Russian Cosmism

Philosophy·Founded 1906 CE·No longer practised

Russian Cosmism

Branch

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →
N Nikolai Fyodorov — who gave his salary away. He lived in a rented corner, slept on a chest, ate almost nothing, refused promotion and declined to publish. The most ambitious project ever proposed for the human species was worked out by a man who owned one coat. Domain The common taskStanding Published essentially nothing under his own name while alive; the book is a posthumous assembly by disciples Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 2 →
The shared center — held across the tradition
Death is not a law of nature but a failure of coordination. Fyodorov called it a manifestation of our immaturity and our incapacity for mutual support — a description of a species that has not yet organised itself, rather than of the universe. Go deeper — context & 1 source →
The task is to raise the fathers, atom by atom. Not resurrection in memory or in spirit. Fyodorov meant the physical reassembly of every human being who has died, performed by their descendants using science, and he called it the common task because there is no other. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death
The nature of reality

A universe that is not finished, and which humanity is obliged to complete

After death

No afterlife, and no need for one — the dead are to be restored to this world, in their bodies, by their descendants.

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