This page presents selected works that reflect themes aligned with Trumble’s Ontology of Truth & Liberation.

Any similarity is treated as convergent insight, not influence. These works are not required to understand the framework and do not define, inform, or shape it. The Trumble Infinite Friction–Emergence Ontology (TIFEO) remains entirely original.

They are included because certain ideas resonate with aspects of the TIFE Model, offering parallel perspectives across science, philosophy, and contemplative traditions.

Role of These Works

These texts:

• do not serve as sources
• do not explain the model
• do not contribute to its structure
• do not establish its framework

They function only as independent reflections that may highlight recurring patterns of understanding across different domains.

Where they align, they typically describe:

• aspects of emergence
• features of perception
• effects of conditioning
• reduction of distortion

These correspondences are partial and approximate, not structural equivalence.

Scope of Alignment

Each category may loosely correspond to aspects of the model, including:

• field
• spontaneous friction
• emergent order
• causal processes
• large-scale structure
• perception and awareness
• identity continuity
• interpretive structuring
• tension reduction and reorganization
• clarification and resolution

Engagement is optional. Understanding of the model does not depend on these materials.

How to Use These Works

• Read them after engaging with the core framework
• Treat them as optional comparisons, not explanations
• Observe where they partially reflect similar patterns
• Do not substitute their terminology or models for the TIFE structure
• Maintain the TIFE Model as the primary reference throughout

1. Science & Philosophy

Understanding emergence, systems, perception, and constructed reality.

Emergence and Systems

• Melanie Mitchell — Complexity: A Guided Tour
• Harold J. Morowitz — The Emergence of Everything
• Ilya Prigogine — Order Out of Chaos
• David Christian — Origin Story

These works describe how structured patterns arise from interaction and how order develops without central control.

Consciousness and Perception

• Anil Seth — Being You
• Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality
• David Eagleman — Incognito
• Christof Koch — The Feeling of Life Itself

These studies explore how perception is constructed and why experience does not directly reflect underlying processes.

Reality, Time, and Identity

• Douglas Hofstadter — I Am a Strange Loop
• Carlo Rovelli — The Order of Time

These perspectives examine identity, time, and relational structure as emergent rather than fixed.

2. Contemplative Traditions

Examining projection, distortion, clarity, and nondual insight across cultures.

Buddhist Phenomenology

• Rob Burbea — Seeing That Frees
• Walpola Rahula — What the Buddha Taught
• Bhikkhu Analayo — Satipatthana
• Nyanaponika Thera — The Heart of Buddhist Meditation

These works analyze perception, mental construction, and the reduction of distortion through direct observation.

Christian Mysticism

• The Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous)
• Thomas Merton — New Seeds of Contemplation
• Meister Eckhart — Selected Sermons

These texts approach clarity through stillness, unknowing, and release of conceptual structuring.

Taoism

• Laozi — Tao Te Ching
• Zhuangzi — Zhuangzi
• Fritjof Capra — The Tao of Physics

These writings emphasize natural emergence, non-forcing, and alignment with underlying processes.

Advaita and Nondual Traditions

• Nisargadatta Maharaj — I Am That
• The Ashtavakra Gita
• Greg Goode — The Direct Path

These works point toward non-fixed identity and the recognition of an unchanging background to experience.

3. Distributed Patterns & Non-Local Sensitivity

Exploring field-like correlations, relational structure, and non-local pattern alignment.

Scientific and Theoretical Perspectives

• Rupert Sheldrake — Science and Spiritual Practices
• David Bohm — Wholeness and the Implicate Order
• Ervin Laszlo — Science and the Akashic Field

These works propose forms of distributed patterning, field-like memory, and connections that are not limited to local interaction.

They often describe:

• non-local correlation
• distributed informational structure
• pattern influence beyond proximity

Physics-Inspired Interpretations

• Carlo Rovelli — relational approaches to quantum theory
• Fritjof Capra — The Tao of Physics

These perspectives suggest that relationships and correlations may be more fundamental than isolated entities.

Contemplative and Experiential Accounts

Various contemplative traditions describe:

• forms of knowing not limited to direct sensory input
• moments of apparent alignment or insight beyond immediate conditions

These accounts often point to:

• increased coherence
• reduced internal distortion
• heightened sensitivity to patterns

Clarification

Across these domains, descriptions may resemble:

• distributed informational traces
• non-local sensitivity to patterns

Within this framework, such phenomena are understood as:

• correlation-based, not transmission-based
• non-local in structure, not in the sense of signals moving across space
• conditionally accessible, depending on the structure and coherence of the system

What appears as “access” is not retrieval from elsewhere, but reconstruction through structural compatibility.

These processes:

• do not involve stored information in a location
• do not involve transfer between systems
• do not imply shared identity or linkage

They reflect how patterned systems can align with broader structures already present within ongoing activity.

4. Practice and Clarity Tools

Developing stability, observation, and reduction of distortion.

Meditation & Direct Awareness

• Sam Harris — Waking Up
• Culadasa — The Mind Illuminated
• Alan Wallace — The Attention Revolution

These practices develop attention stability and allow observation without projection.

Psychological Clarity & Distortion Reduction

• Byron Katie — Loving What Is
• Tara Brach — Radical Acceptance
• Michael Singer — The Untethered Soul

These methods expose habitual interpretations and reduce internal conflict.

Somatic Awareness

• Eugene Gendlin — Focusing
• Bessel van der Kolk — The Body Keeps the Score

These works show how subtle conditioning persists within bodily and behavioral patterns.

Final Note

These works may reflect aspects of emergence, perception, conditioning, and clarity.

They remain:

• optional
• partial
• independent

They offer parallel perspectives, not foundations.

The TIFE Model stands on its own as a complete and unified framework.