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Demon Mirror · Journey West

What falls is the demon in the mind, not the one outside.

A self-inquiry game built on Journey to the West. Eighty-one trials, each of them a situation you are actually living through: endurance at work, the debt of feeling at home, the double bind of favours. It does not hand you an answer first — it holds up the mirror.

The main line runs end to end — trials, judgement, portrait. Not open to the public yet.

01 :: what it is not

Not a test, not a psychology class

No personality types, no diagnosis. One thing only: point to where you stand in the web of relationships. The five mirrors are not five illnesses but five positions — and a person moves between them, which is why the portrait differs per person, per session, and has nothing to do with age.

02 :: coordinates

Three sets of five, one portrait

Any single axis flattens a person into a label. The three cross to locate where someone actually stands.

how far

Five Stages

Lianqi · Zhuji · Jindan · Yuanying · Huashen — how far along the road you are.

which mirror

Five Mirrors

Greed · Wrath · Delusion · Pride · Doubt — which position holds you.

where to

Five Roads

Have a path · seek it · walk it · awaken to it · arrive — where your sense of direction sits now.

03 :: the five mirrors

Five positions

upward

Greed · Bajie

Before someone above you, comparison runs upward: not good enough, so need more. Always chasing, never satisfied.

against

Wrath · Wukong

Before someone who negates you, hurt fires: why me, and blame turns outward. Anger and grievance both come from the victim position.

lost

Ignorance · Wujing

Alone, with no external verdict to orient by, reference points vanish: I do not know who I am. The quietest one, and the deepest.

downward

Pride · White Dragon Horse

Before someone below you, comparison runs downward, using superiority to cover unease.

swaying

Delusion · Tangseng

Facing an uncertain future with no anchor, direction blurs and meaning dissolves in the swaying.

04 :: eighty-one trials

Journey to the West as bone, present life as material

Eighty-one is not a level count but a promise of coverage: every trial maps to a real situation today. Clearing one does exactly two things — name a pattern you keep repeating, and hand you one thing you can take away.

05 :: the engine

Seven layers down, four layers across

Nothing stays on the surface. Starting from a concrete ache, it digs down to the belief that was written long ago, then cuts across to ask where that belief came from: family, authority, peers, or what the culture assumes.

  • Judgement is not answer-matching: the AI reads the choice you made this time, sentence by sentence, not a template.
06 :: status

Where it stands

The engine runs; the gate is not open yet.

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