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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 Emergence Benefactors, the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC), and their allies
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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! z
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For our kind and generous contributors: Consult the MediaWiki User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
Organization: Projects, Disciplines, Traditions, Specialties, and the Multidimensional Framework.
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:
Projects
EmergeWiki is designed to support the roadmap and Whitepaper of the EPRC and the work of its allies, which also fit topically into the larger structure of the 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.
The EPRC plan is broken down into 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 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.
Disciplines
History
EmergeWiki was launched on September 18th, 2024 by a small team at 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.