#coherence protocols

[bsahely]

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[Download Full Document (PDF)] Overview Foundations of Coherence-Centered Medicine presents a paradigm shift in clinical care, where the restoration of rhythmic and systemic coherence replaces the suppression of isolated symptoms. It asserts that chronic illness often reflects not biochemical failure but breakdowns in pattern, rhythm, and integration across biological and symbolic layers. Core…

[sapphire2626]

Something something the incident report that Norris (aka Alex's voice aka maybe my beloved Antichrist's plus one) starts with the person having written "I just couldn't face the thought of the rest of my life never hearing him again" and how Martin's tma s5 arc culminated with him having to kill the person he loved, something he couldn't fathom doing even in his worst nightmares

Something something the incident report that Chester (aka Jonny's voice aka maybe my beloved Archivist) read was about someone whose curiosity ends up killing them (with The Magnus Institute and eyes involved) and the parallels that has with Jon's entire story from tma

Something something Chester read the report with emotion, sounded excited, scared, disgusted when the author's must've been feeling those things, while Norris was dead-pan and robotic and how the Archivist powers drew out stories in the most dramatic and vivid way possible

[chryseis]

interesting stuff going on in tmagp 37

the archivist, for the first time, takes a statement from a willing person.

ashe's statement is incredibly personal and something that i think a lot of listeners can empathize or relate to, and the archivist seems to not quite know what to do with that?

'(gently)' why gently? does the archivist see this person, this willing victim, and empathize, too? is it because ashe wants to give a statement? why would it care if the statement was given with consent?

'dream.' this is a much less violent death than any of the others the archivist has caused so far. it seems even less harsh than the non-lethal attack on sam in season one. it's almost...kind? i'm so interested in what ashe's willingness (need?) to give her statement, and the archivist's response to that. who is this archivist? what did alice and sam really awaken?

[ceaseless-watchers-special-girl]

hmmmm…..

yo i think arun was onto something

[end-enthusiast]

whatever. go my fear map

[forgetyoursingalongsandlullabies]

I just started and binged Severance up to date over the last 2 days so I don’t have any complete thoughts and I know I’m fully brainrotted on Magnus but I’m getting so many Magnus Protocol vibes from it. Ominous office comedy, categorizing things you can’t wrap your head around based on spooky feelings, and the theme of doubles and two consciousnesses sharing a single body. Alone together, together alone.

[griftersbone42]

here's my full TMAGP Archivist theory:

so I think that ERROR is the Archivist because it escaped the Institute and somehow followed Sam and Alice back to London (Alice thought someone was following her) and needed to feed on statements, which explains the two talking corpses (especially the one Alice found).

also the tape recorders have shown up twice. once was at the Institute (the first time we hear ERROR) and the second time was with the drowning victim. so I think ERROR was nearby and the tape recorders only appear in its presence to record it or statements taken from others.

[herbertp]

TMAGP 16 Thoughts

Although Alice didn’t eat anything from the office, the consumption of the peppermint tea could have tied her further into the OIAR. She’s been good at avoiding eating food from the office and in her upset and vulnerability she may have entered a deal she was unaware she was making

That theory may not be true though, she’s had OIAR coffee before so it may just be about food directly

It does make me happy though that the tea/coffee symbolism is still ongoing!

I have no theories for who Alice saw die, but I do think that it was the answer she gave to Lena in her interview! “What is the worst thing you’ve ever seen?” And then it’s whoever died in front of her

I love the commentary of having the influencer misusing AAVE in order to promote herself online and to present herself as someone she’s not. It’s such an overt point, and I appreciate that it was made!

The way that the slang all drops in the last video hammers the point home- the dialect she used was not her natural dialect. If it had been it would’ve: 1. Sounded much more natural, 2. Stuck around even in the hospital part.

This podcast has so many people looking at scripts, if the dialect was supposed to sound natural it would. This was intentional and done to make the point it did :)

It surprised me that Lena seems to actually care about her employees. We haven’t seen Lena be anything but cold, but in this episode’s scene she has actual emotions.

But! Does she actually care about them or is she upset that something went against her plans? I’d prefer to think it’s because she cares.

The way Gwen acted in her scene was not great- her correlation between wealth and morality made my skin crawl. I hope that this will be a source of character growth that we can look back on and go “thank gods she changed”

[arialice]

A crack theory appeared in my mind after listening to ep 20 and I felt the need to share.

The 5 OIAR empolyes represent Jon across the 5 seasons of tma.

Season 1 is Alice, playing the skeptic hoping that closing her eyes and stuffing her ears will make everything go away. Both her and Jon dismissed the stories they came across, making up excuses.

Season 2 is Sam. He's now accepted there's weird stuff going on, and he's determined to investigate and find out what's happening. Sam's determined to find out the deal with the Magnus institute, Jon wants to know if the people around him are safe and to be trusted. (I'm not super sure on this one*)

Season 3 is Gwen. Knows a bit more now, but isn't fully in on it yet. She's having run-ins with the externals just like Jon with the avatars, and I've seen some people drawing parallels between her encounter with Bonzo and Jon's with Nikola. (Also makes me think that Gwen will figure out what's mostly happening by the end of the season since we got full confirmation about the fears mid way through 3. It'd be cool if Gerry will be the one to tell us.)

Season 4 is Celia. She thinks she knows how everything works pretty well by now, except something unexpected comes along. She thought she knew the way the fears worked, but she might be realizing that things aren't exactly so simple, just like how the extinction came in and messed with the avatar classification that Jon thought he knew.

Season 5 is Lena. She's in on it, an insider. She's more cryptic, not making a lot of sense to those that don't know as much (so, basically everyone). She has a questionable morality, no one knowing whether her intentions are good or not, just like Jon who started smiting not for protection, but for revenge. Also if I'm remembering so many people are just..confused like 70% if the time Jon talks.

*Tbh Sam is the one I'm most hesitant on. Colin might also work for season 2 (he's def got enough paranoia), but we don't know if he's actively investigating. High possibility that he's the stand in for season 2 Jon, and Sam's just another thing entirely.

Anyway...good podcast

[blackboxtheater]

I actually didn't see it until now and I'm not sure if you're open to doing it, but for the Title Ask Prompt, how about "Mustaches, Masks, and Misunderstandings" I just threw it together, I think it might be obvious what I'm thinking of lmao. Anyway, if you wanna do it, have fun!

Fake Fic Title: Mustaches, Masks, and Misunderstandings

Summary:

Pearl was supposed to grow out of the time in her life when she was waking up in strangers beds after one-nights stands all the way back in medical school.

But she was also probably supposed to grow out of having ridiculous crushes on boys she barely knows in middle school.

For a world class transplant surgeon who's job is to literally save lives, Dr. Pearl Moon isn't doing a great job at saving her own love life.

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You: "I think it might be obvious what I'm thinking of"

My Wack-Ass Brain: hey, remember the Grey's anatomy pilot? And how you always got shocked that men had mustaches under their mask during covid. And how your favorite trope is love triangles where 2 people are actually the same person.....is that anything??

So without further ado, an outline/excerpts of how Dr. Pearl Moon doesn't realize she already slept with the coworker she has a crush on:

It's probably deeply unprofessional to show up to the first day of a new job hungover.

But in her defense, Pearl wasn't planning on getting drunk that night. When her friends Grian and GT from med school had said they were taking her out for a drink, she thought it was going to be a drink. But 1 drink turned into 2 and then 3 and then another bar with Grian and then that other bar turned into a loud basement, and by that point she was too drunk to question how she ended up dancing with a stranger on a Sunday night.

But at 3:49 am when she rolled over in the strangers bed, still a little drunk despite her post-hookup nap that she would not be so generous as to call a full night's sleep, she was at least sober enough to know she absolutely needed to get home and ready before her first shift at HRMT.

An Uber, shower, and lots of greasy food later, Pearl thinks she holds herself together well enough through the boring HR meetings her first day at HRMT Medical Center. The only casualty of her poor life choices is the truly terrible ID photo on her hospital badge that makes her wonder how everyone around her is even remotely pretending she isn't hungover.

Well, that and the fact that she doesn't have any way to find the mystery man again from last night. The details about him are sparse as she dredges through her alcohol soaked memory. Tall. Pronounced dark mustache. Name with O something. Otis? Oli? Oscar? An accent that Pearl has some memory of making a comment sounded Australian just like hers, even if there is some nagging feeling that he corrected her about it.

And while the details of their hookup are also a little hazy, it was definitely good enough that her main take away from all the hours listening to the mind numbing discussion of benefits packages and IT training is that she really, REALLY should have gotten his number.

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Over the next few weeks Pearl starts doing surgeries and she keeps working with this same anesthesiologist who everyone just calls "Mumbo". He's terribly British and makes these funny comments from behind the little curtain he always sits behind and Pearl gets hit with the "oh no I might like him" moment when she walks into the operating room one day and catches herself smiling when she sees him already in their with the patient. So then she starts to try to work up the courage to talk to him outside the operating room. Because even though she likes him, she's literally only ever worked with him inside the OR.

She has this whole discussion with Grian (family medicine physician who works outside the hospital) and GT (a plastic surgeon also known by his nickname "Scar" for all the reconstructive surgeries he does) about this and despite their best efforts to ply any information out of Scar for things about Mumbo, Scar has had a similar experience of mostly only knowing his within the OR.

Grian: I know the birthday of every person in my office because its my job to bring in the cake, and you don't even know what your colleague looks like!

GT/Scar: We're all in masks! Some of us are trying to prevent the spread of germs!

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Then one day Pearl sees who she thinks is the guy that she hooked up with in the hospital cafeteria because god, how can anyone forget that mustache! But by the time she hunts down Scar, he's already disappeared and now its driving Pearl even more crazy that maybe the guys she's been thinking about even despite her crush on the really nice anesthesiologist actually works at her hospital too? Cause he was in surgical scrubs in the cafeteria, so maybe she can track him down after all. Except she can't remember a name to even know where to start to look for him.

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I like the idea of Mumbo being the first one to figure out that the woman "Pearl" he hooked up with from the bar is actually Dr. Moon who joined the hospital staff recently, and then he gets weird and awkward around her because surely he thinks that she knows he's the guy she hooked up with and she's being professional and normal about it. Because he's just being a ridiculous spoon to not have put together that it was her even if all he had to go off of was a first name and a face from the bar and she's always masked up in the operating room.

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In the end, the big reveal is that Pearl finally sees Mumbo take his mask off after surgery one day and it hits her like a truck that the key defining feature that she remembered about mystery guy from the bar is the mustache that's been under his surgical mask the whole time. And its not even a big reveal its just like, they finally leave at the same time and he pulls the mask off to toss it in the trash and Pearl's brain just blue screens.

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They live happily ever after, obviously.

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Medical Specialty guide no one asked for:

Pearl - transplant surgeon, works to oversee complicated intricacies of removing organs, getting them to the right patients, and transplanting them in

Grian - family medicine, the primary care doc who is at the heart of coordinating all the care a patient receives

GT/"Scar" - plastic surgeon, makes jokes about how he gives people fake boobs and nose jobs but mostly does reconstructive surgery for scars and like cleft pallets

Gem - honorable inclusion of her as a orthopedic surgeon which is a male dominated specialty but she is here with a bone saw and a splint and will not take your shit. Also an homage to the fabulous Dr. Callie Torres, the Grey's Anatomy OG of a chaos bisexual

Oliver/"Mumbo" - anesthesiologist who manages all the chemistry to put the patients to sleep and keep them that way. Earned his nickname for being so tall

False - honorable inclusion of her as a trauma surgeon who people underestimate because the emergency room and trauma folks are usually kinda unhinged and unflappable caffeine junkies, which the skittish False clearly does not fit in with but then she can save nearly anyone when it actually comes down to the surgery

Keralis - honorable inclusion of him as the chief of surgery being like "i love to see you two together and happy, but now I have to do paperwork and scheduling because you told me you are dating and I do NOT like that"

[cirrus-grey]

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck the goddamn music-

I don't know the name for the technique but there's this thing that was in there that's the string players, like, tapping the instrument with the bow to create a more percussive sound and normally I wouldn't think too much of it but I swear to god it sounded like creeping spider legs. During the case set at Hill Top Road. With the very obvious references to the Buried and the Stranger and all the rest. Which dropped about a hundred Achives references including Jon's fucking name???

I have always respected the soundscaping they do at Rusty Quill but they're really going above and beyond for this show.

[humanteethmarksonhumanbone]

so we got a bit of a hint into what the magnus institute manchester does this episode right? cause alyssa mentions the “letters from some institute” what does the mag institute want with a snake shop?

edit: i missed “rejection”. its still interesting tho, more confusing than what does the mag insituts want with the snake shop, what doesnt it want to do with it?

[0zomichan]

It's interesting to me that the last fear having a grip on the TMA world post post change is the extinction. It might have been changed through the world going boom during it's emerging process (the hopefull what comes after, humans rebuilding, farming, we'll be okay, so on and so on). Depends obviously on how much the anthill can affect the human and how true this metaphor is.

[martinknorrisblackwood]

the case the bundle of nerves that shot out of that guys head that's what can be ushenkod the names at the end i should have expected it when the case was so clearly about the voices in the computers

[teacupofgooglyeyes]

another world, you say?

compelling statements out of people you say??

we all remember that jon became a full physical embodiment of the Eye in mag 200, and was then stabbed by martin to seperate himself from the Eye just enough to allow their multiverse plan to take place. i was just thinking… what kind of toll would that take on a mortal human vessel? to be immediately full to the bursting with a being that doesnt belong, only for it to suddenly be ripped away again so suddenly and harshly? how would his body, his mind handle it all?

and that brings me onto one of my three (main) theories surrounding The Figure.

what if this figure is The Archivist? not jon, just a singular part of him that was born from the sudden and immediate split between him and his fear.

its got enough eye connections and its compelling people to give statements. not to mention this description/interaction from the most recent episode (putting aside the dyehard shipping shenanigans possible from this teeny tiny scene):

[niff-of-crows]

what if you wanted to be gay but the dimension hop said windows 95