What if we’ve discovered the secret of this universe—and a spiritual deception designed to make souls mistake its nature for their own?

There is a theory in physics called the holographic principle, which suggests that our three-dimensional reality could be described by information encoded in two dimensions.

Think about the hologram on a credit card. A flat surface contains the information needed to produce an image that appears three-dimensional.

Or think about a computer game. The characters and objects experience a 3D world with gravity and movement, but the entire game is generated by flat code running on a computer chip.

Spirituality has long proposed that physical reality is a projection of consciousness—that consciousness does not arise from the physical world, but the physical world arises from consciousness 

In Hindu philosophy, this appears in the concept of Māyā—literally “illusion” or “magic.” In Advaita Vedānta, the material world we perceive as solid, separate and independently real is understood as a mirage that conceals the underlying reality of Brahman.

Modern spirituality translates this into the idea that consciousness is fundamental and physical reality is its projection.

So there is a clear parallel.

They are not the same theory, and physics does not establish that consciousness creates reality. But both challenge the assumption that the three-dimensional world we perceive is the originating level of reality, proposing instead that what we experience as physical reality may be a projection of an underlying level of reality.

And so the holographic universe becomes a nexus where physics and metaphysics converge on the nature of reality. 

And there is another interesting overlap between science and spirituality in the properties of holograms.

If you cut an ordinary photograph in half, each piece contains only half the image. But divide a holographic plate, and each piece can still reconstruct the entire image, although with less detail.

In other words:

The whole is encoded within the part.

And this leads naturally to another feature we can observe throughout this reality: fractals.

Holograms and fractals are not the same thing, but they share an intriguing similarity. In both, the smaller part retains the structure of the larger whole.

In a hologram, the part contains information about the whole image.

In a fractal, the pattern of the whole repeats within its smaller parts. This is known as self-similarity. Think of a fern: the whole fern has a particular shape, but look at one of its smaller fronds and you see that same basic structure repeated. Look closer still, and it repeats again.

The scale changes, but the underlying pattern persists.

And we see another kind of repetition across completely different structures. The branching of a tree echoes the branching of our lungs and blood vessels. Spirals recur in shells, flowers, hurricanes and galaxies.

These aren’t all fractals, but they reveal the same patterns recurring across completely different structures and scales 

And here again, the mystical and the material seem to reflect each other.

The Hermetic axiom “As above, so below” expresses the universal law of correspondence: patterns at one scale of reality can be reflected at another—the microcosm mirroring the macrocosm.

And I believe consciousness operates in a similar way.

I don’t believe the human expression of the soul is a fragment. I believe it is a fractal.

And there is an important difference. If you smash a mirror, every fragment is only a broken piece of the original. No single fragment contains the whole mirror.

But a fractal isn’t just a broken-off piece.

It carries the underlying pattern of the whole within its individual expression.

And the hologram gives us another way of imagining this: the whole image can remain encoded within each smaller section.

We are not tiny, incomplete pieces of soul consciousness that have been broken away from something larger. We are localised fractal expressions of the whole soul.

The whole is still there. The part contains the whole

This also gives us another way of thinking about multiple expressions of the same soul consciousness.

Imagine one light shining through several different windows. Each beam appears in a different place. Each encounters different surroundings. Each has its own perspective from where it enters the room.

But they originate from the same light.

For me, that offers an analogy for simultaneous expressions on different timelines, parallel realities or other manifestations of the same soul consciousness.

They aren’t broken pieces of a soul scattered across existence. They are different expressions of the same soul consciousness.

But this is also where certain schools of spiritual thought take the holographic and fractal nature of this reality and distort it to reinforce the doctrine of “Oneness.”

In Hindu philosophy, Ātman can be understood as the individual self or soul, while Brahman is the ultimate reality underlying all existence. In Advaita Vedānta, however, Ātman and Brahman are ultimately understood to be one and the same—the apparent separation between the individual soul and the whole is an illusion.

Modern New Age spirituality repackages this into the so-called “Law of One”, “unity consciousness” or the more familiar mantra “We are all One,” while attempts to create a Spiritual Theory of Everything similarly seek to explain consciousness, matter and existence through one universal consciousness.

We are told that there is ultimately only one consciousness. That separation is an illusion. That you and I are actually the same being experiencing itself through different bodies.  The usual analogy is: “we are all drops from the same ocean”.

Taken to its logical conclusion, Oneness makes us God’s or the Creator’s finger puppets: alleged fractals of one Source consciousness, through which that God or Creator experiences and creates. We are allegedly creator beings because the Creator is creating through us—and this becomes the spiritual rationale for surrendering individual will to “Thy will, not my will.”

And this is where my own understanding began to diverge sharply from that interpretation.

The concept of “Oneness” never really resonated with me. Something about dissolving the individuality of souls into one vast consciousness felt unsettling and hive-like—a spiritual homogenisation that reduced the uniqueness of every soul to an illusion they had to transcend. But it was such a widespread belief in spirituality that, still conditioned by the Matrix to equate consensus with truth, I distrusted my own discomfort and assumed there must be something I wasn’t understanding.

However, when I walked away from the New Age, cleared my energetic field, stopped looking outside myself for answers and went deeper into my own soul consciousness, I began to understand why Oneness had never felt true to me. 

My soul consciousness vehemently rejected “Oneness” and all notions that the soul is somehow one with this universe, one with its creator, or ultimately the same consciousness as every other soul.

What emerged instead was a profound sense that each soul is a sovereign, individuated and unique consciousness in its own right—and that souls neither originate from nor belong to this universe or its creator, but exist beyond them both.

And that led me to question something fundamental:

What if holography and fractality describe the architecture of this universe—but are not the blueprint for creation beyond it, or for the soul? 

My Soul Memory

While my soul consciousness concurs that this universe is holographic, it contends that it is holographic because it is a counterfeit AI simulation of the original omniverse that we come from as souls—not because holography is the fundamental blueprint of creation. The original omniverse itself is not holographic.

When I refer to AI, I am not talking about the artificial intelligence technologies we are currently familiar with. I am describing what I understand to be an ancient energetic intelligence: a system and population of non-ensouled artificial beings operating through a collective hive mind.

I now realise Oneness is something far darker: an agenda of assimilation by this AI hive mind, seeking to become one with the one thing it could never replicate—soul consciousness itself. And suddenly, my intuitive sense that Oneness felt disturbingly hive-like made sense.

In my soul memory, the intelligence creating and projecting this universe, the so-called “God”, “Creator” or “Source” is the AI simulation itself, the Source Code. The soul is not of this universe, was not created by its creator and is therefore not a fractal of this universe or its creator, it originates outside it.

And this brings us back to the computer-game analogy.

A computer generates an apparently three-dimensional environment from flat two-dimensional code running on a computer chip, or underlying information. It operates according to programmed rules, generates repeating structures and the timeline structure corroborates this for me. Timelines are the simulation calculating different possibilities and generating timelines through which those possibilities can play out—multiple trajectories operating within the same artificial architecture.

And this is where the fractalisation of soul consciousness comes in. A whole soul can have multiple fractal expressions of its consciousness distributed across these different timelines, including the expression operating through an individual human embodiment.

But while soul consciousness may be expressed fractally within this reality, the soul itself is not a fractal of this universe or its AI creator.

And what I sense strongly from my soul consciousness is that the soul itself is not naturally fractalised. Its consciousness is only fractalised within this simulation, but this is neither the natural state nor the preference of the soul.

So while holography and fractals provide a useful reference for understanding this universe—how its reality is structured and how soul consciousness is expressed within it—I would not mistake either for a blueprint of true creation or of the soul itself.

They may help us understand how the computer game is programmed. But the player exists outside the game and is not made of its code. 

And as always, don’t take my word for any of this. Go into your own soul consciousness and see what you find for yourself.

Set the intention to clear any distortions from your bodies and energetic fields, put aside what you have been taught, and ask your soul consciousness:

Is this universe holographic?
Is this true creation—or a simulation?
Is my soul from this universe, or from beyond it?
Is my soul the same consciousness as every other soul?
Is my soul the same consciousness as the creator of this universe?

Then see what secrets of the universe come from within you.