The holographic universe just made it to the top of my list

I’ll talk about bulkhead seats in another future post. I just wanted to say the holographic universe just made it to the top of my list. Don’t be misled by its title – if you’re a universe / quantum / multiverse / consciousness fanatic then this book is highly recommended.

In case youre wondering, I was on a San Diego – Narita – HKG flight via JAL when I was reading the Holographic Universe. And yes… this was posted to my IG story.

In a nutshell without divulging much this sentence lifted from the book could summarize it all:

“…if the holographic brain model was taken to its logical conclusions, it opened the door on the possibility that the objective reality — the world of coffee cups, mountain vistas, elm trees, and table lams — might not even exist, or at least not exist in the way we believe it exists.”

I’ve made a few other notes that you may or most probably will not find helpful:
 

  • “Wolf believes that such dreams are actually visits to parallel realities” – I personally believe this could be true. Was wondering about dreams and how some dreams have a ‘continuity’ or a life of its own such that you remember within the dream the supposedly past events of that dream, but of course you wouldn’t think it is a dream only when you wake up you realize that you dreamt of something that is the continuance of a previous dream.
       
  • “… this means that if we knew how to access it we could find the Andromeda galaxy in the thumbnail of our left hand. We could also find Cleopatra meeting Caesar for the first time, for in principle the whole past and implications for the whole future are also enfolded in each small region of space and time.”
     
  • “One of the most unusual features of the brain is that the object itself doesn’t sense pain directly.”
      
  • “Our sense of smell seems to be based on what are called osmic frequencies.”
     
  • “…some evidence that taste may involve frequency analysis. Interestingly Bekesy also discovered that the mathematical equations that enabled him to predict how his subjects would respond to various frequencies of vibration were also of Fourier genre”
     
  • “Imagine owning a bowling ball that was only a bowling ball when you looked at it.”
     
  • “…dividing the universe into living and nonliving things also has no meaning. Animate and inanimate matter are inseparably interwoven, and life, too, is enfolded throughout the totality of the universe.”
     
  • “…most physicists go about it the wrong way, by once again trying to fragment reality and saying that one separate thing, consciousness, interacts with another separate thing, a subatomic particle.”
     
  • “…consciousness is a more subtle form of matter, and a basis for any relationship  between the two lies not in our own level of reality, but deep in the implicate order.”
If you are curious to read this, please do so with a very open mind and an attitude that perhaps we know very little of the nature of our existence simply because our human pride is programmed for us not to easily grasp the concept that we ourselves are probably just abstractions, and that what we thought we see or perceive are also just abstractions.

 

The Holographic Universe is written by Michael Talbot, an American author who have written books with themes highlighting parallels between consciousness and quantum mechanics.