Nine movements · one place to return
Unified Layers. A wider view. A way back here.
Begin with something nearby. Follow the wider motion. Let the view become possibilities. Return to the same ground.
Begin as you are. Sit, stand, or imagine the gestures.An example place is shown until you choose yours.
Choose my place Local Astronomical direction
Your place, facing & preferences One place on Earth. Use approximate manual coordinates or request one location fix. The opening example is not your detected location.
Set my place Use device location Clear my place
Device location is off.
Bearings, not replay time. Compass directions use the reference time below. The short visual loops do not move that time into the future.
Use now Hold bearings
Optional UTC instant · 2000–2049 Use this instant
Your horizontal facing. Enter a known true bearing, measured clockwise from geographic north. Without calibration, the app cannot know which way you face.
Turn the manual facing Set my facing
Manual facing. The camera does not change it.
Use phone turns · optional First enter a known true bearing and elevation. Aim the phone’s back-camera direction that way, then calibrate. This follows relative turns; it is not an automatic true-north compass. No camera is opened.
Enable phone turns Stop turns
Calibrate to my entered facing Off. No permission requested.
Keep the same grip; recalibrate if it drifts. A magnetic reading needs a local declination correction before treating it as true north.
Posture & drawing A suggested pose to imagine—not a report of your actual body. Uncheck to show your entered facing. Blue is the figure’s gaze; the compass always uses your entered facing.
The hands show directions, not anatomical instructions. Use small or imagined gestures. No push in this exercise changes Earth’s motion.
Not away from here.
This meditation needs JavaScript for its illustrations and directions. You can still rest here: notice the ground, the air, and a nearby sound. There is no required posture or sensation.
The boundary stays visible
Close Directions first.
Unified Layers is a visual reflection, not a navigation service, body tracker, treatment, or measure of spiritual attainment. You can remain seated, skip any gesture, stop any motion, and return to here at any time. Never look directly at the Sun or aim an optical instrument at it. Notice actual warmth or coolness; remembered sunlight at night is an invitation to imagine, not a sensation you must produce.
What the compass means Local points toward the modeled Sun. Global uses your place’s eastward rotational velocity. System uses Earth-center heliocentric orbital velocity inside the retained 2026 data range; outside it, an explicitly labeled Earth–Moon barycenter approximation is used. Galactic uses the Sun’s velocity in a declared Galactocentric model. These are different references, not pieces of a scalar speed that can simply be added. The dial is facing-up: its blue line is your entered facing, and the gold arrow is the stage’s target. Read elevation separately.
The Universal stage is a bridge to a wider neighborhood. It points toward a fixed regional sky marker in Norma: the center of ESO image eso9954c (RA 16h 14m 22.57s, declination −60° 52′ 6.63″, treated here as J2000). This is not the exact center of the Great Attractor, our galaxy’s total peculiar velocity, a circular orbit, or a center of the Universe. The large-scale flow illustration is inspired by cosmography but does not import or calculate a measured flow field.
Where the compass stops Multiversal, Infinite, and Unified are imaginative and reflective scenes. They have no astronomical bearings. The kaleidoscope is not evidence of other universes; the branch web is not destiny; the wheel’s pulse is not a breathing instruction. The return zoom is an artistic transition through point, line, and plane back to the same local scene. The seven-state vocabulary organizes perspective rather than asserting additional physical dimensions.
One reference time; several illustrative loops The compass uses the current device clock or an explicitly held UTC instant. Global shows a 60-degree spin replay. System shows a short, traceable planetary replay with its own time label. The retained-data replay stays inside the available sample range. The Sun stays fixed in the center of the System plot. A monotone radial display scale separates the inner worlds and compresses outer distances; planet sizes are enlarged independently. Faint complete curves are approximate JPL-element orbit guides, while brighter trails sample the selected numerical model. Within the retained data range, the Moon’s direction relative to Earth comes from its own JPL state and appears in a separate replay inset at an enlarged scale. Outside the range, the precise Moon state is unavailable and any companion sketch is labeled illustrative. The Galactic arc is a circular sketch, not an orbit integration. Other loops are artwork. Replays reset; their progress never changes the compass’s reference time. Sizes, distances, orbital layouts, and arrows are exaggerated or compressed for readability. Small insets retain the local and system frames rather than pretending that incompatible scales fit one physical map.
The scientific foundation The numerical foundation comes from System State Atlas 2.0. Eleven targets have retained NASA/JPL Horizons states at six-hour intervals through 2026, including separate Earth-center and Moon records. Intervening samples support interpolation checks. These are stored predictions/ephemerides, not a live observatory feed. The model keeps UTC, TT, TDB and Earth-rotation time distinct and uses retained IERS Earth orientation with prediction flags. An IAU-2006-based reduced attitude model supplies the local frame. Outside this pack, the 2000–2049 JPL-element guide is explicitly approximate, uses the Earth–Moon barycenter, and supplies no measured Moon state. The place is modeled at sea level. Refraction, terrain, weather, light-time and optical pointing corrections are not modeled. Rounded bearings are an orientation guide, not a pointing guarantee.
The solar Galactic velocity is the pinned Astropy v4.0 convention: (12.9, 245.6, 7.78) km/s, with solar Galactic-center distance 8.122 kpc and height 20.8 pc. It is not live tracking. At a geographic pole spin vanishes and its heading is undefined; a local meridian convention still affects other bearings. At the zenith or nadir azimuth is undefined.
Earth’s texture is a downsampled, static NASA Blue Marble composite from the earlier With Earth package / basemap-data distribution, mapped onto a sphere. It is not live clouds, current surface imaging, or a displaced terrain model. Decorative galaxy points are not a star catalog.
Consent and privacy No accounts, analytics, uploads, cookies, or automatic saving. Location is one requested fix, never continuous tracking. Your browser or operating system may contact its own location provider. Sensor use is opt-in, relative, and manually calibrated; it can drift. Closing or hiding the page pauses the journey and stops sensor listening; delayed permissions are ignored. Clear my place removes the chosen coordinates and resets the example. Return to here stops device access and the journey while retaining your chosen place. No camera or microphone opens.
GPS and motion permissions may require HTTPS and compatible hardware. Manual controls work without them. Screenshots you choose to share can expose a location through time and sky geometry. The app does not export or transmit a personal orientation record.
Sources and continuity NASA/JPL Horizons — states, frames and time scales .IERS Earth orientation — retained USNO distribution .JPL — Approximate positions of the planets .U.S. Naval Observatory — Altitude and azimuth .Astropy — Galactocentric frames and declared conventions .ESO — A view toward the Great Attractor, with field coordinates .Tully et al. (2014) — The Laniakea supercluster of galaxies . Context for flow, not a data feed for this app.NASA — Moon facts . The Moon remains distinct from Earth and the Earth–Moon barycenter.W3C — Device orientation conventions .Unified State Carrier — “the seven-state scale” and “the Unified” supply the perspective vocabulary. This meditation is a new application; it does not promote new concepts or turn those terms into established cosmological domains.Sources do not endorse this tool. Edition 2.0 · 29 September 2026 · an educational and imaginative instrument. Model notes · Source lineage · Download source & retained data · Validation record