# Ascension

Explore developmental transformation without using transcendence to bypass embodiment, accountability, or care.

## Positions

1. **Current Density:** What level of complexity, care, and agency can the present system actually hold?
   - Eligible classes: states, systems, cosmologies
2. **What Must Be Integrated:** Which shadow or contradiction cannot be left behind?
   - Eligible classes: forces, states, myths
3. **What Must Be Released:** What identity, control, or scarcity pattern has completed its work?
   - Eligible classes: forces, systems, artifacts
4. **The Threshold:** What event or practice makes the transition irreversible?
   - Eligible classes: events, programs, technologies
5. **Shadow of Transcendence:** How could the promise of ascent reproduce hierarchy, denial, or capture?
   - Eligible classes: systems, factions, states
6. **The New Capacity:** What becomes possible through integration rather than escape?
   - Eligible classes: technologies, forces, states

## Reading Contract

Read Gift, Shadow, and Threshold; expose the evidence state; show only graph relationships that actually exist; end with guidance, integration, and a question. Use a seed for repeatability.
