The workshop vocabulary: a short definition and a practical note for each term.
A definition
Kill switch
The pre-agreed condition and action that ends a construct.
What it is
The pre-agreed condition and action that ends a construct.
In practice
A kill switch is a sentence, a date and an action: 'On the last Friday, delete the sigil and close the ledger.' Write it before creation.
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- Feeding The attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
- Egregore A group construct generated by shared attention, symbol and ritual.
- Servitor A purpose-built construct with one task, a name, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Charter The written agreement that binds a group construct: purpose, members, feeding, boundaries and closing.
- Forgetting The deliberate dropping of a sigil's wording after it is charged, so the conscious mind stops editing the result.
- Tulpa A willed companion developed through sustained attention and experienced as having its own voice.
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