By Harold Boulette
“Now that you have a sense about how spherical perception works, let’s add in the second part of the new perceptual geometry—holographic perception. … Remember that any part of a hologram reveals the totality. The microcosm perfectly symbolizes the macrocosm, or to paraphrase an old metaphysical truth: ‘As below, so above.’ As your spherical field of consciousness-and-energy expands and contracts, you learn to see how any focus—any reality—no matter how tiny, acts as a hologram. And you experience how the universe itself is the superhologram. … Your sphere contains the whole of the universal mind and unified field. With spherical-holographic perception you don’t have to go anywhere to know everything; its all enfolded—encoded–in your heart center and in every center in your body.” ~Penney Peirce
Scientists dream and plan to one day travel at the speed of light, or possibly faster. Some have even speculated about the ability to travel backwards and forwards in time, though few take such ideas seriously. Of course, time travel is a favorite of science fiction writers as it presents such interesting idea of paradox as going back in time, falling in love with a young woman, getting her pregnant, then returning to the present to discover you have become your own grandfather! It isn’t clear if such a thing could actually happen, but writers have a great deal of fun speculating about it (I, myself started writing a time travel novel a few years ago, but never finished it).
While the continued development of physical travel may be necessary because, lets face it, we have done so much damage to this planet that we will almost certainly have to relocate at some time in the not too distant future, The idea that we can travel anywhere and any-when once we have achieved spherical-holographic perception makes is so much quicker, cheaper, and less dangerous. But. Of course, the physical body does not go along on such travels.
Just think about how wonderful it will be when we all can truly function with spherical and holographic perception. We would not have to speculate about when the pyramids were built, by who, and for what purpose; we would simply know. No doubts at all. We would know why the Nazca Lines were made, what Stonehenge was really used for, why ships and planes sometimes disappear in the Bermuda Triangle, etc. We would know if the planet Venus really did enter our solar system as a comet as Velikovsky suggested. We would quickly end all nonsense from von Daniken and simular speculators claiming aliens must have created, or at least influenced, all the great accomplishments of the great civilizations of the past because humans are just too stupid and lazy to have done it. Of course, if everyone knew what really happened, the world of fiction writing and speculative movies would be over, but I can live with that. It does leave one wondering if such great science fiction writers as H. G. Wells or Jules Verne had developed to some degree this holographic perception that permitted them occasional glimpses into the future, or similarly, Jean M. Auel with her stories of the cave people of fifteen thousand years ago. Although Ms. Auel is known to have spent a great deal of time researching the ice age before writing her first book, that doesn’t mean she didn’t have insight into what that time was really like.
The area that Ms. Peirce doesn’t get into here is the spiritual side. For starters, we think of a hologram as an image of something else, something real. The hologram is just a kind of photograph. So if the physical universe is a hologram, what is the reality from which it is being projected? Materialists might suggest it is simply from another physical universe, but that really doesn’t make much sense to me. If it is a projection from another physical place, it would naturally make sense that such a place is also a holographic projection from someplace else, so ultimately you have to go beyond the physical to find a true source.
Recent studies of the human brain have revealed that information in the brain is stored as a hologram (As above, so below). So when yo look at a car, a hologram of that car is created in your brain. Is the image in your brain reality while the external vehicle is illusion? I don’t think so, but that is essentially what the materialists (who like to call themselves realists, though they are far from it) try to make us believe. If a hologram of a car can be found in out brain, it strongly implies that a car exists in the external world. Likewise, if the world of matter is a hologram, it strongly implies that there is something beyond matter: those higher dimensions we call “spirit”.
There is a difference, though in the universal hologram that we call matter and the holographic images in our brain. While the image of something material that is stored in our brain is an accurate depiction of the object, at least as we see it and as far as we can tell, all the great spiritual teachers tell us that the world of matter is a highly distorted image of the spiritual realm, a bad copy made on a mimeograph machine from the 1960s. It is a distorted image because it was created by the fallen angels who did not truly know what they were doing. As they did not create the material universe as part of God’s Plan, it was a flawed creation much as a person with certain mental problems will create inaccurate images of the physical world in his brain.
So understanding that the material universe is a hologram is very helpful to those of us trying to develop spiritually. First, it indicates that there are higher dimensions from which this hologram must be projected, and second, that just as that mentally ill person might be treated until he is able to store images with far more accuracy, we can “fix” the distorted image of the physical universe and return it to the spiritual realms by following God’s Plan and developing our spiritual faculties.
Note: A shorter version of this article was previously published on the blog Solar Wind.