RESEARCH BASE
Search 3,721 documents across 34 fields — every claim tier-rated by evidence
3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
933 results for "ISM" — page 15 of 47
N_5_09 — Modern Esoteric Movements: New Age to Chaos Magick
The modern esoteric landscape — from the mid-20th century to the present — represents a dramatic transformation of the Western occult tradition from hierarchical, lodge-based secret societies operating within stable init
N_3_08 — Wicca and Modern Witchcraft Revival
Wicca is a modern neopagan religion founded in England in the mid-20th century by Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1884–1964), a retired British civil servant and amateur anthropologist who publicly presented it from 1954 onward
N_3_15 — Hasidic Mystical Lineages and Transmission Chains
Hasidic Judaism — founded by Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov, c. 1700–1760) in Podolia (modern Ukraine) — represents one of the most well-documented mystical transmission systems in world religion. Unlike man
N_4_10 — Aum Shinrikyo and Destructive Cults
Destructive cults — organizations that combine charismatic authoritarian leadership, coercive psychological control, and totalistic ideology in ways that cause measurable harm to members and/or the public — represent the
N_4_07 — Yakuza and Japanese Secret Societies
Yakuza (also known as gokudō 極道 — "the extreme path") is the collective term for Japan's organized crime syndicates, whose historical roots extend to the Edo period (1603–1868) through two main predecessor groups: the te
R_1_18 — Mass Extinction Periodicity
The question of whether mass extinctions follow a periodic pattern — recurring at regular intervals driven by astronomical or geological cycles — has been one of the most provocative and contentious hypotheses in paleont
F_1_25 — Roman-Era Artifacts in the Americas
The claim that Roman-era artifacts have been found in the Americas — suggesting trans-Atlantic contact between the Roman world and pre-Columbian civilizations — is a recurring theme in diffusionist and alternative archae
F_1_24 — Phoenician Contact with the Americas
The hypothesis that Phoenician or Carthaginian sailors reached the Americas before Columbus is one of the most persistent and emotionally charged claims in the field of pre-Columbian transatlantic contact — a proposition
F_4_24 — Homo floresiensis: The "Hobbit" of Flores
Homo floresiensis — popularly known as "the Hobbit" — is an extinct species of small-bodied hominin whose discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 was one of the most startling finds in the history of paleoan
F_4_21 — Shared Flood Geology: Physical Evidence for Deluge Events
Flood myths appear in cultures across every inhabited continent — from the Sumerian/Akkadian flood (Ziusudra/Utnapishtim), the Hebrew Noah narrative, and the Greek Deucalion, to the Hindu Manu, the Chinese Gun-Yu, the Az
F_4_26 — The Green Sahara: African Humid Period Civilizations
The "Green Sahara" — also known as the African Humid Period (AHP) — refers to a period of profound climatic transformation that turned the Sahara Desert into a lush, habitable landscape of grasslands, lakes, rivers, and
ZA_4_13 — Quantum Spin Liquids
A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic magnetic state of matter in which quantum fluctuations prevent the localized magnetic moments (spins) in a material from ordering into any conventional pattern — no ferromagnetism
V_4_26 — Philosophy of Mathematics: Foundations, Reality, and Discovery vs. Invention
The philosophy of mathematics asks the deepest questions about the nature of mathematical objects: Do numbers, sets, and geometric forms exist independently of human minds (Platonism/realism), or are they human construct
M_5_22 — Mesolithic Europe: Hunter-Gatherer Complexity Before Agriculture
The Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age, ~10,000–5000 BCE in Europe) — the period between the end of the last Ice Age and the arrival of farming — has been traditionally treated as a brief, uninteresting interlude between the d
M_5_16 — Dead Sea Scrolls: Discovery, Contents, and Suppressed Interpretations
The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise approximately 981 manuscripts discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves near Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. The scrolls date from the 3rd cent
M_5_04 — Submerged Structures of the Mediterranean — Pavlopetri to Baiae
The Mediterranean Sea contains some of the world's best-documented and most archaeologically significant submerged settlements and structures — sites that were built on dry land and subsequently inundated by combinations
M_3_13 — Out-of-Place Artifacts Systematic Evaluation
Out-of-place artifacts (OOPArts) are objects found in archaeological contexts that appear anomalous — either too technologically advanced, too old, or too far from their expected geographic origin. This document systemat
M_3_07 — Stone Age Precision — Avebury, Carnac, and European Megaliths
The European megalithic tradition — spanning from approximately 4800 to 1500 BCE across Atlantic Europe (Iberia, France, the British Isles, Scandinavia, and the central Mediterranean) — produced tens of thousands of monu
M_4_05 — Giant Claims, Skeletal Evidence, and the Mound Builder Debate
Claims of giant human skeletons unearthed in the Americas constitute one of the most persistent themes in forbidden archaeology and popular alternative history. Hundreds of 19th-century newspaper accounts report discover
M_4_02 — Proto-Agriculture and Managed Landscapes
This document examines Proto-Agriculture and Managed Landscapes, a topic within the Forbidden Archaeology research area. Key areas of investigation include The "Neolithic Revolution" Concept, Independent Invention: A Glo
BROWSE BY SECTION — 3,721 documents across 34 fields