The Holographic Universe • by Michael Talbot

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In his book The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot* brings a real talent for making complicated concepts easy to understand, and his enthusiasm for sharing information and ideas never wanes. His loss to leukemia at age 38 was a huge set-back to the world of mind-opening ideas.

eminent scientists suggest the universe may be a hologram

Talbot reminds us of the Princess Leia hologram scene in the first Star Wars movie — “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope” — and then continues:

There is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it — from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons — are also only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality so beyond our own it is literally beyond both space and time.

The main architects of this astonishing idea are two of the world’s most eminent thinkers: University of London physicist David Bohm, a protege of Einstein’s and one of the world’s most respected quantum physicists; and Karl Pribram, a neurophysiologist at Stanford University and author of the classic neuropsychological textbook Languages of the Brain.

Talbot gives us a clear, in-depth look at the theories of these two eminent scientists and how they came to develop their ideas of a holographic universe:

Pribram realized that if the holographic brain model was taken to its logical conclusions, it opened the door on the possibility that objective reality — the world of coffee cups, mountain vistas, elm trees, and table lamps — might not even exist, or at least not exist in the way we believe it exists. Was it possible, he wondered, that what the mystics had been saying for centuries was true, reality was maya, an illusion, and what was out there was really a vast, resonating symphony of wave forms, a “frequency domain” that was transformed into the world as we know it only after it entered our senses?

Realizing that the solution he was seeking might lie outside the province of his own field, he went to his physicist son for advice. His son recommended he look into the work of a physicist named David Bohm. When Pribram did he was electrified. He not only found the answer to his question, but also discovered that according to Bohm, the entire universe was a hologram.

the holographic model of the universe explains the paranormal

Talbot himself had a childhood full of mystical experiences that conventional science labels “impossible”, so he was excited by the way the holographic model of the universe proposed by noted scientists explains many such paranormal experiences, such as telepathy, precognition, mystical feelings of oneness, out-of-body and near-death experiences, lucid dreams, telekinesis, and miraculous healings.

But Talbot was also an intelligent person who sought the truth, and, again and again, he offers solid proof of key components of the theory, clearly explained, along with a fascinating collection of ideas regarding what it would mean if it’s shown to be true. He is, of course, very familiar with science’s skepticism concerning the “paranormal” and keeps his standards rigorous.

What is the human energy field made of? Does the past still exist, as a hologram? Is heaven a hologram? Talbot gets right in there and tackles some amazing questions from a smart but “I’ve-seen-things-come-into-my-room” perspective of someone who knows what he has experienced, and thus knows it’s possible. He brings the reader along on his exploration, excited to show you what’s going on, imbuing you with a heady sense of adventure and discovery.