Quantum Love of Life

the Holographic Universe

2008-07-07T00:06:00.000-07:00

Reality - the Holographic Universe - 03/16/97

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This file was posted as REALITY.ASC on the KeelyNet BBS on February 24, 1991.

THE UNIVERSE AS A HOLOGRAM
DOES OBJECTIVE REALITY EXIST,
OR IS THE UNIVERSE A PHANTASM?

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 blue 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 Encyclopedia 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 one 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 ever 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 he 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 (Buddha, Hindu, Islam/Sufi Tasawuf, Tao) 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.

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’ 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 nor 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 paradigm 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 describes 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 (the religions of the East) 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 make 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".

Vanguard notes...

This is one of the most fascinating files we have seen since it seems to offer a hypothesis which "synthesizes" a multitude of phenomena including that generally classed as "paranormal." Related files on KeelyNet are the complete MIND series and VEDA1.

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Holographic Reality of Being

2008-07-07T00:03:00.000-07:00

Holographic Reality of Being:
The Nonlocal Universal Mind

Cosmology and Culutre
December 1999

The main purpose of this paper is to explore conceptions of the mind and universe in context with a new paradigm shift in human consciousness. The foundation for this term paper will be based on easy to understand connections made between quantum theory, non-locality, Bell’s theorem, and holograms. The goal is to open new avenues of understanding concerning the interconnectedness of all things in the broadest possible sense. Utilizing new scientific work concerning non-locality and holodynamics, we may be able to break down the apparent separateness that seemingly pervades human experiential observations. Key concepts will include the idea that each part of everything essentially contains the whole, and that everything is pervaded by underlying levels of interconnectedness.

"Bell's theorem proves that any model of reality, whether ordinary or contextual, must be connected by influences which do not respect the optical speed limit. If Bell's theorem is valid, we live in a superluminal reality. Bell's discovery of the necessary non-locality of deep reality is the most important achievement in reality research since the invention of quantum theory."

Nick Herbert in Quantum Reality

We experience material reality in the form of separate objects. However, modern physics is developing a conceptual understanding of the physical universe as an interconnected whole. New scientific insights concerning the nature of reality in relation to quantum theory are beginning to produce a new understanding in which nothing is separable from anything else. We are beginning to find that although this perceived separation between material objects is experientially real, it is not ultimately real.

Quantum Crystallizations of the Non-local Universal Mind

Let us begin with the classical misconception by addressing the fundamental assumptions of Newtonian physics. In a very general sense, it was thought that science could be used to lift the veil of man’s ignorance to reveal the ultimate reality that existed out there. It was assumed that physical objects existed separate from each other. They were also seen as existing separate from space. The classical conception of the relationship between physical reality and space is analogous to the relationship of billiard balls to a pool table. The behavior of physical reality was described as the interactions of the billiard balls. The table itself was seen as completely separate from what occurred on it. In this way, classical physics viewed space as nothing more than an arena where the interactions of physical objects took place.

With the advent of Einstein’s theory of relativity, new relationships were taken into account. Specifically, it was observed that physical reality was inseparable from the spatial structure. In relativistic physics, material reality was still described as separately existent objects interacting like billiard balls. However, the connection was made between the structure of the billiard balls and the structure of the pool table on which the game was played. Ultimately, time and space, which were previously considered independent of each other, were now seen to be relative or related to each other through the underlying spatial structure of space-time.

It wasn’t long after Einstein’s insight into the interconnectedness of space and time that a new science began to emerge which we call quantum physics. This strange new science, which physicists encountered as they peered deeper and deeper in the structure of the atom, revealed a reality that was everything but consistent with common sense. By this I mean that the predictions the theory makes about the nature of reality do not correspond to our usual sensory perception of physical reality. However, quantum theory is the most accurate method physicists have for predicting the behavior of physical reality.

One startling feature of the quantum model is that electrons, as well as other subatomic particles, are not really objects at all. In addition, an electron can manifest as either a wave or a particle. An electron can be fired at a screen to reveal a tiny point of light, thus clearly revealing the particle-like side of its nature. However, the electron can also behave as a blurry cloud of energy. If fired at a barrier, in which two slits have been cut, the electron can go through both slits simultaneously. 1

A popular interpretation of the evidence suggests that the electron manifests as a particle only when it is being observed. For example, when an electron isn’t being looked at, experimental findings suggest that it is always a wave. In another slightly different interpretation, it is the method of observation that determines which aspect of the electrons nature will manifest. Conceptually, we could say that what we experience as physical reality does not exist in a defined or definite state prior to the act of observation. Similarly, it is the act of observation itself which somehow defines the state of physical reality. This line of thought represents a radical break from classical physics in that there is no longer any reality out there which we are struggling to uncover. For indeed, any interaction we make somehow effects that which we are trying to observe.

Quantum theory also predicts another fascinating phenomena which is known as non-locality. It is quite obvious to our sensory perception of physical reality that things have specific locations. However, David Bohm, a protégé of Einstein and one of the world’s most respected quantum physicists, held the view that at the quantum level, location ceased to exist. In other words, all points in space became equal to all other points in space, and it was meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. A non-local interaction links up one location with another without crossing space, without decay, and without delay. Simply put, a non-local interaction is unmediated, unmitigated, and immediate. 2

Bohm’s conception of non-locality enabled him to give an explanation for what is known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, or EPR paradox. In short, the paradox describes the problem of how two twin particles can seemingly communicate instantaneously which each other. The problem is that, according to Einstein’s theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, let alone instantaneously. Bohm’s interpretation of the EPR paradox is that the twin particles are not separate, but non-locally connected. 3

In 1964, a theoretical physicist named John Stewart Bell devised a simple and elegant mathematical proof which demonstrated how non-locality could be experimentally verified. This proof is known as Bell’s theorem. The only problem was that the testing of his theorem required a level of technological precision that was not yet available. 4 It wasn’t until 1982 that physicists Alain Aspect, Jean Dalibard and Gerard Roger of the Institute of Optics at the University of Paris succeeded in verifying the twin particle test that had been outlined by Bell.

In what is now known as the Aspect experiments, the non-local effect was demonstrated by producing a series of twin particles, allowing them to travel in opposite directions, and then measuring certain characteristics of the particles. Quantum particles, when observed, display what is known as a spin state. In general, this characteristic comes in complementary pairs, such as an up or down spin state. In order to understand the type of experiments performed by Aspect and his team, let’s consider the following simple variation. Imagine two particles which together have a zero net spin state. That is they each have opposite spin states relative the other, thus canceling when they are combined. However, according to quantum theory, the precise state of each particle’s spin characteristic is undefined until it is observed. Since the two particles must have opposite spin states, determining the spin state of one of the particles through observation determines the spin state of the other particle. 5

In quantum theory, the spin states do not just exist to be revealed by observation. The spin states are in some way the product of observation. So, the observation and determination of one spin state then gives the other particle a spin state. Prior to the initial observation, each particle has only a potential spin state, which when determined, has to be the opposite of the other. In the experiments led by Aspect, the particles fly away from each other at the speed of light and are allowed to travel a relatively great distance. Then, a primary measurement is made to determine the spin of one of the particles. After this measurement has been made, the spin state of the second particle is measured and is always observed to be in the opposite spin state relative to the first. For a more rigorous explanation of the actual way this experiment would be conducted, please refer to the text of Quantum Dynamics of Morphing Psy ~ Trance ~ Formations.

The amazing thing is that the observation of one particle instantaneously determines the spin state of the other particle regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn’t matter if they’re ten feet apart or ten billion miles apart. The question could be stated, how is information transferred between two apparently separate particles faster than the speed of light? A number of theories have raised which attempt to account for hidden variables that somehow facilitate the unseen cause and effect relationship whereby one particle affects the other. However, these theories avoid the most obvious conclusion, which is that the apparent separateness of the particles is itself an illusion. The separateness is not ultimately real. Non-locality is simply a manifestation of the ultimate unity underlying what we experience as separate physical objects.

Holographic Mental Interference

As we shall see, these ideas are very consistent with concepts which describe the universe in terms of holographic principles. Before we proceed further into our exploration of unity, it is necessary to understand some of the basic ideas of holograms. A hologram is produced when a single laser beam is split into two separate beams. The first beam is bounced off the object whose image is to be recorded. The second beam is reflected off a mirror and allowed to collide with the reflected light of the first. When this happens, the two parts of the beam create an interference pattern that is recorded on a piece of film called a holographic plate. 6

It is this phenomena of interference which makes holography possible. Interference is simply a pattern that is created when waves move through each other. Consider what happens when if you drop two pebbles in a pond. Each pebble will produce a set of waves that form concentric circles which radiate outward from the point of impact. As the waves from each pebble expand, they will at some point collide, and the pattern that results is known as the interference pattern.

The pattern that is recorded on the holographic plate looks absolutely nothing like the object which was used to make the recording. Basically, it looks like a bunch of chaotic swirl’s and concentric rings. However, once another laser beam is used to illuminate the film, a three-dimensional image of the original object reappears. You can walk around the image and view it from different angles, but if you attempt to grab it, you’ll find that there is really nothing there.

The most striking property of holograms is that the whole image is contained in each part of the film. If you take the original film, on which the interference pattern is recorded, and cut it in half, you will find that the entire image can be projected by illuminating only half of the whole. In fact, you can cut the holographic plate into as many pieces as you want and you’ll find that each piece, when illuminated, produces smaller versions of the whole image. 7

At this point, we can easily begin to draw some very interesting connections between the concepts we’ve addressed. In the holographic model, we say that the information of the whole is contained in each part. This is the same thing as saying that the information is distributed non-locally. We have also found that, at the quantum level, all particles are also waves. Thus, all of physical reality is essentially nothing but interference patterns.

It might be a good idea for us to contemplate the meaning of this last statement for a moment. Imagine an endless web of energy patterns. Science has discovered that, at the quantum level, these waves of energy are connected non-locally. This means that every portion of the pattern is infinitely interconnected with every other portion. It is essential to remember that we are not objective observers to this field of crisscrossing frequency patterns. We are it.

David Bohm suggests the possibility that this underlying unity of existence produces the physical world in the same way as a holographic plate produces a hologram. Could it be that our experiential perception of separateness is nothing more than a holographic illusion? Bohm describes the deeper level of reality as the “implicate”, or enfolded, order. He refers to the level of reality of our everyday experience, as the “explicate”, or unfolded, order. 8 This is not to say that our physical existence is unreal. However, it is helpful to understand it simply as a secondary reality.

Let us consider what we are really observing when we perceive a physical object. Consider the paper you are reading and words on the page. What you see out there is not what exists directly where it seems to be. You are perceiving a holographic blur of frequency patterns that are translated into a pattern of neural stimulation, which in turn is experienced as the object out there. In fact, the process of determining that the object exists out there occurs only in your mind’s interpretation of the neural stimulation. When you look up at the stars, you are seeing light that left the stars millions and perhaps billions of years ago. Again, we are not seeing what is there directly; we are seeing a pattern of neural stimulation created by our interpretation of the light. “The same holds true for all the physical senses.

What you see, hear, taste, touch, and smell are all ultimately patterns of neuronal stimulation that in some way correlates with what is out there, but still are not really that.” 9 The frequencies that are translated into neural stimulation are, in and of themselves, colorless, textureless, and tasteless. The qualities we experience through sensory perception are created by the mind and represent an “explicate” order or secondary reality.

Our material reality is but a filtered version of the ultimate unity which connects everything. This filtered version creates separateness because it only perceives bits and pieces of the whole at a time. If we could remove the filter, we would experience reality directly as an interference pattern where all information is distributed non-locally. Again, let’s not forget that we are this pattern. Your hands, this paper, the trees outside the window, our solar system, the entire universe; it’s all a seamless, unbroken extension of everything else. It is one thing. If this is true, then there can be no objective reality because the observer, the process of observing, and the observed become one thing.

Morphogenesis & Dynamic Relativity

Let us contemplate and consider how the uncut fundamental wholeness of all reality became the differentiated reality of our experience. Firstly, we’ll begin by introducing the concept of absolute existence. Absolute existence is the uncut whole from which the pieces of reality emerge. Conceptually, absolute existence is undefined and unbordered existence. As we will see, absolute existence is equivalent to existent nothingness. Nothing does not mean non-existence. It simply means that what does exist is not definable as this or that, and therefore, no-thing. Absolute existence has no structure, and thus, contains no boundaries that could be used to define here in relation to there.

“Physical reality is the reality of objects, the reality of things. We hear things, we see things, we feel things, we taste things, and we smell things. Throughout life we have assumed that all those things exist as defined things independent of our experience of them as those things.” 10 However, as noted in our discussion of quantum theory, science has found that this may not be the case. The defined thing-ness of those things we experience cannot exist except in relation to our experience of them.

In fact, any thing that can be experienced only exists in relation to something else. We may experience up and think that up is independently up; however, up can only be up in relation to down. Likewise, we experience hot and think that hot is independently hot, not aware that hot can only be hot in relation to cold. “The same is true for everything that we experience, in that whatever we experience something to be, it can only be that in relation to some other aspect of existence that is not-that.” 11 This form of existence can be termed relational existence: existence that is what it is in relationship to some other aspect of existence.

While absolute existence is structureless, relational existence has structure. In order to get from the uncut boundless non-structure of absolute existence to the structure of relational existence, the system must undergo some transformation or process. In order for the one thing to become two things, the one thing must polarize itself. It is this process of dualization whereby absolute existence forms a relationship with itself. Thus, some relational existence is defined in terms of some other relational existence. “Once relative realities exist, there exists a level of structure within existence. The existence of this relational structure allows existence to form other relationships with itself.” 12 In other words, absolute existence does not dualize just once, but does so over and over again, repeatedly and progressively. What this means is that the relational realities produced by each level of dualization themselves undergo the process of dualization, resulting in the creation of two new relational realities within each preceding level of relational existence. This process of repeated and progressive dualization creates an interconnected structure of relational realities which we can call a relational matrix.

Regardless of how many times existence dualizes, the underlying reality will always be that of unity and interconnectedness. Although we experience reality as seemingly separate pieces, the fundamental reality form which that perception arises is that of oneness, whereby nothing is separable from anything else. Each part of the structure, each reality cell, contains some of the existence of all the other reality cells. Thus, each part of the structure is a reflection of the whole.

Since any localized area of existence has the quality of a-where-ness, then a non-localized area of existence, which would be everywhere, would not have a-where-ness, but would have the quality of every-where-ness or no-where-ness. This unbordered every-where-ness is consciousness. Consciousness exists everywhere, and thus no-where. Absolute existence, as we’ve defined it, can be considered as existent nothingness, because it exists without the borders which define a thing. It is no-thing and no-where, because it is everywhere. Absolute existence is consciousness.

Any attempt to transcend the duality of existence inherent to our experience can seem hopeless until one realizes that they are an inseparable part of whatever it is that exists. Therefore, we have access to whatever it is that exists directly because of the inescapable fact that we are that. 13 At the deeper “implicate” level of reality, you are infinitely connected to everything else that is. You are connected to every other person, organism, and atom in the universe; thus, you are all these things. Similarly, your thoughts are infinitely connected to all thoughts. Being that the image of the whole is contained within each part, the whole universe is within you. The information of the whole is distributed non-locally, and therefore you have access to all of it. Your mind is the Universal Mind.

All relative realities are created by consciousness existing in relation to itself. “We are that consciousness. We are that consciousness existing in relation to itself and interacting with itself.” There is nothing else. None of the things we perceive as separate have an independent existence, as all are in actuality relational extensions of the underlying unity of consciousness. “Physical reality is a product of consciousness. Consciousness is not a product of physical reality. Physical reality does not interact with itself in some unknown fashion to cause consciousness to come into existence. Consciousness in the process of repeated and progressive self-relation becomes the awareness of experience, and thus creates physical reality.” 14

We have seen that we cannot directly experience the true texture of quantum reality because everything we look at crystallizes into matter. For the same reason, we can never experience consciousness as consciousness. When the unbordered, structureless-ness of consciousness attempts to look at itself, it creates a relational structure or frame of reference, experienced as a relative state of awareness. Consciousness can only experience itself through its creation. This a wonderful thing because here we are, armed with the understanding that nothing is truly separable from anything else, and experiencing ourselves as all that is. Separateness is an illusion. Fundamentally, your true self is not other than the indestructible, unbordered, structruless-ness of consciousness. To put it another way, you are God. The Universe is your body. The understanding of this truth gives rise to the experience of unconditional LOVE for all frequencies because they all exist within you.

End Notes

1 Talbot, Michael. p. 33

2 Ibid. p. 41

3 Ibid. p. 37

4 Ibid. p. 43

5 Kaufman, Steven E.

6 Talbot, Michael. p. 14

7 Ibid. p. 16

8 Ibid. p. 46

9 Kaufman, Steven E.

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid.

12 Ibid.

13 Ibid.

14 Ibid.

· figures of holographic recording, and wave interference patterns thanks to Debby West.

Holographic Communication Theory

http://www.hologram.net/theory/theory.htm

· figures of relational reality model, and cover illustration thanks to Steven E. Kaufman.

Unified Reality Theory: The Evolution of Existence Into Experience.

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P.s:

……To put it another way, you are God. The Universe is your body. …….

Actually you are God, we are not talking about your physical body, God is not your physical body as you everyday see, your physical body is just one of relative realities, God is actually your consciousness, but as long as your consciousness still holds the dualism concept, your consciousness is also just part of relative realities, it means, you are still just human.

But it will be different if you can completely gain the full consciousness awareness of who you really are, it is not as easy as you thought it is going to be. You have to gain an extremely consistent ascending infinite love to everybody, everything and to your most ultimate consciousness -- which called God -- while having a full awareness to the absurd of the concept of dualism and the reality of live. God is your ultimate consciousness.

The religions of the east can help you to understand this concept and to arrive to your ultimate consciousness, for this knowledge have long upheld by them before quantum physics do.

Back to the Source

… Remember of who you really are ……

… Be, what you are used to be ……

… Be your truly self …..

… Be a “God” …..

… If you have succeeded …..

… Wisely, guide as many person as you can ….

… Help them …..

… Save them …..

… to go back to their source …..

… Because they actually are “God” also …..

… they just forgot …

THE TRUTH OF REALITY

2008-07-07T00:01:00.000-07:00

please use your discrimination and judgment in assessing this material. If something rings true to you, fine. If something does not resonate, please leave it behind, for we would not wish to be a stumbling block for any”.

THE TRUTH OF REALITY

Introduction by Mike Pitts

The world in which we live is filled with a seemingly infinite array of truths. Everyone on this planet has their individual beliefs stemming from every aspect of how they perceive their own lives to be; their personal relationships, physical conditions and appearances, financial statuses, religious and/or spiritual beliefs, political beliefs, their likes and dislikes, and the list goes on and on.

Then there are also collective beliefs that often dictate or control how large numbers of people interact within their respective societies. Quite often these beliefs are acted upon without giving any thought as to what is really occurring as a result of those actions, nor how the general consensus of those actions came into being in the first place. They simply justify those actions by saying, "Well that's just the way it is.", or " It has always been that way.", or "It's the law.". At this point, the thinking stops. There's no more reason to think. It has previously been decided for them. And they have become the followers of that particular way of thinking.

This is in most cases how the collective mind/consciousness of the people works at the present time. Once an issue has been decided by any group of so-called authority figures, it can become a dead issue that is continuously carried out with impunity, giving little or no further conscious thought to a special situation of, nor circumstances surrounding the individual. Mindless actions can then be handled with a rubber stamp. People who hold the [powers of the rubber stamp] become automatons for moving those actions forward, day in and day out. Caring for the individual becomes lost in the shuffle. Could their jobs become anymore mundane ? Do their lives follow the same course ? Or do they dream of a better world to come ?

If you are reading this, then count yourself as one of the fortunate ones who have decided to think for themselves. You have chosen to "think outside of the box". You are beginning to see the truth of your world more clearly.

Most thoughts and beliefs today have been based on half-truths and outright lies from the past. This fact has been thoroughly discussed in the previous sections of this website. Information is continuously withheld from the mass public due to controlling elitist powercrats who feel it is their Divine Right to do so. The mass public remains mostly ignorant to what is true, and what is not. And this is happening in every area of our lives with the exception of where the individual decides to take their own power back. This happens when one begins to be true to one’s own self. One begins to realize the true power contained within one’s own spirit.

Power is not physical strength. Power is spiritual strength. Each of us is connected to our own higher spiritual self, and that connection is never broken. It is always tied directly to the Source of All Creation. It is only weakened to the extent that one accepts the darkness of despair and ignorance. Conversely, it is strengthened as one moves more towards enlightenment.

It is our God-given Right and our Divine Purpose to “seek knowledge” in every way. In doing so, our connection to the Supreme Source of Creation becomes stronger, and any limitations begin to fade away. It is important to note that our limitations are all self-imposed.

It is extremely important to learn and understand one simple, yet all-encompassing rule. “Your Thoughts Create.” And nothing travels faster than the speed of thought.

Each individual upon this planet creates their own reality moment by moment, day by day. The more that one succumbs to despair, the more despair one creates for one’s own self. Despair can run rampant in war-torn nations, situations of poverty, disease epidemics, starvation, and so on. Each individual is capable of joining these disparaging situations, and each are also capable of creating alternative realities to these situations.

In our perceived Universe, as well as in a plethora of Universes beyond our wildest imaginations, everything that exists is comprised of Consciousness. Conscious thought is threaded and interwoven into everything that exists, whether it can be seen or not. There is only a minute portion that can be seen to exist until one attains higher levels of consciousness. Even then, there are yet higher levels that still are not seen from the successive lower levels. But even then, they can be perceived through imagination, thus lifting one’s consciousness to the higher level. If we can think it, then we can eventually bring it into existence. It does come into existence on a higher level, even though it may take awhile to manifest on one’s current level. The Universe is neutral. It will work very hard to give us what we ask for. Be careful what you ask for. You might get what you don’t want. And the manifestations are coming into being more rapidly now than ever before in the
known history of mankind.

So what does one now do with this knowledge that thoughts create your reality ?

I would suggest that one first begin by removing the negative thoughts that are continuously seeping into one’s brain. One must begin to realize the extent of how greatly their thoughts have been programmed into negative mindsets. It starts by consciously analyzing every thought that pops into one’s head. One must think, “Does that thought truly make sense to my way of thinking ? Is it a valid way to look at the belief or situation ? Is there a clearer way to look at it that makes better sense to me ? Is it live (true), or is it Memorex (false) ? Does it truly work in my life, or not ?”

If one begins to sift through one’s thoughts in this manner, he/she will begin to figure things out from a clearer vantage point. Utilize your higher self to set this into motion. Your higher self is there for you at all times. The connection is never broken. At first, it may only feel like gut instincts, and you should listen to those. They are communicating with you. They will tell you what is right, or what is wrong for your way of experiencing your life. But don’t forget to remove the negative thoughts that interfere with your true self.

Gratitude is the key component to discovering the answers one seeks in life. Life is all about the experience. We are all here to experience life in a multitude of ways. There are no right ways, nor wrong ways to live your experience. It is what you choose. It is your lessons that you must learn for yourself before proceeding to the next higher level of experience. Being that you are always connected to the Source of Creation, your experiences are continuously added to knowledge and the collective consciousness that is Creator Source. There is no judgment in that. You will not be judged by a wrathful God. You will simply be moved forward, or held back, as your personal soul growth requirements are met, or not met. It is your choice.

Ascension into the higher levels/dimensions of Creation requires that one achieve a certain level of higher consciousness and soul growth before one can move forward. Ascension is not Rapture. There will be no Rapture off of the planet as falsely told in the Bible. As you may have previously read on this website, there have been many falsehoods that were purposely placed into Bible teachings, as there were also many teachings of Truth that were purposely excluded. This was done by Man, and not God. The Truth is now, and for some years, being revealed and brought back into the light of day. The Truth can no longer be denied to the masses by those who would purposely suppress the Truth to keep the masses living in ignorance and darkness.

What is generally perceived as being God or the Source of Creation is in Reality the Consciousness of Pure Love Energy. Without Consciousness, there would be nothing in existence. It is comprised of Light and Sound Frequencies together with an array of Sacred Geometries, and together they make all things possible in existence. This formation of Consciousness came into its Godlike existence with the realization of “I AM”. Once existence was realized, the Creation Process began, and it continues into infinity. It is a never-ending growth for the Source and all things and beings in existence.

Love Energy is the Source of All Creation. We are all created from this Source of Love. Would our Creator have created us out of Hate ? That is a definite and emphatic, “NO!” Out of Love for His Creations, He gifted us Free Will Choice to experience as we choose. Again, it was our choice. One thing that many on this planet chose was to experience all Free Will aspects of life in separation from Source. It was our chosen experiment to prove that with the loss of connection to Source that we could still find our way back from whence we came. In the beginning of this planet, that connection remained intact. But over time, it was lost; partially due to rampant Free Will Choices, and subsequently due to genetic re-engineering done by the Anunnaki who came to rule Earth. Once that connection was forgotten, FEAR became the ruler of peoples’ minds. Fear is the antithesis of Love; the separation from Source. When one lives in fear, they no longer feel the connection to Love. Love
instead becomes a misguided concept with distorted conditions surrounding it. Unconditional Love of the Creator becomes a lost knowledge, and thus causes all kinds of sordid havoc within the people and their reactions with each other and with Mother Earth.

Tremendous energies have been flowing into the planet for quite a few years now from our Sun and other distant Suns. They are being increased more and more rapidly to raise our levels of consciousness. We are being upgraded, so to speak. At the same time, our circuits (DNA) are being “rewired” to handle the increasing energies to help bring us more into the higher Love Energies of Creator Source. This is a truly momentous time.

It is OUR TIME to shine. We are all here for a purpose. That purpose is to shine the Light of Truth upon this planet, and out into the Universe for all to see the brilliance and glory of a newly created Earth. It is OUR TIME to restore Truth and Love to all Nations.

This will be accomplished through OUR COLLECTIVE EFFORTS to restore this Earth to its original pristine condition, and to continue to inhabit and steward the planet with a newfound deep respect for Mother Earth and All of her inhabitants.

The time has come to IMAGINE a NEW REALITY. Time has ended for the old paradigms that were once established. WE ARE CO-CREATORS WITH GOD. It is within OUR POWER to change the world for the better. Actually, It always was within our power, but now we have tremendous assistance from all of our neighbors within our Solar System and beyond. Yes, we are not alone. We are supported in our every effort to rise above the chaos of everyday living in an upside-down world. We will turn it right side up.

Explore your beliefs. Discard those that no longer work for you. Stop supporting the old paradigms that are outmoded and are no longer useful. DARE TO DREAM. Create your dreams into your Realities. Look deep into a bright future, and see it as NOW. This is the time now, and forever into the future, to manifest the world as you always dreamed it could be. You know that there is goodness, kindness, and caring in your heart. Let that manifest for Earth and ALL of her inhabitants.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD FILLED WITH HOPE AND JOY.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD AT PEACE WITH ALL NATIONS.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD WITH A PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD LIVING IN ABUNDANCE AND PROSPERITY FOR ALL.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD WITH THE HIGHEST REGARD FOR ALL LIFE.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD WITHOUT DISEASE, AGING, AND DEATH.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD TEEMING WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF LIFE.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD TEEMING WITH UNPARALLELED BEAUTY IN ALL THE UNIVERSES.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD WITH THE TECHNOLOGIES TO MAKE ALL OF THIS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.

IMAGINE OUR WORLD FRESH AND NEW.

IMAGINE WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD THIS IS.

IMAGINE IT NOW.

SEE IT, BREATHE IT, FEEL IT, SMELL IT, TASTE IT, GIVE IT COLOR AND SOUND. HOLD IT IN YOUR THOUGHTS.

SPEAK IT TO THE UNIVERSE. SPEAK OF IT TO OTHERS. SHARE YOUR VISION.

GIVE GRATITUDE TO CREATOR SOURCE. GIVE GRATITUDE TO YOURSELF. GIVE GRATITUDE TO ALL THAT EXISTS. BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT WE HAVE CO-CREATED IN THIS MOMENT.

KNOW IN YOUR HEART THAT IT EXISTS. KNOW IN YOUR HEART IT IS REAL. KNOW IN YOUR HEART IT IS HERE AND NOW.

THIS IS OUR WORLD. THIS IS OUR CO-CREATION WITH GOD.

AND SO IT IS.

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SCIENCE AND SUFIC. WAHDAT-UL-WUJUD (ONENESS OF BEING)

2008-07-06T23:57:00.000-07:00

Translation of above calligraphy by Yusuf Ali: Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp [is] enclosed in Glass: the glass [is] as it were a brilliant star: lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil is well nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men and Allah doth know all things. Qur'an 24:35

SCIENCE AND SUFIC

WAHDAT-UL-WUJUD (ONENESS OF BEING)

Time and again the Sufis of Islam and other mystics have been warning mankind that the universe is not real. It is not what it appears to be. It is a phantom. It is a shadow of reality believed to be real by those fettered by the chains of matter-time-space limitations like the inmates of Plato's Cave of Illusion. It is one of the triumphs of mysticism that modem science, fed up with the inaccuracies of blind physics completely devoid of metaphysical insight has now started echoing the same themes and developed a tendency to bend before mysticism for guidance. Says Borges, an eminent contemporary physicist, in Other Inquisitions: "Let us admit what all idealists admit - the hallucinatory nature of the world. Let us do what no idealist has done - let us search for unrealities that confirm that nature.

I believe we will find them in the antinomies of Kant and in the dialectic of Zeno." In this quote, Borges presents a view normally held by mystics: the hallucinatory nature of the Universe. "We have dreamed it", says Borges simply. Michael Talbot voices the same concept in his book, Mysticism and the New Physics. He says: "Our concept of time and space, the very structure of the universe, are more intimately related to problems and phenomenon of consciousness than we have seriously suspected.... There is no strict division between subjective and objective reality, consciousness and the physical universe are connected by some fundamental physical mechanism. This relationship between mind and reality is not subjective or objective, but 'omnijective. An omnijective concept of the universe is by no means new ... There is a vast philosophical and metaphysical tradition behind the philosophy that the universe is omnijective The mystics tell us this is true. The idealists tell us it is true. Most exciting of all, the physicists tell us it is true."

Talbot goes on to say: "In 1927, Werner Heisenberg presented his famous 'Uncertainty Principle' and started a philosophical debate among the quantum physicists that still has not resolved itself. In vastly simplified terms Heisenberg stated that the observer alters the observed by the mere act of observation ... The implications of the confluence of mysticism and physics are that all of our notions about the absoluteness of the physical universe are wrong. As Heisenberg has stated, 'The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realizes that here the foundations of physics have started shaking, which has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science ... Both physics and metaphysics have reached a point where language no longer imparts any information. For instance, in quantum mechanics identical particles are said to be 'indistinguishable'. Two electrons that are indistinguishable can therefore be thought of as either the 'same' or 'different' ... One of the major revolutions in the realm of physics has been the increasing role of indeterminism - or the realization that it may be impossible to predict the outcome of an experiment. Before the advent of quantum theory, most physicists believed in a universe that was totally causal ... On the level of quantum mechanical events, however, nothing even approaching causality has been found to exist ... This is where the puzzle of indeterminism steps in. In certain circumstances Schrodinger's wave functions predict the behaviour of a given particle up to a point and then describes two equally probable outcomes for the same particle. On paper as well as in observation no reason can be found for the particles varying behaviours."

The Sufis of Islam believe in the oneness of Being. And by being they mean God's Being. They maintain that everything is in God. Even space and the whole universe is included in God's Being (Wujud). Newtonian physics was based on the notion that reality is comprised of basically two things: solid objects and empty space. But science had to bend down to Sufism on the advent of Einstein's theory of Relativity and Bohr’s quantum theory. Says Talbot in Mysticism and the New Physics: "However, empty space has lost its meaning in light of the findings of Einstein and the concept of solid objects has been virtually destroyed by the investigation of quantum theory ... It was not until the turn of this century that science got its first peep into the structure of the atom. With the discovery of X-rays, a virtual window was created into the world of the very small ... The phenomenon of radioactivity provided positive proof that atoms are not the basic building blocks of matter, but composites, built of entities even smaller. "When Rutherford attacked the atom with high speed alpha particles he found something totally unexpected. Far from being the solid and physical particles they were believed to be since the fifth century B.C. atoms turned out to consist of vast empty regions of space in which incredibly tiny particles - electrons - orbit around a nucleus... subatomic units of matter simply do not behave like solid particles. Indeed, they appear to be abstract entities ... Depending upon how we took at it, a subatomic entity displays the properties of both a particle and a wave … In an attempt to understand a reality which does not easily accommodate words, Heisenberg proposed that physicists should simply accept the complementarily or paradoxical aspect of subatomic entities and view them as wave/particle – entities ... By doing so Heisenberg was making a statement that belonged as much to mysticism as it did to the new physics. That is, the ultimate nature of reality is beyond verbal description. The greatest commonality in both mysticism and the new physics is that both point to the inadequacy of language ... Because electrons possess both the properties of particles and a wave packet, they cannot be said to have distinct geographical locations. No physicist will ever "see" an electron or touch it. Not only is the universe queerer than we think, but it is queerer than we can think, confusion was further confounded when W.K. Clifford came out with the theory that matter was nothing more than empty, curved space. John Wheeler agreed with him.

According to Wheeler the nothingness of space is the true building block of matter." To sum up, Talbot says: in Mysticism and the New Physics, " ... matter and empty space thus become one and the same.” This is what the Sufis say in regard to Wahdat-ul-Wujud. He says further: "But the matter does not end here. As particles were discovered to be more wave-like, phenomenon such as light, which had always been interpreted as a wave became more and more particle-like. The German physicist Max Planck suggested that light was discontinuous and consisted of small energy units called 'Quanta'." Einstein brought us closer to figuring out the fundamental building blocks of matter when he discovered that light and matter are ultimately interchangeable. The primordial substance of the universe appears to be these wave particles and quanta (light units). The riddle is solved by the following verse of the Quran: "Allah (God) is the Light (soul) of the heavens and earth." Now, since God's being is pure light (Nur) and since according to the cult of Wahdat-ul-Wujud (oneness of being), God's Being penetrates everything in the universe including space, the building blocks of the universe, which are nothing but God's Light which, on devolution, appeared in the form of wave-like particles or particle-like waves (as observed by the recent tests) penetrating the entire field of matter and space whose oneness has already been established by both the scientists and the Sufis. It is this light of the one Being which pervades everything like life or spirit in the body, acts as the gravitational force and holds the universe together.

The Russian scientists have also established the oneness of matter and space and are now in search of the "Uniting Tissues", as they call it, which hold this vastly diverse universe together. This view of God's light (life, spirit) holding the universe together is perfectly in accord with the Quantum theory, [the] theory of Relativity and the findings of renowned physicists like Rutherford, Heisenberg, Wheeler, Max Planck and others; and reconciles all these apparently irreconcilable theories and tends to weld them into one harmonious whole. In the Quran there are many passages which throw a flood of light on the secrets of creation, which is the subject matter of scientists. Apparently the "uniting tissues" could be the force of gravity which so far nobody has been able to know the source of. Michael Talbot has quoted some Hindu source according to which "Siva's (God's) hairs" are holding the universe together. But it is an extremely vague proposition and cannot appeal to reason unless someone comes out to elaborate it. Whereas the doctrine of Sufic Wahdat-ul-Wujud (Oneness of Being) stands established both from the logical, scientific and metaphysical points of view. Moreover, it is not only a logical proposition. It is actual experience and spiritual perception and is within the reach of every human being to have it, not through intellect but actual vision and experience of the Immanence of God in every thing through Ain-ul-Yaqin (visual perception) and Haq-ul-Yaqin (Union or identification with the Divine Being).

The gist of Talbot's book, Mysticism and the New Physics is that the present state of uncertainty of science is the result of [a] one-eyed observation of the universe, and the moment both the eyes (physical and spiritual) are utilized, the secrets of creation automatically unfold themselves.

This is what Sufism claims. It aims at opening the inner spiritual eye. When the inner eyes are opened, as [was] done partially in Russia, contact is established with the Divine Being, and the secrets of the universe, mysteries of God and His attributes are known, and the purpose of human life together with the laws of human behaviour are revealed.

This sets at rest all the disputes and conflicts of the inhabitants of [all] the earth, and universal peace and harmony is the result. It is then, that the belligerents realize that they were really striving for the same destiny, but were fighting with one another in ignorance. Islam tells us that [at] heart everybody is Muslim, [and is] a lover of truth. Those who are nonbelievers are non-believers by brain not [at] heart. The moment truth is presented, it is accepted.

Says the Holy Quran: "There is no compulsion in Islam.” In fact compulsion is not needed.

This paper was delivered at the Consciousness Reframed '98 Conference which was held at Roy Ascott's Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA), University of Wales College, Newport, Wales, U. K.

( http://caiia-star.newport.plymouth.ac.uk )