Glinchikova, E. V. In Transparence of the ‘Holy Divinity’ (About the Possibility of Interpretation of the Mystic Experience Based on N. Trubnikov’s Work ‘Zephie, my Bright Divine, or After the Meeting at Work (the Notes of Deceased K.’)

Abstract: The article is devoted to the interpretation of the last work by a Soviet philosopher Nikolay Trubkinov in which he describes his meetings with some mystic creature he named Zephie. The author of the article tries to reveal the existential meaning of Trubnikov’s work and views Trubnikov’s text as the document showing human way to understanding his personal identity. The author of the article provides an existential analysis of Trubnikov’s work viewed as the reflection of the philosopher’s inner world. Analysis starts from the zero reference point – the point of absurdity. It is the point where the author’s Self is vague and floating along the flow of social life. However, such vague and floating Self gets centered in a non-factual event of the divine origin. May events from the philosopher’s real life are viewed in comparison with this non-factual reference point. The very high point is the chapter ‘Revelation on Patmos’ where the philosopher describes his own experience of seeing the Holy City. The main conflict here is the conflict between the Good and the Evil, between the human and animalistic.

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