In order to begin to understand and live holographic experience, we must take a look at our current way of understanding, which is not holistic.
Like the traditional belief systems of “primitive” cultures, our culture of the western scientific world is also shaped by its built-in assumptions. Many of these assumptions have remained unspoken and unchallenged until recently. What we consider to be our basic reality depends on the underlying metaphysics upon which we rest our science. Dr. Willis Harman, in his book Global Mind Change, notes three basic metaphysics—M-1, M-2, and M-3—that have been used during the history of human evolution. He defines them as follows:
In the first of these, the basic stuff of the universe is matter-energy. We learn about reality from studying the measurable world.… Whatever consciousness is, it emerges out of matter (that is, the brain) when the evolutionary process has progressed sufficiently. Whatever we can learn about consciousness must ultimately be reconciled with the kind of knowledge we get from studying the physical brain, for consciousness apart from a living physical organism is not only unknown, it is inconceivable.
An alternate metaphysic is dualistic. There are two fundamentally different kinds of basic stuff in the universe: Matter-energy stuff and mind-spirit stuff. Matter-energy stuff is studied with the present tools of science; mind-spirit stuff must be explored in other ways more appropriate to it (such as inner subjective exploration). Thus there develop, in essence, two complementary kinds of knowledge; presumably there are areas of overlap (such as the field of psychic phenomena).
Yet a third metaphysic finds the ultimate stuff of the universe to be consciousness. Mind or consciousness is primary, and matter-energy arises in some sense out of mind. The physical world is to the greater mind as a dream image is to the individual mind. Ultimately the reality behind the phenomenal world is contacted, not through the physical senses, but through the deep intuition. Consciousness is not the end-product of material evolution; rather, consciousness was here first!
Most of our cultural conditioning and heritage is based on the M-1 (mind out of matter) metaphysical model, which supports a mechanistic science. Our future is already seeded in the M-3 (matter out of mind) model, which leads to a holographic science.
To move into a holographic model for our health care, we must first explore our old ideas about health, healing, and medicine and find how they have limited us. Our old ideas come out of the old scientific, mechanistic model upon which our cultural conditioning is based. This old model, based upon the M-1 metaphysics (mind out of matter) contains the unspoken rational set of premises of this scientific age. Dr. Harman lists these assumptions:
These are the assumptions upon which our industrialized society and our health-care system are based. In some cases of health care they work beautifully. In others, they do not. In some areas of our lives, like the ability to purchase consumer products, they work for some of us. For some of us, who live trapped in poverty, they do not. To find more effective solutions for social problems and the diseases that “plague” the twentieth century, we must look deeper into our assumptions about reality.
In our culture, philosophy is based on the old mechanistic model of physics, which in turn is based on M-1 (mind out of matter) metaphysics, which maintains the world is made up of basic building blocks of matter such as electrons and protons. These tiny “things” or parts constitute everything that there is. Therefore if we divide the world into these things and study them, we should understand the world. Thus, we have been taught to trust and live by the rational mind. Our social system, schools, and medical system all emphasize the importance of solving problems rationally to understand the way things work, and then to find the cause of problems. To do that, we divide everything into separate parts and study them.
Unfortunately, in the past forty years or so, we have placed more and more emphasis on rationally dividing our world into separate parts and studying those parts as if they were isolated. Yet research shows that isolation simply is not true. For over twenty years our experiments in physics and biology have shown that everything is connected. It is impossible to separate the experimenter from the experiment. It is impossible to separate the individual from the whole. Yet in daily life we continue to think that things can be broken down and taken apart to be understood.
When we think in the mechanistic way we make statements like this:
“When are they going to do something about it?”
“They are destroying the planet.”
“We’d be better off if executives (or workers) weren’t so greedy.”
These statements separate us from others by creating a fictional “they” or “them” on to whom we can shift responsibility for a problem or situation rather than do what we could do to change the situation. After all, we are co-creators of whatever situation we find ourselves in.
We have dealt with our own health and disease in the same way. We separate our organs from each other as if they were not working together in the same body. We separate our dis-ease from ourselves. We separate our body parts from our emotions about them, as if there were no effect in doing so. We compartmentalize them all with statements like:
“I caught your cold.”
“I’ve got a bad back.”
“My stomach is giving me trouble again.”
“I hate my hips—they are too big for me.”
We even try to get rid of the symptom rather than focusing on the cause of the problem. This can be very dangerous indeed. We make statements like:
“Doc, I want you to get rid of this knee problem once and for all.”
“My head hurts. I need some aspirin to take the pain away.”
“I’m getting rid of my gallbladder so it will stop bothering me.”
Many times, we see illness as primarily caused by the invasion of some outside thing, like a microorganism or a tumor that needs to be removed. The major way of ridding ourselves of disease is to take a pill or have surgery. Prescribing the right medication to get rid of pain or to kill the invader is based primarily on research and drinking that is founded on the premise of the world being composed of separate parts. These views do not deal with the cause of illness. The wonders of modern medicine are astounding, and yet as a people, we seem to be growing less able to personally maintain our health. When we finally get one thing fixed by the doctor, something else goes wrong. Sometimes the side effects from treatment lead to another ailment. Yet we tend to consider these ailments as separate occurrences. We have divided the world into so many parts that we get confused and begin thinking that the doctor is responsible for our health.
A great deal of pain has arisen out of the kind of thinking that sees a human being as a collection of separate parts rather than as a whole, integrated being. Such separatist drinking also leads to the abdication of responsibility for one’s health to the doctor. We think a doctor can fix body parts as a mechanic fixes the parts of a car. I have been witness to a lot of this pain. Out of compartmentalization comes confusion. Many patients who have come through my office have been through a long list of health-care professionals, including physicians, therapists of all kinds, healers, psychics, acupuncturists, dietary specialists, and herbalists. From these treatments they have had minimal results, primarily because of the contradictory and confusing analysis of their condition. The patient simply doesn’t know what to do or whom to believe because compartmentalization leads to contradiction.
Because of our cultural conditioning, we ask for a physical disease diagnosis. This is the equivalent of asking for basic building blocks of matter that don’t really exist. We don’t just ask for it—we demand it! And we get it. A concrete presentation of the “facts” of a physical disease diagnosis limits our ability to see the greater picture clearly because we take it out of the context of the interrelatedness of our whole being, in which the cause of our disease includes many levels of function and experience. We take it as the full answer and use it to (hopefully) make us feel safe. As a result, we put a lot of pressure on our physicians to take care of our health through diagnosis and treatment. We believe that if we name the disease and know it, we can control it, from a separated, disconnected place. Or better yet, the physician can control it.
Indeed, this method works very well for many diseases. It gets rid of the physical symptoms called disease, but it does not deal with the internal cause connected to the deeper reality within us. In the long run, the practice of diagnosis and treatment of physical symptoms is likely to separate us by one more step from ourselves and our deeper truth. I consider this a misuse of diagnosis. The problem isn’t the system of diagnosis. The problem is that we stop with the diagnosis and its resulting treatment. We do not use it—as we could—as another piece of information in a large puzzle that leads to self-understanding and growth. Approaching disease from the point of view of separate symptoms also gives too much power to the diagnostic system and rigidifies it. This leads to another, more serious misuse of the diagnosis system.
The pain gets worse and the patients even more confused when they receive diagnosis and treatment recommendations that include threats such as, “If you don’t follow our particular treatment program, you will get worse or even die.” Of course physicians should give the information that they know about the patient’s prognosis if the patient goes untreated, but physicians shouldn’t imply that their way is necessarily the only way. Perhaps there are ways to treat the illness that they don’t know about. In other words, the limitations of standard medical treatment techniques should be stated as such, and the door to other possibilities should always be clearly left open, whether or not the physician knows what the other treatments are. Rather than label a patient as “terminal,” the physician needs to make it clear that it is western medicine that cannot treat the problem effectively.
One of the worst things I have seen newly diagnosed cancer patients go through is the terminal diagnosis. Yes, there are statistics about certain developments in certain diseases that show the probabilities of the course a given disease will take. But in no way does that mean it is true for any particular patient. Unfortunately, a patient who escapes the statistics is considered to have had an error in diagnosis, a “spontaneous remission,” a “well-behaved disease,” or even a “miracle.” This discredits the method that was successful in helping the patient get well.
When western medicine uses the incurable or terminal diagnosis label for illnesses it cannot treat, it creates an additional problem for patients. It teaches patients that they cannot get well. It sets up a pathological belief within patients that they then act upon, thus enhancing their disease. That is, they not only have the disease to fight, they must also overcome the part of them that believes they cannot get well. A disease diagnosis induces a pathological view within the mind of the patient according to the beliefs of a medical system that may not be able to help the patient because within its system there is no cure. In a way, western medicine covertly says, “Believe as we do, accept our metaphor of reality, that this illness (as we have diagnosed it) is the true and only reality (as we see it) and is incurable.”
This covert statement brings us back again to the original issue: the roles our models of reality have in our lives, and our assumptions that they are the only reality. We don’t consider the profound effect of this.
As the bag lady in Lily Tomlin’s Broadway hit The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe says, “Reality is a collective hunch.”
What we tend to do is say that any model of reality that we accept is reality. We then get into trouble when what is doesn’t fit the model. We blame ourselves or declare things to be impossible because they don’t fit into the model. We tend not to see or say that the model is limited.
All models are limited. We need to remember that. If we do, then it is probably okay to accept a particular metaphor for reality in an unbiased fashion—for example, in the mechanistic case, that matter is the basic reality. But when it comes to incurable disease, that metaphor of reality is no longer working for us. Then it’s time to find a more functional metaphor within which a cure is probable. It’s time for the patient to find another medical system rather than go through painful invasive treatments that do not cure. Not only do these treatments fail to cure, they only make the cure by a different system, such as ayurvedic medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, macrobiotics, or other such systems, much more difficult.
An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient. If given as a statement about the patient’s condition, it puts patients at a distinct disadvantage in their healing process. It leaves little if any room for the creative process of healing to come forth from the patient. It leaves no room for alternative care systems. It is far better when a physician says, “I have done all I can do for you. I am, at this time, unaware of any other treatments I can offer. If you wish, I will stand by you and keep you as comfortable as I can. Perhaps someone else knows another way.”
This is all physicians are responsible for. They cannot take responsibility for other people’s lives or their health. Physicians cannot play God. This ought to be a relief to them. Yes, physicians have the light of God within every cell of their beings. But so does every patient. Physicians are likely to have more access to healing power than any given patient at any given time. But patients have complete ability to learn to tap into that power, which also ought to be a relief to the physician.
The responsibilities we have placed upon our physicians, and that they have shouldered, are simply neither fair nor realistic. They are based on the mechanistic model. If a physician is supposed to give us a pill or do surgery to take away something separate from us that is bothering us, then he or she becomes the responsible one. It is as if we had nothing to do with it.
We as patients must take back responsibility for our healing. We must ask our physicians to help us do it. We must establish friendly working relationships among patient, healer, and physician to utilize the best in self-healing, healers, and the great service of healing that physicians offer.
A way to begin establishing friendly working relationships among patient, healer, and physician is to consciously move into the new M-3 (matter out of mind) metaphysics described at the beginning of this chapter. We need to consider that mind rather than matter is the basic reality. And that changes things a great deal. It leads us into holism.
The work presented in this book is based upon the M-3 metaphysics: Mind gives rise to matter; therefore mind or consciousness is the basic reality. Yet mind and consciousness are still limited terms in our culture. The broad expanse of human experience goes much beyond the mind. So I prefer to use the term essence to refer to the basic nature of human beingness. Essence is subtler and less limited than what we call consciousness. Essence underlies consciousness. Consciousness is subtler and less limited than what we call mind. Consciousness underlies mind. Therefore, it is essence that gives rise to consciousness, that gives rise to mind, that gives rise to matter.
That essence is found within the core star level of every living creature. It is found within everything. It is everywhere. Everything is ultimately interpenetrated with essence, consciousness, and mind. M-3 metaphysics, then, most naturally brings us to holism and the interconnectedness of all things, a very common experience of the healing state. By assuming M-3 metaphysics, we walk directly into the new science of holography, which shows a promising future by giving us new answers to old questions about ourselves and our healing and creative processes.
Let’s reorient ourselves to holism. What is it? How is it different from what we base our assumptions about reality on now? What would it be like to live within a holographic model of reality? What would it be like if we were to think and live holographically? How would our lives change?
Many of us have had experiences of wholeness either in meditation or in things as simple as a reverie on seeing a sunset. These experiences are very powerful. Most of the time, we wish we knew how to make them happen more often. We seem to have a great gap between the spontaneous experience of wholeness and the application of holism in daily life. It is this gap that we will seek to bridge in a step-by-step process in this book. At one end of our bridge is the physical world and our physical bodies. At the other is the expanded experience of holism where each of us is all that there is. So the question set before us is: How do we become holistic?
To explore what living within a holographic model would be like, on a personal experiential level, I asked several of my third-year healing students the following question: “Imagine yourself a hologram. How does that un-limit you?” Here are their answers.
MARJORIE V: In a hologram, we are both the observer and the creator. We are not just a part of a pattern, we are the pattern. A hologram is out of linear time and three-dimensional space. It is the interconnectedness of everything. It is un-limitation itself. It is total surrendering to all experiences—truly feeling one with everyone, everything, and every universe. It is instantaneous present, past, and future.
IRA G: Imagining myself as a hologram un-limits me because it permits the view that all the universe may be experienced or understood through one cell of my body and one experience of my life. Each part or component becomes a doorway of universal understanding.
SYLVIA M: If I am a hologram, then I have no limits. I can go into time and space into eternity and back again. I am the trees, the animals, and the homeless, and they are me. Maybe this is where that old saying comes from, “All for one, and one for all.”
CAROL H: Imagining myself as a hologram un-limits me in that I recognize the interconnectedness with the whole of creation and that I am a reflection of the divine spirit. I also realize that all my thoughts, words, and deeds are experienced throughout the whole—which is an overwhelming thought! Also, I am experiencing all of creation as “receiver.”
BETTE B: If I were a hologram, say of alcoholism, I would not only be the spouse of the alcoholic, but the husband, daughter, and son, and the alcoholic also. I could experience the alcohol going into the body and at the same time see and know how everyone else involved feels, thinks, and knows mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. There would be no sides to take because I would be all of it at once and know that all of it is a part of God and the universe.
PAM C: I believe I am a hologram, but it’s hard to let in what that means. It un-limits me because it means:
ROSEANNE F: If I am a hologram, then I am not a part of the whole, I am whole. It un-limits me in every way, as I am not only connected to all things, I am all things and therefore am unlimited in my potential for understanding, knowing, seeing, learning, being, and doing (and much more, I’m sure).
In the inverse of “I am a whole” as a hologram, I am also in and of all else; so there is a balance of my unlimited self with all other things and beings.
JOHN M: This is a scientific metaphor for Christ’s statement “I and the Father are One.” It suggests for me that I am not an “outsider,” that even as the prodigal son, I have held the fullness of the universe within me—or more accurately have had that fullness flowing through me. This thought reminds me of a sense of peace that has underlain my most scary and uncertain moments. It’s as though, as I imagine the immensity of the whole, it looks back at me with something resembling a human face. The thought of myself as a hologram gives me courage and hope.
MARGE M: In this way I can see myself as everything that is. I need to learn to access those aspects of myself that I wish to access. As a hologram, anything is possible, all knowledge is accessible, and it is a matter of allowing this to happen.
LAURIE K: It gives me the wings with which to go and be anywhere I want at any time. It gives me creative responsibility in knowing who I truly am and, in that, changing the entire world. It provides me with unlimited access to all knowledge, all understanding. It frees me from the shackles of dualistic disharmony and propels me into a world of light, of unity, of knowing. I am inseparably connected to all.
SUE B: I found this hard to do because my mind says, “I am not.” Instead, I find it easier to imagine myself as part of an interconnected web. When I do this, there is no “me” and “not me,” but “I am.” Time and space in this sense do not exist because “I am” everywhere at once.
JASON S: Imaging myself as a hologram seems to “un-limit” me to the extent that I allow it to. At some point it gets a little scary. For instance, when I imagine it, I feel somewhat more detached from my personality and life path and see all of it more as a series of interacting patterns. It gives broad vista to my view of myself. On the other hand—on the microlevel—I can see each aspect of my daily life as a full expression of who I am. I can see how I am “Jason-ing” through my life, with my talents, perspective, lack of perspective, problems, and strengths, all fully formed in every aspect. As someone who can get very detached as it is, I don’t especially like the feeling of detachment when it gets too strong. I do like the feeling of all-one-time I get from looking at my life that way, though.
As a healer, when I look at patients that way, I feel the possibility of being completely in touch with their past, present, and possible future. It makes the moment of healing transcend this present moment.
The holographic experience requires expanded awareness. It requires great sensitivity to what is, both personally and interpersonally. It is possible to develop this expanded awareness in a step-by-step manner, as we shall see in the progression of this book.
The holographic experience is the experience of the healing moment. When linear time and three-dimensional space are transcended in the ways described above, healing automatically takes place. This is the true nature of the universe.
I’m sure such experiences as these are familiar to you. What we haven’t done yet is learn how to bring them forth when they are needed and how to integrate them into normal life. Our real challenge is how to put them into everyday life in a practical way. In order to do this, we must understand holism better. So let’s take a closer look at holography.
In 1929, Alfred North Whitehead, a well-known mathematician and philosopher, described nature as a great expanding series of occurrences that are interconnected. “These occurrences,” he said, “do not terminate in sense perception. Dualisms like mind/matter are false. Reality is inclusive and interlocking.” What Whitehead meant by that is everything is relational, including our senses. We use our senses to get information about any given situation. Our senses affect the situation we perceive. The situation affects the senses with which we perceive it. In the same year, Karl Lashley published the results of his research on the human brain that showed that specific memory is not located in any one place in the brain. He found that destroying a portion of the brain does not destroy memory located there. Memory could not be located in specific brain cells. Rather, memory seems to be distributed all over the brain, probably as a field of energy.
In 1947, Dennis Gabor derived equations that described a possible three-dimensional photography that he called holography. The first hologram was constructed with the use of a laser in 1965 by Emmette Leith and Juris Upatinicks. In 1969, Dr. Karl Pribram, a renowned brain physiologist at Stanford University, proposed that the hologram worked very well as a powerful model for brain processes. In 1971, Dr. David Bohm, a well-known physicist who worked with Einstein, proposed that the organization of the universe is probably holographic. When Pribram heard of Bohm’s work, he was elated. It supported his idea that the human brain functions as a hologram, collecting and reading information from a holographic universe.
So what are these men and their research saying? To understand their ideas, let’s examine how a hologram works. No doubt, you have seen a hologram. It projects a three-dimensional image from seemingly nowhere into space. As you walk around this image, you see the different sides of it.
It takes a two-step process to create the three-dimensional hologram image. Figure 3-1 shows the first step. The beam from a laser is split in half by a device called a beam splitter. One half is focused through a lens onto an object such as an apple, then is reflected by a mirror onto a photographic plate. The other half is simply reflected by a mirror and focused through a lens onto the same photographic plate. A specific phase relationship is set between die two halves of the laser beam. A photograph is taken. The result is a photograph of an interference pattern that the two beams produce when they come back together on the photographic plate. This interference pattern looks like indiscernible squiggly lines.
Figure 3-1 Making a Hologram of an Apple
Figure 3-2 Projecting a Hologram of an Apple
The second step, Figure 3-2, is simply to remove the apple, the beam splitter, the second mirror, and the second lens. If you now take the laser and focus it through a lens and onto the photographic plate, you will find a three-dimensional image of the apple suspended in space! What is more surprising is that if you simply cut the photographic plate in half without changing anything else, you still get the image of the apple suspended in space, although it is a little hazier. If you cut another portion of the plate off, you will still get the whole image of the apple in space. This continues with smaller and smaller pieces of the photographic plate. You still get the whole apple, but it becomes a bit hazier each time!
As we enter the holographic era, we prepare for many changes. This era rests on the foundation of seven basic premises about the nature of reality that fall directly out of the holographic work and upon which the holographic model is based.
To arrive at the premise that consciousness is the basic reality, let’s follow Dr. Pribram’s analysis. Dr. Pribram says that basic reality is the energetic signature that the brain picks up through our senses. Our brain then interprets the signature into the shape and color of an apple. What he means is that true reality is like the energy in the laser beams that carries information. What we see as reality is more like the projected three-dimensional picture of the apple in the hologram. The true reality is to be found in the energy that our senses pick up rather than in the objects we define as real.
Pribram states that our brain acts like the hologram that projects the true reality of the energy beams into an illusory apple. Our brain, using our five senses, picks up the energy field of whatever we bring our attention to in the moment and translates that energy field into an object. What this means is that the object we perceive represents the secondary reality. It is but a signature of the deeper reality (the energy beams) from which the projection of the object comes.
Pribram says that all our senses act together in a way to create the illusion of our world around us, much as a set of stereo speakers gives you the impression that the sound comes from the center of the room or a headset makes the music come from the center of your head. So far, only the hologram using the visible sense—light from the laser beam—has been built. Probably someday, holograms using the kinesthetic, auditory, olfactory, and gustatory senses will also be built.
Clearly, Dr. Pribram’s research relates to our model of the human energy field. On the level of the aura, the basic reality is energy. However, if we go deeper, we find our intention, which results from our consciousness, upon which our energy flow is based. And even deeper than that, we find our essence and the core star level, the foundation of all reality. We have arrived at the M-3 metaphysics.
This connection is not dependent on spatial proximity or on time. An event in one location immediately, without time delay for communication (that is, faster than the speed of light and beyond Einstein’s relativity theory) affects everything else.
Since there is no time delay, what we call cause and effect occur at the same time. Therefore our idea of cause and effect, which is so useful in our material world, is not applicable or valid in the primary reality.
If we use the model of the hologram, we get a view of the nature of reality very different from the way our western culture has described it in the past. Since the whole three-dimensional image of the apple is still produced no matter how small a piece of the photographic plate is left, the hologram clearly demonstrates that each piece (of the holographic plate) contains the whole (apple).
Each aspect exists everywhere all the time and always (that is, both at all times and in all times). Each moment is whole, complete, and alive and coexists in a knowledgeable relationship with all other moments. Each moment is self-knowledgeable and self-intelligent and has access to all moments.
They act outside of such limitations, because in the primary reality, time and space do not exist.
Each aspect is individual and not identical to any other aspect.
There is an experiment that proves that light is a particle and is also a wave of energy. However, another experiment shows that particles do not act like things. Rather, they are more like “individual events of interactions,” which are also basically energy. Therefore: Every aspect of the universe is either a wave of energy or an individual particle of energy.
If we reverse the process and connect the pieces of the photographic plate back together one by one, we get an increasingly clearer, more defined picture of the whole apple. Some of the major points that fall out of the sixth premise are:
The seventh premise is based on Karl Pribram’s model of the holographic brain. Pribram states that the brain processes data consistent with what it is used to. That means you will experience according to your expectations based on your beliefs and your heritage.
Since reality is created by consciousness, it also creates its own experience of reality, since that is part of reality.
In healing work we say: “We not only create our own reality and our own dis-ease, we also create our own experience of that reality, including our experience of our health or dis-ease.”
This is a very controversial statement. The interpretation of this must be done very carefully, because it is fertile ground for misunderstanding and misuse. Having responsibility for a given situation is very different from being blamed for it. The latter implies that we have become ill because we are bad. On the other hand, if we accept the idea that we create our own experience of reality, it puts us into the powerful position of being able to find out how we created it the way it is, change our ways, and re-create another, more desirable one. There are two big catches to this.
The first is, from what level of our being is this creation stemming? From the divine essence, the consciousness level of intention, or the personality level of mind and feelings?
The second is, who is the we that is doing the creating? From the holographic view, we are all interconnected, are all connected to the greater creative power in the universe, and all affect each other always, everywhere.
People who constantly put themselves in stressful situations in their lives obviously have a great deal to do with creating the resulting heart disease on the personality level of the energy field that corresponds to thoughts and feelings. A great deal of personal choice is involved, and a lot of the creative energy is from the individual. However, these people are also products of their culture, which produces a great number of people with heart disease through stress, diet, and emotional lacks within the culture.
On the other hand, a baby born with AIDS certainly didn’t exercise the same type of individual human choices on the level of personality that the above patients did. The creation of AIDS in a newborn can only be looked at from the holographic view, that this individual has arisen out of the collective whole of the society into which it was born. The “we” that is doing the creating here is all of us. We collectively have created a situation that gives rise to the condition of AIDS that is then expressed in some individuals in physical form. The condition of AIDS is expressed in all of us in some way. It may be expressed in our denial of its presence in our society or in our relationship to it, in our fear of it, in our negative reactions of wanting to get away from it, and even in our denial of the possibility that we could get it. The condition of AIDS in us may be expressed in our relationships with those who have it in physical form. The major expression of the condition called AIDS that we all have is in its challenge for us to choose love or fear. Each moment that we are faced with our condition that is called AIDS, which we have all created, we are faced with the challenge to choose love or fear.
Now, of course, one can include the deeper spiritual world of essence and intention within this metaphor and consider that before birth, an individual may have chosen to be born with AIDS as a gift to humanity. This gift challenges us to choose love rather than fear. We certainly have a great deal to learn about love in this age.
For myself, all of these statements could be true and helpful in the healing situation when used appropriately. The creation of one’s reality needs to be explored on all levels for a complete healing.
The basic reality in the universe is essence. It includes our personal individual essence and the essence of everything else combined, which is called universal essence. All creation comes out of that essence: our consciousness, mind, feelings, and matter, including our physical body. Our health is a result of bringing our true unique essence through our consciousness, mind, feelings, and physical body. Our health or disease is created by us through this process. It is us.
Disease is the result of a distortion in our consciousness (our intent) that blocks the expression of our essence from coming through all the levels into the physical. Dis-ease is an expression of how we have tried to separate ourselves from our deeper being, our essence.
What we create arises holographically from both our individuality and ourselves collectively at the level of the groups to which we belong, from the most intimate to the universal scale. That is, our creations are not only our own doing but are strongly affected by and also arise (holographically) out of the people to whom we are most connected. Our creations are less affected by the people to whom we are less connected.
The cause of any particular illness is so multifold that it would be impossible to make such a list here. There are cases where the group source is very strong indeed. There are many cases now being manifested, such as those dear sweet babies born with AIDS, that arise out of the larger groups of humanity. This is a sign of the changing times. It is a manifestation of humankind’s conscious awareness of the connectedness of all things. AIDS is a disease that will dissolve national boundaries and show human beings that love is the answer.
In this process of health or dis-ease, we cannot divide our interior self or separate ourselves from each other. We are all connected. Everything we think, feel, and do about health and dis-ease affects everyone else. By healing ourselves, we heal others. By expressing our essence, our uniqueness, we bring health to everyone by allowing them to express their essence.
Each part of us contains the whole pattern; every cell of our body contains the pattern of our whole body, and we also contain the pattern of humanity. We can tap into this great health pattern of power and light for healing. This pattern is real and alive.
We are this pattern. This pattern is in our auric field. We are energy, and we can change very rapidly. We live in a gelatinous body that is constantly changing and that is capable of great change.
Time is holographic. We can move through time frames for healing purposes and to gain information about the past or probable future. We can tap into all the wisdom of the ages for healing. We are this wisdom; it is within us as well as all around us.
Now let’s rephrase those M-1 statements about our health (see this page) into the holographic view.
Instead of saying, “I caught your cold,” we would say, “My cold is a signal that I need to balance myself. I’ve weakened my immune system, making it penetrable to a virus. Probably I didn’t pay attention to what I needed. I need to take better care of myself. What do I need to bring back the balance? We are connected in that we both have created a cold. You probably need to take better care of yourself too!”
Instead of saying, “I’ve got a bad back,” we might say, “My back pain tells me I’m backing out on myself again. Time to be clear about my intentions and keep in line with them. Out of these clear intentions will come a new relationship with my back that will include ways to take care of it as a ‘good back.’ The more I stand by myself in my truth, the more others will.”
Instead of saying, “My stomach is giving me trouble again,” we might say, “I’m being hard on myself again and putting all the tension into my stomach. Time to let go and give myself some TLC (tender loving care).”
Instead of saying, “I hate my hips, they are too big,” we might say, “I keep dumping my hate into my hips and growing them bigger to hold it all.”
This new way of relating to dis-ease does not stop us from having it treated by a professional. But it does put the emphasis on how we have been treating it all along and how that must be transformed to maintain a healthy state. It also opens new opportunities with which to gain the healthy state. Once we stop the old habits that are holding the disease in place and change our attitude, we automatically think differently about the problem in the first place. We are no longer an unconnected victim; rather, we had something to do with it in the first place. Thus we will, in our new freedom, make new avenues available to ourselves that we didn’t have before. By doing this, we also help others open new avenues to themselves and others.
The challenge with which we as patients and healers are presented is to accept the opportunities given by the holographic model, to understand what they are, and to learn to utilize them. Our true primary reality is the reality of consciousness and energy. Any science that focuses on the secondary or material reality of the physical world is based on illusion and is therefore illusory. If this is so, and there is evidence to support this theory, then our world is indeed very different from the way we surmise it to be from the three-dimensional definitions that we place upon it. It’s going to take some getting used to because we are so accustomed to the definitions that we place upon our world.
First, we must personally change in order to accept the holographic view. It challenges our sense of identity and necessitates self-responsibility in a big way. This demands that we take a great deal of responsibility for what we do, both to ourselves and to others. In the realm of health, it makes us very responsible for taking care of our health. And at the same time it gives us unlimited resources with which to do that. At this stage of our development, it is impossible for us to imagine the tremendous potential power, knowledge, and energy that are available to us within this primary reality.
The answers to what medical science calls “spontaneous remission” or “a miracle” lie in the holographic model. In the holographic model, a disease is equivalent to the image of the apple suspended in space that isn’t really there. It is a signature of something else. It is a signature of the underlying unbalanced energies that created it. What traditional medicine calls the disease is a signature of the true imbalance held deeper in the human psyche. Or shall we say, from the healer’s perspective, the disease is the physical manifestation of a deeper disturbance.
In the holographic model, everything is connected. For example, we connect the inability of a pancreas to function properly to our inability to absorb the sweetness in other areas of our lives. The pancreas is related not just to the digestion of the sweets we eat but to our ability to maintain the sweetness in life, in our relationships and in our personal nurturance. This may seem outrageous at first. But when one observes the workings of the human energy field, it becomes patently obvious. In a person with a healthy pancreas, we can observe direct energetic correlations between the energy field of the pancreas and that person’s ability to connect with energy fields that correspond to universal sweetness.
When we think holographically, our symptoms are our friends. The true functional role of the symptom is to inform us that something within us is unbalanced. It is as if the symptom were the end of a string of yarn that is sticking out from under Grandma’s couch. When we follow that string, we’re led to the whole ball of yarn the kitten left there after playing. Within the ball is the cause of disease.
Especially in “incurable” cases, patients need to be directed to focus on the deeper inner reality and their other creative healing energies rather than the diagnosis. From the holographic standpoint, each person’s natural predilection is to stay healthy or return to health in a most natural way. I call this natural process toward health the balancing system. Everyone has a balancing system. Most balancing systems are very strong, but they can be ignored and interfered with. It is each individual’s responsibility to listen and respond to his or her balancing system.