# The Distant Witness

Experiential reports become inquiry when protocol, feedback, interpretation, and integration remain visible.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: mind-consciousness

## Path

1. **Lucid Dream** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-lucid-dream--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience`
2. **Out-of-Body Experience** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-out-of-body-experience--sfoc-states-astral-projection`
3. **Astral Projection** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-astral-projection--sfoc-technologies-remote-viewing`
4. **Remote Viewing** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-technologies-remote-viewing--sfoc-technologies-controlled-remote-viewing`
5. **Controlled Remote Viewing** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-technologies-controlled-remote-viewing--sfoc-programs-project-stargate`
6. **Project Stargate** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-programs-project-stargate--sfoc-states-precognition`
7. **Precognition** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-precognition--sfoc-events-life-review`
8. **Life Review** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-events-life-review--sfoc-states-near-death-experience`
9. **Near-Death Experience**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
