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Petr Krylov Tarot Magic

This book discusses the branch of esotericism that deals with event programming by Tarot cards.

The book draws on the author’s many years’ experience reconstructing its theory and verifying it in practice.

In Russia, the book finds its online niche within the context of the Patience of Medici. Legend has it that the Patience of Medici is a magical practice that makes it possible to control the future.

Historical and literature sources have mentioned it under various names for hundreds of years.

Many think that they think, but few think that they think him.

And in their delusion, they’re mistaken that they think.

For only those think who think others.

Stalkerreklats

Chapter 1. Introduction to stalking

So, what is stalking?

Life is millions of options and thousands of roads.

But life is also tens of thousands of rules and limits that form its vicious circle, a maze you can’t find your way out of.

Millions of bipedal predators tear to pieces the life of a newcomer to this world, getting him to run around their panopticon like a squirrel on a wheel.

I admit there’s some truth to Russian thieves-in-law’s view that society is a sheepfold, but I disagree that their outlook is the only true one.

People living in Caucasian mountain regions traditionally value the experience of gray-haired old men more than gold. The old men know many roads and paths through ice-covered passes, rent by bottomless abysses, sharp like the razor of hate, and inapproachable and death-threatening almost all year round. The experience and skill of the elders and their knowledge of their native land guaranteed the survival of the people in the years of hardship, when enemies and adversities came upon the peaceful toilers.

The elders were reverentially called Aqsaqals.

In forest areas, where the sun itself doesn’t shed a straight ray across the ground, reflecting instead from myriads of living souls reaching out to it, the chaos of life’s wilderness can entangle the uninitiated into its thickets ever so deep until the traveler loses the strength to get back out. But even in those parts, there were those able to find, by visible signs, a way through life’s confusion and fearlessly set out into the depth of the taiga or the jungle, to return with trophies to those who loved and waited for them.

They were proudly called the Hunters.

In the heat haze of the desert, there appeared, like a mirage, the outline of someone striding like a clockwork soldier; and in a moment so short your mind hardly has time to believe it, the someone from the other world (after all, where he came from even lizards that didn’t die in two or three years did die of surprise when they tried to calculate the possibility of that event — just kidding) stood near you, giving off heat.

How had he survived in a place with neither water nor shadow for hundreds of miles around? How had he kept his sanity, hearing infinity swishing against timelessness? Exactly where had he come from and where was he going to? What was he looking for? Who had he saved, who would he save, and who would he punish?

With the respect and fear of incomprehension, people recounted his story like a legend to their children, calling him the Ranger.

And then, in leaps about one hundred yards long, branching into a tree of probabilities of what could happen next, a lightning came down, picking from the myriad scenarios for its descent the easiest and the most reliable ones — those that kept energy loss to a minimum while offering as many options for further travel as possible.

And if someone doubts that the lightning’s path was the best there could be, let them stand to be struck by it and feel, at the last moment of their life, that its power had not been wasted down the road from its birth to its death but that it had been preserved and even multiplied.

The lightning brought the surplus power from the sky down to the earth, restoring the balance.

This goes to show that stalking is not the monopoly of stalkers but the ancient art of survival and orientation, allowing you to understand the world and your place in it and to restore the world’s balance.

The stalker is the lightning of choice and the hunter of intention, the ranger of spirit, the Aksaqal of experience, and the universe itself trying to look into its own eyes to see its reflection and an understanding of itself.

Here are some features of stalking in brief:

1. Stalking is a magical practice over fifty thousand years old and a hermetic technique.

2. Unlike the many known kinds of magic, such as hypnosis, telekinesis, and pyrokinesis, stalking is not so much an outer technique as it is an inner one.

The meaning of stalking often lies in coadjusting oneself internally to the world or its individual parts. This can be done at various levels of consciousness, from physical to causal, with a variety of techniques and tools.

3. Stalking in its many facets is, in essence, the basis of magic itself, and it has never gained much notice because I do believe that there is actually no magic besides stalking in its various types and forms and that all kinds of magic known today are nothing more than schools slapping their labels on it.

4. Stalking is, first and foremost, the art of understanding the world and its goals and of knowing how to open a long, effective dialogue with the world seen as a part of stalking that serves its purposes.

Similarly, a cell learns how to enter into a dialogue with the whole body. And the cell that has mastered the art becomes a nerve cell of the world — a stalker.

Chapter 2. How a magician becomes a stalker

To give you an example, I will describe, in a tongue-in-cheek yet frank presentation, the actual way of a magician evolving into a stalker.

Needless to say, the evolution takes years…

And, as a rule, more than one life…

…and not everyone undergoes that evolution, for the not-yet-strong body of the young, self-assured magician is not up to digesting all jokes of magic…

…But let’s not talk about sad things…

So, here’s the evolution of magicians — sure nuff, with fast forwards.

As someone with some experience in spell-casting (something of a practitioner), I can tell you for sure. Imagine, as an example, that you’re a magician and she, a princess, not just your average princess buta princess head over heels in love with you.

1. Spells are cast any old way. Whatever the old farts say is tripe; they don’t know jack about magicand don’t let others know… Hold on… Lemme get it done in a sec… OOOOOONE

…tswooo…

…freeeee… Geez what was that?

…

come to think of it, how do princesses likethe pockmarked?

need to put a spell on a dazzlingprincess who enchants all… okay not all I mean that princess there… okay not dazzling but still enchanting… hell she’s got some teeth left, right? maybe a dental appointment would…

2. Those who survived step 1 would be well-advised to rhyme their spells so that they come over the target like sea waves — and by the way, the rhythm law on the tablet says the same. While that doesn’t diminish the backlash, it makes it more pleasant and habitual: the backlash doesn’t tear you in halves like a capelin but comes down on you pleasantly, making you get down on the pentacle, and what’s more, the pattern left on the walls is much more beautiful than that you get from step 1…

Geez, I do need to use rhymes… Here’s some poetry all right… love… even the cat is trying to snuggle up… the princess is smiling… smiling… but she’s smiling at the wrong one like the fool she is… better throw in something stronger… there you go… get ‘er with the iambic pentameter…

That’s right… Wooooow… isn’t that great… What’s the end of that line?

Princess? No that doesn’t rhyme. Too late, how come I didn’t notice it didn’t rhyme? If I say something now that doesn’t rhyme, it’s gonna teeeeeeaaaaaaaaar ya in halves like a capeline! Gotta say something that rhymes right now… What’d I say?

Ooooops… That wasn’t me… God help me… I swear on my ass! Too late…

3. This is for those who tried to practice (as true theorists) both step 1 and step 2 and, cussing and swaying on their feet, said “Hell, somebody shoulda given me a warning. They don’t make these pants anymore — what am I gonna wear now?”

It’s worth giving a gentle reminder that putting a spell based on your own power is a little exhausting and that nobody does it that way anymore, except maybe when they’re in battle and all staffs and wands are already gone but the enemy in your rifle sight keeps coming out the woodwork, a situation you can’t describe without cussing.

And, as a matter of fact, in magic academies you can hear people on the sidelines say that everything good is done not by the magician but on behalf of their astral roof (or their astral basement if their design preferences lie that way).

And, scratching their noggins, still smoking from steps 1 and 2, they leaf rapidly through a catalogue of astral roofs, basements, and oh so tiny mezzanines.

Those still in a position to stay in position pick what they want and then (feeling something bad about to come up after they practiced yelling the name of the roof and put on their least favorite pants and, come to think of it, slippers) proceed to step… proceed…

4. Well, they don’t anymore — they used to but… boy does it drag you all over the pentacle!

Those who said it couldn’t get any worse than step 3 are SNOT-NOSED KIDS!

It’s quite another thing under the astral roof: when it comes crushing down on you, once and for all,

you understand you not only realized but are dead sure now that, hell, even though you were wrong about step 2 and — especially so — step 1, you were saying all those things about… which step was it? Well, go find it yourselves — I’m just fine as I am, lying here on the blood-soaked mat like a meat pancake…

When you’re boxing with the floor, the ceiling, and the asphalt (what’s the asphalt doing here? whatever, never mind), you begin to suspect vaguely that you forgot something — something is missing, but there’s nothing you can do so you move on to step

5. But the body takes its toll. The bastard wants to live so you understand that you ain’t never gonna drivethat clunker again… or almost never. And even if you do jump in, you won’t jump out — the earth punches hard when it hits your face.

Perhaps you’ll lie down instead… And why did they hang me out to dry?

We’re a team here, right? Why am I the only one on the grind?

Look how many slackers we have — c’mon, get your ass in gear (don’t go over the top with foul language; after all, we’re making a spell for the posterity — what do you think they will make of it?)

Lay ‘em here…

They look just fine lying here. Not moving a muscle! They’re real pros, looking alive the way they do. Their pictures oughta be in the textbooknext to “Where it is thin, there it breaks.”

After twenty or so passes (you were dying to cast a love-spell on the princess of a shabby empire; everyone was — at least when they were still alive), it occurs to you that, just to be on the safe side, you should back up each system component and stabilize the channel, starting, while the going is good, with some three courp… I mean, magicians.

…………………

Hurray, at least some folks survived the spell-casting.

True, half the mountain range is gone after all, and the island sits at a tilt, but what does matter is that the princess is in love… yes, with everybody at once, but that’s just a trifling side effect.

But now we can move on to step…

…Boy, I still remember how to count!

6. If you think about it — thinking is something you need to do at step 6—the clay tablets say the same… written.. I mean carved… two thousand years ago before AD… before people came along… dragons… those that were left …because they didn’t get enough training and couldn’t fly to otherworlds…

Hell, I’m so confused.

Never mind, you get the idea. Why make an apple when there’s plenty around?

Just make sure it’s the right time and the right

place… There’s a princess crossing the road… dig those legs, right in front of a speeding truck, and here I come, on my white dra… I mean, white hor…

turns out I’m a paramedic in white… no, it’s too late to be a paramedic, the princess will never be the same now that she’s just a heap of bones… white, white — white what? Got it — a Mercedes. I wedged it in with a flourish between the truck and her, now she’s indebted to me till the day she days, but what does she owe me? We’re talking five years here, no less. No, it’s not a rape, guardian angels are supposed to…

All right, a white truck. I swung the wheel with all might, directing the truck to a wall, a white one… that’s why the truck is white… but the princess… it’s all love… mission complete… and there’s no backlash to speak of, although the truck thinks otherwise… but hey, who’s asking the truck?

After you practice step 6, changing the princess about a dozen times, step 7 logically follows.

7. Stay away from spell-casting — there’s a bunch of princesses out there, and at least one of them is yours… especially if you…

or she is your …basically, it’s all the same — all you have to do is give one of her sidesa polish…

That’s how magicians get to be stalkers.

At least, those of them who survive, of course.

The key difference between magicians as we know them and stalkers is that stalkers don’t reinvent the wheel or break through the tunnel of probabilities but take the existing paths and upward streams to go, with the greatest of ease, to the place the world needs them to be at the moment, playing the part the world needs them to play.

…And the Traveler has enough roles and scenes…

Chapter 3. Don’t youget smart with me — show mewith your finger where it is

Just kidding… Here’s one you might know

The Arctic Ocean… The weather is windy, snowy, and the sky hangs cloudy 100 yards above. A Chukchi man bobs in a kayak on the lead-colored waves. He sits hunched up over the water, fishing for something that has no compass to migrate to Sochi or Turkey.

All of a sudden, the water gets all rough and bubbling, and a US submarine comes up and swings a hatch open. The captain climbs out, wearing a black coat, produces a phrasebook, and starts saying “I’m a second-rank captain, and who are you?” in the dialects of Extreme North peoples. The Chukchi squints at him shortsightedly and, trying in vain to lift his head up, something he’d never done because he’d never had to, looks at him askance like a regular Russian pop singer and asks him, in perfect English, the same question geologists ask when someone comes upon them on the third day of their search for oil in bottle crates.

“What the f — do you want, soldier?”

The captain replies, bewildered, trying to speak English as well as the Chukchi, “Would Sir Chukchi be so kind as to tell me the way to God-blessed America?”

The Chukchi says, “Course south-southeast, 250 miles, and be careful with those jars near the shore.” The flabbergasted captain gloomily climbs down into the hatch and vanishes out of sight. The Chukchi keeps right on fishing for something that had gotten too hot in the tropics and, if the horoscopes can be trusted, returned to cool down to make a good snack for your beer.

The water gets bubbling and foaming again, and a Russian submarine comes up, swaying heavily.

A boatswain climbs out on all fours, feeling no pain, and shouts down the hatch, “C’mon, thaz not a problem — we donneed no compass ta figure it out! We ‘ad two liters o’ spirit that woulda gone to waste otherwise!” Then he looks at the Eskimo and, trying to focus his eyes on him, cries in a hoarse bass voice, “Hey, Chukchi, which way do we take to Murmansk?” The Chukchi replies, “South-west-west, 560 kilometers, but be careful not to tip that submarine over when you go down.” And the boatswain yells at him angrily, “Doncha get smart with me, you snip — show me with ya finger where it is!”

So, what’s stalking at a glance?

It’s evening… Yet another Hero, as crazy about reading fantasy novels as all morons and losers are, staggers back to his little cozy den in the five-story condo he likes so much, to fall into anabiosis until the pure, good, and just event — the publication of a new remake that depicts him as the Great and Powerful throughout — happens.

In the meantime, the powers of darkness in the persons of a budding criminal nicknamed Lisper (sentenced for rowdy behavior to three years suspended) and a couple of other young and gifted good-for-nothings, stopped by the condo’s entrance hall, looking for something soft and pliant to train their adolescent psyche.

Scenarios:

1. Hero didn’t spot Lisper until he was all in Hero’s face. Hero’s right hand hurriedly went searching for the mouse and hurriedly clicked the left button that wasn’t there, and the absence of a screen sight to aim through made talking to these people a tad harder for the powerful magician.

The day’s last thing saved on the hard drive was a blurry, dirty 50 Hz palm closing the world shut before turning it upside down. So he couldn’t see the young yet promising judo champion who ran up the stairs behind him and confidently set about knotting the young and gifted good-for-nothings into a macramé pattern.

2. Hero got so blown away he slipped and dropped all his fantasy books at the entrance door. While he picked them up, a young yet promising champion boxer named Gavrila burst into the hall, ran up the stairs, and tripped over Lisper. A short, if informative, discussion followed.

Over the course of that discussion, the advantage of the left hook over bluff and thief-argot bluff was elucidated. Gavrila helped Lisper get better at lisping by giving him an unassuming professional kick in the teeth.

Drenched in cold sweat and stepping with disgust over the bloody spit and puke, Hero ran fast to his den to leave it all behind by diving into the second level of the book about Him, the Great.

3. Hero went home, sweating gallons.

All day long, signs kept shouting to him that a white furry beastie would be coming for him soon. The world’s hints were getting more insistent by the hour — the cats squealed by his ear louder and the passersby, saying something seemingly irrelevant, looked at him more and more meaningfully, making the matrix bulge so much they seemed out to pounce out of the RAM at him.

The last sign was the scrap of a newspaper he saw at the condo’s entrance door, with the headline “Gazprom Gives Last Warning to Ukraine,” torn so that only the words “last warning” remained visible.

“I wonder what Castaneda would have said about that,” Hero thought, squatting with his feet on the bench at the entrance door.

The answer came as usual in the form of the young yet gifted good-for-nothings, headed by Lisper, cussing and yawping heartily, slagging off Gavrila, the young yet promising champ of you’re-in-deep-shit do, who had brushed past into the hall while Hero pondered the “to be or not to be” of his situation.

4. Offscreen voice: Hero was asleep but he knew that in five minutes he’d wake up in his bed, remembering all he’d been dreaming about. That’s why today he let the champ of what-did-you-say-it-was and Gavrila enter the hall first.

5. “And thith thime we’ll leth the king of spades come firthst, come firtht,” Hero mumbled malignantly under his breath, lisping as the result of his last encounter with Lisper, getting deeper into his role of the local lunatic, as he looked after Gavrila, who had no idea he was about to meet Lisper in a way that would be fateful for Hero, hurrying in to meet Lisper all the same…

6. “Let the Kings of Swords come first please,” Hero thought calmly, looking Gavrila in the eye, exchanging meaningless phrases with him before Gavrila rushed, in a businesslike manner, to smash Lisper’s face in as any patience card was supposed to do.

7. “Nnnoooo, I don’t like the way the cards have fallen,” Hero thought, and he jumbled his cards laid out to show Gavrila give Lisper’s head a kick with his strong foot, freeing the condo once and for all from that bold-faced asshole. And, all things considered, Lisper wasn’t worth laying out a patience for.

Gavrila, on the other hand, was a cool guy, ready to beat the hell out of Lisper for the asking. Svetka from apartment 54, however, didn’t see what she was missing, the hoity-toity fool.

Better lay out a patience for the two. So that they could move in together and live happily. Then there’d be more descent people living in the condo in some — teen years, by the way.

For those in doubt, here’s the classification in brief:

1. Stalking version zero.

2. Unconscious stalking, or where the guardian angel strikes is your home.

3. “Ooooww enemies, they shut me in, that’s an ambush, how d’ya like that, bro?” Semiconscious stalking that often transforms smoothly into madhouse stalking, directed by the kind and sympathetic men in white coats.

4. Stalking by a dream-seer… or, to be precise, a stalker’s dreams… maybe… or dream stalking… or in-stalking dreaming… or perhaps in-dream stalking… Damned if I can get my head around those dreams without a panel of stalkers to help me out…

5. Stalking by a not-yet card sharp who already cheats a little with cards… and events…

6. Stalking by a stalker, or so he thinks…

7. “It’s high time the stalker became a stalker,” the world thought…

Chapter 4. The name is bluff james bluff

So, what’s a stalker under a magnifying glass?

Take necromancers, for instance. A necromancer needs no description since you can imagine them easily, surrounded by the dead they evoked from their graves, howling terribly, jealous of everyone around over the necromancer and out to tear down anyone whodoesn’t have a life insurance policy.

Or, say, vampires — they’re no rocket science as you can’t mistake them for anyone else. At least, before you die.

The bogatyr’s distinguishing feature is, say, his strength. The magician’s, the ability to do magic. The witch’s, to do witchcraft. The sorcerer’s, to do sorcery.

But what’s a stalker and what does a stalker do anyway?

Those who’ve read the previous chapters may have noticed that any event has lots of potential scenarios. And, strange as it may seem, any scenario has an end, happy or otherwise. And if you look at some five scenarios, it turns out that despite the many possible combinations, they each have a distinguishing feature, the possibility of a happy ending that somehow keeps plummeting terrifyingly as you go.

And the possibility of finding yourself ten feet under tends toward one hundred percent in any scenario. If the scenario is not something you might see in a kids’ comic, coming instead from the hard, true life, then the happy end vanishes out of sight almost as fast as you can say soulfully, “We’re screwed.”

At this point, any more or less able mathematician will remember the extreme cases of dangerous and unhealthy occupations such as Agent 007 or Indiana Jones. Everyone is after him, and what they want to do to the scapego — … I mean, the hero clearly interferes with the patient’s health and sleep. And the most interesting thing here is that even if you follow the Indian movie tradition of shooting away from a six-chambered gun, they shoot too — as a rule, in multishot fire mode, coming at you from every side like Black Friday shoppers.

Vampires have it easy in situations of that kind: just feast on a couple of people, wreak havoc, and fly away on the wings of night. But what is the simple Bluff supposed to do?

Strange as it may seem, this doesn’t worry him in the least — he just keeps going, safe and sound and nothing daunted, from episode to episode. Maybe just a little exhausted by yet another nymphomaniac. How does he do that? How come he’s got it made, with the likes of Halle Berry at his side while your toasts just keep landing butter side down?

That’s the way things happen in the movies, I hear you say. But someone wins the national lottery! Or becomes the president or — isn’t that scary — the president’s wife.

And if you look closely at what Bluff does in the movie, you’ll notice a characteristic detail: he’s never late, the fucker. Always just in the nick of time… As soon as the security officer looks away for a second to think about the meaning of life, Bluff shows up out of the blue and, to take advantage of the security officer’s temporary helplessness and save Bluff’s bullets for the other 149 security officers, clouts him right on the head — there you go, your soul is floating up to hea — … I mean hell, of course.

As soon as the pretty lady feels an attack of female dizziness coming on, Bluff is right there to help as if he had seen it coming all along, the bastard.

That’s just the way he is — no sooner do you stop to take a yawn than he’s there to take care of things. Even Homer sometimes nods — when the day of villainy is done, the villains need a minute’s rest, too. Bluff shamelessly takes advantage of that respite, and the next thing you know, his shameless face looks into your eyes and says insolently, “The name is Bluff. James Bluff.”

What an asshole, right?

But the most interesting thing is that he takes his one-in-a-million chance as an accuracy on par with the Swiss time-pieces and invariably moves on from episode to episode, maneuvering deftly in the machine-gun fire and sliding between the pretty legs in those rare moments when they’re loose and defenseless.

Or take Next, starring Nicolas Cage.

In that movie, Nic is able to tell the future in all of three minutes, and the spell is long enough for him to bend his head low and lift it back up as necessary.And he’s as deft maneuvering in the gunfire. When I first saw him I thought, All right, Bluff is back from another plastic surgery. You see, their tricks looked too much alike, and they contrived to knock the enemy all over the place without as much as shooting a gun.

It logically follows that if Nic doesn’t brandish a gun in Next and Bluff isn’t a frequent shooter either, then their main weapon is knowing how to be in the right place at the right time, smiling their bulletproof, white-teeth cover-boy smiles at the bullets coming their way…

Maybe that’s what gets the bullets blinded — or how else can you explain that they miss the target all the time?

To put it scientifically for all of you nerds out there, the high probability of success in a situation where the probability of survival is negligently low is guaranteed for these individuals by either congenital or acquired ability to synchronously interact with aggressive agents, thereby allowing the individuals to attain their goals and use their capabilities in the most optimal manner possible.

Anybody get that?

That’s what the distinguishing feature of stalking is — the absolute synchronization with the world and the use of power, aggression, and weapons kept to a minimum.

A poem — by Guberman, I think — comes to mind.

I had a friend who fed himself to lice

Mending his rags as old as life

Cut out Creation’s likeness nice

And hunted God… without a knife

Chapter 5. Look what the cat coughed up…

What does it mean to be in the right place at the right time?

In the nerdy parlance of overly smart mathematicians, this means having the right space and time coordinates at a given moment.

That is, F (x, y, z, t) = f (t), where f (t) is that tricky function essential to success and to the feeling of deep mental satisfaction.

Anybody get that?

To put it simply, here’s an example: Say a cat runs across the road, escaping the cars prone to hit her any second.

Three things have always amazed me:

1. As a rule, the cat runs without looking around, instead looking steadily at some point ahead.

2. But if it stops and takes a look around, the cat is bound to be run over.

3. A simple yet amazing fact: a car drives through the spot where the cat was a second ago, but the cat is already not there.

Here, the following analogies offer themselves:

1. A person crossing the road of life looks at a point ahead of them like the cat. They can only see their ultimate goal and trot toward it.

This sort of obsession is a distinguishing trait of so-called ambitious people. That is, those who achieve success, for it is ambitious people that do.

There’s a certain secret to it, and in fact it’s a property of human consciousness. You can look at thousands of things, but you can only see those that your eyes search for, and once you see them, you just keep on looking at them. That’s as simple as that, and everyone knows it, but…

…Duck hunters know a funny thing: a duck shot while flying falls into the grass, and as the duck falls, the hunter mechanically follows its path with his eyes. Every hunter sees the spot the duck has fallen onto and then goes there to pick it up, but they won’t find it unless they look steadily at the spot as they approach it.

But if they only remember the spot approximately and go searching for the duck on the just assumption that their six to eight pounds of brains guarantee locating a lousy duck in the grass, ninety-nine percent of them will never find it, dead or not dead.

Why do they find no duck? The duck can’t have crawled away to heaven, right?

2. If you look away from your initial goal and start to have your doubts when you’re half way there, you’re not likely to succeed — remember what happens to the cat when it freezes in front of the speeding car.

But the overwhelming majority of people doubt things all the time. THINGS… AND PEOPLE… but why?

There’s a good saying that cowards die many times before their deaths.

And if you ask women, who in fact stand behind the natural selection of homo sapience males, what a “cool” man is, they’ll give you thousands of answers, but each will be sure to mention confidence.

Confident is an antonym for tentative. Women believe that a man can be anything — a sadist, a murderer, a bastard, a pauper — and still be attractive to them. But strip a man of his confidence, and no woman will ever look his way.

The instinct of selecting a potential mate unerringly tells a woman that a male lacking confidence will achieve nothing — he has no prospects.

Hero, the laughing stock of the neighborhood, can only be a hero for a girl who’s a laughing stock herself. People of this kind never make it unless they’re characters in a book, a drug for losers. In real life, someone who is confident scares predators away with their confidence alone.

That’s why little kids (and professional dog trainers) can, without an ounce of fear, approach a big mean dog to pet it (unless the dog is chained up). Their absolute faith and fearlessness don’t provoke the dog to bite them.

“If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move.” Let me just add that faith is not a thought nor kung fu theory but the special state that stalkers learn first, a real feeling as opposed to mumbling, “I do believe, I do believe, I do!”

To those with extrasensory perception skills, one can simply say that energy is perception, the twenty-second Tarot trump (the Fool), the dude with a bindle, looking up to the sky to see his way up there, not down on Earth.

This Arcanum is the beginning and the end of Tarot studies.

It is this Arcanum that describes stalking on Earth.

And it is its energy and the perception of it that yield faith and all the resulting consequences, including the blinding bulletproof white-teeth smile.

“Fools get all the luck,” as the Russians say.

And that’s quite true.

They sure do!

By the way, in the runes, this Arcanum corresponds to Raidho.

Chapter 6. What’s it mean… ormagic gray, white, and speckled reddish-black pink

We’re getting closer and closer to the secret stalking techniques. The ones that let you control the future with your strict yet definitely just hand. But first let me give you a little preface. Don’t worry — just five or so lectures more and you’ll be right in the swing of all things stalking. How would you like a symphony without an overture? You wouldn’t have the luxury of running half an hour late or the time to go to the snack bar or preen yourself in the mirror.

So, before we get down to the nitty-gritty of stalking, we need to understand which kind of magic stalking is. Here’s an interesting thing, though: we’ve yet to see a clear classification of magic as such. This leaves us the one option of sorting out the mess that is the existing magical literature. First of all, I have to say that magic is the work of the worm, or the superlarva, that lives in everyone’s spine. The worm is called Kundalini. All the tricks of magic are his doing (or “their” if the magician belongs to several religions). Every magician’s (medium’s, sorcerer’s, witch’s — you name them) Kundalini works out through chakras and the colors corresponding to them.

Here are the basic colors of an awakened Kundalini (and the colors of magic and chakras involved):

Red — through the first chakra, Muladhara, the center of health and power (making you able to, say, lift a 1,000 lb weight).Berserkers, knights, and other murderers of minors.

Orange — through the second chakra, Svadhisthana, the center of sexuality, emotions, perception, and speed. It enables you to hear the grass grow, run faster than the wind, and live out your most time-consuming sexual fantasies. E.g., witches, sorceresses, ninjas, and tantrics.

Yellow (not to be confused with golden) — through the third chakra, Manipura, the center of clear thought and guidance. E.g., hypnosis, telepathy, control of animate and inanimate nature. E.g., yogis, chan buddhists, conjurers, and hypnotists.

Green — through the fourth chakra, Anahata, the center of love, unity, and holiness, used for spellcraft and transformation. E.g., spellcasters, sorcerers, saints, and mediums.

Light blue — through the fifth chakra, Vishuddha, the center of chaos and order as well as of chance, used for fortune telling and prophecy and to control the future and fate. E.g., fortune tellers, stalkers, soothsayers, and prophets.

Blue — through the sixth chakra, Ajna, the seat of pure magic. E.g., magic and prophecy.

White — through the seventh chakra, Sahasrara, which connects us with the universe and the divine. E.g., yoga, holiness, and insanity.

There are also mixed kinds of magic; for example, rainbow magic — taking place when several Kundalinis are at work all at once or at several levels — such as the rainbow magic of sorcerers, Christians, and spellcasters.

There’s also the magic of necromancy, which is generally mist silver.

The magic that opens into hell worlds is, as a rule, black or dirty gray.

The magic that opens into heaven worlds is, as a rule, goldish.

But pure color is quite rare, and the color of a specific ritual is actually a bunch of colors as when you invoke someone dead to spark hatred between a married couple.

All this presents the evident conclusion that stalking relates to the magic of chaos and order, the magic that rests on the Vishuddhi chakra. This kind of magic controls, and allows you to sense, cause-and-effect relationships. For instance, with it you can feel which slot machine you can win on at a particular moment or who will live to become great and who will shortly become a corpse. Furthermore, those proficient in stalking can even control events. How strong their influence is depends on the individual talent and abilities of the stalker at the given time and on how large the entity is that they’re dealing with. Controlling a kid’s toy is one thing, and controlling Mount Fuji with a print by an unknown hero is quite another.

To practice stalking, you should preferably have your Vishuddhi or Ajna as pure and charged up as possible, keeping in mind that there are deeds that can clog them, causing them to be blocked. Things like lies, blasphemy, broken oaths and promises, and adultery close these chakras, making stalking impossible. The obvious hallmarks of stalking skill is truthfulness and the ability to “caw.” As well as knowing how to pray (in a way that works). An extreme case is the stalking of intention — all that you don’t want comes along “of its own accord” with no prayers said.

There are also special techniques for beefing up and developing your stalking abilities, even from scratch. These techniques are closely connected with Tarot cards and their use. I will discuss them much later in this book. Because first of all, before we flaunt it, we need to understand what the stalker’s hands hold, lest the decent public leave us both armless and unarmed before you can say Jack Robinson.

Chapter 7. Whos witches the tracks, or what causal magic is

The previous chapter poked at things with a stick, as is customary in Russia, to explain that stalking is a branch of magic based on the Vishuddhi chakra. This type of magic appreciably differs from the stereotype of magic as we know it, so we should look at this in more detail.

Take a love spell, for example. As a rule, it works at the level of Svadhisthana, the second chakra.

Easy-peasy, as the saying goes. Take a larva and throw it at a picture of whoever it is you want to put a love spell on. This gets the mechanism unleashed: as the larva is ravenous and has no way out, it will tickle the target’s privates until Patient No. 1 comes running to Patient No. 2 to the satisfaction of everyone concerned, including the larva.

This kind of magic takes place at the level of emotions and astral interactions, taking as little as a couple of hours to produce the desired effect. But your astral plane continuously changes, taking, as a rule, less than forty days to renew completely. That’s why, unless you use Voodoo dolls, most such love spells crumble down in a month or two, though clients rarely complain (by that time, the hots will have dwindled to the vanishing point).

And the funniest thing is that under certain conditions (fistfight, war, heroism), the process runs naturally in a similar way …almost… but who can spot the difference these days?

Things are quite different with the fifth chakra, Vishuddha — it works causally. The causal level is significantly different. A love spell at this level works something like this.

1. Patient No. 1 is not doing great — say, their beloved dog has fallen sick, and they hold the dog dear as the only creature who loves and values them, bringing them deep mental and sexual gratification and a salary paid in euros.

2. It so happens that the only way to get the dog back on track is to have it healed by the One and Only, a veritable Bond, James Bond.

3. All he has to do is wave his big, kind hand, for he… you know the rest.

4. And the story would see a happy ending but the darn dog (at this point, unlike other types of magic, causal magic churns out new scenarios of “if… then,” since the previous cause is now used up and not recycled), now fully recovered from the disease, turns out to be pregnant (or goes missing or gets kidnapped by the Criminals as the unique descendant of the dog bred by the legendary… add salt, sugar, and species to taste).

5. And, strange though it may seem, help can only come from him as he happens to be into canine obstetrics, working exclusively with the dogs he operated on, or to know someone he went to school with who works at a detective agency, and it’s a sheer coincidence that today he’s having those Criminals over for his birthday party, and they promised they’d give him a dog for a gift…

6. When the whole thing turns full circle three or four times, the patients take to staying overnight at each other’s houses, sharing beds, to spare themselves the trouble of coming over, or start to thrash violently in the trap of Karma, viciously tearing off their bodies everything sticking to them. Those too stubborn and stupid end up with their heads ripped off (basically, they don’t need those useless things anyway).

Note that while human astral shells take about a couple of months to renew and restore themselves, the causal Karma shells change at least every six months, mostly every ten to twelve years, and can even stay the same in some ways until the person dies. Most magicians — let alone ordinary people who spend most of their lives pointlessly, administered with a homemade local anesthetic — don’t know at all how to reach the causal level, so they can’t get the upper hand of changes on that level. This leaves even magicians, witches, and mediums helpless, and they tell you they can’t change destiny, Karma, and the like. At least those of them do who deal honestly. Underhanded practitioners will give you a 100, 120, 247, or 568.78 percent guarantee of success, depending on how insolent they are and on how well they can count their patience’s money with their fingers trembling with greed.

But the fact that the guarantee is given not by the agent but on behalf of the agent’s Guarantor goes unnoticed since in real life no guarantee as such is in order. One law of Creation — one that holds that the 100 percent efficiency lies out of reach (otherwise, space would wrap itself into a cocoon) and that efficiency in excess of 100 percent is a black hole — is perhaps not worth explaining if you didn’t get it when you were in the seventh grade.

But that’s off the point. What I want to say is that the inevitability of Karma — the cause and its manifestations — calls to mind a simple and convenient analogy to rail track. Karma is like a railroad in many ways, indeed.

1. Just as a train rolling down the track doesn’t have the option of steering off track, so, in the final analysis, you cannot escape your destiny. For example, if you are born a man, becoming a woman and making babies are something of a problem…

2. The train is always on the move, and it can’t stop. Similarly, neither can you: even if you fall so low as to become a hobo, dropping out of society, things will keep happening to you as you near your death, the end of your journey.

3. And here’s an interesting thing. The train weighs tons, so swerving, slowing down, and speeding up aren’t easy unless the train drops some weight. Likewise, if you are to get away from it all, you need to go out of town, turn off your cell phone, and hit the pause button on your brains after picking up a case or two of whatever it is that grabs your fancy. In a word, when all is said and done, the truth is that the way the train and destiny take don’t depend on you. Even the engineer is not in control — all they can do is step on the gas or the brakes (the human equivalent of that “gas” being the biological clock).

4. So the only way to control the train is to join one track with another and put up a railroad switch at the joint. Few have ever thought that the train is actually steered by the track switcher, not the engineer. If the switch is on one track, the engineer can’t cross over to the other, no matter what they do. The best they can do is slow down, waiting for no one knows what. That is to say — and this is something important to highlight — the train is controlled externally rather than internally.

5. This analogy agrees well with the actual functioning of Karma. Causal Karma structures are quite stable and strong, which makes them similar to rail track.

6. But why is it impossible for you to have free reign over your destiny? Why does your destiny send you swinging as chance wills it? The answer is, you’re not even the engineer, and switching the tracks is the switcher’s job. And note that trains outnumber rail tracks by far. Life-trains and blind destinies crash all the time.

With all this in mind, you realize that a stalker is someone who knows that they’re not the engineer but a passenger on the train controlled by the track switcher. That’s why stalkers are the laziest type of magicians: most of the way, they just ride on the train, enjoying the dining-car menu and conversation with their fellow travelers. If you meet a magician who, while they are on a roll, is too lazy to even be lazy, they’re most likely a more or less conscious stalker.

The next chapters will take a look at how stalkers enter into a dialogue with track switchers and change trains.

Chapter 8. The secret of the secret, or the mysteries of the divine secret service

The previous chapter discussed how the destinies of most people (excluding magicians and stalkers) are controlled, at the causal level, by external causes. To put it differently, for the destiny train to turn, the track switcher must switch the tracks — while the passengers in compartment 3 continue, perfectly unaware, with their heated discussion over a glass of something strong.

This mechanism serves a protective purpose, allowing some people to enjoy free will, for a while.

But who’s the mysterious track switcher? The answer is paradoxically simple. But first, here’s a joke:

A commission of demons enters the place where sinners are burning in boiling cauldrons. A man jumps out of the first cauldron, makes for the table standing near it, grabs a bottle of Russian moonshine, pours himself a full glass, and runs back to the cauldron. There’s an old demon sitting at the table, and the head of the commission asks him where the security are. The old demon says that they need no security because the people burning in the cauldron are Russian — all they need is a bottle of vodka sitting handy. But the second cauldron is supervised by a bunch of armed demons. “And that cauldron yonder is for the Jews,” the old demon explains. “If one makes it out, he’ll drag out all the others.” The third cauldron is totally unattended. In answer to the head’s silent question, the old demon says, “That one’s for the Ukrainians. If one tries to climb out, the others’ll pull him right back in by his feet.”

There’s some truth behind every joke, right? Here’s another one.

There were once two Ukrainian brothers, Taras and Gritsko. When the Soviets took over the country, Taras became a tractor driver on a collective farm, and Gritsko remained in their home village. When World War II broke out and the Germans invaded the country, Taras became a forest partisan, and Gritsko joined the polizei.The Soviets won the war, and Taras came back from the forest and jumped back in his tractor, and Gritsko went to Siberia to become a tree cutter. After a while Gritsko returned, but the villagers wouldn’t forgive him for his service as a polizei, so he moved to town and got a job as a mechanic. In no time, he was promoted to foreman and then to shift manager, to eventually land the position of chairman with the district branch of Agricultural Equipment. And his brother still was just a tractor driver. One day he went to town and dropped by Gritsko’s place. They sat down and had some vodka.

“I don’t get it, Gritsko. All my life I’ve worked my fingers to the bone, and I’m just a lousy tractor driver. And you, renegade, did your time in a camp but worked your up to become a manager.”

“That’s right. My job application says my brother is a hero partisan, and yours says your brother is a polizei.”

That’s why those believers who want to spiritually develop retire to a monastery or convent, a place where they develop fairly soon at the causal level, caring about one another. That way, they don’t waste their lives on their relatives, who often fail to relate to them spiritually and be grateful.

So the answer to the question who that track switcher is who cut off my oxygen supply and sewed my shirt to my pants is the jubilant cry in chorus, “WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE,

THE TEAM!”

But people are often envious and would, as the joke has it, poke their eyes out lest their neighbor has two.It‘d be funny if it weren’t so sad. From this perspective, puerile Christian dicta on the lines of “Love thy neighbor as thyself” seem different. Old hands can be cunning enough to go, in hordes, to priests and saints, asking them to “pray for them.” That is, it’s safe to say that for ordinary people, everyone around is the track switcher.

But there are other ways to switch Karma’s tracks.

Oddly enough, first of all it’s dreaming. It’s in a dream that you reach the collective subconscious where much of your destiny can be divined. But you might not know that your dreams are also dreams of others — generally, of your friends and family (first and foremost, your spouse).

That’s why gallantry to women finds so much favor and gentlemen are invariably lucky — what women’s dreams primarily do is shape men’s karma in real life.

That’s the law of the mirror, the world’s protection from those with too much balls. They can brandish their fists all they want, but the weak woman’s dream will mold the destinies and karma they deserve, both in this life and thereafter.

But for this protective mechanism, the most bad-ass man would get even more bad-ass, beating everyone around down ear-deep into the ground, and his kids would take after him, picking up on people no end. But in reality, nothing of the sort happens. That’s why all dictatorships and empires sooner or later come to an end; as soon as their karma at the causal level distorts, their properties go astray, and in one to two generations, they die out on their own. Precisely these mechanisms, unseen and uncontrolled, are what is called divine providence.

What do magicians and stalkers do with it? Magicians are able, first of all, to enter the state of conscious sleep they call trance and, in controlling events while asleep, to alter the outer destiny. But sleep has many facets to it, and the deeper you delve, the closer your departure from reality is, causing a backlash: “The dream slips through the magician’s hands.” This is the world’s second protective wall. It protects the world from magicians who are too wily.

But the way stalkers do it is different — they don’t try to change destiny through sleep. They understand what life is, knowing its ins and outs far better than budding magicians. Through scientific and practical experiments, they found out that human life is God’s dream in which we all “live”; that which seems real to us is in fact the dream of one big entity, which in turn is the reflection of the dream of many little consciousnesses it is composed of. Thus, instead of going into dream-trance to do magic as magicians, stalkers interact directly with God’s sleeping consciousness, perceived by everyone as reality.

But what’s the difference, I hear you ask. Well, the difference is that the dream is seen by someone whether you know it or not. And because God sees your life like a dream all the time, he molds it. If you play a part like an actor, following some rules, the dream (your reality) will change.

People who have a thing for theater know that while a play can touch a dozen story lines, the story determines the end of the plot played out in a certain way. Many despise actors, but, to quote a classic, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

What’s more, if you try to control your dreaming through dream-trance, you’ll face protective mechanisms that are hard to overcome sleeping. But when, in real life, you act the way you would in God’s dream, you can interact with those mechanisms in a certain way, both directly and indirectly, with large degrees of freedom (although there are setbacks to this option as well). But there’s always a flip side, right?

The next chapters will discuss how this game takes place independently of your will and how “lazy” stalkers play the game not unconsciously throughout their lives, the way everyone else does, but only when they have a mind to.

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In the above, we looked at how stalkers live in the world as in God’s dream, aware that they’re under constant supervision. In doing so, stalkers know that God watches them through the eyes (and other conscious and unconscious faculties) of other thinking creatures.

Their outlook on life often prevents stalkers from changing, making them take steps to address that problem:

1. They make sure they don’t have unwanted witnesses, the way most magicians, yogis, mystics, and saints, and the like do — for example, they retire to a desert or carry out their rites at night or someplace no one can see them. That way, they keep the number of prejudiced witnesses to a minimum, making inner and outer change much easier. Roughly speaking, they get rid of unwanted anchors.

This approach is the most natural; similarly, teenagers run away from home when they’re unable to change those around them or adapt themselves to their stereotypes. They choose to run away, to overcome the barriers that prevent them from changing themselves and from living their lives.

2. The stalker veils others’ understanding of themselves, concealing details about themselves and about their past, future, and present. In no longer explaining the reasons for what they do and why they behave the way they do, they weaken the link between themselves and outsiders.That’s what magicians, businesspeople, politicians, special services, and the like do. You will agree that to hear a businessperson or a politician discuss their inner world is something you won’t see them do (unless it’s a PR stunt, of course).

This technique provides an extra degree of freedom when one changes one’s inner consciousness. A classic feature of such behavior is silence. Besides, people of this kind are, as a rule, asexual or exhibit quite strange and attractive sexuality because this behavior model is directly related to sexuality.

3. They retire to an environment where outsiders’ attention “helps” them — say, to a monastery, sect, school, or seminar. The amicable attitude of like-minded people doesn’t distract them, and they help one another like a flock of doves warming one another up with their bodies.

4. Stalkers change their external (and if necessary internal) looks to conform to the stereotypes of the community in order to achieve whatever it is they’re pursuing.

For instance, wearing a crumpled, soiled suit to a business meeting is a silly thing to do, so the stalker is dressed the way they’re supposed to be.

More advanced stalkers will wear the same size, color and cut suits as their clients (sometimes even bought at the same store). That way, stalkers make sure their images are compatible externally.

It’s not a coincidence that seeing identical businesspeople, God merges their destinies.

Besides, external appearance often features a system of subconscious associative symbols that, as a rule, mimic the astral nuances of the psychological type in question. For example, red clothes mimic (externally) a strong, healthy, aroused aura, calling to mind the subconscious stereotype of a healthy and sexy person.

An ostentatious gold brooch on a young secretary’s bosom invokes subconscious associations with a medal awarded for a big achievement, making her boss subconsciously place her higher up the status ladder.

A person who walks with an empty hand held still and tense at an angle (a technique you might have seen in action at the inauguration ceremony of a certain politician) makes you think of a warrior carrying a sword, giving you the impression of danger and resolve.

You get the idea. That’s what the art of image making is all about — creating a net of specific subconscious associations consistent with the stereotypes of consciousness and subconsciousness.

5. Stalkers also change their internal appearance, using the matrices of successful people, say entrepreneurs, for the physiological type of their behavior.

Selecting the right matrix is key to success: the partners shouldn’t be aware of the matrix so that it doesn’t come off as imitation.

Another problem is that matrix data are often unknown to successful people in early development stages while using those data in further stages may be difficult: a young businessman would look silly if he acted like a billionaire.

Usually, the “young” matrix of a successful person is obtained, through meditation and channeling, from the Akashic records.

Or it could be a generally recognized book or movie cliché on the lines of “The name is Bond, James Bond.” In that case, however, you should make sure the client doesn’t dislike the cliché.

6. Stalkers know that most of the information that creates an impression — casting an anchor — is formed by the beholder’s subconscious. Even those without psychic powers can (subconsciously) hear each other’s thoughts, feelings, and plans well.

This is something that has been repeatedly proved through experiments. For example, if you’re a girl, try, while you look at a guy, to imagine yourself (in vivid detail, as if you were telling him about it) raping him ferociously the way a criminal brute rapes a weak girl.

The wild look in the guy’s eyes would prove it was true. That’s why the stalker forms the psychological type they want that goes as deep as thoughts, feelings, and the “memory” of five body guards, all former flashpoint gunmen, waiting for the stalker in a Cadillac round the corner. A similar technique is used in Zeland’s Secret as well as by actors, secret-service agents, image makers, entertainers, and the like.

7. Rather than just use it for a while, the stalker begins to live to the matrix of the desired psychological type. This involves the regeneration of some subtle bodies, causing changes at all levels of life.

8. The stalker assembles a matrix out of the causes and features of other successful matrices. If the stalker is, say, an errand boy with a club for businesspeople, he closely analyzes the causes of their success, thinking in analogies he understands, and borrows from the matrices he observes the most valuable things, using them for causes of his beliefs and the framework of his behavior. Such amorphousness of principles lets the stalker have a very flexible psyche and prevents them from aging.

9. To form an image, the stalker uses, at a subtle level, a variety of artifacts and amulets read by the consciousness of others, giving them certain impressions.

For example, if the stalker doesn’t feel like getting into a fight in a strange place, pretending he’s an evil goblin, he puts on a ring charged with a killing spell (preferably one that has killed before), creating an aura of danger around him that protects him from unwanted conflicts.

The most common charms of this sort include “super macho,” “dangerous adversary,” “respectable partner,” “rich man,” “innocent girl,” “super lady,” “little child,” “mystery man,” “lucky,” “lethal danger,” and “inconspicuous.” Crafted through magic, they often create such a strong impression of the stalker that they change his own opinion. The stalker begins to attach himself to the astral mask of the charm he’s using.

10. Stalkers use meditation on some mandalas and channels, soaking themselves (or those around) in specific energy having a specific color, such as power, mystery, or danger.

11. All these techniques use what is called the mirror principle — coadjustment between the stalker and the given entity, energy, mandala, channel, and the like.

After some instances of that coadjustment, the stalker (the magician, etc.) notices that they can tune in directly, with no intermediary between them, onto the entity, the world, or the part of the world they’re in.

This technique involves feedback: with a certain state of mind, you develop a link with a certain part of the world.

To use the technique, you should have psychic powers or an egregor connection. Turning the thought “I’m rich; I’m rich” over in your head won’t tune you in on wealth.

12. Stalkers who have repeatedly tuned in onto various entities get to find that all entities are pretty similar as far as adjustment goes.

Just as all movies and plays fall into categories, so are all entities grouped by certain criteria and restrictions.

To an experienced stalker, all entities match a system of templates divisible into four primary types and ten designations.

The next chapters will address those types and designations.

Chapter 9. What, what are these beasties made of?

The previous chapter arrived at the conclusion that all objects in the world around the stalker can be divided into a system of energy templates. This has repeatedly been verified in practice and is beyond question. There’s also a fairly developed and fine theory that describes this state of things.

For instance, Chinese martial arts divide combat styles into several basic categories:

1. Bear Style is, as a rule, characterized by slow, powerful bodily motions and strong, stable stances. This style focuses on the Muladhara chakra and red energy. One of its features is super strength, allowing the fighter to, say, hurl a one-ton boulder.

2. Tiger Style (Leopard or Stag with some schools) is, as a rule, characterized by soft, smooth (“lazy”) motions that abruptly acquire rigidity as the fighter moves to a higher level. It also involves streamlined stances with liquid vertical escapes.This style also focuses on accentuating the transition to a state of trance, using “tiger breath” and “tiger growl” as well as by running the totem’s energy through, and pulling it to, the fingers (for the leopard, the low back; for the stag, the shoulders and fists). The high levels of the styles (especially the Leopard Style) place an emphasis on wave-like motions. Energy-wise, the Tiger Style draws from Svadhisthana and orange energy. The style’s features include sensuality, vitality, and charisma (including sexual charisma). The style stands out as being impressive and powerful as well as enabling the fighter to injure the opponent. The highest siddhi of this style is the ability to control time — the Lord’s Growl, paralyzing the enemy.

3. Snake Style primarily involves flexible, “boneless,” wave-like motions accentuating the “flutter.” It focuses on mastering flexibility as it is essential to the running of the characteristic energy through the body. Practicing the moving of energy through one’s body also involves learning how to move one’s energy through the opponent’s body, making changes to it — for example, by paralyzing, poisoning, or healing them (hence the style’s name). The style places an emphasis on the Manipura chakra, yellow energy. The distinguishing feature of the style is the ability to transform one’s or another’s body and energy. The style involves learning to heal (meaning the transformation of the cause of disease rather than temporary recovery) and to poison, as well as to master a variety of medication-based and other healing techniques (such as acupuncture and massage). A classic example is striking an acupuncture point with a finger to cause paralysis. A more complicated version of the technique is the Touch of Death — killing the opponent, in a while rather than instantaneously, with seemingly less than lethal force targeted at an acupuncture point.

4. Monkey Style (in the chaotic Yang aspect as opposed to the orderly Yin aspect in the Crane Style). This style is characterized by swift, disorderly motions (as opposed to harmonic motions in the Crane Style). The necessary swiftness is achieved through training the brain and the body. The style focuses on the chest chakra and green energy or one of its sides (blue or brown). The distinguishing features of the style are swiftness and elusiveness, agility, and the ability to react quickly. The style stands out as offering the ability to control probabilities — say, to direct your spit to a fly’s left or right eye, whichever necessary.

5. Dragon Style is, as a rule, a conglomeration of all the previous styles, borrowing all their strengths while avoiding their weaknesses. Generally, the style is learned as a continuation of the four previous styles and involves special initiation ceremonies and trance techniques.The style focuses on void and the Vishuddha chakra, and its main features are omnipotence and diversity — for instance, the ability to fly, swim, go through stone and fire, and breathe the cosmic void, all with equal success.Sooner or later the dragon becomes a space traveler.

6. Spider Style (I deliberately don’t name the school) quenches the conscious to awaken the subconscious. It’s like turning into a kind of flawless machine (the style’s types include necromancy and the Scorpion and Mantis schools). Normally, the style focuses on nonhuman energy and chakras. The color of the style’s energy is usually black. The style’s distinguishing features are signal sensitivity, great patience, vitality, and error-free motions as well as knowing how to drop out of one world into another.

7. Various “higher” styles such as Taekwondo, Tao, Cloud Arm, and Buddha’s Arm, focusing on the state of meditation and trance on “higher,” or paradise worlds (as a rule, their individual representatives or parts of their bodies). One type (the foundation, actually) of them is the true art of sword and chakra combat.

So, why this kung fu panopticon? The reason I’m dwelling on it is because the styles of martial arts are categorized according to their primary source energy, just as the entire world is.

There’s a similar classification in magic: the magic of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Void (Metal), Death, and Life.

That is, the whole world consists of these basic types of energy.

The fifth of them — Void (Metal) — is evidently composed of the four others. Here, the magic of Death and the magic of Life are, as it were, the flip side of the Void Magic coin.

Thus, as far as energy goes, the world falls into these projections of a six-faced cube:

1) Four projections onto vertical walls: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air,

2) limited by Life on top

3) and by Death at the bottom.

4) The mid space of the cube is occupied by Dao, ether, metal, or void (the name depends on the individual school or philosophy).

Therefore, it’s safe to say that the whole world — and any object — consists of four energy elements (for the sake of simplicity, the energy of life and death is not considered as an extreme boundary case), something described by the main philosophies.Christianity, for example, where the cross symbolizes the world view.

Chapter 10. Nesting doll one nesting doll two — some more on the astral for you…

The previous chapter described how all objects generally consist of four elements: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. To understand where these elements come from, let us look at the manifestation of each, one by one.

Earth Element:

1. At the level of the ethereal field (Muladhara), the muscle fields

2. At the level of the astral field (Svadhishthana), emotions like confidence, equanimity, and calmness

3. At the level of the mental field (Manipura), thoughts such as axioms, basic notions, alphabets, and the multiplication table

4. At the level of the soul (Anahata), sociability, or capability

5. At the level of Fate-Karma (Vishuddhi), talent

6. At the level of Ajna, intuition

7. At the level of Sahasrara, reasonableness

Water Element:

1. At the level of the ethereal field (Muladhara), the lymph and blood fields

2. At the level of the astral field (Svadhishthana), emotions like attention and amicability

3. At the level of the mental field (Manipura), thoughts such as collocations and steady sentences

4. At the level of the soul (Anahata), tolerance

5. At the level of Fate-Karma (Vishuddhi), craftsmanship

6. At the level of Ajna, memory

7. At the level of Sahasrara, religiousness

Fire Element:

1. At the level of the ethereal field (Muladhara), sinew fields

2. At the level of the astral field (Svadhishthana), emotions like perseverance

3. At the level of the mental field (Manipura), thoughts such as analysis and self-analysis

4. At the level of the soul (Anahata), optimism

5. At the level of Fate-Karma (Vishuddhi), trial

6. At the level of Ajna, rethinking and enlightenment

7. At the level of Sahasrara, transformation

Air Element:

1. At the level of the ethereal field (Muladhara), the structures of the blood-vessel network and the bones

2. At the level of the astral field (Svadhishthana), emotions like reticence, elusiveness, and eagerness for novelty

3. At the level of the mental field (Manipura), hypnosis and autotraining

4. At the level of the soul (Anahata), mentoring

5. At the level of Fate-Karma (Vishuddhi), training

6. At the level of Ajna, mysticism 7) At the level of Sahasrara, channeling

Metal Element:

It’s a conglomeration of the four previous elements and depending on how much of everything it contains, it can be anything (on the related level, I mean):

1. Ethereal field

2. Emotions

3. Thoughts

4. Love (as the conversation of souls)

5. Fate-karma

6. Mutual understanding

7. Faith as a dialogue with God

These explanations serve as an example, just a few of the many facets of the crystal.

If you look at the manifestation of the elements’ energy in the world, it looks like the shadows of multicolored Russian nesting dolls projected on the wall from four variously colored suns, shining perpendicularly to one another.

Chapter 11. Coming tounderstandit all

As noted earlier, we assume, for ease of understanding, that everything in the world consists of four primal energy elements — Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Each of them manifests itself differently at different levels (from the physical to the divine).

Let’s look at the manifestations of numerals. In the decimal numeral system, these are the numerals from 1 to 10. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll consider the five basic levels (Ajna and Sahasrara are way too specific and make little sense to nonmysticists).

For different levels, the explanations below don’t encompass all possible options. A more detailed discussion can be found in Avessalom Podvodniy books.

Once split, by power level, into 10 nominal numerals (actually, dimensions), the elements allow objects to be symbolized in symbol — numeral form.

For example, a house as a brick shape is the Four of Earth.

A house as a work of art is the Nine of Earth.

A house as a linkage system is the Six of Earth.

If the house is one of ill repute, we’re talking about a system of interactions between feelings and a system of pecuniary exchanges — that is, the Six of Water and the Six of Earth.

If the house is one under construction, it’s the Nine of Fire.

That is, how symbolic the description of an object is depends, first of all, on what vantage point and level you look at it from.

This is something that is absolutely essential for Kabbalah, Tarot, fortune telling, and stalking.

And that’s where novice stalkers and fortune tellers make their mistake. If they overlook it, making do with to the standard meanings of the symbols, they may hit a dead end pretty fast.

At the same time, voicing the meaning of a symbol is often hardly possible because multidimensional holographic objects are difficult to express through small-dimensional speech.

This difficulty is usually overcome with succinct verbal images and poems.

Chapter 12. The giver the taker, and someone else, or how to split the bottle three waysin stalking

The previous chapter categorized the power of the primal energy elements, using the numerals 1 through 10. But, actually, the power is measured in dimensions. Here’s an analogy: The threads in a spider’s web are almost identical since each is in fact a single molecule thatcan’t be any thinner or thicker than it is. As the chemistry of the thread — and therefore its thickness — cannot change and as spiders come in various weights, having to vary the amount of the material they spend, they solve the problem by simply weaving several threads (from one to six or more) together into one when necessary. That’s exactly the way the dimension of a primal energy element determines the extent to which it manifests itself.

But the dimension of the element in question also depends on what angle the observer looks at it from: when seen from the side, a train looks longer and more impressive than it does when you zoom in on the locomotive’s front bumper coming your way at 55 miles per hour (in that case, you can only see the locomotive). So, paradoxically, the way the world appears to you depends on what angle you look at it from (and that’s the secret of the famous Zeland secret). You wouldn’t be surprised that a pencil would look different to you if you turned it before your eyes. Or that you can’t see the inimitable smile on the Lenin statue’s face when you look at the statue’s ass.

To sum up, objects are classifiable depending heavily on the angle and level of observation. At this point, another significant class presents itself, depending on whether the citizen in question is the donor or the patient of the primal element.

1. The donor of energy corresponds to the King card, and it symbolizes the Yang aspect of the primal element. Its structure looks like the letter I.

2. The patient, or the absorber or the accumulator, of energy corresponds to the Queen card. It symbolizes the Yin aspect of Creation or the mirrored (cause- and principle-wise) reflection of the King. This is the Personality or the curvature point of space that makes one circle around the primal element (because of the local enactment of the Law of the Mirror), curling up into a ring — falling asleep — to find oneself on the other side of the mirror. The structure looks like the letter O.

3. Given that Yin and Yang interact and penetrate each other both in terms of energy and structures, there is also an intermediate variety. This variety has both the Yang and Yin structures. It’s a kind of androgyne or a hermaphrodite as far as its manifestation is concerned. Its structure looks like the letter Q or Y. The card used to be called the Knight, but now, given that the representatives of reason on Earth are no longer hermaphrodites but strictly male and female because of polarized thinking, the qualification is in effect unattainable to most (except maybe advanced Zen masters and hermetists). These days it’s no longer an attribute of stalkers or fortune tellers, and it’s longer part of the “common” card deck, because your average, uninitiated user just can’t “see” it in the world. Another name for the card is the Horseman (or Rider).The card is intriguing, and it can serve as a key to Transformation since Transformation takes time and there must always be a gate in the wall (for you to go through if you are to get behind the wall), encompassing the Yang and Yin aspects. So this card may come in handy — at least as a gate.

4. There’s also a signaling card that lets you know that power has appeared on the other side (the place behind the mirror). This card serves as a flag, signaling that the place has fallen under the influence of the power, which hangs around either in space or in time. The card is crucial because it indicates whether there is power in the layout.The card is called the Knave (the Page in Tarot). Note that if the Knave is in the right place in the layout interface, facing and heading out the right way, the layout promises magic, opening portals of power, working miracles, making things work out, and so on. But if the Knave — Page is in the wrong place, the magic power will come to anyone but you.

Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics proves mathematically that any system can be stable if it has a generator, an absorber, and — attention please — a nonlinear referee component, someone who takes a side in the argument between king and queen andenters on a campaign of intrigue against the opponent.

Hermeticism holds just about the same position: the whole world consists of antonymous dyads balanced by a third element, the hermaphrodite.

Chapter 13. What the patience of Medici is, or hello and how do you do!

Let’s try to sum up everything we’ve covered so far and see whatthe PM is.

First of all, it’s worth remembering the history of the card deck.

Official records say that in Europe, both Tarot and standard card decks most likely appeared in the Middle Ages in royal and aristocratic families and spread fast to the common people later on.

The royalty and nobility learned of the card deck from the court doctors, scientists, and alchemists of the time, who gave advice and information on all kinds of matters, ranging from the gout and chiromancy to binary poisons and gold mining. Few know that those court sawboneses came up with many medicines, chemicals, and medical tools and devices. Their knowledge came, in turn, from dusty volumes written in a variety of languages, brought from their travels to half the world’s countries.

The putative father of the Patience of Medici is John Dee, a noted occult philosopher of that time. Apparently, it was he who taught the technique to some court nobility. Records say he belonged to a mystic organization of that time, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, famous for its focus on Tarot cards and the Hermetic Heritage.

The main reason why the PM found its way into the masses was the invention of book printing. The printing press made it possible to mass-produce fairly priced card decks.

In that period, card games gained popularity with various kinds of mercenaries, palace and city guards, and the like — anyone who had time to kill while on the job.

But, as the initial card design was too elaborate, both in pattern and in color, the initial appearance of the cards eventually came to look like the card deck we know today.

The twenty-two Major Arcana were cut off right from the start — even early on, they hadn’t made any sense to anyone except practicing mystics, who had at least rudimentary extrasensory perception. The lower classes had no use for those cards at all. Although Wikipedia does mention a card game that used the full Tarot deck (about seventy-six cards!), that game didn’t gain popularity. Its rules were quite complicated, taking a long time and a good head to learn. It was only natural that uneducated soldiers, who were often drunk to boot, cut the size of the deck any way they could.

At the same time, the fifty-two Minor Arcana made more or less sense to anyone; and once they were reduced to thirty-six cards printed in two cheap colors, the classic card deck we all know was born. With the difference that the “classic” cards are nowhere as old as Tarot, whose age is a number at least two figures larger.

Anyone with some logic would agree that modern decks of playing cards derive from Tarot cards. Although their symbols are somewhat different, both have four — precisely four — suits and are ranked by number the same way, so there’s no doubt at all as to which of the two is way older than the other.

The twenty-two Major Arcana pose no serious questions because millions of practicing Tarot card experts, both professional and nonprofessional, use them for fortune telling. The role of the Minor Arcana, however, isn’t as obvious. Oftentimes, they’re not even used in Tarot fortune telling at all.

The Gypsy fortune-telling school is interesting that way.Gypsies, conversely, used only the Minor Arcana, and as the standard playing card deck at that. The twenty-two Major Arcana cards weren’t used at all.

All this leads me to an interesting conclusion, but it lies outside the scope of this book. Suffice it to say that the practice of patience is characteristic of the Gypsy school.

From all this, a few indisputable facts follow:

• The modern playing card deck is nothing less than a stripped Tarot deck.

• Tarot cards are normally used to tell the past, the present, and the future. In other words, they open a way into Earth’s information field.

• Gypsies fortune-tell through the game of patience, using the regular playing card deck. Which — it bears repeating — are a stripped Tarot deck.

• The Tarot deck falls into two parts — the Major Arcana (twenty-two cards) and the Minor Arcana (fifty-six cards).

The principle that makes fortune telling possible and valid is pretty well known. It’s the symbolism principle from The Emerald Tablet by Hermes Trismegistus: “As above, so below…”

To put in differently, the fortune written up in Heaven reflects in the card deck on the Earth below.

But few remember the rest of the quote, “… as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.” That is to say, as in the symbol, so in heaven.

The Emerald Tablet offers an unequivocal equilibrium that makes it possible to not only tell but to construct fortune.

So why is fortune constructing so rare as compared with fortune telling? Two reasons:

• What we call the “telling” of the future is often its hidden construction — after all, if you go to several Tarot card experts to find out about your future, you’ll more likely than not get different answers. Often, that doesn’t mean some of the experts are wrong; it’s just that there are different projects for your future, and the choice you make triggers one of them.

• Any project can or cannot be sound, to an extent. A project must adhere to certain design laws, and it can be designed with a certain degree of incompetence or error present.

Similarly, there can — or cannot — be several correct design projects for a firmly standing building.This also holds true for fortune telling: what it tells you can be a good project or a dud.

Besides, any project is nothing but a drawing until someone puts it into practice.Considering fortune telling in this light can result in a variety of setbacks.

For example, if the fortune teller tells you that you will meet a blond man, marry him, have triplets, and live long and happily, chances are you might meet that blond man — but no one can make you marry him unless you want to.

But people often do see fortune telling as a description of force majeure events, a scenario where the foreseen future happens as a matter of course, allowing you to keep right on sitting on your sofa, nodding your head in approval.

I’ve mentioned “correct” design projects. What are those?

Building engineering uses highly specialized calculation principles such as the theorem of moments. The theorem holds thatthe sum of all moments about any point of a correctly engineered building equals zero. This is a variety of the law of conservation of energy in the space plane.

When engineered that way, your destiny meets either none or minimal (or, if everything is right, even negative) resistance from the external environment.

Unlike unplanned actions, a well-calculated destiny stands a good chance of being fulfilled.

Indeed, even if you get into a tank and drive it, like a drill bit through concrete, toward your future, you’re likely to sooner or later break your neck all the same. Only a good road map will get you to your goal — even if there’s not much you can do.

And that’s what the PM is: a law for engineering the future with a backlash kept to a minimum. The very form and rules of the PM proffer laws that allow the sum of the moments of forces involved to be reduced to zero, meaning the backlash down the road to your goal will be as small as possible.

To sum up, the Patience of Medici is a variety of the law of conservation of energy, presented as the rules for building the layout of a four-dimensional energy tensor that describes all possible states of Matter in the four-dimensional world.

Chapter 14. The rules and layout structure of the patience of Medici

We’re finally done with all the preliminaries and can move on to the main part of this book.

To keep their knowledge from dilettantes, hermetists like to cipher it using various hermetic keys, and so could I — but I won’t.Instead, I’ll try to explain it to you as clearly as possible, to decipher any obscurities with a set of keys, including hermetic ones.

For ease of understanding, I’ll omit the theory and footnotes where feasible. I want my explanations to read a tad like a grimoire, not a PhD paper.

So, here are the basic principles for laying outa Patience of Medici game.

1. Only the full Minor Arcana deck—56 suit cards of the 78-card deck of Tarot cards, four suits with 14 cards each — is used. The Minor Arcana’s four suits are Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles. Each suit contains ten numbered cards, Ace through Ten, and four court cards — Page, Knight, Queen, and King. Pentacles correspond to the modern deck’s Diamonds; Cups, to Hearts; Swords, to Spades; and Wands, to Clubs.

2. The cards are first laid out to arrange a grid of four rows and fourteen columns.

3. Adjacent cards are stacked by number or by suit.

4. This results in subsequent cards getting on top of the initial cards, which kind of gets them out of sight. Obviously, this is similar to the flow of time.

5. For this addition to be possible, the following rules must be followed. Each column must contain all four suits. In essence, together the four suits yield an energy coordinate in space. It’s like latitude and longitude coordinates crossing each other on a map or a 3D drawing projection. But here we have a 4D projection since our visible physical world is four-dimensional.

6. Note that the numbers of the cards in a column must not coincide. (This doesn’t apply, however, to columns 12 and 13, Horsemen, and flag cards.) Here’s an example:

7. Column 14 is the last one, and when a given card’s part is played in real life, the column is for what are called target cards — the cards that symbolize the events you want to eventually cause or provoke (more on those cards later). The column can contain any cards other than Horsemen and Knaves — that is, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Queen, King, and Ace of any suit. Keep in mind that all the four suits must be present.

8. Column 13 belongs to Horsemen (Knights). The card can be described as a fair-wind, get-in-the-saddle, or draw-the-reins card. It plays a special part, and I’ll discuss it later.

9. Column 12 is for Knaves (Pages in Tarot). This is a flag card, meaning, on the one hand, that it signals the patience is charged and, on the other hand, that it tells the world that the stalker is ready to discharge the patience. (More on this card later.)

10 I recommend placing the suits in the last target column by theelement, one by one. That way, shifting the assembly point is easier and more natural. That is, the order of suits, from top to bottom, is as follows: Earth, Water, Fire, Air — Pentacles, Cups, Swords, Wands — Diamonds, Hearts, Spades, Clubs.

11. Alternatively, if the stalker’s position is passive to the Absolute (e.g., if the stalker is seeking awakening), the order of suits should be reversed: Air, Fire, Water, Earth — Wands, Swords, Cups, Pentacles — Clubs, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds.

12. The remaining forty-four empty spaces are filled with the remaining cards. These can be called Tuning Forks, and I’ll discuss their roles and origin a little further down. Here’s an example (for the sake of simplicity, we’ll first look at one suit):

13. The other spaces are similarly filled with the remaining cards. But there’s a nuance: the columns must stack so that only column 14 with the target cards remains. The spiral shift of suits enables the addition of cards. For adjacent columns not to add up by number, the cards in those columns (as well as in a column) should not repeat by number (except columns 12 and 13, which will add up just as they should). For instance, if column 11 has a Queen of Spades, there should be no Queens in columns 10, 11, or 12. And if, for instance, column 10 has a Five of Spades, there should be no more Fives in columns 9, 10, or 11. Here’s an example of how this rule can be used.

In this example, any card in any column other than the Horsemen column only agrees with adjacent columns by suit, not by number. In principle, you can make that kind of layout manually if you have a suitable table with a lined surface and are attentive and patient enough. But that’s a tedious and unrewarding thing to do. You have to not only lay out the cards but also record your progress as you play a part in real life. My practical experience shows that in that case, errors are quite likely to occur. That’s why I strongly recommend using specialized software (more on it later).

Here’s an example of awrong layout:

In this example, columns 2 and 3 have a Four of Diamonds close to a Four of Hearts, and columns 9 and 10 have an Eight of Clubs close to an Eight of Diamonds.This arrangement will cause the columns to match not only by suit but also by number, crushing the PM structure and making stalking impossible.

14. The layout is read card by card, from left to right, row by row.Note that the target cards are distributed evenly along the direction you’re going. The correct example above will be read as follows:

then

then

then

I called the PM addition algorithm SivkaBurka, like the magic steed from a Russian fairytale, because of the special part the Tarot Horsemen play in the algorithm.

And now let’s move on to discussing the roles of the target cards.

Chapter 15. Target cards in the patience of Medici

“Dad? What’s the purpose of life?”

“Don’t bother me with dumb questions, son. Can’t you see I’m busy doing something serious?”

(from a real-life joke)

So what are target cards and what do they do in the Patience of Medici?

They’re the cards that stand for the goal the stalker wants to achieve in symbol form after playing a PM part in real life. For example, signing a contract corresponds to the Ten of Spades; winning a lottery, to the Ace of Clubs; being happy, to the Eight of Hearts.

But in the PM, all the four suits are used for the final balancing of powers. That’s why the process of winning a lottery is set out as four interconnected target cards. And note that all the four cards describe either the event or its aspects.

If the cards are selected correctly, the event makes no sense if one of the cards is removed. For example, without the Ace of Clubs, winning becomesimpossible.

Here, the rules of Kabbalah symbolism apply. But keep in mind the following:

1. Kabbalah and Tarot symbols are multifaceted holograms, and they can have numerous meanings. A single symbol can describe an enormous number of phenomena. Each phenomenon, however, can be described, from a certain angle, by no more than one card (two at best). For example, the word car can mean thousands of car makes, of various colors and designs. But any make only corresponds to the word car.

2. A specific card is selected depending on the vantage point, which normally corresponds to the energy aspect and determines the card’s suit. That’s why, depending on what angle you look at it from, there can be different symbolic card interpretations for the entity or the phenomenon in question. Remember, once and for all, that there is no clear-cut correspondence between the cards and their manifestations in real life. There is, however, a table that shows how the cards correspond to their inner holographic meanings under the cabbalistic rules.

3. One common mistake novice stalkers make is using, unthinkingly, someone else’s card interpretations to go through a PM. But someone else’s interpretations — something that might have come from a different perspective — may not fit into your situation. For example, card interpretations for a wedding and those for a corporate merge cannot be identical — if for no other reason than that the scopes of the events are different.

Target cards should be selected attentively andthoughtfully.

The target you aim at is the direction your arrow will shoot. Given that the average time it takes to play through the PM is two months, an error may come at a cost.

If you’re no great shakes at card symbolism, your best bet would be to get in touch with someone who is.

The reason why PM cards can fall spontaneously is quite simple.

The cards’ parts played in real life create a programmed deformation of the time — space continuum.Since the PM structure is subject to fairly stringent rules, the number of possible options is quite limited. In order for the continuum disturbed by the stalker to be neutralized, specific cards must fall at a specific moment. This local programmed vacuum of events determines the possibility of programmed events coming up in real life.

All the stalker needs to do is:

1. Correctly identify the symbols of the target cards.

2. Set out the cards so that the layout is error-free.

3. Correctly play the cards in real life to deform the time — space continuum.

Just keep in mind that how well the PM plays out determines which target cards will fall in real life. To put it differently, the stalker playing a PM part in real life is an actor whose Shakespeare is life itself. Who gets the applause and the award and who gets booed off the stage mostly depends on the PM player — their attentiveness, perseverance, understanding of cabbalistic symbolism, and much more besides.

I’ll discuss a little further on the classic mistakes stalkers make in playing through the PM and ways to avoid those mistakes.

Chapter 16. Playing the pm through in real life, or how to play cards with God

“Wanna play some cards?” an Absolute says to another Absolute.

“How do you think we can? We’ve no hands nor cards.”

“C’mon, don’t we have plenty of stalkers?”

Let’s look at the roles of the Tuning Fork cards — columns 1 through 11.This calls for an understanding of how the PM plays out in real life.

Here’s a little physics for you (something you’ll have studied at school).Take a big city’s radio broadcasting, for example.The system is jammed with thousands of transmitters, dozens of radio stations, millions of mobile devices, hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi and Blue Tooth access points, and a great deal of sheer interference.

Few know the simple fact that the antenna of any radio, cellphone, Blue Tooth headphones, and suchlike gets more or less all the radio signals that there are out there, including ads coming from Alpha Centauri.

How is the signal you want sorted out from all the mess? The thing is that, once caught by the antenna, the signal enters what is called the resonance circuit.The resonance circuit amplifies certain signals (at the circuit’s resonance frequency) by a factor of hundreds or even thousands.This dampens other signals, making them fade to a quiet hiss. (I’m omitting the tedious technicalities like filtration, encoding, and polarization.)

Magic, including stalking — as well as information science and psychic practice — uses a similar method to sort out signals caught from the air.The receiver is on the same wavelength as the signal.The resonance amplifies the signal while unwanted signals remain in the background.

This effect is the secret behind hypnosis, magic, healing, yoga, psychic practice, and a host of other techniques, both magical and otherwise. This includes the Zeland’s Secret as well.

Tuning in on a specific energy flow, the stalker kind of floats in it in some direction.

And those who search for glimpses of light at the end of the tunnel find a way out of it. But those who ignore those glimpses trudge on in the darkness of their ignorance.

When it comes to sorting out signals, the biological adaptability of the human body and consciousness is enormous. The human brain and consciousness easily filter signals at60 dB or more, augmenting them by a factor of at least 1,000,000the way a resonance circuit does.That’s some number, isn’t it? That’s the way it works — unless the operator is inept enough to make things go wrong.

If you tune in on a stream, it’ll take you in the direction you want to go, like a sailing boat in the ocean.Countless psychic techniques, including Zeland’s and psychoanalysis, draw on this principle.

PM stalking is somewhat different from those techniques in that it uses tuning by both the type of energy (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air) and the number of that energy (2, 3. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Knave, Queen, King, Ace, and Horseman).

Each PM card corresponds to a certain energetic or psychological attitude, or motto, as it’s called in the cabbalistic interpretation.

Holding on to this attitude inside themselves and their consciousness, stalkers rebuild their consciousness, mood, reception, and thinking to tune them in on a specific wave, picking from myriads of ways to perceive the world the one they want at the moment, according to the design (the layout).Similarly, a builder constructs a house by finding in a big heap of building materials the one their design project requires for the given part of the house so that it won’t crumble down once finished.

That way, the stalker achieves several goals at once:

1. They see, in a myriad of options around them, those they need here and now.This is characteristic of human consciousness. You may walk past the same doors a million times, but you’ll only see them when you look. And you won’t be able to open them unless you find the doorbell, the handle, or the keyhole.

2. In constantly changing their attitude according to the situation, the stalker establishes connections all across the gamut of the world’s frequencies. To put it differently, the stalker’s psyche has all colors of the rainbow. That’s what makes stalkers different from those boring people who stand pat like a brick house. Take a good look around and you’ll see that most people wear the masks they feel most comfortable wearing, unwilling to take the risk that comes with wearing others. Naturally, when you have the whole psychopalette handy, painting any picture you want is so much easier than it is when you only have a couple of colors. It’s more interesting that way, too.

3. By constantly warming up their psyche and thinking, the stalker soon makes them reckless yet flexible the way kung fu geniuses do (they’re able to find a way out of any situation, at any level). The stalker becomes like a lightning that races between sky and earth, following the path of least resistance. And while the kung fu master throws his leg behind his ear to beat off the crowbar flying at him, the stalker can read Shakespeare in the original, smiling a white-teeth smile.

“To drink or not to drink? That is the question.

Drink I shall, until I smash your nose with my heel!”

4. As a result, the way the stalker thinks comes to be paradoxical. And, once the decision is found, they blow their whistle three times, with the greatest of ease, to signal an attack while others keep treading water for years.

5. And here’s what I think is the most important part. When going through the PM and trying, one by one, all templates, the stalker ponders them and kind of tabulates the scale of their perception and thinking. The stalker’s perception and thinking become like a ruler graduated with evenly spaced points, as opposed to an unevenly graduated ruler with many gaps, something typical of ordinary people. This allows their consciousness and psyche to be fairly objective instruments that sense profoundly and accurately both the beauty of dawn and the beauty of the Ninjutsu formula. They no longer care what to take in and what to think about. Their understanding becomes comprehensive.

Playing through the Tuning Fork cards can be divided into these steps:

1. The Stalker tries to understand the meaning of the card they’re playing. They rack their brains trying to figure out its cabbalistic meaning and essence. They try to figure out the Kabbalah charades as they apply to the card being played and its inner concept, seeking to find the card in real life. At this point, they constantly look around for the card, trying to understand whether they see it in a given object or phenomenon.

2. The stalker gets to know the card’s inner essence, amassing the knowledge of what the card is in real life. They begin to project the cards they’ve found in real life onto their psyche and thinking. This period is the time when they make startling discoveries and reassessments, which are often ineffable. Describing them in words is as difficult as describing an orgasm. You have the words, but they’re useless to people who’ve never experienced it.

3. Once the stalker acquires a practical understanding of the card from their inner experience, they get to catch on to a kind of supermotto or superconcept inherent in the card and fit that supermotto to their inner state, keeping it inside for a long time.

4. After the stalker gets the hang of using this prism of perception, they’re surprised to discover that the prism allows them to confidently find black in snow white and blindingly white in velvety black. After all, even artificial 999 gold contains 0.1 percent of impurities, in which, if you look at them closely enough, you can make out almost any element that’s in the periodic table. From that time on, the stalker is a kind of magician — a joker card, which can have any value, suit, or color.

5. With some stalking experience under their belt, the stalker becomes, in the eyes of other people, a kind of jester, going beyond what is understandable to those people.The stalker simply grows out of their pathetic outlook. That’s why what you can see of the greatest people is only the tip of the iceberg while their contemporaries think of them as clowns or weirdos.And nothing but time and distance can set things right, in each of the worlds.

The following is a list of the Tuning Fork cards, each with one possible meaning.

Two of Hearts — confrontation or interaction at the level of feelings. Examples:

1. Interacting emotion; e.g., a singer’s

2. Interaction with emotions; e.g., sympathy

3. One interacting with an emotion; e.g., one who sympathizes

Two of Diamonds — confrontation or interaction at the material level. Examples:

1. Interacting matter; e.g., a seller

2. Interaction with matter; e.g., a kick

3. One interacting with matter; e.g., a real doer

Two of Spades — confrontation or interaction at the level of ideas. Examples:

1. Interacting idea; e.g., a politician

2. Interaction with ideas; e.g., a debate

3. One interacting with an idea; e.g., an opponent

Two of Clubs — confrontation or interaction at the level of structures of probabilities. Examples:

1. Interacting structure; e.g., a petty clerk

2. Interaction with a structure; e.g., filling out a form

3. One interacting with a structure; e.g., a client

Three of Hearts — a system at the level of feelings and emotions.

Examples:

1. System of feelings; e.g., theater and opera

2. Systematization of feelings; e.g., teaching the art of acting

3. One who systematizes feelings; e.g., a physiologist

Three of Diamonds — a system at the material level. Examples:

1. Systematic (organized) matter; e.g., a house

2. Systematization of matter; e.g., cleanup

3. One who systematizes matter; e.g., an installer (+) or cleaner (−)

Three of Spades — a system at the level of ideas. Examples:

1. System of ideas; e.g., a library

2, Systematization of ideas; e.g., school studies

3. One who systematizes ideas; e.g., a thinker or scientist

Three of Clubs — a system at the level of structures and probabilities. Examples:

1. System of chances or rights; e.g., a municipal institution

2. Systematization of rights; e.g., driver training (the traffic code)

3. One who systematizes a structure; e.g., a programmer

Four of Hearts — Naturalness at the level of feelings. Examples:

1. Essence of feelings — any instinctive emotion triggered by an entity: fear — hospital; jealousy — register office; hunger — cafeteria; courage — conscription office

2. Naturalization of feelings — manifestation of instincts in society; e.g., protection of females

3. Natural emotion — a stalker going on an instinct such as fear, jealousy, hunger, or courage

Four of Diamonds — the natural quality of matter. Examples:

1. Essence of matter — any natural object such as a tree

2. Naturalization of matter; e.g., recovery from disease

3. Matter experiencing naturalization; e.g., a sportsperson on vacation

Four of Spades — naturalness at the level of ideas. Examples:

1. Thought

2. Formalization of ideas; e.g., programming

Four of Clubs — naturalness at the level of circumstances, routine, and chances. Examples:

1. Routine as an object; e.g., a form to fill out

2. Routine as interaction; e.g., filling out a form

3. Routine as a role; e.g., a job duty

Five of Hearts — the portal of feelings. Example:

1. Portal of feelings as an object; e.g., a stage

2. Portal of feelings as interaction; e.g., a video chat room

3. Portal of feelings as a role; e.g., the role of clown

Five of Diamonds — the portal of matter. Examples:

1. Portal of matter as an object; e.g., a gate or door

2. Portal of matter as interaction; e.g., a cashier window

3. Portal of matter as a role; e.g., the role of Santa Claus

Five of Spades — the portal of ideas or will. Examples:

1. Portal of ideas as an object; e.g., radio broadcasting

2. Portal of ideas as interaction; e.g., soccer game broadcast

3. Portal of ideas as a role; e.g., leadership

Five of Clubs — the portal of circumstances (structure) or chance. Examples:

1. Portal of circumstances; e.g., a roulette

2. Portal of circumstances as interaction; e.g., a roulette bet

3. Portal of circumstances as a role; e.g., the occupation of croupier

Six of Hearts — exchange of emotions. Examples:

1. A fussy kid

2. Telling a joke

3. Your own laughter

Six of Diamonds — movement or rearrangement of objects

1. Carrying a bag

2. Helping someone carry something

3. Actively doing something manually

Six of Spades — exchange of ideas or will

1. Debate

2. Discussing something with someone

3. Actively promoting something

Six of Clubs — exchange of circumstances, chances, or structures

1. Businesslike discussion of details

2. Discussion of details with someone

3. Aggressive nitpicking

Seven of Hearts — the harmony of feelings and good spirits

1. A kind person

2. Friendship

3. Feeling fine

SevenofDiamonds — the harmony ofmatter and order at the level of objects

1. A clean and tidy house

2. Help with tidying up

3. Tidying yourself up

Seven of Spades — the harmony of ideas and will and calmness

1. Calm person

2. Calming someone down

3. Keeping your cool in some situation

Seven of Clubs — the harmony of chance, structures, and circumstances or luck

1. Someone’s luck

2. Help with putting something to rights or winning something

3. Winning something

Eight of Hearts — stable emotions or loyalty

1. Loyal person

2. Convincing someone

3. Believing in something

Eight of Diamonds — the stability of matter or financial stability

1. A respectable person

2. Acting respectably

3. Putting on airs

Eight of Spades — the stability of ideas and will and adherence to an idea

1. Insistent talk

2. Discussing something insistently

3. Standing pat

Eight of Clubs — the stability of chance, structures, and circumstances or trends

1. Something long-lasting and regular

2. Long-term agreements

3. Feeling like a bore, bitching away about things

Nine of Hearts — perfect and complete feelings

1. Reserve or politeness

2. Gentlemanly behavior

3. Acting like a gentleman

Nine of Diamonds — the perfection of matter, neatness and beauty

1. Neat person

2. Tidying up your hair or clothing

3. Paying your way

Nine of Spades — the perfection (completeness) of will or thought

1. Ambition or conviction

2. Harmonious like-mindedness

3. Saying something smart

Nineofclubs — the perfection ofcircumstances, craftsmanship or professionalism

1. Master

2. Help with crafting something

3. Tidying something up (say, your necktie), brushing a speck of dust off something

Ten of Hearts — moving on to the next level of feelings. Transformation or outcome of feelings

1. Heartache

2. Help with changing a relationship or feelings

3. Fundamentally changing your own attitude

Ten of Diamonds — moving on to the next level of matter, transformation or outcome of matter

1. Remaking something material

2. Help with remaking something

3. Fundamentally changing something in yourself physically

Ten of Spades — moving on to the next level of thought or Will, transformation or the outcome of thought

1. New idea or development

2. Help with making something up

3. Making something up

Ten of Clubs — moving on to the next level of circumstances, chances, and structures, transformation or outcome of circumstances

1. Entering into an agreement

2. Help with finding some new structure

3. Coming up with a new principle

Knave of Hearts — the herald of feelings, information, and joy

1. Mail carrier, newspapers

2. Receiving good news

3. Telling good news

Knave of Diamonds — the herald of matter

1. Pizza delivery guy

2. Help with passing something physical on

3. Bringing something somewhere

Knave of Spades — the herald of will

1. Bill to pay

2. Making a proposal

Knave of Clubs — the herald of circumstances

1. Weather forecast

2. Help with arranging something

3. Arranging something

Queen of Hearts — the personality of feelings

1. Any living creature capable of feeling (feeling oneself the center of perception)

2. Accepting a friendship

3. Feeling important

Queen of Spades — the personality of thought

1. Any thinking creature (remaining the Queen of Spades as long as they think)

2. Accepting an intellectual status

3. Understanding something important

Queen of Diamonds — the personality of matter

1. Any tangible object

2. Accepting a tangible (physical) status

3. Becoming, or at least coming across as, strong or rich

Queen of Clubs — the personality of circumstances or chance

1. Any happenstance

2. Getting lucky

3. Feeling lucky

King of Hearts — one who dominates feelings, the lawmaker of feelings

1. Show producer, playwright

2. Bringing feelings into submission

3. Curbing your emotions, controlling them stringently

King of Diamonds — one who dominates matter, the lawmaker of matter

1. Construction site foreman

2. Bringing matter into submission

3. Taming matter in oneself (say, by not eating for one day)

King of Spades — one who dominates thoughts, the lawmaker of thoughts

1. Military officer, magazine editor-in-chief

2. Bringing someone’s thoughts into submission

3. Taming one’s thoughts (say, by not smoking for one day)

King of Clubs — one who dominates circumstances, the lawmaker of circumstances

1. High official

2. Bringing circumstances into submission

3. Taming circumstances (say, by doing your room)

Ace of Hearts — the insurmountable power of feelings

1. Gifted poet or musician

2. Sharing great joy

3. Experiencing great joy or amazement

Ace of Diamonds — the great power of matter and wealth

1. Philanthropist

2. Giving someone something that’s important to them

3. Becoming a sponsor

Ace of Spades — the great power of thought

1. Powerful guru, maniac, or fanatic

2. Thinking something up together

3. Thinking up something great

Ace of Clubs — the great power of circumstances

1. Force majeure

2. Discussing something grand together

3. Acting as the power of circumstances for a while (say, by drawing numbers in a lottery)

Chapter 17. Flagcards, or more power to us

“Think you got the guts? Why don’t you grab a flag and wave it in front of a speeding train?”

“Yeaaaaaaaah, I’ve got the flag! I’ve got the flag!”

(from a conversation overhead whilein the astral plane)

So, now we’ll take a look at what the flag cards do. In the PM, they’re in column 12, the column of Knaves.

The flag cards in the PM serve as indicators signaling that a given suit is fully charged with energy. Playing through the flag cards is similar to playing through regular cardswith the difference that the flag cards’ roles are quite set.

In Tarot, the Knave is a herald, someone who carries news.The card symbolizes specific types of herald:

• The Herald of Diamonds (e.g., a pizza delivery guy)

• The Herald of Hearts (e.g., a friend telling you some good news)

• The Herald of Spades, say a mail carrier (a herald of thought, impersonal information, or ideas as such)

• The Herald of Clubs (a messenger for some routine, law-required process such as delivering utility bills)

Playing the Knave means the stalker plays the card’s part in real life.For instance, being a herald of matter means acting in the associated role all day long:

1. Bringing people some little things as gifts (the Herald of Diamonds)

2. Giving small pieces of information with a focus on emotions, say jokes (the Herald of Hearts)

3. Communicating ideas, thoughts, or aphorisms (the Herald of Spades)

4. Telling people of outstanding, incredible events or happenings (the Herald of Clubs)

Playing the part of a herald, the stalker searches for their counterparts among those around, trying to understand their essence as a herald and absorb and imitate that essence.

Mirroring the world at the frequency of the herald of the suit being played, the stalker enters, at a certain moment, into resonance with the world and meets a herald of the suit in question sent to them.

For example, playing the Herald of Spades part all day long and looking around for a counterpart with their consciousness, the stalker gets to know that the stalker’s résumé has been reviewed and that someone wants to get in touch for a more detailed discussion.

In doing so, the stalker should:

1. try to understand the meaning and essence of the card being played; and

2. try to do their best throughout the time they play the part (normally, one day) while being careful to not go over the top (you won’t last long if you do). The role will try to slip off all the time, so be sure to straighten the mask when necessary.

3. Keep looking around for equivalent heralds, trying to understand — and trying on — their essence.

4. When the stalker meets a herald sent personally to the stalker, the stalker should keep the part they’re playing in the key needed to play that part. For example, when the stalker playing the Knave of Clubs part hears the news they’ve been waiting for, they should keep playing the part; say, tell the knave, casually and without showing any emotions, an amazing story that happened to them. That is, the stalker should keep their mask on.

5. When the playing is good, the stalker gets to meet several, usually two to three, personal heralds. But don’t get too comfortable — keep right on playing once you see the first signs that it works. If, for example, you get that call from the job agency, don’t tear off the mask all at once. Keeping the mask on, you might well get two or three more calls. Multiple personal heralds are a hallmark of good playing.

Here’s a list of heralds with some possible options.

Diamonds — the Earth element — all things tangible (known as coins in Tarot); in the broader sense, wellbeing. The Earth element absorbs and forms structures.

Hearts — the Water element — everything to do with feelings and emotions (known as cups in Tarot); in the broader sense, love. The Water element records and stores information.

Spades — the Fire element — everything to do with thoughts and will (known as swords in Tarot); in the broader sense, ideas. The Fire element restructures and changes things.

Clubs — the Air (Tree) element — everything to do with probabilities and structures (known as wands in Tarot). The Air element deals with structures in the time domain. A specific case of the Air element is the Routine.

Knave of Diamonds — the herald of matter

1. Pizza delivery guy

2. Help with passingsomething tangible on

3. Bringing something somewhere

Knave of Hearts — the herald of joy

1. Good news

2. Sharing joy

3. Telling good news

Knave of Spades — the herald of thoughts, ideas, and will

1. Piece of news as an idea

2. Expressing someone else’s words, thoughts, or ideas; e.g., aphorisms by great thinkers

3. Suggesting an idea

Knave of Clubs — the herald of circumstances

1. Weather forecast

2. Help with organizing something, on the level of circumstances rather than will pressure

3. Organizing or structuring something

Chapter 18. Duty calls — it’s time to go

Our hearts call for change

Our eyes call for change

In our laugh and in our tears

And in the pulse of our veins

Change, we’re waiting for change

Tsoi

So, it’s time to discuss the Tarot Horseman, one of the key PM cards. What can be said of it?

The card is a gate to the world behind the mirror, the dream world, the world of reality.

It’s a portal that channels the otherworldly energy of the PM into the mundane world. Think of it as a guide leading PM magic into our worldor a stream of energy amassed while playing through the PM to eventually break free. The better you play the other cards’ parts and the more skillful your acting is, the more uncontainable the stream.

You need to feel that stream and its arrival and harness it the way a surfer harnesses the wave, the way a Jigit jumps into the saddle, the way a bride falls into her husband’s arms on the wedding night, the way an eagle soars in the air, or the way a Forex trader bids when they feel the trend is good.

It’s like getting on a train. You pack up, go to the station, anxiouslywait for the train, and here it comes — your train. You get on it, and you ride, ride, ride the railroad of Fate.

Perhaps waiting for miraculous changes is the most wonderful feeling in life. You wait for a new fate, and the ineffable feeling of leaving for a new life comes over you.

Before you get on your train, wait for it.Before you get into the Horseman’s saddle, pack up your things.Sum things up for the suit you’re playing and get ready for the ride.And with a fair wind at your back, submit to it without resistance.

Should you leave your keys, cell, brains, honor, or conscience at home, don’t go back for them. Go with the flow.Trust the world. But be sure to play the Horseman part for others during the day, too.

Life seems like a chain of accidental circumstances, but it’s not what it seems.Those who put themselves in the hands of the Divine Providence get to reach the other world. But those who stand pat stay where they are, with their problems unsolved.Rob ‘em is an implication the word problem carries.

Below is a list showing correspondences between the cards and their meanings.

Diamonds — the Earth element — all things tangible (known as coins in Tarot); in the broader sense, wellbeing. The Earth element absorbs and forms structures.

Hearts — the Water element — everything to do with feelings and emotions (known as cups in Tarot); in the broader sense, love. The Water element records and stores information.

Spades — the Fire element — everything to do with thoughts and will (known as swords in Tarot); in the broader sense, ideas. The Fire element restructures and changes things.

Clubs — the Air (Tree) element — everything to do with probabilities and structures (known as wands in Tarot). The Air element deals with structures in the time domain. A specific case of the Air element is the Routine.

Horseman of Clubs — the horseman of circumstances

A wave of green light running through circumstances

Accidental encounters, lucky circumstances

Don’t forget to take others. If someone asks you for a lift to the other end of the city when you’re driving to the airport, take them there, and to hell with the airport! Or just call a taxi for them if you’re such a chicken.

But don’t go beyond the Clubs. Show no emotions and be positive.

Be a horse for the circumstances and you’ll become their horseman.

Be like the Yes Man from the Jim Carrey movie, saying yes to everything.

Horseman of Spades — the horseman of thought

Put your stereotypes and patterns aside for the day.

The world will tell you a thought it has.

The matrix will bend down, and you will read, in masks that may or may not appear strange, the world’s thought that will strike you like a lightning.

Don’t shake your head to dispel a delusion. Remember: when someone talks to God, they pray; when God talks to someone, they’re a schizophrenic. That’s why a thought intended for you can be “accidentally” dropped by a “stranger.“But the thought is for you.Realize and embrace it.And try to make it your own at least for one day.Remember that the software — not hardware — inside a computer is what makes the computer function.Similarly, it’s your thought, not your body, that decides whether the word human is uppercase or lowercase.

The rest is a highfalutin hodgepodge that claims, more often than not groundlessly, to be Human.

Horseman of Hearts — the horseman of joy

To become the horseman of joy (and more positive things besides), become the horse of joy for the day. Carry someone else’s joy and you’ll straddle it.

Horseman of Diamonds — the horseman of matter

This card calls for you to be a horse — quite literally. You’ll have to carry stuff on your back.Carry it — and you’ll carry it through.

When you play the Horseman part in real life, be sure to understand the essence of this card the way you did with the other cards. Let your consciousness search for the card you want, and mirror it as best you can.

Don’t limit yourself to positive patterns, and avoid negative ones neutrally.

To understand this technique as a reflex action, as opposed to highbrow theory, your best bet would be to become good at sports such as surfing, gliding, kiting, hang gliding, aikido, Forex trading (manual), or horseback riding.

Even sled dog racing can, to an extent, give you an idea of the technique.

Chapter 19. Instructions for using Sivka Burka

This chapter will look at how to use SivkaBurka.

I’ll illustrate it through the example of a common problem many people face: getting a job.The example assumes that the potential candidate has already posted their CV on an employment website.

The purpose is to get an easy good job.

Before we lay out a patience, let’s try to identify the target cards.

Step 1

Identify suitable cards by number:

5 Portal or gate

6 Exchange

7 Harmony

8 Stability

9 Mastery

10 Transition to a new level

The Queen is an important personality.

The King is too strong and is hard to play, and the card is not worth bothering with.

The Ace stands for force majeure.

Step 2

Which of these can be used?

The Ten signifies a transition to a new level and agrees well with diamonds, symbolizing a new financial status.That’s why the last card is 10 diamonds (denarii).

There are still three cards to identify.

Using the Queen — that is, stepping into the shoes of a big shot — is quite easy, but that’s not enough: once you lift a heavy weight, you need to hold it and, what’s more, big shots aren’t that easy to communicate with.

But, come to think of it, there’s no need to: in some financial companies, office cleaners earn more than engineers. So we’ll leave the Queen out.

What do we have left?

5 Portal or gate

6 Interaction

7 Harmony

8 Stability

9 Mastery

The suits are Clubs, Spades, and Hearts.

Accordingly, a call from the job agency is well described by the Five of Clubs.

This yields the yet-incomplete chain: the Five of Clubs, …, …, the Ten of Diamonds

What do we have left?

6 Interaction

7 Harmony

8 Stability

9 Mastery

The suits are Spades and Hearts.

When you get to negotiations (Spades), mutual understanding is crucial, hence the Seven of Spades.

The incomplete chain is now the Five of Clubs, the Seven of Spades, …, and the Ten of Diamonds.

What remains?

6 Interaction

8 Stability

9 Mastery

Hearts

From these, I’ll select the Eight of Hearts, signifying stable emotions or a smooth relationship.

This yields the complete chain of the target cards:

Five of Clubs (Wands) — the portal of circumstances — the call

7 Spades (Swords) — a harmonious discussion (of job terms)

8 Hearts (Cups) — stable emotions (those relating to friendship)

Ten of Diamonds — basically, the key target card, signifying a transition to a new standard of living (salary, wealth, etc.)

Step 3

Open the Patience of Medici app, select the SivkaBurka algorithm, and set the chain of target cards identified in the previous steps

The app will produce a spread of fifty-six cards.

Let’s look at how to play through it. First of all, note that for newbies, one card corresponds to one PM step, and the associated part is normally played in real life for one day. There are exceptions, which I’ll discuss below. So:

1. The first card, the Two of Diamonds, stands for interaction of matter (here and elsewhere below). The stalker spends the day searching around, with their consciousness, for Twos of Diamonds, trying to understand their essence and trying them on. The supermotto of the day — the mask of the day — is “Every carcass interacts.” I strongly recommend using only positive tuning forks for mirroring. Negative tuning forks will not result in anything good, whether now or later.

2. The second card, the Six of Clubs, stands for the interaction between systems of circumstances. Here, systems and their interaction come into play, replacing individual persons. The motto of the day is “Cogs rotate cogs.”

3. The third card, the Three of Spades, stands for a system of thought. The motto of the day is “Smart thoughts come in a bunch.”

4. The Ten of Hearts stands for the transformation of feelings. The motto of the day is“ Joy changes everything.”

5. The Ace of Diamonds is “the force majeure of matter.” As the card is complicated, try to stay on the positive side. The motto of the day is “Tanks aren’t afraid of mud.”

6. The Three of Clubs stands for a system of circumstances. The motto of the day is “Get this tricky stuff right.”

7. The Ten of Spades stands for the transformation of thought. The motto of the day is“ Thought changes everything.”

8. The Nine of Hearts stands for the perfection of feelings. The motto of the day is“ Joy is perfect.”

9. The Four of Diamonds stands for the naturalness of matter. The motto of the day is“ Nature is natural.”

10. The Ace of Clubs stands for positive force majeure. The motto of the day “Get those cogs spinning.”

11. The Six of Spades stands for the exchange of thoughts. No comment.

12. The Knave of Hearts is the herald of joy. The motto of the day is“ Bring joy into every home.”

13. The horseman of matter. The motto of the day is “That’s a funny thing to ask — why did they give me this task?”

14. The first target card, the Five of Clubs, stands for the portal of circumstances. The motto of the day is “The door of circumstances.” The card’s part is played one to three days in a row until the job agency’s call email, or text message comes. If that doesn’t happen, the reason could be that your life’s director said, “That’s not true enough,” or that you haven’t broken through the wall of circumstances. In that case, you should play cards 1 through 14 all over again, one card a day, until you get through. This might take three to four rounds. If that fails as well, take a break for a couple of weeks and think whether you should try again. But if you do get the call, answer it and move on to the next card. If the call comes when you’re halfway into the sequence (say, replaying the fifth card), answer it and go to the fifteenth card.

15. The Nine of Clubs stands for the perfection of circumstances. The motto of the day is “I’m doing just fine.”

16. The Ace of Spades stands for the force majeure of thought. The motto of the day is“ A thought is power. A great thought is a great power.”

17. The Four of Hearts stands for the naturalness of thought. The motto of the day is“ Thoughts are everywhere.”

18. The Seven of Diamonds stands for the harmony of matter. The motto of the day is “Beauty lasts forever.”

19. The King of Clubs stands for the law of circumstances. The motto of the day is “By the book.”

20. The four of Spades stands for the naturalness of thought. The motto of the day is“ To think is normal.”

21. The Ace of Hearts stands for the force majeure of feelings. The motto of the day is“ Love is a powerful thing.”

22. The Six of Diamonds stands for financial exchange. The motto of the day is “The cash cycle.”

23. The Ten of Clubs stands for the transformation of circumstances. The motto of the day is “Things have changed.”

24. The Eight of Spades stands for the form of thought. The motto of the day is “I think, therefore I am.”

25. The King of Hearts stands for the law of feelings. The motto of the day is “Love makes the world go around.”

26. The Knave of Diamonds is the herald of matter. The motto of the day is“ Cheap delivery service.”

27. The Rider of Clubs is the horseman of circumstances. The motto of the day is “Fair wind.”

28. The Seven of Spades stands for the harmony of thoughts. The motto of the day is “Smart people can always come to an agreement.”

29. The Queen of Spades is the personality of thought. The motto of the day is “A big thought through inspiration.”

30. The Five of Hearts stands for the portal of feelings. The motto of the day is “Overflowing with joy.”

31. The Eight of Diamonds stands for the stability (form) of matter. The motto of the day is “Brick to brick.”

32. The Queen of Clubs is the personality of circumstances. The motto of the day is “The world spins around a scrap of paper.”

33. The Five of Spades stands for the portal of thoughts. The motto of the day is “The birth of a thought.”

34. The Two of Hearts stands for the interaction of feelings. The motto of the day is “I respect you; you respect me.”

35. The Queen of Diamonds stands for the personality of matter. The motto of the day is “The quartermaster is the man when you’re in the army.”

36. The Eight of Clubs stands for the stability (form) of circumstances. The motto of the day is “Everything is all right.”

37. The King of Spades stands for the lawmaker of thought. The motto of the day is“ The word determines everything.”

38. The Queen of Hearts stands for the personality of feelings. The motto of the day is “The life and soul of the party.”

39. The Three of Diamonds stands for the system of matter. The motto of the day is “Everything is interconnected.”

40. The Knave of Clubs is the herald of circumstances. The motto of the day is “Unusual news.”

41. The Rider of Spades is the horseman of thought. The motto of the day is “Inspiration.”

42. The Eight of Hearts stands for the stability of feelings. The motto of the day is “Good friendship.”

43. The Three of Hearts stands for a system of feelings. The motto of the day is “Joy is there for a reason.”

44. The King of Diamonds is the lawmaker of matter. The motto of the day is “Money is the power.”

45. The Two of Clubs stands for the interaction of circumstances. The motto of the day is “Settling down.”

46. The Nine of Spades stands for the perfection of thought. The motto of the day is“ The complete thought.”

47. The Six of Hearts stands for shared feelings. The motto of the day is, “You respect me; I respect you — we’re two respected people.”

48. The Nine of Diamonds stands for the perfection of matter. The motto of the day is“ Beauty.”

49. The Seven of Clubs stands for the harmony of circumstances. The motto of the day is “Things are working out fine.”

50. The Two of Spades stands for the interaction of thoughts. The motto of the day is“ Talk.”

51. The Seven of Hearts stands for harmony of feelings. The motto of the day is “Feeling good.”

52. The five of Diamonds stands for the portal of matter. The motto of the day is “The tap is open.”

53. The Four of Clubs stands for the naturalness of circumstances. The motto of the day is “The way it should be.”

54. The Knave of Spades is the herald of thought. The motto of the day is“ News.”

55. The Rider of Hearts is the horseman of feelings. The motto of the day is“ Let there be wings.”

56. The Ten of Diamonds stands for the transformation of matter. The motto of the day is “Get a step higher.”

The mottoes proposed here may vary a little.

Try to play the part of the day throughout the day, but don’t go over the top.

During the day, try to assess the things you’re doing and your thinking to see whether they live up to the motto of the day, and adjust your behavior accordingly.

Chapter 20. PM tutorials take-home message

Tutorial 1

The PM, a variety of Tarot Patience, is based on and adheres to the standard principles of Tarot and Hermeticism. The principles are as follows:

1. The Third Mirror principle, “As above, so below; as below, so above.” The stalker plays the part of both the median and dual mirror, reflecting the world both inward and outward.

2. The symbolism principle, “As in the large, so in the little; as in the little, so in the large.” The PM differs from traditional Tarot Patience in that the PM goes “from the little to the large” while for Tarot Patience the reverse is true.

3. The cause & effect law, the PM being the cause under the first two laws. Castaneda calls it the Eagle’s law.

4. The law of balance, or conservation of energy. Its static view in four-dimensional space is nothing less than a PM spread. It is the layout algorithm of the PM that makes it valid in real life.

5. The mirror law, something that the stalker becomes in playing the part of each card. Consistent with principle 1, the stalker plays the part of the median mirror.

The interpretation of specific cards is subject to the principles of Tarot and Kabbalah and is similar to them.At the same time, the meanings of cards, in each case, depend on the goal pursued by the spread.For instance, the Ace of Clubs can be aimed at, say, childbirth or a global revolution.

That’s why you can’t make a table to show correspondences between the cards and entities.There are, however, tables that show correspondences between the cards and their meanings.

The meaning of a card as a hermetic symbol can have countless specific correspondences in real life. Just as the electric diagram of the radio can correspond to millions of actual radios.

Tutorial 2

The general principles for interpreting PM cards are as follows:

Suits:

Diamonds — the Earth element — are Pentacles in Tarot, and they stand for all tangible things. In the broader sense, they signify wellbeing. The Earth element absorbs and forms structures.

Hearts — the Water element — are Cups in Tarot, indicating everything to do with emotions and feelings (in the broader sense, love). The Water element records and stores information.

Spades — the Fire element — are swords in Tarot, and they represent everything to do with thoughts (in the broader sense, ideas).

The Fire element restructures and changes things.

Clubs — the Air element — are Wands in Tarot, and they indicate everything to do with probabilities and structures. The Air element deals with structures in the time domain. A specific case of the Air element is the Routine.

The PM is the Metal Element because of its multidimensional matrix structure. The Metal element erases and reflects information. Numbers:

2 Controversy, interaction

3 System

4 Naturalness, nature

5 Portal or gate

6 Interaction between systems (exchange)

7 Harmony

8 Stability, form

9 Completeness, mastery

10 Transition to a new level, transformation

The Knave is a guide and a herald.

The Queen is a personality.

The King is a lawmaker. The Ace is a law.

Tutorial 3

Working with the PM

1. Set a goal.

2. Identify the target cards consistent with your goal.

3. Then start the generation of a patience, and the app will make a suitable arrangement with the target card you selected. The generation may restart several times for the same target card.

4. Once generated, the PM spread will be saved to a printable file.

5. After printing the file, decide how long each step is going to be. As a long-time user, I recommend completing one step a day. This is especially important for beginners because any deliberate action longer than forty days qualifies as a magic operation. What’s more, to gain speed, you should first get the hang of going really slow.

6. The next step is tuning in on the card. This means actually playing a given card for one day.

To do this, you should:

a. Translate the card’s meaning into essence, using the hermetic and cabbalistic keys or the correspondence table presented here, and try to understand the core meaning and the essence of the card.

b. During the day, try to don the card’s part, its essential meaning, like a piece of clothing. You’ll notice that the part will be running off all the time like bad makeup from a sweaty face. Watch out for that, and adjust your behavior, image, and daily routine to make them match the card as close as possible. The better you do the part, the better the outcomes. If you don’t do that, the PM just won’t work out on its own. It’s like a horoscope or a city map that tells you day after day what to do to get from one part of the city to another.

c. Throughout the day, search forentities and processes that correspond to the card you’re playing. That way, you’ll find reflections of yourself in the form of the card. This will result in the accumulation of the power described by Castaneda. The power can be thought of as a force of inertia: the more attention you catch in playing the card and the more things you find that match the card, the heavier the train that will take you down a new track in your destiny.

d. You may discover that in ordinary life, you play the part of the same Tarot suit or even card almost all the time. That’s what prevents you from attaining your goal. A car that invariably drives straight or turns right will get nowhere. When using the PM, keep an eye on yourself and go beyond the pattern of your regular part, playing the parts of PM cards in all kinds of possible and impossible ways.

e. But the most important thing, I think, is to think about the essence of the card as you play it and observe it in real life. Quite often, this gives you dozens of microinsights that come little by little to pull your outlook from its sticking point. Failing that, the truths you’ve learned in your life may stick with you for good with no change in sight.

f. When you go a step a day, you tune in on the goal you’re pursuing the way you would in Zeland’s technique, but with more flexibility. But if a step takes longer than one day, the novice stalker will have time to recognize what kind of real-life event they face.

7. As you play the card’s part, the PM gains power and inertia; and if you do everything right, you’ll feel you’ve reached a fixed path, something like a rail track — the predetermination and inevitability of events. If your behavior at that moment is not typical of you but matches the card you’re playing, you get a feeling of being a puppet. That’s normal in the PM, so don’t be afraid or upset. We are all actors and puppets in the theater of life. It’s just that some feel the strings leading up to the puppeteer while others are unaware of them. The more of a puppet the stalker feels, the more freedom they will have when they most need it. Paradoxical, but true. And those who don’t understand that they’re free to choose their puppeteer would be well-advised to mentally address the one they want.

Yelling things like “Out of the depths I have cried to thee, o S — , Lord, hear my voice” while laughing your head off is something I strongly discourage you from doing. First, someone is sure to hear you. Second, they might even respond. In that case, to tell them you were just kidding wouldn’t work.

To quote a smart man, “If there is no god, what use is it to reproach him; and if there is a god, why spoil the relationship?”

That’s why I recommend simply saluting some abstract power as you proceed with laying out the cards. Something on the lines of, “One-two, one-two, here I come to find you. Dark and light, dark and light, joining you is my delight.“Or any old way you want.

You see, choosing the puppeteer is the puppet’s only right that is sacredand inviolable.

8. Once you get close to the Knaves, remember that they’re indicating cards. So your next step is to tune in, the way you did before, on the meaning of the Knave card — play its part and search the world around you for events that match the card. If you do everything correctly, you’ll meet a Knave who will tell you personally the news that you’re getting closer to your goal.

9. Then move on to the Tarot Horseman. In playing the Horsman’s part, you get to feel a fair wind behind you, and you submit to it. But I recommend first playing the horse’s part: to get the best of the wind, you should know what’s it like to be the wind.

10. As you play the Horseman’s part, your actions systematically push the multidimensional continuum of probabilities out of its equilibrium during all the time you play the part.To restore the equilibrium, the continuum needs to throw the remaining target card in your perception field. That’s the exact reason why you get that card (provided you’ve made no mistakes down the road).And the more strongly, systematically, and skillfully you play the parts of the cards you get, the more significant the outcome will be — the outcome is directly proportional to how well you play the part.

If you’re bad enough, you’ll be booed off the stage. If you’re good, they’ll thank you with flowers. The better your acting, the higher your reward. Here, it’s important to understand that the PM is not a machine that will do things for you. Rather, it’s a technique to push through the matrix in a way that brings results: what you get from that technique depends on how you use it.

Chapter 21. Some common mistakes inusing the PM

1. Mistake #1: “I span the Wheel of Fortune over and over again, but I never called a correct letter.” Unless you understand the cards’ meanings as they apply to your goal, the PM will make no sense to you no matter how long you tinker with the cards. To reprogram your perception so that it can actually see the cards, you should read The Magic of Numbers by Avessalom Podvodniy.

2. Mistake #2: “Role playing is beneath me.” If you’re going to do PM stalking, you must play a part because that’s what PM stalking is all about. If you don’t play your part, then simply thinking that you’re actually playing through the game will produce results on par with your effort: the PM will think it has given you the results you sought.

3. Mistake #3: “We had this discussion, and I found that there are two opinions: one is mine, and the other is incorrect.” When you slip on the mask associated with a card, you should forget the way you normally act and behave. That’s a tough thing to do — especially so if your psyche and behavior aren’t malleable. Wearing that mask all day long is even harder. But this physiological and emotional exercise adapting you to the continuum is the helm that steers your destiny as you navigate the tortuous path to success. If you want to stand your ground stubbornly like a bull at a gate, good luck with that. We’ll see which is the heavier — you standing on the rail track with your “I won’t budge an inch” flag or the train coming your way.

4. “But I’m used to living it up. Do you want me to play one card all day long like an idiot? Give me five or so.” That’s yet another common mistake. Instead of playing the part of one card a day, the stalker strives, for various reasons, to play different cards. This is the natural result of focusing on a single card and its part. Your psyche tries to switch parts, and that’s something you should avoid. It’s quite easy — all you have to do is keep an eye on yourself and think what you’re doing and which card it is you’re facing. That way, you’ll come to assess things you haven’t done yet. Avoid systematically any actions that aren’t consistent with the card you’re playing, but don’t get too enthusiastic.Use the energy you’ll save that way to play the card’s part.

5. To paraphrase a passage from a Russian fairytale, “If you turn right, you’ll find someone. If you go straight, you’ll find something. But if you just keep loitering here, someone will find you.” During the day, you’ll be asking yourself whether you should go about doing this or that. Give preference to that which is consistent with the day’s card, and put aside or reconsider everything else.

6. Mistake #6: “The landscape outside the train’s window.” Literature on the PM is quite confusing as it offers a variety of versions and — forgive me, Kostya — is fraught with errors.Some stalkers have taken to thinking that in observing PM events they set out, and play through, a game of the PM. Sure enough, that’s true to a degree. Just like a mirror with its two sides, the stalker should act both inside (mentally) and outside (in other people’s perceptions). But sometimes stalkers go into a kind of trance, looking at the cards outside as if through a train window. At that moment they fall out of the matrix, and even those around them can’t see them. That’s something you should avoid. At least, in the beginning.

7. “Calling a cow a plane won’t make it fly.” I mean incorrectly interpreted cards. Basically, it’s not important which card has which meaning from a mathematical perspective. The theorem goes something like this: “It doesn’t matter which cards you have in your deck — the only thing that counts is that the deck should be complete.” But what is consistent with the Archetypes is way more efficient than modern replicas. That’s why you should study classic hermetic, cabbalistic, and Tarot interpretations and principles. That’ll make the PM orders of magnitude more efficient.

8. “Look, someone’s drunk half my glass.” “Don’t give me that line — someone has filled the glass half full.” That’s the worst and a really terrible error in PM stalking. The cards’ meanings in the table are sheer numbers. In real life, you may come across a process or entity associated with a given number that may be either positive or negative. If you’re on the lookout for negativity all the time, finding negative cards may significantly increase the negative side and end up in any kind of accident, from a car crash to spiritual devastation. When playing through the PM, those who can’t help throwing the poo of their righteous opinions at the world will get what they deserve, and that’ll keep them quiet for a while. Playing through the PM means you either evaluate things positively or don’t evaluate them at all. Even in the dark, you can find a ray of light to focus on. The sun also has its spots, right? Judge not, lest ye be judged. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

9. “I make a living out of hoodwinking the whole world.” Some stalkers think they’re the neobreakers of the matrix code, living their lives with a smart-ass look on their sneering faces. “I should know how to make the world bow to me, but what do you care?” That attitude is quite risky as it distorts the matrix. The matrix responds with draconian measures, which would be hard to describe here. To avoid that, be humble and understand what position you occupy in the food chain of the evolution of Spirit.

10. Some nasty people may attempt to use the PM to do harm, whether serious or not. But rest assured that they will have their work cut out for them. One reason is that everyone is enclosed in their mental soap bubble: any attempt to control someone else’s bubble will at least cause a severe backlash. After all, Newton’s third law is still in force.

Conclusion

Many think that they think, but few think that they think him.

And in their delusion, they’re mistaken that they think.

For only those think who think others.

Stalkerreklats

The PM is an extensive subject, and much remains to be said of it. I hope this book explained things in a way that is easy to understand, without too many big words.

Before we part, I want to remind you how the mother cat teaches her kittens how to catch mice.At first, the mother cat brings the kittens mice that are half alive.Then, she starts bringing live mice and releases them for the kittens to practice on. As the lessons progress, the kittens develop their skills and come to be true hunters.

You might have noticed a few mistakes and contradictions in this book.Those could be half alive as well.After you practice on them, you, the Hunter of Intention, will be able to assemble your own true PM.

I am Aarn, brother

P.S.My PM apps are available online athttp://arturgafurov.com/.

The Android version of SivkaBurka is available in the “Apps” section of Google Play (type AssurrussA or Карты Таро Пасьянс Медичи).

I work together closely with the author of arturgafurov.com on developing PM programs.The website has legacy versions of our PM app.

Since I keep working on PM algorithms and manuals, they may differ from those described here.

As noted earlier, the PM algorithm described in this book is called SivkaBurka.

I may revise this book in due course.

A note from the author: how this book was written

Dear reader:

Before I talk about the topic addressed here, I want to shed some light on how this book came to be.

I first heard of the Patience of Medici when the Runet — the Russian online community — was taking its baby steps.

It was back in those days when, to access internet, you had to buy a Comtell card (if I remember the name correctly) from a newsstall.

Back then, people used 33 kbit dial-up modems, and whenever mine got me connected, I would mostly go right to some esoteric forum to dig out something bordering on utter absurdity and read, read voraciously the drivel spouted by people who were as insane as I was. That felt like going into outer space or getting down in the water wearing a diving suit.

Hero hadn’t been invented yet, esoteric books were rare and pricey, and coming by information on esoteric and spiritual practices was as hard as finding a virgin in a brothel.

That situation seemed like one of those karate and kung fu myths: everybody knew you were supposed to yell “Kiaiiii!” with a ferocious expression, flailing your limbs, but most people only had a vague idea of the art, let alone had any experience with it.

By then I was an experienced self-taught dream-seer, and I had spent thousands of flight hours in conscious dreams, visited dozens of worlds, peeked into hundreds of lives and histories, died dozens of times, been to paradise and hell, and seen angels and demons more than once or even twice.

That’s why I knew well that behind all that forum drivel lurked something miraculous and wonderful. Like the Vysotsky song goes, “The miraculous is right here, but it’s a no-no.”

Like a visiting alien, I lived my ordinary life, getting by as those Tsoi songs teach you to: “But if your pocket holds a pack of cigarettes, that means nothing is that bad at least as far as today. If you have an air-ticket to a silver-winged jet which leaves nothing but a trace as it flies away.” Whenever I could afford it, I was a totally night person, following an absolutely unhealthy lifestyle.

Thanks to the idiosyncrasies of my body, I didn’t become an alcoholic or drug addict (hope not to jinx it!), and I’m still totally indifferent to alcohol and drugs, so I can give you a little confidence that many pages of this book won’t have green homunculi on them.

That said, back then I was convinced I was insane and concealed my abilities from others, even from my close friends and family.

Any new information about yoga, esotericism, and other spiritual practices attracted me like catnip does cats, and I absorbed them like a sponge.

I was torn between hypnosis, chiromancy, Papus, alchemical treatises, and spellcraft, taking up all kinds of new things.

Sometimes I even did well, and that made me confident I wasn’t as crazy as I’d thought.

Occasionally, my experiments broke through to the outer world in the formof various “tricks,” earning me a reputation of being a quiet madman, making people say that even though I did “weird stuff,” I “had something.”

So generally they just let me be, but most of the people I knew preferred to stay away, just in case.

That’s why one of my favorite forums was Aworld.

Back in the day, it was quite a Bald Mountain, a bunch of wacky indigos, witches, sorcerers, energy vampires, and mediums of all descriptions (including those dyed sky-blue pink speckled with pretty white dots).

It was there, in the section on Stalking and other Castaneda stuff, that I first learned of the Patience of Medici (PM for short).

That the PM was a way of controlling the future and theoretically could help you do anything escaped my notice entirely.

What first caught my interest was that the PM has a terrifying number of combinations with an enormous number of zeros while it has a very low convergence, making it almost impossible to add it up manually, a feature that appealed to me as a combinatorial mathematical problem — an unsolvable one.

It was a challenge to my intelligence and a way to infuse at least some interest into my boring existence on this God-forsaken planet.

A couple of weeks later, thanks to a few sleepless nights, a box of cigarette packs, and lucid tips from the Guide in my dreams (to spur my mind), I composed a first algorithm for laying out the Patience of Medici.

I couldn’t help writing “a first” for “my first.”

I always say that everything I’ve learned about the PM is something I just happened to see or hear elsewhere or compiled or appropriated from what I’ve read in a variety of sources, ranging from the Murzilka magazine to the Akashic records.

Sources written by people who have chewed it all and spat it out many, many times before and who have attained much more than this sinner. While I researched the PM, I quite often used — as I still do — channeling and conscious dreaming, rereading time and time again over the years what I had written.

So, a working algorithm for PM addition was at my disposal years ago — I figured it out

in just two weeks from the day I first heard of PM.

The algorithm was so primitively simple that I was able to lay out my first patience several times on the floor of my lonesome student apartment, late at night, with everyone else in the building sleeping peacefully (something they rarely did).

Then I tested the PM in my practice, and I made sure it worked. I’ll never forget the feeling it gave me, of being a puppet, of being on a train that had found its way onto the track, of the world around you rolling as scheduled, and yourself rolling along to the destination like a bowling ball.

But the algorithm called for me to be attentive in laying out the cards as rewrites often resulted in errors. Playing the PM in real life, I sometimes was quite frustrated to find rewrite errors after spending a couple of weeks practicing.

After a few months of playing that way, I remembered it was the twentieth century: there was a PC and a printer sitting on my desk at work. That’s how it occurred to me to automate the boring chore by delegating it to the PC.

I harnessed all my laziness (harnessing my willpower was something of a problem), reminded myself what the vulture in Wings, Legs, and Tails said — “Getting there by air in all of five minutes is worth spending a day learning to fly” — and went about writing “my” first PM app.

I wrote it in about two months with Delphi 5 or 6, tapping into my then-rudimentary knowledge of that platform. The app had a terrible interface that looked like a kid’s IT project, and it didn’t even have card images. I called the algorithm Leap Frog (its nuances warranted the name); and the app, Apples and Oranges.

But the app did what I wanted it to do. It guaranteed to lay out an error-free patience with any target cards and neatly stored the layout in a text file easy to print and carry around as a cheat sheet to practice the PM in the physical world.

In fact, it was the first and only app (at least among those officially known on the Runet) that did not verify solutions but laid out a PM guaranteed to converge.

As a friendly creature, I uploaded the app to Aworld for other people to join the fun.

I had expected comments of admiration (as who wouldn’t?) in the spirit of “Here it is at last, brothers — hallelujaaaaaaaah!” I’d thought people would scream with excitement, cry snottily for joy, and pay me in cash and by card, and I pictured myself mobbed by fans (especially female ones with curves pleasing to the eye and hands). And, if truth be told, I’d expected much more serious and mystical consequences. But none of that happened.

The web and Aworld just continued the way they were, and only the occasional comment mentioned in passing “a cool app worth checking out.”

The feedback from those who tried the app in practice — as opposed to the kung fu theory — confirmed that it worked both as an algorithm and as the PM, but that was all I got.

None of the folks who downloaded the app said thanks, even online. That quenched, to put it mildly, my eagerness to throw the open-source algorithm all over the place.

In the meantime, I immersed myself still deeper into the PM — the practice, myths, legends, theory, and history of the game. As I wanted to improve the algorithm and make it more efficient and effective, the very mystery of how the PM worked pulled me further into the intricacies of esotericism.

And the Russian joke “The deeper into the forest, the fatter the partisans” showed itself in increasingly more perspectives as I went.

Year after year, I kept being surprised to find that the PM was much more amazing than the online descriptions let on.

Like a paleontologist who only had a few ancient bone fragments, I amassed knowledge on the PM, conscientiously reconstructing the big picture from what information I was able to find.

And then came the day I felt the same deep flutter as my hands assembled the several remnants into a dinosaur whose ancient age, size, and ability were paramount to any experience I could hope to gain in my life.

I felt like a pygmy who had crafted a cross between Galatea and Tyrannosaurus.

It turned out — at least I believed so — that the PM went back to Tarot and Hermeticism and had been forgotten ancient knowledge as early as the pyramid era. By my most modest estimate, the PM is more than 25,000 years old.

It most likely belongs to the protocivilization of Atlantis, appearing to be a multipurpose tool of that era — something like Newton’s third law of that time, used in a practical game involving space and time structures.

The picture that appeared to me took my breath away, making me feel deeply sad and terribly ashamed.

How much we had and how much we lost!

Today, in the times of the sly Bandar-logs, we run around the ruins of the Heritage and Splendor we have found no use for, leaving them unnoticed under our busy tails.

During the span I was in a state of shock-induced euphoria from the picture that had revealed itself to me, bombarding the web with my articles, posts, and new versions of PM apps, I met Boris44 on the Islands in the Stream.

He happened (?!) to hit on and show a keen interest in the PM.

Before we met, I had held a few hours-long online conferences for an audience of under one hundred. But then my Skype contact list had grown on its own to include a few hundred people.

Thanks to Boris, my eagerness to share the Knowledge I’d discovered was overflowing, and I kept talking away on Skype for hours on end, sowing the pure, the good, the eternal, wanting to share the Heritage I’d found lying open under my feet.

To do some attendees justice, it was then that I first heard people thank me repeatedly for what I was doing.

But most of the Bandar-logs responded as usual — that is, they soon forgot the PM, switching instead to the chatter in the next thread.

Work on the PM required diligence, willingness to look into things and figure them out, and time. Despite the purely practical prospects it offered, people in the busy modern world saw what I told them about as the obvious and therefore useless, like Chinese hieroglyphics beyond their comprehension or information overload coming from a nutty esoterist.

Although Boris was interested and evaluated the topic highly, the others’ interest dwindled quietly and fairly quickly, and once again I was left alone with the PM.

Just about that time, I metAmir Gafurov, a programmer whose talent saw me through testing a few PM algorithms and apps.

I sold, and distributed for free, several thousand copies of different app versions. At that time, I came up on top in search results for the PM. My articles on PM stalking found their way piecemeal into numerous websites for dream hackers and co., and today the articles serve as a certain basis for that topic. To some extent, this outcome is my achievement, though from the standpoint of the big picture it’s rather paltry.

In the years that followed, I never was a PM zealot; I just lived my life, using the PM for the occasional purely practical purpose. Getting a job, catching a woman’s interest, attracting an investor for my wild projects; these were the things I did time and time again, with varying success.

Suffice it to say that I got more than one easy yet well-paying job, more than one woman insisted we settle into a happy marriage to be fruitful and multiply, and more than one thousand dollars (not to jinx it at all) was successfully wasted — and I was none the worse for the experience.

Amir has long since taken over the sale of PM apps — I’m just too lazy to bother.

My PM articles, written in channeling mode, have faded into the web, with a minuscule percentage of the content washed ashore on dozens of websites, without attribution.

And everything goes on and on, year after year.

I haven’t met with acclaim or interest of any significance; and as a modest person, I keep quiet when no one asks for my opinion.

Perhaps the only outcome that matters to me is that I’ve become an avid hermetist, though I’m still a consistent Christian.

When my financial position permits and I have the time, I consistently take e-courses at an esoteric Hermetic school, becoming less and less of a Bandar-log and more and more of a hermetist.

One day, amazed by the glory of the PM, I asked my tutor, B. M. Monosov, for permission to disseminate PM knowledge, and he gave me a free hand.

With time, PM app users found themselves bogged down in questions due to the many app versions and conflicting help files.

Amir couldn’t answer those questions since he wasn’t too much in the know. He asked me repeatedly to write new manuals for the apps. But I knew a brief manual wouldn’t be any help; and as I wasn’t interested at all in manual writing, I turned a deaf ear to his requests.

Not long ago, however, seer-acquaintances took to giving me ultimatums hinting at having to impart the knowledge to others. As a true Siberian, I knew, though, that they couldn’t exile me any farther than Siberia (as I was there already), so my responses to them were fairly cold.

But then the Power itself gave me clear hints that I was to write this book, and that was something I couldn’t leave unheeded.

What decided me was that Boris44 once again highly evaluated the topic publicly in the Skype clique and marshaled his arguments why the book was in order, showing a genuine interest in what was yet to be written.

Thanks to his promise to vet this book as a literature professional so that it didn’t read like a sorry sham by a hack suffering from verbal diarrhea, to his pretty good command of the subject, and to his oath to have the book translated for online publication abroad, I finally made up my mind to attack the job.

I harnessed all my laziness (of which I have plenty to share with three bears), gave him a free hand to edit and add to the manuscript and have it translated from esoteric Chinese into human speak — and went about the business of writing.

In fact, I’ve written this book thanks to one person who showed an avid interest in it even before it was written.

Sure enough, some dusty hiding places at Masonic lodges might hold more understandable and accurate works on the PM, but, just in case, this book presents my thoughts on the subject (to the extent possible in channeling).

I must warn you beforehand that everything you will read here is no more than a reconstruction of the forgotten Knowledge by Stalkerreklats, who has been wandering in the halls of Forgotten Memory, his traces disappearing into the dust of centuries.

So, this is for the forgotten Heritage of Atlantis and the perseverance of Boris44.

Best Records.

Connection People.

Stalkerreklats

December 2014

Translated from the Russian Alexei Litvinenko

Cover design Roman Batuyev

© Petr Krylov, 2019

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Chapter 2. How a magician becomes a stalker

Chapter 3. Don’t youget smart with me — show mewith your finger where it is

Chapter 4. The name is bluff james bluff

Chapter 5. Look what the cat coughed up…

Chapter 6. What’s it mean… ormagic gray, white, and speckled reddish-black pink

Chapter 7. Whos witches the tracks, or what causal magic is

Chapter 8. The secret of the secret, or the mysteries of the divine secret service

Chapter 9. What, what are these beasties made of?

Chapter 10. Nesting doll one nesting doll two — some more on the astral for you…

Chapter 11. Coming tounderstandit all

Chapter 12. The giver the taker, and someone else, or how to split the bottle three waysin stalking

Chapter 13. What the patience of Medici is, or hello and how do you do!

Chapter 14. The rules and layout structure of the patience of Medici

Chapter 15. Target cards in the patience of Medici

Chapter 16. Playing the pm through in real life, or how to play cards with God

Chapter 17. Flagcards, or more power to us

Chapter 18. Duty calls — it’s time to go

Chapter 19. Instructions for using Sivka Burka

Chapter 20. PM tutorials take-home message

Chapter 21. Some common mistakes inusing the PM

Conclusion

A note from the author: how this book was written