Science01
Observation, experiment, measurement, prediction.
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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How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?
- Judaism02
Scripture, tradition, reason, revelation.
Revelation, visionary literature, sacred texts.
Scripture, revelation, tradition, faith, experience.
- Islam05
Qur’an, revelation, prophetic tradition.
Scripture, philosophy, teachers, practice, direct realization.
Practice, observation of mind, teachings, insight.
Observation, cultivation, texts, direct practice.
Ritual, sacred texts, priestly knowledge.
Tradition, temple culture, divination, texts.
Poetry, oral tradition, visionary material.
Oral tradition, ceremony, dreams, experience, elders.
Sacred narrative, ritual, astronomy, divination.
Revelation, scripture, ethical participation.
Revelation, scripture, prophetic authority.
Auditing, teachings, claimed personal realization.
Observation of celestial cycles, calculated positions, inherited interpretive systems, and claimed correspondence between celestial and terrestrial patterns.
From the literary tablets and the King List, in later copies. Where a tablet is broken, the gap stays a gap.
Public cult and myth; mysteries for initiates; philosophy by argument and contemplation. A person could live in one of these and not the others.
- Jainism20
The teaching of the Jinas, scripture, and a disciplined life. The two main canons do not contain the same books.
- Sikhism21
The Gurūs and Gurū Granth Sāhib, remembered and practiced. Not a priesthood as the mediator.
- Shinto22
Doing the rites, following shrine tradition, and the written myths where they are used. Practice is prior to system.
Family rite, temple cult, the classics and their cosmology, and divination. Different specialists know different parts.
Revelation and gnosis, through texts and teachers that rival churches did not accept as one bible.
Dialogues attributed to Hermes, and attention to the sympathies of the cosmos. Renaissance and modern Hermetic orders are heirs, not the ancient speakers.
Ifá divination, oral teaching, and ritual. What a diaspora house practices should be named as that house.
Elders, ceremony, and country. This chart does not know what it has not been given.
Ritual exchange, the landscape, and ancestral memory. Inca administration used quipu. Chroniclers wrote afterward, in Spanish.
From the writings of Baháʼu’lláh. ʻAbdu’l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi are the authorized interpreters in the teaching itself. The Universal House of Justice legislates and does not add scripture. Academic history is a different route and is not that authority.
Oral telling, the Great Law of Peace, condolence, and wampum. No manuscript canon is filed.
For Lakota: the sacred pipe and ceremony, including inípi and haŋbléčheya. Dakota ceremony is not listed as the same. No book is filed as the source.
Unclassified / Source Needed.
Oral narrative and ceremony, held by those authorized to tell them. This row does not retell a chant.
Clan teaching and ceremony. No manuscript is filed.
Medieval Irish literature, written by Christians. The Táin is in copies from the 12th century and later.
Medieval Welsh literature, written by Christians. The Mabinogi is in 14th-century manuscripts.
Inscriptions, the Coligny calendar, and sanctuaries. Caesar’s Gallic War is an outside account of druids, not a druid book.
George Grey’s Polynesian Mythology (1855) is a collector’s English book of Māori tradition. The stories were oral. This does not file a Māori teaching.
David Malo wrote on Hawaiʻi in the early 19th century; publication came later. No further Hawaiian claim is filed.
A Tahitian account is not a Māori one. No Tahitian teaching is filed. Unclassified / Source Needed.
Working synthesis · not a verdict
Experience, recovered knowledge, and comparison of fragmented traditions.