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>> What we experience through our mind and senses are all

part of our reality--

what we hear, what we see, what we touch.

But what if life as we think of it

is only part of a much greater story?

Throughout history, many scholars

have postulated an assortment of theories

to explain the fundamental nature of reality.

One of these theories suggests the universe

is like a hologram.

- They believe that our 3 - D reality is more like a projection

from a flat two-dimensional field that

exists on a thin surface at the edge of the universe.

As extraordinary as this seems, it's

a theory that initially emerged years

ago from scientists studying black holes.

If this is the case and the universe is a hologram,

then it begs the question, what are we?

Are we existing as light projections

within the hologram?

And how might that impact our perception of reality?

>> Holographic reality-- the physical that isn't.

And how we can appear to be experiencing

a world of solidity when it's nothing of the kind.

>> It's similar to video games.

When you're moving in three dimensions in a video game,

what you're really doing is just changing

two-dimensional pixels, and changing the colors,

and making it seem like you're moving in different dimensions.

When you look at these scenarios, like the black hole,

you start realizing that, OK, maybe this

might just be a giant hologram of some sort.

>> We are living in a reality where the base form is

waveform, waveform information like Wi-Fi.

And the five senses pick up that waveform information.

They turn it into electrical information.

They communicate it to the brain.

And then the brain decodes it into digital holographic

information.

It's the same information, but in a different decoded form.

Just as the information in a Wi-Fi field

looks very different, even though it's

the same information, when it's decoded

onto the screen of the computer.

>> According to Professor Kostas Skenderis at the University

of Southampton, the idea is similar to that of ordinary

- holograms where a 3 - D image is encoded in a two-dimensional

surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card.

However, this time, the entire universe is encoded.

>> So the idea of the holographic universe is

a similar idea where there is a higher reality that is the true

reality.

And it is the source of this reality.

And then that higher reality has encoded

a substrate of some kind with this information.

And then there's a coherent source of energy

that flows through that.

And then that information projects

into this physical universe.

So with the holographic universe,

it's saying that the most fundamental thing

in this universe is information.

And then that information informs

how the universe is formed, whether it's in form of energy,

forces, particles, and so forth, through even us.

>> And some of the more recent developments,

certainly in my theories with the holographic mass solution,

where we see that the universe very much acts like a hologram

in terms that it seems that all the information is present

in every point.

So for instance, in the theory I'm writing,

we were able to figure out, for instance,

the correct temperature for the background

radiation of the universe, the correct size of the universe,

the correct mass for the universe,

the correct values for many of the fundamental constants

of the universe just by studying one proton.

In the dynamics of that one proton is all the information

necessary to understand the whole universe,

which is very much a holographic principle.

And so there is a lot of evidence

that's emerging supporting a holographic view

of the mechanics of our universe.

>> Physicist Leonard Susskind, one of the originators

of the holographic principle, has stated that a hologram

takes three dimensions of information and stores it

- on a 2 - D surface.

In the same way, even though objects

are physically consumed by black holes, all of their information

remains imprinted on the event horizon as a hologram.

>> The information that creates us,

creates a physical universe, comes from the very edge

of our own physical universe.

But in the same way that we look at a hologram

and we can perceive some - kind of 3 - D perspective to it,

that's exactly what is going on down here.

So everything that we see, everything that we feel

is simply a projection.

>> It's like a sea of information or a sea of energy.

And waves on that ocean, they intersect.

And that forms the information patterns

that, then, project into the universe.

>> When the wave is the ocean and the ocean is the wave,

when the universe is within the proton and the proton is within

the universe, understanding this fundamental perspective is key.

The implication here is that the universe

is the flow of information where each point of information

contains the whole of creation.

>> It's as if all the information is in every point,

then all scales are related.

And so the scalar relationship from, for instance,

all the way from the Planck scale all the way

to the universal scale going with protons, electrons,

planets, stars, galaxies, superclusters, and so on,

all these scales are like fractal division

of this holographic structure of space.

And so this fractal division of the space

that produces all of the scales in the holographic structure

means that every scale is then embedded in every other scale.

So from every scale, you have access

to the network of information of all the other scales.

And all of a sudden, you can see the universe and creation

as a whole as information transfer

across scales, from infinitely big to infinitely small,

like a flow of information in which we

are at one of the scales, at the center between the Planck

in our universe.

And so we are part of this information flow.

The event of self-awareness, and consciousness, and so on,

being part of that flow.

And that means that from being part of that hologram,

from being part of this fractal, holographic structure,

you have access to all the information, information

that's non-local to you.

That means information that's not necessarily directly

in your environment, but maybe information about something

very far away from you because everything

is entangled into this holographic nature

of our universe.

>> This suggests that the information comprising what we

- perceive as 3 - D reality is - stored on a 2 - D surface,

including time.

This means, essentially, everything

we see and experience that appears as real

may, in fact, be an illusion.

>> So this reality is a holographic dream, in effect.

But it seems so real.

When so many of our dreams don't seem real.

We know they're dreams.

We wake up.

We say I've had a dream.

But this one seems incredibly real,

because of the power of the mind.

I mean, I don't know about your dreams.

I dream often in three dimensions, if you like.

I experience in my dreams what appears to be the world that I

experience here.

But how can that be?

Because we accept that dreams are actually going on here.

So it can't be physical, can it?

We're having multiple experiences

at the same time over multiple dimensions at the same time.

But the one we are actually aware of that seems real

is this one.

As the brain decodes this waveform information into what

appears to be this solid world.

>> We share our existence with other holographic universes,

if you like, that coexist with us.

And they can be seen as a part of what might

be seen as the multiverse.

The multiverse itself would be the source.

That would be the projectionist.

In other words, that which is creating

all of this in the first place.

But then what is the projector itself?

The projector is, essentially, what

we would call the ether, the actual structure

of the multiverse through which information is carried.

We are living in a multifaceted series of dimensions

or universes that all overlay each other,

and are all accessible, and that are bound together

by some kind of primordial source.

And that primordial source is what I call the mind of God.

Note that I said the mind of God.

I didn't say God himself.

This is all thought, all consciousness bound together

through the process of quantum entanglement.

Quantum entanglement is the idea that every particle

that's created has a twin.

And no matter how far away those twins get,

they are still entangled.

They are still linked instantaneously.

So in other words, if you tweak one,

it doesn't matter how far away the other one gets,

it will respond in an equal and opposite manner

instantaneously.

>> As a layperson trying to understand consciousness,

which I think is what we're talking about here,

I believe we are all part of a consciousness.

Some would call the source, whether you

want to label that with bigger names or whatever.

I call it the source, universal awareness,

lots of different names.

>> One time, I believe it was Wolfgang Pauli or Schrodinger,

one of those fathers of modern quantum physics.

And they asked how many minds are there in the universe?

And the answer was one.

There's only one mind.

And so we may experience ourselves

as having these individual minds.

Like my mind is mine.

But in reality, we are tuning in.

Our brain is like a receiver, like a radio receiver,

for this field of consciousness and mind

that we are all bathing in.

We're like fish in the sea.

So similar to the fish maybe not knowing

that there's water around it, we are

in the sea of consciousness.

And we may not know that there's consciousness all around us,

and we're just tuning in to these different frequencies

or stations of consciousness based on how

we have tuned our frequency.

And it's by our will and our intention

that we shift our dial to tune in to different levels

of consciousness.

>> If the universe is a hologram, that means we are,

too.

This may mean that each one of us

contains the entire universe within ourselves.

>> If you take the holographic print, that waveform print,

and you cut it into four and fire the laser at each

of the four pieces, you will not get a quarter of the picture.

You will get a quarter-sized version of the whole picture.

So every part of the hologram contains the information

of the whole hologram.

>> What does this actually mean?

What it means is that our reality

is the product of a multi-dimensional emanation

coming from a primary source.

So almost like a singularity that as it emanates out,

it's almost like it is broken up, like light through a prism.

And that every single ray that comes through that prism

could be seen as an individual universe.

And that that thereafter is broken up again,

and again, and again.

And all we, ultimately, are is one part of that emanation.

>> Information is the main fundamental building block

of this universe, at least that's what science is saying

now with the holographic model.

That information is most fundamental.

And then that information informs what gets manifested

or what gets materialized out of the quantum field.

So those particles and energy, everything

that we experience here in this sensory, physical world,

is real.

It's just informed by information

that comes from a source beyond this physicality.

>> If the universe is holographic,

the question people often ask is why does it appear solid?

>> Well there's a misconception about what we call the material

world.

If you look really precisely at what the material world is,

you don't actually find a thing, right?

It's not a thing.

Like if you look at an atom, if you look at a proton, what

are you seeing?

Well, first of all, you're seeing 99.9999999% space.

The atom is mostly space.

So right there, you know it's not that thing.

It's not a billiard ball.

It's actually a no thing.

It's mostly space.

And the boundary that we define, that we see, that we touch,

that we bounce against is a electrostatic field

that is basically a little bit of oscillating energy.

And this electromagnetic oscillating energy

bounce against each other.

And it feels like solid.

It's like solid space, right?

And when we look at the protons in the nuclei of the atom,

we find the same thing.

All we can say about a proton is that there is a region of space

where there's a little bit of a denser electromagnetic field

or denser electrostatic field.

We call it the particle and so on.

But basically all we're describing

is little energy advance in the space.

>> Based upon the research and conclusions of American

scientists David Bohm and Karl Pribram a universe in which

individual brains are actually indivisible portions

of the greater hologram and everything is holographically

interconnected, the parapsychological phenomena,

such as telepathy, may merely be the accessing

of the holographic level.

>> To put it another way, in a universe that is a hologram,

our brain, indeed every neuron and every atom in our brain,

contains, in some semblance, the whole universe.

And we are truly all part of a global mind.

>> I believe our brain is like a physical modem for translating

our multidimensional awareness.

So it's giving us something in a physical form for us

to be able to relate to and have a physical experience.

But consciousness, whether you call that mind, is nonphysical.

The way that I've come to understand reality is this--

we have a physical container of a certain frequency with mind.

I call the brain the modem that allows us to translate it

into physical form so that we can actually understand it.

So that's what the brain is.

But consciousness, whether you call

that mind, is non-physical, is an awareness

that is connected to humanity's the matrix,

but also to humanity's consciousness,

if you like as well.

And so what we're doing is having an individual perception

through our human brain of a human experience that

will be different for everyone perceiving that same consensus

reality.

So that we have all that unique experience,

but ultimately we're all coming from the same place, which

is our consciousness, which is connected to everything,

not just human beings, but the star beings,

the interdimensionals, and all creatures.

Just because we see it as solid, doesn't mean it

isn't conscious.

It just means that we are not aware of its consciousness.

>> The body is the mind.

The body is just a decoded, holographic expression

of the mind.

Yes, even the body, everything is holographic.

Therefore we are decoding the energetic fields

that we call the body, the information fields,

the waveform fields into the very body

that we think we're inhabiting.

And our perceptions will dictate the nature of how we do that

and how we experience that body.

>> I wouldn't say that the holographic universe is

a product of mind.

I would say that the dynamics of information

flow through the structures of our universe,

or of the holographic, fractal universe,

produce the effect that we call mind

or that we call consciousness.

But that effect is at every scale,

it's not isolated to the human.

Meaning that in order for the human to become self-aware,

it had to have all the steps of evolution along the way

to get to there.

So every bit of that is part of the mind, of the consciousness,

of the evolution of the whole.

It's one thing learning about itself.

And so you could say it from that perspective

that consciousness and the mind is present at all levels.

It's the result of this evolutionary transformation

that's occurring every billionth of a second everywhere

in the universe.

>> Bohm and Pribram have also suggested that many religious

and mystical experiences, such as a feeling of transcendental

oneness with the universe, may also be due to the accessing

of the holographic realm.

As they note, perhaps the reason so many great mystics

of the past have talked about experiencing

a feeling of oneness with all things

is simply that they have learned how

to reach that part of their minds

in which all things really do possess cosmic unity.

>> The mechanism that information is transferred

on a multidimensional level throughout,

not just this universe, but every universe.

And the information that is being conveyed

is the same as what we would call consciousness.

And that consciousness is the product of human interaction

or the interaction of any life form with a primordial source

of knowledge, of wisdom, which I like

to refer to as the mind of God, something

that is all information.

Every aspect of life anywhere in the universe,

not just in our universe, but every universe

is contributing to this.

And that this is the source.

And that the conveyance of this information through the ether

allows the manifestation of the physical reality.

>> As a layperson, I just see it as frequency.

So for me, we're - in a 3 - D frequency,

which everything appears solid, but, obviously, really,

everything isn't solid in terms of what science is showing us.

It's all molecular.

You go to the very atom and that there's nothing actually

solid at all.

So it's only because we are perceiving it as solid simply

because we're the same frequency as whatever it is around us.

That's why we can't see spirits, or at least some of us

can't see spirits because they're a different frequency.

And extraterrestrials are a different frequency.

So as we expand in our consciousness and awareness,

the more we can see those other realities and frequencies.

>> The theory that reality as we consciously experience it is

actually a hologram goes back to many ancient cultures around

the world who believed that we exist in a dream or illusion.

>> One of the best examples of the ancients having

an understanding of what we would call the holographic

universe is the Hebrew Kabbalah.

And this talks about the fact that the physical universe

in which we live is merely emanations

of a primordial divine source before he entered

into the physical world.

There was like this lightning bolt of activity

that penetrated through into physical reality

and penetrated through into humanity.

And that we all have some facet of that original emanation

within us.

>> Many of them said they got this from the sun gods,

wherever.

They knew that the material world was actually

the result of a deeper reality.

And this deeper reality is actually

a field of information that's occurring at the quantum scale.

And so what we see in our world is really the iceberg tip

of what reality is.

And those discovery meet nicely with some

of these ancient knowledge about the deeper meaning of reality.

>> Assuming that we're living in a holographic reality,

what then are the implications for humanity?

>> The implication of living in a holographic universe would,

essentially, mean that we are part of a larger,

higher dimensional object.

And it would be prudent for us to figure out

what that object is.

Because in theory, if we could get and understand

that object in its entirety, we would

be able to know what direction humanity is headed.

We would be able to see the universe front and back.

We would essentially time travel in many respects

if we could actually see the entire,

let's say, four-dimensional object that we're part of

or a higher dimensional object.

And so it would be kind of like finding

the cheat codes to the matrix.

>> If we could understand that we exist within a multiverse,

and that overlaid on our own physical reality are multiple

other universes, quite literally,

then an understanding of this process could bring us closer

to the intelligences, and, thus, the knowledge and wisdom that

might be held by beings, consciousness,

intelligences as a whole that exist within these other

realms.

So to try and find out the route back to the original source

could, then, take us beyond that into these other universes.

>> We are multidimensional beings.

And we have so much more potential

to direct the course of things here.

So rather than being in reaction to all

these outer circumstances that we're

presented with in our world, we can

shift into being more realizing that we are at cause.

And through our consciousness and through our remembering

of who we really are, and the potential that's within us,

and the fact that we are the source of this,

then that is when we can really shift the course of things.

That is when we can really start to put

in new codes and new information into this hologram

and then manifest it here in this physical reality.

>> The take away, if we believe that this is a holographic

universe and we are all part of it,

is not to take life too seriously,

to enjoy the adventure, and to realize that it's offering us

so much awareness and understanding.

And that at the end of the day, it's

far better to see your reality in that way

than as a victim of it, because it's quite exciting down here.

>> I believe that if there is an intelligence behind this

holographic universe, it would be, what I guess,

would be some sort of like alien simulator.

It would have to be somebody or something extremely

interested in creating simulations

of this universe for whatever reason.

So I would almost have to venture that it's a scientist,

but maybe that's bias.

>> It really is a self introspective of our being,

about who we are, of who we are in relationship

to the universe, to reality.

How come we're here?

How come we're where?

How come we have self-awareness?

How did this happen?

What are the mechanisms that made that happen?

And then we can align our technology

to the same mechanism so that we become harmonious.

It teaches us about the fact that we

are all part of the same source, and that we

should unify as human beings and take care of each other,

and support each other, and transform our society

to a society that's thriving instead of a society that's

struggling in conflict trying to have more of the resources

than others.

And this can lead, this understanding these physics,

can lead to the unification of the human race.

>> We are the imagination of ourselves.

And it's that imagination that manifests

in the way we decode information into holographic reality

and, thus, the nature of the physical experiences

that we have.

But the great news is now that we

are in a time when people are beginning,

like never before in my experience, to question again,

not only what's really behind world events but,

hey, what is this place?

Who am I?

What is going on?

And the answers will transform this world.

And it will transform human life.

>> In a universe where individual minds are actually

fractals of the greater hologram and everything is

interconnected, the holographic universe theory may well be

the intersection of cosmic unity where science and spirituality

merge as one.

In our next episode of "Deep Space,"

think energy, frequency, and the role of plasma

if you want to understand the universe.