I had wanted to relate Jennifer’s (a pseudonym) story for quite some time but did not know how I was going to introduce it. Jennifer had the experience of healing her inner turmoil, her relationship with her mother and the anguished souls of her deceased ancestors. It occurred to me that this was an example of holography; so I revived part of a writing I did back in 2004 and am using it as a foreword to Jennifer’s story. I am in the process of transcribing my notes of Jennifer’s session into readable form and will have her story ready sometime next week. In the meantime, I invite you to ponder holography as presented by Rabbi Joel Bakst in this excerpt from KABBALAH, An Introduction to Torah Cosmology and Jewish Mysticism.

“Holography is a method for recording and then reproducing a complete image of a three-dimensional object.  A theoretical technique for reconstructing the entire image of a recorded object was developed by a Hungarian, Dennis Gabor, in 1948, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize.  There is, however, another quality of holography that is even more intriguing than its three dimensional life-like appearance…each individual part of the holographic picture contains the whole picture in condensed form.  The part is in the whole and the whole is in each part; a type of unity-in-diversity and diversity-in-unity…The key point, however, is simply that the part has access to the whole.  With this understanding, the holographic model can help us to understand a classical principle in the Kabbalah (3,300 year-old written and oral tradition) known as Hitkallelut veHitkashrut haOlamot – the interconnection and interpenetration of all existence.”

Here are my ponderings on holography that I wrote over an incident that received world-wide attention back in 2004:

I am a hologram.  I am part of the whole.

Today, I learned a fellow human was beheaded because of hatred and anger; because the perpetrators saw him as separate from themselves.

I ask Spirit, “What can I do to bring about world peace?”  And Spirit tells me, “Heal yourself.”  I respond, “What good does it do to heal myself and be at peace with all this turmoil about me?”  Spirit says, “Heal yourself.  You are part of the whole.  You are a hologram.  Your healing affects others, who are part of the whole, as well.  Heal yourself to see your world healed.  You are part of the whole.”

After I post Jennifer's story, I will be interested in learning if you think it depicts holography, and whether or not you agree that each part has access to the whole and that all existence is interconnected and interpenetrated.