Chronicles From The Future: The amazing story of Paul Amadeus Dienach

Little by little we both calmed down. She came close to me, stroked my hair and wiped my eyes, just like a mother does to her child when it’s upset. But then she drew away again and sat alone, lost in her thoughts. It had been a while since someone had spoken when she whispered, “It doesn’t seem to be God’s desire for people to remember.” And she wept. Overwhelmed with emotion, we both hushed. I got up first and helped her to her feet.

“Let's go,” I said. As we departed she told me she believed me and then she reassured me of her love for me.

“Only don’t expect from me to feel like I have come from another era, like you,” she said, “I completely believe and respect everything you’ve told me about your life, but I am not like you. I am a woman of my era; I’m just like everyone else.”

We barely spoke throughout the entire trip back. The cheerfulness of the morning had been completely brushed aside by the incident with the wreath of the windflowers. Silvia was wearing the wreath on her head, which I had placed there, and was wrapped up in the usual blanket made of synthetic fur to protect herself from the wind. She no longer seemed anxious or worried; just moved… Every now and then she’d say a word or two. And I noticed that she never said the name “Andreas” again, since that moment up on the hill…

BACK TO THE PAST1– VIII Again

(Late at night)

A little while ago I sat Stefan down and told him the whole truth about my old love story with Anna, and then I told him about today’s incident with the windflowers. His reaction was nothing like Silvia’s: no surprise, no horror, no terrified looks. He believed me straight away, he didn’t doubt me for a second! Excited by the spiritual power of the great love that had defeated time, he gripped my hands and smiled at me. He had found nothing out of the ordinary in my story, nothing that was breaking the limits or the laws of life.

“I’ve told you before,” said Stefan, “the human perception of time and space is not infallible. It could be that what our minds conceive as yesterday, today and tomorrow within the Great Reality and believe them to be distinct from each other is nothing but an eternal present that is not aligned with the standard, human conception of time.”

So that’s why you made me go through all this pain, my dear God? Maybe Stefan is right; this transcendental love between two people, a love that has been through thick and thin, has now almost been sanctified. Destiny had reserved a special place in this world for such a love, even after thousands of years. And this marvellous work of destiny goes beyond the narrow confines of my own personal case. This wonder deserves a place among the highest and holiest achievements of the human soul! This is the epitome of true love!

It is truly worthwhile for one to come into this world as a human being and live this life. If things are so different from how our eyes and reason conceive them, if such a divine fate can be reserved for a human being in this world, it’s really something worth living for. We don’t know exactly what life is all about or how it unfolds or what it contains, but those worthy of finding out are in for a wonderful surprise! It is a reality impossible for our mind to understand and our words to express.

What is this feeling now? My eyelids are getting heavier and heavier! Am I feeling sleepy? Yes, yes, it is sleep that burdens my eyelids! This is the first time this happens to me in this new life of mine! Oh it’s such a sweet feeling! Does this mean that I’ll be able to rest at nights from now on? Oh I’ve missed this… I’m starting to feel so relaxed…

 

THE END

(At that moment, Andreas Northam falls asleep for the first time in a whole year. As soon as Northam sleeps, Paul Amadeus Dienach’s consciousness returns to his natural body back in Switzerland in the year 1922 and he recovers from his coma.)

LIST OF PROPER NAMES

 

NAMES OF PEOPLE

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WOMEN

Lelia Nopotkin

 

ACADEMICS

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PUBLIC FIGURES AND POLITICIANS

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FLORISTS

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LORFFES (leading officials of the intelligentsia)

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ILECTORS (High-ranking leaders of the intelligentsia)

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WOMEN

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GREAT SPIRITUAL LEADERS

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