Tom Butler

Does Parapsychology Inappropriately Conflate Different Kinds of Phenomena?

Mental perception and Psi expression—different phenomena requiring different science. Opinion 22 Brief Academic parapsychology has assumed responsibility to study all kinds of anomalous phenomena. The two major kinds of phenomena focused on here are: Type 1 – Self-reported accounts of anomalous experiences such as Out of Body and Near-Death Experiences, known here as “Psychological Phenomena.” … Read more

The Seeker’s Talisman

Recognizing and countering deceptive or biased information Opinion 21 Brief We are guided by two minds. One is our human’s instinctual urge to belong and to accept leadership. That is an evolved trait that serves to maximize the continuity even dominance of our gene pool. Our second mind is our spirit self that seeks to … Read more

The Value of Rapport for Psi Functioning

Rapport is Rapport is defined here as a link of attention between two people. The link is characterized here as a thoughtform having clarity of memory and intensity of purpose. A thoughtform is life field’s expression of an initial concept in a rapport network that binds related concepts in a cohesive gestalt-like, persistent form. Thoughtforms … Read more

Predictions of the Pragmatic Model of Reality: Frame of Reference

Illustration is based on Bubble by svstudioart, freepik.com Content License for this Opinion: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- Alike 4.0 International Brief The Frame of Reference concept, which is concerned with the relationship between mind, consciousness and perception, is explored in this paper based on a Pragmatic Model of Reality and its included Implicit Cosmology of mind. Pertinent … Read more