The Nature of Existence

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This paper takes a look as the questions and unknowns surrounding our nature of existence. The paper discusses how magic, religion and physical science have played a role in humanity's attempt to find the answers to the nature of our existence. The paper focuses on quantum physics and how it attempts to provide for a spiritual dimension using the holographic paradigm. The paper discusses this paradigm in detail.

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Introduction
The Holographic Paradigm

From the Paper:

"Everything in the Universe is part of a vast dynamic continuum that Dr. Bohm (1987) calls the holomovement. Nothing is separate from anything else and all is the same substance: "One enormous something that has extended its uncountable arms and appendages into all the apparent objects, atoms, restless oceans, and twinkling stars in the cosmos" (Talbot, 1991, p. 48). The varied patterns or elements of the Universe are constantly shifting, flowing in and out of perception, enfolded and enfolding, unfolded and unfolding. The part of the Universe that is enfolded and which we cannot perceive, Bohm calls the Implicate Order. That aspect which is unfolded so that we are aware of it is called the Explicate Order. The Implicate Order is infinitely greater than the Explicate. Constant enfolding and unfolding is a dynamic process, creating the Universe moment by moment."

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