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The Holographic Universe

Book Summary by: CosmicBliss    

Original Author: Michael Talbot
David Bohm, and Karl Pribram are the main architects of the holographic universe idea. The holographic model help
explain all paranormal and mystical experiences which are nothing more than the shifting of a person’s consciousness from one level of the hologram of reality to another. A hologram is a virtual image, an image that appears to be where it is not, and possesses no more extension in space than does the three-dimensional image you see of yourself when you look in the mirror. 
If you break matter into smaller and smaller pieces you eventually reach a point where those pieces no longer possess the traits of objects. An electron can manifest as either a particle or a wave. This chameleonlike ability is common to all subatomic particles. It is also common to all things once thought to manifest exclusively as waves. All can change from waves to particles and back again. Bohm discovered that by proposing the existence of a new kind of field on this subquantum level he was able to explain the findings of quantum physics. Its effects were subtle but equally powerful everywhere. No single cause-and-effect relationship is ever really separate from the universe as a whole.
At the subatomic level, the level in which the quantum potential operates, location ceases to exist. All points in space become equal to all other points in space. All particles are nonlocally interconnected. All things are part of an unbroken web and embedded in a space. The universe is a kind of giant, flowing hologram. Underlying its deeper order of existence is a vast and more primary level of reality that gives birth to all the objects and appearances of our physical world. It is as meaningless to view the universe as composed of “parts”, as it is to view the different geysers in a fountain as separate from the water out of which they flow. Everything in the universe is part of a continuum. Everything is an extension of everything else. Every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos. So does every leaf, every raindrop, and every dust mote. Every cubic centimetre of empty space contains more energy than the total energy of all the matter in the known universe! Space is not empty, it is full, the ground for the existence of everything. What is “out there” is a vast ocean of waves and frequencies, and reality looks concrete to us only because our brains are able to take this holographic blur and convert it.
Dreams are a bridge between the perceptual and nonmanifest and represent a natural transformation of the implicate into the explicate. Dreams are actually visits to parallel universes. There is really no division between your “inner” self and the “outer” reality. Everything is produced by the unbroken wholeness of your own unconsciousness mind. There is no division between the mental and physical worlds. All experiences are ultimately just neurophysiological processes taking place in the brain. Information contained in thought is at the same time a neurophysiological, chemical, and physical activity. In its wavelike aspect, consciousness, like all wave phenomena, produce remote influence effects. Reality is itself the result of the interface between the wavelike aspects of consciousness and the wave patterns of matter. You could view individual consciousness as the laser of a particular frequency that intersects with a specific pattern in the cosmic hologram. 
The universe is all “thought” and reality exists only in what we think. Reality is in a very large part a construct of the imagination. Consciousness pervades all matter, and “meaning” has an active presence in both the mental and physical worlds. Our brain is a kind of lens that converts frequencies into the objective world of appearances. The thoughts that one creates generate patterns at the mind level of nature. Our thoughts are constantly affecting the subtle energy levels of the holographic universe, but only emotionally powerful thoughts are potent enough to manifest as a series of coincidences in physical reality. 
The ability to foresee the future is a holographic phenomenon. The future is not set, but plastic and can be changed. When a person has a precognitive glimpse of the future, they are tuning into the future off that particular hologram only. But there are many separate holographic futures and we choose which events are going to manifest and which are not by leaping from one hologram to another. It is extremely important to think and visualize in concrete terms what you wish to happen. By doing this people can more consciously control the events and make their own future. We are what we think. With our thoughts we make the world. We create our own destiny, both individually and collectively. 
The afterlife realm is the general matrix that gives birth to the entire physical universe. All things in physical reality arise from this spiritual reality. Instead of having to search for spiritual reality “in the where”, the “where” is in us. Contact with eternity is in the present moment, but it is mediated by thought. It is a matter of attention. Everything interpenetrates, and is interpenetrated by, everything else. The part is the whole. The ultimate answers to existence are not to be found in intellectual concepts and philosophies but rather in a level of direct nonconceptual experience of reality. 

Published: September 16, 2009
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