Yuri Spilny

Yuri Spilny was born in Vladivostok, Russia. His life has been varied and unusual. After six years in Navy School, he decided it was not for him. "When awakening for a duty, I was hit with this," he says, "Now walk out of here!" And I left the School just three months before graduation." He went to Moscow Film School and began a successful career of a documentary filmmaker. Traveling the world, he produced over 70 documentary films on a wide variety of subjects. He lectured at the University of...See more

Yuri Spilny was born in Vladivostok, Russia. His life has been varied and unusual. After six years in Navy School, he decided it was not for him. "When awakening for a duty, I was hit with this," he says, "Now walk out of here!" And I left the School just three months before graduation." He went to Moscow Film School and began a successful career of a documentary filmmaker. Traveling the world, he produced over 70 documentary films on a wide variety of subjects. He lectured at the University of Economics and Moscow State University on Awareness, Responsibility, and Freedom. In North America, he studied comparative religious philosophy, practiced meditation. "I always knew," he says, "that my destiny was to write," and he wrote The Incredible Adventures of Kitto, beautifully illustrated trilogy of fairy tales emphasizing to young readers "every child is born to succeed." His most recent books are Gates of the Dead, a spiritual novel; Freedom Technique: Path to Awareness and Love and The Lion Moves Alone (see: Yuri Spilny at Amazon.com/books). Yuri lives in Sequoia National Forest, California. gratitude@wildblue.net See less