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  Date / Time: 3/27/2008 3:48 AM UTC

  The Holographic Theory
  

  Anyone who has looked into Quantum Mechanics must have
  read or heard this theory, let alone in "psych" class.
  I am actually reading a book by a Peter James Carroll,
  and he has mentioned "The Holographic Theory" in his
  work of metaphysics. So, I thought this would be
  perfect too, plus it came off another paranormal
  research group called Paranormal Investigators &
  Research Association(PIRA). They did not write the
  article themselves, but I will give them the pug cause
  they seem to have similar goals as our team does.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a
  Phantasm?
  
  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 holographically, 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 superhologram 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 superholographic
  level of reality and pluck out scenes from the
  long-forgotten past.
  
  What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended
  question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the
  superhologram 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 superhologram, he
  does venture to say that we have no reason to assume
  it does not contain more. Or as he puts it, perhaps
  the superholographic 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 Encyclopaedia 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", "horselike", 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 every 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 the 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.
  Argentinian-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
  smellisin 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
  superhologram.
  
  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 unsolvedpuzzles in
  psychology.
  In particular, Stanislav Grof feels the holographic
  paradigm offers a model for understanding many of the
  baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during
  altered states of consciousness. In the 1950s, while
  conducting research into the beliefs of LSD as a
  psychotherapeutic tool, Grof had one female patient
  who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the
  identity of a female of a species of prehistoric
  reptile. During the course of her hallucination, she
  not only gave a richly detailed description of what it
  felt like to be encapsuled in such a form, but noted
  that the portion of the male of the species's anatomy
  was a patch of colored scales on the side of its head.
  What was startling to Grof was that although the woman
  had no prior knowledge about such things, a
  conversation with a zoologist later confirmed that in
  certain species of reptiles colored areas on the head
  do indeed play an important role as triggers of sexual
  arousal. The woman's experience was not unique. During
  the course of his research, Grof encountered examples
  of patients regressing and identifying with virtually
  every species on the evolutionary tree (research
  findings which helped influence the man-into-ape scene
  in the movie Altered States). Moreover, he found that
  such experiences frequently contained obscure
  zoological details which turned out to be accurate.
  
  Regressions into the animal kingdom were not the only
  puzzling psychological phenomena Grof encountered. He
  also had patients who appeared to tap into some sort
  of collective or racial unconscious. Individuals with
  little or no education suddenly gave detailed
  descriptions of Zoroastrian funerary practices and
  scenes from Hindu mythology. In other categories of
  experience, individuals gave persuasive accounts of
  out-of-body journeys, of precognitive glimpses of the
  future, of regressions into apparent past-life
  incarnations.
  
  In later research, Grof found the same range of
  phenomena manifested in therapy sessions which did not
  involve the use of drugs. Because the common element
  in such experiences appeared to be the transcending of
  an individual's consciousness beyond the usual
  boundaries of ego and/or limitations of space and
  time, Grof called such manifestations "transpersonal
  experiences", and in the late '60s he helped found a
  branch of psychology called "transpersonal psychology"
  devoted entirely to their study.
  
  Although Grof's newly founded Association of
  Transpersonal Psychology garnered a rapidly growing
  group of like-minded professionals and has become a
  respected branch of psychology, for years neither Grof
  or any of his colleagues were able to offer a
  mechanism for explaining the bizarre psychological
  phenomena they were witnessing. But that has changed
  with the advent of the holographic paradigm.
  
  As Grof recently noted, if the mind is actually part
  of a continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only
  to every other mind that exists or has existed, but to
  every atom, organism, and region in the vastness of
  space and time itself, the fact that it is able to
  occasionally make forays into the labyrinth and have
  transpersonal experiences no longer seems so strange.
  
  The holographic paradigm also has implications for
  so-called hard sciences like biology. Keith Floyd, a
  psychologist at Virginia Intermont College, has
  pointed out that if the concreteness of reality is but
  a holographic illusion, it would no longer be true to
  say the brain produces consciousness. Rather, it is
  consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain
  -- as well as the body and everything else around us
  we interpret as physical.
  
  Such a turnabout in the way we view biological
  structures has caused researchers to point out that
  medicine and our understanding of the healing process
  could also be transformed by the holographic paradigm.
  If the apparent physical structure of the body is but
  a holographic projection of consciousness, it becomes
  clear that each of us is much more responsible for our
  health than current medical wisdom allows. What we now
  view as miraculous remissions of disease may actually
  be due to changes in consciousness which in turn
  effect changes in the hologram of the body. Similarly,
  controversial new healing techniques such as
  visualization may work so well because, in the
  holographic domain of thought, images are ultimately
  as real as "reality".
  
  Even visions and experiences involving "non-ordinary"
  reality become explainable under the holographic
  paradigm. In his book "Gifts of Unknown
  Things,"biologist Lyall Watson describes his encounter
  with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a
  ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of
  trees instantly vanish into thin air. Watson relates
  that as he and another astonished onlooker continued
  to watch the woman, she caused the trees to reappear,
  then "click" off again and on again several times in
  succession.
  Although current scientific understanding is incapable
  of explaining such events, experiences like this
  become more tenable if "hard" reality is only a
  holographic projection. Perhaps we agree on what is
  "there" or "not there" because what we call consensus
  reality is formulated and ratified at the level of the
  human unconscious at which all minds are infinitely
  interconnected. If this is true, it is the most
  profound implication of the holographic paradigm of
  all, for it means that experiences such as Watson's
  are not commonplace only because we have not
  programmed our minds with the beliefs that would make
  them so. In a holographic universe there are no limits
  to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of
  reality.
  
  What we perceive as reality is only a canvas waiting
  for us to draw upon it any picture we want. Anything
  is possible, from bending spoons with the power of the
  mind to the phantasmagoric events experienced by
  Castaneda during his encounters with the Yaqui brujo
  don Juan, for magic is our birthright, no more or less
  miraculous than our ability to compute the reality we
  want when we are in our dreams.
  Indeed, even our most fundamental notions about
  reality become suspect, for in a holographic universe,
  as Pribram has pointed out, even random events would
  have to be seen as based on holographic principles and
  therefore determined. Synchronicities or meaningful
  coincidences suddenly makes sense, and everything in
  reality would have to be seen as a metaphor, for even
  the most haphazard events would express some
  underlying symmetry.
  
  Whether Bohm and Pribram's holographic paradigm
  becomes accepted in science or dies an ignoble death
  remains to be seen, but it is safe to say that it has
  already had an influence on the thinking of many
  scientists. And even if it is found that the
  holographic model does not provide the best
  explanation for the instantaneous communications that
  seem to be passing back and forth between subatomic
  particles, at the very least, as noted by Basil Hiley,
  a physicist at Birbeck College in London, Aspect's
  findings "indicate that we must be prepared to
  consider radically new views of reality".
  
  Source- TWM Breakthrough Technology
  
  
  JUSTIN VILLARREAL
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