Alexandr Korol

came to me, and this man I played with in the casino and won money with — they are connected. And then he says something cryptic — on one hand, I understand what he means. I ask him, “Is this the system doing this, or aliens, or me?” And he says, “It’s all of them together.” That it wasn’t just my imagination, that I myself was somehow involved in this, that they did something too, and that’s how it all happened. That’s how he put it. These are the kinds of events that happen to me right on the eve of the New Year. Then, at that very moment, after playing Craps with that man, I suddenly start thinking — or rather, I would say, realizing — that it wasn’t the Spirit that entered this woman, the messenger, or this man. It wasn’t the Spirit from the future — it was something else. And I realize that earlier, in the first volume, I had come to the understanding that it was quite possible that someone in the future — aliens, for example, or God, or some kind of superhuman — could use their consciousness to return to the past, to any moment in time, and enter any person. That this is how it was done—that this Spirit would enter, for example, Rasputin to help the royal family, or how it entered Joan of Arc. And there are many more such cases. How it happened with many elders, and perhaps even with the very evangelists who wrote the sacred scriptures — that someone simply entered them and started doing this work. But essentially, it was a different person, an ordinary person, yet through them, some force was acting. And at that time, a year ago, I understood it this way — that the Spirit is this Dove, the one who is up there. That first, the Son of God is depicted on the icon, then He is old — He becomes God — and then He is the Dove, and that is the true past and future. And that the Dove is precisely this Spirit that returns to the past and orchestrates everything. So that’s how I perceived it — that whenever I interacted with messengers, with different people, whenever I felt that someone was speaking to me through them, it meant that this was the Spirit from the future speaking. That’s how I understood it. And here, my entire concept begins to undergo, so to speak, a slight revision, and it starts to transform a little. It’s not that I was wrong, but the boundaries of understanding, the awareness of this whole anomalous phenomenon, start to expand. And suddenly, on New Year’s Eve, after these two events — the messenger and the game of Craps — I began to realize that it wasn’t the Spirit entering them, it was some other kind of force. And I suddenly remember that when I was talking to Valentina in the first volume of “Alternative History”,