My Big TOE
AWAKENING – DISCOVERY — INNER WORKINGS
A TRILOGY UNIFYING PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, AND METAPHYSICS
Thomas Campbell
Book 2 Discovery – Abridged Version – Part 15
Wave particle duality, uncertainty principles, and the seemingly instantaneous communications between entangled pairs become simple to explain once you realize that PMR is a virtual reality created by a digital simulation implementing the space-time rule-set within TBC. Given a digital PMR simulation, which is stepped forward by time increments that appear infinitesimal to us, and a virtual reality that must obey only the rules driving its digital computation, these paradoxes disappear along with the illusion of absolute space. Once the limiting belief that all possible reality is exclusively defined by measurements within PMR is abandoned and the true nature of consciousness is grasped, the mysterious paradoxes of physics, philosophy, and metaphysics all melt away like ice cubes in the summer sun.
All that is needed to find solutions to the Big Questions of our time is a simple shift in perspective — a casting off of erroneous scientific, cultural, and religious belief inherited from those who were unable to answer the same questions. Isn’t that how it always turns out? New paradigms deliver an expanded reality as we outgrow the old ones. The digital mountain raised up by the approaching information age has simply afforded us a better view at this time. Progress, like quality and ability, is developed through a bootstrapping process. Every new success is built on previous successes.
Nascent understandings of the digital nature of the Big Picture are erupting all around us. Dozens of top scientists are today hot on the heels of discovering that PMR is actually a little digital picture existing within a computed reality. That is a necessary first step that leaves the Big Picture just around the corner. It appears that this is an auspicious time for humanity to take yet another of its occasional grand leaps toward a greater understanding. My Big TOE provides the theoretical foundation that supports the phenomenology and hypotheses that are currently being investigated by scientists and philosophers worldwide. Grand leaps (forward or backward) are always the result of a confluence of many forces and urgings that together produce a unique opportunity. These are exciting times with great success and great failure sitting on opposite sides of the same fantastic opportunity. Human beings, are you ready? Drum roll please!
Once you understand what and who you are, and how you relate to the whole, the resulting Big Picture perspective produces one consistent reality with no paradoxes. Note that the first nonnegotiable requirement of a fully correct Big Picture Theory Of Everything (that it produces one consistent reality with no paradoxes) has been fully met by My Big TOE. Also note that the second nonnegotiable requirement of a fully correct Big TOE (that it subsume what is known as a special case of a more general understanding) has also been fully met by My Big TOE. Furthermore, that the science contained within My Big TOE does not support the limited view of traditional scientific beliefs, which are unable to produce a bigger picture, is a necessary strength, not an unavoidable weakness of this Theory Of Everything.
When you are in NPMR, it appears to be every bit as physical as PMR, but because it operates under a different set of rules, one interacts with it differently. The operational differences between PMR and NPMR simply represent the differences between their rule-sets and the unique causality that each rule-set imposes. Each particular reality dimension has evolved a rule-set to support its own use, function, and purpose. The space-time rule-set supports human function and purpose within OS.
There is no significant distinction between physical and nonphysical realities: Reality is reality. I employ that artificial distinction and terminology (PMR vs. NPMR) as a communications aid. To communicate with you effectively, I need to start (conceptually) from where you are (or think you are). The fact is that most of you are certain that you exist within a physical reality, hence that is the initial perspective we must take. The PMR-NPMR distinction within My Big TOE is used to help you conceptually sneak up on a bigger picture. We will continue to use the PMR-NPMR terminology, especially in the next section, because it greatly facilitates the grasping of inherently difficult Big Picture concepts — like thinking of an atom as a billiard ball with BBs zipping around it — patently incorrect, but useful at an elementary level.
Local reality is an experience of individuated mind interacting within the limitations of a given causality. If there are multiple minds interacting within a given local reality, there exists a shared common (public) experience we define as objective, as well as a personal experience that we define as subjective. The subjective and objective components of reality are both extremely significant — their purpose and function are simply different.
The larger reality is all consciousness (All That Is) evolving toward greater profitability, existing to improve itself through entropy reduction. Aware consciousness is created by the organization of a fundamental potential energy that we have (for reasons of conceptual familiarity) named Absolute Unbounded Oneness — the nature of this organization is digital. The larger reality is a huge interactive digital consciousness system; it is a consciousness-evolution fractal ecosystem that we have named AUM.
To summarize: Physical and nonphysical are relative to a point of view and therefore do not support a fundamental distinction. The mind-matter, normal-paranormal, physics-metaphysics, and science- philosophy dichotomies are likewise simply illusions of perspective created by a limited understanding that is exclusively focused within its own local reality. The experience of our physical matter reality is the result of a particular set of constraints (space-time rule-set) placed upon the interaction of individuated consciousness with other players, which include other sentient beings as well as the environment. Matter is a simulated menial effect that we, as mind, experience because it helps put us in a virtual environment that makes the evolution of our consciousness more efficient and effective.
As constrained constructs of consciousness, we have the imperative to lower our entropy (evolve our consciousness) because that is the fundamental nature of the greater consciousness-evolution fractal ecosystem of which we are an infinitesimal part. We personally and as a species reflect the pattern of consciousness evolution because we are the result of that pattern and an integral piece of a larger consciousness system that evolves by iterating recursively upon itself to generate All That Is.
Let’s look at reality from an entirely different viewpoint. We may create or customize our own local reality through our personal interpretations, but we certainly do not create all reality: A larger reality exists apart from us that appears to be centered in the nonphysical because it exists outside our local physical reality dimension. We are a subset of that larger reality and we interact with it through our individual personal minds. Our bodies and their physical experiences are a product of our minds interacting within the constraints of the space-time rule-set with other players (both sentient and non-sentient) and other minds in a mutually interactive dance of aware but limited consciousness exchanging discrete energy packets in a process called interactive experience.
What about the scientists and mystics who already knew everything I have explained about the Big Picture? You know, the individuals who are reading these books just to see if I got it right. Do these people represent a glitch in the system? Are they screwing up because they are peeking behind the scenes, looking on the other side of the energy packet exchange interface instead of obeying the rules of space-time like the more normal citizens of PMR?
No way! We are not put in space-time like a zoo keeper puts an animal in a cage. We are not caged at all. We are consciousness — no more, no less. We have at our command all the attributes and abilities of a sentient individuated consciousness with free will. We are a part of AUM and contain the characteristics and potential of the whole in our part. We are in space-time to learn, to grow the quality of our consciousness, to evolve. Once we have evolved our consciousness to the point that the space-time construct is no longer an efficient tool for evolution, we go on to other things. Space-time constitutes a learning lab, an educational environment to grow in, not a jail.
It is more like an elementary school than a detention center. The point is: You are supposed to graduate eventually, not merely hang out with your friends, smoke ciggies in the bathroom, and skip classes. If you pay attention, try hard, do all your homework, and taste test lots of experimental pudding you will someday grow-up and be one of the big (picture) kids. Then you will realize a closely held secret that only the big kids know. Listen up! I am going to spill the beans! This is the major secret of life. Are you ready for this? Here goes — drum-roll please! You can learn more if you try, pay attention, study, and practice, than you can if you just wander around in the school hallways waiting for gratuitous insight, or by hanging out with the smart kids. That’s it.
That is the biggest and best secret I have. I blab that secret to people who want to know something deep and meaningful, but most of them don’t actually get it. All life’s great secrets share this attribute: Merely voicing the secret does not divulge the meaning; it only becomes profound, and therefore makes a difference to your life, when you are ready to absorb its significance within the context of a bigger picture.
We make choices based on the quality of our consciousness and the opportunities our apparent situation presents to us. We need such an apparent situation because of the optimal learning opportunity it presents — as discussed in Chapter 22 of Book 1, Chapter 14 of this book, and Chapter 2 of Book 3.
Each individual partially defines his or her own local reality. To the extent that our perceived environment, sensors and interpretations are similar, our experience will be similar. We of common experience, large ego, and limited understanding subsequently come together and declare that our shared reality is the one true reality and that everybody who doesn’t understand that fact is dumb, confused, or delusional. This position concerning the accepted notion of reality becomes just another cultural, scientific, and religious belief system. Be careful: It is an easy trap to fall into.
Our local reality is defined and limited by our senses and our interpretation of the data our senses collect. What lies beyond our local reality is believed to not exist, believed to be mystical, or described as nonphysical.
Here we are speaking of fundamental sense perceptions as well as your perception of the quality of sentient interaction (mood, intent, motivation, attitude, feelings, relationship, emotion, and meaning).
Are all interpretations of perceptions equally valid? Can anyone distinguish between logical and non-logical interpretations? If a given interpretation is logical for one perceiver, will it be logical for all perceivers? The point of experience is growing the quality of your consciousness, not getting the right answers. You can learn to make more profitable interpretations with more experience — wisdom can be developed. However, do not put too much hope in the power of logic to lead consistently to the optimal, best, or correct interpretation. Logic can be applied only when there are enough good data to support it. Most of the interpretations of our perceptions, particularly those that support our most significant decisions, must be made without enough data to come to a definitive logical conclusion.
This beyond-logical, uncertain state of affairs is by design. Otherwise, choice, free will, and intention would become moot issues if all interaction within our local reality was essentially deductive or lightly logical; all problems and challenges would have a unique analytical solution. Logic would replace judgment; existence and choices would be automatic and machine-like within a closed solution set. Even the extreme left-brainers, who longingly fantasize a more rational world, would eventually get bored. If life were a logical puzzle to be solved, learning would come to an end as soon as someone found a solution and shared it with others. Life is not logical — even if you pretend you are. You cannot use your intellect to get the most out of it. Trying to optimize your life by primarily applying your intellect (what most intellectuals do) is like a blind person with exceptional hearing trying to drive an automobile or fly an airplane.
We have the space-time rule-set (PMR physical law) to provide basic order and causality as an objective foundation. Do not expect logic to govern personal learning, interactions, and relationship in the same way that physics governs cannonballs — these are not logical processes
Typically, your sense of being rational is produced by the self- justifying belief traps you are caught in. Your appearance (to yourself and others) of rationality and logical process is, for the most part, an illusion, a feel-good delusion of the ego that makes you appear to be competent and thus delivers a sense of correctness, and personal security to the self. Each of us has a tendency to define the local truth to be whatever feels good to our ego and boosts our self-esteem. We justify our actions, feeling, attitudes, and beliefs and interpret events to support our needs, wants, desires, and expectations.
Let’s tie this discussion of assumed logic and rationality in with some of the things we learned in previous sections. Do you see why randomness (or pseudo-randomness), uncertainty and the psi uncertainty principle are a necessary part of the space-time rule-set? Is it clear why divination, mind reading, telepathy, remote viewing, precognition, psychokinesis, and other psi effects are detrimental to the potential growth of a low quality, high entropy consciousness while generally irrelevant to the growth of a low entropy, high quality consciousness? Little boys, say five to ten years of age, would dearly love to be as strong as full grown men, but fortunately evolution is not that careless.
If you still do not get it, imagine your boss, spouse, mother-in-law, children, or telemarketers having direct access to your mind. Great power in the hands of an irrational ego or manipulating intent is always frightening and usually destructive. For the most part, we are thankful for the natural limitations on other people’s power, as are they, no doubt, thankful for the limitation on ours. That huge difference between “us” and “them” is an illusion of ego. Irrationality and illogic are the norm, not the exception; belief that the opposite is true (at least for us) is a commonly held delusion. Take a moment to ponder how this discussion might apply to you and the people you know.
Almost everyone will agree that ego typically ravages the rationality of others because we are all reasonably secure in the knowledge that we are an exception to that rule. You and me amigo, were not like all the others. Right?
Are a gaggle of pre-schoolers rational? Are they logical? Are they highly interactive? What motivates them? Why do you think that you (at the fundamental level of interactive consciousness) interact substantially differently than they do? Think about that for a moment
— I want a good, thoughtful answer. Are you sure the perceived difference is not either superficial (you are better at math, a better planner) or generated by an ego justifying itself and its significance (the things you do are more important)? Most people simply define themselves to be rational and that is that.
When you find somebody who thinks that they are particularly rational and logical, often you have found instead somebody who is out of touch with their deeper motivations and intents. Simple analytical thinking often masquerades as basic intelligence and is used to support a superior claim to correctness — a self-serving logic and rationality that justifies dominance, wants, needs, and desires.
People who live entirely out of their heads and exist primarily in intellectual space often are sadly shallow and severely limited by the belief that they are primarily logical beings and that the employment of rationality and logical analysis is the highest and loftiest goal they can aspire to. The most important things in life are not things that can be adequately dealt with or experienced through analysis and logical process. Such self-directed impoverishment and limitation is held up as an ideal in Western culture.
Do not get carried away. I am not implying that all logical process is fraudulent and useless. It can be a wonderfully productive tool — I live and work by it every day. Science is based upon it — it is the foundation of My Big TOE. I am merely asserting that we in the West have elevated the value of belief-based rational process to the point that we are fooling ourselves most of the time and as a consequence, we have blocked our view of a more holistic process that reaches much deeper into the well of truth than mere logical analysis. Our sense of rationality has become twisted, self-referential, and based upon circular logic — a marvelous tool extended beyond its useful function.
The non-rational, non-logical world that we actually live in is entirely different from the rational, logic-driven world that most of us pretend that we live in (particularly intellectuals and technical or scientific types). It seems typical that the information available to support making a logical interpretation or decision about the meaning or significance of our collected perceptions is inversely proportional to the importance of the correctness of that interpretation or decision. The majority of life’s important, significant, path-changing decisions are the ones whose outcomes are the most uncertain because of a lack of information.
This state of affairs was not designed to frustrate you, but is a result of the fact that the physical causal world is simply a theatrical set (a playground with rules) provided to you to help you unfold your personal drama by forcing you to make significant subjective choices based upon your intent, not objective choices based upon causal logic. This arrangement allows you to evolve your consciousness, not just practice the relatively sterile art of correctly applying logic. The most important growth opportunities of your life will always be beyond your causal logic — will always be subjective and intuitive gropes dressed up in as much pseudo-logical justification as you can muster in order to make your life appear as orderly and rational as possible. The appearance of an orderly rational process driving our lives forward is a delusion that lowers anxiety and makes us feel better. Beyond that, the appearance of order in your life provides a coherent media or frame of reference for your experience that infallibly reflects the quality of your being. It would seem that our drive to rationalize our choices is a necessary part of what makes us work.
By highly valuing the well behaved, dependable, easily understood objective aspects of your existence while discarding, devaluing, or bumbling through the subjective aspects, you are focusing upon the chaff and throwing away the wheat. This misguided assessment of where we should focus our effort wastes huge amounts of time and energy in logical objective cultures such as ours. The effort that we focus on our careers, status, and material success greatly outweighs the effort that we invest in raising our personal quality. The result is that most people live their lives within a continuous soap opera that seems to have no final episode until death liberates them from that particular part.
The physical virtual reality set (PMR) is not intrinsically important to your purpose except that it provides the structured learning experience you need. The iterative expression of your intent as it assimilates feedback derived from the results of your interactions with others is what allows you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps (lower your entropy increment by increment through a long-term personal program of self-improvement). That you can solve logic problems is helpful in mastering your rule-based space-time environment, but it is only the foil, a supporting, enhancing, enabling structure: not the main goal. Understanding the objective causality of your virtual learning lab is important like your house and car is important; understanding the subjective and intuitive nature of your most significant decisions is important like your children or parents are important.
Big decisions, important decisions, are usually complex and span many uncertain issues and are therefore least amenable to a logical solution. Where did you leave your glasses? Use logic as best you can. Who should you marry? How should you go about improving the quality of your consciousness? Forget logic, it’s not going to help much. Because we seldom know how things will change or how relationships and interactions with others will progress (even if we could fully specify present states), how could our logical analysis penetrate very deeply? Our assumed rationality and logical process is a thin veneer, while love, truth, fear, want, need, and desire, run deep.
How do we interpret our perceptions in the midst of this unknowing? Mostly we guess! We make assumptions and rely on beliefs. We go with a hunch, from the heart, or with a gut feeling. We pretend (usually without intellectually knowing that we are pretending) that we are logical or that we know more than we do. We develop theories; we extrapolate past experience into the future. We use our intuition, which is our normal connection to the nonphysical part of our being. How we ultimately interpret our perceptions depends on our knowledge, previous experience, understanding, wisdom, and the quality of our consciousness. We try the best we can to be rational, or at least to appear to be rational.
I expect that you may have noticed the many feedback loops and functional interdependencies that connect perception, interpretation, logical analysis, experience, wisdom, belief, and the quality of your consciousness.
Interpreting your experience can be tricky if the quality of your consciousness is low. Belief and ego can strongly color your interpretation as well as your perception. Many of man’s most horrific experiences — war (including holy wars), genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing and so forth — are motivated by ego in the service of belief. Humanity’s worst crimes are typically committed to maintain, preserve, and spread particular beliefs and individual power, or as an expression of ego-arrogance. Many ordinary, perfectly nice people become upset if a bigger picture (or someone else’s little picture) threatens their comfortable concept of reality. They will rationalize their attitudes and produce many good reasons why their particular delusion represents the only correct view. Such is the power of fear, belief traps, a closed mind, and a small picture combined. This is the politics of reality.
Selectively ignoring the facts of objective and subjective experience to justify enforcing a common belief (scientific, cultural, political, or religious) of what constitutes official reality sanctioned by the proper (scientific, cultural, political, or religious) authorities is required to maintain the delusion that we are logical, rational people living in an objective physical world. Fear, control, and conformity make ignorance their friend.
The boundary between what we can perceive (experience) and the unexperienceable reality, which is the source of that perception but at the same time forever beyond our perception, is the boundary between our local reality and a mystical reality (from the view of PMR). This is the boundary between physical objects and consciousness, between what appears (from the view of PMR) to obey our law of causality and what appears to flaunt that law. It is also the boundary between our bodies and our mind, soul, sprit, and intuition. This boundary separates the normal from the paranormal and, if a bridge between the two is developed, defines and enforces the psi uncertainty principle discussed in Chapters 13 and 14 of this book.
Modern physics in general and quantum mechanics in particular will always be mired in mystery and produce results that seem inconsistent, unexplainable and counter-intuitive as long as it clings to its PMR-only little picture belief system. Quantum physics will remain confusingly abstruse as long as it stubbornly requires the NPMRN reality camel to be forced through the eye of the PMR reality needle — or the NPMRN elephant to be pulled out of a PMR acorn. Until the self-imposed belief blindfold is removed, the outer boundary of little picture science will remain confused, out of focus, and apparently mystical. Inside that boundary, scientists will continue to unravel the space-time rule-set one fact and relationship at a time.
Discovery constitutes a journey that is much longer and more personal than most people think: Take your time, and focus on where you want to go. Understanding the rule-set that governs your local reality so that you can manipulate material existence to suit your needs is all well and good, but understanding the Big Picture is vastly more significant.