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Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1


                    Chapter 1. The qualitative structure of planet Earth


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                  The souls of mankind and of all living creatures that inhabit the Earth — where
            do they come from and where do they go after death...? And what, actually, is a soul

            or spirit? How do souls appear and what do they signify? Is a soul material, and, if
            so, what kind of substance is it made of? And why are so many people incapable of
            seeing it, hearing it, or perceiving it in any way?

                  Perhaps it is just an illusion we are all eager to believe in. The mere notion that,
            with the physical death of the body, we lose all our thoughts and feelings, all  our
            discoveries, great or small, but still our own — and all our revelations — drowns us
            in a sea of deadly melancholy.

                  Is that why we try to conjure up beguiling fantasies  -just  to quell  the fear of
            death that lies within our soul? But is this the only source of our desire to know what
            awaits us in the hereafter?
                  And, aside from that — are there many people who are even capable of feeling
            or seeing radio waves or any other forms of radiation? I think not. And only thanks to
            invented devices does the invisible become visible and tangible. But these devices

            merely compensate for our limited ability to perceive reality through our senses.

                  In  essence,  the  problem  lies  in  the  imperfection  and  limitations  of  our
            senses — rendering selective and limited the input bombarding our brain from
            the surrounding world. For example, our eyes can see only the optical radiation of
            our star, the sun, [(4-10)10 m] comprising less than one percent of the total radiation
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            in our surrounding space. And we base this only on the data from our present-day
            science. But what if this knowledge is limited?

                  In  the  recent  past,  two  hundred  years  ago,  no  one  suspected  the  existence  of
            radio  waves  or  other  forms  of  radiation.  The  mere  notion  would  have  seemed

            heretical  or  absurd.  Nevertheless,  they  existed  long  before  man  first  appeared  on
            Earth;  they  have  been  here  since  the  birth  of  the  universe,  the  home  of  our  solar
            system.

                  If ninety-nine out of a hundred men are blind and only one can see, it does not
            make him wrong if no one else perceives what he is seeing — even if everyone else's
            eyes, feel just like his when touched. It would be far more fitting for the blind to try
            recapturing their sight and viewing reality through their own eyes — no matter how
            far-fetched  their  sighted  comrades'  observations  seem.  Or,  failing  this,  find  new
            devices to help them see the now (to them) unseeable.

                  But how can the blind become sighted? Is it possible, in principle? Of course it

            is!  The  only  solution  is  for  man  to  attain  a  totally  new  level  of  evolutionary
            development.






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