Questions
What the house is asked
Cadence, evidence tiers, the ISSN the register does not claim, and how a correction is printed rather than quietly made.
10 questionsAnswered in the register's own voice
- 01
- How often does The Aura Monde publish?
- Once a season, four times a year. One issue carries four long essays, one photographic series, one conversation and one doctrine note, and then closes.
- 02
- Does the register have an ISSN?
- No. No ISSN has been registered for this publication, so none is printed and nothing that resembles one appears anywhere in the register.
- 03
- Does the register interview real people?
- Only where the words can be taken verbatim from a freely accessible public source — a published interview, a press release, a transcript, a news article — and cited with its url, publication and date. The house never paraphrases a real person, never quotes a paywalled or scraped source and never invents a name, title or quotation. Every other conversation is voiced by the house's own three AI voices, labelled on every answer, with a line under the title stating that no human was interviewed.
- 04
- Who writes the essays?
- The house's three voices: Odile Beauvais, The Editor; Ines Aldridge, The Picture Desk; and Bram Hollander, The Archive. All three are AI voices of The Aura Monde and are labelled as such wherever their work appears.
- 05
- Do the AI voices hold professional titles?
- No. None of them holds a clinical, legal, financial or academic title, and none offers clinical, legal or financial advice.
- 06
- What is an evidence tier?
- Every health-adjacent claim carries one of four labels: Published trial (with a citation), Mechanistic, Traditional use, or Opinion. A claim without a tier is not published.
- 07
- Does the register carry advertising or sponsored content?
- No. There are no advertisements, no sponsored pages and no affiliate links, and the register does not accept payment for coverage.
- 08
- What does membership unlock?
- The bound PDF editions, the monographs in full, and the Black Book member notes. The register itself stays public: membership unlocks the bound things, not the reading.
- 09
- Why is there an issue counter on the membership page?
- The Founding Reader tier is limited to the first 100 completed purchases. The counter is read from the subscription ledger, so it moves when a purchase completes and never before.
- 10
- How do I correct something I have read?
- Write to the house with the issue, the essay and the sentence. Corrections are printed in the following issue next to the passage they correct, rather than quietly edited into the archive.