The Holographic Universe, God, the monkey and the fire hose, and living in small houses

In fact, I’ve never read The Holographic Universe, but as pointed out by Ryan G. it does begin to sound a lot like spirituality ala Gurjieff, Buddha, Watts, and Fuller.

The point of the theory is that our material reality is all an illusion. The proof of this is that nano particles are able to communicate instantly with one another regardless of distance in space or time. This is the heart of most spiritual teachings as far as I am concerned. Even from a pragmatic point of view, none of this is real if you are dead, right? What happens to your BMW when you die? Where was your home before you existed? Life is an illusion. I happen to think it’s a pretty good one, but I do believe it is something unreal.

Personally, I have a hard time thinking that life is pointless, just an accident. This is why I am not an athiest. To me athiests have to have more faith than anyone else. Watch a child or a sunset or a time lapse picture of a flower being born. Look at the atomic structure of anything. Fall in love. Is this an accident of chemicals? Even if it is, what is the genesis of those chemicals? Science itslef says that something cannot come from nothing…so there is something.

What or who is it? I don’t know. I don’t think anyone can know in this reality, this world, this plane of existance. It is why I’m not a Muslim, Christian, or Jew. It’s why I don’t listen to people that tell me that they have the answer. I prefer the philosophies that point towards it without knowing. Strip Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and other philsophical faiths of the added on trappings and you find they all really point to the same thing. We can’t know.Here is the first picture that comes up if you google an image of God:

But I choose to believe. There is something. A controlling intelligence, a cosmic soup, a collective I that the universe consists of. And in doing a little research on the Holographic Universe I like this sentence best:

In a holographic universe there are no limits to the extent to which we can alter the fabric of reality.

I believe that. I’m no muggle. It’s why a monkey can escape from an inescapable enclosure using a garden hose. I can tell you for sure that the feeling that monkey had was one most people never get to savor. Liberation.

Maybe someone just imagined The Gas Men into being. They pay you to pump your gas. Or maybe you would rather get hit by lightning, survive and then win the lottery. It happened to 16-year-old BreAnna Helsel. The Michigan teen survived being struck by lightning and went on to win $20 in the lottery the next day. Coincidence is more than you think it is. Your subconscious soul is somewhere other than you think it is too.

In this world, you can decide to go to China with no money to buy a ticket and then win $1000 on the same slot machine two seperate times. I did it. Really. It’s how I went to China. You can read about it in 20 Weeks a Bum and Asia Tales of a Bum. Whatever you can dream you can do. Why does science fiction precede real science? It’s simply because the scientists haven’t begun to dream about the possiblities yet.

Like imagine John McCain debating himself…actually you can watch this one already.

Or imagine stepping back in time to see a ruined cathedral fully restored.
. Another man’s dream becomes a reality. I will admit that religious people have an edge because they have a focus for change. It must be lonely to believe in nothing but your accidental self.

If you dream it you can do it. Just like Oklahoma which has declared itself sovereign of the U.S. Federal government.

Declare yourself sovereign I say. One way to do that is to start getting rid of your stuff. I’ve been working on it for a while and am still paring down my possessions at usdebooks.com. Other folks have gone even further and are calling it The 100 Thing Challenge! Can you live with just 100 things? I can tell you that while I don’t have much, I still have at least 100 things, probably several hundred.

Less stuff means you need less space, it means you can live more and work less. The Small House Society is a group of people dedicated to the idea. It’s healthier too!

On the subject of work, I’m enjoying the Nature Tour Job. Took a full vanload of people out this morning and showed them things that grow wild they can eat, shared the history of the Hawaiian Islands, and in the process sewed a few seeds towards the revolution of consciousness that is to come.

Six days into my fast. I feel good, but I may end it at a week. I am bored with not eating. I love to cook, I love to taste delicious things, and the mangos are almost ripe. So I give myself permission to end with 7 days.