Tom Butler 
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
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
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
I recently submitted an essay based on this paper to the Essentia Foundation. Having not received even an acknowledgment that they received it, I withdrew it and will publish it here. Rejected Essentia Essay 2026: A Pragmatic Model of Reality. Brief This five part summary of the Pragmatic Model of Reality is intended to explain … Read more
Half Science? I have been trying to figure out why so many mainstream scientists continue to insist that our mind is an emergent quality of our biological brain in light of such proven characteristics of mind as nonlocality, ubiquity and intended order. Part of my effort has been to model our mind from what I … Read more
A Pragmatic Model of Reality An Overview Content License for this paper: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- Alike 4.0 International Brief The Anatomy of Consciousness Diagram shown below is intended as a “roadmap” for people studying the Pragmatic Model of Reality. This paper originated as a Facebook post intended to attract meaningful comments. Much of the brief writing … Read more