Tom Butler’s Opinion


Cooperative Community

This essay introduces a new blog. The objective is to highlight important topics to help paranormalists gain understanding about psychic and survival-related experiences. Emphasis will be on possible best practices,…

Morphic Fields

Trans-Survival-Hypothesis

Opinion 2 Abstract The study of metaphysics requires a cosmology based on function models that will react to known circumstances to produces expected experiences. Until I learned about Rupert Sheldrake’s…

About First Sight Theory

Perceptual Loop

Abstract A model designed to represent an aspect of reality requires a ruleset that describes the relationship amongst the functional areas. James Carpenter’s First Sight Theory has proven to be…

Failure to Replicate Fallacy

Opinion 4 Abstract This Opinion uses a research report published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration to address my concerns with what I have come to think of as Failure to…

Avatar

Opinion 5 Abstract If we are immortal personality experiencing a lifetime as a human, is it possible our pets also serve as an avatar for an immortal personality? If so,…

Why I Vote Humanist

Opinion 6 Abstract This is an overview of the issues I think are important to the preservation of our democracy. My comments are intended to point out what I think…

Elephant-Paranormal

Opinion 7 Abstract Time and again, I have encountered people who say that an instance of claimed paranormal phenomena is fake. Practitioners are rarely given an opportunity to explain their…

Mind as Storyteller

Opinion 9 Abstract This Opinion includes introduction of the Temperament Mediated Perception (TMP) model. Although the first appearance with this title, the model has been evolving from the early version…

Becoming Lucid

Opinion 10 Composite: Part of engraving by Camille Flammarion. 1888. Button by Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Abstract To be lucid is to sense reality as it actually is…

Search for ET

Opinion 11 This study  has been discontinued. See ATransC Web Page Abstract The first part of this essay includes an in-depth discussion of the nature of visual ITC. Emphasis is…

Radical Conservatism

—Stealing America— Opinion 12 Abstract Here, I argue that radical conservative factions in the USA have been methodically overriding social and constitutional norms to take control of the country. Rather…

Review of Leo Ruickbie’s BICS Essay

Logo: Sharing – composite from pixabay.com/images/search/user:geralt/ See also: BICS 2021 Essay Contest – Proof of Survival Rules of Evidence – Survival Review of Jeffrey Mishlove’s BICS Essay Review of Pim van…

Review of Runner Up BICS Essays

Also see: BICS 2021 Essay Contest – Proof of Survival Rules of Evidence – Survival Review of Jeffrey Mishlove’s BICS Essay Review of Pim van Lommel’s BICS Essay Review of…

Rules of Evidence – Survival

Updated 2022 Also see: BICS 2021 Essay Contest – Proof of Survival Rules of Evidence – Survival Review of Jeffrey Mishlove’s BICS Essay Review of Pim van Lommel’s BICS Essay…

Open Letter to Survival Researchers

Preamble As a person who works with Psi-related phenomena, especially mediumship and Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC) which includes Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), I look to the academic community of Parapsychologists for…

Toward a Consensus Cosmology

Opinion 15 hpixabay.com/vectors/alice-in-wonderland-small-door-30327/ Brief Much is written and said about the future of parapsychology and the need for a more unified approach. While it is fine to study discrete forms…

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