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Since childhood I have been fascinated by holograms. The reason

was the science fiction movie Star Wars and in 1984 I watched it
for the first time. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Princess Leia spoke
these famous words in a hologram, projected from the droid R2D2.
Numerous holograms also appeared in science fiction movies like
Star Trek, Avatar, and Promotheus.

Could these science fiction movies have predicted a holographic

future already way back then? What will happen with the
development of the 3D technology in Blu Ray, cinemas, the internet
or in other areas? Could the idea of a holographic mind or brain be
a breakthrough? We also hear different psychics, channelers and
spiritual teachers talking about the Akashic Field of information
being of a holographic nature. And what does science tell us about
holograms?

In this article I will offer you a few glimpses of holograms in the

world of science and spirituality. Enjoy the ride with me!

Holograms and Quantum Mechanics

Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind and Nobel prize winnerGerard
`t Hooft have each presented calculations showing what happens

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when you try to combine quantum and relativistic descriptions of

space-time. They found that, mathematically speaking, the fabric
should be a 2D surface, and the grains should act like the dots in a
vast cosmic image, defining the resolution of our 3D universe.
Quantum mechanics also tells us that these grains should
experience random jitters that might occasionally blur the
projection and thus be detectable.

Stanford professor in psychology and psychiatry, Karl Pribram and

others noted similarities between brain processes and the storage
of information in a hologram, which also uses Fourier
Transformations. In a hologram, any part of the hologram with
sufficient size contains the whole of the stored information. In this
theory, a piece of a long-term memory is similarly distributed over a
dendritic arbor so that each part of the dendritic network contains
all the information stored over the entire network. This model
allows for important aspects of human consciousness, including the
fast associative memory that allows for connections between
different pieces of stored information and the non-locality of
memory storage (a specific memory is not stored in a specific
location, i.e. a certain neuron).

A new experiment: The Holometer

The Department of Energys Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
is engaging in an interesting experiment that bears the sci-fi name
The Holometer. The goal is to answer some questions about the
universe, including whether or not we actually live in a hologram.

Characters on TV are 3D, but they exist on a 2D screen. In the

same way, we could be blissfully unaware that our 3D universe is
just an illusion. It could very well be that you and me and
everything in between, seemingly solid, is nothing more than a
hologram.

Matter is the result of a frequency, even the matter that makes up

you, the chair youre sitting in, the house you live in, the dog
youre petting; everything. If frequencies are amplified, the
structure of matter will change. Equally, if you change anything
about the hologram, you can change the entire system.

So what happens when you sit too close to your TV? Youll notice
pixels. The tiny points of light that make a perfect image if you take
a step back. Scientists have begun to think that the universes
information may be packed up in the same way. But this pixel
could be 10 trillion times smaller than an atom what physicists
refer to as the Planck scale.

Some theoretical physicists suspect that space-time is pixelated.

Its grainy, in a way. And since a 2D surface cant store the
necessary information to render a 3D object, these pixels would be
larger in a hologram. Being in the [holographic] universe is like

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being in a 3D movie, says Craig Hogan of Fermilab in Batavia

Illinois. On a large scale, it looks smooth and three dimensional,
but if you get close to the screen, you can see that it is flat and
pixelated.

We want to find out whether space-time is a quantum system just

like matter is, Hogan continues. If we see something, it will
change the ideas about space weve used for thousands of years.

The experiment seeks to probe the limits of the universes ability to

store information. What they call Holographic noise is expected to
be present in all frequencies, but the scientists challenge is not to
be fooled by other sources of vibrations. The Holometer is testing a
frequency of millions of cycles per second, incredibly high, so the
motions of normal matter wont cause any confusion.

A positive result will open a whole new avenue of questioning

about how space works. If this experiment yields a positive result,
it would change every assumption we have about the world we live
in. It would show that everything is a projection from a flat surface,
possibly billions of light years away. The Holometer experiment will
gather data in 2015. Find out more about the experiment here.

Holographic future technology and computer simulation

In 2015, Amazon (the American international e-commerce
company) plans to unveil a new smartphone with a 3D holographic
display.

According to the most recent murmurings on the subject from no

less than the Wall Street Journal the device creates stereoscopic
images without the need for 3D glasses by tracking the position of
each of the user s eyes and projecting the appropriate image into
each.

Other companies are working on similar tech, and a startup called

Liquid 3D aims to specialize in providing depth-defying screens for
other vendors.

In 2011, while promoting the 3D movie HUGO (2012), visionary

movie director Martin Scorsese said: The idea of holographic
movies is an inevitability. If everything moves along and theres no
major catastrophe, were headed toward holograms. You have to
think that way. Dont let fashion and economics inhibit you.

What if the whole universe is like a computer simulation, as we can

see in the movie The Matrix? Plato wondered about if the world as
we perceive it is an illusion. Furthermore, standard computer
models are based on a 3D grid. If the universe is a vast grid, the
motions and distributions of high-energy particles called cosmic
rays may reveal similar anomalies.

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In 2013, a paper by MIT engineer Seth Lloyd builds a case for an

equally exciting concept: If space-time is made of quantum bits, the
universe must be one giant quantum computer. And if the universe
is a computer program, who or what wrote the code?

Holographic view of spirituality, non-duality and mystical

experiences
I think there are a lot of benefits to a holographic view or model of
the universe. There are some interesting observations you can
make, which could easily lead to a breakthrough in science:

1. A holographic model of the universe might be able to explain nearly all

spiritual and mystical experiences.
2. Near-death experiences can be explained by a holographic universe: death
is merely a shifting of a person`s consciousness from one level of the
hologram of reality to another.
3. Current neurophysiological models of the brain are inadequate and only a
holographic model can explain such things as archetypal experiences,
encounters with the collective unconscious, and other unusual phenomena
experienced during altered states of consciousness.
4. A holographic model for the universe explains lucid dreams, in which such
dreams are visits to parallel realities.
5. The holographic model can explain synchronicity. Our thought processes are
much more intimately connected to the physical world than has been
previously thought. Also note that synchronicity tends to peak just prior to a
new realization or insight.
6. Telepathy, precognition, mystical feelings of oneness with the universe, and
even psychokinesis can be explained through the holographic model.
7. Holography can explain how our brains can store so many memories in so
little space (our brains can store 280,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits of
information).
8. Holography can also explain how we are able to recall and forget, how we
are able to have associative memory, how we have the ability to recognize
familiar things, how we have the ability for the transference of new skills, how
we have the ability to construct a world out there, how we are able to have
phantom limb sensations, and how we are able to have a photographic
memory.
9. The brain itself would therefore be a holographic projection created out of a
primary reality outside of space and time.

Quantum perception, hologram and information

In an article in the Huffington Post, system theorist, integral
theorist and Philosopher of Science Ervin Laszlo argues that a
quantum-perception of the world is just as real as its sensory
perception:

All things in space and time emit waves, and these waves interact
with the waves produced by other things. They create wave
interference patterns. Pressure waves in the air, and electric and
magnetic waves in the EM field diminish with distance, and the
patterns they produce are limited to our immediate vicinity.

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However, quantum waves (waves that propagate in the nearly

infinite virtual-energy domain that fills cosmic space) move
instantly over any distance. The kinds of interference patterns they
create constitute quantum holograms, and quantum holograms are
entangled with each other they are instantly connected. As a
result, the information carried by one quantum hologram can be
transferred to any other quantum hologram. Thus a system that can
read the information in one hologram has access to the
information carried by all. Our quantum-resonance-decoding brain
could in principle capture information on anything and everything
that creates quantum-interference waves in the universe.

Evidently, to capture this kind of information, our brain must have

the corresponding receptivity. Scientists are now beginning to
understand how quantum-hologram receptivity might be built into
the brain.

It appears that quantum-level signals are picked up by

microstructures in our brains cytoskeleton (the cytoskeleton is a
protein-based structure that maintains the integrity of living cells,
including neurons). The neurons in the brain are organized into a
network of microtubules of microscopic size but astronomical
number. There are about 1 x 10 18 microtubules in the human brain,
and merely 1 x 10 11 neurons (though this number is still larger
than the number of stars in the galaxy). With filaments just five to
six nanometers in diameter, our network of microtubules the so-
called microtrabecular lattice is believed to capture, process,
and convey information.

Physicist Roger Penrose and neurophysiologist Stuart Hameroff

claim that consciousness emerges from these quantum-level
elements of the brains cytoskeleton. The microtrabecular lattice
could be responsible for the quantum-receptivity of our brain,
picking up, transforming, and interpreting information based on
phase-conjugate resonance.

Holographic future?
What kind of impact will a breakthrough in holographic technology
have on our view of the universe, on nature and on us humans?
Will it open new doors in the perception of science, the universe
and of us? Will we have a clearer understanding of the holographic
nature of the Akashic Field of information?

Being futuristic, I am positive that our own imagination, and

science fiction movies, might have the answer to these questions.

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