Reality Is Not Real. NASA Physicist

What if the physical world isn’t the base layer of reality at all?

In this conversation on Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, physicist and consciousness researcher Thomas Campbell (creator of My Big TOE) lays out a model in which consciousness itself is the fundamental information system that “renders” our experience. He argues we’re living inside a kind of virtual reality designed for the evolution of awareness—and that once you understand the rules, you can begin to interact with them deliberately.

Campbell trained for years with Robert Monroe, the pioneering researcher of out-of-body states, and has spent decades exploring remote viewing, telepathy, healing, and the role of intent. He talks about how focused intention can shift probabilities, why lowering your personal entropy is the real work of growth, and why healing may be one of the most accessible non-ordinary abilities.

Whether you’re drawn to simulation theory, the science of consciousness, or practical ways to develop intuition and presence, this is one of the more coherent and experience-based discussions of these ideas currently available.