Mindplaces (book)

Psychis Mindplaces is a book written by Cain.

Excerpt
"In a sense all shifters are psychics. The act of merging selves, as we do when reproducing is a very basic psychic ability. The strength and range of a psychic power varies with the psychics and their amount of training. While some people need to touch others to be able to use their powers on them, others just need to be within viewing distance. This book focus on my own experiences of the mind reading abilities.

''Mind reading is one of the strongest psychic abilities. Like most psychic abilities are the mind reading ability a mutation of the reproductive psychic ability all shifters poses. The mind reader possess different psychic powers from the categories: reading, sending, projection and meditation (read more about the categories in the book: Psychic powers). In this book I will refer to the place the mind reader visits when they project themselves inside someone else's mind as a mindplace."''

Content
This chapter deals with how a mind is structured and what it looks like. According to Cain a mind is made up of glyphs, Like a DNA string or a computer code.

The gods created the minds of the first demons, and when doing so they left a pattern, or blueprint. Those blueprints are then inherited by their descendants. But as generations pass those patterns gets fuzzy or lost. There is a significant difference in the appearance of a mind depending on how many generations away from the original demons the mind is. Younger minds seem more organic and less constructed, though organic minds make the standard patterns distorted and hard to read. As the shifter grows older the mindplace grows bigger. Additional rooms gets added and the existing rooms grows in size and levels.

Content
Cain brings up a lot of different examples of glyphs and their meanings. He also writes that it is hard to explain and one have to see it for oneself to completely understand the glyphs. Showing a glyph to another shifter usually freaks them out as they don't understand what they are  looking at. Then he explains how the glyphs are built and what different parts they usually contain.

Excerpt
''"To understand all kind of mind reading you need to understand the language of the mind. The mind glyphs are what makes a mind place. The glyphs are everything to a mind and a soul. It took me several years to even understand what I was looking at. I didn't see the glyphs before I started to question what I was looking at. A mind place is very much like a room and the glyphs are the walls, the furniture, the memories, everything. Understanding the glyphs is the key to all kind of mind writing, and modifying. A mind is a fixed point, if you try to change anything in the room it will automatically revert to its origin state after a short while. This happens because the glyphs are still connected to each other. Like an elastic fabric it will revert back to its lowest state of energy. By directly modifying the glyphs and the glyphs’ connection you will be able to also modify things inside of the mind place. The easiest thing to modify are the memories. I will cover that in the chapter about modifying memories.''

''The glyphs could be seen as the building blocks of a soul. (Note: The closest thing I’ve found to compare it to lately are DNA strings and perhaps computer code. I’m not sure yet as computers are such a new invention. Things may change in years to come.)''

''Unfortunately am I alone with my discovery. No one seems to be willing to cooperate with me to understand them further. No one likes to look at the glyphs as they affect them. I can't say I like it either but I think I'm used to them, seeing them every time I enter someone's mind."''

Content
Cain explains how to tell the age of a memory. He describes the ageing of memories like a grape becoming a raisin. Memories also contain a sort of a timestamp so it can be put in order relating to other memories. If the person with the memory remembers the exact date the mind-reader will intrinsically know this.

Changing memories
It's about changing memories.

Content
Gateways is a technique to hide your memories from mindreaders. You simply create a room or a corridor in your mindpalace where you place all your secrets. Then you camouflage the doors from the outside. It requires a lot of training before a shifter can set it up and it require that the person don't think of the memories while the mind reader venture into their mind. Cain also write about how to recognize the gateways and how the mind reader can unlock them again.

Excerpt
"This is a way to relive your own memories and to get an understanding of why certain things might have happened. It's also a good way to study how the mind glyphs works. Mediation is easiest achieved by a similar way to how we shift into our war forms, by looking deep into ourselves. I've never managed to make another psychic re-create the mediation process accessing their own mind place, they've just shifted into their war forms instead. But I do know ancient mind readers did meditate a lot. Maybe the ability is restricted to mind readers only?

''However, any kind of modifying your own memories is not recommended. Not only is it very confusing but as you cut away a memory you gain a new memory containing how you changed the old one. It only result in a modified memory and a memory containing what you censored out. If you find a way to completely remove your own memory you may lose faith in your own memories questioning what's real and what's not."''

Excerpt
"Psychic abilities can be shared between shifters who are merged in the reproductive act. There are rumors of psychics merging together into masterminds."