The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation
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The Cosmic Hologram: In-formation at the Center of Creation

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Review “Illuminating and inspiring, The Cosmic Hologram’s cogent articulation of quantum mechanics and its integration in cellular biology is a must-read for all those working to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.” (Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., bestselling author of The Biology of Belief)“Teeming with the latest discoveries in frontier science, this bold and original ‘theory of everything’ argues persuasively that our universe operates as a giant, enfolded information system. Savor Jude Currivan’s rich blend of a book, which reconciles these theories with ancient ideas, and prepare to have your mind, your preconceptions, and all received wisdom forever blown away!” (Lynne Mctaggart, bestselling author of The Field, and The Intention Experiment)“The emerging scientific revolution in addressing the mind-body question and the deeper nature of reality is fuelled by some of the most profound revelations from the leading edge of scientific investigations, much of which is discussed in Jude Currivan’s thoughtful and insightful book The Cosmic Hologram . Jude’s formal training in physics combined with her transcendental spiritual experiences beginning at an early age set the stage for a fascinating tour of the fundamental underpinnings of reality.” (Eben Alexander, M.D., neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven)“ The Cosmic Hologram is a wonderfully important and very wise book. . . . the issues Jude Currivan, Ph.D., addresses will determine our fate as a viable species. . . . no one can consider herself an educated, responsible citizen in the twenty-first century who is not knowledgeable about these vital concerns. Written in elegant, clear, empathic prose, The Cosmic Hologram belongs at the top of your stack. (Larry Dossey, M.D., physician, lecturer, and author of 11 books)“A stimulating and deeply inspiring view of the cosmos, consciousness, and the role of human perceptions in shaping what we call ‘reality.’ In the end, an offering of hope that during this Consciousness Revolution we can mold that reality into a compassionate and regenerative future.” (John Perkins, author and cofounder of the Pachamama Alliance) The Cosmic Hologram is as elegant in its vision of a hologramatic universe as it is profound in its assertion that humanity is an integral part of it. We are the universe. Jude Currivan has thus pointed to the future by giving scientific description and credibility to the most ancient awareness of our species, that we are inside and not separate from all that is, that we are in fact shaping life even as it shapes us. This book is the new story for a planetary civilization.” (Jim Garrison, Ph.D., president of Ubiquity University)“We highly recommend this timely, leading-edge book as it brings together consciousness with scientifically based evidence in a way we can all understand to explain the ‘revolution of consciousness’ now taking place!” (J. J. Hurtak, Ph.D., and Desiree Hurtak, Ph.D., founders of The Academy for Future Science)“Jude Currivan, Ph.D., lucidly develops the exciting and revolutionary insight and provides the transformational evidence that we live within a universe that is a high resolution, dynamically regenerated hologram. The Cosmic Hologram masterfully brings together extensive scientific knowledge, spiritual insight, and embodied wisdom in a seminal book of sweeping exploration and discovery.” (Duane Elgin, author of The Living Universe and Voluntary Simplicity)“A compelling tour de force of interdisciplinary scientific scholarship . . . a revolutionary mind expanding and soul restorative plunge through the rabbit hole . . . a must-read for anyone even vaguely attuned to the importance of evolutionary human spiritualization--highly recommended!” (Oscar Miro-Quesada, founder of The Heart of the Healer (THOTH))“This brilliant book will, I believe, serve as a major catalyst to the most profound evolutionary moment facing humanity today--the recognition of who we truly are. . . . If you are questioning your place and purpose in the Cosmos, The Cosmic Hologram will lead you to your true identity.” (Diane Williams, founder of The Source of Synergy Foundation)“Based on her extensive knowledge of quantum physics, cosmology and the many and latest discoveries about the evolution of our Universe as well as the emergent understanding of the pervasive unity and wholeness of an all-encompassing mind, Jude Currivan comes in her very impressive and important book The Cosmic Hologram to the inevitable conclusion that the physical world is literally the expression of informational processes: both space and time are emergent phenomena of the informational cosmic hologram. Our Universe is innately coherent and non-locally unified, where everything is interconnected and informational in nature. The perspective about the cosmic hologram and the fundamental nature of reality helps us to better comprehend the unity of consciousness in the universe. This transformational insight is supported by the frequently reported experiences of cosmic awareness, where one is able to access accurate and verifiable information at nonlocal levels. Highly recommended.” (Pim van Lommel, cardiologist, author of Consciousness beyond Life)“The Cosmic Hologram provides an eraser for the fundamental misperception (and root cause of suffering), the experience of ‘me’ and ‘not me’. By allowing the profound insights it conveys to penetrate deep within you, watch what happens to your experience and delight in what unfolds.” (Mark Atkinson MBBS, self-leadership teacher and author of True Happiness)“The Cosmic Hologram is a ground-breaking book that reveals a perspective on life that invites us into a fundamentally new way of looking at our world. There is no doubt that this is a book to heal ourselves and our world.” (Peter Merry, Chief Innovation Officer for Ubiquity University) About the Author Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK. She has traveled extensively, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions, and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality. She is the author of 6 books, including The Cosmic Hologram , and is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders circle.Ervin Laszlo is a philosopher and systems scientist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has published more than 75 books and over 400 articles and research papers. The subject of the one-hour PBS special Life of a Modern-Day Genius , Laszlo is the founder and president of the international think tank the Club of Budapest and of the prestigious Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research. The winner of the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize, he lives in Tuscany. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 11 Who Makes Our Perfect Universe? An in-formed universe requires an in-former . . . Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder what makes the Universe exist. Be curious. --Stephen Hawking, physicist Real-izing Neuroscientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists are coming to recognize that we don’t perceive a direct representation of “external” reality but, instead, our senses and brains operate as a translation and integration service to our innate consciousness. What we think, feel, and believe, whether it’s “true” or not, significantly affects our notions of what’s real. The old adage “seeing is believing,” is being turned on its head as studies are progressively discovering that we literally “see” what we believe. Numerous experiments have shown that we see what we expect to see. Psychologists have demonstrated that when our attention is distracted we miss otherwise obvious events and co-create the realities we perceive--traits often expertly manipulated by mentalists such as the UK’s Derren Brown. A well-known (and jaw-dropping) example is the phenomenon of “change blindness,” an experiment on which was carried out by psychologists Daniel Simons and Daniel Levin in 1998. Such reality myopia occurs when our attention is diverted. Researchers have concluded that change blindness is due to a lack of informational attention before and after the distraction. The brain fills in the gaps and concludes that no change has occurred, even when it actually has. Simons and Levin’s research was conducted at Cornell University where experimenters held a campus map and asked passers-by for directions. After around fifteen seconds into a person’s directions, two further experimenters, together carrying a door, walked in between the conversation. As they were moving on, the initial experimenter who’d been asking the way switched places with the one carrying the back of the door, who then took the place in receiving help from the passers-by. When the passers-by completed their directions, the experimenter explained that a psychological study of how people pay attention was being undertaken. Asking whether the passers-by had noticed anything unusual when the two people carrying the door went by, if the response was no, the experimenter then asked whether the passers-by had realized that they weren’t speaking with the same person who’d initially approached them and was previously being given assistance. Over half the passers-by failed to notice that the person they had been speaking with had changed to another stranger in the middle of their conversation! Scientists over the last couple of decades have also tested how what we think and believe actually alters our physiology. For Eastern practitioners of mind-based traditions, such abilities have always been self-evident, but in recent years Western scientists have studied and increasingly corroborated such claims. In 2002, the Harvard Gazette reported a series of experiments beginning in the 1980s, and directed by Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical School, that investigated the Tibetan Buddhism meditative practice of tum-mo . Not only were the monks involved in the experiments able to demonstrate a conscious ability to reduce their metabolism by up to sixty-four percent but also to significantly raise their body temperatures. Translated as “inner fire,” tum-mo’s visualization and focusing technique has been used for many centuries as a rite of passage to prove a monk’s aptitude by being able to survive and thrive in the inhospitably low temperatures of their homeland. Adepts are even able to produce sufficient inner heat to cope with a night-long meditation in the freezing cold, sitting naked on the snow. Due to the spiritual practices homed over millennia, Hindu yogis are also now being subjected to scientific investigation of their renowned powers to control bodily pain through the power of thought. In 2004 a team of researchers, with lead author Erik Peper of the San Francisco State University, reported their study of a yoga master able to pierce his tongue and neck with skewers while suffering neither pain nor bleeding. Experimental measures showed that a coherently high level of alpha brain-waves, associated with deep yet alert relaxation, revealed his ability to consciously reduce the electrical activity in his skin, thus reducing pain response and blood flow. (1) BEYOND THE BRAIN Real-izing that everything we call physical reality is the expression of the in-formational intelligence of cosmic mind completely reframes the question of human and, indeed, all consciousness and cognizance. Hitherto, the view of most neuroscientists has been that our consciousness somehow arises from the brain as a localized phenomenon. Just as a turbine generates energy, so the view goes our brain generates consciousness, somehow. That final “somehow” is crucial. While neuroscience has managed to map neural networks in the brain, identifying which areas light up during certain mental processes and progressively noting their holographic nature, there remains no mechanism for the integration of neuronal activities with the immaterial perception of self-awareness. Based on numerous experimental data on the nonlocality of our consciousness, an alternative has been to view the brain instead as a computer: a receiver and transmitter of nonlocal information However, with increasing discoveries and the emerging understanding of the cosmic hologram, the computer-brain-mind metaphor is also coming to be seen as too limited in its perspective. Not only does it fail to account for the inter-dimensional communications reported extensively by transpersonal experiencers, but still more fundamentally, it implicitly suggests a duality between the physical world and consciousness. Instead, the paradigm-shifting view of the cosmic hologram, whose perception recognizes the actual immateriality of the physical realm and the ultimate unity of consciousness, is offering a new view of the brain and its purpose.By identifying the brain as playing an important role in the in-formational organization of the embodied awareness of human beings, it redefines each of us as a unique and microcosmic individuation of the intelligence of the cosmic hologram of our Universe: literal co-creators of reality.Given too that, as we’ve seen, the cosmic hologram of our universal experience is inherently nonlocally and holographically connected, our consciousness too is so nonlocally infused. --This text refers to the paperback edition. From the Author Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK. She has traveled extensively, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions, and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality. She is the author of 6 books, including The Cosmic Hologram , and is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders circle. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Read more

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  • How holographic patterns of information underlie our physical reality• 2017 Nautilus Silver Award• Includes myriad evidence from a wide range of cutting-edge scientific discoveries showing our Universe is an interconnected hologram of information• Explains how consciousness is a major component of the cosmic hologram of information, making us both manifestations and co-creators of our reality• Reconciles Quantum Mechanics and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity by showing that energy-matter and space-time are complementary expressions of informationOur understanding of the Universe is about to transform at all levels, from the tiniest Planck scale to the vast reaches of space. Recent scientific discoveries show that the information that upholds all of our modern technologies is exactly the same as the universal in-formation that underpins, pervades, and is all we call physical reality.Exploring how information is more fundamental than energy, matter, space, or time, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., examines the latest research across many fields of study and many scales of existence to show how our Universe is in-formed and holographically manifested. She explains how the fractal in-formational patterns that guide behavior at the atomic level also guide the structure of galactic clusters in space. She demonstrates how the in-formational relationships that underlie earthquakes are the same as those that play out during human conflicts. She shows how cities grow in the same in-formational ways that galaxies evolve and how the dynamic in-formational forms that pervade ecosystems are identical to the informational structures of the Internet and our social behaviors. Demonstrating how information is physically real, the author explores how consciousness connects us to the many interconnected layers of universal in-formation, making us both manifestations and co-creators of the cosmic hologram of reality. She explains how Quantum Mechanics and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can at last be reconciled if we consider energy-matter and space-time as complementary expressions of information, and she explores how the cosmic hologram underlies the true origin of species and our own evolution.Concurring too with ancient spiritual wisdom, the author offers solid evidence that consciousness is not something we “have” but the fundamental nature of what we and the entire Universe are. With this understanding, we can each transform our own lives and help co-create and in-form the world around us.

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Some conceptual issues about 'In-formation' that will confuse readers

Currivan's book starts off by giving a fairly broad overview of physics before moving on to suggest that the modern science of physics, information theory and fractal (chaos) theory are pointing toward a discovery that our universe is basically one giant cosmic mind that exists beyond space and time. Currivan clearly knows her physics theory and research and she boldly attempts to give us a taste of 20th and 21st century physics without going into too much depth on what can become some fairly dense and tough ideas. For those of us who know little or no physics it may be hard to really understand much of what Currivan is talking about, but hopefully it will encourage many people to find out more. The central claim to Currivan's book is that we can understand the universe as being described by information or as she calls it "in-formation." Perhaps it is useful to note a couple of things about Currivan's use of the notion of information/in-formation because many people (including me) may find it hard to understand what this catch-all term "information" is really getting at when it is being used in the book. Currivan says there are "two laws" of information: one is that 'information is conserved.' Here Currivan equates information with energy, so that the physical law of the 'conservation of energy' equates with a conservation of information. The 'conservation of information' is used in modern physics in the context of 'Holographic String Theory.' Currivan seems to be undoubtable referencing the term as used from the String Theory, but she does not make this clear. The 'conservation of information' as used in Holographic String Theory is the idea that the current state of any physical system has evolved deterministically over time and that theoretically (if not practically) we can trace back how the physical system deterministically evolved, since no information is ever lost. Scientists do not agree whether Quantum Systems or the quantum evolution of states can be traced back as the measurement of a quantum system destroys, or appears to destroy - depending on the interpretation of quantum mechanics - most of the states of a unitarily evolving quantum system. Unfortunately, these critical aspects for understanding the ideas behind the notion of the 'conservation of information' are not fleshed out by Currivan, which is a shame since the issue of consciousness and 'the observer' often comes up as a philosophical issue when discussing quantum measurements. The second law of information that is noted by Currivan, is the thermodynamic law of entropy, which she defines as the non-conservation of energy and enables, according to Currivan, the universe to increase in complexity which ultimately leads to the evolution of consciousness and self-awareness in the universe. Based on what I understand about physics and the notion of thermodynamic entropy I find these so-called 'two laws' deeply confusing. The conservation of energy entails that energy may be converted into another type of energy, but the universe will never gain or lose energy. Energy may go from highly negentropic (ordered) states to highly entropic (disordered) states, but we always have the same amount of energy. Contrary, to the view of "the second law of information" outlined in the book, increases in thermodynamic entropy do not increase complexity, but instead, signify reductions in complexity. Perhaps the confusion lies in the fact that there is a second notion of Entropy that comes from Shanon Information Theory. In information theory, this entropy specifies the number of possible states a system can take, therefore a system with more informational entropy or many potential states can be seen as being more complex. In the holographic theory, noted in this book, thermodynamic and Shanon entropy are taken as being equivalent, but I think we should be careful of conflating the two notions of entropy when we talk of 'information' in terms of our everyday notions of 'information,' especially if we wish to relate this kind of information to conscious experience. Philosophers often talk of 'semantic information,' a notion of information that generally fits in with what we ordinarily think of when we hear the term 'information.' if someone tells me that my friend is walking their pet dog in the park, I can be said to gain 'semantic information.' Philosophers often note that there are major gaps between our understanding of the relationship between Shanon and Semantic information and the book does nothing to fill that gap. Unfortunately, Currivan's lose definition of information or 'in-formation' may only confuse our understanding of the relationship between semantic and physical information. The degree to which Shanon and Semantic information are related, we can say that when we gain information, Shanon Entropy is reduced. This is because Shanon entropy is a measure of our uncertainty about states of a physical system. Interestingly, such physical information translated into semantic information or knowledge, is not always conserved, but can be destroyed or lost, and when it is lost, it takes the form of an increase in thermodynamic entropy or disorder. This destruction or erasure of information can be expressed by 'Landauer's principle' which Currivan mentions briefly in the book. The point is that relationships between concepts such as Shanon information and entropy and thermodynamic entropy and semantic information or consciousness may be vague and/or complicated. Toward the end of the book, Currivan is dismissive of the so-called 'hard problem' of consciousness: the question of how physical processes like those going on in the brain can realise human consciousness. For Currivan the mind/matter duality is a false dichotomy as both mind and matter are made of 'information.' Yet, mind deals with semantic information and physical information, as in informational entropy, does not deal with the content of information (its meaning) only how information, as physical bits is stored, sent, received and retrieved. The book ends by looking at parapsychological research (e.g. precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance etc.) and contends that such phenomena point to a 'cosmic' mind that exists beyond space and time. This, of course, is an ancient idea from mystical/occult philosophy that is now being re-expressed in terms of contemporary physical science. I am sympathetic to this idea. Hopefully, the conceptual difficulties involving information as a physical notion can one day be unified to information as it relates to conscious experience. The book notes some recent scientific attempts in this direction, such as the 'Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness' developed by Guilio Tononi. However, for the reasons already noted above, I feel current theories such as the Integrated Information theory, are no closer to closing the 'information' gap between the physical world of 'information bits' and consciousness.
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Hard to read

The subject, the Cosmos, is fascinating, but it was very difficult for me to follow, way over my head. It was worth reading, but would not recommend for anyone not a physics major.
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Started out with a bang

Really wanted to like this. The first third was good. By that I mean coherent. By the last third it was just throwing all of the new age gobbledy gook at the wall to see what would stick. incoherent, in that ideas were no longer developed and argued. Oh, and be nice to everyone.
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A Cosmic Mind Expansion

One of the most well written mind expanding books I have ever read. Covering various fields of science, and taking on philosophies hardest questions, The Cosmic Hologram informs you of the informational foundation of our Uni-verse in one beautiful song of a book.
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TEDx level

JC is TEDx level. Nothing breakthrough here. If you want to stretch you mind find out about 'Andrew Gallimore’.
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Loved the book very

Cosmic Hologram, Loved the book very intersting