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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7700862" data-attributes="member: 58172">Consciousness is mysterious. Connect psionic flavor to the weirdness of the conscious observer and quantum mechanics. But use Medieval-esque terminology.Consciousness, soul, light, the fifth element of ether, brain, force, mind, outofbody, scry, push, move, fate, mindforce, lifeforce, soulforce, aura, the spirit of a person, to spirit something, and so on.In Medieval Jewish mysticism, the human soul has five levels:• Singularity (Ykhida) - divine self, divine spark, infinity (En Sof), source of the capacity of free will, deeply ‘hidden’• Vitality (Khaya) - cosmic self, transpersonal, selfless, interconnectedness of all living beings and of all things in existence• Consciousness (Neshama) - eternal self, altruistic ideal, better version of oneself, hidden but intuited and glimpsed• Spirit (Ruakh) - spirit of a person, inner life, emotional ideals, intellect, self-identity, human life, language, learning, influence of spirit• Lifeforce (Nefesh) - animal soul, vitality of body, appetites, sensations, fight-flight, bodily aura (equivalent to Ki/Chi)The above descriptions are a rough simplification intended for gaming purposes. ‘Hidden’ means it is beyond the limits of the mind to objectify, contain, and define. Yet it is an aspect of being a mind.The highest three levels are transcendent, beyond the limitations of space-time. Every human has all five levels. Internally, each soul originates from the divine infinity beyond space-time. But externally, in terms of behavior and appearance, most humans live from the lowest perspective of the animalistic lifeforce. It requires study, effort, and community to express the higher aspects of ones soul, in concrete ways, by means of real actions, in the physical world. These actions make a better world, illuminate the world, and elevate the world to function at higher levels of the soul.Flavorwise, psionics seems more focused on the level of the personal ‘spirit’ of each person, including language, learning, emotional ideals and intellectual ideals. It is the spirit of a person that can assess and harness the animalistic impulses with the bodily aura, and that can self-identify with the eternal and miraculous aspects of the transcendent levels of consciousness.</blockquote>

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