THE LATTICE PATTERN™ A Structural Framework for the Universal Architecture of Visionary Experience
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) February 11, 2026 Kingsley Nkrumah
Visionary experiences across cultures—including prophetic revelations, near-death experiences, shamanic journeys, mystical ascents, and symbolic dreams—follow a single universal cognitive architecture. A four-stage sequence—Collapse, Threshold, Irreversibility, and Dissolution/Reboot—appears consistently when structural invariants are isolated from cultural symbolism. This consistency points to 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 testable, falsifiable, and predictive.