Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Religion — religion as a subject — its relation to science, religious belief and practice, and how religious practitioners are treated.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
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| THEORY-866 v2 | Expert texts of Shamatha, Transcendental and Stillness Meditation describe their so-called contentless goal-states as lacking thoughts, perceptions, images and memories but keeping many forms of content, and as differing across the practices in attentional stability and vividness | Woods, Windt & Carter (2022), LIT-1351, read in the submitted preprint in NOTE-1070. An evidence synthesis of 135 texts by eight teachers codes 65 features of the goal-states: the same across practices on 14, different on 4, unclear on 47. The states lack everyday content but keep wakefulness, calm, stillness, bliss, knowing, freedom and unity; Shamatha’s has far greater attentional stability and vividness. The sharp edge: it is a finding about how teachers describe the states, not about what practitioners experience, and “not truly contentless” depends on counting calm or simplicity as content. | Active |
| THEORY-1246 | The so-called contentless goal-states of Shamatha, Transcendental and Stillness Meditation are neither truly contentless nor identical: they lack thoughts, perceptions, images and memories but keep wakefulness, calm, stillness, a non-conceptual knowing and the like, and they differ across the practices in attentional stability | Woods, Windt and Carter’s thesis about the experiences, filed beside THEORY-866 by the twenty-fourth status review (ADR-065 §3; ADR-047 kind 1). THEORY-866, Active, holds what the teachers’ texts describe; whether practitioners’ experience is so is this entry’s question, with THEORY-866’s old condition. | Proposed |