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

I realised that my case had become known to a somewhat wider circle over the last few weeks although only a few people had been added to the initial “insiders”. If Stefan was being honest, not only had the Valley respected my request to protect me from becoming an object of curiosity in the eyes of the world, but also disliked the prospect of things related to my case coming out in public, especially since they still had no clue themselves about what exactly was going on with me. Moreover, this circle of “insiders” comprises very serious and positive figures, with sharp critical thinking and judgment, predisposed to being sceptical, who like to take their time and weigh everything carefully. These very down-to-earth people believed that it would not take long for Jaeger and the others to find out where their assessment of my situation had gone wrong.

There was even one person who had only been present at a couple of the discussions and who argued that my accent had nothing to do with an accent of a dead language, as Jaeger supports. In this man’s opinion, it was the result of a post traumatic shock combined with the severe cranial-cerebral trauma that Northam had suffered and had nothing to do with “ancient German-speaking Swiss.”

I also overheard Stirlen at one point telling Jaeger to stop looking in ancient times for the secret to my personality, but to start focusing in a positive manner on treating my amnesia so that I could unveil my personality once more. “We know that he is Northam, now we must convince him to come out of the world into which he has locked himself in order to avoid facing real life after the accident.”

I realised that they were discussing a possibility similar to what we would call “split personality” or “personality change” and they support that Northam is still alive somewhere inside me. They think that my memory has been locked at the point of the accident, like a metal door that’s blocking the way of the rationale, rendering it impossible for me to remember anything from the time of the accident and, obviously, all that preceded it.

Nevertheless, two of the wise men, Esterling and Erlander, kept speaking of some sort of “out-of-body knowledge and experience”. I heard them mention the term “out-of-consciousness memory”, although, unlike Jaeger, they’ve ruled out the possibility of reincarnation.

On the other hand, the version of another wise man, Valdemar Esklud, was completely opposite. He believes—and he truly poked and tired me these past few days—that if I make a real effort I might remember moments from the first days of my short illness back in 1917. I was vainly trying to convince him that my memory has never betrayed me until now, and that I had never remembered anything from those two weeks when I first fell into the lethargy.

However, he and Ms. Coiral with her silver hair and her heavy, ebony cane with the platinum handle, were the only ones who respected my outburst into tears and didn’t start shouting at me when I revealed to them my firm conviction that one day, I will return to my time and place, even if it’s for a few seconds before I die.

Apart from that, Esklud and Coiral lean more towards Jaeger’s view, that is, that they are witnessing one of the most unusual and rarest parapsychological phenomena—or “metapsychic phenomena” as others called them”—that has ever manifested itself with an unprecedented clarity of memory and remarkably heightened sense of consciousness.

As for the information they asked me to give them, I was surprised by the fact that they were more interested in the conditions of our everyday life, our way of thinking, habits, institutions and beliefs, more than the great wars or political events perhaps because they knew the latter very well from history. And what was of particular interest to them was the century before ours. They always led the conversation to that topic. And what intrigued them the most was not the man who lived in 1921, but the man who was in adolescence at the changing of the century and learnt about the recent past from school and books. As a matter of fact, they explained to me that the 19th century was marked as a “suspended century” that stood out between the previous and next several centuries. Especially the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th, was for them a very unique era, that harboured many precursor figures and works that could even be argued to be equivalent to the ones of today.

More specifically, the fact that the ideas of freedom, equality, brotherhood and love for nature were introduced and nurtured in that era drove them to distraction! They spoke highly of the struggles of the nations for true liberation and freedom and, of course, of the peace pacts of Europe.