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The authors of this book feel that there has been an exponential increase in human intellectual evolution over the past hundreds of years, which can be partly explained by Sheldrake's hypothesis, which we liken to global mind-to-mind interactions. The relation between these interactions and Sheldrake's model is explored by Peter Russell in the book The Global Brain:
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Applying Sheldrake's theory to the development of higher consciousness [or expanded awareness], we might predict that the more individuals begin to raise their own levels of consciousness, the stronger the morphogenetic field for higher states will become, and the easier it would be for others to move in that direction. Society would gather momentum toward enlightenment. Since the rate of growth would not be dependent on the achievements of those who had gone before, we would enter a phase of super-exponential growth. 16
In summary, we believe that Patanjali's akashic records, Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields, and Bohm's active information are all directly accessible by consciousness. Bohm and Josephson make it clear that consciousness must be considered as influencing the physical universe, if there is to be a solution to both the psi and the EPR measurement problem.
If you look at a hologram on a photographic plate, the imbedded three-dimensional image is invisible. It is entirely dispersed in the optical interference pattern spread throughout the plate, even though these fringes cannot be seen or measured directly. Bohm calls this the implicate, or enfolded, order in the holographic plate. The explicate order is the three-dimensional picture that you see when you illuminate the hologram with a laser beam. The important idea is that each of us has our mind in our own small piece of the space-time hologram, containing all the information that exists, or ever was. Imagine that you had a large sheet of postage stamps, where the whole sheet showed a picture of a flag, and each small stamp showed a picture of the same flag. As you break off smaller and smaller pieces of the hologram, the three-dimensional field of view decreases along with the spatial resolution, but you still get the whole picture. It's as though you start with a big piece of matzoh. No matter how small a piece you break off, you still have matzoh. Bohm says:

 
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