Timeless and spaceless, not shaped passively by the physical skin tone, natural talents, and brain size, nor the surrounding parents, religion and culture, but rather intentionally by all of it at once.

In one time, an Easterner and Westerner, but also both over past times, and even future times. As is most truly human, with access to the experience of all who have ever lived and all who will, and even those who will not but could have.

One achieves this inwardly by openness, contemplation and understanding of potentialities; but of course one self is limited. The wider human experience comes through others, especially via empathy.

A power to understand perspectives not rendered to the sensory body and mind in the present time and place. Investing deeply in present relationships, also traveling to meet different people, and reading to meet different characters, and using these to imagine characters who don’t exist, and maybe even create them for others to empathize with and thus continue to expand humanity.