Theos-Talk Archives (December 2007 Message tt00042)

On Dec 11, 2007, at 12/11/077:34 PM, Cass Silva wrote:

> Hi Leon,
> A few questions for you.
> Cheers
> Cass
> TWM
>
>
>
> The Universe as a Hologram
> by Michael Talbot
>  Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?
> In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a  
> research team led by physicist  Alain Aspect performed what may  
> turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th  
> century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact,  
> unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you  
> probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some  
> who believe his discovery may change the face of science.
> Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances  
> subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously  
> communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating  
> them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion  
> miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the  
> other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates  
> Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster  
> than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of  
> light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting  
> prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with  
> elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has  
> inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.
> University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes  
> Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that  
> despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm,  
> a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
>
> Cass:  What is confusing for the simple minded like me, is that Joe  
> Average sees matter as solid.  I see the rocks in my garden as  
> being solid. Stubbing my toe on the rock proves this to me.
>
>  Presumably then we are talking about a reality unbeknowns to our  
> senses which is the cause for its solidity?  Underlying my rock,  
> which I see, as solid, is a reality that it unavailable to my  
> senses, and is this state a reality that enables one rock to know  
> what the other rock is doing, or is it more the atoms making up the  
> one rock stay in equilibrium in order for a rock to remain a rock?

Leon: What makes the rock appear solid is the strong electrical  
fields that hold its particle together.  These fields repel the  
fields that comprise our organic body, so we *feel* them as being  
solid.   The consciousness of the rock is only potential -- since  
here are no organic senses and neural mechanisms to detect or feel  
anything.  Only living beings composed of organic matter can sense  
and consciously experience the surrounding environment.
>
> To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must  
> first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three-  
> dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a  
> hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the  
> light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the  
> reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern  
> (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film.  
> When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of  
> light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is  
> illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the  
> original object appears.
> The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable  
> characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half  
> and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to  
> contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the halves  
> are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to  
> contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike  
> normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the  
> information possessed by the whole.
> The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an  
> entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most  
> of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the  
> best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an  
> atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram  
> teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves  
> to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed  
> holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we  
> will only get smaller wholes.
> This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding  
> Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles  
> are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the  
> distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort  
> of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness  
> is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such  
> particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions  
> of the same fundamental something.

> Cass:  In response to the bold type.  So Holograms prove, even at  
> this deeper level of reality, that particles we can see or measure,  
> co-exist with a fundamental something, we cannot measure or see?

Leon:  Yes.  That something is the fractally involved zero-point  
energy fields in the so called, "Planck vacuum" between the quantum  
particles that are analogous with the initial highest order spiritual  
fields of cosmogenesis, as well as the higher order "coadunate but  
not consubstantial" fields of consciousness that penetrate and  
surround each material form or organism. In the human these fields  
contain the Chi energy fields of chinese medicine and martial arts --  
which are analogously replicated in every cell...  Some of which  
carry the Prana or vital energy  http://users.aol.com/leonmaurer/ 
Chakrafielddiag-fig.col.jpg
>
> Cass: In theosophical terms are we saying that this fundamental  
> ¡something¢ is the manifestation of 'will' or 'desire' of  
> Paratbrahman? And if so, then this fundamental something, is god a  
> solid? (relatively speaking in that energy may also be calculated  
> or factored in?) and at some point in our future we will comprehend  
> this?

Leon:  The only aspect of overall reality that could be considered as  
Parabrahm, Brahma, or "God" is the "spinergy" (abstract motion or  
angular momentum) of the ubiquitous zero-point source of all energy  
fields, that is also the center of all non local consciousness.  This  
point is analogous to the "singularity" (out of which the entire  
universe emanates) of omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent Absolute  
SPACE -- that we might call the near infinite, unborn Brahma resting  
in the infinite bosom of Parabrahm.
>
> If I am on the right track then god in manifestation shows itself  
> to us through the cracks, so to speak. This also suggests that this  
> concentration of will and desire cannot be maintained eternally,  
> hence the need for pralaya?

Leon: Yes...  God is reflected in every zero-point of consciousness  
everywhere.  The original G-force that impelled the universe to  
expand and reform into the Cosmos that eventually evolves into the  
Solar system and us human beings, must eventually run down due to the  
continuous loss of energy through what we can only call the  
"friction" of its moving parts.  This is called "entropy," and when  
all energy is dissipated, all physical forms and particles resolve  
back into their ubiquitous zero-points of origin... That, being of  
the same Absolute SPACE, merges back into the original cosmic  
singularity -- to rest in Pralaya until the next cycle of  
Manvantara.  This process occurs analogously on the solar plane as it  
does much later on the galactic plane, and even later on the Cosmic  
plane.  Thus, there are all sorts of Pralayas and Manvantaras.
>
>
> To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the  
> following illustration. Imagine an aquarium containing a fish.  
> Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and  
> your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two  
> television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the  
> other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television  
> monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are  
> separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at  
> different angles, each of the images will be slightly different.  
> But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually  
> become aware that there is a certain relationship between them.  
> When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but  
> corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always  
> faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of  
> the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be
>  instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is  
> clearly not the case.
>
> Cass: This analogy doesn't work for my feeble mindedness, as I put  
> it down to smoke and mirrors because of the need to use two  
> separate cameras.

Leon:  Actually, it's a good analogy to explain apparent "action at a  
distance" -- like gravity -- which does not require any information  
to pass between the two objects attracted to each other.  Consider  
the two cameras as being two people looking at the same fish from  
different points of view and experiencing it at the same zero-point  
of universal consciousness at the zero-point in the center of their  
respective heads -- which, being of the same absolute space, are  
entangled with each other.  This is how the apparent "action at a  
distance" between split particles actually works, and also the way  
telepathy might work between two Masters who know how to merge their  
higher consciousness.... Since, the zero-point centers of any split  
particle field are actually in the same absolute SPACE.   That's  
equivalent to the theosophical saying, "The self of one is the Self  
of all."
>
> This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the  
> subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to Bohm, the  
> apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles  
> is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are  
> not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is  
> analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as  
> subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are  
> seeing only a portion of their reality. Such particles are not  
> separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity  
> that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously  
> mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is  
> comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection,  
> a hologram.
>
> Cass:  What is doing the projection?

Leon:  The conscious will of the zero-point "singularity" of primal  
SPACE that "projected" the first cosmic energy ray that formed the  
initial fractal involved spherical fields of cosmogenesis. This  
"projection" continues on the physical plane with the analogous ZPE  
fields in the Planck space that generates and energizes all the  
fundamental particles, etc.  See: http://users.aol.com/uniwldarts/ 
uniworld.artisans.guild/chakrafield.html
http://members.aol.com/leonmaurer/Chakrafield-spherical-col_3.jpg
>
> In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would  
> possess other rather startling features. If the apparent  
> separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a  
> deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely  
> interconnected.
>
> Cass: The interconnectedness relies on the projector, take away the  
> projector or projection and all falls away. No? Perhaps I have just  
> proved the existence of god! Haha

Leon:  Sure. But, since the projector is built into the projection,  
you'd have a hard time separating them. ;-)  Therefore, there cannot  
be a separate "god" that isn't governed by the same fundamental laws  
of cycles that govern everything in the universe.  All that the  
visible universe can be is a projection of itself that is compressed  
as encoded holographic interference patterns in the G-force spinergy  
of the primal singularity.  Thus, god is in everything and everything  
is in god.  Thus, the universe, and all its apparently separate  
parts, is actually one interconnected unity, or infinitely  
holographic expanded "singularity" -- with all its information  
compacted in every zero-point's infinite spinergy.  This is the  
Akasha -- which is everywhere.
>
> The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to  
> the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims,  
> every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky.  
> Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature  
> may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various  
> phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity  
> artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.
> In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be  
> viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break  
> down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything  
> else, time and three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish  
> on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed as projections of  
> this deeper order. At its deeper level reality is a sort of  
> superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist  
> simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might  
> even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level  
> of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.
>
> Cass: Doesn't Gardner call Time and Space,  extensions of matter,  
> although this also suggested to me 'location'.

Leon:  Yes.  There is apparent location in the phenomenal universe --  
since, after emanation, the projected metric 3-D space is spherical  
and therefore has a 2 dimensional surface on which holographic 3-D  
images can form  -- which, on the fourth lowest physical sphere are  
the stars and galaxies of our visible cosmos, along with ourselves.   
Thus, all 'forms' have location -- while consciousness, being  
everywhere in the same absolute SPACE, is nonlocal... Although it  
appears to be localized when we move our body from one place to  
another, or feel a pain in our toe from kicking a rock. ;-)
>
> What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question.  
> Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the  
> matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the  
> very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or  
> will be -- every configuration of matter and energy that is  
> possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma  
> rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of "All That Is."
>
> Cass:  Isn¢t this Plato's idea?  All that was, is and will be  
> already exists.  Exists as a continuum as what was, when it was, in  
> fact was  ¡is¢ and what will be when it will be, will also be  
> 'is'.  Am I to go to Advaita and say that there is no ¡yesterday¢  
> no ¡tomorrow¢ only 'now'?  For me this is difficult as I cannot  
> reconcile it with evolving from a mindless being into a mindful  
> being without the extensions of time.

Leon:  Bohm was a theosophist and, therefore, a Platonist.  So his  
entire holographic paradigm theory is identical to the metaphysics in  
the Secret Doctrine -- which I have pictured symbolically and  
scientifically in the ABC model.  As for mindfulness... Remember that  
the original spinergy contains all the experiential knowledge gained  
by the Universe throughout all its manvantaras... Just as your zero- 
point "spinergy" contains all the intelligence gathered by you in  
previous lives.  Thus, when you manifests in time at your 'primal  
beginning', as a human being, your mind fields, containing all memory  
of all previous evolutionary experience, comes with you.  And, that  
mind is not lost when you rest in Devachan between lives.  Thus, the  
hologram is everywhere... Just like the DNA replicates in every cell  
of every sentient being, and carries with it the memory of all  
previous forms... As evidenced by the fetus passing through all  
previous evolutionary stages as it grows from the zygote to the baby.
>
> Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else  
> might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture to say that  
> we have no reason to assume it does not contain more. Or as he puts  
> it, perhaps the superholographic level of reality is a "mere stage"  
> beyond which lies "an infinity of further development".
>
> Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the  
> universe is a hologram. Working independently in the field of brain  
> research, Standford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become  
> persuaded of the holographic nature of reality. Pribram was drawn  
> to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories  
> are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown  
> that rather than being confined to a specific location, memories  
> are dispersed throughout the brain.
> In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist  
> Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he  
> removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform  
> complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was  
> that no one was able to come up with a mechanism that might explain  
> this curious "whole in every part" nature of memory storage.
> Cass:  I thought that memory was stored in every organ and that all  
> our brain did was to act as the hard drive?
>
> Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and  
> realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been  
> looking for. Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons,  
> or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses  
> that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of  
> laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of  
> film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram  
> believes the brain is itself a hologram.
> Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so  
> many memories in so little space. It has been estimated that the  
> human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of  
> 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime  
> (or roughly the same amount of information contained in five sets  
> of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).
>
> Cass: If the brain is a hologram, then the higher self must be the  
> projector? No?

Leon:  That is true.  The projector is your willful intent activated  
by your center of Self consciousness that, in turn, activates the G- 
force of the surrounding "spinergy".  This "projected" coherent  
(laser like) energy field reconstructs the holographic wave  
interference patterns in the fields of mind and memory that was  
processed and resonantly transfered to them by the brain's neurology.  
The reflection of this ray returns to the zero-point center of self  
consciousness with the sensory or memory information we perceive  
(experience as color, tint, shade, taste, sound, smell, touch,  
etc.).  The one thing missing from Bohm's holographic paradigm, is  
the obvious connection with consciousness, since there is no way of  
verifying its non-locality at the ubiquitous zero-points of  
fundamental SPACE by objective scientific means... Although the  
substantial holographic nature of our physical chemical structure can  
be demonstrated through the DNA code that is replicated in every cell  
-- yet produces a different protein depending on its holographic  
position in the 3-D body model field in both the astral and physical  
plane.  This could only be explained by holography coupled with phase  
conjugate adaptive resonance between the twin fields.  Check out this  
article by Ed Mitchell, the moon astronaut...   As HPB predicted,  
modern science is getting closer and closer to verifying ALL the  
theosophical teachings.  http://www.edmitchellapollo14.com/ 
naturearticle.htm
>
> Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other  
> capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity for  
> information storage--simply by changing the angle at which the two  
> lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it is possible to  
> record many different images on the same surface. It has been  
> demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film can hold as many as  
> 10 billion bits of information.
> Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information we  
> need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more  
> understandable if the brain functions according to holographic  
> principles. If a friend asks you to tell him what comes to mind  
> when he says the word "zebra", you do not have to clumsily sort  
> back through some gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive  
> at an answer. Instead, associations like "striped", "horselike",  
> and "animal native to Africa " all pop into your head instantly.  
> Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking  
> process is that every piece of information seems instantly cross-  
> correlated with every other piece of information--another feature  
> intrinsic to the hologram. Because every portion of a hologram is  
> infinitely interconnected with every other portion, it is perhaps  
> nature's supreme example of a cross-correlated system.
> The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle  
> that becomes more tractable in light of Pribram's holographic model  
> of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate the  
> avalanche of frequencies it receives via the senses (light  
> frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into the concrete world  
> of our perceptions.
> Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does  
> best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating  
> device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of  
> frequencies into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also  
> comprises a lens and uses holographic principles to mathematically  
> convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the  
> inner world of our perceptions.
>
> An impressive body of evidence suggests that the brain uses  
> holographic principles to perform its operations. Pribram's theory,  
> in fact, has gained increasing support among neurophysiologists.
> Argentinian-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently extended the  
> holographic model into the world of acoustic phenomena. Puzzled by  
> the fact that humans can locate the source of sounds without moving  
> their heads, even if they only possess hearing in one ear,  
> Zucarelli discovered that holographic principles can explain this  
> ability. Zucarelli has also developed the technology of holophonic  
> sound, a recording technique able to reproduce acoustic situations  
> with an almost uncanny realism.
> Pribram's belief that our brains mathematically construct "hard"  
> reality by relying on input from a frequency domain has also  
> received a good deal of experimental support. It has been found  
> that each of our senses is sensitive to a much broader range of  
> frequencies than was previously suspected. Researchers have  
> discovered, for instance, that our visual systems are sensitive to  
> sound frequencies, that our sense of smellisin part dependent on  
> what are now called "osmic frequencies", and that even the cells in  
> our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. Such  
> findings suggest that it is only in the holographic domain of  
> consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and divided up  
> into conventional perceptions.
> But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of  
> the brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm's  
> theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a secondary  
> reality and what is "there" is actually a holographic blur of  
> frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects  
> some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically  
> transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective  
> reality? Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of  
> the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion,  
> and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a  
> physical world, this too is an illusion.
> We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of  
> frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into  
> physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the  
> superhologram.
> This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and  
> Pribram's views, has come to be called the-holographic paradigm,  
> and although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it  
> has galvanized others. A small but growing group of researchers  
> believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science has  
> arrived at thus far. More than that, some believe it may solve some  
> mysteries that have never before been explainable by science and  
> even establish the paranormal as a part of nature. Numerous  
> researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noted that many para- 
> psychological phenomena become much more understandable in terms of  
> the holographic paradigm.
> In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible  
> portions of the greater hologram and everything is infinitely  
> interconnected, telepathy may merely be the accessing of the  
> holographic level.
> It is obviously much easier to understand how information can  
> travel from the mind of individual 'A' to that of individual 'B' at  
> a far distance point and helps to understand a number of  
> unsolvedpuzzles in psychology.
> In particular,  Stanislav Grof feels the holographic paradigm  
> offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena  
> experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness.  
> In the 1950s, while conducting research into the beliefs of LSD as  
> a psychotherapeutic tool, Grof had one female patient who suddenly  
> became convinced she had assumed the identity of a female of a  
> species of prehistoric reptile. During the course of her  
> hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of  
> what it felt like to be encapsuled in such a form, but noted that  
> the portion of the male of the species's anatomy was a patch of  
> colored scales on the side of its head. What was startling to Grof  
> was that although the woman had no prior knowledge about such  
> things, a conversation with a zoologist later confirmed that in  
> certain species of reptiles colored areas on the head do indeed  
> play an important role as triggers of sexual arousal. The woman's
>  experience was not unique. During the course of his research, Grof  
> encountered examples of patients regressing and identifying with  
> virtually every species on the evolutionary tree (research findings  
> which helped influence the man-into-ape scene in the movie Altered  
> States). Moreover, he found that such experiences frequently  
> contained obscure zoological details which turned out to be accurate.
> Regressions into the animal kingdom were not the only puzzling  
> psychological phenomena Grof encountered. He also had patients who  
> appeared to tap into some sort of collective or racial unconscious.  
> Individuals with little or no education suddenly gave detailed  
> descriptions of Zoroastrian funerary practices and scenes from  
> Hindu mythology. In other categories of experience, individuals  
> gave persuasive accounts of out-of-body journeys, of precognitive  
> glimpses of the future, of regressions into apparent past-life  
> incarnations.
> In later research, Grof found the same range of phenomena  
> manifested in therapy sessions which did not involve the use of  
> drugs. Because the common element in such experiences appeared to  
> be the transcending of an individual's consciousness beyond the  
> usual boundaries of ego and/or limitations of space and time, Grof  
> called such manifestations "transpersonal experiences", and in the  
> late '60s he helped found a branch of psychology called  
> "transpersonal psychology" devoted entirely to their study.
> Although Grof's newly founded Association of Transpersonal  
> Psychology garnered a rapidly growing group of like-minded  
> professionals and has become a respected branch of psychology, for  
> years neither Grof or any of his colleagues were able to offer a  
> mechanism for explaining the bizarre psychological phenomena they  
> were witnessing. But that has changed with the advent of the  
> holographic paradigm.
> As Grof recently noted, if the mind is actually part of a  
> continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only to every other  
> mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and  
> region in the vastness of space and time itself, the fact that it  
> is able to occasionally make forays into the labyrinth and have  
> transpersonal experiences no longer seems so strange.
> The holographic paradigm also has implications for so-called hard  
> sciences like biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Virginia  
> Intermont College , has pointed out that if the concreteness of  
> reality is but a holographic illusion, it would no longer be true  
> to say the brain produces consciousness. Rather, it is  
> consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain -- as well  
> as the body and everything else around us we interpret as physical.
> Such a turnabout in the way we view biological structures has  
> caused researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding  
> of the healing process could also be transformed by the holographic  
> paradigm. If the apparent physical structure of the body is but a  
> holographic projection of consciousness, it becomes clear that each  
> of us is much more responsible for our health than current medical  
> wisdom allows. What we now view as miraculous remissions of disease  
> may actually be due to changes in consciousness which in turn  
> effect changes in the hologram of the body.
>
> Cass: This also requires that whatever thoughts and desires caused  
> the disease are reflected upon and the personality, when cleansed  
> of its ignorant thinking, is reflected in the etheric or hologram? No.

Leon:  Yes.  But, we must remember that the hologram is everywhere.   
So, every zero-point center of consciousness in the body is entangled  
with our center of individual consciousness.  Thus, we can feel the  
itch on our backside and automatically reach out and scratch it  
without any attentive thought.  As for the etheric... Those  
holographic fields of memory and mind that carry the thought images  
are also reflected everywhere throughout the body hologram, and their  
images, or "information of consciousness" they carry, are also  
holographic.  Healing occurs when the harmonious image of a healthy  
organ generated by the higher center of self consciousness, is  
superimposed on the disharmonious unhealthy images caused by a  
breakdown in the antibody system, or the cells themselves due to  
various causes, not only negative thoughts and desires.  Thus the  
placebo effect occurs when we believe we are being healed by what is  
only a pill made of plain starch. our subconscious creates the  
visualization of health that reflects on and realigns the diseased  
fields.  Deep vipassana meditation can do the same thing.   All of  
that, however, depends on the holographic nature of everything.
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> Similarly, controversial new healing techniques such as  
> visualization may work so well because, in the holographic domain  
> of thought, images are ultimately as real as "reality".
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> Even visions and experiences involving "non-ordinary" reality  
> become explainable under the holographic paradigm. In his book  
> "Gifts of Unknown Things," biologist Lyall Watson describes his  
> encounter with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a  
> ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly  
> vanish into thin air. Watson relates that as he and another  
> astonished onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused the  
> trees to reappear, then "click" off again and on again several  
> times in succession.
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> Cass:  HPB says that Apollonius did not become invisible but acted  
> upon the will of the group, so they believed he became invisible.   
> Although this doesn¢t explain how he appeared in another location  
> some miles away.  Perhaps it has something to do with his astral body.
> Although current scientific understanding is incapable of  
> explaining such events, experiences like this become more tenable  
> if "hard" reality is only a holographic projection. Perhaps we  
> agree on what is "there" or "not there" because what we call  
> consensus reality is formulated and ratified at the level of the  
> human unconscious at which all minds are infinitely interconnected.  
> If this is true, it is the most profound implication of the  
> holographic paradigm of all, for it means that experiences such as  
> Watson's are not commonplace only because we have not programmed  
> our minds with the beliefs that would make them so. In a  
> holographic universe there are no limits to the extent to which we  
> can alter the fabric of reality.

Leon:  Perhaps, this is the secret that none of the adept magicians,  
like Apollonius, didn't want to reveal to other magicians -- but that  
HPB tried to teach us how to find out for ourselves.... So that we  
could spread broadcast it, along with the right motives, to enough  
people -- so as to begin to act together to change the present world  
reality toward a more benign and beneficent condition.   
Unfortunately, the powers of evil (military industrial complex) that  
govern the present world, know all about those means to control minds  
through the mass media, religion, entertainment distraction, etc.   
So, all we can really do is continue to heal ourselves and whichever  
others we can reach, and wait until there are enough of us together  
to begin putting our minds in alignment with the proper  
visualizations to start changing the world.

I'm not too confident that will happen, though, before nature  
responds to our pollution (ecologically, military weaponry, over  
populationally, etc.;-) and the whole house of cards comes tumbling  
down... And some new theosophically minded leaders spring up out of  
the remnants of world population groups to wake everybody up.

> What we perceive as reality is only a canvas waiting for us to draw  
> upon it any picture we want. Anything is possible, from bending  
> spoons with the power of the mind to the phantasmagoric events  
> experienced by Castaneda during his encounters with the Yaqui brujo  
> don Juan, for magic is our birthright, no more or less miraculous  
> than our ability to compute the reality we want when we are in our  
> dreams.
> Indeed, even our most fundamental notions about reality become  
> suspect, for in a holographic universe, as Pribram has pointed out,  
> even random events would have to be seen as based on holographic  
> principles and therefore determined. Synchronicities or meaningful  
> coincidences suddenly makes sense, and everything in reality would  
> have to be seen as a metaphor, for even the most haphazard events  
> would express some underlying symmetry.
> Whether Bohm and Pribram's holographic paradigm becomes accepted in  
> science or dies an ignoble death remains to be seen, but it is safe  
> to say that it has already had an influence on the thinking of many  
> scientists. And even if it is found that the holographic model does  
> not provide the best explanation for the instantaneous  
> communications that seem to be passing back and forth between  
> subatomic particles, at the very least, as noted by Basil Hiley, a  
> physicist at Birbeck College in London, Aspect's findings "indicate  
> that we must be prepared to consider radically new views of reality".
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Leon Maurer <leonmaurer@aol.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:55:22 AM
> Subject: Theos-World Lenny asks; What's new in scientific  
> philosophy that could straighten out everyone's mind?
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> Want to know what is going on at the cutting edges of the New
> Scientific Paradigm now coming around the bend -- which will soon
> verify Theosophical metaphysics along with my ABC field model that
> explains it all geometrically and electrodynamically?
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> Check out the following reference index of relevant articles and
> authors. Be selective. See the *real* world from different Points
> of view. Find out who and what we really are, and how we are all
> interconnected. Have fun.
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> http://twm.co. nz/ind3.html
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> For starters, read:
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> http://twm.co. nz/hologram. html And follow all the links
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