TOP-13 energy corners of power in Russia, which are worth visiting

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Sometimes you walk in the woods, explore the beauty of the reserved island, walk past an old building - and suddenly you feel something strange. This "something" can manifest itself in different ways: someone experiences an unprecedented surge of strength and vigor, while someone becomes physically ill.

Energetic places are covered with legends about ancient deities, priests and even aliens from other planets. Skeptics argue that the matter is in magnetic fields, those who are not indifferent believe in otherworldly interference. There is no single answer and is not expected, but you can look for your own in the most mysterious points of Russia.

13. Chardon Archipelago, Karelia

It is pleasant to admire the Chardon archipelago in Lake Onega (Karelia) without thinking about any mysticism. Its islets are woven from intertwining layers of quartzite and granite, and the landscape is unique. Here they completely forget about the bustle of the world, count the pines along the winding coast, fish and enjoy the silence. Until they wander into an eerie area: into a forest where there is not a single normal tree.

All trunks and branches are repeatedly bent, burned by lightning, disfigured, but in their environment people are filled with energy, feel a warm tingling in their palms and return home refreshed.

12. Champ Island, Arkhangelsk region

Franz Josef Land is a harsh end of the world, a scattering of uninhabited islands in the Arkhangelsk region in the waters of the Arctic Ocean. Among them, Champ drifts, strewn with spherical objects of unknown origin. From a distance, they can be mistaken for volcanic hard balls, but the texture is loose, composed of compressed sand.

Some spherulites are larger than human growth, others are smaller than a tennis shuttlecock, the shape is correct, in some places there are traces of shark teeth - scientists are lost in conjectures, ordinary people invent poetic names a la "balls for the game of the gods."

11. Tekie dervishes, Evpatoria

Tekie is a Muslim burial vault, in Crimea only one survived - the monastery of dervishes in Yevpatoria. It was erected in the 15th century for wandering Sufi monks, representatives of the most ascetic trend in Islam. All three buildings - tekie, a mosque and a madrassah - are distinguished by the severity of forms, monumentality, and lack of decoration. Inside, tiny cells and a prayer hall have been preserved, where the dervishes meditated in a dance: their power that heals ailments lives in the dilapidated walls to this day.

The dances of the dervishes are a spectacular way of worshiping Allah: spinning to the drums, flutes and suras from the Koran, they fall into a mystical trance.

10. Dolmens, Gelendzhik region

The majestic stone structures in the villages of Pshada and Vozrozhdenie near Gelendzhik were built in the 3rd millennium BC. e., but who and why is not clear. Each of the dolmens was given names, from “Wisdom” to “Harmony”, and this is not just a marketing ploy: next to the blocks, corresponding desires come true, answers to exciting questions come. Similar objects are scattered throughout the Krasnodar Territory, and exclusively in geoactive places.

Observatories, tombs, houses for dwarfs as a gift from giants - these are just some of the versions of the purpose of dolmens.

9. Shmarnenskie caves, Belgorod region

20 km from Stary Oskol there is the village of Shmarnoe, and in it there is an underground chalk cave with corridors, arches and columns. In the 12-13 centuries there was a monastery in honor of the Solovetsky miracle workers Savvaty and Zosima, later the hermit monks voluntarily turned their own bodies into relics: by reducing the amount of water and food, they gradually died, and their flesh remained incorruptible. The power of suffering was transformed into light that still illuminates the gloomy dark vaults.

In the 19th century, the peasants decorated the walls with icons and again held services in the cave. Several images still hang, but the surfaces are completely covered with inscriptions like "Seryoga was here," and bats hang down from the ceilings with their heads down.

8. Ukok plateau, Altai

The Ukok plateau in the south of the Altai Republic is often compared with Machu Picchu or Tibet, the energy is so powerful here. Today the plateau at an altitude of 2200-2500 m is under the protection of UNESCO, and once upon a time the Scythians lived in the vast expanses, who left the descendants (or aliens) geoglyphs - giant patterns, like in the Nazca desert. The surrounding area beckons with archaeological monuments, healing radon springs, lakes and mounds - neither inaccessibility, nor the vagaries of the weather, nor the lack of infrastructure and cellular communications are not a hindrance to daredevils.

On the plateau, it is allowed to speak only in a half-whisper, so as not to disturb the almighty spirits.

7. Mount Demerdzhi, Crimea

"Demerdzhi" in translation means "blacksmith": a long time ago there lived a magician who forged fiery swords, but the popularity of the tract near Alushta is due not only to him. First, the relief - intricate rocks carved by winds and earthquakes. Secondly, to Leonid Gaidai and the "Caucasian Captive": the stone on which Varley danced to a song about bears - perhaps the main tourist magnet.

And thirdly, the legends about humanoid creatures, similar to those that are seen in Arkaim from our international rating. In good weather, Demerdzhi energizes and pushes to the right decisions, but it is better to beware of fog - according to rumors, they do not return from it.

6. Lake Svetloyar, Nizhny Novgorod region

Lake Svetloyar, 130 km from Nizhny Novgorod, at first glance, is one of thousands: a surface shining in the sun, forests, fishing backwaters. But the surface is almost motionless, only occasionally ripples run through, and in the depths mysterious lights can be seen, bell chimes and chants are heard from nowhere. According to legend, the abyss hide the mythical Kitezh-grad - the Orthodox Atlantis, which went under water so as not to get to the Tatar-Mongol troops. For a blessing, they come here on the night of Ivan Kupala, go around the lake three times and make wishes.

Svetloyar water can be stored in a bottle forever without losing its properties.

5. Bolshoi Zayatsky Island, Solovki

During the years of Stalin's repressions, the intelligentsia, clergy and other people who disagreed with the cruel methods of Soviet power were exiled to Solovki. Since then, a tragic silence has reigned here, although there are always many guests: they are attracted by the monastery of the 15th century, lakes connected by artificial canals and ancient monuments - for example, stone labyrinths on Bolshoi Zayatsky Island. Nameless people piled up 14 spiral calculations, round and oval, up to 25 m in diameter. Most likely, these are the centers of pagan temples dating back to the 3rd millennium BC. e.

Men in labyrinths feel a surge of brain activity, women get rid of infertility, and blood pressure is normalized for both.

4. Island Valaam, Karelia

Valaam is an ambiguous place: on the one hand, it is a tourist place, with regular ferries from St. Petersburg, attractions and souvenir shops, on the other hand, it is aloof and conducive to reflection. In the most beautiful corner of Ladoga there is the Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery, the brightest architectural monument of the 11-12 centuries. And the inner lakes, rocks and forests want to go up and down, spending the night in a monastery hotel or camping.

Orthodoxy meets paganism on Valaam: before the islands were gigantic altars, which are reminiscent of runestones, megalithic walls, Celtic crosses and temples.

3. Patriarch's Ponds, Moscow

There is also a famous place of power (though not very kind) in Moscow. Patriarch's Ponds are now a secular location with trendy restaurants and yoga studios, but "owls are not what they seem," as they used to say in Twin Peaks. The author of another thriller, Mikhail Bulgakov, chose Patrick in the scenery for a reason, because evil spirits raged long before Annushka spilled the oil. In the Middle Ages, there was a swamp called the Goat, either because of the goat's yard, which supplied wool to the royal court, or because of the intrigues that the water and kikimors built to the local residents. Then gangs of hypnotists wielded, children drowned and disappeared without a trace, invisible cars hummed - it was time to write a new novel.

Even cats and dogs do not drink water from the pond, and ducks and swans move to the zoo for the night.

2. Olkhon Island, Baikal

Baikal needs no introduction: adherents of beach, ski and health-improving recreation come to the shores of the deepest reservoir of the planet. But not everyone has heard of Olkhon - the only island in the water area inhabited since the Paleolithic era. This is a sacred place for Buryats, a refuge for spirits, an arena for sacrifices. The energetic heart is Cape Burkhan: shamans performed bloody rituals, lamas prayed to an immigrant god from Mongolia, tourists are seized by awe or inexplicable horror.

On the Rock of Love, you can ask the spirits for an addition to the family, and on the Shaman Stone, you can seek justice: once criminals were left here for the night, and if by morning they did not drown and did not go crazy, they were acquitted.

1. Mount Belukha, Altai

Belukha is impressive even without prehistory: the highest mountain of Altai and Siberia (4509 m), two-headed, all covered with snow - a magnificent crown on the Katunsky ridge. But this is not just a mountaineering goal, but an esoteric zone equidistant from the three oceans and considered one of the centers of the Earth.

Indigenous Altaians try not to approach the sacred peak, worshiping it at the foot. But foreigners who risk climbing upward, comprehend its true greatness.

Perhaps it is here that the legendary Shambhala is hiding - the lost country of the Hindus, or Belovodye - the Old Believer land of freedom and happiness. Or an energy bridge that stretches all the way to Everest. Or the UFO station in the Yarlu gorge. Or the abode of the Turkic goddess Umai - go and check, you can only believe.