---
id: sfoc-artifacts-reality-map
title: "Reality Map"
primary_class: artifacts
primary_domain: reality-ontology
secondary_domains: [origin-lineage, memory-identity]
material_modes: [science-fiction, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Reality Map

> **the reality map reliquary-keeper.** What makes Reality Map consequential is the meeting of the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif with world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim. The card preserves that meeting without universalizing it.

## Origin

Provenance for Reality Map is built outward from the earliest attributable context. State what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope before proposing continuity. Because the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded, provenance work must state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

## What It Is

What makes Reality Map consequential is the meeting of the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif with world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim. The card preserves that meeting without universalizing it. 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

Reality Map gathered meaning through use, provenance, circulation, imitation, and retelling. Its history is most legible when changes in audience, medium, and authority are recorded separately. At collective scale, the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif organizes attention around custody, authenticity, value, and access; this matters because a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** science-fiction
- **Evidence state:** fictional
- **Summary:** Reality Map has a fictional literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** sf-encyclopedia, isfdb

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** science-fiction, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Reality Map; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** sf-encyclopedia, isfdb

### symbolic-and-divinatory

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

## Oracle

- **Essence:** What makes Reality Map consequential is the meeting of the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif with world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim. The card preserves that meeting without universalizing it.
- **Archetype:** the reality map reliquary-keeper
- **Gift:** clarify what can be known, what can be chosen, and what must remain open.
- **Shadow:** turning a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question into inevitability instead of a condition open to response.
- **Guidance:** Name the evidence layer before naming the meaning of the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif. Let affected people help define what accountability requires. Use this guidance where the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded; keep visible that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.
- **Healing / integration:** Pair Reality Map with its strongest polarity. Design one action that preserves clarify what can be known, what can be chosen, and what must remain open without feeding turning a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question into inevitability instead of a condition open to response. Review the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, remembering that the card anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Question:** How can the gift of Reality Map be practiced while its evidence status remains explicit? Answer by testing how the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded against world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim.

## Meanings

### Psychological

Reality Map may function inwardly as a lens for the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif. Its gift supports clarify what can be known, what can be chosen, and what must remain open; its shadow begins when that lens excludes disconfirming experience. A grounded check for the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif is to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope, especially where the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.

### Social

Read socially, Reality Map is less a private belief than a pattern of relationship. Notice trust, imitation, silence, conflict, care, and unequal consequence. In shared life, the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif organizes attention around custody, authenticity, value, and access. Test that specific the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif pattern by asking people to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

### Spiritual

Reality Map can become a threshold symbol: something is released, encountered, remembered, or promised. Integration returns the threshold to ordinary responsibility. In symbolic practice, the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif may operate as relic, talisman, revelation, test, or burden; keep in view that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

### Technological

The technical layer of Reality Map is bounded by work, creator, reception, and symbolic reuse. Vocabulary borrowed from science cannot substitute for a working account. When the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif becomes a capability, it invites inspection of material, function, interface, and chain of custody. Verify the implementation of the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif by asking participants to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

### Political

Reality Map tests the boundary between necessary coordination and domination. Record consent, appeal, oversight, and the people excluded from decision. When the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif becomes governance, it creates conflict over possession, classification, ownership, and public knowledge. Make authority over the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif answerable by requiring decision-makers to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Upright, Reality Map asks you to practice clarify what can be known, what can be chosen, and what must remain open. Begin with compare two rival maps of the same observation and mark their different blind spots. The capacity within the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif is strongest when the model can be used without being mistaken for the whole of reality, even as the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Shadow state:** Watch for turning a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question into inevitability instead of a condition open to response. The remedy is not ridicule, but a safer distinction among observation, interpretation, need, and story. To keep the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif from escalating, state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope, because the pattern anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded.
- **Threshold state:** Reality Map points to an unintegrated relation among the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif. The reading asks for distinction without disconnection. Operationally, the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded; the reader should state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.
- **Practical move:** Pair Reality Map with its strongest polarity. Design one action that preserves clarify what can be known, what can be chosen, and what must remain open without feeding turning a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question into inevitability instead of a condition open to response. Review the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, 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:** The promised liberation within Reality Map works, but only for those able to leave. Make access, obligation, and return the center of the plot. The world of the story must show how the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif anchors an otherwise abstract claim in something that can be found, held, traded, or decoded and why a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-artifacts-beacon--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-artifacts-pyramid--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-artifacts-redacted-file
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-beings-lemurian-starseed
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-cosmologies-cosmic-memory-field
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-cosmologies-omega-point
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-cosmologies-reincarnation-trap
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-cosmologies-source
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-cosmologies-space-memory-network
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-artifacts-reality-map--sfoc-forces-forgetting

## Visual Direction

Reality Map visualized as the field treated as actually existing meeting the map motif: 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

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

## Sources and Research Notes

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