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[Alexandr Korol]

because when you go through one, you really do enter a different world. Physically it seems the same, but imagine it like a script change. It’s as if your life was the script of a comedy, and now it’s a drama — or more precisely, the opposite: you were living in a horror film, and now you’re in something kind and bright. The same parents, same you, same people — but now it’s like everything is improving, or has already improved. And you used to be bitter, but now everything makes you happy. Or maybe that is the very definition of shifting — only it’s invisible, imperceptible to the human eye, while in essence you are already different. You retain your memory, your self-perception, your familiar sense of continuity at the exact moment where you left off. You leave dirty dishes in the sink, and they’re still there waiting for you — but when you pass through these places of power, you go through a portal and, perhaps, actually enter a completely different world. And when you return to your apartment in that world, the dishes are still dirty, so it seems like nothing changed. But in truth, everything has changed. Only the outer shell stayed the same to keep your psychological comfort intact. And from that point on, you continue your life — but now you live along a different life path. You’re no longer in that horror- drama you used to be in; now you’re living in a comedy, maybe even a family comedy. So theoretically, one could assume that portals truly exist — it’s just that people imagined them like in sci-fi movies, with a green vortex that physically sucks you in. But no, that’s not how it happens. It happens differently. After all, we live in a simulation, as it turns out, if you continue reading all my books.

That’s my answer — my reflections on how places of power might work. Or maybe there really are two types: some that act like a beam, and others that are portals that transport you. Maybe both types exist. I’ve described how each of them works. I’ll put it this way: if you’re living well and this world suits you, don’t go poking around power spots and portals unnecessarily — because you might leave this world, and the next day your life might turn into some drama- comedy, or a tragedy of some kind — and why would you need that? You see, in all the volumes I’ve written, there’s never a call to do or not do anything. It’s simply for those who like to stir their thoughts, people who try to broaden their horizons. When someone’s already learned all the car brands and has traveled to nearly every country, what’s next? Mythology, philosophy, and everything inexplicable. That’s what “Alternative History” is.