---
id: sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet
title: "Prison Planet"
primary_class: cosmologies
primary_domain: civilization-ecology
secondary_domains: [power-control, time-causality]
material_modes: [conspiracy-mythology, internet-folklore, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Prison Planet

> **the enclosed world.** A cosmology in which earthly life is an enclosure sustained by amnesia, extraction, or hidden wardens.

## Origin

Prison Planet begins as a situated answer to shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk. Its later uses may travel far, but they do not erase the conditions of first appearance. Because enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made, provenance work must follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.

## What It Is

A cosmology in which earthly life is an enclosure sustained by amnesia, extraction, or hidden wardens. In the Oracle it is classified as Cosmologies, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

The historical record of Prison Planet is a sequence of translations: source context, public circulation, community interpretation, and later symbolic use. At collective scale, enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif organizes communities around a shared map of what is ultimately real; this matters because a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** conspiracy-mythology, internet-folklore
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** Prison Planet has an unverified literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** nag-hammadi-archons, nag-hammadi-john

### extraordinary-and-contested-claims

- **Claim layer:** extraordinary-and-contested-claims
- **Material context:** conspiracy-mythology, internet-folklore
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** The extraordinary or hidden-causal claims associated with Prison Planet remain unverified. Cultural importance, testimony, secrecy, and narrative repetition do not substitute for reproducible evidence.
- **Sources:** nag-hammadi-archons, nag-hammadi-john, sf-encyclopedia

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** conspiracy-mythology, internet-folklore, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** documented-historical
- **Summary:** The cited cultural record documents at least one lineage, use, or reception context for Prison Planet; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** nag-hammadi-archons, nag-hammadi-john

### symbolic-and-divinatory

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

## Oracle

- **Essence:** A cosmology in which earthly life is an enclosure sustained by amnesia, extraction, or hidden wardens.
- **Archetype:** the enclosed world
- **Gift:** naming lived confinement.
- **Shadow:** externalizing every constraint into cosmic jailers.
- **Guidance:** Return from the scale of Prison Planet to one lived consequence of enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif. Repair that relationship before expanding the theory. Use this guidance where enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made; keep visible that a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center.
- **Healing / integration:** Retell Prison Planet from the viewpoint of the person or system carrying its hidden cost. Then revise the original reading. Review enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif through shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk, remembering that the card changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.
- **Question:** Which wall is material, social, psychological, or mythic?

## Meanings

### Psychological

Prison Planet tests the difference between intuition, memory, fear, desire, and observation within shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk. None must be shamed, and none should silently impersonate the others while the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made. A grounded check for enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif is to follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales, especially where the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.

### Social

A community may use Prison Planet to preserve memory, coordinate action, or mark identity. The Oracle also asks who bears the costs of that cohesion. In shared life, enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif organizes communities around a shared map of what is ultimately real. Test that specific enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif pattern by asking people to follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.

### Spiritual

Through the enclosed world, the card offers a relationship to enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif. The reader is asked to receive that relationship without demanding possession of the unknown. In symbolic practice, enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif locates purpose, suffering, and transcendence within a larger order; keep in view that a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center.

### Technological

The technological question is who gets capability without inheriting equal risk. Follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales. When enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif becomes a capability, it invites tools that reveal, model, navigate, or alter hidden layers. Verify the implementation of enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif by asking participants to follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.

### Political

Where Prison Planet promises order, ask whose uncertainty is being reduced and whose freedom is being converted into someone else’s assurance. When enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif becomes governance, it can justify authority by claiming privileged access to the structure of reality. Make authority over enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif answerable by requiring decision-makers to follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Upright, Prison Planet makes hidden structure visible without declaring every unknown solved. Act on what is clear and protect what remains open. The capacity within enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif is strongest when collective continuity includes ecology, access, and those previously treated as external costs, even as the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.
- **Shadow state:** The shadow position warns that enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif is being used to erase context, consent, or counterevidence. Restore those missing constraints. To keep enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif from escalating, follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales, because the pattern changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.
- **Threshold state:** Prison Planet enters a reading when a conspiracy narrative with real social effects is being asked to carry more certainty than it can support. Restore the proper evidence boundary. Operationally, enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made; the reader should follow resources, waste, care, mobility, governance, and nonhuman dependencies across scales.
- **Practical move:** Retell Prison Planet from the viewpoint of the person or system carrying its hidden cost. Then revise the original reading. Review enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif through shared survival, place, stewardship, access, feedback, and unequal exposure to risk, remembering that the card changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made.

## Game and Story Function

- world-model
- hidden-rule
- stakes-frame

**Story seed:** Prison Planet begins as harmless symbolic play, then acquires material authority. The characters must decide when imagination became governance. The world of the story must show how enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif changes what counts as possible before any local decision is made and why a durable world can hide extraction by moving its costs beyond the visible center.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-factions-shadow-government
- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-hypotheses-prison-planet-hypothesis
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-systems-loosh-farm
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-reincarnation-trap--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet
- edge--echoes--sfoc-cosmologies-gnostic-cosmos--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet
- edge--extractive-model-within--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-cosmologies-reincarnation-trap
- edge--extractive-model-within--sfoc-forces-loosh--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet
- edge--extractive-model-within--sfoc-systems-loosh-farm--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-cosmologies-post-biological-universe--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-cosmologies-quarantine-earth
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-events-great-reset
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-factions-belief-cult
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-factions-megacorporation
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-factions-rebel-alliance
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-factions-shadow-government
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-myths-chosen-one
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-myths-dynasty
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-myths-starseed-mission
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-systems-containment-system
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-systems-loosh-harvest

## Visual Direction

Prison Planet visualized as enclosure maintained by asymmetrical power meeting the planet motif: nested horizons and celestial registration rings arranged around a legible world-model. 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: nag-hammadi-archons, nag-hammadi-john, sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Prison Planet? Which communities use Prison Planet differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Prison Planet?
