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The Differentiation Report
The archive's whole record, drawn together into a single, readable synthesis — where the system came from, who has claimed to own it, what it costs to be certified in it, who taught it and who was removed from its official account, what evidence exists for its claims, and how its versions diverge. Every primary document it rests on is free on this site; the report is the assembly: the chronology built, the ruling explained, the numbers added up, and the decision laid out.
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The record stays free. This report is a synthesis and a convenience, not a paywall. Everything it cites — the trademark record, the Florence ruling, the corporate history, the credential economics, and the erasure record — remains free to read on this site, in full, with every source linked. You are paying for the work of drawing it together, not for access to the documents.
What's inside
- The origin, with the line drawn. Ra Uru Hu — born Alan Robert Krakower — the eight days on Ibiza in January 1987, and a careful separation of what the record documents from what rests on his own account. Including the part most retellings collapse: the Types layer arrived a decade later, in 1997.
- The documented history, 1987–2026. Four eras as one continuous chronology, from the first reading to the present, with each entry's source attached.
- The ownership question, settled to the record. The complete U.S. trademark table — every serial, live and dead — and the 2020 Tribunale di Firenze ruling (R.G. 2756/2020) explained in plain terms: what it did and, as importantly, did not decide. Plus the three-entity corporate chain behind the rights.
- The full cost of the credential. The complete certification stack — analyst, teacher, and the eleven-semester BG5 ladder — itemized and added up, with what is and isn't accredited, and how the total compares to a college degree.
- The lineage and the erasure, in sequence. The three teacher generations, and how founding-era teachers moved from the record to its margins — with the mechanism documented: administrative, not legal.
- The evidence, stated honestly. The one commissioned study, what it actually found, and what its own author later concluded — alongside the state of the independent literature.
- The versions, compared. Where each offshoot stands in relation to the original, without ranking them.
- A certification-decision framework. A neutral checklist for anyone weighing whether to pay for training — the questions to ask, mapped to the documented answers. It renders no verdict; it equips yours.
- Full appendices. The complete chronology, the trademark record, the cost itemization, the erasure ledger, a register of the record's own contradictions and gaps, and every primary source.
70 pages, delivered as a downloadable PDF. Written to the same neutral, sourced standard as the archive: every claim traceable to a public document, every hedge preserved, and no verdict rendered on the system's validity. Where the record contradicts itself, the report says so rather than choosing.
Who it's for
Anyone weighing certification, any practitioner who wants the ownership and economics of the field documented in one place they can cite, and any journalist or researcher who needs the record synthesized rather than assembled from scratch. If you only need the primary documents, they are free — start with the public record and the open research program. The report is for when you want the whole picture in one sitting.
How the purchase works
Checkout is handled by an external payment provider — the archive processes no payments and stores no card details. Your purchase is a one-time payment for the PDF, which you download immediately and keep, with free updates as the record changes. Terms of sale and refund terms are shown at checkout. The archive's independence is unchanged by any sale: see Disclosures and the Legal Notices.