Spirit ID Verification & Standards

Spirit ID Verification & Standards defines the methodological requirements for claims involving the identification of a specific, purported non‑physical source or post‑mortem identity (“Spirit ID”).

This section forms a core component of the
Physical Mediumship Verification Framework and establishes clear boundaries between experience, agency, and identity.

Purpose

The purpose of Spirit ID standards is to ensure that identity claims are:

• methodologically constrained
• independently examinable
• clearly distinguished from subjective interpretation

Spirit ID is treated here as a verification problem, not as a belief claim.

What Spirit ID Means in This Framework

Within this framework, Spirit ID refers to a claim that:

• a phenomenon involves autonomous agency, and
• that the agency can be identified as a specific, historically distinct individual

Identity is therefore treated as a higher evidentiary threshold than agency alone.

Core Standards and Protocols

Spirit ID claims must be evaluated using defined standards and protocols, including but not limited to:

• Spirit ID Verification Protocol (SID‑VP)
  
  A structured method for identity verification using independent physical identifiers and exclusion of alternative causes.
• Physical Mediumship Verification Standard
  Environmental controls, documentation requirements, and evidence hierarchy for physical phenomena.
• 1Q Physical Agency Protocol
  Verification of autonomous physical agency via quantifiable impacts (e.g. table or trumpet levitation events).

Agency Versus Identity

A central principle of Spirit ID standards is the strict separation between:

• Agency – evidence that something is acting autonomously
• Identity – evidence of who or what is acting

Physical agency does not, by itself, establish identity.
Identity requires additional, independent verification.

Relationship to Mental Mediumship

Claims arising from mental mediumship, clairvoyance or clairsentience are acknowledged as subjective experiences.

However, when such claims assert a specific identifiable source,
Spirit ID verification methods are required.

Why Standards Are Necessary

Without standards, identity claims risk becoming:

• unfalsifiable
• person‑dependent
• indistinguishable from interpretation or belief

Standards ensure that Spirit ID claims are evaluated by method rather than authority.

Scope and Limitations

Spirit ID Verification & Standards do not:

• assert survival of consciousness
• interpret meaning or intent
• evaluate belief systems

They define methodological requirements only.