Do we exist in a Hologram?!

Zsolt Hermann
3 min readNov 12, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

If our existence is a hologram created by our projections, what happens if we don’t project and the simulation ceases to exist? What is behind the hologram and is it possible to exist there?

Our existence truly unfolds in a “Matrix” that our inherently selfish, egocentric, and individualistic nature projects to us.

Our original consciousness and perception of reality are 100% egocentric and subjective. We do not see or experience reality “as it is.” We capture from reality and compute only the parts that are deemed important and useful for our 100% self-centered pleasure/pain calculations.

We do not see actions, events, objects, and others objectively; we see and experience their versions as we clothe everything and every one with our own qualities, attributes, and expectations.

But we cannot even “switch off” this simulation, as we are not the source of it. We did not create ourselves, we did not generate our own lives, and we also did not install ourselves with the qualities and “operating software” we were born with.

This above-described simulation simply streams through us and our inherent qualities. We are simply the passive observers of this egocentric and subjective movie; we consider life.

But!

If we are already unhappy with how this movie unfolds, if we already recognized that we are living in this selfish and subjective “Matrix” and that in this “movie” everything is distorted and harmful as the “protagonist” — my inherent self — is acting like cancer, excessively overconsuming everything for my own sake while ruthlessly competing with others and surviving and succeeding at the expense of others and nature, we can start asking and searching for the purpose of our life in this Matrix. We can start searching where and why this “Matrix” comes from, why we have to live like this, why we also received the ability to recognize we live in this self-destructive “Matrix,” and why we received the ability to ask questions about it.

Then, with the help of a unique method and in the right, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing environment, we can learn and practice how to search for the source of our existence and the purpose of who we are, and if we can become something and someone else. We can start to research and practice how to change how this “movie” or “Matrix” streams through us if we can change the filters in us through which this “existence” unfolds through us.

Then, in that unique environment, with the help of other like-minded and similarly searching people, we can learn and practice to change how we view and project this “Matrix.” We can learn and practice that instead of watching and observing this “Matrix” from within ourselves and for our own sake only, we start experiencing and purposefully living our lives through others — outside of our original egotistic self — and for the sake of others.

By switching our focus from ourselves and our intention from unconditionally serving and loving the original egoistic “self” to unconditionally serving and supporting others outside of the “original self,” we change the whole perception and experience of the “Matrix,” which “Matrix” gradually turns into the picture and experience of “true reality” without any inherently egotistic, subjective and individualistic bias.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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