RIFT WARDEN SEALED RESEARCH SUMMARY: The dimensional anchoring hypothesis — that strongly resonant individuals unconsciously perform timeline-stabilizing functions — has been confirmed internally by the Warden research program. Confirmed cases include at least 14 operatives whose decisions in high-probability-stress scenarios have been directly correlated with preventing timeline divergence events. None of them were told this. The Warden program's position: informing them would change the behavior that makes them effective. This position has not been reviewed ethically.

MANNING FILE NOTE: Rift Manning's dimensional echo resonance has been rated at 14.2 on the Warden's proprietary resonance scale. The scale has 10 points. His result is not a recording error. The research team filed a note requesting scale revision. The scale revision is pending for the same reason as the ethics review: addressing it would require acknowledging the finding, and acknowledging the finding creates obligations the program is not currently structured to meet.

IDENTITY DISSOLUTION — ADVANCED CASES: The 14% figure for advanced identity dissolution in quantum narcotic addicts significantly understates the clinical picture. The Institute's internal classification system identifies five stages of dissolution, with stages 4 and 5 representing effectively irresolvable identity fracture. The public file only acknowledges stages 1–3. Stages 4 and 5 are classified because the Institute's legal team has determined that publishing them would create liability for the establishments conducting exposure sessions — and several of those establishments have corporate backing from entities that fund Institute research.

THE CAPABILITY PROBLEM: The genuine capability enhancement that quantum narcotic users receive from alternate-self bleed-through has created a documented institutional adoption pattern. Several corporate entities have been identified as quietly incentivizing mild quantum narcotic use among high-performance employees, treating the alternate-self skill acquisition as a productivity enhancement. The Institute has flagged this. The flagging has not produced regulatory response. The incentivizing continues.

DR. SHAW'S PRIVATE RESEARCH NOTE — NOT FOR PUBLICATION: The structural distinction I identified in severe cases is more profound than the published framework acknowledges. In the most severe cases, the individual is not experiencing multiple selves as competing for primacy. They are experiencing them as a single, coherent, multidimensional identity that does not fit the framework of "primary self." The framework is wrong. We built a treatment protocol around the assumption that there is a primary self to anchor to. In approximately 23% of severe cases, there is no primary self because there was never intended to be. The Wars in Heaven fractures did not damage these individuals. They revealed a different kind of person. We have been trying to fix something that may not be broken.

This research will not be published. The Institute's funding structure depends on the treatment model remaining viable. An unfixable condition with no treatment generates no treatment revenue. I am aware of the conflict of interest. I am noting it here because it should be noted somewhere.

SUBJECT 003 NOTE: Subject 003's request to be designated a permanent research subject has been approved. Both instances of Subject 003 have requested this designation. They have been collaborating on research proposals since Year 3 of their bifurcation. Their proposals are methodologically sound. The Institute accepted them without initially recognizing the collaborative authorship. When the authorship was flagged, the Institute's response was: "This is unusual but not disqualifying." The research is ongoing. The results, so far, have been consistently more interesting than research produced by single-instance subjects. The Institute has not publicly commented on this pattern.

SUBJECT 004: Subject 004's file is classified above this document's clearance level. The following is confirmed: Subject 004 exists. Both instances of Subject 004 exist. Their location is known to DOS. Their condition is stable. They have declined research participation. They have not declined to communicate. They communicate occasionally, through intermediaries, with researchers they have chosen. What they communicate is classified. The researchers who receive these communications have not resigned or requested reassignment. This is notable given the pattern elsewhere in parallel-self research.