Publications and Instruments

The Proceedings

White papers, essays, and measurement instruments. Open for review, critique, and collaboration as the work unfolds.

A team of researchers studying neurophenomenology together, the first-person felt experience and the third-person signal converging on a shared timeline
White Paper

Sensoria Research Philosophy

The philosophical framework behind Sensoria's approach to consciousness research, state engineering, and neurophenomenological infrastructure.

Authors: Sensoria Research Format: PDF
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A left-to-right lineup of diverse practitioners growing in mastery along an ascending competence scale, a standardized expertise progression
White Paper

Psychonautic Benchmarking: A Framework for Classifying Expertise in Altered States Research

Why psychonautic expertise needs systematic benchmarking. Establishes the GPCA-120 competency framework, the PPIA typological assessment, and the four-tier classification system used in the certification program.

Authors: Estevez Rafael and Sensoria Team Date: 2026
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A person holding the key to their own encrypted data vault as a researcher's computation comes to the data and only an anonymized result leaves
White Paper

The Sovereign Data Research Fabric

Technical architecture: the encrypted vault model, confidential compute, and dynamic consent for sensitive consciousness research data.

Authors: Sensoria Research Format: PDF
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Substack

Why Sensoria I: Existential Risk, State Engineering, and the Black Sheep Problem

A conversation with co-founder Cody Gibbons on the motivations for founding Sensoria and what decentralized consciousness science should lead to in the world.

Authors: Gibbons, Christov-Moore Date: Feb 2026
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Substack

Why Sensoria II: In Defense of Mapping Consciousness

The Galilean case for mapping the mind. Why we need maps of consciousness the way we needed maps of the world.

Author: Christov-Moore Date: Feb 2026
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Why Sensoria III: The Promise of What Events Can Be

How far events fall from what they could be, what they once were, and how combining ancient meaning-making with modern inference points toward a revival without the dogma.

Authors: Synodis, Christov-Moore Date: Mar 2026
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