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[Alexandr Korol]

fantasy and reality, and that is normal. With age, usually by 8-10 years old,
imaginary friends disappear as the child makes real friends and understands
the world better.”

When I was reading all this, I was looking for confirmation of a theory
already growing within me: if we assume that we live in a simulation, and if
we assume that this simulation isn’t just some “computer” thing, as humans
are prone to label it. If we dig even deeper, we are the ones producing this
world for ourselves, and we are all someone else’s projection. My theory
is this: suppose there is a God, and we are inside His head. Everything here is
His imagination — or rather, His projection — it is like His dream. But not a
dream; rather, it is how He sees everything, and because of that, we exist. Yet
humans are like a world within a world; we might be part of a larger world, of
God, but a person is also the creator of their own world. Everything projected
into their life — the people they attract, whether good or bad, everything
that steals their attention, their ideas, desires, and fears — is already being
projected from the code within that person. It is their own projection;
it cannot be false or “foreign” — it is purely their reflected internal code,
like a slide with a light shining through it. What’s most curious is that, back
in the third volume of “Alternative History”, I unfolded this novel in such
a way that it isn’t actually about religion or deities in the literal sense — like
some old man in a bedsheet. That sounds too religious and frightening.
On the contrary, I used those images as a cover, a packaging, to give people a
way to visualize what I feel. I am trying to express through all these volumes
how I perceive this entire world. In the third volume, I twisted it so that I say:
“Let’s assume God is the System, and the Mother of God is the System, and
everything we live in is a simulation — like virtual reality.” I realize that by
the tenth volume of “Alternative History”, a reader might have long forgotten
what was in the third. But if you were to read the third volume again alongside
the tenth — where the theme of imagination and illusions begins to develop
— there would be a shock of realization, a breakthrough in consciousness.
I won’t drown you in the details of the third volume, hoping that the reader
at this stage remembers it at least somewhat. Briefly: in the third volume,
I explain that everything we see and live in is a simulation, but more complex