So what if we live in a hologram?

  So what if some very well-respected physicists (like Dr. Susskind) are saying we live in a hologram? What difference does it make in our daily lives? Or better asked, what difference should it make in our daily lives?

  Well, in my mind, one of the most important changes we need to make in our beliefs and our behavior is to stop trying to change the experiences we encounter. Think about it… we spend a lot of time and energy working very hard to not experience something—or at least to change what we are experiencing—mainly because we don’t like what’s happening to us at the moment. Perhaps it makes us feel bad, or sad, or uncomfortable, or any number of other “negative” emotions and feelings, and we’d be SOOO much happier if it wasn’t happening to us that way, and we felt good and happy and all warm and fuzzy inside all the time instead.

  So, when we don’t, we resist what’s happening to us and try to change it.

  The problem is, if we live in a hologram, that’s simply not possible. I’m not going to go into the mechanics of why it’s not possible in this post. I’ve written fairly detailed expnations in two of my books (Butterflies are Free to Fly: A new and radical approach to spiritual evolution, and The Truman Show: It’s True, Man!) that you can read on your own.

  But I will try to summarize in just a couple sentences….

  To create a hologram (and everything that’s in it and goes on inside it), there has to be someone or something outside the hologram choosing the frequencies needed for that creation. Someone or something inside the hologram is not in the position to, and has no power to make those choices, and no ability to change those choices either.

  In our case, if the universe we see around us is a hologram, which we are part of, something or someone that is not us has chosen the frequencies to create us and each and every experience we have (Pto called it a “demiurge”). It’s very much like pying poker – you have no choice and no control over the cards you are dealt—ever.

  But here’s the good news—you have total free will and power to choose how you py that poker hand. And there have been many examples of good poker pyers winning a hand with lousy cards. Doyle Brunson was perhaps one of the most famous and most successful poker pyers, and he won two World Series of Poker national championships after being dealt one of the worst hands in poker – a 10 and a 2).

  Stories also abound of people who were diagnosed with terminal cancer who decided to change their attitude and reaction and either “cured” their cancer into remission or thoroughly enjoyed what time they had left and said the cancer was the “best thing that happened to me.”

  It seems to have something to do with resistance. I was taught that “what you resist, persists.” But if you can find a way to let go of that resistance and stop trying to change your condition—instead changing your reaction or response to your condition—it can make all the difference in the world.