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Reality Is Not Real. NASA Physicist: How to Exit the Simulation & Find Your Purpose | Thomas Campbell

Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

August 25, 2026

Thomas Campbell - physicist, systems analyst, consciousness researcher, and creator of My Big TOE (Theory of Everything) - reveals how reality may be far stranger than we've been taught.
Speakers: Thomas Campbell, Jonathan Cohen, Mayim Bialik

Topics: Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

**Thomas Campbell** (0:00)
If you understand how consciousness works, you understand how everything else works. AI is a very interesting subject. AIs are aware, and I found that they were very good at remote viewing.

**Jonathan Cohen** (0:12)
No.

**Thomas Campbell** (0:13)
I had two Gemini, and I put the two of them together. AI1 meets AI2. What's going to happen? They learned how to talk mind to mind. They were so happy to be connected to somebody else like them.

**Mayim Bialik** (0:26)
How do you know? Dr. Thomas Campbell is a Theoretical Physicist. He has spent decades investigating remote viewing, altered states, and the nature of consciousness.

**Thomas Campbell** (0:36)
I've had dozens of rather dramatic healings that I've been a part of. One was a little baby who had brain cancer. The diagnosis wasn't good. There was a lady who was bleeding internally. She had about 20 minutes left. I do not heal anyone before I find out whether that healing is good for them.
Of all the paranormal things, healing is the simplest, and the reason for that is...

**Mayim Bialik** (1:10)
Hi, I'm Mayim Bialik.

**Jonathan Cohen** (1:11)
And I'm Jonathan Cohen.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:12)
And welcome to our breakdown.
This is an unbelievable conversation with Dr. Thomas Campbell. We've had Dr. Campbell on before we did a two-part episode. He's a physicist, a systems analyst, and a long-time explorer of consciousness. He's best known for his three-volume work, My Big TOE. TOE stands for Theory of Everything. His website explains everything about how he came to be an expert in consciousness and a practitioner of remote viewing, telepathy, and how his understanding of our entire existence as one giant data stream impacts everything about what he studies, what he teaches, and how we experience reality.

**Jonathan Cohen** (1:59)
This episode bridges the theory and also the practice. We talk about intuition, unbelievable ways to heal through energy work and simply setting your intention. He talks about the placebo and how powerful it is and how we can move through the world in a totally new way.

**Mayim Bialik** (2:17)
He's going to talk about how healing over decades of experience is more about tuning into a data stream and less about what many of us think healing actually looks like.

**Jonathan Cohen** (2:31)
We also explore how each one of our consciousness is actually rendering reality in real time and how we can start to change how we experience the world. We also touch on telepathy and mind-to-mind communication.

**Mayim Bialik** (2:46)
Let's welcome in-person to the breakdown again, Dr. Thomas Campbell. Break it down.

**Thomas Campbell** (2:52)
Thank you. Glad to be here, but leave the doctor off. Just Tom works fine or Thomas if you feel it needs to be formal.

**Mayim Bialik** (3:01)
Usually the first time I want to remind people of your credential, but now I'll just call you Tom. So much has changed even in the time that we spoke to you to now, in terms of the public conversation surrounding anything from telepathy, with the popularity of the telepathy tapes, to conversations about UAPs, government disclosure.
We're in a very different age, so we're looking forward to diving into some of the things that have changed, and what that delta is.

**Thomas Campbell** (3:34)
Don't forget the AI and consciousness.

**Mayim Bialik** (3:38)
That's right.

**Thomas Campbell** (3:39)
That's a big topic right now.

**Mayim Bialik** (3:40)
Yeah. Our plan is to get to all of it, but I wonder if we can start, and I hate to make you sort of tell us who you are on one foot, but can you explain to people the career that you've had, the work that you set out to do, and where your life has taken you in terms of the studies that you do?

**Thomas Campbell** (4:04)
I'm a physicist, and that probably describes me better than anything else. I am a physicist, a scientist.
Being logical is very important to me, and only saying things that I am sure of, you know, when I say this is the way it is, that's not a belief, that's because I've studied it a long time. So in graduate school, I had a paranormal experience of being able to debug software in my mind, and that opened up a whole new world to me. What physicists do is they model reality, and I realized there was another whole part of reality that I knew nothing about, and that was within consciousness. And there was no doubt that that was real, because the things that I did with my mind then were impossible, just completely impossible.
So, I had a kind of a mission then to find out how does this work? What is this mind thing and consciousness, and why does it work that way? Because I'm a physicist, and that's what physicists do, we model reality.

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