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[Alexandr Korol]

They laughed, and that was it. They’ll react the same way now if I say something they don’t understand, something too far out. If I tell them I was in the tenth multiverse yesterday, they’ll just say, “Oh, okay, Alex. You must be drinking some kind of special tea again.” That’s what they’ll say. That’s their reaction, their associations — I don’t know, maybe they watch movies where that kind of stuff happens, and that’s why they think that way. As for strangers — readers — well, naturally, readers are interested in reading my books and love them. But you always get a few people... after all, social media has no fence, no boundary, everything’s blurred. And now social media has become very aggressive. So yes, there might be a whole bunch of people who will say I’m crazy or a drug addict or that I’m talking nonsense. That’s their reaction. It’s just instincts, uncontrollable emotions. Because if you were to seriously talk to that person and fully analyze their life, it would turn out that their life is nonsense — but they wouldn’t understand that. They’d think I said it just to be mean, the same way they made a thoughtless comment. But they’ve never really reflected on how they live, how old they are, what they’ve accomplished in that time. And then it turns out they’ve just been lying on the couch all that time, scrolling through social media and writing hateful comments. They don’t even realize it while they’re doing it — until someone points it out. Meanwhile, I’ve been writing my 20 books for so many years. So who’s the fool then? That’s why there’s no need to get offended or upset. You know, maybe I can offer some advice: why is there such a reaction to things like ancient Greek gods, ancient Egypt, flying saucers? For example, whenever I wrote about icons, everyone’s immediate reaction was, “cult.” If I photographed a church, same thing — “cult.” That’s just how the social herd behaves, this lost crowd that reacts that way. But if I write about multiverses or time machines, people don’t react that way. On the contrary, they say: “Oh cool, that was in the movie ‘Doctor Strange’ part two, maybe that’s real! Take me with you when your saucer arrives, take me to the future. Or when you have a time machine, Alex — could you go back to when I was still behaving well and stop me from doing all the bad things I ended up doing?” That’s what one guy actually said to me, can you imagine? It just shows that people have certain stereotypes, thought patterns, and associations. If I write about God or Spirit — even though I look at it from a scientific point of view, as a kind of technology —