Now that you have constructed the data of your true/global existence. It is time to learn about mental energy.

As you have been beaten in the head over and over again. This technique requires you to rotate it for 60,000 hours without stopping or taking a break. You can sleep. But you mustn't stop rotating the technique... ever.

You might wonder why do such a thing? Well, you have only done a fraction of the technique by making a physical true/global existence.

You can think of what we did in the last chapter as drawing the outline for the 'key'. But it is just a drawing. A picture.

Can you use the drawing of a key to open up a door? Not really.

A part of the human condition is the requirement for rest and recovery. You cannot stay focused 24/7. It is simply impossible. But that is what it takes to do the impossible.

It requires almost no effort to count from one to ten. But what about going from one to a thousand. Or one to a million? Completely different levels of effort. But the complexity isn't really changing.

I want you to try to visualize your true existence in your sea of consciousness.

There are 2,500 stages to the technique.

But you shouldn't start 'rotating' the technique yet. Before you do so, you must first have the image which you will animate.

How are you to rotate something you only have a vague idea of? Especially rotating it for 60,000 hours. This guide will help you solidify your visualization technique.

Instead of your true existence being a 'drawing' and 'data'. You will breathe life into it!

You will need to take baby steps and slowly build the framework that you will use. Your images need to be detailed and refined.

But at the same time. Mentally, you are limited. You have already expanded your visual limit from "Path of Somnus: God's Death".

You have an energy field now.

In the last chapter I talked about how many hours of mental energy I had in the time loop. You are the same. Whether you like it or not. There is a limit of actions you can perform in this lifetime. You will one day die.

The countdown is going on constantly.

You may only have a few days or years left.

What you dedicate your time to is important. Whether that be reading books or playing games. You are constantly spending your mental resources. A key point of this technique is siphoning off and splitting your mental energy you would've already been spending.

Nothing in life is free.

Simply existing is already spending your mental resources.

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The steps you have taken have made you eternal. But being eternal can be seen as a curse. Imagine if you were fully paralyzed for an eternity? Imagine if you had to be tortured for eternity? I'm sure you realize what is at stake here.

The difference between bliss and pain is the difference between having mental energy and not.

Having low or high entropy.

This is where souls come into place.

The brain transforms physical matter into computation power. It transforms physical energy into mental energy.

Everyone is going through this process.

But I'm sure you've noticed something! A hidden existence can think without a brain. This is where the torture comes into place. A hidden existence without mental energy is useless and a fate worse then death.

Imagine that feeling of suffocation. Being that uncomfortable forever.

So... to prepare yourself and optimize your hidden existence experience. You need to store mental energy throughout life. That is what the technique is accomplishing as you rotate it.

But this won't work if you just rotate a single image with no depth.

The manifestation of effort and drive you dedicate to the technique. You will need to ensure you are set for various scenarios.

For example.

You chose the moment to send your global existence back in time. The moment before your birth. If you sent it to 1997 and were born in 1999. That means you lack a brain for two years. This means in order to think. You need two years of mental energy to burn through during this time.

You will have a body and brain after getting born. So you will have access to the resource generator. So you won't burn through your reserves of mental energy.

You then can collect more mental energy through rotating the technique. But during the days before your birth. You might imagine that you won't need to rotate the technique? That is wrong. Without a heart, lungs, and a brain.

Your existence is quite fragile.

You rotate the technique clockwise to store mental energy.

You rotate it counterclockwise to spend mental energy.

You spent a lifetime practicing never having it stop already. So that you would be prepared to fight reality and keep your consciousness after death and before birth.

That's right! You can leave the 'time loop' of your birth and death. Hidden existences aren't bound by the rules of reality.

You then use the versions of yourself trapped in the loop as a mental energy generator.

You can think of the story of Sisyphus. A man cursed to push up a boulder uphill for eternity only for it to fall all the way back down right as he is about to reach the top. He was punished for trying to cheat death. That is exactly what we are doing here.

So the technique is like your 'boulder'.

This is the rules behind how it works:

If you have any gaps in consciousness and lose track of what stage you are at. It is the equivalent of the boulder falling back down the hill. Your mental energy will be dispersed and your true existence will become unstable.

This has various consequences depending on your level of mastery. If you have performed a full rotation already. Then you are already eternal. There is no escaping your fate.

But if you have never done a full 60,000 hour rotation. You haven't solidified your cultivation. This means ALL the mental energy you stored will be wasted.

So failing only doesn't matter under three cases:

1.) You have already successfully performed the technique.

2.) You have created a 2nd thread.

3.) You are already a hidden existence.

This means that if you rotated the technique for 59,999 hours and lost consciousness or track of your stage. Everything would become meaningless and you will need to keep trying until you cross the threshold.

The moment you cross that stratum.

You have the opportunity to create a 2nd thread that is eternal.

Before you even attempt the rotation. You must first design 2,500 different images.

Each stage will be an animated image.

Here is a guide:

1.) Create a variable in your mind called a 'stage'

2.) Everyday add an increment to this variable.

3.) Every morning, design a new image.

4.) Visualize this image nonstop for 24 hours (even when sleeping).

5.) Memorize the images.

You can think of this like ALWAYS counting. But you only need to add +1 everyday. You will also need to spend almost seven years designing the images and visualizing them.