THE LATTICE PATTERN™ A Structural Framework for the Universal Architecture of Visionary Experience

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The study proposes that various significant visionary experiences, such as near-death experiences and mystical journeys, share a common cognitive architecture. It identifies a four-stage sequence—Collapse, Threshold, Irreversibility, and Dissolution/Reboot—that is consistent across different cultural traditions. This suggests a universal framework for understanding consciousness and visionary experiences, termed THE LATTICE PATTERN™, which aims to bridge multiple fields including cognitive science and anthropology.

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Abstract

This manuscript proposes that the world’s most significant visionary experiences, prophetic revelations, near‑death experiences, shamanic journeys, mystical ascents, and symbolic dreams, are governed by a single, universal cognitive architecture. By isolating structural invariants from cultural symbolism, the study identifies a four‑stage sequence, Collapse, Threshold, Irreversibility, and Dissolution/Reboot, that appears consistently across traditions. This structural consistency suggests the existence of a Back‑End Law, a source code embedded in the organization of consciousness. THE LATTICE PATTERN™ provides the first mechanistic explanation for this phenomenon, offering a unifying framework that bridges comparative religion, cognitive science, anthropology, and consciousness studies. The model is presented as a testable, falsifiable, and predictive architecture capable of transforming scholarly understanding of visionary experience

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