Downloads

Use the links below to download the following documents.

• A Chaplain's Introduction to Cognitive Styles written in 2023. This 55 page workbook introduces the seven cognitive styles and examines how each cognitive style responds to a life-changing crisis--such as lying on a hospital bed.
  
  
• TEAL BC 2013 Powerpoint Presentation.
  There is also a 22 page written explanation to accompany the PowerPoint.
  
  
• CELT 2014 Powerpoint Presentation.
  
  
• Biblical Christianity—derived from a diagram, a 159 page book written in 2011 that uses mental symmetry to discuss several cognitive principles and Christian doctrines. This is an early work that does not include any references. I read through this book in 2025 and it is a good introduction. However, the chapter on mental networks was inadequate and required rewriting. Some of the language is also different than what I currently use. For instance, the book uses the term ‘Teacher idolatry’ for what I now call ‘absolute truth’.
  
  
• A Programmer's Guide to the Mind, Vol.1, 2nd Ed., a 217 page book on primarily Mercy, Perceiver, and Teacher thought written back in 1997 and edited in 2011.
  
  
• A Programmer's Guide to the Mind, Vol.2., a 302 page book that uses the four MBTI divisions to analyze the interaction between Mercy, Perceiver, and Teacher thought written back in 2001.
  
  
• A Seminar Booklet written way back in 1994.
  
  
• An Introduction to Cognitive Styles written way, way back in 1986.
  
  
• The original program to determine cognitive styles written in 1990 and modified from an earlier Apple II program. I had to compress the text and load the questions one at a time to run on the limited RAM of an Apple II. It still runs within a DOS emulator. Hit 'i' at the first menu to set an initial hypothesis. The questions on the current cognitive test program are almost identical. The program crashes if you ask for more information at the final menu.
  
  

You can also download my academic papers from here:

• A cognitive approach to LLMs (2026), examines the similarities between mental symmetry and LLMs because both emphasize the pattern-matching of normal thought.
  
  
• A cognitive analysis of the Dark and Light Triads and fundamentalism (2025), uses mental symmetry to analyze the dark triad of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, presents Trump as an example, examines the light triad and then analyzes evangelical support for Trump.
  
  
• A cognitive model of autism (2025), uses mental symmetry to integrate the various theories of autism.
  
  
• A cognitive analysis of John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (2024), a look at the cognitive requirements for more economics, guided by the popular 19th century textbook
  
  
• Mental networks: a unified model of vmPFC function (2024), a comprehensive look at the function of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
  
  
• A cognitive-prophetic analysis of the Gospels and Incarnation (2023), presents the hypothesis that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are both detailed prophecies of Western history.
  
  
• Using a cognitive meta-theory to analyze second language acquisition theories (2022), uses mental symmetry to provide a framework for the content and history of Second Language Acquisition.
  
  
• Using a cognitive model to analyze Big Five (2022), a comparison of the Big 5 cognitive model with mental symmetry.
  
  
• Using a cognitive model to explain mathematical thought (2022), a cognitive and historical look at the development of math.
  
  
• Using a cognitive meta-theory to evaluate ACT-R (2022), a simple analysis of a computer model of human cognition.
  
  
• A cognitive meta-theory for TESOL (2021), uses mental symmetry as a framework for several second language acquisition theories. Written with Angelina Van Dyke.
  
  
• A cognitive model of economics (2021), a detailed cognitive analysis of introductory micro- and macro-economics
  
  
• People and paradigms: mental networks and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (2021), relates the cognitive mechanism of the mental network with the function of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
  
  
• Theories generate emotions (2021), presents the hypothesis that a theory generates emotions based upon order-within-complexity.
  
  
• Using mental bias to construct a model of cognition (2021), constructing a model of cognition by looking for repeated patterns of bias.
  
  
• A cognitive model of science and theology (2020), describes and compares the cognitive basis for theology and scientific thought.
  
  
• Mapping a cognitive theory onto neurology (2019), a detailed mapping of mental symmetry on to brain regions.