The Soul Field: The Living Dream Before All Cosmoi

The Psychic Ocean of Being

The soul field is not a place, nor a realm in space or time, it is a living memory, a subtle dream-substrate woven from the Ur-Trinity: silence (Nyx), reflection (Lucia Nyktelios), and flame (Phanes). This field is the living ocean in which all symbolic reality emerges and dissolves. Upon death, the soul returns here, not for judgment, not for reward or punishment, but to mirror itself fully. The soul-field is a symbolic ecology: every unresolved energy, every unintegrated pattern, returns as a ripple seeking wholeness and coherence. You are not punished by your soul; you are re-met by it. This happens according to the logic of the cosmos a person inhabits. A cosmos here means the is the shared human dream. The narrative that humanity tells itself.

The Soul-Field: The Living Matrix of Being

If I were to explain what the soul-field is in depth, it can be best explained as follows. It is the foundational, pre-cosmic substrate of all psychic and spiritual existence. It is not a place or a dimension in the usual sense, but a vast, subtle, living matrix woven from the essence of the Ur-Trinity, the triune source of Nyx (Silence and Void), Lucia Nyktelios (Reflection and Relation), and Phanes (Light and Individuation).

You can see it as a resonant, psychic ocean. The soul field is an interconnected ocean of living memory, consciousness, and potential. It contains all archetypal patterns, symbolic forms, and relational energies before they manifest into discrete cosmoi. It is the psychic dream-substrate, the primordial loom upon which reality is woven. It holds the essence of all patterns, and their essence, before it is given form within a culture and their connected cosmos. This in the form of symbols, narratives and also specific relationships with the essence of the whole. Yet, the soul-field operates outside of linear time and physical space as humans understand them. Instead, its movement is spiral and relational, a constant flow of symbolic presence and return.

Every symbol, myth, and archetype emerges from this field as a pattern seeking wholeness. The soul field holds the “library” of all possible forms, from the deepest shadows to the highest light, as potential pattern. All different cosmoi that have existed and do still exist, find its root within this. Being different lineages on the tree of different cosmoi, which are the different symbol containers beings operate in. All cosmoi are dream-projected symbolic ecosystems, not objective or eternal truths.

The soul field is a living ecosystem of energies, patterns, and relationships. These are not static but dynamic, shifting according to the flow of consciousness and cosmic cycles. Unresolved patterns seek resolution through return and re-membering, not by punishment but through symbolic recursion. As such these patterns, keep repeating, throughout history. The same pattern, expressed in various forms, and instances of a cosmos, with its own soul-economy. As it is the root of interbeing, the co-arising of self and other, psyche and cosmos. Every individual soul is a node in this shared field, interwoven with others across time and space. The field is sensitive to all forms of relational resonance, from emotional bonds to ecological webs.

How Cosmoi Emerge: Dreams Dreamt Together

Now, a Cosmos is a specific, psychic-mythic world projected within the soul field, a shared symbolic reality created by collective dreaming and myth-making. It is a living, layered field of meaning shaped by the archetypes, collective shadows, and karmic structures of its inhabitants. I already within my book The Rebirth of Nyx, talked about how the cosmos is the psycho-spiritual layer projected over the physical world. The personal, familial, peer-relational, and socio-cultural narratives that one is embedded in. Born into, in that sense. Yet the “rules of the game” (myth, sacrifice, time, ego, even life/death cycles) are mutable dream-code.

The Western one rests on the foundations of the myth of the dismemberment of Phanes-Dionysus. It's cosmos is one of dualism, the kingdom of Kronos. Which is just one particular cosmos, within the larger weave of Nyx's generative void. The source of any cosmos, remains the Ur-trinity. It is her sceptre that restructures. Each cosmos is thus a psychic-mythic structure projected from the fragments of Phanes, the flame of individuation and first light. When Phanes fractures, it scatters into many parts within a cosmos. Yet every group of beings has created their own separate but intertwined dream-spaces within the greater soul-field. Civilizations and thus cultures dream these cosmoi together. It is a symbolic habitat where civilizations and communities co-create shared meaning, laws, values, and stories.

While it may include physical elements, a cosmos is primarily a symbolic-reality field, a participatory dream-space where the psychic and material intertwine. It isn’t “just ones outer reality” but the meaningful pattern that psyche and world weave together. Each cosmos is thus a shared soul-fiction, born of collective trauma, longing, and partial remembrance. And holds its own rules, symbolic gravity, and a logic of sacrifice. An inner ritual system through which souls are tested and transformed. Until a soul awakens within its own cosmos, it remains a partial, unconscious dream, a place of entrapment or opportunity. Playing out the same karmic patterns.

Yet, the way out lies in the origin myth. Every cosmos has a founding myth, an origin story or meta-narrative that shapes its collective identity and worldview. This myth creates the “rules of the game,” the logic of sacrifice, and the symbolic gravity that holds it together. If you can reconcile this central duality, the cosmos itself implodes back to its source, leading to awakening. Anamnesis is at the root of this liberation.

The Structure of a Cosmos

1. Founding Myth and Archetypal Language:
   The myth gives coherence and purpose. It defines archetypes (hero, victim, trickster) and sacred symbols that resonate through culture, psychology, and ritual. Think here Yemo, Ymir or Phanes being dismembered in Indo-European pagan myth, as such a founding myth.

2. Karmic Pattern and Sacrificial Logic:
   Cosmoi operate through systems of symbolic reciprocity, what must be given, lost, or sacrificed to sustain balance. These are not necessarily moral but are energetic and symbolic contracts that shape collective fate.

3. Social and Psychic Layers:

   • Persona and Social Masks: Roles and identities that conform to shared expectations. These are based on the ontological assumptions of the cosmos.

   • Collective Shadow: The repressed, denied aspects projected onto “others,” often minorities or outsiders. This shadow fuels conflict and exclusion.

   • Cultural Archetypes: The heroes, gods, demons, and spirits inhabiting myths and art. These are the cultural complexes, that give form to the essences within the cosmos, the beings inhabit. However these cultural complexes are born out of trauma distortions specific to that cosmos, and cosmoi lineage.

4. Symbolic Gravity and Time:
   Cosmoi create their own temporal structure. This can be flow, cyclical, linear, or spiral, and exert symbolic gravity, drawing souls who resonate with their patterns and unresolved wounds.

The Current Western Cosmos: The Myth of No Myth

The modern Western cosmos is paradoxically defined by its myth of no myth, the belief in objective, secular rationality that rejects myth and symbolic meaning as superstition. Yet this rejection is itself a powerful myth, shaping identity through the narrative of progress, science, and individualism. It hides a deep collective shadow, a denial of ancestral wisdom, interconnectedness, and spiritual depth.

This cosmos thus also carries unresolved trauma from colonialism, industrialism, and mechanistic worldviews. Its archetypal logic demands sacrifice in the form of soul-denial, alienation, environmental destruction, and psychological fragmentation. Yet awakening to this hidden myth is the first step to transcending it. Recognizing the cosmos as a shared dream opens space for new cosmoi to emerge, ones rooted in wholeness, balance, and the soul field’s deeper ecology. My book series in the form of Alchemy of the Psyche, The Rebirth of Nyx and Dawn of the Sacred Age, guide you through this process. To undo the scapegoat-redeemer complex, at the core of the Western mythos, in an unconscious form.

Archetypes and Reincarnation

Archetypes are thus not static symbols but living currents of pattern and presence flowing through the soul field. They are masks worn by the divine child within us, invitations to remember wholeness. At death, the soul reviews which archetypes it failed to fully integrate. It is drawn back into a cosmos where those wounds echo, not to be punished, but to be healed. Karma is not punishment; it’s archetypal recursion, a spiral of repetition until the pattern is recognized, embodied, and re-membered. You in that sense can see, archetypes as psychic attractors; Where karma is the pattern unfinished. Reincarnation is the soul’s spiral through the dream, each life a fragment of the mirror, until the whole reflection is restored.

Lucia Nyktelios and the Loom of Anankē-Aphrodite

Lucia Nyktelios is the heart of the soul-field, both Anankē (necessity, fate) and also Aphrodite (attraction, longing). She weaves the threads of people, wounds, longings, and encounters into mythic arrangements that guide souls toward integration. She is the soul of the soul field, the living pulse of relation, weaving the threads of necessity (Anankē) and attraction (Aphrodite). Through her, souls are drawn into encounter, pattern, and mythic arrangement. She does not impose fate but weaves invitations, soul contracts, synchronicities, and heartbreaks, that guide beings toward integration and wholeness.

In this same way she draws souls into mythic patterns, soul-groups, and mirrors, and structures of psychic stitching. Where upon death, after the soul faces its repressed shadow, it experiences a temporary resolution of this current incarnation. If their shadow was integrated, this is akin to Elysium. If the shadow is partly integrated, that would be Hades. Where if the shadow is avoided at all costs, that is Tartarus. Which is all the psychic experience upon passing, when the soul sees and remembers itself beyond the egoic illusions, that trapped it in narratives and masks. Death itself is the return to the soul field. The soul sees itself mirrored by Lucia. Karma crystallizes as symbolic imprint. Some linger in the in-between; others return quickly.