My Big TOE
AWAKENING – DISCOVERY — INNER WORKINGS
A TRILOGY UNIFYING PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, AND METAPHYSICS
Thomas Campbell
Book 2 Discovery – Abridged Version – Part 7
We have seen that we are a part of a larger consciousness organism that is dependent (as all growing and evolving complex systems are) upon all of it parts pulling together to ensure its continued growth and existence.
In this chapter, we shift gears and explore the larger reality from a more human perspective. We’ll take a look at how uncertainty, constraints on consciousness, psi phenomena, and spiritual growth are related to our existence in PMR and in the Big Picture. This chapter will tie together many of the ideas we have been talking about from a more personal perspective.
a sentient entity can create its own internal constraints. The internal constraints that a sentient entity typically imposes upon itself will inevitably limit the evolutionary potential of that entity. Some self-imposed constraints may appear to serve a temporary purpose and some are obviously more dysfunctional (unprofitable) than others, but all must eventually be removed by the entity if it is to actualize its full potential.
Adding uncertainty and minimizing constraints within a given virtual reality will always generate wider evolutionary potential for the entities within that reality because greater freedom and additional choices support a more diverse set of potential outcomes. When you are caught in a belief trap (have a belief), you create an additional internal constraint that further limits the capacity and function of your consciousness. Creating or maintaining unprofitable internal constraints that limit your personal consciousness requires energy (dysfunctional organization) and increases the entropy of your consciousness.
Internal constraints within a consciousness system that limit growth and profitability represent suboptimal or profit inhibiting digital organization. Organizational energy is expended but the results are counterproductive (are dysfunctional and unprofitable to the system or block future profitability). Think of self-imposed internal constraints in terms of a negative digital potential energy or a negative potential synergy.
Adding unprofitable internal constraints (belief, fear, and ego) to your consciousness is analogous to scattering bricks and concrete blocks on a highway. The highway was built by employing profitable external constraints (all traffic confined to a convenient and efficient roadway of a specific type and location), while littering it with obstacles represents the addition of dysfunctional internal constraints that reduce the roadway’s functionality and efficiency.
The energy of consciousness has the potential to organize itself more effectively — to develop more complete and brighter awareness, generate and creatively utilize understanding, feeling, caring, love, and directed mental effort in a way that is useful and helpful to itself and to other consciousness struggling to evolve. Each individuated consciousness generates its own unique path toward increasing or decreasing profitability, yet all are expressions that reflect the process and purpose of the whole. Better quality within the larger consciousness system is actualized through the synergistic self- improvements of its individuated parts. Entropy reduction is the name of the game at all levels and within all dimensions of the consciousness-evolution fractal wherever evolution is succeeding.
The entropy within a consciousness system (including an individuated subsystem) represents the unavailability of consciousness energy to do work. The primary work of consciousness is to more effectively organize itself, to take charge of its own evolution, and to increase its overall profitability through self- modification (growth). Higher entropy states within consciousness represent unprofitable organization: disorganization, fears, beliefs, dimness, diminished potential, self-centeredness, and an inability to understand complex interrelationships or see big pictures. Higher entropy results in consciousness systems having less power that can be applied to overcome the inertia of ignorance and ego dysfunctionality. Not decreasing the entropy of consciousness results in a squandering of potential.
The fewer internal dysfunctional constraints (such as fear, ego, needs, or beliefs) that limit a particular consciousness, the lower its associated entropy and the more effectively it can populate the most profitable states available to it. The drive or urge to be helpful to, and care about others (love) is an innate property of low entropy consciousness. A low entropy consciousness is an effective and powerful consciousness. Consequently, a low entropy individuated consciousness represents an effective individual with considerable personal power.
The self-removal of internal self-imposed constraints from sentient entities provide opportunities for reducing entropy and increasing synergy,
Constraints come in many forms. For example, if someone who has the ability to manipulate nonphysical energy is asked to remove (dissipate or dematerialize) a tumor (noticeable lump) from someone’s PMR body, the energy required is dependent upon, among other things, the degree to which this tumor is connected to PMR reality — its force of being in PMR. (This hokey sounding “force of being” is actually well defined in chapter 11, Book 3). Quantitatively it is the expectation value of the future event on the associated probable reality surface — a discussion that we will have in detail in Chapter 7, Book 3. If the body’s owner and a few others are mildly distressed about the possibility of a malignant tumor, the removal energy may be relatively low (easy to accomplish). In this situation, much uncertainty exists within PMR — but not necessarily for the one viewing and manipulating the body’s nonphysical energy from within NPMR — to that person, the nature of the lump may be perfectly clear.
If, on the other hand, four doctors and half the residents at the local hospital have looked at the CAT scan or felt the lump and are relatively certain the tumor is malignant, the removal energy is somewhat higher. When all of the above get the biopsy report confirming a fast growing, incurable, always-deadly malignancy, the required energy increases. The more firmly the malignant tumor’s existence and likely outcome (degree of causal certainty) is held and shared in the minds and expectations of credible sentient beings, the taller and denser its probability function becomes. The uncertainty of the outcome dissipates and the probable event of dying in PMR from this cancer becomes much more difficult to change by manipulating energy in NPMRN. Fortunately, the intent and attitude (mental focus) of the body’s owner has the greatest potential impact. Unfortunately, this attitude is often driven by its fear and the opinions and fears of others.
Now, by definition, it takes a miracle, where before no miracle was required. The confident knowledge of the doctors, which is based on test results and historical precedent (mortality statistics), actually affects (decreases) the probability of actualization of other alternative possibilities such as the cancer spontaneously going into remission, or the tumor turns out to be benign. As in quantum mechanics, performing the measurement forces the result to pick a state compatible with PMR causality (compatible with the PMR space-time rule-set). Typically, the most likely state at the time of the measurement is picked unless there are several states of equal probability, then one outcome is picked randomly from among the set of outcomes (future states) that are all most likely. The individual with the tumor, along with his or her friends and loved ones, can inadvertently help drive the final outcome to an unhappy ending by causing the probability of a fatal outcome to grow, and the probability of a non-fatal outcome to shrink. Beware: you can be easily drawn into a fatal dance of expectation with those connected to you, or to your condition. The best time for intervention, whether from PMR or NPMR, is long before “fatal” becomes a near inevitability.
The future is not a done deal. PMR is an interactive reality — we have free will and the potential ability to manipulate or at least strongly influence the probability of any particular event manifesting into the physical. There are rules and wisdom that must be applied to the use of nonphysical energy — there are things that one should and should not do as well as things that one can and cannot do. For example, one needs to know when help becomes interference. Helping out in the more immediate small picture can sometimes be counterproductive within a larger perspective because difficult challenges often represent great opportunities. When one removes the challenge, one removes the opportunity as well.
Most of us would be surprised at how effective a knowledgeable and experienced individual can be working from NPMR. The point is: Reversing the causal laws of space-time (a miracle) requires much more energy than directly modifying the outcome of an uncertain event. Later I will formalize this concept in what I call the psi uncertainty principle.
I am not speaking about what is often referred to as the power of positive thinking or the power of belief and faith to manifest physical effects. These effects are real, but are typically weak, inconsistent and unreliable. I am talking about directly and precisely altering the probable future with the intentional power of a focused, clear, and coherent mind. Positive thinking and putting energy into wishes or prayer can be useful and effective, but their effects are often not very potent or predictable because the energy of conscious intent supporting them is typically not well focused, coherent, or aware of the larger issues.
There are exceptional people — sometimes in exceptional circumstances — who have used these typically impotent forms forcefully. Hoping for or trying to project belief or faith into a measurable result typically produces (if it produces anything at all) a mild, diffuse, unpredictable, and unfocused effect driven by fuzzy emotions and feelings instead of precise knowledge and experience. It is the difference between feeling the gentle warmth of the sun through a window, and using a large and powerful magnifying glass to enable that same sunlight to burn holes through whatever blocks its path. It is exactly the same sunlight radiating heat through a piece of glass in both cases, but differing methodologies of interacting with the sun’s energy produce very different results. Similarly, without an enforced coherency, a laser is just an ordinary red light. The methodology that intentionally employs a sophisticated energy manipulation technique (optical lens, laser, or NPMR awareness) to focus ambient energy is the one that has the power to produce dramatic effects and dependable results. Such techniques (large diameter accurate error- free lenses, laser coherency, or an ability to manipulate NPMR energy) embody the accumulated knowledge and experience of many generations and typically require skill and practice to produce and apply.
This discussion will, unfortunately, lead many to one of two intellectual extremes. The first and most common concludes that if a cancer whose existence is unverified (greater uncertainty) is the only cancer that can be cured by the proper focusing of consciousness, then such activity is fake or based upon self-delusion. That is not a logical conclusion. It may be a reasonable conclusion under some conditions, but not necessarily all conditions. In no case does “is fake follow logically from “unverified.” We tend to jump to that illogical conclusion because of our dogmatic cultural and scientific beliefs. Logic does require a physically unverified problem to have a physically unverified solution. However, we will see below that the psi uncertainty principle requires that problems that are physically verified (known malignant tumor) must have either a physically verifiable physical solution or a physically unverifiable nonphysical solution.
The second extreme, more illogical than the first, concludes that until the cancer is verified by measurement (in PMR exclusively), the cancer does not actually exist. Clearly, fundamental existence is not logically dependent upon performing physical measurements. It is true that until the cancer is verified by measurement in PMR, the cancer cannot be proved to exist in PMR. That fact, though logical, carries little practical significance in either the Big Picture or the little picture because existence and the proof of that existence are two very different things. Likewise, actually dissolving a tumor by manipulating nonphysical energy and proving that a tumor has been dissolved through the manipulation of nonphysical energy are two very different things. The first is not logically dependent on the second, although the second is logically dependent on the first.
That nothing can be considered real or significant until it has been objectively proven is an illogical position based on the assumption that PMR constitutes all reality and that you (your consciousness) are a derivative of physical matter. This mystical belief requires existence to be proven or validated by little picture causality: The existence of the Big Picture requires validation from the little picture. Same old story. This belief is not only illogical and irrational, but limiting as well. Objective PMR-based proof is valuable in some circumstances (exploring the space-time rule-set), and totally irrelevant in others (exploring consciousness and the larger reality). Making PMR objectivity a universal requirement banishes logical beginnings and forces PMR to be a universal reality. When you view PMR as a universal reality, everything beyond PMR vanishes before your eyes as your vision contracts to perceive the little picture exclusively.
Hard (but not necessarily only material) evidence and a careful scientific process is absolutely required. Keep in mind that knowledge constrained solely to PMR defines only a limited perception of reality and not necessarily reality itself.
The fact is, your existence extends beyond its physical manifestation in PMR. Most people resemble Flatlanders criticizing the concept of a sphere because it doesn’t follow (isn’t derivable or conceivable) from their two-dimensional science, philosophy, or reality. Without an open and capable mind you are stuck, ignorant forever, in Flatland. [A reference to the book Flatland, and how to find it online, appears in Chapter 20, Book 1.]
Viewing a clear picture of the larger reality will, for most of us, require stepping outside normal habituated thought patterns and cultural beliefs — unlearning or escaping old patterns must precede learning new ones. It is not easy to overcome limiting habits of minds but it is well worth the effort. For those few who have broad and deep experience with the larger reality, My Big TOE will read as if it were a story about Dick, Jane, and Spot — familiar, simple, and obvious. For a few others, it will be as impenetrable as a wall of granite.
I am strongly encouraging you to think out of the box, non-conform, transcend your culture, and expand your notion of the possible beyond what is commonly held to be acceptable. As you are well aware, thinking big thoughts in small places can be socially and personally risky. This challenge is not for everyone, but if you have read this far, more than likely, it is a challenge that you can successfully meet.
I expect that I have by now exceeded the credibility threshold of many readers. In techno-jargon that means that I have pegged their BS meters. I can smell the smoke! Before I completely burn out your super sensitive, culturally calibrated BS detector, let me digress a moment because it is important for you to understand how the quality, content, and intensity of your thoughts affect (typically limit) the options and opportunities of your being. The open-minded skeptic is free to explore anything, anywhere, with demanding standards for converting experience into knowledge (truth). The closed-minded skeptic is trapped by the limits he places on his thoughts and abilities. He is caught in the following dilemma. Fearful of exceeding the safe and acceptable limits of cherished religious, personal, cultural, or scientific dogma, he believes it is fundamentally impossible to find truth in a wild and crazy subjective world which is obviously populated by plenty of fools and liars.
Religious creed (his in particular) and scientific objectivity (his in particular) appear to provide safe havens free from the ubiquitous fools and liars who would gladly induce everyone else to join their delusional and manipulative ranks.
As long as his boundaries are rigidly defined by (can’t be expanded beyond) his limiting beliefs, he is not able to learn, grow, experience or evolve his being along the Path of Knowledge. This path, which often wanders through the lands of the paranormal, requires a fundamental (experientially based) understanding of reality and Knowledge of truth. One must be both careful and courageous.
Such a limited individual usually feels he is maximizing his human potential by dedicating his energies to the optimal manipulation of intellectual objects, beings, and relationships in PMR. He has never had an objectively verifiable (proven) experience that would necessarily (scientifically) indicate a bigger picture exists because this type of experience is emphatically defined within his belief system to be absolutely impossible (the self-referential Catch 22 of the closed mind).
Individuals trapped in the little picture selectively restrict, view, and interpret their and other people’s experiences to make sure that what is believed to be impossible does not appear to happen. Additionally, they negate the validity of anyone else’s data or experience (of a larger reality) by assuming it to be contrived, ignorant, manipulative, or delusional (by definition). This facade of a scientific and logical evaluation, steeped in tradition and in support of the status-quo, is used to wrap the entire sleight-of-hand in a mantle of professional respectability. This particularly shallow circular logic (it can’t be true because it can’t be true) is subsequently offered by conventional scientists as proof that their beliefs are actually facts.
This is an emotional ego-driven position rather than an objective one. A rational argument rarely has any effect on an irrational belief. Ironically, the closed-minded skeptics interpret internally derived knowledge as mere belief, because they do not believe that objective knowledge (truth) can come from subjective experience.
The PMR-only view of reality, along with its tiny picture of the potential of your being and its associated relatively tiny subset of truth, is usually culturally based (particularly in the West), intellectually justified, and socially supported by the collective mind. The collective mind, unfortunately, always represents the lowest common denominator in concepts and understanding. It is relatively safe, easy, low risk, non-threatening, and not subjected to ridicule by your peers. It is, therefore, particularly attractive to fearful, under- developed, insecure, under-powered, and materially focused minds.
If you feel uneasy after assessing how that string of adjectives in the previous sentence applies to you, relax. Many good people of outstanding quality exhibit some of those characteristics. The point here is to recognize the arbitrary, unnecessary, and debilitating conceptual limitations we place on our reality, on our significance, and on ourselves.
If you have attained high status within your profession and among your peers, or are rich, powerful, and famous, these trappings of success say absolutely nothing about the quality of your consciousness or the evolution of your being as viewed from the bigger picture. The biggest fish (have the most power, notoriety, and make the biggest splash) in the PMR farm pond may be among the smallest fish in the gigantic NPMRNocean. Conversely, some of the smallest, most humble fish in the PMR pond may be some of the biggest fish in the NPMRNocean.
By growing the quality of whatever state of being we presently find ourselves in, we evolve the quality of our consciousness. You can start from any point, but the optimal place to start is from wherever you happen to be today.
If you or anyone you know has an interest in personal growth, even if they require the comfort and safety of a relatively closed mind, there are two viable alternatives to the Path of Knowledge: Doing good deeds (Path of Service), and devotion to the highest expression of spirituality they can comprehend (Path of Surrender). Unfortunately, both of these paths are especially difficult to follow in Western cultures where material progress and success are dominant social values.
A brief description of the common paths leading toward self- realization, consciousness evolution, or spiritual growth will provide a helpful perspective on the entanglement of psi phenomena, spirituality, knowledge, and truth — and give all our brains a short cool-down rest from analytic activity.
We can divide the approaches to spiritual evolution into three equal but distinct paths that suit or accommodate three distinctive personality types. Eventually all three paths converge, with each path containing the essential truths of the other two. Each individual seeker’s growth path can contain any proportion of each of the above mentioned three ways (paths of knowledge, service, and surrender) of approaching spirituality in order to obtain a best fit to their individual personality.
If the concept of seeking a spiritual growth path falls to the uncomfortable or negative side of your learned sensibilities, let me point out that the concept of a growth path toward improving the quality (decreasing the entropy) of your consciousness means exactly the same thing.
Because the three paths to consciousness quality appeal to diverse personality types, typically one process will dominate an individual’s approach. Individuals choose the path that suits them best and afterward add in the other two as complements. An equal balance of all three might be theoretically advantageous but it would not necessarily be better for any specific individual. The main thing is to optimize progress (spiritual growth) by matching the process to the personality.
The Path of Knowledge is often called the “warrior’s path” because of the courage, determination, and constant struggle required to gain spiritual knowledge and defeat the ego for control of the process of consciousness evolution. This path requires considerable intellectual capacity and is more suited to the linear thinking of the Western mind than the alternatives. It is on the Path of Knowledge that you learn, firsthand, about the larger reality and how to manipulate energy to put the so-called paranormal or psi phenomena to work in the service of spiritual growth (yours and others).
These paranormal abilities are the natural result of a lower entropy consciousness having more energy available to do work. You can accomplish more and you have more power with a lower entropy consciousness. This additional available energy can (but does not have to) be utilized to manifest paranormal or psi effects. We can now answer the question: What do love and psi phenomena have to do with each other, reality, spiritual growth, and digital consciousness? The answer: The ultimate reality is cellular (digital) consciousness. Consciousness naturally evolves to lower entropy states; psi effects and love are both artifacts of low entropy consciousness.
In the Big Picture, the paranormal is perfectly normal and available to (not thrust upon) anyone who sufficiently lowers the entropy of their consciousness. Love describes how a low entropy consciousness interacts with other entities. Both accrue to a high quality of consciousness — which, for an individuated consciousness, is equivalent to a highly spiritual individual. For sentient entities, psi- power is love-power is quality consciousness power. All are the result of consciousness systems and subsystems evolving to lower entropy states of being.
The Path of Service involves doing good deeds, being helpful, serving others and must come sincerely from the heart, not the intellect (Mother Teresa comes to mind as a well-known example). On this path, the ego is transcended through focusing on others’ needs.
The Path of Surrender requires that you give yourself up to a higher (supreme) spiritual concept or being, or to the expression of more perfect spiritual values. This is the traditional religious path that transcends the ego by dedication and devotion to higher ideals and values, and through emulation of the beloved master, teacher, guru, or god. (Look near the end of Chapter 21, Book 1 for additional discussion on this topic.)