This thinking began with seeing the headline of a post that said an astronomer is seeing that this whole universe may be a hologram. I didn’t read that post but it got me thinking about ‘what is reality’?
The history that we are told is questionable in its origin. How did human life start? I understand even Darwin didn’t believe his own story of evolution and of course the evidence doesn’t support it at all. Then there are the religions whose stories go back a long way and most speak of a ‘Creator’ of the universe and this world within it. The religious traditional views were mostly passed down by word of mouth and then the few elite scribes recorded and could read information on scrolls of paper. Who know what intentions they had behind what was written. Some, such as Moses, tried to convince people that what they had was directly given them by a god.
Don’t get me wrong, I consider myself to be Christian – that was the religious learning that I grew up with. Each person has learned certain wisdom in their youth and as an adult you gradually find more and more of the truths that you seek in understanding life.
Anyways, let’s go with the Judeo-Christian creation story which says that God created the heavens and the earth. I suppose this could be seen as a hologram. Then (S)He created animals, fish, humans vegetation etc. So we all live within this creation.
There’s the story of Eve eating the apple off the ‘tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil’. It’s interesting that there was another tree in the garden called the ‘tree of life’. The whole thing is a bit of a riddle and has multiple ways of being interpreted. But we do get the idea that this is a free will planet, if not universe and we don’t just live happily ever after but are constantly bombarded with the conflict between good and evil and we get to make choices about it.
So when you are asking yourself the question: Why am I here?, or Why are WE here?, it gets interesting. I suppose the questions goes more like: What is this reality I find myself in, how did it come into being, why am I in it? Who put me here? and why? Are there other realities unlike this one. Is this just a created Matrix? How do I find out the truth-based answers to these questions? Why is it that we don’t already know this stuff? Why is it hidden from us?
I think of the movie, The Matrix or The Trueman show – or what about the Hunger Games? In my opinion we are not living in a freely developing reality but in a contrived hologram with a small group of elites running the whole thing. We know they’ve developed weather technology – maybe they always had it. Hmm.
Many spiritual leaders say we are living in a 3 dimensional reality, which includes a duality consciousness and a sense of all being separated beings, rather than being as one whole community of man. They say on higher dimensions (which are said to be all around us) we are all part of a unity consciousness, intimately connected in our energies. On higher dimensions we are one with the whole universe – perhaps beyond that we exist outside this universe and can see it for what it is.
I didn’t like that the Matrix movie showed the outside reality being harsh and lacking in beauty and comfort that some of us can enjoy on Earth. Most spiritual leaders don’t describe any hardship at the higher levels.
So what is that? Is it several super-imposed holograms on top of each other?
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