The Holographic Universe | Michael Talbot

The Holographic Universe | Michael Talbot | An interesting read

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	The Holographic Universe Michael Talbot Harper Perennial, 1992 - 338 pages average customer review:based on 227 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Life-Changing Book

I am now reading the book for the third time and it is just as amazing as the first. It is full of scientific facts and a few personal stories. Talbot remains blessedly neutral presenting information on almost any area of the human experience you can imagine. As a minister I found the scientific information on miracles somehow did not lower my faith but showed me that the concepts people of faith have held, (miracles, prayer changing things, metaphysical principles, etc.) actually have some scientific reality underlying them. I often find myself writing a whole sermon just on the concept presented in one paragraph.

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An interesting read

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

Universe explained differently

This book begins with a very interesting development in Physics. Then, it slowly drifts away to various real life examples exaplained using this new theory. Mid way thru' it, you will feel bored with pages of similar examples.

This will certainly put you in different perspective for the universe and various phenomena. So, 4 star...

For beginners

This book was recommended to me by a good friend of mine...it is indeed one of the good books out there on the shelf, well at least thats what he agrees upon...but as for me, i will only agree to that if im the universe's beginner reader...i do like the ideas and ways on how science have proved all the paranormal or phenomenon activities in this book, they each have clicked pretty well and the author has provided with many good example especially for beginner/skeptical people...but if you've already known much of the stuffs on how the universe works, this book will steal much of your ample time...it took me more than a week to finally finished reading this book - too much details, too many examples/cases and very broad - but thats how science and scientist mind worked together...basically, the book is more like a revision book to me rather than being very informative or insightful

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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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