Pure Freesoulism is that this, the place we are visualizing this very moment, this fine city.. is simply a dream. A vision that our sleeping minds allow us to image while our bodies lie sound asleep on our shards.
No souls, no physical aspects though mental and emotional are clearly carried over through thoughts within our waking world and the dream and Vise Versa.
That is the largest thing to remember as a Freesoul.
Freesoul is not words, it is not actions, nor definitions. It is a way of existence.
Each of us, who achieved the awakening, must chose a path which dictates how we are to believe and how we are to understand the beliefs of the dream. To be freesoul is to believe that our dreams can be what we wish them to be, in all truths, a heaven created in our own MINDS.
Id like to mention a quote given to me by my mentor Balrog:
"Heaven can not be birthed in the hands of men, but solely in their minds. Free the mind and the spirit shall follow."
Think on this, and what it means to you as a Freesoul.
The dream is not a physical plane. As we mentioned, it is a state of consciousness A mental image. It is a land created from the thoughts of countless individuals who reside within it. The DreamWrights, in their wisdom, allowed a form of blueprint to be placed upon the minds of those entering the city. That blueprint is how we see the immovable objects in the city that we do. We all see walls, portals, etc in the same location as others.
But there are things that make it clear that we express our OWN dream. Open a door on your shard, ask 20 passersby if it is open or closed. All 20 will undoubtedly say it is open. Ask 20 dreamers in the library of Souls if the 6th sphere hall is open (spinning) or closed (not-spinning) and you will get varying answers. This is simple practical proof that things within the city of dreams are based upon the individuals perceptions and not physical ones.
When a dreamer is dedicated and his consciousness is well in tune with the dreamstate, his power is great.
Think of the dreamstate as a single note of a song one that by awakening you can hear. Each awakened dreamer adds a little to it. Dreamwrights learn to add whole lines of music. It all combines to make the beautiful, glorious song we know of as the dream.
BUT you hear it, yourself, within your own mind.
It has no effect on anything; save in the emotional aspects your experiences here create.
There are no souls here.
No one is here but you. Everyone else is just the sound of that person an echo. The dreamstate is the vibration of imagination. We hear and project the creations of our imagination here.
Illumination has played a detrimental role to the freesouls everywhere, as was seen about the history of the dream itself. Even those words, the histories, are quite tainted with the fooled words of the confused. In such they have left their lasting imperfections upon us all and unfortunately until their taint is gone we shall forever see it through sublevel controls and taught lessons.
Illumination is a fanatical ideal, a deep scare to put a person in the right ideals. Some have taken it farther than others, an example being the Protectors of Radiance and their quote Crusade. Judgementing their actions and everyone elses by the guidance of their own faith. Sublevel is placing the confusing ideals and trying to make freesoulism appear as though the same thing as Illumination, they try to bind the two.. and leave a person much more confused.
THERE IS NO COMBINATION OF BELIEFS
The dream is either spiritual or it is not. If it is spiritual, like the Illuminates say, then those of us who do not act in the best spiritual interests or which ever term the Illuminates chose to use are Murdering Dreamers...or are holding back all of humanity from some great advancement, etc.
You are a freesoul when you realize what the dream is; it is a shared Dream that allows the imaginations of every awakened individual to interact but only exists in the minds of the individual. The dream is not a place. It occupies no space.
Illuminates believe that there are souls here. That the dream is a place your soul travels to. To us, that is impossible. My soul rests on my shard within my body, which lies sound asleep allowing my mind to create these beautiful images of dreams. If my soul were to leave my body, I would surely perish.
My mind would no longer be able to function; thus my dreams would then cease to exist.
What motivates you here is what motivates you when you are awake. This is your mind. Your thoughts. Not your soul. What drives you to form friendships on your shard? Your emotions and mind. That is exactly what allows you to invision your dreams and the Friendships, loves, marriages, etc here.
SoulSpheres
Bad term for the word if you ask me. I prefer to think of it as Fuzzie or Floating. Simply because this is how we invision ourselves.
Why and how do we, as freesouls, envision ourselves this way?
We have expressed that we are aware of thoughts and emotions within our dreams. When we sense that our dreaming avatars (the image in which we see ourselves in our dreams) are threatened.. Or attacked by another dreamer, mare, or anything of the sort we can not deny that this attack has taken place within our minds. Just how we can not deny the fact that we will start running if another dreamer has evoked scare on us. It is the perception of the dream within our minds. Seeing ourselves as a fuzzie is the result from acknowledging the fact that we, though nothing is felt physically within the dream or on our shards, have been weakened to the level of having to see ourselves in a different shape. The result of an effect.
Any mind can put two and two together; thus any dreamer can see themselves as collapsed.
(Words as written by Innioc, Elias, Balrog of Tarda, Starling)