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The Holographic Universe | 
| Author: Michael Talbot
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Rating:  225 reviews
Sales Rank: 4381
Media: Paperback
Pages: 338
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060922583
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780060922580
ASIN: 0060922583
Publication Date: May 6, 1992
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Condition: Page edges tanned. very nice condition.
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Product Description
Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Now, two of the world's most eminent thinkers -- University of London physicists David Bohm, a former protege of Einstein's and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, one of the architects of our modern understanding of the brain -- believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. This remarkable new way of looking at the universe explains now only many of the unsolved puzzles of physics, but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-body and near death experiences, "lucid" dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and miraculous healings.
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 Intriguing new scientific model December 1, 2008
BlacKdusT (Gainesville, FL)
I at first was very dubious about reading this book. I study neuroscience, and to think of the brain as a hologram seemed at first insulting to me. But after getting into it, I became more and more fascinated by this idea of a holographic model. Talbot starts off with explaining what a hologram is and how this model can be applied to the brain and the universe. After this, he describes story, after story, after story of amazing supernatural, paranormal happenings all over the world. It seriously blew my mind and actually started me questioning science as we know it. I at first completely refused to accept that any scientific notion was real, according to the findings in this book, but came to realize it's only a lack of scientific development to accept these kinds of experiences that occur. At some point, science is going to go through a serious paradigm shift if it's to incorporate these ideas of how the world really works.
One of the most important messages to take away from this book, is the idea of the implicate and explicate order. The explicate order is what we see in reality, our bodies, the earth, a table, a flower. The implicate order, on the other hand, is the deeper reality, the real source of reality, out of which the explicate arises. This might be a hard concept to grasp at first, but Talbot does a great job in not only explaining this concept but providing a myriad of examples. One thing you should definitely check out after reading this book is the so-called Two Slit Experiment. Go youtube it, it's a 5 minute animation with Dr. Quantum and beautifully depicts one of the concepts Talbot tries to explain in the book.
I won't go into further detail about the book, but one last thing that really left me puzzled was the idea of: We literally create our own reality. And I don't mean figuratively, no, literally. The very existence of a conscious being creates it's own reality. The conscious mind changes the vibrations of reality, is constantly manipulating them. Definitely a book worth reading if you have even the slightest interest in what reality is, what consciousness is, what science is unable to explain and what our minds are truly capable of.
Really Enjoyed The Holographic Universe November 24, 2008
Kelle J. Deluca (Santa Monica, CA USA)
I found this book to be great fun. Very enlightening and full of great ideas about the nature of reality. I'll read it again and recommend it to my friends.
This is a most interesting book - And a validation of the power of God November 5, 2008
Hey Man Jesus Saves (In the palm of God, man.)
This book totally blew my mind man! What a twisted universe we live in! I once found a piece of plastic that I had lost 4 years prior.. It turned up on the other side of the city man! A place I had never been before! This book substantiates all the uncommon pecularities in my life! I thank God for a great and wonderful universe such as this that we live in. Thanks God! (Spoken while pointing both index fingers toward the Heavens!)
I SO GET THIS BOOK October 19, 2008
Faith F. Poe (Chicago)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the book so much I am on my second reading of the book. This book explains Quantum Physics better for me than dance of the wu-li masters.
I am a Buddhist and most of everything in this book rings true to the Buddhist view of life. Someone needs to take this material and make a documentary out of it. thanks F. White-Poe
A lasting impact October 9, 2008
David Hake (Knoxville, Tennessee)
I first read this book about ten years ago. It was recommended by my daughter after I went into a time of life when I was really interested in spiritual matters (I was just over 60 then). It made a difference in my thinking then and recently my wife and I started reading it again, together. She had heard me reference it so many times in conversations with others, she decided she wanted to know more. I had had a personal experience with the phenomenon of mind-over-matter following an accident and it was illuminating to learn of others that had similar experiences. If you are not threatened to explore spirituality in a broad sense you will be enlightened by the thoughts in this well documented book. It was written for the lay person and does an excellent job of describing and unifying recent developments in physics, biology, psychology and philosophy.
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