The Holographic Universe | Michael Talbot

The Holographic Universe | Michael Talbot | An interesting read

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The Holographic Un...

	The Holographic Universe Michael Talbot Harper Perennial, 1992 - 338 pages average customer review:based on 225 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

What is reality

The more I read about spirituality, the more I keep coming back to this book. Our view of reality is just based upon our belief systems, which is based on what the accepted standards are at this time....and until I read this book, I accepted them just like most everyone else does. As an analytical person with college degrees in math, I found this book to be one of the most thought provoking, paradigm shifting books I have ever read!

An interesting read

This is a good book but it is a little technical and you have to really pay attention to read it.

Starts slow, but the 2nd half is AMAZING!

Did you know that if a person with multiple
personality disorder gets drunk and switches to another personality unaware of the drinking, then the current personality will no longer be drunk? If you've ever wondered what the limits to the mind and our interconnectedness are, then this book will help you set your sights more accurately.

More specifically, through its true stories and cited studies, it demonstrates that the world is not as we see it. This book clearly shows us that there is a richness and depth that go to such far reaches of our mind that we can't even comprehend it.

This book has the potential to radically alter your world view forever... that is, if you can get past the first half of this book which is a bit content-dense and, in my opinion, not all that interesting.

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A Nice Historic Work

This book was released in 1991 so it obviously contains very dated material. I had a difficult time reading this book simply because most of what it says has been progressed in terms of the material presented. For those who do not know, the simple stripped down definition of holograph or hologram is a laser beam of light that is split into two beams. One part is beamed onto an object and reflected on to a photographic plate. The other beam is sent directly to the same photographic plate. Then when the photographic plate is developed and illuminated from one source of light, a three dimensional image is projected and this is the hologram or holograph that most are familiar with.

Michal Talbot starts with quantum physics to prove that science can prove that everything is One and that all of matter and consciousness project light onto a cosmic photographic plate that we cannot see in physical form......or if we do see it, we experience Carl Jung's concept of what he termed Synchronicity which according the author has become the exception to our experiences when in reality it is the rule.

One of my favorite parts of the book involves how matter reacts to consciousness. Use science to measure light while a human looks at it and it behaves as a particle. Leave the room and measure it and it behaves like a wave. Thus the field of science takes the middle road and defines light properties as electromagnetic waves. Quantum physics solves the problem by accepting that matter contains "enfolded properties" or "unfolded properties". Matter can not only change form, it can be transformed by consciousness which is a subtler form of matter.

I enjoyed the concept of holographic patterns generated by consciousness; the higher the frequency, the greater the ability to tap into the collective unconscious. Apparently this can be measured by an electromyogram.

The author covers every psychic phenomenon of the 1991 time period and refers to it as holographic. This may be true but I was hoping for a more scientific or more analytical connection between these experiences and The Holographic Universe.

At any rate, in spite of my boredom with this book, I did experience what I can best explain as a strange phenomenon. I thought my eyes or glasses were going bad. As I casually looked at paintings, prints or even photographs, they appeared to move. Even when I focused my eyes on the images they became three dimensional or living images. For example after mediating for half an hour after reading a couple of chapters from this book, I opened my eyes and looked at the painting on my fireplace and the frame itself appeared to float while the image appeared to continue out towards me as if I had 3D glasses on!

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