Editing Antrovis (section)

== History ==
Edward Mielnik worked as a high-pressure boilers stoker. He started practicing energy medicine and founded the Antrovis cult in the 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gorostiza |first=Magdalena |date=2025-06-03 |title=Słowianie z planety Atlanta. Czy polska sekta zabijała ludzi? |url=https://www.onet.pl/styl-zycia/kobietaxl/slowianie-z-planety-atlanta-czy-polska-sekta-zabijala-ludzi/xzh95g1,30bc1058 |access-date=2025-07-14 |website=onet.pl |language=pl}}</ref> The provincial court of Wrocław registered Antrovis as a religious association.<ref>{{Citation |last=Ramet |first=Sabrina P. |title=The Functions of Pluralism, the Dysfunctions of Populism: An Introduction |date=2024-12-02 |work=East Central Europe since 1989 |pages=1–37 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003312031-1 |access-date=2025-07-14 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-003-31203-1}}</ref>

Aside from Wrocław, Antrovis was also active in the cities of [[Warsaw]], [[Kraków]], [[Katowice]], [[Poznań]], [[Szczecin]], and [[Polanica-Zdrój]], and among [[Poles in Germany|Polish diaspora]] in [[Germany]].<ref name="zadworny">{{Cite web |last=Zadworny |first=Adam |date=2016-05-28 |title=Przekonywali, że spotkali kosmitów i odlecą w kosmos. Sekta sprzed lat się odradza? |url=https://szczecin.wyborcza.pl/szczecin/7,34939,20146188,przekonywali-ze-spotkali-kosmitow-i-odleca-w-kosmos-sekta.html |access-date=2025-07-14 |website=szczecin.wyborcza.pl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Szałkowski |first=Artur |date=2010-08-10 |title=Wałbrzych: Straszą ludzi końcem świata i kosmitami |url=https://gazetawroclawska.pl/walbrzych-strasza-ludzi-koncem-swiata-i-kosmitami/ar/292576 |access-date=2025-07-14 |website=Gazeta Wrocławska |language=pl}}</ref> Antrovis started publishing their periodical ''Nowy kosmos'' in 1993. They also published books.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-10-26 |title=Antrovis: Gwiezdne wojny (page 1) |url=https://religie.wiara.pl/doc/471812.Antrovis-Gwiezdne-wojny |access-date=2025-07-14 |website=religie.wiara.pl}}</ref> By 1994, the cult numbered 42 official members, but its courses were attended by about six hundred people.<ref name="zagorska">{{Cite journal |last=Zagorska |first=Anna |date=1998 |title=Sharing the Power: The Growth of Non-Traditional Religions in Poland |url=https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol18/iss2/1/ |journal=Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=8}}</ref> Among members and associates of Antrovis were politician [[Barbara Labuda]], journalist {{ill|Zygmunt Broniarek|pl}}, and actors {{ill|Emilian Kamiński|pl}} and {{ill|Krystyna Sienkiewicz (actress)|pl|Krystyna Sienkiewicz (aktorka)|lt=Krystyna Sienkiewicz}}.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sielezin |first=Jan Ryszard |date=2012 |title=Destrukcyjna rola sekt i związków wyznaniowych w XX i XXI wieku — problem cywilizacyjny i polityczny |url=https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/18899 |journal=Wrocławskie Studia Politologiczne |language=pl |volume=13 |pages=195 |issn=1643-0328}}</ref>

The Antrovis association was officially dissolved in 1994,<ref name="zadworny" /> following Mielnik's disappearance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2000-10-18 |title=Sekty. W poszukiwaniu prawdy |url=https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/religia/sekty-w-poszukiwaniu-prawdy/w4p2kg |access-date=2025-07-14 |website=wiadomosci.onet.pl |language=pl}}</ref> Despite this, it was alleged by the press and organizations monitoring cult activities that Antrovis did not cease its activities, and that it was still recruiting new members as of 2016.<ref name="zadworny" /> In 2000, a personal development coach in [[Częstochowa]] was accused of trying to recruit people into Antrovis under the guise of a self-development seminar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gradek |first=Violetta |date=2000-11-06 |title=Powrót apokalipsy |url=https://czestochowa.naszemiasto.pl/powrot-apokalipsy/ar/c1-5231861 |access-date=2025-07-14 |website=czestochowa.naszemiasto.pl |language=pl}}</ref>