---
id: sfoc-states-memory-wipe
title: "Memory Wipe"
primary_class: states
primary_domain: memory-identity
secondary_domains: [body-evolution, mind-consciousness]
material_modes: [experiential-report, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Memory Wipe

> **the missing chapter.** The deliberate removal of remembered continuity in fiction, lore, and symbolic psychology.

## Origin

Origin is treated as a chain of custody for Memory Wipe: initial context, transmission, alteration, reception, and explicit Oracle synthesis. Because continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation, provenance work must compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

## What It Is

The deliberate removal of remembered continuity in fiction, lore, and symbolic psychology. In the Oracle it is classified as States & Experiences, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

What survives of Memory Wipe is not neutral. Preservation choices determine which witnesses, failures, and counter-readings remain available. At collective scale, continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality; this matters because memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

## Claim and Evidence Layers

  ### literal-and-empirical

- **Claim layer:** literal-and-empirical
- **Material context:** experiential-report
- **Evidence state:** experiential-only
- **Summary:** Memory Wipe has an experiential-only literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** No external source assigned; editorial synthesis only.

### cultural-and-historical

- **Claim layer:** cultural-and-historical
- **Material context:** experiential-report, original-synthesis
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** Memory Wipe 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 Memory Wipe as a reflective symbol, never as proof that its literal or causal claims are true.
- **Sources:** original-synthesis

## Oracle

- **Essence:** The deliberate removal of remembered continuity in fiction, lore, and symbolic psychology.
- **Archetype:** the missing chapter
- **Gift:** freedom from an old script.
- **Shadow:** identity made vulnerable to whoever supplies the replacement story.
- **Guidance:** Protect both wonder and agency while reading Memory Wipe. Choose a response that remains useful even if the strongest interpretation changes. Use this guidance where continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation; keep visible that memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.
- **Healing / integration:** Spend ten minutes describing continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif without using the card’s familiar explanation. Notice which alternatives become available. Review continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif through continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together, remembering that the card changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Question:** What is absent, and who benefits from filling the gap?

## Meanings

### Psychological

Memory Wipe reveals how attention behaves around memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others. The psychological work is to regain choice without dismissing what feels consequential. A grounded check for continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif is to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision, especially where the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.

### Social

Memory Wipe reveals which experiences a culture rewards, doubts, medicalizes, celebrates, or hides. Those responses shape the phenomenon’s lived reality. In shared life, continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif affects testimony, belonging, stigma, care, and the ability to coordinate reality. Test that specific continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif pattern by asking people to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

### Spiritual

The card permits devotion to meaning while protecting freedom of belief. Respect for testimony does not require certifying one external cause. In symbolic practice, continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif can be interpreted as opening, ordeal, initiation, illusion, or integration; keep in view that memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

### Technological

The card’s machine-level inquiry asks whether Memory Wipe expands capability while preserving agency, maintenance, accessibility, and repair. When continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif becomes a capability, it may be measured, induced, mediated, recorded, or misclassified by tools. Verify the implementation of continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif by asking participants to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

### Political

Memory Wipe may justify exceptional action by promising safety, destiny, abundance, or revelation where continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together are contested. Examine mandate, evidence, proportionality, and sunset as the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation. When continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif becomes governance, it raises questions about credibility, autonomy, accommodation, and coercive interpretation. Make authority over continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif answerable by requiring decision-makers to compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.

## Divination

- **Gift state:** Take the generative path: preserve continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif as a source of possibility while refusing to make it absolute. The capacity within continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif is strongest when identity can continue without forcing every gap into a finished story, even as the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Shadow state:** The card’s hazard is enclosure: every new detail may be recruited to protect the same conclusion. Name what could genuinely change the reading. To keep continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif from escalating, compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision, because the pattern changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.
- **Threshold state:** The divinatory signal is continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif moving from background condition to active decision. Notice who recognizes the shift first. Operationally, continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation; the reader should compare recollection with records, other witnesses, missing intervals, and the cost of revision.
- **Practical move:** Spend ten minutes describing continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif without using the card’s familiar explanation. Notice which alternatives become available. Review continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif through continuity, forgetting, archives, testimony, and the stories that hold a self together, remembering that the card changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation.

## Game and Story Function

- condition
- perception-filter
- consequence

**Story seed:** A rival explanation for Memory Wipe 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 continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif changes perception and choice without necessarily proving an external explanation and why memory can preserve personhood while also being edited, inherited, contested, or supplied by others.

## Relationships

- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-states-false-memory--sfoc-states-memory-wipe
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-false-memory--sfoc-states-memory-wipe
- edge--develops-into--sfoc-states-memory-wipe--sfoc-states-amnesia
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-states-lucid-dream--sfoc-states-memory-wipe
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-states-memory-wipe--sfoc-states-near-death-experience
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-beings-hive-mind--sfoc-states-memory-wipe
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-states-memory-wipe--sfoc-technologies-consciousness-transfer
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-states-memory-wipe--sfoc-technologies-mind-upload

## Visual Direction

Memory Wipe visualized as continuity through retained traces meeting the wipe motif: a layered interior halo expressing a condition without diagnosing or literalizing a person. The art must be original, text-free, square, rounded-corner enamel with one immediately legible silhouette.

## Safety and Integration

Flags: lived-experience-without-causal-certification. Invite reflection and source comparison; do not diagnose, recruit, threaten, harass, or certify extraordinary claims.

## Sources and Research Notes

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