Tom Butler Archive from Tom Butler’s Wikipedia user page This is how my personal Wikipedia page appeared in July 2011. It is saved here because there are occasional efforts by the skeptical editors to have my content deleted because they find it offensive. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tom_Butler) They said what they intended As a token of good faith, in January, … Read more
A note: I read Auerbach’s essay on “Harnessing the Paranormal Community” with great interest. It is a good one, but I felt it ignored the relationship between serious investigators and hobbyists. There was no acknowledgement for the letter, and of course, it was not published. I do not expect everything I send in to be published, but past … Read more
Introduction for Opinion Setters You can tell you are in a maturing community when you notice that a few truths have begun to dominate how people in your community think. These truths may be little more than the belief of a few of the more dynamic opinion setters, but the need for objective support is seldom considered. … Read more
Introduction This essay introduces a metaphysical model for God that satisfies current understanding of the nature of reality based on parapsychological and survival research with emphasis on the evidence of transcommunication. It is common to hear people speak of God, usually in grand terms such as “God is the all-knowing yet unknowable punisher of the … Read more
Normal Paranormal Here is an interesting idea. Many forms of psychokinesis are seen as resulting from the influence of intention on a random process. What I refer to as transform EVP is apparently the influence of the transcommunicator’s intention on background noise. Background noise can be generalized as being a random process. The same goes for … Read more
Also see Open Letter to Paranormalists: Limits of science, trust and responsibility These practices are recommendations provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Alike 3.0 Unported License Abstract A panel is proposed to monitor research protocols and final reports for reasonableness of conclusions and research ethics to assure ethical treatment of research subjects and protect the greater … Read more