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[Alexandr Korol]

one, one of four, one of five, or one of three — it’s simply a state of being in the Spirit. What is the state of being in the Spirit? Before that, there’s a hierarchy of stages in human development. Instincts are animal-like feelings — “I want and I do,” without being able to control it — and most often, these are not good instincts. Next is the mind, which is control over instincts — when you’ve mastered yourself, understand cause and effect, that you can’t just act without thinking. You can’t simply follow your feelings; you need to control them, think ahead, remember what happened last time because of what you did, and consider the future. That’s the mind; that’s the second world. The third world is the heart. That’s when, in the second world of the mind, you’ve controlled everything so much that you’ve become a cold robot and have forgotten to feel others and think about your neighbors. And when you begin to think more about others than yourself — that’s the path of the heart. You activate the heart, it’s a struggle with egoism, a struggle with your rigid mind. And you realize that not everything needs to be controlled like a robot. In creativity, or during rest, in the park, or while fishing, you need to turn off that control. And in some moments, you need to allow access to the heart, allow access to feelings, and learn to feel — feel your loved ones and yourself, not be an emotionless stone. And when you learn all this, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly working through it, then you move into the world of spirits, the fourth world. But again, there are many different kinds of spirits, yet at that time, I simply perceived that there was just the Spirit — one and that’s all. And what is that? It’s when some kind of energy enters your heart or even your body, and you’re out of your mind, but you’re in some kind of flow, like inspiration. Most often, truly creative people experience this — those who have written unique books, music, paintings. They know exactly that it’s as if they didn’t do it themselves, but the system was doing it through them, as if God was doing it through them. And when you become like that, you seem to transmit this, produce it, but you do it just because you want to express that unique impulse that enters you. You express it and give it away, simply give it away to people, and that’s it. Express and give. You become like a conduit, but also, when you’re in the Spirit, everything is devalued — in a good sense of the word. No, you actually appreciate, on the contrary, a beautiful little stone, a beautiful flower. But the point is that your value system changes so much that you almost feel like you don’t need much at all, as if you need nothing at all. I don’t mean you don’t need to study or work.