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grew up with it. So did Ingo Swann. I didn't start out with this preting frequencies that are ultimately projections from another ability. I didn't want this ability. A gunshot wound made this dimension, a deeper order of existence that is beyond time and happen." space. The brain is a hologram enfolded in a holographic uni- And what can keep the conduits closed down? verse.” "There is a physiological remedy to this," says Morehouse. "It's Talbot's book is an invaluable introduction to the paradigm. called Haldol or Loxitane. We have lots of mental strait-jackets. This model also shows the interconnectedness of the so-called Then you walk around in a cloud and you don't know your own _ physical and metaphysical worlds, how various non-physical phe- name, but you don't have a dissociative disorder. And you don't nomena and states of consciousness, mystical states of awareness, step into the ether unwillingly. out-of-body experiences and near-death experiences can co-exist "I think there are a lot of people who are diagnosed schizo- and interact with one another. phrenic who essentially have conduits open into the unconscious. Even prophecy or forecasting the future can be described using They have data flowing at random without their having any input. this model, vis-d-vis Puthoff's and Targ's precognitive remote- Outwardly they hear voices. They're tapping into another dimen- viewing experiments; in other words, "a view of the future as a sion. God only knows." hologram that is substantive enough for us to perceive it but mal- So how do hallucinogenic drugs relate to this phenomenon? leable enough to be susceptible to change". Ingo Swann speaks of After all, taking drugs has been described as "taking heaven by the future as "crystallising possibilities". force". Relating to Morehouse's description of accessing the fourth "Chemical inducement of an altered state dimension through remote viewing, the late is, in my opinion, simply the chemical open- Itzhak Bentov, author of Stalking the Wild ing of conduits," says Morehouse. "The Pendulum, described the relationship problem is that you never learn to do it on between normal versus expanded states of your own. You never learn anything from it . consciousness as a constant "on-off" process because you never have any control while "| don't disag ree in which time spent in our "solid" reality, as it's happening. You don't have the ability to . opposed to other realities, is like fine-tuning master it. You're just on a joy ride. I think that there Isa dark the frequency dial of consciousness. the mechanics are the same, though, and you . . . just go on the magical mystery tour." side to this, but In the OTHER MODELS FOR i i i EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION THE HOLOGRAPHIC MODEL OF REALITY coming millennium Morehouse's description of remote view- New models of reality have to be intro- we are eventually ing also correlates to the Sanskrit term sid - duced in order to correlate the evidence . . dhis, or powers, which include clairaudience, going to be in gathered by remote viewing and other clairvoyance, even precipitation of mat- Seer watenave fy Somewhat dire straits. MMH icy shes, Cuan as " We are going to be Spirit"—spiritual gifts given by the confronted with very difficult choices." science theoretician Bruce Cathie, "...a rough analogy of physical existence grace of God. "Yes, I don't disagree," he says. "It's can be made by reference to a strip of a gift, but by the same token I think motion picture film. Each frame or static picture on the film strip may be there must be a reason why we're not born with it." ikened to a single pulse of physical Some Christians disagree with his existence. The division between one frame and the next represents a frame advocacy of teaching remote-viewing techniques. "Their position is that I'm of anti-matter. When viewed as a com- lete strip, each frame would be seen teaching the black arts, and we should- n't be doing this type of thing," says as a Static picture—say, one at either end of the strip—then the past and the Morehouse. "I don't disagree that there future could be viewed simultaneously. is a dark side to this, but in the coming millennium we are eventu- "However, when the film is fed through a projector, we obtain ally going to be in somewhat dire straits. We are going to be con- the illusion of motion and the passage of time. The divisions fronted with very difficult choices. If you knew that people with tween the static pictures are not detected by our senses because you are good people, would you not want them to be counted as of the frequency or speed of each projection on the movie screen. warriors who serve God with you? Would you not want them to But by speeding up or slowing down the projector, we can alter be armed with these powers?" the apparent time rate of the action shown by the film..." So do other so-called extrasensory powers like clairvoyance or In the 1970s, a radically new theory of consciousness was pro- telepathy come with this ability for remote viewing? osed by Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram and University Morehouse replies that "...what happens is that these are all of London physicist David Bohm, a former protégé of Einstein words which describe the perceptions of individuals who have and a world-renowned quantum physicist. Briefly stated, they conduits open. The hardest thing is for the conscious mind to came to the conclusion that the universe itself may be structured develop this ability. It's a learned or practised thing to interpret like a hologram—a kind of image or construct created at least in the data presented to it by the unconscious mind. As the uncon- art by the human mind. scious mind travels backwards and forwards on the time-space As described in Michael Talbot's book, The Holographic continuum, it throws back raw data without analysis. It wants to Universe, they considered another way of looking at the world: develop a dialogue, but the dialogue development has to come "Our brains mathematically construct objective reality by inter- from the conscious mind. We have to consciously interpret, not "| don't disagree that there is a dark We are going to be confronted with very difficult choices." NEXUS - 39 we are eventually AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1997