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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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Why did humanity forget?
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- Judaism02
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- Islam05
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- Jainism20
The filed lines say karma obscures the jīva and limits what it knows. They do not say humanity forgot.
- Sikhism21
The filed lines tie awareness to haumai or to remembrance of God. They do not say why humanity forgot.
- Shinto22
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The filed lines say that, in many texts, a divine element is in a lower cosmos, and that knowing is recognition of its origin. They do not say why humanity forgot.
The filed lines say Mind can wake in a human, and that the Asclepius laments a loss of sacred order in Egypt. They do not say why humanity forgot.
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Working synthesis · not a verdict
The working thesis says humanity has forgotten its place within a living creation. It does not say why. The how-truth line names experience, recovered knowledge, and comparison of fragmented traditions. A cause is not in the record.