Tom Butler 
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
See https://noetic.org/prize/ Also see Elements of a Useful Theory of Consciousness. 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 … Read more
Abstract While designing a model to describe the implications of the Trans-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 best describes conceptual influences and is useful as a basic building block for modeling reality. This paper explains … 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
A Pragmatic Model of Reality 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. Version 4 change: 1.) Layers 2 … 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