---
id: sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror
title: "Life Review Mirror"
primary_class: artifacts
primary_domain: memory-identity
secondary_domains: [technology-infrastructure, origin-lineage]
material_modes: [experiential-report, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Life Review Mirror

> **the life review mirror reliquary-keeper.** The working core of Life Review Mirror is self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. respect for testimony does not require certifying one external cause.

## Origin

The origin file for Life Review Mirror begins where self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together first becomes legible in lived and reported experience. It does not backdate later language into earlier sources. Because self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded, provenance work must compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

## What It Is

The working core of Life Review Mirror is self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. respect for testimony does not require certifying one external cause. In the Oracle it is classified as Artifacts & Resources, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

The cultural archive treats Life Review Mirror as a changing relation rather than a fixed object. Custody, platform, genre, and power all shape the version now encountered. At collective scale, self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together organizes attention around custody, authenticity, value, and access; this matters because memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** experiential-report
- **Evidence state:** experiential-only
- **Summary:** Life Review Mirror has an experiential-only literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** nih-nde, nih-nde-scoping

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** experiential-report, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Life Review Mirror; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** nih-nde, nih-nde-scoping

### symbolic-and-divinatory

- **Claim layer:** symbolic-and-divinatory
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** symbolic
- **Summary:** The Oracle uses Life Review Mirror as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** The working core of Life Review Mirror is self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together: a pattern that can reorganize attention, relation, and action. respect for testimony does not require certifying one external cause.
- **Archetype:** the life review mirror reliquary-keeper
- **Gift:** connect individual perception with the wider conditions expressed by self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together.
- **Shadow:** confusing lived and reported experience with permission to claim more than its evidence supports.
- **Guidance:** Compare the story of Life Review Mirror with the system carrying it. Trace one dependency from self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together to consequence. Use this guidance where self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded; keep visible that memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.
- **Healing / integration:** Retell Life Review Mirror from the viewpoint of the person or system carrying its hidden cost. Then revise the original reading. Review self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together through continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together, remembering that the card anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Question:** Which part of Life Review Mirror is observation, inherited story, active claim, or chosen symbol? Answer by testing how self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded against continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together.

## Meanings

### Psychological

Life Review Mirror tests the difference between intuition, memory, fear, desire, and observation within continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together. None must be shamed, and none should silently impersonate the others while the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded. A grounded check for self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together is to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision, especially where the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.

### Social

Life Review Mirror coordinates people around self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together. That coordination can create care and shared purpose, or punish those who do not accept the same map. In shared life, self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together organizes attention around custody, authenticity, value, and access. Test that specific self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together pattern by asking people to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

### Spiritual

Life Review Mirror may orient a person toward purpose through self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together. The practice is sound when humility and relationship grow with meaning. In symbolic practice, self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together may operate as relic, talisman, revelation, test, or burden; keep in view that memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

### Technological

Technologically, Life Review Mirror invites inspection of material, function, interface, and chain of custody. Analysis begins with mechanism, input, dependency, constraint, operator, and failure. When self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together becomes a capability, it invites inspection of material, function, interface, and chain of custody. Verify the implementation of self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together by asking participants to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

### Political

Power enters Life Review Mirror through classification: who is expert, witness, member, patient, believer, threat, or owner. Each label changes available rights. When self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together becomes governance, it creates conflict over possession, classification, ownership, and public knowledge. Make authority over self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together answerable by requiring decision-makers to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** The gift of Life Review Mirror is not certainty but a better question about self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together. Let the question improve the next decision. The capacity within self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together is strongest when identity can continue without forcing every gap into a finished story, even as the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Shadow state:** The shadow position warns that self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together is being used to erase context, consent, or counterevidence. Restore those missing constraints. To keep self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together from escalating, compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision, because the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Threshold state:** Life Review Mirror signals that memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others. Look for the practical site where that tension anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded and produces consequence. Operationally, self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded; the reader should compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.
- **Practical move:** Retell Life Review Mirror from the viewpoint of the person or system carrying its hidden cost. Then revise the original reading. Review self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together through continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together, remembering that the card anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.

## Game and Story Function

- key-object
- evidence
- contested-resource

**Story seed:** A protagonist inherits the role of the life review mirror reliquary-keeper and learns that its gift was built on an unacknowledged burden. They must redesign the role. The world of the story must show how self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded and why memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror--sfoc-artifacts-monolith
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-artifacts-flying-saucer--sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror--sfoc-artifacts-memory-implant
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror--sfoc-beings-debunker
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror--sfoc-myths-chosen-one
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror--sfoc-myths-dynasty
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror--sfoc-myths-starseed-mission
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-life-review-mirror--sfoc-worlds-antarctica

## Visual Direction

Life Review Mirror visualized as self-maintaining embodied process, retrospective integration of a life, and the mirror motif acting together: a single centered relic in a registered reliquary with enough empty field for immediate recognition. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

Flags: lived-experience-without-causal-certification. Invite reflection and source comparison; do not diagnose, recruit, threaten, harass, or certify extraordinary claims.

## Sources and Research Notes

- Source IDs: nih-nde, nih-nde-scoping, sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Life Review Mirror? Which communities use Life Review Mirror differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Life Review Mirror?
