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The Whole in Every Part

ByBeverly A. Brodskyon September 12, 2016

A conceptual breakthrough for consciousness researchers and new physics theoreticians. Puncturing the Brain equals Mind theory, Talbot shows that we are greater than our physical boundaries, and rolls in new science into the equation, that man and cosmos are part of an interconnected hologram, with the whole in every part. Neuroscientist Karl Pribram, initially in collaboration with physicist David Bohm, reached the conclusion that the brain is a hologram. Dr. Bohm felt that the universe was was a hologram and not an objective reality, infinitely interconnected. In science, we learn about things by breaking it down to its parts, but the cosmic superhologram cannot be studied this way, because it is holonomic rather than reductive. We must put the mystery together. At the highest level, stars in the sky, fish in the sea, the heart in our chest, pulse as one entity. Time and space are illusions, because past, present and future exist simultaneously.

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A Jumble of Good and Bad

ByKarl Weaveron June 15, 2015

Talbot starts with some a-bit-dated musings about the holographic nature of memory (which is more a metaphor than anything else) before getting to the real topic: holographic aspects of the universe.

I felt the book was somewhat erratic, sometimes straining too hard to draw connections, sometimes sounding more like New Age mysticism than science, but it did have some interesting discussions here and there. I've been trying in various ways, as a non-scientist, to catch up to our current understanding of the universe, and for now I've decided the two best products I've found don't include this one. They start from completely opposite ends of the story: one from the cosmologic, very large-scale, and one from the very small-scale. But both end up referring to the other, because our current understanding of the very large, and the very early, are intimately connected to our understanding of the very small. I'm speaking of two lecture series, one on the nature and origin of the universe and the other on particle physics (the exact titles of which I don't think it's fair to insert in a review of this book). Just saying--this may not be the best place to start if you're looking for a layman's understanding of current physics.

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The Whole in Every Part

ByBeverly A. Brodskyon September 12, 2016

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Making the complex readable

ByAuthor of CALL IT WONDERon September 22, 2015

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I enjoyed reading Talbot's interpretations of Quantum Physics, even if the Holographic metaphor did at times feel a bit overwrought. He has a gift for making complex ideas quite readable.

At the quantum level, it becomes evident that separateness is an illusion. I've heard that before--that all things are vibrantly, dynamically interconnected--but Talbot helped me see it in fresh new ways. He explores how different thinkers illuminate this profound insight.

Especially powerful to me was his explanation of physicist David Bohm's view that space is not empty; it's chockfull of energy. I've been drawn for years to the idea of the "fertile void" in my life. It has allowed me to take risks--such as leaving job and home to travel the world--knowing that something will always come. In fact, I now look at most any circumstance, even the brain surgery I had, as an opportunity for something new to arise. I love thinking about how this disposition is actually lining up with the way the universe works at the subatomic level.

Ultimately, this book asks the question: What is Reality? And it shows how Quantum Physics is drawing the conclusion that Reality is infinitely more than we perceive with our conscious minds, that it's interconnected and infinite and limitless. In other words, science is confirming what mystics have said for thousand of years.

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The book will add more thoughts to your brain than you can ever imagine - your reality is in your brain

ByTrust Meon March 6, 2018

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The book will add more thoughts to your brain than you can ever know

Wow, wow and wow. This book will have you thinking more about things that you haven't thought of before. Being a scientist I thought that I could change my present situations by just thinking something different and it worked. I was able to change the hologram to my liking. Let me explain: In a larger sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as two-dimensional information on the cosmological horizon, the event horizon from which information may still be gathered and not lost due to the natural limitations of space-time supporting a black hole, an observer and a given setting of these specific elements, such that the three dimensions we observe are an effective description only at macroscopic scales and at low energies. Cosmological holography has not been made mathematically precise, partly because the particle horizon has a non-zero area and grows with time.But this books tries to explain that even though the hypothesis has not be explained through mathematics.

But in recent readings an article from Slashdot posted on Techlick shows that some black holes can erase your past and give you unlimited futures and this is proven by math. You can read by doing a search for "Math Shows Some Black Holes Erase Your Past and Give You Unlimited Futures" and in another article at Physics Review do a search for "Quasinormal Modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship".

All I can say in the simplest form is that the Universe is the most beautiful thing given to mankind but while some give their time and effort towards studying the beauty of the Universe others would rather just destroy what beauty we have here on Earth instead of putting that energy towards advancing the knowledge of our race even further.

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Thanks for stopping by and reading my review and have an awesome holographic life!

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This book makes a person question whether we understand anything ...

ByBarbon December 3, 2015

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This book makes a person question whether we understand anything about reality. It discusses everything from modern physics to bizarre psychic experiences which have never been explained by modern science. It will make your brain hurt.

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Michael Talbot in "The Holographic Universe" (1991) anticipates science and ...

ByGerald D'Arezzoon May 24, 2015

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Michael Talbot in "The Holographic Universe" (1991) anticipates science and technology light-years to the fore. With a model of the cosmos that is both practical and self-explanatory, the author posits simply that we exist in a hologram, and that we ourselves are holographic. The mystics have said, "Nothing is real." Talbot's work does take a mystical turn, but it is by no means fanciful. The physicists at Princeton were, for all intents and purposes, Euclidean in their thinking; their theories required a rigid, mechanical model with well-defined elements that behaved in highly predictable ways. The notion that particles could and would shape-shift or morph into waves at esoteric will was either little known or scarcely believed. The implications of this model for medicine are fairly covered by the author, and explanations are given as to the phenomena of "phantom limbs" and total-recall memory.This is based in infinite storage (even where those centers of the brain that are associated with memory have been excised) because a hologram contains copies within copies of itself. On the other hand, the implications for science--some twenty-four years after the fact--are beginning to transpire. A safe bet for the future of cyber technology is that devices will stop shrinking and disappear altogether, and that worlds more "virtual" than we thought possible are on the horizon.

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I recommend this for everyone to read

ByAmazon Customeron September 20, 2016

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This is a very interesting book. Parallels The Field but is written by a scientist. I have developed a new perspective on connectedness between people and our universe. I recommend this for everyone to read.

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A book about holograms and a lot of other things

ByRichard Sheldonon February 16, 2015

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This is a very interesting book. The author covers a range of areas related to holography. There is some discussion of ideas related to both paranormal and quantum mechanics. There is a lot of stuff here that would be very hard to find anywhere else. I would like to mention that in regard to the title of the book the author is not claiming that the universe is an actual hologram. To my mind, he is using the word hologram more as a metaphor to explain how something works. It's a good book that should be on everyone's shelf.

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Mind altering book; a revelation!

ByMR P DAWSONon December 22, 2013

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This book was recommended to me by a friend some 10 years ago. Since then I have purchased at least four copies - the reason, I lend it to a friend to read and they don't want to give it back. For anyone interested in notions of conciousness, how we store information, experiences and feelings, this book is essential reading.
Michael Talbot has made the subject both accessible and engaging, and it is one of those few books I go back to time and time again, finding something new or achieving greater understanding with each reading.
To be honest, the first couple of chapters are a bit technical and dry, dealing with the subjects of particle and quantum physics, but trust me, if you persevere you will be well rewarded.
I have now recommended this book to numerous friends and acquaintances and have always had the same feedback… "so glad to put me on to that book".
So, read, enjoy, and open your mind to a completely different way of seeing the world (and the universe) you live in.

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Transformative book backed up by anecdotal information

ByRuth W. Storeron December 5, 2014

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I read this years ago. It changed my life. My sister's husband died recently and I thought she'd be comforted by the hope one can derive from a belief in a benevolent universe. The short chapters each start with an explanation of Quantum Mechanics and what a hologram is. Then there are anecdotes describing near death experiences, out of body experiences and other seriously strange occurrences.In fact, my sister had read Seriously Strange by Sudhir Kakar and was impressed by the scientific community opening up a bit to the existence of a "spiritual" dimension or (s). I feel, even though he did not wait for the backing of the scientific community, Michael Talbot wrote very convincingly about these subjects and began the education of Non- scientists in the possible inferences derived from Quantum Physics.

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There is no conflict.

ByPrashant Parikhon February 1, 2017

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Michael Talbot was really on to something- that is the first impression I got after reading the book. Modern Scientists tend to form and sustain a hegemony where voices deemed controversial, or unconventional, are doused out with great efficiency. There is no denying that these scientists have given us much in way of discovering new aspects of the world we live in, and enriching our lives through the development of newer and more refined technology. The trouble begins when we the seekers and discoverers of knowledge also begin to play the role of gate-keepers. One can argue, with some credibility, that many of these strictures are introduced to keep quackery out of the public domain by not officiating it. This is admirable, even necessary. But at times, the cost proves to be too great, when a genuine revelation is offhandedly dismissed as "wrong", by virtue of being 'un-empirical'. Treading on the thin line between skepticism and open-mindedness is a delicate balance. We need people to defend these boundaries just as much as we need ones to push beyond it. This struggle would give rise to the intellectual churning that would reveal greater secrets that are hitherto unknown.

In this reviewer's opinion, there really isn't a conflict between science, and what we often refer to as mysticism, or the occult. All that differs are the tools of discovery. What we need, then, is greater appreciation and mutual respect between the two communities, and a healthy dose of empathy to at least acknowledge- if not see- what the other is seeing.

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