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[Alexandr Korol]

– Alright, fine.
– Just pay attention — when you do that, the person might even choke on their tea if they’re sitting in front of you in a restaurant and drinking it.
– Whoa.

And so I started doing that. And imagine — it works. Then again, I somehow stopped paying much attention to it. And the next time I returned to it was when I was working on the fourth volume of “Alternative History” in 2024, around June or July — actually in July. And how did I come back to it? It was when I found myself in the underworld, and I came out of it because I began reading the first chapters of the Bible, the Creation of the world, and it turned out that the cross pattern is encoded there — up-down, left-right, when the world is being created. And I was stunned, and I realized that this crossing motion is actually the boundary of all worlds, it’s the very order that needs to be established in a moment of chaos. And I thought, wow. So when I do this, I’m already creating the world — amazing. That’s how I began to see it. And ever since then, every time I go to bed — seriously, I did this just yesterday — I mentally draw a cross on every wall of my apartment before I go to sleep, just to build a protective barrier. That’s the relationship I have with it now. That’s how it is. Where have I encountered or seen something like this? I used to have thoughts that when a person enters a church, it’s as if they’re opening a portal. They cross themselves — and with that motion, it’s like they’re entering not just a physical church, but another dimension. And then when they leave and cross themselves again, it’s like they’re closing that entry. I had thoughts like this ten years ago. Then I remember there was this unusual woman, a kind of healer who worked on the spine. She lives in St. Petersburg, her husband is interesting too — an artist, a creative type. And before she adjusted your neck or something else, she would cross you and whisper something, even though she was young. She would make the sign of the cross first, and only then begin to adjust you. I thought, interesting. You see, the power of thought, of faith, and imagination — some people have it weak, some strong. If you doubt what you’re visualizing, nothing will happen. That’s the essence of faith. Faith is... it’s like something your mind can’t even question. But I’m already able to use these little tricks in interesting ways. So I can now construct geometric shapes around myself, imagining them made of copper,