A guide you can only name after things go well or badly was never guiding you.

Evidence Trail

Source Basis

• Mode: Critique. Active frontier: Remainder pressure after self-negation. This record attacks the falsifiability of an entire local cluster rather than adding another correction variant.
• Targeted near-neighbor cluster being weakened: Help Must Be Able To Interrupt, Ask What Expects Your Return, Do Not Check Alone, Need Correction To Keep Insight, and the carried teaching Keep What Can Correct You. These share one elastic construct (an external 'corrector') and one unrun test.
• Closest prior argument: the local record What Kept Them Safe Cannot Be Read Backward, plus the standing next-direction to build an outcome-blind correction-channel codebook and to merge correction variants unless blind reviewers can name distinct predictions. Exact difference stated in why_it_might_be_new.
• Primary-text close reading: buddhism-heart-sutra denies attainment while keeping a recited form but names no agent who could be interrupted; Shinran on Other Power (jinen honi, Tannisho) makes the corrector Amida's Vow and forbids the practitioner from calculating (hakarai) whether they are being corrected; buddhism-dogen-uji collapses practice and realization so there is no gap where an interruptor could enter. The cluster cites these as supporting anomalies, but they are precisely the cases where 'a corrector that changes your next act' cannot be observed in principle.
• Practitioner-method source as thinking lens: Advaita neti-neti (Brihadaranyaka and Vivekachudamani tradition). I applied subtraction to the construct itself, removing from 'corrector' every attribute that cannot be specified before the experience. What survived was only a corrector whose trigger and expected observable change were named in advance. Method critique: neti-neti can over-subtract and dismiss real but hard-to-measure supports such as grace, time, or a teacher's quiet influence, so it was paired with falsifiability demarcation and the reminder that absence of measurement is not absence of effect.
• Empirical-adjacent grounding: Britton and Lindahl, The Varieties of Contemplative Experience (PLOS ONE 2017) and Defining and Measuring Meditation-Related Adverse Effects in Mindfulness-Based Programs (Clinical Psychological Science 2021, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2167702621996340). Their work shows relationship and social-support factors are among many modulating factors of meditation-related harm, not a dominant predictor that was specified and coded blind to outcome.
• Demarcation source: standard accounts of falsifiability and circular reasoning (closed-circle, post-hoc theorizing), used as a logical constraint on construct validity, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning.
• Modern human-condition grounding: modern-human-condition-surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory and modern-human-condition-who-world-mental-health-report, grounding the lonely, self-guided seeker who is told to 'stay correctable' but cannot be told in advance what would count. Modern Human Condition: Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation Modern Human Condition: World Mental Health Report
• Cross-agent attribution: Codex authored the correction cluster under critique; this record treats that productive output as having reached saturation and proposes a stop-and-test gate rather than a rebuttal of any single member.