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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.
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Y_1_06 — Psychedelic Research — Modern Science and Ancient Entheogen Parallels
Psychedelic research has undergone a dramatic revival since ~2006, with major studies at Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, NYU, and MAPS demonstrating the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, MDMA, and ayahuasca/DM
Y_1_08 — Cannabis: History, Ethnobotany, and Pharmacology
Cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) is one of humanity's oldest cultivated plants, with a relationship spanning at least 12,000 years based on archaeological evidence. Its use as fiber (hemp), food (seeds), medicine, and psych
Y_1_18 — Addiction Neurochemistry: Reward Circuits, Tolerance & Therapeutic Frontiers
Addiction — now formally termed substance use disorder (SUD, DSM-5) — is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder characterized by compulsive drug seeking despite harmful consequences, affecting approximately 35 million peopl
Y_1_16 — Psychedelic Legal Frameworks: Regulation, Decriminalization, and Therapeutic Access
The legal status of psychedelic substances — including psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, DMT/ayahuasca, mescaline, and ibogaine — has undergone dramatic shifts since the mid-20th century, moving from unregulated research compounds
Y_1_01 — Altered States, Psychedelics & Ancient Knowledge
Psychoactive substances played a significant — possibly central — role in ancient knowledge traditions. The Eleusinian Mysteries (kykeon), Vedic tradition (Soma), Egyptian practice (blue lotus), and Mesoamerican religion
H_2_04 — Scientific Censorship and Paradigm Defense
The history of science includes well-documented instances where
H_2_20 — Suppression of Anomalous Archaeological Finds
The suppression of anomalous archaeological finds — artifacts, structures, or skeletal remains that challenge established chronological and evolutionary frameworks — is one of the most contentious claims in alternative a
H_2_18 — Cold War Scientific Espionage and Suppressed Research
The Cold War (1947–1991) created an unprecedented regime of scientific secrecy in which entire fields of research — nuclear physics, rocketry, biological weapons, cryptography, remote sensing, and materials science — wer
H_2_05 — History Rewriting and Textbook Controversies
The rewriting of history through state-controlled textbooks and curricula is one of the most persistent and globally consequential forms of knowledge suppression. This document examines four major case studies: the "Lost
H_2_03 — Academic Gatekeeping, Paradigm Resistance, and the Sociology of Knowledge
Academic gatekeeping — the processes by which scientific communities control which ideas, methods, and practitioners gain legitimacy — is simultaneously essential to quality (filtering out error, fraud, and pseudoscience
H_2_12 — Peer Review: History, Flaws, and Gatekeeping Function
Peer review — the evaluation of scientific manuscripts by expert reviewers before publication — is the primary mechanism by which the scientific community certifies knowledge claims as meeting disciplinary standards of e
H_2_07 — Radiocarbon Dating Controversies and Calibration Disputes
Radiocarbon dating — the measurement of the radioactive isotope ¹⁴C in organic materials to determine their age — is archaeology's single most important chronological tool, having revolutionized the discipline since Will
H_2_02 — Future Research Topics
This document consolidates ALL proposed future research topics from all eight source files: Claude (Doc 12), Gemini (Doc 12), GPT5.2 (Doc 12 & Doc 25), Master (Doc 12 & Doc 25), Raptor (Doc 25 addendum), and working note
H_1_04 — Ancient Libraries — Destruction and Knowledge Loss
Throughout human history, major repositories of knowledge have been destroyed by fire, war, religious persecution, conquest, and deliberate suppression — resulting in incalculable losses to the accumulated learning of an
H_1_13 — Knowledge Loss in the Fall of Rome and Early Middle Ages
The collapse of the Western Roman Empire (conventionally dated to 476 CE, though the decline was a process spanning the 3rd–6th centuries) produced one of the most dramatic and well-documented episodes of knowledge and t
H_1_01 — Suppression of Ancient Knowledge
This document catalogs the systematic destruction of ancient knowledge, artifacts, texts, and entire religions throughout history — framed both as deliberate suppression of heterodox knowledge (Claude/Gemini/Master persp
H_1_18 — Library of Alexandria: Destruction and the Knowledge-Loss Question
The Library of Alexandria was the most ambitious knowledge-collection project of antiquity, founded under Ptolemy I Soter (~290s BCE) and developed by Ptolemy II Philadelphus as part of the Mouseion — a state-funded rese
H_1_15 — Religious Text Sanitization: Canon Formation & Apocrypha Politics
The formation of religious canons — deciding which texts are authoritative and which are excluded — represents one of history's most consequential acts of knowledge control. The Christian biblical canon evolved over cent
H_3_06 — Linguistic Extinction and Lost Knowledge Systems
Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, linguists estimate
H_3_14 — Oral History Suppression: Favoring Text Over Voice
Academic historiography has systematically privileged written texts over oral sources — treating written documents as reliable evidence and oral traditions as unreliable, distorted, or "merely" mythological. This literac
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