In Hacking the Hologram, you present readers with the mind-bending possibilities of the existence of a holographic universe. Why was this an important book for you to write?

Look around. The world is a mess. How did it get that way? Well, if you start with a faulty premise, you’re going to get faulty results. The faulty premise is that what we see “out there” is real. It’s not. It’s a hologram, which, by definition is not real. The second mistake we make is to think we can change the experiences we encounter. But we can’t – not if we live in a holographic universe. All we can do is change our reaction or response to those experiences. It’s time we got our basic premises correct and started focusing on what we CAN change, and see what happens.

Can you share with us a little about the type of research that went into putting this book together? 

3 decades of reading and trying to figure out what the physics experts are saying. 3 decades of questioning everything, including the sacred Cogito (Cogito, ergo sum) by Rene Descartes. What if he got it backwards? What if it really should be Sum, ergo cogito (I am, therefore I think). Maybe then we can start to understand what consciousness is. Meanwhile, just today physics researcher Melvin Vopson published an article in Science Alert…

“Suppose the law of gravity is simply an echo of something more fundamental: a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code. That is the premise of my latest research, published in the journal AIP Advances. It suggests that gravity is not a mysterious force that attracts objects towards one another, but the product of an informational law of nature that I call the second law of infodynamics. It is a notion that seems like science fiction – but one that is based in physics and evidence that the universe appears to be operating suspiciously like a computer simulation.” (https://www.sciencealert.com/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says)

What is a common misconception you feel people have about spirituality?

My experience is that spirituality is completely logical and does not require faith or belief. And especially not ceremonies and rituals. If your spirituality makes sense and can actually stand up against serious scrutiny, you’ve got something. But if it violates logic and reason, and requires you to bow 9 times in each cardinal direction in order to be able to connect with Oooommmm, you’re in trouble. Eventually we’re going to find out that God sits on top of a huge pyramid of beings, and that S/He did not create our world, but delegated that power to what Plato called a Demiurge – who themselves are not much higher in the pyramid than we are.

What is one thing you hope readers take away from Hacking the Hologram?

That we have to stop wasting our time and effort trying to change, control, or avoid our experiences. We didn’t create those experiences and we have no power over them. The only power we have (and it’s a LOT) is the free will to decide how we want to react or respond to those experiences.

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