My Big TOE: Awakening

Book One of a Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics

By: Thomas Campbell

Narrated by: Thomas Campbell

My Big TOE: Awakening, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of 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.

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.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2003 Thomas Campbell (P)2003 Thomas Campbell

Very disappointing

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Unfortunately I can’t say that my time listening was well spent. The topic is interesting and I absolutely acknowledge that Thomas Campbell is an authority in this field with a great amount of wisdom to share. But this book, and likely the other two, are literally a lesson in why physicists should write scholarly articles and not books. Mr. Campbell actually states at some point in the first 6 chapters that he will provide multiple explanations of the same material in each section of the book with the intention that all people will at least be able to grasp the information in one explanation or another. I commend Mr. Campbell for having that idea, however in practice it results in what can only be described as verbal diarrhea. It just got to the point where I completely lost interest because it dragged on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on...you get the point. It was relatively easy to understand the material it was just really difficult to stay interested. Very disappointing.

Do you think My Big TOE: Awakening needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

It has two; and I will not be reading/listening to them.

Unabriged means no editing?

Any additional comments?

Wondering why there are missing edits that let you hear Tom repeating sentences with different inflections? Is that done on purpose or just bad producing?

Great read

This book made a lot of things clear that I have had questions about and have been seeking answers to for quite some time. Well worth the read!

Unnecessarily wordy and poorly organized

This subject matter is important and no doubt Mr. Campbell is the expert he claims to be. However, I'm sadly bailing 21 chapters into the first volume because he is just not getting to the point.

Sure, background is important, personal history is important, foundational information is important, and defining basic terms is important. The problem is that this information is presented repetitively and is couched in too many qualifiers, modifiers, and unnecessary phrases. This has resulted in finding myself 21 chapters in and not being sure that any substantive information has been conveyed yet. He's still in the "throat-clearing" stage.

The most annoying aspect of this book are the "Asides", thoughts that are related to the subject at hand, but which the author can't seem to incorporate into the main flow of the material. So many of these Asides are stuck into the the text that they have begun to feel like an organizational crutch.

I hope someday he hires a structural editor to slash the number of words by at least 50% and possibly more, and reorganize the content so it flows more coherently. If the second two volumes are as wordy as the first, the trilogy could be edited down to one thick book.

Great if you need ‘that which cannot be spoken’ explained in terms of measurable science and presented academically

After many hours of Robert Monroe’s meditations I stumbled upon this book and didn’t realize the direct connection. The author spends the bulk of the book trying to convince the reader that far more exists than this reality and an individual’s beliefs are what limits his experience and understanding. The reading itself was done in a smiley customer service voice, so if none of that is an impediment for you, proceed! I may try actually re-reading the physical book at some point in the future.