Sophia C. reviewed on 5/3/2011 + 289 more book reviews

The premise of The Holographic Universe drew me to this book of which I quickly became and remained skeptical. The early chapters start off discussing the properties of holograms (of which I was not aware), well-known corollaries of quantum mechanics, and the mind-body-wellness connection. The idea that the universe and the mind are arranged like holograms—where a piece contains all the information of the whole, among other properties—is intriguing and plausible, despite the paucity of data provided to support it. However, subsequent chapters go on to discuss miracles, out of body experiences, near death experiences, and UFOs, which are presented as evidence the universe is organized as a hologram and physical reality is a product of consciousness. It should be noted that the author claims psychic abilities, and that his spleen has its own separate consciousness which was able to communicate to another psychic that the author had yelled at it. The ideas that the author advances seem to be a rehashing of ancient ideas about reality and consciousness (with a somewhat Eastern philosophical bent) in pseudo-scientific language. Nonetheless, it was an interesting survey of various shamanistic and religious traditions.

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