
Gary Lachman | Holy Russia, Rudolf Steiner, & Cultural Spirits
Russian Cosmism and the Origins of the Space Program
The conversation shifts to Russian Cosmism, a movement led by Nikolai Fedorov who proposed the "common task" of physically resurrecting the dead. This bizarre mystical goal directly led to the birth of the Russian space program, as Fedorov believed humanity would need to colonize other planets to house the resurrected. His student, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, developed the actual mathematics and rocket science that made space travel possible, rooting technological advancement in occult and immortalist philosophy.


