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[Alexandr Korol]

And therefore, if I say to him: “Hey! John, hello,” he will see me and say: “Hello.” I will say: “Let’s talk,” and he will say: “Let’s.” And why did this happen? That is, had I written to him a year earlier, he would have ignored me, would not even have noticed me, but here he did notice. Why? Because he was dead, that is how I saw all the dead people. So what was I doing with all of them? It turns out I was resurrecting them all? As loudly as that may sound. That is, in essence, I met with these people and told them again how to return to the world of people. And they were reborn, returned to the world of people, even without knowing it. But in essence, we are still people, we want everything literal, physical, to touch and to perceive, so of course, if you look at this with earthly eyes, with human brains and skeptically, then in essence, there was Vasya — this is in quotation marks, a fictitious name — who was social, cheerful, and then suddenly disappeared and became as if unsociable, with no mood, everything falling out of his hands, and then he again became cheerful and sociable — in essence, as if his mood had changed. But in reality he was actually dying, we simply do not see it, and he does not see it, but in truth he was dying and being reborn. That is how it is. And Big Alexander, when I discussed this with him yesterday over the phone, as we were speaking, he said that it is so, and that the same thing has just happened with me. And he begins to describe these things, that the soul went out of the body, flew somewhere, some kind of garment, some kind of clothing, something like that. I say: “What?” I tell him:

— Alexander, forgive me, but sometimes you say such things, so literal, so strange. And I, after all, in my books, always bring everything back to the idea that all of this is sacred language, that it is all not literal. But you are telling me some literal fairy tales. Why is that?
— In fact these tales, what I describe, they exist in the literal sense. It is simply that you do not see it. To you, Alex, it seems that you just woke up, that the next day your perception or your mood changed slightly. But in reality a great process has taken place. From the moment you died, to the moment you returned — it is all erased for you.