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[Alexandr Korol]

off ” from the entire “cosmos” and entering the social-material world, the world of people, and there, I would develop. It was a different kind of development. In the material world, you develop one set of qualities, in spirituality, you develop another, but I understood that it was all development. Of course, it was difficult for me at first. But then, when I switched into it, it felt like I had always lived this way, as if I even forgot about spirituality. Can you imagine? I explain this very well in the third volume, talking about how there are these different worlds, like multiverses, and that if you’ve plugged into the material world, even though just a week ago you were spiritual, you forget about that spirituality. You remember it, but you can’t remember it with feelings, and it’s as if you look at it through the prism of the mind and don’t even want to return to it. So I would even write letters to myself, saying “Alex, if you’re in the social-material world right now, then if you turn on The XX’s first album or watch the movie ‘Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life,’ or the film ‘Donnie Darko,’ it’s going to be hard for you to concentrate and watch them. If you feel that way, it means you’ve sunk into the material world. Here’s a list of things you need to do to disconnect from it.” So, I controlled myself with these lists and molds.

The exact moment you’re asking about, when I mentioned that I was supposed to become “luxury,” happened when I was in Los Angeles in 2019. I don’t know why it happened or what the purpose was, but the voice told me this when I realized that it was extraterrestrials I was dealing with. It happened while I was collecting the 12 biblical stones. Suddenly, in one moment, everything switched. The voice told me, “That’s it, go back to Russia.” Then it said, “You need to dress like all those Oxford or Cambridge student types, expensive classic clothing, and you need to associate with those people. You should even go to Moscow, meet with celebrities, whether they’re famous or not, and do all of it for the sake of your book.” I thought, well, if it’s for the book, to get people to read it more, including those materialistic people, so they can awaken their hearts — then, of course, I’ll do that. So, at that point, I started dressing in brands like Loro Piana and Brunello Cucinelli. I cut my hair shorter, so I wouldn’t look like a skater. I even bought a gold watch and went to Moscow. I met various people, maintained contacts, and was also active on social media. During that time, I wasn’t writing spiritual books; instead, I was writing material ones, focusing on social and material adaptation.