Holographic Awareness, Part 2: The Whole in every part
Can you “see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour?” (William Blake). I say that you can and you are, but most people do not recognize that they are constantly touching the infinite, nor do they appreciate the expansive, all-encompassing nature of their normal, every-day, here-and-now awareness.
The "Whole in every part" is a principle known by poets, mystics, great thinkers, children and ordinary people like you and I, since the beginning of time. It was intelligently presented to the scientific community of the Western world during the second half of the last century by physicist David Bohm, an associate of Albert Einstein and neurophysiologist Karl Pribram.
From Bohm’s perspective, the universe is recognized to be holistically interconnected through resonance occurring within the underlying Unified Field that connects all matter, energy and information in the cosmos. In fact, Bohm and many scientists, mystics and again: regular people like you and I, believe that despite its apparent solidity the universe is a gigantic splendidly detailed, multi-dimensional, super-hologram. I personally believe that the human brain is an organ to process, reflect and translate the holographic universe. An individual’s brain is like a portal that is connected to the super-hologram of the Grand Universe.
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Individuated expressions are a reflection of the Whole
Experientially, you can engage with anything in your awareness, and what may seem like a separate part is actually a whole universe inside a universe ... connected to a holographic ecosystem that is interwoven into the Grand Universe.
For instance, if you recall your same favorite place that we used in the previous essay (Part 1), you can use your attention to bore deeper and deeper into the details of the place ... it’s history, environment, composition, climate, visitors, position on the planet and how it changes over time. Your favorite place — in the 3D physical world and also the version that you engage with inside yourself — is not solid or flat ... but is multi-layered, atmospheric, energetic, and has infinite depth. It can be useful to identify, explore and discuss a layer or a part, but in reality it is not a separate, isolated thing. The way it really exists is as an orchestrated system that is woven into its immediate surroundings and is connected through the quantum field to a vast ocean of forces, beings and possibilities. Your favorite place, as grand, humble or unique as it may be, is truly an expression of the Whole cosmos and is intimately connected to It.
Another example: take a single grain of sand and enlarge it to the size of the earth. From this perspective, you now see that the billions of atoms composing it are atmospheres the size of basketballs. You may dive into a single atom and explore the forces in its depths, or you may focus your attention on fields of atoms and learn of their interconnected relationships. All this is permissible because of the holographic nature of the universe, and the infinite depth that is everywhere. Each seemingly separate part is not an island unto itself, but is an individuated reflection of the Whole Universe and is intimately woven into the fabric of It.
Even with a 3-dimensional hologram made with lasers ... if you cut it into a hundred parts ... one may think that each part will show a separate area of the image, but that’s not the case. With holograms, each of the smaller parts still contain a reflection of the complete, whole, 3-dimensional image.
The “whole in every part” nature of holograms provides us with a compelling way to understand ourselves as we are the offspring of a grand, spectacular, universe. As reflections of it we are grand, spectacular ... and holographic as well.
In summary
A hologram is made of light, space and depth. It may seem to magically appear and also disappear in the twinkle of an eye, according to your angle of vision. A hologram can be viewed and experienced from an infinite number of points of view. It can be broken into a thousand pieces and when each piece is illuminated it will faithfully project the entire unbroken hologram. Hence, each seemingly separate part contains the complete, fully-assembled, unified Whole.
When you look at holographic material inside yourself, we now have the essential understanding that it is a vibrant part of the Grand Universe. It is intimately connected to you, the rest of the inner landscape and also the external world. It is connected to others, nature, evolution, and to both real and imagined realms of life. The holograms inside yourself are constantly morphing and adapting to you, the observer, as the holographic material is alive and responsive as it reflects the thoughts, feelings, dreams and inspirations that you are tuned into. Finally, the inner holographic material that you engage with repeatedly is customizing your immediate personal reality and also setting-up the unfolding of future realities for you to experience.
