How to enter Tom's Park

To use the Tom’s Park tool: Imagine (you create the data-stream that defines the VR) the park and all of its experiential possibilities. Pick an activity from the many that are available, then totally engage your awareness and all five senses in that activity to the fullest extent possible. Have fun, get involved emotionally. Accomplishing this may take much practice over many iterations. Such experiential engagement may start very slowly but will grow richer and more engaging with consistent iteration. If this seems difficult, then pick a simpler, more concrete activity to start with. Slowly build up the complexity of what you are trying to fully engage in. Pick an activity that you find interesting, fun, exciting, or absorbing — something that requires you to interact with others.

Focus totally on the imagined experience you are having until the story begins to unfold easily on its own, in its own way, however it does. Do not question, assess, or judge the experience, just have it. Do not try to notice or verify the shift from you actively imagining what happens next to you simply letting what happens next unfold however it does. Trying to measure (observe) the transition/blending of your data-stream to/with the LCS’s data-stream will prohibit the transition/blending from taking place.

When you create a daydream that evolves on its own, you are creating a VR in which your choices directly affect your consciousness evolution.

Yes, you initially enter this park by using your imagination. This means that you are creating the data-stream that defines your experience in Tom’s Park — i.e., you are creating the Tom’s Park VR. As consciousness, you have the ability to create fully functional completely real, VRs for yourself. There is nothing more real than information. The LCS can do that as well, however, in its capacity as the information system’s “operating system,” it has the ability to share the data-streams it creates with IUOCs in order to improve their rate of evolution.

The goal is to become so involved with what you are doing that you completely forget that you are imagining it — that you are so totally consumed and busy with what is taking place that your observing, judging, intellect is pushed out of the picture. When what happens next just unfolds in front of you without any intentional effort on your part, then the source of the data-stream defining your interactions within the park will gradually and imperceptibly shift from your imagination to the LCS. After this shift takes place, your experience will be like any other OOBE (typically a single player VR game hosted by the LCS). The source of the data-stream defining your experience in Tom’s Park may continuously slip and slide back and forth between your imagination’s data-stream and the LCS’s data-stream, or remain exclusively in one or the other. In time it will become easier and easier to let go of your imagined data-stream and grasp hold of the LCS’s data-stream (have an out of body experience \[OOBE\]). Eventually, with iteration and practice, the initial imaginative piece of this process will get shorter and shorter until it disappears altogether.

Because it is impossible for you to be certain of the source of the data-stream you are receiving, do not try to discern the source and do not guess. Trying to judge the source of your data-stream is an intellectual action that will likely accomplish just one thing: Pop you out of the intuitive mind space you are trying to develop, thus interrupting, if not nullifying, what you are trying to accomplish.

The idea here is to learn through repetitive practice to so fully engage in your Tom’s Park experience that your assessing, judging, comparing, and analyzing intellect lets go of its need and habit to control. Simply experience Tom’s Park without imposing any constraints, or providing any intellectual supervision or input. Experience for experience’s sake — no control, no expectations, no requirements — simply let your experience run free. Experience whatever happens without expectation or need. If nothing happens, engage and explore the nothingness and whatever might pop in and out of that nothingness (no matter how trivial or inconsequential it appears to be). Keep trying, consistency and repetition are key. Try without effort, be without doing.

The best way to forget that you are imagining Tom’s Park is to fully engage all your senses and fully participate in, and embrace your experience of, Tom’s Park activities without judging or questioning. Like your experience in the so-called physical world, try to be fully aware, all the time, and with all five of your senses. Pause often to smell the park's many aromas and feel its many textures — taste and smell its food and drink. Feel the water when you swim (its temperature, wetness, and motion). Feel the constant light breeze, and focus your senses on whatever you touch (feet on the ground, hands petting fur, sand on the beach, the grass under the trees). Explore the park's many textures.

Crowd out your intellect’s interference with the details and feelings of your extremely interesting and fun experience within the park. Get involved, immersed, and fully (including emotionally) engaged in the activities and opportunities Tom’s Park provides. Each added sense enriches your experience. The richer and more intensely interesting your experience, the harder it is for your intellect to get involved and the easier it is for the LCS to replace your imagination with an independent data-stream. So, if your experience is just sitting on a bench trying to imagine a squirrel to have a chat with, that may be fine if you are already an intuitive person, however, if you are struggling with an interfering intellect, then a much more in-depth, active, and richer experience will likely be necessary before you can leave your intellect behind in a cloud of intuitive dust.

Bring your friends and/or family with you to the park. Simply imagine them there, or, if you want to experiment with the possibilities, meet them there (you will have to ask the LCS to make your session a multiplayer game). Strangely enough, the former sometimes imperceptibly turns into the latter. If you imagine others into the park, ask them later if they have any memory or feelings that correlate with what you experienced in Tom’s Park. If there are correlations, those will most likely be artifacts of a telepathic connection, not a multiplayer game, but not always. The LCS likes to be surprising sometimes. Gaining a multiplayer game is more difficult but not impossible.