Alexandr Korol

I want the lifestyle I have because it gives me inspiration to write books — I have it, and I maintain it, all that feng shui. If I were really after something else — not writing books, but making money from books — then I’d probably be shouting about it, and other things would be satisfying to me. I probably wouldn’t care about my soul or my conscience, but I’d be happy to be swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck because so many books were sold. But again, you see, if the voice tells me tomorrow, “Alex, write a loud slogan so that all the books sell within a month because you’ll need the money to print a 50,000-copy run of the next book we’re going to dictate to you,” of course, if they say that, I’ll agree. But again — only for the sake of the book. That’s very important.

Question: How important and significant is the role of the card that Big Alexander gave you before your trip to New York? You write that thanks to it, your heart opened. Would it not have opened without it? Or was it just one of the influencing factors? Also, you began to take interest in stones right after receiving it. Was that only because of the card, or was it just one of several factors?

Well, you know... I guess, of course, my heart would have opened without the card as well. In general, it opens and closes in people, in me, always for different reasons. Always at some particular time. People always wonder — are these cycles, or did we ourselves turn the heart off or on, or did something influence it, accidentally or not. Back then — yes, at that time, I made that conclusion... Well, actually, I didn’t even wonder if it was this way or that. I specifically, when he gave me that card, I felt as if my chest lit up. As if something inside switched on again, like I connected to something again. And that’s it, and then it all started — I arrive in New York, and, you see, maybe it’s all connected. I arrive in New York and... Well yes, it’s definitely connected, because when a person travels — of course, not everyone, but there is such a thing — when someone travels, they really begin to open up, if I may put it that way. If only we understood more precisely what it means to “open up.” Well, you know, imagine when you’re at home, everything becomes dull, the same routine, no change of scenery, same people, everything is repetitive. But when you travel to another country, to another city, your attention, your psyche, everything starts to function differently. It’s like you come alive again. Of course, this always has an influence