---
id: sfoc-forces-loosh
title: "Loosh"
primary_class: forces
primary_domain: reality-ontology
secondary_domains: [power-control, liberation-transcendence]
material_modes: [conspiracy-mythology, internet-folklore, original-synthesis]
version: 1.0.0
---

# Loosh

> **the charged yield.** A term from modern out-of-body lore for emotionally charged energy, later expanded into extraction cosmologies.

## Origin

The starting point for Loosh is a conspiracy narrative with real social effects, read alongside observations of change, relation, and constraint across natural and cultural systems. Later symbolic use is registered as a separate editorial layer. Because emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology changes the conditions under which every actor chooses, provenance work must state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

## What It Is

A term from modern out-of-body lore for emotionally charged energy, later expanded into extraction cosmologies. In the Oracle it is classified as Forces, while its evidence layers determine how literal, historical, fictional, experiential, or symbolic a particular interpretation may be.

## Cultural History

The cultural life of Loosh follows emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology across institutions and communities. Each reuse changes what the symbol permits people to notice or ignore. At collective scale, emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology becomes visible in norms, incentives, contagion, and collective attention; 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:** conspiracy-mythology, internet-folklore
- **Evidence state:** unverified
- **Summary:** Loosh has an unverified literal or empirical layer. That designation applies only to the bounded claims supported by the listed sources.
- **Sources:** monroe-far-journeys, monroe-books

### 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 Loosh remain unverified. Cultural importance, testimony, secrecy, and narrative repetition do not substitute for reproducible evidence.
- **Sources:** monroe-far-journeys, monroe-books, 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 Loosh; it does not certify every later claim.
- **Sources:** monroe-far-journeys, monroe-books

### symbolic-and-divinatory

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

## Oracle

- **Essence:** A term from modern out-of-body lore for emotionally charged energy, later expanded into extraction cosmologies.
- **Archetype:** the charged yield
- **Gift:** noticing the value carried by attention and affect.
- **Shadow:** treating metaphor or reported experience as settled cosmology.
- **Guidance:** Do not ask Loosh to solve every scale at once within world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim. Work at the nearest point where consent and feedback are possible while the pattern changes the conditions under which every actor chooses. Use this guidance where emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology changes the conditions under which every actor chooses; keep visible that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.
- **Healing / integration:** Write four accounts of Loosh: observation, interpretation, cultural story, and symbolic meaning. Underline where emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology changes category. Review emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, remembering that the card changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.
- **Question:** What receives the energy of this experience?

## Meanings

### Psychological

The psychological question in Loosh is not whether the symbol feels true, but what it does to attention, relationship, and available action. A grounded check for emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology is to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope, especially where the pattern changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.

### Social

In groups, Loosh distributes roles: witness, expert, outsider, beneficiary, skeptic, keeper, or threat. Those assignments deserve explicit review. In shared life, emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology becomes visible in norms, incentives, contagion, and collective attention. Test that specific emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology pattern by asking people to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

### Spiritual

The contemplative work in Loosh is to distinguish revelation, interpretation, inheritance, and desire through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, allowing each an honest place. In symbolic practice, emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology asks how a person relates to powers larger than intention; keep in view that a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

### Technological

Loosh may be valuable as a design fiction even when unavailable as engineering. Its role then is to expose values, assumptions, and second-order effects. When emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology becomes a capability, it appears as an operating condition, feedback signal, or design constraint. Verify the implementation of emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology by asking participants to state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.

### Political

Loosh may justify exceptional action by promising safety, destiny, abundance, or revelation where world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim are contested. Examine mandate, evidence, proportionality, and sunset as the pattern changes the conditions under which every actor chooses. When emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology becomes governance, it reveals who can shape the field and who must adapt to it. Make authority over emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology 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:** Receive the card as permission to engage emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology with curiosity and proportion. The gift becomes real through accountable action. The capacity within emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology is strongest when the model can be used without being mistaken for the whole of reality, even as the pattern changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.
- **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 emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology from escalating, state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope, because the pattern changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.
- **Threshold state:** The card becomes timely when emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology can no longer remain symbolic alone because it is shaping real permissions, risks, or relationships. Operationally, emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology changes the conditions under which every actor chooses; the reader should state what this model explains, what could count against it, and what remains outside its scope.
- **Practical move:** Write four accounts of Loosh: observation, interpretation, cultural story, and symbolic meaning. Underline where emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology changes category. Review emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology through world-models, observer limits, and the boundary between appearance and claim, remembering that the card changes the conditions under which every actor chooses.

## Game and Story Function

- pressure
- modifier
- turning-condition

**Story seed:** Someone uses Loosh to explain a private wound, while an institution uses it to justify public control. One source can disrupt both stories. The world of the story must show how emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology changes the conditions under which every actor chooses and why a model can enlarge possibility or quietly make itself impossible to question.

## Relationships

- edge--amplifies--sfoc-forces-fear--sfoc-forces-loosh
- edge--assessed-through-shared-source-lens--sfoc-forces-apophenia--sfoc-forces-loosh
- edge--contrasts-with--sfoc-events-ascension--sfoc-forces-loosh
- edge--extractive-model-within--sfoc-forces-loosh--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet
- edge--harvests--sfoc-beings-archon--sfoc-forces-loosh
- edge--resembles--sfoc-forces-loosh--sfoc-systems-attention-economy
- edge--resembles--sfoc-forces-loosh--sfoc-systems-the-matrix
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-forces-liberation--sfoc-forces-loosh
- edge--same-class-as--sfoc-forces-loosh--sfoc-forces-meaning-making
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-cosmologies-ascension-cosmology--sfoc-forces-loosh
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-events-great-reset--sfoc-forces-loosh
- edge--shares-inquiry-domain-with--sfoc-forces-loosh--sfoc-systems-loosh-harvest
- edge--variant-of--sfoc-forces-loosh--sfoc-forces-energy-harvest

## Visual Direction

Loosh visualized as emotion imagined as harvestable energy placed within reality & ontology: an abstract field of directional lines, pressure waves, and one unmistakable central gesture. 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: monroe-far-journeys, monroe-books, sf-encyclopedia, original-synthesis
- Research note: Which earliest reliable source fixes the modern meaning of Loosh? Which communities use Loosh differently, and what changes across those contexts? What evidence would distinguish the leading literal explanations associated with Loosh?
