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[Alexandr Korol]

And so they went to Africa to some shaman. And this shaman says that someone
among you, among the guests, is acquainted with the main shaman of Russia.
“Who knows him?” — that’s how this African asks. And there the people who’d
come as a group discuss it among themselves, talk about what’s what. And they
say: “Well, you probably mean this one.” And he’s like: “Yes.” But the point is
that this shaman, the African, he doesn’t know Big Alexander, has never seen
him, doesn’t know his name. He simply knows that he exists, and feels it as a
force, as a consciousness. And he felt that someone among those guests who’d
come knows this shaman. And he says: “Who knows the shaman?” And at first
they couldn’t understand which shaman he means, because, as I understood it,
these people like to go around to shamans. And then they began to list them and
understood that it’s Big Alexander. So it turns out the African shaman took some
thing — I don’t remember what it is, but Big Alexander showed it to me… Either
a bracelet, or he attached some thing to a bracelet, and says: “Pass this thing
to that main shaman.” How about that, can you imagine? Who are they? I don’t
know. But I know that such miracles happened with me too, when I was always
in the Spirit — that I’d say straight out: “Did you see in the film ‘Meet Joe Black,’
how the grandmother in the hospital saw the Spirit of death? Or how children
would suddenly see someone from the films about angels — they too saw that he’s
different. And so children saw me the same way, and grandmothers saw, when
I was in the Spirit, and talked with me.” Well, I thought that maybe there they’re
simply sensitive, but in the end it was the Spirit that spoke through them. Just
like the vagrants, in whom I also saw my own Spirit.

I emphasized to Meladze many times that right now I’m not as strong as before.
Whereas before, if a person tells me about his mother-in-law, I begin to repeat
the very same phrases to him, just as she does, to wave my hand like that, and he
freezes in shock and asks: “How am I doing this?” That is, before, I’d become right
away the person being described to me. And before, they’d show me photographs
of all sorts of people, and I’d become that person right away. I could describe
everything at once… That is, I become them right away, can you imagine? Before,
if you show me a photograph of, let’s say, a People’s Artist of Russia, then I can
become him right away. Can you imagine what I mean? All his thinking, mood,
what he likes, what he dislikes, and everything that steals his attention, and