In the secret chamber of Isla Sorna's underground base, Dilso, floating above his own body in soul form, made preparations to return to his flesh while listening to Ancient One's explanation of souls.
"Once the consciousness of any multicellular organism develops into a soul, it gains a shared and powerful trait: its control over energy and the body is no longer disturbed by subconsciousness and other chaotic forms of consciousness originating from the physical level."
"In other words, unless we fall under some powerful magic, we will not dream even when asleep. Even if drugged, at most we may fall into states such as weakness or death, but we will never be made to do something we do not wish to do because of a drug. Some beings with especially powerful souls can even use soul power to control their bodies and drive out or block such drugs."
At this point, Ancient One smiled amicably at Dilso. "That is to say, Mr. Sullivan, you belong to the category of beings with particularly powerful souls."
Dilso, who was making his preparations, said nothing and simply listened quietly to Ancient One's explanation.
"After any life form develops a soul, its soul forms a close connection with every tissue, structure, and portion of energy within its body. This allows such a life form to surpass the definition of ordinary existence on a certain level. To put it simply, regardless of how poor its actual combat ability may be or how average its overall abilities are, a life form that has developed a soul is inherently a higher form of life than one that has not."
"Unless they suffer a fatal injury that threatens their lives, such advanced life forms cannot be stopped from functioning normally by ordinary muscle damage, severe nerve trauma, tissue