Some people go to Goa to take a break from the hustle and bustle, while others live a settled life there and even do business. Such as. Igor Stanovich, who once served in Afghanistan, worked at Russian Radio, owned a mayonnaise factory, and worked in a large oil company as an adviser to the chairman on creative issues. And now, for eight years now, he has been living in GOA, not an idle life at all, and he leaves this paradise for only two or three months a year, so as not to forget what Russian birch trees look like and to “inoculate himself with his native society,” to avoid that harmful state of mind when life really “seems like honey.” You can get away from the long winter, from financial and political problems, from the depression and aggressiveness of the surrounding society, from the mad race for inspired ideals, but a person carries his reality within himself, you cannot escape from yourself. Whatever reality you create for yourself is the one you will live in. Everyone sees Goa in their own way, and everyone's experience is individual and unique. Some consider it psychedelic, others yogic. some for health purposes, some for drug addiction. Some call Koktebel the twenty-first century, believing that this is where the energetic creative center of the planet is located.