Why do I keep doing this?

May 05, 2026

Sometimes when I sit down at my computer to write another Substack post, I think, “Why do I keep doing this? Why do I keep trying to tell people about our Holographic Universe, when not that many people seem interested?

And the answers come almost immediately….. “Because it’s my excitement and brings me a lot of pleasure,” and “Because there isn’t anybody else saying these things, and they need to be said,” and—and this one is the loudest— “Because a lot of people are unhappy with the way their lives are going and it might be because they’re using a faulty premise to make their decisions and choices in life—a premise that doesn’t work in a holographic universe.”

I know what a difference it has made in my life in terms of happiness, peace of mind, and satisfaction with my life as it is. That is, when I changed my very basic premise about the world we live in, a lot of the outcomes changed as well.

I should be very specific…. Like the rest of the world, I used to believe that we live in a fixed, solid, objective reality that was “out there,” independent of my consciousness. After a lot of research and persistence in seeking answers, I concluded—mainly from the plethora of circumstantial evidence—that we live in a holographic universe instead. And that meant that I also had to change a lot of beliefs that influence my decisions and choices about how I want to react and respond to the experiences I encounter.

In fact, that was one of the first beliefs I needed to look at more carefully: Do I create the experiences I encounter, or is there someone or something else involved? And as a result of my research into holograms, I found out that the things that happen inside a hologram are chosen by someone or something outside the hologram. That is, if our holographic universe works the same way the other holograms we know about work, someone or something outside the hologram with access to the 2-dimensional information encoded on the surface of the 3-dimensional hologram has to choose specific frequencies for the information “they” want to project into a 3-dimensional hologram.

Now, that automatically brings up a lot of other questions, like how did the 2-dimensional information for our holographic universe get encoded on the surface of our 3-dimensional hologram? Does our universe even have a “surface”? And who or what is the “someone or something” that chooses the specific frequencies to be projected? And what criteria do they use to make those choices?

Unfortunately, right now at least some of those answers belong to a different field than physics, like theology or philosophy or even metaphysics. And we actually don’t need those answers to know that we should change our beliefs to better align with what we do know, which is that since we are part of our holographic universe, we are inside the hologram and do not—cannot—create the experiences we encounter as we go through life, having no access to the information encoded in 2 dimensions. It’s simply not possible.

So, anyone who is making their decisions and choices in life based on a belief that they “create their own reality”—as the New Age puts it—is going to be sadly disappointed when that faulty premise doesn’t produce the results they wanted (which is why the New-Age Secret and the “Law of Attraction” never worked as promised.)

And here’s one of the things that keeps me writing….. almost everyone I know spends a lot of time and energy (and often money!) trying to change an experience they find themselves in but don’t want to be having, for one reason or another. What a waste of time, energy and money! Since we do not have the ability to create our experiences, we also don’t have the ability to control or change those experiences either. Life is a lot better, and easier, when we stop resisting the experiences we have and focus instead on how we’re choosing to react or respond to them—which we have total free will to change at any time.

I have written about two examples of people diagnosed with terminal cancer who decided to stop thinking about it as a disaster, or trying to figure out why this had happened to them, and ended up saying that the cancer was the best thing that ever happened. There are probably hundreds of stories about people whose lives were a lot happier when they stopped trying to control or change the experience they were having and went with a premise more in line with the holographic principle.

The problem is that as long as we continue to use a faulty premise of a fixed, solid, objective reality, we should not expect anything different than the flawed outcomes we can see all around us and in our own lives. So, I will continue to write about our holographic universe—even though not that many people seem to be interested—so that when someone really needs this information, it will be available.

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In this essay, I only touched on 2 of the most obvious (and perhaps most important) beliefs that I see a lot of people continuing to hold on to, that are not compatible with living in a holographic universe. I don’t blame them for continuing to believe, because that’s what they were taught by the experts, by their teachers and parents, by their pastors, by the New Age Gurus (oh, how wrong they are!) and now by some AIs, who have apparently not been trained on the latest in physics research or need experiential evidence as much as the experts do before making a definitive statement.

But it has been undeniably clear since 1974 that we do not live in a fixed, solid, objective reality. That’s the date when the Double Slit Experiment was performed with a single electron at a time, ruling out any other explanation than “wave-particle duality.” It is also not clear yet, at least undeniably, that we live in a holographic universe, since we do not have experiential proof—only a plethora of circumstantial evidence. Meanwhile there are other theories[1] that have been put forward about what kind of world we actually live in, if it’s not an objective reality. However, the one showing the most promise and gaining the most support is the holographic principle that came into its own almost a quarter-century after the single-electron Double Slit experiment.

At this moment, however, we’re between a rock and a hard place. We know for a fact we don’t live in an objective reality, but the experts can’t say yet what reality we do live in. So, we continue to use the faulty premise of an objective reality to base our decisions and choices on. And that faulty premise—when you add in all the opinions and beliefs and judgments that are piled on top of it—are producing exactly what we should expect: Flawed outcomes of continuous wars killing thousands of people for the wrong reasons; malnutrition and hunger for far too many; poverty for the masses while a few wallow in their riches; blatant discrimination based on personal choices of gender, race, religion, etc.; unconscionable emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of children; and humanity on a perilous course of self-destruction for itself and the Earth from nuclear annihilation and environmental degradation; among other things.

So I guess the only way out of this mess is for individuals to change their own private basic premise and therefore change their own outcomes; and maybe when enough individuals start living in a holographic universe, we will reach a critical mass and “flip” the whole world regardless of whether the experts are on board or not.

I know I’m a lot happier this way.

[1] Such as subjective realism, critical realism, many-worlds (parallel universes), pilot wave theory (Bohmian mechanics), simulation theory, relational quantum mechanics, and black hole cosmology.