Butterflies07

01/04/11 • 28 min

In Chapter 8, the author returns to his movie theater metaphor to ask the questions:

~ Who or what is creating the holographic movies I’m experiencing as my reality?

~ If the movies I’ve been watching and thinking were my life aren’t real (along with the movie theater itself), then what is real?

~ Why do the movies seem to contain so much drama and conflict and pain and suffering, both internal and external?

~ What does it all mean in the end?

And perhaps even more importantly, in light of the discoveries in quantum physics...

~ Who am I, really?

~ Where did I come from?

~ How did I get here?

~ What am I doing here?

He concludes Part One of the book by saying that the answers to those questions cannot be found inside the movie theater, and invites the listener to join him as he walks out the back door marked, “Do Not Enter - Extremely Dangerous,” and gives us a little taste of what we might expect if we do.

In Chapter 8, the author returns to his movie theater metaphor to ask the questions:

~ Who or what is creating the holographic movies I’m experiencing as my reality?

~ If the movies I’ve been watching and thinking were my life aren’t real (along with the movie theater itself), then what is real?

~ Why do the movies seem to contain so much drama and conflict and pain and suffering, both internal and external?

~ What does it all mean in the end?

And perhaps even more importantly, in light of the discoveries in quantum physics...

~ Who am I, really?

~ Where did I come from?

~ How did I get here?

~ What am I doing here?

Previous Episode

Butterflies06

In Chapter 6, the author describes how a hologram is made, and why quantum physicists believe that we are living in a holographic universe.

“It is relatively easy to understand this idea of holism in something that is external to us, like an apple in a hologram. What makes this difficult is that we are not looking at the hologram; we are part of the hologram.” (Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe)

In Chapter 7, the author explains Dr. Karl Pribram’s conclusion that the human brain is itself a hologram that "mathematically constructs ‘hard’ reality by relying on input from a frequency domain.”

We also learn about recent brain research that suggests the human brain receives a hologram in wave frequencies from The Field, collapses the wave function and converts them into particles to create physical “reality,” and then sends that “reality” “out there” for you to experience - and that there is no independent, objective reality “out there.”

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Butterflies08

In the Preface to Part Two, Inside the Cocoon, the author makes an important distinction between a “model” and a “belief system,” and insists that the remainder of this book will be about models based on the results of the experiments in quantum physics and brain research discussed in Part One - “models that have been tested and found to work. You are not going to be asked to believe anything. Instead, you are invited and encouraged to test these models for yourself.”

In Chapter Nine, the author discusses the “consciousness model.”

“A number of highly respected and thoughtful quantum physicists have concluded that consciousness is what chooses the exact wave frequencies from The Field it wants to use to create our holographic experiences.”

“Quantum Physics enables us to see directly that we can make sense of the world only if we base the world on consciousness . The world is made of consciousness; the world is consciousness.... Quantum Physics makes this as clear as daylight ....” - Dr. Amit Goswami.