Belgrade in the nineteen-nineties, following the breakup of Yugoslavia, became a hive of homeopathic strangeness and Eastern Orthodox-tinged New Age awakening. No one has quite explained why, though there are theories that suggest that it was a reaction to decades of Communist repression of spirituality. Much of the world learned of this subculture’s existence ten years ago, when Radovan Karadžić, the Bosnian Serb nationalist and architect of a genocidal war against Bosnia’s Muslims, was finally captured after years of living underground. He was found in Belgrade, where he’d become a bearded bioenergy healer called Dragan Dabić, with a column in a national magazine and a book in the works touting a new form of sperm-rejuvenation therapy.
