History of This Site
Original Source ↗In February 2001, a friend of mine, who was subscribed to an English-language Yahoo mailing list about Dreaming, told me that an interesting person had appeared there: Sergey Izrigi. I (under the nickname Keshunchick) also subscribed to this mailing list and wrote a letter to Sergey. That's how we met. What Sergey was describing seemed very interesting to me, and I invited him to the Russian-language ariml mailing list, also dedicated to magic and Dreaming. I advertised on other forums and gathered those interested in learning more about Dream Hackers. For some time, Sergey communicated in ariml, but then took offense at the forum members because some doubted what he was writing, and decided to leave. Then I asked Sergeich (sergejh) to create a special section for S.I. on his forum. Again, I advertised and gathered interested individuals. When there was enough material from S.I., I decided to create a website to publish what S.I. was sharing. That's how dreamhackers.narod.ru appeared in May 2001. The site was my first brainchild, so, of course, its design leaves much to be desired.
After some time, Sergey again took offense at the forum members for not showing due enthusiasm and trust in his words, and decided to leave again. Then I decided to create a personal forum for him. That's how our Yahoo mailing list appeared in July 2001, which still exists to this day. Back then, it was called dreamhackers and was strictly moderated. I settled all disputes, wrote private letters to participants, asking them to express themselves as loyally and politely as possible, just so S.I. wouldn't leave again. During this time, some events occurred in my life, and I decided to change my nickname to gm. Keshunchick simply disappeared. I didn't announce that gm was also me; in fact, I just wanted an administrative nickname to moderate the mailing list and not interfere in anything else. Of course, S.I. and other Dream Hackers knew that gm was Keshunchick but didn't give me away. :-) However, gradually, the forum members drew me into informal communication, so gm transformed from an administrative account into a "living" one. I was exposed in 2002 or 2003 by one of my friends from the mailing list. From Sergey's correspondence on all the forums where he participated, I compiled articles that I then published on the website.
However, after a year, S.I. grew tired of this life too. He asked me to create a group of students and a separate mailing list for advanced practices for him. Then I created another Yahoo mailing list and recruited volunteers for the group. Later, this group transformed into Hakeros, for which a very strict selection process was conducted through individual interviews, where I (sometimes accompanied by 1-2 other Hakeros) determined how motivated a candidate was to work in the group. Conditions for participation included monthly practice reports, plus an entrance fee in the form of some material useful to everyone (techniques, experience, etc.). I unsubscribed those who slacked off from the mailing list. Generally, I am not a proponent of strict moderation and harsh measures, but since S.I. behaved quite capriciously, and I wanted to preserve the transmission of knowledge, I had to be strict. The Hakeros group had extremely talented participants: Gosha, Ptimal, Layanna, Kirkhariy, Developer, Akkar, Alezzandr, and many others; sorry that I cannot list everyone. Besides the exercises S.I. gave us (and he gave us few, I must note), we organized our own practices and research, even met in real life. Muscovites met regularly, but we also had meetings with participants from different cities. In terms of network practices, this was the brightest, most interesting, and most useful year for me. I think a book could be written based on the Hakeros materials, though less than half of it would concern the Dream Hackers. Therefore, I did not post Hakeros materials not related to Dream Hackers on the Dream Hackers site. Moreover, the group was considered closed.
Despite the maximally comfortable conditions and enthusiastic participants, Sergey Izrigi abandoned this group too. He simply thanked us, said goodbye, and left. This was in December 2002. Rumors circulated that he was moving to Canada to pursue business there. I don't know how true that is. After this, the group disintegrated, as we were all focused on learning from S.I. A leader was needed to guide the group further, but no one wanted to become one. In early 2003, we still tried to keep the group alive, created a site (which was previously hosted by Layanna, but the server there crashed, so I later moved it to my hosting), met in real life, and I conducted joint meditations and online practices. But gradually, everything faded away. In early 2003, I continued to support and update the Dream Hackers website, chasing after Dream Hackers across various forums where they would appear and disappear.
Of course, I had long been aware of S.I.'s capricious nature, who couldn't get along on any forum, who suspected various forum members of scheming against Dream Hackers, but I tolerated all of it, smoothed things over, and settled disputes. But in 2003, Dream Hackers began to suspect a conspiracy against them involving the best and most active members of Hakeros, my friends. And then Tambov started criticizing me, stating that the site I was creating was bad and nobody needed it. This was the last straw. I wrote a statement on the forum where Tambov had spoken, declaring that I was breaking off relations with Dream Hackers and, since the site was not needed, I was deleting it. I indeed erased all files so they couldn't be accessed via old addresses. A little later, I renamed the mailing list I had created for S.I. to "snovidenie" (Dreaming). Almost immediately after this, mirrors of my site were posted at several addresses. The most famous of them being dreamhacker.narod.ru.
Around this time, from late 2002, Masanya appeared online. Initially, she was on the Nagualism forum (a forum from A.P. Ksendzyuk's site), supported by sergejh, and then by Van. She actively pursued activities in the vein of Dream Hackers – organizing games, research, etc. At the same time, she engaged in intrigues and tried to portray Ksendzyuk in a bad light, accusing him of stealing Dream Hackers' materials and other mortal sins. I don't know why Dream Hackers turned against Ksendzyuk. This started with S.I., but S.I. was relatively adequate; at least he didn't organize a smear campaign. Masanya, however, stooped to anything, from fake messages under other people's nicknames to outright slander. Initially, while these activities still seemed like a joke or a mistake, I published Masanya's articles on the site, as a continuation of the Dream Hackers' work. Then, in June 2003, I deleted the site.
Masanya moved from the Nagualism forum to aworld.ru (though there were other forums), where she was given a section and appointed a moderator. Using her authority, she launched extensive activities to identify and denigrate "enemies of Dream Hackers," into which anyone disagreeable eventually fell. It started with Ksendzyuk, then she began to persecute and slander me, and subsequently, everyone within her reach came under fire. Her methods included clone attacks (i.e., she created a crowd of nicknames and used them to supposedly write messages from different people against whoever she was persecuting), deleting and altering disagreeable messages (i.e., she modified other people's messages to suit her), and simply posting fake messages under others' nicknames. Then she quickly deleted them after forum members had read them. However, I have saved pages with those messages. People who came to her, drawn by the ideas of Dream Hackers, initially tried to remain neutral (between Masanya and her "enemies"), pretending that her behavior was irrelevant and only knowledge and research mattered. But sooner or later, most of them either left on their own or were driven to despair and expelled by Masanya, who even began to criticize her own friends. I was particularly struck that she managed to quarrel even with the best of her comrades, for example, with Vigo (who wrote the book "Dream Hackers" under the pseudonym Andrey Reutov) and with Novays, who for 8 years kept a mirror of my Dream Hackers site on his account.
Now, with Novays having deleted the most famous mirror of the Dream Hackers site, I've received several letters asking where Dream Hackers materials can be found. I decided to repost the site to its old address, as an archive. However, I have removed all of Masanya's articles from the site. If she wants to publish her materials, she should do so on other resources. I also will not include links to sites and forums of Masanya's followers. The site I am reposting is complete (with the exception of Masanya's articles and those where she was mentioned), unlike other mirrors of the site posted online. I have the right to publish all materials on the site, as all texts were published by me between 2001-2003 with the authors' consent and were prepared or written by me.
- I will not add new Dream Hackers articles to the site.
- I will not help to contact Dream Hackers (I do not have contacts) or their followers (find them yourselves if you wish).
- I am not interested in continuing the work of Dream Hackers; I am simply providing an archive at the request of practitioners.
- There are no Dream Hackers on our forum or in our chat. I am not against subscribers conducting online workshops using Dream Hackers materials, but I myself do not organize or support them. If such a workshop is organized by someone else, I only monitor compliance with the mailing list rules (and rest assured that I will not allow flame wars, quarrels, or intrigues flourishing on Masanya's forums). On the other hand, I approve and support all types of practices (on the topic of the mailing list, of course, i.e., practices that help develop consciousness, magic, the art of Dreaming, etc.) conducted by forum members. The most interesting of these I publish on my site in the "Projects" section (see in the left menu). Our forum has a friendly atmosphere, polite communication, and emphasizes practicality and a sober approach. The mailing list has existed for over 10 years, it has several hundred subscribers – among them are very experienced and talented ones; of course, they don't write all the time – and tens of thousands of letters.
- Currently, I do not consider Dream Hackers practices effective, but I give them credit for being engaging. Practices that I consider more effective are posted on my main site (but I do not claim they are ideal). However, I respect the choices of others and believe that "everyone chooses for themselves a woman, a religion, a path" (C) and is responsible for their own choice. So if you want to spend time on Dream Hackers, by all means. My opinion is that Dream Hackers have useful aspects, but unfortunately, too much raw and unverified material is presented as tested reliable techniques. And much is fabricated.