Holographic Universe - Part II

Endless Fun Now

Holographic Universe - Part II

Endless Fun Now

Among the explorations we’ve shared in our ACTING HUMAN time together we’ve developed a continuously growing awareness that what was readily accepted as so-called reality may be far more complex than we’ve come to believe. We’ve gone along to get along.

Most of us have bought into ‘what you see is what we get.’ School, family, media, business, and culture writ large has inculcated a material view of life. Let’s not forget Madonna.

We’ve seen ourselves as persons essentially separate from each other and universal phenomena. That we are one WHOLE SINGULAR SENSATION has not been a widely elaborated nor endorsed point of view.

Yet, alas, it appears, that’s what’s happening. How’s that for thunk upside our heads?

We live alive in a holographic universe. We are both part and whole simultaneously. More aptly put, each of us expresses the whole, and the whole expresses each of us. Crazy wisdom.

The whole moves and changes as do all the parts. We, each of us, move and change. When, through practice, we sense and trust this truth, we live life alive.

Dr. Karl Pribram, a seminal neuroscientist, uncovered in his research a correlation between the brain's visual cortex and the principles of holography. He proposes that our brains operate like holographic projectors, transforming the underlying holographic code into the warp and woof of the world we perceive.

Consciousness does not exist as confined in and by our physical brains. Rather, it springs forth from the vast interconnectedness of the holographic universe. 

This perspective on perception questions the accepted and conditioned sense of limited self we’ve ‘bought.’ 

It blurs (obliterates?) the boundaries between mind and matter, and reveals the profound interplay between the observer and the observed. 

We are not separate from ourselves. 

We arise together with ALL galactic energy.             

We ACT HUMAN.

We act and see ourselves act. We communicate creatively with ourselves. We are actor and audience inseparable and mutually arising. We see us seeing what we see.

“All those inescapable aspects of modern life that we take for granted as objective truths are nothing more than our interpretation of waves of probability.” ~Talbot

As we practice ACTING HUMAN we learn to express ourselves fully, freely, and in dynamic connection with galactic energy. We nurture our imagination and open doors to infinite possibility.

Vibratory interplay of implicate and explicate orders enables keen awareness and  profound intentionality. 

We can cultivate a truthful sense of our own motivations and those of others, recognizing the interconnectedness that underlies all experience.  With enhance empathy to find intimate connection with all life. We learn to love.

In honing ACTING HUMAN craft, we invite implicate and explicate orders to emerge as skillful actions to create our daily lives with wonder and keen appreciation for the richness of reality. We learn to trust.

Moving from a relatively static and accepted way of seeing ‘reality’ to a holographic perspective can engender upset and rejection. We must take it easy, go slow, and treat ourselves with gentleness and humor.

We are naturally jarred, knocked over, even somewhat freaked out when we realize how much ‘reality’ is now, has always been, and will always be, out of sight and out of control.

Brave Enough to Be Unsure

Becoming intimate with the queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere only makes our hearts more tender. ..By not knowing, not hoping to know, and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

~Pema Chodron

ALL STORY ALL THE TIME!

It is with stories that we make sense of the world. We do not experience a world and afterward make up stories to understand it. Stories teach us what is real, what is true. 

Stories are necessary for engagement with life. We are enfolded story emergent in holographic reality.

As the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre puts it, “I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”  

Stories teach us what is real, what is true, and what is possible.

Unaware that our stories are stories, we usually experience them as the world. Like fish that do not see the water they swim in, we normally do not notice the medium we dwell within. We take for granted that the world we experience is just the way things are. But our concepts and ideas about the world, like the stories they are part of, strongly affect our perception of reality. In Buddhist practice, one learns, early on and then continually, the truth of my favorite bumper sticker: “Don’t believe everything you think.”

This recognition may lead to the wish to strip away any and all accounts of the world and “return” to the reality behind them, to get back to the bare facts of experience. But that too is enacting a story, the story of “letting go of stories.” The point here is not to deny that there is a world apart from our stories; rather, it is to say that the way we understand the world is by “storying” it. Unlike the proverbial fish, however, we can change the water we swim within. Our relationship with stories can be transformed.

~David Loy (The World Is Made of Stories) 

TRUTH AND TRUST

In the process of living our life stories we ascribe meaning to our lives. The deep purpose that animates our story, and the journey it takes us on, is a search for truth. Not a static representation of truth but the living truth. Truth is always in motion and in shifting relation to our stories as they unfold and reveal fresh truth. Truth is not a fact. Truth is a living story.

We feel truth in vibrational ways, on deeply sensational levels. Our sensitivity to truth enlarges as we emerge more fully alive.

Every time we train our most sophisticated tools upon the central questions of our existence — Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? — the answer comes back clearer: Everyone and Everywhere” 

I’m always attentive to the tender reality that revelations about the strangeness of life and the limits of our understanding, even our wild interconnectedness, can be hard on us human creatures to take in — unsettling, unnerving, especially in times when the very ground beneath our feet feels tenuous. And that describes a lot of people in a lot of circumstances in our world right now.        ~James Bridle

Bridle’s work led hm to study the mathematics of Mandelbrot which gave rise to fractals. Fractals fascinate us. Kaleidoscopic effects rarely leave us unamused. A ubiquitous fractal experience most of us rarely notice is sonder. 

 

With practice we can play skillfully, in infinite ways. Unfolding story opens us to endless selves emerging with galactic force. Always. Everywhere.

We can ACT HUMAN

We can live life alive. BIG fun. 

Until next time,

Lights Up!