Becoming part of the solution

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Tom Campbell discusses here the concept of free will and the importance of intent and motivation in decision-making. He suggests that our choices are primarily choices of motivation and intent, with our actions being a secondary result. Campbell emphasises that in the evolution of consciousness, motivation and intent are the key drivers of the process, and that the right motivation, intent, and action lead to a decrease in entropy within our consciousness. He distinguishes between absolute right and wrong, which are determined by an entropy measurement, and relative right and wrong, which are influenced by personal, social, and political circumstances.

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‘What we do is not of primary importance; why we do it is what counts. The intent or motivation is the choice. Thus, our free will choices are primarily choices of motivation and intent why we do what we do.

Only secondarily are they choices of doing. What we actually do (the action we take) is the first result of our choice of intent, and drives a feedback mechanism, which is very good but not perfect, particularly in the short-term.

This is not biological evolution we are talking about, where the key process driver is what you do. In the evolution of consciousness, motivation and intent are the key drivers of evolutionary process. What you do is secondary to why you do it. The right choice for the wrong reason is an oxymoron and does not exist (I am being tricky-picky here with the semantics to make the point that the development or selection of the intent is the choice that I am referring to).

Recall that right motivation, intent, and action generally result in a decrease of entropy within your consciousness, whereas wrong motivation, intent, and action generally result in an increase of entropy within your consciousness. This is how absolute right and wrong are defined. Right and wrong are differentiated by how they affect your spiritual quality, or equivalently, the quality of your consciousness. Relative (local) right and wrong are largely derived from our sense of absolute right and wrong, but are also dependent upon fad, fashion, culture, and personal, social, and political circumstances. My Big TOE, being science, is only concerned with absolute right and wrong – where an entropy measurement, rather than a personal PMR viewpoint., determines which is which.’

Tom Campbell