Satya · Research · The dimension each state opens · published 18 Oct 2026 · data to 17 Oct 2026 · production only, sandbox and site taps excluded
A state of consciousness is not a mood. It is the room a person meets the day in. 113 people have named theirs in their own words; this is what each room looked like from inside.
1 · The ladder
The count is people whose first named state in a session was this one, in their own words, all regions, 25 May – 17 Oct 2026. One old text stands beside each rung.
prapañcopaśamaṃ śāntaṃ śivam advaitam — “The stilling of the world, peace, the good, not-two.”Mandukya Upanishad 7 · an old text named this too · about the text →
yas tu sarvāṇi bhūtāny ātmany evānupaśyati — “One who sees all beings in the self, and the self in all beings, shrinks from nothing.”Isha Upanishad 6–7 · an old text named this too · about the text →
ānando brahmeti vyajānāt — “He knew: bliss is the One.”Taittiriya Upanishad 3.6 · an old text named this too · about the text →
maitrī-karuṇā-muditopekṣāṇām — “Friendliness, compassion, gladness, equanimity — and the mind grows clear.”Yoga Sutras 1.33 · an old text named this too · about the text →
tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe ’vasthānam — “When the mind’s movements are stilled, the seer rests in its own nature.”Yoga Sutras 1.2–1.3 · an old text named this too · about the text →
santoṣād anuttamaḥ sukha-lābhaḥ — “From contentment comes joy beyond compare.”Yoga Sutras 2.42 · an old text named this too · about the text →
āpūryamāṇam acala-pratiṣṭhaṃ samudram — “As rivers enter the ocean, full and unmoved, so desires enter the one who has peace.”Bhagavad Gita 2.70 · an old text named this too · about the text →
dvā suparṇā sayujā sakhāyā — “Two birds, close companions, on one tree: one eats the fruit; the other, not eating, watches.”Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1 · an old text named this too · about the text →
abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate — “The mind is restless — yet by practice and by letting go, it is held.”Bhagavad Gita 6.34–35 · an old text named this too · about the text →
na hi verena verāni sammantīdha kudācanaṃ — “Hatred is never ended by hatred; by non-hatred alone it ends.”Dhammapada 5 · an old text named this too · about the text →
dvitīyād vai bhayaṃ bhavati — “Fear comes only from a second.”Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.2 · an old text named this too · about the text →
taṇhāya jāyatī soko — “From craving springs grief, from craving springs fear.”Dhammapada 216 · an old text named this too · about the text →
dhyāyato viṣayān puṃsaḥ saṅgas teṣūpajāyate — “Dwelling on things, a person grows attached; from attachment, desire; from desire, anger.”Bhagavad Gita 2.62 · an old text named this too · about the text →
avidyā — “Taking the passing for the lasting, sorrow for joy, what is not the self for the self.”Yoga Sutras 2.5 · an old text named this too · about the text →
mana eva manuṣyāṇāṃ kāraṇaṃ bandha-mokṣayoḥ — “The mind alone is the cause of bondage and of freedom.”Amritabindu Upanishad 2 · an old text named this too · about the text →
2 · Naming a state · measured
Co-occurrence, not cause · longer sessions give more room to name a state — H6 tests this
3 · Below and above the Witness · measured
Above the Witness is a position on a ladder, not a grade of person.
4 · Each room, what it weighs
5 · What we hold
The same day, the same people, the same work — met differently from each state. The Witness is the hinge of the ladder. Belief, labelled as belief.
dvā suparṇā sayujā sakhāyā — “Two birds, close companions, on one tree: one eats the fruit; the other, not eating, watches.”Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1 · an old text named this too · about the text →
6 · H6 · written 18 Oct 2026, before the data
Among sessions of 5 minutes or more — so length cannot do the work — do people who named a state return within 30 days at least 10 points more often than people in sessions of the same length who did not? Fisher exact, two-sided, p < 0.05; readable only with at least 60 named and 200 not named. Second, frozen now: among people who say what weighs most, does Restless name relationships at least 15 points more often than every other named state combined (at least 30 Restless people)? First read 30 Nov 2026. A pass would be co-movement, never cause.
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What we got wrong
Next reads · 30 Nov 2026
Written in advance. Published pass or fail, in the same type.
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