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B_0_00 Beings & Entities

B_0_00 — Beings & Entities: Section Summary

B_4_00 Beings & Entities

B_4_00 — Spirit Categories Functions: Subfolder Summary

B_4_09 Verified Beings & Entities

B_4_09 — Skin-Walker, Wendigo, and Indigenous Predatory Spirits

Indigenous North American spiritual traditions include powerful predatory spirit entities whose cultural significance, cosmological depth, and moral weight far exceed their common (and often distorted) depictions in popu

skin-walker yee naaldlooshii wendigo windigo witiko wiindigoo
B_4_02 Beings & Entities

B_4_02 — Mandaeism: Living Gnostic Religion

Mandaeism is one of the oldest continuously practiced Gnostic religions in the world, with an estimated 60,000-100,000 adherents primarily concentrated in southern Iraq and southwestern Iran, with significant diaspora co

Mandaeism Mandaeans Ginza Rabba John the Baptist Gnostic Ptahil
B_2_02 Beings & Entities

B_2_02 — Anunnaki Connection

The Anunnaki are a group of deities in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythology. Their name means "Princely Offspring" or "Those of Royal Blood." In original texts they are anthropomorphic gods who

Anunnaki Igigi Enlil Enki Anu Nibiru
B_2_04 Verified Beings & Entities

B_2_04 — Ancient Rulers & Extraordinary Lifespans

Multiple ancient civilizations — Sumerian, Biblical, Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian — recorded rulers with extraordinarily long lifespans far exceeding normal human expectancy. All traditions share a striking pa

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B_2_00 Beings & Entities

B_2_00 — Humanoid Crypto Entities: Subfolder Summary

B_2_03 Credible Beings & Entities

B_2_03 — Underground Creatures and Myths

Virtually every ancient civilization across the globe has myths and legends about beings living underground. These stories span continents, cultures, and millennia — often with striking similarities despite no known cont

underground subterranean Nagas Patala Agartha Hopi
B_2_01 Beings & Entities

B_2_01 — Reptilian Beings Overview

Reptilian/serpent beings constitute the single most widespread non-human archetype across human civilizations. Every major culture on Earth independently developed traditions of intelligent serpentine or reptilian entiti

reptilian serpent beings Nagas dragons serpent gods shapeshifting
B_1_00 Beings & Entities

B_1_00 — Major Deity Profiles: Subfolder Summary

B_3_04 Verified Beings & Entities

B_3_04 — Chimeric Beings — Centaurs, Sphinxes, Minotaurs, and Composite Entities

Composite beings — entities combining human and animal features — appear in the art and mythology of every major civilization. From the Egyptian Sphinx and Mesopotamian Lamassu to the Greek Centaur, Hindu Garuda, and Mes

chimera centaur sphinx minotaur manticore Garuda
B_3_01 Verified Beings & Entities

B_3_01 — Dynastic Serpent Lineage Claims

Across every inhabited continent except Australia, royal houses claimed literal genealogical descent from serpent, dragon, or reptilian beings. These were not metaphors — they were formal genealogical claims inscribed in

serpent lineage royal bloodlines Naga dynasty Pallava Nair Khmer
B_3_00 Beings & Entities

B_3_00 — Creature Types Composite: Subfolder Summary

L_1_00 Genetics & Origins

L_1_00 — Human Evolution Species: Subfolder Summary

L_0_00 Genetics & Origins

L_0_00 — Genetics & Human Origins: Section Summary

Y_4_04 Verified Altered States

Y_4_04 — Entoptic Phenomena and Phosphene Patterns

This document examines Entoptic Phenomena and Phosphene Patterns, a topic within the Consciousness research area. Key areas of investigation include Defining Entoptic Phenomena, Phosphenes: Light from Within, Heinrich Kl

entoptic phenomena phosphene form constants Heinrich Klüver mescaline Lewis-Williams
Y_5_08 Credible Altered States

Y_5_08 — Sweat Lodge and Heat-Induced Altered States

The sweat lodge — and heat-induced altered states more broadly — represents one of the most ancient and geographically widespread methods of intentionally altering consciousness through controlled hyperthermia: sustained

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Y_2_01 Verified Altered States

Y_2_01 — NDEs, OBEs & Consciousness Studies

Modern consciousness research — NDEs in cardiac arrest patients, children's past-life memories, and DMT-induced entity encounters — produces data that intersects remarkably with ancient descriptions of death journeys, as

NDE OBE near-death experience out-of-body AWARE study Parnia
Y_3_12 Credible Altered States

Y_3_12 — Whirling Dervishes: Sufi Sema Ceremony and Rotational Consciousness

The whirling dervishes — practitioners of the sema (or sama) ceremony of the Mevlevi order — are among the most recognizable embodiments of Sufi mysticism: figures in tall camel-hair hats (sikke) and flowing white skirts

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H_0_00 Suppression & Thesis

H_0_00 — Suppression & Thesis: Section Summary