Matrix Radio Talks With Near Death Experiencers

Just listening to this right now.

Matrix Radio: The Miracle of Near Death Experiences

11:11

It's easy to get lost in numerology, so don't, but consider this.

On the outside chance that the holographic paradigm (see here) turns out to be correct, if that is the case, then it's not that there is some order to the universe - it's that order is all there is. Coincidences simply could not exist, they would be impossible, they would be the illusion, rather than the coventional view that 'meaningful coincidences' are the illusion and coincidences the reality.



And yes I often look at the clock when it says 11:11 or 9:11 or any 11 or 33 too. (Wonder if that's connected to Masonic numerology, they love their 33s don't they.) It makes one question one's reality...bear in mind I had not heard of the 11:11 phenomenon until recently, but when I read about it I realised that I had observed this myself before but did not think anything of it. The conventional explanation for this is conformation bias, which to an extent makes sense, but truly I don't know. It all depends on your worldview - materialism or idealism - I guess. The chicken or the egg.

Jeez, just realised my dob is 30/11...3 and 11...see this is what I mean by getting lost in numerology...

Videogames, Metaphysics and Life

You know, it may sound silly, but I have had some of my most significant realisations while parked in front of a console. I am not a fan of cheesy analogies, but here I must make exception.

See, life is indeed a lot like a videogame. We temporarily suspend our previous state of existence to enter a world, where we assume an avatar in order to experience that virtual world, to participate in it and perhaps to learn from it.

In theory, anything could happen in that world, although in practice limitations have been put in place by the designer of the videogame; laws, rules, things like 'game physics', all of which are arbitrary conditions dependent on the will of the designer. Really, although these are in one sense limiting, they are also essential - for without limits there can be no challenges and thus no acheivement.

But things can go wrong when playing videogames. I can attest to the fact that it is possible to literally go into a trance-like state and actually not hear things going on around you; this kind of thing has occasionally happened to me while playing that reptillian-brain-fest also known as Call of Duty online mode. Literally, people talk to you and it takes you a while to snap out enough to listen to them so that you can never tell what they-damn don't they understand that stoned American kid is shooting at me? Shut up!

And this recollection brings me, inevitably, to Bill Hicks. See, as he almost said, we can play a videogame, and it's got bright lights and it goes round and round, and some of us who've been playing for a long time, we start to think the game is real, and then some people who've remembered come back and tell us, "hey, it's just a game." And we - kill those people. (Or just yell at them!)

But I am done with videogames. I figured shooting in effigy thousands of people wasn't doing much for my soul or my psyche.

Alas, perhaps we have become transfixed on the game of life, and in starting to think it is 'real', that our material possessions are real and so on, we have lost sight of any sense of purpose here. Oh, it's a bloody important game - we do not know for sure that you can respawn once it is over - but a game it is nonetheless.

And that's where we are asking only half of the question. Everyone, rightly, wants to know what happens when we die. Nobody wants to stop existing...which implies that we intuitively know there is a purpose to our existence, despite constantly pleading to know 'why we are here'. But is it not an equally legitimate question, perhaps central to understanding the answer to the other one, that we ask what we were before birth?

Western religion does not discuss this at all, but I reckon if we believe we may exist beyond death, I say it's equally legitimate - perhaps essential - to consider that we may have existed before birth. If so, did we choose to come here? Would you, really? And if so, what are you here to accomplish? I rather naively hope we get some answers about all this when the game is over. For now though, enjoy the bright lights!

Atlantis: Real or Imagined?

The story of Atlantis is not limited to one culture or people; in fact, it is found among ancient cultures on both sides of the Atlantic ocean.

Now, how can that be? Let's run down a list of comparative mythical figures, names and concepts so you can make your own mind up...

- Plato's Atlantis (widely considered legend/fiction, perhaps could be analogous, or who knows could actually be historical...) text here

- Atlas, a Greek mythological figure who is a son of the sea (read between the first line)

- Arcadia, the part-geographical, part-utopian place referred to in ancient Greek culture

- Greek mythology relates the idea of a Golden Age; this could be considered analogous to the Biblical concept of the Garden of Eden, and ideas of a Ante-Diluvean state of existence, from which mankind 'fell', symbolically, to its current state. I would suggest that these stories are anything but the literal Word of God, and that they represent mysteries, but that's just me of course.

- Greek stories of Hesperides, again very interesting consistent symbolism

- Irish legend describes Tír na nÓg in similar themes to the idea of Atlantis, Golden Age etc. An island far to the west, beyond the edges of the map, the Land of Youth, where sickness and death do not exist.

- Welsh mythology speaks of Avalon; since this is more recent (12thC), one may suggest it could have come from Plato's work. Interestingly this word (see link) seems to have derived from one meaning 'apple', which is the fruit (although not actually present in the Bible) said to have been eaten by Eve in the popular concept of the Eden story.

(Up to now, things all seem reasonable and can be explained away as nice stories shared by travellers across Europe. Here's where things get weird. Let's cross the Atlantic and see what others have to say...)

- Atzlan, the "legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples" (Aztecs). Wikipedia says that, "In the mid-19th century, fringe theorist Ignatius L. Donnelly, in his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, sought to establish a connection between Aztlán and the fabled "lost continent" of Atlantis of Greek mythology; Donnelly's views, however, have never been recognised as credible by mainstream scholarship." (Of course they haven't, the similarities are too obvious, and the implications too great, for most of the letters-after-my-name club.)

- Atlaua is the Aztec water god.

- Atlantida is an ancient city in the Amazon river basin, said to have been built by Phonecian explorers. Now let's stop here - 4000 years ago, explorers from modern day Israel/Lebanon actually sailed to South America, according to conventional history! (and you believe Columbus 'discovered' the Americas)

CLEARLY THIS IS ALL BOLLOCKS.

I ask you not to notice the linguistical similarities and mythological similarities between these totally seperate cultures. I ask you not to question whether or not their similarity might indicate a common source. Clearly what we have been told about our history is 100% accurate. Nobody traversed the Atlantic before Columbus, for example, everyone knows that.

I am not interested to see what Ignatius L. Donnelly has to say about this; I will not be reading Atlantis: The Antediluvean World in due course...

If you want my opinion, I think Atlantis/Eden/"Paradise Lost" may well be partly physical, but also psychological...an imagination of a distant memory. Perhaps referring to a real time here on Earth, or perhaps not. Say, if reincarnation turns out to be real, and I by no means say one way or the other, this could be a faint memory of life between existences here, insane as that may sound. Perhaps it is a memory not of this world. What about if it is a trace leftover of alleged human genetic engineering? We also do genetic engineering...like father, like son, right? Who knows.

Incase you haven't noticed, I am on a quest to prove or disprove the saying that if you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out. ;)

For more info on this topic see here

Your Eyes Emit Energy?

You have probably had the experience of knowing you are being watched despite not actually seeing the person watching you (say, they are behind you). But 'science' says you must be making it up...right?

Psychiatrist's Research Finds You Really Can Feel a Person's Stare

best just to skip the MSM waffle and see the paper here:
The Electrophysiological Basis of Evil Eye Belief

Just wondering, if this is indeed correct, will the self professed 'sceptics' (who should therefore appreciate evidence supporting new/different ideas) at JREF pay out the million dollar prize and apologise for taking the piss out of him? I doubt it.

See also some of the Freaky Science here. Maybe there's more to existence than five senses and three dimensions?...although, you can't test that in a lab, so it must be BS, hmm? There are limits to the usefulness of empiricism, surely.

Patients Draw Near Death Experiences

Looks like the atheists were right, you are just meat and bone, this 3D world is all there is, death is real.

Or maybe...
http://photo.newsweek.com/content/photo/2008/10/photos-patients-draw-life-after-death-experiences.html

"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves." - Bill Hicks

The First Cause Argument

I have, as long as I can remember, been a fan of this simple piece of logic.

We live in a finite world. We live for a finite time. And the further we journey away from this finite world and finite timeframe (if, indeed, we could do so), who knows what we may find, but we may understand what has caused our current finite situation to be.

So what caused the Universe? And what caused the thing that caused the Universe? etc ad nauseum.

Now this could go on for quite some time, but the theory is that eventually some kind of infinite would be reached. Perhaps a God, though not necessarily anything like a human conception of God. Or perhaps we would find that energy existed for infinity as per the first law of thermodynamics, in which case we are all made of 'God'.

Today scientists discuss a 'prime mover' that may have set all energy in motion. While I am hardly a scientist, it seems that science is still grappling with similar ideas. And then there are legitimate scientific ideas about different dimensions, paralell universes, and so on. Which again could go on indefinitely, if indeed they exist. Apparently, quantum physics, now we're waaay out of my league here believe me, I'm no expert in the white coat department, but apparently that raises doubts about the nature of our reality too.

A little error I made earlier today was when I remarked that 'atheism puts people in a smaller box'. I did not mean atheism in the broad sense, I realise I specifically meant 'materialism', the doctrine that many but not all atheists subscribe to. The belief that the material world a) exists in physical form, and b) is all that exists. So, near death experiences, out of body experiences, any scientific ideas like the holographic paradigm, must not be even possible, because "the material world is all that is, hail Darwin, shut up creationist." Now that's a religion if ever I saw one! And it's my least favourite religion too, 'cause it doesn't even have a nice story to go with it.

In any case, we are where we are and we're not getting any divine assistance anytime soon, better make the best of it...

Christianity and Sun Worship - Ongoing Research

Thomas Paine wrote,
The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.

Could he be right?

The Cross

As I noted while discussing this recently, there is a link between the crucifixion and astrological charts, in which the Sun (Son) is very much 'on the Cross' (on zodiac diagrams with solstices and equinoxes marked by lines!).

Now of course, this is only a coincidence, since we all know Jesus was excecuted by being nailed to a cross anyway. But was he? I'm not saying he wasn't, I can't assess the validity of this, but have a look for yourself:

"Early Christians Never Used The Cross"

I can think of no other invented symbol of religion that gives a more horrific description than a man tortured in the throe of extreme agony while nailed to two wooden planks. But does the cross of Christianity really stand up to Biblical evidence?

Although a stake called a stauros (the Greek term used in the earliest Bible writings but where English versions incorrectly translate it to "cross") got used to execute criminals, there exists not a shred of evidence that a Biblical stauros describes a cross or even a T-shape. Regardless of whether you believe the cross as mythical or think it comes from the Bible, you will find nothing describing Jesus' execution with outstretched arms or nailed to a cross-like frame. I invite any Christian to look up the word 'cross' wherever it appears in the Bible and check the Greek version and see for yourself.

There occurs no cross in early Christian art before the middle of the 5th century, where it (probably) appears on a coin in a painting. The first clear crucifix appears in the late 7th century. Early Christians usually depicted their religion with a fish symbol (ichthus), dove, or bread of the Eucharist, but never Christ on a cross (or on a stick).

The first known conception of a Christian cross as a physical symbol began with Constantine's supposed 4th century conversion as a Christian. He allegedly had a miraculous vision in the sky of a cross composed of light with the inscription, "By this conquer." The Church father, Eusebius, described that, at night after his vision, Constantine dreamt that God commanded him to make a likeness of the sign to safeguard all engagements with the enemy. At dawn the next day Constantine allegedly told this to his army and ordered the symbol to be made in the form of a golden spear with a transverse bar (some traditions describe it as the Greek letter "X" (chi) with a "P" (rho) through it, the well-known monogram of Jesus). From then on Christian armies carried the cross symbol into battles. Christians who deny this story cannot escape the fact that the story derives from Euesbius's own writings and church fathers after him used this to support the symbol of the cross. Later on, and especially during the crusades, the cross became a permanent part of the uniform of a soldier. Thus the army of Christianity invented the symbol of the cross to symbolize battle (a spear) to represent Jesus and to protect their killers (the army). Christianity has remained a religious and political justification for war and violence ever since.

Any Christian who prays to a cross or wears one goes unwittingly flaunting, not only an unsupported historical assertion, but born as a war symbol from a blood-thirsty Roman ruler who forced orthodox Christianity onto the world.

The Crucifixion = fiction.

So is it possible that the cross was merely added later and that the story of Christ was either created from the start, or perverted later, to depict coded Sun/Son worship?

What about the "crown of thorns"? Could that be sun rays?

We are also told in the Bible we will see the Son coming in the clouds. Well, we may see the...sun...doing this every day! This may give an alternate meaning to other things like 'walking on water' (sun may appear to do so) and 'healing the sick' (we now know the sun's UV rays are vital for Vitamin D for our immune system) too, but that really is speculation.

The Christian Fish - Pisces

A popular Christian symbol is the fish. But perhaps this owes a lot to the astrology/astronomy of the time? We are currently in the age of Pisces, the fish, in terms of the procession of the Equinoxes. (Soon this 'age' will end, by the way, and the age of Aquarius will begin, hence the name of the 'New Age' belief systems.)

Important - see Wikipedia explanation of an 'astrological age'

Some believe that the origin of Christianity relates to the beginning of the astrological age of Pisces, perhaps that what is said to be the lifetime of Jesus was around a similar time to the 'dawning of the age of Pisces'. Although when the age of Pisces actually began is debatable (see the link immediately above). Phew, that's enough for now. To be continued. Have I offended anyone?

The 'Dark Side' of Christianity

Here's a different way of looking at some Christian rituals and practices. (It must be said that I am not an advocate of ritual and religion, though I remain very much open to the broad possibilities of our real reasons for being 'here'.)

(This post inspired to a degree by Incoming's heretical rambling. "What if", indeed.)

Each of these, on their own, may be overlooked as coincidences or such, but in combination I believe they warrant examination, for perhaps all is not as it seems.

1. The symbol of Christ on the cross.

This is a question that I believe ought to be raised - why is it that we kneel before this image? It is an apparently good guy being tortured to death! Perhaps, you may say, it represents Jesus dying for us, and to an extent I understand that point of view, but why not have a symbol of Jesus at a more dignifying point in the story of his life?

2. The altar.

I've never even thought about this until it occurred to me recently. Why is there an altar? Is something being offered to 'the gods'...a sacrifice perhaps? But that's at best 'pagan' and at worst downright evil (human sacrifice)! Doesn't go well with the deity image of a guy being strung up to die.

3. Communion.

This is the smoking gun to me at least. Here we have people, symbolically, dining on Jesus' flesh and blood...strange but true...and this is the moral institution on which we are to rely? He was killed on the cross, perhaps served on the altar, and now you're eating the guy!

So...perhaps Christians are unwittingly participating, albeit symbolically, in the same rituals as the devil worshipping human sacrificing cults? I suppose if you are coming from a Christian perspective you could look at it in terms of the Devil's trickery. But however you may interpret it, there does seem to be a 'dark side' to, or a 'darker interpretation' of, some elements of Christianity.

If you want to know more about the 'occult' symbolism which for some reason our ruling class have an obsession with hiding in plain sight everywhere, scope out Vigilant Citizen.

The pagan roots of Christianity are exposed - albeit from an atheist point of view - in the first part of Zeitgeist. Jesus may or may not have existed, though the prevalence of Sun/Son worship in this 'anti-pagan' religion cannot be ignored. And I'm not judging whether paganism is inherently good or bad, just that if Christians regard paganism as pure evil, they maybe ought to check their own faith before criticising others.

David Icke on Christianity - check out the symbolism! From Babylon to Rome...the same religion...?

Finally, I want to make it clear that I am not hostile to Christianity at all. I regard Christians as good people generally (well, I regard all people as good generally) and don't really have much time for the wedge issue Religion Wars that are used to divide our society against itself. Definitely Christianity is part of my heritage and I appreciate that, though I have to say that I also view it as a mind prison as much as any dogma is. In the modern world though, there are much more dangerous dogmas being pushed by our anti-Christian ruling class in their efforts to forge a one-world Malthusian-Huxleyite anti-human quasi-Luciferian eugenics religion.

My rough guide to religion:
"If some guy wants you to kneel, it's probably not for your own good"
"If there is an all-powerful being, he/she/it would forgive me for being a little sceptical now and then"
"Anyone who wants you to sacrifice this world for 'the next' is a liar"
"Materialism, belief in the physical existence of the outside world, is a religion every bit as much as Theism"
To me, agnosticism is merely honesty.

Virtual Reality Universe?

Trippy...

The Amazing Holographic Universe

By Michael Talbot

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.

Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.

Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.

University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.

To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser.

To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film.

When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears.

The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose.

Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole.

The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts.

A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.

This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.

To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration.

Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side.

As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them.

When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.

This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment.

According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality.

Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.

In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.

The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky.

Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.

In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order.

At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.

What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be -- every configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from bluü whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of "All That Is."

Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain more. Or as he puts it, perhaps the superholographic level of reality is a "mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity of further development".

Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the universe is a hologram. Working independently in the field of brain research, Standford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of the holographic nature of reality.

Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown that rather than being confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout the brain.

In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was that no one was able to come up with a mechanism that might explain this curious "whole in every part" nature of memory storage.

Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking for. Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram.

Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in so little space. It has been estimated that the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime (or roughly the same amount of information contained in five sets of the Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity for information storage--simply by changing the angle at which the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it is possible to record many different images on the same surface. It has been demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of information.

Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information we need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more understandable if the brain functions according to holographic principles. If a friend asks you to tell him what comes to mind when he says the word "zebra", you do not have to clumsily sort back through ome gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive at an answer. Instead, associations like "striped", "horselike", and "animal native to Africa" all pop into your head instantly.

Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process is that every piece of information seems instantly cross- correlated with every other piece of information--another feature intrinsic to the hologram. Because every portion of a hologram is infinitely interconnected with evey 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 smell is in part dependent on what are now called "osmic frequencies", and that even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that it is only in the holographic domain of consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and divided up into conventional perceptions.

But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm's theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is "there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality?

Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion.

We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram.

This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm, and although many scientists have greeted it with skepticism, it has galvanized others. A small but growing group of researchers believe it may be the most accurate model of reality science has arrived at thus far. More than that, some believe it may solve some mysteries that have never before been explainable by science and even establish the paranormal as a part of nature.

Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noted that many para-psychological phenomena become much more understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm.

In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible portions of the greater hologram and everything is infinitely interconnected, telepathy may merely be the accessing of the holographic level.

It is obviously much easier to understand how information can travel from the mind of individual 'A' to that of individual 'B' at a far distance point and helps to understand a number of unsolved puzzles in psychology. In particular, Grof feels the holographic paradigm offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness.


Creation - Holographic Universe - 2

In the 1950s, while conducting research into the beliefs of LSD as a psychotherapeutic tool, Grof had one female patient who suddenly became convinced she had assumed the identity of a female of a species of prehistoric reptile. During the course of her hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of what it felt like to be encapsuled in such a form, but noted that the portion of the male of the species's anatomy was a patch of colored scales on the side of its head.

What was startling to Grof was that although the woman had no prior knowledge about such things, a conversation with a zoologist later confirmed that in certain species of reptiles colored areas on the head do indeed play an important role as triggers of sexual arousal.

The woman's experience was not unique. During the course of his research, Grof encountered examples of patients regressing and identifying with virtually every species on the evolutionary tree (research findings which helped influence the man-into-ape scene in the movie Altered States). Moreover, he found that such experiences frequently contained obscure zoological details which turned out to be accurate.

Regressions into the animal kingdom were not the only puzzling psychological phenomena Grof encountered. He also had patients who appeared to tap into some sort of collective or racial unconscious. Individuals with little or no education suddenly gave detailed descriptions of Zoroastrian funerary practices and scenes from Hindu mythology. In other categories of experience, individuals gave persuasive accounts of out-of-body journeys, of precognitive glimpses of the future, of regressions into apparent past-life incarnations.

In later research, Grof found the same range of phenomena manifested in therapy sessions which did not involve the use of drugs. Because the common element in such experiences appeared to be the transcending of an individual's consciousness beyond the usual boundaries of ego and/or limitations of space and time, Grof called such manifestations "transpersonal experiences", and in the late '60s he helped found a branch of psychology called "transpersonal psychology" devoted entirely to their study.

Although Grof's newly founded Association of Transpersonal Psychology garnered a rapidly growing group of like-minded professionals and has become a respected branch of psychology, for years neither Grof or any of his colleagues were able to offer a mechanism for explaining the bizarre psychological phenomena they were witnessing. But that has changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm.

As Grof recently noted, if the mind is actually part of a continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only to every other mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and region in the vastness of space and time itself, the fact that it is able to occasionally make forays into the labyrinth and have transpersonal experiences no longer seems so strange.

The holographic prardigm also has implications for so-called hard sciences like biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Virginia Intermont College, has pointed out that if the concreteness of reality is but a holographic illusion, it would no longer be true to say the brain produces consciousness. Rather, it is consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain -- as well as the body and everything else around us we interpret as physical.

Such a turnabout in the way we view biological structures has caused researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process could also be transformed by the holographic paradigm. If the apparent physical structure of the body is but a holographic projection of consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is much more responsible for our health than current medical wisdom allows. What we now view as miraculous remissions of disease may actually be due to changes in consciousness which in turn effect changes in the hologram of the body.

Similarly, controversial new healing techniques such as visualization may work so well because in the holographic domain of thought images are ultimately as real as "reality".

Even visions and experiences involving "non-ordinary" reality become explainable under the holographic paradigm. In his book "Gifts of Unknown Things," biologist Lyall Watson discribes his encounter with an Indonesian shaman woman who, by performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly vanish into thin air. Watson relates that as he and another astonished onlooker continued to watch the woman, she caused the trees to reappear, then "click" off again and on again several times in succession.

Although current scientific understanding is incapable of explaining such events, experiences like this become more tenable if "hard" reality is only a holographic projection.

Perhaps we agree on what is "there" or "not there" because what we call consensus reality is formulated and ratified at the level of the human unconscious at which all minds are infinitely interconnected.

If this is true, it is the most profound implication of the holographic paradigm of all, for it means that experiences such as Watson's are not commonplace only because we have not programmed our minds with the beliefs that would make them so. In a holographic universe there are no limits to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality.

What we perceive as reality is only a canvas waiting for us to draw upon it any picture we want. Anything is possible, from bending spoons with the power of the mind to the phantasmagoric events experienced by Castaneda during his encounters with the Yaqui brujo don Juan, for magic is our birthright, no more or less miraculous than our ability to compute the reality we want when we are in our dreams.

Indeed, even our most fundamental notions about reality become suspect, for in a holographic universe, as Pribram has pointed out, even random events would have to be seen as based on holographic principles and therefore determined. Synchronicities or meaningful coincidences suddenly makes sense, and everything in reality would have to be seen as a metaphor, for even the most haphazard events would express some underlying symmetry.

Whether Bohm and Pribram's holographic paradigm becomes accepted in science or dies an ignoble death remains to be seen, but it is safe to say that it has already had an influence on the thinking of many scientists. And even if it is found that the holographic model does not provide the best explanation for the instantaneous communications that seem to be passing back and forth between subatomic particles, at the very least, as noted by Basil Hiley, a physicist at Birbeck College in London, Aspect's findings "indicate that we must be prepared to consider radically new views of reality".

Interesting - Bible Codes and the Universe

I would hardly describe myself as 'Christian', but this is a fascinating little detail. Critically examine it and make of it what you will.

http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/SODA_chapter11.html

This does NOT necessarily implicate 'divinity' being involved in writing the text. Although some people will choose to perceive it that way, and so be it. But what it does mean is that whoever wrote it had a fantastic understanding the likes of which we do not usually attribute to human civilisation two millennia ago.

So what are the implications of this remarkable knowledge being around then?

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