Without Love and Faith, There is No Future

I was driving down a road leading south, my thoughts incessantly tied to a theme important to me. Alright, now I understand that without love and faith, there is no future. But how did people live before? How did primitive people live when concepts were just forming? And how do animals live? I sift through various stories in my memory, events that occurred with patients. I recall one event that happened to me no more than a year ago.

For several years, a young man had been sending me emails, offering me to give a talk in their city. I usually respond to such offers reluctantly. But the city was in the east of Russia; there was an opportunity to fish, travel, and gain new experiences.

I gave a lecture there, and I liked the nature. The young man was familiar with my books and lectures. It was evident that he sincerely believed what was written in the books and was trying to change himself. I agreed to give another lecture in this city.

But about three months before his next call, I had a strange feeling. It was some kind of misfortune related to him. I looked at his field and saw no future in it.

Then, when he called again, I sincerely warned him: You could perish, your focus on the future has become too intense. Dependence on the future has crossed the red line. In your case, the loss of the future means death.

«Why am I losing the future?» he asked.

I honestly replied: I don't know. Maybe some great fortune is approaching, which you sense in advance and to which you start worshipping in advance. After that, there's usually a collapse of all plans and hopes. Maybe you can't bear the destruction of a dream in advance—and a self-destruction program kicks in. It could be an unfortunate child approaching you, soon to be born. Some powerful new factor has been activated, but I can't identify it. Try to feel that love is more important than the future. Try to accept the collapse of ideals, plans, and hopes that were in the past. Pray for your descendants.

I arrived in that city and gave the lecture. An hour after the lecture, he went about his business. He was driving his car at 80-90 km/h, and suddenly he lost consciousness. He fell asleep or blacked out—he couldn't say for sure. His car veered into the oncoming lane, resulting in a head-on collision with another car.

In the other car was a single driver—a man going to pick up his wife from the maternity hospital. In 99.9% of such accidents, there are two fatalities. Strangely, both survived, and even without serious fractures.

«How could this have happened to me?» he later asked.

«You both had too strong a subconscious focus on the future.»

For that man, it was the birth of a child, a continuation of himself into the future. You were influenced by an unknown factor. But the program was the same for both. The victim attracted the criminal.

The car was beyond repair. The guy hinted that he would pay the fee for my performance later. I nodded understandingly: Of course, there can be no questions.

A month passed, then another. But he seemed to have vanished. And a month later, he reappeared—bringing me a gift of red caviar from Kamchatka. And he was genuinely surprised that I had no desire to interact with him.

The thing is, our mutual acquaintance, who asked if I wanted to meet with you, told me about your problems. And about how you decided to implement a business project without sufficient means. And how you borrowed money from your friends. And how you invested my money there too. And how your business project collapsed and now you're hiding from everyone. Now I understand why you nearly died in the car accident. For you, your business project, your future turned out to be more important than morality, responsibility towards others.

In principle, this is the mindset of a criminal: for a person, the future—money, profit, status, well-being—is more important than the soul. Anyone who interacts with me or reads my books enters, so to speak, a different dimension where all processes are accelerated. I talk about how love is more important than the future. And you, with your intentions and feelings, went in the opposite direction. Therefore, you were supposed to perish before our meeting. Seeing a possible death, I warned you and postponed your problems to the future. But a mistake occurred during the performance, followed by the inevitable accident.

Why you survived, I don't know. Perhaps you still have a chance to overcome dependence on the future. Your life was spared for this. I can give you another hint: to overcome dependence on the future, you need to be a moral person. Because this is the mode of preserving love in the soul. If you betray and deceive others for your selfish goals, then your fulcrum shifts from the soul to the future, and you become its slave.

The conversation with him was quite unpleasant but sincere. After that, he disappeared and never showed up again. Maybe he was killed. Maybe he just decided not to return the debt. Or maybe the process of restoring his soul was supposed to take him several years. Who knows? I am firmly convinced of one thing—everyone has the chance to get their soul in order and save their future.

S. N. Lazarev, «Man of the Future. Parental Education 3»