A true hologram is a two dimensional object in which any single part of the whole - no matter how small - actually contains the entire image. So if I cut up a hologram into tiny pieces, every piece would contain the entire original image. A fractal is similar. It is a pattern that is infinitely repeated as you zoom into any part of the image (for example, the video on the right often referred to as "The Fingerprint of God"). And as incredible as it may sound, science now tells us that the entire universe may well be a hologram!

Mystics from around the world and throughout history have claimed that the entire universe exists within them. Then in the 1980's Physicist David Bohm - considered one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century - suggested these mystics were correct - that the universe may well be a hologram. The Hollywood blockbuster film The Matrix was based on this idea. Then in April 2015, Austrian researchers ran simulations which confirmed the mathematics and physics of a holographic universe hold true for our model of the universe.

We already know that that every speck of matter in the universe is entangled and therefore one with every other speck of matter in the universe. We already know that the physical matter of the universe arises out of non-physical waves of energy. And we already know that the only thing that enters our consciousness is waves of energy, and that even that the physical matter of the universe only arises when it is observed! Is it that much of a stretch to imagine that the physical universe is simply a holographic projection of energy? .

But if this sounds scary, or fatalistic, it need not be. The holographic universe tells us that the entire universe exists not just in you, but in every cell and every atom within you! It sounds like science fiction, but science has already produced both fractals and holograms, and found them in nature. And if we can do it, why could the extraordinary mystery of the universe not do it itself? Clearly the hologram arises out of something, and it is the something that is indescribable mystery of the cosmos - the cosmos that You Are. 

Finally then, the holographic universe provides us is a power greater than we could ever imagine. The holographic universe means that any change that we make to any one part of the hologram we make to the entire hologram! Any change you make in yourself is made in every human, every galaxy, and every atom in the universe! Is this too much power? No - all you have to do is to love. 

Find out more at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150427101633.htm

Tonight I am sleeping on a footpath outside the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, alongside 100 others. We are here, along with the hundreds who have been camped out for the past eight days, because of a little girl inside. A one year old baby, known only as Asha, was badly burned by boiling water in the tent which is her indefinite home in the refugee detention centre on the tiny isolated Pacific island of Nauru. For years, the Australian government has been sending asylum seekers attempting to enter Australia by boat to detention centres on Nauru, and on the other small Pacific island of Manus Island. And for years, despite media blackouts and threats of punishment for anyone speaking out, numerous first-hand reports have described inadequate and unsafe living conditions, severe depression, self-harm and attempted suicides within these centres.

And then last week, the High Court of Australia ruled in favour of the Australian government’s decision to deport baby Asha and her family back to Nauru, along with 264 other asylum seekers, including 37 babies born here on Australian soil. In response, doctors here in Brisbane have refused to discharge Asha, citing a duty of care to only discharge children into homes where they will be safe.

And so here we are, standing is support of these doctors, and standing alongside baby Asha, her family, the other asylum seekers facing deportation, and the women, men, and children still being held indefinitely on Nauru and Manus Island today. Why are we here? Why am I here? The truth is I am here for myself. I am here because it is in my own best interests to be here – on an individual level, and on a cosmic level. I am here for ‘the little me’, and ‘The Big Me’.

At the individual level, science has shown that the little me is hard-wired to respond with compassion to those who are suffering – that mirror neurons in my brain trigger the same emotional response as that experienced in the people I see, and thus, that my wellbeing is bound up with your wellbeing. But more significantly, science has shown that when I reach out to support someone in need, when someone reaches out to support me in my need, or even when I see someone else reach out to support someone in need, my body is flooded with feel-good and self-healing hormones. My body literally becomes healthier when I help others. My mental and emotional state literally becomes healthier when I help others. 

But the physiological benefits to the little me are just an added bonus. Most significantly, it is “The Big Me” – the real Me that is All That Is – that benefits when I reach out to others in need. In his book, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters, Dr Larry Dossey describes the regular occurrence throughout the world of people who place their own lives at great risk in order to save the lives of others. Dr Dossey explains that in such instances it is not a conscious decision to be nice, or to do the right thing, that causes this reaction, but is instead our natural instinctual response. These instincts override ‘common sense’ which tells us to preserve our ‘own life.’ As we know, our instincts have evolved to ensure our survival. But if this particular instinct puts ‘my own’ survival at risk, how can it help ‘me’ to survive? Clearly, this instinct must be operating not at the level of the little me, but of The Big Me. Dr Dossey explains that in such instances, the real me – which is the One Shared Mind – shines through the illusion of the individual ego. In moments of life and death, this sub (or supra)-conscious One Mind overrides my individual consciousness, knowing that communal survival is more important than individual survival.

We are all one. At a cosmic level then, in reaching out to support ‘someone else’ in need, I am actually reaching out to support myself – All of Me. When we respond to ‘others’ with fear – when we exclude them, when we subject them to inhumane conditions, and when we lock them as children on island prisons – the whole world experiences fear. The whole world suffers. But every time we respond with love for ‘others’ – when we welcome people fleeing terror, when we stand with them in solidarity, when we sleep on the footpath tonight to defend the little girl inside – the whole world is bathed in love.

Reports tell us that immigration officials may forcibly remove Asha from the hospital tomorrow morning.  Whether that happens or not, the one hundred people here tonight, the 200 school students who stood here two days ago, the hundreds who have stopped here over the past week, and the billions sharing acts of kindness around the world every day, are flooding our world, and therefore ourselves with love. I am here to experience love – and it is awesome!

I just need to remember to do it more often!
 
* 8 hours later the Australian Immigration Department agreed in the short term to release Asha and her parents into community detention here in Australia rather than being sent back to Nauru. This is a great result. Now we stand in love for the others #LetThemStay ​

But just recently, I have come to realise that I am the change that happens in the world, because I am the world! I do not change a part of the world, because there are no parts! I used to think I could change the world by encouraging others to change, and I would try to convince others of how they should think / act / feel etc. Then when that didn’t really work, I thought that if I just modelled the behaviours I wanted to see in others – if I ‘led by example’ – others might be inspired to follow that example.

But as Eckhart Tolle says, what you fight you strengthen, and what you resist persists. The problem was, that in physically trying to coerce others to change, or even in mentally expecting people to change, I was in fact creating opposition. I spent many years expecting such opposition – at home, at work, in the wider community, in politics.

Then I was reflecting just the other day about how little opposition I have been expecting or experiencing lately. Whereas I once expected my inbox to be full of problems, I now look forward to every new email and its opportunities. Where I once feared resistance and a lack of cooperation from colleagues and family members, I now willingly go with the flow – understanding where others are at, expecting nothing, and appreciating everything. And lo and behold – my world is changing. The people around me are changing. The world is a happier, friendlier, more peaceful place. I experience the cooperation I have always wanted – not because people have listened to me, not because they have copied me, but because they are me.

I am now taking seriously the ancient spiritual teaching that says that everything takes place ‘in here’ – that everyone and everything ‘else’ out there is literally just a projection of my own inner world – and that attending to my own ‘inner work’ is all I have to do. Of course, attending to in here often means taking action ‘out there,’ but that action is now infused (more often anyway) with a greater sense of peace, non-judgement, compassion and acceptance. The world is now a happier, friendlier, and more peaceful place, because I am happier, friendlier, and more peaceful.
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In seeing the many sufferings in the world, and in my own immediate reality, I realise now that I still have a lot of inner work to do – but this is now a cause for hope, for celebration, because I now realise the profound truth in Marianne Williamson’s statement that “you are powerful beyond measure.” In realising your true identity as the cosmos – as infinity – as God – you realise that you literally are the change I wish to see in the world – that truly anything is possible. So what kind of world do you want to see?

​Martin Luther King Jr said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Beautiful words, and scientific truth.

Scientists tell us there is no such thing as dark. That all there is is light. We cannot add ‘dark’ to something but can only take away light. ‘Dark’ then is simply the absence of light.

Scientists tell us there is no such thing as cold. That all there is is heat energy. We cannot add ‘cold’ to something but can only take away heat. ‘Cold’ then is simply the absence of heat.

Heat and light are one and the same thing. All that exists in the material world is a unified field of pure energy that is both heat and light. ‘Dark’ and ‘cold’ are therefore illusion – they do not exist.

Likewise, there is no such thing as fear. All there is is Love. Psychologists tell us that our only two emotions are love and fear. And so ‘fear’ is simply the absence of love.

The unified field of spacetime known as Cosmos – the tiny vibrating strings of pure energy that You Are – we can call heat, we can call light, and we can call love.

Those who describe encounters with Oneness describe the experience of overwhelming and inexplicable, infinite love. Love is your one and only true nature. It is only within our delusion of separation that we experience an absence of this infinite love – the delusion of fear, and its associated feelings and experiences.
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But the truth is that All There Is is Love.  I don’t know if Dr King was a scientist or not, but he was spot on the money. There is nothing we need to do but to love and be loved. In reality, this is all we can do. We have nothing to fear. We have nothing to lose. We cannot die. You Are nothing but Infinite, Eternal, Divine Love. It can be no other way. ​

​Some people have had indescribable mystical experiences – perhaps through meditation, substances, or through random ‘spontaneous awakening’ – when people simply know they are One with All That Is. I have not. But I have experienced the glimpses of Oneness that we have all experienced from time to time – brief moments of complete and utter peace, when there is not a care in the world, where everything is absolutely perfect, when there is a profound sense of belonging.

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop" - Rumi

I used to fear death. I used to fear annihilation, and I used to fear hell. I used to fear God and I used to fear other people. But thanks to the ideas suggested in this blog, not any more (not as much anyway!). 

Who cares if You really are Infinite, Eternal, and God? What does it matter? Even if I can accept that, is it just a mental concept? Can I ever really live and experience its truth? Does it give me a deep underlying sense of peace? Of belonging? Of purpose?

The answer to these latter questions, I believe, is yes - gradually! 

“I  honor the place in you that
is the same in me.
I honour in you where
the entire Universe resides.
 I honor the place in you
of love, of light, of peace and of truth.  
I honor the place in you,
that is the same in me.
There is but one."
​- Ancient Sanskrit, Hindu and Buddhist blessing and greeting.