AllatRa: Hidden Agendas
AllatRa Book: This is a unique book in all respects!
by Anastasia Novykh (Author) and Rigden Djappo (Foreword)
Translated from Russian original
2016
ISBN-13: 978-9662690071
850 pages, Kindle Edition
Listed in Kindle under “occult” literature
Review by Joseph Szimhart Nov 2025
Most controversial new religions often called cults by critics have front names and layers of participation. This one, AllatRa International Public Movement, or AllatRa for short, established in 2012 by Ukrainian nationals in Ukraine has proven to be no different. Currently, AllatRa’s main front organization is Creative Society launched after 2021 with most centers in eastern Europe, but its outreach has spread to Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Mexico, Central America, and a growing list. The core membership seems to be around a few hundred with perhaps less than a household in charge of everything, pulling the levers behind the curtain, so to speak, and taking in the money from book sales, conferences, and donations. Volunteers sympathetic to causes from self-development to saving the planet run projects initiated by AllatRa through Creative Society.
AllatRa has aligned with a variety of organizations that promote world peace, climate change awareness, women’s rights, treatment for addiction, creative personal transformation therapies, and the arts. AllatRa promotes many conspiracy theories, teaches that the world with end by 2036, and that climate change is not caused or enhanced by human industrial activity.[1] Aping established controversial new religions (Scientology, the Unification Church, Ramtha School of Enlightenment and Falun Gong to name several), AllatRa aligns with small international cliques of scholars that criticize anything and anyone they stereotype as the Anti-Cult Network or ACM. One such group goes by CESNUR (Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni) or Center for Studies on New Religions based in Italy. Credibility on all sides of this messy debate about cults suffers when oppositional posturing dominates.
Ukrainian security forces have identified AllatRa as a “terrorist cult” after raiding offices and investigating AllatRa’s pro-Russian behavior.[2] For a time, AllatRa supported President Putin and his Russian geopolitics until the Orthodox Church convinced Putin that AllatRa was pagan and unchristian. Nevertheless, ethnocentric, pan Slavic sympathies emerge readily from my reading of AllatRa: The Book. AllatRa operatives have fled Ukraine as a result of government exposure. Journalists in pro-Russian countries have been arrested for exposing AllatRa as Creative Society with hidden agendas. AllatRa nevertheless continues to be useful to Russian propaganda that disrupts democratic regimes.[3]
The founder, a former coal miner, Ihor Danilov (aka Igor Danielov), inspired the author Anastasia Novykh (aka Halyna Yablochkina) after he claimed to have a spiritual awakening in 2002 while working for a spine clinic associated with a monastery. In 2003, the author wrote “Sensei: Origin of Shambala” published in English in 2009 indicating that Danilov is the Holy Spirit embodied. Danilov’s occult musings about how to save the self and the world have been published in books and on promotional Internet videos including on AllatRa-TV.
In 2015, a website linked Danilov to the work of Nicholas Roerich and the legend of Rigden Djapo (sic), the future Buddha in Tibetan lore, or Maitreya.[4] That same website in 2015 linked Danilov to Ahura Mazda, the God of Zoroastrianism, by stating how much Danilov resembled a sculpture of the god.[5] According to research presented on an AllatRa/Creative Society promotion site, rgdn.info, AllatRa claims to represent the spiritual energy and teachings of gods, angels and messiahs: “There were: Rigden Djappo, Ahura Mazda, Osiris, Archangel Gabriel, Angel Jibrail, Agapit of Pechersk, Quetzalcoatl. We expect: Imam Mahdi, the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, Maitreya, Kalki Avatar, Messiah, Geser Khan.”[6]
The illustration for this webpage is a painting (Command of Rigden Djappo, king of Shambala 1933)[7] by Nicolas Roerich who along with his wife Helena Roerich, a psychic channeler of Theosophy’s imagined entity Master Morya, founded the controversial Agni Yoga Society or Living Ethics in the early 1920s. Nicholas Roerich had occult beliefs that he was to be recognized by the masters of Shambala as “the king of the world.”[8] He died uncrowned in 1947.
The Shambala myth looms large in Danilov’s cosmology as does AllatRa’s resemblance to a host of Theosophical sects with theocratic agendas that claim to represent the primordial wisdom of humankind as well as the ultimate truth that comes from higher dimensions of awareness. Ramtha and Falun Gong are examples, but I think due to its Russo-centric orientation, AllatRa most resembles the milieu of Agni Yoga.
In essence, AllatRa is fundamentalist and syncretic. An example of this is AllatRa’s belief in the literal magical power of symbols to influence our souls, especially through their primary logo of an upward pointed crescent below a circle: Allat (circle) is the energy of the universe while the crescent as Ra is the deity or creative director of that energy holding and guiding Allat through 72 dimensions—most ignorant folk, according to AllatRa, are aware of a mere three or four dimensions. The book AllatRa “finds” their logo symbol more or less illustrated throughout ancient human cultures indicating that a primordial wisdom or gnosis once guided the human, but that wisdom has been lost. AllatRa has appeared to restore the true gnosis in hidden teachings of Jesus to the human race—again. I say “again” because in my career over the past fifty years, I have encountered hundreds of cults and neo-mystics who unconvincingly claim to restore the hidden teachings of Jesus that the Gospels and the churches have distorted or occulted. This neo-Platonic spin dates back to the second century, when Valentinus claimed to have received these teachings in direct transmission from Jesus’s disciples.
AllatRa: The Book presents a casual dialog between by the author as Anastasia with a character called Rigden Djappo (sic) about the nature of the universe, ancient symbols, brain physiology, the primordial wisdom behind all religions, and techniques for self-realization or saving oneself before trying to save the world through their suggested theocratic political scheme. I see Rigden as not only a stand-in for the Tibetan legendary Maitreya, but as a voice for Ihor Danilov’s Holy Spirit persona. The entire book smacks of channeling wisdom from a spiritual entity, a common practice among multitudes of New Agers. The question is more about the quality and verity of the information than whether spirit channeling is actual contact with an independent agent (an autonomous complex in Carl Jung’s phrase) or histrionics played by deluded psychic channelers.
“The gist of the Truth is simple: save yourself first before saving others,” says Rigden (page 741of 850 in my Kinde edition). Now, how would we do that? His statement suggests, in essence, that you must save yourself by following the divinely created rituals and ideas of AllatRa. Therin is the game in any new or old religion or cult. The questions to ponder are whether the game has real value, is ethical, and lives up to its grandiose promises. Danilov appears on video to explain “Truth” on this site, https://rgdn.info/en, saying, “The Truth is one for everyone.” If you swallow that pithy assertion, even at an elementary ayahuasca experience level, “you got some splainin’ to do,” loosely interpreting the great Cuban skeptic, Ricky Riccardo. Gnosis claimed is not gnosis applied. Context, conduct and governance count here on planet Earth.
Danilov has in the past craftily avoided admitting he is the guru, sensei, or holy spirit as insinuated by AllatRa stories and foundation literature. This has been a common ruse by cult leaders including the founders of Falun Gong of the Unification Church who for decades deflected the group belief that they were the world Avatar or second coming of Jesus Christ. This is called the illusion of choice, in that the believers feel that they have made a choice based on the restricted intellectual confines of rhetoric offered by the ersatz messiah. In other words, if the naked emperor appears to wear clothes to you, then he is wearing clothes.
AllatRa leads followers to believe they have free, creative choice while they wander about the concocted AllatRa Cosmo conception. AllatRa the Book mimics a tradition of dialog employed from Plato to Kierkegaard to Nietzsche. Rigden plays the role of a master from beyond, a future Buddha, or archangel hinting and suggesting what is real and what is not. Thus Spake Zarathustra becomes thus spoke Rigden without the literary and intellectual power of a Nietzsche. In effect, AllatRa the Book reminds me of a coffee house autodidact entertaining entranced eager souls buzzing with spiritual caffeine. It is more eisegesis a personal interpretation – than exegesis – a critical analysis – when commenting on ancient cultures, sciences and symbols.
One example of inept interpretation from the book is Rigden’s off-handed comment about the Ainu, an indigenous culture in northern Japan. Rigden, affirmed by the ever-agreeable Anastasia, claimed that the Ainu were European in origin and that they once had a grasp on the primordial Truth until Japanese colonization ruined their culture. Ainu were never one indigenous culture, but groups of similar tribes that migrated and settled in what is today southeastern Russia and Northern Japan. Ainu were typical of ancient tribal groups, like Magyars that combined nine tribes into one linguistic group by the time they settled in the Carpathian basin. Tribal symbols and totems were not fixed in the historical beginning; rather religious symbols appear in illo tempore or in eternal mythological time after being shaped and clarified over actual time.
All images and descriptions of Ainu suggest that the bearded male and beardless female Ainu appear more Asian than European by any modern standards, so Rigden’s insistent connection fails. Besides, “European” has no meaning 2,500 years ago when Ainu types may have first organized and settled in Japanese territory. In any case, if Rigden were truthful and not simply racist, he would have to admit that Ainu had their primordial roots in African continental tribal culture, not on European soil. As a result, every quantum force of primordial truth and creative culture emerged from the proto-human African. If you want to believe that ancient truth fell from a Platonic archive into one Slav’s mind around 2002 as AllatRa, that is your prerogative. Which prerogative proves nothing.
AllatRa, the Book admits that it is a “conversation” and not an academic treatise about Truth and Reality. It is up to the reader to decide its value. AllatRa does not offer rigorous debate but might seem rational and can be attractive to a naïve seeker of truth and ancient primordial wisdom. On page 743 we read, “What matters is not the number of years lived but the quality of the life lived.” In general, this is genuine insight beyond argument. But AllatRa lapses into exoteric myth and pseudo-psychological jargon much too often.
For example, the AllatRa authors discuss the lower or “Animal Nature” (442 times) in man controlled by “Archons” (53 times) or angelic entities influencing powers of control like churches and politicians throughout the conversation. Archons are negative entities of power that AllatRa derived mainly from Gnostic sources. Animal Nature echoes Anton Mesmer’s notion of Animal Magnetism that was re-interpreted by New Thought sects, especially Christian Science in which “malicious animal magnetism” can cause our spiritual downfall (Scientology’s “entheta”). The “I AM” Activity (aka St. Germain Foundation), a Theosophical sect mired in New Thought ideology and founded in the 1930s, told me that animals are accumulated negative human energy, when I studied with them in 1975. AllatRa reinforces similar simplistic occult notions about Animal Nature.
The book revisits the history and meaning of the swastika, mentioning it 22 times, pointing out that it was used as a symbol of fortune and energy, portraying the “arms” in a galaxy, for example. On its face, this discussion about a swastika seems innocuous—anyone familiar with Buddhism, Theosophy, or Native American culture knows that the swastika can represent cultural wisdom and positive beliefs. But in its context in AllatRa, the swastika carries real power if you gaze at it. Its power changes to positive or negative depending on which way it spins, says Rigden. It acts like a charm, as all symbols do, to change you and the world when ritualized. For instance, pentagram encircled on the floor during a Wiccan ceremony. In other words, AllatRa repeats familiar, and I would say fatuous, occult beliefs. I repeat what one Theosophist warned me in the 1970s: Beware of the fascist impulse.
Most folks aligned with AllatRa, even indirectly by volunteering for Creative Society projects, have no concern that AllatRa teachings and beliefs seem crazy to outsiders. In similar social fashion, most Freemasons I have met have little patience or interest in speculative or occult Freemasonry like that presented by Albert Pike (1809-91), yet they support Masonic projects and charities. Pike plagiarized from sources like the infamous occultist Eliphas Levi.[9] In my long career looking into the occulture, it seems more the rule than the exception that new occult religions will plagiarize from similar teachings. In that regard, I can say that AllatRa is no different after reading this book. By all indications, AllatRa furthers the egocentric Slavophile impulse to rule the world the way Nicholas Roerich dreamt he might from Shambala and Valdimir Putin acts like he will from Moscow.
On a more prosaic level in politics, AllatRa aligns with anti-democratic agents like Falun Gong and the Unification Church as well as conservative celebrities in the United States:
On June 2, 2025: ALLATRA International Public Movement (IPM) participated in the high-level Congressional Prayer Breakfast titled “Peace and Cooperation,” convened at Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. The event, dedicated to the theme of peace and cooperation, gathered members of the United States Congress, diplomats, religious leaders, and representatives of leading international organizations committed to peace, sustainable development, and global security
allatra.org
1. June 2, 2025: Congressional Prayer Breakfast
Event: Prayer Breakfast "Peace and Cooperation"; Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.[10]
https://allatra.org/press-release/allatra-contributes-congressional-prayer-breakfast-advancing-dialogue-peace-and-security
[1] “Climate Disinformation Peddlers Target the Vatican and US Congress,” VSquare.org https://vsquare.org/disinformation-whitewashing-russia-allatra-creative-society/
[2] AllatRa was raided in Ukraine over its ties to Russia’s FSB. Note the MAGA hat in one of the raid photos. https://babel.ua/en/news/100172-sbu-exposed-the-allatra-sect-for-its-pro-russian-activities-it-operates-throughout-ukraine-the-eu-asia-and-the-usa#:~:text=What%20is%20%22AllatRa%22?,1
[3] “Slovakia: Two journalists investigated for their work on sectarianism and cults.” 18 Oct 2024
https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/slovakia-two-journalists-investigated-for-their-work-on-sectarianism-and-cults
[4] https://rgdn.info/en/about
[5] https://rgdn.info/en/ocherednoe_vizualnoe_shodstvo._ahura_mazda
[6] Analyst Team Point of View: https://rgdn.info/en/upominanie_o_rigdene_dzhappo._iz_trudov_n.k._reriha
[7] https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/command-of-rigden-djapo-1933-according-to-tibetan-buddhist-news-photo/464433727
[8] Nicholas Roerich: The artist who would be king by John McCannon, 2022: https://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Roerich-Russian-European-Studies/dp/0822947412
[9] “One of Pike's influences was the French author Éliphas Lévi, the pen name of Alphonse Louis Constant. Lévi was a prolific writer on occult topics who, in Pike's day, was considered an expert on pagan mysteries and Gnosticism.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morals_and_Dogma_of_the_Ancient_and_Accepted_Scottish_Rite_of_Freemasonry
ALLATRA Contributes to Congressional Prayer Breakfast: Advancing Dialogue on Peace and Security
ALLATRA International Public Movement (IPM) participated in the high-level Congressional Prayer Breakfast titled “Peace and Cooperation,” convened at Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. The event, dedicated to the theme of peace and cooperation, gathered members of the United States Congress, diplomats, religious leaders, and representatives of leading international organizations committed to peace, sustainable development, and global security
allatra.org
1. June 2, 2025: Congressional Prayer Breakfast
Event: Prayer Breakfast "Peace and Cooperation"; Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
Link: https://allatra.org/press-release/allatra-contributes-congressional-prayer-breakfast-advancing-dialogue-peace-and-security
Hostesses/Participants: The event was hosted by Kateryna Odarchenko along with several Jewish representatives and Israeli politicians. The Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States and Congressman Mark Green also participated.
The event was attended by numerous prominent figures; ALLATRA representatives were actively networking.
2. June 7, 2025
A Facebook post by Valeriya Smian (an ALLATRA member) thanks Paula White-Cain ("white!!!!!!!!!!! important").
3. July 21, 2025: Faith & Freedom Coalition
Event: Participation in the Faith & Freedom Coalition event Location: Washington, D.C. Date of Event: June 26–28, 2025 Topic: Religious Freedom and Human Rights Violations
Link: https://allatra.org/press-release/allatra-joins-faith-freedom-coalition-event-dc-addressing-religious-liberty-and-human-rights-violations
Key Participants: This event was the first documented meeting involving Pastor Mark Burns and ALLATRA. Paula White-Cain also attended.
Attendees Included:
Paula White-Cain, Special Government Employee and Key Advisor, White House Faith Office.
Jenny S. Korn, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Faith Office.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
Taliy Shkurupiy, Global Systems and Research Analyst, ALLATRA MSH (International Public Movement ALLATRA).
Olga Schmidt, Chairwoman of Creative Society.
Dr. Alveda King, former State Representative and American activist.
Valeriya Smian, Head of Communications, Partnerships and Events, ALLATRA MSH.
Senator Ted Cruz.
Other notable leaders: U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and Eric Schmitt; U.S. Representatives Lisa McClain, Lee Zeldin, Brian Jack, Mark Harris, Barry Loudermilk, and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer; Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter; Ralph Reed, Founder and Chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition; and Mary Thomas, Executive Director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition.
The conference included a special recorded address by President Donald Trump.
Focus of ALLATRA's Engagement
Dialogue: ALLATRA representatives engaged in discussions with attendees—including members of Congress, religious leaders, academics, and civil society representatives—on the role of faith, freedom, and democracy, focusing on the protection of religious freedom, a fundamental right enshrined in the U.S. First Amendment.
Discussion with Pastor Mark Burns: ALLATRA representatives discussed the global significance of protecting religious freedom and promoting the universal right to freedom of religion and expression.
Targeting of ALLATRA by RACIRS: A key topic was the Russian Association of Centers for the Study of Religions and Sects (RACIRS), an organization known for promoting "anti-cult" rhetoric. RACIRS actively targets and seeks to suppress religious and civil society groups advocating for democracy and human rights, including NGOs like ALLATRA.
ALLATRA highlighted concerns regarding RACIRS's tactics, which include harassment, dehumanization, and persecution.
ALLATRA itself was declared "extremist" in the Russian Federation following a sustained dehumanization and discreditation campaign led by RACIRS.
Delegates expressed concern over the expanding influence of RACIRS, noting its affiliates operate in parts of Europe and Ukraine.
Other Discussions:
Valeriya Smian discussed religious persecution linked to anti-cult networks (including those associated with RACIRS) with Bishop Kelvin L. Cobaris. These networks allegedly target members of various Christian denominations worldwide.
Smian also spoke with Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, focusing on the crucial role of interfaith understanding and the global protection of religious freedom.
The Epoch Times Interview: Valeriya Smian spoke with The Epoch Times about the global environmental threat of micro- and nanoplastics, referencing an ALLATRA analytical report, "Nanoplastics in the Biosphere: From Molecular Impact to Planetary Crisis." The report was prepared in collaboration with the Catholic University of Bolivia and the Autonomous University of Juan Misael Saracho (BOLIVIA), which served as institutional partners for peer-review.
The interview also covered the oppression of groups like Falun Gong and others worldwide.
PR Coverage: Fox 8, Fox 16, NBC 3, NBC 4, CBS 3, CBS 11, ABC 8, ABC 27, Benzinga, and The Associated Press.
[10] ALLATRA Contributes to Congressional Prayer Breakfast: Advancing Dialogue on Peace and Security
Alveda King is active in AllatRA. She is the child of Martin Luther King Jr.'s younger brother, AD King, and his wife Naomi (Barber) King.
