Reference

Index of Named Concepts

A short reference for every named concept used in the synthesis. Each entry links to its own page; each page links back to the section in which the concept is developed.

• Participatory Cosmology The working name for the framework synthesized in this document.
• Subtractive Manifestation The proposition that the manifest world is carved from a fuller field of possibility rather than added to a void.
• Path Integral (Feynman) The quantum-mechanical formulation in which every possible path contributes, and reality is the residue of cancellation.
• Superposition & Decoherence The unmanifest state, and the mechanism by which it collapses to definite outcomes.
• Avyakta / Vyakta Vedantic terms for the unmanifest and the manifest.
• Neti, neti The Upanishadic apophatic formula — “not this, not that.”
• Tzimtzum The Lurianic Kabbalistic doctrine of divine contraction as the precondition for creation.
• Via Negativa & Aletheia Christian apophatic theology and Heidegger’s recovery of truth as unconcealment.
• Layered Agency The proposition that carving happens at every nested scale simultaneously, with the divine present in each.
• Two Birds, Chariot, Temple Three iconic images of indwelling divinity — the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Pauline epistles.
• Permission Gradient The calibration of divine carving activity by the soul’s openness; dynamic rather than fixed.
• Theosis The Eastern-Christian goal of human life, reinterpreted here as full permission granted to the indwelling divine.
• Indra’s Net The Avatamsaka Sutra’s image of total mutual interpenetration; the Hindu-Buddhist counterpart to entanglement.
• Body of Christ & Communion of Saints The Christian counterpart to Indra’s Net — mutual constitution in a single animating Spirit.
• Entanglement The quantum phenomenon in which separable wave functions cease to exist; the physical substrate of the net.
• Convenient Collapse The participatory framework’s name for the refusal to be carved — propagated mis-carvings transmitted through the net.
• Agape Love as the operating instruction of the entangled net — the chisel-stroke that releases form rather than imposes it.