Holomorphosis–A Reflection of Reality that Captures the Truth
What is the “Holomorphic Process” and why is it important?
Something amazing is happening to the human species that cannot yet be explained in terms of science. It involves a transformation of consciousness; and that is a subject that, until recently, was a forbidden topic in scientific circles. But in the second half of the 21st century, people who were having “mystical” experiences started demanding that scientists get serious about figuring out what is going on. So far, a lot of physicists have attempted to use quantum physics to explain how consciousness plays a role in forming the physical universe, but they seem to fall back on the old meaningless concept that everything started in the beginning with a bang. In my humble opinion, if we really want to get serious about science, we need engineers who understand systems and processes to get involved.
My solution is to use a process-model that I decided to call the Holomorphic Process for reasons that I will explain below. It was planted as a seed in my mind nearly 30 years ago and I’ve had to participate in it (the process) in order for it to produce meaningful results, like fruit in my mind. I am a retired nuclear engineer who specialized in Medical Physics and I have been studying “what’s going on” in my own life for 60 years total. Thirty years ago, I had a dual BS in physics and electrical engineering when I had my own out-of-body experience and started this project. I got an MS in physics when I was 35 to better understand quantum mechanics and relativity and my Ph.D. in nuclear engineering when I was 40.
The purpose of my website (holomorphicprocess dot com) is to provide a platform for me to present the model and the insights that grow out of it as it develops. I kept it to myself until I was confident enough to go public because it wasn’t scientific enough for my own scrutiny, and it still requires more rigorous review. But now I think it is developed enough to provide other scientists with a firm foundation for continued study. I am more concerned about it being known than I am about receiving credit, especially since most of it came from the work of others and my role was mainly one of organizing the information. So if I don’t survive in this life long enough to make it “perfect”, at least it is out there for others.
It’s a model that works. It works at the most fundamental level as a model for interpreting the meaning of spacetime as I explain in my post, A Geometric Model Based on Frequency That Reveals the Nature of Time. As a spatiotemporal process, spacetime is simply a word for the abstract concept of energy that separates into an explicit pair of concepts that we use as orthogonal dimensions (one is what we call space and the other time). More importantly, it works to help us understand, not only “what’s going on” with those “mystical experiences” but also what it means and how we can use it to improve ourselves and our society.
The Underground
Legend has it that practically everyone has at least one spontaneous out-of-body experience in their lives. They usually happen early in life, when a person is five or six years old. If the experience is pleasant, they are just enjoyed and kept as a fond memory. And if not, a child might run to his or her parents who, because they don’t understand what’s happened, will usually tell them that it was just a dream and then convince them that dreams are not real. But when they happen later in life, as they did in the 1950s to Robert Monroe, they are not so easily dismissed. On the other hand, because they are still misunderstood, most adults ignore or hide their experiences, and may try to suppress them. Monroe is one of a very few courageous people in that century who believed in himself enough to trust that what he had experienced was real and was wise enough to recognize that it was evidence of an extremely important phenomenon that science failed to explain.
He studied it and found that there was an “underground” in the United States; a fairly large number of people who quietly and often secretly report to each other and try to come up with theories that might explain this “consciousness thing”. At that time, the underground was highly disorganized. So he published his book, Journeys out of the body in 1971 and established The Monroe Institute, dedicated to scientific research of consciousness. As a result, thousands of other serious scientists have experienced “altered states of consciousness” and have made great progress toward developing scientifically acceptable models that they use to better understand this non-physical phenomenon.
What used to be “the underground” was a seed that germinated and these days, there are quite a few professional, scientific organizations conducting serious investigations of consciousness right out in the open (Here’s a list of a few organizations posted by Eben Alexander, MD that represent the groups most capable of addressing the deep challenges of understanding consciousness). There is even an Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) “a professional membership organization that aims to encourage research on consciousness in cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness.” According to Morten Overgaard of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit, in a 2017 article, “Consciousness remains one of the biggest scientific challenges among all disciplines as the most fundamental questions are not simply unanswered-it is still highly unclear how one should even begin to answer them.” (Overgaard 2017) That’s the challenge I accepted long ago and since I think and express myself like an engineer, I suspect that engineers will be my target audience for presenting my model.
Where to begin
The holomorphic process model was discovered by using reverse engineering: breaking things down to their most fundamental level. Some would call that reductionism, and that is what it is, but rather than assuming that physical reality is fundamental and reducing “things” to fundamental particles like a physicist, engineers look at things in terms of spatiotemporal processes.
Most of the models being used to understand consciousness are based on quantum physics. But the problem is that nobody really understands quantum physics. To most people, quantum physics is as weird and mysterious as consciousness. However, in 1980, physicist David Bohm introduced the idea that reality is a self-organizing complementary system that includes what he calls the explicit order (a new name for explicit physical characteristics, such as mass and charge) and an implicit order (a new name for non-physical phenomena that are implied by the existence of and interactions with the explicit order). (Bohm 1980) He collaborated with philosophers, neuroscientists and psychologists and proposed a holographic model of consciousness. That model was used to propose that the entire universe was a like a hologram.
Have you heard the theory that the universe is a hologram? Does it make sense to you? It made sense to me the first time I heard it, perhaps because I already understood the science of holography, and because I had experienced a brief but profound “peak experience” (an out-of-body experience without all the fun travel) that prompted me to search for a scientific understanding of my own consciousness. But as an objective scientist and practical engineer, I immediately questioned it. I understood the mechanics of holographic imagery and the problem was, there was no explanation of how the process could be accomplished in the same reality that the holographic universe supposedly modeled.
Finding answers to my questions has been a lifelong project. But before I discuss the questions and answers regarding the holographic universe, I want to introduce the process I discovered before I heard about Bohm’s holomovement or holographic principle. I’m talking about a vibration, which I was taught to think of as a noun (like a wave) but I learned from mythology (of all things) to think of it as a process. One thing we do know from quantum physics is that everything is vibration: E=hf, where E stands for energy, h is Planck’s constant and f is the frequency of vibration. The holomorphic process is a way of expressing vibration as a continuous process; it models frequency as a cycle of projections and reflections. It then identifies a starting reference point just before the projection, called separation and an endpoint just after the reflection called reunification. So the complete model is simply
1) separation,
2) projection,
3) reflection and
4) reunification.
The reason it is broken down like this is because it can be applied to both inanimate objects and living organisms. The reunification serves to model a metamorphosis, whether it is a transformation of energy into matter (in quantum physics they call that the collapse of the wave function) or matter into consciousness (an awakening).
I first discovered the basic process in the work of mythologist Joseph Campbell who called it the “mono-myth”, presented as three steps: separation, initiation and return, in “the hero’s journey” — the journey toward enlightenment. At the time, I had been working with vectors and phasors (graphical and mathematical tools we use in physics and engineering) and had broken down a single cycle into four phases. I simply split Campbell’s “initiation” phase into projection and reflection because as a four-step process, it fit the early version of my model. Then when I learned about the holographic model, it matched a cyclic model, which I explain next, that represents what happens to the laser lights used to produce a hologram.
It is important to reverse-engineer or reflect on the steps in making a hologram rather than looking just at the final projected image when trying to understand how physical reality could be a holographic projection. That’s because it is not a straightforward, linear process. There are twists and turns than get hidden and can’t be seen in the reflection. That is why it is important to use the process approach rather than starting with a complete particle. The twists present as “hidden variables” that cannot be deciphered from the outside-in perspective. You can find the procedure for making a hologram online, but I reference my textbook from Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics: Optical Holography, Principles, techniques, and applications. (Hariharan 1996) and Holography Handbook, Making Holograms the Easy Way. (Unterseher and Jeannene Hansen 1996)
To make a hologram, you start with a single laser (called a reference beam). This beam can be shined directly at the object of interest and at a mirror on the far side of the object, angled to reflect the light (so it’s still the reference beam) directly toward the recording film. Or the reference laser can be split into two beams using a semi-reflective mirror. In either case, you effectively split one beam into two beams with the exact same frequency and phase. The “object beam” hits the film after reflecting off of the object being imaged and “mixes” with the reference beam from the mirror. The “mixing” is actually what happens to the light-sensitive emulsion, e.g. silver halide, which changes its characteristics in a way that records the frequency and phase differences between the two beams.
Applying the Holomorphic Process Model to a Hologram
Separation and Projection:
So reverse-engineering this process, using the terms in the holomorphic process, starting with the first level separation, the original beam is separated from its source and projected toward a semi-reflective mirror where it is partially reflected but also separated into two coherent beams. (Note that the beam experienced separation twice but did not yet complete reunification. This introduces the first important “twist” in the middle of the process that will result in nested levels or recursive relationships in the description of interference patterns.) One of these two coherent beams is reflected off of the mirror (effectively separated from its “new source” and re- projected) directly to the object being imaged and the other is transmitted (also effectively separated from the “new source” and re- projected) through the mirror. The transmitted beam travels to another mirror and is then reflected (separated and re- projected by yet another “new source” adding yet another “twist”) toward the photographic plate or “film”. The beam that hits the object effectively separates into a bazillion individual source units (in accordance with the Huygens-Fresnel principle) that project their beams outward. The result of all this is a convoluted mess of individual beams shining all over the film.
The film can be placed anywhere (any position in three-dimensional space) as long as it is exposed uniformly by both the reference beam and the object beam. At the film, the two beams, which were identical at the source, are still identical in frequency but separated in phase. This separation makes use of another dimension (phase, as opposed to frequency, amplitude or position) that already existed in that it was implied when the original beam was separated, simply because there was a potential for a phase shift. When modern Cosmologists refer to the existence of multiple “parallel dimensions”, it seems incredibly bizarre and impossible to visualize. This is one of the big advantages to the holomorphic process approach. It allows us to understand what’s going on by visualizing it in the model.
Reflection and Reunification:
In terms of Bohm’s holomovement, the original beam could be thought of as a single beam, explicit in space and time; but also as an infinite number of beams having zero phase shift in the implicate order of phase space. The “new dimension” unfolds through the process of reflecting off of the mirrors and the object and only become explicit at the film where and when the phase shifts are recorded. That is also where the first reunification happens and the silver halide crystals morph into a bazillion unique shapes, orientations or forms; the result is called holomorphosis. These crystals form the second level of physical reality: microscopic patterns called “fringes”. In effect, the fringes are a bazillion “new versions” of the original wave pattern, modulated by the information of the object and trapped in the film as new micro-characteristics of the film — an information-modulated wave pattern that has one characteristic (frequency) the same as the original reference beam, but also a new characteristic (phase shift) that was produced by the “twists”, which introduced nested levels and formed fractal patterns (a term from Chaos theory, which it beyond the scope of this essay).
Since the wave pattern is now in a different state with nested characteristics it can be considered a metamorphosis or rather a holomorphosis of the original “whole”, including source and object. A quantum physicist might relate this to a collapse of the quantum wave function into seemingly physical things called quantum particles, but an electrical engineer would think of the beams as vectors and the fringe patterns as seemingly motionless waves, which can be easily represented as phase vectors called “phasors”. (A computer engineer would think of them as information and model them using nested groups of 1s and 0s). Every one of these seemingly motionless beams are new versions of the original beam, each having its own set of characteristics (same frequency but slightly different information recorded as phase shifts) and each one is “ready” to start its own holomorphic cycle (separation and projection). But they are trapped in a physical body (stored in the film as interference-pattern memory bits) at the point of potential reflection. I emphasize potential because it is important to note that it is stuck in the middle of the holomorphic process at the physical level. I hope you can see where I’m going with this in terms of consciousness.
The Third Level of Reality:
This effectively delays the second level of holomorphosis until a new laser, called the reconstruction beam, with the exact same frequency as the original laser is projected and reflected off of the film. From the perspective of the reconstruction beam, it (the reconstruction beam) will separate from its source, project toward, reflect off of the film and experience reunification, morphing into the holographic image or projection (now a noun or a “thing”). But from the perspective of the film, the reconstruction beam will convolve with and be modulated by the different characteristics and the bazillion “new sources” (recorded as fringes) will see their own reflection seem to “magically appear” at some distance away from their home “flatland” in the third level of reality: three-dimensional space. They didn’t project their “bodies”, but their “characteristics” were projected by the reconstruction beam as individual “pencil beams” mathematically mixed (convolved) with it (the reconstruction beam).
Reunification of information with the reconstruction beam forms an image that is simultaneously a projection and a reflection: a holomorphic projection (projected into three-dimensional space) and its shape is a reflection (having the same form) of the original object. Because it is a reflection of the truth, it is the exact same “thing” as the original object, shifted in space and time. From the outside-in perspective, we see this as a single separation and projection of the “second body” from the “real body” (the object being imaged) when in fact, it is a complete cycle of the holomorphic process with multiple separations and projections tangled up inside.
Applying the Holomorphic Process Model to our Reality
If this process is to be used to model what we consider actual reality, and if physical matter is actually a bazillion quantum-sized fringes, then the next logical question is, what are the “reference light” and the “reconstruction light”?
According to physics, light is energy. But physics fails to consider the information content of energy. And information is absolutely necessary to include in our analysis since information is what shapes reality and what allows us to understand meaning. To paraphrase Einstein:
Physics without information is lame. And information without physics is blind.
In reality, they are not separate, but we have to artificially separate them as we participate in the holomorphic process. That’s because, while energy can neither be created nor destroyed, information is the characteristic of energy that forms it into bits, quanta or fringes.
If we use the word “Truth” to represent the implicit form of undifferentiated energy that can neither be created nor destroyed, then “tidbits of truth” can be used to represent information-modulated energy (the form or fringes) that reflect the actual (true) characteristics of the object. The word “implicit” means that it is implied, indefinite or infinite (not finite) and therefore, does not exist in explicit or definite form in three-dimensional space. And the word “what” in the question, “what is the reference (or reconstruction) light” requires an answer that is definite. In other words, it is a question fallacy. And the moment we give it a name or envision anything to represent it, it becomes explicit and therefore the answer to the question is automatically wrong.
The Fourth Level of Reality
Whatever we call it, “it” has form and contains the differentiated form of information-modulated energy called truth. Therefore, rather than saying that “Truth” is a light source, we say that “the word Truth” represents the undifferentiated light and represents the fourth level of reality. It must first be differentiated (separated) into a duality (two laser beams that are the same yet projected as implicitly different). Then these must be separated again in a way that makes them explicitly different (using phase shift). And then one of them must be reflected and reunited with the first to make the product that is explicit–a “thing” that captures the Truth as a unit of truth. And the “thing” becomes a seemingly separate source of the light of Truth. We, as explicit projections that capture Truth, are therefore the sources of both the reference beam and the reconstruction beam.
Amazingly, we have the power to generate our own information–at first, simply by moving since motion causes vibration. We can project vibrations in the form of words, symbols and images that are also a reflection of Truth. They are also subject to the holomorphic process so when we project them, they take explicit form and become reflections that we see in our minds. This sets up the condition for another implied “thing” at the fourth level: if there is a reflection, there must be a reflective surface. The moment we first see it, we “realize” it, i.e. make it real to ourselves. But since it is a projection, we see it as being separate from ourselves. It must be separate in order for us to look at it.
We envision a spherical bubble around our bodies and wonder whether this “mirror” is positioned outside or inside. According to the holographic model, it is the same beam that has been projected and separated. One beam projects inward and the other outward. So we see two different images and give them different names: perhaps soul (inward) and spirit (outward). As long as we believe that they are separate, we delay the process. The “mirrors” become holographic plates waiting for the next step. And the next step has to wait until there is enough data (life experience) for the next projection to be fully formed.
The Toroidal Model
What we need is reunification or fusion of the two beams. Until that happens, we experience confusion. And as long as we stick with the spherical model, there is no way to see the two separate images as being two different perspectives of the same thing. Fortunately, somebody came up with the Toroidal model. It is the solution to this dilemma. Using a torus rather than a sphere, we can envision a single two-sided mirror, positioned either inside or outside of the body. Then we imagine how inward points along the circumference of a continuous circle that goes around and meets the back side of the same mirror that we see when we look outward. The result is a fully formed projection that we call the second body with both a front and back.
Eventually we mature enough to intentionally project an actual holomorphic image as a “second body”, which automatically becomes the “new version” of the old self and therefore it is the version that can reflect on the old version. In other words, it carries the light of Truth at its center, so it can shine the reference light and see the reflections of reality at that level. That means it becomes the center of “consciousness”. But what happens if this separation/projection happens without coming back to the physical body? It fails to complete the holomorphic process–reflection/reunification. If that happens, the “real body” will lose its source of information-modulated energy that formed and was formed by the body. This means it will lose its life. Is that a problem? Not if this separation was a complete holomorphosis event. But if it wasn’t, then yes–it’s a premature ejection, not a rebirth.
The Model Presents a Warning and a Ray of Hope
This may explain the very strange, rubbery, humanoid yet animal-like entities that Robert Monroe reported seeing in some of his OOB experiences (Journeys out of the body, Ch 10). They were underdeveloped projections that tragically separated from life before cleansing their mirror of artifacts. As a result, they became projections caught up in the implicit void without reflections of Truth.
Here’s the “catch” — another twist that happens at this fourth level of reality. Not only can we create projections that are reflections of the truth, we can also generate projections that are not a reflection of truth! Is that a problem? Well yes and no. It is actually a “necessary evil” in a world where people take advantage of each other and use our ethics against us to get their way. It allows us to form a protective shield, like a nutshell, a barrier around the precious truth that we are growing “inside”. But it is also the bane of our existence. When we use this power frivolously to manipulate others, the bits we create form dark artifacts on our “mirror” that prevent us from seeing our true reflection— a tragic flaw that we create in our own story. It is what makes us blind. We create the “hidden variables” that distort our vision and prevent us from having clear insight, which is absolutely required in order to see the light of Truth. We are blind because we have information without the right physics. And we become lame because we are physical without the right information.
Truth is the only thing that is true. Anything explicit that we create, including the second body, is only a mirror. The same should be remembered about a model, like this holomorphic process model. If it is centered on Truth then it captures the truth; but it is not the Truth itself. If it is not centered on Truth, then it is merely an artifact and a byproduct of the holomorphic process. So we have to be careful when we (in the second body) encounter other projections in the form of “entities”. The tragic irony comes when we can no longer see Truth and instead, we fall in love with, or in fear of, our projections. I would consider it a warning to those who like to play with their astral projection (mental masturbation) or those who think that suicide is a way out (evidence that they can no longer see the light of Truth). As long as there is a single ray of light, there is a ray of hope that they can hold onto while the process works itself out and cleans their mirror. Whether we like it or not, we are part of the holomorphic process and have to allow the process to bring us to fruition.
Works Cited
· Hariharan, P. Optical Holography, Principles, techniques, and applications. 2nd. Press Syndicate of University of Cambridge, 1996.
· Monroe, Robert A. Journeys out of the body. Harmony Books, 1971.
· Overgaard, Morten. “The Status and Future of Consciousness Research.” Frontiers in Psychology 8, no. 1719 (2017).
· Unterseher, Fred, and Bob Schlesinger Jeannene Hansen. Holography Handbook, Making Holograms the Easy Way . Berkeley, CA: Ross Books, 1996.
