THE HOLOGRAPHIC DIMENSION

I have mentioned already the way in which an idea, stumbled on by chance and clicking into place, can tie up numerous loose ends and complete a far-reaching construction of mind. Just that happened when I read The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot (Publisher Harper Collins). The holograph, or hologram, filled gaps in my understanding in a way most unconsciously satisfying to the postconscious but difficult for the conscious precisely to put its finger on. How could it be assumed that a laboratory procedure, shown in Figure 1 below, was a valid description of the memorising and thinking processes of the human mind? I can only say that if the mind's processes were seen as a jig-saw puzzle from which one vital piece was missing, the holographic principle, presenting itself as that missing piece in the jigsaw, fell into place easily and without question. If the holographic principle is accepted, perhaps its most significant features are (1) that the normal range of holograms in the human head is capable of recording an almost infinite amount of information, a capacity which was hard to explain in terms of hard-wiring. (2) that the hitherto vague concept of human thought can be explained as the inter-relationship of holograms and the interference-patterns produced when their signals collide. (3) that holograms can exist independently of brains; can be carried by cosmic energy (of which space is full says Talbot, quoting Bohm), can attach themselves to solid objects, and thus can impart to those human minds and bodies which will admit them, attributes, experiences and emotions which seem to be real and meaningful but which may be inappropriate to the actuality in which we belong (although they may throw revealing light upon the false interpretation of reality to which we presently cling.)

I am not an authority on holography. Without knowing exactly how it is done (although my postconscious keeps coming up with ideas) in this article I propose to extend the explanations of the mind, already given elsewhere on this website and on www.humantruth.org.uk, by applying the holographic principles to human thought and behaviour. It is necessary to point out, however, that whilst science has long tried and failed to describe the human mind and the phenomena of consciousness, essential understanding of these things is available to us, within our own heads. Consciousness is a product of life, its purpose to inform creatures how to live. In humans it has developed the postconscious mind whose function, the only possible function of a pure mind, is truth, the ultimate way of life. Study of the mechanics of the conscious mind is of interest but misses the point in that it has examined rather than fundamentally learned from that most dramatically meaningful advance in intelligence which produced the human species - the development of the postconsciuous.

The reasons why we have not recognised and opened to the postconscious are firstly that the reality which governs our present thinking belongs firmly to the conscious sphere, and secondly that the postconscious mind is unconscious, ie free and independent of the direct influences of reality and self-will in the conscious sphere, as it must be if it is to perfect its reasoning and so discover truth - in our case humantruth, the nearest we can get to universal truth. However, provided that we put the postconscious first - that we become supraconscious - the study of holography answers and solves many questions and problems. In respect of the human mind-structure and other phenomena, it is not only that the case for holography is compelling but that it appears to be the only convincing case. It might help to include here a simplified sketch of how the hologram is made, with acknowledgements to Michael Talbot.

Figure 1 - Rough sketch to show how a holograph is produced. The diffuser lenses are used to focus onto the holographic plate. The interference patterns created when mirrored and reflected beams meet are recorded on the holographic plate. They can be seen at once but not the reflected object. Only when another laser or other bright light is shone through the plate may the object be seen. This essentially simple process, when multiplied and complicated to a high degree, is capable of recording, memorising and correlating enormous amounts of information.

Figure 1 is basically simple, but the fundamental principle it embodies, when multiplied and extended in all directions, is capable of carrying the most deeply complex of human thought. The interference pattern which the holographic plate records also contains an image of the object, each being related to the other. When another laser beam is shone through the plate and the image of the object appears, this is the object being seen and assessed or judged by interference patterns behind the new beam which caused that beam to single out this particular object. When the first procedure is repeated, the beam has already 'seen' the object and its purpose is now to reveal everything the mind knows about the object as revealed by its interference patterns. Actually, the holographic plates in the human brain/mind will be of all kinds, forms, sizes and shapes. There will be no lasers, mirrors or plates as we know them, but there will be much more complex and subtle equivalents. It will be a kind of organised chaos. Patterns, memories, deductions relative to a particular object may be scattered far and wide but, as we well know from experience, they can come together and project a composite 'picture' into consciousness in an instant.

This potentially all-embracing process presently produces, as we also well know, a multiplicity of widely different thoughts, opinions and actions, often conflicting. That is the crux of the matter in hand. This brain/mind process requires voluntary self-government. Essential objects need to have common value and universally agreed interference patterns. The root or source of such self-government is truth, which is to be fully explored later on. Truth is produced by an independent part of the mind, the postconscious. Being independent, the postconscious mind is not affected by the false emotions and pressures of Machine-reality but works as such a mind is designed to work - with pure, unadulterated reason, the inevitable product of which is truth, or, in our case, because we do not have complete knowledge and therefore cannot say with certainty that we are cognisant of whole truth, what I call humantruth.

Study of the human mind is pointless unless it is to understand that end to the attainent of which the mind is designed and dedicated, humantruth. Our present thinking is largely confined to the conscious part of the mind, because it is only thus that we can cope with what we mistakenly conceive to be our inevitable reality - the false Machine. If we think truly we shall build a humantrue reality in which we shall by nature think truly. Figure 2 shows how the postconscious is gradually gaining in influence by means of conscience.

The following Figure 3 further illustrates the barrier between the postconscious and conscious minds. Strong moral influences can break through this barrier, but then have to compete with more immediately pressing, realistic Machine demands. Nevertheless, the influence of the postconscious carries unquestionable truth, whereas the conscious is powered by the temporary passions of instinct such as self-interest and competitive conflict.

The above Figure 3 illustrates the internal working of the human mind. It again shows how a relatively straightforward procedure is complicated yet degraded by the fact that human minds do not work as one in cooperation with their bodies, nor, as individual beings, do they live in harmonious general or universal community. Humans will say that they are bound to think in this way because this is the way their reality is, but that is to put the cart before the horse. The human mind is designed to work supraconsciously and, having achieved that state, its first and most urgent aim would be to design its reality accordingly - ie to make it humantrue.

In animals, by far the most holographs are those of instinct, but where interference patterns have shown possibilities of improving upon instinct, some small areas of conscious awareness have developed - see Fig. 4.

In the course of time instinctive progress developed a new and ever-changing reality to govern human behaviour in place of raw instinct. This development went hand-in-hand with the advance of the human faculty of intelligence but it owed its achievements much more to the instinctive drives with intelligence applied than to intelligence itself. But the faculty of intelligence recognised its true role, in pursuance of which it split in two - the conscious mind which continued under the dominance of the instinctive Machine, and the entirely independent postconscious mind whose pure functon was truth and whose intention was eventually itself to bring the human mind and reality to humantruth.

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