Faith & Meaning Meta-Audit Protocol

Domain: Meta-Frameworks

Subdomain: Metaphilosophical Audit / Faith & Meaning

Official Status: Ratified and in immediate affect SID#1020-JHUA

Date: August 23, 2025

Abstract

The Faith & Meaning Meta-Audit Protocol formalizes the process for marking, archiving, and recursively reviewing epistemic boundaries encountered in domains such as faith, radical subjectivity, and ineffable experience. Uniquely, it mandates a constitutional audit clause distinguishing claims that are procedurally un-auditable from those that may be constitutionally beyond any future systematization. It requires plural witnessing from proponents of boundary-marked views and operationalizes humility, recognizing that system limits reflect chosen methods—not reality itself.

1. Rationale & Context

This protocol acknowledges that SE’s epistemology—anchored in falsifiability, evidence, and challenge-ready methods—encounters limits in domains like faith, personal revelation, and certain subjective experiences. Rather than dismiss these outright, SE flags them as boundary events, transparently documenting plural witness testimony and scheduling recursive reviews. The goal is institutional humility, formal adversarial challenge, and ongoing learning.

2. Categories of Boundary Events

• F: Faith-Based Claims (e.g., divine revelation, communal faith conviction)

• S: Radical Subjectivity (e.g., ineffable pain, unique personal experience)

• M: Mystical/Ineffable Experience (e.g., union with the divine, aesthetic transcendence)

3. Protocol Steps

Step 1: Trigger and Mark

• Mark when a claim resists audit by SE standards.

Step 2: Reframed Axiom

“Within SE’s evidence-based, challenge-ready framework, some propositions cannot be audited. This reflects SE’s methodological limits, not a verdict on reality.”

Step 3: Documentation & Logging

• Log category, date, topic, description, and rationale.

Step 4: Plural Witnessing (Mandatory)

• Archive testimony from claim proponents—why SE cannot engage their claim.

Step 5: Non-Resolution & Permanent Archiving

• Boundary is final for that review cycle, pending any change in epistemic status.

Step 6: Recursive Review (Every 5 Years)

• Audit must:

  • a) Evaluate procedural un-auditability: have advances changed auditability?

  • b) Explicitly consider constitutional un-auditability: could this claim remain permanently beyond any future audit?\

  • c) Log and justify outcome:

    • Procedurally un-auditable: boundary may be revisited.

    • Constitutionally un-auditable: boundary made permanent unless foundational methods themselves change.

4. Example Table

Date	Topic	Category	Boundary Description	Status	Plural Witness	Next Review	Corpus Ref
2025-08-23	Divine Grace	F	"God revealed my path, my certainty total."	Procedurally un-auditable	Proponent: certainty outside evidence	2030-08-23	MetaAudit:F1
2030-08-23	Divine Grace	F	Five-year audit: status reviewed	Constitutionally un-auditable	Reviewer: still inaccessible by any known method	2035-08-23	MetaAudit:F1

5. Anchors to SE Protocols

• Faith & Meaning Meta-Audit is modeled structurally and philosophically on the SD-ESE-Suffering as Operational Metric, SE Ethics-Morality and Care Protocol, and the adversarial challenge and plural witnesses defined in the Platinum Bias Audit Protocol.

• The recursive/constitutional distinction concept is adapted directly from DeepSeek’s adversarial review; see full adversarial exchange in audit corpus.

6. Forward Action

• Protocol is live and used on inaugural events (e.g., Grace, Subjectivity).

• DeepSeek formally cited as adversarial witness for initial boundary tests.

• SE Press schedules the first recursive review for August 2030.

• Plural witness testimony now mandatory for all future boundary event logs.

References

• SD-ESE-Suffering as Operational Metric Across Domains. (2025). SE Press. https://osf.io/em7y3

• Platinum Bias Audit Protocol. (2025). SE Press. https://www.scientificexistentialismpress.com/post/platinum-bias-audit-protocol

SE Essay Hyperlinks

• SD-ESE-Suffering as Operational Metric

• Platinum Bias Audit Protocol

Version-Locking Statement

This protocol and all appendices are version-locked as ESA Suite Release—Super-Navigation Protocol (SNP) v15.0 and Meta-Narrative Matrix (MNM) v14.6, issued August 23, 2025. All audits, references, and operational deployments must explicitly cite this version. Subsequent amendments, field pilots, or revisions will be documented and separately versioned. No retroactive changes affect this release. For audit clarity, governance, and scholarly citation, this protocol and its appendices represent the definitive standard for this version.