Once Connected, Always Connected: Living in a Holographic Universe

scientist, author, and mystic

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And Heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

— William Blake (1757-1827),

poet and visionary mystic

mystery was alluded to in the experiments of the last section,

one that was never solved. A part of the proof that the Divine Matrix actually exists was offered when two “somethings” that were once joined (two photons, the DNA and the photons, or the donor and his DNA) acted as if they were still connected to one another, even though they were separated by distances ranging from feet to hundreds of miles. The question is: Why?

Is it Real, or is it a Hologram?

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. As a visual person, I know that this is true for me. For example, seeing one demonstration of how to start the engine of my truck is much more meaningful to me than reading all the pages of a manual describing why the pistons move and the spark plugs spark when I turn the key! Once I see the big picture, then I can always go back in order to understand the details, if they’re even still important; sometimes I just want my truck to start.

I suspect that many of us work in this way. Although we find ourselves in the high-tech world of how-to manuals and computer tutorials about why something is the way it is, a direct experience is still the best way to explain a new idea clearly. A powerful example of such an experience is our introduction to the idea of a hologram. Holograms have been used in research since their discovery in the late 1940s.1 Since that time, however, precisely what one is and how it works had little meaning to the average nontechnical person—until the original Star Wars motion picture was released in 1977.

In a pivotal scene early in the film, we see the representative of an entire planet, Princess Leia, pleading for help to save her people. She encodes her message in the form of a digital hologram stored in the memory of R2-D2, the android who captured the hearts and imaginations of audiences throughout the world.

While Princess Leia remains in one part of the universe, R2- D2 carries her holographic image to another world in a galaxy far, far away. The message remained secret until a young warrior, Luke Skywalker, coaxes it from him. In a stunning display of state- of-the-art motion-picture graphics, R2-D2 delivers the Princess’s request by projecting a miniature image of her into the room, as if she were there in person.

Suddenly, her lifelike image appears in midair to make the plea. Because she looks three-dimensional to the movie audience, we're given the feeling that if we were there, we'd be able to reach out and touch her just the way we could the person sitting next to us

in the theater. If we did so, however, our hands would pass through empty air: She’s just a hologram.

For many people in the ’70s, this scene was their first experience of a holographic projection and how real it can appear. It also gave us a surprising glimpse of what our phone calls may look like at some point in the not-so-distant future. Even today, decades later, the mere mention of the word hologram still brings to mind the image of Princess Leia.

For all intents and purposes, a hologram is generally thought of as a picture—a three-dimensional image—that looks lifelike when it’s projected in a particular way or is seen in a certain kind of light. While the film rendition is one example of what the hologram may produce, there’s much more to it than simply a photograph.

The holographic principle may be one of the simplest yet least understood phenomena of nature. At the same time, it could hold the greatest potential for making change on even the largest-possible scales within a time frame that’s dizzying to the mind. To apply this power in our personal lives, however, we must understand precisely what a hologram is and how it works. So, first things first: Just what is a hologram?

UNDERSTANDING THE HOLOGRAM

If you were to ask scientists to explain a hologram, they would probably begin by describing it as a special kind of photograph where the image on the surface suddenly appears three-dimensional when it’s exposed to direct light. The process that creates these images involves a way of using laser light so that the picture becomes distributed over the entire surface of the film. It’s this property of “distributedness” that makes the holographic film so unique.

In this way, every part of the surface contains the entire image just as it was originally seen, only on a smaller scale. In other words, each fragment is a hologram. If the original picture were divided into any number of pieces, each one—no matter how small—would still show a full view of the entire original image.

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within every fragment of itself, no matter how many pieces it’s divided into. This illustration helps convey the idea that no matter how finely we divide the universe—from the four parts shown above to a galaxy, a human, or an atom—each segment mirrors the whole universe, only on a smaller scale.

Just as the direct experience of starting a car’s engine is the most effective way to show how it operates, probably the best method of illustrating how a hologram works is also through an example.

Back in the 1980s, a series of bookmarks appeared on the market (which are now collector’s items) using holographic technology. Each one was made of a shiny strip of silver paper that looked like glossy aluminum foil at first glance. When the paper was held directly under a bright light and tilted back and forth, however, something happened that set these bookmarks apart from more traditional ones: Suddenly, the images in the foil looked as though they’d come to life and were hovering in the air just above the paper itself. As the bookmark was tilted one way, then another, the image remained present, three-dimensional and lifelike. I remember a number of different versions of these: the face of Jesus, the body of Mother Mary, a dolphin jumping over a pyramid, and a rosebud in full bloom.

If you have one of these bookmarks, you can do an experiment to demonstrate for yourself just how a hologram works. A word of caution here: The drawback is that your bookmark will be destroyed in the process! With this in mind, use a sharp pair of scissors to cut your beautiful, shiny bookmark into hundreds of pieces of any shape. Then, take the smallest of the fragments and cut it again into an even tinier piece. If the bookmark is truly a hologram, you'll be able to look at your tiny speck of a bookmark under a magnifying glass and still see the entire image, only on a smaller scale. The reason why is that it exists everywhere throughout the bookmark.

Key 13: In a holographic “something,” every piece of the something mirrors the whole something.

Solving the Mystery of the Twin Photons

So, with a clearer understanding of what a hologram is and how it’s created, let’s revisit the University of Geneva experiment from Chapter 1. To recap: A distance of 14 miles separated twin photons. When one of them was forced to choose between two pathways at the end of its journey, the second photon always made exactly the same choice, as if it “knew” what its twin was doing. The same experiment has been repeated on different occasions, and each time the results are identical. The two particles act as if they’re still connected, even though they’re miles apart.

Conventional wisdom suggests that for this kind of connection to happen, the photons are somehow sending signals to one another. This is where a problem comes in for physicists: For a message to travel between them, it would have to be moving faster than the speed of light. But according to Einstein’s theory of relativity, nothing can travel that quickly.

So is it possible that these particles are violating the laws of physics .. . or are they demonstrating something else to us? Could they be showing us something so foreign to the way we think about our world that we're still trying to force the mystery of what we see into the comfortable familiarity of how we believe energy gets from one place to another?

What if the signal from one photon never traveled to reach the other? Is it possible that we live in a universe where the information between photons, the prayer for our loved ones, or the desire for peace in a place halfway around the world never needs to be transported anywhere to be received?

The answer is yes! This appears to be precisely the kind of universe we live in. Russell Targ, cofounder of the cognitive-sciences program at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, eloquently and beautifully describes this connection: “We live in a nonlocal world where things physically separated from one another can, nonetheless, be in instantaneous communication.”? Targ clarifies what such a connection means, stating, “It’s not that I close my eyes and send a message to a person a thousand miles away, but rather in some sense there is no separation between my consciousness and his consciousness.”? The reason why the signals didn’t have to travel between photons is because they were already there—they never left from anywhere and were never carried to another location in the conventional sense.

By definition, every place in a hologram is a reflection of every other. And a property that exists anywhere within it also exists everywhere else. So in the nonlocal hologram of our universe, the underlying energy that links all things instantly connects them as well. Spiritual teachers generally agree with scientists on this view of reality. As Ervin Laszlo, the founder of systems philosophy, describes, “Life evolves, as does the universe itself, in a ‘sacred dance’ with an underlying field.”

This seems to be precisely what the ancient Avata Saka Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism is describing as the “wonderful net” of energy that connects all things in the cosmos. If the universe is nonlocal and holographic, not only does this net link everything

together, each point within it also reflects all others. The Sutra begins by stating that at one time in the distant past, this net was “hung” so that “it stretches out infinitely in all directions” as the universe itself.

In addition to being the universe, the net contains it and gives it holographic qualities. The ancient Sutra describes an infinite number of jewels throughout the net that serve as cosmic eyes. Thus, all things are visible to all other things. In what may well be the oldest known description of a hologram discovered so far, the Sutra then reveals the power of each jewel to create change throughout the entire net: “Each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring.”® According to the translation of the Sutra I’ve referenced, this net “symbolizes a cosmos in which there is an infinitely repeated interrelationship among all the members of the cosmos.”¢

What a beautiful description of the subtle yet powerful principle that nature uses to survive, grow, and evolve. In a holographic universe, where each piece already has the whole world mirrored on a smaller scale, all things are already everywhere. The holographic principle promises that everything we need to survive and grow is always with us, everywhere, all the time . . . from the simplicity of a single blade of grass to the complexity of our bodies.

As we understand the power of our infinitely connected hologram, it becomes clear that nothing is hidden and there are no secrets—these things are by-products of our sense of separateness. While it may look as though we’re disconnected from one another and the rest of the world, that detachment doesn’t exist on the plane where the hologram originates: within the Divine Matrix. On this level of unity, there really can be no such things as “here” and “there.”

Now we can answer the “why” of the mysteries in our experiments from the first part of this book. When the U.S. Army performed the experiments on the donor and his cells, the DNA acted as if it were still connected to the person having the emotions. Even when the donor and his DNA were separated by distances

of up to 350 miles, the results were the same, and the mystery remained, because our conventional explanations for why DNA would respond to its owner's emotions are invalid.

Most people would assume that some energy was being shared in this experiment. When we think of energy, we typically imagine it being generated in one place and then somehow transmitted or conveyed to another. Just as the image on our TV set or our favorite music on the radio is the result of energy being broadcast from point A to point B, we would expect some kind of force to travel from the donor to his DNA. For a transfer to happen, however, it takes time to get from one location to the next. While this interval might not be much, maybe just a nanosecond, some amount of time must pass for a conventional energy to move from one point to another.

The key in the experiment, however, was that an atomic clock (accurate to one second in one million years) showed that no such time elapsed. The effect was simultaneous because no exchange was necessary. On the quantum level, the donor and the DNA were both part of the same pattern, and the information from either one was already present with the other: They were already connected. The energy from the donor’s emotions never traveled anywhere, because it was already everywhere.

Any change that we wish to see in our world—from healing and safety for our loved ones to peace in the Middle East or any of the 60-plus nations now engaged in armed conflict—doesn’t have to be sent from our hearts and minds to the places where it’s needed. It’s not necessary to “send” anything anywhere. Once our prayers are inside of us, they’re already everywhere.

Key 14: The universally connected hologram of con- sciousness promises that the instant we create our good wishes and prayers, they are already received at their destination.

The implications of this principle are vast and deep. To really know what it means in our lives, however, we need to examine the last piece of how the hologram works: the power to create change within it. If everything is really connected and already everywhere all the time, then what happens when we change something in one part of the hologram? Once again, the answer may surprise you.

A Change Anywhere Means a Change Everywhere

In the movie Contact, there are scenes that flash back to the childhood of the lead character and show the influence that her father had in her life before his sudden death. Offering his support for the ambitious way she approached her goals, he often commented that the great things in his daughter’s future would be accomplished in small steps.

Not only is this great advice for all parents to pass along to their children, it appears to be precisely the way the hologram of consciousness and life works. When we make a little change here and another one there, suddenly everything seems to change. In fact, a small alteration in one place can permanently shift an entire paradigm.

Visionary and philosopher Ervin Laszlo describes the reason why this is so: “All that happens in one place happens also in other places; all that happened at one time happens also at times after that. Nothing is ‘local,’ limited to where and when it is happening.”” As the great spiritual teachers such as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa demonstrated so eloquently, the nonlocal holographic principle is an immense force—a “David” to the “Goliath” of change in the quantum world.

Just as a hologram contains the original image in all of its many parts, any change made to just one of those segments becomes reflected everywhere throughout the pattern. What a powerful relationship! A single change in one place can make a difference everywhere! Perhaps the best example of how little modifications can affect an entire system can be seen in something that we're all familiar with: the DNA of our bodies.

Watching any movie based on modern crime-scene investi- gation, we learn quickly that the identity of the perpetrator can be detected from traces of him or her left at the place where the crime was committed. If the investigators can identify any part of a person’s body or anything that comes from it—from a splatter of blood or a broken strand of hair to stains of semen or even torn fingernails—then they can identify someone. And it makes no difference where in the body the DNA comes from because of the holographic principle—all parts mirror the whole. Each piece of DNA exactly resembles the others (barring mutations).

It’s estimated that the average human has between 50 and 100 trillion cells in his or her body. Each of those cells holds 23 pairs of chromosomes that contain an individual’s DNA (life code). When we do the math, this means that people carry somewhere between 2,300 trillion and 4,600 trillion copies of DNA in their bodies. Just imagine how long it would take to make a change in someone’s DNA if we attempted to update each copy, one cell at a time. But when DNA does modify the blueprint of a species, it doesn’t have to do so in a linear fashion, one strand at time. Because of the holographic principle, when the DNA is altered, that change is reflected throughout the whole.

Key 15: Through the hologram of consciousness, a little change in our lives is mirrored everywhere in our world.

every other part, and change is mirrored throughout the whole. Even if we divide the universe into four smaller fragments, for example, every piece is a mirror of the entire universe. A change in one place (indicated by the lightened section) is reflected in every mirror.

You're probably asking yourself, Why is this important in my life? While this is an obvious question, the answer may be less so. The subtle power of the hologram is that it offers us the leverage to make a tremendous change on a large scale by altering a pattern in only one place. Understanding the holographic principle is important because it appears to describe precisely the way we work. From the DNA of our bodies to the atomic structure of the world around us to how memory and consciousness work, we appear to be holograms of a greater existence that we're only beginning to understand.

Holographic Brains in a Holographic Universe

I remember watching a documentary in the 1970s on the human brain in which surgeons were preparing to relieve pressure deep within the tissue of a man’s brain caused by the trauma of an accident. While he was wide-awake and conscious, portions of his exposed brain were stimulated with electrical probes to see what part of the body those segments were related to. When an electrode was touched to one place, for example, the patient

would “see” a burst of color, and that location would be noted as a visual center.

Aside from the bizarre experience of seeing a living brain exposed to the bright lights of the operating room, what made this particular film so interesting was the way the man’s brain was working. When certain sites were electrically stimulated and produced his experience of seeing color, for example, those places didn’t seem to correspond to the ones that are traditionally associated with vision. It was as if portions of his brain had somehow learned to “see” in a way that we would normally expect to find in another part of the brain.

The revolutionary work of neuroscientist Karl Pribram has also found that cerebral functions are more global than was once postulated. Prior to Pribram’s work, it was believed that our brains work like amazing biological computers that store particular kinds of information in precise places. In this mechanical model of memory, there was a one-to-one correspondence between certain types of memory and the locations where they were stored. The problem was that localized memory wasn’t what was found in laboratory experiments.

In much the same way that the documentary showed places in the man’s brain that “knew” the function of other areas, experiments demonstrated that animals retained memories and continued their lives even though the parts of their brains that were believed to hold these functions were removed. In other words, it appeared that there wasn’t a direct correspondence between the memories and a physical place in the brain. It was obvious that the mechanical view of brains and memory wasn’t the answer— something else strange and wonderful must be happening.

In the early 1970s, Pribram pioneered a powerful new model to explain the evidence from the experiments. He began to think of the brain and memories within it as working like holograms. One of the keys that confirmed Pribram was on the right track was the laboratory validation of the way we mentally process information. He drew upon earlier research to test his hypothesis. In the 1940s, scientist Dennis Gabor used a complex set of equations known as

Fourier transforms (named after their discoverer, Joseph Fourier) to create the first holograms, work for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1971. Pribram guessed that if the brain does in fact work like a hologram, distributing information throughout its soft circuits, then it should process information the same way Fourier’s equations do.

Knowing that the brain’s cells create electrical waves, Pribram was able test the patterns from the circuits using the Fourier transforms. Sure enough, his theory was accurate—the experiments proved that our brains process information in a way that’s equivalent to the equations of a hologram.

Pribram clarified his model of the brain through a simple metaphor of holograms within holograms. In an interview, he stated, “The holograms within the visual system are . . . patch holograms.”® These are smaller portions of a larger image. “The total image is composed much as it is in an insect eye that has hundreds of little lenses instead of one single big lens. . . . You get the total pattern all woven together as a unified piece by the time you experience it.”?

Interestingly, while Pribram and David Bohm (whose ideas were discussed in the Introduction) began their work independently, both were using the same explanation to describe the results of their experiments. They were each applying the holographic model to make sense of life. Bohm, as a quantum physicist, was looking at the universe as a hologram. Pribram, as a neuroscientist, was studying the brain as a holographic processor, with our minds performing holographic processes. When the two theories are combined, what results is nothing less than a paradigm- shattering possibility.

That possibility suggests that we are part of a much greater system of many realities, within realities, within other realities. In this system, our world could be considered a shadow or a projection of events that are happening in a deeper, underlying reality. What we see as our universe is really us—our individual and collective minds—transforming the possibilities of the deeper realms into physical reality. This radically new way of viewing ourselves and the

universe gives nothing less than direct access to every possibility that we could ever wish (or pray) for, dream, or imagine.

In his studies, Pribram offers a reason for precisely such possibilities. Through the holographic model of the brain interacting with the universe, he says that the functioning of our brain allows for experiences that transcend time and space. Within the context of this holographic model, all things become possible. The key to experiencing the power of these potential outcomes is that we must think of ourselves in this new way. And when we do, something wonderful begins to happen: We’re changed.

It’s impossible for us to “kind of” or “sort of” see ourselves as empowered beings in a universe of possibilities—we either do or we don’t. And that’s precisely the focus of this book. We can think of ourselves differently only when we have a reason to do so. The concept of the Divine Matrix as a universally connected hologram promises us that we’re limited only by our beliefs.

As the ancient spiritual traditions suggest, the invisible walls of our deepest beliefs can become our greatest prison. Yet they also remind us that it’s our beliefs that can become our greatest source of freedom. As different as the world’s wisdom traditions may be from one another, they all bring us to the same conclusion: The opportunity to be imprisoned or free is ours, and we're the only ones who can make the choice.

The Power of a Mustard Seed

The pioneering work of Karl Pribram and the studies by other researchers who have followed show that our brains function as holographic information processors. If this is true for us as individuals, then it makes sense that our collective mind and consciousness may work this way as well. Today more than six billion humans (and minds) inhabit the planet. Within the container of the Divine Matrix, each individual’s mind is part of a larger single awareness.

Regardless of how different they may appear from one another, every mind contains the pattern of the whole consciousness. And through that link, we each have direct access to the entire pattern. In other words, we all have the power to change the hologram of our world. While for some people this is an unconventional way to think about who we are, for others it’s perfectly aligned with their beliefs and experiences.

Scientific studies support these principles and have found that when people within a group share a common experience of consciousness, the effects can be detected beyond the group itself and even outside the building where the individuals are meeting. Clearly, inner experiences are being carried through some subtle conduit in a way that’s not restricted by the so-called laws of physics or limited to the immediate surroundings. One example of this phenomenon is evident in the effect that Transcendental Meditation (TM) can have upon large populations.

In 1972, 24 cities in the U.S. with populations over 10,000 experienced meaningful changes in their communities when as few as one percent (100 people) participated in the studies. Those involved used specific meditation techniques to create the inner experiences of peace that were mirrored in the world around them. This is called the “Maharishi Effect” in honor of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who stated that when one percent of a population practiced the methods of meditation that he offered, there would be a reduction in violence and crime for that population.

These and similar studies led to a landmark project, ‘International Peace Project in the Middle East,” published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution in 1988.'° During the Israeli- Lebanese war of the early 1980s, practitioners were trained in precise techniques of TM to create peace in their bodies, rather than simply thinking about it in their minds or praying for it to occur.

On specific days of the month, at specific times each day, these people were positioned within the war-torn areas of the Middle East. During the window of time that they were at peace, terrorist

incidents, crimes against people, emergency-room Visits, and traffic accidents all declined in number. When the participants stopped their practice, the statistics reversed. These studies confirmed the earlier findings: When a small percentage of the population achieved peace within themselves, that peace was reflected in the world around them.

The results took into account the days of the week, holidays, and even lunar cycles; and they were so consistent that the researchers were able to identify the minimum number of people needed to experience inner peace before it’s mirrored in the surrounding world: the square root of one percent of the population. This represents only the base number required for the effect to begin— the more people participate, the more pronounced the outcome. While we may not fully understand all the reasons why the effects are present, the correlations and results demonstrate that they are there. We can apply this principle in our lives for any group of people, regardless of whether it’s a small community, a church congregation, a large city, or the entire planet. To determine how many people are needed to work together for peace and healing in that group, the formula suggests the following:

1. Determine the total number of people present.

2. Calculate one percent of that total number (multiply the total from step 1 by .01).

3. Calculate the square root of the one percent (enter the number from step 2, and press the V function on your calculator).

This formula produces numbers that are smaller than we might expect. For example, in a city of a million people, the total is about 100. In a world of 6 billion people, it’s only about 8,000. And this calculation represents only the minimum needed to begin the process. The more people are involved, the faster the effect is created.

While these and similar studies obviously deserve more exploration, they show there’s an effect that’s beyond chance.

Key 16: The minimum number of people required to “jump-start” a change in consciousness is the ¥1% of a population.

Perhaps this is the reason why so many wisdom traditions emphasize the importance of each individual to the whole. In one of the best-known parables of the power of belief, Jesus used the holographic principle to illustrate how just a little faith is all that’s required to open the door to a greater possibility. “In truth,” he said, “if your faith is the size of a mustard seed you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move; nothing will be impossible for you.”"! We'll explore the implications of just what this means in the following section. Before we do, however, a brief clarification of what’s meant by “faith” is appropriate here.

The word faith itself can sometimes carry a bit of an emotional charge, as it’s often associated with a belief that has no apparent foundation or basis to support it. We commonly hear this referred to as “blind faith.” My sense is that there really is no such thing as absolutely blind faith. Somewhere deep inside of us, all our beliefs come from the feeling of a deeper connection between the things that “are” and the things that can be. While we may not always be conscious of this or be able to state why we think that something is so, our beliefs are true for us. And that truth is the foundation of faith.

There is a kind of faith, however, that’s actually based in a very solid foundation of leading-edge science, supported by the discoveries of quantum physics. In Chapter 3, we briefly discussed the possible reasons why the physical world is changed by simply observing it. All of the explanations that followed acknowledged the coexistence of many realities within a cosmic

soup of possibilities. As the experiments showed, it’s the act of our watching something—that is, conscious observation—that locks one of those possibilities into place as our reality. In other words, the expectation or belief that we have while we’re observing is the ingredient in the soup that “chooses” which possibility becomes our “real” experience.

With this in mind, the faith in Jesus’s statement is more than simply saying the words to represent that the mountain has moved. In a parable that’s nearly 2,000 years old, we’re taught a powerful language with which to choose reality from the infinite possibilities that already exist. As Neville states so clearly in his description of faith, through the act of “persisting in the assumption that your desire is already fulfilled . . . your world inevitably conforms to your assumption.””? In the example of the mountain, when we truly know that it’s already moved, our faith/belief/assumption that it’s happened is the energy that jolts that possibility into our reality. In the quantum realm of all possibilities, the mountain has no choice—it must move.

The following example illustrates just how simple and natural this kind of faith and belief can be. It also opens the door to countless possibilities for how a small shift in our viewpoint can create a huge difference in our world.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to witness the biological equivalent of “moving the mountain.” In this case, the “mountain” was a life-threatening tumor inside the bladder of a middle-aged woman. Western doctors had diagnosed the mass as malignant and believed that it was inoperable. In the makeshift classroom of our hotel ballroom, the group I was part of was shown a film created by our instructor when he had been present for the miraculous healing of the growth in a hospital without medicine in Beijing, China.*

The clinic was one of the many in the region that routinely use nontraditional methods of treatment with tremendous success. After exchanging greetings and the formalities of introductions, we were prepared for what we were about to see. The instructor emphasized that the purpose of the film was to show us that the

power to heal is something that lives within each of us. It was not an advertisement for the clinic or an invitation for everyone with a life-threatening condition to make a mad dash to Beijing. What we were about to witness could be accomplished right there in our classroom or at home in our living rooms. The key to healing, he said, is the ability to focus emotion and energy in our bodies or that of a loved one (with the person’s permission) in a noninvasive and compassionate way.

The woman in the film had come to the clinic without medicine as a last resort because all else had failed. The facility emphasizes personal responsibility in our health and provides new and life- affirming ways of living, rather than simply “fixing” people and sending them home. These protocols include new eating habits, gentle forms of movement to stimulate the life force (chi) within the body, and novel methods of breathing. By following these simple changes in lifestyle, the client’s body is strengthened for the healing that’s possible. Following these procedures, at some point it makes sense for clinic patients to undergo the treatment that was recorded on the video.

As the handheld film began, we could see the woman with the tumor lying on what appeared to be a hospital gurney. She was awake, fully conscious, and had been given no sedative or anesthetic. Three practitioners in white lab coats stood behind her while an ultrasound technician was seated in front of her, holding the wand that would be used to create a sonogram to view the mass inside of her body. We were told that the image wouldn't be time-lapsed in the way that nature programs show the days-long process of a rosebud opening condensed into seconds. Our film would be in real time so that we could see the true effect of the practitioners’ healing.

The film was short, lasting less than four minutes. Within that time span, we all saw something that’s considered a miracle by the standards of Western medicine. Yet within the holographic context of the Divine Matrix, it’s something that makes perfect sense. The practitioners had agreed upon a word that would reinforce for them a special quality of feeling inside their bodies. Reminding

us of Neville’s instruction to “make your future dream a present fact . . . by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled,” the practitioners’ emotion was simply one of the woman already healed. Although they knew that the tumor had existed in the moments leading up to the process, they also acknowledged that its presence was only one possibility out of the many that exist. On that day, they enacted the code that calls for another possibility. And they did so in the language that the Matrix recognizes and responds to—that of human emotion directing energy (see Chapter 3).

Watching the practitioners, we heard them repeat the words of a mantra of sorts, which loosely translates into the English words “already done, already done.” At first it seemed that nothing was happening. Suddenly, the tumor began to quiver in and out of view, as if it were teetering between realities. The room was absolutely silent as we watched the screen in awe. Within seconds, it faded and then completely vanished from the screen . . . it was gone. Everything else was there, just as it had been seconds before—everything, that is, except the tumor that had threatened the woman’s life. The room looked the same. The practitioners and the technician were present, and nothing “spooky” seemed to have happened anywhere else; just the condition that had previously endangered the woman’s life had disappeared.

I remember thinking of the ancient admonition that with a little faith, mountains could be moved. I also recall pondering that before that moment, I'd always believed that the moving of mountains was a metaphor—now IJ knew that it was a literal fact. Using the formula of the square root of one percent, the population of the clinic had proven that consciousness can directly affect our reality.

There were a total of six people in the room while the healing happened (three practitioners, the technician, the camera operator, and the woman with the condition). Applying the formula, the square root of one percent of that room’s population was only .244 of a person! With the requirement of less than one person’s belief in the absolute knowing that the healing had already happened,

the physical reality of the woman’s body changed.

Although the number in this case was small, the formula still held true. As noted before, that total is the minimum needed to jump-start a new reality. In all probability, 100 percent of the people in the room experienced the feeling of her healing, and it took two minutes and 40 seconds for her body to mirror their reality.

With permission, I have since shown this film to many audiences—including medical personnel—throughout the world. The reactions vary and are predictable. Once the healing happens, there’s generally a brief silence as the viewers register in their hearts and minds what they’ve just seen with their eyes. The silence gives way to sighs of joy, laughter, and even applause. For some people, watching the film is a confirmation of what they already believe to be true. Even faith is bolstered by the validation of really seeing something that’s possible.

For others who are more skeptical, the question is typically: “If this is real, why don’t we know about this?” My answer is: “Now you do!” “How long does the healing effect last?” is the next query. The studies have shown a 95 percent success rate after five years for clients who continue the life-affirming changes in nutrition, breath, and movement learned in the clinic.

After a gasp coming from somewhere between the desire to believe and frustration that so many people couldn’t be helped by modern techniques, I usually hear something along the lines of: “This is too simple . . . it just can’t be that easy!”

My response is: “Why would we expect anything less?” In the holographic world of the Divine Matrix, all things are possible, and we choose our possibilities.

Believing that we are “here” and the possibilities are “out there,” however, sometimes gives us the feeling that they’re inaccessible. The same rules that describe how the Divine Matrix works also tell us that in the deeper reality, what we typically think of as “somewhere else” is really already “here,” and vice versa. It’s all about the way we see ourselves in the field of possibilities.

Knowing that everything from the most horrible suffering to the most joyous ecstasy—and all possibilities in between—already exist, we find that it makes perfect sense that we have the power to collapse the intervening space and bring those possibilities into our lives. And we do . . . through the silent language of imagination, dreams, and belief.