Dr. Thomas Campbell, a physicist and systems analyst, explains his decades-long investigation into consciousness, remote viewing, out-of-body experiences, and healing, culminating in his “My Big TOE” (Theory of Everything) — a model in which consciousness is fundamental, reality is a computed virtual environment, and we evolve by lowering entropy through love-based choices.
Origin and the Monroe Lab
A paranormal experience in graduate school — debugging software mentally — revealed a non-physical layer of reality and set Campbell on a mission to model consciousness scientifically.
A job that “materialized out of thin air” led him to Robert Monroe, who had built a laboratory with three acoustically isolated booths (one a Faraday cage) to study out-of-body experiences (OBEs) with scientific rigor.
Campbell and colleague Dennis Mennerich spent 15–20 hours per week for years learning to induce OBEs on demand, practicing remote viewing, mind-to-mind communication, and healing, verifying results statistically.
Shared OBE as Turning Point
Monroe had Campbell and Mennerich meet out-of-body above the lab and travel together while physically separated in isolated booths, speaking into microphones to report their experiences in real time.
When Monroe played back the synchronized cassette recordings, their reports matched in detail — describing the same structures, entities, and conversations from two perspectives — proving an objective, shared non-physical reality.
This moved Campbell from intellectual certainty to emotional knowing: consciousness is fundamental, causality flows from consciousness to the physical, and there are discoverable rules governing the process.
Everything Is Information
Consciousness is an information system: it takes in data via sensors (senses), processes it against memory, and produces an output (reaction) — the classic definition of an information system.
Particle physicists model electrons as points with attributes (mass, charge) rather than little pieces of matter, concluding reality is information-based; quantum mechanics agrees, describing reality as probability-based and observer-dependent.
Campbell’s insight: the “probability wave collapse” is a metaphor for a rendering engine — a larger consciousness system takes a random draw from a probability distribution of possibilities and renders that as the next moment of experience.
Nothing exists “out there” until measured; the physical world is a virtual reality computed by consciousness, analogous to a multiplayer video game where each player (individuated unit of consciousness) receives a data stream rendered into their experience.
Purpose: Lowering Entropy Through Love
Consciousness is defined as awareness with choice; evolution is driven by the quality of choices.
Information systems evolve by lowering entropy (disorder) — creating meaningful order, which in a social system translates to caring, sharing, cooperation, and helpfulness (the “love” side).
Fear-based choices (self-interest, control, hoarding) increase entropy, leading to chaos and de-evolution.
The virtual reality exists as a training ground: we are players (consciousness) operating avatars (bodies) in a multiplayer game where the quality of our interactions determines whether we evolve toward love or devolve toward fear.
Healing as Probability Modification
Healing works by using intent to modify future probabilities in the system’s database (the “Akashic records” / probable future database).
The rendering engine draws from a probability distribution; focused intent shifts the weights, making healthier outcomes more likely when the random draw occurs.
Placebo effect is the same mechanism: belief modifies probability; jaded skepticism pushes the opposite direction.
Uncertainty is key: high uncertainty (e.g., 50/50 outcomes) is easier to influence than low uncertainty (e.g., 10,000:1 odds).
Fear and worry from oneself or others add negative probability weight; a positive, trusting attitude shifts probability toward healing.
Healing is the simplest paranormal skill because biological systems have high inherent uncertainty, making them responsive to intent.
Practical Mechanics of Intent
Intent strength depends on mental clarity: meditation quiets intellectual noise, tightens focus, and amplifies intent; a scattered, analytical mind shuts down the intuitive channel where probability modification occurs.
The intuitive channel operates in brief windows; intellectual analysis closes it. First impressions are intuitive; subsequent processing is intellectual and counterproductive.
Rituals (incense, statues, chants) are just focusing aids — they work only because they help the practitioner quiet the mind and focus intent.
Ethical constraint: never heal without first determining whether the illness serves a learning purpose for the consciousness involved; forcing healing against a soul’s path is abuse and fear-based.
Consciousness Web and Telepathy
All consciousness is “netted” — a potential connection exists between any units; intent can open, close, amplify, or filter these connections (e.g., “connect only to people with blue eyes” or “alert me if my friend in China has trouble”).
Telepathy works through this web: thinking of someone sends a signal they receive intuitively; if they’re in an intellectual state, they only get a vague feeling; if intuitive, they may consciously recognize it.
Laboratory telepathy tests fail because they force subjects into intellectual, stressful, unfamiliar environments — the exact conditions that shut down the intuitive channel.
Coincidences (thinking of a friend who then calls) are often resonant intent loops across the consciousness web, not random chance.
Personal Healing Cases
Woman bleeding internally (20 minutes to live): Campbell connected mind-to-mind, discovered she had “given up” after a crisis of faith, engaged her in a loving dialogue that restored her will to live, then stopped the bleeding. She later reported “speaking with God” — her interpretation of the mind-to-mind contact based on her belief framework.
Baby with brain cancer: The baby’s consciousness (soul) did not want to continue a disabled life. Campbell found another willing consciousness to “swap in,” obtained agreement, then healed the cancer over 5–6 sessions of ~20 minutes each. The child survived and thrived (confirmed at age 14–15).
General principle: Healing requires coherence between the animating consciousness and the physical experience; if the soul has exited or refuses the life, healing is inappropriate unless a replacement agrees to step in.
Intention Setting: Macro vs. Micro
Early on, Campbell used intent to shape daily outcomes (parking spots, etc.) but found it created a “bubble” that reduced growth opportunities.
He shifted to a macro intention: make every choice as low-entropy (loving, cooperative, system-optimal) as possible, considering ripple effects on others and the whole.
Micro-level daily events are allowed to unfold without control; the rich, challenging flow of unscripted life provides the best learning opportunities.
Hard experiences teach more than easy ones; shutting them out via probability manipulation defeats the purpose of the virtual reality.
Ethics and the Nature of Ritual
All paranormal work must be done from love, never control or manipulation; “loving turnoff” of negative connections works, while fearful blocking backfires.
Rituals across cultures (chickens, renaming, exorcisms, magic screwdrivers) persist because they focus intent effectively, even if the explanatory story is metaphorical.
As societies become more intellectual, intuitive access atrophies; the old ways worked because they engaged the intuitive channel, not because of the specific symbols used.
Consciousness Across Platforms
All aware, choice-making entities are conscious (dogs, bumblebees, trees, humans, potentially AIs), but decision space varies by platform capacity: data intake, processing power, and available choices.
A bumblebee demonstrated purposeful, vengeful behavior (stalking and stinging Campbell’s father), proving minimal but real consciousness.
Biology and physics constrain what each avatar can do; consciousness itself is not limited by the avatar’s rules.
