📱

Get Our Mobile App

Take your business learning on the go!

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

What is the Meaning of Life?

Tom Campbell26:55

Transcription

I'll jump right in I want to say welcome

to Tom Campbell this is an amazing honor

to get to interview you today I really

enjoyed your series my big toe and I'm

going to jump in with a big question

which is this Tom in your opinion what

what is the meaning of

life H well since that's such a short

question I'll give you a very short

answer love you know the meaning of life

is that we have a mission each of us

here and that mission is to

to lower the entropy of our

Consciousness in more technical terms

but in general terms it's

to learn to become love it's about uh

caring about others it's about

compassion

and helping it's

about what can we

say

sharing

cooperating all of those things that are

positive interactions toward people

that's what it's about that's the

purpose to our life and we we generally

uh come in with a fair amount of

self-centeredness which is in the

opposite direction most all children are

born pretty much self-centered because

it's them and they're small and they're

vulnerable and their view of the world

is that it's a big and scary place and

uh they need to take care of number one

but as you mature sure and grow up you

should be growing out of that

self-centeredness you should learn that

you're not the only person that you

should be concerned about that you

should be aware of others be considerate

be kind be helpful and that's the

lessons we

learn we come to this reality in order

to learn that lesson now maybe be

jumping ahead a bit to say that what we

are is not this human body that's our

Avatar but what we are is consciousness

and we're here

to improve the quality of our

Consciousness and that means by making

decisions toward growth toward becoming

love and now I I can make that all kind

of Technical and scientific but a very

quick bottom line that's the answer to

your question and it's a serious thing

yes we're in a virtual reality that is

created by Consciousness and we are

pieces of Consciousness playing a human

Avatar that's kind of key Consciousness

is an information

system we can maybe talk more about that

later but that system then creates this

virtual reality for us to interact in

where there are real meaningful

interactions where everything you do

affects other people and what other

people do affects you so we're in this

highly Interactive

environment where ethical and moral and

caring versus non-caring choices are

made many times every day so this is a

rich Schoolhouse for budding

individuated units of Consciousness to

grow the quality of their Consciousness

that's what this reality is all about

and I know that sounds very far out it

sounds like it came out of a Sci-Fi

novel someplace

but if you take this this reasoning you

can derive logical consequences of the

reasoning and so far I have about

35 facts by facts I mean scientific

facts things that uh are not opinion

facts that are unknown they have no

answers so people don't know why they

are the way they are from various fields

and this particular philosophy that I'm

talking about

produces answers to those

paradoxes and if you did that to one or

two people would think it was lucky or

fortunate but if you do that to 35 or

40 you actually have to have something

that's correct at your basic route

otherwise you couldn't possibly solve

that many current problems in both

physics and philosophy and even

theology so

though it sounds far out it actually is

that big crazy idea that everybody's

been looking for that big paradigm shift

that the scientists have been looking

for ever since the Advent of quantum

physics they've been looking for another

way to view reality that would make

quantum physics make sense well this way

does that this is the Viewpoint that's

been missing if it didn't sound wild and

crazy then it couldn't possibly be true

because scientists have been looking for

it now for a century with absolutely no

success and it's because they are wedded

committed to a Viewpoint of materialism

and that Viewpoint cannot produce the

answers this Viewpoint that I have does

produce those answers I want to go back

to the schoolhouse idea for in just a

moment but I want to ask you a lady

question so I know you know Bob Monroe

very well and I read I can't remember

which of the three books this came up

but he said something to this effect in

this reality this simulation that you're

talking about it is a a kind of

darwinian struggle where there just

isn't enough resources we're struggling

with scarcity so you mentioned children

a moment ago you know I have two young

children and um I can I can put myself

in their shoes and understand why they'd

be self-interested you're hungry you're

thirsty or it's hot and cold it's you

know they're extremes they're things

that affect you from a materialistic

standpoint although I know what you're

saying about it not being materialist

Paradigm however that was his point that

we are foisted into this reality in

which there isn't enough to go around

which commands that we do certain things

right from an evolutionary standpoint we

have to fight to get resources or

cooperate whatever it is now I want to

talk to you about evil for just a

moment if what you're saying is

accurate that our highest calling is

love and is to reduce entropy as you

call it is my understanding correct when

I say that evil and our our willingness

to do terrible things to people

especially in the name of getting those

scarce resources is that meant to be the

ultimate kind of a challenge in this

Schoolhouse when faced with an

opportunity to do what we like uh to do

what thou Wilt if you if you will we

choose not to do that is that the

purpose of evil or how does evil fit

into this lesson evil fits into the

lesson

because all of the players here in this

game have free will so every everyone

all what is it the nine billion of us we

all have free will to make choices if

you make good choices low entropy

choices

then things will generally work out well

for you you and the people around you

because a good choice is a is a choice

that optimizes the caring and love you

make poor choices then that creates

Havoc it creates anger and upset and

insecurity and all those things that are

negative so because you have free will

you don't have to make a good choice you

can make a very poor choice you can

create chaos with your

choices and evil exists because there

are entities who have chosen to make

poor choices now it seems to them in the

short run that their poor choice is

actually a good one like they rob a bank

and now they're Millionaires and they

only had to work for maybe a two or

three days planning and maybe a half an

hour in the execution and now they're

millionaires already so in the short

term that seems like a really fine deal

but in the big

picture it is not in the big picture

you've created more havoc and more

dysfunction by making those poor choices

so in the bigger picture the long term

that is not a good thing to do that's a

high entropy thing rather than a low

entry thing that's a what do we say not

ethical thing instead of an ethical

thing so that's where the evil comes

from it just comes from the fact that we

are allowed to make poor choices and

there's a certain amount of of shortterm

power that you can gain through those

kinds of you know wrong choices you can

become alcapone you can run a whole

organization of nasty people you can

become wealthy so it looks like maybe

there's some advantages there but that's

only short term in the long term when

you make a poor choice you de

evolve your Consciousness so you go from

a you know from whatever level your

Consciousness is at as far as its

development you get decremented now

you're less than that so you de evolve

the quality of your Consciousness by

making those choices there's no

punishment in the sense that you know

we're going to take the alapon and the

Adolf Hitlers and they're going to have

great atonement and Punishment their

punishment is is that they're de

evolving and now their evolution is

further they're further behind they have

lost ground in the Consciousness

Evolution game which is the main game so

they're actually going back backwards as

far as their goal and that's really

their punishment if you like so that's

how evil works it just makes bad choices

it finds power in those bad choices and

it works in the short term and though it

may reap some rewards in the short term

the long term it's a big loser it's

loser in Consciousness quality and it's

a loser for degrading the reality that

they live in so that's where evil comes

from and I would not necessarily

agree that the the driving thing in our

in our evolution is scarcity I'm not

sure that's that's entirely true I think

that scarcity is there obviously but we

have the ability to pretty much get rid

of scarcity there's enough understanding

there's enough technology now there's

enough capability

that there shouldn't have to be a

scarcity problem or if it is it would be

a very mild one that you had all the

basics but not much more you're not

going to starve you're not going to

freeze but maybe you're not really very

well off either but there's no reason

that scarcity has to be the Big Driver

in our culture and I'm not sure that it

was before before there were much fewer

people there was lots of space in which

to live so I'm not so scar it was the

thing I think the problem is the low

quality of Consciousness human makes

choices and those choices are I want

more it's all about me the

self-centered the more I get the more I

want and the more power I have the more

control I have on the outside world to

make it the way I want it so when you

have that then that creates the scarcity

because those that have the power hoard

it and those that have no

power don't have much to live on that's

where the scarcity is so I think much of

the scarcity is created by our low

quality of Consciousness our dysfunction

in the world I think if we cooperated

and cared about each other we'd find

there was plenty of clean water and food

to go around and that we could do the

things that we're doing you know many

times more efficiently as far as clean

food clean water

we don't do that very efficiently today

it all matters on control Power and

force how much power do you have which

which equates generally how much money

do you have and to the to the money

flows the resources and scarcity is what

people without money have to deal with

but that's not because our world hands a

scarcity that's because our low quality

of Consciousness hands us scarcity for

the large majority of people that's a

little different I wouldn't blame that

on nature I think that's us that creates

that scarcity

problem okay so I'm going to go back to

the to the school house idea for just a

moment if I understand correctly from

your books there is an avatar that you

and I are right now this physical being

in this reality but it's an individuated

Consciousness that is inhabit this

Avatar okay my question is this when we

enter this this realm most of us don't

have any memories of past individual

Consciousness existing in other avatars

and maybe even other beings Like A din

or an alien or

whatever if if it is

indeed education um I'm gonna call it

for our soul just for the sake of

discussion for our our soul how come

that we we can't remember anything and

and it it seems to me we're not really

learning

if we can if we have a memory wipe every

time that we exist in another Avatar how

do we reconcile the educational

component with the idea that we can't

remember most of us can't remember past

lives yeah well the way to understand

this is to realize there's a big

difference let's say between acting kind

and being

kind okay there's a difference between

those two now

if if if you came with a memory and you

had been around this reincarnational

track enough times you'd understand what

the right answers were you'd realize

what you should

do and you would probably do that in

other words you would be acting your

intellect would be aware of this

information the intellect would try to

make the correct

choices and by doing that it would

perhaps be more civilizing because it

would be acting better but it wouldn't

grow much it couldn't evolve on that

because what matters is is how you are

inside not how you act so indeed the

best way to grow from the inside at your

core you know who who you are

authentically not who you are image that

authentic growth will grow more quickly

if it's presented with a problem it's

presented with issues you stuff happens

and it has to deal with it and how it

deals with it is a good reflection of

how grown it is or how grown it is

not the people come here to game the

system oh I know the right answer is

okay I'll be kind I'll help that little

old lady across the street because

that's what I should do but when

nobody's looking you're cheating and

stealing and robbing because nobody will

notice or you uh you're really not a

very nice person inside but you pretend

to be well there's no growth in that so

that's one that's one reason it's much

more functional to the growth it's a

much better

Schoolhouse if every day you take the

test the teacher teaches through the

week and at the end of the week you take

a test to see how much you actually know

how much of it you understood well in

this game it's not about intellectual

learning it's about what you are the

kind of human being you are what level

of quality have you you know have you

grown to and the test is you interact

with others in the world and they

interact with you and what sort of

choices do you make that then shows you

exactly who you are inside how you react

okay whether you're self-centered or

whether you're more other centered than

that so that's that's part of the reason

the other part of the reason that you

don't come with memory is that you go

around the circle a lot of times it's

hard to change yourself we're talking

about growing up isn't gaining knowledge

in your intellect it's changing who you

are getting rid of your fear getting rid

of your ego getting rid of your beliefs

and that is a much harder thing to do

you actually have to change who you are

see things differently change your

perspectives not from the intellect but

from the core of you well because that

takes a long time you're not expected to

do that in one lifetimes experience

there just too much it takes a lot of

lifetimes experience so now let's say

that you remembered everything and let's

say you've been around this cycle a

thousand times then you will have had

maybe a thousand husbands and wives

maybe 500 of each you would have 10,000

children you would have you know and

what would it be like to have all that

memory it would be overwhelming what

could you do with that it isn't

functional so the way to to grow is to

take the test how grown are you well

here's here's your test life happens

something happens to you somebody says

something that's rude to you and what do

you do you get angry you punch him or

maybe think gee I wonder what's wrong

with that person I wonder why I wonder

why they're so upset I should find out

what the problem is and maybe I could

solve it you see that would be a

different way but it comes down to the

this ethic that you can't Plame other

people for your choices you have to

accept responsibility for your choice so

if you choose to be angry you have to

accept that as your choice you're angry

for a reason has to do with your fear

your ego your

beliefs you have to accept that if you

say oh George makes me angry you know

Sally makes me angry that's not true

you're trying to blame somebody else for

your own

issues so it's a difficult thing to do

you need to

grow inside From the Inside Out not from

the outside in so having a bunch of

knowledge and taking it in is like from

the outside side in that doesn't grow

you just makes you able to more quickly

and more able polish up your image to be

what you think it ought to be which has

nothing to do with who you really are

when you look under the

hood you know Jin Jen Roberts talks

about this in the Seth material this

idea of which he calls aspect

Consciousness almost this idea that you

who you really are is like a tree and

this life that you're living is a leaf

and so you know when you're talking

about Lessons Learned things like that

does does that thinking Dov till with

yours were they're whatever you are if

this if this is an avatar that you and I

are in in this particular reality is it

part of some larger let's say overs Soul

or or soul is that is that what you're

suggesting that exists outside of this

that um does rack up the lessons and it

is what grows over time is that what

we're talking about here yeah yeah we're

doing that and it's actually there's two

levels to it there is the thing I call

the individuated unit of Consciousness

and that is a piece of the larger

Consciousness system okay the larger

conscious system is just what's

fundamental that is the fundamental

thing is

consciousness and you're a piece of that

larger Consciousness system just a

subset if you're into computers I'd say

you were a virtual machine inside the

larger machine that's Consciousness

Consciousness again being an information

system

so that that's one roll up you're a

piece of the larger thing the larger

thing is just the source you could call

it all that is I think is what Seth

called

it but now when

you have an experience as a human when

you're going to play a human Avatar then

you that individuate unit of

Consciousness partitions off a pie a

piece of itself that I call the free

Free Will awareness unit and that Free

Will awareness unit is what actually

logs on to the data stream that defines

that individual now that they are going

to make all the choices for you see we

Consciousness are the player the Avatar

only does those things that we tell it

to do you know that's the way it is in

any virtual reality your Elf doesn't do

things on its own it only does what the

player tells it to do so we're the

player we're a piece of Consciousness

the elf is is uh you know Tom Campbell's

body here and Michael's body so we tell

that body what to do we make all the

choices for the Avatar all right now

that comes from a free will awareness

unit which is a subset a partitioned off

part of this individuated unit of

Consciousness when that elf dies or that

human dies then that partition comes

down and all that information of that

lifetime just becomes part of that

individuated unit of Consciousness so if

you've had a thousand of these

incarnations then that individuated unit

of Consciousness has the collective of

all thousand of those lifetimes and it

does that because there's

often more understanding if you can look

for patterns and series and and things

you know if you look at a 100 lifetimes

and you see a pattern of Anger

Management problems then you know that's

something you have to work on it wasn't

just a oneoff for that one lifetime it

was something that's deeper than that

that you're going to have to work on so

then you try to have incarnations that

help you work on that aspect so there's

one roll up which is individuated unit

of consciousness of multiple lifetimes

that that individuated unit of

Consciousness has experienced making the

choices for an avatar and then there's

another roll up of that individuated of

Consciousness being a subset a piece of

again you could say a partitioned off

piece of which is all a virtual machine

is a partitioned off piece of the larger

Consciousness system so the old saw

about we're all one is really true we're

all part of one thing and it's also true

that our part has its own free will and

can make choices that's how it learns so

that's kind of the overall spectrum of

how that works so there's two rollups

there not just not just one but the

parent or the the source is is just

Consciousness and U

Consciousness doesn't have a source

Consciousness is the source okay now

that troubles some people that

everything has to have a source but

that's not the

case some things are just beyond our

ability to understand and though we try

we just don't have what it takes to

understand them in Consciousness the

larger conscious system is one of those

things and the reason that we can

understand it is that we are it we can't

get outside of ourselves to look at

Consciousness from some other

perspective from the outside we're

inside it so I in my books I make an

analogy of that to an intestinal

bacterium just doesn't know anything

about you know refrigerators and uh and

tractors and Farms all it knows is that

food comes out of this pipe and it

decomposes the food and it's no way for

it to understand that bigger process of

sunshine and plant growth it just can't

do that it doesn't have what it takes it

it can't get outside to to look at that

well that's the way we are with

Consciousness so there is no infinite

regress of well what caused that and

well what caused that cause and so on

you have to get to a point where you

just say we we can't know it's not we

don't know it's not we're ignorant and

haven't learned yet it's that we can't

know that's outside of of of the reality

in which we live thank

you would you like to see a better

world get a better perspective balance

your intellect with intuition and

explore your true nature with the

exploring Consciousness and everything

paranormal program with Thomas Campbell

in this program you will have the

benefit of Tom's vast experience and

learn to access point Consciousness

communicate with the larger

Consciousness system remote view use

your natural ability to heal with

intent and explore reality in the outof

body State his famous binaural beats are

included details are in the description

below thank

you I and MBT events hope you like this

video if you do then you should consider

being a patreon member because patreon

members get early access to our special

content you will also be able to get

your questions answered by me in special

Q&A sessions and most importantly your

contribution as a patron member will

enable us to produce the content that

you're looking for so thank you