Personal Paradise on Demand

Vyacheslav Popov-Sibiryak

I dedicate this to my parents, Lyudmila and Mikhail.

This book is about possible paths of human self-realization, about creativity and inspiration.
About psychology and emotional-artificial intelligence.
About the victory of Good over Evil.
About how to overcome the animal nature in yourself and become a Human.
About love and hate.
About war and peace.
About our era.
About choosing a favorite business and profession.
About how important it is to dream and consistently achieve your long-term goals.
About building a successful survival strategy.
About what are the most probable and optimal options for the future development of humanity.

In order to present my ideas to an international audience, I am writing the book in two languages at once - Russian and English. I am also going to translate the original text into Spanish, Chinese and German.

I need an international audience to disseminate the attitudes and scale of values of the Russian linguistic picture of the world in other countries (strengthening Russian influence on public opinion abroad). I consider this project my contribution to the development of our country. This is one of the forms of "soft power", including mutual influence and mutual exchange of different cultural codes.

After all, language and culture are the core and cement that form the framework of the state, uniting the nation, the people. And this contributes to the successful overcoming of serious trials that befall society. We are going through one of these today, once again.

Authors of the idea:
Vyacheslav Popov (Novosibirsk)
Elena Chelyapina (Sri Lanka)

Chief reviewer and opponent:
My brilliant and ideal wife Marina Popova

Chief brilliant editor:
Natalya Petrova (Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad region)

I express my sincere gratitude to my friends and family who have co-authored and co-edited this piece.
Among them:
> Novosibirsk: Roman Brylev, Oksana Sycheva, Valentina Kondratyeva, Natalya Beryazeva, illustrators Maya Kulmukhamedova and Karina Chetvergova, Vitaly Kochetov, Natalya Nuryeva, Svetlana Shengilevich, Arina Sokolova, Natalya Muratova, Svetlana Guzaevskaya, Tatyana Doroshenko (my cousin and illustrator), Tatyana Arzhaeva, Marina Yusova, Yana Gordok, Elena Dymchina, Roman Relin, Alena Saraeva, Natalya Pasechnik, Alexey and Svetlana Borblik, Denis Adamov, Victor Schmidt, Tatyana Morozova, Andrey Tonkikh, Sergey Massarenko, Ilya Egorov, Tatyana Izvekova, Tatyana Bukaeva, Lyudmila Tsypkina, Evgeniy Meshcheryakov, Elena and Alexander Shcheglov, Igor, Valentina and Natalya Nikiforov, Natalya Varvashevich, Tatyana Alekseeva, Margarita Kruchinina, Larisa Luchikhina, Natalya Pogorelskaya and Evgeniy Pogorelskiy, Larisa Churkina;

> Novosibirsk region, Krasnozersky district: Tatyana Litvinova (mother-in-law), illustrator Lyudmila Slobodnyuk, Anna Dodonova, Larisa Zvereva and Evgeny Zverev, Alexander Moskaluk, Marina Kulmanakova, Olga Bessarab;

> Chelyabinsk: Lira Komarova;

> Moscow: Sergey Zharkov, Danila Lyubimov, Viktor Pasechnik, Yulia Vereshchagina, Elena Motina, Tatiana Nefyodova, Grigory and Daria Fleyenko, Andrey Frolov, Natalya Buchneva and Lado Bakare;

> Krasnodar: Evgeny Ziangirov, Nadezhda Tseller (maternal grandmother's sister);

> Donetsk: Evgenia Pitelina (maternal grandmother's sister);

> Altai Republic: Dmitry Bondarenko;

> Khabarovsk: Dmitry Varfolomeev;

> Blagoveshchensk: Valeria Yemelyanova;

> Novokuznetsk: Ivan Malyshev, Elena Rylkova;

> Saint Petersburg: Vasily Shpedt;

> Kemerovo: Viktor Baranov, Alexander Kulev;

> Voronezh: Oleg Bobrov;

> Tomsk: Yelizaveta Kitayeva;

> Noyabrsk: Yelena Tyazhelnikova;

> Canada: Natalia Koshchavtseva (Markem);

> Germany: Margarita Uzentseva and Olga Lanner (Cologne), Ekaterina Kunz-Dronova (Heidelberg), Vera Reisvich (Leverkusen), Natalia Knaus (Ubstadt-Weyer), Ekaterina Smiyanova (Munich), Elena Bayeva and Alexandr Bayev;

> Italy: Stefano di Raco (Vicenza), Tommaso Palomba (Treviso);

> Spain: Jonathan Marin Ospina (Barcelona);

> Republic of Korea: Myung-Gyu Lee (Seoul);

> Kazakhstan: Altyn Alimbayeva (Pavlodar);

> India: Salim Ghani (Mumbai);

> Belgium: Karel Gabriel (Oudenaarde);

> China: Yanjun Wang and Youling Fan (Hubei), Alina Maximova (Shanghai);

> Great Britain: Tatyana Ryabtseva (London / second cousin);

> Cyprus: Anastasia Rodina (second cousin);

> Thailand: Anastasia and Dmitry Sokolov, Alexandra and Pavel Drizhanov;

> Bangladesh: Saeed Islam (Dhaka).

I would like to express my special gratitude to my sister Elena Bazhina, brother Viktor Popov (Polovinnoye), and daughter-illustrator Anastasia. I wish my sons, Ilya and Nikita, to do what they like and what brings them joy in life, provided that they conduct business activities within the framework of current legislation. This helps to overcome obstacles and bypass barriers.

The main people who pushed me to study the topic of emotional intelligence and inspiration management are Igor Stepanovich and Valentina Mikhailovna Nikiforov. Igor Stepanovich is a candidate of technical sciences and a teacher at one of the leading Novosibirsk universities. Valentina Mikhailovna is a professor of music. They also taught me the art of vocals and much more for many years. And I love and respect them very much.

Source of funding: our family business, Brigantina LLC, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation.

© V.M. Popov, 2024

Preface

Why and why I decided to write this book.

My main professional activity is being a translator. When I was 15 years old, I decided that I wanted to become a translator and dreamed of learning many languages. I have devoted my whole life to the study and practical application of different languages.

Thanks to the knowledge of several languages, I have made a career as a sales specialist and manager in Russian and foreign companies, visited different places in our vast homeland, and in other countries. In 2018, I decided to work for myself, and my wife Marina and I opened a joint company, Brigantina Ltd. Today, our family business is engaged in translation activities, market research and educational services for children, teenagers and adults. We also co-operate with government agencies, and not only with them.

The constant work with texts on a wide range of subjects and a wide range of communication with people in different countries, as well as my desire to regularly express my thoughts and experiences in the form of texts, and my passion for writing poetry in different languages since I was a teenager, led me to the idea of writing a fiction book, where I wanted to share with my children and with readers in different countries my experiences and my ideas and my interpretation of our lives. To share what I think is important. To create my own virtual universe.

In 2015-2017 I planned to publish a collection of short stories and poems together with my friends, on various topics, but the preliminary result was put aside in a long box in the form of a draft. Then I transformed it by starting pages on the most popular sites for aspiring poets and writers PROZA.RU and STIHI.RU, and published all my texts, starting with teenage poems. Special thanks to Valentina Kondratieva, the best realtor in Novosibirsk, for temporarily storing the paper archive of texts from my youth, which I later digitised.

We have conceived a book on the topic of emotional intelligence and about the ways of human self-realization together with Elena Chelyapina, with whom we had worked together on projects in the field of tourism in 2018-2022. Her main contribution to this project is that she speaks positively about my works, believes in my success as an author of literary texts and poetry in different languages and inspires me to feats.

When my inspiration and sublimation of inner emotional work led to the writing of individual texts, I discussed them with my friends living all over the world. Critical comments and recommendations on the stylistics and content of the Russian text by Natalia Petrova, with whom we worked together at the Novosibirsk Regional Russian-German House in the early 2000s and played in amateur theatre, help to make the Russian text more vivid and expressive. I do the translation into English and other languages myself. My family participates in the evaluation of some sections of this book, and also supports me. To my other half, my one and only wife Marina, I bow to her patience and love.

As a lover of astronomy, quantum physics, adventure and fantasy, history and mythology, I invite you, dear readers, to an incredible journey through a parallel universe!

I believe that mankind has an excellent chance. To become even better and even more human. To walk together with a wide step into a bright future.

The book consists of short chapters where the characters in dialogues discuss various issues and raise philosophical themes of existence in a humorous way. The kaleidoscope of events and the opacity of a solid linear plot draw the attention of the modern reader to the general framework of the narrative. The form of the book is adapted for the perception of young people - it is made in the form of clips, due to the clip-like organisation of the thinking of most modern readers. At the end all the characters intersect and we see the general canvas of the picture of our time.

Humorous dialogues allow us to perceive the text as an entertaining fairy tale. Which through the images and actions of the characters creates a matrix of values of the new era of Emotional and Artificial Intelligence (EAI). I use imprinting - imprinting vivid images into the reader's consciousness to form efficient patterns of behaviour. In short, this book is a pedagogical poem. Where previous cultural experience throughout human history is taken into account.

Sincerely yours,

Author

06.04-08.12.2024