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[Alexandr Korol]

It’s not a punishment, it’s just a stage of development. Yes, on one hand, it might seem that people who live only in one extreme have it easier. Those who live in the first world aren’t thrown into the second. Or those who live only in the second aren’t thrown into the first. Yes, on the surface that might seem convenient, but it’s just a phase. There is a stage when you transition — a transitional stage — and that stage of transition is difficult. And then there is a transition into the Spirit. Imagine there’s a Spirit bubble — that’s one world. And the other, previous world is the world of people — let’s describe it like that. And you seem to slide back down into society, into the human world at some point, then at another moment return to the world of the Spirit, where you are the Spirit. And when you return to the world of the Spirit, you feel no fatigue, no sicknesses, no fears — it’s like a crazy clarity and lightness, and you can work the whole day and are happy to work, as if problems don’t even exist. That’s the world of the Spirit. But then, at some point, for no clear reason, a person seems to slip back into their old past version, which still exists in them, who they used to be, and they return to the previous bubble — the world of people. They go on social media, start chatting with old acquaintances, get into debt again or start gossiping — things like that. Like with people — you start connecting to their value system. It’s as if, figuratively speaking, you plug your head into their source, the one all these people and humanity are connected to. And once you connect to them, you start experiencing all their same qualities: laziness, fatigue, sickness — it all begins to appear in you. Then you move back into the world of the Spirit — it’s like another source — and you instantly become clear-headed, sharp, as if you’ve just truly woken up. And life feels like a fairy tale — you can do anything, whatever you start will succeed, everything works out. And that’s the kind of transition there is — into the Spirit. And “Alternative History,” the novel — it’s all about liberation from different human worlds, liberation from the old society, from the old system, in order to release it and move into a new kind of system, which is the Spirit. If not nitpicking words, then that’s more or less how it can be described and defined in a few words.