THE HOLOGRAPHIC PARADIGM

The three previous sections in which Gabor, Bohm and Pribram demonstrate the function and implications of the discovery of holograms begin to reveal the nature of the holographic paradigm.  

More than anything, a paradigm is a belief informed by established beliefs about what is and what is not, what is good and what is bad, what is real or fiction.  In science, a paradigm is the result of what has been discovered up to the present.  For example, the belief that the sun revolved around the earth was the paradigm of the pre-Copernican world.

When Copernicus appeared on the scene and claimed that the system was heliocentric, that is, that the earth revolves around the sun, nobody believed him.  This is easy to understand.  When your thinking is conditioned by the norms of a particular paradigm, anything extraneous to that model is seen as being outrageous.  While people did not feel the movement of the earth, they witnessed the movement of the sun across the sky every single day.  So why should they be expected to believe that the earth revolves around the sun?  People are so convinced of what they have been told it is almost impossible to make them see the parameters of a new reality.  Yet, as more and more people become aware of a new concept, it gradually becomes normalized, ultimately being accepted as "truth” by everyone and thus signaling a paradigm shift. 

And this is precisely what has been occurring from the second half of the last century up to the present.  The discovery of holograms and String Theory was the coup de grace that began to lay old conceptions to rest, opening the door to a new way of thinking. This new way of thinking demolishes the old foundations at the core of Newtonian physics and the pyramidal system that still govern many facets of science and contemporary life, positing instead a quantum world in which new laws and theories have amazing things to tell us.  

Thanks to the discovery of quantum matter, we know that at the sub-atomic level everything is made up of the same thing, which means that everything is connected.  At first we believed that atoms were everything, but later learned that atoms themselves consist of a nucleus orbited by a cloud of electrons.  These parts, like atoms, are composed of numerous additional particles called quarks.  We also know that these particles have a wave-like nature.    

A little later, with the discovery of holograms, we realized that the way our body and brain store information is very similar to the way information is stored in holograms.  And not only this, we learned that there is an enfolded reality that “unfolds” what we are able to see and feel.  In other words, we are holograms that project and interpret a holographic universe.   

This all suggests that everything that exists is made up of interconnected particles/waves.  Since the whole is in the part and the part is in the whole, theoretically it follows that we, as part of the whole, are capable of gaining access to the source from which everything unfolds.  Our thinking is made up of the same elements as the original organizer of the universe.       

Physicists and astronomers have confirmed that the true nature of the universe is immaterial.  It is energy, light that arranges itself in different ways, creating what we know as matter.  In fact, the definition of matter is “stored inertia.”  In other words, matter is simply light spinning round in such rapid circles that the enormous amount of inertia that the movement creates gives it a solid appearance.        

Let’s stop for a moment and examine the following notion.  Holographic theory says that our brains mathematically construct a solid reality when interpreting frequencies from a dimension that transcends space and time, that is, a dimension where, since everything is connected, energy does not need to travel from “here” to “there,” because there is no “there.”  

In a universe where events are not subject to space and time, reasoning based on cause and effect cannot be used to describe it.  Concepts such as up and down, left and right, forward and backward in time have no use.  Physical phenomena such as matter are merely by-products of the ubiquitous matrix.  Individual minds are pieces of a larger hologram and, under certain circumstances, have access to all the information in the system.  This is also called “illumination,” or connection beyond space and time.        

Synchronicity, or coincidences that we know are more than mere chance, also adapts to the holographic model.  Psychokinesis, the power of mind over matter, is also a natural result of the interaction with reality at the primary level.  The holographic model also solves the old enigma of why machines are unable to detect the apparent transfer of telepathic, curative and clairvoyant energies.  Since everything is connected in space and time, energy has no need to move, because it is already “there.”      

It is extremely important to understand that the belief that we are separate from things is an illusion.  The air that forms the space we think of as being empty and that we move through consists of the same thing as we do.  At another level, the earth moves through what we consider to be empty space, or exterior space, but scientists know that a cubic centimeter of that nothing/emptiness contains more energy than all the matter in the universe.  In any case, that amount of energy should be what holds everything together.