Side-by-side analysis
Compare Traditions
Pick any two to four traditions and see exactly where they agree and where they diverge across thirteen sub-questions about consciousness, purpose, and the afterlife.
How comparison works
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Pick traditions
Click rows in the heatmap below, or use a preset, to select up to four traditions.
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Read the rows
Brighter cells mean stronger claims. Darker cells mean weaker or absent positions.
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Compare positions
Side-by-side cards reveal where traditions converge (green) and diverge (red).
Suggested comparisons
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| Tradition | Pre-Existence | Soul Nature | Why Embodied | Pre-Birth State | Purpose of Life | Body Relationship | Moral Accountability | Path of Progress | Surviving Death | Death Moment | Afterlife Structure | Long-Term Destiny | Ultimate Destination |
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| Abrahamic | |||||||||||||
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 Christianity (Swedenborgianism)branch of Christianity | |||||||||||||
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 Kabbalahbranch of Judaism | |||||||||||||
 Mormonism/LDSbranch of Christianity | |||||||||||||
 Sufismbranch of Islam | |||||||||||||
| African/Egyptian/Mesoamerican | |||||||||||||
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| East Asian | |||||||||||||
 Shintoism | |||||||||||||
 Taoism | |||||||||||||
| Independent | |||||||||||||
Chinese_Buddhist_Folk | |||||||||||||
| Indigenous Australian | |||||||||||||
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| Iranian | |||||||||||||
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| Modern Empirical | |||||||||||||
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| Siberian Shamanic | |||||||||||||
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| South Asian | |||||||||||||
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| Western Esoteric | |||||||||||||
 Gnosticismbranch of Christianity | |||||||||||||
 Greek Philosophy | |||||||||||||
 Hermeticism | |||||||||||||
 Neoplatonismbranch of Greek Philosophy | |||||||||||||
 Orphism | |||||||||||||
 Theosophy | |||||||||||||
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