Science01
No ordained destiny is claimed. Humans remain biological organisms; what they “should become” is not a scientific result.
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 is humanity supposed to become?
- Judaism02
Created humans with moral agency — to live the covenant, not to become God in this chart.
To stand inside divine order rather than heavenly rebellion. A later divinization program is not the center of this record.
Embodied spiritual and moral beings facing judgment and eternal destiny. Theosis/union language exists in some traditions; it is not universal Christian doctrine in this chart.
- Islam05
To live as a moral agent before Allah, toward judgment and continued existence — not to become divine.
Varies by school: realization of ātman/Brahman, right action, liberation from rebirth, or other ends. There is no single “supposed to become.”
Liberation from cyclic existence through insight — awakening — not the perfection of a permanent self.
Alignment with the Dao through cultivation. Some streams aim at longevity or immortality; this is not one doctrine.
Successful postmortem journey and justified existence among the gods/order. “Become Osiris” motifs exist in the wider religion; this chart records multiple components of personhood and an extensive journey.
To occupy a right relationship with the gods. Divinization of ordinary humanity is not the center of this record.
To inhabit one’s world among multiple worlds, with several possible destinations. A single moral telos is not isolated here.
To live inside right relationships — with land, water, cosmos, and other-than-human persons. Elders, ceremony, and dreams teach this; a factory destiny is not the frame.
To participate in cosmic obligations.
To participate morally in the cosmic struggle, toward final restoration.
Divine potential. Humans have premortal existence and are not a one-life accident.
The thetan is already a spiritual being. The path is claimed personal realization (via auditing and teachings), not becoming a different species.
Astrology maps a pattern; it does not, by itself, state what humanity should become. That belongs to the host philosophy or religion.
The filed texts give humans a task: carry the gods’ work. They do not say what humanity is supposed to become. Ziusudra is granted life like a god after the flood. That is one survivor, not the human lot.
Depends on the layer: remembered fame, blessedness in a mystery, or likeness to god in philosophy. No single telos.
- Jainism20
A liberated jīva, a siddha, free of karma. Digambara and Śvetāmbara accounts of the path differ in practice.
- Sikhism21
To live as one turned toward God rather than toward self, and to be released into union. Not to become God as a second deity.
- Shinto22
To live in right relation with kami: purity, sincerity, and the rites. Not a salvation career.
To fulfill relations with Heaven, the living, and the dead. Immortality, sagehood, and ordinary blessing are different aims and not all ‘Chinese religion.’
In the classic systems, what is divine in the person returns to the fullness. What ‘the person’ includes at the end is disputed between schools.
To know God and to live by Mind. Some texts speak of being made divine by that knowledge. Later alchemy and magic aim differently and should not be folded in.
To align with orí, to honor the òrìṣà one has, and to be remembered as an ancestor. Not one printed creed.
To live by law in one’s country. There is no shared sentence about what a human is supposed to become.
To keep ayni — reciprocity — with people, dead, and land. The Inca state added service to the ruler and the sun.
To know and worship God and to contribute to the unity and advancement of humankind. Not to become a Manifestation.
The Great Law of Peace orders relations among the nations of the Confederacy. A further aim is Unclassified / Source Needed.
Lakota: to live as a relative, with the pipe and the rites that belong to it. The Dakota aim is Unclassified / Source Needed.
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To live in hózhǫ́. Not to become a Holy Person by a rule this chart adds.
To keep the covenant and the ceremonies of the clans. Nothing further is added.
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Working synthesis · not a verdict
Humanity participates in the organism. What it is “supposed to become” is not further specified in the working lines beyond participation, rebirth, and recovered knowledge.