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August 5, 2010
Microcosm/MacrocosmMICROCOSM
in the Holographic Universe 2a. The Basic Holographic Paradigm ... the brain is a hologram perceiving and participating in a holographic universe. ... the new science demands spirit; at least, it makes ample room for spirit. Either way, modern science is no longer denying spirit. - K. Wilber, 1982 - |
| The possibilities of life after life,
other worlds,
disembodied minds, spirits and souls, all suggest that a fundamental
revision
is required in our understanding of the nature of reality. The
emergence
of the holographic paradigm in psychology and science provides a basis
for exploring the hidden dimensions of consciousness, space and
time.
The psychological system of the mind is not a simple isolated island of
consciousness within the cortex, and lower brain, but is connected
within
subtle levels of being, spirit, and mind to the deeper cosmos, in ways
quite unrecognized by modern science.
In The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley described the possible relationship of individual mind to “Mind at Large:”
A holographic mind/brain in a holographic universe is rooted into deeper, hidden dimensions of being–different worlds interpenetrating and sustaining ourselves, and the cosmos. In this conceptual framework, states of consciousness–from the sublime to the mundane, from waking consciousness to mystic union–are potentially comprehensible. And while this does not automatically make the nature of consciousness any less mysterious or answer all of the difficult questions, it is an approach in which the full variety of conscious experiences are possible and plausible. In that difference between the holographic and the materialist paradigm, there lies the basis for a new psychology. |
| The principles of holography were
outlined in 1947
by Dennis Gabor, and involve a form of lens-less photography.
Holographs
yield remarkable three-dimensional images of objects by using no lens,
which contrasts with the usual flat two-dimensional photographs
produced
by a lens. The creation of a holograph requires a source of
coherent
light, usually provided by a laser which is derived from a point
source,
like a zero point source of supernal light. In science, this
light
is regarded as coherent if it has both temporal and spacial
coherence.
Temporal coherence means having one wavelength, or being monochromatic;
and spacial coherence requires that the light issue derived from a
point
source, or can be focused to a point. (Leith, 1976)
In holographic photography, the coherent light beam issuing from the point source of a laser is split into two beams by a partially coated mirror. The reference beam impinges directly upon a holographic plate; while the object beam reflects off an object before impinging on the plate. The two light beams interact on the plate to produce a wave interference pattern (determined by the phase shifts of the interacting waves, and their mutual enhancement or reductive effects). To visual inspection, a holographic plate bears no resemblance to the object holographed, until the plate is again illuminated by a light source. In this event, a three dimensional image of the object is projected from the holographic plate out into space. In the reconstruction of the image, the interference pattern stored on the plate acts as a grating to bend the light by diffraction to re-establish the image. The holographic image produced with modern technology can be so similar to the original that it is impossible to tell the two apart. The projected image can be viewed from various angles and appears quite substantial and three dimensional–apparently real, like our apparently real world. The holographic image is a virtual image, which appears where it is not and possesses no substance or extension in space. It is in one sense illusory. The most unusual property of a holograph is that any portion of the holographic plate illuminated by a light source will recreate an image of the “whole” object: Any part embodies the whole within itself. The term holography means literally “to write the whole.” In order to understand how a holograph works it is valuable to compare it with standard photography. A camera has a lens which focuses the light from an outside source, so that a point to point correspondence is established between any part of the scene photographed and a section of the recording film. By contrast, in holography, no lens is used and so light from the whole of the object is reflected to every point on the holographic film. Any point on the holographic film records interpenetrating wave patterns radiating from the whole object towards that point. The whole is thus implicated in any part, enfolded into each point. This unusual property of holographs suggests mechanisms for mystical states and knowledge, where the microcosm (the individual) embodies at some deep level the macrocosm (the larger world). A point implicates the whole, as individual mind might implicate Mind at large, or one might be, what Gurdjieff describes as "a particle of all that exists." |
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