Spiritual Evidence Map
About

The evidence map for life’s biggest questions.

Spiritual Evidence Map exists because most spirituality discourse is binary: gullible or dismissive. Neither serves a thoughtful adult. We score the phenomenon and the interpretation separately, so you can see what is actually supported, what is plausible, and what is mostly unsupported.

Editorial principles

  1. 01
    Open-minded but not gullible.

    We take serious claims seriously — including the strange ones. We do not accept anything because it sounds nice or feels true.

  2. 02
    Evidence-led.

    Every claim is rated on the same rubric. No special pleading for the spiritual, no special pleading for the skeptical.

  3. 03
    Calm.

    No outrage, no hype, no clickbait. Premium voice, plain language.

  4. 04
    Not religious. Not anti-religious.

    Religion is one category, scored on the same rubric, hidden by default on the chart for clarity, opt-in to compare.

  5. 05
    Honest about uncertainty.

    Worth taking seriously is not the same as proven. Provisional means provisional. We say so wherever a score appears.

  6. 06
    No fake citations.

    If we don't have a real, primary source for a claim, we say so. V1 source slots are intentionally empty.

Status

V1 — provisional release

Scores in this release are placeholders illustrating methodology, not findings. Each claim’s scores will be re-derived from documented primary sources before publication.

Read the methodology →
Suggest a claim or a correction

Disagree with a score?

Spiritual Evidence Map is a public knowledge project; corrections and additions are welcome. A submission flow lands in a future release.

Stack

How it’s built

  • Next.js 16 (App Router) · React 19 · TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS v4 · Motion · d3-scale + custom SVG
  • Single static JSON dataset · Zod-validated in CI
  • No accounts, no CMS, no fake citations