The fourth world is the world of science, the written word, and intellectuals. This is the world we live in and the one that modern society acknowledges as the truth.

Veronica (from the Latin phrase vera icon ‘true image’) believes in this world. Even though she doesn’t find love or happiness in it, she accepts that this is reality and can’t be changed. Resigned to her fate, she doesn’t believe in Life and denies everything she doesn’t understand or can’t explain with books. Her resignation represents the worlds of many people who live in a society that’s ruled by Reason and is so permeated with Reason’s values and ideas that people with other minds can’t accept themselves in it.

It took Reason a long time to climb to the top. He already succeeded several times in history, but his power has never been as extensive and strong as it is now. The first time he took over world power was just during the Industrial Revolution, and science made that possible for him.

Veronica’s most important mind isn’t Reason, as one might expect in a world like that; it’s Emotion. The story shows how strongly the environment can influence our minds and their power when society is ruled by the values of one of them.

Precisely seventy-seven characters appear in the library. In addition to Veronica and Eros, there are also visitors we can identify in various ways—most often by their books or well-known quotations. So many great thinkers whose findings contributed significantly to the development of civilization end up here. The librarian’s assistants Rania, Emma, and Iris are one and the same person.

Reason is a mind that doesn’t know emotions. If there were a person in whom Instinct and Emotion were completely excluded rather than just less important, this person would act cautiously, with planning, and without emotions. The way Reason acts can resemble a computer or a robot in some aspects, but nonetheless Reason can talk about being sentimental and emotions, and can analyze and sort them. He wonders about their role and importance in people’s lives and also about many other things. He can even stage specific forms of emotions and use them to reach his goals, but Reason isn’t capable of thinking about emotions the way Instinct and Emotion do.

In Veronica’s world Reason is in second place. However, due to the modern educational system, including universities, her world has changed into a library of Reason’s rules, values, and views, in which this mind feels most at home. The librarian firmly believes that she knows and understands the values of all minds and so she doesn’t see that all the books are merely Reason’s explanations of Emotion and Instinct. Veronica’s world is thus organized to perfection and the only thing she can’t find in it is true love because true love requires the truth—and there’s no truth in Reason’s one-sided world. This can also be seen in Eros’ mirror: because it only shows the naked truth, no books are reflected in it.

The fact that information gradually became more important than people in Veronica’s world is also shown by her first encounter with Eros. When he asks her about happiness in her life she thinks that the young man is referring to a book title. Reason couldn’t care less about love, home, family, friends, adventures, joy, freedom, the sun, the wind, stars, cicadas, and curiosity. All of this can also be seen in modern society, in which, due to Reason’s influence, people spend increasingly less time with one another and increasingly more time at computers, and so they fulfill Emotion’s and Instinct’s needs in some sort of invented world. And just to keep Reason in power.

People come to the library because they have increasingly more problems in their lives. Even at the entrance the library promises them that whoever learns from books finds happiness. And this is the way Reason rules—to satisfy Instinct’s and Emotion’s dissatisfaction, he constantly looks for solutions that are logical only to him.

Enthroning the legal order—one of Reason’s ingenious inventions—represents the beginning of overthrowing the unfair predominance that Emotion once had (in ancient Rome). At that time the legal code represented an important step towards a fairer society because until then Emotion had ruled with violence and force. The transition into a more equal society in terms of values enabled the entire Roman Empire to rise and this period lasted until Reason completely undermined Emotion and Instinct and society was ruled by values very similar to those we have today.

Thomas’ Roman law example illustrates the difference between the initial and later purposes of laws. Initially, laws were simple and logical, and anyone could understand their purpose. They didn’t need complex explanations by legal experts, who are ruled by Reason. However, the more complicated and unclear laws became, the more Reason’s power and influence increased as well. This is also demonstrated by the fact that only people with money can afford to hire top legal experts; under Reason’s rule, money is most easily earned by people with Reason’s mind. This way this apparent right is no longer available to everyone today.

It is no coincidence that it is Thomas who presents the Roman law example—this was also the name of the apostle who questioned Jesus’ resurrection in the Biblical story. Thomas’ most important mind is Instinct, the skeptic, who has just as many problems in Reason’s school system as Emotion. But with Thomas, Instinct isn’t the only obstacle on his way to success. In the school of life Thomas also needs to learn something: that happiness must be built on one’s own foundations, regardless of how successful others are, especially if someone else’s success doesn’t harm us. It is also not a coincidence that Cicero, the Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and philosopher, born on 3 January 106 BC, whom many consider Rome’s greatest orator and prose stylist, is mentioned in this part of the book.

Veronica’s world is like a library—the truth of this world lies in books, which are organized according to the system of a universal decimal classification. We aren’t aware that this is the same in the world we live in. We classify everything according to Reason’s system and his values, including what belongs in Instinct’s and Emotion’s worlds. The librarian only has problems with one group of books: those that present the truth. And because the truth doesn’t match Reason’s concept of the truth, Veronica removes all evidence of the existence of the real truth from the library. In this, the system of Reason’s view of the truth is misleadingly realistic. While we eagerly defend our positions, which only few dare to question, we don’t even think about where these positions actually come from. We simply accept them to be true only because this is how they’re accepted by others, and if anyone questions them, they risk being excluded from society and labeled “socially unacceptable.” It’s clear that the criteria determining whose positions are sociably unacceptable have been constantly changing through history, but it’s not yet clear that this isn’t the fault of progress and development, but merely the change of the ruling mind. Of course every mind declares his truth to be the real truth and the change from the position advocated by the previous mind thus becomes progress. One must admit that this progress hasn’t been unilateral in history, but has continued to be bilateral, which means that any transition of values from one mind to those of another mind can be regarded as progress. Society thus perceives every change in the ruling mind as progress. But all along there’s a clear connection between the ruling mind and the influence of his values on society.

A clear example for this is the perspective on sexuality. Emotion’s completely open towards it, whereas Instinct’s view on it is very reserved. Sex doesn’t mean much to Reason but, because he’s aware that it means a lot to Emotion, he deliberately creates the rules of behavior that prevent Emotion from using sex as a tool to strengthen his predominance. In Classical Antiquity, society was completely open-minded regarding sexuality, but in the Middle Ages it nearly became prohibited because of the strict rules regarding when, where, and with whom one could have sex and how much (if even at all). The twentieth century saw the development of hippy culture, which was nothing but Emotion’s resistance to the increasingly obvious predominance of Reason. In the 1960s, values of Reason’s that had been considered progressive up until then, including the relationship to sexuality, practically turned into old-fashioned values overnight. The hippy perspective on sexuality was the same as in Classical Antiquity, and this radical change in sexual values was referred to as a sexual revolution.

Miles the psychiatrist—it’s his book that Eros first takes from Veronica’s shelf—–represents the perspective of modern psychology, which continues to primarily be based on observation and testing. However, this approach often only mitigates problems and doesn’t actually solve them because, without the right understanding, solutions to problems are more or less a matter of coincidence. Someone who isn’t familiar with how electronic devices work isn’t likely to repair a complicated computer, and the same applies to solving psychological problems: in order to do that, one needs to better understand how our mental processes work. The human brain is still considered the most mysterious and unexplored human organ; despite numerous attempts made to date, we still don’t have a sufficiently tangible model that can be used to understand, explain, and predict the course of our mental processes.

Eros reveals another unknown connection between the mental processes to the psychiatrist. Here it must be stressed once again that Reason, Emotion, and Instinct are concepts that have been completely redefined. Whoever tries to identify one of these in himself hasn’t understood the explanation of these three mental processors. None is better than the other two and each has his own advantages and disadvantages. None of the three is more or less acceptable, desired, or admired in society. A much bigger problem than giving priority to one of the minds in our thinking is non-acceptance. All of the characters are thus completely equal. It is true, though, that in every period people with the character ruled by the same mind as rules society at that time can succeed more easily.

Like almost every great discovery in human history, Eros’ discovery initially also provokes only ridicule and rejection from Miles, the psychiatrist. Time is what always puts a new theory to the test—it can replace the old theory only if it proves to be more effective and more useful. At that point both the professional community and the general public don’t even think about the fact that the new way of thinking was doubted at first. If the new way proves to be ineffective, it simply sinks into oblivion. Some theories last for a very long time . . . they can’t be replaced overnight. This is also the case of Ptolemy’s Almagest, which was written around AD 150 and was accepted as a basic source of information on astronomy up until the seventeenth century. Its books were based on the premise that the Sun, the planets, and the stars revolve around the Earth as the motionless center of the Universe. Even though this theory was based on an incorrect hypothesis, it agreed well with the observation of the planets, and so Copernicus’ heliocentric model of 1500 did not become established until much later on.

This is the case not only with reflections on scientific theories, but more or less also with every new discovery. The first PCs replaced the old typewriters only with great difficulty. Today it seems completely incredible that at that time people didn’t immediately understand the advantages of computers and immediately start replacing typewriters with them, because today we can’t even imagine typewriters having any advantage over computers whatsoever.

The patients Eros and Miles talk about involve real-life cases, which various established psychiatrists failed to solve using the traditional psychotherapy approach. Eros presents a different approach to solving the patients’ problems to Miles in a simple way; an approach that makes it possible to understand the three minds and their characters. Those who understand this model of thinking about the human mind don’t always have an immediate solution, but they do have a basis they can use to connect and understand various psychological problems much more easily. At first Miles rejects Eros’ idea, but he’s nonetheless willing to study it a bit more thoroughly. He soon realizes that he doesn’t have to throw out his own knowledge because what Eros is telling him incredibly connects some of the realizations that the learned psychiatrist has already reached. But the only thing that really and truly convinces him is the realization that he can use this new approach to understand and solve many problems that had been deemed unsolvable until then. Namely, the REI theory explains depression, autism, dyslexia, Tourette syndrome, stuttering, and many other conditions that from now on can be completely cured and not merely mitigated.

A white book appears on the table in the library—this is the same book Heracles (in the third world) and the reader are holding. Those who read carefully will notice who returns this book to the library (on page 159).

The woman with cat-like eyes is the Slovenian writer Svetlana Makarovič. Her role in the library is significantly more important than it seems at first glance. Her fairytale The Moonlight String (which is referred to as The Moonlight Fairytale in the book) tells when the story is taking place in the library because the fairytale had not yet been published in book format when [psi] was created.

The shelf labeled Overlooked represents a gap in Reason’s world. This is the truth Reason doesn’t see because he only sees his own truth instead of the real truth. The two opposing truths refute one another. In order for Reason to be able to protect his rights he puts everything that chips away at his authenticity into the basement . . . where only a few people can access it. The shelves in the basement contain the works and thoughts of people who have the same character as Eros. They can understand the messages from the shelf Overlooked regardless of the time in which they were created. The truth is eternal and always the same.

“Divide and rule” is one of Reason’s ancient rules that is also encountered by young Rolihlahla, who can’t get to the books. He’s shackled and so he can’t get to the truth he wishes to reach. Whoever wants to really understand this passage well must know the life and work of the young man called Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

Eros wants to borrow a book of a venerable age from the top shelf in which he read a sentence about Ebu. It seems that Ebu had a mission similar to Eros’ when he handed the white book to the young man with iron cuffs around his wrists. This sentence came to the writer by coincidence and to this very day he hasn’t been able to completely understand its meaning and deeper connection with the story.

King Ashurbanipal was familiar with the truth that Eros knows. He put all of his strength into preserving it because he knew that only the truth could help him preserve balance and peace in his kingdom. He also knew that the truth is most threatened by those who can’t understand it, and so he had everyone who dared to explain the truth in their own way killed with snake venom. Ashurbanipal was the last king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and when he died the truth also died with him. After him Emotion returned to the throne.

Eros finds another fragment of the truth in the treasury of King Ashurbanipal: the original understanding of the signs of the zodiac or the horoscope. At that time they understood it completely differently than today. The truth about the original knowledge of the twelve human characters marked with the twelve signs of the zodiac completely overlaps with the understanding of the human psyche in the book [psi]. What is known as a horoscope today is in complete opposition to what Life teaches us. How can it be that this ancient knowledge is so wrongly understood today? Here the book demonstrates how our minds can change the truth according to how they see it. Ptolemy (Greek Klaudios Ptolemaios, Latin Claudius Ptolemaeus) came across the tradition of this truth, but his mind couldn’t understand it because he was ruled by Reason, who wrote down his own vision of the truth instead of the real truth. This is depicted in the book such that the truth about the horoscope is copied onto donkey hide; this is a direct reference to Ptolemy’s astrology work Tetrabiblos. In Ptolemy’s days donkey hide was used instead of papyrus, and later paper, but here it also has a special symbolic meaning.

The case is the same with all the other texts on the thirteenth shelf and their copies and translations represent the distortions of the truth caused by all three minds throughout history. In each period only those copies and translations were used that suited the ruling mind.

In several places in the book—the dialogues about Life—the word “life” is sometimes capitalized and sometimes not. This illustrates how people often talk about something and use the same words for it, even though they have completely different ideas about it. So Veronica is also convinced that Eros is talking about life, whereas what he has in mind the whole time is Life—the mind created by [psi] or the world he has found himself in.

In the library we also get a hint about what Life is. It exists in all living beings and it connects them into a single whole of unimaginable mental abilities. Life is an evolutionary leap that makes it possible for a living being to become immortal; it’s like a fire that spreads from one straw to another and keeps on burning even when its fuel is already burned out, just the way bodies die out. The mortality of bodies is vital for genetic improvements, but it contradicts the desire of a living being to survive. It’s wrong to think that we die because our body wears out and expires—like the things we use in our everyday lives. Nature can replace every single cell in our body, which means we could easily last forever and our body wouldn’t age and change. The only reason for our mortality is that, if this weren’t the case, there would be no improvements.

However, the case of the mind is completely different than that of life. The mind can only make progress if it continues to learn and if it doesn’t have to learn the same thing over and over again. Thus once upon a time, at the very beginning of evolution, the transfer of data between living organisms also began to develop in parallel with the development of intelligence. And this is the reason why even today there continues to be only a single mind. All living beings are part of this system, but during our physical lives we can only think and operate with the three minds that are available to us. Life manages its development this way—in order for us to reach the realizations we need to make progress, it sets up the circumstances we find ourselves in and understand as coincidences. This is the school of life. Therefore it can be concluded that every single living being, including humans, is created such that it can reach its realization and, if it acts to the benefit of both itself and others, it is fulfilling its mission. Hence also the wisdom that everyone’s happiness is right in front of his nose, at his fingertips, and the only thing we must do is to follow Life and reveal the truth.

People aren’t capable of getting in touch with Life, we don’t perceive anything connected with it, and with our desires, thoughts, and ideas or requests we don’t accept its grace. But with all of this we can influence our thinking, the way our minds work, and our acceptance, and thus completely change our lives.

That Life as a concept of superior intelligence isn’t an unrealistic or abstract concept is also shown by the explanation of a natural phenomenon that this mind can use for its operation. Based on a quantum physics phenomenon, all living beings are believed to be connected into a single whole without exception. This phenomenon was only theoretical at first, but later on it was proven several times through lab tests. It was first described by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen. You can find the description referred to as the EPR paradox.

In order for you not to misunderstand the meaning of Ego as defined by [psi], you should know that the Ego must be viewed as part of Life and not as a soul. The Ego is merely an idea created by Life, an idea according to which Reason, Emotion, and Instinct live. This idea continues through many lives as a path of realizations. However, today people often mistake the Ego for Emotion’s predominance; Emotion is bossy, ruthless, and egoistic. When somebody talks about someone with a strong ego (not capitalized here), this must be understood as a person with Emotion as the predominating mind in [psi].

The Oort cloud is a hypothesized spherical cloud of comets on the edge of the Solar System. In 1932, Ernst Julius Öpik postulated that comets originated in an orbiting cloud at the outermost edge of the Solar System. In 1950, his idea was revived by Jan Hendrik Oort, who used this cloud to explain the apparent paradox that comets are destroyed when they pass through the inner Solar System and that all of them would have had to be destroyed already if they had existed since the very beginning of the Solar System. Veronica sarcastically uses the Oort cloud for the metaphor of castles in the sky because she wants to emphasize the intangibility of Eros’ hypotheses. Eros pays her back with Öpik’s comet, but Life isn’t happy with that—it wants him to fulfill his promise.

The book Principia was written by Isaac Newton.

The gentleman with a high forehead, neatly trimmed moustache, and round glasses, who sits at a table nearby and can’t help overhearing Eros’s conversation with Miles, is Sigmund Freud. Based on the example Eros explains he realizes his mistake, which is why he tears a few pages from his book.

The woman with her hair in a bun is the Swedish scientist Selma Lagerlöf. She places her first novel, Gösta Berling’s Saga, on Eros’ table. This is a book that had lain forgotten on the bookshelves for a long time before its exceptional value was recognized. The sheets also lay forgotten on Eros’ table for a while because he’s not attracted by the boring title of this wonderful saga.

Marie Skłodowska is the maiden name of the Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie. She is known for her pioneering discoveries on radioactivity. Because of radiation exposure she suffered from joint problems. After her husband’s tragic death she had an affair with a married man, the physicist Paul Langevin, which resulted in a press scandal.

The man with an epileptic attack is Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky, which can be inferred from the book The Idiot lying on the floor next to him; this implies it has fallen from his hands. The following three sentences from the dialog between him and Veronica are taken literally from this very book:

“I know I am very guilty!”
“You are to blame, and yet you persevere!”
“I’d prefer to stick to Christ rather than to the truth.”

Eros reveals to Miles that depression is nothing but the reverse condition of being in love because the former involves a dispute between the minds, and the latter involves a perfect harmony of their views. This realization provides the basis for a completely new classification of depression. Various types of depression depend on which of the minds are at odds and whether only two or all three oppose one another. People usually spend most of their lives somewhere between both extreme conditions, which means we’re in a normal condition when our minds are only moderately non-harmonized. Three of the twelve characters can’t get depressed—these are characters with one leading mind and the other two in equal subordinate positions. The opposite of this are the three characters that are strongly inclined to depression—those with two parallel leading minds.

The movement of the continents definitely belongs to the most amazing scientific theories about Earth’s history. The geologists Kenneth E. Caster and Josué C. Mendes conducted an extensive comparative study of the rocks on both sides of the Atlantic and their findings supported the theory that the African and South American continental plates have the same origin. In his 1958 article, Charles Hutchins Hapgood contested this possibility and Albert Einstein also supported his hypothesis at that time. Hapgood advocated the theory that it’s the Earth’s axis that shifts. In 1908, Frank Bursley Taylor proposed his theory of continental drift to the Geological Society of America. The book doesn’t try to show a discussion between Taylor and Hapgood, but the opposition between two different scientific positions.

Eros is interrupted by the quarrel between the two gentlemen, and so he speaks up to make them quiet down. They demand that he join the debate, but Eros completely coincidentally reveals something to them that is the object of numerous discussions taking place among contemporary geologists. The book that coincidentally ends up on the shelf between Hapgood and Taylor encourages him to do this. This illustrates how Life uses coincidences to interfere with even the greatest scientific discoveries and therefore Eros’ answer is recognized as the fourth proof of Life.

The Natural History of Fishes was published in 1840 by John Stevenson Bushnan and aroused ridicule in English high society.

William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin, was a Scottish physicist and engineer. In 1857, he sailed on board the ship HMS Agamemnon, which laid the first telegraph cable between Europe and North America across the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. But after only 385 miles the cable broke. And, when it had finally been laid, it burned out because the voltage used was too high. Based on his findings, Lord Kelvin tried to estimate the age of the Earth. He claimed that a moderate number of millions of years ago the Earth was a red-hot globe, with which he severely underestimated the age of the Blue Planet. He was also known for only rarely reading a book to the end. He died on 17 December 1907.

The woman who impresses Eros with a book of myths and legends of the ancient Sards is Grazia Deledda.

The old man with an oil lamp is Diogenes of Sinope, a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism. This philosophy opposed the Platonist-idealistic philosophical approach that directed people on the path of unattainable ideals. In contrast, cynicism shows a gap between the superiority of the “official” ideology and the banality of everyday real life. Diogenes turned extreme poverty into virtue—he made his living by begging and slept in a barrel at the market. He was notorious for his controversial behavior and philosophical stunts such as carrying a lamp in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man, urinating on people that didn’t agree with him, and even masturbating in public. He often argued with Plato—he disputed his interpretation of Socrates and sabotaged his lectures. After being captured by pirates and sold into slavery, he eventually settled in Corinth, where he became friends with Alexander the Great. Kyne means ‘dog’ in Greek. Diogenes recognizes Eros’ character and so he asks him whether he was sent by a dog. Eros doesn’t understand the wise man and so he concludes he must be stupid and feels sorry for him. This paragraph teaches us that, if we don’t understand others, this doesn’t necessarily mean they’re stupid because there’s always a chance that those we don’t understand are right.

Eros suddenly thinks of something and he starts putting books on the table that actually represent their authors:

• The Overcoat – Nikolai Gogol
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• Meno – Plato
• The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Andersen
• La Vita Nuova – Dante Alighieri
• The Mahabharata – Vyasa
• Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
• The Tenth Brother – Josip Jurčič
• The Known World – Edward P. Jones
• The Moonlight Fairytale (The Moonlight String in the original) – Svetlana Makarovič
• The Violent Land – Jorge Amado
• The Nobles – Confucius

If you look for Confucius’ book The Nobles, you’ll look in vain because it only exists on the shelf Overlooked, which isn’t accessible to the public. This book represents the truth.

Only when the books are arranged into groups that fit the twelve human characters does Eros figure out what the dog had been telling him about. Classifying the minds by their power provides a unique perspective on the truth, and this perspective is called the character. The books represent their authors and disclose their ways of thinking and so they can be divided into exactly twelve groups according to the principle of the different power of the minds. When Eros looks at this arrangement, he realizes that there are three subgroups among the twelve groups that have similar characteristics due to the predominance of one mind. The fourth subgroup is something special: it is dual because it includes characters with two parallel leading minds. This causes a lack of quorum in these people because everything is always decided equally by two minds and not just one. Because the two minds oppose one another, these characters are subjected to constant internal imbalance or inner turmoil, and so this fourth group is the “fire” group. The first group, in which Reason dominates, is realistic; thanks to Reason’s way of thinking, these people have their feet firmly on the ground (i.e., earth). This group’s thinking is directed into the future. The second group is ruled by Emotion, which is why it is carelessly easygoing and gullible. People with this character live in an unreal dream world, in which they believe everything will turn out well and so they’re symbolized by air. They live in the now and for the moment; the past and future are very distant and less important concepts in their worlds. The third group includes characters with Instinct as the ruling mind. These people are inaccessible and mysterious, and they often hide in the depths of their own world. With them we only see the surface and we never know how deep they are and what they hide within themselves. They’re like the sea or water. People with such a character live in the past and they often wonder what happened and why.

The new system also reveals the nature of the problem that Veronica has been occupied with this whole time. Namely, the books from the shelf Overlooked don’t fit into any of the twelve shelves, which means that none of the twelve characters is capable of seeing the truth. Their opposite is Eros’ mirror, which only reflects the truth and thus none of the books.

Rania fooled the library visitors by offering them copies of the truth from the shelf Overlooked. These copies are nothing but Reason’s perspective on the truth, but surprisingly nobody in the library notices that. People tend to believe what the majority believes and individuals need a lot of strength and courage to fight this. The second problem is the number of copies of the truth that pretend to be the truth in the library. In the multitude of these copies it is very difficult to recognize the real truth because anyone who takes a lie from the shelf a thousand times will have a hard time believing he’s really holding the truth this time round.

The new book system doesn’t agree with all the visitors. These are people with a character from the first group, people who are ruled by Reason—the mind that currently rules our society. Today it is much easier on the people with this mind than on others because the truth is made to measure for them. The only problem is that these people also force it on all the others, and because this truth doesn’t match those others’ views, those people are unable to accept themselves.

“There is nothing left for untalented people who want to make a name for themselves except to criticize the truly talented,” said Anton Chekhov. Many people whom others regard as successful don’t accept themselves in their own worlds. They can be recognized by the fact that they often try to devalue the success of others. Those who can’t succeed themselves will often undermine others who have. This characteristic of people who don’t accept themselves always results from excessive competitiveness, envy, or even greed.

The person who says the longest sentence in the book is the Scottish chemist, geologist, and meteorologist James Hutton. His friends often teased him because of his long and unclear sentences. The two books he mentions are the two volumes of The Theory of the Earth, which his friend John Playfair, a mathematician and a professor of natural philosophy, later summarized and explained in his own book. Hutton’s lack of writing skills is illustrated by the fountain pen that he drops and his friend John Playfair picks up.

James Hutton was also a good friend of the philosopher David Hume and the political economist Adam Smith.

The shelf labeled Overlooked makes Eros realize that almost all the ancient civilizations knew the secret that the dog revealed to him. It’s been disclosed on numerous monuments and surprisingly the same symbols are used everywhere, even though each culture lived in a completely different time and place.

In front of the shelf with Veronica’s favorite book the psychiatrist Miles tries to identify Veronica’s character, but he fails. Identifying characters is considerably harder than it seems because the observer must determine the ratio of power of the three minds. Because we can only observe reactions in people and not the process that led to these reactions, comprehensive multilayered observation is required to determine the ratio between the minds. Because of the similarities between the reactions that can be triggered by completely different minds, details are of key importance here. We can’t determine our character by ourselves because we assess it through the eyes of our most important mind. Therefore, our criteria are not objective, even though they may seem completely realistic to us. People usually see themselves as having all three minds. This is naturally true, but the thing is we can’t figure out which one of them we give priority to.

Miles’ final realization is also an acknowledgement that the truth of Life isn’t merely another theory about how the human psyche works, but the long-sought foundation of the organization of human thoughts. However, we can’t expect that professionals will realize this as easily as Miles (Chekhov would most easily find an answer to why this is the case). The problem is that even the theory that is established today has been developed by only one thinker, and it only became established with others later on. But there are still few real thinkers around. In contrast to this, the theory is strongly supported by a large number of trained professionals who don’t actually think with their own heads. They shift with the wind, but the problem is that they themselves are the wind and so it’s difficult to shift them.

Recognizing any new theory has thus always involved a turbulent and long-lasting process, especially when the acceptance of something new was connected with radical changes. Every new theory must first be subjected to numerous tests and this always requires a sufficient amount of time.

In the book, Charles Darwin himself explains that REI also matches the Darwinist perspective on evolution. On the other hand, the opponents of his theory will also realize that Darwin overlooked the influence of coincidences in it (Darwin developed his theory based on finches on the Galápagos Islands).

In this part of the story the white book is still completely white. This symbolically illustrates that despite the truth it contains the book is the only candidate for being accepted by humanity. The word “candidate” is derived from Latin candidus, which means “shining white.” Whoever was running for a public position in ancient Rome or whoever wanted to become a candidate (candidatus) had to wear a white robe when appearing in public.

Only recognition by the majority can help the truth stop being “overlooked” and bring it to the people who strive for it. Namely, the truth means returning love.

Veronica accepts the truth—that was her school of life. And now Life can also afford her love.

What is Eros discussing with Albert Einstein? Let this remain a secret for now! (A hint for those wondering about the seventh proof of Life—that wasn’t the topic of their conversation!)

Whoever thinks that the book that appeared in the library when Eros entered it has replaced all the other books in the library has overlooked one small detail. The people standing around the fire are holding books. Namely, every writer has saved his own truth and only lies ended up in the flames. This means that every person has the right to his own truth because that’s the only way he can accept his own world. Lies were Veronica’s stage sets and because of them she couldn’t accept herself. They were hiding her wonderful real world and her truth that she had been hiding from others.