If you want to look at a hologram, all you need to do is open your wallet. In all likelihood your driver’s license and your credit card has your holographic picture on it. If you do not own any of these IDs, you can look around the house. The CD or DVD covers may have a holographic image on them. Some software packaging has it as well! When you move these holograms back and forth they just look like some sparkly pictures. Not really very impressive, but they make forgery of our identity cards slightly more difficult.

What is really impressive is the hologram that we see all around us? In fact we live in this hologram. When our ancient seers declared that this world is ‘Maya’ or an ‘illusion’, they knew what they were talking about. Today the scientists quite agree with these seers of a bygone era. Michael Talbot was the first person in the Western world to suggest that the physical universe is akin to a giant hologram. He wrote a book called ‘The Holographic Universe’ that created quite a stir in the scientific community.

A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made with the help of a laser. The most remarkable characteristic of a hologram is that every part of the hologram contains all the information of the whole hologram. So if you cut a holographic picture in half, and illuminate it by laser, it will show the complete picture. If you further cut it into quarters, each piece will still show the entire picture. Thus a hologram is ‘whole in every part’.

In 1982 a physicist Alain Aspect performed an experiment which proved that under certain circumstances subatomic particles can instantly communicate with each other irrespective of the distance between them. They may be 10 feet apart, or 10 billion miles apart; the distance just does not matter. Somehow each particle just seems to know what the other is doing. Isn’t that just amazing? London physicist David Bohm says that Aspect’s finding means that despite looking apparently solid, the Universe is indeed a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. And since in a hologram, each part carries the whole, the separateness of the particles is but an illusion.

Now if the apparent separation of sub-atomic particles is an illusion, it means that at a deeper level all the things in the Universe are inter-connected. Isn’t this what our ancient spiritual texts tell us?

I am that I AM.

You are that I AM.

We are that I AM.

We are all ONE.

We are all connected.

So, the electrons in an atom in the human body are connected to the electrons in every heart that beats, every bird that flies, and every star that twinkles in the sky. Do you realize the enormity of this truth? This effectively means that your smallest, least significant thought, word, and action has real consequences throughout the Universe. Have you seen the movie called the ‘Butterfly Effect’? It tells you that if a butterfly flaps its wings in Sahara desert, the effect is seen in the melting of Arctic glaciers. Does it sound ridiculous to you? Not when you understand the concept of a holographic universe. This thought puts great responsibility on our shoulders. It virtually tells us that we are responsible for everything that happens in this Universe, because we are a part of this hologram, and a part always contains the whole.

In 1920, a brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat’s brain he removed, the rat still retained the memory to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to the brain surgery. In 1960 another scientist Pribram found an answer to this puzzle. He concluded that the memories are not encoded in neurons but in patterns of nerve impulses, just as laser light does in a hologram. So according to him our brain itself is a hologram. Just as in a hologram it is possible to record many different images on the same surface (one cubic centimeter of a holographic film can hold about 10 billion bits of information), a human brain has the capacity to memorize the same amount of information as contained in five sets of Encyclopedia Britannica. Now isn’t that incredible?

What this all effectively implies is that what we see as reality is only one picture extracted out of many in this super hologram. Our reality is just a holographic paradigm. Does this information shake you out of your complacence? In a holographic universe, in which individual brains are just portions of a great hologram and everything is connected, telepathy is a real possibility. That is how the information is poised to travel in future. From one mind to the other, even at a great distance! Are we ready for this miracle?

Our mind is actually a part of a continuum. It is connected to every atom, molecule, and organism that exists or ever existed in the vastness of time and space. This knowledge makes us very powerful beings indeed. It tells us that we have the ability to influence everything in our life. Right from our health to our finances! Just as a focused laser beam shows a particular picture in a hologram, a focused thought in our holographic mind will reflect that picture in our reality. We are actually masters of our life. We actually create our so-called- reality.

In a holographic universe, there are no limits to the extent to which we can alter our reality. We can draw any picture that we want. Anything is possible here. Once we understand the concept of a holographic universe, synchronicities or meaningful coincidences suddenly make a lot of sense. We realize that everything in our reality even the most haphazard events express some symmetry. What we call magic, luck, or destiny is nothing but our free will to choose a reality in this holographic space. So, let us wake up to our true powers and create a new reality in each moment………

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