Science01
Other dimensions/universes are speculative. What is claimed as known is the observable cosmos.
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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What lies beyond the visible world?
- Judaism02
Heavens, Sheol, and later concepts; angels and other spiritual beings.
Heavenly realms, Watchers, angels, giants — a layered supernatural cosmos.
Heaven, hell (concepts vary), angels and fallen beings.
- Islam05
Multiple heavens, unseen realms, angels, jinn, Iblis.
Many lokas/realms; devas, asuras, and many other beings.
Multiple realms and numerous classes of beings.
Multiple spiritual and celestial domains; immortals, spirits, deities.
Duat and celestial realms; gods and spirits.
Divine realm and underworld; gods, spirits, monsters.
Multiple worlds; Æsir, Vanir, jötnar, elves, and others.
Spiritual dimensions intertwined with the lived world; manidoog and other-than-human persons.
Layered heavens and underworlds; gods and supernatural beings.
Spiritual and material creation; beneficent and destructive spiritual beings.
Spirit world, multiple degrees/worlds, angels and divine beings, vast inhabited creation.
Cosmic history beyond Earth. The thetan is not identical with the visible body or world.
Celestial domains corresponding to the terrestrial. Additional realms depend on the underlying tradition.
The netherworld, and the gods who cross or rule there. Heaven is where kingship is lowered from.
Gods, the underworld, and — in philosophy — intelligible order. The visible cult and the philosophical unseen are not the same unseen.
- Jainism20
The rest of the loka: heavenly and hellish regions, and beings one does not see. It is still the same universe.
- Sikhism21
God, who is not confined to what is seen, and the soul’s further condition. A catalogue of heavens is not the point.
- Shinto22
Kami, including those not visibly present, and the mythic realms. The unseen is local as much as cosmic.
Heaven, gods, ancestors, and ghosts. Some streams add extensive underworld offices.
The fullness, and the rulers one does not see. The unseen is not automatically good: some of it is the prison.
Mind, God, and the powers of the spheres above the visible sky.
Òrun and the òrìṣà.
Ancestral presence in country, which outsiders should not redraw as a generic spirit-world.
Huacas, gods, and the dead, and the worlds above and within.
God, who is unknowable in essence, and the worlds the soul enters. Manifestations make the divine will known. They do not exhaust God.
The sky world, and beings who are not human. A full inventory is Unclassified / Source Needed.
Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka and the Lakota beings already named. Nothing further is inventoried. Dakota unseen persons are Unclassified / Source Needed.
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The Holy People and the earlier worlds. Ceremony that is not public is not described.
Maasaw, the katsinam, and the worlds left below. Ceremony that is not public is not described.
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Working synthesis · not a verdict
Multiple realms, and beings including angels, Fallen/Watchers, Builders, dragons, and others.