Research

Overview
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​This section collects both prior academic publications and independent research.

The work spans developmental psychology, synchronicity, complex systems, and formal models of emergence. More recent research develops a framework examining coherence, relational structure, and the organization of change over time.

All papers are presented as completed research documents with transparent methods, sources, and revision history.

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​​🟦Academic Publications

Peer-reviewed and externally published work reflecting earlier research frameworks.
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​1. Developmental and Lifespan Research

• 2013 – Re-Envisaging Erikson’s Developmental Stages
• 2017 – The Fibonacci Life Chart Method as a Predictor of Spiritual Experience
• 2024 – Spiritual Experiences Across the Lifespan
• 2024 – Neuropsychological Changes Across Life Stages
• 2024 – Fibonacci’s Blueprint in Lifespan: RNA Dynamics & DNA Heritability
• 2024 – Modular and Fractal Patterns in Pascal’s Triangle: Developmental Cycles
• 2025 – Predicting Mental Health Disorder Onsets with Fibonacci Sequencing

2. Synchronicity Research
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• 2016 – FLCM as a Foundation for Jung’s Theory of Synchronicity
• 2017 – Advancing the New Science of Synchronicity
• 2018 – Fibonacci Harmonics: A New Mathematical Model of Synchronicity
• 2019 – Modeling Celestial Mechanics Using the Fibonacci Numbers
• 2019 – Predictability of Synchronicity Experience (Jungian Analysts)
• 2020 – Dynamical & Statistical Modeling of Synchronicity
• 2020 – Synchronicity Research: Review, Taxonomy, Agenda
• 2023 – Do Planetary Transits Predict Synchronicity Experience?
• 2024 – Archetypal Resonances Between Realms

3. Mathematical and Complex Systems Models​

• 2023 – Systems Biology of Human Aging: Fibonacci Time Series Model
• 2024 – Fractal Dynamics & Fibonacci Sequences: Cultural Attractor Landscapes
• 2024 – A Novel Integrative Model of DNA Dynamics

Academic Books
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• ​2025 – Conscious Life (with John S. Torday)​​

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​🟪 Relational Coherence Research

For those interested in the deeper theoretical framework: Relational Coherence Research is an investigative approach examining how coherence, emergence, and relational dynamics give rise to structured reality without invoking teleology, cosmic intention, or substance-based metaphysical foundations.

Rather than grounding reality in underlying entities or first principles, this framework treats relational coherence itself as primary—with patterns forming, stabilizing, and reorganizing across time and scale through constraint-driven interactions.
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It extends earlier lifespan-based work by focusing on how coherence structures possibility space, generating persistent organization through recursive constraint.

​1. Ontological Foundations

​Papers developing the conceptual basis of the framework, including emergence, constraint, and relational structure as primary.
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1. Beyond Foundations — overview of relational coherence as an ontological primitive.
2. Beyond the Mark — how distinction emerges from constraint dynamics within relational systems.
3. Pregeometry Without Ground — formal/combinatorial treatment of relational structure.
4. From Self-Recursion to Spacetime — emergence of spacetime from recursive coherence.
5. Time as Recursive Constraint — time as asymmetrical recursive constraint generating structure through relational differentiation.

2. Formal Models of Emergence

Mathematical and combinatorial models illustrating how relational constraint structures possibility space and generates organized emergence.
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1. From Entropy to Emergence — Pascal’s Triangle as a minimal model of entropy structured by constraint.
2. The Transformation Framework — emergence through pressure, criticality, phase transition, and stabilization.
3. Fractal Physiology Across Scales — recursive breakdown and reorganization of biological coherence across scales.
4. Groundless Coherence — φ as an attractor arising from recursive symmetry and constraint alignment.
5. From Bit to Structure — Pascal’s Triangle as a recursive geometry of informational emergence and probabilistic organization.

3. Consciousness and Mind

Work examining cognition and experience as emergent relational processes rather than foundational entities.
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1. Identity Without Substance — organizational identity as coherence across processes.
2. From Coherence to Consciousness — threshold architecture of awareness.
3. Consciousness Without a Subject — experience as distributed neural coherence.
4. Modular Partitioning of Combinatorial State Space in Neural Systems — neural activity as modular constraints stabilizing combinatorial state space.
5. ​Presence as Recursive Governance — metacognitive regulation within recursive systems.

4. Synchronicity

Synchronicity as cross-domain relational coherence rather than causal or metaphysical anomaly.
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1. Synchronicity Without Metaphysics — constraint-based account of coincidence.
2. Synchronicity Without Causality — alignment without direct causal linkage.
3. Synchronicity Without Energetic Interconnection — recursive constraint and cross-scale coherence without hidden force transmission. 
4. Synchronicity Without Teleology — experienced guidance as emergent alignment.
5. The Fractal Signature of Synchronicity — fractal-temporal structure of coincidence.