Mental Stages
Perception Stage: The individual becomes aware of their own consciousness and begins to break some of its limitations while gaining control over certain aspects of it.
Awareness Stage: The individual gains greater command over their consciousness and can control the majority of phenomena within their own mental and spiritual realms.
Formation Stage: The individual frees themselves from all mental restraints and achieves complete mastery over their consciousness.
Ascension Stage: The individual acquires extensive control over the mental and spiritual realms of another person and develops a fully formed mental and spiritual body.
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Structure of the Mental and Spiritual Body in the Novel
Mental and Spiritual Realms
All mental realms exist within the spiritual realm, as the spirit serves as the foundation of all mental worlds. The mental realms themselves exist within the Abstract Realm, which functions as the surface foundation containing and encompassing all of them.
The collective entirety of these mental realms is referred to as the Realm of the Self. This Realm of the Self exists within the broader Abstract Realm.
There are three primary mental realms:
Realm of Thought
This realm encompasses patterns of thought, intellectual doctrines, ideologies, and philosophical systems followed by an individual. It focuses upon the origin of ideas and their conceptual and symbolic forms.
Realm of Horizon
This realm contains life philosophies and perspectives concerning meaning, purpose, values, and existential principles. It governs the various paths and directions an individual may pursue in life.
Realm of Strings
This realm governs the psyche, emotional fluctuations, psychological structure, identity, and the comprehensive essence of the self. It includes all aspects related to personality and selfhood.
Each of these realms possesses two forms of consciousness:
Defensive Consciousness
Offensive Consciousness
These are known collectively as Symmetrical Consciousness.
The Realm of the Self possesses a superior form of consciousness known as Central Consciousness.
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Memory Tree
A vast structure known as the Memory Tree extends throughout the three mental realms.
Each realm possesses its own memories, recollections, emotional imprints, and cognitive traces. The Memory Tree acts as a network connecting these records together across the entire Realm of the Self.
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Dream Realm
The Dream Realm is a world in which the dreams of all individuals within the world's range converge.
It consists of several sub-realms:
Nightmare Realm
A realm where nightmares, distorted dreams, fears, and unsettling visions gather.
Realm of Sentiment
A realm where ordinary dreams, pleasant dreams, aspirations, and emotionally positive experiences accumulate.
Important Note
Every individual dream possesses a unique entrance connected directly to its dreamer.
Within these dreams exist entities known as Inner Dream Guardians, whose role is to protect dreams from corruption, intrusion, and abnormal alterations.
Above them exists the Great Will of Dreams, the manifestation of the Creator Entity of the Dream Realm.
There is also an organization serving the Dream Warden, the supreme authority responsible for maintaining order throughout the Dream Realm.
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Positional Realm
The Positional Realm is a preparatory world that a spirit passes through before entering the Dream Realm.
Its purpose is to protect, stabilize, and prepare the spirit before it enters either of the two major dream worlds.
The Positional Realm contains four gateways:
The Entrance Gate, guarded by a Dream Guardian.
The Exit Gate, guarded by two Dream Guardians.
Two additional gates leading respectively to the Nightmare Realm and the Realm of Sentiment.
The destination of a spirit depends upon the orientation of its will and the external influences acting upon it at the moment of transition.