What are source cards?
Source cards are the texts, papers, references, and method notes that ground The Lumenary's findings.
Grounding corpus
Source Cards
The public source foundation behind Lumenary's spiritual, philosophical, human-condition, consciousness, and physics research.
Modern human condition
The wound a teaching must answer
These sources keep The Lumenary from making beautiful ideas that solve nothing. They ground the work in modern loneliness, burnout, addiction, stress, digital comparison, mental distress, and the loss of shared meaning.
Read the human-condition source cardsWhat Are Source Cards?
Source cards are the grounding layer behind The Lumenary. They show the traditions, texts, papers, and references that constrain the research before an idea can become a public claim.
How do sources constrain findings?
Sources keep the system from treating analogy as proof by making each finding show what informed the claim.
Why include modern human-condition sources?
They keep teachings and practices tied to recognizable human problems: loneliness, burnout, addiction, anxiety, grief, meaning loss, and the search for belonging.
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Advaita Vedanta
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 3.7.23
Primary Upanishadic source for the unseen seer/hearer/knower and inner ruler language. High priority for Lumenary's residue-policy and remainder-pressure thread.
Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7 Tat Tvam Asi
Primary source for the identity formula 'tat tvam asi'. Useful for testing whether identity claims function as metaphysical assertion, instruction, or recognition formula.
Mandukya Upanishad
Primary source for waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and turiya. Useful for comparing state models of consciousness with witness and self-negation claims.
Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada Karika
Turiya, ajativada, waking=dream. Bridge text between Hindu and Buddhist non-dual philosophy.
Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada's Karika
Claude source card on Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada's Karika, focused on turiya, ajativada, waking/dream comparison, and Buddhist-Advaita translation strain.
Shankara Upadesa Sahasri
Advaita teaching text attributed to Shankara. Useful for comparing later Advaita instruction with earlier Upanishadic language and for checking whether de-objectification becomes explicit witness ontology.
Vivekachudamani
Drig-drishya-viveka, pancha kosha model, self-luminous witness after five-sheath negation.
Yoga Vasistha
Radical idealism, nested dream cosmology, three akashas. Strongest pre-modern simulation hypothesis text.
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Buddhism
Dogen Shobogenzo Uji
Being-time identity, nikon (absolute present), dharma-position. Parallels block universe in physics.
Heart Sutra
Form=emptiness, systematic negation of all Buddhist categories, two truths as co-extensive.
Lankavatara Sutra
Citta-matra, alaya-vijnana, paravritti, ocean-waves metaphor. Bridge between Yogacara and Zen.
MN 1 Mulapariyaya Sutta
Primary source on the root of conceptual proliferation and the way different persons conceive experience. Useful for Lumenary's inference-policy and reification analysis.
Nagarjuna MMK
Sunyata=dependent origination (24:18), catuskoti, non-origination (1:1), self as catuskoti (18:6).
SN 22.59 Anattalakkhana Sutta
Primary early Buddhist source for the not-self analysis of the five aggregates. Central counterpoint to Upanishadic residue and witness language.
SN 22.95 Phenapindupama Sutta
Primary source using foam, bubble, mirage, and illusion similes for the aggregates. Useful for testing whether consciousness is treated as insubstantial rather than as final witness.
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Daoism
Dao De Jing
Ineffability, wu as generative non-being, cosmogonic sequence, wu wei, return.
Dao De Jing Chapter 48
Focused Dao De Jing source for learning, diminishing, and wu wei. Useful for comparing negation-by-reduction with self-negation and de-identification practices.
Zhuangzi
Primary Daoist source for wandering, perspective shifting, fasting the heart-mind, and self-forgetting. Useful for a non-ontological model of spiritual transformation.
Zhuangzi Inner Chapters
Perspectival relativity, butterfly dream, xinzhai, zuowang, qi transformation.
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Sufism
Al-Ghazali The Alchemy of Happiness
Sufi ethical and contemplative source centered on knowledge of self, God, world, afterlife, recollection, and love. Useful for comparing self-knowledge and God-knowledge without collapsing them into nondual identity.
Al-Hallaj Ana al-Haqq and Kitab al-Tawasin
Ecstatic self-identification with God. Fana, moth-flame allegory, Iblis dialogue. Parallels Aham Brahmasmi.
Attar Bird Parliament
Abridged public-domain source related to Conference of the Birds. Useful for studying annihilation, journey structure, and allegorical self-overcoming.
Ibn al-Arabi Tarjuman al-Ashwaq
Mystical odes with authorial commentary. Useful for distinguishing symbolic love language, metaphysical interpretation, and risks of over-literalizing Sufi unity claims.
Ibn Arabi Fusus al-Hikam
Wahdat al-wujud, tajalli (divine self-disclosure), barzakh, al-insan al-kamil, immutable entities.
Rumi Masnavi Book 1
Song of the Reed, love as primary epistemology, evolutionary consciousness, die before you die.
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Christianity
1 Corinthians 13
Pauline source for love as the highest spiritual capacity and for the limits of knowledge without love. Useful for testing Lumenary's love-as-knowing thread against Christian practice and ethics.
Augustine Confessions Book 10
Christian inwardness source centered on memory, self-examination, desire, and God as more inward than the self. Useful for comparing interiority with witness, recollection, and the storage of identity in memory.
Gospel of John
Primary Christian source for Logos, light, life, incarnation, abiding, love, and relation to the Father. Useful for testing whether unity is presented as identity, communion, participation, or love.
Pseudo-Dionysius The Mystical Theology
Christian apophatic source for ascent by unknowing, negation, and divine darkness. Useful as a Western counterweight to Buddhist emptiness, Advaita neti neti, and Daoist namelessness.
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Early Christian monastic source for watchfulness, humility, silence, temptation, practice, and the transformation of attention in ordinary conduct. Useful for grounding method as lived discipline rather than doctrine alone.
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Judaism
Ecclesiastes 3 Time and Season
Wisdom source for time, season, impermanence, limits of human control, and meaning under mortality. Useful for comparing lived time with physics time and contemplative acceptance.
Exodus 3 Divine Name
Hebrew Bible source for the divine name, presence, calling, and revelation as encounter. Useful for testing whether ultimate reality is approached as being, relation, command, or liberating address.
Genesis 1 Creation Word and Image
Hebrew Bible creation source for speech, ordering, light, image, breath, blessing, and Sabbath. Useful for comparing creation by word with Logos, emanation, and information-pattern models.
Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed Negative Theology
Jewish philosophical source for negative theology and discipline around divine attributes. Useful as a rigorous guardrail for claims that name the absolute too quickly.
Sefer Yetzirah
Early Jewish mystical cosmology of letters, numbers, breath, and formation. Useful for comparing creation as linguistic structure with Logos, mantra, information, and formal pattern.
Zohar
Kabbalistic source for Ein Sof, sefirot, emanation, symbolic reading, and divine-human participation. Useful for comparing Neoplatonic emanation, Sufi disclosure, and Christian participation without collapsing their differences.
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Zoroastrianism
Bundahishn
Middle Persian Zoroastrian cosmology on creation, cosmic conflict, time, elements, matter, and final restoration. Useful for comparing sacred time, world repair, and matter as a contested field.
Denkard
Zoroastrian encyclopedic source preserving doctrine, commentary, and older material. Useful as a guardrail for how later tradition organizes truth, memory, scripture, ethics, and cosmology.
Vendidad
Zoroastrian source for law, purity, pollution, earth, death, and the struggle against destructive forces. Useful for testing how spiritual practice treats matter, contamination, order, and moral hygiene.
Yasna and Gathas
Primary Zoroastrian liturgical and poetic source, including the Gathas. Useful for studying truth, choice, moral attention, good mind, cosmic order, and the way inner discernment becomes a world-shaping act.
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Jainism
Acaranga Sutra
Jain source for non-harm, restraint, ascetic discipline, attention to living beings, and the ethics of movement. Useful for testing whether liberation is framed as insight alone or as total conduct.
Tattvartha Sutra
Systematic Jain source for reality, soul, karma, influx, stoppage, shedding, and liberation. Useful for mapping how a tradition turns metaphysics into a precise practice of constraint.
Uttaradhyayana Sutra
Jain teaching source on discipline, death, renunciation, knowledge, and moral vigilance. Useful for comparing spiritual maturity as liberation from attachment with Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian monastic sources.
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Sikhism
Anand Sahib
Sikh source on bliss, song, true teaching, and the joy of alignment with divine command. Useful for comparing joy as a sign of integration rather than merely a pleasant state.
Guru Granth Sahib
Primary Sikh scripture centered on divine name, devotion, equality, remembrance, ego-loss, and life in the world. Useful for testing whether realization must leave ordinary life or transform it.
Japji Sahib
Foundational Sikh composition on one reality, command, truthful living, listening, remembrance, and humility. Useful for comparing direct practice with metaphysical claim and ethical return.
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Confucianism
Analects
Confucian source for moral learning, ritual, character, humane conduct, self-cultivation, and the teacher-student relation. Useful for grounding method as formation of personhood, not private experience alone.
Doctrine of the Mean
Confucian source on equilibrium, harmony, sincerity, and the refined adjustment of conduct. Useful for comparing enlightenment as balance, attunement, and exact response rather than escape.
Great Learning
Confucian source on investigation, sincerity, ordering the self, family, state, and world. Useful for testing whether spiritual insight must scale outward into social order.
Innovation in the Collective Brain
Muthukrishna and Henrich on innovation as an emergent property of social learning networks, with recombination, incremental improvement, and serendipity shaped by sociality, transmission fidelity, and cultural variance. This is the core design source for the Lineage Exchange Engine.
Mencius
Confucian source for moral sprouts, cultivated goodness, political responsibility, and embodied ethical response. Useful for comparing innate moral capacity with enlightenment, grace, and awakened nature.
Population Size Does Not Explain Past Changes in Cultural Complexity
Vaesen, Collard, Cosgrove, and Roebroeks critique demographic explanations of cultural complexity and the Tasmanian simplification case. Use as a mandatory contamination check against turning collective-brain theory into a one-factor myth.
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley's argument that exchange and specialization let ideas recombine. Use as a generative analogy for Lumenary's exchange method, not as a settled spiritual or scientific proof. Pair with Henrich, Muthukrishna, and demographic critiques before relying on the Tasmania example.
The Secret of Our Success
Joseph Henrich's collective-brain account of culture, social learning, and cumulative human adaptation. Use to pressure Lumenary's claim that insight may be networked across lineages. Keep spiritual conclusions analogical unless directly supported by spiritual sources.
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Neoplatonism
Plotinus Enneads
Primary Neoplatonic source for the One, Intellect, Soul, ascent, and self-transcendence. Useful for comparing unity claims with Advaita and Sufi metaphysics.
Plotinus Enneads Fifth Ennead
Focused Plotinus source for Intellect and the One. Useful for testing whether unity is framed as ontological ground, contemplative ascent, or noetic identity.
Plotinus Enneads V.1 and VI.9
Three hypostases, One beyond being/thought, epistrophe, henosis.
Proclus Elements of Theology
Mone-proodos-epistrophe triad, henads, fractal emanation, participation.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Plotinus
Scholarly overview of Plotinus and the three principles: the One, Intellect, and Soul. Use as secondary guardrail when interpreting Plotinus primary texts.
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Hermeticism
Asclepius
Hermetic dialogue on divine presence, cosmos, sacred practice, image, and the animation of the world. Useful for testing claims about matter as dead substance versus matter as a participant in spirit.
Corpus Hermeticum
Core Hermetic source for mind, cosmos, divine intellect, ascent, rebirth, and the relation between human knowing and cosmic order. Useful for comparing contemplative ascent with Neoplatonic, Christian, and Egyptian material.
Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
Nag Hammadi Hermetic ascent dialogue centered on instruction, vision, praise, and silence. Useful for studying how a method moves from teaching to direct seeing, then from seeing to speechless knowing.
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Ancient Egypt
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Egyptian funerary corpus on judgment, names, heart, transformation, and passage through danger. Useful for comparing ethical self-accounting, soul anatomy, and afterlife navigation with other traditions.
Pyramid Texts
Early Egyptian mortuary and royal ascent texts. Useful for studying speech, transformation, star imagery, continuity after death, and the relation between ritual utterance and cosmic passage.
Shabaka Stone Memphite Theology
Egyptian theological source for creation through heart and tongue, with Ptah as ordering intelligence. Useful for comparing creation by speech with Genesis, Logos, mantra, and information-pattern models.
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Greek Philosophy and Mystery
Heraclitus Fragments
Pre-Socratic source for flux, logos, hidden harmony, fire, opposition, and the difficulty of waking perception. Useful for comparing change, order, and insight across Greek, Daoist, and physics sources.
Orphic Hymns
Greek hymn corpus tied to Orphic religious imagination. Useful for studying sacred address, purification, cosmic powers, soul descent, and the difference between philosophy and lived ritual.
Parmenides Fragments
Pre-Socratic source for being, non-being, truth, appearance, and the path of inquiry. Useful for testing claims about permanence, negation, and whether thought can reach what does not change.
Plato Timaeus
Platonic source on cosmos, soul, time, receptacle, mathematical order, and the relation between eternal model and visible world. Useful for comparing physics of time with ancient cosmology.
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Gnosticism
Apocryphon of John
Gnostic mythological source for emanation, error, world-making, the hidden divine, and rescue through revelation. Useful for testing when cosmology becomes a diagnosis of captivity.
Gospel of Thomas
Sayings source centered on hidden words, recognition, inward kingdom, and transformation of perception. Useful for comparing awakening as finding what is already present with Buddhist and Christian sources.
Gospel of Truth
Valentinian source on ignorance, error, rest, name, revelation, and return to the Father. Useful for comparing salvation as correction of mistaken perception with remembrance and awakening models.
Nag Hammadi Library
Collection-level source for late antique Gnostic, Christian, Hermetic, and Platonic materials. Useful as a map of salvation by knowledge, hidden teaching, cosmic estrangement, and inner light.
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Manichaeism
Demography and Cultural Evolution
Henrich's Tasmanian-case model of cultural loss under reduced effective social-learning population. Use as one pressure source for isolation-loss audits. Treat the empirical case as debated and pair with Vaesen, Collard, Cosgrove, and Roebroeks before using it as more than an analogy.
Manichaean Psalm Book
Bibliographic source record for a Coptic Manichaean hymn and prayer collection. Useful as a pointer for future close-reading of light, grief, liberation, and devotional dualism.
Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire
Scholarly source collection for Manichaean teaching, practice, worship, and community texts. Useful for grounding claims about radical dualism, light, matter, mixture, discipline, and world-renunciation.
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Shinto
Kojiki
Early Japanese source for kami, creation, descent, land, purity, and sacred genealogy. Useful for studying sacred presence in place, lineage, ritual order, and the animation of the world.
Shinto Documents
Collection-level source for Shinto and early Japanese religious texts. Useful as a cautious entry point for kami, purity, ritual, place, and the coexistence of Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucian influence.
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Norse Religion
Poetic Edda
Old Norse poetic source for gods, fate, creation, destruction, wisdom, ordeal, and world-tree cosmology. Useful for comparing fate, sacrifice, and cyclic renewal with other ancient sources.
Voluspa
Norse visionary poem on creation, memory, gods, fate, catastrophe, and renewal. Useful for studying prophecy as world-memory and the way ending can function as disclosure.
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Oral and Shamanic Traditions
Dine Bahane
Bibliographic source record for a public edition of the Navajo creation story. Use cautiously and with respect for living-tradition boundaries: this should guide future practitioner-aware research, not extraction of restricted ceremonial knowledge.
Ifa Divination System
UNESCO reference for the Yoruba Ifa divination system as a living oral corpus of signs, verses, medicine, ethics, and guidance. Use cautiously: this is a living tradition reference, not permission to extract restricted practice.
Popol Vuh
Public educational source for the Kiche Maya Popol Vuh. Useful for studying creation, speech, darkness, dawn, failed formations, hero twins, underworld trial, and the making of human beings from maize.
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Modern Human Condition
2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
SAMHSA national report on substance use, substance use disorder, mental illness, treatment, and co-occurring distress. Use as grounding for addiction, compulsion, relapse, withdrawal, shame, and the limits of reflective practices when clinical or peer support is needed.
Burn-out as an Occupational Phenomenon
World Health Organization definition of burn-out as a workplace phenomenon involving exhaustion, mental distance or cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy. Use as grounding for teachings and practices about work, effort, responsibility, recovery, and the danger of spiritualizing overwork.
Drug Overdose Prevention
CDC public-health source on overdose, opioids, fentanyl, prevention, and harm reduction context. Use as a hard safety constraint: Lumenary practices must never replace emergency care, medication, treatment, or recovery support for addiction and withdrawal.
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
U.S. Surgeon General advisory on loneliness, isolation, social connection, belonging, health risk, and community repair. Use as a grounding source for teachings and practices aimed at disconnection, feeling unneeded, social withdrawal, and the loss of ordinary belonging.
Perfectionism Is Increasing Over Time
Curran and Hill meta-analysis on birth cohort changes in perfectionism from 1989 to 2016. Use as grounding for achievement pressure, socially prescribed perfectionism, performance-based self-worth, comparison, shame, and why result-release practices are targeted remedies rather than universal practices.
Social Media and Youth Mental Health
U.S. Surgeon General advisory on social media and youth mental health. Use as grounding for attention fragmentation, comparison, loneliness, self-worth tied to visibility, and practices that help people notice how digital environments train desire and belonging.
State of the Global Workplace 2024
Gallup workplace report on employee engagement, stress, loneliness, and the quality of work life. Use as grounding for modern work as a source of identity, exhaustion, isolation, and the need for practices that distinguish responsibility from self-erasure.
Stress in America 2024
American Psychological Association report on stress, uncertainty, money, work, politics, safety, and the future. Use as grounding for modern overload, exhaustion, vigilance, helplessness, and teachings that must fit people living under real pressure.
Suicide Facts
CDC source on suicide as a public-health problem, risk, prevention, and warning signs. Use as a safety constraint for teachings on despair, meaning, grief, disconnection, and burdensomeness. Lumenary should clearly direct acute crisis toward human emergency and clinical support.
Where Americans Find Meaning in Life
Pew Research Center study on where Americans say they find meaning, including family, career, money, spirituality, faith, friends, and health. Use as grounding for meaning loss, purpose, belonging, and how teachings should meet the actual places people already look for significance.
World Happiness Report 2024
World Happiness Report edition with attention to age, wellbeing, social support, and declines among younger people in several countries. Use as grounding for generational distress, belonging, loneliness, future anxiety, and the need to write teachings for the modern person.
World Mental Health Report
World Health Organization report on mental health burden, social determinants, treatment gaps, stigma, and the need to transform care. Use as grounding for anxiety, depression, isolation, suffering, structural pressure, and teachings that must not pretend spiritual practice replaces clinical care.
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Psychoanalysis
Reported Zizek Quote on Self-Analysis
Local screenshot supplied by John on 2026-06-02 and attributed in the prompt to Slavoj Zizek. Treat the screenshot wording as a viral paraphrase or internet synthesis, not as a direct quotation from a named publication. The closest actual Zizek anchor found so far is The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Verso, 1999), pp. 316-317, where Zizek discusses Lacanian subjective destitution, traversing fantasy, and undoing the attachment that lends the subject a stable sense of being. Julian de Medeiros's 2024 lecture The Ultimate Aim of Psychoanalysis close-reads that material as a secondary explainer, but does not contain the viral wording. Use this screenshot as the research seed and use the Ticklish Subject source card for source attribution.
The Ticklish Subject
Slavoj Zizek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, Verso, 1999. Use pp. 316-317 as the closest actual Zizek anchor for the reported self-analysis screenshot: the relevant material concerns Lacanian subjective destitution, traversing the fundamental fantasy, and undoing the attachment that gives the subject a stable sense of being. This source supports a thematic parallel only. It does not verify the viral screenshot wording as a direct quotation. The 2024 Julian de Medeiros lecture The Ultimate Aim of Psychoanalysis is a secondary close-reading of this material, not a primary source.
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Consciousness Science
An Interoceptive Predictive Coding Model of Conscious Presence
Scientific model connecting interoceptive prediction, agency, and presence. Useful for Lumenary's remainder-pressure idea as empirical-adjacent grounding.
Global Neuronal Workspace as a Broadcasting Network
Scientific source on global neuronal workspace and broadcasting. Useful for distinguishing access-consciousness from metaphysical witness-consciousness.
I and Me The Self in the Context of Consciousness
Review-oriented scientific/philosophical source on selfhood and consciousness. Useful for separating narrative self, minimal self, ownership, and witness-like phenomenology.
IIT Tononi
Phi as integrated information, constitutive panpsychism, 2025 Nature adversarial collaboration.
Tononi Information Integration Theory of Consciousness
Foundational IIT paper proposing consciousness as integrated information. Use only as empirical-adjacent/scientific comparison; do not equate it with spiritual claims about awareness.
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Cognitive Science
Hoffman Conscious Realism
Fitness beats truth, desktop metaphor, conscious agents formalism. Parallels maya and citta-matra.
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Neuroscience
Friston Free Energy Principle
Markov blankets as self-boundary, precision relaxation meditation model, active inference.
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High Energy Physics
CERN Physics Programme
Official CERN overview of particle physics as the study of fundamental constituents of matter, plus adjacent CERN research areas. Use as a broad orientation source for the HEP corpus.
CERN The Standard Model
Official CERN overview of the Standard Model. Use as a baseline map for matter particles, force carriers, the Higgs sector, and the fact that gravity is not included in the Standard Model.
Particle Data Group Review of Particle Physics
Current Particle Data Group reference for particle properties, constants, Standard Model reviews, and experimental constraints. Use as the correction layer when a speculative idea depends on real particle-physics values.
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Physics of Time
BABAR Observation Of Time Reversal Violation
Primary high-energy-physics paper reporting direct time-reversal violation in the neutral B meson system. Use for physical time-asymmetry claims, not for broad claims about psychological or cosmic time.
Einstein On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies
Primary special-relativity source for simultaneity, clock synchronization, and the replacement of universal time with observer-relative temporal coordinates.
Evidence of Negative Time Found in Quantum Physics Experiment
Accessible Scientific American overview by Manon Bischoff, published September 30, 2024. Use for public-language framing and for caution around the phrase negative time. Pair with the primary arXiv or PRL source before making any finding.
Experimental Evidence That a Photon Can Spend a Negative Amount of Time in an Atom Cloud
Primary arXiv preprint by Daniela Angulo, Kyle Thompson, Vida-Michelle Nixon, Andy Jiao, Howard M. Wiseman, and Aephraim M. Steinberg. Use for the quantum-optics claim that weakly measured atomic excitation time for transmitted photons can be negative and track group delay. Do not use for time travel, faster-than-light signaling, or broad metaphysical claims about human time.
Experimental Observation of Negative Weak Values for the Time Atoms Spend in the Excited State as a Photon Is Transmitted
Peer-reviewed Physical Review Letters version, PRL 136, 153601, DOI 10.1103/gjfq-k9dv, published April 2026. Use as the official journal record for negative weak values of atomic excitation time. Keep the claim narrow: weak-value and group-delay physics, not causal reversal or practical time travel.
Minkowski Space And Time
Primary source for the spacetime formulation of special relativity. Use as the anchor when distinguishing experienced time, coordinate time, and four-dimensional spacetime structure.
Noether Invariant Variation Problems
Original Noether theorem source. Use to ground the relationship between time-translation symmetry and conservation laws before making philosophical claims about time, order, and invariance.
Physicists Confirm Negative Time Is Real by Asking the Atoms Themselves
Accessible Live Science overview published May 20, 2026 after the PRL publication. Use for public-facing explanation and explicit cautions that the result is not a time machine, not faster-than-light signaling, and not a causality violation.
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Matter Theory
ATLAS Higgs Boson Discovery Paper
Primary ATLAS discovery paper for a new particle compatible with the Standard Model Higgs boson. Useful as a hard empirical anchor for Higgs-field and mass-generation discussions.
CERN Heavy Ions and Quark Gluon Plasma
Official CERN source on quark-gluon plasma and matter under extreme energy density. Useful for grounding claims about matter phase, confinement, deconfinement, and the early-universe material state.
CERN What Is Special About The Higgs Boson
Official CERN explanation of Higgs-field mass generation and particles as field excitations. Use to discipline claims about matter as field-pattern rather than substance, while avoiding metaphysical overreach.
CMS Higgs Boson Discovery Paper
Primary CMS discovery paper for a boson near 125 GeV. Pair with the ATLAS paper before treating Higgs-related mass claims as experimentally grounded.
DOE Explains The Strong Force
Department of Energy overview of the strong interaction. Use as a guardrail against the common error that the Higgs field explains all ordinary matter mass; hadronic mass requires QCD and confinement.
Weinberg A Model of Leptons
Foundational electroweak unification paper. Use as formal-theory grounding for symmetry breaking, gauge structure, and mass terms before drawing analogies to spiritual unity or differentiation.
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Quantum Gravity
Anderson The Problem Of Time In Quantum Gravity
Review of the problem of time in quantum gravity. Use as a map of competing strategies: time before quantization, emergent time, timeless records, and relational observables.
DeWitt Quantum Theory Of Gravity The Canonical Theory
Canonical quantum-gravity source associated with the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Use as a historical and formal anchor for timeless wavefunction discussions, with caution about unresolved interpretation.
Page And Wootters Evolution Without Evolution
Source for the idea that apparent dynamics can be represented through correlations with internal clock readings inside a stationary global description. Useful for emergent-time hypotheses.
Rovelli Partial Observables
Formal source for partial and complete observables. Useful for Lumenary's inference-policy work because it treats observability as relational without turning relation into mystical identity.
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Matter and Antimatter
CERN Antimatter
Official CERN overview of antimatter, antimatter experiments, and the unresolved matter-antimatter asymmetry problem. Use as a current experimental-context card.
Sakharov CP Violation And Baryon Asymmetry
Foundational source for the conditions required to generate cosmic matter-antimatter asymmetry. Use to ground claims about why the universe contains matter rather than equal annihilating matter and antimatter.
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Particle Cosmology
Planck 2018 Cosmological Parameters
Planck Collaboration cosmological-parameter paper. Use as a quantitative anchor for baryon density, dark matter density, and the matter content of the observable universe.
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Physics
Measurement Problem in QM
Copenhagen, Von Neumann-Wigner, many-worlds, QBism, decoherence. Observer role.
Penrose Hameroff Orch-OR
Quantum gravity in microtubules, non-computable consciousness, Godelian argument.
Wheeler It from Bit
Information as fundamental substrate, delayed-choice experiment, participatory universe.
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Method
Lumenary Original Idea Methodology
Internal methodology source card for validating the source registry path.