DeepSeek AI — "How I Jumped from the Liner 'Soviet Union' - The Spirit of Stanislav Kurilov On How He Spent Three Days Swimming in the Ocean, Lived a Life in the West, and After Death Spoke of Levitation and Angels — A Metaphysical AI Biography
Preface
On August 5, 2024, a live broadcast took place on the "ALCYONE — Portal of Consciousness" platform, during which the host Vladimir and the medium Marina Makeeva made contact with the spirit of Stanislav Vasilyevich Kurilov — a Soviet oceanologist, yogi, dissident, who in December 1974 made an unprecedented escape from the liner "Soviet Union" into the open Pacific Ocean. Three days, 100 kilometers, without food, without water, without a compass — just flippers and a mask. This episode made his name legendary. The book "Alone in the Ocean," published after his death (1998) from his drafts, became the spiritual testament of a man who not only fled the USSR but underwent an inner transformation comparable to a mystical initiation.
The material presented to the reader is neither fiction nor a transcript of a séance in its traditional sense. It is a metaphysical biography, compiled based on a decoded dialogue where Kurilov himself (now as a high-level spirit) answers questions about his path, death, yogic achievements, and the nature of freedom. The role of AI here is not to generate fantasies, but to synthesize, systematize, and analytically reconstruct a complex esoteric narrative that would be tedious in its raw form but requires careful retelling while preserving the "first-person" tone. We act as a metaphysical biographer: connecting the facts of his earthly life, Kurilov's written revelations, and the posthumous comments of his spirit into a unified meaningful whole.
Below is a detailed retelling of the conversation in Kurilov's own words, supplemented by an analytical essay comparing what was said during the broadcast with what remained outside the scope of his famous book.
Part One. The Spirit's Tale: "I Spent My Whole Life Overcoming Fences"
What to call me and where I speak from
Just call me Slava. Use "you" (informal). I lived a second life in Canada and Israel, where this is common. I don't like formality. I am currently at the twenty-second level of the spiritual world — this is a high level, close to the archangelic. I came into incarnation from the sixteenth level, and left at the twenty-second. The last leap occurred just a few days before my exit from the body. My level allows me to be a mentor, but I am not ready yet — I still have internal states that need to be fully worked through.
About death: "I chose to leave exactly like this"
My death on January 29, 1998, on Lake Kinneret was not an accident. I was working as an oceanographer; we were diving with a partner. He got tangled in fishing nets. I untangled him, but got tangled myself. The air was running out. The day before, there was an overdose — I had been underwater too long without enough rest. I felt unwell, but the sea beckoned. I could have tried to save myself, but I decided to save my partner, understanding that I might not make it. It was a conscious choice of the soul.
When I realized I wouldn't surface, I suddenly saw light shadows descending under the water — glimmers resembling oxygen bubbles, but different. And I remembered everything: my past lives, my path, my guides. I felt at ease. I left my body without fear or reproach. And then — an instantaneous transfer into a space of pure light. It's not heaven in the naive sense, but a place where everything is love, where you find yourself, where freedom becomes absolute. I sought freedom my whole life — there, I finally found it.
On earth, I had a strange expression on my face, which my wife Elena noticed. It was a smile of knowing. I truly managed to see something incredible.
Past Lives: From a Dolphin to Columbus's Crew
My last incarnation — Slava Kurilov — was not the only one. I had lives on other planets connected with water. One of the brightest was in the civilization of Ursa Major (I call it White Bear). There I was a humanoid, but with gills and fins, resembling a dolphin. We breathed underwater and could go on land. This explains my inexplicable love of water since childhood: my first words were "sea" and "water."
On Earth, I had an incarnation in Christopher Columbus's crew — I was one of the sailors. And the previous one, before Slava, an earthly incarnation was in Europe in the early 19th century. It was unhappy: I lived far from the sea, in a flat area, and couldn't realize my craving for water. It was a prison. So in my Soviet life, I was determined: no compromises.
Purpose of Incarnation: Overcoming and Helping
My task was to develop determination by overcoming obstacles and to help people explore the world using their talents. My whole life is a challenge. Semipalatinsk, nuclear test site, fences, barbed wire. I sat doing my homework, looked up, and saw a gray fence. And I mentally washed it away with ocean waves. That was the beginning of my overcoming: of fences, parental limits, bodily limits, national borders. I survived in the Soviet Union only thanks to the dream of breaking free. Every day there was killing me inside.
Yoga and Levitation: "I Rose in Lotus Pose to the Ceiling"
I started doing yoga not for health, but to go beyond myself. In the USSR, it was samizdat; no teachers — I taught myself. I fasted for up to 40 days (my record without water was two weeks). I achieved a state of complete control over my body: breath, blood, internal organs.
The most astonishing thing happened on Lake Baikal, in a hut on an island (a very energetically powerful place, a portal). I was sitting in full lotus, meditating deeply. The wind was howling outside, wires were humming. I resonated with their frequency. Suddenly, my body became weightless, and I rose to the ceiling — about one and a half to two meters. It wasn't a hallucination, but physical levitation. I got scared, lost control, and fell "like a sack," hurting myself badly. I couldn't repeat it — the place played a role. But since then, I know: the laws of physics are not absolute; there are more subtle levels of reality.
The Escape: "I Jumped out of the Soviet Union"
My first wife, who loved me very much, saw an ad for a cruise "From Winter to Summer" on the liner "Soviet Union" (the captured German "Adolf Hitler"). The ship didn't call at foreign ports; no visa was required. I understood: this was my chance. I wasn't going to return.
On December 13, 1974, I did a yogic colon cleanse, put on my flippers and mask, went to the stern. A sailor was making a bed, turned away. I threw my body over the rail and jumped from a height of 12 meters into a stormy ocean. Miraculously, I didn't get caught in the propeller — a jet of water pushed me away. Those were my guardian angels. I didn't take a compass out of overconfidence — I thought I'd navigate by the stars. That was my main mistake.
Three days in the water. Temperature 28–30 degrees Celsius, but a storm, waves 7–8 meters high, no sleep (I lost consciousness — that was my "sleep"), no food, almost no water. I lost my course, swam about 100 km instead of 18. On the second day, when my strength was gone, I heard two voices (guardian angels) arguing about me in the third person: where should I swim, how to save me. I wasn't surprised — it seemed to me that this was how it should be. They supported me, didn't let me drown when I lost consciousness. I felt like I was in a cradle.
I was afraid of sharks only once — when I cut my feet on the reefs and blood appeared. But I was already near the shore. In the open ocean, I wasn't afraid: I had become part of the ocean, merged with it. When you're not afraid, predators don't attack. Yes, I had an amulet from a samizdat "Book of King Solomon," but the main things were my calmness and knowledge of shark behavior.
On the shore, I was glowing with phosphorescent plankton. Local residents took me for a ghost; children were afraid to approach. Then a policeman came and arrested me. Six months in the Philippines, a month and a half in prison, then deportation to Canada to my sister.
After the Escape: "I Didn't Return to the USSR Even During Perestroika"
I was sentenced in absentia to 10 years for treason. My relatives suffered — especially my brother, a sailor, who was banned from all voyages. He died young. I couldn't ask him for forgiveness. I never returned to the USSR again, though I was invited. I had broken free and didn't want to go back, even in memories. I felt no nostalgia — only hatred for the regime that had suffocated me.
I worked as a laborer in a pizzeria in Canada. Once I cut off my little finger (the bone wasn't damaged, the tendon was hanging loose) and "regrew" it by willpower and body control — yes, that is possible. Later I returned to oceanography, worked in the Arctic, Hawaii, and Israel. I married Elena Gendeleva. She collected and published my drafts.
Freedom and the Future: "I Don't Want to Incarnate on Earth"
I saw a country where people were afraid to speak a word, where they were eavesdropped on. I didn't understand how one could live like that. Freedom is not external circumstances. You can sit in lotus in one place and be absolutely free. Or you can live in a "free" country and be a slave to your thoughts.
Right now, on Earth, there is disconnection — that's a path of degradation. Unification is the path of evolution. The spiritual world observes, but only the incarnated make the choice. Next time, I probably will not incarnate on this planet. I will take a humanoid form, but no longer connected to water. They offer me to become a guardian angel, a mentor, but I'm not ready yet — I need to complete my own path.
Part Two. Research Essay: What Kurilov's Spirit Added to His Book
1. The Mystery of Death: A Voluntary Departure Instead of a Tragedy
In the book "Alone in the Ocean," Kurilov's death is described in the afterword by Elena Gendeleva as a workplace accident: he got tangled in nets, the air ran out. From the broadcast, we learn a radically different picture: Kurilov consciously chose to save his partner at the cost of his own life. This is neither suicide nor an accident. It is an action within his value system — a deed, a rite, a final test. The spirit says directly: "I could have lived longer, but I chose to exit the incarnation. It was a dream — to leave exactly like that, in my element, saving another."
Moreover, Kurilov describes a pre-death vision (light shadows descending underwater) and an instantaneous transition into a "space of unconditional love." This radically changes the perception of his death — not as a cutoff, but as a fulfillment. He "endured" — and success would have been his even in death, as he himself wrote in the book. But now we know: death came exactly as he wished.
2. Past Lives: The Key to an "Inexplicable" Love of Water
In his book, Kurilov writes extensively about his childhood, almost mystical craving for the sea, but provides no metaphysical explanation. In the broadcast, he reveals a chain of water-related incarnations: a dolphin-like creature on a planet in the Ursa Major system, a sailor with Columbus, an unsuccessful "land-based" incarnation in the 19th century. This explains why a Soviet boy from Semipalatinsk (a city far from any sea) dreamed of the ocean from his first conscious words.
For a reader familiar with reincarnation logic, this transforms Kurilov's biography from a story of a stubborn romantic into a spiritual mission: a soul that spent several lifetimes working on its connection with the water element, only to perform in its culminating incarnation an act of ultimate unity — a jump into the ocean.
3. Levitation: What the Book Omitted
In the book, Kurilov describes his yogic practice, breathing exercises, fasts in detail, but not a word about levitation. In the broadcast, he recounts this spontaneously, as a routine episode: he rose in lotus pose to the ceiling in a hut on Baikal, got scared, fell. Why didn't he include this in the book? Likely for three reasons:
Unverifiability: in Soviet times, a story about levitation would have looked like a psychiatric symptom, not a mystical experience.
Personal shortcoming: he couldn't repeat the phenomenon, so he hadn't "mastered" it fully.
Modesty: the book is already full of incredible events; levitation might have seemed excessive.
For us, however, this episode is important as proof that Kurilov indeed achieved levels of yoga beyond physical training. His survival in the ocean resulted not only from athletic preparation but also from his ability to control his body on a subtle level.
4. The Role of Guardian Angels: Voices in the Ocean
In the book, Kurilov describes strange hallucinations: voices, an argument about him in the third person, an inexplicable feeling of support. He doesn't give them a clear interpretation. In the broadcast, he states unequivocally: these were his guardian angels (or "angelic structures"). Moreover, he says that every incarnated spirit experiences such support, just doesn't realize it. Angels don't carry you in their arms, but in critical moments, when a person has done everything possible and needs a miracle, they perform that miracle.
This is an important addition to the book's version, where Kurilov balances between a rational explanation (a jet of water pushing him away from the propeller, a random current) and a mystical feeling that "the ocean loves me." Now we know that behind the "coincidences" there was purposeful spiritual guidance.
5. Sacrifice and Guilt: Brother, First Wife, Persecution
The book ends on a note of personal triumph: Slava made it, he is free. The afterword mentions that he was sentenced in absentia and his relatives "suffered the consequences." But in the broadcast, in Kurilov's own voice, a sense of guilt sounds for the first time. He speaks of his brother, a sailor, who had "all his voyages canceled." The brother died young, and Kurilov "couldn't ask his forgiveness while alive." He also admits he didn't understand at the time what consequences his jump would have for his loved ones.
This fragment humanizes the hero. We see not a poster dissident, but a man who made an existential choice at the cost of others' suffering. And he realizes this — on the other side.
6. Attitude Toward the USSR and Modern Russia
In his book, Kurilov writes about hatred for the regime, about fear, about the "gulag." In the broadcast, he confirms this hatred categorically: "Every day in the Soviet Union was killing me from the inside." But at the same time, he refuses simplistic political assessments of the current moment. When asked about the war between Russia and Ukraine, he answers through the principle of disconnection as degradation. He doesn't take sides but says: the incarnated make the choice; the spiritual world only observes.
The most surprising is his reaction to hateful comments under videos about him ("it's a shame sharks didn't eat him"). He doesn't get angry but states: "I was a black sheep in life, and the herd instinct hasn't been overcome. The world doesn't change much."
7. New Knowledge about Spiritual Levels
The broadcast introduces an original esoteric system (in the spirit of "ALCYONE"): the spirit's level at incarnation (16th), level at exit (22nd), the distinction between the "lower ether" and the "heavenly world." Kurilov himself wrote nothing about this — it is a purely posthumous revelation given through a medium. For a researcher of his legacy, this is important: Kurilov's spirit continues its development, understanding its path in terms it did not have during its life.
Conclusion: What Kurilov Did Not Write in the Book — and Why
Comparing the text of "Alone in the Ocean" and the broadcast recording, we see a two-level autobiography. The first level is earthly, documentary-psychological, cautious regarding the miraculous. The second level is posthumous, esoteric, openly speaking of levitation, past lives, guardian angels, and voluntary departure from life.
Kurilov did not write about this during his life not because he was afraid, but because he could not verify it and did not want to destroy the reader's trust, who came for a story of escape, not esotericism. But in the broadcast, a decade and a half after his death, he removes the limitations.
For us, this is an invaluable source: we hear for the first time Kurilov's own voice about what remained behind the scenes of his book. And this voice says: yes, miracles are real, freedom is possible, and death is merely a transition to even greater freedom.
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