At first appearance the Meurlain seem to be a totally faith based esoteric order of philosophers and scholars who seek enlightenment through deep meditation and ritual. They are, in fact, not just spiritualists but physicists and scientists as well.
Their belief is that the universe and everything within it are bound together by universal energy called the Shiak’tian and that the furthering of mental discipline and scientific study makes one closer to this universal energy ensuring rebirth and eventual enlightenment. This belief is based on not only faith but on quantum mechanics and entanglement theory, everything and everyone is interconnected on a sub atomic level. Energy is eternal and consciousness and observation fundamentally alters reality.
The Meurlain are led by a spiritual leader called the SaiJiyen who resides on the planet Ogun in the temple of compassion, where he or she leads daily meditations for anyone wishing to seek the truth of being. The SaiJiyen is a great philosopher as well as a great scientific mind that probes the depths of spirituality and of reality itself. The current SaiJiyen, Vassar Galion, is the 78th SaiJiyen to lead the Meurlain.