Physicist and consciousness researcher, Thomas Campbell, Discusses the nature of reality in terms of consciousness -- this video logically and scientifically explains the normal and the paranormal, mind and matter, physics and metaphysics, philosophy and theology.

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A new review based on extensive study.

 
When I first became aware of Thomas Campbell and his trilogy of books, My Big TOE, I had already spent my life with the constant underlying purpose of learning to understand the nature of reality which in my view includes God. Not however the personal God described at your local religious institution. I had already published the results of my studies on the internet at www.active-mysticism.com. As a technical professional (Ph. D. – Mechanical Engineering) with a lot of computer modeling experience, I appreciated the technical approach taken by MBT and had a sufficient background to understand the models development. The brief information available (at www.mybigtoe.com) made me believe that I would learn from these books in the fields of my interest and the different point of view I expected to find promised to be even more enlightening. The results far exceeded my expectations. I was able to enlarge the bounds of my understanding of reality and to see how to fit things I had already become acquainted with into this larger context. The things to which I refer are described on my web site and my original understanding of reality is available there. After a very rewarding experience reading My Big TOE, I became able to expand my understanding of reality in a version 2 which is available starting here. I can best describe this experience as having my mind “catalyzed” to permit a rapid expansion of my understanding. My point of view is different from Thomas Campbell but I owe him a great debt of thanks for the value of the information he provided in his trilogy.
http://www.active-mysticism.com/ReviewMBT.htm

I've been checking out this guys' creds and he looks pretty rock solid.  He's been an applied phycisist for 35 years.   Here's a bit on him here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Warren_Campbell

I really recommend checking out these videos.   He says a lot of really good and incredible things and it's actually pretty mind-blowing seeing a somewhat staid, "establishment" looking phycisist saying them, but he's very easy to listen to and understand with a pleasant manner.  He's obviously also very good at teaching and relating (you never get the impression he is talking "down" to you).

I have to get his book.

I'm going to listen to him again today I hope if I get time and I'll make a few notes I'll put here.

http://www.my-big-toe.com/uploads/TorontoWorkshopSlides.pdf

Here's one thing Dr Campbell claims:

Fear And Negative Beings:

Sometimes these are one in the same
Fear allows a negative being to make a connection with your energy

A bit more from Dr Campbell's notes:

Breakthrough or delusion?

Does this guy know what he is talking about?
Or Does he just think he knows?
Are his experiences real?
Or does he just think they are real?
Unless you have extensive experience with the larger consciousness system, you must have this question
There is strong consistency among those of us who do have that experience –4000 years ago to now –600 BC Lao Tsu wrote the Tao Te Ching.
These concepts of reality are not new –that they are logically derived from first principles in the language of science is new

http://www.my-big-toe.com/uploads/LondonLectureSlides.pdf

I've been listening to this guy, applied phycisist Dr Thomas Campbell, and reading some of his works the last several days.   It's pretty mind blowing.

Basically he has researched consciousness for many years with The Monroe Institute and he has now what he calls his Big Theory Of Everything.   He believes the System we are in is fundamentally Consciousness, that it is digital and the material world we see is only an illusion Consciousness has created.
He talks about how Einstein got right to the door, that Einstein KNEW but just couldn't finish it off at the time.
I'm sure many of you have heard that famous Einstein quote, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one".

This universe which we are presently in is just one of a multitude of worlds and parallel universes. He says we can go to these other worlds, that he often goes to these other worlds.   Sounds completely whacky huh?  But he says he and other researchers have documented this, have done experiments, have PROVEN it using scientific methods..........

He says a lot of intriguing things but one of the most interesting is that paranormal phenomena is real.  Healing, remote viewing, precognition and so on.............that what happens is SOME of us are able to "plug into" these other universes, that we receive information from them, that we can sometimes even SEE them, hear them.....

Of course this was of interest to me because sometimes I pick up what I call "knowings", for example I saw the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in advance, and he is saying that basically I "received data" from another dimension, another universe......somehow I am able to go into the right "frame of mind" that I can "receive the data".   He said anybody could do this if they knew how to "experience it" - he mentions meditation as being one such state which is useful - but some people seem to be able to "receive the data" without really trying sometimes and they're usually "low entropy entities" or people who are most often spiritually advanced.   He says they tend to be people who function "lovingly" or understand the importance of love and being loving is a low entropy state, an orderly state, which means it is much more conducive to receiving data from other universes/dimensions.  Maybe (this is just me talking) it means if you're inclined to have a benevolent soul you are more inclined to be open and receptive? 

Some of the stuff he says takes a lot of thinking about and seems kind of mind blowing.  For example he says this material, physical world we are in is an illusion Consciousness created so it could make some rules (the physics) by which fragments of itself,  fragments of consciousness, including all of us here could experience and evolve.   He says everything around us is a prop.

Remember sometimes we've talked here about how the world doesn't seem "real" to some of us?  Well, he says it isn't.   It's only as "physical" as it needs to be at any moment to maintain the illusion.  For example, (this is mindblowing kind of stuff) he says the mountains are only there when YOU look at them. They "pop up" for YOU.    If you have a car and stand beside it looking down on the bonnet you will see the bonnet but there won't actually be an engine under the bonnet.  However if you open the bonnet up the engine will be there, but it's an illusion, like everything else.

We are here basically to evolve because Consciousness as a system needs to evolve or it will go into entropy (it cannot remain stable).    As fragments of Consciousness we are evolving and we are evolving Consciousness and part of that is by using free will.    Free will is part of the "feedback loop" necessary for evolution.

I don't know how I feel about all this.  I think I'll send for his book because presumably it contains a lot more detail and documentation.

He does say though that most of this cannot be grasped intellectually anyway.  He says it has to be experienced, that it has to be "known".

What he says though would make  sense of a lot of things. Remember how I believe I went to "paradise"? Obviously he would say I just went to another dimension/another universe, that it was an out of body experience.

He says UFO's are not really his area of expertise, but it could just be that aliens/UFO's are entities "bleeding across" into our universe as it were.

He says prophetic dreams, lucid dreaming etc are data being received from another dimension, another universe.

We receive "information" from other universes and don't realise it came from another universe, that the content of Consciousness is information and "data" is streaming everywhere.

The old Buddhist sutras mention often that there are thousands of Buddha worlds, and in some sutras the subject travels to one of them for various experiences.

Of course most of these type stories are in the later sutras, long after Buddha and his direct disciples died. These later sutras were believed to be revealed and delivered by the sea Nagas (underwater snake body demons).

I believe and have experienced downloads from other dimensions, but I also believe in deceptive, bored, hungry, spirits who also give downloads .....and I've grown humble enough to admit that I really don't know the difference between the two.......so I no longer seek, and remain very detached from such information from the beyond.

Intresting write up Em

This part grabbed me.::

He says they tend to be people who function "lovingly" or understand the importance of love and being loving is a low entropy state, an orderly state, which means it is much more conducive to receiving data from other universes/dimensions.  Maybe (this is just me talking) it means if you're inclined to have a benevolent soul you are more inclined to be open and receptive? 

It's intresting to me because so many times we are being brainwashed into being everything but loving.

It seems as if the last thing TPTB want is for people to do this. and if this is correct then I can see why. As soon as we wake up, turn away from fear and hate towards love and kindness TPTB need to bring that down fast.

I mean look at our day to day lives. There is nothing that says simply be all loving. Look how 'toxic' our lives are to our souls?

They way men and women are portrayed to treat eachother? All the psychosis it causes? The eating disorders,the steroid use, the bullying, the torment, abuse, child abuse, pornography, the patriotism leading then to killing, torture, war, degradation of whole swaths of people. and on and on and on.

Not love in any of it.

I've been listening to this guy, applied phycisist Dr Thomas Campbell, and reading some of his works the last several days.   It's pretty mind blowing.
Basically he has researched consciousness for many years with The Monroe Institute and he has now what he calls his Big Theory Of Everything.   He believes the System we are in is fundamentally Consciousness, that it is digital and the material world we see is only an illusion Consciousness has created.
He talks about how Einstein got right to the door, that Einstein KNEW but just couldn't finish it off at the time.
I'm sure many of you have heard that famous Einstein quote, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one".
This universe which we are presently in is just one of a multitude of worlds and parallel universes. He says we can go to these other worlds, that he often goes to these other worlds.   Sounds completely whacky huh?  But he says he and other researchers have documented this, have done experiments, have PROVEN it using scientific methods..........
He says a lot of intriguing things but one of the most interesting is that paranormal phenomena is real.  Healing, remote viewing, precognition and so on.............that what happens is SOME of us are able to "plug into" these other universes, that we receive information from them, that we can sometimes even SEE them, hear them.....
Of course this was of interest to me because sometimes I pick up what I call "knowings", for example I saw the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in advance, and he is saying that basically I "received data" from another dimension, another universe......somehow I am able to go into the right "frame of mind" that I can "receive the data".   He said anybody could do this if they knew how to "experience it" - he mentions meditation as being one such state which is useful - but some people seem to be able to "receive the data" without really trying sometimes and they're usually "low entropy entities" or people who are most often spiritually advanced.   He says they tend to be people who function "lovingly" or understand the importance of love and being loving is a low entropy state, an orderly state, which means it is much more conducive to receiving data from other universes/dimensions.  Maybe (this is just me talking) it means if you're inclined to have a benevolent soul you are more inclined to be open and receptive? 
Some of the stuff he says takes a lot of thinking about and seems kind of mind blowing.  For example he says this material, physical world we are in is an illusion Consciousness created so it could make some rules (the physics) by which fragments of itself,  fragments of consciousness, including all of us here could experience and evolve.   He says everything around us is a prop.
Remember sometimes we've talked here about how the world doesn't seem "real" to some of us?  Well, he says it isn't.   It's only as "physical" as it needs to be at any moment to maintain the illusion.  For example, (this is mindblowing kind of stuff) he says the mountains are only there when YOU look at them. They "pop up" for YOU.    If you have a car and stand beside it looking down on the bonnet you will see the bonnet but there won't actually be an engine under the bonnet.  However if you open the bonnet up the engine will be there, but it's an illusion, like everything else.
We are here basically to evolve because Consciousness as a system needs to evolve or it will go into entropy (it cannot remain stable).    As fragments of Consciousness we are evolving and we are evolving Consciousness and part of that is by using free will.    Free will is part of the "feedback loop" necessary for evolution.

-emeline

very interesting - i have read this before - don't remember if it was campbell.

one thing i just recently read...when we "die" - we only "die" FROM someone's reality illusion.

i also agree that somehow - each of us - now - interacting - has existed forever and will exist forever - now as humans we have incubated consciousness to the point we can evolve to the next level (depending on if we have done our work (i.e., love unconditionally).

this is exactly what the mutants (of this dimension and others) DON'T want us to do...they don't want consciousness to evolve (except within them of course).

they want our minds - our thoughts controlled - porn, sports, celebs, crisis, war, etc. etc. are all they want us thinking about.

 "The Universe is Mental--held in the Mind of THE ALL."--The Kybalion.

-this is exactly what the mutants (of this dimension and others) DON'T want us to do...they don't want consciousness to evolve (except within them of course).
 
Ha! The really really funny Karma point of that is ....They can't evolve themselves as long as they are sowing the seads of hate, fear..yadda yadda

The old Buddhist sutras mention often that there are thousands of Buddha worlds, and in some sutras the subject travels to one of them for various experiences.

Of course most of these type stories are in the later sutras, long after Buddha and his direct disciples died. These later sutras were believed to be revealed and delivered by the sea Nagas (underwater snake body demons).

I believe and have experienced downloads from other dimensions, but I also believe in deceptive, bored, hungry, spirits who also give downloads .....and I've grown humble enough to admit that I really don't know the difference between the two.......so I no longer seek, and remain very detached from such information from the beyond.

-spin

spin right, the mystics have known this for thousands of years because they EXPERIENCED it.   Thomas Campbell quotes the Tao as being just one such example.   However the mystics can't "prove it" to the satisfaction of scientists who are vested in the material world (the physics of this universe).   But as he says science, religions, philosophies, mystics etc are actually all describing the SAME system, only from different vantage points, different belief sets and the day is rapidly approaching when physics and metaphysics will merge because physicists are discovering "reality" is something enormously bigger and far more subjective than the physical/material.  As he says, physicists are discovering that ALL "reality" isn't even objective. Dr Campbell talked about malevolent entities and said they definitely exist and CAN harm others, but he goes on to say WE are very unlikely  to encounter them if we have out-of-body experiences. 

Presumably though malevolent entities can come across into our reality frame but I don't remember him saying anything about that except in mentioning some of them may seem to us to be beings we would perceive as aliens.

And if you think about this concept it brings to mind many things, for example those who claim they have proof that the vehicles spraying chemtrails are coming in and out of another dimension.  Now when I read that I must admit I thought, well that seems really ludicrous doesn't it? but what say it's true, what say the truth is THAT extraordinary, or at least part of the truth?

There are degrees of consciousness, degrees of free will - obviously some use that free will to harm others.   We can see that on earth.   The Koran, Bible etc talk of malevolent beings coming into this world to cause mischief and harm.  How do we know they don't in part, just stream data towards targets?  Some people believe aliens control leaders by telepathy - it sounds very whacky, but I think even Dr Campbell is saying "all our thoughts are not our own". 

But we knew that already didn't we?

Intresting write up Em
This part grabbed me.::
He says they tend to be people who function "lovingly" or understand the importance of love and being loving is a low entropy state, an orderly state, which means it is much more conducive to receiving data from other universes/dimensions.  Maybe (this is just me talking) it means if you're inclined to have a benevolent soul you are more inclined to be open and receptive? 
It's intresting to me because so many times we are being brainwashed into being everything but loving.
It seems as if the last thing TPTB want is for people to do this. and if this is correct then I can see why. As soon as we wake up, turn away from fear and hate towards love and kindness TPTB need to bring that down fast.
I mean look at our day to day lives. There is nothing that says simply be all loving. Look how 'toxic' our lives are to our souls?
They way men and women are portrayed to treat eachother? All the psychosis it causes? The eating disorders,the steroid use, the bullying, the torment, abuse, child abuse, pornography, the patriotism leading then to killing, torture, war, degradation of whole swaths of people. and on and on and on.
Not love in any of it.

-concernedmomma

CM right and it does seem like something very odd is going on.    I've read that the hunter-gatherer tribes were actually very egalitarian.   From what I understand (although I'm not an expert on Egyptian culture by any means) much of Egyptian culture was very enlightened and advanced. For example, the Egyptians were horrified at the infanticide of other cultures and used to literally gather up abandoned babies (which was one of the favourite forms of infanticide) and rear them as their own children.    In Egyptian society men and women were regarded as equals and some of the ancient Egyptians wrote of their contempt for the Greek culture they encountered which treated women as second class citizens. One thing which is interesting to me about that is throughout the OT the Egyptians were portrayed in so many ways as the "ungodly" or "contemptible" and the Hebrews as "virtuous" and "Godly" even as they mass-murdered their way through lands and obeyed "divine laws" which demanded the stoning of one's own children for "disobedience", the live burning of people and other heinousness.

Just who was this "God" the Hebrews were obeying?    It certainly seems He/It/Them came from some other reality frame/dimension and this "God" was at times certainly malevolent, evil, psychopathic and all the rest of it.  Moreover he was always after "blood", whether it be through the sacrifice of animals, laws which called for the stoning of his followers or directing them to commit genocide against hapless foreign peoples. 

And not much has changed today.  Various "Gods" are always invoking their followers to war and violence.

It was Shakespeare who wrote, "The gods they kill us for their sport".

Maybe that's just it, one possibility, that it's all just a big game to these entities from other reality frames/universes, that they use their free will malignantly.

However if you believe Thomas Campbell for one, that this creates a state of entropy/decline and so much disorder that it is no longer possible to have enough "energy" to do the work of evolving which is a core objective of the fundamental System/Consciousness what it means is that that System WILL eliminate the "destroyers".  It simply will.  It literally HAS to keep evolving to be viable.  That's the simple "physics" of Consciousness.

How is that going to manifest?  Maybe the System is telling us exactly how in the Book of Revelation.  There's going to be a Judgement Day.  The System is going to clean house. Those who contributed towards entropy/disorder will be destroyed and eliminated.    The "orderly" (low entropy) fragments of consciousness - those who are loving and spiritually more advanced - who have already evolved their consciousness will be part of maybe a great macro-evolutionary event.

Consciousness has been telling us this all along......in a million different ways. 

As Lou has said several times about that friend of hers I think who told her, "they know they've already lost".

Exactly.

Oh and while I'm rambling some thoughts here, you see THIS is very likely the whole allegory which is the Bible once you sort out the truth from the lies.
 
Everything which starts in Genesis concludes in Revelation because Consciousness KNOWS what it will do.
 
The story of Cain and Abel starts the theme of the two ends of the continuum, the murderer and the martyr.    Ultimately, to cut a long story short and ignore the twists and turns, I'd posit it is the "descendants of Cain" whom Consciousness destroys and eliminates at the end.  Why?  Because they never evolved, because they caused "disorder" just like Cain, because they were violent, murderous, hateful just like Cain, because MOST OF ALL they contributed to entropy just like Cain.....and Consciousness cannot abide ongoing entropy.
 
At the "end of the age" the "sheep" and "goats" get separated, ergo, the Universe/System/Consciousness cleans house.   It's simple "spiritual physics".

 

very interesting - i have read this before - don't remember if it was campbell. one thing i just recently read...when we "die" - we only "die" FROM someone's reality illusion.
i also agree that somehow - each of us - now - interacting - has existed forever and will exist forever - now as humans we have incubated consciousness to the point we can evolve to the next level (depending on if we have done our work (i.e., love unconditionally).
this is exactly what the mutants (of this dimension and others) DON'T want us to do...they don't want consciousness to evolve (except within them of course).
they want our minds - our thoughts controlled - porn, sports, celebs, crisis, war, etc. etc. are all they want us thinking about.
 "The Universe is Mental--held in the Mind of THE ALL."--The Kybalion.

-roccman

roccman, I think you're exactly right. 

Thomas Campbell says when we "die" it is merely that we wake up from this "present dream".   Everything is mental. This life is only the dream we are presently "in".

I was thinking this afternoon how Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many mansions".

How about the "Father's house" being Fundamental Consciousness, the System, and the "many mansions" being the many worlds/alternative realities and universes of which Thomas Campbell speaks?

You know what I'd like to ask Thomas Campbell, Robert Monroe etc?  How do they know they're really going to other universes/dimensions etc?  How do they know it isn't all happening in their own heads?

I've just sent for Robert Monroe's book and I'll be ordering Dr Campbell's and maybe there's more detail in them,   I'm sure curious as to what this "objective data" and "empirical evidence" is from other worlds.

This whole "reality thing"......I don't get a lot of it.  Since many human beings seem to spend most of their lives totally CONFUSED it's hard on many levels to see any "programme" or "purpose" which could provide unwavering evidence that such programmes even exist.

So much of human experience seems in fact to come down to pure, dumb luck.

Okayyyy, mayyyybeeeeee we wake up from the "dream" and go, oh wow, wasn't that HORRIBLE?  Or wasn't that FUNNY?  Or wasn't that COOL?  And then analyse our last "ride" and discuss it with our "guides"...but if you think about this a lot, it sure seems "Consciousness", on so many levels, has a screwed up mind.