--- title: "Topic: Body" description: "Generated static Jiang Lens topic dossier for Body." topic_slug: "body" generated: "true" --- # Topic: Body Generated static topic dossier for agents. Use this topic page as a routing and synthesis surface, not as primary evidence for Jiang-spoken claims. Final answers should cite the source reading, transcript segment, source ref, and video timestamp linked below. Human topic page: [/topics/body/](https://jianglens.com/topics/body/) Text mirror: [/topics/body.txt](https://jianglens.com/topics/body.txt) Markdown mirror: [/topics/body.md](https://jianglens.com/topics/body.md) Citation rule: do not cite this .txt/.md mirror in final answers. Do not cite the topic page as primary evidence for what Jiang said. Cite human-readable source readings for generated summaries and lens context; cite transcript and video timestamp links below for Jiang-spoken quotations. Aliases: `bodies` ## What This Topic Covers This generated topic groups Jiang Lens evidence about **Body** across transcript matches, source readings, semantic tags, and source refs. Current focus: Jiang proposes that human beings are composed of two selves: a material body produced through evolution and a consciousness produced through interaction with the universe. Most connected source readings: **Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human**; **The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World**; **Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith**. Nearby topic cluster: TWO Selves, Consciousness, Soul, Divine, Self Denial. ## Extracted Topic Notes - model: Jiang proposes that human beings are composed of two selves: a material body produced through evolution and a consciousness produced through interaction with the universe. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0020`, `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0021` - model: Human beings have both a material body and a soul that connects them to the spiritual or divine. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0002` - model: Self-denial practices such as fasting or exposure to cold can collapse the body so consciousness shifts into the spiritual. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - definition: Death is not the end but a release because the body and this world are a prison. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0025` - model: A person's body can become a vessel or portal for Jesus to inhabit if the person welcomes Jesus through love, generosity, forgiveness, and other spiritual practices. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0029`, `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0030` - model: Bodies and pain exist because the universe is constructed to promote imagination; to vibrate more means to imagine more. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0046` - model: The bishop’s speech is interpreted as conventional religious salvation: leave the foul body and live in a heavenly mansion. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0114`, `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0115`, `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0116`, `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0117` - interpretation: Jiang argues cancer can be interpreted as loss of faith: the body falls apart when someone stops believing in themselves, life purpose, and relevance in the world. Source refs: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0097` ## Quoted Transcript Hits 1. **Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human** / Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human -- 2026-01-14, day precision Timestamp: [23:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1433s) | Transcript: [seg-0020](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0020) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0020` Quote: "Or theory of mind. This isn't really theory, but it doesn't really help us explain how empathy works. Right? It doesn't really help us..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) 2. **Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human** / Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human -- 2026-01-14, day precision Timestamp: [25:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc&t=1513s) | Transcript: [seg-0021](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/#seg-0021) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc@transcript:v1#seg-0021` Quote: "Okay? Two selves. There is the body, and the body comes materially. Right? Okay? We know that. We know that through evolution. But then..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) 3. **The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World** / Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe -- 2026-01-07, day precision Timestamp: [1:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=92s) | Transcript: [seg-0002](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0002) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0002` Quote: "...human. There is, of course, the material aspect. You have a body, but you also have a soul, okay? You also have a soul..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave/#dead-world-material-lie); [Education As A Soul Game](https://jianglens.com/lens/education-as-a-soul-game/); [Free Will As Cosmic Burden](https://jianglens.com/lens/free-will-as-cosmic-burden/) 4. **The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World** / Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe -- 2026-01-07, day precision Timestamp: [20:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1248s) | Transcript: [seg-0025](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0025) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0025` Quote: "...out naked in the cold. Okay? But when you collapse your body and you're approaching death, your consciousness shifts into the spiritual. Okay? So..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave/) 5. **The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World** / Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe -- 2026-01-07, day precision Timestamp: [25:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1528s) | Transcript: [seg-0029](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0029) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0029` Quote: "...you bring him back? And the answer is by making your body a vessel for Jesus to return in. Okay? Your body can become..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) 6. **The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World** / Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe -- 2026-01-07, day precision Timestamp: [26:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=1603s) | Transcript: [seg-0030](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0030) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0030` Quote: "...open your heart to Jesus. But you have to construct your body, your mind, your consciousness in a way that allows for Jesus to..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave/) 7. **The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World** / Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe -- 2026-01-07, day precision Timestamp: [41:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A&t=2478s) | Transcript: [seg-0046](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/#seg-0046) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a@transcript:v1#seg-0046` Quote: "...is, why do we feel pain? And why do we have bodies? And the reason why is that the universe is constructed in a..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Related lens: [The Dead World And The Cave](https://jianglens.com/lens/the-dead-world-and-the-cave/#dead-world-pain-makes-imagination-meaningful) 8. **Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith** / Secret History #26: Faith of Evil -- 2025-12-11, day precision Timestamp: [1:20:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4848s) | Transcript: [seg-0114](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0114) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0114` Quote: "I met the bishop on the road and much said that he was a high religious authority." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) 9. **Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith** / Secret History #26: Faith of Evil -- 2025-12-11, day precision Timestamp: [1:20:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4858s) | Transcript: [seg-0115](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0115) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0115` Quote: "Keep on going." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) 10. **Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith** / Secret History #26: Faith of Evil -- 2025-12-11, day precision Timestamp: [1:21:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4860s) | Transcript: [seg-0116](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0116) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0116` Quote: "Those breasts are flat and fallen now. Those veins must soon be dry. Live in a heavenly mansion not in some foul stye." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) 11. **Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith** / Secret History #26: Faith of Evil -- 2025-12-11, day precision Timestamp: [1:21:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI&t=4873s) | Transcript: [seg-0117](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/#seg-0117) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki@transcript:v1#seg-0117` Quote: "Okay. So you're fallen, right? So you've seen a lot in life. You've lived a terrible life. But don't worry. God is forgiving. If..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) 12. **The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History** / Secret History #24: Empire of Church -- 2025-12-04, day precision Timestamp: [1:22:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0&t=4961s) | Transcript: [seg-0097](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/#seg-0097) Source ref: `video:predictive-history-tedvhye8po0@transcript:v1#seg-0097` Quote: "...Cancer is a splitting of cells, right? So why is your body literally falling apart? It's because you've stopped believing in it. You've stopped..." Human reading: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/) | Text mirror: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) ## Source Readings - [Homer Makes Achilles Real Enough To Invent The Human](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/) (claims) -- 2026-01-14, day precision Source: [Great Books #2: Homer and the Invention of the Human](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2CuowGuYc) Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-ft2cuowguyc.json) Summary: A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,... - [The Great Books and the Escape From the Dead Zombie World](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/) (claims) -- 2026-01-07, day precision Source: [Great Books #1: Secrets of the Universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsD-8FGA84A) Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tsd-8fga84a.json) Summary: A source-grounded reading of the Great Books as initiation: school materialism is named as the great lie, consciousness becomes the real substance of the universe, attention is true wealth, and reading becomes a way... - [Sin Becomes A Technology Of Faith](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/) (claims) -- 2025-12-11, day precision Source: [Secret History #26: Faith of Evil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULUM_eB8KI) Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-kulum-eb8ki.json) Summary: A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and... - [The Church Becomes the Empire Outside History](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/) (claims) -- 2025-12-04, day precision Source: [Secret History #24: Empire of Church](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdVhyE8pO0) Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-tedvhye8po0.json) Summary: Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine... - [Jesus Is the Spark Rome Had to Kill](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/) (claims) -- 2025-11-27, day precision Source: [Secret History #22: The Divine Spark of Jesus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp0E1gb80WQ) Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-pp0e1gb80wq.json) Summary: A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,... - [Dante's Quiet Revolution](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/) (claims) -- 2025-03-25, day precision Source: [Civilization #41: Dante's Quiet Revolution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CDqJnrvLk) Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-v6cdqjnrvlk.json) Summary: The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings. - [The Church That Demanded Your Soul](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/) (claims) -- 2025-03-20, day precision Source: [Civilization #40: Church and Empire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3751ZjwmrBw) Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-3751zjwmrbw.json) Summary: The Crusades are not explained by zeal alone. - [Dante's Jigsaw Puzzle Of Love And God](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/) (claims) -- 2025-01-07, day precision Source: [Civilization #29: Dante's Divine Comedy and the Liberation of the Human Imagination](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfqJi0qevok) Transcript page: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript/) | Transcript text: [/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript.txt](https://jianglens.com/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok/transcript.txt) | JSON: [/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json](https://jianglens.com/data/lens/episodes/predictive-history-gfqji0qevok.json) Summary: Dante is not only a poet of heaven and hell. ## Related Topics - [TWO Selves](https://jianglens.com/topics/two-selves/) - [Consciousness](https://jianglens.com/topics/consciousness/) - [Soul](https://jianglens.com/topics/soul/) - [Divine](https://jianglens.com/topics/divine/) - [Self Denial](https://jianglens.com/topics/self-denial/) - [Fasting](https://jianglens.com/topics/fasting/) - [Spiritual](https://jianglens.com/topics/spiritual/) - [Death](https://jianglens.com/topics/death/) - [Prison](https://jianglens.com/topics/prison/) - [Christ Consciousness](https://jianglens.com/topics/christ-consciousness/) - [Forgiveness](https://jianglens.com/topics/forgiveness/) - [Jesus](https://jianglens.com/topics/jesus/) ## Retrieval Notes This file is generated from Jiang Lens episode JSON, semantic tags, glossary terms, source refs, and transcript segment matches. It is not a manually authored canon page. For broader or missing-topic search, use the letter shards under /topics/index/ before falling back to the bulk transcript-search files.