Karl Pribram
The Holographic Principle and Consciousness: Reality as Projection
In 1997, Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study published a paper that became the most cited in the history of theoretical physics. It demonstrated mathematically that a theory of gravity in a five-dimensional spacetime (anti-de Sitter space) is exactly equivalent to a quantum field...
Binaural Beats and Brainwave Entrainment: How Two Frequencies Become a Third Inside Your Skull
In 1839, Prussian physicist Heinrich Wilhelm Dove made a peculiar discovery. When two tones of slightly different frequencies are presented separately to each ear -- say 400 Hz in the left ear and 410 Hz in the right -- the listener perceives a third tone, pulsating at the difference between the...
David Bohm: The Quantum Physicist Who Found Wholeness Beneath the Fragments
David Joseph Bohm is widely regarded as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the twentieth century -- and one of the most tragic. A student of Robert Oppenheimer at Berkeley, a colleague of Einstein at Princeton, and a contributor to quantum mechanics whose work is cited in...
Karl Pribram: The Holographic Brain and the Mathematics of Consciousness
Karl H. Pribram was one of the most distinguished neuroscientists of the twentieth century.
Robert Monroe and the Science of Out-of-Body Experience
In 1958, Robert Allan Monroe was a successful radio broadcasting executive in Charlottesville, Virginia, running a corporation that produced network radio programs syndicated across the United States. He lived the archetypal American post-war life -- business meetings, country club dinners, a...