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Summary: another reader
Review: I agree with some of the distaff comments here. This book proves that if you give people a light they will follow it anywhere. In this case, the hologram is strutted across the stage as a governing principle of the universe. It explains everything and therefore explains nothing. One seems to forget that paradigms are a dirty word in science. They block inquiry, prejudice experience and bind the intuition into a straight jacket of facile panaceas. For those who wish to feed their occult conceits with poorly substantiated scientific half-trues then this book is for you. If your mind seeks knowledge through skepticism and open inquiry, then pass this one over.
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Summary: many unjustified statements
Review: Pls do not take my words too seriously, as I am only half way through the book NOW. However, the more I read the more I find it more like a fiction book. Talbot does include references of almost all facts, but the way he rationalize them to be holographic in form is dubious and often unjustified at all. So I am put it aside now. I might continue when I am too free.
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Summary: DON'T FORGET YOUR PARACHUTE
Review: Talbot opens up some fascinating doors to understanding the duality aspect of man's physical nature. Man as both a separate solid person and a "wave person" connected to all the rest of the waves in the universe. This is consistent with the dual nature quantum theory of the subatomic particles: electrons, protons and photons out of which man appears to be composed. After introducing us to the holographic model formulated by Bohm and Pribram, Talbot then proceeds to take the reader on a whirlwind tour of every abnormal event listed in the Britannica.Talbot started down the runway on solid ground for 100 pages and then left planet earth for a more dreamy flight into an array of meandering minds. We are given glimpses of aura peepers, clairvoyants, distant viewers, ESP, LSD trippers, materializations, multiple personality disorders (MPD), near death experience (NDE), out of body floaters (OBE), phantom limb sensations, psychokinesis (PKE), stigmata, psychic channelers, psychic healers, precognitive dreamers, reincarnations, remote viewers, schizophrenics, shamans, religious hallucinators, and and then whisked far into the Swedenborg stratosphere of biblical interpretation. Obviously there was no height the author would not reach for to escape the boring tranquility of 90% of mankind. However to fit all of this into one holographic model takes some stretching. Talk about someone who got caught up in the material, Talbot closes the dramatic script with the suggestions that scientists become participatory in their studies instead of mere observers - take the LSD, take the Out of Body trips, sign up for the Near Death Experiences and line up for a UFO abduction. What would any of this prove except the power of mass hypnosis and the silly putty nature of one's dreams. Illustrating that when the mind reaches a dead end, escape into fantasy waits patiently. Author a prodigious note taker (700 notes in 300 pages) and name user. Hundreds of names got their 15 seconds of fame here. What started out as reasonable survey of the efforts of Bohm and Pribram (a neat, compact metaphor of the hologram as organizing model of man's perceptions) steadily, chapter by chapter, leaped into the skies of speculation. Certainly a mind expanding read but bring along a parachute.
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Summary: Life changing...
Review: To put it bluntly, reading this book changed my life. In addition to answering so many of the questions I had, it changed how I look at the world.
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Summary: Absolutely fascinating, credible and well-written. A must!
Review: If you don't want your big questions answered don't read this book. A resonant, vibrant account of what I feel may become the dominant scientific paradigm of the next billion years. Not for the complacent or the fossilized; be careful what you understand, it might change your life....
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Summary: one of the most eye-opening books of our time
Review: This book is an explanation of how i always veiwed the universe and mind but could never form into understandable idea's. Michale Talbot does a more than excelent job. I have walked away from this book a changed person, more open-minded to the realities around me, and more omnijective to the universe i live with. one thing we should understand is that this is not the only posible answer but should be integrated into your understanding or beliefs. I recomend this book to anyone asking the question "What is reality?"
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Summary: Among the perfect compile but neglected one critical point
Review: If you imply the human being have transmigrations, and strongly expressed all creatures can not exist indivitually. That probably the "transmigrations" should not be limited by mankind to mankind. It oughts to include mankinds to animals or animals to mankinds. Eliminate the frameworks of belief, I'm really yearning for your further research containing these subjects that mentioned above. I'm fervently waiting for your results or any new writings about it. Your sincerely ,
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Summary: This book changed my view of the world
Review: I have read this book 5 times over the years and I feel that it is one of the 3 most influential books I have EVER read....and I can't think of what the other 2 would be. My view of my life and how I live in it is forever changed for the better. I resonated with what Michael Talbot has written.
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Summary: How dare they put this book in the physics section!!!!!
Review: This book belongs in the New Age section. I recommend that you read ONLY chapter 1 of this book, entitled "The Brain as Hologram." It is intriguing. Then stop reading, and put the book away. The rest is not worth your time. Talbot goes way off into some kind of New Age death spiral. I thought he was recounting every single paranormal event in the history of the world. Basically I'll summarize the rest of the book for you: 1) Paranormal events are part of the implicate (what that is, he doesn't explain), as opposed to the explicate (our visible univse.); 2) Everything that exists in the universe is "part of a seamless whole." Talbot does not write objectively, and adds his own personal recounts which is simply irrelevant. Most of this book is irrelevant; his analogies are flawed.
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Summary: The one book I recommend above all others!
Review: For the last few years I've pursued many avenues of metaphysical study. The funny thing is, whenever someone asks me to recommend a book(s) concerning one of those avenues, I always start by recommending the Holographic Universe first. The "Holographic Universe" theory is perhaps the most exciting concept to ever come from the arena of quantum physics. What's even more amazing is that Michael Talbot has managed to turn this theory into an "easy read." If your only going to read one metaphysical book in your life, make this the one.
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