How to Become Rich

What can you actually measure in a text? Just which letter comes in which place—so basically, a text is only one-dimensional!

So what does that tell us, folks?

A radio-controlled BMW X5 is a 4-dimensional COPY of the real BMW, and it’s already guaranteed to have mistakes.

A video clip—it’s not even four-, but three-dimensional. One dimension’s already missing, so no wonder commercials are full of nonsense; they’re just taking advantage of that missing dimension.

And those glossy magazine photos—those are even worse, just two dimensions! No wonder the girl looks gorgeous in the picture but, in real life, is more of a crocodile. She just knew which side to shoot from, taking full advantage of the shortage of dimensions.

But the truly terrifying part—an utter catastrophe—is how the text gets chopped down to even fewer dimensions!

Text is stuck with only one dimensionality, but the real thing has four. But if you think about it, text is basically just another copy of reality, like a model, a video, or a photo.

But if a girl in a photo can fool us just by taking advantage of two missing dimensions, imagine how much text tricks us—when it's missing not two, but three dimensions?!

It's downright terrifying when you think about it!

But even that's not the worst of it, folks.

Hang in there.

Stay brave.

I hope everyone’s got their Corvalol and their will, signed by a notary, close at hand?

But that’s not the scariest part.

The truly terrifying thing is HOW we think about the world around us.

Get it? UNDERSTAND?!

That’s right—with words, with text. In other words, with good old one-dimensional speech.

Now let’s think for a second: WHERE does this one-dimensional speech live, no matter how smart or logically airtight it is?

And WHERE’S the real four-dimensional world, with all its quirks, rules, and laws?

Pop quiz: what are the odds that your brain will spit out a QUALITY—not to mention OBJECTIVE—copy of REAL objects and processes?

Look, I get it—you have an off-the-charts IQ, three diplomas and a baseball card, you’re basically a kung fu master, and yes, a driver’s license counts too.

But still?

Do you honestly think your one-track logic will help you figure out how to make a million? Let’s take a look around: what are all these sciences, philosophical and religious teachings, political movements, and fancy doctorates, anyway?

Because if you really think about it, these are just the same old COPIES—little MODELS of the real world we’ve already seen a hundred times.

And all of them have the same fatal flaw: the DIMENSIONALITY of these copies is ALWAYS LESS by 1, 2, or sometimes even 3 dimensions than the original!

Which means—not a single one of these COPIES has ever even come close to the truth or the REAL WORLD—not even as a neighbor!

And the worst part is, we’re usually stuck OPERATING with these copies strictly at the level of LOGIC—that is, good old ONE-DIMENSIONAL speech!

I mean, our thinking is so far gone from reality, there’s honestly nowhere left to go.

Scared?Knees trembling yet?

But unless you spot the bars of your own ignorance, you’ll never figure out where the latch is.

So what does that tell us?

It leads to a pretty obvious thought: the standard logical way of thinking is so out of touch with reality, only a very naive Chukotkan teenager would seriously expect to make a million that way.

…As long as Abramovich is governor.

So, what exactly do you have to do to become a millionaire?

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But that's a whole different story—which, as you might have guessed, comes up in the next chapter.

Chapter 4. A Little Trip Down Memory Lane

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We all spent some time learning something somewhere, and those who didn’t study well enough… well, they’ve departed for greener pastures.

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To break the tension after Chapter Three, let’s pull a snippet from one of the earlier Stalking courses—General Stalking, if you will.

Stalking of Denarii is one of the subgenres of Stalking, and this chapter is a perfect fit for our course.

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“The problem with hurrying is that it wastes a ridiculous amount of time.” (Gilbert Chesterton)

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I’ve thanked my Mentors countless times on my websites and sincerely appreciate everything they've taught me. I get that, like it or not, I’m basically part of their legacy. Of course, thanks to my stubborn streak, I’ve also grumbled about them, still do, and will likely keep it up until I finally pass the last initiation and become the well-rounded person I'm supposed to be.

Why am I telling you all this? I guarantee that right from chapter one, lots of you will be rolling your eyes—even in the reviews: 'How did gullible little me end up following this brand-new guru?' Still, as best as I can manage, the lectures will stick to the same principles I was taught myself.8

Any other approach is probably just a waste of strategic effort.

Tradition—and Stalking, for that matter—isn’t about magic passwords like 'I’m here from Ivan Ivanovich, amen!'; for a beginner mystic—it’s not even Knowledge.

You can’t know everything (well, unless you’ve unlocked the siddhi of the Second Arcana, but let’s be honest, not eeeeeeveryone has that). That’s why, personally, I don’t think knowledge is top priority for practically any practitioner (especially a newbie).

Skills are definitely a big deal for beginners. But they don’t sprout out of nowhere. Skills are the outcome, not the starting point.

So, what’s actually left for our would-be student to get the hang of? Understanding—that’s the real key to everything: both Knowledge and Skill.

But here’s the problem: the average person simply doesn’t know how to understand anything. Their entire life, thinking patterns are drilled into them. Their whole mental toolkit is like a computer desktop—just a pile of shortcuts and not a single real program. If you start paying close attention to yourself,and your own ‘thinking,’you’ll be amazed to discover that, most of the time,you’re actually not thinking at all. Most of the time, you’re just unconsciously recycling thinking patterns,evaluations, and final conclusions that were programmed into you back in early childhood.

If you ever try thinking for yourself instead of copying someone else’s playbook, you’ll be horrified to find that actual thinking is, for the most part, —really out of your reach!

It’s just not something you know how to do…

Sure, you can count, write, spin long, fancy sentences full of clever words, and mark an X on a ballot. But thinking?!

To spell this out in the simplest terms, let’s start by dotting every ‘i’ and crossing every ‘t,’ as they say.

Question number one:

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Genetically, a pig and a boar are pretty much the same animal. Let’s release a boar and a pig into the same reserve in winter, right alongside the warm and fuzzy wildlife—wolves, bears, poachers, or, heck, even just mosquitoes…

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Place your bets, folks!

No, the pig is not a saber-toothed mutant from some secret lab… No, our little porker doesn’t have a black belt—or any belt—in krantez-do, and no, the pig doesn’t have any (redacted by the book editor) ‘protection’…

Place your bets!

Holy moly, why do you folks hate pigs so much?! Seriously, we can’t just let that slide.

Alright, assignment number one – explain, in a thorough and well-argued way (at least three sentences), your reasoning for making that bet.

By the way, who did you bet on?

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Question number two. So, which one of those two characters up there is actually the human?

Oh, come on! We’re obviously not talking about you. You’re such a remarkable and unique exception that you just go ahead and prove the rule about everybody else.

The author officially declares: all names are fictitious, all characters are imaginary, and any resemblance to real people is purely coincidental—and absolutely not about you, promise.

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Please justify your answer with arguments, references, evidence, and eyewitness accounts (all, naturally, in triplicate—one for me, one for yourself, and one to submit to the Akashic Records). The minimum length for witness statements is the standard: three lines written in tiny, illegible handwriting.

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Assignment number three: find on the Internet a textual description (photo, video, live stream, or, if all else fails, ask your cat) of how a mother cat teaches her kittens to catch mice. Keep a close eye on this process.

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As you diligently slobber on your pencil, make a list of at least four ways in which the cat teaches her kittens to catch mice the WRONG way.

Now teach the cat, or just your spouse, a random passerby, or even me—the not-so-bright one—how exactly to teach proper mouse-catching.

Make a list of at least four points on exactly how to properly teach mouse-catching. As a scientific experiment—and to prove your point—scan and post online the bodies of three mice caught by your student. To make up for this terrible sight, just add a photo of a chubby cat and some irresistibly cute shots of her overstuffed kittens right next to it.

And now, for those who thought the last three tasks were about as thrilling as waiting in line at the DMV, here’s a bonus challenge (totally optional) just for you.

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The author of this book officially warns all particularly ‘gifted’ readers and those in tanks* that he has blatantly lied, misled, and will continue to mislead in various spots throughout this book—in the most obvious ways for those paying any real attention.

Not because he doesn’t get it or is confused, but because learning to hunt is way easier with half-dead mice.

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Chapter 5. The Analogy Method, or Nothing’s Ever Really New

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Oh, the wonderful discoveries

That the spirit of enlightenment brings us,

And experience, child of hard-won mistakes,

And genius, paradox’s best friend,

And chance, that god of invention…

A. S. Pushkin

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So, in the last lecture and the Q&A, we figured out the following: you need to serve up information in courses—which is to say, first, second, and third. Because milk is for babies, while steak tartare is for the anti-vegetarian crowd.

So, let's get started—with proper blessings, of course—with the first dish from our little diner: plain old semolina porridge.

In the previous lecture, through the highly scientific method of poking at things (and if you didn’t poke at anything, you’re on your own), we discovered that most people just can’t think. We also covered the reasons for this sorry state of affairs—mainly society’s ongoing need for lots of barnyard animals, since, unfortunately, we’re all still stuck in a pretty primitive farm setup. And of course, saber-toothed rabbits could find their place in this whole setup, but really, we don’t need a giant herd of them.

So, we’ll just be growing our own fangs, using whatever homemade guerrilla methods we can come up with.

So, what’s the point of thinking, anyway? First and foremost, to make sense of the world around us and its stuff. But let’s get specific here—we’re not exactly kids anymore, and we’ve muddled our way through part of this world already. So, our mission to understand things gets a little narrower: we’re after a method for figuring out the parts of the world that still baffle us, while making do with our half-baked grasp on the rest.

As the mathematicians say, asking the right question is half the answer.

But let's just eyeball the world for a sec—no need for extra drama or panic—yep, it's the world, full of stuff, loads of it, a ridiculous number of unknowns, but…

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If you pay close attention here, you'll notice the following:

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1) A lot of things in the world are just copies of each other.

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2) Most things out there are variant copies of copies.

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3) If you look closely, you’ll notice the world is just a bunch of mirrors, all reflecting each other in one way or another.

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So what does that do for us?

Well, first off, there’s the legendary line from Hermes’ tablet: 'As above, so below; as below, so above…'

This is a universal law for everything—consciousness, matter, you name it. Basically, it goes both ways; what works one way works in reverse, too.

And honestly, there aren't even that many universal laws in existence.

In other words, we can confidently add this law to our mental arsenal as a universal principle that actually keeps a ton of things ticking—both in our world and in mysterious realms we haven't even heard of.

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– Don't blow our cover, bro!

– Relax, bro, those who need to know—will know. And everyone else? It'll go in one ear and out the other, as usual.

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A significant part of this chapter was cut from the 2025 edition. For reasons of confidentiality regarding previously mentioned information.

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