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Hologram Basic
The hologram is based upon
Nobel Prize winner Dennis Gabor's theory concerning interference
patterns. Gabor theorized in 1947 that each crest of the wave
pattern contains the whole information of its original source,
and that this information could be stored on film and reproduced.
This is why it is called a hologram.
Holography is the only visual recording and playback process
that can record our three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional
recording medium and playback the original object or scene,
to the unaided eyes, as a three dimensional image. The image
demonstrates complete parallax and depth-of-field. The image
floats in space either behind, in front of, or straddling
the recording medium.
The Holographic Universe
The Universe as a Hologram
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 blu?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 ome 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 ever other portion, it is perhaps nature's
supreme example of a cross-correlated system.
The storage of memory is
not the only neurophysiological puzzle that becomes more tractable
in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another
is how the brain is able to translate the avalanche of frequencies
it receives via the senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies,
and so on) into the concrete world of our perceptions. Encoding
and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does
best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating
device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies
into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also comprises
a lens and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert
the frequencies it receives through he senses into the inner
world of our perceptions.
An impressive body of evidence
suggests that the brain uses holographic principles to perform
its operations. Pribram's theory, in fact, has gained increasing
support among neurophysiologists.
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 smell is in part dependent
on what are now called "osmic frequencies", and that even
the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of
frequencies. Such findings suggest that it is only in the
holographic domain of consciousness that such frequencies
are sorted out and divided up into conventional perceptions.
But the most mind-boggling
aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain is what
happens when it is put together with Bohm's theory. For if
the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and
what is "there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies,
and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some
of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms
them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality?
Put quite simply, it ceases
to exist. As the religions of the East have long upheld, the
material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think
we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this
too is an illusion.
We are really "receivers"
floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what
we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality
is but one channel from many extracted out of the 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 unsolved puzzles
in psychology. In particular, Grof feels the holographic paradigm
offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena
experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness.
Creation - Holographic
Universe - 2
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 prardigm
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 discribes 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".
Creation
By Ellie Crystal
Reality is a projected illusion
- or hologram - created by consciousness thought.
It all begins with a tone
and a pulse of light that separates in 12 pyramds around 1
- forming a matrix or grid of sound, light and color. This
creates a grid which projects the illusions of realities on
difference frequency levels.
The creational hologram is
based on mathematics that repeat in cycles called time. We
refer to this as Sacred
Geometry - the blueprint of our hologram.
The hologram is not stationary.
It is based on spiraling light and thought and is forever
in flux.
I believe we were created
an an experiment in Linear Time and Emotions - based on electromagnetic
polarities that keep our consciousness within the grids of
the illusion. We were created to experience within what one
could perceive of as an program.
There is a beginning and
there will be an abrupt end - the end we sense as an explosion.
Yet it is nothing more than the close of the holographic program
and the lifting of consciousness from its confines.
Mankind has always pondered
the origin of its creation as that is part of our DNA codings
to search and quest for a way home.
By its very creation - the
hologram can be explained by
physics as we come closer to the truth. Reality and the
illusion are all about physics and math.
Many people are of the theory
that reality is a hoologram. I am not alone. Neither are you.
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