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[Alexandr Korol]

and thus become God, logically speaking. But again, God isn’t some bearded man like you might imagine. Your first associations are probably of an old, grey- haired man related to religion. No, I mean something else entirely when I say I will become God. I explore that more deeply in the third volume in a futuristic format. It’s more about futurology in that sense. People immediately imagine some old man in a robe — but that’s not who you’re meant to turn into when you discover the philosopher’s stone. Not him. And yet... both him and not him, so to speak. So what does some diamond I might find in Karelia have to do with it? Maybe — maybe — in the city of Petersburg, with this matrix mechanism, there’s a missing element for it to activate... that could be. And maybe I myself am still missing one final element to be able to fly and become immortal. And perhaps I’m still searching for that element. But to realize it, you can only do it by sitting down with a sheet of paper and a pen — nothing else. As I’ve always explained about alchemists: people always take things too literally and think that the philosopher’s stone and the recipe for it in alchemy are something physical — you need to melt things, boil things. No, no, you don’t need to do any of that. You can evolve and polish yourself, discover the philosopher’s stone just by sitting at home with pen and paper, unraveling everything that I unravel. And I share that journey in “Alternative History.” A person reads “Alternative History,” and everything around them changes. That’s the philosopher’s stone. So no diamond is needed. The diamond is brought up as an example, referring to ideal faceting and purity — because when you’re all crooked, the light doesn’t pass through. And so all people are being polished to become the philosopher’s stone. The philosopher’s stone is the matrix through which everything is structured, in which we live. And you must become it yourself. To become it, you must develop yourself, level up, and understand everything.

Question: You reflect on the idea that all the events happening to you might have been a kind of hidden recruitment. But who could be recruiting you using such methods? Are we talking about people, or is it still about extraterrestrials?

Well, you see, the first volume of “Alternative History,” considering that I started writing it in 2010, and at that time I had just turned 20, naturally, when I was still young, not fully mature, let’s say not so restrained and tried to