Commentary about the paranormalist community.
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
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
Opinion 17 Brief An important talking point in my comments about things paranormal is that parapsychological research is incomplete if it does not at least consider lessons learned from ITC. This paper is written to explain how I understand those lessons. The focus here is on lessons learned via the work of the directors and … Read more
Opinion 15 hpixabay.com/vectors/alice-in-wonderland-small-door-30327/ Brief Much is written and said about the future of parapsychology and the need for a more unified approach. While it is fine to study discrete forms of apparent Psi phenomena, it is unlikely any real progress will be made without a unifying cosmology. This paper is intended to describe such a … Read more