> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.urantia.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Paragraphs Close to Many Texts

> Urantia paragraphs ranked by their mean percentile across the texts, highest first. Paper 131 is left out, because it is a collection of sayings from these religions. Filter by `paperId` or `partId`.

Scores come from the nine world religions texts and the World English Bible. For each text, a paragraph's best match becomes a percentile within that text, after an adjustment for paragraph length. The texts are not independent votes: a paragraph that sounds devotional tends to score well in all of them. These are measures of closeness in meaning by an embedding model, not claims about the teachings.



## OpenAPI

````yaml GET /scriptures/insights/shared-currents
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Urantia Papers API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    A developer and AI-agent friendly API for the Urantia Papers. Provides
    full-text search, structured content access, and audio URLs for all 17,000+
    paragraphs across 197 papers.
servers:
  - url: https://api.urantia.dev
    description: Production
  - url: http://localhost:3000
    description: Local development
security: []
paths:
  /scriptures/insights/shared-currents:
    get:
      tags:
        - Scriptures
      summary: Paragraphs close to many texts
      description: >-
        Urantia paragraphs ranked by their mean percentile across the texts,
        highest first. Paper 131 is left out, because it is a collection of
        sayings from these religions. Filter by `paperId` or `partId`.


        Scores come from the nine world religions texts and the World English
        Bible. For each text, a paragraph's best match becomes a percentile
        within that text, after an adjustment for paragraph length. The texts
        are not independent votes: a paragraph that sounds devotional tends to
        score well in all of them. These are measures of closeness in meaning by
        an embedding model, not claims about the teachings.
      operationId: listSharedCurrents
      parameters:
        - schema:
            type:
              - integer
              - 'null'
            minimum: 0
            maximum: 196
          required: false
          name: paperId
          in: query
          example: '2'
        - schema:
            type: integer
            minimum: 1
            maximum: 4
          required: false
          name: partId
          in: query
        - schema:
            type:
              - integer
              - 'null'
            minimum: 0
            maximum: 2000
            default: 200
            description: >-
              Leave out paragraphs shorter than this many characters. Headings
              and fragments score unreliably
          required: false
          description: >-
            Leave out paragraphs shorter than this many characters. Headings and
            fragments score unreliably
          name: minLength
          in: query
        - schema:
            type:
              - integer
              - 'null'
            minimum: 0
            default: 0
          required: false
          name: page
          in: query
        - schema:
            type: integer
            minimum: 1
            maximum: 50
            default: 20
          required: false
          name: limit
          in: query
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Paragraphs close to many texts
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        paragraph:
                          type: object
                          properties:
                            id:
                              type: string
                            standardReferenceId:
                              type: string
                            paperId:
                              type: string
                            paperTitle:
                              type: string
                            sectionTitle:
                              type:
                                - string
                                - 'null'
                            text:
                              type: string
                          required:
                            - id
                            - standardReferenceId
                            - paperId
                            - paperTitle
                            - sectionTitle
                            - text
                        textsClose:
                          type: integer
                          description: Texts that have this paragraph in their top 10%
                        consensus:
                          type: number
                          description: Mean percentile across the texts, 0 to 1
                        distance:
                          type: number
                          description: 1 minus the highest percentile, 0 to 1
                        closest:
                          type: array
                          items:
                            type: object
                            properties:
                              corpus:
                                type: object
                                properties:
                                  id:
                                    type: string
                                  slug:
                                    type: string
                                  religion:
                                    type: string
                                  title:
                                    type: string
                                  translator:
                                    type: string
                                  year:
                                    type: integer
                                  refPrefix:
                                    type: string
                                  urantiaSection:
                                    type:
                                      - string
                                      - 'null'
                                    description: >-
                                      The Paper 131 section headed with this
                                      religion, or null when Paper 131 has no
                                      such heading
                                required:
                                  - id
                                  - slug
                                  - religion
                                  - title
                                  - translator
                                  - year
                                  - refPrefix
                                  - urantiaSection
                              percentile:
                                type: number
                                description: >-
                                  The paragraph's best match in this text, as a
                                  percentile within the text after a length
                                  adjustment, 0 to 1
                            required:
                              - corpus
                              - percentile
                      required:
                        - paragraph
                        - textsClose
                        - consensus
                        - distance
                        - closest
                  meta:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      page:
                        type: integer
                      limit:
                        type: integer
                      total:
                        type: integer
                      totalPages:
                        type: integer
                    required:
                      - page
                      - limit
                      - total
                      - totalPages
                required:
                  - data
                  - meta
              example:
                data:
                  - paragraph:
                      id: 4:156.5.20
                      standardReferenceId: '156:5.20'
                      paperId: '156'
                      paperTitle: The Sojourn at Tyre and Sidon
                      sectionTitle: Jesus’ Teaching at Tyre
                      text: >-
                        The God-conscious mortal is certain of salvation; he is
                        unafraid of life; he is honest and consistent. He knows
                        how bravely to endure unavoidable suffering; he is
                        uncomplaining when faced by inescapable hardship.
                    textsClose: 9
                    consensus: 0.967998
                    distance: 0.00205578
                    closest:
                      - corpus:
                          id: epictetus-3-22-oldfather-1928
                          slug: epictetus-cynic
                          religion: Cynicism
                          title: 'Discourses 3.22: On the Calling of a Cynic'
                          translator: W. A. Oldfather
                          year: 1928
                          refPrefix: Epictetus
                          urantiaSection: '131:1'
                        percentile: 0.998
                      - corpus:
                          id: dhammapada-muller-1881
                          slug: dhammapada
                          religion: Buddhism
                          title: The Dhammapada
                          translator: F. Max Muller
                          year: 1881
                          refPrefix: Dhp
                          urantiaSection: '131:3'
                        percentile: 0.996
                  - paragraph:
                      id: 1:1.3.2
                      standardReferenceId: '1:3.2'
                      paperId: '1'
                      paperTitle: The Universal Father
                      sectionTitle: God is a Universal Spirit
                      text: >-
                        Said the seer of old: “Lo, he goes by me, and I see him
                        not; he passes on also, but I perceive him not.” We may
                        constantly observe the works of God, we may be highly
                        conscious of the material evidences of his majestic
                        conduct, but rarely may we gaze upon the visible
                        manifestation of his divinity, not even to behold the
                        presence of his delegated spirit of human indwelling.
                    textsClose: 9
                    consensus: 0.958775
                    distance: 0.00493387
                    closest:
                      - corpus:
                          id: bhagavad-gita-besant-1922
                          slug: bhagavad-gita
                          religion: Hinduism
                          title: The Bhagavad Gita
                          translator: Annie Besant (4th edition)
                          year: 1922
                          refPrefix: BG
                          urantiaSection: '131:4'
                        percentile: 0.995
                      - corpus:
                          id: tao-te-ching-legge-1891
                          slug: tao-te-ching
                          religion: Taoism
                          title: The Tao Te Ching
                          translator: James Legge
                          year: 1891
                          refPrefix: TTC
                          urantiaSection: '131:8'
                        percentile: 0.992
                meta:
                  page: 0
                  limit: 2
                  total: 11866
                  totalPages: 5933
          headers:
            X-RateLimit-Limit:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit'
            X-RateLimit-Remaining:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining'
            X-RateLimit-Reset:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset'
        '400':
          description: Invalid request
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
          headers:
            X-RateLimit-Limit:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit'
            X-RateLimit-Remaining:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining'
            X-RateLimit-Reset:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset'
        '429':
          description: Too many requests
          headers:
            X-RateLimit-Limit:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit'
            X-RateLimit-Remaining:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining'
            X-RateLimit-Reset:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset'
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
        '500':
          description: Internal server error
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
          headers:
            X-RateLimit-Limit:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit'
            X-RateLimit-Remaining:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining'
            X-RateLimit-Reset:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset'
components:
  headers:
    X-RateLimit-Limit:
      description: The number of requests allowed in the current window.
      schema:
        type: integer
      example: 200
    X-RateLimit-Remaining:
      description: The number of requests left in the current window.
      schema:
        type: integer
      example: 199
    X-RateLimit-Reset:
      description: The time the window resets, in Unix seconds.
      schema:
        type: integer
      example: 1791152213
  schemas:
    ProblemDetails:
      type: object
      description: An RFC 9457 problem details object. Every error response uses it.
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: A URI that names the error type.
        title:
          type: string
          description: The short name of the status.
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP status code.
        detail:
          type: string
          description: What went wrong in this request.
      required:
        - type
        - title
        - status
        - detail
      example:
        type: https://urantia.dev/errors/not-found
        title: Not Found
        status: 404
        detail: Paragraph not found

````

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