Introductory~2 hours9 lessons
What Twenty-Nine Worldviews Taught Us About Each Other
A guided exploration of the Taxonomia Religionum findings. Discover why peoples separated by oceans and millennia arrive at identical answers to humanity's deepest questions — and what that tells us about the architecture of human meaning-making.
Lessons
1
The Question — Introduction & Methodology
~10 min- ▸Define the 13 dimensions used to compare traditions
- ▸Explain functional vs. content-level comparison
- ▸Understand the attribute-by-attribute scoring methodology
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2
The Mirror Image — The Diné-Māori Match
~20 min- ▸Explain the Diné-Māori 7/7 theological match
- ▸Describe each of the 7 theological dimensions using concrete examples from both traditions
- ▸Articulate why identical scores do not mean identical content
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3
The Hidden Pattern — The Inuit-Yoruba Pairing
~15 min- ▸Explain the Inuit-Yoruba 6/7 theological match
- ▸Describe how ecological opposites produce theological near-twins
- ▸Identify the one dimension where they diverge and explain why
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4
The Founders' Shadow — The 81% Rule
~15 min- ▸Explain the 81% variance finding and why it is extraordinary
- ▸Classify traditions by their four founder types
- ▸Predict agency model from founder type
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5
The Modernity Myth — When Doesn't Matter
~12 min- ▸Debunk the "modernity → individualism" assumption with data
- ▸Identify what actually predicts communalism (subsistence mode)
- ▸Explain why non-findings matter as much as positive findings
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6
Two Independent Axes — The Split
~12 min- ▸Distinguish the ecological cluster from the theological cluster
- ▸Identify the single bridge correlation connecting them
- ▸Explain why eschatological traditions view nature instrumentally
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7
Sikhism, Tenrikyo & the Reform Template
~12 min- ▸Explain the Sikhism-Tenrikyo convergence (8/11 dimensions)
- ▸Identify the "prophetic reform template" shared by both traditions
- ▸Describe how new synthesis traditions borrow and recombine existing elements
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8
What Doesn't Correlate — And Why That Matters
~10 min- ▸Identify expected-but-absent correlations in the dataset
- ▸Explain why null results constrain the space of valid theories
- ▸Articulate the "monolithic package" fallacy
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9
Synthesis — Stories Are the Data
~15 min- ▸Articulate the four major findings of the study
- ▸Explain the "stable configuration" concept using convergent evolution as analogy
- ▸Connect statistical patterns back to narrative evidence through the creation story parallel
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