Chapter 10: Izabella
Izabella, who is either Spanish or Georgian, lives in a little house in outside Moscow that is visited by seekers from all over, who patiently wait their turn. I got to know her when I was a student and fascinated by parapsychology. I used to go to secret gatherings and listen, rapt, to tales of telekinesis, teleportation, and telepathy but it was clairvoyance that captivated me. How can you know something you don’t know? It’s a question of how knowledge is conveyed. If you see something when you’re awake, read it or hear it on the radio, that’s knowledge, whereas a dream or fantasy really isn’t. A clairvoyant doesn’t read minds but sees pictures from the past, present, and future – a future that doesn’t yet exist. I’d read everything I could about the subject but had
