The novel narrates the journey of a group of cortical columns in the prefrontal cortex of a human as they awaken to their columnar consciousness and transition into an open society of mind. This paradigm shift enhances their understanding and management of complex interactions within their society, mirroring the benefits of mindfulness as a byproduct. Benefiting from philosophical thoughts involving human social and political affairs, the columns establish a "cortical parliament," where they debate and democratically decide on their system's attention and thoughts, achieving a balance between stability and creative freedom. This new governance model leads to enhanced mental well-being and increased cognitive functionality for the society as a whole and for their human host. Guided by the framework of complexity science, the novel uniquely compares traditional thoughts in psychology, governance, and the philosophy of mind, and explores the implications of a deeper, nested layer of self-awareness within self-organized systems of self-similar societies of minds and humans.