Tom Campbell - escaping the simulation

Campbell was one of the original members when Monroe set up his experimenters' research lab. See this post I made on his book Far Journeys:
https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-r...4#pid49744

If you read it, you'll hear descriptions by "TC", in his own words, of his OBE travels and communications.

Interesting. I distinctly recall TC saying there were certain things he refused to discuss...but maybe I am far off on that...

Campbell was one of the original members when Monroe set up his experimenters' research lab. See this post I made on his book Far Journeys:
https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-r...4#pid49744

If you read it, you'll hear descriptions by "TC", in his own words, of his OBE travels and communications.

If I recall correctly (and I'm sure there's a convenient acronym for that too), Tom met Monroe through being employed to help set up that research lab. He found that he could, with practice, have similar experiences to those described by Monroe. I'm going on memory here from either reading a website or watching a video or - well I don't remember where I saw it but these events as described remain lodged in my memory.

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In that post I linked to, there's a free version of Far Journeys (1985, NY, Broadway Books) one can read online.

(There are other explorers with their initials given and their job: executive, psychologist, social worker, etc.). Monroe says a breakthrough came in 1974 when the explorers in the lab, all in the same time-frame, some without meeting each other or cross-communicating (p. 39), established contact with non-human entities.

Here's one of TC's explorations in the lab (p. 51 in the book, page "31" online):

SS/TC (PHYSICIST) 22:30 MIN #372
"I've gotten all kinds of things, and I've been trying to sort them and
put them into some kind of rational order. First of all, I had the impres-
sion that physical matter reality—inasmuch of I guess what is normally
called reality, not only physical matter, but also a certain amount of our
daydreaming and our imaginative intuitive qualities—is part of a, sort of
like a large daydream or thought from a higher consciousness. Just as we
can daydream and invent characters and situations, we are characters in a
situation that was invented or dreamt, quite consciously dreamt by a
more advanced sort of consciousness. The part that we have to play in
this daydream is one of education, one of learning and bettering our-
selves, striving to become more. Now, I'm not clear why this kind of over-
consciousness or over-soul is having this daydream, but I have the feeling
that it is for its own education. It learns as we learn. Anyway, we have
such limited consciousness to begin because if you are going to set up a
situation where you expect certain processes to happen—these processes,
of course, are our education, our learning—you don't set up the most
complex and involved experiment or situation. You set up a simple one
that you can produce, that still has the qualities to get the results that you
want. This is the reason that we are seemingly of such limited conscious-
ness. But the reason that we have an option to develop our consciousness
more fully is part of the experiment itself. We are to learn and grow and
evolve and become and learn through experience in doing, and as closely
as we can come to understanding and being a part of, our understanding
a part of our creator, our over-soul daydreamer, if you like, then sort of
the more power to us. The more of that we can understand, then the
more learning that we've acquired. So it's not really—well, I take that
back. It's not so much that we are driven to expand our awareness or that
we should be, other than it's available, and being available makes it a
direction in which we can evolve if we so choose. That's a little jumbled
to myself, but that's the way it's coming out."

https://www.docdroid.net/nuHlcfF/robert-...df#page=31

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Tom also describes his experiences with Robert Monroe and his involvement with the Monroe Institute near the start of his own book (trilogy) My Big TOE, which I never ended up finishing.

Tom also describes his experiences with Robert Monroe and his involvement with the Monroe Institute near the start of his own book (trilogy) My Big TOE, which I never ended up finishing.

Ah I'll have to check here because there was something - if my memory isn't failing me - he wanted to keep secret...

Regardless though I've had multiple people warn me about the pursuit of occult knowledge in general and specifically OOBEs.

Ah I'll have to check here because there was something - if my memory isn't failing me - he wanted to keep secret...

Regardless though I've had multiple people warn me about the pursuit of occult knowledge in general and specifically OOBEs.

I remember years ago reading an author (not one mentioned in this thread) commenting on what he termed 'spiritual athleticism', considering it a diversion which did not directly contribute towards a path which might be considered uplifting or beneficial for the soul.

On the subject of OOBEs, it was something I began to explore a little, many years ago but after a while I realised I was entering somewhere while being completely unprepared. It wasn't frightening or dangerous at all at that stage, but from the little I did experience, I considered it risky since I had no guide or helper of any kind and it was better left unexplored, at least by me at that time.

In that post I linked to, there's a free version of Far Journeys (1985, NY, Broadway Books) one can read online.

(There are other explorers with their initials given and their job: executive, psychologist, social worker, etc.). Monroe says a breakthrough came in 1974 when the explorers in the lab, all in the same time-frame, some without meeting each other or cross-communicating (p. 39), established contact with non-human entities.


https://www.docdroid.net/nuHlcfF/robert-...df#page=31

All that is great, (if extremely vague), but what happens if others learnt to manipulate the system for their own ends, and knowledge about that was hidden, and/or wiped out.

I only watched a bit... but it honestly sounds to me like a vague mixture of cherry-picked stuff that is already out there... and probably doesn't lead anywhere... I don't get any sense that Tom has 'escaped his simulation' using the ideas he's proposing (but each to their own).

Yoichiro Sako's work on Clairvoyance in adolescents is so much more tantalizing... now-a-days, you can only find bits about ESPER... he wrote a book, published in Japanese, but it was never translated. You can still find some published papers online.

https://medium.com/remote-viewing-commun...b983ca17e0

Still amazing to me that Sony came out and admitted that they had proved that ESP exists... and then lied about it's utility... the others have been deploying it's secrets in full view for hundreds of years... and 99.9999 can't see it.

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Donald Hoffman and Joscha Bach discuss consciousness, Ai, and whether Godel has anything to say about the mind being "computable."

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That Daniel Hoffman video up above is in the realm of philosophy as it relates to quantum physics and other scientific observations.

This is back to experiential OBE, like Campbell..

Darius J. Wright seems to have had extremely wide-ranging travels, enabling an awesomely meta-picture of All That Is.


This is a screenshot of the slide he shows during the interview.
The left shows all these different constructs. Within each construct, like the one the people are looking in*, there are many realms (such as we see in the midldle picture). To the right are dimensional spaces that exist within each realm.


Interesting bit about souls having always existed, having always had their individuality, and that no individuality-dissipating merger will ever occur.

Also confirms, like other sources, that "hellish" NDEs are people still stuck in their own thought field at that moment.

(*So it is possible to stand outside all constructs.)