Everything here stands on someone else's work.

The traditions

Each in its own terms. As they taught it.

Sanskrit · Buddhist · Tibetan · Sufi · Chinese · Taoist · Celtic · Lakota · Kabbalistic · Egyptian · Yoruba · Norse · Greek · Aboriginal Australian · Māori · Advaita · Zen · Christian mystic · Jungian · Mayan

The twenty are the Registers’ — the Registers. The Lakota material appears as register only. For the Mandala: From Sri Vidya, the tradition of the Sri Yantra, as it teaches them.

The songs

The songs belong to the people who made them; the site listens alongside them.

the dances

• I Was WrongA R I Z O N A
• FadedAlan Walker
• DreamAlan Watts / Superposition
• OrdinaryAlex Warren
• Fade AwayAsh & Paradise
• WutBIICLA
• JoyChase
• A Sky Full of StarsColdplay
• Love Me Like You DoEllie Goulding
• OpusEric Prydz
• GooeyGlass Animals
• GoldenHuntrix
• OverthinkerINZO
• Sit Around The FireJon Hopkins, Ram Dass & East Forest
• HowlingRY X
• ZooShakira
• MindSkrillex & Diplo ft. Kai
• Bachna Ae HaseenoVishal-Shekhar / Kishore Kumar
• Beautiful NowZedd ft. Jon Bellion

the readings

• FadedAlan Walker
• DreamAlan Watts / Superposition
• OrdinaryAlex Warren
• Fade AwayAsh & Paradise
• WutBIICLA
• AatmaChase Hughes
• A Sky Full of StarsColdplay
• The Sound of SilenceDisturbed
• Shape of YouEd Sheeran
• Love Me Like You DoEllie Goulding
• OpusEric Prydz
• GooeyGlass Animals
• GoldenHUNTR/X
• OverthinkerINZO
• Sit Around The FireJon Hopkins, Ram Dass & East Forest
• Don't Stop Believin'Journey
• GenesisJustice
• CrystallizeLindsey Stirling
• Love Is the Only ThingLost Frequencies
• In Shadow — A Modern OdysseyLubomir Arsov
• KingdomLubomir Arsov
• ExperienceLudovico Einaudi
• PowerfulMajor Lazer & Ellie Goulding
• EarthMogli
• HowlingRY X
• ZooShakira
• MindSkrillex & Diplo ft. Kai
• Habits (Stay High)Tove Lo (Hippie Sabotage Remix)
• Bachna Ae HaseenoVishal-Shekhar
• IronWoodkid
• Beautiful NowZedd ft. Jon Bellion

The teachers and sources

Each is named on its own page; this lists them in one place, as each page names them. The therapy lake draws on a course whose principles it paraphrases; the course is not reproduced.

• 7 Chakras — a mapThe seven-centre system and its rainbow are a modern synthesis — older tantric texts give other counts and other colours.
• A Course in Miracles — a storybookSchucman and Thetford's 1965 Columbia origin, the seven years of scribing and 1976 publication drawn from Foundation for Inner Peace accounts; Williamson's 1992 book and its reception independently verified.
• A Course in Miracles — a teachingA Course in Miracles (1976), scribed by Helen Schucman with William Thetford
• Advaita Vedanta — a storybookShankara's teaching, dating debate, and lineage are drawn from his commentaries and modern Advaita scholarship (Mayeda, Comans); distinct from the Upanishads' own stories, told elsewhere.
• Aghora — a storybookKina Ram and Krim Kund from Aghor lineage histories; Aghoreshwar Bhagwan Ram and the Parao leprosy clinic verified against Sri Sarveshwari Samooh records and Ron Barrett's fieldwork on Aghor medicine.
• Anatta - The Doctrine of No-Self — a teachingBuddhist teaching on anatta (not-self) and the five khandhas
• Ayurveda: The Five Elements — a mapThe Caraka Saṃhitā and Suśruta Saṃhitā, classical Ayurvedic texts (roughly last centuries BCE–early centuries CE); Robert Saper et al., JAMA, 2008, on heavy metals in Ayurvedic products sold online.
• Bashar's History of Humanity — a storybookBashar's teachings, channelled by Darryl Anka since 1983, as presented in his public sessions, books and the Bashar Communications archive; held as the source's own, and unverifiable by outside means.
• Biodynamic Agriculture (Steiner) — a teachingRudolf Steiner's biodynamic (anthroposophic) farming tradition, begun 1924
• Celtic / Druid Tradition — a storybookAs Roman writers Caesar and Pliny describe it, historian Ronald Hutton's account of the revival, and modern Druid orders (e.g. Philip Carr-Gomm) describing their own practice.
• Chaos Magic — a teachingAustin Osman Spare (1913); Peter Carroll's Liber Null (1978).
• Daniel Ingram — a storybookIngram's book, biography and arahant claim drawn from published interviews and his own writing; the Analayo dispute and Cheetah House verified against independent reporting.
• Daoist Internal Alchemy — a mapFabrizio Pregadio's translations and studies of neidan texts, including the Wuzhen pian tradition and the Zhong-Lü four/five-stage scheme.
• Dzogchen - The Great Perfection — a teachingDzogchen teaching in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism and in Bön
• Fire Kasina Meditation — a teachingKasina practice as described in the Visuddhimagga, Buddhaghosa, 5th century CE
• Freemasonry — a teachingSpeculative Freemasonry, organised from 1717, from the stonemasons' guilds.
• Gyan Chaupar — a mapGyan Chaupar, also Moksha Patam. Surviving boards are mostly eighteenth-century; their dating is contested.
• Hawaiian Ho'oponopono - Cleaning the Lineage — a teachingTraditional Hawaiian family practice, and Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona's Self Identity through Ho'oponopono
• HeartMath - Heart Coherence — a teachingHeartMath Institute, founded 1991 by Doc Childre
• Hermeticism — a storybookFicino's 1463 translation for Cosimo de' Medici, the Emerald Tablet's Arabic origin, and Casaubon's 1614 redating drawn from Hermetica scholarship; the Kybalion's 1908 publication and authorship attribution independently verified.
• Inuit Cosmology: Sila — a storybookAs Inuit elders and writers (Najagneq via Knud Rasmussen, Rachel Qitsualik) describe it, and as Jarich Oosten's research records; tellings vary by region, this is not the only one.
• Kabbalah — The Tree of Life — a mapJewish mystical tradition. This arrangement of the paths is the one most printed since the seventeenth century; traditional sources draw it more than one way.
• Kabbalah: The Tree of Life — a teachingJewish Kabbalistic tradition (Sefer Yetzirah, the Zohar)
• Kali — a storybookThe Raktabija episode is from the Devi Mahatmya (c. 6th century); Ramprasad's songs and Ramakrishna's devotion at Dakshineswar are documented in Bengali devotional and biographical literature.
• Kashmir Shaivism — a storybookVasugupta's dream, Utpaladeva's teaching, Abhinavagupta's life and death, and Lakshmanjoo's biography are drawn from Kashmir Shaivism scholarship and lineage accounts, verified here against independent sources.
• Kriya Yoga — a teachingKriya yoga lineage: Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar, Paramahansa Yogananda; Autobiography of a Yogi, 1946
• Kundalini Awakening — a mapThe Ṣaṭ-cakra-nirūpaṇa, via Arthur Avalon's The Serpent Power (1919); the seven-centre kundalini scheme as commonly taught today.
• Kundalini Awakening — a teachingTantric and yogic tradition; Stanislav and Christina Grof, Spiritual Emergency, 1989
• Kundalini Kriya Yoga — a teachingKundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan; 3HO, founded 1969; independent investigation commissioned by Siri Singh Sahib Corporation, 2020
• Lakota Political Philosophy — Standing Bear to Standing Rock — a teachingLuther Standing Bear's writings and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's own account of 2016
• Langar — a teachingSikh practice: the Damdami Taksal rehat and the Rehat Maryada.
• Mahamudra - The Great Seal — a teachingMahamudra lineage in the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism
• Manipura Chakra — a teachingTantric chakra system
• Mantra Science: The Mechanics — a teachingBernardi et al., 2001, British Medical Journal; traditional mantra and prayer practice
• Maranasati - Death Awareness Meditation — a teachingBuddhist maranasati tradition (mindfulness of death)
• Mary Magdalene — a mapThe four Gospels; Pope Gregory I's homily (591); the Gospel of Mary (Berlin Codex, published 1955); the Gospel of Philip; the 1969 Roman calendar reform; Pope Francis's 2016 decree.
• Mayan Cosmology Beyond 2012 — a storybookThe Popol Vuh (K'iche' Maya text), and scholars Mark Van Stone, Anthony Aveni, and Sven Gronemeyer on the Long Count; Maya spokesperson Apolinario Chile Pixtun on 2012.
• Metatron’s Cube — a mapPlato, Timaeus, for the elements. The geometry is checkable with a compass; so is the claim.
• Phowa - Conscious Dying Practice — a teachingTibetan Buddhist phowa lineage teaching
• Planetary Days and Hours — a mapHellenistic astronomy. The 'Chaldean' label is Macrobius's; historians find no trace of it in Babylonian astrology.
• Polynesian Wayfinding — a storybookAs Mau Piailug, Nainoa Thompson, and the Polynesian Voyaging Society (founded 1973) describe it; corroborated by researchers Ben Finney and David Lewis.
• Pratikramana — a teachingJain practice. Pratikramana means turning back.
• Q'ero / Andean Cosmology — a storybookAs Q'ero paqos and researchers describe it publicly; much English-language material comes via Western workshop teachers, not paqos themselves. One telling among several lineages.
• Reiki — a teachingMikao Usui, Japan, 1922. Recited morning and evening.
• Robert Monroe — a portraitJourneys Out of the Body (1971); Charles Tart's published lab studies; the declassified 1983 Gateway Process report; Monroe Institute materials.
• Shabbat — a teachingJewish practice, sunset Friday to nightfall Saturday.
• Sikhi — a teachingSikh teaching. A gurdwara will let you in and feed you, and nobody will ask you anything.
• Songlines — a mapNational Museum of Australia's Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters (2017), developed with Anangu, Martu and Ngaanyatjarra custodians; W.E.H. Stanner on the limits of “Dreaming” as a gloss.
• Sri Vidya — a teachingSri Vidya. Scholarship: Douglas Brooks, Auspicious Wisdom.
• Te Ao Māori — a storybookTold across many iwi, with differences between them. This is one telling, not the telling.
• The Bardo Thodol - Tibetan Book of the Dead — a teachingTibetan Buddhist terma tradition, attributed to Padmasambhava, revealed by Karma Lingpa
• The Bardo Thödol — a mapAttributed to Padmasambhava; revealed by Karma Lingpa in the fourteenth century. The English title comes from a 1927 translation.
• The Black Madonna Tradition — a storybookCzęstochowa, Montserrat and Einsiedeln's histories and legends are documented in shrine and art-historical records; the smoke and syncretism theories are drawn from published scholarship, checked independently here.
• The Bridge — a mapCross-tradition research across thirteen lineages, 2026. Seven further shared movements are named in the reading behind this page.
• The Cosmic Dance at CERN — a mapFritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (1975); the Nataraja statue at CERN, gifted 2004; CERN's 4 July 2012 announcement of a Higgs-consistent particle.
• The Emerald Tablets of Thoth — a storybookAs Maurice Doreal published it in the 1930s through the Brotherhood of the White Temple; researcher Jason Colavito's textual comparisons.
• The Five Elements — a mapWu Xing, as used in traditional Chinese medicine; organ and emotion pairings are the classical correspondences.
• The Fourth Way — a teachingG. I. Gurdjieff, and P. D. Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous.
• The Golden Ratio — a mapEuclid's Elements (Book VI); Fibonacci's Liber Abaci (1202); Helmut Vogel's 1979 phyllotaxis model; George Markowsky's 1992 critique; Keith Devlin's 'The Myth That Will Not Go Away' (2013); Clement Falbo's nautilus measurements.
• The I Ching — a teachingThe Book of Changes, written from roughly the ninth century BC.
• The Kybalion — a teachingThe Kybalion (1908), published as by Three Initiates, widely attributed to William Walker Atkinson
• The Law of One — a storybookThe Law of One / Ra Material: 106 channelled sessions, 1981–1984, recorded by L/L Research — Don Elkins, Carla L. Rueckert and Jim McCarty. Held as the material's own; the contact can't be independently verified.
• The Law of One — a teachingThe Law of One / Ra Material (1981-84 sessions), Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert and Jim McCarty
• The Microcosmic Orbit — a mapDaoist neidan (inner alchemy) tradition; the Governing and Conception Vessels are also named in classical Chinese medicine as Du Mai and Ren Mai.
• The Microcosmic Orbit — a teachingDaoist neidan (inner alchemy) tradition
• The Nag Hammadi Library — a storybookThe discovery account comes from Muhammad Ali al-Samman's story as recorded by James Robinson; the texts' contents and dating rest on Coptic scholarship since the 1970s.
• The Nine Dimensions — a mapMatías De Stefano, as he describes it — presented as memory, not evidence.
• The Ten Mahavidyas — a teachingShakta tantra tradition
• The White Buffalo Calf Woman — a storybookAs told by Black Elk to Joseph Epes Brown in 'The Sacred Pipe' (1953), and as Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th-generation keeper of the pipe, has spoken of it publicly. One telling among several.
• Throat Singing and Overtone Practices — a teachingTuvan and Mongolian throat-singing traditions; Inuit katajjaq
• Tibetan Bön — a storybookAs Bönpo tradition and scholars Samten Karmay, David Snellgrove, and Per Kvaerne describe it; the 14th Dalai Lama's recognition is a matter of record from the late 1970s.
• Tibetan Chöd: Cutting Through — a teachingChöd lineage founded by Machig Labdrön, Tibetan Buddhism
• Tonglen: The Compassion Practice — a teachingTibetan Buddhist lojong tradition
• Vajrayana — a storybookPadmasambhava and Milarepa's stories are told across Tibetan biographical literature and oral tradition; yidam and terma are described in standard accounts of Vajrayana practice, verified independently here.
• Vipassana (Goenka Lineage) - 10-Day Silence — a teachingVipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka
• Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka — a storybookAs James R. Walker recorded from Lakota elders (1896–1914); anthropologist Raymond DeMallie; and Lakota writers Vine Deloria Jr. and Albert White Hat Sr., all reported speech, verified publicly.
• Yoruba / Ifá Tradition — a storybookAs Yoruba diviners, scholars (Wande Abimbola, William Bascom, Rowland Abiodun) and UNESCO's 2005/2008 recognitions describe it. One telling among Yoruba communities and their diaspora, not the only one.
• Zen — a teachingZen. Zazen is the sitting; samu is the work.

The type

Lora · DM Sans · Cinzel · Fraunces

The makers

Ashrey, with Claude.