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Average Rating:  out of 227 Reviews
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.96
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780060922580
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Talbot
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 530
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Publication Date: 1992-05-06
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Reading Level: 338
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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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Review Summary: Mind-blowing! |
Date: 2008-12-21 |
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Details: This must be one of the most fascinating, if not the most fascinating book I have ever read, and it is a must-read for anyone who is even remotely curious about who and what we really are or who wants to see spirituality meeting science. The claims that are made are backed up by numerous scientific studies, but it doesn't blow you away with scientific jargon. It's written in an easy-to-read style and the different chapters are split up into subsections, which also helps. Michael Talbot explains what a hologram is and then goes on to argue that the holographic model can be used to explain multiple personality disorders (extraordinary! - if you know nothing about MPD, then you absolutely must read this section), psychokinesis, miracles, the human energy field (or energy bodies), past/present/future existing seemlessly together, near death experiences (NDEs), UFO sightings and much more. Whether you accept the holographic theory or not, just reading the results of the various scientific studies mentioned in the book is fascinating and for me, personally, as a poet and author, it was also inspiring. The idea that everything is interconnected in this holographic universe of ours and is part of the same continuum inspired me, for example, to write a poem called 'My Life' to try and make sense of it ('...all that I see and don't see, hear and don't hear, touch and don't touch, smell and don't smell, taste and don't taste I am - I am the eternal energy of everything...'), whilst the story of the woman in the NDE chapter who said that 'she hadn't danced enough yet', making the being of light she was talking to laugh heartily and enabling her to return to physical life, gave me an idea for a children's story. In short, I found the book riveting and inspirational - jam-packed full of extraordinary scientific fact way more mind-blowing and thrilling than any science fiction I've ever read - and I am now reading it for a second time and will probably read it a third and fourth time as well! |
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Review Summary: Physics versus impressive experiences |
Date: 2008-12-12 |
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Details: This book is very interesting, impressive and challenged. It gets a quite "simple" physics principle but at the same time curious (holograms). Towards his own life experiences and from respected scientific ones brings you to deep thoughts exercise about nature, world and circunstances. Really sometimes the real world looks like as being part of an illusion and in others are matter, how are these combination managed just God knows. |
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Review Summary: Intriguing new scientific model |
Date: 2008-12-01 |
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Details: 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. |
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Review Summary: Really Enjoyed The Holographic Universe |
Date: 2008-11-24 |
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Details: 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. |
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Review Summary: This is a most interesting book - And a validation of the power of God |
Date: 2008-11-05 |
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Details: 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!) |
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