---
id: sfoc-forces-extraction
title: "Extraction"
primary_class: forces
primary_domain: power-control
secondary_domains: [liberation-transcendence, reality-ontology]
material_modes: [original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Extraction

> **the extraction field-reader.** Extraction offers an instrument for reading value removed from a host placed within power & control. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

## Origin

The card begins with a bounded origin claim: observations of change, relation, and constraint across natural and cultural systems. Community usage, popular remix, and divinatory meaning are added only after that boundary. Because value removed from a host placed within power & control changes the conditions under which every actor chooses, provenance work must identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

## What It Is

Extraction offers an instrument for reading value removed from a host placed within power & control. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy. In the Oracle it is classified as Forces, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

The usable history of Extraction includes advocates, critics, witnesses, creators, institutions, and people affected by its claims. No one group stands in for the whole record. At collective scale, value removed from a host placed within power & control becomes visible in norms, incentives, contagion, and collective attention; this matters because coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** not-applicable
- **Summary:** Extraction is not assigned a blanket literal truth claim; its historical, community, or symbolic meanings are evaluated on their own layers.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** Extraction has a class-level contextual source but still lacks a concept-specific external source in this release. Its cultural history is an editorial research lead, not a completed provenance claim.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### symbolic-and-divinatory

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

## Oracle

- **Essence:** Extraction offers an instrument for reading value removed from a host placed within power & control. It becomes useful when interpretation remains answerable to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.
- **Archetype:** the extraction field-reader
- **Gift:** locate authority, access, accountability, and exit by making value removed from a host placed within power & control available for careful comparison.
- **Shadow:** making uncertainty frightening enough that premature certainty feels like safety.
- **Guidance:** Slow the conclusion and widen the source base for Extraction. Prefer the smallest reversible step that could teach something real about authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave. Use this guidance where value removed from a host placed within power & control changes the conditions under which every actor chooses; keep visible that coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful.
- **Healing / integration:** Spend ten minutes describing value removed from a host placed within power & control without using the card’s familiar explanation. Notice which alternatives become available. Review value removed from a host placed within power & control through authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave, remembering that the card changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.
- **Question:** What permission or obligation changes if value removed from a host placed within power & control becomes decisive? Answer by testing how value removed from a host placed within power & control changes the conditions under which every actor chooses against authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave.

## Meanings

### Psychological

The psychological question in Extraction is not whether the symbol feels true, but what it does to attention, relationship, and available action. A grounded check for value removed from a host placed within power & control is to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy, especially where the pattern changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.

### Social

In groups, Extraction distributes roles: witness, expert, outsider, beneficiary, skeptic, keeper, or threat. Those assignments deserve explicit review. In shared life, value removed from a host placed within power & control becomes visible in norms, incentives, contagion, and collective attention. Test that specific value removed from a host placed within power & control pattern by asking people to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

### Spiritual

Through the extraction field-reader, the card offers a relationship to value removed from a host placed within power & control. The reader is asked to receive that relationship without demanding possession of the unknown. In symbolic practice, value removed from a host placed within power & control asks how a person relates to powers larger than intention; keep in view that coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful.

### Technological

Extraction changes more than efficiency when it makes value removed from a host placed within power & control repeatable. It also changes expertise, access, liability, and refusal wherever authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave are at stake. When value removed from a host placed within power & control becomes a capability, it appears as an operating condition, feedback signal, or design constraint. Verify the implementation of value removed from a host placed within power & control by asking participants to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

### Political

value removed from a host placed within power & control becomes political when institutions allocate its costs and benefits. The Oracle traces those allocations instead of treating power as atmosphere. When value removed from a host placed within power & control becomes governance, it reveals who can shape the field and who must adapt to it. Make authority over value removed from a host placed within power & control answerable by requiring decision-makers to identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Take the generative path: preserve value removed from a host placed within power & control as a source of possibility while refusing to make it absolute. The capacity within value removed from a host placed within power & control is strongest when power is named precisely enough to be challenged, bounded, or made answerable, even as the pattern changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.
- **Shadow state:** Watch for making uncertainty frightening enough that premature certainty feels like safety. The remedy is not ridicule, but a safer distinction among observation, interpretation, need, and story. To keep value removed from a host placed within power & control from escalating, identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy, because the pattern changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.
- **Threshold state:** The card becomes timely when value removed from a host placed within power & control can no longer remain symbolic alone because it is shaping real permissions, risks, or relationships. Operationally, value removed from a host placed within power & control changes the conditions under which every actor chooses; the reader should identify who can decide, inspect, refuse, revise, profit, and obtain remedy.
- **Practical move:** Spend ten minutes describing value removed from a host placed within power & control without using the card’s familiar explanation. Notice which alternatives become available. Review value removed from a host placed within power & control through authority, secrecy, classification, benefit, coercion, appeal, and the practical right to leave, remembering that the card changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.

## Game and Story Function

- pressure
- modifier
- turning-condition

**Story seed:** A rival explanation for Extraction predicts the same event for a different reason. The story turns on a test neither side can control. The world of the story must show how value removed from a host placed within power & control changes the conditions under which every actor chooses and why coordination becomes domination when accountability and exit exist only for the powerful.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-forces-complexity--sfoc-forces-extraction
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-forces-evolution--sfoc-forces-extraction
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-forces-extraction--sfoc-forces-fear
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-events-return-to-source--sfoc-forces-extraction
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-forces-extraction--sfoc-hypotheses-prison-planet-hypothesis
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-forces-extraction--sfoc-worlds-prison-world

## Visual Direction

Extraction visualized as value removed from a host placed within power & control: an abstract field of directional lines, pressure waves, and one unmistakable central gesture. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

No elevated safety flag. Keep claims and metaphor visibly distinct.

## Sources and Research Notes

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