Spiritual research system and method

A server computing machine for spiritual research comprising:

• a) a network interface providing data and a user interface to a remote computing device over a computerized network;
• b) a processor that is controlled via programming instructions;
• c) a non-transitory computer readable memory;
• d) database programming stored on the non-transitory computer readable memory and performed by the processor, the database programming managing an archive database that is transformed during operation by the database programming, the archive database having:
• i) a plurality of life issue tag database entities each having a life issue tag that identifies a life issue,
• ii) a plurality of idea database entities each identifying an excerpt from a spiritual document and at least one commentary about that excerpt, wherein a first idea database entity has a first document excerpt from a first spiritual document and further wherein a second idea database entity has a second document excerpt from a second spiritual document,
• iii) first database relationships between the idea database entities and the life issue tag database entities wherein the first database relationships establish an association between each idea database entity and a single life issue tag database entity, and further wherein all commentaries identified by an associated idea database entity concern the life issue identified in the single life issue tag,
• iv) a plurality of commentary database entities each containing a commentary, and
• v) second database relationships between the idea database entities and the commentary database entities;
• wherein each idea database entity identifies the at least one commentary through the second database relationship with at least one commentary database entity,
• vi) a plurality of subject matter expert database entities each identifying a subject matter expert, and
• vii) third database relationships between the commentary database entities and the subject matter expert database entities, wherein each of the third database relationships establishes a subject matter expert author for the commentary in the associated commentary database entity;
• and
• e) user interface programming stored on the non-transitory computer readable memory and performed by the processor, the user interface programming providing a user interface to remote user devices over the network interface across a wide area network, the user interface providing to an identified user access to the archive database by:
• i) selecting a life issue tag, and
• ii) presenting over the user interface data associated with the idea database entities that are in turn associated with the selected life issue tag, wherein both the first and second idea database entities are associated with the selected life issue tag and are both presented in response to selecting the life issue tag.