#~mindwalking

[blackvahana]

Hey, love your blog! I was wondering if you could tell me a bit about the mindscape, headspace, etc. is it a place in the astral or somewhere in between, and does it count as astral work/travel to go there. Thankyou :))

Hi, thank you!

I'll answer a bit out of order for a reason... I wouldn't count it as astral work/etc, I personally classify is under "mindwalking".

It's rough, in my experience basically every plane including this one is on a spectrum between Material and Mental. Every one is... both, at least if you can traverse it, which makes things confusing. However, just because both the ocean and the rain are experiences of "being in water", that doesn't make differentiating them unimportant - likewise just because technically even the physical plane is partly mental, that doesn't mean differentiating astral and mental are no longer important.

I answer classifications first mostly because I think its important that astral projection/etc is "Astral" not "mindspace" projection, "astral" is a term used for specific types of spaces in the way "physical" is. If "astral" and "mental" work were to be classified as the same thing, genuinely we may as well class "physical" things as "mental" too. None of that is saying you're (insert some negative word here) for asking about them, specifically Im lingering on it because the classification in itself is the biggest source of definitive lines drawn between things.

I'll say it this way: I guess its like asking about... Is a mountain a part of a valley? No. There is definitely a part where they are indistinguishable - but mountain climbers climb mountains, rivers settle in valleys, so while you can walk the line between these two things if youre aiming for Astral work (say: mountain climbing) youre not doing the same thing as mindwalking (say: river settling in a valley).

All that out of the way, I absolutely can tell you about those things in my experience. Mindspaces/headspaces (the only distinction I draw between terms is headspace is, in my experienced, used for systems and... as much as I know plurality comes about through many means, I am actually very big on medical terms being left to those that have medical disorders. Is headspace as much a medical term as system is? no, but Id rather stay out of it and just leave that term alone personally) (thats to say theyre likely similar or the same, but I cant talk on what gets called a headspace).

Mindspaces are complicated. They're essentially heavily rooted in the mental, which is to say the elemental mental... highly influenced by thought, extensions of self, mental is hard to define. That said, as I said earlier, theres places where mental and Astral blur. I actually have a portal in my mindspace to a place in Astral Mongolia, but that... involves weaving reality in... well. ok. TLDR its currently not super connected because it involves stitching a hole from unreality (not. nothingness, not nonreality) into reality, which is loosely like birthing something from nothing - but possible given the ties between them

Mindwalking does involve quite a few sort of... similar skills to AP and Astral work though. Not just that, but it shares similarities on a surface level IE you can meet spirits there as well as people you know irl, and so on. It is.... highly programmable

I think - on that note - a quick detour is important. The mental can be programmed to be incredibly realistic or absolute nothingness. Reality Shifting in all my experience - including creating and going into an "alternate reality" out of my control with my husband - is a Mental function. Dreams (everything from nonsensical flashes of memories, to weird unlucid adventures, to nightmares, to lucid dreaming) are Mental functions, "alternate realities" shifted into with RS, mindspaces, as well as autonomous other people/servitors/i-cant-stand-the-word-tulpa-but-thats-what-it-is-colloquiallys, manifestations of memories, visions/autovisions, as well as what Ive had in two mindspaces now, portals to other things including the astral, are all mental things... And so with that complexity hopefully its more understood when i say that one can go to the mindspace like they can project

its a different process but can be done with the same process, if that makes sense. You can lie down and get into the void state or whatever and "project" into the mental. That makes it complicated and hard to differentiate - if youre treating them as the same. if youre not its much easier to navigate. So, TLDR: Mindspace is a function of the mental where one creates a mental space that is sustained outside their image conjuring (if you put a book down in the mindspace and forget, it should still be there. if you put a book down in imagination while youre imagining youre in a place, it shouldnt still be there when you get back - mindspace is a stable mental space, imagination is a simulation of a space. technically both are simulations but mindspace becomes passively simulated and imagination is actively simulated), and theres a difference between astral and mental work (mindwalking is a type of mental work), but they do get mixed up and arent quite fully separate in many ways

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Star Wars: Squadrons - Raider Class Corvette by Mindwalk Studios

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Various animations developed for The Elder Scrolls: Online

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Thanks to Netflix I can finally do what Paramount prevented me from doing when it pulled Prodigy off the air.

Can finally, together for the holidays, watch the end of Prodigy together with my parents (They've been Trekkies since getting hooked on TOS as kids)

I can't wait to show Mindwalk to Dad.

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Liv Ullmann in Mindwalk (1990)

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#otd #startrek #balanceofterror #kirk #spock #mccoy #romulans #obsession #tas #theslaverweapon #uhura #kzinti #StarTrekProdigy #mindwalk #dal #gwyn #janeway #startrek58 @startrek @startrekonpplus

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A Minor-to-Medium Prediction for Prodigy Season 2

All right so I'll admit, I haven't gotten to the TOS episodes about Organians yet, so I'm kinda making a lot of assumptions.

(season one spoilers under the cut)

So I've been thinking about Dal's Augment abilities, and I think it's really important to the story that they remain fairly minor. The series is about Dal's growth as a person, and him getting a bunch of random superpowers does not help that. I find the story of someone who starts from nothing and fights to become somebody very inspiring, so I do truly hope his character remains more important than his DNA, and I also think it would be a mess if we had to sit through an episode about each of the minor traits he gets from each of his component species. He's his own person, that's like the point of the series.

But I do think he'll still have some variation in ability. He's got his neck-tail thing, he seems to be pretty acrobatic, and telepathic abilities seem to be a recurring motif.

I think he might not be able to really rely on his ability to swap bodies, at least not to the degree that he can cheese it like a Quirk or anything, but I do think he'll be able to use it and skills like it again. I think it will be interesting to see how the minor telepathic abilities of his component species can interact, especially since the way they work seems to be so... undefined. He can swap bodies with a person he knows, so long as there's SOME form of physical contact, like a phaser beam across starships. It's transitive. But we don't know what all this can interact with, and how else it can be used.

Next season will take place, it seems, largely on Solum. A planet that exists in two separate timelines, one in which it is almost entirely devoid of life and one in which its future remains uncertain. It sort of reminds me of Dal, whose past is pretty dark and empty but whose future could be better, we'll have to wait and see.

Anyway I'm kinda rambling but I think next season he's going to swap bodies with Gwyn. I don't know when and how this will impact things, but I think it's where the story is going. Honestly he'll probably go to a place where she is in the other timeline and think about how he misses her, and they'll swap places and have to deal with each other's situations. That's my theory. I don't think this will be the ending to the season or anything but I think it'll happen in the middle somewhere so they can provide some insight to the other's situation that helps but doesn't entirely solve some problem. It also, as in Mindwalk, really doesn't allow them to talk.

I think it's going to turn out that the reason Solum was so conflicted about joining the Federation is that they would have to give up genetic engineering. We've seen they have advanced technology in other fields, but I think we saw in Kobayashi that Gwyn was genetically engineered. I think the reason the word "progeny" was emphasized so much is because it has to do with how Vau Nakat reproduce. Gwyn isn't an exact clone of her dad- they don't have the same facial markings.

Overall I've almost convinced myself that Dal will learn and grow under Janeway, but ultimately leave Starfleet to forge his own path. It's unfair but I think neither he nor Gwyn can join Starfleet and for the same reason- and we're less than a year out from the events of Picard S1. But I think, if things are going the way I think they are, it'll be a powerful story nonetheless. I think Dal as an independent actor who attains far more success and influence than the likes of Okona could be a very satisfying ending. Not to mention the fact that I don't think I'd like watching him be treated like garbage by Starfleet and still decide to dedicate his life to it.

At the very end of season 1, Janeway walks off and asks the children if they're coming with her on their new ship. They all chase after her, except for Dal, who stops and watches Gwyn’s shuttle leave. I think that was foreshadowing. I think he'll grow under Janeway's guidance but ultimately become his own person.

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30 Days of Prodigy, day 13: Favorite screenshot

Well, of course I couldn't leave well enough alone, so here is my favorite screenshot which I then played around with in Illustrator.

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Mindwalker || Kate Dylan || Mindwalker #1 || 315 pages Top 3 Genres: Science Fiction / Young Adult / Dystopia

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[blackvahana]

this might be obvious, but how do you tell the difference between astral and mental planes? there are places deep down I suspect are astral, but I kind of just. Tell myself they're mental because of my brain working as it does.

It's a good question, I hope this is OK to answer publicly because it's something I've been having thoughts on lately and I think it's a good opportunity to talk about it

For the sake of the community? I really don't care if someone thinks something is astral, talks about there, later figures out (or NEVER figures out) it's mental. It's really just meant in context of "please no reality shifting, that's not the same thing as AP" in that so many people think that astral projecting and reality shifting and dream-crafting and mindwalking are the exact same thing "because everythings in the mind, our minds create our reality". It's not saying people like that aren't allowed, it's just establishing that when I say AP I'm not talking about... yeah. Those things, I'm talking about other planes inside this reality

In regards to the difference... It's not obvious. Perception of the world is Mental, hot and cold are mental, all ideas of solid ground and colours and sensory data and such are mental... Which leads to the fascinating issue of Mental Realm shenanigans being able to feel just as real as the Astral because... The feeling of reality itself is a mental process

The biggest thing is that the Mental is easily shaped, the Astral less so. If you can manifest things, change people you come across, shift the world itself... probably mental. But here's the thing... That works most of the time, if you can change it like moulding butter it's more than likely mental - this is not foolproof. It takes time to learn to manipulate the mental in order to create mindspaces and such. Some astral places eagerly listen to you, or in some cases you could be in the astral possessing the person you're an incarnation of suddenly with their abilities to shape the world around them that now feel effortless enough to be mental, but unbeknownst to you took you thousands of years to get to a stage of effortlessness

Some realms also just react more buttery-y to some people. It's... There's no hard and fast way to tell - which is a big reason I really don't care if people accidentally or just unsure...dly... post Could Be Mental stuff in the community

The other big reason it's hard to tell is the astral is on a spectrum between mental and material... Some places are highly mental, some are less so.

All of this isn't supposed to be a tangential attempt at a lesson, but to be context to saying... the best way is to work with it purposely I would suggest at least. Like. if you learn to shape mindspaces, being in the astral is a different experience. The mental is always going to be you, even when it's others, and the astral is going to be itself. The You vs It thing is the key, the more Mental parts are more Internal Collective, the more astral parts are more External Collective - as in that's what is meant by mental and astral. It's like being in someone else's body compared to your own, or, if we're talking about ending up in other people's mental realms, it's a sensation of simulated isolated existence that may simulate togetherness but is ultimately a movie on the silver screen, compared to a bundle of bodies all making up a chattering ecosystem you're just one part of.

Oh, and in saying mental is You and Collective and then saying "other people's mental realms"... Ideas of you and I and that and her and him and them plural and so on are mental ideas. Mental Realms can absolutely have big sensations of ownership, they can answer to one person more than others, but ultimately that's their programming. Like how do you know if you're playing a game or living reality? Experiment with the coding. You can't because you didn't make it? You haven't found the console commands yet

But when I say the Mental is You... What I mean is that it's a collective body, which means... in the way one can flex and relax and see their body move, the mental will move and change in ways that are different to the astral. If I tense and relax and see something tense and relax with me, it's my body. If I do that and the thing I'm looking at doesn't move in accordance with my actions, I can pretty safely say it's external - astral. Hence saying the best way imo is to practice purposefully doing what you know is mental things, you'll learn that the way you tense and relax this body to craft it into new forms won't work on external astral places because the difference is mental is the parts of reality that accept you as indistinguishable One with it even when it's playing being separate, but the astral is other people's bodies. Trees are bodies, but so is the astral forest, and sky, and so on, and they're not gonna move when you try and move them as if they're one with you

... I really don't like giving general advice as in I generally say that giving advice to someone without being in a tutor mindset of learning deep about the problem and whatnot is dangerous or at best just clumsy, but in this case... I hope it helps? As in I know I keep saying The Best Way IMO and It'll Probably Work type things and that annoys me because I don't really like advice like that so it's hypocritical to give it, but also... my god no one talks about the mental and sometimes clumsy talk is better than no talk

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Okay, Kate Mulgrew playing Dal pretending to be Janeway is fantastic. I am so glad Netflix picked this up so I could see this.

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In-game 3D model for The Elder Scrolls: Online

Art by Mindwalk Studios

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Title: Mindwalker | Author: Kate Dylan | Publisher: Hodder Books (2022)