Approving Authority: The absolute power of the Heart to accept or deny any Imposition or request from another Domain or external source.
Asymmetric Relative Value (ARV): The condition of a Tether where the Relative Value is unequal between the connected Dynamis.
Body: The physical Domain of the Dynamis whose Conduits are the neural network, sensory organs, and the sensory nodes of the brain.
Cognizant Disengagement (CGD): A Disengagement Protocol of partitioning data without access restrictions, person simply observes “unreal” event
Collapse: The persistent condition of the Heart when Turbulence is unresolved by Dynamic Exchange or Concession to functionally arbitrate Dynamic Exchanges.
Concession: An allowance or adaptation of the Dynamis to address a (semi-)permanent hindrance within a Domain that would otherwise remain a perpetual Rupture and prevent Integrity.
Conduit: The physical or metaphysical asset a Domain uses to process data, fulfill its purpose, and exert its needs within the Dynamis.
Confluence: The persistent condition of the Heart when it is perfectly aligned with the Source’s will.
Constraint: A (semi-)permanent hindrance to a Domain that causes Rupture within the Dynamis.
Contingent Volition: The state of sufficient mental coherence where an individual has the capacity for discernment and abstract thought, making volitional acts conscious and accountable.
Corporal Disengagement (CPD): A Disengagement Protocol of securing sensory data to protect the Dynamis.
Domain: A cluster of related functions within the Dynamis.
Domain Duress (DD): The value of trauma suffered by a single Domain triggering dissociation by the Soul to preserve the Dynamis.
Disengagement Protocol (DP): The Soul’s means of ensuring system coherence by securing and/or partitioning records whose immediate integration would harm the Dynamis.
Dynamic Exchange: The process of Imposition and Submission employed by the Dynamis to resolve Rupture and maintain Integrity.
Dynamis: The integrated human experience as described through five interacting Domains: Body, Mind, Heart, Soul, and Spirit.
Executive Disengagement (EXD): A Disengagement Protocol restricting agency to preserve the Dynamis.
Harmony: The state of a Domain when functioning as designed.
Heart: The seat of volition (will) and emotions, and Approving Authority of any Impositions asked of a Domain during Dynamic Exchange.
High-Resistance Route (HRR): A behavioral pathway that is contrary to the Heart’s will.
Imposition: The assumed priority in the needs-based hierarchy of the Dynamis to resolve a Rupture as approved by the Heart.
Limited Vertical Tether (LVT): A finite, amoral, corruptible, or changing Vertical Tether.
Individual Communal Adherence Loop: A social environment where an individual is connected to an Impostor and performs behaviors rewarded by the community thereby reinforcing the attachment to the Impostor.
Integrity: The persistent state of the Dynamis when a Rupture is resolved by Dynamic Exchange or Concession.
Launch: The moment a Domain’s Conduit becomes operational, allowing the Dynamis to engage purposefully and exert its needs through Dynamic Exchange.
Ledger: The Soul’s registry of every thought, word, and deed of commission and omission.
Lateral Tether (LT): A bond between a person and another person or group.
Low-Resistance Route (LRR): A behavioral pathway that is aligned to the Heart’s will.
Metaphysical: Pertaining to functions or qualities of the Dynamis that are not reducible to the physical processes of the Body.
Mind: The Domain responsible for data aggregation and processing of the Dynamis.
Needs: The irreducible requirements of the five Domains whose satisfaction supports their individual and collective optimal function.
Quinchotomy: The Five-Domain architecture of the person, ordered in a dynamic, needs-based hierarchy.
Realignment: The act by which the Source reorients the Heart’s Self-Will with its own, enabling Confluence. Realignment cannot be self-initiated—it requires connection to the TVT and full submission by the Heart.
Relative Value (RV): The value of Tether as determined by the Dynamis in relation to its ability to fulfill purpose and direction or fraternity and value to the person.
Rupture: An incident involving one or more of the Domains opposed or congruent to the orientation of the Dynamis.
Satisfaction: The minimal fulfillment of a need necessary to promote the optimal function of a Domain.
Self-Will: The default orientation of the Heart at conception toward the person’s self.
Soul: The Domain of the Dynamis responsible for record keeping, coherence regulation, and fail-safe and seat of the conscience.
Source: The non-finite, pure, and unchanging external force capable of realigning the Heart with its own will.
Spirit: The only purely metaphysical Domain of the Dynamis whose purpose is seeking Vertical and Lateral Tethers and threat detection, discerns non-sensory information.
Systemic Overload (SO): The aggregated value of trauma suffered by multiple Domains triggering dissociation by the Soul to preserve the Dynamis.
Submission: The act of a Domain of yielding its own needs to those of another Domain within the Dynamis to resolve Rupture to achieve Integrity.
Supplementary Tether (ST): A Tether that supports a primary Tether, Vertical or Lateral.
Temporal Disengagement (TMD): An enactment of Disengagement Protocol causing lost time on the Soul’s Ledger in favor of the Mind.
True Vertical Tether (TVT): The connection between the Source and the Dynamis, required for Realignment and Confluence.
Turbulence: The persistent state of the Dynamis when a Rupture is unresolved by Dynamic Exchange or Concession.
Variable Communal Adherence Loop (CAL): A social environment marked by enforcement to a Limited Vertical Tether by the associated High Relative Value Lateral Tether to the community.