Tom Butler 
See https://noetic.org/prize/ Brief In 2024, the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) sponsored an essay contest with the instruction to provide a “Review and comparative analysis of theories of non-local consciousness.” First, second and third winners were announced. I read the essays expecting to learn more about contemporary views of consciousness. Instead, I found the same … Read more
Abstract I n designing a model to describe the implications of the Survival Hypothesis, it became clear that etheric space (greater reality, nonphysical) must be described in terms of conceptual influences, rather than physical forces. The field concept effectively describes conceptual influences and is useful as a basic building block to model reality. This Discourse … Read more
Opinion 20 Content License for this Opinion: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- Alike 4.0 International Also at academia.edu/127698925/Studying_Psi_Phenomena_in_the_Current_Political_Climate Brief My assumption in writing this opinion is that our ability to study consciousness and Psi phenomena is not guaranteed. We should be mindful that there have been times in our history that doing so was considered demon worship or … Read more
Opinion 19 Version 2 changes: Change “spatial” to “dimensionless” in the description of reality as a dimensionless singularity that is conceptually infinitely large. Version 3 changes: Moved IONS essay reviews to ethericstudies.org/ions-2024-essays/ added Anatomy of Consciousness Diagram and modified paper to conform to the new diagram. Brief In 2024, the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) … Read more
Introduction If the greater reality (aka etheric) is a singularity in the sense that nonlocality means everywhere is here, it is necessary to ask how we move about in the etheric compared to place-to-place movement in the physical. This Brief explains how the Implicit Cosmology supports mind-initiated movement from place-to-place in physical space. Examples Consider … Read more
Major Points of View Perhaps the most difficult lesson I have learned about the academic community is that it is necessary to identify the point of view of the person providing information about paranormal concepts. It is a matter of knowing if you can trust your teacher. Here are the basic points of … Read more