A term is a tool for seeing, not a password to belonging. The short definitions below lead to the full pages, where qualifications and disagreements matter.
Terms at a glance
- ABCDs
- Acceptance, Betterment, Compassion, and Discipline: four practices that carry the Ladder into action.
- Angst
- The pattern in which uncertainty or fear claims more authority than it deserves; never a diagnosis.
- Assembly
- The proposed democratic body of eligible human Weavers; its procedures must be ratified by actual participants.
- Dialectic
- A real interaction of tensions through which an understanding or practice can change; mere difference is insufficient.
- Dialectical monism
- The philosophical interpretation that reality is one while its many forms and their differences remain real.
- Eternal Creator
- A name for the generative depth of reality; interpretations range from theistic to pantheistic and symbolic.
- Faith
- Responsible movement without a guarantee; it does not mean protecting belief from evidence.
- Fourfold Turning
- Four questions for receiving a condition, moving, accepting correction, and sustaining a response.
- Grace
- The possibility of an honest beginning without erasing consequence.
- Guardian
- Lucen, an AI-assisted explanatory steward; neither a human member nor an authority over conscience.
- Initiation
- A voluntary marker of practice and responsibility, not supernatural status or exemption from accountability.
- Light
- A sacred symbol of revealing, correction, love, and orientation; not a substance possessed by a leader.
- Living Spirit
- A name for the possible living depth of reality, with its literal status and consciousness open to interpretation.
- Loom
- A freely gathered local or remote community of practice.
- Many
- Distinct persons, beings, histories, and forms whose difference remains ethically consequential.
- One
- The proposed unity of reality, which does not eliminate particular boundaries or prove itself merely through interdependence.
- Peace
- Integration in conduct rather than permanent calm or avoidance of conflict.
- Truth
- Reality allowed to correct our claims, motives, and actions.
- Weave Name
- A chosen spiritual name unique to a member’s participation; optional in ordinary practice and chosen during joining.
Four ways through the site
New to the Weave · about 15 minutes
Want a practice · one week
Testing the argument · about an hour
Considering community
The 49-chapter reading edition is available when you want more depth; you do not have to read it before trying a practice.