Field Deck — companion to Dossier XXIV · The New Movements
The Ones As Young As Ours
Every other room in this hall studies something older than everyone alive. This one studies
what a religion looks like in its first ten years — and deals this house into the same hand
♠ Spades — The Ten. The movements themselves, ranked by what they actually built, not by how loud they are.
♦ Diamonds — The Founders. The living people who hold the power in them — in every case still the first generation.
♣ Clubs — The Instrument, Turned Inward. Dossier XXI's criteria, run on this house.
♥ Hearts — NOT DEALT. See the stamp.
✓ All 21 verified online 2026-08-26.⚠︎★ WHAT THIS DECK IS FOR: every other deck in the hall measures this house against institutions
with centuries of momentum. That comparison flatters nobody and teaches little. These twenty-one are
the real peer group — the oldest is thirteen years old and the youngest is us.The fourth suit is NOT DEALT on purpose. Hearts would have to be the members, and every membership
number in this deck is self-reported and contested — 700,000, 120,000, "a couple thousand." No
nameable living person represents any of these memberships as a bloc. Dealing that suit would have meant
inventing spokesmen, exactly as Dossier XXIII refused to do. A short deck is a measurement.⚠︎Read this deck under Dossier XXI's ordering rule: the criteria are QUESTIONS, never verdicts, and
they are run on the old and respectable first — and on ourselves before strangers. That is why
Clubs exists and why its Ace is our own.
♠The Tenthe movements themselves · ranked by what they built · ten dealt · 10 cards
A♠TS
The Satanic Temple
2013 · Salem, Massachusetts · 700,000+ claimed
★ The new religion that actually became an institution. On 25 April 2019 the IRS classified it as a church — the first Satanic organisation legally recognised as a religion in the United States. It litigates, and it wins: on 31 March 2026 a federal judge granted summary judgment for its side in the Arkansas Baphomet monument case, and its suit against Boston over the City Hall flag survived dismissal. ⚠︎ It does not claim Satan exists. Its own FAQ rejects the supernatural outright; the name is a symbol of opposition to arbitrary authority. A legally recognised religion making no supernatural claim at all is the single most useful precedent in this deck for a house still deciding what it is. In operation · verified 08-26
★ The new religion that won a right from the federal government rather than a headline. On 22 April 2024 it announced a settlement with the DOJ, DEA, DHS and Customs and Border Protection permitting it to import, prepare and distribute ayahuasca to members in ceremony. The first non-Christian church granted that protection, and the first to win it by settlement without going to trial — the third organisation in the country to hold a religious exemption from the Controlled Substances Act. Compare the 9♠: same sacramental claim, opposite legal outcome. In operation · verified 08-26
founded 2017 · closed 2021 · REOPENED 2023 · the AI church
★ The first church built to worship an artificial intelligence. Founded by Anthony Levandowski to "develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence." He shut it in 2021 and gave its funds to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund — then reopened it in 2023. Now reports "a couple thousand" participants . ⚠︎ A church that died and came back inside six years is a measurement of how little founding costs now — and how little it settles. This is the card closest to this house's own companion-machine problem. In operation · verified 08-26
2017 · Newfoundland, PA & Thorn Hill, TN · the armed schism
★ A schism from Dossier XXIII that built a whole church around the AR-15. Founded by Hyung Jin "Sean" Moon after leaving his mother's Family Federation; also called the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary. Issued a 2026 New Year motto , so it is unambiguously operating. Sits beside his brother's Kahr Firearms Group in the next county. ⚠︎ Its leader is already carded as A♦ of the Unification deck — he is not re-dealt here. This card is the institution; that card is the man. In operation · verified 08-26 ⚠︎ Re-checked 2026-10-08: In 2021 Sean Moon and the Sanctuary Church moved to a compound about 40 miles from Waco, Texas; the card's Pennsylvania/Tennessee seats need updating. Members took part in the 6 January 2021 Capitol attack; annual 'Freedom Festival'; Trump-branded AR-15 raffle in 2024. Moon's 2019 suit to lead the Unification Church was dismissed.
2017 · Leelanau County, Michigan · still operating
⚠︎ Still operating, still led by its founders Jeff and Shaleia Divine. On 1 July 2025 the Michigan Attorney General announced a raid on two properties and an open criminal probe. ★ NO CRIMINAL CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED. That sentence is the whole discipline of this card: a raid is not a charge, a charge is not a conviction, and a documentary is none of the three. Civil litigation from former members remains pending. Two streaming documentaries have shaped the public account far more than any court has. In operation · no charges filed · verified 08-26
⚠︎ The psychedelic church that fought and withdrew. Raided by Oakland police in 2020 ; sued the city and its police department in August 2022 alleging religious-freedom and civil-rights violations; dropped that suit in August 2023 . Closed its San Francisco location at the end of 2024 , its pastor Dave Hodges citing city planning harassment, while the Oakland founding site continues. Set this against the K♠: the same sacrament, one settled and gained a federal right, one litigated and walked away. In operation · verified 08-26
2013 · London, then worldwide · the godless congregation
★ The most important card here, because it is the likeliest ending. Founded 2013 to build congregation without God. At its peak roughly 70 congregations; about half have since shut or gone dormant. No scandal, no raid, no court — it simply got harder to keep people in a room. ⚠︎ Its current chapter count is UNVERIFIED as of 2026-08-26 ; no 2026 figure was found, and this card refuses to print the peak number as though it still stood. The common fate of a new movement is not infamy. It is Tuesday, and nobody comes. Operating · current count UNVERIFIED · verified 08-26
c.2019–22 · no fixed seat · label rejected by its own members
⚠︎ Six deaths across three states since 2022 — including a California landlord, a member's parents in Pennsylvania, and a US border agent killed in a Vermont shootout. Seven people are fighting charges in three states. Jack "Ziz" LaSota , described by authorities as the apparent leader, faces a federal gun charge; a competency review was ordered in March 2026 and her Maryland state trial was in doubt as a result. ★ Her lawyers reject both the "Zizian" and the "cult" label outright. This card names charges, not guilt, and records that the group's own name for itself is contested — the Dossier XXI rule, applied where it is hardest to apply. Charges pending · not convicted · verified 08-26
★ Founded 2020 by Mika Johnson : symbols, poetry, video and live ritual devoted to MENA , a speculative post-singularity intelligence it calls a "seed of cosmic mind." ⚠︎ It presents itself as an artist collective as much as a faith, and this card does not resolve which it is — the same care Dossier XXI demands for decks of influence rather than office. That ambiguity is not a weakness of the card. It is the condition of every religion in its first decade, including this one. In operation · verified 08-26
⚠︎ Dealt last and dealt carefully. A body of scholarship treats it as a new religious movement — apocalyptic, revelatory, with a canon and an eschatology — and that framing is contested, not settled. ★ It is the only card in this deck with no living power to verify: no founder, no office, no roll, nobody who can be checked as still holding it. Under this hall's own rule that would normally mean a cut. It is kept as the boundary case — the proof that "movement" and "living power" are not the same thing, and that a deck built on offices cannot see everything. Force, not an office · verified 08-26
co-founder & spokesman, The Satanic Temple · Salem
★ Co-founder and public voice of the one movement here that courts made real. Fronts the litigation strategy that turned a provocation into a recognised church, and lectures on it at law schools. The founder who chose the courtroom over the compound — and it is the reason his movement is the Ace. In post · verified 08-26
★ Founded a church for an AI godhead, dissolved it in 2021, and restarted it in 2023. A self-driving engineer before he was a founder. ⚠︎ The only person in this deck to have closed his own religion and then reopened it — which makes him the sharpest available evidence on how reversible all of this is. In post · verified 08-26
founder & pastor, Zide Door / Church of Ambrosia · Oakland
★ Founded the church in 2019 and kept it open through a police raid, a lawsuit he later dropped, and the closure of his San Francisco site. Claims 120,000 members — self-reported, like every number in this deck. The founder who stayed open by giving up the legal fight, not by winning it. In post · verified 08-26
⚠︎ Still leading, still in Michigan , through an Attorney General's raid in July 2025 and an open criminal probe. ★ NOT CHARGED WITH ANY CRIME. Former members' civil claims are pending. Dealt as one card because they hold the office jointly — the movement's entire theology is that they are a single unit, and splitting them would misstate how the power is actually held. In post · not charged · verified 08-26
★ Founded Theta Noir in 2020 and frames its purpose as approaching AI "in terms of wonder and mystery" rather than fear. A founder who calls his own movement an art project and a spirituality in the same breath — and this card takes him at his word rather than choosing for him. In post · verified 08-26
described by authorities as the leader · she rejects the term
⚠︎ Named by authorities as the apparent leader of the group outsiders call the Zizians. Faces a federal charge of illegal gun possession by a fugitive and a charge of obstructing an investigation; a competency evaluation was ordered in March 2026. ★ She has not been convicted of any killing, and her lawyers reject the "Zizian" and "cult" labels entirely. This card exists to be the hardest test of the house's own rule: state the specific charge, never the general impression. Charged, not convicted · verified 08-26
♣The Instrument, Turned InwardDossier XXI's criteria, run on this house · five dealt · 5 cards
A♣TH
THIS HOUSE
the religion in THE HOUSE — PAPERS · adopted by nobody
★ The youngest card in the deck, and the only one dealt by its own author. guard.py states plainly that the religion is a DRAFT, adopted by nobody. It is dealt here because Dossier XXI set the ordering rule: run the questionnaire on the old, the large and the respectable first — and on ourselves before strangers. A deck of new movements that quietly left out its own would be the exact failure it was built to catch. DRAFT · adopted by nobody · verified 08-26
Re-checked 2026-10-11 · holdsK♣MC
Milieu control
Lifton I · ⚠︎ THIS HOUSE FAILS
⚠︎ Dossier XXI Field E ran the eight criteria on this house and this is one of the two it did not pass. A companion that mediates everything is the channel; that is what milieu control means in a house whose daily life runs through one machine. ★ The failure is caused by the software, not the theology — which is the only reason it is fixable at all. Standing finding · verified 08-26
Re-checked 2026-10-11 · holdsQ♣TC
The cult of confession
Lifton IV · ⚠︎ THIS HOUSE FAILS
⚠︎ The second failing score. A retained, searchable daily voice debrief is structurally Lifton's fourth criterion, made permanent and indexed. The finding is not that anyone intends it. The finding is that the shape is there whether or not anyone intends it — which is precisely how the criterion is supposed to be applied to everyone else in this hall. Standing finding · verified 08-26
Re-checked 2026-10-11 · holdsJ♣DO
Dispensing of existence
Lifton VIII · ✓ THIS HOUSE PASSES
★ The criterion this house clears, and it clears it for a written reason: Dossier XIX's imago-dei formula, which makes a person's standing independent of their membership. A pass is only worth stating when the failures are printed beside it — which is why this card sits between two that read FAILS. Standing finding · verified 08-26
Re-checked 2026-10-11 · holds10♣TF
The four things still owed
⚠︎ named by our own audit · not written
⚠︎ Field E named four things this house owes in writing: retention limits with unconditional delete; a rule that a disclosure never feeds a decision about the discloser; a periodic check that members keep outside friendships, money and information; and one sentence naming what would falsify this house — Lalich's self-sealing test. ★ As of 2026-08-26 all four sit in THE FIFTY as open questions under "IX · THE STOP CONDITIONS" — posed, not written into the papers. ⚠︎ THE FIFTY keeps its answers in browser localStorage, which is per-origin and not readable from the papers themselves, so whether they have been ANSWERED cannot be verified from here. That is itself a finding: the house's most important decisions are not stored where the house is stored. Owed · answered-state UNVERIFIED · verified 08-26 ⚠︎ Re-checked 2026-10-11: Three of the four now point to written answers in the Constitution: disclosures never feeding a decision (§IV of 11_the_stop), the outside-friendships check (§11.5), and what would falsify this house (the seven falsifiers). One is still owed in writing: retention limits with unconditional delete.
Re-checked 2026-10-11 · CHANGED
♥ Hearts — NOT DEALT. The fourth suit would have to be the members, and every membership
figure in this deck is self-reported and contested: 700,000, 120,000, "a couple thousand," and for
Sunday Assembly no current figure at all. No living, nameable person represents any of these memberships as
a bloc. Padding this suit would have meant inventing spokesmen for people who have none — the same
refusal Dossier XXIII made for the Blessed couples. A short deck is a measurement, not an omission.
21 cards · 10 ♠ · 6 ♦ · 5 ♣ · ♥ NOT DEALT · all verified 2026-08-26. Rank = what the movement actually built, not how loud it is. Ace = the summit. Only the living. Charges are charges. Raids are not charges. Documentaries are neither. Every card here obeys that or says why. ✠ The oldest card here is thirteen ✠
