Implicate Practice of Resonant Tuning

Background: David Boeme

David Boeme made one of the most startling assertions of modern physics when he declared that the tangible reality of our everyday lives is really a kind of an illusion, like a holographic image. Underlying it is a deeper order of existence, a vast and more primary level of reality that gives birth to all the objects and appearances of our physical world in much the same way that a piece of holographic film gives birth to a hologram. Boeme calls this deeper level of reality the implicate (which means “enfolded”) order, and he refers to our own level of existence as the explicate, or unfolded, order.

The term hologram usually refers to an image which is static and doesn’t convey the dynamic and ever-active nature of the incalculable enfoldings and unfoldings that moment-by-moment create our universe.

Boeme prefers to describe the universe not as a hologram but as “holomovement.” (I prefer the term “holoverse,” or, even better, I prefer to discriminate between a “static hologram” and a “dynamic hologram” as in the reality we experience in every conscious moment.) The existence of a deeper and holographically organised order also explains why reality becomes nonlocal at the subquantum level.

As we have seen, when something is organised holographically, all semblance of location breaks down. Saying that every part of a piece of holographic film contains all the information possessed by the whole is really just another way of saying that the information is distributed nonlocally.

Hence, if the universe is organised according to holographic principles, it, too, would be expected to have nonlocal properties.

In the mid-twentieth century Einstein astounded the world when he said that space and time are not separate entities, but are smoothly linked and part of a larger whole he called the space-time continuum.

Boeme has taken this claim a giant step further. He says that everything in the universe is part of a continuum.

Despite the apparent separateness of things at the explicate level, everything is a seamless extension of everything else, and ultimately even the implicate and explicate orders blend into each other.

Boeme cautions that this does not mean the universe is a giant undifferentiated mass. Things can be part of an undivided whole and still possess their own unique qualities. However, he cautions us to be constantly aware that dividing various aspects of the holomovement into “things” is always an abstraction, a way of making those aspects stand out in our perception by our way of thinking.

In attempts to correct this, instead of calling different aspects of the holomovement “things,” he prefers to call them “relatively independent subtotalities.”

Importantly, Boeme holds that it makes no sense to differentiate between matter and consciousness, since he views consciousness as being but a more subtle form of matter. As he puts it “The ability of form to be active is the most characteristic feature of mind, and we have something that is mindlike already with the electron.”

Similarly, Boeme believes that dividing the universe up into living and nonliving things also has no meaning, since animate and inanimate matter are inseparably interwoven, and life, too, is enfolded throughout the totality of the universe..... Just as every portion of the hologram contains the image of the whole, every portion of the universe enfolds the whole. Every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos. So does every leaf, every raindrop, and every dust mote, which gives new meaning to William Blake’s transcendent lines:

“To see the world in a grain of sand, and Heaven in a wild flower,

To hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour.”

Credit to Michael Talbot, TheHolographic Universe

Edited by Mas Rogers