My Big TOE: Awakening

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Summary: Challenging ,Life changing.
Review: 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.

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Summary: Don't Dare Miss This One !!
Review: 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.

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Summary: I think the author paid for the other reviews here
Review: I can't imagine how else there could be so many positive reviews for such a bad book. Now, it may be that Thomas Campbell really *has* found the holy grail of modern science, the Theory Of Everything. But you will never know, because the book is unreadable. It was obviously self-published: No editor would ever allow a book so over-stuffed with meaningless blather out into the world. Here's the basic plan of this trilogy: in book one, the author explains to you that the concepts you are about to read are very difficult. He also explains to you that after you read his trilogy, you will understand the TOE. But then he reminds you that it will not be easy, and that it will take a long time to get to the point and that it will be very difficult, but if you hang in there, you will understand everything, but it won't be easy, and so on and so one and so on--for like 100 pages! It takes him many many chapters to introduce himself and his background. After pages and pages of conversation about whose car to go in and who sits where in the car, we finally arrive at a meditation class, in which he falls into a trance. That's the short version of maybe 40 pages in the book. If you persevere through book 1, you now get to spend more money for book 2 and 3, which actually disclose the Theory of Everything. In other words, to make a very long story short, this book should have been just one volume, not three over-blown puff-filled ones. Unlike many self-published books, the sentences are fine, the spelling is good, the grammar is ok. But the circling around and about the point is incredible.

Read The Holographic Universe. Read The Force. Read The Self-Aware Universe. Whatever. This guy's ego, which he claims to have overcome, is so huge that you can't find the forest for the trees.

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Summary: I think the author paid for the other reviews here
Review: I can't imagine how else there could be so many positive reviews for such a bad book. Now, it may be that Thomas Campbell really *has* found the holy grail of modern science, the Theory Of Everything. But you will never know, because the book is unreadable. It was obviously self-published: No editor would ever allow a book so over-stuffed with meaningless blather out into the world. Here's the basic plan of this trilogy: in book one, the author explains to you that the concepts you are about to read are very difficult. He also explains to you that after you read his trilogy, you will understand the TOE. But then he reminds you that it will not be easy, and that it will take a long time to get to the point and that it will be very difficult, but if you hang in there, you will understand everything, but it won't be easy, and so on and so one and so on--for like 100 pages! It takes him many many chapters to introduce himself and his background. After pages and pages of conversation about whose car to go in and who sits where in the car, we finally arrive at a meditation class, in which he falls into a trance. That's the short version of maybe 40 pages in the book. If you persevere through book 1, you now get to spend more money for book 2 and 3, which actually disclose the Theory of Everything. In other words, to make a very long story short, this book should have been just one volume, not three over-blown puff-filled ones. Unlike many self-published books, the sentences are fine, the spelling is good, the grammar is ok. But the circling around and about the point is incredible.

Read The Holographic Universe. Read The Force. Read The Self-Aware Universe. Whatever. This guy's ego, which he claims to have overcome, is so huge that you can't find the forest for the trees.

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Summary: Excellent Work
Review: 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

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Summary: A logical approach to religious understanding
Review: If you feel an impulse towards religious contemplation, but tend to find most popular approaches lacking in logical rigor or discipline, this series of books will help you towards the insight that you've been seeking.

Because the book's ideas and information are presented in a scientifically valid manner (all assumptions follow from clearly stated propositions), you'll have the freedom to assess the books basic assertions without being told what to think or feel about them. At the same time, Mr. Campbell's sense of humor makes for a purely enjoyable read - something you'll want to kick back with on a lazy Sunday afternoon and really soak in.

And once you begin to give these books your complete and undivided intellectual attention, you'll be presented with a way of conceiving human experience that you've never even dreamed of. This work goes beyond insights offered in the Celestine Prophecy or even the Seth material. What the "My Big Toe" series offers you is nothing less than a logically concise and justified explanation of the actual working nature of the universe.

All the big questions are approached and answered: the nature of the soul, sense experience, artificial intelligence, free will - you name it. By using his first-hand experience to formulate propositions needed explain the true nature of experience, Tom Campbell has almost created a new genre: one that is simultaneously scientific, religious, philosophical, and personally inspiring.

If you are personally suited to its method of approach, it may change the way that you see EVERYTHING. What more could you ask of a book?

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Summary: Wow
Review: 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.

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Summary: Another Point of View on "My Big TOE"
Review: Who should read these books?

Anyone who desires to advance to adult level in this children's world in which we presently live should go to the trouble of working their way through this trilogy of books, whatever the cost in effort determined by the level at which you choose to learn.
Anyone who already functions as an adult should read this trilogy in order to complete your understanding of the Reality in which you must function and of which you are an integral part.

What can you expect to learn or achieve?

Almost everything that you need to know that is not, of necessity, "do it yourself" only! The author has specifically written the My Big TOE trilogy for reading on several levels with corresponding levels of effort required. Please understand that my comments are intended to encourage you to read, not to discourage you from reading, these books. My intent is to show you why you should read these books at no matter what cost in effort you choose to expend. First, you will find out how much you need to unlearn. Then you will find out how much you do not understand of what is being said and what is going on around you. If however you already possess a high level of such knowledge, you can expect to have a great deal clarified. This trilogy of books constitutes what in the field of physics is called a "theory of everything", thus the acronym TOE. You will see that this is literally true of these books.

To come close to fully understanding My Big TOE requires a high entry threshold, a wide range of knowledge. The author has tried to offset this by reiterating his message from different viewpoints in order to aid your understanding. As he also points out, much of the detail can be skipped as useful to advanced specialists and the main points still be comprehended. He has also tried to relieve the intensity with humorous comments. Not everyone will be able to appreciate the humor however, which the author recognizes, and it is also optional. If you have been to graduate school in the sciences, you will recognize the author as a kindred spirit. He worked as a physicist in industry and collaborated with Robert Monroe of Out of Body fame in his early research.

The main points will provide you with an understanding of the Reality of which you are a part. How it originated, the few characteristics and principles from which it began and by which it developed, including that small part of the greater reality that we experience in our day to day lives. You will be surprised that these principles are things which you probably already know about, just not their full significance in the greater reality. You will also be given a general description of that part of the greater reality which we do not normally experience but which you can if you so desire. This will be developed logically and a reference is given in which a detailed description of our every day "physical" reality, including its physics as understood by present day science and beyond, is developed from the same set of beginning principles as given in My Big TOE. These principles are applicable to the present reality in which you live. Knowing what they are will tell you a lot about what to expect from life, how to deal with it and what is the best way to interact with others for your maximum spiritual advancement during your passage through it.

You will be told the veritable meaning of life and your place in it. It is more explicitly stated than you will find in most other places. It will probably be a great surprise to you and you may not find it to be comforting. Note that I mentioned that we live in a children's world and much that you and everyone else have been taught is intended for comfort, not reality and literal truth. Keep in mind at all times while you read and study My Big TOE that you in your true being are a native and at home in this reality and that you have been dealing with it reasonably successfully through many previous periods of "physical" life when you did not have this information. Now you will have the true story. This information is almost never available while incarnated, other than in very diluted and culturally distorted form. It will be a lot like when you first found out where babies came from. Learning about the pleasure possible, the responsibilities and difficulties involved in the greater process are a matter for you to experience and thus learn for yourself. From these 3 books you will have the information necessary to literally take your first step as a conscious adult while still involved in a "physical" life into the greater reality of which you are a resident part and that is your true home.

Will these books change your life?

Only to the degree to which you are willing and prepared to change. Over time, the degree of change could be very profound if you choose to expend the effort to make it so.

Will you be sorry that you read them?

Only to the extent and in the sense that it is an end of innocence. You will be made aware of laws of being of which ignorance is no excuse. Since you will be judged based on things that you are presently ignorant of with that ignorance not accepted as an excuse, best to lose such innocence. And no problems with apples, snakes and "original sin" this time!