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A Quick Guide to Inner Space:
"Don't think... BE!"
If the dao could ever produce philosophers their view of what is real,
and what is imaginary, would be quite interesting. However, the dao
are not apt to have a philosopher, since the very profession profanes
their race. As such, the following is a presentation of the truth,
from the eyes of a mortal who has learned to BE as they have.
Unlike the world views of most Outer Planars, to the dao reality
is not some fusion of "belief" and stuff. The Outer Planes, the dao
rightly hold, are merely a pattern of atoms which is created by every mind
on the so called "Prime Material Plane." This plane, which gives rise
to the vast array of temporary beings known as mortals, is the local
where the REAL PLANES meet. It is the local in which the "stuff", the
atoms of the REAL PLANES, other wise known as the INNER PLANES, merges
in a vast array of configurations. The configurations however, are only
temporary, as are they lives they form.
The conerstone of reality, is the ATOM, the smallest individual
part of reality. Nothing is smaller, noting is more fundamental. All
things in reality are made of these units, both matter and energy.
This is not to be confused with the "atom" of certain 'Prime' philosophers.
There are a total of six types of atoms, Additional (positive material),
Subtractional (negative material), Transformable (fire), Transitional (water),
Ethereal (air), and Static (earth). Of these the ethereal is the least
real, where as the static are the most real. Atoms can not be destroyed
or created, they are eternal without begining or end, although the forms
in which they are arranged may be changed, say through an additio of fire
or water.
Everything in the Prime Material is made of these atoms in a variety,
of temporary configurations. Even the "thoughts" of mortals are merely
different arangements of atoms within their beings, such is the nature
of the ebb and flow of the Transitional atoms which permeate their beings.
Among these beings there are often imbalances in the quantity of positive
and negative energies, quantities of additional and subtractional atoms.
As such they develop inferior configurations which they call good and evil.
These two divisions of form seek only to promote more of their own forms,
and in doing so ruin the forms they have gained through chance alone.
The so called "Outer Planes" are the stuff of the ethereal atoms,
the arrangements of the atoms in the Prime, are the thoughts and dreams,
so many mortals cherish. As a physical location, the Outer Planes do not
exist, but are merely an abstraction developed from the varied combinations
of the ether. Hence one could say that the "Outer Planes" are made of
ether, but the experiences of those beings who encounter these abnormalities
are what the Outer Planes really are.
Their gods are merely collective figments of imagination, that
force which can shape the ether of the Prime. By arranging their atoms
in certain ways they are able to produce "reality" out of the ether.
Oh if those poor deluded fools could know the truth! The Outer Planes
are simply an arragement of atoms on the Prime, and have no reality
of their own. Simply by breathing I can reshape the Outer Planes..
It is best not to think but to rather BE!
© 1996 D. Goehrig
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