When destabilising events occur, the search for meaning grows.
This is humanity's existential seismograph.
This layer tracks how often people around the world search for existential keywords — meaning, purpose, spirituality, afterlife. The data comes from Google Trends and reflects collective behaviour, not declared beliefs. When the index rises, it signals a moment in which humanity is asking deeper questions. The filters let you observe how this impulse varies across geographies and time.
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Period
Meaning Index
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aggregated score, 0–100
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Search Momentum
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vs. 6 months ago
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Data source
Google Trends
keywords: meaning · purpose · spirituality · afterlife
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Existential search index — weekly, last 12 months
Correlation by event — meaning search intensity
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◈ Signal of the week
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layer two
The Archetype Engine
Popular culture is where collective archetypes become visible.
The most-watched stories mirror what the world is processing — not what it declares.
This layer reads the stories the world is choosing to watch. Drawing from global trending films and series via TMDB, it classifies each title according to Jungian archetypes — Hero, Shadow, Healer, Destroyer, and others. The distribution shows which narrative energies are dominant in the collective imagination this week. Culture doesn't lie about what it's processing.
Content
Period
Region
Archetype wheel — current week
Distribution — global trending content
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◈ Reading of the week
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Top trending content — classified by archetype
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Archetype distribution — historical view
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◈ Pulse × Archetypes — correlation signal
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Dominant Archetype
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layer three
The Edge Detector
Ideas that will become mainstream in 3–5 years.
They appear here first — in papers, repositories, communities.
This layer monitors the frontier of knowledge — where ideas appear before they become visible to the wider world. It tracks publication velocity across six research areas on arXiv, the open-access scientific repository used by researchers in AI, cognitive science, climate systems, quantum computing, biotechnology, and complex systems. A sudden acceleration in a field often precedes a cultural shift by 2–5 years.
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Papers indexed today
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across 6 tracked areas
Fastest growing area
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velocity index
Data source
arXiv
real-time · no credentials needed
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Publication velocity by area — total results (arXiv)
Latest papers — classified by area
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Publication velocity — last 7 days
Papers per day by area · arXiv
◈ Emerging pattern
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◈ Edge × Pulse × Archetypes — triangulation signal
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velocity
Meaning Index
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Dominant Archetype
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narrative field
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layer four
The Attention Map
Attention is the most honest signal we produce.
Not what we declare, not what we believe — what we actually look at.
This layer tracks where collective human attention is flowing right now. Wikipedia pageview spikes reveal what people rush to understand when something happens. News volume by topic reveals what the media apparatus is amplifying. Together they form a radar of collective gaze — often anticipating crises, movements, and cultural shifts before they become legible.
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Attention velocity
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topics spiking today
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Wikipedia — most viewed articles today
collective rush to understand
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News volume by topic — signal vs noise radar
via RSS · NYT · BBC · Reuters · Al Jazeera
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Wikipedia top article — last 14 days
Daily views · Wikipedia
◈ Attention signal
Analysing where the world is looking…
layer five
The Anxiety Index
Every era has its tension level. This layer tries to measure it.
When the index crosses a threshold, cultural transformation usually follows.
This layer reads the nervous system of the global economy — not as financial analysis, but as a proxy for collective fear and trust. VIX measures how much uncertainty traders are pricing into the future. Gold rises when people lose faith in systems. Crypto rises when people lose faith in institutions. Together they form a composite anxiety signal — the tension underneath the surface of the world.