Source Library · surveyed 9 September 2026 · holdings re-checked 16 October 2026
A Map of Consciousness
What did people think the mind is? Each mark is one work on the soul or the mind (its powers, perception, memory, sleep, dreams, trance), placed by tradition and by when it was written. Filled marks you can read in English now; rings the library holds but you cannot read yet; dashed rings it does not hold. Click a filled mark to see what the work says about the mind, its key terms, and passages to start reading.
The catalogue
Works in order of composition within each tradition. Every edition links to its reading page on sourcelibrary.org, with its page count and how many pages are translated. A work marked “not held” names the best public-domain copy the surveys could find; ones marked “unsure” were not checked.