Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada Karika
Turiya, ajativada, waking=dream. Bridge text between Hindu and Buddhist non-dual philosophy.
Grounding corpus
Source Cards
The public source foundation behind Lumenary's spiritual, philosophical, consciousness, and physics research.
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Advaita Vedanta
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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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.
Open sourceChandogya 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.
Open sourceMandukya Upanishad
Primary source for waking, dreaming, deep sleep, and turiya. Useful for comparing state models of consciousness with witness and self-negation claims.
Open sourceMandukya 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.
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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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Computational Neuroscience
Friston Free Energy Principle
Markov blankets as self-boundary, precision relaxation meditation model, active inference.
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Consciousness Science
IIT Tononi
Phi as integrated information, constitutive panpsychism, 2025 Nature adversarial collaboration.
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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.
Open sourceGlobal Neuronal Workspace as a Broadcasting Network
Scientific source on global neuronal workspace and broadcasting. Useful for distinguishing access-consciousness from metaphysical witness-consciousness.
Open sourceI 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.
Open sourceTononi 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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daoism
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.
Open sourceZhuangzi
Primary Daoist source for wandering, perspective shifting, fasting the heart-mind, and self-forgetting. Useful for a non-ontological model of spiritual transformation.
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Daoism
Dao De Jing
Ineffability, wu as generative non-being, cosmogonic sequence, wu wei, return.
Zhuangzi Inner Chapters
Perspectival relativity, butterfly dream, xinzhai, zuowang, qi transformation.
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early buddhism
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.
Open sourceSN 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.
Open sourceSN 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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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.
Open sourceCERN 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.
Open sourceParticle 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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Madhyamaka Buddhism
Nagarjuna MMK
Sunyata=dependent origination (24:18), catuskoti, non-origination (1:1), self as catuskoti (18:6).
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Mahayana Buddhism
Heart Sutra
Form=emptiness, systematic negation of all Buddhist categories, two truths as co-extensive.
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matter antimatter
CERN Antimatter
Official CERN overview of antimatter, antimatter experiments, and the unresolved matter-antimatter asymmetry problem. Use as a current experimental-context card.
Open sourceSakharov 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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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.
Open sourceCERN 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.
Open sourceCERN 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.
Open sourceCMS 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.
Open sourceDOE 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.
Open sourceWeinberg 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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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.
Open sourcePlotinus 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.
Open sourceStanford 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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Neoplatonism
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.
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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.
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physics 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.
Open sourceEinstein 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.
Open sourceMinkowski 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.
Open sourceNoether 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.
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project method
Lumenary Original Idea Methodology
Internal methodology source card for validating the source registry path.
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quantum gravity time
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.
Open sourceDeWitt 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.
Open sourcePage 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.
Open sourceRovelli 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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Soto Zen
Dogen Shobogenzo Uji
Being-time identity, nikon (absolute present), dharma-position. Parallels block universe in physics.
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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.
Open sourceAttar Bird Parliament
Abridged public-domain source related to Conference of the Birds. Useful for studying annihilation, journey structure, and allegorical self-overcoming.
Open sourceIbn 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.
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Sufism
Al-Hallaj Ana al-Haqq and Kitab al-Tawasin
Ecstatic self-identification with God. Fana, moth-flame allegory, Iblis dialogue. Parallels Aham Brahmasmi.
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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Theoretical Physics
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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Yogacara Buddhism
Lankavatara Sutra
Citta-matra, alaya-vijnana, paravritti, ocean-waves metaphor. Bridge between Yogacara and Zen.