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[Alexandr Korol]

Again, this body, soul, mind, heart, Spirit — since everyone has different associations and interpretations of these words, let’s not get caught up in that. What matters is the essence. And what is the essence of the question? It’s about the person and their state. Imagine there are soap bubbles, like one half inside another, another half inside a third. And the transition from one soap bubble, from one sphere, from one simulation to another is almost imperceptible — like moving from one system to another. There are people who live entirely within the bubble of instincts. And they are fully in it, and they don’t intersect with any other worlds at all — they live in this bubble of instinct. This type of person is the one driven by animal instincts. They have no soul, no conscience, no logic — nothing, no sense of cause and effect. And such people do exist. We’ve all either been them or will be. Then there are people of the second bubble, who live by the mind. Super precise, control everything, no heart, no soul — but sharp logic, strict discipline, like robots. And they can control their instincts. They know that if they do something wrong, they’ll suffer the consequences later. These are people of the mind. And between these two worlds, you see, there’s this kind of almond-shaped overlap — when a part of the first world’s bubble enters a part of the second world’s bubble. And when you’re in the center, it’s like you’re with the instincts and in that world, but you’re also being pulled into the world of the mind. So sometimes you’re carried into the world of instincts, and other times into the world of logic. And so you’re being pulled one way and then the other, because in that moment you’re transitioning, you’re shifting from one value system and level to another. And when this transition happens, those people are always shaken, because at certain moments, when a person’s animal instincts and sinful impulses have calmed down, they enter that second bubble on the right — the one of the mind. And they control everything, write a schedule: “That’s it, I exercise every day, I eat only healthy food, I help mom and dad, I’m a good boy.” But then at some point, three days later — bam — they slip back into the first world, the world of instincts. And that’s it — they’re drinking beer, browsing dating sites, and don’t understand what’s happening to them. And how does he not understand? He’s doing all of it because he wants to, but he doesn’t know where that desire came from. He doesn’t know what triggered it. Later, that desire fades, he comes to his senses again and returns to the second world — the world of the mind. And there are people who live like this.