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

A Pragmatic Model of Reality

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

Etheric Fields

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

Two-Mind Solution to the Survival Hypothesis

Opinion 18 Abstract The Survival Hypothesis holds that the mind aspect of who we are continues after bodily death. The two contending versions are the survival of memory commonly referred to as the Super-Psi Hypothesis, and what I think of as the Strict Survival Hypothesis that holds our mind continues to exist after bodily death … Read more

Organizing Principles

Updated August 2026 Introduction The Pragmatic Model of Reality treats reality as conceptual in that it is the realm of thoughts rather than things. The model is bound by curiosity as the initial state and understanding as the expected final state. Imagine an undifferentiated field in conceptual space that has the single characteristic of a … Read more