The Holographic Universe | Michael Talbot | WELL-WRITTEN, WELL-REASONED AND FEELS RIGHT

The Holographic Universe | Michael Talbot | Highly recommended

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	The Holographic Universe Michael Talbot Harper Perennial, 1992 - 338 pages average customer review:based on 225 reviews view larger image
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WELL-WRITTEN, WELL-REASONED AND FEELS RIGHT

Michael Talbot, with this clearly-written book, provides a framework for understanding many anomalous events, including spontaneous healings, remote viewings, ghosts, near-death experiences, and even UFOs. The answer lies in the nature of the universe. We live in a world that feels "solid" to us, that we believe to be "real." But to many ancient sacred traditions, the physical world is but an illusion. The Hindus call it "maya" and believe all matter emanates from another world that exists beyond our senses. What if this is true?

The problem with accepting this concept has been the impossibility of proving it. Until now. Talbot shows how several theories, notably those of neurophysiologist Karl Pribram and physicist David Bohm, postulate a universe that is less solid than we like to think. In fact, it presents us with a universe that is basically a hologram, a projection from somewhere else. The implications of this are many. One property of a hologram is that the whole picture is contained in each portion of the whole. The whole is not the sum of the parts, but rather the parts are pictures of the whole.

Everything in the universe is holographic, including our bodies. We perceive the world with our physical senses but we are actually capable of sensing with any part of our body. Hypnotized people are able to see through objects and, in situations of sudden duress, people have developed 360 degree vision and superhuman strength. Accupuncturists have found that the ear is a map to the rest of the body and they can affect organs by putting the pins in the correct place in the ear. Other such maps have been found in other parts of the body, such as the hands and feet.

Talbot shows how the holographic model explains things like physical manifestations of objects and bilocation, as described by Indian yogis. A modern yogi, Sai Baba, is able to manifest plates of food out of nowhere. One of my favorite books, Autobiography of a Yogi, contains stories of a yogi who could be in two places at once (bilocation) and physical manifestations. In the US, remote viewers have been able to penetrate military installations on the other side of the world, seeing the images of those places in their head. How are these things done?

Talbot discusses the experiences of another of my favorite authors, Robert Monroe, who, before he died, wrote extensively about his out-of-body journeys. Monroe found his consciousness could easily separate from his physical body and he traveled in the astral realm, finding it a world built from thought. He also found he could suddenly be bombarded with a quantity of information about something he was seeing; he called these information pcakets "thought balls" and Talbott, himself a phychic, corroborates this experience.

The Holographic Universe covers a lot of territory and tries to unify many esoteric and anomolous experiences in support of the holographic idea. Bohm's concept of an implicate and an explicate order mirrors the spiritual tradition that says the spirit world is the "real" world which creates the physical world. It provides a deeper understanding than just accepting the particle/wave dichotomy we get from physics, which has no real explanation of how something can be both matter and energy and why an observer affects what he is observing. Experiments in physics have provided us with a lot of bizarre behavior by tiny particles - the stuff that makes up our universe. Can ancient spiritual traditions explain this behavior and give us a new model of reality? Michael Talbot has given us a great overview of the evidence that this is so.

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Highly recommended

Michael Talbot's book makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand. It's a pleasurable reading and I could not put it down. I highly recommend reading it!

greatest book

This has to be one of the greatest books I ever read. It really makes you think. I HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who wants to take a differnt look on the mind, life and whats beyond.

The Holographic Universe

Wild, but feasible explanation of the existence of all
possibilities via an observational approach. Fun and
intriging, Enjoy.

A clear exposition of the holographic theory of reality and consciousness

Talbot describes the holographic theory of how the universe operates and how these theories of the new physics relate to psychic as well as occult phenomena. This book will help the interested reader understand the holomovement theory of David Bohm. A science of consciousness and how it effects matter, energy, time, and space may be directly derived from Talbot's observations and theories.

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