Question: When you met Big Alexander for the first time, he told you about the Philosopher’s Stone and asked you to remember it for the future. If the Philosopher’s Stone is knowledge and the path itself, is it possible that your book “Alternative History” is the Philosopher’s Stone — and that when a person comes to understand all its parts, they come to understand the Philosopher’s Stone?
Yes, the first meeting with Big Alexander was very unusual because he spoke in riddles, and I didn’t understand what he wanted from me or why he was telling me all this. How did the meeting happen? We met at a café; he was already sitting at a table. I came in and sat down across from him. And he smiled. I asked:
– Why are you smiling?
– Because, Alex, I see my younger self in you.
– I see. Well, I see many things that others don’t, and I can do many things others can’t.
– Yes, yes, Valentina told me that you know how to control energy, attention, and that you go into a certain state where you can ask a question and receive any answer.
– Yes.
And then, I can’t say exactly in what order the conversation went — what came first and what came last — but there was a moment when he said to me:
– Can you answer one question for me: does the Philosopher’s Stone exist?
And I immediately said, without hesitation:
– Yes.
– Wait, Alex. When our meeting is over, when you’re alone at home, when you go into that state again, like meditation — then you can ask the voice and see.
– Why do I need that? I already asked now.
– Alright, then prove it.
– Everything we talk about exists. What we don’t talk about doesn’t exist.