Garden map
Project Empyrean asks: what should we do to be happy indefinitely?
Choose a topic below, or explore the project’s goals. Each article links to related ideas, questions, and projects, so you can follow the connections that interest you.
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The project
What we are trying to accomplish, and how the work is organized.
The problem and experience
Begin with the problem, then examine the feelings and experiences it concerns.
- Fundamental Problem
- Subjective Existence
- Feeling
- Emotions
- Stress
- Discomfort
- Unhappiness
- Happiness
- Desire
- Enjoyment
- Pleasant Experiences
- Visual Experience
- Offense and Hatred
Choices and knowledge
How knowledge, models, and deliberate action might change what happens next.
Beyond human existence
The limitations of human life and the possibilities of rebirth and heavenly existence.
- Human Existence
- Rebirth
- Karma
- Merit
- Heavenly Existence
- Heavenly Biology
- Interdimensional Perception
- Lucid Dreams
Subprojects
Different lines of work toward the project’s goals.
- Unbound
- Ulysses
- Basanos
- Phoenix
- Nekyia
- Proteus
- Apotheosis
- Homo Deus
- Elysium
- Morpheus
- Hermes
- XO
- Atlas
Buddhism wiki
Textual references, interpretations, and questions about Buddhist teachings.
- Dukkha
- 18 Mental Preoccupations
- Escaping Pain with Pleasure
- Gradual Relinquishment
- The Root of All Things
- Four Kinds of Practice
- Reflection
- Great Standards
- Preserving the Truth
- Four Consolations
- Rebirth By Choice
- How to Go to Heaven
- Heavenly Happiness
- Devas
- Lifespan of Devas
- Scale of Returns
- Speed of Light Encoded in the Rohitassa Sutta
Research
Methods, leads, and open questions for further investigation.
Terms
Definitions collected in a single reference.