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Nicolai Levashov. The Mirror of My Soul. Vol. 1. Born in the USSR

the mass media, then you are unable to do what you declare. It was always amusing to

see people’s faces lit with surprise when they were assured of the contrary.

In the Soviet Union almost nothing was reported about any results of my work,
although the highest echelons in power knew perfectly well what I could do and what I
had done already. It concerned both my success in healing people and in solving the
problem of the ozone layer and clearing out Chernobyl’s radio-active contamination.
They knew, but were in no rush to make it public property.

First, few people knew about what I had done already, and those who knew were
not in a hurry to share it with others. Second, an official acknowledgement of my results
would bring a lot of undesirable consequences both for those in power and for
functionaries in science, because it would then be necessary to revise very many things,
and they already knew that it is impossible to control me blindly.

But, I was not worried about it. Certainly, I would be pleased, if people knew what
I had succeeded in doing. But complete silence about my work did not make me suffer.
In fact, I did not do all this to appear in newspapers or on TV. I did it because my soul
required it, because it was interesting for me to solve one or another problem. My reward
was always the fact that I succeeded in solving something seemingly impossible. And
when I succeeded, my soul had been glad and rejoiced, and not because I was the
“greatest”, but because I succeeded in guessing another riddle of nature and had found
another “key” to its secrets.

It is the highest reward for a true scientist, which I consider myself to be, and all
the rest is tinsel. Its presence or absence does not affect my attitude to life; I accept both
with peace of mind. The most important thing is what motivates a person to do
something. There was never a place for vanity and pride among my motives. If indeed
you are able to make something happen, all this is unnecessary and can only hinder you

in your work...

My standpoint does not mean that other people’s opinion, their experience or their
under-standing does not matter to me. I have always respected and still respect the
opinions and concepts of others. Only I have always considered and still consider that if
a person expresses an opinion, he must substantiate it, especially when his opinion is
opposed to another’s. It is overwhelmingly important in this case to have grounds for
and explain your opinion.
If the person does not explain or simply declares that it is “so”, simply because it is
“so” or that he is not allowed to speak about it, or that others are simply unable to
understand him, etc., it is a signal for me that this person has no opinion of his own, but
only wishes to show off! Certainly, there can be a situation, when for one or another
reason a person must not speak about something, but in this situation the person should
not begin a conversation about it. However, in most cases the unwillingness to explain
one’s position hides ... the absence of any grounds for it.

Very often people, who have one or another gift, do not quite understand its nature
and use it in the dark and for this reason they utilize only an insignificant part of their
gift. Pretty often the blind use of the gift results in its loss, or transformation into its
exact antithesis. Frequently people only think that they have a gift and suggest this idea
both to themselves and to those around them, and the absence of proof of its

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