Slava Sevryukova

Slava Sevryukova
Slava with her favorite cats. Late 1980s

Slava Sevryukova was born in Bulgaria in 1902 and passed away in the capital Sofia in 1991. Up until 2004 she was relatively unknown to me and to most Bulgarians outside of the capital as well. She lived somewhat in the shadow of Vanga even though they were both women were close in age and knew one another. To be fair the rest of the Bulgarian mystics from the 20th century also lived under the shadow of Vanga.

Slava says she was born with her gifts. One of the first times she recalls her gift manifesting is when she was a little girl, about 8 years old, during World War I. Her father and both brothers were mobilizied, and she remained home with her mother. One day while out with her mom getting fresh water, Slava’s mom says that they hadn’t received a letter from her father in a long time and she’s worried the worst may have happened. In this moment the little girl felt something shiver in her and sees a post card resting on what looked like the fireplace mantle at her aunt’s home. Slava tells her mom that her father had written, and her aunt Kana has the letter. Confused, Slava’s mom asks how she knew that and Slava replies, lying, that one of her cousins had told her so.

Arriving home, her mom heads to aunt’s house to collect the post card. Surprised, the aunt asks what she’s doing there and the mother replies she’s come for the post card because “Tana”, as they nicknamed Slava, had told her had arrived. Confused, the aunt responds that’s not possible because the card just arrived not half hour ago, and Slava’s cousing hadn’t been home in two days!

In her early years Slava refused to admit to her family she could see both the future and the unseen worlds even though others in her family had gifts. In one videotaped interview she says her mom had a gift, and her brother could see “better than Vanga. Not with his eyes but here (points to middle of the chest), with his spiritual eyes”. At 16 she hurriedly marries an Ukranian soldier whose alcoholism she reluctantly talks about. Shortly after they settle in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia, Slava quickly gains local fame due to her abilities. Famed Bulgarian mystic Peter Dunov, known also as Beinsa Douno, would be one of the first to visit her. The two would eventually meet frequently, sharing spiritual information about the future of Bulgaria and the world.

One time on the suggestion of Dunov they ran an interesting experiment. Dunov tells Slava he would visit her sometime in the next several days but not in his body, rather he would come to her in spirit. And Slava should write down the date and time of his visit. Slava says she awated his visit, days later right as she’d started to think she would not see him when Dunov showed up at her house in spirit just like he’d told her. Slava says she wrote down the exact hour and date of the visit and several days later when Dunov visits her in the flesh she hands him the note, and he confirmed that it was indeed that exact time he pushed himself out of his physical body.

For years Slava said she had beings vist her sometime but didn’t know exactly who they were until the 1970s when a visitor wondered if she’d seen the Ascended Masters described by Elena Blavatska in her Theosophy work. One day he showed Slava the paintings of the Ascended Masters by David Anrias and she immediately recognize all of them. Morya and Mahachohan in particular, pointing to Morya and saying “he’s the one that visits me the most”.

There are two sources covering her life and history – one is 4 books that came out in the early 2000s based on that author’s personal meeting with Slava, and from notes given to him by “the furrow”, a group of people who were closest to her and were present at many of the meetings . This one I consider less reliable, the author has admitted to taking liberties with information and even being fluent in Bulgarian, most of us have found it difficult to separate where the author quotes Slava and where he inserts his own opinions and interpretations

The second source, is the set of books, which I consider more reliable, that are based on transcriptions taken from live notes and audio recordings administered by her asisstant Ivo Lozenski. This second set is comprised of verbatim conversations between Slava and the Ascended Masters where Ivo or someone from the furrow asks questions and the Ascended Masters answer directly. To my knowledge this information remains in Bulgarian.