The quotes below are excerpts from an editorial that T. Lee Baumann, M.D. published in the Journal for Near-Death Studies about a year ago.  I have always found the nature of light fascinating.  It's great to hear from someone who can communicate advanced physics in terms that anyone can relate to.  



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Light’s Omnipresence, Omniscience and Omnipotence …Imagine if you will that, at 1000 B.C., a photon emerged from Star A.  Visualize now, some 3000 years have elapsed in our human recognition of time, no time at all has transpired for the photon.  Theoretically, it is conceivable for that photon to traverse the entire universe in zero time.  Not only that, but the photon can do it repeatedly!  In this manner, the photon can be literally everywhere in the universe at once.  This is not scientific theory; it is proven fact.      Oddly, a direct ramification of light’s omnipresence is the attribute of omniscience or absolute knowledge.  Consider that any entity that exists everywhere in the universe at the same time – and for which time does not exist – has immediate access to everything that has ever happened in the past, everything that is happening now, and everything that will happen in the future.  Hence the photon is all knowing.      …Finally the third and last “omni”, omnipotence, is illustrated by the controversial mathematical technique known as renormalization, employed routinely by physicists, which implies that the energy of the photon is infinite (Gribbon, 1984 “In search of Schrodinger’s cat: The startling world of quantum physics explained.”). …The controversy over this technique arises from the fact that not all physicists are satisfied with the method, some referring to it as a mathematical “trick” or “sleight of hand.”  The necessity for this technique, however, leads some to deduce that light, similar to descriptions of God, is infinite in power or omnipotent.  Others merely deduce that any entity that can exist everywhere in the universe at once, and for which time stops, must possess infinite energy. Light’s Consciousness …The double-slit and related series of experiments were attributing behavior to the photon that physicists were even describing as “conscious” (Zukav 1979 “The dancing wu li masters: An overview of the new physics”).  In this puzzling series of experiments, light waves anticipated modifications in the experimental setup before they reached them and altered their behavior accordingly.  The related experiment that most clearly and simply displays this trait is the quantum eraser experiment.  In layperson’s terms, in the unmodified experiment, a photon enters an experimental set-up and scientists observe the photon’s course of action.  However, in the same experiment but with a modified final stage, the photon alters its course of action before reaching the last stage, and then passes through the modified final stage.      You could not reasonably argue that the photons were reacting in response to the experimental changes because they had not yet reached that juncture of the experiment.  The only plausible explanation, however, lies in the realization that time does not exist for rays of light.  The photons actually did reach the changes in the experimental set-up, but then did something remarkable.  The photons then traveled back in time, and then they altered their course of action.  To the human observer, we perceived this as the photons divining the experimental changes in advance, and then reacting to them midway through the experiment! Einstein …if one closely examines Einstein’s E = mc2 equation, it is logical to see that m , which is pure mass or matter, is a transmutation of E which is pure energy or light.  With this equation, it becomes easier to visualize the Eastern religious philosophy that God really is everything.

Brian Greene came out with a new book on recent findings by string theorists called, "The Fabric of the Cosmos".  In the conclusion he states that string theorists are hypothesizing now that the cosmos may in fact be a holographic projection.  Who or what is projecting it they don't know. I suspect that light has something to do with it.

I know that Robert Monroe talks about the universe being a holographic projection.  And I've read some posts on this conversation board referring to this phenomena.  It's just nice to see scientists and physicists coming to the same conclusions that the metaphysical philosphers and afterlife explorers have come to.
Rick

For those not familiar with the double-slit experiment, click on the link to view a great trailer from the movie "What The Bleep Do We Know!?"  It explains what the experiment was about.

http://www.whatthebleep.com/trailer/

Great post Mediastreamer! I had wondered in an earlier post that I had started about the concept of E=MC2, and what ramifications that could have on behalf of the Source (i.e. God.). I deduced that if energy is equal to/the same as mass * the speed of light squared, then what that really says is that once any mass/all masses reach(es) the speed of light squared, it is at that very point that they become pure energy. God is pure energy... God is thereby the sum total of everything, being expressed as everything. (God=MC2). Hence, when people pass on they experience traveling at a tremendous speed... Some have even been quoted as saying that they felt as though they had traveled far faster than the speed of light squared. Although I'm not quite sure how one could reasonably deduce this... for the speed of light squared is not something that is experienced on a daily basis. So, to me it seems as though it would be hard to say that you had traveled faster than this. However, I believe that some have been telepathically communicated to that light DOES in fact travel faster than the speed of light squared.

Curious...

PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions

CA - the speed of light is a barrier in the time/space dimension in which we exist physically.  Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  When we experience travel in other dimensions that barrier doesn't seem to exist.  At  least from my limited experience.  Sometimes when I talk about my experience I say, "it felt as though I was traveling faster than the speed of light".  You can look at it another way.  If this universe is an illusion or a holographic projection then traveling at any speed is an illusion.  Hence you are not really traveling anywhere at all but only changing your vibrational level.  In this view traveling at the speed of light would equal vibrating at the level of pure energy.  Many astral travelers talk about raising their vibrational levels so they can move around freely in non-physical dimensions.   Does this help?

Mactek - thanks for the link.  That's a very good animation.

Rick

Thanks Mactek, that does make a lot of sense. The idea of not really traveling anywhere at all but rather changing one's vibrational level resonates well with me. Thanks for sharing your clarity. It's appreciated. Also, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind sharing your "experience" with me (and others) with regards to your adventures into the light; what elicited these adventures; how it affected you afterwards; what it was like...

If you've already written this experience somewhere else please re-route me!

Thanks again,

PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions

CA - I think your post was directed to me.  If you go to the 5th page of the Bruce Moen book club thread I refer to the most profound experince I had of traveling at or faster than "c".  Alysia (Chuckles) seems to have traveled  farther than me.  Though, we may have to wait for her book to hear her unabriged version of it.

I would like to hear from anyone who has any experience viewing this time/space universe as a holographic projection.  In Robert Monroe's "Ultimate Journey" he briefly mentions seeing a holographic projection of the universe coming from the "emmitter", has anyone else had a similar experience?