In 1982 a remarkable event took place. A research team led by Alain Aspect at the University of Paris has unveiled what could be one of the most significant experiments of the 20th century. You won't hear about it on the evening news. Chances are you've never even heard the name Alain Aspect, unless you're used to reading scientific journals.
Aspect and his team have found that, under certain conditions, elementary particles, such as electrons, can instantly communicate with each other, regardless of the distance between them. It doesn't matter if it's 10 feet or 10 billion miles.
Somehow each particle always knows what the other is doing. The problem with this discovery is that it violates Einstein's postulate about the limiting speed of propagation of an interaction equal to the speed of light. Because traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking through a time barrier, this frightening prospect has led some physicists to try to explain Aspect's experiments in complex workarounds. But it has inspired others to come up with more radical explanations.
For example, University of London physicist David Bohm believes that according to Aspect's discovery, reality does not exist, and that despite its apparent density, the universe is at its core a fiction, a gigantic, luxuriously detailed hologram.
To understand why Bohm came up with such a startling conclusion, we need to talk about holograms. A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph taken with a laser.
To make a hologram, the subject to be photographed must first be illuminated by laser light. Then the second laser beam, adding up with the reflected light from the object, gives an interference pattern that can be recorded on the film.
The picture taken looks like a meaningless alternation of light and dark lines. But as soon as the image is illuminated with another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the captured object immediately appears.
Three-dimensionality is not the only remarkable property of holograms. If the hologram is cut in half and illuminated with a laser, each half will contain the entire original image. If we continue to cut the hologram into smaller pieces, on each of them we will again find an image of the entire object as a whole. Unlike conventional photography, each area of the hologram contains all the information about the subject.
The principle of the hologram "everything in every part" allows us to approach the issue of organization and order in a fundamentally new way. For almost all of its history, Western science has developed with the idea that the best way to understand a phenomenon, whether it be a frog or an atom, is to cut it apart and study its constituent parts. The hologram has shown us that some things in the universe cannot allow us to do so. If we dissect something arranged holographically, we will not get the parts of which it consists, but we will get the same thing, but smaller in size.
These ideas inspired Bohm to reinterpret Aspect's work. Bohm is sure that elementary particles interact at any distance, not because they exchange mysterious signals with each other, but because their separation is an illusion. He explains that at some deeper level of reality, such particles are not separate entities, but are actually extensions of something more fundamental.
To better understand this, Bohm offers the following illustration.
Imagine an aquarium with fish. Imagine also that you cannot see the aquarium directly, but only two television screens that transmit images from cameras located one in front and one on the side of the aquarium. Looking at the screens, you can conclude that the fish on each of the screens are separate objects. But as you keep watching, after a while you will find that there is a relationship between the two fish on different screens.
When one fish changes, the other also changes, a little, but always in accordance with the first; when you see one fish "in front", the other is certainly "in profile". If you don't know it's the same aquarium, you'd rather conclude that the fish must communicate with each other instantly than that it's an accident.
The same, says Bohm, can be extrapolated to elementary particles in the Aspect experiment.
According to Bohm, the apparent superluminal interaction between particles tells us that there is a deeper level of reality hidden from us, higher dimensional than ours, similar to an aquarium. And, he adds, we see the particles as separate because we only see a part of reality. Particles are not separate "pieces" but facets of a deeper unity that is ultimately holographic and invisibly like an object,
filmed on a hologram. And since everything in physical reality is contained in this "phantom", the universe itself is a projection, a hologram.
In addition to being “phantomous,” such a universe could have other amazing properties. If the separation of particles is an illusion, then at a deeper level, all objects in the world are infinitely interconnected. The electrons in the carbon atoms in our brains are connected to the electrons in every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shines in the sky.
Everything interpenetrates with everything, and although it is natural for human nature to divide everything, to dismember, to put it on the shelves, all natural phenomena, all divisions are artificial and nature, in the end, is an unbreakable web.
In the holographic world, even time and space cannot be taken as a basis. Because such a characteristic as position does not make sense in a universe where nothing is separate from each other; time and three-dimensional space - like images of fish on screens, which should be considered projections.
From this point of view, reality is a super-hologram in which the past, present and future exist simultaneously. This means that with the help of appropriate tools, one can penetrate deep into this super-hologram and see pictures of the distant past.
What else a hologram can carry is still unknown. For example, one can imagine that a hologram is a matrix that gives rise to everything in the world, at least there are any elementary particles that exist or can exist - any form of matter and energy is possible, from a snowflake to a quasar, from a blue whale to gamma rays. It's like a universal supermarket, which has everything.
While Bohm admits that we have no way of knowing what else the hologram holds, he takes the liberty of arguing that we have no reason to assume that there is nothing else in it. In other words, perhaps the holographic level of the world is the next stage of endless evolution.
Bohm is not alone in his opinion. An independent neuroscientist at Stanford University, Karl Pribram, who works in the field of brain research, also leans towards the theory of the holographic world. Pribram came to this conclusion by pondering the mystery of where and how memories are stored in the brain. Numerous experiments have shown that information is not stored in any particular area of the brain, but is dispersed throughout the entire volume of the brain. In a series of decisive experiments in the 1920s, Karl Lashley showed that no matter which part of the rat's brain he removed, he could not achieve the disappearance of the conditioned reflexes developed in the rat before the operation. No one has been able to explain the mechanism behind this funny "everything in every part" property of memory.
Later, in the 60s, Pribram encountered the principle of holography and realized that he had found the explanation that neuroscientists were looking for. Pribram believes that memory is not contained in neurons or groups of neurons, but in a series of nerve impulses circulating throughout the brain, just as a piece of a hologram contains an entire image. In other words, Pribram
sure that the brain is a hologram.
Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in such a small space. It is assumed that the human brain is able to remember about 10 billion bits in a lifetime (which corresponds to about the amount of information contained in 5 sets of the Encyclopædia Britannica).
It was found that another striking feature was added to the properties of holograms - a huge recording density. By simply changing the angle at which the lasers illuminate the film, many different images can be recorded on the same surface. It is shown that one cubic centimeter of film is capable of storing up to 10 billion bits of information.
Our uncanny ability to quickly find the right information from a huge volume becomes more understandable if we accept that the brain works on the principle of a hologram. If a friend asks you what comes to mind when you hear the word zebra, you don't have to go through your entire vocabulary to find the answer. Associations like "striped", "horse" and "lives in Africa" appear in your head instantly.
Indeed, one of the most amazing properties of human thinking is that each piece of information is instantly cross-correlated with any other - another property of the hologram. Since every part of the hologram is infinitely interconnected with every other, it is quite possible that the brain is the highest example of cross-correlated systems exhibited by nature.
The location of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that has been unraveled in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate such an avalanche of frequencies that it perceives with various senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into our concrete idea of the world.
Encoding and decoding frequencies is exactly what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram serves as a kind of lens, a transmission device capable of turning a meaningless set of frequencies into a coherent image, so the brain, according to Pribram, contains such a lens and uses the principles of holography to mathematically process frequencies from the senses into the inner world of our perceptions. .
A lot of evidence suggests that the brain uses the principle of holography to function. Pribram's theory is finding more and more supporters among neuroscientists.
Argentinean-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli has recently extended the holographic model to the realm of acoustic phenomena. Perplexed by the fact that people can determine the direction of a sound source without turning their heads, even if only one ear works, Zucarelli found that the principles of holography could explain this ability as well.
He also developed holophonic sound recording technology capable of reproducing sound pictures with stunning realism.
Pribram's idea that our brain creates a "hard" reality by relying on input frequencies has also received brilliant experimental confirmation. It has been found that any of our sense organs has a much larger frequency range of receptivity than previously thought. For example, researchers have found that our eyes
receptive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is somewhat dependent on what is now called [osmic? ] frequencies, and that even the cells of our body are sensitive to a wide range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that this is the work of the holographic part of our consciousness, which transforms separate chaotic frequencies into continuous perception.
But the most startling aspect of Pribram's holographic brain model comes to light when it is compared to Bohm's theory. If what we see is only a reflection of what is actually “out there” is a set of holographic frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies and mathematically converts them into perceptions, what is objective reality really ?
Let's just say it doesn't exist. As Eastern religions have been saying for centuries, matter is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think that we are physical and move in the physical world, this is also an illusion. In fact, we are “receivers” floating in a kaleidoscopic sea of frequencies, and everything we extract from this sea and turn into physical reality is just one source of many extracted from the hologram.
This striking new picture of reality, a synthesis of the views of Bohm and Pribram, has been called the holographic paradigm, and while many scientists have been skeptical about it, others have been encouraged by it. A small but growing group of researchers believe that this is one of the most accurate models of the world yet proposed. Moreover, some hope that it will help solve some mysteries that have not been previously explained by science and even consider the paranormal as part of nature. Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, conclude that many parapsychological phenomena become more understandable within the holographic paradigm.
In a universe in which the individual brain is virtually an indivisible part of a larger hologram and infinitely connected to others, telepathy may simply be an achievement at the holographic level. It becomes much easier to understand how information can be delivered from consciousness "A" to consciousness "B" at any distance, and to explain many mysteries of psychology. In particular, Grof envisions that the holographic paradigm will be able to offer a model to explain many of the puzzling phenomena observed by humans during an altered state of consciousness.
In the 1950s, while researching LSD as a psychotherapeutic drug, Grof had a female patient who suddenly became convinced that she was a female prehistoric reptile. During the hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of what it is like to be a creature with such forms, but also noted the colored scales on the head of a male of the same species. Grof was amazed by the fact that in a conversation with a zoologist, the presence of colored scales on the head of reptiles, which plays an important role in mating games, was confirmed, although the woman had no idea about such subtleties before.
This woman's experience was not unique. During his research, he encountered patients returning up the ladder of evolution and identifying themselves with a variety of species (based on the scene of the transformation of a man into an ape in the film "Altered States"). Moreover, he found that such descriptions often contain zoological details that, when checked, turn out to be accurate.
Return to animals is not the only phenomenon described by Grof. He also had patients who seemed to be able to tap into some sort of area of the collective or racial unconscious. Uneducated or poorly educated people suddenly gave detailed descriptions of funerals in Zoroastrian practice or scenes from Hindu mythology. In other experiences, people gave convincing descriptions of out-of-body travel, predictions of pictures of the future, past incarnations.
In more recent research, Grof found that the same set of phenomena also appeared in therapy sessions that did not involve the use of drugs. Since a common element of such experiments was the expansion of consciousness beyond the boundaries of space and time, Grof called such manifestations “transpersonal experience”, and in the late 60s, thanks to him, a new branch of psychology called “transpersonal” psychology appeared, devoted entirely to this area.
Although the newly formed association of Transpersonal Psychology represented a rapidly growing group of like-minded professionals and became a respected branch of psychology, neither Grof himself nor his colleagues could offer a mechanism to explain the strange psychological phenomena they observed. But that has changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm.
As Grof recently pointed out, if consciousness is in fact part of a continuum, a labyrinth connected not only to every other consciousness that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and vast region of space and time, the fact that tunnels can randomly form in the labyrinth and having a transpersonal experience no longer seems so strange.
The holographic paradigm also leaves its mark on the so-called exact sciences, such as biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Intermont College in Virginia, has pointed out that if reality is just a holographic illusion, then one can no longer argue that consciousness is a function of the brain. Rather, on the contrary, consciousness creates the brain - just as we interpret the body and our entire environment as physical.
This reversal of our views of biological structures has allowed researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process may also change under the influence of the holographic paradigm. If the physical body is nothing more than a holographic projection of our consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is more responsible for our health than medical advances allow. What we are now seeing as a seeming cure for the disease can actually be done by changing the consciousness, which will make appropriate adjustments to the hologram of the body.
Likewise, alternative healing modalities such as visualization may work well because the holographic essence of the mental images is ultimately as real as "reality".
Even revelations and experiences of the beyond become understandable from the point of view of the new paradigm. Biologist Lyall Watson in his book “Gifts of the Unknown” describes an encounter with an Indonesian female shaman who, performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly disappear into the subtle world. Watson writes that while he and another surprised bystander continued to watch her, she caused the trees to disappear and reappear several times in a row.
Modern science is unable to explain such phenomena. But they become quite logical if we assume that our “dense” reality is nothing more than a holographic projection. Perhaps we can formulate the concepts of “here” and “there” more precisely if we define them at the level of the human unconscious, in which all consciousnesses are infinitely closely interconnected.
If this is true, then this is the most significant implication of the holographic paradigm overall, meaning that the phenomena observed by Watson are not public only because our minds are not programmed to trust them, which would make them so. In the holographic universe, there is no scope for changing the fabric of reality.
What we call reality is just a canvas waiting for us to paint on it whatever picture we want. Everything is possible, from the bending of spoons by force of will, to phantasmagoric scenes in the spirit of Castaneda in his studies with don Juan, for the magic that we possess from the very beginning, no more and no less apparent than our ability to create any worlds in our fantasies.
Indeed, even most of our “fundamental” knowledge is doubtful, while in the holographic reality that Pribram points out, even random events could be explained and determined using holographic principles. Coincidences and accidents suddenly make sense, and everything can be considered as a metaphor, even a chain of random events expresses some kind of deep symmetry.
The holographic paradigm of Bohm and Pribram, whether it will be further developed or will go into oblivion, one way or another, it can be argued that it has already gained popularity among many scientists. Even if it is found that the holographic model does not adequately describe the instantaneous interaction of elementary particles, at least, as Basil Hiley, a physicist at Byreback College in London, points out, the discovery of Aspect “showed that we must be ready to consider radical new approaches to understanding reality.”
from the book: Michael Talbot "The Holographic Universe"
For thousands of years, people have wanted to cross the threshold of mystery and find out what is hidden on the other side of reality. How to get to another world? There is no definitive answer to this question, but it is simply impossible to turn a blind eye to a huge number of facts, testimonies of real people and scientific explanations.
What is a parallel world?
The parallel world, or the fifth dimension, is a space invisible to the human eye that exists along with the real life of people. There is no dependence between him and the ordinary world. It is believed that its size can vary greatly: from a pea to the universe. The patterns of events, the rules of physics and other "hard" statements that are valid in the world of people may absolutely not work in an invisible reality. Everything that happens there may have slight deviations from the usual way of life or differ radically.
multiverse
The multiverse is a fiction of science fiction writers. Recently, scientists are increasingly turning to the creations of science fiction writers, because many years of observational experience has shown that they almost always predict the development of events and the future of mankind with amazing accuracy. The concept of the multiverse says that, in addition to the world familiar to earthlings, there are a huge number of unique worlds. Moreover, not all of them are material. The Earth is connected with other invisible realities at the level of spiritual connection.
Conjectures about the existence of parallel worlds
Since antiquity, there have been many speculations about whether the fifth dimension actually exists. It is interesting that the question of how to get to another world was asked by the great minds of the distant past. In the works of Democritus, Epicurus and Metrodorus of Chios one can find similar thoughts. Some even tried to prove the existence of the "other side" by scientific research. Democritus argued that absolute emptiness is fraught with a large number of worlds. Some of them, he says, are very similar to ours, even in the smallest details. Others are completely different from earthly reality. The thinker substantiated his theories based on the basic principle of depreciation - equiprobability. The pundits of the past also talked about the unity of time: past, present, future are at one point. From this it follows that making the transition is not so difficult, the main thing is to understand the mechanism of transition from one point to another.
modern science
Modern science does not at all deny the possibility of the existence of other worlds. This moment is studied in detail, constantly discovering something new. Even the very fact that scientists around the world admit the theory of the multiverse already speaks volumes. Science substantiates this assumption with the help of the provisions of quantum mechanics and Proponents of this theory believe that there are incredibly many possible worlds - up to 10 to the five hundredth power. There is also an opinion that the number of parallel realities is not limited at all. However, science cannot yet answer the question of how to get into a parallel world. Every year it opens up more and more of the unknown. Perhaps in the near future people will be able to make instantaneous travel between universes.
Esotericists and psychics claim that it is quite possible to get into another world. However, keep in mind that this is not always safe. In order to penetrate the secret world, it is necessary to change the way the brain works. It is advisable to practice the following: lying on the bed, try to sleep, relax the body, but keep the mind conscious. It will be difficult at first to achieve this or a similar consciousness, but it is worth continuing to try.
The main problem for beginners is that it is very difficult to relax the body and be conscious at the same time. In such cases, a person unbearably wants to twitch, move at least a little, or he simply falls asleep. About a month of training - and you can accustom the body to such a practice. After that, you should dive deeper into the new state. Each time there will be new sounds, voices, pictures. Soon it will be possible to move to another reality. The main thing is not to fall asleep, but to be aware that you have crossed the threshold of a parallel world. This method is also possible in another variation. You need to do the same, but immediately after waking up. When you open your eyes, you need to fix the body, but be awake with the mind. Immersion in another world in this case is faster, but many can not stand it and fall asleep again. In addition, you need to wake up only at a certain time - preferably around 4 in the morning, since it is during this period that a person is most subtle.
Another way is meditation. The key difference from the first method is that there is no connection with sleep, and the process itself must take place in a sitting position. The complexity of this approach lies in the need to clear the mind of unnecessary thoughts that constantly visit a person as soon as he tries to concentrate. There are many techniques to subdue unruly thoughts. For example, it is necessary not to interrupt the flow, but to give it freedom, but not to be included in it, but to be just an observer. You can also focus on numbers, a specific point, etc.
The danger that lies in other worlds
The reality of parallel worlds is fraught with a lot of the unknown. But the real threat to face on the other side is malevolent entities. In order to control your fear and avoid trouble, you need to know who and what causes anxiety. Entering a parallel world will be much easier if you know that frightening entities are just creatures of the past. Fears from childhood, movies, books, etc. - all this can be found in a parallel reality. The main thing is to understand that these are only phantoms, and not real beings. As soon as the fear of them disappears, they will disappear on their own. The inhabitants of the unseen worlds are generally friendly or indifferent. They are unlikely to scare or create trouble, but still you should not annoy them. However, there is still a chance to meet an unkind spirit. In this case, it is enough to overcome your fear, because there will still be no harm from the activity of the otherworldly entity. Do not forget that the past, present, future are in contact, so there is always a way out. You can also think about the house, and then the soul is likely to return to the body.
How to get into a parallel world through an elevator
Esotericists claim that the elevator can help in the transition to a parallel world. It serves as a "door" that must be opened. It is best to travel through the elevator at night or in the dark. You must be alone in the cabin. It is worth noting that if any person enters the elevator during the ritual, then nothing will succeed. After entering the cabin, you should move through the floors in the following order: 4-2-6-2-1. Then you should go to the 10th floor and go down to 5. A woman will enter the booth, you can’t talk to her. You should press the button for the 1st floor, but the elevator will go to the 10th. You cannot press other buttons, as the ritual will be interrupted. How do you know the transition has taken place? In a parallel reality, there will be only you. It should be noted that it is not worth looking for a companion - the guide was not a person. In order to get into the human world, it is necessary to complete the ritual with the elevator (floors, buttons) in reverse order.
Gateway to another reality
You can penetrate into another reality with the help of a mirror, because it is a mystical gate to all other worlds. It is used by sorcerers and magicians who have the necessary knowledge. The transition through the mirror always succeeds. In addition, with its help you can not only travel to other universes, but also conjure. That is why to this day the customs of hanging mirrors after the death of a person are preserved. This is done for a reason, because the soul of the deceased wanders around his house during the course. Thus the astral body says goodbye to the past life. The soul itself is unlikely to want to harm its relatives, but at such moments a portal opens through which various entities can enter the room. They can frighten or try to drag the astral body of a living person into a parallel reality.
There are several rituals with mirrors. To answer the question of how people get into parallel worlds, it is necessary to understand the essence of the mirror ritual, because it is this object that is the original guide to another world.
Mirror and candles
This is an old method that is still used today. It is necessary to put two mirrors opposite each other. They must be parallel. A candle must be bought in advance at the temple. Place it between the mirrors so that you get a corridor of many candles. Do not be afraid if the flame starts to sway, this may well be. This means that the invisible entities are already with you. For this ritual, you can use not only candles. LEDs or colored panels will do. But it is best to use candles, since their blinking corresponds to the frequency of the human brain. This helps a person enter a meditative state. And it is necessary to enter it, because, being conscious, you can be very frightened. The consequence can be not only an interrupted ritual, but also the attachment of another entity to you. It is necessary to carry out the ritual in complete darkness and silence. Only one person should be in the room.
Mirror and prayer
It is necessary to buy a round-shaped mirror on Saturday. Its perimeter should be inscribed with the words "Our Father" on the contrary, written in red ink. On Thursday night, you need to put a mirror under the pillow, with the mirror side up. Turn off the lights, go to bed and say your name backwards. This must be done until sleep overtakes. A person wakes up in another world. In order to get out of another reality, you need to find an animal in it that will be exactly the same as in real life, and follow it. The danger of the whole action is that the conductor may never be found, and the astral body will forever remain in a parallel world or, even worse, between worlds.
Path to the past
For many years and even centuries, people have wanted to know the answer to the question of how to get into the past. There are two known ways that can move a person in time. The most famous is "wormholes" - small tunnels in space that serve as a link between the past and the present. But... Scientific studies show that the "hole" will close faster than a person has time to cross its threshold. Based on this, it can be argued that if scientists find a way to delay the opening of the tunnel, they will become justified not only from an esoteric, but also from a scientific position.
The second way is to visit places on Earth that have a certain energy. Such trips have a huge amount of real evidence. Moreover, sometimes people do not even know how to get into the past, but they find themselves there by chance, having visited an energetically strong place on Earth. A territory with a pronounced supernatural energy is called a "place of power." It has been scientifically verified that the operation of any installations there deteriorates or even fails. And those indicators that can be measured go off scale.
Working with the subconscious
Another way is to work with the subconscious mind. How to get into a parallel world with the help of the brain? Quite difficult, but doable. To do this, you need to enter a state of strong relaxation, create a gate and go through the portal. Sounds simple, but to achieve results. several factors are necessary: a great desire, mastery of meditation techniques, the ability to visualize space in detail and ... the absence of fear. Many say that when they achieve a result, they often lose touch with the other world from fear. It takes a certain time to overcome it, so you should be ready to find yourself in another reality at any moment.
Michael Talbot (1953-1992), an Australian native, was the author of numerous books highlighting the parallels between ancient mysticism and quantum mechanics and supporting the theoretical model of reality that the physical universe is like a giant hologram.
In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris, a research team led by physicist Alain Aspe carried out what could be one of the most significant experiments of the 20th century. Aspe and his group discovered that under certain conditions, elementary particles, such as electrons, are able to instantly communicate with each other, regardless of the distance between them. It doesn't matter if it's 10 feet or 10 billion miles. Somehow each particle always knows what the other is doing.
The problem with this discovery is that it violates Einstein's postulate about the limiting speed of propagation of an interaction equal to the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking through a time barrier, this frightening prospect has led some physicists to try to explain Aspe's experiments in complex detours. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.
For example, University of London physicist David Bohm argued that Aspe's discovery implied that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent density, the universe is fundamentally a fantasy, a gigantic, luxuriously detailed hologram.
To understand why Bohm made such a startling conclusion, one has to talk about holograms.
A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph taken with a laser. To produce a hologram, the subject to be photographed must first be illuminated by laser light. Then the second laser beam, adding up with the reflected light from the object, gives an interference pattern that can be recorded on the film. The finished picture looks like a meaningless alternation of light and dark lines. But as soon as the image is illuminated with another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object immediately appears.
Three-dimensionality is not the only remarkable property inherent in a hologram. If a rose hologram is cut in half and illuminated with a laser, each half will contain a whole image of the same rose in exactly the same size. If we continue to cut the hologram into smaller pieces, on each of them we will again find an image of the entire object as a whole. Unlike a conventional photograph, each area of the hologram contains information about the entire subject, but with a proportionally corresponding decrease in clarity.
The principle of the hologram "everything in every part" allows us to approach the issue of organization and order in a fundamentally new way. For almost its entire history, Western science has evolved with the idea that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether it be a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its constituent parts. The hologram has shown us that some things in the universe cannot be explored in this way. If we dissect something arranged holographically, we will not get the parts of which it consists, but we will get the same thing, but with less accuracy.
This approach inspired Bohm to reinterpret Aspe's work. Bohm was sure that elementary particles interact at any distance, not because they exchange some mysterious signals with each other, but because their separation is illusory. He explained that at some deeper level of reality, such particles are not separate entities, but are actually extensions of something more fundamental.
To better understand this, Bohm offered the following illustration.
Imagine an aquarium with fish. Imagine also that you cannot see the aquarium directly, but only two television screens that transmit images from cameras located one in front and one on the side of the aquarium. Looking at the screens, you can conclude that the fish on each of the screens are separate objects. Since the cameras transmit images from different angles, the fish look different. But as you keep watching, after a while you will find that there is a relationship between the two fish on different screens. When one fish turns, the other also changes direction, slightly differently, but always in line with the first; when you see one fish in front, the other is certainly in profile. If you do not have a complete picture of the situation, you are more likely to conclude that the fish must somehow instantly communicate with each other than that this is a coincidence.
Bohm argued that this is exactly what happens to elementary particles in the Aspe experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent superluminal interaction between particles tells us that there is a deeper level of reality hidden from us, higher dimensional than ours, as in the aquarium analogy. And, he adds, we see the particles as separate because we only see a part of reality. The particles are not separate "pieces" but facets of a deeper unity that is ultimately as holographic and invisible as the rose mentioned above. And since everything in physical reality consists of these "phantoms", the universe we observe is itself a projection, a hologram.
In addition to being "phantom-like," such a universe could have other amazing properties. If the apparent separation of particles is an illusion, then at a deeper level, all objects in the world can be infinitely interconnected. The electrons in the carbon atoms in our brains are connected to the electrons in every swimming salmon, every beating heart, every twinkling star. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although it is human nature to divide everything, dismember, sort out all the phenomena of nature, all divisions are necessarily artificial, and nature ultimately appears as an unbreakable web. In the holographic world, even time and space cannot be taken as a basis. Because a characterization like position makes no sense in a universe where nothing is really separate from one another; time and three-dimensional space, like images of fish on screens, will need to be considered nothing more than projections. At this deeper level, reality is something like a super-hologram in which the past, present and future exist simultaneously. This means that with the help of appropriate tools, it may be possible to penetrate deep into this super-hologram and extract pictures of a long-forgotten past.
What else a hologram can carry is still far from known. Suppose, for example, that a hologram is a matrix that gives rise to everything in the world, at least it contains all the elementary particles that have taken or will someday take on any possible form of matter and energy, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It's like a universal supermarket, which has everything.
While Bohm admitted that we have no way of knowing what else the hologram holds, he took the liberty of asserting that we have no reason to assume that there is nothing else in it. In other words, perhaps the holographic level of the world is just one of the stages of endless evolution.
Bohm is not alone in his quest to explore the properties of the holographic world. Regardless of him, Stanford University neuroscientist Karl Pribram, who works in the field of brain research, also leans towards the holographic picture of the world. Pribram came to this conclusion by pondering the mystery of where and how memories are stored in the brain. Numerous experiments over decades have shown that information is not stored in any particular area of the brain, but is dispersed throughout the entire volume of the brain. In a series of crucial experiments in the 1920s, brain researcher Carl Lashley found that no matter which part of the rat's brain he removed, he could not make the conditioned reflexes developed in the rat before the operation disappear. The only problem was that no one had been able to come up with a mechanism to explain this funny "everything in every part" property of memory.
Later, in the 60s, Pribram encountered the principle of holography and realized that he had found the explanation that neuroscientists were looking for. Pribram is sure that memory is contained not in neurons and not in groups of neurons, but in a series of nerve impulses that “entangle” the brain, just as a laser beam “entangles” a piece of a hologram containing the entire image. In other words, Pribram believes that the brain is a hologram.
Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in such a small space. It is assumed that the human brain is able to remember about 10 billion bits in a lifetime (which corresponds to about the amount of information contained in 5 sets of the Encyclopædia Britannica).
It was found that another striking feature was added to the properties of holograms - a huge recording density. By simply changing the angle at which the lasers illuminate the film, many different images can be recorded on the same surface. It has been shown that one cubic centimeter of film can store up to 10 billion bits of information.
Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve the information we need from our vast memory becomes more understandable if we accept that the brain works like a hologram. If a friend asks you what comes to mind when you hear the word "zebra," you don't have to rote through your entire vocabulary to find the answer. Associations like "striped", "horse" and "lives in Africa" appear in your head instantly.
Indeed, one of the most amazing properties of human thinking is that every piece of information is instantly and cross-correlated with every other, another quality inherent in a hologram. Since any section of the hologram is infinitely interconnected with any other, it is quite possible that it is the highest natural example of cross-correlated systems.
The location of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that has become more solvable in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate such an avalanche of frequencies that it perceives with various senses (frequencies of light, sound frequencies, and so on) into our concrete idea of the world. Encoding and decoding frequencies is exactly what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram serves as a kind of lens, a transmission device capable of turning a seemingly meaningless mishmash of frequencies into a coherent image, so the brain, according to Pribram, contains such a lens and uses the principles of holography to mathematically process frequencies from the senses into the inner world of our perceptions.
A lot of evidence suggests that the brain uses the principle of holography to function. Pribram's theory finds more and more supporters among neurophysiologists.
Argentinean-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli has recently extended the holographic model to the realm of acoustic phenomena. Perplexed by the fact that people can determine the direction of a sound source without turning their heads, even if only one ear works, Zucarelli found that the principles of holography could explain this ability as well.
He also developed holophonic sound recording technology capable of reproducing soundscapes with near-uncanny realism.
Pribram's idea that our brains mathematically construct a "hard" reality based on input frequencies has also received brilliant experimental support. It has been found that any one of our sense organs has a much larger frequency range of receptivity than previously thought. For example, researchers have found that our organs of vision are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is somewhat dependent on what is now called "osmotic frequencies," and that even the cells in our body are sensitive to a wide range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that this is the work of the holographic part of our consciousness, which transforms separate chaotic frequencies into continuous perception.
But the most startling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain comes to light when it is compared with Bohm's theory. Because if the visible physical density of the world is only a secondary reality, and what is “out there” is actually only a holographic set of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some frequencies from this set and mathematically transforms them into sensory perception, what remains for objective reality?
To put it simply, it ceases to exist. As Eastern religions have been saying from time immemorial, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think that we are physical and move in the physical world, this is also an illusion.
In fact, we are "receivers" floating in a kaleidoscopic sea of frequencies, and everything that we extract from this sea and turn into physical reality is just one frequency channel out of many, extracted from a hologram.
This striking new picture of reality, a synthesis of the views of Bohm and Pribram, has been called the holographic paradigm, and while many scientists have been skeptical about it, others have been encouraged by it. A small but growing group of researchers believe that this is one of the most accurate models of the world yet proposed. Moreover, some hope that it will help solve some mysteries that have not been previously explained by science and even consider the paranormal as part of nature.
Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, conclude that many parapsychological phenomena are becoming more understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm.
In a universe in which the individual brain is effectively an indivisible part, a "quantum" of a large hologram, and everything is infinitely connected to everything, telepathy may simply be reaching the holographic level. It becomes much easier to understand how information can be delivered from consciousness "A" to consciousness "B" at any distance, and to explain many mysteries of psychology. In particular, the founder of transpersonal psychology, Stanislav Grof, foresees that the holographic paradigm will be able to offer a model for explaining many of the puzzling phenomena observed by people in altered states of consciousness.
In the 1950s, while researching LSD as a psychotherapeutic drug, Grof worked with a patient who suddenly became convinced that she was a female prehistoric reptile. During the hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of what it is like to be a creature with such forms, but also noted the colored scales on the head of a male of the same species. Grof was amazed by the fact that in a conversation with a zoologist, the presence of colored scales on the head of reptiles, which plays an important role in mating games, was confirmed, although the woman had no idea about such subtleties before.
This woman's experience was not unique. During his research, Grof encountered patients returning up the ladder of evolution and identifying themselves with a wide variety of species (based on the scene of the transformation of man into a monkey in the film Altered States). Moreover, he found that such descriptions often contain little-known zoological details that, when verified, turn out to be accurate.
Return to animals is not the only phenomenon described by Grof. He also had patients who seemed to be able to tap into some sort of area of the collective or racial unconscious. Uneducated or poorly educated people suddenly gave detailed descriptions of funerals in Zoroastrian practice or scenes in Hindu mythology. In other experiences, people gave convincing descriptions of out-of-body travel, predictions of pictures of the future, events of past incarnations.
In later studies, Grof found that the same range of phenomena also appeared in drug-free therapy sessions. Since the common element of such experiments was the expansion of individual consciousness beyond the usual limits of the ego and the boundaries of space and time, Grof called such manifestations "transpersonal experience", and in the late 60s, thanks to him, a new branch of psychology called "transpersonal" psychology appeared, entirely devoted to this areas.
Although the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, founded by Grof, was a rapidly growing group of like-minded professionals and became a respected branch of psychology, neither Grof himself nor his colleagues for many years could offer a mechanism to explain the strange psychological phenomena they observed. But this ambiguous position has changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm.
As Grof recently pointed out, if consciousness is actually part of a continuum, a labyrinth connected not only to every other consciousness that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and vast region of space and time, its ability to randomly form tunnels in the labyrinth and experience the transpersonal the experience no longer seems so strange.
The holographic paradigm also leaves its mark on the so-called exact sciences, such as biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Virginia Intermont College, has shown that if reality is just a holographic illusion, then one can no longer argue that consciousness is a function of the brain. Rather, on the contrary, consciousness creates the presence of a brain - just as we interpret the body and our entire environment as physical.
This reversal of our views of biological structures has allowed researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process may also change under the influence of the holographic paradigm. If the apparent physical structure of the body is nothing more than a holographic projection of our consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is much more responsible for our health than modern medicine believes. What we are now seeing as a mysterious cure could in fact be due to a change in consciousness that made appropriate adjustments to the hologram of the body.
Likewise, new alternative therapies such as imaging may work so well precisely because in holographic reality, thought is ultimately as real as "reality."
Even revelations and experiences of the “other world” become explicable from the point of view of the new paradigm. Biologist Lyell Watson, in his book Gifts of the Unknown, describes an encounter with an Indonesian female shaman who, performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly disappear into the subtle world. Watson writes that while he and another surprised bystander continued to watch her, she caused the trees to disappear and reappear several times in succession.
Although modern science is unable to explain such phenomena, but they become quite logical, if we assume that our "dense" reality is nothing more than a holographic projection. Perhaps we can formulate the concepts of “here” and “there” more precisely if we define them at the level of the human unconscious, in which all consciousnesses are infinitely closely interconnected.
If this is true, then this is the most significant implication of the holographic paradigm overall, since it means that the phenomena Watson observed are not public only because our minds are not programmed to trust them, which would make them so. In the holographic universe, there are no limits to the possibilities for changing the fabric of reality.
What we perceive as reality is just a canvas waiting for us to put on it any picture we want. Everything is possible, from bending spoons at will to the phantasmagoric experiences of Castaneda in his studies with don Juan, because magic is given to us by birthright, no more and no less wonderful than our ability to create new worlds in our dreams and fantasies.
Of course, even our most "fundamental" knowledge is suspect, because in a holographic reality, as Pribram showed, even random events must be considered using holographic principles and resolved in this way. Synchronicities or coincidences suddenly make sense, and anything can be considered a metaphor, since even a chain of random events can express some kind of deep symmetry.
Whether Bohm and Pribram's holographic paradigm gains mainstream scientific acceptance or fades into obscurity, it is safe to say that it has already influenced the way of thinking of many scientists. And even if it is found that the holographic model does not adequately describe the instantaneous interaction of elementary particles, at least, as Birbeck College London physicist Basil Healey points out, Aspe's discovery "showed that we must be prepared to consider radical new approaches to understanding reality."
"Your life is where your attention is."
It is this postulate that has been experimentally proven by physicists in many laboratories around the world, as no matter how strange it sounds.
Perhaps now it sounds unusual, but quantum physics began to prove the truth of hoary antiquity: "Your life is where your attention is." In particular, that a person with his attention influences the surrounding material world, predetermines the reality that he perceives.
From its very inception, quantum physics began to radically change the idea of the microcosm and of man, starting from the second half of the 19th century, with William Hamilton's statement about the wave-like nature of light, and continuing with the advanced discoveries of modern scientists. Quantum physics already has a lot of evidence that the microworld “lives” according to completely different laws of physics, that the properties of nanoparticles differ from the world familiar to man, that elementary particles interact with it in a special way.
In the middle of the 20th century, Klaus Jenson obtained an interesting result during experiments: during physical experiments, subatomic particles and photons accurately responded to human attention, which led to a different end result. That is, nanoparticles reacted to what the researchers focused their attention on at that moment. Each time this experiment, which has already become a classic, surprises scientists. It has been repeated many times in many laboratories around the world, and each time the results of this experiment are identical, which confirms its scientific value and reliability.
So, for this experiment, a light source and a screen (a plate impervious to photons) are prepared, which has two slits. The device, which is the light source, “shoots” photons with single pulses.
Photo 1.
A special screen with two slits was placed in front of the special photographic paper. As expected, two vertical stripes appeared on the photographic paper - traces of photons that illuminated the paper as they passed through these slits. Naturally, the course of the experiment was monitored.
Photo 2.
When the researcher turned on the device, and he himself went away for a while, returning to the laboratory, he was incredibly surprised: photons left a completely different image on photographic paper - instead of two vertical stripes - a lot.
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How could this happen? The traces left on the paper were characteristic of a wave that passed through the cracks. In other words, an interference pattern was observed.
Photo 4.
A simple experiment with photons showed that upon observation (in the presence of a detector or observer) the wave passes into the state of a particle and behaves like a particle, but, in the absence of an observer, behaves like a wave. It turned out that if you do not conduct observations in this experiment, photographic paper shows traces of waves, that is, an interference pattern is visible. Such a physical phenomenon began to be called the “Effect of the Observer”.
Here are some short videos about this experiment:
The particle experiment described above also applies to the question "Is there a God?". Because if, with the vigilant attention of the Observer, that which has a wave nature can be in a state of matter, reacting and changing its properties, then who carefully observes the entire Universe? Who keeps all matter in a stable state with his attention?
As soon as a person in her perception has an assumption that she can live in a qualitatively different world (for example, in the world of God), only then she, the person, begins to change her development vector in this direction, and the chances of surviving this experience increase many times over. . That is, it is enough just to admit the possibility of such a reality for oneself. Therefore, as soon as a person accepts the possibility of acquiring such an experience, he actually begins to acquire it. This is also confirmed in the AllatRa book by Anastasia Novykh:
“Everything depends on the Observer himself: if a person perceives himself as a particle (a material object living according to the laws of the material world), he will see and perceive the world of matter; if a person perceives himself as a wave (sensory experiences, an expanded state of consciousness), then he perceives the world of God and begins to understand it, to live it.
In the experiment described above, the observer inevitably influences the course and results of the experiment. That is, a very important principle emerges: it is impossible to observe the system, measure and analyze it without interacting with it. Where there is interaction, there is a change in properties.
The sages say that God is everywhere. Do not observations of nanoparticles confirm this statement? Are these experiments a confirmation that the entire material Universe interacts with Him in the same way as, for example, the Observer interacts with photons? Doesn't this experience show that everything where the Observer's attention is directed is permeated by him? Indeed, from the point of view of quantum physics and the principle of the “Effect of the Observer”, this is inevitable, since during the interaction a quantum system loses its original features, changing under the influence of a larger system. That is, both systems mutually exchanging in the energy-information plan, modify each other.
If we develop this question further, we get The observer determines the reality in which he then lives. This manifests itself as a consequence of his choice. In quantum physics, there is the concept of a plurality of realities, when thousands of possible realities are in front of the Observer until he makes his final choice, thereby choosing only one of the realities. And when he chooses his own reality for himself, he focuses on it, and it manifests itself for him (or he for her?).
And again, taking into account the fact that a person lives in the reality that he himself supports with his attention, then we come to the same question: if all matter in the Universe is kept by attention, then Who keeps the Universe itself with his attention? Doesn't this postulate prove the existence of God, the One Who can contemplate the whole picture?
Does this not indicate that our mind is directly involved in the work of the material world? Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, once said:The laws of physics and consciousness must be seen as complementary". It is safe to say that Mr. Pauli was right. This is already very close to world recognition: the material world is an illusory reflection of our mind, and what we see with our eyes is not reality. Then what is reality? Where is it located and how can you find it?
More and more, scientists are inclined to believe that human thinking in the same way is subject to the processes of the notorious quantum effects. To live in an illusion drawn by the mind, or to discover reality for oneself - everyone chooses for himself. We can only recommend that you familiarize yourself with the AllatRa book, which was quoted above. This book not only scientifically proves the existence of God, but also gives detailed explanations of all existing realities, dimensions, and even reveals the structure of the human energy structure. You can download this book completely free of charge from our website by clicking on the quote below, or by going to the appropriate section of the site.
Read more about this in the books of Anastasia Novykh
(click on the quote to download the entire book for free):Rigden: Note that the Observer will never be separated from the observed, because he will perceive the observed through his experience, in fact, he will observe aspects of himself. Speaking about the world, in fact, a person will express an opinion only on his own interpretation of the world, based on the way of his thinking and experienced experience, but not on a complete picture of reality, which can be comprehended only from the position of higher dimensions.…
Anastasia: And how can an Observer make changes with his observation?
Rigden: To make the answer to this question clear, let's make a short digression into quantum physics. The more scientists study the questions that this science raises, the more they come to the conclusion that everything in the world is very closely interconnected and does not exist locally. The same elementary particles exist connected with each other. According to the theory of quantum physics, if you simultaneously provoke the formation of two particles, then they will not only be in a state of "superposition", that is, simultaneously in many places. But also a change in the state of one particle will lead to an instant change in the state of another particle, no matter how far it is from it, even if this distance exceeds the limits of action of all forces known to modern mankind in nature.…
An observer from the position of a three-dimensional measurement can, when certain technical conditions are created, see an electron as a particle. But an Observer from the position of higher dimensions, who will see our material world in the form of energies, will be able to observe a different picture of the structure of the same electron. In particular, that the information bricks that form this electron will exhibit only the properties of an energy wave (stretched spiral). Moreover, this wave will be infinite in space. Simply put, the position of the electron itself in the general system of reality is such that it will be everywhere in the material world.
- Anastasia NOVICH - AllatRa
In 1982 a remarkable event took place. A research team led by Alain Aspect at the University of Paris presented what became one of the most significant experiments of the 20th century. Aspect and his group discovered that, under certain conditions, elementary particles, such as electrons, are able to instantly communicate with each other, regardless of the distance between them. It doesn't matter if they are 10 feet apart or 10 billion miles.
Somehow, each particle always knows what the other is doing. The problem with this discovery is that it violates Einstein's postulate about the limiting speed of interaction propagation, which is equal to the speed of light.
University of London physicist David Bohm believes that according to Aspect's discovery, reality does not exist, and that despite its apparent density, the universe is basically a fiction, a gigantic, luxuriously detailed hologram.
A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made with a laser. To make a hologram, the subject to be photographed must first be illuminated by laser light. Then the second laser beam, adding up with the reflected light from the object, gives an interference pattern, which can be fixed on the film. The picture taken looks like a meaningless alternation of light and dark lines. But it is worth illuminating the picture with another laser beam, as a three-dimensional image of the removed object immediately appears.
Three-dimensionality is not the only remarkable property of holograms. If the holograms are cut in half and illuminated with a laser, each half will contain the entire original image. If we continue to cut the holograms into smaller pieces, on each of them we will again find the image of the entire object as a whole. Unlike ordinary photography, each section of the hologram contains all the information about the subject.
The principle of the hologram "everything in every part" allows us to fundamentally approach the issue of organization and orderliness in a new way. For almost all of its history, Western science has developed with the idea that the best way to understand a phenomenon, whether it be a frog or an atom, is to cut it apart and study its constituent parts. The hologram has shown us that some things in the universe cannot allow us to do so. If we cut something that is holographically arranged, we will not get the parts of which it consists, but we will get the same thing, but smaller in size.
Bohm is sure that elementary particles interact at any distance, not because they exchange mysterious signals with each other, but because separation is an illusion. He explains that, at some deeper level of reality, such particles are not separate entities, but are in fact extensions of something more fundamental. To make this clearer, Bohm offers the following illustration. Imagine an aquarium with fish. Imagine also that you cannot see the aquarium directly, but can only watch two television screens that transmit images from cameras located one in front, the other on the side of the aquarium. Looking at the screens, you can conclude that the fish on each of the screens are separate objects. But, continuing the observation, after some time you will discover that there is a relationship between the two fish on different screens.
When one fish changes, the other also changes, a little, but always accordingly first; when you see one fish “in front”, the other is certainly “in profile”. If you don't know that it's the same tank, you'd rather conclude that the fish must be communicating instantly with each other somehow than that it's an accident. The same, says Bohm, can be extrapolated to elementary particles in the Aspect experiment. Explicit superluminal interaction between particles tells us that there is a deeper level of reality, hidden from us, of a higher dimension than ours, by analogy with an aquarium. And, he adds, we see the particles as separate because we only see a part of reality. Particles are not separate "parts" but facets of a deeper unity that is ultimately holographic and invisible, like an object captured on a hologram. And since everything in physical reality is contained in this "phantom", the universe itself is a projection, a hologram.
In addition to being "phantom-like," such a universe could have other surprising properties as well. If the separation of particles is an illusion, then at a deeper level, all things in the world are infinitely interconnected. The electrons in the carbon atoms in our brains are connected to the electrons in every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shines in the sky. Everything interpenetrates with everything, and although it is human nature to divide everything, to dismember, to put it on the shelves, all natural phenomena, all divisions are artificial and nature in the end is a seamless web.
In the holographic world, even time and space cannot be taken as a basis. Because such a characteristic as position has no meaning in a universe where nothing is separate from one another; time and three-dimensional space are like images of fish on screens, which should be considered projections. Reality is a superhologram in which the past, present and future exist simultaneously. This means that with the help of the appropriate tool, one can penetrate deep into this super-hologram and see pictures of the distant past.
What else can carry a hologram is still unknown. For example, one can imagine that a hologram is a matrix that gives rise to everything in the world. Perhaps the holographic level of the world is the next stage of infinite evolution.
Bohm is not alone in his opinion. Karl Pribram, an independent neurophysiologist from Stanford University, who works in the field of research on the brain, also tends to the theory of the holographic nature of the world. Pribram came to this conclusion by pondering the mystery of where and how memories are stored in the brain. Numerous experiments have shown that information is stored not in some particular part of the brain, but is dispersed throughout the entire brain volume. In a series of decisive experiments in the 1920s, Karl Lashley showed that no matter which part of the rat's brain he removed, he could not achieve the disappearance of the conditioned reflexes developed in the rat before the operation. No one has been able to explain the mechanism behind this fun "everything in every part" property of memory.
Later, in the 60s, Pribram encountered the principle of holography and realized that he had found the explanation that neurophysiologists were looking for. Pribram is sure that memory is contained not in neurons and not in groups of neurons, but in a series of nerve impulses circulating throughout the brain, just as a piece of a hologram contains an entire image. In other words, Pribram is sure that the brain is a hologram. A lot of evidence suggests that the brain uses the principle of holography to function.
The Argentinean-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli has recently extended the holographic model to the realm of acoustic phenomena. Puzzled by the fact that people can determine the direction of a sound source without turning their heads, even if only one ear is working, Zucarelli found that the principles of holography could explain this ability as well.
He also developed holophonic sound recording technology capable of reproducing sound pictures with stunning realism. Pribram's idea that our brain creates a "hard" reality, relying on input frequencies, also received brilliant experimental confirmation. It has been found that any one of our sense organs has a much larger frequency range of receptivity than previously thought. For example, researchers have found that our organs of vision are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is somewhat dependent on what is now called [ osmic? ] frequencies, and that even the cells of our body are sensitive to a wide range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that this is the work of the holographic part of our consciousness, which transforms separate chaotic frequencies into continuous perception. But the most startling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain comes to light when it is compared with Bohm's theory. If what we see is only a reflection of what is really "out there" is a set of holographic frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies and mathematically converts them into perceptions, what is actually objective reality? ? Let's put it simply - it does not exist. As Eastern religions have affirmed from time immemorial, matter is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think that we are physical and move in the physical world, this is also an illusion. In fact, we are "receivers" floating in a kaleidoscopic sea of frequencies, and everything that we extract from this sea and turn into physical reality is just one source from many extracted from the hologram.
In a universe in which the individual brain is effectively an indivisible part of the larger hologram and infinitely connected to others, telepathy may simply be the attainment of the holographic level. It becomes much easier to understand how information can be delivered from consciousness "A" to consciousness "B" at any distance, and to explain many mysteries of psychology. In particular, Grof foresees that the holographic paradigm will be able to offer a model for explaining many of the puzzling phenomena observed by humans during an altered state of consciousness. In the 1950s, while researching LSD as a psychotherapeutic drug, Grof had a female patient who suddenly became convinced that she was a female prehistoric reptile. During the hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of what it is like to be a creature with such forms, but also noted the colored scales on the head of a male of the same species. Grof was amazed by the fact that in a conversation with a zoologist, the presence of colored scales on the head of reptiles, which plays an important role in mating games, was confirmed, although the woman had no idea about such subtleties before.
This woman's experience was not unique. During his research, he came across patients returning up the ladder of evolution and identifying themselves with a wide variety of species (based on the scene of the transformation of a person into a monkey in the film "Altered States"). Moreover, he found that such descriptions often contain zoological details that, when checked, turn out to be accurate. Return to animals is not the only phenomenon described by Grof. He also had patients who seemed to be able to tap into some sort of area of the collective or racial unconscious. Uneducated or poorly educated people suddenly gave detailed descriptions of the funeral in Zoroastrian practice or scenes from Hindu mythology. In other experiments, people gave a convincing description of out-of-body travel, predictions of pictures of the future, past incarnations.
In more recent research, Grof found that the same set of phenomena also appeared in therapy sessions that did not involve the use of drugs. Since the common element of such experiments was the expansion of consciousness beyond the boundaries of space and time, Grof called such manifestations "transpersonal experience", and in the late 60s, thanks to him, a new branch of psychology, called "transpersonal" psychology, was devoted entirely to this area.
Although the newly formed association of Transpersonal Psychology represented a rapidly growing group of like-minded professionals and became a respected branch of psychology, neither Grof himself nor his colleagues could offer a mechanism to explain the strange psychological phenomena they observed. But that has changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm.
As Grof recently pointed out, if consciousness is in fact part of a continuum, a labyrinth connected not only to every other consciousness that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and vast region of space and time, the fact that tunnels can randomly form in the labyrinth and having a transpersonal experience no longer seems so strange.
The holographic paradigm also leaves its mark on the so-called exact sciences, such as biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Intermont College in Virginia, has pointed out that if reality is just a holographic illusion, then one can no longer argue that consciousness is a function of the brain. Rather, on the contrary, consciousness creates the brain - just as we interpret the body and our entire environment as physical.
This reversal of our views of biological structures has allowed researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process may also change under the influence of the holographic paradigm. If the physical body is nothing more than a holographic projection of our consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is more responsible for our health than medical advances allow. What we are now seeing as a seeming cure for the disease can actually be done by changing the consciousness, which will make appropriate adjustments to the hologram of the body.
Likewise, alternative healing modalities such as visualization may work well because the holographic essence of the mental images is ultimately as real as "reality".
Even revelations and experiences of the beyond become understandable from the point of view of the new paradigm. Biologist Lyall Watson in his book "Gifts of the Unknown" describes a meeting with an Indonesian female shaman who, performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly disappear into the subtle world. Watson writes that while he and another surprised bystander continued to watch her, she caused the trees to disappear and reappear several times in a row.
Modern science is unable to explain such phenomena. But they become quite logical if we assume that our "dense" reality is nothing more than a holographic projection. Perhaps we can formulate the concepts of "here" and "there" more precisely if we define them at the level of the human unconscious, in which all consciousnesses are infinitely closely interconnected.
If this is true, then this is the most significant implication of the holographic paradigm overall, meaning that the phenomena observed by Watson are not public only because our minds are not programmed to trust them, which would make them so. In the holographic universe, there is no scope for changing the fabric of reality.
What we call reality is just a canvas waiting for us to paint on it whatever picture we want. Everything is possible, from the bending of spoons by force of will, to phantasmagoric scenes in the spirit of Castaneda in his studies with don Juan, for the magic that we possess from the very beginning, no more and no less apparent than our ability to create any worlds in our fantasies.
Indeed, even most of our "fundamental" knowledge is doubtful, while in the holographic reality that Pribram points out, even random events could be explained and determined using holographic principles. Coincidences and accidents suddenly make sense, and everything can be considered as a metaphor, even a chain of random events expresses some kind of deep symmetry.
The holographic paradigm of Bohm and Pribram, whether it will be further developed or will go into oblivion, one way or another, it can be argued that it has already gained popularity among many scientists. Even if it is found that the holographic model does not adequately describe the instantaneous interaction of elementary particles, at least, as Basil Hiley, a physicist at Byreback College in London, points out, the discovery of Aspect "showed that we must be ready to consider radical new approaches to understanding reality."