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[Alexandr Korol]

all of this. How long can we keep getting tangled up in this? People have learned all these words, but they don’t even understand what they’re saying. Alright, let’s put it this way. 99% of people, when they talk about the soul, they literally mean some kind of consciousness. That’s what they imply — that it’s some sort of ghost, like a little piece of energy living in the physical body. And when the body dies, this little piece of energy flies away somewhere, and it can enter or leave that body and become a ghost. That’s what most people think the soul is, at least in the majority. But again, this is just one version, and it should be understood as such. In the end of the first volume and the second volume, I tell you that there is no soul, there’s nothing separate like that, some piece that detached and flew away — no. So, probably, that’s why you’re not talking about the soul anymore and decided to use the word “consciousness” instead. But the essence of what you’re referring to is still that, in a way, within our bodies, there is us. That’s right, I think about it this way too. But we are human beings, and with the extent of our development, we understand these complex, philosophical things the best way we can. In essence, we were born and live to explore these questions and find the answers to them. My perspective on this is very different now, of course, than it was when I was writing the second volume. Now, in 2025, my understanding is that the body — well, imagine a character in a video game. It’s drawn, it moves, it’s three-dimensional, but it’s made up of some kind of code. Well, I’m made of the same code. This world, it’s like a video game. But the essence is that, just like there are different qualities and formats for audio tracks — MP3, AAC, or WAV — just like photos have formats like RAW or JPEG, people also have different formats. In essence, when you listen to a track or see an image, the visuals or sound are enough for you, but there’s still a code behind it, some kind of quality, right? A certain compression, a format. And it’s like a person, where “heart” is simply a different rhythm for you, a different projection, a specific quality. There’s the “mind,” and there’s “instinct.” These are all different, almost like they can be measured in gigahertz or megahertz. And you can actually reach a point where you elevate to the level of the Spirit. At that time, of course, in the second volume, it seemed to me that the Spirit was entering me, like something external was coming into me. But now I suppose that you actually become it. You become the Spirit. You’re still the same person, the same physical body — there’s no sense of something flying into your body