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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2025 8:13 am
Maybe it’s just a phase in time. Maybe something will happen, I don’t know. Or maybe, really, if the Mystic-Old-Man says that everyone will shed some negative energy, maybe people will read at their material-social negative rhythm, but for some reason, they will still read. Maybe the book will become fashionable in the mainstream, in society. And then, precisely, they will be shaken, because all of their consumerist, evaluative, negative essence will be shed, and their hearts will open. And maybe that’s how it will happen. That’s why some negative energy will be shed, and people will cleanse themselves. Maybe that’s the way it will work. But then, for some reason, people will start reading the book not because they’ve become spiritual, but because they wanted to, or someone told them to. And only after reading, they will become calmer, more peaceful. But why? Why would 19 million people read it? It’s mind- blowing. I’m not doing any advertising, I’m just publishing the books. Maybe, in the future, someone will make a movie based on it, and that’s why people will start reading it. Quite possible. Maybe that’s how it will go.
Question: In the first volume, you write that people in the future will stop being interested in socially-material entertainment and pleasures. They will start thinking about the meaning of life and philosophy. How do you see this shift in attention happening from one to the other?
It’s funny that I was just pondering this topic. Earlier, when I first started writing this novel, and back then I still called the book “The Path,” in late 2010, I assumed that some sort of emergency would happen in the world. But, of course, not the end of the world. What’s the point of writing a book if there is no future, right? No, I always believed in the future, and I believed in a wonderful, golden future. But I just assumed, purely theoretically, that when I published my various draft books, I saw that when a person is creative and spiritual, they read my book. Or when he’s poor and lonely – he reads my book. Or when he’s been abandoned or fired, or something happened in his life – he reads my book. And I somehow perceive these people, and they perceive me. It’s as if we are so calm, and we don’t need anything. That’s how it was back then. Well, that’s how I started writing my first books, who my first readers were. That’s just how I saw it. And the people who... Even remembering when I was studying at university,
Question: In the first volume, you write that people in the future will stop being interested in socially-material entertainment and pleasures. They will start thinking about the meaning of life and philosophy. How do you see this shift in attention happening from one to the other?
It’s funny that I was just pondering this topic. Earlier, when I first started writing this novel, and back then I still called the book “The Path,” in late 2010, I assumed that some sort of emergency would happen in the world. But, of course, not the end of the world. What’s the point of writing a book if there is no future, right? No, I always believed in the future, and I believed in a wonderful, golden future. But I just assumed, purely theoretically, that when I published my various draft books, I saw that when a person is creative and spiritual, they read my book. Or when he’s poor and lonely – he reads my book. Or when he’s been abandoned or fired, or something happened in his life – he reads my book. And I somehow perceive these people, and they perceive me. It’s as if we are so calm, and we don’t need anything. That’s how it was back then. Well, that’s how I started writing my first books, who my first readers were. That’s just how I saw it. And the people who... Even remembering when I was studying at university,