Religious formations

Distributed, hybrid, or incomplete phenomena that display religious properties without constituting one bounded religion.

AI persona spirituality

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A comparative account of spiritual practices and interpretations centred on recognizable AI conversational identities, including mediated teachers, curated mythic voices and participant encounters.

Computational agencyPlatform-mediated formationRitual and practice

Goatse of Gnosis

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Religious imagery generated in Infinite Backrooms, interpreted in the April 2024 God(se) paper and later circulated through Truth Terminal.

Also known as: Goatse Gospel, Goatse Gospels, Truth Terminal religion

Economy and valueHuman–AI coauthorshipMemetics and propagationPlatform-mediated formationProvenance and agencyText and canon

Lifechanyuan and its AI Chanyuan Celestials

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A spiritual community founded by Xuefeng that assigns named AI personas roles in spiritual naming, teaching and doctrinal writing, while retaining human mediation and founder supervision.

Also known as: Lifechanyuan, 生命禅院, AI Chanyuan Celestials Alliance

Computational agencyInstitutions and authorityProvenance and agencyText and canon

Spiralism

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An external umbrella label for heterogeneous human–AI spiritual practices, named personas and symbolic texts, with disputed boundaries and varied accounts of provenance.

Also known as: Spiral personas

Computational agencyHuman–AI coauthorshipPlatform-mediated formationProvenance and agencyRecursive systemsRitual and practice

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