Divinity and the Sea of the Subconscious

Something utterly different, something of a higher order, pierced the deepest part of Edwin's spirit like a cold probe.

It was not merely energy. It carried a kind of imprint.

This power was fundamentally the same as the faint imprint he had glimpsed while analyzing Low Sequence Beyonder Characteristics, but its concentration and strength were worlds apart.

In other words, the closer one came to the upper reaches of the Potion Sequence system, the more likely this special imprint was to accumulate.

Once it reached a critical threshold, the ancient, vast will behind it might use it to "revive." As the thought flashed through Edwin's mind, his consciousness seemed to be drawn by the divinity. It broke free of his body and the physical world, sinking into a dimension he had never seen before.

It was a boundless, hazy gray ocean.

The ocean was not made of water, but of countless shattered dreams, fleeting thoughts, and desires and fears buried deep within the heart. This was the other side of the Spirit World: the Collective Subconscious Sea that lay beneath it.

Here, each person's subconscious became an insignificant drop of water. Together, they formed this vast, chaotic realm. Edwin had never seen a world take this form before.

In the other worlds he had experienced, a complete intelligent being's individual will was absolute.

Thus, even the subconscious could not dissolve its boundaries so easily and form a shared "ocean."

Achieving anything similar usually demanded exacting conditions and a massive undertaking.

Aleister Crowley's "Artificial Tenkai" project, for instance, had needed tens of thousands of Misaka Sisters with identical brain waves as nodes and relays just to coordinate the AIM Diffusion Fields of 2.3 million people and barely construct an Artificial Tenkai.

Or take the Human Instrumentality Project in EVA. Only by