The Lexicon
Time, reality, and cosmos
Hologram
The hologram is the great image of wholeness in which every part contains the whole. David Bohm spoke of an implicate order, a deeper level in which all things are enfolded together, with the visible world unfolding from it like a projection. Karl Pribram found the same pattern in the brain, and Michael Talbot drew the threads into the vision of a holographic universe.
In this view, separation is the surface and unity is the depth. What appears as scattered fragments is, at the implicate level, a single seamless movement. The hologram thus becomes a way of picturing interconnection itself, a cosmos in which the smallest piece mirrors the totality, and the seeker's own awareness participates in the undivided whole.
In their words
The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.
In the enfolded order, space and time are no longer the dominant factors; everything is enfolded into everything.
We may be looking at the universe as a giant hologram, in which every region contains the whole.