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You know, after watching that movie and reading about the individuals involved in the commentary, I really started wondering about the "truths" that we take for granted concerning our brain and perception of reality . I'm reading this book called " The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot, and he discusses a theory that is more similar to the one involving Dickinson, that everything is a projection of the mind. However, more than that, we have within us the ability to acess everything that ever was and ever will be. He discusses universal conciousness and how it could be possible with a holographic model to be instantaneously connected to everything in the universe.

One of the most interesting examples I read about involved controlled experiments with LSD. Patients who were put on LSD therapy almost unanimously experienced 'memories' of being in the womb, recounting facts about their mother's pregnancy, heartbeats, birth, ,that were amazingly detailed and medically accurate but beyond the patient's education level. Patients also experienced hallucinations in which they relived wars, the lives of their relatives, ancestors, plants and animals. One even hallucinated that she was a female dinosaur and identified a colored patch of scales on the head of male dinosaurs that she thought was particularly sexy. The scientist who conducted the studies researched all of the information in these hallucinations and discovered that it was true, from the materials used in mummification, to battles fought in wars, to even the fact that certain male lizards have bright head patches that females find irresistable. Talbot argues that by changing the brain's chemistry with drugs ( and other, less dangerous methods) it is possible to tap into a collective consciousness that is normally inaccessible.

How cool is that? I mean, it could all be a coincidence, but I'm convinced that there is so much more to the universe than we consider in our day to day lives, and that even though the brain may control a great deal of our physical body, there is something else that we remain ignorant of.