Michael Talbot

We are perceivers.  We are an awareness;  we are not objects;  we have no solidity.  We are boundless.  The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient.

the remembered image of a thing can have as much impact on the senses as the thing itself.  It can also have a powerful effect on the body's physiology, a state of affairs that has been experienced firsthand by anyone who has ever felt their heart race after imagining hugging a loved one.  Or anyone who has ever felt their palms grow sweaty after conjuring up the memory of some unusually frightening experience.  At first glance the fact that the body cannot always distinguish between an imagined event and a real one seems strange, but when one takes the holographic model into account-a model that asserts that all experiences, whether real or imagined, are reduced to the same common language of holographically organized wave forms-the situation becomes less puzzling.  Or as Achterberg puts it, "When images are regarded in the holographic manner, their omnipotent influence on physical function logically follows.  The image, the behavior, and the physiological concomitants are a unified aspect of the same phenomenon".

At the  subquantum level, the level in which the quantum potential operated, location ceased to exist.  All points in space became equal to all other points in space, and it was meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. 

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist. They don't use their brains and they have forgotten the secret knowledge of their bodies, their senses, or their dreams.  They don't use the knowledge that the spirit has put into every one of them; they are not even aware of this, and so they stumble along blindly on the road to nowhere - a paved highway that theythemselves bulldoze and make smooth so that they can get faster to the big empty hole which they find at the end, waiting to swallow them up. It is a quick comfortable superhighway, but I know where it leads to. I've seen it.  I've been there in my vision and it makes me shudder to think about it.

- The Lakota Shaman Lame Deer
Lame Deer Seeker of Visions

As a 62 year old businessman who had a near death experience during a cardiac arrest puts it - "One thing I learned was that we are all part  of one big, living universe. If we think we can hurt another person or another living thing without hurting ourselves we are sadly mistaken. I look at a forest or a flower or a bird now, and say ' That is me, part of me'. We are connected with all things and if we send love along those connections, then we are happy."