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Holographic Universe on Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:11 pm

PK_11

Joined: 28 May 2006
Posts: 142

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060922583/002-8480485-3620032?v=glance&n=283155


Looks promising. I'm gonna try and get my hands on it.
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Posted on Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:21 pm

Etree8

Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Posts: 340

I'm too lazy to read the whole Amazon description, but it looks good. Once you're finished, give us a review.
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Posted on Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:37 pm

Peebrain

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Joined: 27 Nov 2005
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It's a pretty good book. In fact, I wrote a review of it on that amazon.com page a while ago ( http://tinyurl.com/qtwnf ).

Here's a quote of what I wrote:

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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
Cool Idea, but Where is the Correct Skepticism?, June 26, 2004
Reviewer: Sean Connelly (Buford, GA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)

Ok, the book is really great, first of all. It has just countless paranormal experiences and explains them using the "holographic universe" point of view. Great idea, awesome analogy, and amazing stories...

One story in particular just blew my mind. On page 150 (soft cover), it talks about this guy, Sai Baba. The book claims Sai Baba could actually create any object he wanted and it would flow from his hands. It spent 4 pages on stuff Sai Baba has done, and how it's been confirmed. This intrigued me so much, I did a simple Google on "Sai Baba". After maybe 5 minutes of research, I found a website that had videos of Sai Baba producing random objects, and the videos were SOLID PROOF that Sai Baba is a fake. Not only a magician, but a terriable magician!

The book presented his knowledge with such enthusiasm that I believed it. Only after some basic research did I realize it wasn't true. It seems like the author didn't set his skepticism level high enough, and just took ANY paranormal story he could get his hands on, and printed it in his own "hologram" perspective to try and prove his point. I feel very cheated! What other stories in the book are completely false, I wonder?

Overall: awesome idea of reality, and mind blowing, but c'mon! How hard is it to do some basic research?
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Posted on Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:11 pm

PK_11

Joined: 28 May 2006
Posts: 142

Just did a quick search on him, and he's got quite the following. Shocked


Anyway, that is interested and does make me a bit skeptical about the book, however I'm more interested in the ideas than the actual (or otherwise) "magic" described in it.
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