My Big TOE
AWAKENING – DISCOVERY — INNER WORKINGS
A TRILOGY UNIFYING PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, AND METAPHYSICS
Thomas Campbell
Book 2 Discovery – Abridged Version – Part 8
Let’s get back to the main issue. The entanglement (interaction) of uncertainty with the measurement of psi effects leads to what I descriptively call the psi uncertainty principle — where the uncertainty surrounding an event allows the event a larger selection of probable outcomes that may be more easily altered by the application of a focused (low noise — small ego) mind with a clear intent. Here, psi (as defined earlier in Chapter 19, Book 1) refers to psychic, paranormal, or acausal phenomena.
The psi uncertainty principle makes the scientific objective measurement of psi performance problematical, but only from the PMR perspective. As soon as there are outside observers to report and measure the miracles (reduce the uncertainty about reported violations of traditional PMR physics), the miracles diminish — and insiders cannot be trusted to be objective and therefore cannot be believed.
Let’s explore how the randomness of certain natural events is related to the psi uncertainty principle. A focused and directed consciousness (physically embodied or not) may take advantage of the uncertainty or randomness in physical interactions, situations, or phenomena by subtly applying psycho-kinetics (PK) or telepathic suggestion to manipulate events toward a particular outcome. The results of these manipulations would simply appear within PMR to be good or bad luck, an intuitive bolt out of the blue, or a random skewing of the expected statistical distribution. Such manipulations are typically helpful and relatively common. They create no contradictions and pose no causality problems within PMR as long as there is enough uncertainty (lack of objective proof) to hide the paranormal outside influence and satisfy the psi uncertainty principle.
If we would learn to make better use of the guidance and breaks that we are given, growing up wouldn’t be so difficult. Most parents would probably say the same thing about their teenagers. Teenagers, just like their parents, ignore as much of this outside guidance and beneficent manipulation as possible. Do you see how the same patterns of individual growth are repeated at every level? Repetitive pattern is the nature of a fractal system. The pattern of consciousness evolving toward higher levels of organization (better quality and lower entropy) is applied at many levels and scales simultaneously. What you see your children doing is a reflection of what you are doing, is what computers will be doing when our hardware and software allow it, is what the Big Cheese is doing, and what AUM is doing. Consciousness does not evolve in a thousand different independent ways; it evolves in the same way in a thousand different forms at various level of interdependence.
I hear someone asking “Are you implying the paranormal is purposely being hidden from us by some uncertainty principle?” Absolutely not! It may appear that way from PMR but in fact it is just the opposite. The paranormal is not hidden by anything other than ignorance and limitations. It is you who are hiding from the paranormal by allowing your beliefs and fears to create an impenetrable smokescreen of objective obfuscation.
The psi uncertainty principle’s job is to maintain the integrity of the PMR learning lab, not to hide psi phenomena from you. If you have defined the paranormal out of your reality, that is because there is no logical place for it within your little picture.
Why do the residents of PMR need the psi uncertainty principle? How does the psi uncertainty principle help lower the entropy of individuated consciousness within space-time? Breaking the rules of PMR objective causality would, at this time, interfere with what the beings enrolled there must accomplish (improving the quality of their consciousness). A rule-set is specifically designed for each virtual PMR learning lab to optimize the learning potential of the typical inhabitance of that PMR. More advanced players can access a wider set of rules.
You may be wondering how the psi uncertainty principle constrains your personal experience and how high quality consciousness can and cannot be used to your advantage in day-to-day interactions within PMR. Rarely is acausal or paranormal information obtained from NPMR and then directly applied to develop or invent physical devices because the psi uncertainty principle would generally forbid that sort of overt information transfer. It is not likely that a novel solution (like instructions describing how to build a Buck Rogers antigravity belt) could be effectively transmitted to an individual within PMR from a higher-dimensional source. It would be impossible for such an individual to be technically or conceptually prepared unless the transferred technology represented only a very small step beyond the receiver’s current understanding. Imagine trying to describe color television or microprocessor chip technology to Alexander the Great or Alexander Graham Bell.
The near impossibility of being technically prepared is only half the problem. The receiver would need a very high quality of consciousness to receive a clear technical transmission and such people are not particularly interested in inconsequential physical gismos and technology no matter how useful it might be in PMR because better gizmos are not relevant to the purpose of consciousness evolution. Additionally, there is the problem of needing all sorts of unavailable parts and materials — building a color TV or microprocessor chip with the materials and tools available to either Alexander would have been impossible even if they had a clear signal and were good at following directions.
You cannot cheat evolution or circumvent evolutionary process. Evolutionary process defines the rational structure of your system; undermining it would destroy the system’s integrity. Psi uncertainty is required to maintain the integrity of your causal system — it is applied at all levels of the consciousness-evolution ecosystem to maintain local causality within each dimension.
On the other hand, a more limited but very similar transfer process working through individual intuition continually feeds inventors and creators of all types the answers and inspiration they require to take the next step. An adequately prepared person in touch with their intuition will often receive some key point or understanding that resolves an issue upon which they are stuck or that somehow lubricates the creative process. Again, the step must be small and the receiver must come to the intuitive process prepared to understand and implement the solution.
The psi uncertainty principle makes it exceedingly unlikely that paranormal information will provide a useful giant-step solution to an objective PMR problem. Think of the requirement for psi uncertainty as a constraint that limits the size of the leap that insight is allowed to take in any given circumstance within PMR — or, for that matter, within any reality dimension, either physical or nonphysical.
The usual highly filtered, low bandwidth connection between NPMR and individual intuition is designed to preserve psi uncertainty. Both a prepared intellect and an evolved consciousness are necessary for you to purposefully and effectively use your intuition as a source of insight.
Ask any innovative problem solver about the source of their creative solutions and you will hear about their non-logical connection to resources within NPMR expressed in a way that makes sense to them.
A lower entropy consciousness improves our ability to clearly see relationships among the data we normally gather and assess from PMR. Understanding these relationships provides a bigger picture that delivers an enormous practical advantage to low entropy individuals within PMR without violating the psi uncertainty principle. Individual intuition, insight, artistic, personal, and scientific epiphanies that result in physical creations within PMR must be integrated with the ideas that presently reside in that individual’s current PMR experience packet (temporarily stored in the physical brain). It is the quality and capacity of our consciousness that allows it to see PMR relationships in a creative new way. Because no discrete acausal or paranormal information transfer from NPMR to PMR is required for consciousness to develop and improve its natural attributes, lower its entropy, or be creative, the psi uncertainty principle is preserved.
Quality consciousness not only gives us the ability to see relationships clearly, but also to find meaning, significance, value, and direction from the data and experience that we normally gather in PMR. A lower entropy consciousness interacts with reality at a higher and more complete level of integration, and, if enrolled in the PMR learning lab, is able to apply what it learns from that interaction to future interactions. Humans, as well as other units of individuated consciousness, learn to develop their consciousness quality through the interactions and feedback provided by virtual PMR learning labs.
Electrical engineers study systems with two kinds of feedback. Systems with positive feedback are like big snowballs rolling down a smooth steep snowy mountainside. Systems with negative feedback are like big snowballs rolling up a smooth steep snowy mountainside. The characteristics and response of the system is represented by the size of the snowball and the depth of the snow, while the effect of the feedback and its impact on the system is analogous to the steepness of the slope. Relative to the manipulation of psi energy (intentionally reorganizing bits within the larger reality) or the transferring of paranormal information, individuated units of consciousness are in a positive developmental feedback loop (bootstrapping process) to expand and grow those abilities and processes that are important to improving consciousness quality. In contrast, physical activity and interactions that are not important to improving consciousness quality (though they may seem extremely important from PMR’s little picture point of view) are kept in check by a negative feedback loop that uses the constraint of psi uncertainty to dampen counterproductive intentions. Pumping up the physical with information transfers from the nonphysical is forbidden unless the transfers are sufficiently vague (negative feedback) to ensure a sufficiently dampened system response.
The uncertainty principle is required to maintain and optimize the purpose of the larger reality — to increase quality and lower entropy. The constraint of psi uncertainty keeps PMR focused and functioning toward its goal, which is not to generate physical improvements within PMR, but to help individuated consciousness pull itself up by its bootstraps. The generation of a more comfortable, physically productive (including better science) PMR is clearly the main issue within the local little picture and therefore appears to be very important from the PMR view. Although physical progress plays a part in the bigger picture by locally impacting consciousness evolution, it is only a minor player on the periphery of the greater consciousness ecosystem. Consciousness does not exist to promote physical evolution within PMR; physical evolution within PMR exists to promote consciousness.
The constraint of psi uncertainty allows the energy of organization to be pumped into (equivalent, to sucking entropy out of) what is important (spiritual progress through exercising the ability to see relationships clearly and to find meaning, significance, value, and direction from PMR experience) while avoiding pumping energy into what is not important (power, control, domination, and physical progress). Psi uncertainty is simply a rule, a natural constraint that has evolved to improve the profitability of the consciousness cycle. Think of the psi uncertainty constraint as a negative feedback mechanism that is required to optimize the productivity of PMR virtual reality trainers.
The apparent subterfuge of hiding psi phenomena under a cloak of uncertainty is an illusion created by the rudimentary nature of human consciousness. No one would leave knives, guns, axes, hammers, saws, expensive cell-phones, or laptop computers lying about on the playground at a daycare facility. The kids might love it and have great fun, but the adults know that children must grow up first before they can productively (and non-self-destructively) use such tools. It is not required that the tools be hidden from the children, but the children must be unaware of how to access these tools until they are capable of using them productively. As the kids grow up, various tools naturally become available to them. Believe it or not, most consciousness kids, after they reach adulthood, have little overt use for, or interest in, the tools of psi. Wielding power within the virtual world of the learning lab becomes irrelevant unless it is the power of setting a good example and offering helpful guidance.
The disappearance of psi effects when objective science shines its spotlight on the paranormal scene does not necessarily indicate fraud. The requirement to work only within a narrowly defined subset of physical reality and to exhibit perfect repeatability for everyone to see is a good methodology for the development of some science because, within a limited realm, those requirements do separate a limited truth from an unlimited fiction. However, it is a totally inappropriate measure of significance when applied to some aspects of the science of consciousness, the science of being, the science of mind, or the science of NPMR.
Instead of viewing the requirement for uncertainty as a cover-up for fraud or delusion, consider it to be a requirement of the space-time rule-set to maintain the integrity of the physical reality we need to experience in order to stimulate our growth. Mixing physical apples with nonphysical oranges only muddies the waters of our experience and decreases the effectiveness of space-time as a learning lab. Having our experience directly related to our responsibility for that experience and keeping our interactions with others straightforward and an integral part of an obvious feedback loop are the major design goals of our PMR space-time reality. A widespread intentional use of psi would seriously undermine those goals.
You will see that PMR was specifically designed to constrain psi effects in order to produce a better learning environment. Psi effects within PMR are relegated to the subjective fringe where they can be easily obscured by uncertainty. This arrangement is a requirement of our reality as long as the average level of consciousness quality is so low.
Individuals may experience and use the paranormal as they lower the entropy of their consciousness enough to gain that ability, but it cannot become generally accessible through objective science without wrecking the primary value and usefulness of PMR as a training simulator for low-quality consciousness. Don’t worry, the system is designed to prevent that from happening and the psi uncertainty principle is only part of that prevention strategy. If you have no access to paranormal power and think that psi effects are a bunch of bullpucky … well, that is probably as it should be. Such a view does not constitute a failure, an error, or a problem; it simply represents a particular state of developmental understanding — like being twelve years old.
There is nothing wrong with being twelve years old: In fact, it is an absolutely necessary and desirable state to be in if you ever expect to be a teenager. You cannot be a teen until you have been twelve, and you cannot be an adult until you have been a teenager. No one jumps ahead; everyone must start from wherever they happen to be. Truly, anywhere you are is a terrific place to start — there are no bad seats in the house. Everyone must progress under their own power and at their own rate. That is simply how the game must be played — there is no other choice and no other game.
If from time to time it appears to you that My Bag TOE has cleverly or unfairly backed you into a logical corner, consider the principle that all systems of law and justice are based upon: The only thing that can logically corner you consistently is the truth.
The truth can sometimes be unpleasant, particularly if it leads us to an unsettling conclusion. “Feels good” or “feels right” is not a reliable way of discerning truth. To be accurate and trustworthy, your intuition needs to be free of fear, wants, needs, desires, expectations, and ego.
Psi effects and paranormal powers are sometimes dangled as a carrot in front of those newly on the Path of Knowledge to provide incentive, but successful travelers of that path soon realize that paranormal abilities can also be a growth limiting trap if their ego becomes enamored of them.
Using or requiring inappropriate methodology in any area of endeavor typically leads to dead ends, no progress, and false conclusions. Some of the knowledge, facts, laws, rules, structure, and science (obeying NPMR causality) that define paranormal activity cannot be seen, experienced, or understood until the observer grows to be capable of it, and will consequently never exhibit perfect repeatability for everyone to see.
Quality of consciousness and the directed applications of consciousness energy are personal in nature because consciousness is personal. Because psi effects are not of PMR, one cannot force them to abide by PMR causality, nor can one explain them with PMR causality.
The awareness and personal growth that enables an individual to exhibit controlled paranormal applications of consciousness must be developed from that individual’s subjective experience. Researchers studying psi effects cannot produce them, reproduce them, nor control them from the outside; nor can they force psi effects upon themselves or others from the inside. On the other hand, they can easily retard it and make it more difficult and problematical for their subjects to demonstrate psi effects. For a physically focused mainstream science, this lack of physical control makes the serious study of psi almost impossible. The traditional scientific requirement for tight physical control over a completely nonphysical entity such as consciousness (including its attributes and artifacts) in order to prove its physical existence (the only type of existence there is, of course) produces an amusing example of circular belief-trap non-logic. The absurdity of this reasoning would be funnier if it weren’t the position most scholars and scientists support quite seriously. Or maybe that is why it is so funny!
Because of its subjective and personal nature, it is difficult for researchers to encourage, define, or systematically and objectively study paranormal phenomena at a deep level. The most they can hope to do is observe and document its existence — a relatively simple thing that has been done thousands of times by hundreds of fully credentialed scientific researchers.
Good objective scientific protocol requires the experimenters to remove all possible uncertainty, thus interfering with, and limiting, the psi effect being studied. Where some uncertainty is allowed, better results (from an insider’s viewpoint) are produced. From an outsider’s point of view, only less credible results are produced. There are always many more outsiders than insiders. (Here, insiders are the experimenters and their subjects; everyone else is an outsider.)
Remote viewers, for example, cannot produce perfect high-resolution photographs for their experimenters — there is always some uncertainty, and usually (over an in-depth set of experiments) at least some inconsistency. Additional uncertainty grows quickly in the minds of individuals who are not personally in total control of the experimental protocols; it grows more quickly in the minds of those who are not physically witnessing the paranormal event (they read about it, hear about it, or see it on TV). How much uncertainty is necessary? Only enough to ensure that the vast majority of PMR citizens will not have their cherished delusions forcibly perturbed to a significant degree.
If a paranormal event (precognitive dream or vision, for example) is without uncertainty, the number of people who can objectively verify this perfect demonstration of psi will always be small enough to produce no major or lasting impact on the larger society. Those individuals who are not yet ready to perceive and understand the larger truth represented by paranormal events must not be forced to experience what they cannot productively deal with. In the bigger picture, there must always be enough uncertainty to ensure that the perceived causal integrity of PMR (the delusion that the only reality that can possibly exist must be objective and physical) can adequately be maintained by all who are not yet developmentally ready to move beyond that most basic worldview. From the opposite direction and within a smaller picture, the natural uncertainty surrounding a given event, or sequence of events, enables and simplifies the application of focused consciousness to paranormally influence that event without violating the psi uncertainty principle.
On the other hand, objective physical experience is designed to be shared and held in common. Our physical experience forms an interactive virtual reality exhibiting a uniform common causality defined by the space-time rule-set. PMR physics is simply a subset of the space-time rule-set (this idea will be developed thoroughly in Section 4). Everybody can experience the same measurable effects in PMR; however, the necessary (by the psi uncertainty principle) uncertainty that must reside at the root cause of psi effects (from a scientific PMR objective perspective) is not appreciated by the PMR scientist whose methodology requires him to eliminate uncertainty. The inability to eliminate uncertainty will frustrate the scientist’s desire to understand the deeper causal mechanics of psi phenomena.
PMR scientists are culturally driven to interpret what they experience in a way that is in consonance with their belief that PMR causality must contain all possible phenomena. At best, if they are patient and careful, they can demonstrate that psi phenomena merely exist, but the causal mechanics and certain repeatability of it will elude them. Their attempt to describe a phenomenon belonging to a more general and less constrained causality in terms of a less general and more constrained causality is futile. The Big Picture and Big Reality cannot be fully contained within the little picture — quite the contrary, the little picture and little reality must be a subset of the larger reality. This is not rocket science. The little limited one must be a subset of the big unlimited one — it cannot be the other way around.
Requiring the Big Picture reality to be described exclusively in terms of a local little picture reality is an incredibly dumb idea — Moe, Larry, and Curly understood that much. However, it is an amusing fact that many of the world’s scientists are totally stumped by this trivial concept. If they cannot physically define and control consciousness and psi effects, then neither can be verified to exist as an independent entity or real phenomenon. Consciousness is seen as a hallucination of physical biochemical processes while psi effects are seen as a hallucination of psychological processes. By believing that what is real is delusional, and that what is delusional is real, scientists have boxed themselves into a small corner of reality that does not contain the answers they are looking for. Worse yet, their standard definition of an unscientific fool is anyone who does not share their mystical belief in the sacred One Physical Reality. Some things never change. Hey, look on the bright side; at least physicians are no longer bleeding us with leeches.
PMR science will always fail to explain nonphysical phenomena as physical phenomena. Psi phenomena, from the PMR-only viewpoint, will never be sufficiently well behaved nor deeply understood, thus generating much uncertainty in the minds of the masses. The mystery of how or why psi works (or even the existence of psi effects for that matter) appears to remain unsolved and unsolvable regardless of how many times it is thoroughly solved and demonstrated by knowledgeable individuals. If you are not one of those individuals, or involved with one, or do not know one well enough to fully trust their intelligence and integrity, you probably do not get it at the personal level of Big Truth. Without personal study and careful evaluated first- hand experience, those who are unable to maintain open minded skepticism are forced by their ego-needs to either believe in the actuality of paranormal events or to disbelieve in the actuality of paranormal events — both of which are illogical positions that produce a plethora of worthless unscientific blather.