The Life of Peter Dunov. Dates and Events

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The Life of Peter Dunov. Dates and Events

July 11, 1864. Dunov was born in the village of Hadarcha, (today Nikolaevka), near Varna, to the family of the Rev. Konstantin Dunovski.

1878 - 1883. Dunov completed high-school in Varna. He started playing the violin.

1883. Dunov enrolled in the Theology Department of the American school in Svishtov.

June 24, 1887. Dunov completed the fifth-year course in Svishtov.

1887 - 1888. Dunov was a teacher in the village of Hotantsa near Rousse. He wrote his first song.

August 1888. Dunov left for the United States and enrolled in the five-year preparatory course in theology at Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey.

1890 - 1893. Dunov studied at the Theology School of Boston University.

Graduated on June 7, 1893.

1893 - 1895. Dunov returned to Bulgaria.

1896. Dunov published his first book, Science, and Education 

1895 - 1900. Years spent in solitude, reflection and contemplation, prayer and spiritual pursuits.

1898. First disciples: P. Kirov, T. Stoimenov, and G. Mirkovich.

1901. Dunov started traveling around the country, giving lectures, engaging in phrenological research and studying the Bulgarian national character. He did that for 11 years.

July 1900. First convention in Varna with the first three disciples. Over the years, these conventions were held annually, in August. The participants were invited personally by Dunov.

1904. Dunov settled in Sofia, in 66, Opalchenska St., where gradually a circle of followers was created.

1914. Dunov started giving Sunday lectures, published later in the volume "Sila i Zhivot" (Power and Life).

1917 - 1918. Dunov was interned in Varna for his criticism of Tsar Ferdinand's policies.

1922. The School opened with lectures to a Youth Class and a General Occult Class. Deunov started greeting the sunrise outside Sofia, on "Bourchier's Glade", later known as "Izgrev."

1923 - 1924. Dunov created most of his original songs. He called them "musical exercises" whose energy developed one's spiritual senses.

1928. The disciples built the lecture hall at Izgrev and a small home for the Master. The place became a thriving centre of spiritual life.

1929. First summer camp by the seven lakes in the Rila mountain. The camps became a tradition of the small community called the "White Brotherhood".

1930. Dunov introduced a new type of lectures known as "morning talks". They were delivered on Sunday morning, before dawn.

1932. Dunov taught the first Paneurhythmy exercises. He gradually developed a programme of 28 exercises accompanied by music composed by himself.

The exercises were intended to harmonize the energies in the human body and connect it with the eternal rhythm of nature.

1942. Dunov completed the Paneurhythmy programme with the exercises known as "Sun Rays" and "Pentagram".

1944. The worst months of the war Dunov spent in the village of Marchaevo with a group of disciples.

December 27, 1944. The Master departed, leaving behind an invaluable spiritual heritage to Bulgarians and the world.