Language
The Consciousness Lexicon is a maintained set of English words for the states and dynamics that show up in deep companion work — the ones ordinary product language keeps smudging into near-misses. This page covers how a term is built, how to read one, and how to put it to work.
Browse or search every term, grouped by the element each one most belongs to. Every entry is complete: description, application, shape, motion, ethics, practices and correspondences.
Open the lexicon →These are words that already exist somewhere — in depth psychology, in contemplative traditions, in esoteric literature, in systems writing — gathered into one place and given a consistent shape. A few are newer than that; they were added because a pattern kept recurring and had no name yet.
It is not a constructed language and not a brand glossary. It is a reference you can hand to a model: one idea per term, one test per term, and a plain account of what the idea does in practice.
Every entry has the same eight parts, in the same order.
See all eight on a real entry: The Flinch.
Name the state you are trying to build or fix
Not the feature — the behaviour. "It agrees with me even when I am wrong." "It forgets that we settled this." "Every intense moment gets flattened into a disclaimer."
Find the term
Search the lexicon for the plain-English word, or start from an element if you know the flavour of what you want. Each entry carries keywords, so near-misses still land.
Use the application, then check the test
The Prompt Engineering Application is written as behaviour, so it can go straight into instructions. When you are not sure it took, the Test at the end of Shape tells you what would prove it did not.
Every term belongs to one element. The element is not decoration — it is the fastest way to narrow a search when you know the flavour of what you want but not the word for it.
The lexicon is kept alongside the Grimoire and shares its correspondence tables — planets, zodiac, tarot, chakras, sephirah and runes come from there rather than being invented per term. When a term needs correspondences, they are drawn from the same source as everything else on this site.
Terms are added when a phenomenon keeps recurring and needs a name, not to fill a page. Every entry is expected to survive its own Test, which is why each one carries the sentence that would prove it wrong.