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The Holographic Universeby Michael Talbot is a thought provoking book about the nature of reality. This book explains how the hologram, which projects a three-dimensional image into space, seems to explain the nature of reality.

This is an intriguing book with references and explanations of a lot of research that has been conducted world wide. I was familiar with some of the researchers like Fred Alan Wolfe but this was my first introduction to most of them.

Many examples are given from various experiences of different people including the author. One such experience relayed involved a hypnotist who was hired to entertain a group of friends at Mr. Talbot’s father’s house, the author was in attendance. One guest seemed to be susceptible to hypnotic suggestion. Tom had never been hypnotized before but proved to be a very good subject. The hypnotist put him in a deep trance and performed the usual tricks that a stage hypnotist does. One trick was convincing Tom that there was a giraffe in the room at which Tom responded by gapeing in wonder. The hypnotist told Tom a potato was an apple and Tom ate it with gusto. But the real kicker came when Tom was told that his teenage daughter would be completely invisible to him. Tom’s daughter, Laura, was positioned in front of Tom and then Tom was awakened and asked if he could see her. Laura was giggling but Tom looked right through her. “No” he couldn’t see her. The hypnotist went behind Laura so that he was hidden from Tom’s normal view and took an object from his pocket. Tom could not have seen what the hypnotist had done and the hypnotist pressed the object against Laura’s back. He asked Tom to identify the object. Tom said it was a watch. Then the hypnotist asked Tom if he could read the inscription. Tom squinted and read out the name of the watches owner (someone that none of them knew) and the inscription! The hypnotist then showed the watch to the others in the room and everything was correct. Later Tom said that all he had seen was the hypnotist standing and holding the watch in the palm of his hand.

Many more experiences from other people are also given with the explanation of how a holographic universe could account for that.

What tops this for me is that two weeks after reading this book an article came out in our little sleepy town, conservative newspaper with the title “Are We Holograms?”. Makes you think.