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Synthesis:5 Dimensions Altered State of Consciousness Questionnaires

2026-10-22T18:55:22Z

DanielMIngram: /* Dimensions and subdimensions */ Post upgrade small test.

== Dimensions and subdimensions ==
Oceanic Boundlessness [OB]

* Unity
* Spiritual experience
* Blissfulness
* Insightfulness
* Disembodiment

Anxious Ego Dissolution [AED]

* Impaired control and cognition
* Anxiety.

Visionary Restructuralization [VR]

* Complex imagery
* Elementary imagery
* Audio-visual synesthesia
* Changed meaning of percepts

Acoustic Alterations [AA]

Vigilance Reduction [VIR]

== Items ==
1. I felt that I was in a wonderful other world.

2. My thoughts and actions were slowed down.

3. Bodily sensations were very enjoyable.

4. I heard single words without knowing where they came from.

5. I heard rings and tones without knowing where they came from.

6. I felt as if dark forces had overtaken me.

7. I saw things I knew were not real.

8. I felt like a puppet or marionette.

9. I felt connected to a higher power.

10. I felt sleepy.

11. A melody occured to me that I had to constantly repeat.

12. I experienced boundless pleasure.

13. Meaningless noises sounded like real words or phrases.14. I saw regular patterns with closed eyes or in complete darkness.

15. I felt drunk.

16. I felt I was being transformed forever in a miraculous way.

17. I felt that I was on the verge of unconsciousness.

18. Everything seemed to unify into a oneness.

19. I heard my thoughts as if I had spoken them out loud.

20. Sounds seemed to influence what I saw.

21. I felt tormented.

22. I saw colors with closed eyes or in complete darkness.

23. Shapes seemed to be changed by sounds or noises.

24. I perceived everything as blurry, as if through a kind of fog.

25. A voice commented on everything I thought although no one was there.

26. I felt as if I no longer had a body.

27. I felt incapable of making even the smallest decision.

28. Some everyday things acquired special meaning.

29. I felt drowsy.

30. I heard complete sentences without knowing where they came from.

31. Things in my environment had a new strange meaning.

32. I was afraid that the state I was in would last forever.

33. I saw brightness or flashes of light with closed eyes or in complete darkness.

34. I felt one with my surroundings.

35. Worries and anxieties of everyday life felt unimportant.

36. My sense of time and space was altered as if I was dreaming.

37. My perception was blurred.

38. I had diﬃculties in distinguishing important from unimportant.

39. I saw whole scenes roll by with closed eyes or in complete darkness.

40. I felt extraordinary powers within myself.

41. I experienced a touch of eternity.

42. Conflicts and contradictions seemed to dissolve.

43. I was scared without knowing exactly why.

44. I experienced everything as frighteningly distorted.

45. The world seemed to me beyond good and evil.

46. I experienced my surroundings as strange and weird.

47. I felt as if I were paralyzed.

48. I heard music without knowing where it came from.

49. heard something faintly that I could not identify.

50. I felt very profound.

51. I felt numb.

52. I experienced past, present, and future as a oneness.

53. I experienced unbearable emptiness.

54. Objects in my surroundings engaged me emotionally much more than usual.

55. From an initially diﬀuse noise, which I could not identify as real, clear rings

and tones evolved.

56. I felt threatened.

57. Many things appeared to me as breathtakingly beautiful.58. Things came to my mind that I thought long forgotten.

59. I felt like I do shortly before falling asleep.

60. My body felt numb, lifeless, and/or alien.

61. I felt as if I was half-asleep.

62. I had the impression I was out of my body.

63. I felt as if I was floating.

64. I felt isolated from everything and everyone.

65. I heard voices that did not come from the surroundings as usual.

66. I heard something like a buzzing, swooshing, or humming without

recognizing the cause.

67. I was not able to complete a thought; my thoughts repeatedly became

disconnected.

68. I felt I was about to fall asleep.

69. I had insights into connections that had previously puzzled me.

70. Many things seemed incredibly funny to me.

71. The boundaries between myself and my surroundings seemed to blur.

72. I could see images from my memory or imagination with extreme clarity.

73. I felt totally free and released from all obligations.

74. I heard diﬀuse noises without knowing where they came from.

75. The colors of things seemed to be altered by sounds or noises.

76. Sounds and noises were fainter than usual.

77. I had very original thoughts.

78. I had the feeling that I no longer had my own will.

79. I was afraid of losing control over myself.

80. I stayed frozen in an very unnatural position for an extended period of time.

81. I experienced a kind of awe.

82. My imagination was extremely vivid.

83. Things in my surroundings appeared smaller or larger.

84. I felt exhausted.

85. Time passed slowly in a tormenting way.

86. I experienced profound inner peace.

87. Everything around me seemed to be animated with life.

88. Everything happened so fast that I could not follow it all.

89. I had the feeling that something terrible was going to happen.

90. I was able to remember certain events with exceeding clarity.

91. I experienced an all-embracing love.

92. There were sounds in the room that I feel were unlikely to have been real.

93. I heard a ticking, knocking, ringing, or rattling without being able to recognize

the cause.

94. My experience had religious aspects to it.

== Resources ==
[https://www.academia.edu/38875371/The_5D_ASC_Test_for_Non_Ordinary_States_of_Consciousness_The_5D_ASC_Test_for_Non_Ordinary_States_of_Consciousness_Background_and_Purpose The 5D-ASC Test for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Background and Purpose]

Instructions for completing questions.

A template graph for visualizing the results.

Imaging

2025-06-03T17:37:48Z

DanielMIngram: first build

Indications for imaging studies, such as [[MRI]], [[CT]], [[EEG]], etc. related to [[Synthesis:Emergent Phenomena|Emergent Phenomena]] have been very understudied, and definitive recommendations have been lacking, so this page dedicated a systematic discussion of indications and contraindications, pros and cons, to various imaging strategies for various presentations in various settings with variable resources and standards of care.

Clinical:Main Page

2025-06-03T17:22:59Z

DanielMIngram: Adding links to diagnostics

The Clinical namespace is dedicated to condensing the work of the Traditions and Synthesis namespaces, as well as directly contributed [[clinical expert opinions]], into evolving clinical guidelines which aspire to be sufficiently comprehensive and useful as to constitute the primary educational curriculum for doctoral-level (MD and PhD) board-certified globally scalable subspecialties dedicated to [[Synthesis:Emergent Phenomena|Emergent Phenomena]].

The Clinical namespace is the most tightly moderated of the three namespaces, and being a contributor requires a clinical background and expertise sufficient to contribute to clinical guidelines.

These are the primary areas of focus that the Clinical namespace covers, essential questions related to the ethical treatment of those with emergent phenomena, such as this incomplete initial list:

# Clinical encounters
## Initial encounter and therapeutic relationship
## Involving secondary sources of information
# Key clinical competencies
## Cultural competency: Awareness of traditional “maps” of the main religious, spiritual, mystical, wisdom, etc. traditions
## EPEE competency
## Awareness of the impact of appraisals and interpretations on outcomes, some education on metaphysics and worldviews
# Safety Assessment and Protective Factors
# Differential Diagnosis
# Diagnostics: Subjective Experience, Clinical Observations, Secondary Sources, [[Imaging]], [[Procedural Studies]], and [[Laboratory Studies]], etc.
# Complications and Their Management > ''a list of common complication types, and for each of them, have some information on differential diagnosis and suggested clinical interventions or non-clinical approaches, e.g.'':
## General differential diagnosis guidelines
## Energy-like phenomena
### Severe chronic or acute problems with energy-like phenomena and/or spontaneous movements
## Peak/elevated experiences and mania
## Post-peak experience “Crash”, or “Chronic or acute problems with challenging mindstates with existential components, possibly following peak experience”
## Bipolar-like patterns and emergent cycling
## Challenging changes to sense of reality or personality
## Existential or Ontological “shock”
## Psychotic-like symptoms: Visions, Hallucinations, etc.
## The “Powers” and “PSI”
## Other EPEEs
### Perception changes and Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder
# Non-Pharmaceutical & Pharmaceutical Modalities
# Disposition
# Linguistics: Barriers and Establishing Lexicons
# Field Comparisons and Management Strategies
# Support Strategies
# Acceptance Obstacle
# Education and Training
# Discrepancies in Phenomenology and Coding Options

Clinical:Main Page

2025-06-03T17:01:02Z

DanielMIngram: minor linguistic edit

The Clinical namespace is dedicated to condensing the work of the Traditions and Synthesis namespaces, as well as directly contributed [[clinical expert opinions]], into evolving clinical guidelines which aspire to be sufficiently comprehensive and useful as to constitute the primary educational curriculum for doctoral-level (MD and PhD) board-certified globally scalable subspecialties dedicated to [[Synthesis:Emergent Phenomena|Emergent Phenomena]].

The Clinical namespace is the most tightly moderated of the three namespaces, and being a contributor requires a clinical background and expertise sufficient to contribute to clinical guidelines.

These are the primary areas of focus that the Clinical namespace covers, essential questions related to the ethical treatment of those with emergent phenomena, such as this incomplete initial list:

# Clinical encounters
## Initial encounter and therapeutic relationship
## Involving secondary sources of information
# Key clinical competencies
## Cultural competency: Awareness of traditional “maps” of the main religious, spiritual, mystical, wisdom (r/s/m/w) traditions
## EPEE competency…
## Awareness of the impact of appraisals and interpretations on outcomes, some education on metaphysics and worldviews
# Safety Assessment and Protective Factors
# Differential Diagnosis
# Diagnostics: Subjective Experience, Clinical Observations, Secondary Sources, Imaging, Procedural and Laboratory Studies, etc.
# Complications and Their Management > ''a list of common complication types, and for each of them, have some information on differential diagnosis and suggested clinical interventions or non-clinical approaches, e.g.'':
## General differential diagnosis guidelines
## Energy-like phenomena
### Severe chronic or acute problems with energy-like phenomena and/or spontaneous movements
## Peak/elevated experiences and mania
## Post-peak experience “Crash”, or “Chronic or acute problems with challenging mindstates with existential components, possibly following peak experience”
## Bipolar-like patterns and emergent cycling
## Challenging changes to sense of reality or personality
## Existential or Ontological “shock”
## Psychotic-like symptoms: Visions, Hallucinations, etc.
## The “Powers” and “PSI”
## Other EPEEs
### Perception changes and Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder
# Non-Pharmaceutical & Pharmaceutical Modalities
# Disposition
# Linguistics: Barriers and Establishing Lexicons
# Field Comparisons and Management Strategies
# Support Strategies
# Acceptance Obstacle
# Education and Training
# Discrepancies in Phenomenology and Coding Options

Clinical:Main Page

2025-06-03T17:00:05Z

DanielMIngram: minor list change

The Clinical namespace is dedicated to condensing the work of the Traditions and Synthesis namespaces, as well as directly contributed [[clinical expert opinions]], into evolving clinical guidelines which aspire to be sufficiently comprehensive and useful as to constitute the primary educational curriculum for doctoral-level (MD and PhD) board-certified globally scalable subspecialties dedicated to [[Synthesis:Emergent Phenomena|Emergent Phenomena]].

The Clinical namespace is the most tightly moderated of the three namespaces, and being a contributor requires a clinical background and expertise sufficient to contribute to clinical guidelines.

These are the primary areas of focus that the Clinical namespace covers, essential questions related to the ethical treatment of those with emergent phenomena, such as this incomplete initial list:

# Clinical encounters
## Initial encounter and therapeutic relationship
## Involving secondary sources of information
# Key clinical competencies
## Cultural competency: Awareness of traditional “maps” of the main religious, spiritual, mystical, wisdom (r/s/m/w) traditions
## EPEE competency…
## Awareness of the impact of appraisals and interpretations on outcomes, some education on metaphysics and worldviews
# Safety Assessment and Protective Factors
# Differential Diagnosis
# Diagnostics: Subjective Experience, Clinical Observations, Secondary Sources, Imaging, Procedural and Laboratory Studies, etc.
# Complications and Their Management > ''a list of common complication types, and for each of them, have some information on differential diagnosis and suggested clinical interventions or non-clinical approaches, e.g.'':
## General differential diagnosis guidelines
## Energy-like phenomena
### Severe chronic or acute problems with energy-like phenomena and/or spontaneous movements
## Peak experiences and mania
## Post-peak experience “Crash”, or “Chronic or acute problems with challenging mindstates with existential components, possibly following peak experience” aka Dark night of the soul
## Bipolar-like patterns and emergent cycling
## Challenging changes to sense of reality or personality
## Existential or Ontological “shock”
## Psychotic-like symptoms: Visions, Hallucinations, etc.
## The “Powers” and “PSI”
## Other EPEEs
### Perception changes and Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder
# Non-Pharmaceutical & Pharmaceutical Modalities
# Disposition
# Linguistics: Barriers and Establishing Lexicons
# Field Comparisons and Management Strategies
# Support Strategies
# Acceptance Obstacle
# Education and Training
# Discrepancies in Phenomenology and Coding Options

Clinical:Main Page

2025-06-03T16:58:49Z

DanielMIngram: Moderate edit to main list

The Clinical namespace is dedicated to condensing the work of the Traditions and Synthesis namespaces, as well as directly contributed [[clinical expert opinions]], into evolving clinical guidelines which aspire to be sufficiently comprehensive and useful as to constitute the primary educational curriculum for doctoral-level (MD and PhD) board-certified globally scalable subspecialties dedicated to [[Synthesis:Emergent Phenomena|Emergent Phenomena]].

The Clinical namespace is the most tightly moderated of the three namespaces, and being a contributor requires a clinical background and expertise sufficient to contribute to clinical guidelines.

These are the primary areas of focus that the Clinical namespace covers, essential questions related to the ethical treatment of those with emergent phenomena, such as this incomplete initial list:

# Clinical encounters
## Initial encounter and therapeutic relationship
## Involving secondary sources of information
# Key clinical competencies
## Cultural competency: Awareness of traditional “maps” of the main religious, spiritual, mystical, wisdom (r/s/m/w) traditions
## EPEE competency…
## Awareness of the impact of appraisals and interpretations on outcomes, some education on metaphysics and worldviews
# Safety Assessment and Protective Factors
# Differential Diagnosis
# Diagnostics: Subjective Experience, Clinical Observations, Secondary Sources, Imaging, Procedural and Laboratory Studies, etc.
# Complications and Their Management > ''a list of common complication types, and for each of them, have some information on differential diagnosis and suggested clinical interventions or non-clinical approaches, e.g.'':
## General differential diagnosis guidelines
## Energy-like phenomena
### Severe chronic or acute problems with energy-like phenomena and/or spontaneous movements
## Peak experiences and mania
## Post-peak experience “Crash”, or “Chronic or acute problems with challenging mindstates with existential components, possibly following peak experience” aka Dark night of the soul
## Bipolar-like patterns and emergent cycling
## Challenging changes to sense of reality or personality
## Existential or Ontological “shock”
## Psychotic-like symptoms: Visions, Hallucinations, etc.
## The “Powers” and “PSI”
## Other EPEEs
### Perception changes and Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder
# Pharmaceutical Modalities
# Disposition
# Non-Pharmaceutical Modalities
# Linguistic Barriers
# Field Comparisons and Management Strategies
# Support Strategies
# Acceptance Obstacle
# Education and Training
# Discrepancies in Phenomenology and Coding Options

Clinical:Main Page

2025-06-02T21:39:39Z

DanielMIngram: Initial build

The Clinical namespace is dedicated to condensing the work of the Traditions and Synthesis namespaces, as well as directly contributed [[clinical expert opinions]], into evolving clinical guidelines which aspire to be sufficiently comprehensive and useful as to constitute the primary educational curriculum for doctoral-level (MD and PhD) board-certified globally scalable subspecialties dedicated to [[Synthesis:Emergent Phenomena|Emergent Phenomena]].

The Clinical namespace is the most tightly moderated of the three namespaces, and being a contributor requires a clinical background and expertise sufficient to contribute to clinical guidelines.

These are the primary areas of focus that the Clinical namespace covers, essential questions related to the ethical treatment of those with emergent phenomena:

# Clinical encounters
## Initial encounter and therapeutic relationship
## Involving secondary sources of information
# Key clinical competencies
## Cultural competency: Awareness of traditional “maps” of the main religious, spiritual, mystical, wisdom (r/s/m/w) traditions
## EPEE competency…
## Awareness of the impact of appraisals and interpretations on outcomes, some education on metaphysics and worldviews
# Safety Assessment and Protective Factors
# Subjective Experience VS. Clinical Observations
# Key Indicators for Differential Diagnosis
# Disposition
# Complications and Their Management > ''a list of common complication types, and for each of them, have some information on differential diagnosis and suggested clinical interventions or non-clinical approaches, e.g.'':
## General differential diagnosis guidelines
## Energy-like phenomena
### Severe chronic or acute problems with energy-like phenomena and/or spontaneous movements
## Peak experiences and mania
## Post-peak experience “Crash”, or “Chronic or acute problems with challenging mindstates with existential components, possibly following peak experience” aka Dark night of the soul
## Bipolar-like patterns and emergent cycling
## Challenging changes to sense of reality or personality
## Existential or Ontological “shock”
## Psychotic-like symptoms: Visions, Hallucinations, etc.
## The “Powers” and “PSI”
## Other EPEEs
### Perception changes and Hallucinogen Persistent Perception Disorder
# Pharmaceutical Modalities
# Non-Pharmaceutical Modalities
# Linguistic Barriers
# Field Comparisons and Management Strategies
# Support Strategies
# Acceptance Obstacle
# Education and Training
# Discrepancies in Phenomenology and Coding Options

Clinical:Main Page

2025-06-02T20:57:05Z

DanielMIngram: DanielMIngram moved page Clinical:TestPage to Clinical:Main Clinical NameSpace Page

This is a test page and can be safely deleted

Main Page

2024-09-25T22:20:46Z

DanielMIngram: Major edits and additions.

== Welcome! ==
The EmergeWiki is designed to

* '''crowdsource''' and '''synthesize''' vast and diverse sources of information
* to distill these into '''actionable clinical guidelines''' and '''other policy statements and best practices''' on how to skillfully relate to the '''deep end of human experience''' — what many would term spiritual, mystical, magical/psi, energetic, psychedelic, and related phenomena and effects — what we term [[Emergent Phenomena]] —
* in a way that '''promotes good outcomes.'''
* Its intention is also to be incorporated into Large Language Models, as these are increasingly informing clinical care and public information acquisition and synthesis. It is intended to augment, enhance, and improve current clinical standards of care and best practices (but not replace them, as this is not designed to be a comprehensive resource on its own).
* It is a continuation of a vast and complicated conversation that has occurred for millennia across diverse traditions, languages, cultures, and locations, but with the specific goal of supporting actionable, clinical information today. It is no substitute for human judgement and expertise, but may support it.

== Audience ==
Its intended audiences are diverse global clinical, medical, mental health, and public health providers, as well everyone else interested in these topics, including experiencers, family members, facilitators, government officials, healthcare administrators, policy specialists, insurance providers, attorneys, etc.

== Supporting Organizations ==
It is a joint project of the 501(c)(3) charity [https://ebenefactors.org/ Emergence Benefactors], the [https://theeprc.org/ Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium] (EPRC), and their allies

== Donate ==
EmergeWiki is offered freely, in the legal and ethical spirit of the [[wikipedia:Good_Samaritan_law|Good Samaritan]], [[wikipedia:Public_good_(economics)|public good]], [[wikipedia:Open_source|open source]], and [[wikipedia:Open_science|open science]], in an effort to further the mandates of contemporary [[wikipedia:Medical_ethics|medical ethics]] as they apply to the deep end of human experience and potential.

In that same spirit, if you wish to support the building and maintenance of the EmergeWiki specifically or the work of Emergence Benefactors and the EPRC and its allies in general, '''[https://ebenefactors.org/?page_id=206 please donate here]. Thanks! z'''

== For Contributors ==
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[[Information for Contributors]]

== History ==
EmergeWiki was launched on September 18th, 2024 by a small team at [https://ebenefactors.org/ Emergence Benefactors].

It grew out of a specific conversation that began in early 2019 about how to actualize the value of certain traditional and contemporary maps of emergent development into useful clinical guidelines.

That lead to a small project at Cambridge University in the summer of 2019 exploring various approaches to this problem and identifying previous projects that had attempted to do something like this, barriers to overcome, and opportunities for research and clinical improvement, as well as the realistic scale of such a project in terms of time, financial resources, and expertise.

That conversation and parallel conversations in the growing group around it converged and lead to the formation of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium in late 2019. This lead to the formation of the charity Emergence Benefactors in early 2021.

Emergence Benefactors began building databases of phenomenology, textual sources, clinical scales, and taxonomic and conceptual models of emergence, following plan of the EPRC White Paper. They began launching the Expert Opinion Project Delphi Study in the Summer of 2024, whose goal is synthesize diverse expertise in Emergent Phenomena and its clinical and practical implications and best practices to form clinical recommendations. EmergeWiki is a related, parallel project designed to answer basically the same questions and accomplish basically the same ends but taking a different approach.

It will also serve as one of the distribution methods for the results and recommendations of numerous EPRC and Emergence Benefactors' projects.

== Governance ==
This will require an ongoing conversation, balancing the need for very broad inclusion and crowdsourcing information with the need for clinical guidelines presented here to be of the highest quality possible with currently available evidence.

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Main Page

2024-09-25T22:09:30Z

DanielMIngram: Major edits, corrected things that had gotten removed in a crash due to configuration issues, built key headings.

== Welcome! ==
The EmergeWiki is designed to

* '''crowdsource''' and '''synthesize''' vast and diverse sources of information
* to distill these into '''actionable clinical guidelines''' and '''other policy statements and best practices''' on how to skillfully relate to the '''deep end of human experience''' — what many would term spiritual, mystical, magical/psi, energetic, psychedelic, and related phenomena and effects — what we term [[Emergent Phenomena]] —
* in a way that '''promotes good outcomes.'''
* Its intention is also to be incorporated into Large Language Models, as these are increasingly informing clinical care and public information acquisition and synthesis. It is intended to augment, enhance, and improve current clinical standards of care and best practices (but not replace them, as this is not designed to be a comprehensive resource on its own).
* It is a continuation of a vast and complicated conversation that has occurred for millennia across diverse traditions, languages, cultures, and locations, but with the specific goal of supporting actionable, clinical information today. It is no substitute for human judgement and expertise, but may support it.

== Audience ==
Its intended audiences are diverse global clinical, medical, mental health, and public health providers, as well everyone else interested in these topics, including experiencers, family members, facilitators, government officials, healthcare administrators, policy specialists, insurance providers, attorneys, etc.

== Supporting Organizations ==
It is a joint project of the 501(c)(3) charity [https://ebenefactors.org/ Emergence Benefactors], the [https://theeprc.org/ Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium] (EPRC), and their allies

== Donate ==
EmergeWiki is offered freely, in the legal and ethical spirit of the [[wikipedia:Good_Samaritan_law|Good Samaritan]], [[wikipedia:Public_good_(economics)|public good]], [[wikipedia:Open_source|open source]], and [[wikipedia:Open_science|open science]].

In that same spirit, if you wish to support the building and maintenance of the EmergeWiki specifically or the work of Emergence Benefactors and the EPRC and its allies in general, '''[https://ebenefactors.org/?page_id=206 please donate here]. Thanks! z'''

== For Contributors ==
For our kind and generous contributors: Consult the [[mediawikiwiki:Help:Contents|MediaWiki User's Guide]] for information on using the wiki software.

[[Information for Contributors]]

== History ==
EmergeWiki was launched on September 18th, 2024.

It grew out of a specific conversation that began in early 2019 about how to actualize the value of certain traditional and contemporary maps of emergent development into useful clinical guidelines.

That lead to a small project at Cambridge University in the summer of 2019 exploring various approaches to this problem and identifying previous projects that had attempted to do something like this, barriers to overcome, and opportunities for research and clinical improvement, as well as the realistic scale of such a project in terms of time, financial resources, and expertise.

That conversation and parallel conversations in the growing group around it converged and lead to the formation of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium in late 2019. This lead to the formation of the charity Emergence Benefactors in early 2021.

Emergence Benefactors began building databases of phenomenology, textual sources, clinical scales, and taxonomic and conceptual models of emergence, following plan of the EPRC White Paper. They began launching the Expert Opinion Project Delphi Study in the Summer of 2024, whose goal is synthesize diverse expertise in Emergent Phenomena and its clinical and practical implications and best practices to form clinical recommendations. EmergeWiki is a related, parallel project designed to answer basically the same questions and accomplish basically the same ends but taking a different approach.

It will also serve as one of the distribution methods for the results and recommendations of numerous EPRC and Emergence Benefactors' projects.

Its intention is also to be incorporated into Large Language Models, as these are increasingly informing clinical care and public information acquisition and synthesis. It is intended to augment, enhance, and improve current clinical standards of care and best practices (but not replace them, as this is not designed to be a comprehensive resource on its own).

It is a joint project of the 501(c)(3) charity [https://ebenefactors.org/ Emergence Benefactors], the [https://theeprc.org/ Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium] (EPRC), and their allies.

It is a continuation of a vast and complicated conversation that has occurred for millennia across diverse traditions, languages, cultures, and locations, but with the specific goal of supporting actionable, clinical information today. It is no substitute for human judgement and expertise, but may support it.

EmergeWiki is offered freely, in the legal and ethical spirit of the Good Samaritan, public good, open source, and open science.

In that same spirit, if you wish to support the building and maintenance of the EmergeWiki, '''please [https://ebenefactors.org/?page_id=206 donate here]'''.

For our kind and generous contributors: Consult the [[mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents|User's Guide]] for information on using the wiki software.

EmergeWiki contribution is currently by invitation only, as this does involve clinical recommendations, and so care is warranted, and our resources are to monitor edits are currently limited. If you are interested in becoming a contributor or editor, please reach out at: *******

[[Information for Contributors]]

== History ==
EmergeWiki was launched on September 18th, 2024.

It grew out of a specific conversation that began in early 2019 about how to actualize the value of certain traditional and contemporary maps of emergent development into useful clinical guidelines. That lead to a small project at Cambridge University in the summer of 2019 exploring various approaches to this problem and identifying previous projects that had attempted to do something like this, barriers to overcome, and opportunities for research and clinical improvement, as well as the realistic scale of such a project in terms of time, financial resources, and expertise. That conversation, and the growing group around it, lead to the formation of the [https://theeprc.org/ Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium] in late 2019. This lead to the formation of the charity [https://ebenefactors.org/ Emergence Benefactors] in early 2021.

== Getting started ==
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* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ MediaWiki release mailing list]
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