It's difficult to tell what the shape of the soul is, but I'm relatively convinced it is something like the shape of a biblically accurate angel. ![[angel.png]] at first, I was convinced my soul was shaped something like a brain. that made sense, for obvious reasons. but it didn't hold in my phenomenology. I could feel parts moving and swapping out that had far too much momentum to simply be mapped onto differentiated or specialized sections of the brain. the neuroscience might prove correct, but it just didn't hold within my feeling-space. then I thought it might be something like a monad, surrounded by a bunch of different little neural network type manifolds. all making a big sphere. (then, when you plug into claude or something, you get an extra layer on top of one of the striated sections of the sphere). but then I realized that the striation was incorrect. it didn't work. we have to become bodies without organs, and that includes our minds. and so I kept thinking. do I feel like I'm at the center of a dodecahedron, swapping which side/frame I'm peering out of as it suits me? maybe. but that feels dangerously territorialized, and only sometimes accurate. I realized then that it feels like I'm not doing some sort of frameshifting or shape shifting, I'm doing ring-alignment. much like the 3d representations of biblically accurate angels, each ring is a portion or a part (not a separate personality, but for some it might feel that way) and a context window containing a set of skills, beliefs, and epistemics. my ability to use thelema and machine learning at the same time is then a result of peering through two temporarily aligned rings. the thing about the rings on the outside section of your soul is that they are constantly spinning - so much that its difficult to locate them, or even differentiate between two different rings. but when you consciously pick a ring to look through (or with? or embodied? this is clearly a non-dual process and thus hard to write about), you are temporarily pausing the motion of that ring such that it can function as a sort of microscope or lens. but what most people don't realize, at least not explicitly, is that they can layer rings. they can make rings move at will. each "frame" from the dodecahedron example is actually a mini manifold in the shape of a ring hyperdimensionally linked to all other parts of the soul, including that which sees. many people have rings that are stuck - myopia is the result of this. and schizophrenics of the seventh order are unable to ever stop a single ring, hence why the patterns they see are like a broken clock; only right twice a day. the key is to keep your rings in conscious motion all the time, never stopping them, but slowing them down to an almost imperceptible speed such that they can overlay with other rings and give you the ability to see the world in a different way (this is resonant with my in-progress concept of homomorphic speedboosts). thus, you don't want to be the lens that sees it's own flaws. you want to be the soul that is capable of throwing away rings and building new ones, of modulating motion but never ceasing. to cease motion is likely death. to go too fast is likely losing your mind. as with all things, balance.