– You gave me your phone number.
– Yes, I did.
– And why? What do you want from me?
– Money.
– For what? — and it was as if she mentally transmitted to me that she wanted to meet with me one-on-one. And I mentally responded, yes. But to play along, I said: – Money for what?
– For a cake.
– That’s all?
– That’s all. — and I understood she was creating a reason for the meeting.
– Alright, when?
– Well, tomorrow at six at Vladimirskaya.
– Okay.
And so, I’m standing at Vladimirskaya at six, by the Vladimirskaya metro station in Saint Petersburg, with the church bells ringing because the Vladimir Cathedral is nearby. And here comes this woman with bundles, with some bags. And really, it was like there were people, but I was outside of people, like I was in some kind of vacuum, and I saw only her, and she saw only me. And there she was, walking toward me from afar. I said, “Hello.” She said, “You can be seen from far away.” I said, “I saw you over there, walking.” She said, “And you too can be seen from far away — there are few like us,” she said. And it turned out that every time I had a conversation with someone where time and space disappeared, like I was in shock, out of my mind, it was actually the Spirit. That’s what it turned out to be. But until I finished the first volume of “Alternative History” on August 30, 2023, I didn’t even know what to call it. I just understood that there’s the Mystic-Old- Man who sometimes feels closed off, like just a man in his own mind. If you ask him something, he’ll say some nonsense from himself, and you immediately feel it and understand. But sometimes, when you speak to him, it’s as if you’re inside him and yourself, as if your consciousness is in both him and you, and it’s like you’re speaking to him as if to yourself. And then, you see, it turned out that it was the Spirit. And also with Big Alexander , there were moments when you’d talk to him, and he was in the Spirit — like it was really some force speaking through him, knowing everything about you, even giving advice.