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[Alexandr Korol]

I looked at the stones again and saw that the same stones were emitting. I thought, what if I didn’t choose the stones that caught my attention and that I felt? What if I chose the stones I didn’t feel? I decided to approach it rationally — looking at which stones I hadn’t picked. Then I thought I’d gather stones not based on whether they emitted or not, but simply all black ones. I gathered a whole bunch of black stones: onyx, tourmaline, black obsidian, and a bunch of others. The shop had a really large and good selection. So in Russia, you don’t get that kind of selection — you can’t just walk into a shop and buy like that — but over there, they had such an interesting variety. I picked out those stones, maybe six or seven, maybe even eight types of black stones, and I noticed something. At that time, I was actually observing how each stone affected me, and I was also working out with a trainer every day. Then I made this pouch to wear on my chest, filled it with all the black stones, hung it on a string around my neck, and started walking around with it — and I began to feel... I didn’t know yet it was the stones — I just started to feel tired, drained. I’d wake up in the morning and couldn’t get out of bed, like I had this insane fatigue, no strength. My trainer would come over at 7 AM, and I’d say, “Listen, I don’t know what’s wrong with me, maybe I’m sick, I don’t know.” And me — well, I always have to figure out the cause and effect, understand what and why. Then I started thinking — what if it’s because of the stones? A friend came over, and I gave him the pouch and said, “Can you take this? I think it’s because of it.” He took it, and after some time I came back to normal. Then he returned the pouch to me, and again I felt like I was being drained, like I had no strength, as if all my energy was being sucked out of me. But that’s just a sensation, it doesn’t necessarily mean it was really draining me — but the feeling was exactly like that, as if all strength had been depleted. I can feel it even now just remembering it, like, whew. And I figured that there must be stones that not only affect you by inspiring or charging you up, but also some that can suppress you. But again, that was at the time, when I was thinking on a primitive level. Now, if I were to research it again, I would describe everything in more detail, more precisely, but I didn’t give it much importance back then. I mean, if I were researching it now, I’d definitely give more thorough information. Back then it just happened by chance, I noted it in the book — and that’s it, I forgot about it. So, really, I never returned to the idea that those stones were “bad,” I didn’t focus on what stones they even were.