Science01
In the observable cosmos of planets, stars, and galaxies, described by physical processes. Other dimensions or universes remain speculative.
Asked of every system
Twenty-two questions
The same questions, asked in the same order. Read down a question to see where they rhyme and where they do not. No establishment is rewritten to fit the others.
- 01Where are we?
- 02What is reality made of?
- 03What is a human being?
- 04What is consciousness?
- 05Where did humanity come from?
- 06What happens at death?
- 07Does consciousness return to embodiment?
- 08Where is consciousness between lives?
- 09Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?
- 10Can those beings become human or appear human?
- 11Are there multiple realms or worlds?
- 12Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?
- 13Is the world itself alive?
- 14Has civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?
- 15Does history operate linearly or cyclically?
- 16Is there an opposing positive/negative force?
- 17What is humanity supposed to become?
- 18Is reincarnation a destination, punishment, school, growth process, or something else?
- 19What lies beyond the visible world?
- 20How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?
- 21Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?
- 22Why did humanity forget?
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Where are we?
- Judaism02
In a world created and ordered by God.
In a created cosmos under divine order — a layered supernatural world in which heavenly rebellion reaches the human realm.
In a cosmos created by God. Heaven, Earth, and hell (concepts vary by tradition) frame the larger setting.
- Islam05
In an ordered creation by Allah, with multiple heavens and unseen realms beyond ordinary sight.
In a cosmos expressed cyclically. Cosmological traditions often place Mount Meru at the axis; accounts vary enormously by school.
In a conditioned cosmos of multiple realms. Traditional cosmologies include Meru. No single creator is required.
Within Heaven, Earth, and humanity as an interconnected process of the Dao.
In an ordered cosmos that emerged from a primordial state, structured by cosmic order and the solar journey.
In a world whose order was established by the gods, with divine realm and underworld as part of cosmic geography.
In Midgard — one of multiple worlds organized around Yggdrasil, the world axis.
In living relationships among land, water, and cosmos, not on a simple mechanical map. Accounts vary.
In a layered cosmos of heavens and underworlds, ordered around a world tree / cosmic axis after successive creations.
In an ordered creation opposed by a destructive force, spanning spiritual and material creation.
In a vast inhabited creation organized by God from eternal or preexistent elements.
In a material universe that is not the thetan’s ultimate identity. Cosmic history extends beyond Earth.
Within an interconnected order in which celestial and terrestrial domains correspond.
In the world of the Sumerian texts filed here: heaven, earth, and a netherworld, with kingship lowered from heaven. A single map of the cosmos is not on these tablets.
In a world of gods, mortals, and an underworld. Olympus, Hades, and later philosophical cosmos are not one setting.
- Jainism20
In the middle region of an eternal, uncreated loka, with heavens above and hells below.
- Sikhism21
In a world created by the one God, real enough to live in and not itself God.
- Shinto22
Among kami, in the land the myths populate. Shrine, household, and landscape are the usual setting, not a metaphysical diagram.
Between Heaven and Earth, in a world of ancestors, gods, and correlative order. The picture is not the same in classical cosmology and in every temple.
In a cosmos that many Gnostic texts treat as lower than the divine fullness. Where that cosmos sits, and who made it, differs by school.
In a cosmos ordered by divine Mind, often described as alive and layered into spheres.
In ayé, the visible world, in relation to òrun. Lineages do not tell this in one wording.
On islands whose cosmologies are genealogical. Sky, land, and sea are not mapped the same way in every archipelago.
In country, under the law of ancestral beings. There is no single Aboriginal ‘where.’
In this world, between an upper world and an inner or lower one, in reciprocity with land and ancestors. Inca Cusco is not every Andean center.
Beside an otherworld that Irish and Welsh literatures place in mounds, islands, or Annwn. A Continental Celtic map does not survive in the same form.
In a world created by one God, understood as one humanity rather than as several closed religious maps.
Not one place. The Anishinaabe row answers for that record only. Other peoples are not located by this entry.
On the turtle’s back, under the sky world Sky Woman left. Nation tellings differ. Not the Anishinaabe country.
Not one place for both names. A Lakota telling is set in relation to the Black Hills and to emergence at Wind Cave. Dakota country is not that sentence.
On the surface world, inside the four sacred mountains of Dinétah. Not on the turtle’s back, and not at a Hopi sipapu.
In this world, entered through the sipapu. Clan land and the covenant belong to the telling. Not Dinétah’s four mountains.
Working synthesis · not a verdict
In a living reality whose heart and axis is Mount Meru, among multiple realms.