and in rejecting these entreaties by light and dark , it was bunnu himself who came to be obsessed with the prospect of probing the inner reaches of his own corea realm which , in and of itself , could only be advanced upon through internal dives of immeasurable distance , but which was not so distant in the way one would perceive in the tangible world , for the process of diving down into oneself was tantamount to an intentional reduction of ones self along infinitesimal increments that occurred over what seemed like vast expanses of time until one became tiny enough to probe the very interstices of consciousness .