
hologram
hologram (hòl´e-gràm´,
ho´le-) noun
1. The pattern produced
on a photosensitive medium that has been exposed by holography and then
photographically developed.
2. The photosensitive medium
so exposed and so developed. Also called holograph.
hologram
hologram (hol'e-gram`) noun
A three-
dimensional
image record created by holography. The hologram consists of a light interference
pattern preserved in a medium such as photographic film. When suitably
illuminated, it produces an image that changes its appearance as the viewer
changes viewing angle.
holography (ho-lòg´re-fê),
method of reproducing a three-dimensional image of an object by means of
light-wave
patterns recorded on a photographic plate or film. The object is illuminated
with a coherent beam of light produced by a LASER. Before reaching the object,
the beam is split into two parts: the reference beam is recorded directly on
the photographic plate, and the other is reflected from the object and then
is recorded. On the photographic plate the two beams create an INTERFERENCE
pattern, exposing the plate at points where they arrive in phase. When this
photographic recording, called a hologram, is later illuminated with coherent
light of the same
frequency
as that used to form it, a three-dimensional image of the object becomes visible
and the object can be photographed from various angles. Color holograms are
formed using three separate exposures with laser beams of each of the primary
colors. In acoustical holography, a coherent beam of ultrasonic
waves,
instead of light, is used. The resulting interference pattern is recorded with
microphones to form a hologram, which, when viewed with laser light, produces
a visible three-dimensional image. Holography has been combined with microscopy
to study very small objects; it also is used in industry for stress and vibrational
analysis.
Apollonius of Tyana, writing as
Hermes
Trismegistors, said "That which is above is that which is below." By this
he meant to tell us that our universe is a hologram, but he lacked the term.
-
Philip
K. Dick -
_VALIS_
"We can record essentially anything
we want about any event and recall it later. There is a synthesis of all
this, which leads to the discovery of the inner
dimension,
which may be thought of as a higher or lower dimension. The human
imagination
is the dimension beyond space and
time,
or it precedes all dimensions. At some level it has pointlike characteristics;
that's why all this talk about the hologram, because it has the pointlike characteristics
of new consciousness. It has all-at-onceness. Its everywhere-at-the-same-timeness
has fascinated commentators."
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"I suggest that it is much more useful to try to
make a kind of geometric model of consciousness, to take seriously the
idea o fa parallel continuum, and to say that the mind and the body are
embedded in the
dream
and the dream is a higher-order spatial dimension. In sleep, one
is released into the real world, of which the world of waking is only the
surface in a very literal geometric sense. There is a plenum - recent
experiments in
quantum
physics tend to back this up - a holographic plenum of information.
All
information
is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere. Information
stands outside of historical time in a kind of eternity - an eternity that
does not have a temporal existence, not even the kind of temporal existence
about which one may say, "It always existed." It does not have temporal
duration of any sort. It is eternity. We are not primarily
biological, with mind emerging as a kind of iridescence, a kind of epiphenomenon
at the higher levels of organization of biology. We are hyperspatial
objects of some sort that cast a shadow into matter. The shadow in
matter is our physical organism."
-
Terence
McKenna -
_Archaic
Revival_
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Carl
Jung's 'Mysterium Conjunctionis' reminds us of the reality of the situation
that ensues once the psyche is hooked into making the transference to the
alchemical
or saucerian goal. Jung, citing Gerhart Dorn, stresses that the materialization
of the stone is only a prologue to the experience of the perfected self in a
state of illumination. Jung wrote, "Though we know from experience that psychic
processes are related to material ones, we are not in a position to say in what
this relationship consists, or how it is possible at all. Precisely because
the psyche and the physical are mutually dependent it has often been conjectured
that they may be identical somewhere beyond our present experience."
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Of what does this relationship consist? My own hunch,
and it is only a hunch, is that an explicitly spatial
dimension
-- of a co-dimension inclusive of our continuum -- allows a hologram of other
realized forms of organization, far distant, to become visible at certain levels
of
quantum
resonance
in the synaptic field. These levels have been damped by selection in favor of
more directly
relevant
lines of information relating to animal survival.
Evolution
does not reinforce selectively the ability of an organism to
perceive
at a distance since such an ability has no selective advantage, unless the
information
it conveys falls upon the receptors of an organism already sophisicated enough
in its use of symbols to abstract concepts for later application in different
contexts.
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Thus, these quantum
resonances
carrying intimations of events at a distance only begin to acquire genetic
reinforcement once a species has already achieved sufficient sophistication
to be called conscious and mind-possessing. The use of
hallucinogens
can
be seen as an attempt at medical engineering which amplifies, for inspection
by consciousness, the quantum resonance of the other parts of the spatial
continuum holographically at hand. This experience is the vision which
the
UFOs
and
psilocybin
impart: visions of strange planets, life forms, perspectives and societies,
machines, ruins, landscapes. The hierophanies all unfold in a nunc stans
that has all space -- standing in it -- like a frozen hologram. Thus, experimentation
with hallucinogens by human beings and the rise in endogenously produced
hallucinogens as one advances through the primate phylogeny could both
be due to a slow focusing on the phenomenon of imagination. Imagination
being the deepening involvement of the species with things beheld but not
actually existing in the present at hand.
-
Terence
McKenna - _Open Ending_

If we were to look closely at an individual human being,
we would immediately notice that it is a unique hologram unto itself; self-contained,
self-generation, and self-knowledgeable. Yet if we were to remove this
being from its planetary context, we would quickly realize that the human form
is not unlike a
mandala
or symbolic poem, for within its form and
flow
lives comprehensive
information
about various physical, social, psychological, and
evolutionary
contexts within which it was created.
- Dr. Ken Dychtwald in _The Holographic Paradigm_
(Ken Wilber, editor)