User blog comment:Silver-Haired Seireitou/Sei-san's Classroom: Beyond the Spiritual Skies/@comment-3001427-20120625163956

Hi, Void here, I'll be posting a response on the behalf of Chrono since he has limited internet access at the moment. If you have any questions or responses, I'll direct them to him, and before we begin; take heed, take heart, and keep an open mind.

''I think your conjectures are entertaining and interesting, but they don’t really make much sense if you have a context for the culture that created Tite Kubo. Japan is a society with a rich history and cultural identity, which is unique to its neighbors, but nonetheless draws much of its mythology from many sources.''

Because when you get down to it, Bleach’s basis is in mythology and metaphysics.

''As you mentioned, the spirit world is on one plane, and the living world is on another- but they are not planes in the sense that they are two parallel sheets, but are instead they are a manifold, a tapestry. They touch and intersect at many points- and these points are in places of deep and profound human passion and conviction.''

''The spiritual body is a manifestation of a person’s will. Its appearance is a reflection of a person’s subconscious self-image. Its health determines the integrity of their will.''

''Spiritual bodies don’t have spleens, or blood cells, or a central nervous system. If the spiritual body bleeds, it is because bleeding is how the spirit expresses an injury. If they have a heart, it is because they measure their existence by the beating of one. If they breath, it is because the vascular motion of inhalation and exhalation is a natural rhythm to the spirit. If they die, it is because they lack the will to continue existing in the face of a trial. This is called residual self image.''

''In the same vein, the spiritual realm is an amalgam of perception. Its appearance and state is determined by the influences of the wills that occupy it. Distance is not determined by coordinates or by some kind of metric scale, but according to proximity of emotion and symbolism.''

''The realm of soul society is an isolated realm, cut off from others by the dangai, because it is symbolic of japan in all its history. Japan was an isolated island nation ruled by the inviolable power of their emperor and his dynasties. Soul society is a fabrication, or perhaps reflection, of the peoples’ perceptions of heaven in those eras.''

''Other spiritual realms surely exist, and I imagine that they breach the borders of soul society according to how their myths breach into japan’s. For example, Hermes is a Greco-roman deity, but his legends became the inspiration of Fujin, a well-known Japanese deity.''

''There are probably Greek realms, Irish realms, Native American realms, the list goes on. But they are all relatively isolated from each other by different creation myths, different explanations of the human condition. And they are probably all true unto themselves… the spiritual realm is where truth is a matter of perception, and the proof of one’s existence lies within conviction.''

''That said, when within the “sphere” of a particular spiritual “kingdom” you must abide by its rules. The weight of ages of deceased spirits has gone into reinforcing them, and although spiritrons are mutable and changeable, the realm possesses a will in itself, that resists and rejects an influence that is counter to its sphere.''

''So if Hermes went to soul society? He’d probably turn into Fujin. If Zeus went to soul society? He’d probably be an ordinary spirit.''

''Spiritrons aren’t atoms. They aren’t dark matter, and frankly I find your assertions about dark matter and how it acts to be pretty ignorant of the actual physics underlying it. They obviously aren’t antimatter, or else any interaction between spirits or spiritual energy and ordinary matter would create massive explosions.''

''As to what they are- the nearest approximate I can come up with, is that they are the lowest common denominator of human perception. They are tiny fragments that reflect the energies around them, because they are a residual image in themselves. They are what is left when spirits discorporate. ''

As my favorite writer said best, “Don’t part with your illusions, when they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

''He also said, “Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists save empty space and you… and you are but a thought.”''

''The image may be gone, but the shattered mirror that cast that reflection remembers the illusion of being. That is what a spiritron is. A shard of a broken spiritual reflection.''

''By the way. It is spelled, “plane” and not “plain”.''

Plain – A treeless expanse of level land or ordinary.

Plane – A level of existence, consciousness, or development.

When one transitions from the physical world to the spiritual, it is not a transition from one space to another, but a transition from the laws of physics, to the laws of spirit.