My Big TOE - The Complete Trilogy
Preface: Author’s Note to the Reader
culture lays out the template for your worldview upon the core belief systems that define your perception of existence.
It is the task of this trilogy to clearly and completely construct your consciousness, your world, your science, and your existence in a general, logical, scientific way that comprehensively explains all the personal and professional data you have collected during a lifetime.
Reality is a unified whole thing with each of its parts inexorably intertwined with the others.
Foreword: A Conceptual Orientation
How does one define, realize, and measure the satisfaction, personal growth, quality of life, and fulfillment of individual purpose that is derived from each worldview? What is the standard against which the achievement of these goals is assessed?
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Big Truth, like wisdom, is not something you can teach or learn from a book. It must be comprehended by individuals within the context of their experience. Each of us comes to an understanding of reality through our interpretation of our physical and mental experiences.
The best teachers can do no more than offer a consistent and coherent understanding of reality that helps their students find the larger perspective required to self-discover Big Truth.
A model is an intellectual device that theoreticians use to achieve a more concrete understanding of an abstract concept. Models are often developed to describe an unknown function, interaction, or process
The problem physicists are currently having describing a consistent reality is primarily because of the way they define space, time, objectivity, and consciousness.
It is this belief-induced blindness that creates scientific paradoxes (such as wave/particle duality and the instantaneous communication between an entangled pair).
Einstein’s student and colleague, the great quantum physicist David Bohm
Only truth can produce significant consistent results. In contrast, falsity excels at producing assertive beliefs, arguments, and opinions.
Open your mind, remain skeptical, pursue only significant measurable results, and let the chips fall where they may.
Change and new ways of thinking are often traumatic, difficult to integrate, and generally unwelcome. Resistance to change is automatic at the gut level; we cling to familiar ways for the security and comfort they provide. We do not easily see unfamiliar patterns. You must be willing to overcome fear and rise above self-imposed belief-blindness if you are to succeed in getting a good look at the Big Picture.
Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.
BOOK 1: AWAKENING
Section 1 Delusion or Knowledge: Is This Guy Nuts, or What?
1 Introduction to Section 1
2 Hey Mister, You Want to Learn to Meditate?
typical twenty-three year old physicist — excessively cerebral, out of touch with my feelings, analytical, precise, curious, and above all, intellectually motivated and driven.
3 The Sacrificial Banana
4 Watch That First Step, It’s a Big One
I could solve physics problems, design experiments, analyze research data, and write and de-bug computer code ten times more quickly, and with better results while in a point awareness state than I could in a normal state of consciousness.
it became a dependable routine. Eventually, I did not wait until all normal methods and efforts were exhausted before turning to meditation. It worked as well when I tried it first, saving a great deal of time and effort by skipping the first three steps of the process. Hard work, long hours, frustration, and exasperation were no longer prerequisites for solving difficult and complex programming and physics problems.
My reality expanded. I added the statement: “If a thing is well defined and consistently functional (it can profitably and dependably be used by anyone within the known operational reality), then it must also be real.”
“Altered,” was defined as different from normal. “Normal” meant wide-awake and focused in the physical world — as you are now while you are reading this book. Each altered state has its functionality.
Real things, significant things, must now be either objectively measurable, or consistently and predictably interactive with real things. That was a major expansion of my real world. The word “objective” means that these real things must exist universally and consistently for others as well as for me. They must be independent of me and exist whether I exist or not. Others (potentially everyone) must be able to make the same measurements and find the same measurable functionality. Otherwise, they would be only my private hallucinations, not a part of the larger reality we all share.
expanding my reality beyond a certain beginning level would require personal growth. I had to increase the quality of my consciousness to understand the bigger picture. Conversely, understanding the bigger picture helped me grow up. They worked together.
5 Is This Guy Monroe Nuts, or What?
found that I did not need the mantra any longer. A little research and experimentation indicated that any two-syllable nonsense word ending in “ing” (a resonant sound) worked as well as any other, including my given super-secret mantra. There was nothing mystical or magical here, only a method of controlling thoughts by filling the otherwise active mind with fluff, nothing but science and technique — no bananas or hankies were required.
Repeating the mantra eventually seemed to get in the way and slow me down; consequently I dropped it. The meditation state was now familiar enough that I could go there in an instant and return as quickly. This level of control was handy at work. I could meditate, find solutions, and return without anyone suspecting that I was doing something strange — to the world I seemed to be deep in thought.
6 Face to Face with the Wizard of Whistlefield
Bob Monroe lived on an estate named Whistlefield — five-hundred acres of lakes, forests and fields.
7 The Adventure Begins
there were so many intelligent and sober individuals, sometimes with impressive credentials, who took this area of endeavor seriously. These were not whacked out druggies doing their counter-culture thing. Bob had zero tolerance for that sort — he did not want to tarnish his legitimacy by being associated with drug users.
8 The Science of Altered States
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A literature search had turned up a few old scholarly studies of out-of-body experience, which was also known as “astral projection.” … A book by Dr. Hereward Carrington and Sylvan Muldoon entitled The Projection of the Astral Body, published in 1929 by Samuel Weiser of New York, suggested the pineal gland was somehow involved. Astral Projections: Out of the Body Experiences, by Oliver Fox and The Study and Practice of Astral Projection by Dr. Robert Crookall (University Press, 1960); agreed that the pineal gland was perhaps a key organ
Bob thought that perhaps there was opportunity on the boundary between being awake and asleep. We practiced hovering on that edge. Put the body asleep and keep the mind awake simultaneously.
9 Breakthrough
Our hope was that the beat frequency, occurring in the corpus callosum between the brain’s hemispheres, would drive the brainwaves.
10 But Is It Real?
food additives, preservatives, caffeine, and sugar were permanently banished from my diet
Dennis and I were the same demanding and skeptical scientists that had started this adventure, but we had stopped asking if it was real. We now knew the answer. We also realized that one has to experience it oneself to get to that point. Nobody else can convince you. You simply must experience it yourself. All the data in the world, regardless of how carefully taken, become suspect if you are not there to participate and know the truth of the matter firsthand
This model came to us in the form of Seth Speaks, by Jane Roberts. That the material was channeled was not a problem for us. By then, we were all personally familiar with the nonphysical and its host of sentient beings.
11 If This is Tuesday, I Must Be in Physical Matter Reality
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My son Eric was about five years old at the time. Like most kids that age, he had frequent … spontaneous out-of-body-experiences (OOBE). We would go out-of-body together — I would go by and join him — we would have a blast. One time we were exploring the oceans together when a huge whale approached us. As our bodies slipped easily through the whale, Eric’s head for some reason bumped against each of its ribs, one after the next. It frightened him a little; typically we did not interact with our surroundings. We came back immediately.
I have always been a sleepy head — nine to ten hours a night is about right for me. Yet by spending so much time in altered states where my body was deeply relaxed, if not officially asleep, I got by on two or three hours of sleep per night — night after night after night — year after year.
I noticed that everything living had this fuzzy light around it and that there were strands of this nonphysical cotton candy connecting everything to everything. What about inorganic matter, I wondered. I moved my attention to buildings, telephone poles and power-lines. To my astonishment, there was a smaller more uniform close-cut off-white light around everything! The light around the power-lines was in motion and bushier than what was around the poles
12 End of an Era
13 Once Upon a Time, a Long, Long Time Ago
Most children, particularly those younger than seven, have spontaneous, fully conscious out-of-body-experiences. Their parents tell them it is just a meaningless dream and they forget about it. These experiences are usually non-threatening and fun for the kids. You may recall some of your out-of-body-experiences if your memory is good and the experiences were dramatic.
The first question was mostly verbal. “Would you rather have this treasure (I got a picture) or learn something new?” The answer was obvious; knowledge was far more valuable than goods.
14 This Kid is Weird Enough
15 With a Little Bit of Help From My Friends: How’s Your Love Life?
I always knew growing up that there were nonphysical entities available to help me. They looked after me and I knew it. They were nonphysical friends who were older and wiser and knew what was coming
16 Here We Go Again!
I have learned to work harmoniously with the environment I find myself in
Remember, the evidence, as well as the key to understanding, lies within your own experience — and nowhere else.
Section 2 Mysticism Demystified: The Foundations of Reality
17 Introduction to Section 2
What we call mystical is relative to the extent of our knowledge and understanding. If some process, phenomena, or conceptualization appears to lie beyond our potential ability to explain it within the context of PMR (physical-matter reality), we describe it as mystical. Much of what was considered mystical a thousand years ago is considered science today and much of what is considered mystical today will be clearly understood by a future science.
most of us embrace a multitude of both culturally given and personally derived belief-based conclusions with a degree of certainty that only a deep bone-level ignorance could sustain.
Seeing the Big Picture requires more than intellectual capacity. It also requires transcending ingrained belief systems.
The concept that there may be a natural practical limit to the extent of our knowledge — a limit beyond which our perception cannot penetrate — is based upon the notion that we are only a very small part of a much greater reality.
we are limited by much more — beliefs, pseudo-knowledge, preconceived notions, attitudes, fears, desires, needs, and cultural biases
The biggest picture must cover everything — everything objective, everything subjective, everything normal, and everything paranormal. Mind and matter, consciousness and concrete, all the true data and the facts of existence (the personal as well as the scientific) must be accounted for, compatible with, and contained within this single Big TOE — if it is a comprehensive and correct Big TOE
By definition, it is clear that you cannot be aware of what you do not know.
18 In the Beginning…Causality and Mysticism
Our beginnings appear mystical to us because of the limitations of our logic and because of the limitations that our belief-based perspectives impose upon our minds. If you raise science, as well as your vision and understanding, to the next higher level of causality — to the super system that contains PMR as a subsystem — the ever-present mysticism will recede to the outer edges of your newly acquired knowledge.
19 Beware of the Belief Trap
What is deeply ingrained in us is nearly impossible for us to notice — it becomes part of the invisible inner core of our being.
Whenever you feel reasonably certain that you are obviously correct even though you have no real data to back it up, you should at least consider the possibility that you may be stuck in a belief trap of your own creation. Only open minded skepticism will allow you to assess that possibility.
One day, after enough hard evidence is gathered through personal experience, it will become clear that NPMR is both independent of you and causally connected to PMR. Realizing that fact will be your first, biggest, and most amazing discovery!
The quality of your being necessarily reflects the quality, the correctness, of your beliefs and understanding.
20 Causality in Every Dimension can Potentially Transform a Mystic into a Scientist from Inner Space
The second revised edition of the book Flatland was published in 1884 by E. A. Abbott and is currently available from Princeton University Press. The book describes, in a light-hearted and humorous manner, the fundamental technical, epistemological, social, and political difficulty in expanding your awareness of reality beyond the dimensionality of your physical perceptions.
From the viewpoint of the child’s own local objective causal system, the child’s reality logically requires a mystical beginning. In other words, any system of objective causality is insulated from other causal systems by the local logic through which it defines itself.
21 Cultural Bias
Our beliefs set the boundaries and define the limits of our science
Major conceptual breakthroughs in science and philosophy must always lie outside the solution space defined by what is generally accepted
beliefs and fantasies almost always have an effect that is opposite to what is intended. The process of denying a fear generally causes what is feared to manifest in your reality.
Examples of reputable data are available in Mind-Reach — Scientists Look at Psychic Ability by Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, Delacorte Press, 1977 and The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena, by Dean I. Radin; Harper Collins, 1997.
The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, published by Simon and Schuster in 1961.