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

When a person passes by and sees someone drowning in a river or lake, he will try

to rescue him. If the person can swim, he must (if he is indeed a human being) plunge
into the water and pull the drowning one out and, if necessary, do everything in order to
maintain and save his life. If the person cannot swim, he must do everything in his power
to find a way to help: throw a rope, a ring-buoy, any other thing that can float in order
that the drowning person can survive until he calls other people.

If the person who cannot swim does nothing and the one in the water dies, we can
only regret that this man did not even try to do something in order to rescue another
person, but he cannot be blamed for the death, only for his passivity. However, if the
person who can swim, especially when he swims very well, does nothing to rescue the
drowning one for any reason, this person is responsible for the death of the man, in spite
of the fact that it was not his fault that the man was in the water. He is guilty of the
drowning man’s death because of his inaction.

No excuse—there was not time, the water was cold, I was in a hurry, etc.—can
justify inaction which resulted in the death of a man. I hope that every normal person

would agree. This simple example clearly shows the responsibility of a person for the
consequences of his actions, or lack of them, to other people, and what is most important
to him.

In this example the ability to swim makes it possible for the person to act, and the
life of the drowning man becomes his responsibility. The one who can swim is
responsible for the life of the drowning person, because a human life depends on his
action or inaction! The ability to swim is regarded as a property and ability of a person;
and his actions or their absence are regarded as his understanding of the responsibility
to other people and depend on the level of his consciousness.
Nothing changes, when a person has dramatically different characteristics and

abilities (for example the ability to influence natural processes to a greater or lesser
degree, to control these processes or even to change them). The only difference between
the person who can swim and the person who possesses the aforesaid abilities is in the
level of responsibility for his actions or inactions. The more the person can do, the higher
his level of personal responsibility, whether he likes it or not!

When a person has this kind of understanding, he cannot think of himself as
exceptional, be-cause the only exceptional thing here is his responsibility for his actions
or inactions. This is very far from “basking” in the rays of one’s own “glory”, but an
enormous burden of responsibility to others, especially if they still sleep!

Regrettably, most people who were endowed with one or another natural ability do
not have the proper level of development of their consciousness, because of the distorted

perception of the world. And exactly this gap between the level of abilities and the level
of consciousness is used by social parasites of every stripe.

Certainly, a temporal mismatch between the level of abilities and the level of
consciousness is inevitable, but the lack of understanding or disregard of this fact will
sooner or later bring this per-son to the Dark side or do everything possible to facilitate
his capture by parasites.

I was always surprised when those who due to different circumstances found the
presence of some abilities which most people did not have, declared themselves to be
exceptional. Very often these natural abilities were in their most rudimentary state, but

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