The “New Planetary Television M” published on its website the photographs from the World Forum of Spiritual Culture in Astana. The chairman of the International Organizing Committee of the Forum from the Russian side has been Mr. Iosif Kobzon. During his speech he became feeble, his speech started weakening, and the Forum participants went through enormous stress. At some moment we even thought that Iosif Kobzon could not come back to us. A stretcher was brought, but Iosif Kobzon found strength to rise, and his friends took him out of the session hall. We published nearly four hundred photographs of the Forum and among them there are ones that show him becoming unwell, but holding on courageously and not losing self-control.
His friends came up to and supported him when he was in a crunch. It seemed to me that everything is absolutely clear; and one can see on these pictures self-possession and courage of Kobzon and fidelity of his friends. But people regarded these photos in different way. I received various letters, to which I am giving a well-grounded answer: why “New Planetary Television M” put up these pictures?
One of the letters that came personally to Maria Karpinskaya on her e-mail:
Was there a real need to put up these photos?
Answer by Maria Karpinskaya:
If you mean the case with Kobzon, then all media are putting this up without any comments. We are explaining and showing Iosif Kobzon’s courage, his self-control and composure. There is someone whose example one can follow.
The reader’s reply:
Anyway, it is non-ethical!!!
Reply to all looking through the albums of the “New Planetary Television M”:
At the World Forum of Spiritual Culture in Astana Iosif Kobzon felt unwell during his speech and it seemed to us that strength was leaving him, and that something fatal could occur. The audience and participants of the Forum came to ineffable agitation and showed the miracles of unity. People were silently praying; everybody supported Iosif Kobzon with the thought: “Hold on, brother, we are with you!!!” And a miracle has happened!
Kobzon rose and went out of the hall by himself, friends were supporting him. The stretcher that had been brought proved to be not needed. Is this just an incident? May be this is a divine prescience? And may be this happened exactly to Iosif Kobzon to make us unite and feel the power of collective support? We have so little such thing in Russia.
Question:
Is it reasonably or not to publish the photographs of that very moment when Kobzon felt unwell and was supported by friends and other people, and he himself showed courage and fortitude?
Answer by Maria Karpinskaya:
Life in its most is not glamour. People are often palmed off glamour, or, on the contrary, something terrible, and frightened, fanning an incident or event to a disaster and sometimes even a catastrophe.
Such delivery of information kills human qualities within people, and levels the beauty of such feelings as courage, support, and help.
We look through magazines, admire our and western stars of film and variety made in glamourous light, and admire the quasi beauty made in Photoshop and let us say, do not notice full-blooded manifestations of life that compose sorrow, joy, laugh, tears, mercy, pain, etc. we don’t want to see this. Magazines often provide beautiful pictures behind which no live people can be seen. Some people are just Barbie dolls. Or bloody monsters. Can such extremes make our life harmonious?
May be the moment is coming when we should look at life with eyes of a live and feeling person?
My own opinion which is also shared by all my friends is: the incident happened to Kobzon is the manifestation of Providence of both God and life.
When Kobzon suddenly, right before our eyes started losing his strength, his voice began to weaken and quieten down, in this frightful silence we all prayed and cried; and with our love we all together helped him. Kobzon’s friends caught him by his arms and held him. Look at these pictures, with no fear, look at him holding his own.
It is these pictures of Iosif Kobzon that are the best for me, because here as a researcher I can see things that have been partially lost for many Russian people.
It’s time for us, the whole mankind, to love not external signs of quasi-beauty which can easily be made with modern cosmetics, but beauty of inner spiritual qualities.
“What is beauty? And why people deify it?
May be it is a void? Or FLAME glimmering in the vessel?”
We choose FLAME. And you? What do you choose? Are glamour and flame compatible?
Tell me, was Jesus on the Cross and before the crucifixion wonderful or terrible? Was he powdered and glamorous, or was the mirror which reflected human imperfections? His bruises and exhausted eyes – isn’t this our genuine face? Whom do we choose: the picture of Dorian Gray or Jesus? No matter what Jesus was in the moment of torments, for two thousand years we have loved Jesus and learned fortitude, courage, and resignation by his example.
The World Forum of Spiritual Culture in Astana in 2010 showed the power and self-control of Kobzon himself, as well as the unity and help of his friends and confederates.
And if only you knew, how many words of support and prayers were heard at this moment! And that is why Kobzon after some time went on the stage and worthily finished his speech.
Many Russian media in all reportages showed only fainting Kobzon. They made a “burning” material on that, just showed the fact and frightened the public.
This is all they could see at the spiritual forum. What a pity!
But it is this case when a researcher’s eyes will see the beauty and peak of the manifestation of Spirit and that is why this picture carries Spirit for me, it is deeply spiritual, and not glamorous and scandalous.
And here comes an idea: isn’t it time to wake people up from the glamorous sleep, and show not the external gloss? May be the time has come for people to see deep human qualities which conceal our love to each other, our mercy and courage, our non-indiferrence.
Imagine that the media shows only this fact from ones concerning the Spiritual Forum in Astana and suppresses everything that occurred there. They present the case of Iosif Kobzon in a distorted way, as they see it, hinting that such forum carries negative things. Actually, here is nothing to imagine, that’s the situation. People not attending the Forum will think this very things.
And now imagine that “New Planetary Television M” shows only the best and conceals this incident. Then the media will have a reason to accuse us of partiality, hiding of certain fact to which they are hintingly imputing a deep negative meaning, and, hereby casting a shade on the Astana event.
And therefore, we also show the incident happened to Iosif Kobzon in Astana, but open the genuine meaning of this divine prescience.
We are not mistaken writing the words “divine prescience”!
Ad every normal person should consider the following: why God revealed this case to us? May be it is this moment when separation of the husk from the grain occurred?
We have conducted a research of this case and come to a conclusion: at the World Forum of Spiritual Culture in Astana on October 18, 2010, beneath our eyes there was the shift of Iosif Kobzon to a new round of his evolutional development, in other words, in scientific language, Iosif Kobzon before the eyes of the whole world has made a quantum jump from one space to another. And he was supported by those attended the Forum.
So, before our eyes with our direct participation, there happened a great miracle of a person’s transition from one world to another without somatic death.
Has ever such an idea struck you? Try to look at this case with the eyes of divine prescience, the eyes of soul? Isn’t it wonderful?
Maria Karpinskaya, participant of the World Forum of Spiritual Culture, Astana, 2010