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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2026 12:40 pm
Chapter 12. Connected
I just experienced such an unusual effect. It is very strange. I described
something similar, if I am not mistaken, in the third or fourth volume of
“Alternative History”, when I looked at a person and all their facial features
were changing. Every millisecond, as if from all angles, from different angles
with light all around, their face was illuminated differently and all their facial
features manifested at once. I saw them all: from the most evil to the kindest,
from the saddest to the most noble — all the facial features. Theoretically,
I had written about this before, but when I saw it physically then, I was in
shock. That is exactly how it happens, this switching between worlds and
frequencies — that ostensibly it is one and the same person, but all versions
of them are already embedded within them at once. Just like the world we
live in; all versions of the world are embedded in it at once. And just now,
I was in the bedroom, I get up from the bed and walk down the corridor to
the living-room-kitchen. And for a couple of seconds, this kitchen-living
room started cycling through all its versions of this living room. It was as if
a whole bunch of frames of this kitchen flashed before my eyes in a second,
but all these frames differed from each other in some way. As if one was more
illuminated, another less, somewhere there was more light, somewhere less,
somewhere from above, somewhere from below, from one angle, then from
another — just like that. And I was stunned, because I saw this quite physically;
I was taking steps forward, walking down the corridor to the kitchen, and
this was clicking over before my eyes like that, like in a science fiction
movie, physically. And that was it, and one single frame remained, the one I am
in now. Do you understand? This is very unusual. I am in shock.
And something else I felt — and maybe this is precisely interconnected,
as I have always asserted in many books — is that even if you are not physically
acquainted with a person or even if you are not physically present or seeing
the person, it does not mean that you are not connected to them and they are
not connected to you. There is still a connection; it still forms as long as that
connection is not severed. And that even if you rarely get in touch with some
person, perhaps you are still connected to each other. And with someone
I just experienced such an unusual effect. It is very strange. I described
something similar, if I am not mistaken, in the third or fourth volume of
“Alternative History”, when I looked at a person and all their facial features
were changing. Every millisecond, as if from all angles, from different angles
with light all around, their face was illuminated differently and all their facial
features manifested at once. I saw them all: from the most evil to the kindest,
from the saddest to the most noble — all the facial features. Theoretically,
I had written about this before, but when I saw it physically then, I was in
shock. That is exactly how it happens, this switching between worlds and
frequencies — that ostensibly it is one and the same person, but all versions
of them are already embedded within them at once. Just like the world we
live in; all versions of the world are embedded in it at once. And just now,
I was in the bedroom, I get up from the bed and walk down the corridor to
the living-room-kitchen. And for a couple of seconds, this kitchen-living
room started cycling through all its versions of this living room. It was as if
a whole bunch of frames of this kitchen flashed before my eyes in a second,
but all these frames differed from each other in some way. As if one was more
illuminated, another less, somewhere there was more light, somewhere less,
somewhere from above, somewhere from below, from one angle, then from
another — just like that. And I was stunned, because I saw this quite physically;
I was taking steps forward, walking down the corridor to the kitchen, and
this was clicking over before my eyes like that, like in a science fiction
movie, physically. And that was it, and one single frame remained, the one I am
in now. Do you understand? This is very unusual. I am in shock.
And something else I felt — and maybe this is precisely interconnected,
as I have always asserted in many books — is that even if you are not physically
acquainted with a person or even if you are not physically present or seeing
the person, it does not mean that you are not connected to them and they are
not connected to you. There is still a connection; it still forms as long as that
connection is not severed. And that even if you rarely get in touch with some
person, perhaps you are still connected to each other. And with someone