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My Big TOE: Awakening

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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.

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!

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.

Caution: This Trilogy will expand your mind.

Once in a great while, there comes to us an author that can reach down and pull us up a little higher on the tree of knowledge. And once in a great great while, an author also gives us the knowledge to start from there and climb a little higher ourselves. Mr. Campbell, thank you.

If you are interested in taking a voyage of discovery, I strongly suggest that you have a go at "My big Toe" - a three-book trilogy. "Toe" is short for "Theory of Everything." Start with the first book of the trilogy and work your way through. Mr. Campbell is successfull in explaining how we are all connected and how this universe of ours operates - in ways that even I can understand. His humor and willingness to take a poke at himself from time to time make the voyage a mixture of giggles and head-scratching "where is he taking me?" Like anything worth the time, these books require thinking on your part. But if you hang in there, I promise you that your reading time will be well spent. I have just finished book two, and will start Book Three over the Labor Day holiday. Since the books are a Trilogy, I will post this review for the other two books as well. Good luck - and happy discovery.

I have not the wit nor the folly to attempt to summarise the work contained in the My Big Toe Trilogy; Tom Campbell has already done an outstanding job of encapsulating and organising thirty years of interest, application, annotation and first hand experience of altered states of consciousness (awareness), and yet, there absolutely no doubt, this man is very down-to-earth.

The Trilogy format is a good idea. Each book is a comfortable, progressive read, and the space between books gives time for reflection and digestion. MBT is totally free of religious, political or philosophical bias; it needs no specialist knowledge or training, just interest, an open sceptical mind and the courage to consider a much larger Picture of Reality than we presently enjoy.

I have read the Trilogy 3 times now, and each time, perhaps through familiarity, I am aware of significant new information. MBT WILL affect you at some level or other, be assured. If you are in search of new ground where truth does not wither under the weight of belief, dogma or cultural presumptions, give this work a chance.

I head an open group workshop based on transpersonal discovery (Conscious awareness).
Tom Campbell's Big TOE is not just a constant reference, but it has helped many of us to conceptualise what previously had been areas of indigestible intellectual understanding. I cannot possibly recommend this work highly enough.
The opportunity of a lifetime should be grasped within the lifetime of the opportunity.
I sense this is it.

Kathryn O'Flynn

I have not the wit nor the folly to attempt to summarise the work contained in the My Big Toe Trilogy; Tom Campbell has already done an outstanding job of encapsulating and organising thirty years of interest, application, annotation and first hand experience of altered states of consciousness (awareness), and yet, there absolutely no doubt, this man is very down-to-earth.

The Trilogy format is a good idea. Each book is a comfortable, progressive read, and the space between books gives time for reflection and digestion. MBT is totally free of religious, political or philosophical bias; it needs no specialist knowledge or training, just interest, an open sceptical mind and the courage to consider a much larger Picture of Reality than we presently enjoy.

I have read the Trilogy 3 times now, and each time, perhaps through familiarity, I am aware of significant new information. MBT WILL affect you at some level or other, be assured. If you are in search of new ground where truth does not wither under the weight of belief, dogma or cultural presumptions, give this work a chance.

I head an open group workshop based on transpersonal discovery (Conscious awareness).
Tom Campbell's Big TOE is not just a constant reference, but it has helped many of us to conceptualise what previously had been areas of indigestible intellectual understanding. I cannot possibly recommend this work highly enough.
The opportunity of a lifetime should be grasped within the lifetime of the opportunity.
I sense this is it.

Kathryn O'Flynn

Well I finished the Trilogy.
Having heard him on the Coast To Coast radio show the author sounded very interesting.
I couldn't wait to read about his out of body journeys and what the non-physical universe looks like and what the beings there are like etc.
Sorry Charlie..none of that anywhere.
A ton of acronyms and I can tell you that I kept skimming over large chunks of each book looking for something I could sink my teeth into.
Maybe it is just me.
I wanted some humanity here, something, anything about his EXPERIENCES.
Sorry but it is just not for me.

That is some pretty interesting/amazing stuff. A lot of the knowledge and concepts in this book already resonates with my own experiences; but a lot of this stuff is new as well. The possibilites expressed are uplifting... If you have the time, I definitely recommend it as a good read.

One of the best books on reality and our place in it I've ever read!

Thomas Campbell is a genius in practice, not simply intellect.

His book is so extraordinarily powerful in its implications, that very few people are going to be able to take it, understand it, and apply it to their life.

I've studied the work of Robert Monroe. And he and Thomas worked closely together for years. And I contend that without Tom at his side, Bob could not have achieved what he did, or even come close.

Thomas is a scientist of scientists. Rigorously refining his model through extensive testing protocol, he presents a logical explanation and map to the actual structural nature of existence. And guess what? We humans are able to access and participate in more realities and "worlds" than this individual universe we've come to know in our lives.

This trilogy, and this first book specifically, enables the conscious reader and thinker to once and for all reprogram themselves toward being regular in their understanding of what we are as consciousness, what our purpose is, and what we can do to actively engage it.

I have the highest respect for Thomas Campbell. He is an absolutely brilliant man, and I strongly encourage you to not only get your hands on this book, but to get his wisdom in your head.