Although this and the Figure following take the holographic view, the whole picture of the creation and evolution of matter and life remains largely the same. When a number of scientists throughout the world were trying to crystallise a certain compound and all succeeded once one of their number had done so, their success could be put down to holographic transmission or the morphogenetic field but the initial success resulted from the efforts of that first scientist's own mind, without external help.

Similarly, that certain physical features are replicated in many different species of animal throughout the world suggests that they tapped in to widespread holographic information as the quickest route to fulfilling a need for a particular feature. It could be said, on the other hand, that these animals all simply followed the most reasonable course logically open to them, but if the holograph concept is accepted we have also to accept that it is integral with the process of reason. Of course, it is probable that one lone animal had to achieve the mutation first by means of reason, or curiosity, and trial and error. It seems likely that many mutations must draw upon both means - holography to convey the principle, innovative intelligence to adapt the principle to the animal's own case followed by trial and error to perfect the mutation.

Broadening of intelligence, and its wilful application to boundless opportunities, mostly ignoring the influence of truth, produced many powerful but harmful holographs whose widespread influence perpetuates the amoral reality thus set up.

So the holograph is not necessarily a good thing. Universal energy will fire up and support any positive endeavour. But it is that abundant energy which eventually produced intellect. Universal energy also contains the influence of truth which is the means of its own fulfilment - true equilibrium - of which intellect is the sole instrument.

The outcome is in the hands of intellect, that of humans and all others, to accept the true influence and live by it, bringing forward those holographs which embody truth and banishing the rest.

There is much better reason why the universe should be tranquil than in violent chaos, violence of which we stand in awe rather than see it as it really is, measured on a different scale - no more than a pot of porage boiling over. There is every good reason why we should live gently and peacably in a humantrue reality. To do so is intellect's happiness. There is also every good reason why the universe should be in a state of true equilibrium. Truth makes optimum sense and is the most influential force, but can fully exercise that influence only if honestly supported by every free and independent mind.

The co-operative or conflicting or withheld relations between and within imperfect holograph clusters, also individual holographs seeking a place in existing clusters or opportunity to congregate with other empathetic individuals to form new clusters (see Figs 1, 2 and 3 in Diag 15.) The blue clustered and individual holographs are seeking (conscience) to become overriding influences (Fig 4, Diag 15), eventually to prevail and form a humantrue reality (Fig 5, Diag 15).

Decisions of the wilful self depend upon the motive-power which each possibility has attracted to itself, the strongest becoming the focul-point of self. In this present reality, the mind's red, green, yellow and brown Machine/instinctive motives, encouraged by each other and by most universal waves, attract the most power whilst the blue motives, although supported by the potentially far superior strength of true reason, attract the least.

The individual holographs are probably the source of dreams when, at a time that the mind is closed to the daytime claims of clusters and groups of clusters on its attention (asleep or anaesthetised), these displaced holographs are able to claim the attention of the self.

The green bias of this totally Machine-compliant construction of mind might represent an obsession, perhaps violent, which is harmful to this person and to those around him or her. But the bias is difficult to remove because, (1) with constant repetition of obsessive behaviour the bias comes to attract the strongest energy-signals in its favour, (2) violent expression of this bias of mind brings strong, even violent response from others, further convincing the person that it is these others, and the particular circumstances, which are the cause of all this trouble, and (3), the growing strength of this bias increasingly convinces the mind that it is reasonable and justified, and that the solution to the resultant troubles must lie outside this person, not where it truly resides - inside the mind.

The holograph features in this way : the green holograms, manifesting the obsessive behaviour in numerous ways from experience and from prejudiced thought, have become the most powerful and attract both the most powerful energy signals and the most empathetic space-holograms. They are attracted to others of the same colour or impelled to convert those of different colour. Similarly the self, the focul-point of consciousness, when seeking where to focus its attention and lacking the influence of truth (blue coloured) but deeply influenced by instinct, tends to choose the largest, most powerfull and persuasive holograph (in this case green).

When we say 'I think' this or that, the self is not actually doing anything. What the self deems to be its own processes of thought is the act of focussing onto items of information, advice or compulsion which come from two sources. The first source is the presently most powerfully influential - the conscious mind. The conscious mind is made up of many constructions of thought recorded on numerous and widely distributed holograms representing knowledge, beliefs, opinions, prejudices, and attitudes which the self has focussed on in the past and given a position in its hierarchy of preferment.

The second source is much the more important and potentially powerful - the postconscious mind. This is our true guide, capable of making us and our world humantrue. But the self, while recognising the basic moral virtues as the 'still small voice of conscience', refuses to give priority to these moral virtues because they are not a help but a hindrance in its struggle with its actual reality, and because the self sees no way of escape from that reality.

The nature of existing human reality plays a big part in its perpetuation. The human race does not fulfil its true potential and husband its resources for the benefit of life on Earth. Instead it harnesses human intelligence to the drives of instinct, and employs us to manipulate our resources in the interests of the Machine. This requires a system of mental specialisation in which the aim is not to have all people (indeed not any person) working towards realising a wholly benignant communal life, but to have people divided into categories of aim and interest all of which contribute to the Machine which is not interested in building a wholly benignant communal life.

The holograph concept helps to clarify the effect on a society of a system of limited, specialist thinking, each department of which carries its own authority. Decision-making which affects the whole society becomes argument between different departments of thought, usually to be resolved by unsatisfactory compromise. It is true to say that such a system is necessary to Machine-society, but total, supraconscious reason would immediately point out that the Machine is not necessary.

But while the fact that the Machine is not only unnecessary but anti-human is obvious to a fulfilled, supraconscious mind, it is not wholly apparent to Machine conscious minds, and it is the Machine that holds sway. That which clouds general human perception of humantruth is the physical arrangements of holograms in the mind. A 'learned' mind which has exhaustively studied one special subject for many years sees everything through that special hologram and is quite unable to accept thinking which is not founded on that same discipline. Similarly, an independent mind free of that discipline will be unable to follow that learned mind's thinking.

Now, here's the rub. It should be recognised that all-round thinking on the part of fulfilled intellects should be of most value to society, but it is not. The reverse is true. All-round thinking is not valued because it is not exhaustively specialised (it cannot be) whereas learned thinking is recognised and supported by the Machine and its institutions. This means that official thinking has the power but can't think all-round, and that all-round thinking has little power of influence. Official thinkers and all-round thinkers cannot debate meaningfully with each other because they occupy different ground. The struggle for truth must take place within each individual mind, yet is a universal struggle in that all intellects include a postconscious mind whose function is truth.

The important thing is to recognise that not only do we 'see' holographic images when asleep, but that we 'see' them also when we think. They can be our thoughts. But if we are supraconscious we can change the pictures and the thoughts. Not directly but indirectly. The essential significance of the brain hologram is the degree to which it recognises truth.

The above Figure 18 is a group of holograms that combine with other groups to make the human reality holograph which is the framework of life that exists. Human life, bound up with human thought, is individual and collective reaction to events interpreted by numerous holographic constructions of mind/modes of thought already laid down. It is our conscious thought that is chiefly to the fore, not the postconscious as it should be. However, the postconscious is rather remotely represented in all minds by the areas shown pale blue above, once white and totally instinctive but now attempting to impose intellectual guidance and known as conscience. Our conscience is the nearest thing to truth, or humantruth, which our falsely-constructed conscious minds can admit. Conscience indicates the simple moral truths which cannot be properly followed in this amoral reality.

In coping with our everyday affairs most of us try to follow conscience but are obliged to deal with a world which basically follows humanly false principles laid down long ago as animal instinct. In addition, we are influenced by personal propensities, constructions of thought and tendency, such as those attached to the example diagram above, which result from our subservience to the Machine and our life experience of this false reality.

The ostensibly meaningful holograms come to us from intelligence, either our very own, or other intelligences on Earth, or intelligences elsewhere in the universe, but most are nevertheless false. Once a false hologram is taken in to form part of a thought-construction, the brain defends it, just as the body's immune system defends it against invading organisms. We are mostly busily engaged in practices of this kind to no sensible purpose. This continually raises problems to which there are no satisfactory Machine-realistic solutions. There are humantrue solutions but these are dismissed as abstract, as wishful thinking because they are not Machine-viable.

Of course, when human life is looked at from Bohm's viewpoint - as just one minor unfolded, explicate manifestation of the total, enfolded, implicate order of the whole - it can be seen as of no importance how we live and what becomes of us. Yet there is one fundamental factor which links our small personal concerns with the meaning and behaviour of the whole, and that is truth.

No doubt it can be said that the enfolded, implicate order includes all possibility. The significance of this, it seems to me, is that there is no 'god', with especial interest in us, the human race. But there is truth, a sort of irreducible quality of which the explicate, unfolded reality is a means and to which the implicate, enfolded reality aspires.

While we should not assign magical properties to phenomena which defy rational explanation, nor should we dismiss them for that reason.

In his book the Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot describes total reality according to Pribram, Bohm and others. Of their complex explanations and fascinating discoveries, Pibram comments that all are real, yet none is real. Putting that observation alongside the proposition that the enfolded, implicate order includes all possibility we must surely conclude that there is little point in trying to explain total reality since it could be anything. But to me that conclusion is unsatisfactory. It does not take regard of truth (a concept to be investigated later), according to which there should be but one enfolded, implicate order supporting, for the time being, various unfolded, explicate orders which are different from one another but which are themselves part of, or party to, the overall truth.

To take Pribram and Bohms' view of our reality is to see Earth's unfolded explicate order as insubstantial and therefore insignificant. This holds good only when we exclude the truth factor. Our reality is false, but by fulfilling our intellectual faculty we are capable of making it true, and a humantrue reality on Earth would add its influence to making total reality true. Why not?, if we are capable of even constructing space time as Bohm claims.

Therefore I don't propose to attempt the understanding of these matters from the viewpoint of their physics but in the light of truth - with this exception. I think it is necessary to throw light on certain phenomena in order to provide alternatives to the mystical attributes often ascribed to them - especially that light which is provided by the holographic concept.

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