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[Alexandr Korol]

– Alex, there is a friend of mine, an acquaintance, a man who is currently in the hospital – and this was right before New Year’s or Christmas Eve – that he was in the hospital with pneumonia or some other illnesses, in very bad condition, practically dying. She was right there with him in the hospital and asked me to heal him.
– How? How do I do that? I don’t know how. – Alex, you can do it. Try.
– Alright, fine.

I remember I was in the cinema at the time, and right in the middle of the movie, I said to her:

– Okay, give the phone to this man.

She handed him the phone. I said to him:

– Hello.
– Yeah, hi.
– How are you?
– What, you don’t understand? Not great.
– Yeah, I get it. Alright, listen, just hand the phone back to Valentina, let her step out of the room, and you just close your eyes and lie there. Don’t do anything, don’t think about anything, just lie still and pay attention to what you feel. Okay?
– Alright, fine.

And then what happens? He hangs up the phone, I close my eyes, and at that time, I was so skilled at controlling my attention that within moments, within seconds, I completely forgot that I was in the cinema. It was as if I couldn’t hear the movie, as if nothing existed – I became pure consciousness. I imagined how all the energy, coming from somewhere in the “cosmos” (that’s how I used to express it back then), was flowing into me. And since I had just spoken to him on the phone, I imagined that I was him. It was as if I had become him, and all the energy I was absorbing from the cosmos was actually going to him. I just sat there, feeling how my body started to be enveloped by a kind of “gel” –