P. Blavatsky, the Roerichs published the "Agni Yoga" series of books, with contents inspired by the Mahatmas from their stronghold in the Himalayan Mountains, Shambhala.
