In 1982, a University of Paris a research team performed what we believe to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. What’s more amazing is that chances are you never heard of the experiment on the news or from your friends.

Led by Physicist Alain Aspect, the team discovered that subatomic particles such as electrons can instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. So whether they are tens or millions of miles apart, they are connected.

Because these findings go against those of Einstein and the notion that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, they’ve not been easily accepted.

Many have even come to think that Aspect’s findings prove that reality as we believe it to be actually does not exist and that at the heart of the universe is a hologram. A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. Without getting too scientific, 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, thus the findings that subatomic particles remain in contact with one another regardless of distance.

Stanislav Grof, a noted and pioneering researcher in transpersonal psychology, put it this way: “if the mind is actually part of a continuum, a labyrinth that is connected not only to every other mind that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and region in the vastness of space and time itself, the fact that it is able to occasionally make forays into the labyrinth and have transpersonal experiences no longer seems so strange.”