Alexandr Korol

in the “Alternative History” series, especially in Volume Three, where everything is about multiverses. And it’s like an entire dream — but not a dream — more like an alternate reality, a spiritual multiverse. In that space, you have different thoughts, different desires, so to speak. Everything is different — your values shift, your rhythm changes. You even start noticing different people, and different people start remembering you. You really do enter another reality — let’s say, a spiritual one, though I called it that only in a primitive way in Volume One. Now I use different terms. But when I would begin getting distracted by daily life — construction work, renovations, meetings with friends, this person, that person, calls from relatives — when I started switching to all that, it was like my heart would shut off. I’d leave the beautiful, spiritual world and suddenly get thoughts again. My rhythm would shift into something more active. I’d want to watch fast-paced films, listen to energetic music — I couldn’t sit at home anymore. I’d feel the need to constantly see someone, message someone, invite someone over — anything but be alone. This crazy need would come over me. Or I’d fall into an endless cycle of work — social, material, active work. And when you’re in that world, you have different needs — desires arise. You want to eat, you want to socialize, you crave company and being understood by people — you become like that. So when you’re in that material world, you can’t listen to spiritual music anymore, you can’t watch spiritual films, you can’t even connect with that spiritual friend of yours who’s deep in his own world, painting cosmic visions. You can’t be in that world anymore. It’s like it gets erased, forgotten — as if you literally can’t focus on it anymore. That’s the feeling. And when you’re in this social-material world, that’s it... Even if someone asks you, “Hey, what’s going on with the power spots? When was the last time you visited one?” I’d reply, “Oh, I don’t know... three years ago or something.” And even if I remember them, I can’t actually connect to them — because it’s like I don’t want to shift my attention there, and that truly is another world, another multiverse in the literal sense. And I’m locked into this one. So, when I’m rooted in the social-material reality — like in the example — and someone asks me about the spiritual, I answer almost on autopilot, like I’m describing a dream, without really engaging with it. Because if I really focused and immersed myself, I would switch into that world — and disconnect from the material one, you see? But they’re like two opposite worlds.