Alexandr Korol

their life, and searching for answers about themselves and the meaning of life; instead, they’re talking with groups of people about all of it. And a group of people discussing spirituality — that’s fake spirituality, not the real kind. Spirituality is never group-based, but, again, people don’t know that. Also, the material world. What is the true material world like? It’s work. Opening a dog kennel. Possibly opening a veterinary center. Maybe a hotel, a guesthouse, sure. You can produce and sell bicycles. It seems simple. But there’s also the fake material world. What’s that like? It’s arrogance, fraud, where you want to do what everyone else does, steal an idea from everyone, shout about it loudly, proclaim yourself as a personal brand — that’s the fake material world. And it’s all about boasting, competition, and that’s wrong. But the line, you see, is very thin. There are, it turns out, noble, hardworking producers with good qualities in the material world. And for them, the material world means going to get an education, doing some exercise, checking their health, but they don’t publicize it, don’t show it on social media. And you see, they go to good places. But at the same time, they don’t sit on social media, don’t click on bloggers, don’t watch all that. Meanwhile, people in the fake material world, it’s all about showing off: showing how they bought their mom a car, how they bought their dad an apartment, showing off the watches they bought, unboxing everything. And for them, material things mean what? It’s all about attracting the most attention, getting the most followers, the most likes, the most interaction, the most random people, attending the most loud events and showing all of that, and doing all of it in a certain image. That’s the false material world. And those who are very good friends with their memory, you can remember how things were, for example, in 2000-2005, what the material world was like back then, and what it is now. And here lies the difference between the light and dark material world. It’s as if everything has changed because of the internet, because of social media. To understand these boundaries, I will need, I don’t know how many times, to mention this in all my books; right now, very few people can understand this. So, a true spiritual mentor is one who pulls you out of there, not pushes you toward it, the one who wants to preserve you, the one who tells you it’s better to stay home on weekends. But a false spiritual mentor, on the contrary, pushes you into the chaos, into adventures, which may end badly.