Some biographical details of Josef Evagora based on our talks with him

Name

Josef Evagora

Born

4th May 1910, when his mother was already forty, Dushanbe (Tadzhikistan - former USSR)

Nationality

Swiss (from 1927; Greek before that)

Mother

(1870 - 1939) A distant relation of the Russian family of Romanov exiled to Taskhent after the failed revolution of 1905. She was a follower of the Russian mystic Gurdjieff,

Father

(1861-1940) From a well established Greek trading family.

Josef

An only child, his formative years were spent mainly with the family of his native Tadzhik wet nurse in the Pamir mountains.

1915-1920

Josef was sent to a few different monasteries, the longest spell in Mongolia at a monastery near Ulaanhus (Altai mountains).

1920-1927

Educated mainly in the sciences by friends of the family in different parts of the world. In 1927 Josef was sent to Jena where he studied neurology and psychiatry under Hans Berger and was instrumental in the development of the electro-encephalogram.

1931-1934

Joined professor E.D. Adrian in Cambridge. Worked mainly on the detection of the electrical activity of the brain.

1936-1945

Spent the war years in America teaching and researching in a number of universities.

1950

His interests shifted to the study of electromagnetic radiation (met Schumann and Konig).

1994

Josef made the decision to contact Tim Stilwell in order to give him selected information about ‘The Hive’.

See also (on this site):

Extract From A Talk With Josef (No. 1).