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Table of Contents
About The Book
How holographic patterns of information underlie our physical reality
• 2017 Nautilus Silver Award
• Includes myriad evidence from a wide range of cutting-edge scientific discoveries showing our Universe is an interconnected hologram of information
• Explains how consciousness is a major component of the cosmic hologram of information, making us both manifestations and co-creators of our reality
• Reconciles Quantum Mechanics and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity by showing that energy-matter and space-time are complementary expressions of information
Our understanding of the Universe is about to transform at all levels, from the tiniest Planck scale to the vast reaches of space. Recent scientific discoveries show that the information that upholds all of our modern technologies is exactly the same as the universal in-formation that underpins, pervades, and is all we call physical reality.
Exploring how information is more fundamental than energy, matter, space, or time, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., examines the latest research across many fields of study and many scales of existence to show how our Universe is in-formed and holographically manifested. She explains how the fractal in-formational patterns that guide behavior at the atomic level also guide the structure of galactic clusters in space. She demonstrates how the in-formational relationships that underlie earthquakes are the same as those that play out during human conflicts. She shows how cities grow in the same in-formational ways that galaxies evolve and how the dynamic in-formational forms that pervade ecosystems are identical to the informational structures of the Internet and our social behaviors. Demonstrating how information is physically real, the author explores how consciousness connects us to the many interconnected layers of universal in-formation, making us both manifestations and co-creators of the cosmic hologram of reality. She explains how Quantum Mechanics and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can at last be reconciled if we consider energy-matter and space-time as complementary expressions of information, and she explores how the cosmic hologram underlies the true origin of species and our own evolution.
Concurring too with ancient spiritual wisdom, the author offers solid evidence that consciousness is not something we “have” but the fundamental nature of what we and the entire Universe are. With this understanding, we can each transform our own lives and help co-create and in-form the world around us.
• 2017 Nautilus Silver Award
• Includes myriad evidence from a wide range of cutting-edge scientific discoveries showing our Universe is an interconnected hologram of information
• Explains how consciousness is a major component of the cosmic hologram of information, making us both manifestations and co-creators of our reality
• Reconciles Quantum Mechanics and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity by showing that energy-matter and space-time are complementary expressions of information
Our understanding of the Universe is about to transform at all levels, from the tiniest Planck scale to the vast reaches of space. Recent scientific discoveries show that the information that upholds all of our modern technologies is exactly the same as the universal in-formation that underpins, pervades, and is all we call physical reality.
Exploring how information is more fundamental than energy, matter, space, or time, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., examines the latest research across many fields of study and many scales of existence to show how our Universe is in-formed and holographically manifested. She explains how the fractal in-formational patterns that guide behavior at the atomic level also guide the structure of galactic clusters in space. She demonstrates how the in-formational relationships that underlie earthquakes are the same as those that play out during human conflicts. She shows how cities grow in the same in-formational ways that galaxies evolve and how the dynamic in-formational forms that pervade ecosystems are identical to the informational structures of the Internet and our social behaviors. Demonstrating how information is physically real, the author explores how consciousness connects us to the many interconnected layers of universal in-formation, making us both manifestations and co-creators of the cosmic hologram of reality. She explains how Quantum Mechanics and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can at last be reconciled if we consider energy-matter and space-time as complementary expressions of information, and she explores how the cosmic hologram underlies the true origin of species and our own evolution.
Concurring too with ancient spiritual wisdom, the author offers solid evidence that consciousness is not something we “have” but the fundamental nature of what we and the entire Universe are. With this understanding, we can each transform our own lives and help co-create and in-form the world around us.
Excerpt
11
Who Makes Our Perfect Universe?
An in-formed universe requires an in-former . . . Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder what makes the Universe exist. Be curious.
--Stephen Hawking, physicist
Real-izing
Neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists are coming to recognize that we don’t perceive a direct representation of “external” reality but, instead, our senses and brains operate as a translation and integration service to our innate consciousness. What we think, feel, and believe, whether it’s “true” or not, significantly affects our notions of what’s real.
The old adage “seeing is believing,” is being turned on its head as studies are progressively discovering that we literally “see” what we believe.
Numerous experiments have shown that we see what we expect to see. Psychologists have demonstrated that when our attention is distracted we miss otherwise obvious events and co-create the realities we perceive--traits often expertly manipulated by mentalists such as the UK’s Derren Brown.
A well-known (and jaw-dropping) example is the phenomenon of “change blindness,” an experiment on which was carried out by psychologists Daniel Simons and Daniel Levin in 1998. Such reality myopia occurs when our attention is diverted. Researchers have concluded that change blindness is due to a lack of informational attention before and after the distraction. The brain fills in the gaps and concludes that no change has occurred, even when it actually has.
Simons and Levin’s research was conducted at Cornell University where experimenters held a campus map and asked passers-by for directions. After around fifteen seconds into a person’s directions, two further experimenters, together carrying a door, walked in between the conversation. As they were moving on, the initial experimenter who’d been asking the way switched places with the one carrying the back of the door, who then took the place in receiving help from the passers-by.
When the passers-by completed their directions, the experimenter explained that a psychological study of how people pay attention was being undertaken. Asking whether the passers-by had noticed anything unusual when the two people carrying the door went by, if the response was no, the experimenter then asked whether the passers-by had realized that they weren’t speaking with the same person who’d initially approached them and was previously being given assistance.
Over half the passers-by failed to notice that the person they had been speaking with had changed to another stranger in the middle of their conversation!
Scientists over the last couple of decades have also tested how what we think and believe actually alters our physiology.
For Eastern practitioners of mind-based traditions, such abilities have always been self-evident, but in recent years Western scientists have studied and increasingly corroborated such claims.
In 2002, the Harvard Gazette reported a series of experiments beginning in the 1980s, and directed by Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical School, that investigated the Tibetan Buddhism meditative practice of tum-mo. Not only were the monks involved in the experiments
able to demonstrate a conscious ability to reduce their metabolism by up to sixty-four percent but also to significantly raise their body temperatures. Translated as “inner fire,” tum-mo’s visualization and focusing technique has been used for many centuries as a rite of passage to prove a monk’s aptitude by being able to survive and thrive in the inhospitably low temperatures of their homeland. Adepts are even able to produce sufficient inner heat to cope with a night-long meditation in the freezing cold, sitting naked on the snow.
Due to the spiritual practices homed over millennia, Hindu yogis are also now being subjected to scientific investigation of their renowned powers to control bodily pain through the power of thought.
In 2004 a team of researchers, with lead author Erik Peper of the San Francisco State University, reported their study of a yoga master able to pierce his tongue and neck with skewers while suffering neither pain nor bleeding. Experimental measures showed that a coherently high level of alpha brain-waves, associated with deep yet alert relaxation, revealed his ability to consciously reduce the electrical activity in his skin, thus reducing pain response and blood flow. (1)
BEYOND THE BRAIN
Real-izing that everything we call physical reality is the expression of the in-formational intelligence of cosmic mind completely reframes the question of human and, indeed, all consciousness and cognizance.
Hitherto, the view of most neuroscientists has been that our consciousness somehow arises from the brain as a localized phenomenon. Just as a turbine generates energy, so the view goes our brain generates consciousness, somehow.
That final “somehow” is crucial. While neuroscience has managed to map neural networks in the brain, identifying which areas light up during certain mental processes and progressively noting their holographic nature, there remains no mechanism for the integration of neuronal activities with the immaterial perception of self-awareness.
Based on numerous experimental data on the nonlocality of our consciousness, an alternative has been to view the brain instead as a computer: a receiver and transmitter of nonlocal information
However, with increasing discoveries and the emerging understanding of the cosmic hologram, the computer-brain-mind metaphor is also coming to be seen as too limited in its perspective. Not only does it fail to account for the inter-dimensional communications reported extensively by transpersonal experiencers, but still more fundamentally, it implicitly suggests a duality between the physical world and consciousness.
Instead, the paradigm-shifting view of the cosmic hologram, whose perception recognizes the actual immateriality of the physical realm and the ultimate unity of consciousness, is offering a new view of the brain and its purpose.
By identifying the brain as playing an important role in the in-formational organization of the embodied awareness of human beings, it redefines each of us as a unique and microcosmic individuation of the intelligence of the cosmic hologram of our Universe: literal co-creators of reality.
Given too that, as we’ve seen, the cosmic hologram of our universal experience is inherently nonlocally and holographically connected, our consciousness too is so nonlocally infused.
Who Makes Our Perfect Universe?
An in-formed universe requires an in-former . . . Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder what makes the Universe exist. Be curious.
--Stephen Hawking, physicist
Real-izing
Neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists are coming to recognize that we don’t perceive a direct representation of “external” reality but, instead, our senses and brains operate as a translation and integration service to our innate consciousness. What we think, feel, and believe, whether it’s “true” or not, significantly affects our notions of what’s real.
The old adage “seeing is believing,” is being turned on its head as studies are progressively discovering that we literally “see” what we believe.
Numerous experiments have shown that we see what we expect to see. Psychologists have demonstrated that when our attention is distracted we miss otherwise obvious events and co-create the realities we perceive--traits often expertly manipulated by mentalists such as the UK’s Derren Brown.
A well-known (and jaw-dropping) example is the phenomenon of “change blindness,” an experiment on which was carried out by psychologists Daniel Simons and Daniel Levin in 1998. Such reality myopia occurs when our attention is diverted. Researchers have concluded that change blindness is due to a lack of informational attention before and after the distraction. The brain fills in the gaps and concludes that no change has occurred, even when it actually has.
Simons and Levin’s research was conducted at Cornell University where experimenters held a campus map and asked passers-by for directions. After around fifteen seconds into a person’s directions, two further experimenters, together carrying a door, walked in between the conversation. As they were moving on, the initial experimenter who’d been asking the way switched places with the one carrying the back of the door, who then took the place in receiving help from the passers-by.
When the passers-by completed their directions, the experimenter explained that a psychological study of how people pay attention was being undertaken. Asking whether the passers-by had noticed anything unusual when the two people carrying the door went by, if the response was no, the experimenter then asked whether the passers-by had realized that they weren’t speaking with the same person who’d initially approached them and was previously being given assistance.
Over half the passers-by failed to notice that the person they had been speaking with had changed to another stranger in the middle of their conversation!
Scientists over the last couple of decades have also tested how what we think and believe actually alters our physiology.
For Eastern practitioners of mind-based traditions, such abilities have always been self-evident, but in recent years Western scientists have studied and increasingly corroborated such claims.
In 2002, the Harvard Gazette reported a series of experiments beginning in the 1980s, and directed by Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical School, that investigated the Tibetan Buddhism meditative practice of tum-mo. Not only were the monks involved in the experiments
able to demonstrate a conscious ability to reduce their metabolism by up to sixty-four percent but also to significantly raise their body temperatures. Translated as “inner fire,” tum-mo’s visualization and focusing technique has been used for many centuries as a rite of passage to prove a monk’s aptitude by being able to survive and thrive in the inhospitably low temperatures of their homeland. Adepts are even able to produce sufficient inner heat to cope with a night-long meditation in the freezing cold, sitting naked on the snow.
Due to the spiritual practices homed over millennia, Hindu yogis are also now being subjected to scientific investigation of their renowned powers to control bodily pain through the power of thought.
In 2004 a team of researchers, with lead author Erik Peper of the San Francisco State University, reported their study of a yoga master able to pierce his tongue and neck with skewers while suffering neither pain nor bleeding. Experimental measures showed that a coherently high level of alpha brain-waves, associated with deep yet alert relaxation, revealed his ability to consciously reduce the electrical activity in his skin, thus reducing pain response and blood flow. (1)
BEYOND THE BRAIN
Real-izing that everything we call physical reality is the expression of the in-formational intelligence of cosmic mind completely reframes the question of human and, indeed, all consciousness and cognizance.
Hitherto, the view of most neuroscientists has been that our consciousness somehow arises from the brain as a localized phenomenon. Just as a turbine generates energy, so the view goes our brain generates consciousness, somehow.
That final “somehow” is crucial. While neuroscience has managed to map neural networks in the brain, identifying which areas light up during certain mental processes and progressively noting their holographic nature, there remains no mechanism for the integration of neuronal activities with the immaterial perception of self-awareness.
Based on numerous experimental data on the nonlocality of our consciousness, an alternative has been to view the brain instead as a computer: a receiver and transmitter of nonlocal information
However, with increasing discoveries and the emerging understanding of the cosmic hologram, the computer-brain-mind metaphor is also coming to be seen as too limited in its perspective. Not only does it fail to account for the inter-dimensional communications reported extensively by transpersonal experiencers, but still more fundamentally, it implicitly suggests a duality between the physical world and consciousness.
Instead, the paradigm-shifting view of the cosmic hologram, whose perception recognizes the actual immateriality of the physical realm and the ultimate unity of consciousness, is offering a new view of the brain and its purpose.
By identifying the brain as playing an important role in the in-formational organization of the embodied awareness of human beings, it redefines each of us as a unique and microcosmic individuation of the intelligence of the cosmic hologram of our Universe: literal co-creators of reality.
Given too that, as we’ve seen, the cosmic hologram of our universal experience is inherently nonlocally and holographically connected, our consciousness too is so nonlocally infused.
Product Details
- Publisher: Inner Traditions (February 16, 2017)
- Length: 272 pages
- ISBN13: 9781620556610
Raves and Reviews
“Illuminating and inspiring, The Cosmic Hologram’s cogent articulation of quantum mechanics and its integration in cellular biology is a must-read for all those working to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.”
– Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., bestselling author of The Biology of Belief
“Teeming with the latest discoveries in frontier science, this bold and original ‘theory of everything’ argues persuasively that our universe operates as a giant, enfolded information system. Savor Jude Currivan’s rich blend of a book, which reconciles these theories with ancient ideas, and prepare to have your mind, your preconceptions, and all received wisdom forever blown away!”
– Lynne Mctaggart, bestselling author of The Field, and The Intention Experiment
“The emerging scientific revolution in addressing the mind-body question and the deeper nature of reality is fuelled by some of the most profound revelations from the leading edge of scientific investigations, much of which is discussed in Jude Currivan’s thoughtful and insightful book The Cosmic Hologram. Jude’s formal training in physics combined with her transcendental spiritual experiences beginning at an early age set the stage for a fascinating tour of the fundamental underpinnings of reality.”
– Eben Alexander, M.D., neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven
“The Cosmic Hologram is a wonderfully important and very wise book. . . . the issues Jude Currivan, Ph.D., addresses will determine our fate as a viable species. . . . no one can consider herself an educated, responsible citizen in the twenty-first century who is not knowledgeable about these vital concerns. Written in elegant, clear, empathic prose, The Cosmic Hologram belongs at the top of your stack.
– Larry Dossey, M.D., physician, lecturer, and author of 11 books
“A stimulating and deeply inspiring view of the cosmos, consciousness, and the role of human perceptions in shaping what we call ‘reality.’ In the end, an offering of hope that during this Consciousness Revolution we can mold that reality into a compassionate and regenerative future.”
– John Perkins, author and cofounder of the Pachamama Alliance
The Cosmic Hologram is as elegant in its vision of a hologramatic universe as it is profound in its assertion that humanity is an integral part of it. We are the universe. Jude Currivan has thus pointed to the future by giving scientific description and credibility to the most ancient awareness of our species, that we are inside and not separate from all that is, that we are in fact shaping life even as it shapes us. This book is the new story for a planetary civilization.”
– Jim Garrison, Ph.D., president of Ubiquity University
“We highly recommend this timely, leading-edge book as it brings together consciousness with scientifically based evidence in a way we can all understand to explain the ‘revolution of consciousness’ now taking place!”
– J. J. Hurtak, Ph.D., and Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., founders of The Academy for Future Science
“Jude Currivan, Ph.D., lucidly develops the exciting and revolutionary insight and provides the transformational evidence that we live within a universe that is a high resolution, dynamically regenerated hologram. The Cosmic Hologram masterfully brings together extensive scientific knowledge, spiritual insight, and embodied wisdom in a seminal book of sweeping exploration and discovery.”
– Duane Elgin, author of The Living Universe and Voluntary Simplicity
“A compelling tour de force of interdisciplinary scientific scholarship . . . a revolutionary mind expanding and soul restorative plunge through the rabbit hole . . . a must-read for anyone even vaguely attuned to the importance of evolutionary human spiritualization--highly recommended!”
– Oscar Miro-Quesada, founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH)
“This brilliant book will, I believe, serve as a major catalyst to the most profound evolutionary moment facing humanity today--the recognition of who we truly are. . . . If you are questioning your place and purpose in the Cosmos, The Cosmic Hologram will lead you to your true identity.”
– Diane Williams, founder of The Source of Synergy Foundation
“Based on her extensive knowledge of quantum physics, cosmology and the many and latest discoveries about the evolution of our Universe as well as the emergent understanding of the pervasive unity and wholeness of an all-encompassing mind, Jude Currivan comes in her very impressive and important book The Cosmic Hologram to the inevitable conclusion that the physical world is literally the expression of informational processes: both space and time are emergent phenomena of the informational cosmic hologram. Our Universe is innately coherent and non-locally unified, where everything is interconnected and informational in nature. The perspective about the cosmic hologram and the fundamental nature of reality helps us to better comprehend the unity of consciousness in the universe. This transformational insight is supported by the frequently reported experiences of cosmic awareness, where one is able to access accurate and verifiable information at nonlocal levels. Highly recommended.”
– Pim van Lommel, cardiologist, author of Consciousness beyond Life
“The Cosmic Hologram provides an eraser for the fundamental misperception (and root cause of suffering), the experience of ‘me’ and ‘not me’. By allowing the profound insights it conveys to penetrate deep within you, watch what happens to your experience and delight in what unfolds.”
– Mark Atkinson MBBS, self-leadership teacher and author of True Happiness
“The Cosmic Hologram is a ground-breaking book that reveals a perspective on life that invites us into a fundamentally new way of looking at our world. There is no doubt that this is a book to heal ourselves and our world.”
– Peter Merry, Chief Innovation Officer for Ubiquity University
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