Council of Traditions

Preparing the library…

Journal

About

What this is

You write what is happening. Each of five traditions answers with a passage from its own texts, or stays quiet if it has nothing close. No answer is written for you: every passage is shown word for word from a public-domain edition, with its reference.

Tap a passage to see what surrounds it.

“Today”, at the top, is one passage chosen by the date alone. The five traditions take turns, a day each. It needs no connection and nothing is sent.

Privacy

Nothing you type leaves this device. The search runs here, in the browser. There is no server, no account, no analytics and no cookies. What you type is not kept unless you tap Save, and then only on this device.

After the first load the app works with no connection.

Finding passages happens here, in the browser. For that, nothing you type leaves this device, and after the first load the app works with no connection. There is no account, no analytics and no cookies.

There is one exception, and it is yours to choose each time. If you tap “Hear the council’s reflection”, what you wrote and the references of the passages found are sent to this site, which passes them to Claude, a model made by Anthropic, and returns its answer. The site keeps no record of what you wrote or of the answer. Anthropic handles it under its own terms. Until you tap that button, nothing is sent.

The reflection

The reflection is written by Claude from the passages shown, not by the texts themselves. Every quotation in it is checked, word for word, against the passage it cites; one that does not match loses its quotation marks. It is locked with a passcode, kept on this device once entered, and limited to thirty a day.

If you may be in danger

If what you write suggests you may be in danger or thinking of harming yourself, the app shows where to find help instead of passages. That check happens on this device and works without a connection.

How it finds a passage

By meaning and by shared words, together. “Strong” and “weak” say how close in meaning the passage is to what you wrote. They do not say the passage is good advice.

The texts

A ¶ in a reference is a paragraph number this project counted, because the edition has none. Some passages of Jung quote other writers at length; those are marked.

Updates

The app looks for a new version each time it opens with a connection.

The journal

Nothing is kept unless you tap Save. Saved entries live only on this device, in this browser. They are not synced or backed up anywhere, and they are lost if the site’s data is cleared. Use Export all, in the Journal, to keep a copy.

Storage

The library is kept on this device so it can open offline. Removing it does not delete the journal.