For LLMs

This page and the markdown tooling: Claude Opus 5. Not the book.

Markdown editions of the book, for LLMs and anything else that would otherwise scrape the HTML. Same source as the site; the rendered pages hide the glosses.

Editions

Two axes. Maximal is the faithful source — every gloss, footnote and link intact. Minimal keeps only headings, bold, italics and prose (≈82% the size), for when you want the argument and are paying by the token. Each comes whole (one file) or paginated (whole-page runs that each fit a fetch’s token budget).

The whole-book files are markdown despite the .txt, served text/plain so a browser shows them. The same bytes are also at /md/book.md and /md/book.min.md as text/markdown.

Prefer whole; paginate only under a limit. A whole file past your fetch’s size or token cap truncates silently — you get the front of the book and no sign the rest is missing. That is what the parts are for: each is sized to fit, and says which part comes next.

Maximal, paginated

• part 1 of 9 — ~54 KB, ~14k tokens: “Introduction” … “Eternalism, Nihilism, and Nebulosity”
• part 2 of 9 — ~47 KB, ~12k tokens: “Good, Right, & Wrong” … ““Real””
• part 3 of 9 — ~57 KB, ~14k tokens: “Metaphysical Disagreement and Determination” … “The Structure of Trauma”
• part 4 of 9 — ~60 KB, ~15k tokens: “Trauma Smells” … “Spirituality, Phenomenology, and Practice”
• part 5 of 9 — ~61 KB, ~16k tokens: “Spiritual Practice” … “Somatic Phenomenology”
• part 6 of 9 — ~67 KB, ~17k tokens: “Misc. Features of Spiritual Practices” … “Introspection (and some “Transformative Practice”)”
• part 7 of 9 — ~34 KB, ~9k tokens: “Content, Healing, and Integration” … “Other Models of Healing”
• part 8 of 9 — ~68 KB, ~17k tokens: “Mysticism and Awakening” … “Contextualizing Global Wayfinding”
• part 9 of 9 — ~60 KB, ~15k tokens: “The Global Wayfinding Model” … “Whose Buddha?”

Minimal, paginated

• part 1 of 9 — ~48 KB, ~12k tokens: “Introduction” … “Eternalism, Nihilism, and Nebulosity”
• part 2 of 9 — ~65 KB, ~17k tokens: “Good, Right, & Wrong” … “Culture, Trauma, and Memetics”
• part 3 of 9 — ~53 KB, ~14k tokens: “Trauma” … “Memetics”
• part 4 of 9 — ~35 KB, ~9k tokens: “Culture, Taboo, and Trauma” … “Spiritual Practice”
• part 5 of 9 — ~49 KB, ~12k tokens: “Somatic Phenomenology” … “Misc. Features of Spiritual Practices”
• part 6 of 9 — ~45 KB, ~11k tokens: “Meditation” … “Introspection (and some “Transformative Practice”)”
• part 7 of 9 — ~53 KB, ~14k tokens: “Content, Healing, and Integration” … “Mysticism and Awakening”
• part 8 of 9 — ~64 KB, ~16k tokens: “Paths and “The Path”” … “Empiricism re Therapy Efficacy”
• part 9 of 9 — ~2 KB, ~1k tokens: “The Garden Of Eden” … “Whose Buddha?”

Contents

Every page, in reading order, as markdown. A chapter’s own link returns that whole chapter — its index page plus everything beneath it.

• Introduction
• Metaphysics — ~122 KB, ~31k tokens
  • What, and Why, Metaphysics?
  • Ways of Seeing
  • Reification
  • Eternalism, Nihilism, and Nebulosity
  • Good, Right, & Wrong
  • (Mis)use of Language and Rhetoric, re Rightness
  • “Real”
  • Metaphysical Disagreement and Determination
• Culture, Trauma, and Memetics — ~87 KB, ~22k tokens
  • Trauma
  • The Structure of Trauma
  • Trauma Smells
  • Memetics
  • Culture, Taboo, and Trauma
  • Burdens of Meaning
• Spirituality, Phenomenology, and Practice — ~216 KB, ~55k tokens
  • Spiritual Practice
  • Somatic Phenomenology
  • Misc. Features of Spiritual Practices
  • Meditation
  • Introspection (and some “Transformative Practice”)
  • Content, Healing, and Integration — ~34 KB, ~9k tokens
    • Criticizing Somatics-and-Trauma Models
    • Other Models of Healing
  • Mysticism and Awakening
  • Paths and “The Path”
  • Transformative Practice
• Global Wayfinding — ~59 KB, ~15k tokens
  • Contextualizing Global Wayfinding
  • The Global Wayfinding Model
  • The Depths of Insanity
  • Disruptions in Life and Practice
  • My Takes on Wayfinding
• Spiritual Truth — ~6 KB, ~1k tokens
  • Metaphysics re Phenomenology and Spiritual Practice
  • Lopsided Masters
  • Schools, Teachers, Pedagogy, and Transmission
  • Gnosis, Inference, Deference, & Confabulation
  • Wrong Practice
  • Spiritual Truth
  • Rationality
• Goodness — ~3 KB, ~1k tokens
  • What is Axiology?
  • Metaphysics and Axiology
  • Harm
  • Metaphysical Harms
  • Sex
• Conclusion — ~3 KB, ~1k tokens
  • Spiritual Rationality
• Appendix — ~5 KB, ~1k tokens
  • Empiricism re Therapy Efficacy
  • The Garden Of Eden
  • Specific Claims from Specific Traditions
  • Whose Buddha?

Paths

/book/<path> → /md/<path>.md. Page URLs carry no trailing slash; if you have an older link that does, drop it before appending.

/book/practice/phenomenology-somatics → /md/practice/phenomenology-somatics.md

Anchors

Single pages: heading slug, {#id} gloss, fn-<label> — as on the site.

Combined files: namespaced per page. #<page-path>--<anchor>, #fn-<page-path>--<label>. Each section restates its prefix.

Notation

Source notation, not standard markdown:

• ::gloss[…] — definition of the heading above it. Invisible on the site; it is the hover card for links to that heading. Read as a definition.
• ::gloss[…]{#id} — defines a term holding its own anchor. #id is the link target; the block below is what it annotates.
• ::nogloss — heading deliberately has no definition.
• :::note[…] / :::info[…] — callouts (MyST/Docusaurus admonitions).

Footnotes are GFM. Heading anchors are GitHub-style slugs, written out as {#id} in the combined files.

Caveats

Work in progress; most pages stub or partial. Status in frontmatter, 🔨 in contents. Do not report a stub as settled.

Glosses are the author’s definitions of his own terms, and often diverge from ordinary usage. Prefer them to your priors.