AKASHICNET · AN EXPLORATORY FRAMEWORK

The Living Spectrum

Explore 19 interconnected lenses across six flexible groups through interactive charts—a living, exploratory map of intelligence, awareness and wisdom.

Browse All 19 Lenses

Select a wedge, then choose one of its lenses.

Try an Everyday Situation

Choose a situation to see a practice prompt and highlight the relevant groups on the wheel.

Three illustrated everyday situations: learning a dance, listening during a disagreement and designing a garden.
Reflect · Compare · Try · Revise. AI-assisted illustration; the light trails are artistic metaphors.
Six equal navigation wedges, not measured scoresLogical &AnalyticalSelf &InnerSocial &CollectiveCreative &ExperientialPhysical &EnvironmentalMeaning &Transcendence19 LENSESONE OPEN MAP

Select a wedge to see its lenses and definitions.

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Logical & Analytical

Clear reasoning, numbers, quantities and patterns.

Select a lens for its working definition.

Explore Further: Questions, Benefits & Limits

Reasoning and reflection bring claims, patterns and our own assumptions into view. These lenses work together when we ask both whether an argument holds and how we arrived at it.

Questions To Explore

  • What is the claim, and what would count against it?
  • Am I confusing confidence with evidence?
  • Which quantities or comparisons actually matter?

Possible Benefits

Could support clearer decisions, more precise research questions and better correction of mistakes.

Strengths

Makes assumptions visible and gives different explanations a fair comparison.

Limitations

Over-analysis can delay action. Formal models can omit lived context, values or information that is hard to quantify.

Try It

Write one claim, one alternative explanation and one observation that could distinguish them.

Reflection prompts and proposed uses, not measured outcomes.

Two Lenses That Connect All Six Groups

The wheel contains 17 lenses. Creativity and practical adaptation add two more, making 19 in total. They can be used with any group. Select either below to highlight all six groups.

Guiding values: Awareness · Compassion · Discernment · Wise Action

What shapes their use: Culture · Knowledge · Learning · Resources · Accessibility · Environment

Examples of Lenses Working Together

Select an example to see how its lenses work together. The wheel highlights the groups used in that example. These combinations are prompts for reflection.

Compare Two Lenses

Choose a pair to examine its working distinctions and overlaps.

Logical

Examines whether conclusions follow from reasons and whether an argument is consistent.

Mathematical

Works with quantities, structures and formal relationships.

Where They Overlap

Both can use precise rules and structured reasoning. Mathematics often uses logic, while logical reasoning need not involve numbers.

Everyday Example

Planning a journey: check whether the proposed route meets your requirements, then calculate travel time and cost.

Working distinctions for reflection, not evidence of separate, independently validated faculties.

Browse All 19 Lenses

Use the links to share a lens directly. The final two apply across all six groups.

Logical & Analytical

Logical
Assess arguments, consistency and possible explanations.
Mathematical
Work with quantity, structure and formal relationships.

Self & Inner

Intrapersonal
Understand your intentions, patterns and inner experience.
Metacognitive
Notice and revise your own thinking.
Emotional
Recognise, understand and respond to emotions in yourself and others.

Social & Collective

Interpersonal
Understand others and navigate relationships.
Collective
Develop understanding and capability through collaboration.

Creative & Experiential

Linguistic
Understand and express meaning through language.
Spatial
Reason about forms, positions and visual relationships.
Musical
Perceive and create rhythm, melody and musical structure.

Physical & Environmental

Bodily Awareness
Attend to internal bodily states and embodied experience.
Kinesthetic
Learn and coordinate through movement.
Tactile
Explore and distinguish through touch.
Naturalistic
Recognise living patterns and ecological relationships.

Meaning & Transcendence

Existential
Explore selfhood, purpose, mortality and meaning.
Spiritual
Engage with contemplative practice, sacred meaning and compassionate living.
Transpersonal
Explore experiences and interpretations extending beyond the ordinary individual sense of self.

Across All Six Groups

Creative / Imaginative
Generate possibilities, connections and alternative perspectives.
Practical / Adaptive
Translate insight into action and adjust through feedback.

CONNECTED FRAMEWORKS

A Living Intelligence Ecology

This chart links the Spectrum to other AkashicNET frameworks. Select a name to read what that framework offers, then use its link to explore. The connections organise ideas; they do not represent measured relationships.

Select a framework to highlight its connection.
AwarenessCompassionDiscernmentWise action

Capacities & perspectives

Living Spectrum

Which perspectives help us understand this situation? Explore the 19 working lenses without treating them as a test or ranking.

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Practice → Feedback → Further inquiry

TRANSPARENCY · THIS EDITION

Illustrative Editorial Influence Estimates

Subjective, AI-proposed allocation—not measured authorship. Contributions overlap; the historical review is incomplete. Rounded estimates total 100% for presentation. Artwork is excluded.

Illustrative contribution allocation, not measured data30%Illustrative estimate

Human direction & editorial judgement

The user's aims, category choices, approvals and editorial decisions.

Editorial influence is not a measure of time, effort, ownership or scientific credibility.

The Map in Context

The 27 Sep 2026 edition groups 17 lenses and adds two spanning lenses. Bodily Awareness narrows the earlier Bodily label to internal signals; Kinesthetic covers coordinated movement. All labels remain open to review.

Cinematic Living Spectrum artwork with nineteen lenses across six groups, two spanning lenses and an integrating orientation.
Current exploratory map · Select the artwork to view larger. The interactive charts above provide readable text.
Earlier artwork and framework ecology
Earlier Living Spectrum artwork retained for comparison.
Earlier page artwork, retained as part of the map’s development.
Illustrated relationships among the Living Spectrum, Living Jigsaw, Flourishing Matrix, HOMESENSE and AkashicOMNI.
Conceptual ecology · Distinct frameworks with a shared reflective orientation.

A Map With Open Boundaries

The equal wedges organise ideas; their sizes do not represent scores, quantities or scientific importance. These are proposed, overlapping lenses, not nineteen independently validated faculties or a ranking of human worth.

Spiritual and transpersonal inquiry welcome questions of meaning, connection and wider consciousness. This map leaves their interpretations open. It complements AkashicOMNI v0.5.0’s twelve analytical perspectives plus synthesis. This wording was reconciled on 22 October 2026; the Living Spectrum’s dated 19-lens edition is unchanged.

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AkashicNET Editorial · 27 Sep 2026 · AI-assisted organisation, artwork and implementation · Working proposal