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[Alexandr Korol]

What’s even more curious is that when it’s in you, it’s not just in you — it’s immediately in everyone too — in people, in you, in those you’re interacting with. That’s what it means to be in the Spirit. The Spirit highlights everything for you — music, films, people, places. You walk around, and it’s like some external force is showing everything to you. That’s what the Spirit is. And when you’re without the Spirit but in a state of being out of your mind, you don’t know what you’re supposed to do or what you want to do — you decide for yourself. But the Spirit leads you itself, it does everything for you. And when you’re just out of your mind, yes, you’re in a calm state, no thoughts. You might just sit and paint a picture, walk through a park, but nothing is highlighted — you’re just extremely calm, that’s it. And yes, you really do see the world from the outside, because the mind is a corner. When you’re in the mind, it’s also easy to tell — you’re either in the mind or out of it. The mind is when you perceive the world through just one prism, through a single mood. For example, you think only about material things, or you’re only dissatisfied with everything, or you’re only thinking about cars, or about work, or about family — you’re a family man. That’s all the world of the mind, a kind of corner, and that’s where you live. And being out of your mind — it’s like you’re still looking at everything from the outside: at family, at work, at everything. And you’re kind of, you know, like lost in thought, like in your own dreams or something. You feel like watching an interesting movie. You might have some thoughts, but not the usual everyday ones — you’re out of your mind, but you can still reflect on something, doing it yourself, and it’s a kind of pure mind where you’re just remembering something, feeling nostalgic, like how you once walked in a park, but you’re in that out-of-mind state. It’s when you’ve stepped out from under the influence of society’s hustle. But the out-of-mind state is still far from the Spirit, they’re different things. Right now, for example, I’m in that out-of-mind state, I can just observe everything from the outside, I have no thoughts, I’m simply here and now. I read the question — I answered it. But in the Spirit... It could happen that I’m reading one of the questions, and if the Spirit wants to or if something in me switches on and the Spirit enters me, it will be clear that I begin to speak more expressively, as if my voice changes, my speech changes. Time feels strange — like you’re watching a video, for example, or reading a passage, and when you’re perceiving that information — since I’m presenting it now in all formats — you can get so immersed in the moment