What I’m Reading: December 2022 Edition

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Now, two of the world’s most eminent thinkers — University of London physicists David Bohm, a former protege of Einstein’s and one of the world’s most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, one of the architects of our modern understanding of the brain — believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. This remarkable new way of looking at the universe explains now only many of the unsolved puzzles of physics, but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-body and near death experiences, "lucid" dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and miraculous healings.

Loss of Power: A Rick Banik Intelligence Thriller by Craig Martelle

Power is life. When it gets cut off, we expect it to return quickly. When it doesn’t, it becomes a political football. Is it an attack, incompetence, or an overloaded and aging grid? Rick Banik has to steer clear of politics to find the truth. The answer is out there, or maybe, it’s deep within. Rick shines a light into the dark places and makes the human cockroaches run for cover. Can Rick restore order and bring power back to America? He has to get to the root of the problem, and then he has to decide what he’s going to do about it. “Following in the footsteps of Ludlum, Rick Banik is a new patriot for a new age, where selfless action is the exception. Rick clears the decks of an intelligence community that has lost its way.”