Shrine to the Minds
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Shrine to the Minds is what the Dream frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
Card Text
The printed text. The enforceable contract between summoner and engine:
The modifier is what the engine executes. The page around it is what humans argue about. Both are canon.
Dream — Psychology · Neurology
"Mind is primary. Thought shapes reality. Will creates world."
Imagination is belief. Faith defeats all. Dream scryers bend reality through pure intention — telepathy, telekinesis and forgotten shadows.
The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.
Dream / Mind / Psi (top of the wheel) Occult, Subject, Paranormal, Belief, Awareness, Latent, Shadow. The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.
Dream treats symbols as citizens. Shrine to the Minds is a citizen on the faction census.
Cost Tier
High-cost cards like Shrine to the Minds arrive after the Numogram has cycled at least once. The route is already drawn.
Goetic Binding: Gremory
The digit-sum of cost 8 is 8, binding Gremory — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Finding hidden treasures, telling past/present/future. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 8: Controlling / Tyrannical
Domination, stasis, the Archon's grip. Where order is enforced. The zone of surveillance, bureaucracy, and containment. High-cost cards played here represent the full weight of institutional power.
High-cost institutional plays. Shrine to the Minds here is the system enforcing itself through a single card.
Playing Shrine to the Minds at cost 8 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 8. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 8, the player gains 8 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Yog-Sothoth
The Psychic Dissolution. All individual consciousnesses merge into singular noosphere — dream-logic replaces physical causality, consensus reality dissolves.
Direct brain-to-brain communication enables consciousness-sharing without linguistic mediation. Estimated: 2050-2080 with neural interfaces.
Service of Yog-Sothoth through Dream-aligned cards like Shrine to the Minds accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Mind vs Matter Axis
Emanation vs incarnation. Is reality downstream of consciousness (Mind) or upstream of it (Matter)? The oldest philosophical dispute. Every idealism vs materialism debate is a move along this axis.
Shrine to the Minds occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Shrine to the Minds cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.
Card Tribals
Shrine to the Minds carries class Place, race Human, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Place units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Archetypal Platonism
Archetypal Platonism / Kabbalo-Hyperstructuralism: The real world is upstream of symbols; symbols come from higher-order intelligences. Thoughtforms are citizens. Humans are hosts for memetic entities. Alt-names: Egregoric Realism, Astral Semiotics. Tone: Jung + Kabbalah + digital demonology.
Shrine to the Minds is a concrete instance of Archetypal Platonism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Shrine to the Minds to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
The horror is not dark. The horror is procedural. A Goetic demon assigned by a Python function that computes the digit-sum of the mana cost.
The reception was logged. The binding was computed. The entry is permanent.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Anonymous_Anonymous_16
Summon
Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.