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[Alexandr Korol]

Another curious observation from all of this. I had this acquaintance, a rapper, very famous, the most famous rapper in Russia. Well, maybe now he isn’t the most famous, but in general he is like the father of rap, my namesake, Alex. We met about five times, honestly, hand to hand, even sitting at the same table or in the same car together, about five times. And each time he didn’t remember me, didn’t recognize who I was. This was back from the time when I wasn’t even 18 yet, he’s just from Petersburg. And there was this one time, I won’t say what year, I didn’t check and it doesn’t matter, I don’t want to think about it. Well, around 2015, maybe 2016. I wrote to him on Facebook, he didn’t recognize me again, I thought, “Well, fine.” And I told him: “Why did you disappear?” And I gave him an example of another artist, also from Petersburg, and said: “Look, this artist, he used to be a star back in the 90s, then disappeared for many years, and then came back again because his son grew up and pulled him back, and so he returned to the stage. You disappeared in the same way, and now you need to come back. That is, you disappeared somewhere and aren’t coming out into the world of people, you need to enter this social-material world.” I told him how and why, showed him everything, explained it all. We were actually traveling together on the Sapsan to Moscow, talking with him for many hours. And after that he began making music with celebrities, everything took off for him, everything went well. But the funny thing is different — he was “dead” when we met, and after that he “resurrected” and began to live again. Of course, he will not understand or recognize this. I am a modest person, why should I tell him this now, but I myself am shocked by the realization of it. That is, it turns out, he lived, then he died. Let us not forget that there is a fourth world — the afterlife, the world of the dead, and I am also in the world of the dead. And it turns out I saw him there. Why did he respond to me? Only dead people, even celebrities, are accessible. Because when a person, say a star or an oligarch, when he lives in the world of people, in one of the worlds of people, he is busy. That’s it, he is there. He only meets with those who are the same, and he is there. And only when he ends up in the “corridor,” that is, in the world of the dead, his attention is free, because he is not yet determined anywhere.