Dori Mirthmore!

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Welcome to DoriMirthmore.com

I am Dori Mirthmore.

I created the ‘Simulation, Consciousness, & Reality’ group as a way to connect with like-minded individuals.

I am a trained psychic medium and healer. I trained at Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp in Florida with Rev. Dr. Phil DeLong, President of the International Association of Metaphysics, or IAM. I’ve held presentations and classes on Remote Viewing, Psychometry, and Sacred Geometry.

For all other inquiries, email dorimirthmore@gmail.com.

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What is reality? Does it exist without conscious experience? Why does something, rather than nothing exist at all? What exists outside of ‘here’? How is it that I can I talk to my dead dad? What is the point of anything? These are just a few of the questions that compel me to write. And so I do.

🌈 You are a rainbow. 🌈

A rainbow isn’t a physical object with an independent existence, it’s an optical phenomenon that emerges when sunlight interacts with water droplets in the air.

Other optical phenomena include holograms.

The Holographic Universe

How do holograms work?

Holograms differ from a typical video projector or TV screen because they record and reproduce the actual light field of a three-dimensional object, using interference and diffraction. Unlike a regular flat photograph, which only captures brightness, a true hologram captures the full depth, phase, and perspective of a scene.

When you record a hologram, you’re capturing the interference pattern created when a reference laser beam and a beam reflected off the object meet on a photosensitive surface. That pattern itself looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark fringes, it’s not a picture of anything. The “phenomenon” part kicks in on playback: when you shine coherent, ordered light (a laser) through that recorded pattern, diffraction reconstructs the original light field, and your eyes perceive a 3D image because you’re seeing the same wavefronts that would’ve reflected off the real object.

“Coherent light” is when the light waves each have the same wavelength and their peaks and troughs line up in a fixed, predictable relationship. Ordinary light (like from the sun, a light bulb, or an LED) is incoherent: it’s a chaotic mix of many wavelengths, and even for a single wavelength, the phase is constantly and randomly shifting.

Real holograms vs. “sci-fi” holograms

It’s worth distinguishing real holograms from the glowing, floating figures you see in movies and shows (Star Wars’ Princess Leia projection, Rick and Morty, etc.), the two share a name but little else.

Real holograms are static recordings. They reproduce a fixed light field captured on film; they don’t move, emit their own light, or respond to anything. Sci-fi holograms, by contrast, are animated and interactive, more like a 3D video call than a photograph.

Real holograms don’t glow or float in open space. Actual holographic reconstructions are typically dim and require the right coherent light source to view, you can’t have one materialize in a room like a ghost.

It’s under 5 min, just watch it.

Verschränkung

What is human experience but a hall of mirrors? Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe, says that the universe is a hologram. I tend to agree. Like many discoveries, (for example the Higgs-Boson, God particle) we can’t explain them at first, but it makes the math make sense. The math in question: quantum entanglement. Quantum entanglement was merely an implication of quantum mechanics.

(It doesn’t matter when because time is a construct of the mirror hall, but) Sometime in the perceived past Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) collaborated to show quantum mechanics was incomplete. They pointed out that the equations predicted something weird: you could put two particles into a joint state, separate them by any distance, and measuring a property of one (i.e. spin) would instantly tell you the corresponding property of the other, even though neither particle had a definite value before it was measured. Einstein called this “spooky action at a distance” and thought it meant quantum theory was missing some hidden local variables that determined the outcomes in advance, falling back on the predictable and beloved theory of “causality” or cause and effect.

Schrödinger read the EPR paper and coined the actual term “entanglement” (Verschränkung), recognizing it as the single most distinctive feature separating quantum mechanics from classical physics.

Talbot’s central metaphor in The Holographic Universe, borrowed from physicist David Bohm, to explain the holographic universe is: one fish in an aquarium, two cameras at right angles, two monitors. If you only ever see the monitors, the two images look like two different fish that move in perfect sync: when “fish A” turns left, “fish B” turns to match, instantaneously, no matter how you reposition the cameras. It would look like faster-than-light coordination between two independent things. But there’s no signal passing between the monitors at all, and the “coordination” was never really two things influencing each other; it was one underlying thing you were viewing from two different perspectives, and your assumption that you were looking at two separate objects is what made it look mysterious.

Bohm used this to argue that space itself might not be as fundamental as it looks, that what we experience as two separate, distant particles could be projections of a higher-dimensional underlying reality, the way a hologram encodes a 3D image in a 2D surface such that every piece contains the whole. Entangled particles aren’t sending messages to each other across space; “distance” itself is partly an artifact of the projection, so there’s no real “distance” for anything to cross.

There is no distance, there is no action (just our slicing of a whole into parts that look separate) and it is not spooky.

“Causality” Addendum

Nobody has ever directly observed “causation”. What is observed is correlation and sequence: B reliably follows A. Causality is the interpretation we lay on top of that pattern.

David Hume made this exact point in the 1740s: all we ever actually perceive is one event followed by another, over and over. We never perceive the necessary connection between them, that’s something the mind supplies, a habit of expectation built from repetition, not a thing we directly detect in nature. He called it one of philosophy’s genuine open wounds, and it still is. Kant’s response was to argue causality isn’t something we find in the world at all, it’s a structure our minds impose on experience in order to have coherent experience in the first place, more like a pair of glasses we can’t take off (or a VR headset) than a fact we’re discovering.

So in that sense: causality was never “a theory” in the way, say, general relativity is a theory, a specific falsifiable mathematical model. It’s more like a precondition other theories are built on top of. Every physical theory including entanglement assumes some notion of causal structure to even be formulated.

Where physics actually does treat it formally: In relativity, causality gets a precise technical meaning, it’s encoded in the light-cone structure of spacetime. “A can cause B” is defined as “A lies in B’s past light cone,” i.e., a signal traveling at or below light speed could get from A to B. This is the actual load-bearing reason entanglement is such a puzzle: the correlations show up outside each other’s light cones, which is exactly why physicists were so careful to prove no usable signal (no causal influence in the relativistic sense) is transmitted. If it were, you’d get closed causal loops, effects preceding causes in some reference frames, actual paradoxes. So relativistic causality is a hard constraint physicists build their theories to respect, precisely because they’re not fully certain why it must hold, only that every observation says it does.

If ER/EPR-style ideas are right and spacetime itself is built out of entanglement, then causal structure (which depends on spacetime’s light cones) would be derived from entanglement rather than the thing entanglement has to obey. That would flip the whole hierarchy; causality stops being bedrock and becomes emergent, same as distance. Physicist want formulas before they decide its true. I’ve already decided it is.

The reality we experience is a fractal with an infinite boundary: a hypothesis.

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The Mandelbrot Set

The Mandelbrot Set, defined by the equation z_n+1 = z_n² + c, is plotted on a two-dimensional complex plane. The set itself is two-dimensional, as it occupies a finite area. However, its boundary exhibits fractal behavior and has a Hausdorff dimension of 2.

At first glance, this seems counterintuitive. A circle, for example, is a simple shape on a plane with a smooth, well-defined boundary. Its edge is one-dimensional, even though it encloses a two-dimensional region.

The Mandelbrot set behaves very differently. Its boundary is infinitely complex: no matter how far you zoom in, new layers of structure continue to appear. Unlike the smooth edge of a circle, the boundary never becomes simple or regular at any scale.

Key Takeaway: The Mandelbrot set is 2D, but its boundary is so infinitely complex that it also has a dimension of 2.

What Do The Colors Mean?

In the Mandelbrot set, each point is a starting value of the variable c, and the colors show how its behavior unfolds over time under iteration.

Black (inside the set)

These points never escape

Their iteration stays bounded forever

Colored regions (outside the set)

These points do escape to infinity

The color tells you how long it takes

At the boundary between black and color:

Numbers are on the edge of stability

Tiny changes in = huge differences in behavior

The true Mandelbrot set is infinitely detailed and continuous.

What you see on a screen is a finite-resolution sampling of it.

Coloring adds an extra interpretive layer.

The digital version is a projection and artistic mapping of a deeper mathematical object.

Dimensions

Humans use mathematics to define and explore spatial dimensions.

Zero Dimension (0D): A point is considered zero-dimensional, as it has no length, width, or depth, it simply exists as a location.

One Dimension (1D): A line is one-dimensional, characterized by length alone.

Two Dimensions (2D): In the second dimension, we introduce a new axis, width, forming a flat plane where closed shapes like polygons and circles can exist.

Three Dimensions (3D): Moving into the third dimension, we add depth, represented by the z-axis, allowing us to describe volumetric forms like cubes, spheres, and all physical objects as we perceive them in space.

When it comes to dimensions beyond the third, we run into a cognitive limit. Visualizing a fourth spatial axis, one that is perpendicular to the three we already know, is beyond the capabilities of our spatial perception. We can infer the existence of higher dimensions mathematically or symbolically, but these higher dimensions are not bounded by time, and we cannot fully visualize them in the same way we understand length, width, and depth.

In physics, the concept of a fourth dimension takes a different form. Rather than introducing another spatial direction, the fourth dimension is understood as time. By combining the three spatial dimensions with time, we form what is known as spacetime, where every event is defined not only by where it occurs, but also when. Unlike spatial dimensions, which we can move through freely, time appears to flow in a single direction, making it fundamentally different in how it is experienced.

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A rotating tesseract: the 3D projection (shadow) of a 4D cube, morphing as it turns through an unseen dimension.

Mathematically a fourth spatial dimension can be defined; just as a cube extends a square into three dimensions, a four-dimensional shape, such as a tesseract, extends a cube into a higher spatial dimension. While we cannot directly perceive such objects, we can represent them through projections and analogies, offering glimpses into how higher-dimensional space might behave. In this way, the fourth dimension sits at the boundary between what we can experience and what we can only describe, mathematically precise, yet intuitively out of reach…

Or is it?

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Loki’s Tesseract symbolically represents higher-dimensional access, using “space” as a power source to open portals.

Violations of Linear Spacetime

The “boundary” of your human world is not a hard edge, it’s a limit defined by what you can observe and interact with. The closest thing to a real boundary is the observable universe. It’s the farthest distance light has had time to reach you. Beyond that, you cannot see or receive information…

Or can you?

Within our bounded world, we still experience phenomena that hint at interaction with something beyond it. Things like:

Remote Viewing

Declassified CIA programs like Project Stargate used trained psychic spies to perceive distant locations, including targets across the world and even different points in time, implying access to information beyond normal space-time constraints.

Near-death experiences
Reports of timeless awareness or life review suggest consciousness operating outside normal time flow. In the book Dying to Be Me, Anita Moorjani, dying of late-stage cancer describes leaving her body, experiencing a state of expanded awareness beyond space and time, and then returning, after which her body rapidly healed, with medical documentation showing the disappearance of her cancer.

Telepathy
Direct mind-to-mind communication implies information transfer without physical signals, effectively ignoring spatial separation. In the work of Diane Hennacy Powell, there are documented cases of non-speaking autistic individuals identifying hidden objects, responding to unseen prompts, or communicating complex thoughts without verbal language.

Past-life Memories

Cases like James Leininger a child who described detailed memories of a WWII pilot, are often cited as examples of consciousness accessing information beyond a single lifetime.

Ghosts, Apparitions, Orbs, etc.

Mediumship

Psychic Intuition

Astral Projection

Déjà Vu

Unexplained Synchronicities

These aren’t just strange occurrences, they’re violations of linear space-time. How is that possible? Does our consciousness have access to higher-dimensional information?

Remember the simple formula behind the Mandelbrot set contains not just the solid region, but the boundary, the infinite detail, and infinity itself. It’s all encoded in one compact expression:

z_n+1 = z_n² + c

Could our reality be described by a similar equation? Fuck yeah it can.

From 1D → 2D → 3D → nD

1D (one variable):
$f (x) = x^^{2}$
just a rule assigning a number to each

2D (curve in the plane):
$y = x^^{2}$
a parabola drawn in space

3D (surface):
$z = x^^{2} + y^^{2}$
a paraboloid (bowl shape)

4D (higher-dimensional analog):
$w = x^^{2} + y^^{2} + z^^{2}$
same structure, just one more input variable

Mathematical equations maintain the same structure – as dimensions increase, more variables or axes are added. So a higher-dimensional equation is just a rule relating many variables at once.

Just like $(a+b)^n$ expands into structured geometric components we can visualize in lower dimensions, reality may be a projection of a higher-dimensional structure whose full form we cannot directly perceive.

The brain itself is a fractal system, with recursive structures in its neural architecture and activity patterns. Under psychedelics, the brain’s default mode network which usually keeps our experience grounded and predictable becomes disrupted. This allows for a flood of sensory, emotional, and symbolic information to surface. In that altered state, one may begin to perceive non-linear patterns, seemingly impossible geometries, or even entities that exist outside of time.

Reality is an Illusion

Reality is less like a window into the world and more like a carefully designed user interface. In The Case Against Reality, Donald D. Hoffman argues that evolution did not shape our senses to reveal objective truth, but to maximize survival. Through models of Natural Selection, he suggests that the probability of perceiving reality as it truly is effectively ZERO. Instead, what we see, hear, and feel are simplified symbols that guide adaptive behavior. Reality is a survival-driven projection that helps us navigate the world without ever showing us what’s actually there.

TLDR: Your reality is a user interface your brain renders just well enough to keep you alive, not to show you what’s actually there.

Control is an Illusion

Studies on Sleepwalking show the brain can run full motor behavior with no conscious awareness. Under Anesthesia, signals still move through the brain, but they don’t integrate into conscious experience, pointing away from any single “control center” for awareness. And in cases of Split-Brain Surgery, the two hemispheres can act independently, even producing conflicting actions. Watch Your Brain: Who’s in Control? and see how your brain makes decisions before you even realize it.

TLDR: What feels like deliberate control is often just awareness arriving late to a process your brain has already executed on its own.

Can We Rewire Our Brain? Can Code Write Itself?

Your experiences shape neural pathways, and those pathways can be reinforced, weakened, or overridden over time. This is called neuroplasticity. Old patterns can become less dominant, overwritten, or decoded.

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The Newest Sacred Geometry: The Amplituhedron

Spacetime has been challenged by physicists Nima Arkani-Hamed and Jaroslav Trnka when they discovered the amplituhedron in 2013.

The amplituhedron is a geometrical framework that lives entirely in a higher-dimensional space. It is not a shape; I know the suffix ‘-hedron’ makes it sound like one, but it’s not.

The amplituhedron is a revolutionary discovery that allows for the immense simplification of calculating and studying particle collisions. Traditionally, physicists use what’s called Feynman diagrams to predict what will happen when particles collide under certain conditions. Feynman diagrams are visual shortcuts for extremely complicated probability calculations. To get accurate results, physicists must account for many possible hidden interactions, which creates huge multidimensional integrals and sometimes mathematical infinities that require special techniques to handle.

These diagrams can result in hundreds of pages of mathematical equations, taking physicists days to compute.

I know this is a lot. I don’t have any formal training in math or physics and everything I write here I’ve taught myself.

Richard Feynman famously said:

“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.”

It’s important to know what to expect when smashing particles together because any deviation from expected scattering amplitudes could indicate new physics, such as extra dimensions or unknown particles.

Previously, we assumed particles move through spacetime, so we used Feynman diagrams to track those movements or possible movements.

The amplituhedron gets rid of space and time and predicts particle interactions using pure geometry instead.

This suggests that spacetime might not be the fabric of reality, but a useful way we interpret the deeper, geometric principles underlying the universe. Instead of space and time being the starting point, they could be emergent properties of a more fundamental structure, just as temperature emerges from the motion of atoms or a rainbow emerges from the bending of light.

Just like when you see a smiling emoji, you immediately know it means happiness. Geometry, in the case of the amplituhedron, works the same way. It’s a universal shorthand that conveys the answers to physics problems faster and more intuitively than equations.

The amplituhedron shows us that underneath all the complexity of the universe, there’s a beautiful, simple truth—captured in geometry.

So just as Plato used the platonic solids to describe the elements and the building blocks of reality, we are finding hundreds of years later, more underlying geometry, that explain our physics better than we ever could’ve using spacetime math. Geometry is not metaphorically the language of the universe, it is literally the language of the universe, and we are just a byproduct of all that is happening, we are the rainbow that appears when light is bent.

The truth doesn’t exist in one place, its scattered across many religions, schools of thought, and fields of science.