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Reality Is Not Real. NASA Physicist: How to Exit the Simulation & Find Your Purpose | Thomas Campbell

August 25, 2026

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In a series of experiments with Bob Monroe in the 1970s, physicist Thomas Campbell and a colleague, Dennis Mannerick, went out of body together and later found their separate cassette recordings synchronized—they had been in the same non-physical location, seeing the same things, and conversing with each other. That moment ended any question for Campbell about whether consciousness phenomena were real. It was not an internal hallucination; it was an objective experience shared by two people. From that foundation, Campbell spent decades building a model of reality that places consciousness, not matter, at the center of everything.

Consciousness as the Fundamental Substrate

Campbell defines consciousness simply as "awareness with a choice." Everything that is aware and makes choices—humans, dogs, bumblebees—is conscious to some degree. The physical world, by contrast, is not conscious. A rock has no awareness and makes no choices. The key insight Campbell arrived at after 33 years of investigation is that everything is information. Consciousness is an information system: it takes in data through the senses, processes it against memory, and produces an output in the form of choices and actions. This is a classic definition of an information system.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:28) **Dr. Thomas Campbell: Physicist Turned Consciousness Explorer** - Introduction to Campbell’s background as a physicist who had a paranormal experience in grad school, leading him to study consciousness.
  • 2 (19:18) **The Turning Point: Consciousness is Fundamental** - From shared experience to the logical conclusion that consciousness is the base of reality.
  • 3 (23:38) **The Core Idea: Reality as an Information System** - Explains the "Big TOE" (Theory of Everything) where reality is a virtual reality computed by a consciousness-based information system.
  • 4 (33:59) **Why the Game Exists: Evolution Through Choice** - The purpose of the virtual reality is for individuated units of consciousness to evolve by lowering their entropy through social interaction.
  • 5 (47:24) **How to Change Your Render: The Mechanism of Healing** - Begins unpacking how to practically change one's reality, starting with healing.
  • 6 (58:36) **The Recipe for Intent: Focus vs. Fear** - Detailed advice on how to effectively set an intention for healing.
  • 7 (66:14) **Intuitive Field Maintenance & the Intellectual Trap** - Practical advice on managing one's energetic field and accessing intuition.

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Thomas Campbell

Show Notes

Thomas Campbell - physicist, systems analyst, consciousness researcher, and creator of My Big TOE (Theory of Everything) - reveals how reality may be far stranger than we've been taught.


In this episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Thomas explains why he believes consciousness is the fundamental information system that computes reality itself, and what that means if we're living inside a kind of virtual reality.


He shares how legendary consciousness pioneer Bob Monroe personally taught him remote viewing, out-of-body experiences, telepathy, and consciousness exploration, and why these abilities may be natural human capacities rather than supernatural phenomena.


Thomas also breaks down how changing your intent can literally change probabilities, how meditation strengthens consciousness, why healing may be the easiest psychic ability to develop, and how he learned to heal - including the remarkable story of helping a baby diagnosed with brain cancer, while explaining why some illnesses may still serve an important purpose in our evolution.


We explore why lowering our entropy is the key to personal growth, how fear causes both individuals and civilizations to descend into chaos, and why love, cooperation, and stronger human connection are the driving forces behind consciousness evolution.


We also cover:

- What happens if we're all individuated pieces of one larger consciousness

- How our reality is "rendered", and whether that rendering can change during healing

- Why dogs appear to possess stronger telepathic abilities than humans

- Why awareness differs across species and what that says about consciousness itself

- How to strengthen intention through meditation and focused awareness

- Why setting energetic boundaries may matter if consciousness is fundamentally interconnected

- How to connect with another person's consciousness

- Why most people never develop their intuitive abilities

- Why there are so many different paths and modalities for accessing intuition

- Why many nonspeaking autistic individuals may rely on rituals that help them access telepathic communication


Whether you're interested in simulation theory, quantum consciousness, remote viewing, telepathy, healing, meditation, intuition, or the future of human potential, this conversation challenges conventional assumptions about reality, and explores what may be possible when consciousness itself becomes the starting point!


Thomas Campbell’s paper, audio and e-books, My Big TOE, are available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and his main product, Exploring Consciousness and Everything Paranormal and audio files are on his website: https://www.my-big-toe.com/shop/mbt-product-overview/

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