---
id: sfoc-events-life-review
title: "Life Review"
primary_class: events
primary_domain: liberation-transcendence
secondary_domains: [time-causality, contact-communication]
material_modes: [experiential-report, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Life Review

> **the reciprocal mirror.** An NDE motif of experiencing one’s actions from multiple perspectives.

## Origin

Rather than assign Life Review an impressive ancient pedigree, the record begins with lived and reported experience. It then asks which inheritances are demonstrated and which are interpretive. Because self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain, provenance work must ask what becomes possible, what material condition changes, and who might be abandoned by escape.

## What It Is

An NDE motif of experiencing one’s actions from multiple perspectives. In the Oracle it is classified as Events & Thresholds, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

Life Review acquired authority through repetition, affiliation, evidence, or ritual in different proportions. Those routes are not treated as interchangeable. At collective scale, self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life synchronizes attention while communities dispute causes and consequences; this matters because a promise of transcendence can release an old enclosure or bypass repair in the world at hand.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** experiential-report
- **Evidence state:** experiential-only
- **Summary:** Life Review 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; 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 as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** An NDE motif of experiencing one’s actions from multiple perspectives.
- **Archetype:** the reciprocal mirror
- **Gift:** empathy and moral integration.
- **Shadow:** retrospective judgment becoming punishment.
- **Guidance:** Compare the story of Life Review with the system carrying it. Trace one dependency from self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life to consequence. Use this guidance where self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain; keep visible that a promise of transcendence can release an old enclosure or bypass repair in the world at hand.
- **Healing / integration:** Identify one institution, relationship, body, and landscape touched by Life Review. Trace the consequence across all four. Review self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life through agency, release, transformation, integration, and the limits that freedom must still honor, remembering that the card reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain.
- **Question:** What becomes visible when impact is felt from every side?

## Meanings

### Psychological

Life Review tests the difference between intuition, memory, fear, desire, and observation within agency, release, transformation, integration, and the limits that freedom must still honor. None must be shamed, and none should silently impersonate the others while the pattern reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain. A grounded check for self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life is to ask what becomes possible, what material condition changes, and who might be abandoned by escape, especially where the pattern reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain.

### Social

The collective question is whether Life Review expands the group’s capacity to learn. A healthy form preserves dissent, source access, correction, and belonging. In shared life, self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life synchronizes attention while communities dispute causes and consequences. Test that specific self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life pattern by asking people to ask what becomes possible, what material condition changes, and who might be abandoned by escape.

### Spiritual

Life Review may orient a person toward purpose through self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life. The practice is sound when humility and relationship grow with meaning. In symbolic practice, self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life may be read as revelation, judgment, initiation, return, or rebirth; keep in view that a promise of transcendence can release an old enclosure or bypass repair in the world at hand.

### Technological

Life Review changes more than efficiency when it makes self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life repeatable. It also changes expertise, access, liability, and refusal wherever agency, release, transformation, integration, and the limits that freedom must still honor are at stake. When self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life becomes a capability, it tests detection, resilience, coordination, and recovery capacity. Verify the implementation of self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life by asking participants to ask what becomes possible, what material condition changes, and who might be abandoned by escape.

### Political

Politically, Life Review opens exceptional powers while exposing who controls the official account. Follow authority, benefit, exposure to harm, refusal, remedy, and control of the official record. When self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life becomes governance, it opens exceptional powers while exposing who controls the official account. Make authority over self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life answerable by requiring decision-makers to ask what becomes possible, what material condition changes, and who might be abandoned by escape.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Upright, Life Review makes hidden structure visible without declaring every unknown solved. Act on what is clear and protect what remains open. The capacity within self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life is strongest when greater freedom arrives with more relationship and responsibility, not less reality, even as the pattern reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain.
- **Shadow state:** A shadow reading asks whether a promise of transcendence can release an old enclosure or bypass repair in the world at hand. Find the material mechanism beneath the dramatic account as the pattern reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain. To keep self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life from escalating, ask what becomes possible, what material condition changes, and who might be abandoned by escape, because the pattern reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain.
- **Threshold state:** Life Review signals that a promise of transcendence can release an old enclosure or bypass repair in the world at hand. Look for the practical site where that tension reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain and produces consequence. Operationally, self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain; the reader should ask what becomes possible, what material condition changes, and who might be abandoned by escape.
- **Practical move:** Identify one institution, relationship, body, and landscape touched by Life Review. Trace the consequence across all four. Review self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life through agency, release, transformation, integration, and the limits that freedom must still honor, remembering that the card reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain.

## Game and Story Function

- threshold
- reversal
- countdown

**Story seed:** A protagonist inherits the role of the reciprocal mirror 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 meeting retrospective integration of a life reorders priorities by making an old equilibrium impossible to maintain and why a promise of transcendence can release an old enclosure or bypass repair in the world at hand.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-events-quarantine-declaration
- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-events-signal-detected
- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-events-technological-singularity
- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-events-world-reset
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-states-near-death-experience
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-precognition--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--reported-motif-of--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-states-near-death-experience
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-events-great-reset--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-events-mandela-effect
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-archon--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-future-human--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-gatekeeper--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-ancient-astronaut-cosmos--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-block-universe--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-noosphere--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-simulation--sfoc-events-life-review
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-forces-assimilation

## Visual Direction

Life Review visualized as self-maintaining embodied process meeting retrospective integration of a life: a broken ring crossed by a bright threshold line, with before and after remaining visually distinct. 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? Which communities use Life Review differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Life Review?
