Listening to Your Secret Self: The ‘Daemon’ Spirit Who Guides Our Lives

The word ‘ecstatic’ is from the Greek ekstasis and means ‘standing outside oneself

The laws of physics tell us that the very building blocks of what we see as solid matter are, in fact, insubstantial points of energy. These are aggregated together by the act of observation into an indistinct holographic image – analogous to a three-dimensional holographic picture before it is illuminated by laser light. In this case, the illumina

I argue that ‘reality’ is exactly how Bohm and Pribram suggest that it is. It is a huge hologram. However, where I differ from them is I that I believe that the hologram is internally generated by the brain itself. It is not ‘out there’ at all. Reality is, in a very real sense, an illusion. My Bohmian IMAX is a technological Maya – the Advaita Veda

The implications of this Bohm–Pribram holographic theory of reality are simply staggering; the universe is a vast hologram that is processed by an observer’s brain which is, in itself, a hologram that contains the whole universe! Is this what the non-scientific, but profoundly perceptive, philosopher Broad was trying to explain when he made the fol

In 1966 Pribram proposed that the brain might interpret information in a similar way to the process by which a hologram records an image. He suggested that the fine fibres in the nerve cells digitize incoming information and store the data in this format. The brain then decodes these stored memory traces in the way a hologram decodes, or more accur

Bohm’s solution was simple and logical. We have been wrongly interpreting the nature of matter and the universe itself. The message never travelled across space and time at all because both these constructs are an illusion brought about by the brain. In fact the two particles were really one particle all the time and as such they both ‘knew’ what w

The implication here is that the human brain actively filters external sensory stimulation and presents to consciousness a watered-down version of reality. The French psychologist Henri Bergson was convinced that the brain’s function was eliminative and not productive.

Under normal circumstances the Daemon exists in isolation within the non-dominant hemisphere (usually the right). As the major speech centres of the brain are located in the dominant (usually left) hemisphere the Daemon simply cannot access the mechanisms that will allow it any form of verbal communication with the outside world.

For most people the Daemon can only communicate via images or hunches. The images are shown in dreams and the hunches are those ill-defined sensations that suggest that one course of action is a good or a bad thing.