The Trance

10 minutes ago

'The body? What does Gramps mean by the body? is he talking about how the body is a vessel for something called a soul? But if the body is a vessel then what is the soul? Is it my brain or is it something else? But my brain is also a part of my body, so is the soul something different? Could the soul be my consciousness, but if it is my consciousness doesn't that mean my memories and experience are also a part of my soul? So is my soul something that is composed of all three and maybe more? If that's what the soul is, then how does my body become a vessel for my soul? And if my soul is a separate entity from my body, how does my soul connect to my body?

Well whatever I'm just going to ask Grandpa, he'd probably know.'

As he got out of his trance, he looked around only to see no one. Getting up he went to the Southside of the forest where he heard the faint voice of his grandfather.

Running inside the forest he screamed his Grandfather's name, waiting to find him.

He then heard a few rustles and saw his Grandpa facing a hill, he then screamed out "Grandpa!".

Hearing this Maxwell faced his grandson's direction with a smile and said "Coming, I just had to take a leak." He then grabbed something from the ground and put it inside his pocket and left the vicinity of the place to where his grandson is.

A few minutes Later

As both Grandpa Max and Alex sat back to their previous positions, Grandpa Max said

"So what did you gain from the trance"

Alex responded by saying " uh, well I was mostly questioning things but I realized that the body must be the vessel of something and that 'something' is probably the soul that you spoke about before in one of your rants, and then I questioned about what the soul consists of and came to a conclusion that the soul consists of the consciousness, the memories, and experience. The rest was just some Questions" as Alex ended his talk about the trance. Maxwell stayed silent for a few seconds then smiled and said

"Well you are right about the body being a vessel however there is something else that is also using the body as a vessel and it is called Qi, and it is closely tied with the body, however unlike the soul you don't have Qi from the day you are born, instead you need to collect it and spread it across your body so you can use martial arts.

However that is a subject for another time, so instead, I will tell you about the soul and what it consists of. First of all the soul is made out of soul force and this soul force is basically divided into 2, one store's everything you've seen heard touched, and so on, so basically it stores your memory and experience. While the other part stores your consciousness, that is basically where you think and make your decisions, and they are both closely intertwined.

So do you have any questions? Because we're mostly going to focus on the body for now. "

Hearing all this information took some time for Alex to digest and basically filled in some of the holes of information he had. However he now had one question which was "Grandpa I have a question, can you use soul force to fight?"

Hearing this Maxwell smirked and said " Yes you can but that's a little too advanced for you right now so you won't learn anything about that for now, same thing with things that include Qi, for the next few months you will just have to learn about your body and make a food foundation. Is that clear?"

Hearing this Alex replied with "Yes Grandpa".

As such Maxwell continued to teach Alex about the human body and its anatomy untill the sun was overtaken by the moon.