I just wanted to say hi and see what 'My Big TOE' is all about. The reason I bought this book was because of that lecture on Youtube and I thought it would be interesting to see a different perspective of reality. I was looking for some answers on consciousness, yea like Youtube is the best place to find this knowledge, but it did lead me to buy this book. I must say, so far, it's been very interesting. The message of 'oneness' seems to reverberate from people who have 'seen the light,' and I have been open to the idea of oneness and a holographic, 'digital,' universe and it seems as though Tom is going in that direction. I can't wait to delve deeper and learn how really 'live' in this reality. Honestly, I would have expected this forum to be busy with thousands of users, but I suppose that most of the people out there are not willing to go against the status quo and open their minds to the 'big picture.' Well, I'm still glad that there are people will to share and help each other in our quest for our understand of reality. I do have a questions, does Tom give detailed instructions on how to become more enlightened? For example, Tom talks about his TM experience and what it was like. He writes about how the 'secret mantra' helped him to achieve that level of altered consciousness but he does not give detailed instructions on how to do it. Of course, he did state that back in the 70's he was asked not to reveal the methods to other people. So are there classes or books on this or does Tom talk about it later? Thanks and good to be here!

Hi again En,
Meditate, do you meditate?
Love
Bette

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what is?
Consciousness.

"Becoming more enlightened" is the same as lowering entropy or evolving in MBT terms. There are "methods" for achieving altered states of awareness, but altered states being thrust upon your "waking consciousness" will not automatically lower your entropy. On the other hand, making positive choices and being conscientous of what's going on around you- will lower entropy. As you've probably realized, entropy reduction or "becoming more enlightened" is about increasing synergy and the abilitiy of consciousness to generate improved self-organization. It is about becoming love, in the sense that you recognize at the deepest levels of your being that you are not separate from anyone else. No matter how you slice it, or what you believe- it's obvious that we're all "made of the same stuff." Each of us plays some (small but) integral part within the vastness of the larger consciousness system. We are the consciousness system, constrained as we are to experience this virtual reality. Enlightenment is truly realizing this and living your life accordingly. No methods will give that to you. Any "secret" methods out there can probably help, but methods are tools for focusing one's Intent. Intent is what really moves consciousness to higher or lower levels of entropy.

You're obviously on the right track if your intent brought you here. Keep up with what you're doing now. Explore - Be open minded - Take nothing for granted - Know, don't believe. And welcome to the boards. Glad to have ya ... 8-)

-Cole

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Wow Cole.......

Your post is inspirational. I love how you put it so concisely and agree with you completely.

Debbie

I started to read from the top and I was gonna answer but then I saw your post Cole ...

Cole, at the beginning I saw mainly those Seth references, now I can say you are something. Keep it up. You are in the track for low, low, low entropy. Don't forget about the rest once you hang out with the Big Buddys :)

Muscle Boy: Try, Experience, No Fear, Open Minded, Skeptic, Meditation, No Limitations ... there you go yo ... towards unconditional love

Clau

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Enlightmentwannabe,

Step by step instructions on how to meditate are in Book 1 chapter 23. That is square 1, the place to start.

Tom C

Welcome En,

I wish everyone could find MBT and give it a shot, glad your here.

Cole, as always, right-on Bro, you got me reading the Seth speaks again, great stuff.

I keep looking for that Fisy update, you are one intrepid explorer.

When I get up to a little more speed maybe we could travel together and bring back some of that evidence.

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En,

Cool TAT by the way

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