Gregg Braden - Understanding Our Holographic Consciousness and Reality

of the tenants that are available to us through these lost texts if we were to go through all at least the 45 books that we're aware of and hone all that information down into those four tenants and I just shared those with you the first one says there's only one of us here we're Unity by Nature the second one reminds us that that Unity Consciousness is moving collectively toward this rare moment in history the third one reminds us that we have direct access to the creative forces of our world in the last one suggests that

the science of compassion may be the most ancient science that allows us to gracefully transcend the great challenges of our life with Grace well two of those tenants I'd like to develop further one of those it's the one that says there's only one of us here that our Consciousness is holographic in nature the term hologram means different things to different people do we really understand the implications of what it means to live in a holographic Consciousness when I say the word hologram what do I mean by that of the many definitions that we may choose

for a hologram perhaps one of the simplest and the most eloquent may be as follows that a hologram is simply a pattern a pattern that is whole and complete unto itself and at the same time it's part of an even greater pattern that is whole and complete unto itself while at the same time is part of an even greater pattern now this pattern can be non-physical energy or it can be very physical matter the cells of your body are holographic in nature one cell has all the information it needs to create another one of you

it is whole and complete unto itself and it's part of an even greater pattern that you call your body okay Consciousness works this way we are many expressions individualized of a Unity Consciousness and what that means and this is the beauty of the hologram any place any place in the pattern of a hologram where you make one little change that change is mirrored throughout the rest of the Hologram if you make one tiny change it's mirrored throughout the rest of the Hologram perhaps a good example this is a story that's told from the Spanish journals

when the Explorers were coming over uh looking for new routes into this world in the 14 1500s one of the routs took them around the coast of South America and the Spanish gallions that were making this journey sometimes Journeys took many months up to a year they set ashore for supplies in a place where the Spanish had never recorded being before and they were met on the shores by the indigenous people of that area who apparently had never seen white people before had never seen Western technology before and fortunately for this particular Story one of

the first men to meet them on the shore was the shaman of the tribe he was the holy man so here the holy man of the tribe meets the Spanish as they're coming ashore they left the large ships out on the water and they came ashore in smaller rowboats and however they communicated in whatever language they were using the holy man asked them where did you just come from and they've been here for years they've never seen people like this coming up onto their Shore and however they communicate in return the Spanish said we came

on this little boat from that big boat with the wooden planks and the canvas sails out on the horizon of the ocean and the holy man looked to where the Spanish were pointing and he couldn't see that ship the ship was there and it was of a pattern that was so foreign to his frame of reference it made no sense to his conscious recognition he didn't recognize it and as I hear this story I often wonder how how many timeses that happen in our world in our lives how many times do things happen right in

front of us and maybe we disallow it because it doesn't make sense in terms of our frame of reference is it possible there's a whole separate world going on here that we haven't recognized because we don't allow for it in our Paradigm well because this was a holy man because he was a shaman he was fascinated by the possibility that these people came from something that he couldn't see so another individual may have dismissed it the shaman worked with it and eventually what he said in the matter of moments he says you know if I

look out of the corner my eyes and I squint just the right way and redefine the shape of my eyeball I begin to make something out on the horizon and in just a few moments he taught himself how to see a pattern of matter that he had never been exposed to before he taught himself to see that that happened to him on the shore miles away was his village and the people in his village didn't have the same experience that he had on the one hand and within just a couple of days on the other

hand they too benefited from his experience because they then were able to see what was happening on the shores how did that happen they weren't witnessing with him on the one hand the other hand they learned through his experience the term we use today is called Collective resonance and what it means to us is that every time one person chooses a new way to respond to the challenges of life each time an individual chooses a new option that person then becomes a living bridge for all the others who choose to follow in that person's path

it's not about about imposing will on anyone what it is about is that person now that chose a new way that chose A New Path they have created a template of a new possibility very close to the consciousness of all others who choose to follow and that template now becomes more accessible to the next and the next and the next the shaman on the shore he chose to see a new way and through Collective resonance others benefit from his experience this is the beauty of the Hologram if we have a pattern perhaps it looks like

a snowflake pattern and that pattern is whole and complete unto itself and part of an even larger snowflake which is whole and complete and part of an even larger Snowflake and there is one place in each of these patterns where there is a little pointed tip and we take the tip off in one place of the snow snowflake that tip no longer exists anywhere in the pattern that's the beauty of the Hologram when a change occurs in one place it's mirrored throughout the whole it's mirrored throughout the rest of the system what that means to

us simply is this here we are on the threshold of a new millennium creating a new paradigm a new way to respond to the great challenges of life we have lived in a world of polarity where we have hated and feared and judged and killed and we've always had the tools to rise above that hate and the judgment and the fear and the killing each time one individual chooses a new way to respond chooses something other than hate chooses something other than retribution that's a big one in our culture now if you do something you've

got to get even you got to pay for what you've done it's not right wrong good or bad it simply is a path and there may be the possibility of a higher path each time one individual chooses that possibility it makes it easier for the next and the next and the next so we ask ourselves are we choosing to carry across this bridge into the New Millennium hate judgment Warfare and killing or do we choose peace forgiveness compassion and love honoring all the polarity that brought us to this moment the hate the killing the Judgment

the anger the Warfare has served us it served us well well it thrust us onto a path so we know ourselves in that way and now we're invited to heal that path and to choose something new rather than judging the path being angry at that path and moving on that's the beauty of the holographic model of Consciousness that is why there's only one of us here we're all going through that doorway together no one is Left Behind everyone benefits from each choice that we make as we birth this new millennium so when we talk about

fractal patterns and when we talk about uh the principle of the Hologram these are not occurring in a vacuum they're not occurring in empty space they are occurring within the context of a broader field of information that often is simply called the field what we're talking about are the rules that allow energy and matter to function within the field that connects all things uh and as we know those rules as we begin to understand the rules of the field uh and I'm I'm assuming that most people watching this that if you're seeing this uh it

is common knowledge that there is a field of energy that underlies all of creation this is now accepted uh in mainstream science it's no longer controversial uh that the field exists in the year 2012 there was a consensus among scientists based upon experiments that were done that the CERN superconducting super collider and Geneva Switzerland an announcement was made that there is in fact a field that underlies uh that underlies our reality now there's a lot of controversy around what the field means uh what it means to us where it comes from uh all of the

properties of the field are still being explored but the fact that the field is there is no longer controversial so I'm going to begin with that assumption there is a field that connects all things and the better that we understand the rules that govern in that field the better equipped we are to understand our relationship to the field and to apply those rules in our lives all right so that's the preface to to what I'm sharing here uh two of the primary rules there are others but two of the primary rules that the people have

asked about in these questions are the holographic principle and the fra fractal principle so the first rule the field is holographic uh and the question comes up what does that mean you know what is a hologram and I I think one of the best ways to maybe to understand this uh is let me Define it first and then let me illustrate what this means in in a true holographic system every piece of the Hologram contains all of the information about every other piece of the Hologram in a true hologram uh every piece contains information about

what's called the whole and every other point within that hole now that that's a big concept that's a huge concept let me help you uh maybe to to wrap your mind around this a little bit in a fun way when the term hologram first really came into the mainstream was back in the 1980s uh when the the new thought Community was was first emerging and maybe you remember this there were bookmarks that were coming out in New New Age bookstores maybe you've got one today I I've used all of mine in illustrating what I'm about

to share with you I've destroyed all of my all my bookmarks but maybe you remember these they were shiny uh strips of of shiny material uh narrow strips of shiny material and when you would hold the bookmark in the light the image in the bookmark would appear uh three-dimensional as if it were hovering above your your hand and I remember very clearly there were some there was one that was a a rose bud so that Rose Bud looked like uh it was a physical Rose Bud that you were holding in your hand there were some

pretty trippy ones that were out there there was one with a dolphin jumping over the Great Pyramid of Giza that was a very popular one there was one that was the face of Jesus was very popular there was one that was the image of mother Mary uh with a shawl and her hands in prayer that was a very popular one so here here's the point and I used to be able to do this until I ran out of the bookmarks if they were truly holographic bookmarks you could take that beautiful bookmark with a pair of

scissors and you could cut it in half and then you'd take that half and you cut it into uh one of those halves cut them into a a bajillion pieces and then you could take the smallest one of those pieces and even cut it again and put it under a microscope and if it was truly a hologram if it's really a holographic bookmark in that fraction of a piece you would still see the whole image of the Rose or the dolphin jumping over the pyramid or whatever and that's the point because every piece has to

contain the entire image it contains all of the information on the whole and this is why a hologram is so powerful it's powerful for a number of reasons one is that when we have a ol graphic uh uh principle in play from one little piece of that hologram we can learn a whole lot about the whole system without exploring the entire system because the entire system is reflected in that hole so that is important in terms of of gaining knowledge about the system but where this gets really practical you and I function on the holographic

principle your blood functions on the holographic principle your DNA functions on holographic principle and computers now are being built that function on this principle and here's what I mean the average human body has about 50 or so trillion cells in the human body each of those cells has a nucleus and within that nucleus is the blueprint for your body your DNA and the genes that make up your DNA now think about this if you introduce a change a mutation a healthy mut mutation in your body or you introduce something in your body that helps you

to heal on a genetic level if that something had to go through every one of those cells in a linear fashion one at a time you do the math I mean if you took a half a second for each cell 50 trillion times a half a second haven't done the math but it's it's going to take some time but you know that we don't work this way when you create a shift an energetic shift in your body through your choice of emotions uh and the the techniques that you are learning to regulate self-regulate your biology

heartb brain Harmony for example heartb brain coherence when you benefit from those the reason it happens so quickly is because of this principle your cells don't have to adapt the change one by one by one by one in a graphic system When A change is made in one place it is reflected in the whole if that change is is truly made uh in in a meaningful way to a holographic system there's a whole conversation that we can have about that but I've just given you some examples so this is the power of the Hologram the

universe is holographic this is how nature communicates information uh you know probably one of the the most amazing examples that come to mind from this beyond what what I'm sharing with you you've all heard of the H hundredth monkey principle and this comes from a a scientific study that was done from primates uh on a number of islands and I believe they were in the Pacific uh they were in the South Pacific and the anthropologists were studying the habits of primates in this case they were chimpanzees and what they found was that the the chimpanzees

were having problems finding food and that they resorted to uh eating ants that were deep in the earth uh in anthills and it was hard to get to them so there was one chimp that did something that had never been seen in any of the chimp communities on any of the islands in the past he took a stick and he fashioned the stick as a tool consciously intentionally fashion the stick as a tool put the stick down into the antill the ants began to cling to the stick and when he pulled the stick up his

tool allowed him uh to have access to those ants in a way that he'd never had before so this was a pretty cool thing to do but where the holographic principle comes in is that it wasn't long before The Chimps on other islands with no communication physically they weren't like swimming from Island to Island they weren't radioing one another from Island to Island but without any visible means of communication chimps on the other Islands began to do the same thing they learned from the chimp that was Innovative and tried something new that is a beautiful

example of the holographic principle didn't have to go linearly from Island to Island one chip figured out a new way to do things it was in the field it was in Consciousness and all of a sudden other chimps began to access that Consciousness that is the power of the holographic principle all right one of the really fascinating things I'm going to address this briefly as we um as we go through this this explanation uh is that our experience of time is holographic as well because time there's nothing in physics that limits us from moving backward

in time as well as forward in time and there are scientific studies that are happening right now suggesting that we actually do this when we experience a memory of the past that a part of us is actually traveling back to that moment in the past and the reason this is so powerful is because the exper the experiments now are strongly suggesting that from this moment in time we can go back into our past when we have had trauma and that we can actually communicate with ourselves in the past P to shift our experience of the

trauma so that we're healing it in the present moment wow if that isn't a mindblower I don't know what it is think about that it means that if you are a child 50 years ago experiencing a traumatic event and you are feeling alone if if that child senses that there is an acceptance that there's not a judgment that the shame of that traumatic experience is being healed in that time then there is a communication and a mutual healing the child at that time is being helped as you've gone back into time and you are being

helped because now the trauma of your earlier self doesn't have the same meaning to your adult self uh tremendous studies being done around this the point is it's all possible because of the holographic principle because the field is holographic because time is holographic so hope I'm giving you a sense of what a hologram is and and why it's so important now in a hologram information is stored as patterns and those patterns are based upon a fractal principle so now we're going to move to the second part of this what is a fractal and this is

always interesting to me because people when they think of fractals they think of a particular kind of fractal called a mandal br set I'm going to going to show you what that is in just a moment but in general let let me just address the definition of a fractal first and then I I'll give you some of those examples a fractal is a pattern in nature it's a uh it's a fancy word for some people that describes a pattern in nature and what scientists now know is that this complex as our world appears to be

it is actually based on a very few just a handful of very simple patterns that repeat again and again and again but they repeat on different scales here's what I mean by that what you're seeing on the screen right now is electricity and it is electricity following a preferred path where the resistance is the least we've all heard this that energy follows the path of least resistance in the image you're seeing on the left of your screen its lightning in the sky following a path of of least resistance flowing through the atmosphere you can see

the pattern the image on the right is happening at a much smaller scale these this is a neuron in the human brain it also is an electrical pattern electrical energy following a pathway of least resistance that's designed to carry electricity so the neuron is on a small scale Lightning's on a big scale but you can see the similarity in the patterns because energy is fractal and energy follows fractal patterns so what we say is that the neuron is a fractal of the lightning if we understand the way the neuron functions and how energy follows the

path of least resistance in the neuron it gives us insight into how energy flows through the atmosphere and follows that path of least resistance these are fractal patterns it's the same pattern on a different scale same pattern on a different scale and that's important now another example that's common and I've used this is when we look and I I mentioned this just a moment ago when we look at the way that uh uh electrons flow around the nucleus of of an atom so we say that the electrons have orbits around the nucleus of an atom

this is a physical model that looks very similar to the way that moons move around a planet or the way that planets the way that planets orbit around the Sun but these are very very different in scale as you can see the the atom is very small the moons moving around another planet in this case these These are moons moving around Saturn or Neptune Neptune also is a is one of the planets in our solar system with rings uh that that's larger than the atom but you can see it's the same pattern replicating and then

when we look at planets moving around the sun it's the same pattern of things moving around things all right so what we say is the atom is a fractal of the solar system or the way that the moons move around a planet is a fractal of a solar system or maybe the solar system is a fractal pattern of the atom okay so in principle in principle this is accurate now the question this is the second question that came up we now have a different sense for what the atom looks like again I just want to

reiterate this what you're seeing here is the same pattern playing out on different scales now we have a different Sense Technology now has given us deeper insights into what an atom looks like and while this mechanical model this Newtonian model of an atom still works in terms of of concept if we're going to you know engineer and balance a chemical equation or something like that it's not really the way that nature works now we know that the atom looks more like this it it looks more like pulsing fields of probability rather than physical things moving

around a nucleus so the question is with this shift in how we see the atom what does that mean to the way that we think of the other fractal patterns of planets moving around a Sun or a solar system moving around um you know in in a galaxy the center of the Galaxy well this is where it gets interesting even more interesting because whether we're talking about moons moving around the planet or we're talking about planets moving around the Sun they are made of atoms and now we know that those atoms look like this so

when we look into the night sky and we see our moon or we look through a telescope and we see the the moons of Jupiter or Saturn what we know is we're not really seeing physical things although they appear physical to us what we're seeing uh are are collections of what you're seeing on the screen pulsing fields of information that appear as solid to us so what we're saying is it depends upon the perspective on one level on the quantum level these planets and the moons around the planets and the solar systems actually are functioning

on this level as pulsing fields of information and on another level depending on how we want to engineer them uh and how we observe them they are uh the the physical essence of of what we see this is one of the quandaries in physics because the very famous double slit experiment done early in the 20th century was the first to pose this conundrum this mystery because it appears that uh Quantum particles Express themselves as waves of energy which is what you're seeing on the screen right now until they are observed and the act of observing

the wave collapses it into a particle that becomes the physic iCal reality so that's another mindblower and I know you've heard me talk about other people talk about in other programs I won't spend a lot of time on it here but the answer is the new perception of atams uh as pulsing waves of probability pulsing fields of probability it gives us a deeper insight into the reality that we live in but where this gets really interesting is when it comes to you and me I mentioned a moment ago that the average human body has about

50 trillion cells whatever an average person is but each of those cells is made of about 100 trillion or so atoms every one of those atoms is not a static body but it is a dynamic field of energy that is constantly emerging from the field and collapsing back into the field number one number two every one of those atoms is about 99.999 999999 99% empty space it means that you and I are less physical than we have been led to believe we're mostly empty space we appear physical because of the way our brains are perceiving

the energy being given off by the atoms so we uh an atom when you're talking about an atom it's less of a thing in time and more of a place in space and what that means is that you and I are less of a thing and more of a place in space time this is why your healing is possible in the way that it is because your perceptions form the template for the way the atoms are going to express as they emerge and collapse into the field if you like everything about you you don't change

your perception if you are choosing a deeper state of healing for example or a healthier state of your physical being or uh a healthier state of your emotional being you are one of the rare forms of life perhaps the only one that we know of on Earth with the ability to consciously consciously choose to shift the way you perceive yourself so that that shift in perception forms a new template a new blueprint for the way those atoms are emerging from the field to reflect your new perception of yourself and the beauty is you don't have

to know any of that I'm I'm Shar I'm answering these two questions and I'm sharing with you the science but the beauty is uh you don't need to know that and there are many really good teachers really good books spiritual practices that have been around for 5,000 years that invite us to hold a positive sense of ourselves rather looking in the mirror and focusing on the imperfection the illusion of the imperfections that you may see the invitation is to look into that mirror and see yourself in the Perfection of your highest Vision now people will

say Greg isn't that lying to yourself and the answer is no this comes from a deep understanding of how the quantum Field Works you've got to give the quantum field something to work with if you're looking at yourself focusing on what you perceives the flaws and the imperfection that's what you're feeding into the field that's the blueprint that the atoms are going to adhere to as they are emerging back into the field to reinforce what your focus is so when you focus on the image on the vision on an altered perception of what you choose

to experience in your life what you're doing or in your body the healing in your body is the example I'm using here but this applies this principle applies to many other things when you focus on that what you're actually doing is you are honoring your relationship with the field by giving it something to work with you're giving it a blueprint a template of what it is that you would like to experience the key is and this is the bottom line for me here is that we must become in our lives what we choose to experience

in the world we must become the kindness in our lives if we want to experience that kindness from others we must become the healing that we're asking our bodies to accomplish and we become those things by assuming that perception in our conscious as well as in our subconscious mind a lot of lot of work out there from a lot of really good people helping us to do that all right so this is this is the key every atom of our bodies is constantly emerging from and collapsing into the field following the rules of the field

now you know two of those primary rules the rules of the holographic principle and the rules of the fractal principle now this isn't the end because once we begin understanding the fundamental rules of the field these begin to to help us to understand our potential in the field but the real beauty is once we understand our potential in the field what we begin to see is that we are not bound by the laws of physics as we understand them today we're not bound by the laws of what are called classical physics time and space because

in the holographic principle it's possible to influence our our the healing in the health of our loved ones in the room next to us uh in a home a mile away from us or in a battlefield in the Middle East on the other side of the planet and when we begin to accept the the power and the responsibility that comes from our relationship to the field these are deeply held secrets in the esoteric Traditions that are not secret any longer and why should they be it's about you and me in the world that we live

in and I'll tell you if we're ever going to embrace the Deep truth of who we are and our potential in these fields I can't think of a better time than right now when everything that we know and value and cherish is up for grabs with competing agendas playing out in the world trying to create different societies and different worlds than we've had in the past and maybe that's a good thing I think it depends upon the underlying values of the change why are people trying to implement why are governments why are corporations why are

they trying to impose these changes upon the way we think of ourselves in our lives well our conditioning is that we've been been indoctrinated into a view of ourselves as flawed beings that are powerless victims of our external circumstances and that certainly may be true if we choose to do nothing about the events that are unfolding in our lives but in the ignorance of understanding our relationship to the field many people feel that the only choice they have is to fight back and when you fight back that that is uh is one way of thinking

it typically creates more suffering uh for the people that can least afford to have that suffering Buckminster Fuller I think said this the best he says you're never going to change the world by fighting against the things you don't like he said you want to change the world find a new model that works better than the old model and people will begin to follow that new model the old model simply becomes Obsolete and it falls away I think there's a lot of Truth to what Mr Fuller said and what I'm suggesting in these kinds of

of videos is our world is changing and there are a lot of reasons for the change if you want to implement a positive healthy new way of thinking begin to embrace the Deep truth of who you are and live this in your life and what begins to happen is you don't have to fight against the old models because they simply don't make sense anymore people are are pretty sharp and they'll look around and they want to see who's happier who's healthier who has uh a deeper sense of well-being and when you're that person in your

family or your community people will notice and they're going to say I want what you have how did you do that and that is the opening for you to share these deep principles of where the spiritual spiritual traditions of our past meet the the rubber of the road of life it's where the where the rubber meets the road so the the spiritual rubber of our past meets the road of everyday life and it doesn't have to be uh a deeply philosophical conversation once we understand the science this is a place where science and spirituality come

together in a really beautiful way once we understand the science it becomes a lot easier to implement the principles in our lives