My Big TOE
AWAKENING – DISCOVERY — INNER WORKINGS
A TRILOGY UNIFYING PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICS, AND METAPHYSICS
Thomas Campbell
Book 2 Discovery – Abridged Version – Part 9
The realness of psi effects must be personally experienced to be accepted or understood. Thus, sharing a piece of Big Picture knowledge or Big Truth (gained through the firsthand experience of psi effects by psi researchers or anyone else) by publishing research papers, books, or using the mass media is totally useless and ineffective. The results of psi research that confirm the existence of psi effects will never be widely accepted or believed, irrespective of how carefully and professionally the experiment was conducted, because believing such results directly conflicts with other beliefs more deeply held. On the other hand, when scientifically evaluated psi effects are part of your personal experience (especially where you are the actor, not the observer), then a larger reality is no longer a matter of belief and you know the truth even if you do not understand the mechanism behind the truth.
Those who are ready to progress to the next level of being will somehow discover the truth, while those who are not ready will remain clueless until some growth experience opens their mind to the possibilities. One cannot develop a deep personal understanding from somebody else’s research or from somebody else’s experience. This particular learning process is not primarily intellectual, like learning calculus; it is more experiential, like a one year old child learning to walk.
Much of the uncertainty clouding psi effects is the result of belief traps retarding the evolution of consciousness within OS. As long as conscious awareness and quality remain dim and low respectively, psi effects will remain shrouded in uncertainty, mysterious, and without credibility. As the quality of consciousness grows and awareness brightens across our culture, the purposeful application of psi effects will step out of the shadows and take their rightful place alongside contemplation, complex verbal and symbolic communications, and tool-making as innate human capabilities.
If a PMR scientist is looking at the result of someone else’s positive measured experimental psi results, and has not done the work himself, he can imagine all sorts of uncertainties into the experiment and easily dismiss the results as sloppy science. Thus it is relatively easy for him to maintain the belief that his little picture (PMR-only) remains intact (the no-growth, no-stress, no-thought option). He is not burdened by the facts, nor does he have to be, because the impossibility of the stated results is a given while the potential uncertainty surrounding the results looms large in his own assumption-driven scientific mind.
A large uncertainty matched to an untenable result immediately leads to a strong conviction in favor of sustaining the little picture belief and ridiculing the apparently sloppy pseudo-science and ineptitude that produced the positive measured psi result in the first place. Although one scientist has adequately and scientifically proved, within reasonable certainty, the existence of some psi effect, there will be no impact on the scientific community. The existence of a broader reality will only become apparent to the few directly associated with the experiment.
Merely proving, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the existence of some singular, difficult to repeat, uncertain, and mysterious psi phenomena out on the fringe of respectability is not enough to impact the opinion of anyone in the rational center. Even if a psi researcher started his career from the center of accepted science, he would soon be relegated to the fringe, with perhaps no way to get back into the respectable center. Who needs those kinds of career killing associations? Is it any wonder that scientists shun psi research like the plague? Do you see why those who have the courage and gumption to undertake psi research are not taken very seriously by anyone outside their own fraternity unless they pretend to know much less than they actually know?
All problems of science and knowledge (philosophy, ontology, epistemology, cosmology, and physics) do not necessarily have technical or hard solutions — some can be comprehended only by an experienced mind with a larger perspective. That is another fact of existence that you simply have to live with. Cheer-up, particularly you hard-science types: The situation is not as hopeless as it appears. Soft solutions, though inaccessible to a random simultaneous hard- science group-proof, can be real, scientific, productive, repeatable solutions with objective and measurable results. Yes they can — you just don’t know how yet
You do not need to do an about-face relative to what your mother told you about life and what you learned in school. Simply open up the blinders a little to allow in a larger set of possibilities, and continue in more or less the same direction. My Big TOE and I want to expand your world, not blow it up — we are showing you a bigger picture that contains your familiar little picture as a sub-set. Relax, take a deep breath: You are not sinking into quicksand. That sucking sound coming from around your ankles is your fear trying to maintain its grip and hold you back. It takes courage to step out of the box by yourself, dear reader, it takes courage!
A device or technology solution (such devices do exist) that threw someone’s sentient consciousness into NPMR would simply leave that person a temporary stranger in a strange land. Their ego or mind or rational-self immediately upon return would most likely deny the reality and validity of the experience. Without an open mind, and concomitant spiritual growth (elimination of fear, ego, and material attachments, as well as the mastery of mental energy), the technical solution is totally useless.
Likewise, a demonstration of genuine psi phenomena to the average person (be they scientists or not) would be of little value beyond the theatrical and gee-whiz effect (unless this average person were the advantaged subject of the demonstration — it dissolved his tumor, solved his problem). He might change his beliefs if he were a witness or were personally involved (if he were teleported to China and left to come home on his own, for example). But so what: His beliefs are not important! It is his usable knowledge, his state (quality) of being, his spiritual evolution that is important — and none of these important things would be affected.
The larger world will not believe him (that he had been teleported to China) and he will be considered an unreliable insider with an overactive (delusional) imagination unless he denies his experience. Absolutely nothing important or productive would be accomplished by affording this person such an experience. If loss of credibility, denial, confusion, paranoia, or assumed mental dysfunction were the outcome, he may have been done significant harm.
Wisdom says, do not demonstrate psi effects — they can achieve no significant result within the Big Picture, may actually do some harm, and have only entertainment value. On the other hand, if one wishes to be an entertainer, psi is a cool tool until ego diminishes its power.
The function of the psi uncertainty principle is not to deny the existence of psi — the reality of psi effects is absolutely certain to anyone who cares enough to discover them for himself. Those who do not know that psi effects are real are merely ignorant (or in denial) of information which is widely available and of personal experience which is relatively easy to obtain (see Chapter 21, Book 1 for several references). Some serious effort and a little research can solve that problem. As long as belief-blinded individuals and a belief-blinded culture demand that nonphysical phenomenon be described in terms of physical causality, psi effects will remain cloaked in uncertainty, difficult to study, without credibility, and relegated to the fringe of human activity.
The psi uncertainty principle — a natural artifact of the interface between the nonphysical and physical — primarily masks the causal mechanics and denies the efficacy and perfect repeatability of psi effects. While psi effects break, escape, frustrate, and void the PMR sacred causal chain, the psi uncertainty principle clouds that breakage enough to allow the center of thought within the PMR learning lab to maintain the illusion of the exclusiveness of little picture causality, an illusion that is necessary to optimize individual growth potential within PMR. Providing an individual with access to too much interactive power and capability before he is able to handle it wisely is always counterproductive if not dangerous. Power of mind is gained naturally and usefully as the entropy of an individual consciousness is reduced.
If you need a reality check concerning the overall quality of consciousness among humans, watch the evening news or read a newspaper. There will be absolutely no doubt about the general level of unconditional love, awareness, mental entropy, consciousness quality, fear, ego, wants, desires, expectations, and needs that are loose in the land. From month to month and year to year, the news stories (from a bigger picture view) are all basically the same. Only the names of the victims and perpetrators are changed from day to day to protect the innocent from noticing the utter repetitive consistency that clearly points an accusing finger at the quality of the individuals who make up our culture. Whether we are in the news or not, we are all fine examples of, and proud participants in, our culture — a good case, if there ever was one, for finding the innocent guilty by association.
Living in your culture and not being of it is exceptionally difficult. We are it, it is us — all are integrally connected. Like it or not, we are undeniably part of the problem. Fortunately, we also have the potential to be part of the solution. The good news is that by developing the quality of our consciousness, we can become a much smaller part of the problem and a much larger part of the solution.
Given the elementary level at which the PMR learning lab is designed to function, the psi uncertainty principle is, by itself, enough to ensure that the PMR learning lab experience is uniformly direct, straightforward, simplistic, safe, and user friendly for beginners in the consciousness evolution process. In general, though there are some exceptions, serious paranormal ability must be gained through a significant decrease in the entropy of your consciousness.
To move beyond superficial paranormal energy manipulations, you must actively and purposely improve the quality of your consciousness. It is not a matter of technique, magical incantation, or allying yourself with powerful entities. Understanding, wisdom, and paranormal ability must be earned through your personal spiritual growth.
For the most part, consciousness evolution takes place within a self- balancing, self-policing system. Pre-schoolers are never given power tools or guns to work and play with. Access is normally available only to those who have earned it and can profitably use it. In Section 5, we will see how the psi uncertainty principle interacts with future possible and probable reality surfaces to enable you to affect the probability that a given future possibility will or will not actualize into our physical reality.
The source and scientific nature of the law of psi uncertainty is no different from the source and scientific nature of the law of gravitation; both are simply the natural results of the space-time rule- set. Both are reflections of the constraints placed upon a consciousness in order to define a virtual-reality learning-lab (PMR) for the purpose of evolving that consciousness. Psi effects and the psi uncertainty principle are no more mystical or arbitrary than gravitation. Their application, mechanics and interactions are as understandable, regular, and predictable as the orbits of the planets about the sun.
The ability to effect and control a broad spectrum of paranormal events is available to everyone who is willing to grow the quality of their consciousness sufficiently. However, psi ability should never be your end goal — if it is, your capability to manipulate the physical through the nonphysical will be severely self-limited and perhaps even self-destructive. Psi power should be seen as nothing more than a collateral benefit of an effective path well-traveled — it becomes naturally available as your Big Picture understanding deepens. As your capability increases, your interest in wielding it decreases because you discover that you have everything you need without it. Additionally, you learn that the desire to acquire and use paranormal power often brings out the worst in those who would like to be powerful but have not earned it. It sensationalizes and trivializes the pursuit of quality in consciousness. It can be a great educational tool, a valuable device for helping others in special circumstances, as well as an ego tickler that quickly becomes an enormous distracter of spiritual value and focus. Forget about using someone else’s paranormal power to obtain some information or effect that you want — it won’t work, that shortcut will turn out to be a dead end. You have everything you need inside of you.
There is no “now you see it, and now you don’t” hocus-pocus here — it only appears that way from the limited vision of a PMR-only perspective. At a higher level of awareness, psi and psi-uncertainty are straightforward scientific concepts subservient to a higher level of causality.
We no longer believe that the sun and moon are pulled through the heavens by angels (a one-time very serious and popular theory strongly supported by the best and brightest of the Western scientific, philosophical, and theological establishments). Similarly, we must not jump to the conclusion that the psi-uncertainty principle is enforced by nonphysical entities pulling strings from the NPMR background. Such simplistic, anthropomorphically driven concepts serve only to compound the original ignorance.
It seems that whenever we humans are confronted by our ignorance in a grand manner that cannot be denied, we tend to extrapolate a super-stretched version of our old paradigms into an obvious solution that is supportive of the status quo. For a less obvious, but still troubling, ignorance, we often turn to spooky science or faith-based solutions or simply deny that the data, which demonstrate our ignorance, are real. Such circular belief-based logic creates its own intellectual whirlpool.
Today, we are greatly amused by the idea of angels moving the heavenly bodies around — I mean, really, how could those people be soooo stupid!? Actually, they were not stupid at all; they had about the same mental capacity that we have. They merely covered over their ignorance with theories that were in consonance with their personal, scientific, religious, and cultural beliefs — exactly as we do. Before feeling too smug about the silliness of planet-toting angels, you should know that modern science and philosophy use the exact same devices, with the exact same zeal, to deal with today’s challenges to the core belief systems of our culture.
Many years from now our present belief-limited science, philosophy, and theology will provide future generations with good cause to shake their heads and snicker with astonished amusement, “I mean, really, how could those people be SOOOO stupid!?” Inevitably, our present notions of science and significance are one day going to look incredibly silly — perhaps within this century. It is one of our greatest conceits to believe that we could not possibly be that ignorant and that out of touch with reality — we are, after all, exceptionally smart and advanced, you know.
“Ignorance? No way! Not us! Our Western science has clearly demonstrated brilliance and unparalleled achievement during the previous century. We finally understand how the natural world works. You must be referring to those belief-based touchy-feely folks in the third world. They remain largely ignorant, but eventually we will either need to bring them up to our level of understanding or take care of them. Subduing, educating, maintaining, or eliminating entire cultures of perpetual children may seem to be a thankless task, but it is our evolutionary responsibility — our inevitable burden to bear.”
“I believe that self-imposed belief-based limitations do not exist, much less that they will eventually make us look unbelievably stupid to future generations. Impossible! Utterly impossible! As a species, we have become incredibly smart and scientifically advanced — everyone knows that. You must be stupid if you don’t know that.”
I am sure that you are fully aware that we, of Western culture, now know, or almost know, everything that is significant. There are only a few fundamental details still missing — and our brilliant scientists are working on those, even as slackers like yourself waste their time reading books such as this one. It won’t be long, a few generations at most, and we will have all the important information under our control. Jeez, won’t life be great then — you know, after science has eliminated all our problems. Wow! I can hardly wait! We are so close….so close …yet today, as I listen to the nightly news, scientific progress somehow seems almost irrelevant…and so far away.”
The general attitudes and beliefs expressed above are both current and ancient. People have felt like this since history has been recorded. And they will, most likely, continue to feel this way for a very long time to come. Does one or more of the preceding three paragraphs roughly represent your core beliefs? Dig deep and be honest.
Have you ever noticed how insecurity, ignorance, arrogance, and ego often team up to play a particularly ugly joke? And that the joke always turns out to be at your expense?
Most of us can think of at least a dozen or more instances (personal and historical) where we humans have created acceptable (at the time) explanations by over-stretching old paradigms until gaping holes appear that must be ignored. We have ascribed mysterious effects to angels, devils, other spooks, spooky science, and employed many other nonspecific metaphors for action-at-a-distance and invisible meddlers. The easiest and most effective explanation of all is to simply deny that conflicting data exist. These are a few of the standard devices that we humans have used to deal with our ignorance and reduce our fear of the unknown. We use them no less today in our private and public lives — they make us feel more in control and provide us with the means of controlling others. Concocting comfortable solutions that maintain the integrity of our belief systems is always more acceptable to most of us than admitting ignorance and then open mindedly and skeptically living with that ignorance until either new paradigms or new data show up.
Living gracefully with the unknown is a simple and natural process in the absence of fear. However, given a widespread fear of the unknown and of new paradigms, it is no wonder that many have found, and continue to find it easy and convenient to manipulate these deep seated bone-level fears (more subconscious than conscious in Freudian terminology) in order to control the energy, actions, and resources of others. Our fear and ego provide ready handles that others can use to position us to their own liking.
There are many devices you can use to deny your experience. The most obvious is to simply ignore it, to claim (believe) that you were tricked (blame others — conspiracies are always in fashion), or that you are suffering from temporary insanity or some other mental dysfunction. If religious, you may blame your experience on witchcraft or the devil, or perhaps if there is a little paranoia lurking in your makeup, you may explain your experience as the result of some diabolically clever hypnotic manipulation, or believe that drugs must have been surreptitiously dropped into your morning coffee. When it comes to justifying what you want (or need) to believe (pro or con), your creativity and induced myopia can rise to meet any challenge. That is the nature of the ego. It is also the origins of most, if not all, belief.
There is no point in demonstrating psi effects — the gee-whiz effect exhibited by those in direct participation (who do not invent a way to discount or deny the experience) is useless. The same is more or less true of natural psi experiences such as the precognitive dreams or telepathic communications that hundreds of millions of people have experienced. Generally these experiences lead nowhere and are not particularly important in PMR. However, they often serve as a catalyst to pry open a mind far enough for it to glimpse a larger reality or light a fire of inquisitiveness and can be immensely valuable to an individual ready to take the next step.
An individual not ready to take the next step does not usually have these experiences. Where is the value in causing people to have experiences that they are not ready to profit from? Doing so generally causes more stress and confusion than enlightenment and in the end, usually reduces the credibility of Big Truth rather than enhancing it. Real evolutionary progress, real improvement in your quality of consciousness, must come from the inside out.
Following our discussion about the relationship between psi phenomena and uncertainty, it would seem far easier to teleport someone to China and back again (rather than leave them there) because of the larger uncertainty involved in proving the teleportation. It would be easier yet if they returned with nothing but their memory of the trip, their experience. Even if they returned with a handful of souvenirs for evidence, others would think it very easy for them to have bought the souvenirs at the local import shop or rigged the evidence by some other means. They would be generally seen as liars or delusional — that much would be obvious.
The evidence would only be valid evidence to them — and perhaps a few others who trust them totally and implicitly. They would have a choice. They could be a delusional nut in the eyes of almost everyone, though secure in their knowledge of the truth or believe themselves to be a delusional nut by denying that their experience was actually real experience (plead insanity). The Path of Knowledge is not for the easily influenced and impressionable, the intellectually timid, the fearful, or the insecure. People with these traits will tend to remain uncertain and confused and are easy prey for New-Age charlatans, as well as the well-intentioned but unknowingly ignorant. A warrior’s strong mind, focused intent, and fearless attitude combined with a scientist’s patient probing, high analytical standards, and fundamental inquisitiveness is required for optimal results.
How is your progress and sanity to be judged if you follow the warrior’s Path of Knowledge? Pragmatically and objectively — by looking at the results. Check to see if your knowledge and psi experiences (teleporting, healing, traveling, remote viewing, or communicating telepathically with either physical or nonphysical beings) are meaningful and significant (in the Big Picture) to yourself and to others. Determine if your understanding of the Big Picture produces consistent measurable results in terms of the quality of your consciousness and the depth of your perception of the larger reality (including the physical). Your spiritual growth, and your ability to help others grow spiritually, should be obvious to, and measurable by, you and others. If not, what you are experiencing is delusional.
You will unquestionably and unambiguously know if you are truly knowledgeable, kind, humble, compassionate, helpful, balanced, and focused on what you can contribute to others. If you are wise, understanding, considerate, insightful, thoughtful, and loving, you and everybody else will know that you are not insane. A highly evolved individual sticks out from the crowd like an elephant in a pea patch. These individuals are beloved and held in highest esteem by all who meet them — they have a gentle and highly effective power which is fearless.
Others who are not wise will know only if another individual appears to be wise, knowledgeable, kind, balanced, helpful, and not insane. You will know that you are not delusional if your capacity to love, to give, to exhibit humility and compassion in daily interactions is significantly increasing as your ego, fear and material attachments are significantly decreasing. The artifacts of spiritual growth are not esoteric or subtle.
If, on the other hand, your spiritual state is stagnating or non-existent (of low quality — ego driven) and you interact with people by manipulating or impressing them for material or ego ends, you are failing in your efforts to improve your quality even if you have convinced others of your success or have gained some limited control of psi effects.
The effects of reducing entropy in your consciousness will eventually become as obvious as being hit by a truck — you will have no difficulty telling the difference (growth or delusions of growth) about yourself if (a big if) you actually want to know the truth. Evaluating others can be more difficult than evaluating yourself, but the truth eventually yields to the same analysis — it is simply more difficult (sometimes) to gather the necessary data about someone else because of your limited understanding of their motivations.
If you have never experienced significant progress in lowering the entropy of your consciousness, you may have no idea what I mean or that what I am saying makes sense. I am trying to communicate the results of my experience clearly, but I know it is extremely difficult for anyone to understand in a deep, profound, or personal way without similar experience of his or her own.
If a spiritual teacher’s interactions with others are more accurately described as “marketing” than actually helping people significantly change their life by enhancing their opportunities for spiritual growth, then the description “delusional nut with delusional or naive insiders” may be an accurate description of that teacher and his or her followers regardless of how real their paranormal experiences are.
How do you evaluate others? When looking in from the outside, one without wisdom can typically not tell the difference between the wise and those who are merely marketing themselves cleverly. You need to get involved and you need to participate. How do you separate the true from the false? You must personally experience the larger reality. You must build your knowledge of your dynamic (changing and growing) spiritual being and trust your ability to figure out what is valuable to you and profitable for you.
You must grow your own wisdom. Only then can you judge what holds great value, truth, and knowledge for you (progresses you toward your spiritual goals) and what is a waste of your time, or worse, a step backwards. Thus, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. Personal truth flows only from personal experience. All Big Truth and wisdom is personal truth. Those who judge (the metaphorical pudding) from the outside, without tasting, without personal experience, (typically emotionally driven — by fear, ignorance, and discomfort — at worst vitriolic scoffers and virulent closed-minded skeptics) are the most obviously delusional of all, like the emperor in his very respectable, socially acceptable new clothes. The difference being, in this particular situation, that the emperor and his most loyal subjects all use the same highly recommended tailor.
There is a requirement for uncertainty to surround nonphysical to physical manifestations. Because of the psi uncertainty principle, you are required to gain real knowledge of NPMR through only your personal experience and growth. Thus the psi uncertainty principle is a fundamental requirement of all virtual PMR space-time learning labs. The constraint of psi uncertainty is not a punitive restriction imposed upon you because you flunked the last quality test, but rather a designed-in feature of your local reality that provides you with an optimal opportunity to lower your entropy. Do not struggle against psi uncertainty, try to get around it, or wish it were otherwise — you need it to accomplish your mission efficiently. If you did not, it would melt away.
Big Truth is not something that someone else can make you understand, even if they show you paranormal events all day long. You can learn facts about it from others and choose to believe it or not. However, to have real knowledge, to use that knowledge as a catalyst for the evolution of your being, to improve the quality and decrease the entropy of your consciousness, requires you to get involved and gain your knowledge through your experience, experimentation, and spiritual growth. There is no easier way.
You have to do it; no one can do it for you. You cannot escape, or circumvent universal truth or fundamental principles — you can ignore them, but only at the cost of personal progress and opportunities lost.