Talk:Somatic Fibers/@comment-2601:602:C980:64F0:A90B:5D9B:5720:134B-20191230070515

As usual DE is playing with words that mean different things in different languages, or have difficult to explain shades of meaning. (e.g. Orokin could be royalty, golden family or merely fools gold. Tenno could mean one or all of Ten-Zero, Reject, Abjure/Defend or From Heaven. Corpus can mean a family, a company, a corps or a body. The only two characters to ever mention the word "humanity" use it to mean entirely different things. etc.)

Somatic, or pertaining to the soma, is nuanced enough in just the obvious Greek derivation, where "soma" refers to the self or soul, but depending on context could mean either the body or the spirit. However, soma can also refer to Distilled Spirits (Indo Iranian), the process of distillation, or the Hindu god of the moon.

Further, Soma is a fictional drug described by famous science fiction author Alduous Huxley, which allows users to gain transcendental visions of the planes beyond our reality. Huxley used this as a vehicle to portray state control of religion as a danger to personal freedom, even if it was the sort of faux-eastern transcendental meditation that he and his associates embraced. In contrast to the more obvious threat of Lovecraft's alien demon, watching us from out there in the void, Huxley held that humans were the real monsters, and we built prisons for fellow man, and our minds, even as we pursued cosmic knowledge.