Evidence of the real universe

There is a large amount of evidence that the brain operates using holographic principles. In fact, Pribram's theory is supported by more and more neuroscientists. Hugo Zucarelli, an Italian neuroscientist from Argentina, recently applied the holographic model to the world of hearing. He was fascinated by the human brain's ability to detect the direction of a sound without turning its head, even if only one ear has hearing. Zucarelli found that holographic principles could explain this ability. Zucarelli also developed holographic sound technology, a recording technology that can reproduce sound phenomena almost accurately.

Pribram believes that our brains mathematically build a "hard" reality based on external fluctuating inputs. This idea has also been supported by many experiments. Experiments have found that our senses are far more sensitive to fluctuations than previously thought. For example, researchers have found that our vision is also sensitive to sound waves, our sense of smell is related to fluctuations we now call oamic, and even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a wide range of fluctuations. Such a discovery leads us to infer that only in the field of holographic perception can such fluctuations be classified as normal perception.

But when Pribram's holographic brain model is put together with Bohm's theory, the most incredible thing becomes apparent. Because if the solidity of this world is only a secondary reality, and what really "exists" is a mass of holographic waves, and if the mind also has a holographic structure, only partial waves are taken out of this mass of waves. , mathematically converted into sensory perception, then what is the objective reality? Simply put, objective reality ceases to exist. Just like the teachings of Eastern religions, the material world is a kind of maya, an illusion. Although we may think that we are physical creatures and live in a physical world, this is also an illusion. We are actually "recipients" floating in a sea of ??waves. The waves we extract from this sea and transform into the physical world are just one of many waves in this super-holographic illusion.

This startling new view of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram, is known as the holographic paradigm, and although many scientists view it with skepticism, the theory has become popular other people. A small and growing group of researchers believe this may be the most accurate model of reality that science has yet produced. What's more, some people believe that it can explain many mysteries that science has not been able to explain before, and even make the supernatural a part of nature.

Many researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, have noticed that many parapsychological phenomena become easier to understand under the holographic model theory. In this universe, individual minds are actually individual parts of a large holographic structure, and everything is interconnected. Telepathy actually enters the holographic level. If the thoughts of a separate individual A can be transmitted to the brain of individual B, this phenomenon is easy to understand if the two separate individuals are originally connected. Likewise, the ability to move distant objects with psychic powers (psychokinesis) becomes less mysterious because in a universe of infinite connections, the individual and the moved object are already one.

Bohm and Prigram also pointed out that many religious or mystical experiences, such as the transcendent experience of being one with the universe, may also be due to entering the holographic realm. As they say, perhaps many of the great mystical experiencers of the past talked about a sense of oneness with the universe simply because they knew how to access that part of their psyche that was truly one with the universe.

The holographic model theory has also received careful attention from other scientific fields. Stanialav Grof, director of the Maryland Psychological Research Center and assistant professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, believes that the holographic model theory can explain many unsolved mysteries in psychology. In particular, Grof felt that holographic model theory provided a model for understanding the bizarre phenomena that many people experience during altered states of consciousness.

In the 1960s, Grof studied the pros and cons of using LSD (a psychedelic drug) as a psychotherapeutic tool. One of his female patients suddenly believed that she had become a female reptile from prehistoric times. During her trance, she not only provided a richly detailed description of what it felt like to be trapped in the reptilian body, but also described that the most attractive parts of the male reptile's body were the sides of the head. An area of ??colored scales. To Grof's surprise, although the woman had no prior knowledge of the reptile, he later received confirmation from a zoologist that the colored parts of some reptiles' heads do play an important role in sexual provocation.

That woman’s experience was not unique. In the course of his research, Grof encountered patients who regressed and represented nearly every species of life in evolutionary history (a finding that influenced the degeneration of humans into apes in the movie "Altered States").

Furthermore, he found that such experiences often contained obscure zoological details that later turned out to be correct.

Reversion into animals is not the only puzzling psychological phenomenon Grof studies. He also has patients who seem to have entered some kind of collective or ethnic subconscious. People with little education could suddenly describe in detail Persian Zoroastrian funerals and Hindu rituals. In other experiences, people have given convincing reports of out-of-body experiences, visions of the future, or flashbacks to past lives.

In later research, Grof found that the same extent of the phenomenon occurred during therapy sessions without the use of psychedelic drugs. Because the common element in such experiences is that the individual's consciousness rises beyond the boundaries of the ordinary self, or the limitations of time and space, Grof called this phenomenon "transpersonal experiences", and in the late 1960s he founded A branch of psychology called "transpersonal psychology" focuses on this type of research.

Although Grof's newly founded transpersonal psychology gained support from professional scholars and became a respected branch of psychology, for decades Grof and his colleagues were unable to provide a system to explain what they were experiencing. Saw strange psychological phenomena. But the emergence of holographic model theory changed the situation. As Grof recently said, if the mind is indeed part of a whole, which is like a huge maze that connects not only all minds, including the past and present, but also all atoms, all living things, and the infinity of time and space itself, then It seems not surprising that the mind occasionally wanders into this labyrinth and produces transpersonal experiences.