What is a person? An entity created by the Creator or, as is commonly believed, an heir to primates?
Has a man been born on Earth, like all living things, having come out of the water and climbed the branches of trees in the course of evolution, so that later they can descend from them and walk on two legs with five fingers on each? Or is he the creation of the cosmos inhabited on our planet in an already finished form?
Who are we? And why sometimes it happens that one of us suddenly becomes a superman, unexpectedly for himself and others, starting to show supernatural abilities?
Average citizen
In 1953, in the capital of the then Soviet Belarus, the hero city of Minsk, an unremarkable citizen was born in the ordinary Belarusian working-class family of Tsiperovichi.
Until the age of 26, he led the ordinary life of a Soviet young man.
After graduating from high school, he worked as an electrician in various enterprises of Minsk, which is actively recovering after the war, without having to stay anywhere for a long time. The only thing that distinguished young Tsiperovich from the rest was his rather rare and ancient name - Jacob.
The year in which Annushka spilled her oil
Our life, in spite of the fact that it consists of a string of seemingly coincidences, influencing all its subsequent events, actually depends on the very Annushka, whom the great Mikhail Bulgakov mentioned in his imperishable novel “The Master and Margarita”. Annushki, whose middle name is fate.
The previous life of our hero ended in 1979, as it should be to end a person’s life - his death.
One can argue endlessly about whether the subsequent history of Yakov Tsiperovich was true or false. However, the fact remains that the young man died at the age of 26. In a fit of mad jealousy, his first wife poisoned Jacob.
Under what circumstances and what the guy was poisoned with remains unknown, since no one filed a complaint with the police. Accordingly, there was no investigation. The question begs: what then was?
As Yakov Tsiperovich later told, probably, the jealous wife added some strong poison to the wine he drank. He felt a sharp pain in his stomach and passed out. After that, the guy was really saved in one of the hospitals in Minsk, to which he was delivered in a state of clinical death. His heart was no longer beating, but his brain activity had not yet stopped. In order to have time to save a person when clinical death occurs, doctors are given no more than 7 minutes. Despite all prevailing medical practice, Jacob spent more than an hour in this borderline state. Suddenly, doctors recorded the restoration of the heart. The patient himself continued to remain unconscious for about a week.
The new "I"
Waking up, Yakov Tsiperovich literally did not recognize himself. It was not his body, not his hands, his legs also did not obey. My head was very sore. There was a feeling as if it had all been erased. Of the memories - only his condition, when he was in nothingness.
I found myself in an incredibly huge spiral. I remember the feeling of absolute happiness. At some turns, I stopped, and a huge amount of information was literally pumped into me. This knowledge was directly embedded in my mind without a voice. I was delighted and surprised. I felt like a spot of light that constantly changed color. Around me were essences, which also were a light substance. Some have been there for tens of thousands of years. But time in that form does not matter. There is a feeling of unlimited freedom - you fly. Nobody says anything there, words do not exist. Everything happens at the level of energy transfer …
Jacob for some time lost the ability to speak. A little later, along with the gradual restoration of speech, he felt an unusual surge of physical strength and some unfamiliar energy. He, previously not distinguished for heroic power, seemed to cease to feel the weight of objects, even the heaviest ones, easily lifting or moving them. The young man stopped tired and could, by his own admission, push out ten thousand times.
At the same time, Yakov Tsiperovich lost the ability that every person has, and which no one even pays attention to - he forgot how to sleep.
Prisoner of insomnia
Looking ahead, we say that the dream never returned to Jacob's life.
Moreover, as soon as Tsiperovich simply tried to lie down, to take a horizontal position, an unknown click was heard in the guy’s mind that made him immediately stand up, no matter how many times he repeated these attempts.
Yakov Tsiperovich, experiencing understandable anxiety and even panic, turned to doctors and psychics, even to the famous Dzhuna Davitashvili. However, none of them could explain his deviation, much less help. Doctors noted the absence of any oddities in his state of health.
Even tranquilizers, which Jacob tried to take sometimes in huge quantities, did not help restore sleep. The dream was as if deleted from the program of his body.
A strange thing happened to me - I stopped feeling the passage of time. For me, it does not seem to exist. There is no division by day and night; all this is a single indivisible process. For me, life is like one huge day..
Forever Young
Weeks, months and years passed, Yakov Tsiperovich continued to stay awake at night. His life went on, but it became very strange and completely different than it was from his birth.
His body temperature was three degrees below normal. This fact did not cause any discomfort or concern in Jacob. On the contrary, his general physical and mental state, in spite of all the unusualness and natural discomfort, was something akin to a kind of nirvana, since for Ziperovich a constant feeling of weightlessness and the absence of heaviness of his own body became usual. It seemed to him that it was worth pushing his feet off the ground, and he would soar …
The longer Jacob was in a state of insomnia, the more mysterious forces filled his body and the healthier he looked. This euphoria ended when one day, when Tsiperovich was about 50 years old, he, meeting with his friends with whom he studied in the same class, noticed how old they were. Nothing special, the usual age-related changes after forty are bald patches, wrinkles, complexion and skin condition. However, Jacob himself, these transformations inexplicably passed. Regardless of how true the phenomenon of stopping aging is true or fiction, Yakov Tsiperovich outwardly remained virtually unchanged in his physical body about 35 years of age.
Personal life of the superman
17 years after his death, in 1996, Jacob married the girl Karina. The same simple Belarusian, like himself. Unlike the sleepy Tsiperovich, she has only one superpower - to be a good wife. Karina understands and loves her husband as he is. For her, the mysterious oddities of Jacob have long ceased to be something unusual.
A year after the wedding, the couple had a son, Alexander. The new reality of the superman has finally acquired some meaning, fullness, calmness and harmony.
After the birth of a son, the family moved to Germany and settled in the ancient city of Galle, where among the ancient Gothic castles, churches and cathedrals leads an almost reclusive life.
The son of Jacob goes to school, is proud of his father and dreams of becoming, like him, a superman.
Weekdays
Yakov Tsiperovich is still awake. Each single day is conditionally divided only into daylight and dark. What is this amazing man doing when his family is sleeping?
According to Jacob himself, nothing supernatural or unusual, as it might seem. He just lives. Night hours for him are no different from daylight hours. It’s just this time when he is left alone. A third of every long day of Tsiperovich.
His usual occupation at that time was such quiet activities as reading, composing poems, which he became addicted to in his second life, and, of course, night meditations and memories.
At first, I assessed what happened as a punishment for some acts. But after many years, I realized that, probably, this is still a gift. After all, the suffering that the first time after what happened tormented me so turned into completely unimaginable things and brought me to a level where no one has yet reached …
Nowadays
Now, Yakov Tsiperovich, together with his wife Karina and son Alexander, can be found both in their native city of Minsk and in German Halle. The superman is already 65 years old. But in appearance he won’t give even a magpie (in the photo, Yakov Tsiperovich now).
Currently, Jacob is busy still trying to defeat insomnia and re-learn how to sleep. What he does, of course, cannot yet be called a real dream. With the help of yoga and special techniques, Tsiperovich immerses himself in a special meditative state, thanks to which he is able to forget, dissipate for a couple of hours in some kind of dreaming. Just a few hours of semblance of sleep. But Yakov Tsiperovich is glad of this too.
Despite the phenomenal features that no one else has on this planet, for some reason it is very important for him and he needs to become an ordinary person who can sleep …
