The MultiPath Synthor contains full texts of The Analects of Confucius, The Holy Bible, The Dhammapada, The Bhagavad Geeta, The Guru Granth Sahib, and The Holy Quran — six books that have shaped the value systems of billions of people, yet are rarely read in full. This Synthor offers a way around that.
Authentic content, in your language and theirs.
Responses are drawn directly from these texts in English. Where relevant, you can also view the original-language source — Chinese, Pali, Sanskrit, Gurmukhi, or Arabic — via linked external websites, letting you see exactly where a response came from in its native script.
Cross-examine the traditions
Using "Send to another book," you can take a saying from one text and see how a different tradition responds to it. Curious what the Analects would make of something the Buddha said? Now you can find out.
Talk to all six books at once — or just one
Type a comment, question, or reflection and press "Submit" to hear from all six texts, or use "Submit to…" to direct your words to a single book of your choosing.
A living, unpredictable companion
This isn't a scripted lookup tool. Like a whimsical, well-read companion who has only ever read one book, each Synthor responds within the spirit of its source — but here, six such minds share one voice. Responses can be moody, forgetful, or unexpected by design; how coherent the conversation feels depends partly on you.
Sourcing
All texts were downloaded from validated, authentic sources (listed separately within the app).
"All paths lead to the same destination."
Developed by Sugata Mitra at the Tataha Kim Laboratory. "Synthor" is copyright of Sugata Mitra, since 2020.
Ask a question, get answers echoed from six of humanity's great texts.