First Sight - A model & theory of Psi

This is has been mentioned a few times by Tom Butler but I don't think it was brought up in its own thread ->

First Sight is a model & a theory of Psi

Jim Carpenter

First Sight is a model of psi and a theory of how psi works (Carpenter, 2004; 2005; 2008). It asserts that every person, and indeed every living organism, exists in ongoing, active commerce with an extended reality far beyond ordinary physical and perceptual boundaries. We then employ this engagement unconsciously at every moment as a part of the holistic process of construction that leads to all experience and all action. Other implicit processes such as subliminal perception and procedural memory are also known to contribute to the construction of experience and behavior (e.g. Bargh, 1989; Schacter, 1997) and psi processes are presumed to function similarly. Since this psi-engagement permits access to information well before it could possibly impinge upon sensory perception, psi is not spoken of as second sight (something occasional and derivative) but as first sight. The essence of the First Sight modelcan be summed up in two basic premises:

1. It is in the basic nature of an organism that it participates actively, continuously and unconsciously in an extended universe of meanings. This universe of participation is far broader in time and space than the organism’s immediate boundaries.

2. All experience and all behavior are constituted perpetually out of unconscious psychological processes. These processes are carried out purposefully on multiple sources of information including psi information.

I'll also post some stuff out of the book that jumps out at me from time to time...