Subject: INSIGHT:
Creation - Holographic Universe 1/2
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Creation - Holographic Universe
NOTE: Many keynotes to understanding "E.S.P." as Effective
Sensory Perception; there's nothing "extra" about it when you
"assimilate" the language of the angels framed by the law of the angles. Onwards
and upwards when we LOVE enough. --CR
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The Universe as a Hologram
Author Unknown
In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research
team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the
most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the
evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific
journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some
who believe his discovery may change the face of science.
Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic
particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each
other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they
are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.
Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem
with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no
communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster
than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this
daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate
ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even
more radical explanations.
University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's
findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent
solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed
hologram.
To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand
a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made
with the aid of a laser.
To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light
of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of
the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser
beams commingle) is captured on film.
When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark
lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a
three-dimensional image of the original object appears.
The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable
characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then
illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire
image of the rose.
Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always
be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike
normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information
possessed by the whole.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an
entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its
history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to
understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it
and study its respective parts.
A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves
to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographic
ally, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller
wholes.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery.
Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with
one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are
sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their
separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such
particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same
fundamental something.
To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following
illustration.
Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see
the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes
from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other
directed at its side.
As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on
each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are
set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as
you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there
is a certain relationship between them.
When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding
turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you
remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that
the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is
clearly not the case.
This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles
in Aspect's experiment.
According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic
particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are
not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the
aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate
from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality.
Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and
more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the
previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised
of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.
In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other
rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles
is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the
universe are infinitely interconnected.
The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic
particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and
every star that shimmers in the sky.
Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to
categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe,
all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a
seamless web.
In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as
fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in
which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional
space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would also have to be
viewed as projections of this deeper order.
At its deeper level reality is a sort of super hologram in which the past,
present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that given the
proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the super
holographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten
past... [or have "future memory"
--CR]
What else the super hologram contains is an
open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the super hologram
is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very
least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be -- every
configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars,
from blue whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse
of "All That Is."
Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else might lie hidden
in the super hologram, he does venture to say that we have no reason to assume
it does not contain more. Or as he puts it, perhaps the super holographic level
of reality is a "mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity of
further development".
Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the universe is a
hologram. Working independently in the field of brain research, Standford
neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of the holographic
nature of reality.
Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where
memories are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown that
rather than being confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed
throughout the brain.
In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl Lashley
found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he was unable
to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to
surgery. The only problem was that no one was able to come up with a
mechanism that might explain this curious "whole in every part"
nature of memory storage.
Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and realized
he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking for.
Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of
neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in
the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire
area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram
believes the brain is itself a hologram.
Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many
memories in so little space. It has been estimated that the human brain has the
capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information
during the average human lifetime (or roughly the same amount of information
contained in five sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica).
Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other capabilities,
holograms possess an astounding capacity for information storage--simply by
changing the angle at which the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film,
it is possible to record many different images on the same surface. It has been
demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film can hold as many as 10 billion
bits of information.
Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information we need from
the enormous store of our memories becomes more understandable if the brain
functions according to holographic principles. If a friend asks you to tell him
what comes to mind when he says the word "zebra", you do not have to
clumsily sort back through some gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive
at an answer. Instead, associations like "striped", "horse
like", and "animal native to Africa" all pop into your head
instantly.
Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process is that
every piece of information seems instantly cross- correlated with every other
piece of information--another feature intrinsic to the hologram. Because every
portion of a hologram is infinitely interconnected with ever other portion, it
is perhaps nature's supreme example of a cross-correlated system.
The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that becomes
more tractable in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another
is how the brain is able to translate the avalanche of frequencies it receives
via the senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into the
concrete world of our perceptions. Encoding and decoding frequencies is
precisely what a hologram does best.
Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating device able to
convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent image,
Pribram believes the brain also comprises a lens and uses holographic
principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through he
senses into the inner world of our perceptions.
An impressive body of evidence suggests that the brain uses holographic
principles to perform its operations. Pribram's theory, in fact, has gained
increasing support among neurophysiologists.
Argentinean-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently extended the holographic
model into the world of acoustic phenomena. Puzzled by the fact that
humans can locate the source of sounds without moving their heads, even if they
only possess hearing in one ear, Zucarelli discovered that holographic
principles can explain this ability.
Zucarelli has also developed the technology of holophonic sound, a recording
technique able to reproduce acoustic situations with an almost uncanny realism.
Pribram's belief that our brains mathematically construct "hard"
reality by relying on input from a frequency domain has also received a good
deal of experimental support.
It has been found that each of our senses is sensitive to a much broader
range of frequencies than was previously suspected.
Researchers have discovered, for instance, that our visual systems are
sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is in part dependent on
what are now called "osmic frequencies", and that even the cells in
our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. Such findings
suggest that it is only in the holographic domain of consciousness that such
frequencies are sorted out and divided up into conventional perceptions.
But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain is
what happens when it is put together with Bohm's theory. For if the
concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is
"there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the
brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this
blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes
of objective reality?
Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long
upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we
are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion.
We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of
frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical
reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the super hologram.
This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's
views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm, and although many
scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it has galvanized others. A small
but growing group of researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of
reality science has arrived at thus far. More than that, some believe it may
solve some mysteries that have never before been explainable by science and even
establish the paranormal as a part of nature.
Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noted that many para-psychological
phenomena become much more understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm.
In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible portions of
the greater hologram and everything is infinitely interconnected, telepathy may
merely be the accessing of the holographic level.
It is obviously much easier to understand how information can travel from
the mind of individual 'A' to that of individual 'B' at a far distance point and
helps to understand a number of unsolved puzzles in psychology.
In particular, Grof feels the holographic paradigm offers a model for
understanding many of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during
altered states of consciousness.
... CONTINUED, Part II