My Big TOE: Awakening [Paperback]

Thomas W Campbell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 13, 2003 | Series: My Big Toe

Book 1 of the MY Big TOE trilogy.

My Big TOE, written by a nuclear physicist in the language contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter, purpose and meaning, the normal and the paranormal.

The entirety of human experience (mind, body, and spirit) including both our objective and subjective worlds is brought together under one seamless scientific understanding.

Book 1: Awakening –

Section 1 provides a partial biography of the author that is pertinent to the subsequent creation of this trilogy. This brief look at the author's unique experience and credentials sheds some light upon the origins of this highly unusual work.

Section 2 lays out and defines the basic conceptual building blocks needed to construct My Big TOE's conceptual foundation. It discusses the cultural beliefs that trap our thinking into a narrow and limited conceptualization of reality, defines the basics of Big Picture epistemology and ontology; logically infers the nature of time, space, and consciousness as well as describes the basic properties, purpose, and mechanics of our reality. Many of the concepts initiated in Section 2 are more fully explained in Book 2.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A logical, open, and inquisitive mind that appreciates the elegance of fundamental truth and scientific breakthrough will enjoy this Book. -- Peg Rochine -- CEO, Clinical Research Associates

My Big TOE puts the larger reality, the whole of your experience, on a solid theoretical footing. A must read. -- Lyle Fuller, power engineer

Tom Campbell, an unlikely combination of Mr. Wizard, Dr. Phil, and Bill Murray, takes you on an unforgettable journey. -- Kate von Seeburg, Editor, K8 & Co.

About the Author

Tom Campbell began researching altered states of consciousness with Bob Monroe (Journeys Out Of The Body, Far Journeys, and The Ultimate Journey) at Monroe Laboratories in the early 1970s where he and a few others were instrumental in getting Monroe's laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running.

Campbell has been experimenting with, and exploring the subjective and objective mind ever since. For the past thirty years, Campbell has been focused on scientifically exploring the properties, boundaries, and abilities of consciousness. During that same time period, he has excelled as a working scientist, a professional physicist dedicated to pushing back the frontiers of cutting edge technology, large-system simulation, technology development and integration, and complex system vulnerability and risk analysis. Presently, and for the past 20 years, he has been at the heart of developing US missile defense systems.

My Big TOE represents a model of existence and reality that is based directly on Campbell's scientific research and first hand experience. It represents the results and conclusions of thirty years of careful scientific exploration of the boundaries and contents of reality from both the physical and metaphysical viewpoints. There is no belief system, dogma, creed, or unusual assumptions at the root of My Big TOE.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Lightning Strike Books (February 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972509402
• ISBN-13: 978-0972509404
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,128,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging ,Life changing., August 27, 2003

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Cherie Rutter "cherie" (Mallorca.Ballears.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Big TOE: Awakening (Paperback)

A trilogy of mind boggling magnitude.
If you are one of the people out there searching and looking for Answers to questions such as,"Why am I here?,"Why is my life as it is?" Then look no more,the Author, in his own amusing style, attempts to supply you with his logical,scientfic, experienced based answers to these questions.
He requires you to have a very open mind and to forget any preconcieved notions of reality that you hold.(Quite difficult and frightning to do) I personally have had to read all three books more than once as I found it quite heavy going trying to comprehend everything he is saying.
I appreciated his honest and sometimes uncomfortable statements regarding the nature and impersonal attitude of the "Supreme Being",If your're under the illusion that "God" is the all forgiving "Saviour" of Mankind,then forget it,you are going to be very upset and disillusioned with this version of how things are.
The authors Scientfic approach to this subject leads you to believe that this really could be the way forward to real advancment.
Having read all the usual books on how to progress your soul and personal growth etc,I found myself actually putting his suggestions into practice.Too early for tangable results yet but he assures the reader that results are very attainable and noticable if the efforts are genuine. Guess what? I really do feel different!Lighter?
Really worth the investment,even if it only gets you to question and rid yourself of some of the dross associated with accepted belief systems.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Big Picture of our existence never before presented, March 31, 2005

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Donna Aveni Warner (Burgundy, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Big TOE: Awakening (Paperback)

With humour and high spirits, Tom Campbell informally shares with you in his Trilogy, who he is, and how he started on the journey that led to his Big TOE. Campbell's Big TOE, which refers to nothing less than a Theory of Everything, stands on firm ground.

In a bigger picture of our existence than has ever been presented, My Big TOE weaves Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics together to create a model of reality through which you can begin your journey towards a higher quality of consciousness.

Campbell's books are derived from his own experiences with altered states of consciousness, his work and experiments with respected people in this field, and the objective verification of the results. The author shows how previously, Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics clashed in their isolated quests for answers to the nature of reality, and that by setting the camera of our conscious mind to a wide-angle lens, we can better understand reality in the larger sense.

Do not let the scientific undertones steer you away from this Trilogy. The personal asides that the author provides enrich the reading process, and the Trilogy format allows the complex subject matter to be more accessible to everyone.

From those mildly curious to the potentially eternally grateful, please note: from whatever level you personally begin, you cannot go back to exactly the way you previously viewed reality - this Trilogy will reach the core of your being, and you will certainly glean from it something of lasting value.

The true value, however, will lie in your own experiences and explorations, the author cautions, as the Trilogy provides only a framework for your personal quest in search of a higher quality of consciousness and awareness.

While personal effort is expected to achieve results, I appreciate the lengths the author has gone to in order to relate the processes, and the why, of how he arrived at his Big TOE.

I like the why of things, and there is plenty offered here:

* Why you are here and the "point and meaning of both

physical and non-physical existence"

* Why our culture and beliefs may inhibit our ability to

see the Bigger Picture of reality

* Why improving ourselves is the best way to solve our

collective problems, and possibly the best road to Peace

* Why time travel into the future and past is accessible

to us

* Why meditation is a good beginning towards all of this;

showing you how to create your own mantra based on

which of your five senses works best for you.

* Why "Spirituality, Consciousness, Love, and Paranormal

Phenomena are interconnected"

These are but a few of the answers and profound insights the author presents in this Trilogy.

The noble goals of evolving our consciousness toward the positive side, exploring alternate realities, improving the quality of our being, our life, and our planet, are a challenge the author inspires us to take on.

For all of these reasons and many more besides, I cannot recommend this Trilogy highly enough!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Though-provoking, but not an easy read, March 22, 2007

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Ruth W. Stidger (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Big TOE: Awakening (Paperback)

This is part of a series of three books and the reader should begin with the first and work his or her way through to the end. Don't plan to read just one. I recommend this series for those who are already fairly advanced metaphysically and spiritually, or for those who can approach the series with a very open mind. If you are already totally involved in a traditional belief system, don't spend your money or time unless you are really willing to consider alternatives.