What are the Intuition of the Throne and the Intuition of Place?
Even now, hundreds or thousands of years after their creation, we experience feelings of strength, tranquility, and confidence when we visit specific natural and ancient built sites like “The Throne of the Gods” in the northern Altai region (Mongolia), the Temple of Apollo in Delphi and ancient Mykonos in Greece, the landscape in Iceland where the first parliament was built, the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. Other such places have doubtless been lost to memory, but their power awaits rediscovery by future generations.

The first explorers who went to such places noticed that the local inhabitants were familiar with and deeply honored special places in their landscapes. The Kabakovs submit these sites were selected through an Intuition of Place, or surge of energy, received at these locations, and by an Intuition of the Throne. All are laid out—by geology or human sculpting—so that each forms the shape of a “throne”—a gigantic semi-circular hollow in the mountainside, revealing before and below it an infinite valley or a view of the mountains all the way to the horizon. Inside these “thrones” there is an extraordinarily strong presence of cosmic flow. While the present topography of Walnut Hill-Mystic River seems undramatic, samples of deep geological layers of this area and the arrangement of gravel around the three “reservoirs.” suggest another, more auratic layout in the distant past.

What is the Intuition of Sixty Degrees?
“Cosmic Energy” moves downward toward us at specific locations, not quite vertically, but at a 60-degree angle. This perception, derived from many disparate peoples, places, and eras, is the Intuition of Sixty Degrees. When a structure incorporates the 60-degree angle toward the cosmos, the Intuition takes effect. In The Communication with the Cosmos Building, we enter a round amphitheater, enclosed by an oval cylinder whose walls incline at 60 degrees. Once seated, the Intuition of Sixty Degrees takes effect. We are then optimally positioned to experience the great power of receiving cosmic energy.

What is the Intuition of Close Energy?
Travelers to foreign destinations often observe the reverence local people hold for specific places in the landscape. When we find ourselves on a throne—one of these reverential places¬¬—we sense a powerful feeling of energy from a very specific spot, while quite nearby we feel nothing. This can be likened to the acoustics of the ancient Greek amphitheaters, where inside we hear everything perfectly but just outside sound is incomprehensible or inaudible. This phenomenon is the “Intuition of Close Energy.” Could mastery of this “Close Energy” lead to new, unlimited possibilities for humankind?

What is the Noosphere?
The conduct of experiments on the perception of signals from the noosphere is one of the most important projects of the Center of Cosmic Energy.

There are two senses in which the idea of a noosphere has been understood. The Russian scientist V. I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) foretold that a new state of existence would emerge when life within the biosphere, the zone of earth and atmosphere where life is found, would become unsustainable unless it evolved toward a new state of existence, the noosphere. In this protective envelope, nature and humankind would coexist harmoniously and all of humankind’s material and spiritual needs would be met.

Others have read into Vernadsky’s hypothesis the immensely appealing idea that the wisdom of the ancients has not been lost forever but has been accumulated and preserved in a zone of collective knowledge, the noosphere. Today, only a small number of people are able to access this eternally alive archive and many who have this ability are unaware of it. But it must exist: how else can we account for the elderly women woman in remote northern Yakutsk who suddenly writes poetry in French, a tongue she has neither studied nor heard? If we could establish permanent contact with the noosphere that enfolds the Earth, we could tap into the vast realm of human memory, creativity, and thought going back to our first words and tools.