An interview with author Michael Talbot about synchronicity and the holographic universe

General Relativity
There has always been an attempt to come up with a theory that explains reality. First was General Relativity of Einstein, uniting the 4 forces in nature - electromagnetism, gravity, weak and strong nuclear force. But when the quantum world was discovered, it was realized that the quantum world was not behaving in accordance to General Relativity - electrons can be in multiple places at the same time, particles can be entangled, and particles can behave as waves. It became apparent that General Relativity was an incomplete theory for all of reality. A new search for the Theory of Everything became the next quest.

Quantum Field Theory
Then the quantum folks came up with the Quantum Field Theory (Quantum Field Theory), suggesting that everything in reality is a quantum field and when a particular field is excited, it produces a particle. And this particle interacts with other particles to make up the solid reality we experience. Quantum Field Theory came up with the Standard Model of Particle Physics predicting particles carrying mass (fermions) and particles carrying energy (bozons). Everything would have been accounted for except quantum gravity. At high energies and small scale, gravity was not behaving in a way that complied with Quantum Field Theory. At high energy, gravity was creating mini black-holes with indefinite density that created singularities disrupting the smooth background field. The same thing happens in small scale - gravity was so intense it was warping time/space in a way that again ruptures the quantum field. As of this writing, there is nothing yet that comes close to the Theory of Everything - this is the Holy Grail.

Quantum Field Theory Limitations
But what if the Graviton particle was discovered at the Large Hadron Particle Collider? This is unlikely since the LHC does not have the energy level to detect a Graviton. Sure, it would complete the Standard Model, and physical reality can be explained. But there are still issues like infinities not being renormalized and singularities. The issue is far from over.

String Theory
The 1970s ushered String Theory and it became a promising candidate for the Theory of Everything. It got traction in the 1980s, being the most popular and exciting study in quantum mechanics, attracting the most brilliant minds and nearly all the resourses. It continues to this day. String Theory was a radical way of harmonizing General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory by predicting that the fundamental building block of reality are not quantum fields but infinitessimally small bands of energy resembling a string. The way these strings vibrate manifests the particles that interact together and make the visible reality we experience. But 50 years have passed and it still hasn't produced any of its predictions. It is now seeing an exodus of its once ardent believers.

Dark Matter / Dark Energy
Even if String Theory was successful, it only explains 5% of our known universe. The 95% are made up of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. They do not interact and we have no way of measuring it or knowing its nature. So much for the Theory of Everything!

Paranormal
Again, even if String Theory can harmonize Dark Matter and Dark Energy, does it mean we now have the Theory of Everything? NO. The physical world can be explained but what about the human archetypal experience of intuition? synchronicity? Aha moments? Psychic phenomena? Even though science cannot explain these, we simply cannot dismiss it and ignore its place in our reality. So far, none of the above theories even begin to account for these. We still need a Theory of Everything that explains all of reality...not just the physical world.

Holographic Universe
There is a theory that is so radical, so 'out there' that when it was introduced in the late 1900s, it was met with ridicule by the scientific community. But this theory was independently arrived at by 2 brilliant scientists working in different fields - so this is not some conspiracy theory hatched by a tin foil hat nutcase. This theory is what this book is all about - the Holographic Universe model.

The Holographic Universe explains all of the physical world and the paranormal - intuition, psycho-kinesis, clairvoyance, etc. When it came out in the 80s, it started out as woo-woo. But so much has happened in the last 40 years - new discoveries have been made and the scientific thinking have softened. Now, even mainstream physicists find it reckless to ignore the data supporting the Holographic Universe. So, it's promising.

But why is this theory so mind-blowing to start with? Well, it predicts that you and me are not exactly real - we are 3D holograms shooting out of a 2D realm beyond our space time. You'd been warned!

-- Gigit

There is evidence that reality as we experience it is an elaborate 3-dimensional hologram projected from a 2-dimensional place beyond our space and time. 2D Reality (the real reality) is an information-based reality somewhere out there we cannot access. It projects a 3D hologram which is the reality we experience - that's right, we are just a hologram. This idea was independently arrived at by 2 distinguished scientists (David Bohm and Karl Pribram) who were working on their research in a field different from the other. The holographic model was able to explain their conundrum and even explained other mysteries beyond scientific disciplines - the paranormal (psychokinesis, near-death experience, altered states, lucid dreams, synchronicities). These 2 remarkable men have stood unwaveringly in the past to support their convictions despite the push-back (Bohm against McCarthysm and Pribram against lobotomy). Again, they have proven themselves staunch in their conclusions about the Holographic Universe despite ridicule, alienation and push-back.

David Bohm - Bohm was a protege of Einstein, a quantum physicist who was researching on black holes. He was dissatisfied with the inability of proposed theories in explaining all phenomena in Quantum Mechanics.

Karl Pribram - Pribram was a neuro-physiologist working on brain matter at Stanford. Pribram was frustrated in the way brain puzzles were conventionally explained.

The Others
The HUM is not just one precise theory proposed by Bohm and Pribram. The subscribers, nearly all of them scientists, have different versions of it, some pushing the boundaries and some going way 'out there'. So, it's not like the Quantum Field Theory which has defined and rigorous mathematical substantiations. However, they all agree that in whatever version of HUM they subscribe to, the core is always the same - there is a 2D source and we are living in the 3D helogram.

Even though Holographic Universe explains everything, it was far from being accepted by the mainstream. Others simply feel the need to defend their narrative at all costs - screw the evidence. Not only do they have their biases but they also have their egos invested in their work. Their belief system also treats their paradigm as religion. In speech, they tout that science is falsifiable. But in practice, they'd rather eat broken glass than be open to paranormal existence.

Michael Talbot believes otherwise because of his own personal experiences supporting the existence of the paranormal. It's one thing to read a book and believe in it and it's totally another thing to actually live the experience. The experience is the unassailable truth.

Even though Bohm and Pribram are the 2 giants who provide credibility to the Holographic Universe, this book is not just about their theories but theories of other researchers who have their own interpretation of the Holographic Universe. The Holographic Universe is still a mosaic made up of many points of view. When these are aggregated into a cohesive whole, then maybe it becomes a workable framework/theory/model. This book borrows from principles of Quantum Physics.

Karl Pribram was led to the Holographic Universe model during his research on how memories are stored and where they are stored in the brain. Common thinking then was that these memories were stored locally in a specific part of the brain - they just didn't know where. Penfield's experiments in the 1920s supported this. When he triggered a brain part, a specific experience of the patient was relived - but only on that part of the brain. He even stated that everything that happened to a person is recorded in his memory inside his brain - even the ones he already forgot or didn't pay attention to. Pribram subscribed to Penfield's thinking until 1946 when he worked with Karl Lashley, a neuro-phychologist, who in his 30 years of research, has not found a location in the brain for memory - in complete reversal of Penfield's findings. No matter what part of the rat's brain Lashley removed, the rat could still remember how to navigate the maze. This led Pribram to conclude that memories are not localized in a specific part of the brain, but somehow spread throughout. Pribram continued his research in Yale contending more that memories are distributed across the brain matter. No hospital patient ever lost memory even from removal of brain parts.

The Breakthrough
Pribram just didn't know the mechanism how memories could be spread out in the brain. His breakthrough came when the hologram was developed in 1960. The invention of the laser paved the way for the invention of the hologram through interference patterns - like 2 concentric waves of water interacting with each other. Laser makes a perfect medium for such interference. A hologram is produced when a laser shoots a beam of light that is split into 2. The 1st beam hits the object and the lights bounces off. The 2nd beam is shot across the bouncing of the first beam, creating an interference pattern. This interference pattern is recorded on a 2-dimensional film and a hologram is embedded on the film.

How a laser beam is split into 2 to imprint a hologram on film

When a laser beam passes through the holographic film, a 3-dimensional image is created. You can walk around the image and even see the back side of it. It looks real, but if you touch it, your hand wafts through it. What is also remarkable about the hologram is that if the film is cut in half and a laser is beamed through it, the same picture appears in its entirety - not just half. In fact, you can cut the film is smaller pieces and every piece will contain the complete image of the object - but the smaller the film gets, the fuzzier the 3D image gets.

a 3-dimensional hologram of a kangaroo

Applying the holographic principle to memory in the brain, it means every cell in the brain is encoded with an entire memory. This means memory is not stored in a specific part of the brain, memory is stored in every brain cell! A single brain cell contains all of a person's lifetime of memories. Finally, Pribram found a mechanism to explain the distribution of memories across the brain.

Vision is also Holographic
Vision also behaves holographically like memories. When up to 98% of a rat's visual cortex is severed, the rat can still perform tasks requiring vision. This phenomena challenges the standard understanding of vision during that time. For the next 7 years, Pribram experimented on monkeys and yielded the same conclusion - that the visual cortex has nothing to do with vision.

the standard one-on-one vision that a sighting is represented in the visual cortex of the brain was challenged by Pribram's experiments

Pribram concluded also that the axon in the brain neuron are the ones creating that wavelike pattern as it transmits electrical/chemical signals for a dendrite to receive. So at any given time, given that the brain is densely packed with neurons, that there are continuous wave patterns happening all throughout the brain creating interference patterns that build this holographic properties of the brain for memories and vision.

Other Puzzles Explained by the Holographic Brain Model
Pribram published his research on holographic nature of the brain in 1966 and continued his research in the coming years. As other scientists picked up on this, more revelation came up as the holographic principle explained other puzzles.

The Vastness of our Memory
If all memories of a lifetime can be contained in one cell of the brain, then it means so much memory is squeezed into such a small space. This capacity is also native to a hologram. A square inch of space can store up to 50 Bibles with each recording having a unique tilt in the film.

Our Ability to Recall and Forget
When we forget a memory, it means that the 'film' is not angled right to project the memory. But the memory remains there. When it's tilted right, then we remember the memory.

Associative Memory
We all have experienced memories triggered when we bite into some food, or smell a perfume. Using the holographic principle, it's like 2 objects are hit by the same beam and their waves create an interference pattern essentially entangling both objects. Experiencing one object brings memories of the other object.

Ability to Recognize Familiar Things
When we recognize a face in a crowd of hundreds, it seems simple. But there's a complex process that happens behind the scenes. Similar objects are recorded on a holographic film and superimposes on the other. This creates 2 images familiar with each other. This allows us to spot a match between what we see and a memory we remember.

Photographic Memory
People who have photographic memories scan an object and 'record' that image on the 2D space. When they try to remember, they access a bigger area of the holographic film which make their recollection more vivid with greater details. Others who can only access a small portion of the film may remember hazy moments only.

Transference of Learned Skills
We can use our left elbow to write our name in the air. It seems simple. But there is no explanation for this in the classical tradition because this action has to be done repetitively until it is hardwired in our neurons. But with Holographic Universe, when we learn a skill, this information is transmitted throughout the whole brain in wave form. Thus, the elbow simply has to access this information anywhere in the brain to do this movement.

Phantom Limb
When an amputee continues to feel a phantom limb, what he feels is the holographic memory of the severed limb still recorded as an interference pattern in the brain.

Experimental Support for a Holographic Brain
Pribram knew that to legitimize his findings, he had to conduct many experiments with predictable results. He was able to do this through one of his earlier critics, Paul Pietsch, an Indiana University biologist. Pietsch wanted to debunk Pribram and conducted about 700 experiments himself, but all results supported Pribram"s findings - making him a convert and supporter of Pribram. He published a book, Shufflebrain, taking account of his experiments.

The Mathematical Language of the Hologram
In 1947, Dennis Gabor formulated the theories in the development of the hologram - he won a Nobel Peace Prize for it. But his main goal was to develop the electron microscope - it had nothing to do with quantum mechanics. He was able to mathematically convert images into wave forms and then back to images much like a TV camera converts images into electrical waves and then back to images when viewed on a TV set. He used the calculus approach of Fourier. What this proved was that the brain responds in frequency vibrations which supports the interference pattern to create a hologram in the brain. It's not proof but it was a strong support for the model.

The Dancer as Wave Form
Nikolai Bernstein, Russian researcher, also discovered that the brain used frequencies in learning - not step-by-step of the process, but the whole flow. He used white dots on black-dressed dancers and input the dots into Fourier's math. He discovered that the wave forms revealed the hidden pattern of the dance - and the wave forms can be computed using Fourier's math. Again this supports the Holographic Universe model.

The Reaction of the Scientific Community
Even all these findings support the Holographic Universe model, it wasn't widely supported by the scientific community. In part because there were so many theories that time on how the brain worked, and there were also supporting evidence to them. Additionally, scientists were stuck with the prevailing idea that functions are stored in specific parts of the brain in the same way cities can be identified on a map. To say that body functions are stored across the entirety of the brain was too much of a stretch for them - even though the Holographic Universe model was the most persuasive.

Pribram encounters Bohm
There was a burning question for Pribram - what was the real reality? The hologram inside our brain? Or the observer's perception of the 3D world? He realized the answer lied outside his field. This led him to meet David Bohm, who did not only agree with him, but even suggested that the entire universe is a hologram.

Magical Quantum World
David Bohm discovered that the universe resemble a hologram as he was delving into the quantum realm. He became interested in quantum physics at the Pennsylvania State College. In the heart of the atom, he found a wonderland more fascinating than what Columbus discovered. This infinitessimally small world behaved in a way radically different from default reality as we experience it. For example, an electron has no dimension and you cannot measure it. In default reality, everything has dimension and can be measured. A photon can behave both as a point-like particle and a formless wave (being in 2 places at one time and create an interference pattern). Physicists regarded these sub-atomic particles, neither particle nor wave, but quanta (since it has the characteristics of both). The only time quanta behave like particles is when we observe or measure them. Imagine the moon being there when you're looking at it, but it's not there when you're not looking at it. Thus, humans can never experience quantum reality because it turns into matter when we interact with it.

Bohm and Interconnectedness
Bohm realized that sub atomic events, no matter how unrelated, are all connected (quantum entanglement, what happens in part to the quantum world, affects the entire quantum whole, there is a deeper underlying reality where everything is fundamentally connected, default reality even though it looks separate should be treated as an indivisible whole because it comes from an indivisible whole, separation is an illusion, collapsing the quantum wave is not just a localized event but the unfolding of a much broader order, ). But no one gave it importance or even noticed. This is quantum entanglement because entangled particles always react to an opposite spin from its partner, no matter how far apart they are. The inner workings of the universe is one singularity. Default reality seems disconnected on the surface, but the deeper substrate, the inner universe is interconnected. In short, default reality is simply an emergent phenomenon of the inner universe. A quantum event is linked to another quantum event in a different part of the universe since the substrate is again a singularity or a holistic universe (oddly enough, this mirrors exactly what yoga is saying - that default reality is but an illusion and that the true nature of reality is one of non-duality, no separation but only oneness).

Bohm agreed with Bohr about particles, but was particularly dissatisfied with Bohr claiming that quanta does not exist because they cannot be measured. The only thing that exists are the particles when they come into being. Both Einstein and Bohm disagreed with that. They both feel that quata (quantum waves) exist even they cannot be measured.

Einstein opposed this view of interconnectedness because it suggests that entangled particles communicate simultaneously and therefore faster than the speed of light. This could not be so - no explanation for reality can go beyond the speed of light. But because of experimental predictions, Bohr won the argument (although it was never addressed how entangled particles behave faster than the speed of light, except to say that they are but part of the same system. In short, Bohr assumed that conclusion but paid little attention why that was so).

A Living Sea of Electrons
Bohm agreed with Bohr, but he was puzzled why Bohr and his colleagues didn't pay attention as to why there was an interconnectedness of quantum events. When Bohm was working on his doctorate at the UC Berkeley, he again encountered the 'connectedness' while doing his landmark work on plasma. He noticed that individual electrons in a plasma behaved like one intelligence and made coordinated actions like they were 'alive'. In 1947, he accepted an assistant professorship at Princeton University where he continued his work with electrons in metal. He noticed the same thing, that individual electrons behaved collectively like a single intelligence in metals. It wasn't just 2 electrons being tethered, but trillions of electrons are tethered into a common task. He called these coordinated electrons as 'plasmons'. This discovery established Bohm as a physicist amongst his colleagues.

Bohm's Disillusionment
Bohm wrote a book about connectedness as a 'protest' against the current Bohr-view of quantum physics (that quantum theory is the be-all and end-all in explaining the universe - there was no deeper reality), which he found disturbing. He sent Einstein and Bohr a copy of his book. Bohr gave no reply, but it started a 6-month collaboration with Einstein. Einstein told Bohm that his explanation of the quantum world was the clearest so far, but Einstein remained unconvinced of the theory. Both found the theory excellent is predicting phenomena even though it didn't explain the structure of the world.

Bohm's book, Quantum Physics, became a classic, but Bohm remained unconvinced that the theory was the fundamental beginning of reality.

A New Kind of Field and the Bullet that Killed Lincoln
Bohm, unlike Bohr, believed that electrons exist even without an observer. He called this deeper existence, Quantum Potential, something prevasive like gravity or magneticism, but it doesn't degrade with distance. It's potency was equal everywhere (Bohm seem like describing the Quantum Field, something that hasn't been proposed during that time). He published this paper in 1952 as an alternative to Quantum Theory. This was received negatively by the community since Neils Bohr's theory had become so entrenched (that this 'field' does not exist because it cannot be interacted upon and cannot be measured, and also the currently theory was already perfect and that there was no need to challenge it). But oddly, all the arguments were philosophical in nature. Bohm suggested that nature could be infinite, therefore, no theory, including Bohr's Quantum Theory could explain anything that is infinite. He felt that science was putting too few causes to an event. Example: what caused Lincoln's death? Science would say Booth shot Lincoln with a gun. But a broader cause would interconnect all events that happened in the universe - invention of the gun, evolution of man to have a hand to pull the trigger, the birth of Booth, etc. How far do you want to go to explain causality?

If You Want to Know Where you Are, Ask the Locals
Bohm continued to refine his alternative approach to Quantum Physics. Classical science views a system as a whole instead of an interaction of its parts. But Quantum Potential suggests that the individual actions of the parts were orchestrated by the whole - this was radical. Bohr maintains that sub-atomic particles are independent and separate. Quantum Potential suggests 2 things - 1) that particles are just an emergent feature of a hidden substrate that cannot be quantified, and 2) this substrate has an indivisible wholeness to it, Bohm explained that electrons in plasma behaved like orchestrated pieces by the Quantum Potential instead of being scattered all over. The Quantum Potential was coordinating all the movements towards a common objective (like a human being), instead of herding individual cats. Quantum Potential does not specify location - it simply does not exist or its existence is scattered all over the universe because Quantum Potential permeates all of space. It's called non-locality. Non-locality addressed the quantum entanglement conundrum without violating the speed of light. Example: a fish in an aquarium with 2 cameras set at different spots. You are then looking at 2 TV screens from the 2 cameras. When one fish moves, the other fish instantaneously moves. You can think they are somehow communicating with each other, but at the deeper reality (the aquarium), they are the same fish.

At a deeper level of reality, the '2 fishes' are actually one - contained in the undivisible cosmic whole. This means all of life that seem separated and differentiated are actually manifestations of a deeper undivided whole.

John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell, a theoretical physicist at CERN, was fascinated by Bohm's study. He also felt that there was something missing in the Bohr-view of quantum physics. Bell also wondered if 'non-locality' could be experimented on. The Aha Moment came to him in 1964 when he mathematically 'proved' it. But doing the actual experiment required technology that wasn't in existence yet. The experiment required being finished in thousandths of a millisecond - too fast that not even light has enough time to pass between the 2 particles.

Enter the Hologram
In the 1950s, after McCarthyism, Bohm moved to Bristol, England as a researcher. There he partnered with Aharonov and came up with a paper called Aharonov-Bohm Effect - another example of non-local interconnectedness. Despite repeatable experiments, the theory still has its critics. Bohm's dilemma about the substrate of wholeness and interconnectedness was met with his inability to proceed from there. Thus, in the 1960s, he pursued Order. Order would be represented by snowflakes. Disorder would be spilt coffee beans on the floor. Bohm realized that there were levels to order. He assumed that even in the universe, there is a hierarchy of order - some more ordered than others. In the cylinder/jar experiment, a drop of ink was diffused with glycerine and could no longer be detected. But when the cylinder was moved in the opposite direction, the diffused ink formed back into a drop. Bohm concluded that even when something is in a state of disorder (the drop of ink diffused), lie hidden is its state of order (its ability to reform back into a drop). This was powerful - to aggregate back something that has already splintered and disappeared. When the hologram was invented, he realized it was the best metaphor for his idea of order-disorder-order. He began to think that perhaps the entire universe operated this way - like a hologram. His ideas crystalized and in 1980, he published a book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order - this presented a radically new way of looking at reality.

Enfolded Order and Unfolded Order
Bohm saw everyday reality as a hologram (like particles being an emergent property of excited Quantum Fields?) being an emergent feature of a deeper underlying reality which is whold and indivisible. Reality to him was divided into 2:

1. Explicate, Unfolded Order - visible default reality where everthing looks distinct and separate. The hologram (the default reality we are in) is the Unfolded Order.
2. Implicate, Enfolded Order - inner reality, the fundamental layer. The film containing the hologram is the Enfolded Order since we cannot see our reality there - it only looks like interference patterns. In the Enfolded Order, there is no specific location of anything...they are everywhere. This also explains why every piece of the hologram film contains the hologram - because it is not local to any location, but distributed evenly across the Enfolded Order

When the light is switched off, the hologram disappears but it is not lost. It simply reverts back into its Enfolded Order. And it can be Unfolded again.

The Undivided Wholeness of All Things
Bohm regards the Enfolded Order as a seamless holographic fabric so it seemed pointless to say that the hidden universe is made up of parts. The parts dissolve back into the Enfolded Order and can no longer be differentiated. Things only become 'parts' when they manifest as a hologram in our default universe. Einstein shocked the world when he said time and space are not separate but intricately one. Bohm levells it up by saying everything is one and part of an indivisible whole. The Enfolded Order manifests as 'things' in the Unfolded Order but they all come from the same source at the deeper layer of reality. This thinking has profound ramifications. If we are all part of a whole, then deforestation, pollution harm the whole to which we are a part of. It's like doing an amputation of the arm. We should treat the planet as an extension of our bodies. Bohm warns that such reckless behavior can lead to human extinction.

Consciousness as a More Subtle Form of Matter
Bohm rejects Bohr's idea that particles do not exist until they are observed. In his view, particles not observed still exist, but are simply in the Enfolded Order, seamlessly integrated with the indivisible whole. When it comes to consciousness observing matter, he sees the observer observing himself because consciousness and matter, in the deeper layer of reality, are but the same, coming from the same source of Enfoldled indivisible whole. For that matter, the observer, the observed, the venue, the air surrounding them, etc. are all part of the same whole. Bohm feels that consciousness pervades all matter but in a subtle way, that's why electrons sometimes behave intelligently. Bohm also believes that there is no differentiation between living and non-living matter. If life exists in the Enfolded Order, then life exists everywhere in the Unfolded Order. The property of one matter is inherent in all matter because they all come from the same source. This is profound. It means we can access the entire universe, access the Akashic records with our thoughts and intentions. Time and space are also part of the Enfolded Order. So we can view for ourselves the cataclysmic impact that ushered the Younger Dryas. Space, time and even dimensions are accessible. Every cell in our body holds the secrets to the entire universe.

Implicate, Enfolded Order = Quantum Field?
Bohm's Implicate, Enfolded Order (a fundamental layer to reality where everthing is interconnected) seems very similar to the Quantum Field in the Quantum Field Theory where particles are just emergent features of an inner non-localized substrate to reality. Are they the same? NO.

1. Distinct quantum fields vs Indivisible whole - Quantum Field Theory predicts distinct quantum fields giving rise to its inherent particles - electron field gives rise to electrons. In the Implicate Order, the inner reality is one indivisible whole from which reality arise
2. Physical vs Philosophical - Quantum Field Theory is a robust and precise mathematical framework while Bohm's Implicate Order is a philosophical framework (there is no math to back it up)
3. Dynamic vs Linear - Quantum Field Theory predicts the collapse of the wave function which gives rise to particles and particles interact with other particles. In Bohm's Implicate Order, it's more dynamic - the Implicate Order creates a hologram and can collapse it and recreate it. Bohm has a broader framework.
4. Scope - Bohm's Implicate Order goes beyong the scope of the Quantum Field Theory. Quantum Field Theory is limited to collapsing the quantum field to produce a particle - it's math. Bohm's Implicate Order talks about existence, consciousness and life - not just particles.

Bohm's Implicate Order can best be seen as a precursor to the now established Quantum Field Theory.

The Energy of a Trillion Atomic Bombs in every Cubic Centimeter of Space
If our visible universe is but the tip of a hidden iceberg (the substrate of reality), then what else is out there that we don't know of? For one, scientists claim that the universe is awash with waves of varying length. But they claim that every centimeter of any wave has more power than what's measured in the entire universe. Bohm believes that such a power is intrinsic in the Implicate Order. Scientists do not subscribe to this thinking in the same way fish in the ocean are not aware they are in the ocean. Bohm subscribes that even the Implicate Order could have an even deeper substrate that extends into deeper substrates - an infinity of substrates.

Experimental Support for Bohm's Holograhic Universe

1. Empty space - particles are also waves. And waves crisscross each other, creating interference patterns (which is the backdrop of the Holograhic Universe)
2. Non-local aspect - quantum entanglement is real. It either means something is traveling faster than the speed of light or these 2 particles are connected non-locally (meaning even though the entangled particles have now become localized and separated, their shared quantum states remain non-localized and continue to exist in the quantum field so their properties are correlated regardless of distance from one another. The 2 particles come from the same source, either the quantum field or the Implicit Order of Bohm). Since scientists cannot accept faster than light speed, they have to accept to non-local connection

Reactions of the Physics Community
There is a universal respect for Bohm's intelligence but they don't necessarily subscribe to the Holograhic Universe. But they find Bohm courageous and daring for presenting such radical proposal. There are however, big names supporting Bohm - Sir Roger Penrose (modern theory of the black hole), Bernard d'Espagnat (contributor to the Quantum Field Theory) and Brian Josephson (1973 Nobel Prize in physics).

Pribram and Bohm Together
With Pribram, we come up with a brain that mathematically constructs the objective reality we experience by interpreting frequencies coming from a source beyond space/time. This means our objective world does not exist - it's just a perception. Our brain is simply able to capture these waves and frequencies from the ether and interprets it to reality as know it. Without the interface of our brain, the cup is nothing but a sea of interference patterns. Which is the true reality? The cup? or the interference pattern giving rise to the cup?

Carl Jung
The Holographic Universe influenced the area of psychology with consciousness as the permeating substrate giving rise to thoughts and the mind. This is supported by Carl Jung who subscribes to the idea of the collective subsconscious - man has access to ideas beyond his own experience. There is a database of knowledge, ideas and practices 'out there' and somehow, the brain or consciousness gets access to this. This was proven in some of his clinical studies with patients. One schizophrenic patient while looking at the sun said the sun had a dick and as he moved his head from side to side, the dick moves and causes the wind to blow. Years later, Jung stumbled upon a 2000 year old Persian text describing a ritual exactly how the patient talked about the sun (how did he know it? It was beyond his personal experience. The ramification is again profound. It means we all have access to everthing that has come before us - similar to Bohm's contention that the Implicit Order contains all these things and that we have access to it because we come from the same source. In the Implicit Order, consciousness is also infinitely interconnected - what one knows, you can access it. The pressing question is, how do we get access? Meditation? Psychedelics?).

Even though this collective subsconscious resonates with our human experience, and even though it has been widely adopted by psychoanalysts and psychologists, there is still no experimental data to support it (if this phenomenon occured to you, you don't need experimental data to believe this. Science can only go so far in proving things. If they can't prove it, it doesn't mean it's untrue. Maybe they don't have the technology to prove it, or maybe they don't have the energy level required to prove it, or simply no resources for it. I don't place too much weight on 'science not having proven it. Given their bias, perhaps they would rather disprove it than to prove it').

Why can't we get Immediate access to all these information?
If we are connected to the source, why don't we already know everything? One scientist claims that we only get immediate access to those that resonate with us (for me, I believe our mind cannot handle such a load. That is why even with what we see, our brain reconstructs most of what we think we see to conserve computational resource. But when effort is made to access them, they can be accessed).

Dreams and the Holographic Universe
Another subscriber to Bohm was Montague Ullman with his work in ESP/dream experiments. He got interested in the aspect that all of humanity are interconnected in the Holographic Universe. Experiments by Ullman concluded that in dreams, we are able to communicate with each other - it's not precise, but conclusive. Example: a test subject was made to sleep in a lab and talk about his dreams. Adjoining the room was another test subject made to randomly choose a painting on the wall. The chosen painting was the Paris skyline from a French window. The dreamer talked about everything French...which was unusual. Ullman claims that dreams provide guidance on the individual towards evolution - a mean bastard may repeatedly dream about awareness, compassion and love. Ullman takes it further by claiming that more than just connectedness, dreams are nature's way to impose self-order, perhaps with intention to preserve/protect humanity and not just the person in question.

Psychosis and the Implicate Order
Psychosis is condition of the mind where what is real and unreal is no longer differentiated. Mystics talk about oneness with everything and union with God. From a Holographic Universe perspective, they seem to have glimpsed aspects of the Implicate Order. It is possible that psychotics experience the same thing but are unable to distinguish if they are losing their minds or simply having episodes of altered consciousness. They lose the boundaries of themselves thinking that their thoughts are no longer private. Their sense of time is no longer linear or perhaps reversing itself. Time becomes fluid (this episode is repeated in the lives of spiritual people who become enlightened without knowing it. They think they are going insane and could not function within society. This was true with Ramakrishna Paramahansa of Integral Yoga). The manic depressive dives deeper into the Holographic Universe and becomes manic as he experiences oneness - he becomes intoxicated. Upon return to reality, he becomes depressed being back in the misery of the default world. When we dream, we experience that psychedelic world that does not respond to physics but we are normal again when we wake up. Psychotics however, have to deal with these hallucinations in their awaken state.

Lucid Dreams and Parallel Universes
There has been increased interest in Lucid Dreams where you wake up in a dream and even able to control parts of it. It's more vivid than an ordinary dream and there is a high recollection of the details when awakened. The Holographic Universe posits that in lucid dreaming, the dreamer gets a glimpse of the Implicate Order. Being awake and dreaming are not too different - they are both expressions of the same Implicit Order. Lucid dreaming allows the dreamer to move fluidly between states which shows the interconnectedness of everthing. Since the brain acts as a decoder for the Implicate Order, it does the same thing during lucid dreaming thus, it's more vivid and real than regular dreams. Since the dreamer consciously interact with the Implicate Order, he essentially breaches the boundary.

Hitching a Ride on the Infinite Subway
Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof takes the Holographic Universe further by claiming that our psyche can endlessly explore the vastness of the Implicate Order. Grof has been studying if LSD has any therapeutic benefit. Grof concluded that patients undergoing LSD therapy recovered faster and permanently. They are even able to move into other areas previosly undefined by the therapy (like reliving the sensation of still being in the womb). Some LSD patients claimed to have been or gone into a reptile form and described details that only zoologists would know (unlike other recreational drugs, LSD seem to be one that allows the user to transcend the limits of human persception. Steve Jobs used to take LSD and up until his death, gave LSD the credit for waking him up. He even encouraged all his friends and colleagues to take it. After reading that, I am also now curious in taking LSD...but how do you do that?).

Other patients gave accounts of their ancestors or family members known to no one else. Others talked about being in the time of Genghis Khan and the onslaught of the Mongol hordes. Others were transported to ancient Egyptian time and discussed mummification in rich detail. From LSD use, they all seem to have accessed information from a different time and place, even from non-human intelligence not from this world, supporting the notion that there really is an Implicit Order containing data of everything (this ties up well with what the shamans of the Amazon are saying about Ayahuasca...that the plants talk to them and impart knowledge and insight). Grof was unwavering in claiming that given his 3000 LSD sessions at 5 hours/session, the understanding of science to human nature, reality and the universe is superficial, incomplete and need to be revised. He proposed the Holographic Universe as a means to this new level of understanding. Grof coined the word transpersonal for the archetypal experience of transcending the boundaries of the physical self and interconnect with the collective unconscious. Again, tapping into the Implicit Order takes an altered state of consciousness - it cannot be accessed by sheer force of will.

Holotropic Breathing 79
Grof's enduring legacy is the development of the Holotropic Breathing where you experience the altered state induced by LSD without taking LSD - just breathing! But the experience is every little bit, the same as taking LSD. With this, one gains access to the cosmic labyrinth that connects all aspects of existence. He wrote a separate book on this breathing method, The Adventure of Self-Discovery.

Vortices of Thought and Multiple Personalities
NY psychiatrist Edgar Levenson concluded that psychoanalytical approaches do not really cure but are simply ceremonial because there are sudden and transformative changes that happen to a patient regardless of what psychoanalytical approach is used. The change is due to something else entirely. Levenson believes that there are buried holograms within the patient that gets released and thereby cures the patient. But those holograms have always been present and within the patient.

Vortices
Psychiatrist David Shainberg agrees with Bohm that thoughts are like vortices in the mind that remains unchanged or fixed, in the same way vortices in a river are stable and remain there. These vortices are akin to our deeply held beliefs and opinion. This could be bad because it shuts us from assimilating new information and experience. This belief system becomes very dominating alienating us from the rest of the world - we are locked in our echo chamber. We fail to see our wholeness. We see this often in arguments when both parties are not out in search of the truth, but out to win at all cost. It no longer matters whose argument has merit. As things flow out of the Implicit Order to our consciousness, sometimes vortices are created from this flow and our thinking gets stuck. A good example of having no vortices is a child. A child is open to learn anything and everything. He is not fixated on paradigm that impedes his growth. By listening and adapting to the merits of the other guy's argument allow us to participate in the flow of the Implicit Order.

Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
MPD happens when there is more than one personality in one body. usually 8 to 13 personalities, but sometimes there could be hundreds, each independent of each other (even having their own brainwave pattern ) but somehow rooted to the base personality. This symptom usually shows up between 28 and 35 years old - a striking coincidence that seems like a built-in warning system. These people have no awareness of their condition and are often confused and deal with bouts of anxiety, depression, mutilaltion and panic attacks. 97% of them experienced severe trauma as children. It is hypothesized that multiple personalities are created to spread the load because the trauma is simply too much for one personality to bear. It is suggested that the 'self' is also a hologram and is replaced through the holographic process.

A Flaw in the Fabric of Reality

Synchronicity
Synchronicity happens when odd coincidences happen that are improbable and meaningful that cannot be attributed to chance. In clinical patients, it was noted that these synchronicities happen shortly before new insights come upon the patient for the cure. It would seem to herald a new beginning.

When a patient drew a damaged hospital wing and 9 years later, the hospital was bombed and it looked exactly like the drawing, what conclusion could be drawn?

1) the thought was so powerful it caused reality to comply with the vision (unlikely)

2) the patient saw the future, in which case we live in a deterministic reality (that also means there really is no free will)

3) they simply called it acausal (not a result of cause and effect), something unknown to science, or in other words, a non-local event or a holographic flow from the Implicit Order (still, it suggests deterministic outcomes)

It is surprising how an archetypal experience like premonition, very common in the human experience, can have far reaching ramification that causes cognitive dissonance (deterministic future? no free will?).

According to physicist David Peat, synchronicities are flaws in the fabric of reality because it gives us a glimpse of what lies within the Implicit Order. In a perfect world, when our mind is free from fragmentation, when it transcends the idea of separation, synchronicity should be as common as the air we breathe.
In the Holographic Universe, mind and matter are interconnected, consciousness contains all of objective reality, the universe contains the inner processes of the mind - anything and everything are deeply connected in the Holographic Universe (this touches deeply into my Kundalini awakening practice where I meditate and visualize the Kundalini energy rising, chakra by chakra along the Sushumna. In the Holographic Universe model, this visualization greatly enhances the manifestation of the intention. Augmenting the visualization is the addition of 'Bhavana' or the accompanying 'feeling'. So all combined, it's the physical muscle contraction for the energy lock, the visualization and the feeling that the process is already taking place).

Curing Cancer with Vivid Imagery
Frank was diagnosed with cancer. Knowing this, his weight dropped and he became weak. During chemo, Dr. O. Carl Simonton, suggested to Frank to supplement chemo with vivid imagery. Frank was to imagine that the chemo was releasing millions of bullets decimating the cancer cells. The white blood cells would then take on the offensive and finish the job, completely annihilating the cancer cells. This method worked far beyond the regular benchmark, without the side effects of chemo. In 2 months, his cancer was gone.

Dr. Simonton applied this approach to 159 terminal cancer patients who were not expected to last 12 months. 4 years later, more than half were still alive and 14 were fully cured. Simonton set up the Simonton Cancer Center in Palisades, CA. His method is the 4th sought-after in cancer therapy. Of course, he is not without the usual hired guns of Big Pharma who will denigrade any alternative approach to curing cancer.

Holographic Universe Principle is FRACTAL
The effect of vivid imagery in curing a deadly disease is explained by the Holographic Universe model. All experiences are simply neurophysiological processes taking place in the brain (that's why dreams feel so real until you wake up). The brain cannot distinguish reality from a vivid imagination especially if feeling is invoked in this imagery. Thus the brain will react exactly the same way as if what it's perceiving is the real reality or imagined (placebo effect). In the Implicate Order, imagination and reality are indistinguishable - so images in the mind can ultimately manifest in the physical body especially if they are images+feelings+intention about being cured (my holographic explanation for this is that the imagery forms the holographic plate in the brain cell, not necessarily in the Implicate Order. This brain cell shoots the hologram of a cured body and that is what is manifested, curing the disease of the body. In short, the Holographic Universe model is fractal. It works from the IO but it works on the hologram itself like the brain. There seems to be layers upon layers of holographic reality where the Holographic Universe model is present).

Targeted Vivid Imagery
Experiments done by phychologist Jeanne Achterberg also proved that imagery can very specific. Instead of just imaging 'white blood cells' fighting the cancer cells, you can imagine a very specific white blood cell for the task. But you have to have a physical model of the cell in your mind, so you have to do research as well as to what that thing looks like and where it can be found and everything else you can find out (in my yogic imagery approach, I don't use specifics because science is falsifiable and years down the road, it can be rendered false or obsolete. eg, once, telomeres were at the cutting edge of age reversal. I could have imagined that my telomerers were not being reduced in length. But years later, science found out that cancer cells have long telomeres so they don't die. Had I envisioned having long telomeres, I could have developed cancer. So instead of envisioning specifics, I envision the intention. So if I want to reverse the aging process, I simply imagine myself getting young, feeling young, and looking young).

Vivid Imagery = Belief, Hope, Resolve, Intention
Achterberg cites many examples of patients turned away by hospitals for having terminal cases only to spring back to life because of their belief, hope and unwavering resolve (so medication was not the cure, but the mind (imagery), emotion, belief and will. Corollary to that is to remove any kind of negative thinking and self-doubt. In fact, negative thinking can induce a disease - ask any hypochondriac). Achterberg cites that there is a low incidence of cancer or leukemia on people who are mentally retarded. Why? They have no mental notion of a deadly disease called cancer - cancer simply does not exist in their universe, so cancer is not willed into being. It is suggested by Bohm and Siegel that diseases have their genesis in the mind. People unwittingly allow negative thinking into their system. The negative thinking manifests as diseases.

Mr. Wright and Krebiozen
A landmark example about placebo effect was the case of Psychologist Bruno Klopfer, his patient Mr. Wright and the drug Krebiozen. Wright was dying of cancer. He body was already a mess. He pleaded Klopfer to administer the new drug Krebiozen. The doctor reluctantly did. In 10 days, Wright was completely cured and even flew his own plane. It was such a remarkable recovery. Wright was perfect but 2 months later, news came out that Krebiozen wasn't effective in treating cancer. Upon learning this, Wright suffered a relapse and was readmitted to the hospital. The doctor gave a fake explanation why the drug didn't work - that it got stale during the shipment. But Klopher offered a fresh new and potent shipment. Klopher went through an elaborate procedure before the drug was injected. Again, the results were miraculous - tumors melted and chest fluids vanished and Wright was cured again. But the injection was just water. After 2 months, the American Medical Association released a paper saying Krebiozen was completely ineffective for cancer. This devastated Wright. His cancer came back and he was dead 2 days later. What happened was tragic, but it showed how much power we have in our thinking to eliminate/cure what could have been an incurable cancer.

Basketball Games of the Mind 94
There are many more instances showcasing the control of the holographic mind on the body. The mind has profound control over physical and athletic performance. Soldiers who were told to march 60 km but only marched 40 km showed tests of doing 60 km. So, these soldiers reacted to what they thought and not the reality. The mind is powerful (similarly, in my experience, I saw a weight lifter fail to do a load he could lift simply because the coordinator was mistaken in telling him it was a much heavier load). Russian athletes to the winter olympics who trained with imagery (25% physical and 75% imagery) won over their teammates who only trained without imagery (100% physical), even though they all trained (physical and imaging) the same number of hours.

Lack of Division between Health and Illness 96
Health and Disease are Part of the same Indivisible Whole
Apart from imagery, the holographic mind also uses the paradigm of the indivisible whole to generate results in the physical world. In the oneness of the Holographic Universe model, health and disease emanate from the same holographic plate (Implicate Order), thus they are manifestations of the same thing - they are one and there is no distinction between the 2 of them in the Implicate Order.

Barbarians at the Gate vs Personal Bad Habits
A pragmatic way to approach this thinking is to NOT see illness as an outside bad thing that came to invade us. If we step back and see a broader picture of how this illness came into being, we can see that this was followed by careless eating, sleepless nights, booze, drugs, neglect and on the outside, this illness was also contributed by social norms (maybe people in your age bracket suffer too from this), family advise ("do this or you might die") and succumbing to widespread fear (like Covid) (in short, it's not about barbarians at the gate. It's about us dropping the ball). We see illness as a result of a bigger picture, a lot of which we can control - what we eat, how we sleep, etc. This realization alone accounts for much of the ensuing cure and if you actually make effort to improve your lifestyle, then the cure is hastened. In fact, as Bohm points out, if illness is an amalgamation of everything in the Implicate Order, then there could be thousands of causes for it, most of them unknown to us. But it should not matter. We can override all that with our imagery, belief, resolve, hope and commitment to re-architecture reality in our favor. We call the shots because there is no objective reality - everything is fluid and we can take the driver seat.

The Healing Power of Nothing at All (Placebo Effect) 97
The Placebo Effect is already an established fact but it doesn't apply only to fake drugs. This could be the reason why crystals, amulets, copper bracelets and pyramid power work - it's in the person's belief system that it works, therefore it does. Even placebo surgeries (doctors open you up but do nothing inside, but it makes you think they did something) produce the same results as a true surgery - meaning that real surgeries could be useless. No disease is spared from the holographic principle. The manner of delivering the placebo also matters. Placebo delivered through injection works better than placebo in a pill.

(In Chiangmai, Thailand, I met a lovely young couple, Paul and Tanya. Somehow, they felt something strong and radiant about my energy but didn't tell me. About a week later, they seeked me out because they felt desperate and believed I could help them against a malevolent guy with black magic powers who cast a spell on them. They had such a firm belief that I could help them that I thought anything I tell them would work (as a placebo effect). I took advantage of their unwavering belief that I could help them. We all held hands, closed our eyes, and I told them I was transferring my strength to them and nothing can touch them from here on. It was much better than telling them I couldn't help them. I don't really know what happened after. I never saw them again. Even though I'm not a healer or shaman, when we held hands, I really pulled deep from within me all the intention to empower them. As a yogi, I firmly believe I can heal myself from anything. But to 'transfer' this benefit to other people? I haven't attempted to do it until then. In this holographic paradigm, that was a placebo for me and to them as well).

with Paul and Tanya

Tumors that Melt like Snowballs on a Hot Stove
The downside to benefiting from the placebo effect is that you have to be fooled first before harnessing this power. What if you are aware?

Do any Drugs really Work? 101
If drugs work when we believe in them and don't work when we don't believe in them, what does that say about drugs? Do they really work? The main theme seems to be that when the mind is manipulated, the body consequently follows. The NY Times claimed that the placebo effect provides a holistic view of the human system - the mind and body are too intricately connected that they should not be treated as separate parts.

Ram Das
Before this famous Western guru became Ram Das, he was Richard Alpert, a Harvard psychologist who went to the East in 1966 to test enlightened masters the effects of LSD. Most of them were unaffected. There was this wiry mystic, Neem Karoli Baba, who took almost 1000 micrograms of LSD and was still unaffected. Alpert was so impressed that he converted to mysticism, turned hippie and the rest is history.

The Health Implications of Multiple Personality 104
Mind-body association is underscored in Mutiple Personality Disorders. Personalities in a multiple (people who suffer from Mutiple Personality Disorder) are often strongly identified from other personalities. Each has his own set of allergies, brainwaves, left/right handedness, IQ, demeanor, handwriting, even eye color and voice pattern. A personality with an allergy can have hives. These hives disappear then a new personality takes over. The mind (holographic plate) shoots off different hologram personalities to the Explicate Order. A drunk multiple can turn sober with a change of personality. A wasp sting can be gone when anothher personality enters. As the personality changes, the body morphs to accommodate the new personality. Such is the connection between mind and body. When you control the mind, you control the body. Everything is connected.

If a multiple can shift allergies, if they can even change eye color, then it means it is humanly possible for all of us to access this level of control over our bodies and behavior.

Pregnancies, Organ Transplants, Tapping the Genetic Level 108
Belief can alter our body's response to illness. But how do we control our belief system without having to fool ourselves first? By understanding the belief system first. What are these belief systems?

1. Cultural beliefs - this common belief is imposed on us and we may not be aware how we comply with it. Unwanted pregnancies may cause a couple to remain childless without contraceptives.
   
   Death rates plummeted when tuberculosis was determined to be caused by bacteria even though treatment was not developed until 50 years later. The holographic feature of this phenomenon is that knowing what caused TB demystified TB and shifted the collective belief system about the disease (knowing how it can avoided or controlled). A shift in collective belief causes a shift in physical reality as well (meaning the death rates plummeted) (of course, it's a more simple explanation to say that finding the cause of TB allowed people how to exercise caution so as not to contract the disease - thus invoking the Holographic principle wasn't necessary).
2. Personal thinking - married women have stronger immune system compared to separated or divorced. People with fighting spirit survive a disease more than people who are passive with the same illness.
3. Will power - some people are able to perform superhuman tasks like being pierced with no blood and no pain. In modern times, Wim Hof is able to submerge himself in ice for a long time. To date, he has over 20 Guinness Book World Record titles.
4. Unconscious belief - the placebo effect is one. Hypnosis is another. Under hypnosis, even a genetic disorder was cured. This is far more complex than simply altering blood pressure. This shows there seems nothing possible when the Implicate Order plays an intervening role in our daily affairs.
5. Faith - when we abandon control and give the driver's seat to the Lord, we also open up to greater forces of the Implicate Order to take over. Miracles are explained by the Holographic Universe model. Stigmata seems to be self-induced rather than a miracle. Why? Because only Catholics experience it. Another, and perhaps more compelling, is that the stigmata is always on the hands where artists paint the stigmata in their paintings. But the Roman crucifixion is done on the wrists - not on the hands. Also, the size, shape and location of the stigmata is always different from person to person - so it wasn't based on Christ's stigmata. The Holographic Universe model overrides the body's rigidity and imposes plasticity on the physical body.

Images Projected Outside the Brain
Miracles where people manifest physical results within their bodies can be a holographic expression because the brain is producing something outside of itself - stigmata, levitation, etc. These things cannot be manifested through sheer will alone. The theory goes that the mind is powerful that it can hack the Implicate Order so that the hologram of the 'miracle' is manifested. Where else can these miracles come from? So, even though the body and mind are holographic manifestations of the Implicate Order, they remain intricately connected to it, so if they 'will' something badly enough or purely enough, the message is received and responded to by the Implicate Order. It's not a one-way communication but a fluid flow of information - like 2 mirrors facing each other, they can manifest into infinity (think of it as a 2-way street).

Laws Both Known and Unknown 119
This explores the range of conrol the mind has on the body to understand the mind/body relationship.

Before, it was known that only the brain contains neuropeptides (receptors receiving 'telegraphed' communications from the body). Now, discoveries are made revealing that other parts of the body contain neuropeptides. Essentially, they are extensions of the brain. Scientists now question where the brain ends and the body begins.

Acupuncture Microsystems 120
Acupuncture suggests that there are points on the body's surface that directly affect the internal structure and organs. When needles are poked in specific parts of the body, specific organs are affected.

Little Man in the Ear
In 1957, a French physician and acupuncturist, Paul Nogier, discovered that aside from the traditional meridians in the body used for acupuncture, both ears also have its own system of acupuncture points representing the whole body - like a minne me (I once saw a tv show where a dentist only used a pincher on a patient's ear and with no anaesthetic, began to drill on the patient's teeth. Based on the diagram below, the pinched section corresponds to the right area.

There are compelling and practical reasons this type of healthcare should be encouraged, but Big Pharma will not allow any alternative where they don't earn money. Dentists and physicians always run a risk practicing alternative methods for fear of reprisal.). He came up with a map. Unbeknownst to him, the Chinese have already known this for 4000 years. Other scientists also discovered that the ears can be used to diagnose illnesses or reveal organ failures. Going beyond the ear, 18 more micro-acupuncture systems in the body exist, perhaps more. They claim that these systems are holographic in principle, that the small systems are the holographic plate and the whole body is the hologram to be worked on (I disagree. If that's the case, then any part of body can be worked on from any point, if any point of the holographic plate contains information of the whole. It would be more simple to simply say that there are intricate nerve wirings in the body that reconnects and influences their related organs/structure). This approach of having a small patch of human real estate to influence or control the rest of the body has been expanded to Iridology, Reflexology and Palmistry.

ChatGPT on Ear Acupuncture
Ear Acupuncture is symmetrical - both ears have the same trigger points for the body parts affected. For non-specific body side therapy like insomia, either ear or both ears can be activated. However, for specific body side like the left eye, you should only activate the left ear. In some cases, one ear might be emphasized, eg. right ear if right handed, or in Chinese thinking, the Yin/Yang need to be balanced and this is done by just working on one ear.

Ear acupuncture points

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fingerprints give information about health disorders

Harnessing the Power of the Holographic Brain 124
It has become clear that the brain cannot distinguish reality from one that is intensely believed or imagined. Because of that, it behaves in ways that defy convention - eliminating allegies, duplicating the effects of potent drugs, healing wounds with rapidity, and growing new teeth for adults. This means we have the power to transform our bodies. Our perception of reality is a function of many factors - beliefs, fears, attitudes of our doctors, our unknown prejudice, faith, etc. In controling these factors, we control the mind and thus control the hologram.

The feast of San Genarro has been celebrated since 300AD. Twice a year, in a public celebration, the dry blood (in a container) turns liquid. It has been said that when it didn't turn liquid in the few times in historical times, catastrophes hit Naples. The liquid in the vial is scientifically pronounced blood. Is it a miracle? M. Talbot believes that everyone has an innate power of the mind that when collectively triggered, can cause such phenomenon.

Psychokinesis 129
PK plays a role in miracles - San Genarro and stigmata. Thought, feelings and physical reactions are all linked - the sight of a lurking shadow along a dark alley will spark the thought of being mugged. This brings fear. This fear increases blood pressure, heart beat, adrenaline and stops digestion. Bohm adds that particles have their own inherent intelligence - it's not just a point-like structure. Thus, all matter is intelligent and can act autonomously with its environment. Bohm suggests that the ability to affect physical object just by the mind has something to do with the deep interconnectedness of mind and matter within the Explicate Order, beyond what we see in our visible reality. Therefore, they are just aspects of the same unified, indivisible whole. There is no duality between mind and matter. Mind interacts with matter not by brute force, but by alignment to a deeper fundamental principle of the Explicate Order. The mind is 'tuned in' to the fundamental inner workings of the universe in such a meaningful way that physical manifestation happens without breaking the laws of nature. Bohm cites an electron to be using information, implying that electrons have an innate intelligence. If it applies to fundamental particles, then it applies to everything in our known reality. This phenomena is outside the role of human consciousness. EVerything is now conscious. Bohm believes that PK or telepathy is not merely a manifestation of non-locality but a deeper substrate of non-locality.

The Gremlin in the Machine 131
Robert Jahn, aerospace science professor and dean Emeritus of Princeton University, also subscribes to Bohm's position on PK but takes it further. He was working on deep space propulsion and had no inkling about the paranormal. But he reluctantly agreed to see one of his student's on-the-side project about PK. He was astounded that he put up PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research) which still stands today and has the most advanced studies on PK. He proved that collective concentration can vary chance-results beyond statistical probabilities Additionally, he proved that PK may be enhanced on some gifted individuals but everybody actually has this gift. Also, some gifted individuals can produce signature-like results unique to them. Experiments were also done on falling balls that should resemble a bell curve. With group concentration, more balls fell by the sides - statistically improbable, with the same unique signatures present. Equipment malfunction is also attributed to unconscious PK - some people are known to be walking disasters. Jahn also claims that PK is an interplay in the subconscious having a wave-like state and a particle-like state, just like particle physics. When consciousness is in particle form, our conscious mind takes over. When it is in wave form, it can manifest PK.

Resonance
In PK, the relationship between mind and matter is not so much an information exchange but more of resonance - like a feeling of resonance between the participant and the pinball machine (even though this sounds abstract and unquantifiable, when I meditate, there are times when it feels mechanical and intentional. But when there is a feeling of resonance, the meditation feels deeper, richer with a dissolution of oneself into the whole).

Psychokinesis on a Grander Scale 135
So far, PK has been experimented on a small scale in the lab. But it also applies to big things in the real world. Lyall Watson witnessed a faith healer in the Philippines who can make surgeries without touching the patient (faith healing is widely practiced in the Philippines, although there are lots of fakes who have been exposed. But there are real ones. My grandfather's cancer was cured by a faith healer and I was circumcized by a faith healer with no anaesthesia using a half-rusty blade from a window sill. Ultimately, they all lose their power when they become famous and begin accepting big money from tourists). All over the world, there are documented cases of spiritual healing that proponents attribute to PK and thus, using the HU principle.

Mass PK in 18th-Century France 137
In 18th centurey France, the Jensenists, a Dutch Catholic sect went into convulsions by the hundreds by the tomb of their deacon Francois de Paris. These convulsions spread like wild fire in the city. In their frenzy, they were impervious to fire, torture, pain or injury. Their illnesses were cured - including cancer. As many as 3000 volunteers were present to keep crowd control. This lasted for years. 2 decades later, miracles were still happening - clairvoyance and ability to see with eyes closed. This wasn't just heresay as thousands were affected and participated. It was the talk of all Europe which lasted for decades.

Reprogramming the Cosmic Motions Picture Projector 141
Because PK alone does not explain the super powers exhibited by the convulsionaires, Bohm and Grof explain that the mind/body/Explicate Order are interconnected on a 2-way street. This connection can even change the rules of physics (in the same way Siddhi activation changes the rule of physics...levitation, controlling the element, etc). This ability has been displayed many times in human history - St. Francis of Paula and the 3 martyrs who defied King Nebuchadnezzar, the Kahunas of Hawaii and the Protestant Huguenots of France, all being impervious to fire.

The Laws of Physics as Habits and Realities Both Potential and Real 145
It can be argued that perhaps these powers are just part of a hidden physics law that were triggered - meaning they were contained in this reality. But still, it would seem easier to explain these powers thru the HUM - consciousness tapping into the IO to alter the laws of Physics. Another version is that the law of physics as we know it is a human construct - we simply willed it to be. But at the deeper layers of reality, many other laws of physics exist. It appears that the deeper our belief system is, the more we hack into the subtler layers of the IO.Pribram explains it that there are other worlds but our consciousness tunes to only to one of these worlds in the same way that a radio can fine tune into a radio station but there are other radio broadcasts out there - we just need to shift our tuning to perceive them. Altered states of consciousness allows us to tune-in to other stations that use a different laws of physics, one where you can defy fire, gravity (this makes sense to me). Watson believes that default reality is largely a human construct...that there is more to reality. He also believes that any Theory of Everything is unsufficient because none can explain the paranormal. Gordon Globus believes that default reality, dreams and super reality in altered states of consciousness are all part and parcel of the same reality because they all sourced from the same IO.

Does Consciousness Create Sub-Atomic Particles, That is the Question 147
The above versions of the HU underscore that it's an idea in the making, much like an emerging volcanic island whose shores change everyday - the critics capitalize on this to discredit the theory. To put this in context, Darwin's evolutionary theory continues to be debated to this day. This only shows that even with the HUM, miracles are still challenging to understand.

Jahn and Dunne claim that consciousness is primal and has a lot to do with how reality is shaped. Particles unto themselves do not have a reality. It is the presence of consciousness that gives particles a reality. They go even deeper to claim that consciousness creates the particle. They cite a particle called anomalon whose properties change from lab to lab. This suggests that the properties of anomalon depends on who created or measured it. Also neutrinos sometimes have mass and other times, no mass. It seems that the observers play a role in the properties of a neutrino.

They push the concept even further by saying that consciousness is not just the human mind but anything that can generate and process information. So, it means that viruses, animals, DNA and artificial intelligence can co-create reality as well. If we can hack into the IO, then we can access information even from an inanimate object - by touching a stone, we can see through its history and every secret it holds.

Why do some particles like an electron exhibit the same predictable properties regardless of whoever is observing it, while other particles behave differently depending on who is observing them? Hypnotism might offer an explanation.

Hypnotism
The author talked about a man he witnessed personally who was hypnotized into suspending his 5 senses and acted according to the suggestions of the hypnotist - even not seeing the person who was directly in front of him. This suggests that someone's brain can be hacked and fed new information that the subject responds to.

Remote Viewing
Russel Targ and Harold Puthoff of the Stanford Research Institute (funded by the CIA to enhance their remote viewers) were successful in determining that everyone has an inherent ability to remote view - see what someone else in a distant place is seeing, or seeing other remote places by themselves without anyone being there. This experiment has been done repeatedly across the globe with consistent results, again proving that the mind and reality itself can be hacked.

Reality Field: Co-Habiting a Fictitious Reality 152
Charles Tart, a psych professore at UC got 2 hypnotist students, Bill and Anne, to hypnotize each other. They experienced the same fictitious reality they both suggested to each other. They were even talking to each other telepathically in this other world. This world they co-habited was just as real but more colorful and plastic with added non-verbal communication. In that world, they were just talking faces with no bodies. When Bill wanted to hold her hand, they both had to conjure up limbs. This was a self-created 3D holographic world through interconnected consciousness. This experience was so real that it became frightening for both. Bill gave up hypnosis entirely after that.

Bill and Anne could have created their own proprietary reality field - an alternate reality that is just as real but only perceptible to them. This means that consciousness can create a separate reality. But since reality is made up of particles, it implies that consciousness can create its sub atomic particles. And since particles being a quantum object, has a wave-like and particle-like properties to itself. It exists in a quantum system whose wave function can collapse with an observer

Concensus Characteristics
Information can be transmitted and retrieved telepathically. This is weird, but can be explained using the HU principle - that minds are intricately interconnected, and thus hackable.

100th Monkey Effect
Also, because minds are interconnected, this could explain the 100th monkey effect (a new idea spreads across a group and this idea spreads to other related groups without communication even if separated by water) or why certain technologies were discovered almost at the same time by different people (calculus by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz and natural selection by Charles Darwin and Russell Wallace) - the collective information was somehow uploaded to the IO for access by other humans whose brain wave resonated to that frequency. This is similar to the behavior of electrons that acted independently to create a concensus. If this is true of electrons, this must be true of humans. Why? Because the universe has a fractal nature - as above, so below.

3 Camps of Physicists
Even though mainstream physicists know this to be true, when it comes to miracles or the HUM they stubbornly adhere to the "I know it's true but I'm not going to deal with it...it's not convenient.". N. David Mermin, psycisist at Cornell University categorizes physicists into 3 camps about their position on the interpretation of quantum mechanics:

1. Shut Up and Calculate Camp - some are not bothered by the philosophical implications and offer no explanation. They use the elegant math of QM to make predictions but don't bother about "why QM behaves that way"
2. Realists (Hidden Variables Camp) - a small minority is intrigued by the philosophical implications and conclude that QM is not complete - that there is a hidden layer or a hidden variable that's not factored in the equation. Einstein is in this camp.
3. Neo-Mystics - this camp acknowledges that peculiar properties of QM - wave function, entanglement, non-locality. They somehow feel that this reveals the interconnectedness of reality - consciousness, matter and the universe

The broad spectrum of physicists and their beliefs illustrate the disparity of concensus about QM and its underlying principles. Interpretations like Copenhagen Interpretation and Many Worlds Interpretation continue to spark debate.

Interpreting the Weird World of Quantum Mechanics

You can Get Something for Nothing 155
Our interconnectedness and ability to co-create common alternative realities give a hint that we create our own particles/reality.

In 1982, Dr. Ruth Coggin, a British physician, was working on Pakistan and saw Kamro, a Pakistani who was 8 months pregnant and bleeding. She was rushed to the emergency ward when the bleeding got profuse. Coggin performed a Caesarian birth but Kamro continued to bleed. She had no blood-clotting ability. When all looked hopeless, Coggin resorted to prayer. The bleeding continued by Kamro's situation stabilized. She soon regained strength and went home with her baby after 10 days. Kamro lost more blood than she had. How was she able to replace all that blood so quickly? Did her new blood come out of thin air? This was the question. Somehow, consciousness (in the form of prayer), was able to manifest new blood - consciousness creating new particles.

Poltergeist 158
MT shared a personal experience about a poltergeist who followed him. It was mean when Michael was in a bad mood and it was jolly when Michael was in a good mood. It would even manifest objects from thin air and throw at him. Michael suspects that the poltergeist was a creation of his subconscious, not from external sources. That's is why the actions of the poltergeist mirrored his moods. What he can't explain though was the emergence of something out of thin air.

Sai Baba 160
In modern times, Sathya Sai Baba is the most prominent in producing materials from thin air - sacred ash, fruits, food, gold, etc. This was witnessed by thousands and none has proven this to be fake. Frustrated in a conversation about rudraksha where the other person couldn't picture what it was, Sai Baba produced a twin rudraksha from thin air (in the Ranveer podcast with guest Hindu guru and mystic, Sri M, he manifested a rudraksha from thin air and gave it to the host. He said he had 'little people' who would do things for him).

Paramahansa Yogonanda
These miracles have been mentioned by Paramahansa Yogonanda in his book, Autobiography of a Yogi. It is not uncommon for Hindu saints and saddhus to have siddhis to do these supernatural things. Yogonanda claimed that default reality is nothing but objectivized dreams - if you mental resolve is strong enough, your mind can alter reality.

Therese Neumann
Another saintly person's miracle was to sustain herself with food or water for 35 years. She was carefully scrutinized for weeks and found nothing to fake it. She only went once in 2 weeks to the toilet and her pooh was just mucus and bile, no food. She never lost weight nor became dehydrated.

Not only from humans, sacred statues or icons that have been venerated by thousands of devotees have exhibited tears and blood.

Changing the Whole Picture 163
Most of the miracles cited were in parts. But in Indonesia, Watson witnessed Tia disappeared a tree and brought it back, and then caused it to appear-disappear as though the whole tree was blinking. Other examples were Carlos Castaneda with Don Juan who witnessed a dying spirit turn into a branch. Don Juan said both realities were equally viable - to be a dead spirit or to be a branch.

What doe it all Mean? 166
PK is one thing, but to materialize something from nowhere? Clearly, if there was no sleight of hand, reality is not rigid - more of a hologram that can be co-created. Reality is a construct of consciousness. We create reality and create the physics that go along with it. If reality is a collective construct, then reality is an aggregation of reality fields, some more stable than others. Perhaps this is the reason why electrons always behave the way they do because they have been around too long, while anomalons were recent discoveries and thus unstable so its properties are also fluid. This could be why aspirin prevents heart attacks among Americans but not British (because Americans have been practicing that much longer than Brits). Ultimately, reality does not seem to have an objective existence - it is consciousness giving rise to reality. Therefore, we can create our own physics and manifest reality from these new laws - levitation, atomization, bilocaction, etc.

The Human Energy Field 175

The Energy Field of the Human Psyche 179

Doctors Who See the Human Energy Field 181

Chaos Holographic Patterns 184

What Is the Human Energy Field Made Of? 188

Three-Dimensional Images in the Aura 188

Movies in the Aura 190

Holographic Body Assessment 193

X-Ray Vision 193

Internal Vision and Shamanism 196

The Energy Field as Cosmic Blueprint 196

A Participatory Reality 199

Mind and the Human Energy Field 200

For the longest time, I had been using both terms interchangeably thinking they were one and the same. Wrong! With A.I., I got clarity.

Both frameworks are similar in stating that reality as we know it has no objective existence. But they differ in explaining this. Holographic Universe is based on theoretical physics and cosmology in saying reality is a holographic projection of a 2D source. It explains the structure of the universe.

Simulation Hypothesis is more philosophical in arguing that reality is a computation program, much like a video game. Its probabilistic outlook states that if our civilization can simulate a reality so real we cannot differentiate real from created (Elon's NeuraLink is headed there, implanted simulated memory, immersive VR environment, Brain-Computer Interface [BCI]), then we must be living in one as well (The Matrix and dreaming are good examples). It does not explain the structure of the universe but questions reality itself.

In the Holographic Universe model, the Implicit Order is the hidden universe that contains everything there is across time, space and dimension. How do we tap into it? Another way of asking is, "We are in the 3D space of the Holographic Universe. How do we hack into the 2D source code?"

Accessing the Implicate Order, as described by David Bohm, involves transcending the limitations of ordinary perception/thought to connect with the deeper, interconnected reality that underlies all existence. While the Implicate Order isn't a "place" to be visited, its insights can be accessed through methods and practices that align consciousness with this deeper reality. ChatGPT proposes some ways this can be approached:

1. LSD
   How It Works:
   LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is known for its ability to dissolve the boundaries of ordinary perception and ego, allowing users to experience states of consciousness that feel deeply interconnected, timeless, and transcendent.
   
   Users often report experiencing visual patterns, synesthesia (eg time has shape, letters have colors, etc.), and insights that seem to reveal a deeper, underlying order in reality. These states resonate with the holographic principle, where everything is seen as interconnected and the distinction between "self" and "other" fades.
   
   Why LSD May Align with the Holographic Universe Model Dissolution of Ego:
   Bohm emphasized that the ego creates fragmentation in perception. LSD dissolves the egoic boundaries, potentially revealing the interconnected wholeness of the Implicate Order.
   
   Access to Non-Local Information:
   Many report encountering profound insights or universal truths during LSD experiences, aligning with the idea that the Implicate Order contains the enfolded potential of the universe. This may feel like glimpsing the deeper "code" behind reality.
   
   Perception of Fractal Patterns:
   LSD often induces visual experiences of fractals and recursive patterns, which mirror the holographic nature of the universe where every part reflects the whole.
   
   Altered Sense of Time and Space:
   Time is perceived as fluid or non-linear under LSD, echoing Bohm's idea that the Implicate Order is not bound by conventional notions of time and space.
   
   Cautions and Considerations
   Interpretation: While these experiences can feel profoundly meaningful, interpreting them as direct access to the Implicate Order is subjective. They may also reflect the brain's altered neural dynamics rather than an external reality.
   
   Preparation and Integration: Accessing such states requires a safe, intentional approach, as they can be overwhelming without proper context or guidance.
   
   Legal and Ethical Issues: LSD use is illegal in many places, so exploring other methods (meditation, breathwork, etc.) might be more accessible for those seeking similar insights.
   
   Key Takeaway: LSD and similar psychedelics may offer a temporary glimpse into what Bohm called the Implicate Order by dissolving the barriers of ordinary perception and revealing a profound sense of interconnectedness. However, such experiences should be approached with caution, respect, and the understanding that their interpretation is inherently personal.
2. Surrender and Non-Attachment
   How It Works: Letting go of the need to control or analyze reality opens the mind to deeper truths. Surrendering to the flow of life can allow the Implicate Order to reveal itself naturally.
   
   Purpose: To embrace the universe as it is, without imposing one's own fragmented perspective on it.
3. Holotropic Breathwork and Body-Centered Practices
   How It Works: Techniques like holotropic breathwork, yoga, or tai chi help align the body and mind with the flow of energy, potentially allowing access to altered states of consciousness.
   
   Purpose: To break through ordinary states of awareness and connect with the flow of the Implicate Order.
4. Letting Go of Ego and Conditioning
   How It Works: The ego creates a sense of separation that obscures the wholeness of the Implicate Order. By letting go of ego-based thinking and habitual conditioning, one can become more attuned to the underlying order.
   
   Purpose: To dissolve the illusion of separateness and experience the universe as an interconnected whole.
5. Dialogues and Thoughtful Inquiry
   How It Works: Engaging in deep, open-ended dialogue with others (similar to Bohm's dialogues with Krishnamurti) can help dissolve fragmentation in thought and open the mind to broader perspectives.
   
   Purpose: To collectively explore truth and insight, reducing the limitations of individual perspectives.
6. Scientific Inquiry with a Holistic Perspective
   How It Works: Bohm himself approached science with the idea that physics and the Implicate Order are deeply connected. Adopting a holistic perspective in scientific research-seeking patterns and relationships rather than isolated facts-can lead to profound insights about reality.
   
   Purpose: To use the scientific method as a tool to explore the deep interconnectedness of phenomena.
7. Meditation and Mindfulness
   How It Works: Meditation quiets the mind and reduces the noise of conditioned thought, allowing one to experience deeper states of awareness. This state can reveal the interconnectedness of reality, as the boundaries between the self and the universe dissolve.
   
   Purpose: To bypass the fragmented nature of thought and connect with the wholeness of the Implicate Order.
   
   Techniques: Mindfulness meditation: Focus on the present moment.
   Transcendental meditation: Use mantras to quiet the mind.
8. Dreams and Altered States of Consciousness
   Lucid Dreaming: In dreams, especially lucid dreams, the normal rules of space and time are loosened, potentially allowing access to the deeper patterns of the Implicate Order.
   Psychedelic Experiences: Some people report that substances like psilocybin or LSD allow them to perceive the interconnectedness of reality in profound ways.
   
   Purpose: To dissolve the barriers of ordinary perception and glimpse the deeper patterns and relationships of existence.
9. Intuition and Direct Insight
   How It Works: Intuition is often seen as a flash of understanding that arises without conscious reasoning. It could be interpreted as a direct unfolding of information from the Implicate Order into conscious awareness.
   
   Purpose: To access insights that are not constrained by logical or linear thought processes.
10. Deep Observation in Nature
    How It Works: Immersing oneself in nature and observing its patterns-such as the fractals in plants, the flow of rivers, or the behavior of animals-can reveal the inherent interconnectedness and wholeness of life.
    
    Purpose: Nature is a direct expression of the Implicate Order, and deep observation can provide intuitive insights about its workings.
11. Creativity and Art
    How It Works: Engaging in creative activities like painting, music, or writing allows for spontaneous expression that can transcend logical constraints. Art can act as a medium for the Implicate Order to unfold itself in a tangible way.
    
    Purpose: To bypass rational thought and connect with the flow of the universe's creative energy.

It seems like the Holographic Universe model addresses everything there is in reality - that it represents the Theory of Everything. Is it perfect? What are its flaws?

1. No Experimentation - you cannot conduct an experiment on it because we cannot hack the 2D code
2. Spacetime Geometry - our universe seem to have a de Sitter geometric space () while the Holographic Universe model functions on an anti-de Sitter geometric space (). There is incompatibility
3. Complexity of the Universe - our universe is very complex and vast with galaxies, expansion, life, dark matter, etc. It's not that straightforward to encode all of this into a 2D space. The nature of encoding is not known
4. Quantum gravity - Holographic Universe model assumes that the theory of QG is already established. That is not the case - the predicted Graviton has not yet been detected
5. Interpretational challenges - to say that this realithy is just a projection implies that it is an illusion no matter how real it feels. This borders on philosophical and contentious

How does a holographic universe change the way we do things in everyday life? It may not change the way we do things, but it will certainly shift conceptual grounding. We regard time and space as absolute truths of reality, but now, they simply become emergent properties of a 2D information system. This also changes how we view ourselves. We used to think we were divine entities going through a human experience. Now, we are reduced to simply ones and zeroes. There is no soul to binary entities - thus the human being has no soul...only information. Humans are just data. What is 'authentic experience' in a Holographic Universe? If the universe is information-based and computational, then it's hackable - we hack the 3D reality but not the origin of the 2D coding. In a Holographic Universe, diseases are simply 'errors' in the code and 'patches' can be used to fix the error (instead of medicines). Consciousness would be reduced to a binary code as well - perhaps a deeper substrate of the 2D code. It might reduce material attachment - afterall, they are just projections. A Holographic Universe unites General Relativity and the Quantum Field Theory leading to new advances in energy harnessing and interstellar travel (manipulating gravity for propulsion, for zero gravity). Instead of asking for the meaning of life, we now ask what the meaning of the projection is.

Regardless, even if this is a Holographic Universe, we are still stuck in the 3D layer and whatever is here, is what we can work with - which is essentially what we have now. We don't have access to the Operating System (the 2D source code). Analogy: since when did an avatar of SIMS figure out how to hack the SIMS program? NEVER! In fact, these avatars are not even aware they are in a program.

Question:
In the Holographic Universe model, how does the Implicate Order decide what manifests in the Explicate Order? If humans came from the Implicate Order, what triggered us to be manifested in the Explicate Order? What is the causality of human existence?

ChatGPT:
The Holographic Universe model accounts "where" reality comes from, but not "why" realilty is the way it is. The "why" is outside the scope of the Holographic Universe. But a few assumptions can be made. The transition from the Implicate Order to the Explicate Order is not random but governed by an underlying cosmic intelligence or inherent order. Human existence, being an emergent phenomenon of the Implicate Order, may represent a natural evolution of consciousness, unfolding from the Implicate Order as a way for the universe to observe and understand itself. The laws of physics and chemistry, given the complexity they created, could have naturally given rise to the emergence of sentient beings. The Implicate Order may have a natural tendency to be aware of itself, and this brought about the emergence of humanity. Consciousness could be an inherent feature of the Implicate Order and the emergence of humans is an expression of its desire to 'taste chocolate'.

Becoming Mainstream
It has been 33 years since this book was published. Back then, this thinking was extremely fringe. But times have changed and now, even mainstream physicists like Leonard Susskind and Neil deGrasse Tyson claim that the data is too compelling to simply dismiss the Holographic Universe model. Maybe in another decade, this framework becomes a scientic theory together with General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory.

Other Theories of Everything
Of course, the 2 most dominant theories describing the physical reality are the Theory of General Relativity and the Quantum Field Theory. There are other proposed models for the 'Theory of Everything' that question the objective existence of reality as we experience it. The most popular proposal is the String Theory. Simulation Hypothesis is another (for the longest time, I thought this was the same as Holographic Universe but they are not the same). Other noteworthy mentionables are E8 Lattice by Garret Lisi, and Loop Quantum Gravity (aggregates General Relativity with Quantum Field Theory by quantizing space/time as an emergent phenomenon of the Quantum Field). Sometimes, elegant math does not describe reality - take String Theory for instance. It has a rich math from which many things have sprung from. But it has never produced any of its predictions.

Limitations of the Theories of Everything
Science being science, any Theory of Everything grounded in Quantum Mechanics has to be experimentable, repeatable and backed by empirical data. But reality as we experience it is more than just the physical world and hidden fields. None of them begin to explain the human experience we encounter such as intuition, rebirth, and consciousness. The Holographic Universe Model goes beyond physical reality in explaining our universe.

As a Yogi
I had been practicing yoga for 24 years now. I subscribe to yoga's philosophy about existence and the true nature of reality - that there is no separation and that everything is one, distilled into Consciousness. Forget about semantics. Bohm's Implicate Order and Explicate Order fit nicely into the framework of Consciousness. The more I dive deep into the Holograhic Universe model, the more it resonates with me. I don't need mathematical proof. I'm already getting glimpses of an inner world from my own life experience. Because humans are sentient with free will, I believe it is possible for us to hack into this hidden substrate of reality through altered states of consciousness. This could be achieved through meditation, Kundalini awakening or even psychedelics. Ascendant yoga masters who have attained that level talk about something words cannot describe. Others simply say, "I'm awake." My current yoga practice uses the protocols to activate siddhis - essentially unleashing supernatural powers that allow me to hack this hidden reality. Conceptually, I have already internalized it. I have no question whatsover that it exists. But I still need to experience it. I'm not there yet. But I find it comforting that science is already validating that realm once thought 'fiction'.

Akashic Records
In yoga, the Akashic Records is a database of man's collective experience, past, present and future. This is similar to Carl Jung's view that there is a collective subsciousness where man gets access to everything that has come before. This also aligns to Bohm's Implicit Order stating that the indivisible whole, the underlying substrate of reality has everything that exists in the universe. We have access to all these because we are also an emergent property of this inner subtrate - we come from the same source and we remain connected to it. That is why in Yoga, the sages claim that when Siddhis are activated, one can gain knowledge from sacred books without reading them.

If Humans are an Emergent Property of the Implicate Order, why were we 'spit out' to the Explicate Order? For what purpose?
According to ChatGPT, the existence of humans in the Implicate Order was never discussed, nor was it part of the scope of the Holographic Universe. There was no imperative or design for our existence. Speculatively, our emergence was a natural consequence of the infinite interference patterns, waves and interconnectedness happening within the Implicate Order. It is also possible that since humans are sentient and are aware, we can bring this awareness within the Implicate Order, making the universe aware of itself. Another speculation is that our presence in the visible universe can bring meaning to it.

the 70s and 80s
These decades, time and time again, seem to be the epoch where science was going full on with new thoughts, new discoveries and developed new ways of thinking...beyond human perception. Now, you think like that and you get canceled. Science is now co-opted by special interest groups that give out grants for the conclusions they want science to produce. No wonder Eric Weinstein claims that science hasn't really moved as far in the last 50 years.

I am Collapsing the Wave Function of the Universe to Manifest the Material World
This concept isn't really expressed in the book but things just converged in my mind and then this Aha Moment! I see a parallelism between Quantum Mechanics and the Holographic Universe.

Quantum Mechanics
In quantum mechanics, a particle comes out of the quantum wave when we observe/measure it. By observing, we essentially collapse the wave function to make the particle manifest (the solid matter we interact with). So solid reality exists because we manifested it.

Default Reality
what if we apply the concept of Quantum Mechanics to reality itself, not in terms of manifesting particles, but manifesting things we desire (money, power, youth)? But insead by observing, we refocus our believe system? By believing and then applying meditation and other manifesting protocols, we resonate with the 2D source code of the 'fundamental universe', essentialy collapsing the quantum wave to 'localize' what we want to manifest. Everything we desire is already within the 2D code. We just need to 'hack' through it. How? Vivid imagery...meditation...re-establisihing a deeper connection with the Implicate Order. This concept is not new, but I"m using the underlying principles of the Holographic Universe to explain it. This explanation is more compelling for me because it explains why certain people manifest things considered impossible - stigmata for saints? shifting brain waves for multiples? If they can do that, then we can also manifest Siddhis.

Empowerment
We call the shots because there is no objective reality - everything is fluid and we can take the driver seat. This is so empowering. Master the mind and emotions, and you can co-create reality - cure yourself of illness, manifest desires, transcend human perception limits, etc. Essentially, you attain escape velocity to breach the human confinement.