Mural

Oh… this is fascinating.

This pearl contains a patent detailing a method of preserving organisms indefinitely using a new formulation of void fluid.
Rather than using distilled void fluid like most applications do, this method calls for void fluid that has been impaired with material from a previous ascension.

The ratio of void fluid to impurities is important. If the fluid is too pure, the substance will dissolve the subject as usual.
Too little, and you might as well be using a vat of industrial runoff. But if the concentration is just right,
the subject’s neural patterns will be inhibited while the body is left intact.

What I find more interesting than the process itself are the aspirations of the author. Toward the end of the document, the topic shifts from its use on purposed
organisms to its usage as an alternative to ascension, as the mind of the subject is left in a state “distant from the everbearing presence of the cycle”.

As preposterous as that sounds, I can’t help but be reminded of the avenues I took myself in trying to solve the great problem.
Following any possible breadcrumb to a potential answer, delving into tentative pseudoscience...

Even the name the author goes by, “Forgone Cycles” is clearly a pseudonym. It doesn't follow the typical
format of my benefactors and has an eccentric flavor that loosely relates to the topic at hand.
It’s not unlike the name I once used when I was more active in public circles.

I shall continue to study this in my off time.