My Big TOE
AWAKENING – DISCOVERY — INNER WORKINGS
A TRILOGY UNIFYING PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, AND METAPHYSICS
Thomas Campbell
Book 2 Discovery – Abridged Version – Part 12
In general, any communication or interaction requires an exchange of energy. The sender intentionally (or unintentionally) impacts the receiver. This condition defines the concept of action, and in the case of energy transfer by discrete thought packets, all such action is intentional. If action is intentional (directed, controlled, willful), the concept of responsibility naturally follows. Now an entity can take or execute an action (that directly affects another being) that is the result of intent and be held responsible for the intent and for the immediate consequences of the action.
This transfer of energy from one individual consciousness to another can be used to deliver a message or to affect the substance and energy of the intended receiver. From the digital perspective, one may think of energy transfers as the ability to affect the arrangement of bits within the organization of another. Allowable interactions are defined by the operative rule-set. A thought-being or individuated conscious entity can readily absorb or interact with thought energy. The efficiency of the energy transfer (coupling or transfer coefficient) can be anywhere from near zero to near 100% depending on the circumstances and specific conditions of the transfer. Relatively high efficiency transfer coefficients between sentient beings are not unusual. Thus, individuated conscious entities can both throw and get hit by a figurative thought-energy-rock as well as send and receive data
The size of the rock a being could throw (how much one being could impact another’s vital energy, organization, and structure) depends on how much thought energy it can move (transfer) with its intent. Theoretically, any being with a mind can affect any other being with a mind, or anything that is a consciousness construct — which is absolutely everything. Thus the connectedness of all beings and things is an artifact of the fundamental nature of consciousness. All beings, and all things, are on the network, have potential access to each other, and can exchange information as well as other forms of energy. We are all interconnected with each other and with everything else because at the most fundamental level we are part of the same consciousness. Our individuation is about entropy and about constraints on our ability to interact, not about being disconnected from the whole.
The energy of one being or thing can be intentionally manipulated or impacted by another. The energy transfer I am referring to takes place in thought-space outside of PMR; its control, function, and possible effects are constrained by the NPMRN rule-set and not by the space- time rule-set. Nevertheless, its result can directly affect what is experienced in PMR. It should not be surprising that mind can alter a reality created by and within mind.
We are connected by the fundamental oneness of our consciousness; we are all individuated lumps within, as well as parts of, the same sheet. We are connected by the ability of one individual to vitally affect, and be affected by, another through the purposeful control of thought energy or the energy of consciousness. We are connected by the theoretical ability of one being to exchange energy or information with any other being simply by focusing intent.
The power and focus (energy density) of the transmission, along with the transmission coefficient, determines how much energy is transferred from the sender to the receiver. It is the sensitivity, clarity (low noise) and knowledge-base of the receiver that determines how aware the receiver is of the origins, context, and content of the absorbed energy. Likewise, it is the focus, clarity (low noise) and knowledge-base of the sender that determines how much, what type, and to what end energy can be imparted to the receiver. A knowledgeable receiver can refuse, deflect, or return energy sent to him by another entity’s intent while an unknowledgeable receiver is comparatively open and vulnerable to whatever is thrown at him.
This connectivity is accomplished by the exchange of discrete packets of consciousness energy and is made possible because we all are extant in, and of, the same apparently (but not actually) infinite consciousness. We share and are all part of the same fundamental digital energy source. Though our physical experience must remain exclusively connected to the particular virtual reality (space-time rule- set) that we are presently using to improve the quality of our consciousness, our mind is free to explore and experience the larger reality.
The possibilities for interaction within the larger reality, by number and variation, range many orders of magnitude beyond your wildest imagination, and there are few constraints placed upon what you can do and where you can go. Your aware intentional experiences in NPMRN often become an integral part of an accelerated growth path as you learn to operate, function, work, play, and make free will choices as a responsible interactive citizen of multiple reality systems. Restricting yourself to PMR is analogous to never leaving your house — never venturing beyond your front door — fine (and relatively safe) for an infant but rather limiting for an adult. Growing up is what your existence is all about.
Those who have the understanding and experience to utilize this connectivity effectively, operate at will outside PMR causality. The occasional and somewhat random glimmers of experience that most people have with their connectedness to the RWW are called spontaneous paranormal experiences. Paranormal events are natural artifacts of the nature of consciousness and represent the normal activity of the nonphysical energy that is consciousness. For this reason, they sometimes violate PMR causality rules and are thus vehemently denied by those ensnared within the familiar and comforting grip of widely accepted scientific or cultural beliefs that are based upon the exclusivity of our local physical reality.
Once you understand the nature of consciousness, the nature of reality, and that we are consciousness constructs, the paranormal becomes normal — an everyday fact of existence that is as accessible as gravity. As we pointed out in Section 2 (Chapter 20, Book 1), the words “mystic” and “paranormal” have meaning only in relation to the normal level of ignorance within PMR.
Let’s take a moment to discuss growing up. To a three year old, almost everything in a given normal day would seem mystical and miraculous. To its parents, who are less ignorant and enjoy a larger perspective from a larger reality, those same activities in that same day are mundane and normal. No big deal, no amazement, no hailing of miracles — ho hum. They don’t think about it, they simply live it. They don’t seek out ignorant children and try to impress them with their greater adult knowledge and understanding unless they are manipulative, have huge egos, or both.
The kids on the other hand, want to be adults. Much of their play time is spent pretending to be adults and mimicking adult role models. The adults seem powerful and children want, and need (from their perspective) more power. Kids always want to be older, more powerful, and more in control than they are. They can’t wait to become teenagers, then to turn 16 and be able to drive a car (freedom and control), then 18 to vote, get married, and legally buy recreational drugs. After that, 21 becomes the big goal (can legally execute contracts and obtain access to a larger selection of recreational drugs). The twenties are cool. During the next decade the pendulum swings the other way and everybody wants to be younger again — but not at the price of giving up their precious hard won knowledge, understanding, maturity, and access to recreational drugs. Nobody wants to be that stupid, naive, or sober again.
Another forty years go by and most would gladly trade everything they have learned during those forty years if they could turn back the clock for a decade. It seems the rate of learning and growing is asymptotically approaching the time axis. The mental rocket fuel appears to have been used up by the mid-forties. After that we merely drift on a long slow ballistic trajectory awaiting the inevitable death on impact as we (our bodies) literally return to earth. Typically, little of much value is learned during the exploration of the back forty.
Why is it that relatively little personal growth or maturity is achieved in the last half of a typical PMR life? Why do we coast like that? This cultural tradition (belief) is particularly sad because from forty to eighty years of age is the time when learning should be steeply accelerating as beings get ready for the really important stuff.
Recall that it is a characteristic of aware consciousness that the pace of learning accelerates. The accelerating growth of conscious awareness can be continual, far outlasting physical bodies. What happens that knocks most folks off their natural accelerating ascension to greater maturity, power, freedom, and understanding? Why does the Big Picture stop getting bigger after forty? Why does our reality and self- awareness quit growing?
Many would like to believe that by age forty they know almost everything there is to know about what is both critically important and under their control. They feel as if they have been there and done that — at least everything important and necessary anyway. It seems that two year olds, young teens and people over forty have a tendency to feel this way — all transition ages where the individual self is centered in a small (already mastered) reality awaiting to grow into the next major change of perspective. Why do middle-age folks stop blazing new trails to new frontiers when they turn forty? Let me assure you it is not because they know everything that is critically important to the success of their daily lives.
The only reason they can maintain the “been there, done that” illusion is because they actually know and understand so little about what is important relative to the next phase of their growth (the same is true for all who are in their transition years). The delusion of omniscience and completeness with regards to the size of their local reality (it appears to be as big as it gets) is an artifact of ignorance and arrogance teaming together to produce an artificial blindness that delivers the same result as simple stupidity. How does this happen to otherwise bright and aware people? Oh, no, jeez — not that! Yes, it is that simple: they get caught in belief traps! PMR experience, which at forty is only at the beginning of a long and magnificent journey, looks as if it is the end of a short walk to nowhere from the perspective that develops from inside the trap. Opportunity lost.
Our culture helps the first two transition ages get out of their belief traps by showing them the next phase (by example of the more powerful majority) and encouraging them to grow up and into a new, better, more capable and more fulfilling mode of awareness. However, the last group, in this day and age, is on their own to figure it out for themselves because they form the majority and thus have the power to define what is accepted as reality within PMR. The third transition is actually the easiest (less turmoil), but it also presents us with the greatest challenge to see through the self-imposed artificial blindness that ignorance and arrogance employs to make us artificially stupid.
When we do not grow up in the appropriate way at the appropriate time, we, and everything and everybody around us, suffers the consequences.
I told you those belief traps were dangerous! Space-time is a great place to learn and eventually, when you are ready and grown up enough to graduate, the belief traps will melt away along with the fear and ignorance that created them. Without fear your existence will be filled with love, peace, and balance. But don’t let me rush you; this is not a timed test. If you are presently indifferent toward love, peace, and balance, that’s OK; if your personal consciousness evolves in the positive direction (toward lower entropy), eventually that attitude will change. Take all the time you need and don’t worry that you are being overlooked as a candidate for graduation. When you are ready, graduation is automatic.
If you feel as if you are ready to graduate but nothing is happening, your learning is not accelerating and you are not as ready as you think. The evolution of consciousness does not work like public school. You are not passed to the next grade until you have mastered the material, and you do not graduate simply because you are old enough and want to. Kids do not need to be given permission, sent to classes, or read a how-to book to grow into adults. For most of them, it simply happens; childish behavior drops away and adulthood comes when they are ready for it, whatever their age. Progressing through the learning process in the space-time learning lab of PMR works the same way.
1) Stop doing and start being. 2) No one is ever overlooked. You get all the nonphysical help you can use and need, even if it is not what you want, expect, or think you are ready for.
Help is always available and more or less automatically applied to those who are ready to make good use of it. Your physical and mental existence becomes more directed as you become more capable of interacting with, responding to, and understanding the direction given, and as you become more able to learn from, and capitalize on, the effort made in your behalf.
The requirement to push out or direct discrete energy packets specifically to other beings has several important consequences affecting the evolutionary capacity of conscious beings. One result of this arrangement is that given a non-hostile external environment, an individuated consciousness ends up, to a large extent, creating its own internal environment. Its will, intent, and motivation lets in and sends out only what its free will wants to. Unpleasant or unwanted packets are ignored or deleted while the link to the source of those unpleasant packets is simply turned off.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to turn off or ignore everything that is annoying or unpleasant in your existence? And why can’t you do that? Because there is an external reality out there that you are strongly interdependent with. As much as you want to turn it off, it will not go away. It waits for you, stalks you and will not let you ignore the results of your accumulated choices. This strong interdependence forces you to define and share a common reality with other players.
An “I’ll have it my way” individualism might seem ideal, but it generates relatively weak (in an evolutionary sense) interactions between independent, discrete units of consciousness. Though these individuated sentient entities interact profusely and form connections (relationships) with each other, each individual is essentially an independent reality unto itself. Interactions are weak because there is a weak connection between an action reflecting intent and the consequences and result of that action. A strong accountability- feedback link needs to be forged connecting intent, action, and the results of that action leading directly to consequences for both parties involved in the interaction.
Weak interactions produce slow development, slow rates of evolution, and therefore slow experimental results.
Let’s focus on the subject of experience. Most of our experiences are experiences of and within space-time. To understand the relationship we have with our local physical reality, it will be helpful to take a closer look at the functionality of space-time and how we interact with it. Space-time itself is a mental construct within the apparently infinite consciousness of AUM. Thus, you might say that space-time is made out of consciousness, but that would be misleading, “Made out of” sounds, to our PMR trained ears, like bricks and mortar — construction materials. Space-time is not built out of chunks of consciousness; it is a specific configuration of consciousness. Realities (and you too for that matter) are not made of consciousness; they are a limited implementation of consciousness developed to serve a particular evolutionary purpose (occupy an available niche) within the greater consciousness ecosystem.
Consciousness is not a construction material in the sense that construction materials are component parts. Houses can be made of wood while trees (minus leaves) simply are wood. One might say that tree trunks, limbs, twigs, bark, and roots exist as wood constructs — they are wood. You are not made of consciousness — you, and your physical reality, are consciousness constructs — you are consciousness. That is correct: Both individuated conscious beings and PMR are constructs of consciousness similar to the lumps in the sheet. They are constructs of the sheet, not constructed of sheets. Do you see that each expression carries different implicit assumptions? The difference is one of process. The first (constructs of consciousness) speaks of deformations of, or specific organization within, a continuum — lumps in the sheet, while the second (constructed of consciousness) implies building a separate, more complex thing out of something more basic, something entirely different by nature than the thing being built. The deformation or organization of the continuum referred to above is effected by placing constraints (including rule- sets) upon subsets of an apparently infinite digital consciousness, thus bounding them into individual existence relative to the whole.
Many people have the intuitive notion that consciousness is the basis for everything else; that consciousness is the substance, the fundamental energy from which everything else is constructed, made, or derived. Some, if they were poetic to a fault, might replace the bolded word “consciousness” with “soul,” or more expansively, “the mind of God.” These people would be coming from a PMR cultural frame of reference, and would not mind obscuring the plain non- poetical truth within a charged cloud of emotive ambiguity to achieve the familiar comfort of a favorite poem often read. That’s all right, no problem, it is a good poetic metaphor. Just one caution: If the use of poetical image ends up confusing your sense of reality with ambiguous abstract symbolic language (the stuff good poetry is made of), then stick with the word “consciousness.” Those belief traps are tricky — best stay clear if you are prone to falling in.
That spirit, mind, or consciousness is more fundamental than material objects falls directly and naturally out of the intuition of millions of people — without the intervention and encouragement of religious dogma. It is a common idea that most of us intuitively understand but cannot rationalize. Because it is a typically human characteristic that any answer is better than no answer, many individuals have turned to religious or scientific belief to ease the discomfort and anxiety of not knowing how we, consciousness, purpose, and the larger reality are interconnected.
The more inquisitive of our kind have racked their brains for millennia trying to understand how PMR could possibly be made from consciousness or mind. How could our rocky planet, big yellow school buses, atomic bombs, tapeworms, and our spouses and children all be made from consciousness? That just doesn’t compute! The question put in those terms leads to a dead end. A better question is: How could our rocky planet, big yellow school buses, atomic bombs, tapeworms, and our spouses and children all be part of a larger consciousness construct?
From an objective PMR point of view, the assertion that we are mind and that PMR is an artifact of experience within a virtual physical reality instead of an actual one appears unsupportable, delusional, wacko, and just plain dumb. However, it only looks stupid from a PMR point of view that lives deep inside scientific and Western culture belief traps. Hang with me and you will see how this mind- matter thing works itself out.
What does compute is that our interactions with space-time, our bodies, and all the rest of physical matter is a constrained experience of consciousness. The experience of PMR takes place within consciousness. That is a less confusing statement than saying that PMR is created by consciousness, though both are logically true.
Because our experience in PMR leads us to believe unequivocally in the solidity of what we call the physical world, the words “PMR is created” found in the previous sentence produce a sense of making or manufacturing the solid massive objects that we experience. In fact, all that has to be made, produced, or manufactured is the experience of the solid massive objects that we experience.
We earlier divided all the perceptions of an individuated consciousness into those that were inside the defining boundary or internal to the being (personal mind), and those that appeared to be outside or external to the being (environment or other beings, objects, and energy). Our only contact with the outside world is through our individual perception-based experience. If there is no physical experience (experience that we interpret as physical), then there is no physical world, no physical reality and PMR disappears from our perception and thus ceases to be a part of our personal reality. An entity who loses contact with its external environment (due to a sensory deprivation chamber, perhaps) retains the full awareness and the full potential of its internal environment.
Be sure to notice that there is a personal as well as a shared reality. The only surprise is that the personal reality turns out to be the big primary one while the shared reality is discovered to be the little virtual one. What a switch! Common wisdom turns out to be 180 degrees out of phase with the truth. That is why this particular paradigm shift is so difficult for most people to negotiate — they come to the discussion culturally calibrated bass-ackwards.
Some are thinking that this line of reasoning is turning into one of those “If a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to hear it…” semantic puzzles. It is not. If you lose all your physical senses, the world will undeniably disappear for you — but only for you.
Let’s look at this more closely and examine the implicit assumptions. Most people, because of their belief in the fundamental realness of PMR, see things with a bias. In their mind, the emphasis is placed on the fact that this is about them losing their senses, which has no effect on the physical world or anybody else’s ability to sense it. Their point is that even if every sentient thing on the planet lost all of their senses, the planet and PMR would continue to exist. They are absolutely correct from their point of view. Given the belief-generated implicit assumption underlying this view, PMR does not logically depend on anyone’s existence.
The underlying hidden assumption is that PMR is fundamental and basic and that we (sentient conscious entities) are not; that the causal relationship flows from PMR to our consciousness; that the outside world (PMR) causes our consciousness awareness, not the other way around. These folks believe that we, our consciousness, is physically derived, an effect — not a cause. They think they are physical body- machines (digital or analog) experiencing a virtual consciousness instead of a consciousness experiencing a virtual body.
Determinism is birthed from this same erroneous paradigm because it assumes that physical experience defines the one universal reality; after that, consciousness and free will appear to be theoretically impossible. Science is securely stuck in that same belief trap and cannot find a solution that does not conflict with its core beliefs. Although belief in a universal physical reality appears reasonable from a PMR point of view, it is in fact exactly opposite from what is true. In a virtual reality (like PMR), what you experience is a rule- based, derived, or computed reality, not a fundamental reality. Back in the real world of fundamental existence, consciousness is the one universal reality.
Turn your cultural assumption upside down and play it backward to find the secret message that will allow you to avoid this particular PMR bias. Instead of seeing us as derived from PMR, see PMR as derived from our experience.
Boats without rudders, motors, paddles or sails are clearly dysfunctional, but boats without a destination are just as useless if getting from here to there is the issue. Dysfunctionality due to little picture tunnel-vision is so common in our culture that to a large degree it is considered normal — and therefore acceptable, if not actually desirable. The sense of direction and purpose that resides naturally at our core would provide clear guidance if our fear did not press us so hard to deny, subvert, abuse, and distort it to serve our ego’s immediate needs, wants, expectations, and desires.
Take action: 1) Repair the rudder, 2) set a destination, and 3) fire up and engage the engine; continually re-engineer all three actions in real-time toward an optimal long-term profitability. As your entropy decreases, the purpose that animates your journey will eventually grow to be bigger than the little picture that gave it birth.
We cannot modify all the rule-sets that define our existence and our experience. We are stuck with the actual physics of PMR (when we are extant in PMR), and with a spiritual need to improve the quality of our consciousness. However, do not forget that our consciousness is part and parcel of the original. As chips from the old AUM block, we have the license and capacity to soar. We have the ability to understand the Big Picture, to be an aware player, an active participant in our evolution. We can be a power-user of, as well as an experiencer within, our larger reality. At the very least, we can view the larger reality by looking through the Big Picture window of our Big TOE.