What is the New Real?

Electrons sometimes communicate with each other instantly even if they are billions of miles apart. It doesn’t matter whether they are 10 inches or 10 billion miles apart. This was discovered in 1982 at the University of Paris by a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect. He discovered that communication can travel faster than the speed of light.

Such instantly communicating particles are not individual entities, argues University of London physicist David Bohm, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something. He believes our universe is actually a gigantic super-hologram.

Working independently in the field of brain research, Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of the holographic nature of reality.

The brain works as a kind of lens, translating the frequencies it receives from our five senses—sight, sound, touch, hearing, and taste—into what appears to be the concrete world of our perceptions.  Pribram believes the brain uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions.

The most interesting aspect of Pribram’s holographic model of the brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm’s theory. If the solidity of the world is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram, selecting some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforming 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. 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 sea of frequency in the super-hologram.

This new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram’s views, is called the holographic paradigm. A small but growing number of researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science has arrived at so far. It may solve mysteries, psychological and otherwise, that have never before been explainable by science.

With the phenomenon of telepathy, for example, it is now much easier to understand how information can travel from the mind of individual ‘A’ to that of individual ‘B’ at a distance.

Consensus reality determines what is called “bizarre” and what is called “normal.”  Consensus reality itself is formulated and ratified at the unconscious level, where all minds are infinitely interconnected.

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 make sense.

Aspect’s findings have opened the door to new ways of thinking. As all things we think are “really there” are revealed to be a sort of interference pattern, metaphysics is the new real.

Some Suggested Questions for Discussion:

1. We like to categorize what we see and have experienced, of course, but according to the holographic paradigm all the distinctions we have learned to make must be false, unreal, or artificial. Does this mean we must feel uncertain and confused about everything? Does this mean we must live in fear of the unknown? What does it mean?
2. Have you ever experienced a flash of insight or known something you couldn’t possibly know through the ordinary five senses?
3. Many married people can anticipate each other’s thoughts and actions. Mothers can sense many things about their own children. This is not considered unusual. Would you call this telepathy or mind reading? Or would you simply say that this is called intimacy?
4. Whether something is considered bizarre or ordinary seems to depend on the words we use to talk about it, doesn’t it?
5. Do you think most people become frightened when confronted with something they cannot explain?
6. Do you feel better when something scary has been explained by science? Or don’t you care about that?

Based on text supplied by an anonymous author at: http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2oRiKk/www.thelovinggod.com/2007/09/holographic-paradigm.html/

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