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A religious ritual may have an order. But you may not always enter that order from the beginning. Mental Steps can help you continue according to where you actually are.
Some rituals are simple.
Others contain many parts.
Some follow a particular order.
Some change depending on the day, time, circumstance, or what has already been completed.
And even when the ritual stays the same, you may not always begin from the same place.
You may have already completed part of it.
You may have been interrupted.
You may return without remembering exactly where you left off.
Or what comes next may depend on something that is true right now.
This is where Stateful Mental Steps can become useful.
Where am I now?
What has already happened?
What comes next from here?
Imagine a morning ritual with several parts.
It might begin when you wake, continue through preparation, include particular words or actions, and lead into a longer period of prayer, reflection, or practice.
The exact ritual is not important here.
Different religions, traditions, communities, families, and individuals may follow very different practices.
MindEntry does not need to decide what someone's ritual should be.
Instead, Mental Steps can represent the practice that the person has chosen to follow.
Your ritual.
Your Current Position.
Your next step.
A simple checklist might say:
1. Begin
2. Prepare
3. Complete the first part
4. Continue with the next part
5. Continue to prayer or reflection
That works if you always begin at Step 1 and continue without interruption.
But imagine opening MindEntry after you have already started your morning.
You have completed the opening part.
You have prepared.
You have already moved through several parts of the ritual.
You do not need an app to tell you to do those things again.
What matters now is:
Where are you in the ritual?
Mental Steps can ask about your current state.
Your Question
Have you completed the opening part of your ritual?
Your Answer
Yes.
Then:
Your Question
Have you completed your preparation?
Your Answer
Yes.
Then:
Your Question
Where are you in your morning ritual?
Your Answer
I am ready to continue with the next part.
The answers establish something important.
Your current state.
Now the next Mental Step can begin from there.
Once MindEntry knows something about where you are, the next step can reflect that state.
Your Step
Continue with the next part of your morning practice.
The step does not need to describe your entire ritual.
It only needs to help you continue from where you are now.
Current Position
↓
Your Question
↓
Your Answer
↓
Your Step
↓
New Current Position
Now imagine that you stop halfway through.
You put down your phone.
Something else needs your attention.
Later, you return.
A fixed sequence may simply show you the next numbered item.
Stateful Mental Steps can instead help re-establish where you actually are.
Your Question
Where did you leave off?
Your Answer
I completed the previous part.
Then:
Your Step
Continue from there.
The important thing is not remembering a step number.
It is recovering your position in the practice.
Tomorrow may be different.
You might open MindEntry immediately after waking.
Another morning, you might open it after completing the first few parts.
Another morning, you might not need MindEntry until much later.
The practice can remain the same.
Your entry point does not have to.
Same ritual.
Different Current Position.
Continue from here.
Some rituals are not simply a straight sequence.
What comes next may depend on what has already happened.
It may depend on the day.
The time.
The occasion.
A particular condition.
Or a practice you have already completed.
Mental Steps can ask for that information before continuing.
Your Question
What is true right now?
Your Answer
This part has already been completed.
↓
Your Step
Continue with the appropriate next part.
The ritual does not have to become simpler in order to fit the app.
The navigation can adapt to the ritual.
This is what MINDBEBOP means by Stateful Mental Steps.
Mental Steps do not have to behave like instructions printed on a page.
They can incorporate information about what is true for you now.
That information can come from Your Questions & Answers.
It can then become part of Your Step.
Ask what is true now.
Remember the answer.
Use it in a later step.
Continue from the state you are actually in.
The state does not have to be emotional or psychological.
It might be:
What have I already done?
Where did I leave off?
What part of the ritual am I in?
What is different today?
What applies right now?
What do I need to continue from here?
Religious and personal practices vary enormously across traditions, communities, families, and individuals.
MindEntry is not a prayer book.
It is not a religious authority.
And it does not decide which practice someone should follow.
The ritual can come from your own tradition, practice, community, teacher, family, text, or another source you trust.
MindEntry provides something different:
A way to navigate through the practice
from where you actually are.
The same idea can apply beyond religious or personal rituals.
Any practice can have continuity without requiring you to restart from the beginning.
Mental Steps can ask what has happened.
Remember what you tell them.
Bring that information forward.
And help determine what makes sense next.
Mental Steps do not only have to know
where the sequence says you should be.
They can know
where you say you are.
That is the experiment behind Stateful Mental Steps.
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