Who is Baba Vanga? The reborn spirit of a noble persona from the past? A Bulgarian prophetess called to hold the door open to the knowledge of the other world? A Saint, a sufferer, or a stranger that came from another dimension to our sinful Earth? Terrestrial or not, Baba Vanga is the woman “touched” by the Big and Unexplained power that marked her destiny at the age of 12.
Everyone that knew Baba Vanga close, does not argue that she was a great phenomenon. But those same people insist to describe her other side – that of an ordinary human being. Because together with her extraordinary skills, Baba Vanga is also a normal person that has his weaknesses, imperfections, and caprices. To know Baba Vanga only as an exceptional person, means to mythologize her image and mask the reality on purpose. One of the main purposes of this blog is not to transform the name of Baba Vanga into a made-up legend, but to objectively tell the story of her life through the eyes of many people that knew her or had met her.
The co-existence of the ordinary and extraordinary in the everyday life of Baba Vanga is striking. On one hand she is an unmatched phenomenon that scientists can’t explain, and on the other hand Baba Vanga is this normal person with his typical weaknesses. The part of her life where she is not accepting people for readings, she is not prophesying, she is not commutating with the dead or in other words she does not “work” is not very well known to people.
There between the physical and non-physical world where Baba Vanga’s soul is hovering, is this simple face of Baba Vanga, that can be hurt by others.
Some of Baba Vanga’s best friends are trying to describe namelythat “simple face” of the prophetess the way they’ve seen it close, as a result of the opportunity to be around her for many years. Those friends of Baba Vanga loved her the way you love your closest one. They were loyal to her day and night, during celebrations, and whenever she needed them. Some of them stayed with her and helped her to the very last day of her life.
Below are the links from the stories of some of the closest people to Baba Vanga. Their stories are most probably one of the most authentic information about the life of the prophetess.
Zheni Kostadinova graduated Philosophy at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. She has worked as an editor at the student TV show “Ku-Ku”, and as a reporter at the National Radio “Horizon”. For over 15 years she is a columnist at “Weekly Trud” newspaper writing about esoteric and psychology. In the same newspaper she is maintaining a page on literature. Zheni Kostadinova is the author of some of the most popular books written on Baba Vanga including “Baba Vanga The Prophetess”, “Baba Vanga Predictions”, “The Secret of Baba Vanga”. Her first book was translated into Russian, Polish, Latvian, Serbian, and Albanian. Zheni is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers. She had published three books of poetry: “Fire Sticks (2002), “17 love colors” (2007), and “Fig Jam” (2008). In 2012 Zheni has founded the art-house “Kuklite”. It is a doll gallery and a mini-museum located in the old downtown of Sofia. The gallery exhibits different dolls placed in specific categories. Besides the exhibitions, the art-house “Kuklite” also have the priority to work with children from the local schools, so they learn more about the traditions and customs of the different nations. The main idea is to transform the art-house “Kuklite” into a centre for cultural exchange, creative collaboration between representatives of different fields of art, science and philosophy. The art-house will hold meetings with interesting personalities, and will be a place of exhibitions, seminars, workshops, premieres of books and documentary movies, puppetry, and many other great events. The art-house “Kuklite” will also be a place where collectors can display their favourite artefacts and can share the history associated with them.
