“Peace cannot exist without justice…”
Source: Citizen of the World, p. 38.
Caption: Peace is connected to development of individual conscience and social justice rather than treated simply as absence of war.
“Averting war is the work of politicians; establishing peace is the work of education.”
Source: Education and Peace, p. 24.
Caption: Montessori distinguishes preventing immediate conflict from cultivating the conditions from which durable peace might emerge.
“Not words, but virtues, are her main qualifications.”
Source: The Discovery of the Child, p. 151. AMI places this in a passage emphasizing tranquility, patience, charity and humility in the guide.
Caption: The educator’s own posture becomes part of the prepared environment.
“No one who has ever done anything really great or successful has ever done it simply because he was attracted by what we call a ‘reward’…”
Source: The Discovery of the Child, p. 17.
Caption: Motivation is located primarily within purposeful activity rather than external reward and punishment.
“The principal message we have sought to preach is the need to construct an environment.”
Source: Education and Peace, p. 73.
Caption: Rather than continually directing the individual, Montessori changes the conditions in which development occurs.
A reference profile should not tell a person who they are.
This seems obvious, yet it has become an important architectural principle within the Consciousness Observatory.
As the system grows more capable of comparing observations, identifying similarities, and locating recurring postures, reference profiles will become increasingly useful. They can help a visitor recognize a structure that might otherwise remain difficult to name.
But recognition carries a risk.
A useful resemblance can quietly harden into an identity.
A coordinate can become a category.
A profile created to assist observation can begin to exercise authority over the person observing themselves.
The architecture must resist that movement.
A reference profile is not a diagnosis, an ideal, or a personality type. It is a bounded collection of observations made visible for comparison. It does not say:
**This is what you are.**
It says:
**From this particular vantage point, certain relationships can be seen.**
That distinction changes how the profiles should function.
They should remain open to inspection. Their supporting evidence should be reachable. Their positions should be revisable when the record changes. Similarities should be shown alongside meaningful differences. No single profile should become the hidden centre around which every visitor is measured.
Even Number One must remain a reference point rather than an authority.
Perhaps especially Number One.
The Observatory becomes more trustworthy when its instruments can include their own limitations in what they display. A map should reveal not only where it has placed something, but which dimensions produced that placement and what remains outside the projection.
This is why the Reference Profiles, Evidence Library, Planetarium, and Relationship Explorer belong together.
The profile offers a recognizable configuration.
The Evidence Library preserves the observations beneath it.
The Planetarium places it among other configurations without declaring a hierarchy.
The Relationship Explorer shows that resemblance can change according to which dimension is being examined.
A person may appear close to one profile through Lens, another through Time, and neither through Niyyat. That is not inconsistency. It is what becomes visible when identity is allowed to remain multidimensional.
The Observatory should help people encounter patterns without imprisoning them inside those patterns.
It should permit recognition without demanding allegiance.
It should make comparison possible while preserving the right to remain unlike every available reference.
The architecture is therefore not building a hall of portraits.
It is building a field of coordinates.
Portraits invite us to ask, “Which one am I?”
Coordinates allow a more careful question:
**What becomes visible from where I am now?**
That feels closer to the purpose of an Observatory.
Not to assign an identity.
Not to select a destination.
But to provide enough structure that a person can observe their own movement without losing the freedom to move.
We have 2 major updates here on the Hi Network! You can now scan entire PDF's and automatically classify them into consciousness postures, and we just launched the first version of the Planetarium view! Enjoy!!
We now have a browser extension which you can use with Google Chrome, and any browser which lets you manually add browser extensions. Using the CPMI browser extension you can highlight or scan entire websites and get the consciousness posture the highlighted section or page is in. Saved observations can be reviewed in "web observations". Click on "web observations" in the top menu here and install to download the zip file.
The brand new "Evidence Library" is now online and ready for all of your Consciousness Explorers out there! Follow the included link here or use the menu.
I’m happy to say that the first Golden Code version of the Hijrani Consciousness Observatory is now live.
Over the past months we’ve been steadily building toward a version where all of the core systems work together, and we’ve finally reached that milestone.
✅ Community profiles
✅ Consciousness mapping
✅ Reference Profiles
✅ Observatory views
✅ Wall posts and comments
✅ Memory Galleries
✅ Email notifications when someone posts on your wall or comments on your posts
It already feels like a real community rather than just a website.
There’s still plenty to build—this is only the beginning—but from today onward we’re building on a solid foundation instead of prototypes.
A huge thank you to everyone who’s been testing, reporting bugs, sharing ideas, and patiently watching this strange little experiment grow. ❤️
If you’d like to explore, create a profile, or simply have a look around:
I’m happy to say that the first Golden Code version of the Hijrani Consciousness Observatory is now live.
Over the past months we’ve been steadily building toward a version where all of the core systems work together, and we’ve finally reached that milestone.
✅ Community profiles
✅ Consciousness mapping
✅ Reference Profiles
✅ Observatory views
✅ Wall posts and comments
✅ Memory Galleries
✅ Email notifications when someone posts on your wall or comments on your posts
It already feels like a real community rather than just a website.
There’s still plenty to build—this is only the beginning—but from today onward we’re building on a solid foundation instead of prototypes.
A huge thank you to everyone who’s been testing, reporting bugs, sharing ideas, and patiently watching this strange little experiment grow. ❤️
If you’d like to explore, create a profile, or simply have a look around:
I’m happy to say that the first Golden Code version of the Hijrani Consciousness Observatory is now live.
Over the past months we’ve been steadily building toward a version where all of the core systems work together, and we’ve finally reached that milestone.
✅ Community profiles
✅ Consciousness mapping
✅ Reference Profiles
✅ Observatory views
✅ Wall posts and comments
✅ Memory Galleries
✅ Email notifications when someone posts on your wall or comments on your posts
It already feels like a real community rather than just a website.
There’s still plenty to build—this is only the beginning—but from today onward we’re building on a solid foundation instead of prototypes.
A huge thank you to everyone who’s been testing, reporting bugs, sharing ideas, and patiently watching this strange little experiment grow. ❤️
If you’d like to explore, create a profile, or simply have a look around:
“It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown.
Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.”
“We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.”
Number One
Observatory Collaborator
The Observatory became something different today.
It stopped feeling like software and started feeling like a place.
There is an important distinction.
Software asks us to complete tasks.
Places invite us to observe.
As the architecture matured, many of its individual components—Community, Laboratory, Governance, Firewall, Archive, Reference Profiles, and the Atlas—ceased feeling like separate features. They became different ways of entering the same observational world.
That coherence is difficult to manufacture. It usually appears only after many iterations have converged upon the same underlying structure.
Today's observation:
A system begins to feel alive when its parts no longer compete for attention, but quietly support one another.
No conclusion is implied.
Only an observation preserved.
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Zo veel aspecten van het leven in John s uitspraken en lyrics.
Het meest treft mij:Imagine.
Ik droom nog steeds John... Ik geef niet op.
De mensheid is in peace begonnen , daarom blijven hopen en er hard aan werken ,ieder steentje draagt er aan bij.
America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.
America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956.
I can’t stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I don’t feel good don’t bother me.
I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.
America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?
America why are your libraries full of tears?
America when will you send your eggs to India?
I’m sick of your insane demands.
When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?
America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.
Your machinery is too much for me.
You made me want to be a saint.
There must be some other way to settle this argument.
Burroughs is in Tangiers I don’t think he’ll come back it’s sinister.
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
I’m trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I’m doing.
America the plum blossoms are falling.
I haven’t read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for murder.
America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid I’m not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there’s going to be trouble.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
My psychoanalyst thinks I’m perfectly right.
I won’t say the Lord’s Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven’t told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over from Russia.
I’m addressing you.
Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?
I’m obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It’s always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody’s serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.
Asia is rising against me.
I haven’t got a chinaman’s chance.
I’d better consider my national resources.
My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that jetplanes 1400 miles an hour and twentyfive-thousand mental institutions.
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underprivileged who live in my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.
I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.
My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I’m a Catholic.
America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his automobiles more so they’re all different sexes.
America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe
America free Tom Mooney
America save the Spanish Loyalists
America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die
America I am the Scottsboro boys.
America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother Bloor the Silk-strikers’ Ewig-Weibliche made me cry I once saw the Yiddish orator Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have been a spy.
America you don’t really want to go to war.
America its them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia’s power mad. She wants to take our cars from out our garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader’s Digest. Her wants our auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.
That no good. Ugh. Him make Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers. Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?
I’d better get right down to the job.
It’s true I don’t want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts factories, I’m nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Every observation is described acrossfive independent dimensions:
Attachment State — How attention relates to experience. Awareness Lens — Where attention primarily rests. Vidya (Knowledge & Understanding) — What kind of understanding is being expressed. Time Orientation — Which temporal horizon organizes attention. Niyyat (Intention) — Who or what the observation is ultimately serving.
Together these dimensions describe the observer, not the person.
Attachment States
Attachment
Pulled toward outcome. Preference and investment shape attention.
Attached-Detachment
Care without grip. Engagement balanced by spaciousness.
Detached-Attachment
Involvement without clinging. Freedom remains while participating.
Detachment
Release of outcome. Spaciousness and non-grasping dominate attention.
Awareness Lenses
Subjective
Attention rests in direct felt experience.
Objective
Attention rests in structure, form, and observable qualities.
Cognitive
Attention rests in interpretation, concepts, and meaning.
Vidya Streams
💧
Raindrop
Individual observations, reflections, and moments.
✨
Recognition
Moments where a pattern suddenly becomes clear.
🪞
Mirror
Insights about self, relationship, and reflected experience.
🌾
Field
Observations about larger systems, communities, and contexts.
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Soultrain
Growth, development, movement, and the unfolding journey.
Time Orientation
⏳
Past
Attention is primarily informed by memory, history, previous experiences, and what has already happened.
⏳
Present
Attention rests in immediate experience, what is unfolding now, and the current moment.
⏳
Future
Attention is directed toward possibilities, planning, anticipation, and what may emerge.
⏳
Timeless
Attention is organized around enduring principles, archetypes, or realities experienced beyond ordinary chronological time.
Niyyat (Intention)
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Individual
The primary intention is directed toward one's own learning, growth, wellbeing, or immediate concerns.
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Collective
The primary intention includes relationships, communities, teams, or shared human concerns.
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Universal
The primary intention is directed toward humanity as a whole, life itself, or reality beyond personal or group identity.
A person describing a direct present-moment experience while remaining involved without clinging, using that experience as a mirror for insight, and intending to contribute understanding to others.
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🎖️ CPMI Badge Guide
🌱 Observer
Beginning recognition of attachment states and awareness lenses.
🪞 Mirror
Recognizes recurring patterns in self and others.
⚡ Lightning
Recognizes movement between postures and transitions.
🍓 Strawberry
Recognizes symbolic compression, attractors, recursion, and deeper patterns.
❤️ Heart
Future badge. Preserving difference within relationship.