Boris Akimov's book is one of the first works of a genre that is just beginning to take shape in our country - original Russian esotericism. Its uniqueness lies in the position of the author, who managed to achieve a combination of mystical, esoteric, everyday, philosophical and even scientific streams of the narrative about his life. The book also contains “educational” material - and not only on palmistry. It is perceived between the lines - easily and simply, unconsciously. But in order to get this material, the reader will have to work hard! And this, in my opinion, is correct. The book examines very delicately and carefully, with humor, the interaction of the mystical and everyday planes in the author’s life. Honestly, for the first time I read a book that tells the real, unfictional story of the life of a mystic in Russia. The author’s philosophical reasonings, it would seem, do not go beyond everyday limits, but we live within these limits, and not in the works of the employees of the Institute of Philosophy RAS. The issues raised by the author directly concern mere mortals. When to go to a psychic and is it worth doing it at all, which of them can you trust and what, what to do if the psychic did not cope, or even worse - he deceived, asked excessively... The questions are thorny, uncomfortable, there are no clear answers to them. But the author does not shy away from these questions. Of particular interest are the images of famous people with whom the author met. Very lively, drawn with love, they always appear from an unexpected perspective, and while reading the book, I understood in a different way many people who seemed completely familiar to me. It was both pleasant and surprising. Three things I liked most about the book: the joy of life, the humor and the spirit of youth in its pages. And for this - a huge thank you to Boris Akimov! K. Mkhitaryan, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy