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[Alexandr Korol]

Chapter 35. The Otherworld

What conclusions can I draw from the fifth volume? It turns out that the fourth volume was dedicated to understanding the three worlds, the three Gods, and naturally, the greatest focus was placed on the underworld and who Baphomet is – this is where my fourth volume ended. The fifth volume is about death – that’s where it all started. At first, we perceived it in a physical, material way, as in: what is death? The funeral march, physical death, films about death – more precisely, “Ghost”, “The Sixth Sense”, or “Meet Joe Black”. These are the first films that come to mind, just to create at least some kind of image or form to understand what death is, where it appears in films, at least literally. But then it all leads to something else – to something that shocked me, literally: what if I am already dead? What if that explains why I and all my readers are so strange? What if, when people entered the “corridor” with me and then left it again, they actually died and then returned to the world of the living? What if that’s what all of this is? And then everything shifts, and I realize that the “mindless world” that I always promoted in my books, that very “corridor” I wrote about – where I observe everything from the outside, as if detached from people, and all these desires to watch films about angels, all this otherworldly fascination (not horror films, but something truly otherworldly) – turns out to be death itself. And as it turns out, all the films I considered spiritual, all the music I thought was spiritual – it’s the spirit of death. It is the fourth world. Besides the three visible worlds, there is a fourth world, the otherworldly one. I remember that about four years ago – three or four years ago – I was putting together a mold of music I love, categorizing it. At that time, I made a statement that I had a playlist that was spiritual. But now, it’s as if I’m experiencing a new realization and level of detail – I would divide it even further into two categories. Before, I always had everything mixed together: music like The XX, Yoav, UNKLE, Massive Attack, Portishead – it was all in one, including Angus & Julia Stone. Everything was in one playlist – classical music, melancholic pieces, uplifting ones, like the soundtrack from “The Theory of Everything” and music from “Amélie” – it was all in one place. And I always noticed that my spiritual mood felt different at times. Sometimes, I would skip certain tracks, ignore them, while listening to others, and then, on another day, the opposite. So I decided to focus more