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The smaller the piece, the fuzzier and more distorted would be the resulting holographic projection, but the fact remains that the whole projection would nonetheless be made. The key to creating any hologram is that energy in motion must interact with energy in a state of rest, non-motion. In the foregoing example, the pebbles represent energy in motion while the water, before its agitation by the pebbles, represents
energy at a state of rest. To activate, or in effect, to perceive the meaning of a holograph, energy, in this case a coherent light source such as a laser beam, must be passed through the interference pattern generated by interaction between the moving energy and the energy at rest. In the simple example given by Bentov, this requirement was fulfilled by holding the frozen interference pattern in front of the coherent light to project the
three-dimensional holographic image, its {quote} meaning, into space. As Marilyn Ferguson, editor of Brain/Mind Bulletin, tells us, {quote} "Another feature of a hologram is its efficiency. Billions of bits of information can be stored in a tiny space.
The pattern of the holographic photograph is stored everywhere on the plate." So there you go, uh case in point. Uh whole in point of anywhere in a given hologram. Point 14. Ooh, here we go. The consciousness matrix. Point 14. "The universe is composed of interacting energy fields, some at rest and some in motion. It is, in and of itself, one gigantic hologram of unbelievable complexity. According to the theories of Karl Pribram, a neuroscientist at
Stanford University, and David Bohm, a physicist at the University of London, the human mind is also a hologram which attunes itself to the universal hologram by the medium of energy exchange, thereby deducing meaning and achieving the state which we call consciousness.
With respect to states of expanded or altered consciousness such as Gateway uses, the process operates in the following way. As the energy passes through various aspects of the universal hologram and is perceived by the electrostatic fields which comprise the human mind, the holographic images being conveyed are projected upon the electrostatic fields of the mind and are perceived or understood to the extent that the electrostatic field is
operating at a frequency and amplitude that can harmonize with and therefore read the energy carrier wave pattern passing through it. Changes in the frequency and amplitude of the electrostatic field which comprises the human mind determines the configuration and hence the character of the holographic energy matrix which the mind projects to intercept meaning directly from the holographic transmissions of the universe.
Then to make sense of what the holographic image is saying to it, the mind proceeds to compare the image just received with itself. Specifically, it does this by comparing the image received with that part of its own hologram which constitutes memory by registering differences in geometric form and in energy frequency. The consciousness perceives, see exhibit two on the next page, as psychologist Keith Floyd puts it, "Contrary to what
everyone knows is so, it may not be the brain that produces consciousness, but rather consciousness that creates the appearance of the brain." So I think this point, um is really of the utmost importance. And now, you know, this figure on the next page is one of, if not the most famous images from this whole report. But yeah, this point that we just ended on here, it's consciousness that produces the appearance of the brain, not the brain
that produces consciousness. That in and of itself is a really huge point. But this whole concept of consciousness of the individual being like a fractured piece of the hologram of the whole is a really huge point. And then if we make that assumption, this idea that if you perturb the consciousness field of the human being with a different frequency, like Gateway does, you can therefore change its perception, you can change um
its level of consciousness, you can expand its consciousness, you can tune it in to different frequencies of reality or different uh energy systems, probably as Robert Monroe would like to say. All right, point 15. Brain in phase.
"The consciousness process is most easily envisioned if we picture the holographic input with a three-dimensional grid system superimposed over it in such that all of the energy patterns contained within it can be described in terms of three-dimensional geometry using mathematics to reduce the data to two to a two-dimensional form. Bentov states that the scientists suspect that the human mind operates on a simple binary
go/no-go system, as do all digital computers. Therefore, once it superimposes a three-dimensional matrix over holographic information at which it is to interpret and reduces that information mathematically to two-dimensional form, it can completely process it using its fundamental binary system, just as any computer made by the hand of man can process volumes of data and make various comparisons between the data and information stored in its
digital memory. Our minds operate in the same way, perceiving by comparison only. Bentov states the proposition this way, {quote} "Our whole reality is constructed by constantly making such comparisons. Whenever we perceive something, we always perceive differences only. In states of expanded consciousness, the right hemisphere of the human brain, in its holistic, non-linear, and non-verbal mode of functioning, acts as the primary matrix
receptor for this holographic input while operating in phase or coherence with the right brain. The left hemisphere provides the secondary matrix through its binary, computer-like method of functioning to screen further the data by comparison and reduce it to a discrete, two-dimensional form.
I'm not too sure what to think about this part about the brain operating in a similar way to binary with the go/no-go kind of analogy. Um I don't think it's s- super important to the central um philosophy of the paper. Maybe I just need to chew this one over more, but anyway, that is my knee-jerk. Moving on to 16. Evaluation.
"To the extent that Gateway succeeds in bringing about a reinforcement in energy matrix of the mind, it succeeds by expanding or altering human consciousness so that it can perceive without recourse to the intercession of the physical senses, such that ever more of the universal hologram, not of course accessible by sense perception, can ultimately be perceived and understood.
Marilyn Ferguson has written that the theories of Pribram and Bohm appear to account for all the for all transcendental experience, paranormal events, and even {quote} normal perceptual oddities. She goes on to say of Pribram, {quote} "Currently, he is proposing a startling, all-encompassing model that is generating considerable excitement among those intrigued by the mysteries of human consciousness. His {quote} holographic model marries brain
research to theoretical physics. It accounts for normal perception and simultaneously takes paranormal and transcendental experiences out of the supernatural by explaining them as part of nature.
Like certain strange discoveries of quantum physics, the radical reorientation of this theory suddenly makes sense of paradoxical sayings of mystics throughout the ages. Yeah, th- this this does make sense to me. And And again, this sort of harmonizes with um a trend I see among a lot of philosophers of consciousness, you know, like people like Bernardo Kastrup, um people like Dr. Donald Hoffman even, um John Vervaeke, you know, that
there is nothing supernatural about extended expanded states of consciousness or consciousness, but at the same time consciousness itself cannot be explained in merely um you know, classical physics materialistic terms because there are these like anomalous features of consciousness and perception in the human experience that just can't be reduced down to a physicalist framework. So then what they do is they expand the horizon of what is
considered natural, which you know, it makes a lot of sense. Like if you're if you're dealing with a scientific system that accounts for something like quantum physics, consider something like the holographic universe, and that consciousness is a part of that universal hologram, you don't need anything supernatural because you have uh sufficient notions and theories to put consciousness in a lens that is, you know, natural at least
by those terms. All right, 17, self cognition. To complete our outline of the process by which the mind achieves and exercises consciousness, we must also describe the mechanism which accounts for the aspect of human thought that differentiates it from consciousness of plants and animals, i.e. self cognition. Humans not only know, but they know that they know. They are able to monitor the process of their own thinking and maintain awareness of
it. Moreover, they can conduct a comparative assessment evaluating the functioning of their thought processes against various objective standards they have adopted. Human consciousness can do this because it has the capacity to duplicate aspects of its own hologram, project them out, perceive that projection, put it through comparison with the memory aspect where its evaluation standards of measure are stored of its own hologram, and measure
or sense the differences using three-dimensional geometry, and then binary go no-go pulse to yield verbal cognition about the self. Tempted to use the the phrase word salad there, but I I don't think it's nonsense. I don't think what they're what he's saying is nonsense, but it's just another one of these classic run-on sentences that is just clunky to read and fully grok on the first go-through.
But yeah, I mean, how can you not agree with the idea that there's something, you know, I don't I don't want to like diminish other kinds of intelligence because I think as humans we have a tendency to want to do that, but clearly there is something different about human consciousness, right? And we do have this ability that he's talking about to essentially project, create our own, if you want to call it, holograms,
um or creations, and consider those, and weigh them philosophically, you know, like think about something very practical like art, let's say. Um that is a kind of meaning human beings are capable of producing and reflecting upon in a way that is very central to what we are as creatures.
All right, point 18, time-space dimension. Up to this point, oh, you're going to love this part. Up to this point, our discussion of the gateway process has been relatively simple and easy to follow.
But now the fun begins. Gateway involves more than just perception of those aspects of the universal hologram which can be accessed in the dimension of time-space as we know it. To explain how and why human consciousness can be brought to transcend the limitations of time-space is the next task which must be addressed. To do this, we must first appreciate what time and space are in order to understand how the dimension
that they constitute can be transcended. Physicists define time as a measurement of energy or force in motion. In other words, it is a measurement of change. However, in order for energy to be in motion, it must first be limited in some way within the confines of some sort of vibratory pattern so that its confinement gives it the capacity for being contained at a specific location which is distinguishable from other locations, space.