There is a net said to hang in the palace of Indra, the king of the gods. At each intersection of the net is a reflecting jewel, which mirrors not only the adjacent jewels but the multiple images reflected in them. This famous image is meant to describe the unimpeded interpenetration of all and everything.
"Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra there is a wonderful net... which has been hung by some clever artificer in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a jewel in each "eye" of the net (A SINGLE GLITTERING JEWEL AT THE NET'S EVERY NODE), and since the net itself is infinite in dimension, the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels glittering like stars of the first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface, there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring...it symbolises a cosmos in which there is an infinitely repeated interrelationship between all members of the cosmos..."
... What emerges is an image of the mythic Net of Indra, where at every crossing of one thread over another, there is a gem reflecting all other reflective gems. In other words, the image is of the knots of the net that join orbs of infinite number which all mirror each other in a relationship that continues forever.
A hologram is a special type of optical storage system, in which each of its individual parts contains the whole image. If a holographic picture is torn in half, each of the halves will contain the entire image. If we again tear each piece in half, each quarter will still contain the entire picture. This can be continued ad infinitum until we are left with the tiniest piece of holographic photo and it will still contain the entire image. In other words, each individual fragment or piece of hologram, no matter how small, contains enough data to reconstruct the whole picture.
A key point here is that each part reflects the whole and exhibits the quality of the whole. Here we have a model where the part is from the whole, and the whole is seen in each part. The microself too has come about from the One Unique Self and reflects its attributes!
Before creation manifest, there was unseen reality. From that unific source emanated a movement towards multiple diversity.
Research in physics has further led to the conclusion that physical entities which seem to be separate and discrete in space and time are actually linked or unified in an implicit, immeasurable fashion. In other words, the actual physical universe itself seems to act as a gigantic hologram, with each part expressed in the whole and the whole expressed in each part.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts.
A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.
In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.
Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.
Some even argue that the independent self is just such an illusion.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.
Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.