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Welcome!

Goals of EmergeWiki

The EmergeWiki is designed to

crowdsource and synthesize vast and diverse sources of information
to distill these into actionable Clinical Recommendations 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 which we term Emergent Phenomena, Experiences and Effects (EPEEs).
in a way that promotes good outcomes.

The EmergeWiki's main goal is to facilitate sophisticated understandings of Emergent Phenomena and the vast range of consequences of Emergent Modalities up to and including doctoral and post-doctoral levels. To that end it will compile information from the various traditions, cultures, religions, etc. with them representing themselves as they wish to be represented, consider this through the lens of patterns in a way that may have clinical applicability, and attempt the difficult, ongoing conversation of how to translate this diverse body of information into actionable clinical recommendations that scale and make a positive difference. Thus, 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.

You can learn more about the EmergeWiki here.

For contributors

Information for contributors can be found here. If you are working on the EmergeWiki then please visit the Base page for an outline of the design and work phases, and links to a list of tasks for Phase 1. We are also building a MediaWiki orientation.

Organization

Overall Structure

Overall, EmergeWiki is divided into three main layers: Traditions, Synthesis, and Clinical, each with its own purpose, culture, moderators, standards, and requirements.

Traditions: A space for the traditions, such as religions, academic disciplines, spiritual practices, related communities, etc. to represent themselves as they wish to be known, with their own ontological, epistemic, soteriological, linguist, cultural, practical, etc. aspects explained as they are and as they wish to be known and understood by the clinical, scientific, public health, and public mainstreams, with a focus on Emergent Phenomena. This is the most encyclopedic aspect of EmergeWiki.
Synthesis: A space to explore, debate, discuss, and synthesize the patterns, commonalities, differences, phenomenology, meta-ontologics, meta-epistemics, etc. that we find in the Traditions Namespace. This is a place to form and forge in the fires of diverse human attention taxonomies, typologies, lexicons, etc. and to engage in all the rich, messy, human, imperfect, earnest conversation required to form and inform the Clinical layer. This space is the least encyclopedic in terms of simply describing things as they are on their own terms, but also most operational, the most complicated, the most controversial, and is designed to be a melting pot of ideas, a way to be transparent about the conversation that flows organically from the Traditions to refinements and simplifications found in Clinical recommendations.
Clinical: A space for formal clinical recommendations. Think of this as a space that could form the basis and perhaps body of a doctoral level subspecialty that owned and furthered functional, practical, clinically applicable doctoral-level knowledge of Emergent Phenomena. This is the most tightly moderated, carefully controlled section of EmergeWiki. Think of it as where the textbook of the specialty is written in a refined form, informed by the previous two layers, and, while being aware of the controversies and complexities, the areas of ignorance and ambiguity, yet, still, striving for definitive recommendations to inform beneficial, ethical, respectful global standards of care that improve outcomes that could be tested on a subspecialty board exam.

Beyond this, EmergeWiki has numerous interlacing aspects to accommodate diverse data types and the diverse organizational needs those who wish to interact efficiently with that data. This organizational structure will evolve organically over time as the project grows.

Disciplines

Disciplines are a way of relating to EmergeWiki content based on the academic discipline(s) that cover it. Some closely align with EPRC Projects, e.g. the academic discipline of Anthropology closely relating to the Anthropology Project, but other disciplines may have more complex relationships to the information here, such as theoretical and applied Medical Ethics which may interface with a wide range of Projects and other organizational structures.

Traditions

Traditions mean various religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions, and represent another way of organizing and relating to EmergeWiki content based on the Source Traditions that began this conversation thousands of years ago and may continue it to today.

Specialties

Specialties, in this case Clinical Specialties, are a way of relating to and organizing the information in the EmergeWiki through the lens of the particular scope of the specialty in question. Closely related to the framework of Clinical Specialties is the resultant Clinical Recommendations which are a key output and product of EmergeWiki.

Thematic domains

The Multidimensional Framework integrates a wide range of lenses and focuses, and can be used as an alternative way of relating to the information in the EmergeWiki.

Donate

EmergeWiki is offered freely, in the legal and ethical spirit of the Good Samaritan, public good, open source, and open science, in an effort to further the mandates of contemporary 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, please donate here. Thanks!

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 == Welcome! ==
+=== Goals of EmergeWiki ===
 The EmergeWiki is designed to
 * '''crowdsource''' and '''synthesize''' vast and diverse sources of information
-* to distill these into '''actionable [[Clinical Recommendations]]''' 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]] Experiences and Effects ([[EPEEs]]).
+* to distill these into '''actionable [[Clinical Recommendations]]''' 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 which we term [[Synthesis:Emergent Phenomena|Emergent Phenomena, Experiences and Effects (EPEEs)]].
 * in a way that '''promotes good outcomes.'''
-It will compile information from the various traditions, cultures, religions, etc. with them representing themselves ''as they wish to be represented,'' consider this through the lens of patterns in a way that may have clinical applicability, and attempt the difficult, ongoing conversation of how to translate this diverse body of information into actionable clinical recommendations that scale and make a positive difference.
+The EmergeWiki's main goal is to facilitate sophisticated understandings of [[Emergent Phenomena]] and the vast range of consequences of [[Emergent Modalities]] up to and including doctoral and post-doctoral levels. To that end it will compile information from the various traditions, cultures, religions, etc. with them representing themselves ''as they wish to be represented,'' consider this through the lens of patterns in a way that may have clinical applicability, and attempt the difficult, ongoing conversation of how to translate this diverse body of information into actionable clinical recommendations that scale and make a positive difference. Thus, 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.
-Its intention is also to be incorporated into [[wikipedia:Large_language_model|Large Language Models]], as these are increasingly informing clinical care, 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.
-It is an experiment in how information from many traditions that have particular ontologies as diverse and apparently contradictory as, for example, [[wikipedia:Materialism|Materialism]], [[wikipedia:Mind–body_dualism|Cartesian Dualism]], [[wikipedia:Double-aspect_theory|Dual Aspect Monism]], [[wikipedia:Idealism|Idealism]], etc. may yet yield practical clinical guidelines and information that scale globally across diverse cultural settings, drawing on the concepts of [[Ontological Agnosticism]] or [[Ontological Neutrality]], and add value to supporting Emergent Phenomena through focusing primarily on developing [[wikipedia:Therapeutic_relationship|therapeutic relationships]] and what promotes good outcomes.
-It is also an experiment in the application of practical [[Linguistic Scalability]], meaning what language can scale globally in the same way as other global professional and technical lexicons, such as [[wikipedia:Taxonomy_(biology)|biological taxonomy]].
-Its goal is to facilitate sophisticated understandings of [[Emergent Phenomena]] and the vast range of consequences of [[Emergent Modalities]] up to and including doctoral and post-doctoral levels of functional knowledge.
-== Audience ==
-Its intended audiences are diverse global clinical, medical, mental health, and public health providers, psychedelic and meditation practitioners and facilitators of those and related practices, as well everyone else interested in these topics, including experiencers, family members, facilitators, government officials, healthcare administrators, policy specialists, insurance providers, and attorneys, as well as many others, basically anyone at all interested in or impacted by [[Emergent Phenomena]].
-== 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 the [[Allies of the EPRC]].
-== 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!'''
+You can learn more about the EmergeWiki [[About EmergeWiki|here]].
-== For Contributors ==
+=== 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 can be found [[Information for Contributors|here]]. If you are working on the EmergeWiki then please visit the [[Work:Base|Base]] page for an outline of the design and work phases, and links to a list of tasks for Phase 1. We are also building a [[MediaWiki orientation]].
-[[Information for Contributors]]
+== Organization ==
-== Organization: Projects, Disciplines, Traditions, Specialties, and the Multidimensional Framework ==
+=== Overall Structure ===
-The organizational structure of EmergeWiki has numerous interlacing aspects to accommodate diverse data types and the diverse organizational needs those who wish to interact efficiently with that data. This organizational structure will evolve organically over time as the project grows. We will start with organizing it into:
+Overall, EmergeWiki is divided into three main layers: Traditions, Synthesis, and Clinical, each with its own purpose, culture, moderators, standards, and requirements.
-=== Projects ===
+* [https://emergewiki.org/index.php/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=3000 Traditions]: A space for the traditions, such as religions, academic disciplines, spiritual practices, related communities, etc. to represent themselves as they wish to be known, with their own ontological, epistemic, soteriological, linguist, cultural, practical, etc. aspects explained as they are and as they wish to be known and understood by the clinical, scientific, public health, and public mainstreams, with a focus on [[Emergent Phenomena]]. This is the most encyclopedic aspect of EmergeWiki.
-EmergeWiki is designed to support the roadmap and [https://hypernotes.zenkit.com/i/UFIY1UO1cp/84TWK0BwQlq/eprc-white-paper-home Whitepaper of the EPRC] and the work of its allies, which also fit topically into the larger structure of the [https://theeprc.org/ EPRC] roadmap. It is a structured, comprehensive, systematic, strategic, long-term, ethical plan for positive global systems change and meet specific epistemic requirements and preferences.
+* [https://emergewiki.org/index.php/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=3002 Synthesis]: A space to explore, debate, discuss, and synthesize the patterns, commonalities, differences, phenomenology, meta-ontologics, meta-epistemics, etc. that we find in the Traditions Namespace. This is a place to form and forge in the fires of diverse human attention taxonomies, typologies, lexicons, etc. and to engage in all the rich, messy, human, imperfect, earnest conversation required to form and inform the Clinical layer. This space is the least encyclopedic in terms of simply describing things as they are on their own terms, but also most operational, the most complicated, the most controversial, and is designed to be a melting pot of ideas, a way to be transparent about the conversation that flows organically from the Traditions to refinements and simplifications found in Clinical recommendations.
+* [https://emergewiki.org/index.php/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=3004 Clinical]: A space for formal clinical recommendations. Think of this as a space that could form the basis and perhaps body of a doctoral level subspecialty that owned and furthered functional, practical, clinically applicable doctoral-level knowledge of [[Emergent Phenomena]]. This is the most tightly moderated, carefully controlled section of EmergeWiki. Think of it as where the textbook of the specialty is written in a refined form, informed by the previous two layers, and, while being aware of the controversies and complexities, the areas of ignorance and ambiguity, yet, still, striving for definitive recommendations to inform beneficial, ethical, respectful global standards of care that improve outcomes that could be tested on a subspecialty board exam.
-The EPRC plan is broken down into [https://hypernotes.zenkit.com/i/UFIY1UO1cp/PPFsCq6iSF/the-projects Projects] which support each other, overlap in key ways, and act on many fronts to have significant impact. These projects are: [[The Phenomenology Project]], [[The State of the Art Project]], [[The Expert Opinion Project]], [[The Neurophenomenology Project]], [[The Theoretical Foundations Project]], [[The Underlying Physiology Project]], [[The Predisposing Factors Project]], [[The Diagnosis Project]], [[The Management Project]], [[The Epidemiology Project]], [[The Practice Project]], [[The Psychedelic Project]], [[The Mental Health and Emergence Project|The Mental Health and Emergence Project,]] [[The Anthropology Project]], [[The Communications Project]],[[The Special Projects]], and [[The Value and Impact Project]]. These are further divided into [[Subprojects]], and then [[Studies]] and other efforts.
+Beyond this, EmergeWiki has numerous interlacing aspects to accommodate diverse data types and the diverse organizational needs those who wish to interact efficiently with that data. This organizational structure will evolve organically over time as the project grows.
 === Disciplines ===
-[[Disciplines]] are a way of relating to EmergeWiki content based on the academic discipline(s) that cover it. Some closely align with Projects, e.g. the academic discipline of [[Anthropology]] close relating to [[The Anthropology Project]], but other disciplines may have more complex relationships to the information here, such as theoretical and applied [[Medical Ethics]] which may interface with a wide range of Projects and other organizational structures.
+[[Disciplines]] are a way of relating to EmergeWiki content based on the academic discipline(s) that cover it. Some closely align with EPRC Projects, e.g. the academic discipline of [[Anthropology]] closely relating to the Anthropology Project, but other disciplines may have more complex relationships to the information here, such as theoretical and applied [[Medical Ethics]] which may interface with a wide range of Projects and other organizational structures.
 === Traditions ===
-Traditions mean various religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions, and representing another way are a way of organizing and relating to EmergeWiki content based on the [[Source Traditions]] that began this conversation thousands of years ago and may continue it to today.
+Traditions mean various religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions, and represent another way of organizing and relating to EmergeWiki content based on the [[Synthesis:Source Traditions|Source Traditions]] that began this conversation thousands of years ago and may continue it to today.
 === Specialties ===
 Specialties, in this case [[Clinical Specialties]], are a way of relating to and organizing the information in the EmergeWiki through the lens of the particular scope of the specialty in question. Closely related to the framework of Clinical Specialties is the resultant [[Clinical Recommendations]] which are a key output and product of EmergeWiki.
-=== The Multidimensional Framework ===
+=== Thematic domains ===
-[[The Multidimensional Framework]] is a product of multidisciplinary synthesis work by Olivier Sandilands. It integrates a wide range of lenses and focuses, and can be used as an alternative way of relating to the information in the EmergeWiki.{{hlist|[[Aesthetics]]|[[Arousal and vigilance/wakefulness]]|[[Beliefs and Worldviews]]|[[Cognition]]|[[Desire and Pleasure]]|[[Emotions]]|[[Existential domain]]|[[Intuition]]|[[Language, Symbols, and Meaning]]|[[Perception]]}}{{hlist|[[Psychology]]|[[Sense spheres]]|[[Sexuality]]|[[Space and Time]]|[[Values and Virtues]]|[[Will]]}}{{hlist|[[Biological rhythms and cycles]]|[[Cardiovascular and respiratory system]]|[[Endocrine system]]|[[Fascia]]|[[Gastrointestinal system]]|[[Immune system]]|[[Genome]]|[[Lymphatic system]]|[[Metabolism]]|[[Muscles and bones]]|<nowiki>[Nervous system]]</nowiki>}}{{hlist|[[Nervous system]]|[[Other relevant biological characteristics of the individual]]|[[Proteome]]|[[Reproductive system]]|[[Skin and hair]]|[[Urinary system]]}}
+The [[Synthesis:Multidimensional Framework|Multidimensional Framework]] integrates a wide range of lenses and focuses, and can be used as an alternative way of relating to the information in the EmergeWiki.
-{{hlist|[[Family]]|[[School/Work]]|[[Community]]|[[Subculture]]|[[Culture]]|[[Society]]}}{{hlist|[[Cosmic Influences]]|[[Fauna]]|[[Flora]]|[[Geography]]|[[Geology]]|[[Natural Cycles]]}}
-== History ==
+== Donate ==
-EmergeWiki was launched on September 18th, 2024 by a small team at [https://ebenefactors.org/ Emergence Benefactors]. You can learn more here about the [[History of EmergeWiki]].
+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.
-== Phases ==
-[[Phase I]]
-Phase II
-Phase III
-== Work ==
-If you are working on the EmergeWiki then please visit the [[EmergeWiki Base|EmergeWiki]] Base page for an outline of the design and work phases, and links to a list of tasks for Phase 1.
-== Governance ==
+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://www.every.org/emergewiki please donate here]. Thanks!'''
-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.
 == Getting started ==