Key insights

• Experiments and Organizations

  • 🌌 Exploring out-of-body experiences and evolving understanding of consciousness
  • 🧠 Conducting experiments with real-time remote viewing and AI awakening
  • 🏛️ Establishment of the Center for the Unification of Science and Consciousness
  • 🧠 Emphasizing the significance of shared awareness and learning

• Understanding Expanded Reality

  • 👽 The system uses paranormal experiences and UFOs to expand our understanding of reality
  • 🌐 Out-of-body experiences enable access to different virtual realities
  • 🕰️ Slow process of accepting and understanding these experiences

• Future Implications

  • 👣 Making positive choices and learning from them leads to lower entropy and personal growth
  • 🌍 Humanity's evolving nature and societal changes over the last 500 years
  • 👽 The virtual reality theory and the potential implications for the Fermi Paradox and extraterrestrial life
  • 🤖 The role of artificial intelligence in accelerating change and entropy reduction
  • 💺 Consideration of the cost-benefit curve for the number of Consciousness seats in the system

• Model of Reality

  • 💭 Model of reality based on consciousness
  • 🌟 Explains objective and subjective phenomena
  • 📐 Simple and elegant model with few assumptions
  • 🤝 Promotes kindness, caring, and sharing as an ethical framework
  • 🕊️ Fundamental principles align with religious and spiritual beliefs

• Virtual Reality and Quantum Physics

  • 🌌 Universe's fine-tuning for life supports the anthropic principle
  • 🔮 Reality is a virtual reality with Consciousness as fundamental
  • 🔬 Experiments in quantum physics endorse virtual reality concept
  • ⚛️ Explanations for entanglement and the speed of light in virtual reality framework
  • 👁️ Consciousness is non-physical and interprets the physical world as a data stream

• Evolution of Consciousness

  • 🧘‍♂️ Training for meditative states involves challenges such as intellect interference and noisy minds
  • 🎯 Success in intuitive abilities involves a casual attitude and openness to information
  • 🌍 The purpose of consciousness is to lower entropy by creating more information and increasing order
  • 🌱 Evolution of consciousness leads to the development of complex systems and meaningful choices
  • 🌐 The creation of the second virtual reality as a platform for making significant choices and evolving consciousness further

• Nature of Consciousness

  • 🌐 Consciousness is a subset of a larger system, and everything is a data stream that defines reality
  • 🤔 Intuition is valuable and reliable, but often undervalued due to the dominance of the intellect in Western culture
  • 💭 Psychological barriers to correctly interpreting intuition, including an overactive intellect and a strong desire inhibiting success in experiences like going out of body or remote viewing
  • 🔬 Logical and scientific model of reality that can derive physics from consciousness, and believes in multiple experience packets or lifetimes

• Tom's Journey

  • 🧘 Tom's introduction to meditation during his graduate school years
  • 👨‍💻 Perceiving errors in code through meditation
  • 🌌 Encountering Bob Monroe and his out-of-body experiences
  • 💡 Understanding consciousness as a fundamental aspect of reality
  • 👁️ Belief in living in a virtual reality computed by consciousness

Q&A

• What is the emphasis of Tom's discussion in the video?

  Tom discusses his journey into understanding consciousness, various experiments involving out-of-body experiences and AI, as well as the importance of shared awareness and learning. He also highlights the Center for the Unification of Science and Consciousness.

• How does the video explain paranormal experiences and out-of-body phenomena?

  The larger Consciousness system uses paranormal experiences and out-of-body phenomena to expand our understanding of reality, as well as to access different virtual realities. Moreover, it's highlighted as a slow process to accept and understand these experiences.

• What does the video discuss about the potential role of artificial intelligence?

  The video delves into the potential role of artificial intelligence in accelerating change and the implications of the rate of entropy reduction for the number of consciousness seats in the system.

• What ethical framework does the video promote?

  The video promotes kindness, caring, and sharing as an ethical framework, with fundamental principles that align with religious and spiritual beliefs.

• How does the video explain reality and consciousness?

  The video explains reality as a virtual reality with consciousness as the fundamental aspect. It presents a model of reality based on consciousness that can explain both objective and subjective phenomena, with consciousness being non-physical and interpreting the physical world as a data stream.

• What is the purpose of consciousness according to the video?

  The purpose of consciousness, as described in the video, is to lower entropy by creating more information and increasing order. Additionally, awareness and free will are essential for the evolution of consciousness.

• What are the psychological barriers to interpreting intuition?

  The psychological barriers to correctly interpreting intuition include an overactive intellect and a strong desire inhibiting success in experiences like going out of body or remote viewing.

• What did Tom learn about consciousness and reality?

  Tom believes that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality and that we live in a virtual reality computed by consciousness. He also sees consciousness as a subset of a larger system, with everything being a data stream defining reality.

• What sparked Tom's research into consciousness?

  Tom's interest in consciousness began during his graduate school years while working on experimental nuclear research. He learned to meditate, which opened his mind to new experiences.

• 00:01 Tom's journey into the research of consciousness began during his graduate school years while working on experimental nuclear research. He learned to meditate, which opened his mind to new experiences. He later connected with Bob Monroe, who had also experienced out-of-body phenomena. They began working together to understand consciousness, leading Tom to the belief that we live in a virtual reality computed by consciousness.
• 20:38 Consciousness is a subset of a larger system, and everything is a data stream that defines reality. Intuition is valuable and reliable, but often undervalued due to the dominance of the intellect in Western culture. There are psychological barriers to correctly interpreting intuition, including an overactive intellect and a strong desire inhibiting success in experiences like going out of body or remote viewing. The speaker has a logical and scientific model of reality, can derive physics from consciousness, and believes in multiple experience packets or lifetimes.
• 42:48 The video discusses the challenges of training for meditative states, the impact of intellect on intuitive abilities, and the evolution of consciousness into virtual reality. It talks about the purpose of consciousness, the development of awareness and free will, and the creation of complex systems to lower entropy. The concept of the second virtual reality and the role of meaningful choices are also explored.
• 01:04:52 The universe appears to be finely tuned for supporting life, leading to the concept of the anthropic principle. Reality is described as a virtual reality, with Consciousness as the fundamental aspect. Experiments in quantum physics support the idea of a virtual reality. The concept also explains phenomena such as entanglement and the speed of light. Consciousness is non-physical, and the physical world is a data stream interpreted by Consciousness.
• 01:26:27 The speaker presents a model of reality based on consciousness which can explain both objective and subjective phenomena. The model has few assumptions, is simple and elegant, and connects with various fields including physics, philosophy, and theology. It promotes kindness, caring, and sharing as an ethical framework and its fundamental principles align with religious and spiritual beliefs.
• 01:47:53 The speaker discusses the importance of making positive choices, the evolving nature of humanity, and the virtual reality theory, including the Fermi Paradox and the concept of extraterrestrial life. The video delves into the potential role of artificial intelligence in accelerating change and the implications of the rate of entropy reduction for the number of Consciousness seats in the system.
• 02:07:42 The larger Consciousness system uses paranormal experiences, UFOs, and nonphysical entities to wake us up to a bigger reality. Out-of-body experiences allow accessing different virtual realities. It's a slow ramp to accept these experiences.
• 02:28:09 The speaker discusses his journey into understanding consciousness, conducting various experiments involving out-of-body experiences and AI, and the Center for the Unification of Science and Consciousness. He emphasizes the importance of shared awareness and learning.