How to Read This ResourceWhat the tags mean, and why the order of every page is the same
Six minutes here will change how the other sixty pages read.
What this library is
A free reference on spiritual practice that teaches each practice properly first, then examines it honestly, and never asks you to arrive at a particular conclusion.
Most writing on these subjects picks a side before it starts. The believing kind teaches the practice and leaves out anything inconvenient. The debunking kind explains the flaw and never teaches you the thing well enough to know what is being dismissed. Both leave you less able to decide for yourself.
This library does both halves, in that order, on every page. You learn the practice from someone who takes it seriously. Then you get the history, the evidence, and the failure modes. What you make of it afterwards is genuinely yours.
Nothing here is for sale, and no page routes you to a paid offering.
Every page has the same three parts
Once you know the shape, you can enter any page at the depth you want.
Part I — the practice, taught fully
How the thing is actually done, from someone who respects it. Enough detail to practise from. No caveats interrupting the teaching, because a practice explained defensively cannot be understood.
Part II — then think clearly
Where it came from and when. What has been studied and what the studies found. Where the claims outrun the evidence. Where the practice becomes a way to harm someone, or a way to sell something.
Part III — provenance
The sources, listed. What a newcomer should ask. Where we are out of our depth, stated plainly, because a reference that never says so is not being careful.
The six tags — the most useful thing here
Every factual claim in this library carries one of six tags. They tell you what kind of thing the claim is, so you can weigh it yourself instead of taking our word for it.
Attested
Documented in the historical record. Texts, artefacts, dated sources. Not a claim that it works, only that it demonstrably existed and when.
Studied
Tested with research methods, with published results. The tag does not say the result was positive; it says the question was investigated and the finding is reported here as it stands.
Transmitted
Taught within a living tradition, teacher to student. Real knowledge, held by a community, not established by outside testing and not claiming to be.
Contemporary
Recent. Twentieth or twenty-first century, often presented elsewhere as ancient. The tag is not an insult; a great deal of good practice is modern. It is a date, and dates matter when someone claims otherwise.
Contested
Genuinely disputed, by people who know the material. Not settled in either direction. Where you see this, treat confident claims either way with suspicion.
Practitioner
The author's own position or framework. Offered as a view, not as fact. Whenever this school's own thinking appears anywhere in the library, it carries this tag.
If you take one thing from this page: notice when a claim is Contemporary and someone told you it was ancient.
The editorial firewall
The person who wrote this library is also a practitioner with her own framework and her own paid work. That is a conflict of interest, and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest option.
So the two are kept apart. The reference pages apply one standard to every practice, including this school's own. Where the author's framework appears, it is tagged Practitioner and is not presented as established. The Institute department holds her own work and is labelled as such, so you can read the reference material without ever going near it.
The firewall statement appears in the footer of every page for the same reason: you should not have to go looking for it.
How the library is arranged
Ten departments, each a colour. The colour of the page tells you where you are.
Where to start
Thinking Tools before any particular practice. Those five pages explain the mechanisms — why a reading feels accurate, why a pendulum moves — that recur underneath everything else. They will make every other page shorter.
If something is wrong right now
Go straight to Safety & Protection. It leads with practice rather than warnings, everything in it is free, and When to Seek Care is the clearest page in the library.
If you know what brought you
Go straight to that page. Nothing here depends on anything else, and every page stands alone. Reading Paths offers six ordered routes if you would rather be guided.
The interactives reveal, they never assess
Several pages have something to click. None of them scores you, types you, or tells you what you are.
They exist to make an argument experiential rather than asserted. The Forer demonstration shows you a profile and then shows you how it was built. The circle construction closes exactly and then explains why. The returning counter counts how often you noticed your attention wander, and says outright that a higher number is a longer set rather than a worse sit.
If anything on this site ever appears to be measuring you, that is a fault and we want to know.
How to disagree with this library
Usefully, and we mean it.
- Which tag is this claim carrying, and does the tag fit the evidence given?
- Is the practice actually taught well enough in Part I to be recognisable to someone who does it?
- Is the strongest version of the opposing case represented, or a weak one?
- Is a dating claim doing work that the source does not support?
- Is the author's own view creeping in anywhere untagged?
Corrections are made in public. Editorial Standards sets out the rules every page is held to, and Updates & Version History logs what changed and when, including the things we got wrong.