Or you yourself create problems for yourself - you create new, non-standard situations for yourself, situations that allow you to develop, learn and improve. If you do not create problems for yourself and idly burn your life into the void, without developing and improving. Then at some point, life itself will create problems for you.

Grow or be patient

If you yourself do not have the courage and determination to follow the path of life, then life forces you to move, develop, gain experience, gain intelligence, and pushes you in front of your own methods. So if you have problems in life, then it is always only by your will, or fault.

Or you yourself create problems, daring to expand your horizons and take actions and deeds that are unusual for the usual ordinary course of events. Or life itself creates problems for you if you do not want to create them yourself and develop your skills, knowledge and expand your understanding of this reality.

To whom is punishment, and to whom is grace

In the first case, the problem is a conscious choice, and the one who consciously decides to invite the problem into his life is psychologically ready for the most unpleasant developments. And therefore, a problematic situation is an adventure for such a person, which will inevitably enrich his life experience. The one who cowardly hopes to live quietly and peacefully in his dullness and monotony, forces life to teach lessons to such a student forcibly. And as a rule, such lessons are perceived for such a person as God's punishment, although in reality it is God's grace, which is called to bring you back to life, is called to revive in you the determination, courage, courage and enthusiasm of a real experimenter. The enthusiasm of someone who learns from life and understands the value of the time allotted to him in this reality, and does not wait for life to begin to teach him by itself.

Create problems for yourself in order to understand and discover your capabilities. Do not waste time in doubt - make decisions and act.

Remember beyond the limit and accept the challenge

Remember that the flow of time will sooner or later break for each of us and now transfer your attention to the state when you leave the physical body and your whole life will flash before you and you will remember and clearly see every moment of your life. You will see all your victories and defeats, and you will understand that your life was nothing more than a game that made it possible to gain real feelings and experience. And you will remember all your deeds, when you were resolute and brave, and did not prevaricate and kept your fear in check, and joy will fill you. Or maybe you have to remember those moments when you retreated from affairs that asked for your decisive participation, but in the interests of your well-being and peace, you succumbed to the persuasion of fear and prudence, and these moments will awaken in you feelings of a lost opportunity, a feeling of selfish leprosy, which, worrying about his well-being, destroys the conscience and the human spirit. After death, you will see everything and know everything, and you will hold the answer to yourself for all deeds and inactions. Remember that you will answer for everything for everything that you have done and that you have not done. Be resolute and warm-hearted, and remember the judgment that awaits each of us beyond the bounds of time. The court at which you will judge yourself, not hiding anything from yourself and seeing everything from the outside, and in its true quality. Everything black will appear in a black quality, and it will not be possible to convict him in white clothes and justify himself, but everything white will be white as it is.

step back

Look at your life from the side, and look at the difficulties and challenges from the side. And this detachment will fill you with determination and understanding of what challenge is yours and what is not. And keep your fear in check, otherwise it will keep you in check.

The existence of supernatural abilities, or at least a very developed intuition, can be argued endlessly. Some believe, some don't. But there are people who will make even those who reject the existence of something invisible think. One of these people is the author of the book "They will find me themselves" Alexander Litvin. He participated in the sixth transfer of the Battle of Psychics, where he was able to test and develop his abilities. It wasn't easy, he says. It really was a battle, but it was she who showed him what he was capable of.

The book will be of interest to those who love the topic of esotericism, study literature about secret knowledge, and love the “Battle of Psychics” program. The book will be of particular interest, of course, to fans of Alexander Litvin himself. This is a serious person who immediately inspires confidence. In this book, he talks about his life, about some curious details. The author also talks a lot about participating in the project, which greatly influenced his life. He shares his thoughts and experiences.

It was not just a project, but a real series of tests, and it was not only what was shown on TV. Alexander Litvin tells how he went through all this and what his life was like after. You can learn about the development of intuition, how to apply oriental knowledge in your practice from this book. You read and understand that this is not only a gift, but also something that a person can develop in himself.

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Name: Timofey Karkanitsa
Age: 25 years old
Minsk city
Education: Minsk University of Management, Marketing in e-commerce
Freelancing: more than 1 year
Specialization: Contextual advertising / SEO

- Why did you choose freelancing or what brought you to this field?

- When I was a student and went to college, I needed money for pocket expenses and tuition fees. It is rather difficult to get a job during daytime training, and there was not so much time.

I decided to open my own small business - selling sneakers from China to order. I contacted Chinese suppliers, made a website on the constructor, created a VKontakte group. The site and the group needed to be advertised and promoted somehow. I didn't have the money to go to a professional. And I started learning it on my own. Something started to work out, traffic went to the site, subscribers appeared in the group. There were not very many orders, but as an additional income for a student it was great, it was enough to pay for my studies and there was a little left for personal expenses, I even managed to save up two years for my first car.

After graduating from college, he went to get a higher education with a specialization in Marketing in e-commerce. In addition to studying at the university, I worked in an online LED lighting store, where I was engaged in sales, website content, content and SEO promotion. He also took various courses in marketing agencies on SEO promotion, contextual advertising, web analytics. I visited specialized forums and talked there with experienced specialists.

Belarus is an agricultural country! Why am I? In addition, one fine day, I got a job at a wholesale company selling agricultural machinery. After working there for a year and having the necessary connections and experience in this area, my colleagues and I decided to change our status from employees to partners of this organization. So we have our own retail online store of agricultural machinery. This is where my education came in handy. I was engaged in SEO-promotion and contextual advertising of the site.

The sphere is competitive, so we had to quickly upgrade our skills in advertising and promotion, because we allocated advertising budgets from our own pocket, and we really don’t want to lose our money. Of course, not everything went smoothly and the advertisements were not always effective. But in the end, on my own mistakes and spent budgets, I learned how to create effective advertising campaigns and promote sites in organic search results.

My friends and acquaintances knew where I work and what I do. Many acquaintances worked in the field of Internet commerce, they began to contact me for the creation of contextual advertising, SEO promotion, and analytics. I helped them. This is how word of mouth began to work.

This area is interesting to me and I wanted to work in different niches. I enjoyed advertising in different directions. Because it was interesting how it works in other areas besides agricultural technology. Then a marketing agency contacted me and offered to work remotely. With a large load of their contextual advertising specialists, they threw off my work. I have been working with them for over two years now. And so the idea arose: why not try freelancing? And here I am. It turns out that I appeared here by accident, but this was preceded by a series of events.

Okay, but given your experience, you could get a job at a big advertising company with growth prospects and a comfortable office. What drew you to freelancing?

- And I have my own comfortable office where I work. I set myself a work schedule from 9 to 18, Saturday-Sunday off. That's how I work.

From my work experience of 7 years - I worked in campaigns as a subordinate for a maximum of a year and a half. The rest of the time was in "free swimming". I'm not used to taking time off from work if I need to go somewhere or asking for a vacation. My work efficiency does not drop if I am not standing over my head and handing out tasks.

As a freelancer, I can manage my own workload. If I need to resolve my personal issues, I can easily leave on my own business. I always know when I have deadlines and how to distribute my workflow so that I can do everything in time and do it efficiently. There are people who do not feel responsible, do not know how to work until you tell them or come up with motivation. There are people who are lazy when you do not stand above them or do the work very slowly.

I don't have bosses and leaders who tell me what to do and when. I can choose which project is urgent and which can take longer. I have freedom in this. My responsibility is to work with my clients, with whom I personally agree on the terms and volumes of work. I can also choose which projects are of interest to me, and even when talking with a client, I can understand that nothing will work out with him. Or he will simply throw money away, and there will be no effect.

I do not have a task to make a huge flow of clients, as it happens in marketing agencies. It is much more interesting for me to work with one client for a long time and with high quality than with 20 clients for a month. I have been working with some companies for several years now. We can even just Skype and discuss how the weekend went. Is there such a cycle of customer life in marketing agencies? Or such integration into the company? Hardly.

Freelancing, unlike working in an advertising company, allows you to do projects that are of interest to you, to communicate with representatives of the company that are of interest to you. And what is most important - you do not have a goal to do as many projects as possible, you have a goal to do it qualitatively. And both sides benefit from this.

However, not everyone can become a freelancer. Many simply do not stand up or are disappointed in freelancing, after which they return to work in the office with a stable salary and social package. In your opinion, what qualities do you need to have in order to be able to build a successful freelancing business and stay afloat?

- In freelancing, you should rely only on yourself: no one will do or redo your work for you. First of all, freelancing is just you and your reputation. Once you cheat with a client, you don’t finish the job, you do it for a “must ride” - and that’s it, your reputation will be hard to restore. An advertising agency can change its name, reorganize, rebrand - you can't do that to yourself. You won't change your name.

Freelancing has no place for freeloaders, lazy people, those who like to miss all the deadlines, disappear for a while. As a rule, such freelancers do not stay long, and none of the customers wants to work with such freelancers. You can see how many accounts are lying at the end of the list of freelancers, where no one has visited for a long time.

First of all, in order to be able to build a successful freelancing business, you need to be an organized person, plan your working time correctly, be responsive to clients and explain everything to them, because for them you are a professional in this field and they are interested in your opinion.

You need to try to work with customers throughout the cycle of your interaction. When you do your job the way you should do it, you will be recommended to other customers. You need to strive to ensure that when a person needs a specialist in your field, he immediately thinks: “Yeah, I worked with him. I will contact him again."

To stay afloat, you need to develop your cases, add interesting portfolios and descriptions, so that a person who is not completely in the subject, going into your portfolio, can understand for himself what you are good for, what results you have achieved with past clients. And what can you do for him.

When potential clients ask you about their project, are interested in the price and terms, you need to conduct a constructive dialogue with them, and not answer: “12,000 rubles, I will do it in 6 days.” The customer must understand why it costs exactly 12,000 rubles and takes exactly 6 days. It is necessary to pronounce each stage and action, then it becomes clear with whom he communicates and what he pays for.

But, for example, if many freelance designers and copywriters are self-taught, can a person learn the tricks of your specialization on their own?

- I can also be called a kind of self-taught, because I started working in the field of Internet marketing myself, and no one helped me. After I got some knowledge and skills, I decided to develop in this direction - I entered the university, took courses, communicated with professionals.

You can learn everything on your own. Now there are many useful books, training videos. It's just a matter of time. It will be much faster with a teacher: he will tell you everything based on his own experience. Although finding a good teacher is also the same task. After all, while you don’t know anything and don’t know how, you will believe everything, and what if this teacher himself really doesn’t know how to do anything? In any case, all books, videos, other materials are the foundation. And how to build a house, you choose yourself: if you want to learn, you will succeed. I have attended many courses, and now I do, just to hear someone else's opinion in any aspect of advertising, and then, based on this opinion, draw a conclusion and make my own decision.

Once I was on several courses on contextual advertising and SEO promotion in some very large marketing agencies. And what can I say, it seems to me that the teachers there themselves do not really know what they are doing and what is needed for what. You leave these courses, and from your knowledge you only have a bunch of definitions and you were also taught how to create accounts in Yandex.Direct and Google Adwords.

The main thing in the field of Internet marketing is practice. You will try, and everything will turn out, maybe not immediately, but everything is possible. Then, in the process of work, based on your actions, decisions and various tests, you will develop your own algorithm and work strategy, which you will already pump. And here you will already be helped by training and the opinions of specialists in this field.

And if we talk about your work in general, then what is it or, more simply, why do people turn to you? What are their goals?

- Customers contact me to increase the turnover of their goods/services, increase the sales funnel, increase the profitability of products, improve conversion, promote or put a new brand on the market, gain subscribers to websites/blogs.

The ultimate strategic goal of each customer is the same - to maximize their profits.

This can be achieved by multiple methods, various types of advertising and promotion methods. Basically, freelancers come to me for certain promotion channels: contextual advertising in Yandex and Google, SEO promotion.

If we talk about contextual advertising, I have the most projects in this area, then my job is that I am developing an advertising campaign for certain goods / services in Yandex and Google. My task is to cover the market in which the client operates as much as possible, collect all the keywords related to this direction, create attractive and creative ads, create banners for ad networks, set up analytics and launch an effective advertising campaign. Further, systematic work is already underway to conduct an advertising campaign, analyze representative analytical indicators, adjust rates, and increase the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.

The most important thing is that the client himself understands and understands why he needs advertising, clearly sets his goals and priorities, understands what budget should be allocated for this, and what will happen as a result.

In this regard, it is easier for me to work with customers from Russia than with my countrymen from Belarus. In Russia, they understand what advertising is and how effective online commerce is now. Customers from Russia are ready to allocate budgets that will be enough for effective promotion.

- Does the freelance exchange help you in finding clients and, in general, is it possible to find good customers there?

Yes, of course it helps. Most of my clients just come from the freelance exchange - these can be large companies that work in all CIS countries, or maybe a small regional business.

Freelance exchanges are visited by a huge number of customers from different fields, and every day a huge number of transactions take place on freelance.

Why do people turn to freelancers and not specialized agencies? There may be several options here:

• The client has a limited budget, and agencies are not interested in working with small budgets: small amounts of profit simply do not cover their costs.
• The client wants to optimize their costs. He does not want to overpay money, and pay five employees in the agency, when you can pay one person.
• The client needs to understand with whom he is doing business, and communicate directly with the responsible person. In agencies, this is usually the client-manager-performer cycle.
• Efficiency. A freelancer will do his job much faster, give feedback, because it rarely happens that he works with 15 clients at once, and this is normal in agencies.
• Flexibility. The client can immediately communicate directly with the contractor, the decision on the project account can be made mutually and any changes can be made. In the agency you will communicate with the manager, and this is a sales specialist, they are mostly theorists and in practice they have never done advertising campaigns and have not been engaged in promotion.

The freelance exchange is full of customers who want to save money and make the project as cheap as possible. They choose their contractor mainly by price, and when none of this works out, they say: “There was a bad specialist, I won’t work with freelancers anymore.” I don’t work with such people, what’s the point of dumping and grabbing onto every project if it’s clear that a person is not set up to develop his business and is not ready to invest in it. But there are also many competent and good customers who understand why they turn to freelancers, set realistic goals and adequately assess their capabilities. All my clients are good clients. Therefore, I can say with confidence: “It is possible to find good customers on the freelance exchange. Well, or they will find you themselves.

Again, if we talk about clients, many businessmen and entrepreneurs do not understand why they should spend money on your services and what is their benefit. As in principle, most people do not understand this. Could you explain what is the benefit of the services you provide and what even a small business owner can get from them?

- My services are business development. Absolutely any commercial activity is focused on making a profit, and it is achieved through the sale of goods and services. By drawing up advertising processes and implementing advertising campaigns, I help a business entity to sell goods and services, which in turn, with proper management of its costs and business processes, leads to a positive financial result - making a profit.

For example, you decided to start a business or you already have one, made a website, launched it on the network, turned on the phones and sit, waiting, and no one calls or writes. There are no orders, but you need to pay for the rent of the premises, you have already purchased the goods. Who will know about you and your product and how? You need to tell customers that you have this product, and they must find your contacts. In the meantime, you sit and wait - your goods / services are ordered from competitors who have taken care of advertising.

This is where Internet marketing comes to the rescue, which opens up huge opportunities for advertising: contextual advertising, SEO promotion, advertising on social networks, display advertising, viral marketing, e-mail newsletters, advertising on forums. I am familiar with all these promotion channels and know how to work with them.

Marketing departments, where there are specialists in various online and offline promotion channels, are opportunities for large organizations with a large staff and huge budgets and turnover. And what about smaller firms, or entrepreneurs who do not have the opportunity to create their own marketing department, and they simply do not need it because of the amount of work? The right decision is to outsource your business process. Giving your promotion to an agency or a freelancer is already a personal choice of a business representative.

Anyone who wants to do this with minimal objective and reasonable costs - contact me. I am someone who helps increase revenue and maximize profits.

- What is your dream or goal as a freelancer? What would you like to achieve and as a specialist?

- Speaking specifically about my professional activities, I want to make a name for myself in Internet marketing. I want to reach the top in this area, to become a really cool and classy specialist, to be above everyone else. A specialist who can break down any business and give a clear analysis of what can be achieved and how to do it.

I want everyone to know that Timofey is the best Internet marketer, and he can cope with any task, promote any business. To be perceived as a guru of this direction, to be invited to meetings and seminars, to be interested in my opinion, to turn to me for help.

Given my professional experience, I realized that all the technical work - developing a promotion strategy, creating advertising campaigns, launching advertising messages, working with clients - is a small part of the work and this is just the beginning. The main thing in the work is analytics and analysis: you must understand the behavior of customers, why they do it, where you have a drawdown, and what works better. Advertising is math! You must count each indicator, and then interpret it correctly, and based on the reports and summaries created, draw conclusions that will lead to improved efficiency.

You can’t just learn to be an Internet marketer once and then just work. All your work activity is connected with your training, both theoretical and practical. The field of e-commerce is very fast-paced, and if you do not keep up with it, then in a year you will have old techniques and skills that are no longer effective. I want to always keep up with all advertising trends and become the best in this field.

- What are your wishes or advice to novice freelancers?

- Starting from the very first project, doing it with high quality and detailing each project. Don't be afraid to take on new projects where you don't have enough experience: by doing something you haven't done before, you will improve your skills and start climbing the professional ladder. Properly approach your portfolio, because first of all the customer looks at it. After completing the project, ask the client for feedback in the form of a review, and even better, when he likes your work so much that he wants to leave his own emotional feedback about you.

Remember: “First you work for the name - then your name will work for you!”.

I have no equipment, but I have intuition - my main tool

Alexander Litvin

General and global

The second book by Alexander Litvin "They will find me themselves" logically continues the theme of his first book "I will not be higher than God" - intuition. If in the first part of his autobiography the author showed by his own example what events in life helped him to preserve and develop intuition, then in the second part the emphasis was placed on the very process of intuition work. This creative work of intuition led him to realize that history was not presented to us in an objective way: it was written, crossed out and rewritten by those who had the levers of power. Through a story about what lessons he learned from the Battle of Psychics project in 2008, what people he met, how his life unfolded after the project, and how fate brought him to different countries, Alexander Litvin writes that his feelings coincide with the guesses of those people and researchers who believe that Jesus Christ had descendants and that they live on earth among us here and now. The author would like them to find it themselves, and he pointed out in the last chapter of the book a number of qualities in which these men and women differ from others.

In some way, you can look at the book as an instruction: here the author does such and such manipulations in order to obtain information, and here they are. The details of such practices do not at all differ in mysticism, ritual dances or conspiracies - everything is within the norm, the author works with the field of information through intuition, through images, through dreams:

(1) “I stopped in the corridor and closed my eyes. First, I need to stop breathing. I need mild hypoxia. I need a slight panic of the body, when all its logic will go to the search for the cause of hypoxia: everything was fine, all systems were working normally, and suddenly hypoxia. The autonomous system will frantically search for the causes, and my task at this time is to ask a question, the right question.
(2) “I close my eyes. Dark, dark, I'm trying to spin this darkness counterclockwise. Somehow, during an exam, I decided for myself that if you get information from the past, you need to turn the darkness counterclockwise. There is a spot of light, a thin shimmering film of gasoline on the water, I twist it more and more, I need to make it so that from rotation it is pressed against the edges of blackness.
(3) “Usually, if I think about something, a picture with an event appears in my head, a kind of visualization of a thought.”
(4) “First, you need to remove the criticality of everyone who is inside. This is my method, I developed it myself, putting my hands to the walls and giving them a vibration with my thoughts and voice, in order to match the energy of the room, so as not to be the fifth, useless wheel in the cart, to please those inside.

And other techniques, including meditative ones, are mentioned by Alexander Litvin in his book.

The most interesting thing, however, is that it was on the project itself that he did not know what exactly needed to be done in order to successfully pass the tests. Each task was a lesson to him and each meeting was instructive. The main enemy - doubt - took him aside, and the battle between psychics turned into a battle with his own doubt and victorious logic. He became a teacher for himself - both a glorious and a sad conclusion. A million questions, but no one to ask. And most importantly: “Why can I do this? for what? for whom is it needed? A discovery for him during his participation in the project was feng shui - a system of Chinese esotericism, which, however, works the worse, the farther the person in question is from central China.

In the genres of autobiography and memoir, the message to the reader, as a rule, sounds quite clear and direct. The same is true here, but between the lines one can read more about Alexander Litvin himself and about the society he writes about. He recalls that as a child he was unable to go on a boat trip with a friend because of the downpours and was very annoyed by this. I think it's very surprising, because nowadays there is Internet in any weather, what kind of annoyances are we talking about? Today, it is precisely such observations that annoy me, because the current generation sees value in electronic bells and whistles. A very visible generational gap rises before our eyes from such words. So he says that he loves homemade dumplings, that they are all sculpted in his family together - and you can not write anything more about how friendly and close-knit his family is. Or the girls are photographed with Yesenin's monument at the cemetery, but when Alexander Bogdanovich invited them to get acquainted with Yesenin's direct and rather close descendant, busy and businesslike girls refused this opportunity. This is how selectively strange our world is. We love living and deceased idols, but we do not consider their relatives, who knew them personally, worthy of our microscopic attention. Do we even love this “idol” then? Or do we love the fashion for the love of an idol? Again, the author takes clothes there to dry-clean, they tell him that he can be picked up in a few days, but then they recognize him as a famous person and give him the suit on the same day. Very touching, but why can't people always be people for others? I see in this weakness and greed for idols in general, because it's easy to be good for someone you like.

In the book, the author also presents his philosophy, his view of the cause-and-effect relationship between us and what happens to us in everyday life. Alexander Litvin's system of views is very convincingly built, fundamental. Basic postulates: we are all connected with each other and with our ancestors to a much greater extent than we think. Every person, every life is important, and sometimes the Universe goes to such somersaults, so that a specific child with a specific energy is born, that we can only wonder. The author also shares his experience of working with those people who turned to him for help, describes what recommendations he gave them and why. Honesty always flows from his lips (well, at least this feeling will not leave the reader): yes, he says, I like to be popular, why hide it? True, I think that his popularity and the popularity of show business people are still different things. Artists always go to bed to find out the details, but here everything is different: Litvin's popularity, in my opinion, is decent, without vulgarity and hype.

Finally, insight is penetration into secret knowledge, into the energy mechanics of the Universe. This is my favorite part in general in what Alexander Litvin does. He shares his analytical observations. It would never occur to us to connect the subsidence of intuition with a trip to the subway, but he not only sees the relationship, but also interprets this connection on his fingers. It seems to us that the place is prayed for and that's it, but, says Alexander Litvin, the point is in the geometry of the building and the local weakening of gravity. It seems to us that the brown color is just pleasant and calm, and Litvin talks about polarization and wavelength, which change us somewhat, and the romantic becomes concrete. In a word, physics. And he even dismembered Feng Shui by physics, showing, for example, that people with the energy of water are people with the energy of movement. That is, esotericism acquires tangible dimensions. It is very easy for him to do this, see for yourself: “It’s just that people with the energy of the plant world have all the operations that go better in the winter. When are trees trimmed to form a crown? Only when they are without leaves." Or: “We both attract people to us and repel them, and at the basis of this attraction or repulsion is ... gravity.” Or: “... this is not connected with the image, it is connected with intuition. The hygroscopicity of the hair creates an additional atmosphere around the head, its own personal atmosphere, saturated with moisture. Elementary Watson. But how can a mere mortal know all this? When will the author thoroughly tell us about the correct feng shui?

Lessons learned for myself

Often in the book, Alexander Litvin operates with biblical truths: know how to forgive, do not create an idol for yourself, honor your father and mother, we are created in the image and likeness of the Almighty, do not enter into spiritualistic contacts with the dead, remember the inevitability and prolongation of justice. He also talks about the problems that also arise in the Bible: power as a test, confusion in people's concepts between tricks and miracles. The author remarks: “Miracles happen slowly.<…>Yes, if you perceive the Bible as a fairy tale, then little will come of it. If you do not know the school course of physics, too little will work. We need a synthesis of knowledge, both scientific and not so much.” Wonderfully said! You must always learn. It’s impossible just to study once at a technical school or institute and flaunt your useless diploma, because that’s not the point. The point is a more global understanding of the world and one's place in this world. Although after a few chapters we come across: "... there are simply no miracles, there is an interaction of energies ..." We simply perceive things as a surprise, as a miracle, because. We don't see all the causes and effects. Or maybe we just don't see it yet?

The author shows by his own example how important it is to pay attention to the signs. Signs, as I already think, are what we pay attention to due to some small quirkiness of what is happening (for example, when we fall out of the blue), but what we do not always attach importance to. Of course, sometimes the main thing is not to be smart with the signs, otherwise everything will start to seem like a sign. It seems to me that a sign then becomes a sign when, somewhere inside us, an internal brake like “so-so, this was interesting and strange just happened”, and if we fix this, in principle, we are on the right track.

It was an interesting excursion into the Inquisition. I have never learned or read about it in detail, only now I know the general reasoning. About the fact that Rome was not always the capital of Catholicism, I also did not know. In this sense, this text works like a hypertext: it refers me to other texts, still unknown to me, but in which one can search for facts and delve into the historical “linen” - oh gods of Hellas, how to find all the time? Time is such a strange thing. Now it stretches, then it flies like a torpedo. For example, this Sunday, dedicated to the book "They will find me themselves" and the creation of two reviews (video and text), seems to me viscous and long, but, as a rule, all other days pass by, almost in labor pains over textbooks and assignments .

I learned that Alexander Bogdanovich, among other things, had glossolalia - speaking in a language that he did not know, in a situation of stress. But why hasn't he looked through the dream until now, what kind of language was it? He already has the skill to ask the right questions. By the way, I also received confirmation of my university lessons: not a single study or successful communication with a professor will pass if I do not correctly prepare the question. It's a challenge, but an acquireable one, though I haven't yet figured out if it's possible to reach the top in this. Sometimes the professor looks at me and says: why are you asking like this, and not, for example, like this. You think to yourself: really, why? Why don't I ask plain and simple?

Finally, a big lesson is actually skepticism in relation to oneself. Such a doubt, overcoming which, you grow above yourself. Doubt, after all, is like your little ancient Greek monster, which is yourself - the you that you are afraid of. Even if you lose once or twice in this battle with the inner monster, you still emerge victorious over your former self. This is a very subtle dichotomy, rooted again in biblical texts (oh my God, I'm so glad I had a Bible course at university for two whole years). There is no doubt, but it was precisely the idea that the strength of the weak grows in a duel of unequals that was embodied in verse by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in his Contemplation. I will give it here in its entirety in the translation of Boris Pasternak, this is one of my favorite poems. I think that Alexander Litvin would also like it:

Trees with folds of bark
They tell me about hurricanes
And I send them strange messages
Unable to hear among the unexpected
Adversity, in constant wanderings,
Alone, without friend and sister.

Bad weather breaks through the grove,
Through hedges and houses
And again, ageless nature.
And days, and household items,
And the distance of spaces is like the verse of a psalm.

How petty our disputes are with life,
How big is that which is against us.
Whenever we succumbed to pressure
Elements seeking space
We would have grown a hundred times.

Everything we win is small.
We are humiliated by our success.
Extraordinary, extraordinary
Calls fighters not at all those.

So the Angel of the Old Testament
Found an opponent to match.
Like a harp, he squeezed an athlete,
Which any lived
Served as a string to an angel,
To play the anthem on him with a fight.

Whom did the angel defeat
He is right, not proud of himself,
Coming out of such a fight
In consciousness and in the prime of life.

He will not seek victory.
He is waiting for the higher beginning
He was more and more defeated
To grow in response to him.

And it seems to me that I finally managed to order a dream once. The question was simple, but extremely accurate. More precisely, there is nowhere. And the details in the dream were quite obvious, so I even thought right away: I must be being misled; what, just like that and show? Because of this, there are also many doubts, all the more so since I used to ask questions before going to bed, the dreams were so dazzling that even if you shoot a movie, I remember everything colorfully and in detail, but I can’t make out what’s what. How to understand dreams? Especially the weird ones?

Questions from the internal dialogue

It was interesting to see such a phrase as "energy immunity". The book tells how one boy lost this “energy immunity” because of fright and increased vulnerability to dangerous types of energy. How could we protect ourselves? How to know when our favorable period and when not? For the fourth year now, I have been closely following almost every word of Alexander Litvin and I know his general recommendation on this matter (analyze your life, events, put pluses and minuses every day and draw conclusions), but there are really periods of complete invisibility for others. You scream, you knock, you try to draw attention to yourself, but it's all in vain. If it depends on our dates, then what are these dates, how do they fit together? Where can you find out about this?

Then I was a little tortured by the ethics of intuition. The author writes: “Remembering my recent experience with stones, the first thing I did was take a shower. Water - I need it as much as air. Thirty minutes in the pouring rain and I'm back in shape." Okay, once you can stand in the shower for half an hour, but if we all always stand in the shower for half an hour, then what kind of damage to the environment will it be? There seems to be a lot of water on Earth, but we must use it wisely. I would really like to be a vegetarian, in particular, due to environmental reasons and water consumption for keeping animals, but for personal reasons, a plant-based diet is not suitable for me, but after all, generations and generations of people are ahead. Intuition is important, but maybe it can also be environmentally friendly?

Of course, I also care about education. A very close topic. Its quality is both in Belarus and in general in the countries of the former USSR. When Alexander Bogdanovich writes “…why did I choose a pharmaceutical university, that school where almost everything that can be studied in the modern world is studied”, I am personally very skeptical in this place. Not because the author personally does not know something there, quite the contrary: he knows a lot due to self-education. But the fact that the quality of universities in the post-Soviet space is frankly bad. No normal funding, no teaching, because there is no funding. Of course, you need to support your alma mater with words, but after all, objectivity is still more honest and better and will help make the education system better in the long term.

Different mental “if-then” flew in my head from this phrase: “The world is arranged in a chain from simple to complex. … I affirm: everything starts small. Including any system. I agree, definitely. But there is one system that is directly opposite to this - human language. The history of any language shows that it is moving towards simplification. Middle English had conjugations and declensions that would make today's learners uncomfortable, but modern English is heaven compared to the old. The Russian language has also been greatly simplified over 10+ centuries. Less forms, more meanings. Although this is just a marginal discussion, linguists always like to philosophize on this topic in any university.

If I could improve something, what would it be?

I really liked the book, it is of high quality, strong, it invites you to think every minute - rhetorical questions contribute a lot to this: you stop at them and try to look for answers in your head. The strength of the text is that the author has years of experience behind him, a string of significant meetings, successful examples of helping others in difficult times. Is it just one small argument that floats in my head.

Exclamation marks. It seems to me that this punctuation mark (like the ellipsis, for example) is very expressive, but is reused in this book. There are almost 350 exclamation points in the text. Sometimes sentences are cascading with exclamation marks. Once in one passage, the exclamation mark stood six times in a row in six phrases. I gasped by the end of the sixth sentence: “Learn from the past! Perhaps this is the main thing that I took out of the museum. You have to learn from the past. When was the concept of “friend or foe” decisive, when black was black, white was white, and terracotta was terracotta! Everything, almost everything that happens to us, all this has already happened! What we consider new has already been! It was with one of our ancestors! I, you, each of us have a colossal experience of past generations, and that is why we need to learn from the past! We just need to remember!” But the text would not lose at all if there were not a single exclamation point in this passage. Even more - the text would definitely win. As a rule, there are a lot of exclamations on Internet forums when someone suddenly turns out to be wrong and they decide to prove something to him with the help of these signs, as if they are poked in the nose and indicate infidelity. Naturally, this is the author's vision of his message, but I probably have not seen this in any writer. The calmer the story, the more attention the reader has.

A small touch to the concept of tradition. I'm confused, but, probably, the author uses this word in several meanings. Twice he mentions that “traditions cannot be changed”, and one gets the feeling that the author is a conservative. At the same time, he describes conservatism and dogmatism as negative characteristics, and confusion in his head. I believe that it would be possible to specify this word. After all, the tradition of tradition is different, of course, some of them are very interesting (for example, the tradition of shaking hands at a meeting), but sometimes tradition is a brake (the tradition of Galina Mikhalna from the Pushkin Museum to look at the position of Pushkin's body). Tradition is a living being; traditions change, that's how the society agrees, and the tradition will be built (or sometimes, as they impose, the tradition will go on). But I re-read those two contexts, which talk about the ban on changing the tradition, and I understand that the author is clearly not on the side of dogma. But I didn't understand right away. And the impression was postponed, and now it is necessary to erase it.

And the last very boring strokes: (1) I think the corrector of "feng shui" and "feng shui" is on the conscience; perhaps in the text they usually stick to one option; and in the text that I read, there was a hyphen, then there was not, a difference in style, my eye trembled; (2) the boy "was suddenly attacked by a dog" - this is the only cacophony from the entire text (passive voice, clerical style - like a police report; Alexander Bogdanovich, well, it's not you, honestly).

Outcome

The book is wonderful, it is read in one breath, you want to get on the Internet and look at those objects, or buildings, or paintings that the author of the book “They will find me themselves” mentions. In many places you stop and look out the window, you think: yeah, but I, too, always doubt over there and there. Everyone finds a clue to the answer about their worries and interests. I was glad that the author loves museums, I love them too - and thus my reader's trust in him is being built. The author casually mentions the name of Fidel Castro, and I, all so romanticizing Fidel (who in real life would have wiped me off the face of the earth in the very first place), quietly smile and think: cool, written as if especially for me. The author plays with the registers of his narrative, and you watch this with intrigue. Alexander Litvin also brought me back with stories about Istanbul to my summer in 2015. I spent a month in Istanbul, but in the whole time I went to the city center only five times. His stories about Hagia Sophia and the Galata Tower were especially interesting to me, it was interesting to compare with what I felt. But I, probably, am not as enthusiastic as he is, because I felt bad in Hagia Sophia, and for the first time in my memory she did not linger as joyfully as he did. I liked the Galata Tower, but I just don’t remember the changes in gravity, maybe my body fixed it, but didn’t pay attention. But I remember the views that opened up to me in Istanbul - absolutely magical and breathtaking. As I read, I was reminded of poems - either "Christmas Star" (1987) by I. Brodsky (when the author mentioned the name Baltazar), then "I would like to meet you on the street / On a quiet blue night ..." by our Belarusian Maxim Bogdanovich (when speaking was about the fact that we are all rushing into an unknown distance among outer space), then here is Rainer Rilke. And how many times I recalled my lessons on the Bible and world culture, I won’t say anything - it was constant (both the plot with the sorceress of Endor, and how Joshua stopped the sun over Gibeon, and how the staff of Moses turned into snakes, and the legend of the flood). Do I feel special after reading this book? No. Did this book shock me? No. Was the book helpful to my soul? Yes. Intuition is not an empty phrase, we are all capable of broadcasting the vibrations of the Universe to one degree or another. And we are all more connected to each other than we think. I highly recommend this book.

Take care of yourself and your loved ones.

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