The Holographic Universe

After reading this book, I now think of all the ramifications of the things the author talks about, even if half of it is true, not to say all of it. But what if they are actually true?

Radical open-mindedness was required while reading this one. This book contains hundreds of paradigm-shifting cases across all the spiritual phenomena that have been happening throughout the history of mankind, and are still happening today.

He talks about paranormal phenomena, such as telekinesis, OBEs, NDEs, materializations, time travel, UFOs, clairvoyance, healing, auras, energy fields and much more, and merges them together into a theory, according to which the universe is a hologram, that gives a proper context for all those new-age sounding terms.

Michael Talbot did a great work at gathering dozens of studies, quotes, stories, and combining them with his personal experience, which makes this book very fascinating to read. It covers a very broad range of spiritual phenomena, and I think is a must-read for everyone who tries to understand and make sense of all the spiritual, paranormal, mystical or mythical occurrences that there are in the world.

He not only presents all the stuff mentioned above but wraps them in the context of quantum physics and psychology. He tries to give a proper context to all the mystical stuff with David Bohm's theory of the holographic universe and implicit and explicit orders of reality.

In short, many things can be said about this book, but one thing is clear: there are lots of stuff that's going on and has been going on for thousands of years in the world that tells us that reality may not be something material and objective, as we've been taught at school, but rather something mystical and basically unknown to a human mind at this point. So, as much as your materialistic and scientific mind will want to close and throw away this book, my advice is to keep at it and stay open-minded.