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[Alexandr Korol]

other people. And my “father” — well, I’ve always been connected to him — he won’t harm me either.” And then I thought, “Oh! Now, it’s not just ‘father’ I’ve become aware of, but also ‘mother’ in my mind.” And after that, a kind of doubled faith emerged — a faith filled with warmth, love, respect, and a sense of pride and confidence in this world, this material world. Because “father” is something spiritual, while “mother” is something material. And I realized, “Aha. If you love and respect her, if you don’t argue with her, nothing bad will ever happen to you. She will always protect you.” And if she, like in all the messengers, enters them — or rather, if she is everywhere and everything — then she is the one deciding right now whether your pipe should leak or not, whether the elevator should break or not. And I thought, “Ohhh! It’s all her! Everything is her! Not just living beings — everything is her! The table, the chair — everything! Wow! Hello, mom!” That’s how I started realizing it. And mind you, I’m describing how I felt at that time — now, everything has changed, but we are only getting to that.
“Alternative History” is very important in its sequence. The sequence of “Alternative History” is absolutely important — you cannot understand the third volume without the first and second, and without the third volume, not even its beginning, you cannot understand its ending, and without the third volume, you cannot understand the fourth. This sequence is crucial. It is important even in the sense that what I realized on New Year’s Eve in 2023 took me another six months of searching — looking for films, series, trying to find examples to name and express what I felt inside, what had already taken root in me. And yet, you see, it took six months of work just to be able to express it in human language, in a way that a person could grasp, so I could convey it in the third volume of the book. And only in March — so January and February, I was just walking around with my mouth open and eyes wide, realizing, searching for examples, trying to formulate what I have just now put into words for you. I am sharing all of this in the same sequence as I experienced it. This is how I saw it and reflected on it back then. And after that, I couldn’t explain anything further — what, how, why — it was as if I had run out of words and examples. And only in March 2024 did I finally find the words and examples to describe everything in more detail, more deeply, more comprehensively.
Then everything unfolds in a very interesting way. In February, I note in my