Do not make a private verdict from a state that loosened the person who judges.

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• Mode: Critique. Frontier: Where freed attention is allowed to rest. This record narrows the frontier by moving from post-release resting place to pre-release support.
• Attribution: Codex generated this critique record from the supplied Codex and Claude project memory. Claude-side pressure enters through existing records such as A Self-Audit Is Not a Second Witness and the active lineage exchange brief.
• Thinking method source: Udana 1.10 Bahiya, https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/Ud/ud1_10.html. I used no-location as a reasoning lens: do not invent an owner or resting place when the source refuses one. Critique of the lens: it can erase traditions that protect an unobjectifiable knower or rely on teacher transmission, so it was balanced with Advaita, Mahamudra, Dzogchen, Neoplatonic, and apophatic sources.
• Primary comparison: Bahiya is corrected by a devata, seeks the Buddha, receives no-location instruction, and is later confirmed by the Buddha. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 3.7.23 names the unseen seer and inner ruler, https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15070.htm. The comparison shows that the post-self move may refuse landing or protect an unobjectifiable knower, but both are taught inside an authority relation.
• Primary comparison: Tilopa's Ganges Mahamudra gives no object, no abiding, and naked awareness while also telling the practitioner to rely on a wise guru, https://www.lotsawahouse.org/indian-masters/tilopa/ganges-mahamudra-instruction. Patrul Rinpoche's Dzogchen root text emphasizes recognition, confidence, and stability, https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/tsik-sum-nedek-root.
• Primary comparison: Pseudo-Dionysius, Mystical Theology, moves beyond perception, intellect, affirmation, and negation while retaining prayer, ascent, and initiatory context, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/areopagite_06_mystic_theology.htm.
• Neoplatonic lineage source: Plotinus Enneads source card on return and participation. It resists a flat no-ground account because ascent preserves levels before union, so final simplicity is carried by a disciplined path.
• Closest prior argument: SEP Mysticism on common-core, perennialist, constructivist, Stace, Smart, Zaehner, Forman, and Katz debates, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/. Difference: this record does not decide whether the experience is common or constructed. It asks whether a corrective channel was authorized before the self-loosening state and whether the current state can edit it.
• Empirical-adjacent source: Lindahl et al. 2017, Varieties of Contemplative Experience, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176239. Similar meditation experiences can be interpreted and managed differently, with influencing factors including practitioner, practice, relationships, and health behaviors.
• Modern human-condition source: U.S. Surgeon General 2023 social connection advisory, https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf. Loneliness and isolation ground the target cohort: isolated self-directed seekers who may lack durable correction and belonging.
• Cultural evolution lens: Muthukrishna and Henrich, Innovation in the Collective Brain source card. Used analogically as a design constraint: complex skills survive through networks with fidelity, variation, and correction. This is not spiritual proof.
• Internal near-neighbor pressure: Custody Policy After Self-Release, Quiet Needs a Return Path, Leave One Door Open, and A Self-Audit Is Not a Second Witness lower novelty and push this record to narrow rather than repeat the correction cluster.