for thousands of years now humans have directed their awareness towards better understanding the
nature of human consciousness observations regarding the nature of consciousness have
been written in the bhagavad-gita to ancient greek texts and we're still exploring what it
means to this day where we now not only explore consciousness philosophically
but also scientifically neuroscientists examine the different structures of the brain their
connectivity and brain waves in an attempt to better understand consciousness and pinpoint
pinpointed source and they've made some amazing discoveries on how the brain works which has
advanced our understanding of human consciousness fundamentally though is it possible for the
scientific method to ever succeed in this task it's important to ask that question because modern
science now is largely a reductionist dissecting process that has lost sight of the wholeness and
connectedness of everything and that isn't how science used to be done natural philosophers
across time like pythagoras leonardo da vinci and david bohm first attempted to understand the
universe as it is holistically and then apply the observations they made as to how things operate
to their scientific work a key hallmark of consciousness is as a force that's greater than
the sum of its parts and by its very nature it can't be dissected and analyzed into understanding
perhaps the missing piece that takes our understanding of consciousness to the next level
isn't some new structure found inside the brain but rather it's found in
energy fields that surround all of us and this is the holographic theory of consciousness
hi i'm your host Stefan and today we're going to explore what the holographic
theory of consciousness is the evidence for it and why i think it's currently the best
framework we have for understanding the nature of human consciousness
the holographic theory of consciousness is based on the idea of the holographic universe
it's very simple at its core it's the idea that all the information of the universe is contained
in every point within the universe now this may seem a wild suggestion to the uninitiated
but there is a lot of evidence that points to this being the true nature of reality consider
the physics of electromagnetic waves carried by photons electromagnetic waves store information
in their wave characteristics and they travel at the speed of light in a vacuum some sources
of electromagnetic energy like a light bulb or a radio station emit their waves in all directions
whereas other sources of electromagnetic energy like a laser beam it very specifically in one
direction the light from a light bulb is an example of non-coherent energy all the photons
being emitted travel in their own direction like the individual people in a large crowd
whereas the light of a laser is very coherent all the photons are in phase and march together like
soldiers all electromagnetic energy regardless of how is emitted becomes part of the local and
universal interference pattern an interference pattern is created when two or more waves interact
together exactly like how multiple ripples on a pond create unique and interesting patterns
if space-time is the surface of the pond then the ripples are electromagnetic and gravity waves
a curious phenomenon about interference patterns is that they contain all the information from
every wave across the whole pond within each subsection the reason for this is because energy
can neither be created nor destroyed so while an electromagnetic wave can become incredibly weak
it still contains within its waveform all the information that it had when it was stronger with
enough sampling and a sensitive enough instrument the information contained in any electromagnetic
wave can still be observed even if stacked on top of numerous other waves in an interference pattern
the reason the physics of electromagnetism is important in our understanding of consciousness is
because the brain is a bioelectrical organ in fact the entire human body has evolved to interact with
electromagnetic energies electromagnetic waves alter dna expression cellular voltage gradients
brain waves and the entire bioelectrical flow of the nervous system one of the reasons the human
body evolved this way is because electromagnetic waves have an infinite information storage
capacity the brain is our primary information processing organ and we see in it at the cellular
scale the equipment such as magnetosomes and neurons that are needed to interact
with electromagnetic energies the human brain even creates its own electromagnetic waves these brain
waves existing in the zero to forty plus hertz range clearly we're bioelectrical to our core
if holographic theory is correct and all the electromagnetic information of the whole universe
is contained in every part of it via interference patterns then the function of the brain becomes
simpler to understand under the holographic theory of consciousness the brain isn't responsible for
all cognition memories emotions and everything by itself instead it's more of a transmitter and
receiver that simultaneously writes to and reads information from the electromagnetic interference
pattern that surrounds us at all times evidence that the brain functions this way comes from the
fact that people who suffer devastating brain injuries first off often don't die and second
their cognitive function isn't as altered as you may think would occur a famous example of
this phenomenon is that of phineas gage a railroad foreman who in 1848 experienced a crazy workplace
accident where an iron rod blasted through his skull destroying much of his left frontal lobe
after the accident phineas gage was remarkably up walking and talking within just minutes though he
later had medical difficulties following this massive brain damage his personality changed
remarkably but over the remaining 12 years of his life his normal personality began to return
and it's said that around the time of his death he was relatively himself again this story and there
are many others like it nicely illustrates the remarkable plasticity of the brain and how even
if parts are removed or destroyed function can still be maintained to a relatively normal degree
in the holographic theory of consciousness our consciousness is contained in the information
field all around us and isn't stored 100 locally in the brain or the body
in the case of phineas gage his brain damage affected his ability to connect to his
consciousness field but as he healed his brain reorganize itself in order to fully reconnect
with our consciousness a part of the universal electromagnetic field
is strongest near the tether of your body but it also exists across the entire universe that is a
profound concept and it really demonstrates the interconnectedness of everything and everyone
let's listen to the late theoretical physicist david bowm to better help us understand this
another view would be to say that the brain may have opened to the
whole universe in some way not merely through the senses but in some other way
you see that that's a thing you could explore right some people the brain might be a tuning
device or yes an antenna it might contain something like an antenna which picks up is able
to pick it up and unfold it right so as the radio does you'll see the radio the wave comes through
the room and very very weak and it goes through the antenna and the whole radio set picks it up
and make and unfolds it into an image let's say like the television then you have to have the
particular set in order to pick up the particular wave yeah well or else the set must be also
not only the right structure but also not occupied with too many other things right
now if it's holding one program it can't hold another
what david boehm shines a light on here is that your brain is not only capable of receiving the
standard experience of consciousness but that can also be tuned to the more
subtle layers of your consciousness and all of reality again david bowm
so earlier you're suggesting that our brain and our consciousness is affected by
everything in the universe and so this means in some way that our consciousness must be in contact
with the rest of the universe well that may be you see we haven't proved it some people
feel it it's quite from the point of view of my suggestion of the implicated order it's quite
possible you see that we have a contact with the universe which is deeper than the senses you see
as we have a certain contact with the senses which also involves the implicated order and
then it may be a deeper contact which we are ignoring now because the ordinary content
is filling the brain you see there was a case of say these remember these computer
viruses recently talked about now they spread the activity on to all the computers now what
they do is they occupy the computer so thoroughly it can't respond to what people the keyboard right
so the the point is that if our brain is occupied with all sorts of ordinary things then it will
not respond to this other level right i make that suggestion now therefore our ordinary way
of life would be against being sensitive to that so how can we cultivate this greater sensitivity
to the more subtle layers of consciousness in reality it's a simple equation of signal to noise
since electromagnetic waves from the whole universe around us at various magnitudes
connecting and receiving information from a specific source say a person or the Schumann
resonances is as simple as tuning your brain and biofield to the same frequency and then matching
its sensitivity for example the electromagnetic waves that the heart generates have a nanotesla
strength if you want to empathetically and emotionally connect to others when in close
contact with them your biofields must each be in coherence with each other and not in disorder
if you do this you can experience deep emotional connections with others in a way that perhaps
you've never experienced before if you want to connect to the earth's naturally produced energy
fields known as the Schumann resonances which exist at the same frequencies and
picotesla strengths as human brainwaves then your brainwave activity must be of the right
frequency and incoherence there are multiple ways to increase your bioelectrical sensitivity and the
most effective practices i've found to help with this are meditation grounding yoga and breath work
the holographic theory of consciousness is the best and simplest explanation of consciousness
that i've discovered yet and i hope this video has helped you not only understand the nature
of consciousness better but it has also helped you better understand yourself what are your thoughts
on the holographic theory of consciousness does this resonate with you what experiences have you
had personally that fall in line with what it claims i would like to hear your thoughts so
please share them in the comments below relevant research papers books and interviews are linked in
the video description and there you'll also find my comprehensive ebook Schumann resonances & human
bioelectricity which is either available for pre-order or purchase depending on when you
watch this in the next video we discuss why some people feel subtle energies while others don't
and i'll share with you five signs that you may be bioelectrically sensitive you can also check
out my playlist here on Schumann resonances and subtle energies to learn more about this topic
i've been your host Stefan thanks so much for watching and i'll see you in the next video