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'Om Isha vasyam idam sarvam, yat kincha jagatyam jagat'

 

All this- whatever exists in this changing universe, is pervaded by

God

 

"Om purnamadah purnamidam purnaat purnamudachyate,

purnasya purnamadaya purnamevaavashishyate"

 

That (pure consciousness) is full, perfect, complete;

 

This(the manifest universe of matter; of names and forms ) is full,

perfect, complete.

 

Out of completion emerged completion.

 

And when completion emerged from completion.

 

Completion remained in completion.

 

(from the -Isa Upanishad)

 

 

The Sage's submission, the Bell's Theorem, the Hologram

 

The Sage's submission of a world in which man participates in a

seamless existence, indivisibly united with the universe around him,

resonates through a discovery called "BELL'S THEOREM". This

discovery, first proposed in 1964 by the physicist John S. Bell was

first confirmed by experiment in 1972 by Professor John Clauser at

Berkley.

 

Professor Henry Stapp, a physicist at Berkley and an authority on the

implications of Bell's Theorem, states..

 

"If the statistical predictions of quantum theory are true, an

objective universe is incompatible with the law of local causes."

 

Although formidable at first glance, Bell's Theorem seems simpler

once key terms are understood.

 

 

First, an "objective universe" is simply one that exists apart from

our consciousness.

 

Secondly, the "law of local causes" refers to the fact that events in

the universe happen at a speed that does not exceed the speed of

light. Things happen, in other words, always at the speed of light or

less.This limitation is imposed by Einstein's special theory of

relativity, and is a mainstay of modern physical theory. To be

accurate, in actual experimental situations, it is not Bell's Theorem

that is tested, but the predictions of Quantum Mechanics.

 

 

In 1935, Albert Einstein, together with Nathan Rosen and Boris

Podolsky proposed through flawless mathematical reasoning that if the

quantum theory were correct, then 'A change in the spin of one

particle in a two particle system would affect its twin

simultaneously, even if the two had been widely separated in the

meantime'. And 'simultaneous' is a dirty word in the theory of

special relativity, which forbids the transmission of any signal

faster than the speed of light. Obviously, a signal telling the

particle 'what to do' would have to travel faster than the speed of

light if instantaneous changes were to occur between the two

particles.

 

The dilemma into which Einstein, Rosen and Podolsky dragged the

quantum theory was a profound one, coming to be known as THE ERP

EFFECT.

 

 

In 1964 Bell's Theorem emerged as a proof that Einstein's impossible

proposition did in fact hold true: instantaneous changes in widely

separated systems did occur.

 

In 1972, Clauser confirmed the statistical predictions of quantum

mechanics, working with an elaborate system involving photons,

calcite crystals, and photo multiplier tubes The experiment has since

been run several times with the same consistent results; Bell's

Theorem stands solid.

 

 

THE IMPLICATIONS OF BELL'S THEOREM

 

 

Imagine, two particles once in contact, separated even to the ends of

the universe, change instantaneously when a change in one of them

occurs!

 

Slowly, new ideas are emerging to explain these unthinkable

occurrences. One view is that, in some unexplainable way, the

separated particles are still in contact although separated in space.

This is the suggestion of the French physicist Bernard D'Espagnat. In

1979, writing about quantum reality, he said that "the entire notion

of an external, fixed, objective world now lies in conflict not only

with quantum theory, but in facts drawn from actual experiments....

in some sense all these objects constitute an indivisible whole."

 

Physicist Jack Sarfatti of the Physics/Consciousness Research Group

proposes that no actual energy-requiring signal is transmitted

between the distant objects, but 'information' is transmitted

instead. Thus no violation of Einstein's special theory of relativity

occurs. Exactly what this information is is unclear, and it a strange

thing which might travel instantly and require no energy to do so.

 

Nic Herbert, a physicist who heads the C-Life Institute, suggests

that we have merely discovered an elemental oneness of the world.

This oneness cannot be diminished by spatial separation. An invisible

wholeness unites the objects that are given birth in the universe,

and it is this wholeness that we have stumbled into through modern

experimental methods. Herbert alludes to the words of the poet

Charles Williams: "Separation without separateness, reality without

rift."

 

It would be a mistake to suppose that these effects operate only with

relevance to the invisible world of the atom. Professor Henry Stapp

states that the real importance of these findings is that they

translate directly to our microcosmic existence, implying that the

oneness that is implicit in Bell's Theorem envelopes human beings and

atoms alike.

 

The interrelation of human consciousness and the observed world is

obvious in Bell's Theorem. Human consciousness and the physical world

cannot be regarded as distinct, separate entities. What we call

physical reality, the external world, is shaped - to some extent - by

human thought. The lesson is clear; we cannot separate our own

existence from that of the world outside. We are intimately

associated not only with the earth we inhabit, but with the farthest

reaches of the cosmos.

 

Certain quantum physicists now say that each part of the universe

contains all the information present in the entire cosmos itself

(similar to a giant oak tree producing an acorn that contains all the

information to replicate itself).

 

i.e. The Hologram.

 

 

David Bohm, a former associate of Einstein, professor of theoretical

physics at Birbeck College of University of London,...maintains that

the information of the entire universe is contained in each of its

parts. There is, he says, a stunning example of this principle in

photography: the hologram (literally whole message).

 

Hologram is a specially constructed image which, when illuminated by

a laser beam, seems eerily suspended in three dimensional space. The

most incredible feature of holograms is that any piece of it, if

illuminated with coherent light, provides an image of the entire

hologram.

 

The information of the whole is contained in each part.

 

The entire representation of the original object is contained in each

portion of the hologram. This principle, says Bohm, extends to the

universe at large, that the universe is constructed on the same

principles as the hologram. His theory rests on concepts that flow

from modern physics.

 

The world is an indivisible whole.

 

 

For Bohm, order and unity are spread throughout the universe in a way

which escapes our senses. In the same way that order and organisation

are spread throughout the hologram. Each part of the universe

contains enough information to reconstitute the whole. The form and

structure of the entire universe is enfolded within each part.]

 

For many working physicists, these concepts are inescapable

conclusions that flow from quantum mechanics and relativity. It is

crucial to appreciate the scope of these implications. We frequently

assume that quantum physics applies only to the diminutive realm of

nature - electrons, protons etc., and that relativity has only to do

with massive objects of cosmic proportions -stars, galaxies, nebulae

etc.

 

But Bohm's contention is that we are squarely in the middle of these

phenomena. Ultimately the entire universe (with all its 'particles'

including those constituting human beings, their laboratories,

observing instruments etc). has to be understood as a single

undivided whole, in which analysis into separately and independently

existent parts has no fundamental status.

 

What are the implications of a holographic universe?

 

As part of the universe, do we have holographic features ourselves

that allow us to comprehend a holographic universe? This question has

been answered affirmatively by Stanford neurophysiologist Karl

Pribram.

 

In an attempt to account for key observations about brain function

which for decades have puzzled brain physiologists, Pribram arrived

at a radical proposal: the hologram is a model brain function. In

essence, the brain is the 'photographic plate' on which information

in the universe is encoded.

 

When the proposals of Bohm and Pribram are conceptually joined, a new

model of man emerges: we use a brain that encodes information

holographically; and it is a hologram that is a part of an even

larger hologram - the universe itself.

 

Pribram's radical suggestions are founded on work that originated in

the laboratory of one of the pioneers of modern neurophysiology, Karl

Lashley. At a time when it was popularly believed that there were

specific centres in the brain for practically every human function -

such as speech, vision, appetite, sleep etc.,- Lashley demonstrated

that this was apparently not true for memory.

Working with animals, he found that even when bulk of the cerebral

cortex was surgically removed, leaving only a remnant intact, the

memory of how to perform specific tasks remained. The rapidity and

accuracy of the performance was frequently attenuated, but the

knowledge was retained.

 

These findings fit poorly with existing theories about how

information is stored in the brain. It was as if memory was spread

everywhere in the cortex - but how?

 

Pribram reasoned that the brain contained the memory in each of its

parts. The analogy to a hologram was obvious. The entire memory

pattern could be found throughout the cerebral cortex if the

information had originally been encoded holographically.

 

In most right handed persons, the left side of the brain is presumed

to control the movements of the right side of the body. In instances

where the left side of the brain is injured - for example through a

stroke or with a trauma -paralysis or profound weakness of the right

side of the body is the predictable result. A physician, Richard

Restak, has reported a case, in a twenty one year old female in which

the entire left side of the brain was removed surgically in order to

control epileptic seizures that were unmanageable with any other

known form of therapy. The results of the therapy were astonishing.

Although the seizures were stopped, within a few weeks the woman

began to regain control of the right side of her body. She was able

to return to work and to lead an active social life. Where did the

right side of her body receive its motor information with the left

side of the brain in the surgeon's pail?

 

In 1975 a similar case was reported by Smith & Sugar. A six year old

male underwent total removal of the left cerebral hemisphere because

of intractable epileptic seizures. Conventional neurophysiological

wisdom asserts that the left side of the cerebral cortex is

responsible for our speech, mathematical reasoning and logical

thought in general, and that the right cerebral hemisphere controls

our intuitive, non-rational, non-verbal forms of thought. Yet this

young man grew up to become a gifted student, proficient in verbal

reasoning and language abilities, testing even into the gifted range

of on standard intelligence tests.

 

 

SPACE AND TIME - THE HOLOVERSE

 

This indivisibility also applied fundamentally to space and time.

Relativity has shown that they are inextricably linked, and cannot be

teased apart.

 

Recall one of the possibilities embodied in Bell's theorem involving

non-local features of the universe: objects once in contact, though

separated spatially, even if placed at distant ends of the universe,

are somehow in inseparable contact. Since any change in one

immediately and unmitigatedly causes change in the other, this is a

nonlocal occurance, meaning that any information passing between the

two objects would have to travel faster than the speed of light to

cause such instantaneous change. Since it is impossible for the speed

of light to be exceeded, according to the special theory of

relativity, this event is said to be noncausal-i.e. not caused by the

transfer of any conceivable kind of energy passing between the

distant objects.

 

Although these nonlocal and noncausal descriptions are worked out for

objects separated in space, Bohm states that the implications of

quantum theory also apply to moments in 'TIME'.

 

 

 

"Without and within all beings the unmoving and also the moving;

because of Its subtlety, unknowable; and near and far away is That"

 

"And undivided, yet He exists as if divided in beings; He is to be

known as the supporter of beings; He devours and He generates."

 

"No division in Consciousness is admissible at any time as it is

always one and the same. Even the individuality of the Jiva must be

known as false, like the delusion of a snake in a rope."

 

(From the various Upanishads)

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Dear Sandeep,

 

--- Sandeep <sandeepc wrote:

 

Certain quantum physicists now say that each part of

the universe

contains all the information present in the entire

cosmos itself

(similar to a giant oak tree producing an acorn that

contains all the

information to replicate itself).

 

i.e. The Hologram.

 

 

Of all of the so called "spiritual" hoopla that

exists, the fact that we are ALL together and

individually the entire UNIVERSE. And not only are we

the manifest universe; but the power and the life that

is hidden and unmanifest from which everything springs

is US collectively and individually.

 

Before I ever remember learning about Ramana or

Arunachala and the surrounding hoopla, I had an

experience that continues to be the most amazing thing

imaginable. I will not describe this in detail today

in this forum. But suffice it to say that I most

definitely realized the Holoverse in a way similar to

what you are describing. I realized that the

creative, sustaining power and life of the entire

universe is ME/US. It is the HEART of which Ramana

speaks. The universe itself is completely alive.

There is no "dead" space. It is LIFE ITSELF, whole

and entire. As a clue to those who might be

interested, the most common symbol of GOD/SELF in

India is the Lingam/Yoni. Discover the meaning of

that and you will know who you are. It is not enough

to hear the intellectual discourse/discussion about

this. ONE needs to experience IT for ONESELF.

 

 

For those who love the words of Ramana more than

anything I offer the following quotes:

 

>From Eight Stanzas to Arunachala:

7.He who pursues this closely, questioning. .......

"What is the origin of the I? And diving inwards

reaches the seat of the mind within The Heart Becomes

there the Sovereign Lord of the Universe.......

 

 

SRI RAMANA GITA Chapter Five, THE SCIENCE OF THE

HEART:

 

11: The whole universe is in the body and the whole

body is in the Heart. Hence all the universe is

contained in the Heart.

12: The universe is nothing but the mind, and the

mind is nothing but the Heart. Thus the entire story

of the universe culminates in the Heart.

 

 

Love to ALL,

 

michael

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Beautiful.

Truth in a nutshell.

Why complicate things? :-).

Love to all

Harsha

Michael Bowes wrote:

SRI

RAMANA GITA Chapter Five, THE SCIENCE OF THE

HEART:

11: The whole universe is in the body and the whole

body is in the Heart. Hence all the universe is

contained in the Heart.

12: The universe is nothing but the mind, and the

mind is nothing but the Heart. Thus the entire story

of the universe culminates in the Heart.

Love to ALL,

michael

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