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[Alexandr Korol]

The associations are correct, and just like you, I was once in your position, unable to divide things in such detail, and I saw everything as simply divided into two parts. This very division – how you see reality, how deeply you perceive it, and how well you can categorize and organize everything – is the essence of mastery, the essence of development. In the past, like many of you, I reasoned that there was simply something black and something white, and that was it. But now, as you can see, I’m delving into such depths, and it becomes evident in practice that the material world isn’t so bad after all. I’ve always written about this. But I didn’t draw a clear line between good and bad. I just noticed that some people, when they dive into the material world, seem to indulge in excess. But when I entered the material world, I didn’t dive into any excesses. And that’s the difference, you know, in how the material world is perceived. For example, when I was 18-20 years old, I wrote books and wrote about... Let me give you a real-life example. I met a girl or a boy, say a classmate, and these people would laugh at my friends for not being fashionable, and at me because I listened to, say, classical music. Meanwhile, they considered themselves very trendy. And I thought, “Ugh, how materialistic, mean, and shallow these people are.” I wrote about this in my earliest books. And you, people who are not like that, naturally felt a connection to what I wrote in my books and said, “Yes, Alexandr, I also agree that these materialistic people are shallow, focused only on money, and lack anything sacred.” And in the chapters of my books, I would say, “Yes, that’s true.” And as you see, you and I were right – that materialistic people are rougher, more superficial, they judge everything by appearance, they don’t feel deeply, they lack conscience and moral qualities, and they have no ethics. This is true. But as we go further, you see, it turns out that the material world is also multifaceted. There are good material people and bad ones. But more than that, it’s not just about good or bad, but, as I would say, old and new. Or, as I might say, first-graders and graduates. And the first-graders of the material world, well, they aren’t the best. Because while they do have a mind, that mind is still weak at times, and in certain moments it fades into the background, and those previous instincts from the earlier stages of development come to the surface. And these kinds of people, those whose minds are not fully developed, are the ones we might call bad. On the other hand, there are material people who are excellent – by that, I mean their intellect is highly cultivated, deeply developed, and multifaceted. And when their intellect switches off, it’s not their instincts that kick in, so they don’t fall back into the old world, but instead, they begin