Hello Dr Campbell & MBT Community,
Let me begin by first giving you a brief account of myself.( i feel this is a necessary requirement as i wish to share some information with you and think it would help for you to know where I'm at in life etc). OK lets begin. I'm a 39 year old taxi driver born and raised in England, ironically in the town in which Sir Issac Newton Schooled. I'm a left hander who left school at the age of 15 and barely completed my last year of education with no real academic achievements(too many commodore 64 games needed playing and copying!). However what i do have to bring to the table is life experience(PMR only to date). I've driven a taxi for most of my working life since the age of 18 up to present day(last 2 years outside railway station) in my home town which is in the commuter belt of London(main artery to the capital, London being the center of the KNOWN universe ;). I'm a single proud dad of a 4 year old daughter,who is the center of my known universe and have spent the last 7 years banging my head against a brick wall trying to make ago of it with her mother but to no avail. Having no real guidance in life I've got by on personality, which i know now (thanks Dr Campbell) was approx 90% ego and instinct, which (thanks again) turns out to be intuition(always acted on what i thought was right and never believed what i was told(unless it felt right)). Anyhow I've got the big house on the estate i dreamed of living as a child,had the big TV,got the car and all that BS but still empty and unhappy. Until now.
I'd like to thank Dr Campbell and the(late) Robert Monroe for your life time of commitment to what you guys believed in, that has made MBT a reality(gotta choose my words more carefully from now on) and the outstanding piece of work that it is.
For the most part of 2009 I've been on mission to get to the bottom of who i really am,for my little girls sake as much as my own. To break the inherent lack of knowledge and guidance. I started looking in to the physical body for a start, infact it was Dr Bruce Lipton's work on cellular biology that spring boarded me to the spirit stuff and to search for what everyone has to say on the matter. You see folks(and I'm not being big headed here it's just how it is,I'm a realist) I've always had this knack of looking at stuff and successfully predicting what the 'next big thing' is.Through instinct alone i can tell what's good and what's not(it's only been in the last 6 months that I've learned about this right brain thing),which that alone has brought a certain coherence to life. But I've always found the need to share this information with others rather than harbor it for myself(probably why I'm still working day and night in the cab ;)) But i love my job,especially now since MBT came along.The 'randomness' :) of who walks out through those station doors and never knowing where I'll be going next has always kept life fresh for me. I've done other stuff but always had itchy feet to get back to the Taxi game.
Anyhow one of the reasons why I'm bothering you at this early stage of my development(only at the psi part in book 2) is that I've been experimenting with the fundamental process,trying to mimic AUM as best i can at this early stage. Obviously i haven't even finished the intellectual stuff yet but a month in now and i can honestly say that my life has changed SO much for the better and that the 'dots' are really beginning to join up. But there's more,much more.
Ever since i watched your lecture on you tube,well actually 2nd time as the first time i watched it i binned it,thinking 'is this guy nuts or what!!',just another spiritualist using the openendedness of Quantum to make his story work. Sorry Dr Campbell! :) But after six months of taking in what everyone else had to say on the nitty gritty of actual existence, i eventually looked at your lecture once more. From that moment on my intuition has been SCREAMING at me that this is the one.This is the guy you need to focus on.Well i have,you and Mr Monroe's work and it all checks out. For me, you guys are the ONLY credible source on this 'subject'. The use of this word is a joke as your work encompasses everything and changes the baseline for everything. With everyday that passes now,with the conversations i have telling the 'random' people that i carry in my cab, of you and Mr Monroe's history and work and their positive interest in it, is coupling my own observations of how the quality of my own existence inside and out is improving by the day by is overwhelming,as is this 'quick' introduction. OK gotta slow it down a bit. You see Dr Campbell i have this problem of when i learn something i instantly assume everyone to know and understand the thousand things i learn't before to get to this point (from my point of view) hopefully information transfer is more direct in NPMR :).
Right allow me to throw a few theories at you that i can't seem to let go of;
1. Because of the back ground stuff I've done on TM - If the concepts of STAR WARS/THE MATRIX weren't drawn up as catalysts for general public acceptance/reaction of/to 'big truth'. Then it would sure would make a damn good starting point. In fact from what I've learn't so far, MBT should be re-titled JTM(Jedi Training Manual). I know I've spent 1000's of hours on this stuff and Star Wars has always stuck with me internally but surely others have joined the dots up as i have on this?
2. Ever since learning and accepting(which by the way is an on going process as re-writing what you 'thought' was possible ain't an over night job) but i do 'know' and accept that it's true.I've been painting a mental picture of how Earth should be. And feel from myself and from the general UK view that the time is right for your knowledge to brought to the fore front once again. I 'feel' that we're running out of time fast in current direction. Obviously the vast majority of us have a practical eternity for other 'experiences' but i for one want slow this current direction of greed and desire and get the 'experiment' going in the right direction for once in mankind's history.Current direction is making mankind and everything else that makes up Earth miserable at every level of PMR life :( Only you know Dr Campbell what our combined powers are capable of in respect of putting things right but from the thought I've been putting in to this and what my intuition is telling me is,EDUCATION, as trying to go down the political route would be like pissing in the wind with this stuff.To simplify MBT even further down to around 500 pages. To have it translated in to every language(no mean feet in itself as yet to Google 'known languages') revamp and multi-linguallize web site * and last but not least include a binural beats disk in with the sale of MBT(to get peoples TOE on the ladder, so to speak).And release the lot at the same time globally with a big publicity push.I can only speak from the perspective of the UK Dr Campbell but the time is right for it to happen here as people are loosing all respect and faith for everything and everyone.I 'feel' we in the west are moments away from a dictatorship :( In fact from my perspective we're practically there already. One of the main contributing factors of why i can see this, is that I've unplugged completely from mainstream for about 6 weeks now(one of the basic requirements i feel for conceptual change. Look in the sky for the weather,in front for the news,listen to classical music in the taxi and hopefully manage to read about 20 pages a day of MBT(spend the rest of the time theorizing over what's been written) Anyhow i guess I'm running out of the allowed space for one post(this is the longest thing I've ever written in my life! But also maybe the the most important.
I apologize to everyone for the awefull structure and grammar(not now as I've corrected original post with that spell check/predictive gizmo i discovered whilst writing reply!) of what I've written but hope you get most of it.

*Plus in depth lecture videos & audio books of MBT, to make the learning process more easy and accessible for everyone.

MAY THE LOVE BE WITH YOU

Wow Padawan Learner, now that is an entrance. Welcome to Tom's MBT discussion forums site, you'll love it here. I already love it that you're here. Welcome again, really.
Love
Bette

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Hey Lloyd,

Glad to have you here. I too have made a "star wars/MBT" connection as funny as that seems. In fact for a while (few years back) I considered myself (in a spirit of lightheartedness) to be a Jedi in training, as I saw the "Jedi" as kind of the "ideal person" and the type of human being that I would like to become. Funny thing: I even wrote my own "star wars" type script that I was going to turn into a little amateur movie, but I ended up losing motivation for that project...

Anyway, thanks for sharing your story Lloyd- we appreciate having new members around this place to discuss with and share views with.

-cole

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Padawan Learner, It's a joy to meet you, sir !

Thank you very much for your warm welcome to the MBT community guys. Think being here will really help with development as I'm starting to feel somewhat detached(but in a very good way) from the norm out in the 'real' world. I've shared bits of what I've learned so far with a few friends and to my amazement a couple of them have left ME gobsmacked!! One of my closest friends calmly announced to me that he regularly meets up with Kylie Minogue for, well lets say out of marital experiences and assures me it's as real as this(grabbing my arm) and regularly goes for a superman style fly around his neighborhood! He just put it down to being able to control his dreams but when he explained to me how he gets 'there',it runs concurrent with what I've seen,heard and read of the 'out of body experience'. Yesterday at work,i was telling one of the other drivers (who I've been telling for a while now a bit of MBT stuff) the story of how Mr Monroe inadvertently stumbled across (as i just have with the right click predictive word thingy,nice feature Dr Campbell!) the 'out of body experience'.Well with that he was off telling me how it happens to him naturally and has all his life!! Now to me,statistically if just 2 of my friends that are in relative close proximity to myself have had these experiences but with no real understanding of them(how could they have?How could anyone have, pre MBT?),then potentially the wider population should have quite a relatively easy time learning,comprehending,understanding and accepting the bigger picture as theoretically statistically a good percentage would have had some kind of unexplained dream control type or OBE experience and going on my previous findings, OBE's happen to a large percentage of us as children(no preconceived ideas limiting vision)but we either forget them or misunderstand them. Just a theory :)
Anyhows enough of my rambling for one evening! Got to get some ZZZ's in to recharge(gone 2am now here in the UK).
Thank you once again for my warm acceptance in to your subset(he really has got me talking a different language these days!) :)
O and Cole be careful what you do with your STAR WARS script mate,as Mr Lucas will be on you like a rash! With his army of lawyers following close behind in hot pursuit! ;)

MAY THE LOVE BE WITH YOU

Welcome Padawan,

Wow- that a way to jump in...Cannonball...big splash.I just kinda skimmed it all because I have a short attention span...I'm good for a couple of paragraphs before I start to glaze over, nonetheless I will cipher your introduction to completion over many online sessions.There are those among us here at MBT who can comb the lengthiest soliloquy's and mine their essence without breaking so much as a sweat and seemingly enjoy doing so.Ted Vollers comes to mind.You are in good hands and good company.


I'm glad your here

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Padawan,

Welcome home. A thought regarding some of your comments. Do not be surprised that others have experiences and are open and used to 'unusual' experiences. That there is such a thing as the Psi Uncertainty Principle should tell you that it is needed. When everyone is of the same nature, a digital consciousness, experiencing the same thing, a virtual reality, in a system where it is in fact impossible to set up 'leak tight' experiences as we are all constantly connected over the RWW, why should it be a surprise. When you are a 'virtual' part of your total self as an IUOC, perfect isolation of memories is difficult to impossible to achieve. PMR society enforces suppression of OOBE and such more by isolation and maintaining 'norms' than the actual Consciousness System does. Society tends towards secrets in other areas of one's life besides para normal experiences, notably sexual 'escapades', medical and financial matters. A perfectly isolated, local information available only, PMR experience is not necessary to achieve the goals of the Consciousness System in providing access to us to this PMR virtual experience. If it were, more effort would be expended to achieve this. All of these problems become compounded when you begin to grow up and outgrow the conceptual limits of PMR societies. Have fun, behave nicely to others in quality interactions and stay out of trouble.

Ted

Welcome to the Forums, Lloyd, thanks for sharing so much. Did you say you were left-handed? Me also.

That's a great tagline! May the love be with you, as well!

Best,
Lynda

Hey Lynda
Thank you for your kind,warm welcome. Yes I'm left handed which until very recently was blissfully unaware of any significance to it. However stumbling across some information about it, i delved a little deeper with some outstanding findings. if you aren't aware of what I'm on about i suggest you go look, as it may have major significance to your understanding of who you are and how you fit in to PMR society(wonder if this has any significance in NPMR or other PMR's or to who we 'really' are) as it did for me. In fact i seem to recall reading something along the lines of,only a quarter of lefties are female. So you are either one hell of a convincing cross dresser ;) or even more unique than you originally thought! I know I'm a cheeky monkey but wit seems to flow so freely now like it used to when i was a younger(but that gradually got replaced by and interfered with as ego grew) Since learning big truth i realize I've made many mistakes in the past regarding most aspects of life but hey that IS part of AUM's design isn't it? To learn through experience in order to grow? Well i can honestly say Lynda that MBT has been a major player for me in this respect.Also from a cultural observational point of view i feel that(especially in the west) there's been a general decline over the last 10 years in happiness,having a laugh in life,about life. I know there are many factors as to why this is but it seem relatively easy to turn around(in ones self) and i think part of that reason is that it's natural,the way to progress.
I've theorized some over this left handed business but not much, as SO much else to think about these days. But want to share this with you -
Apart from the obvious physical differences with stuff like can openers,fridge doors,note pads etc, i think that one of the main reasons why we lefties 'feel' a bit different from the main herd of society is that the vast majority of 'stuff' in society is designed by righties(over 90% of the population) When i mean 'stuff' I'm referring to the conceptual stuff like administrations,the direction in which cultures evolve etc.This i feel is maybe one of the reasons why we can get our vision past the 'norm',to think out of the box. Does this ring any bells with you?
Thanks for the pat on the back regarding my parting slogan by the way :) but have adjusted it slightly to fit a little better(i think).

MAY THE LOVE FLOW THROUGH YOU

Hey Simba Thanks for the Welcome!Can't chat now as 'reality' calling and i don't get paid by the hour!

MAY THE LOVE FLOW THOUGH YOU

Thank you for my welcome Mr Vollers and i appreciate the time and thought you have given me. I bow to your wisdom Sir. At this moment in time I'm running 3 hours late to what i 'should' be doing and obviously I'd like 'time' to contemplate, to fully appreciate and understand what you've kindly taken the time to write.

MAY THE LOVE FLOW THROUGH YOU

Hmm, that's where I am at this moment.
ahh, but where to start? Could you PM me a link or two, point me in the right direction?
Word, Lloyd
not yet but it's early yet.

I've mentioned in another post or two my relationship with my dad. Dad and I are the only two lefties in our family. My two sisters are, and my mother was, right-handed. That, and the softness of our teeth :-) give us a special bond.

Be Well,

Lynda

Hello Again Lynda, Sorry about this love but I've really gotta bail and get my ass out to work and don't want to sound sharp or abrupt but basically just Google 'left handed' and follow your nose as i did. There's a channel on you tube called 'HotfactGirls' that is a light hearted take on the acquiring of knowledge (probably the best male learning 'tool' ;) on the net!).I know it's hardly an official source or standard (but what is?) but their usually not far off the mark.

MAY THE LOVE BE WITH YOU

Thank you Lloyd, hope your day at work is going well.

I will let you know what I find.

In laughter, learning, love and light,

Lynda

Welcome Lloyd! You are a breath of fresh air. Your posts just seem to radiate with positive attitude and excitement for learning of the larger reality. I'm happy for you! MBT has also created joy in my life, both in the way the pace of learning has increased and also in the improved quality of my interactions with other people and situations. It's a pleasure to have you join us on this journey.

I, too, am a huge Star Wars fan (especially the original trilogy) and give it some credit for steering me on a spiritual path from a very young age.

I, too, am also a lefty! Actually, I wonder how many on this forum are lefties. If you are, speak up!

Ramon