Cosmic Awareness

Background

Cosmic Awareness is the ability to perceive, comprehend, or attune to the fundamental truths, presences, and forces that govern reality on a universal or multiversal scale. Unlike basic extrasensory powers, this ability allows users to instinctively or consciously understand the workings of existence far beyond the scope of ordinary perception.

This may include sensing distant cosmic events, becoming aware of metaphysical truths, or detecting beings and structures that transcend the physical universe. Some wielders experience intuitive knowledge of time, space, and existence itself, while others access overwhelming revelations that reshape their perception of reality.

Cosmic Awareness is commonly associated with powers like Clairvoyance and Enhanced Senses, yet it exceeds their limits by spanning interstellar distances, dimensional barriers, and incomprehensible levels of knowledge.

Also Called

• Universal Awareness
• Infinite Perception
• Transcendent Cognition
• Higher Vision
• Awareness of the Beyond

Distinction from Transcendental Perception

While both abilities involve perceiving vast or profound truths, they differ significantly in nature:

• Cosmic Awareness is primarily spatial and informational — it allows users to detect events, beings, or energies across universal distances. It's akin to galactic-scale clairvoyance or omnidirectional observation.
• Transcendental Perception is conceptual and metaphysical — it grants insight into divine law, existential truths, or realities beyond comprehension. It focuses less on detecting things and more on understanding them on a fundamental level, even if they exist outside space-time.

Possible Applications

• Detect large-scale cosmic threats, changes in space-time, or divine presences.
• Comprehend and interpret abstract or metaphysical knowledge.
• Recognize higher-dimensional beings or unseen spiritual forces.
• Predict universal shifts or multiversal disturbances.
• Navigate or communicate through vast or inaccessible cosmic realms.
• Interpret divine, prophetic, or fate-based insight into the structure of existence.

Practical Uses

• Allows strategic planning against multiversal-scale phenomena.
• Enables interaction or communication with entities beyond mortal comprehension.
• Provides understanding of ancient or cosmic-level technologies, prophecies, or systems.
• Can guide a character toward evolution, awakening, or higher states of being.
• Facilitates awareness of alternate timelines, parallel dimensions, or impending collapse of universal systems.
• May allow a character to maintain awareness even when disembodied, unconscious, or outside of time.

Potential Types

Cosmic Awareness can manifest in various forms, depending on the user's nature, origin, or level of enlightenment:

• Higher Perception:

Grants an extended field of sensory input, allowing the user to observe stellar phenomena, sense galactic movements, or track beings across star systems without the need for technological assistance.

• Eldritch Awareness:

Enables perception of incomprehensible truths, revealing entities or concepts that defy mortal understanding. Often associated with madness, forbidden knowledge, or beings from beyond space and time.

• Transcendental Perception:

Allows a deep understanding of universal architecture, such as metaphysical laws, divine mechanisms, or existential hierarchies. Users may perceive the intent or balance of cosmic forces.

• Existential Awareness:

Provides innate understanding of one's place in the multiverse, including awareness of alternate versions of oneself, parallel realities, or divergent timelines. Users may sense how choices affect reality across dimensions.

• Metaphysical Synchronization:

Synchronizes the user’s mind or soul with higher-dimensional planes, granting insight into spiritual, abstract, or divine truths. Often used by monks, prophets, or awakened beings.

• Temporal Cosmic Insight:

Focused on perceiving the cosmic flow of time — users can sense cycles of creation and destruction, cosmic ages, or approaching apocalyptic events that span eons.

• Dimensional Awareness:

Users perceive multiple realities layered atop one another — alternate universes, timelines, or realms — and may navigate or mentally distinguish between them without confusion.

• Origin Perception:

Allows one to trace the roots of beings, objects, or concepts back to their cosmic origin — understanding their creation, purpose, and role in the universal framework.

• Primordial Sensitivity:

A rare form that lets the user perceive pre-existence — awareness of what came before the current cosmos, such as voids, proto-entities, or unshaped reality.

• Pantheonic Awareness:

Awareness focused on divine or cosmic-scale beings. Users can detect the influence or presence of gods, avatars, or pantheons — even across dimensions.

• Universal Empathy:

A more emotional or sentient form of awareness, allowing users to "feel" the condition of the cosmos, its inhabitants, or the pain of planets and stars.

• Revelatory Cognition:

Insight that comes in the form of sudden, overwhelming revelations — visions of truths, prophetic messages, or vast wisdom that floods the mind during moments of heightened perception.

Possible Limitations

• Excessive exposure may cause psychological trauma or madness.
• The information gained may be too vast or abstract to act on.
• Users may lack control over what they perceive or when.
• Can result in dissociation from reality or mortal concerns.
• May draw the attention of cosmic entities that are better left undisturbed.
• Some forms require ascension, rituals, or catalysts to awaken.

Users

• YHVH (Megami Tensei): Possesses infinite cosmic knowledge as a divine creator entity.
• Ness (MOTHER 2): Touches the Universal System and understands his destiny as the universe itself.
• Lavos (Chrono): A piece of Lavos when touched allows one to see all infinite possibilities and realities across time and space.