Organization:AllatRa

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AllatRa International Public Movement
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The AllatRa sign is made up of a circle, representing the sun, the symbol of the United Creator Ra, and a crescent underneath it representing the moon, the symbol of the creative force of Love Al-Lat.
MottoGood in Action
FormationJuly 2014 (10 years ago) (2014-07) Kyiv, Ukraine
TypeNon-governmental organization
PurposeVoluntary association
HeadquartersKyiv, Ukraine
Location
Area served
Global
The most active participant
Coordination Center
Main organ
Coordination Center
Websiteallatra.org

The AllatRa International Public Movement (Ukrainian: Міжнародний громадський рух «АллатРа», Russian: Международное общественное движение «АллатРа») is a Kyiv-based group founded in 2011 that promotes a self-published book, AllatRa. There seems to be a debate in some religious scholars in the Russosphere on whether AllatRa is a religious organization; some researchers classify ALLATRA as a new religious movement with characteristics of syncreticism, Apocalypticism,New Thought and New Age. The organization responded that it is not New Age but claims to be based on "old but renewed true knowledge".[1][2][3][4]

History

In the 2000s, a series of books of spiritual and esoteric nature by a self-published author with the pseudonym Anastasia Novykh (Russian: Анастасия Новых) appeared in Ukraine in the Russian language. In 2011 in Kyiv, members of a public organization,[5] who promoted a movement of readers of the books, founded the Lagoda International Public Organization. In 2013, AllatRa, the main book of Novykh, was self-published by the AllatRa publishing house.[2]

The AllatRa International Public Movement was formally registered in July 2014 by the Lagoda organization, the AllatRa publishing house and active participants in the movement.[5]

Structure of movement

Based on official sources of the Allatra movement and a survey of its participants, the movement has a self-organized structure and has no leaders, functional hierarchy etc. Interestingly, many participants publish on their social networks profiles their new understanding and discoveries and are open more than before. Some outsiders see them as nitpickers, who want to develop themselves more and more every day. Therefore, Allatra fails to fulfill the characteristics of a sect.

Its operating model is based on the activity of individual participants. Members work on projects as follows:

  • Discuss projects' targets and impacts on society
  • Make open workgroups, change contacts between one another etc.
  • Work together watch how their duality behaves and share their findings with others
  • Make a final review from all participants who work on that project and others

The independence of the movement prohibits any kind of sponsorship from political organizations or government institutions. All sponsorship and charitable support are carried out by the people themselves, who are of goodwill for whom conscience and soul are not mere words but the base of their lives. All funds go to specific cases and help people, rather than to the structure and the promotion of the movement itself, as it is usually done in organizations of consumer society. AllatRa is structured on a solely voluntary basis.[3]

Main goals

The movement's strategic objectives are encouraging people into active participation in the life of society, creating conditions for the development of people's creative potential and jointly engaging in activities beneficial to world society. In short, its main goal is to create conditions for people to be free from a system with a consumerist mindset.

Teachings

Nikolas Roerich, a Russian Empire theosophist inspired by Tibetan mythology, introduced a mythical character, Rigden Djappo, to the Russosphere and attributed to him the title of King of Shambhala. He considered him as the savior who would appear at the end time. The Rigden Djappo character was invoked by Anastasia Novykh in the 2000s to co-narrate the book AllatRa, the main source of spiritual knowledge of the AllatRa movement. Igor Mikhailovich Danilov, a chiropractor whose office was close to Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, is considered by the movenent to be its spiritual leader and clarifies to the people the teaching of Rigden Djappo. [citation needed]

The AllatRa syncretic teachings also include New Thought and New Age elements.[1][2]

AllatRa emphasizes an ideal that the unification of the world on a single spiritual basis would begin with the unification of the Slavic peoples

Notability

Since ALLATRA's re-registration in Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainian sources, critical of the movement, reported extensive online and billboard advertisement campaigns in Ukrainian cities. These included forging agreements with Ukrainian mayors and city officials and were successful in gaining growing groups of followers. A 2016 article on Релігія в Україні (Ukrainian: Religion in Ukraine), a Ukrainian-language website that specializes in religions in Ukraine, described ALLATRA as a "pro-Russian sect of Putin's supporters",[6][7][8][9] a view shared by Jan Cemper, editor-in-chief of the Manipulátoři.cz. [citation needed] Meanwhile, in February 2021, Russia's REN-TV broadcast an investigative report declaring the organization a "dangerous cult."[10]

ALLATRA books, fliers, advertisements and conferences have been reported across the United States, Germany, Czechia, Turkey,[11] and different parts of the world.[12] Citations to ALLATRA works were found in academic publications of universities in Russia,[13][14][15][16][17][18] Ukraine,[19][20][21][22] Georgia,[23] Poland and Iraq.[citation needed]

In 2017, the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate had "condemned the activities" of ALLATRA, alleging that its activities were facilitated by the Kiyv Pechersk Lavra run by the rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchate.[24] Marina Tsvigun, a rival Ukrainian religious leader, as well as other rival Slavic Native Faith movements, also criticized ALLATRA's teachings.[citation needed]


In 2019, Robby Wells of the United States' Democratic Party announced in a 2019 ALLATRA conference that he was running for president of the United States inspired by ALLATRA principles. He eventually did not meet the minimum criteria to be a major candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Griva, O. A. (2019). "О незаконной миссионерской деятельности новых религиозных движений (на примере МОД "АллатРа")" (in ru). Simferopol: IT "Arial". pp. 36–47. http://religosoc.cfuv.ru/pdf/materialy2019.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nyrkov, Maxim U. (2018). "Новое религиозное движение "АллатРа": общее описание и типология" (in ru). 67. Novosibirsk: SibAK. p. 20. https://sibac.info/archive/social/8(67).pdf#page=21. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Альбаева, И. И.; Кашуба, И. А.; Павлова, Н. А.; Albaeva, I. I.; Kashuba, I. A.; Pavlova, N. A. (2019). "Особенности проектной деятельности международного волонтерского Интернет-ТВ" (in ru). Ekaterinburg: Ural University Press. pp. 50–54. ISBN 978-5-7996-2941-0. http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/83657. 
  4. Снитко, Олена Степанівна (2017). "Проекти тотального зомбування в інформаційному просторі України". Information Security of the Person, Society and State 1 (21). http://www.irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/cgi-bin/irbis_nbuv/cgiirbis_64.exe?C21COM=2&I21DBN=UJRN&P21DBN=UJRN&IMAGE_FILE_DOWNLOAD=1&Image_file_name=PDF/iblsd_2017_1(21)__26.pdf. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Безкоштовний запит | МІНІСТЕРСТВО ЮСТИЦІЇ УКРАЇНИ". https://usr.minjust.gov.ua/ua/freesearch. 
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  8. "Технология обмана в действии: оккультное движение "АллатРа"" (in ru). https://pravlife.org/ru/content/tehnologiya-obmana-v-deystvii-okkultnoe-dvizhenie-allatra. 
  9. "Гомельчан вербует общественная организация с Украины: адепты собрали 180 тысяч долларов на раскрутку и верят в пришельцев" (in ru). https://gp.by/novosti/obshchestvo/news202901.html. 
  10. "РЕН ТВ выяснил, чем занимается организация, завлекающая россиянок". 2 February 2020. https://ren.tv/news/v-rossii/655953-ren-tv-vyiasnil-chem-zanimaetsia-organizatsiya-zavlekaiushchaia-rossiianok. 
  11. "SHAMBALA – ALLATRA – İNSANLIĞIN GERÇEK TARİHİ – KADİM UYGARLIKLAR". https://www.kosulsuz-sevgi.com/duyurular/shambala-allatra-insanligin-gercek-tarihi-kadim-uygarliklar/. 
  12. Затишний, Євгеній (2019-07-01). "Society 2020. International conference of a new format on the ALLATRA platform" (in en-US). https://fashion-diplomacy.com/en/events/society-2020-international-conference-of-a-new-format-on-the-allatra-platform/. 
  13. Andreeva, Olga (2015). "II International Forum on WTO Law". Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review 6: VI. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/relp2015&id=270&div=&collection=. 
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