Tom Butler James Carpenter’s First Sight Theory is explained in a 2015 book, First Sight: ESP and Parapsychology in Everyday Life. (13) (the link is to Amazon, ISBN-13: 978-1442213913) Since its introduction, I have noted that First Sight Theory is becoming increasingly accepted amongst parapsychologists as the model for psi functioning. Describing the theory only takes a … Read more
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
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