Holographic Kinetics

Developer and dates

The sources reviewed name Steve Richards as the developer of Holographic Kinetics. Ngaarda Media, in an article dated 23 April 2025, reported that he developed the method and that it combines Indigenous Australian knowledge with what he calls the science of the hologram of time. A practitioner listing in the Byron Bay region says he developed the approach after more than 50 years of research, and the method's practitioner page says that after more than 60 years of developing and refining the work he has stepped back.

The accounts differ on the length of development, and none of the pages reviewed gives a year in which the method was first taught. The method page mentions only a 2018 update to its research, and the Dreamtime Healing page carries a 2020 copyright notice, which dates the page and not the method. The pages present the method as based on Aboriginal knowledge of Lore, but they did not name the founder's community or language group. No independent biography, scholarly article or statement from an Aboriginal organization about the method was found in the searches run.

Teaching and current status

The practice's practitioner page says the founder is no longer involved in teaching, course delivery or sessions, that a training team continues the work, and that more than 1,850 students from over 42 countries have been trained. The Dreamtime Healing page gives the same figure as of 2026. These numbers are the practice's own and could not be checked independently.

The 2025 Ngaarda Media article gave a different picture, reporting that Richards no longer travels because of health problems but teaches internationally by video call and works with advanced students and government bodies. The two accounts may reflect different dates. The article carried no caveats about its claims.

Hologram, kinetics and Lore

The method page describes Holographic Kinetics as the science behind past ancient Aboriginal knowledge of Lore, combining metaphysics, spirituality and quantum physics, and says it addresses internally created realities within separate dimensions of time. It describes kinetic energy as free-flowing and constant, and says it can become trapped as potential energy at the holographic, cellular level. A practitioner page adds that every cell is said to store every thought and memory. These are the practice's own definitions. No source reviewed ties the words to physical measurements or to the way holography is used in optics.

In the Ngaarda Media article, Richards is reported as saying that people have six invisible bodies and one visible body that interact across seven dimensions, and that emotions, thoughts and feelings locked into the invisible bodies affect the visible one. A practitioner page for the method says it addresses internally created realities, including intergenerational trauma stored in cellular memory and interference from parallel dimensions.

Dreamtime and the Dreaming

The practice's pages use Dreamtime, and one page is titled Dreamtime Healing. Christine Nicholls, writing in 2014, reports that Francis Gillen first recorded the expression dream times as a translation of an Arrernte concept, that it was popularized through Baldwin Spencer's writing, and that W. E. H. Stanner helped carry the Dreaming into wider English use. She also stresses that these English terms obscure the complexity of Aboriginal concepts and that different language groups use distinct terms for their own understandings of law, religion and land.

Other holographic terms

Holographic Memory Resolution is a different mind-based intervention for pain and trauma, described in a 2026 qualitative study, and no source reviewed links it to Holographic Kinetics. Karl Pribram's holographic brain theory, which Nishiyama and colleagues describe as a proposal to explain memory and perception in the brain developed in collaboration with the physicist David Bohm, is also a separate body of work. No source reviewed connects Holographic Kinetics to Pribram or Bohm, and the practitioner claim that every cell stores memories is a different claim from a distributed model of brain memory.

How sessions are described

The practice's Dreamtime Healing page describes clients lying on a table while a practitioner guides them to access past trauma through a process called integration. Clients are said to relive a traumatic moment so that time can loop itself, which the page says changes past and present together. The page also refers to negative thoughts that manifest as thought forms, described as internal life forms.

Practitioner listings reviewed say that sessions take place but give no length, number of sessions, or step-by-step procedure. The ways sessions are run may therefore differ between practitioners, and no standard protocol or manual was found in the public sources.

Training and practitioner standards

The practitioner page says that only current students appear on the practitioner list, which the organization keeps itself, and it names no accreditation body or independent registry. The pages reviewed did not specify course length, assessment or curriculum. No external register, code of ethics or training standard for the method was found. One practitioner page states that she is not licensed, does not diagnose, treat or prescribe, and advises clients to consult licensed health providers; the Byron Bay listing says only that courses run across Australia and that the founder conducts training.

Uses stated by the practice and practitioners

The method page lists anxiety, depression, stress, fear, anger, guilt, sexual problems, post-traumatic stress disorder, violence, compulsive disorders, bipolar symptoms and psychotic episodes. The Dreamtime Healing page names intergenerational trauma, prison rehabilitation, compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder and multiple personalities, and also refers to spiritual healing and consciousness exploration. A practitioner listing adds addiction and abuse recovery.

Institutional work and entity explanations

The Ngaarda Media article reports that Richards works with justice departments, prisons and child services around the world, and quotes him as saying that the method gets changes nobody gets. No outcome data, evaluation or independent confirmation was given in the article or found elsewhere in the sources reviewed.

The same article reports that he addresses mental health problems such as hearing voices and compulsive behaviors by attributing them to multi-dimensional entities, often introduced through trauma or drug use. This is a belief held by the method's founder. It is not a diagnostic or causal model recognized in clinical psychiatry, and no source reviewed tested it.

Searches run and results

An exact-phrase search of PubMed for Holographic Kinetics in titles and abstracts returned no records. A looser search on the two words matched unrelated holography and kinetics terms and was not specific to the practice. Web searches for the method name found its own website, practitioner listings, a community media article and a podcast listing, and no trial, case series, qualitative study, systematic review or guideline. The site also lists testimonial and case study pages, which were not opened and are not controlled research.

A second literature index that was queried could not be used because its monthly search allowance had run out. The absence of published studies does not show that the method has no effect, and it does not show that it has one. It means that the sources reviewed contain no evidence on whether the method changes symptoms or outcomes, compared with no treatment or with established trauma care.

Evidence on related claims

The idea that cells store memories has been examined in other settings. A 2026 scoping review of 16 sources on adult heart transplant recipients found reported changes in preferences, emotions and identity, and some recipient-perceived correspondences with donors. The authors concluded that current evidence does not support transfer of donor memory, personality or identity through the transplanted heart, and noted that cellular or epigenetic memory concerns regulatory cell states and should not be equated with autobiographical memory.

This review concerned transplant recipients and did not test Holographic Kinetics. It shows only that a cellular-memory explanation for personal memories remained unestablished in that literature. The Pribram-related paper reviewed is a mathematical modeling study of brain memory with numerical simulations and no clinical outcomes, so it offers no evidence about the method either.

A modern hybrid method

The sources reviewed describe Holographic Kinetics, also marketed as Dreamtime Healing using Holographic Kinetics, as a modern branded method and not as a documented traditional practice of a named Aboriginal community. An event page for the 2025 Jamba Nyinayi Festival states that Steve Richards traces his ancestry to the Quandamooka peoples of the Moreton Bay area. The Dreamtime Healing page acknowledges teaching passed down from his mother, grandmother and ancestral spirits, and a practitioner page calls the method an advanced Aboriginal healing modality of the future from the past. These are statements by the practice and its promoters.

The same pages show the elements combined. The Dreamtime Healing page uses the concept of the Dreaming and says ancestral spirits could move through time, with sessions aimed at stored ancestral or intergenerational trauma, and it invokes quantum physics. The method page adds holograms, dimensions of time and kinetic energy. A practitioner clinic page lists hypnosis among the fields of the founder's research, while a 2014 blog about the method states that it is not hypnosis, so the sources disagree on that point.

How it is taught and offered

The practice says that more than 1,850 students from over 42 countries had been trained by 2026. Sessions are offered privately, including at festival healing tents, with workshops and introductory sessions, and the method website lists future seminars. Ngaarda Media reports that Richards teaches internationally by video call. Fees and course content were not examined.

Contrast with Ngangkari healing

SBS NITV reported in 2019 on the Ngangkari, a group of 14 Aboriginal descendants practicing traditional healing from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia, who are represented by the Anangu Ngangkari Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation and visit hospitals and clinics in four states. The article says they work on the principle that the body has three energy centers, spirit, head and gut, and that they offer bush medicine, smoking ceremonies and spirit realignment by touch.

Ngangkari healing is therefore tied to named healers and particular lands, whereas Holographic Kinetics is taught to students in many countries. Dreamtime and the Dreaming are English terms covering many different Aboriginal understandings, so the two should not be treated as the same practice or as representing Aboriginal healing in general. This encyclopedia covers Ngangkari healing and Dreamtime healing on separate pages.

What the sources do and do not report

No adverse event reports, harm surveys or complaints data about Holographic Kinetics were found, and the sources reviewed do not describe screening, contraindications or aftercare for sessions in which clients relive traumatic moments. The method page, the Dreamtime Healing page and the Byron Bay listing, as reviewed, carried no medical disclaimer or scope-of-practice statement, although the method page lists bipolar symptoms and psychotic episodes among the conditions it addresses. Only one practitioner page stated a limit on scope.

Indirect risks and care boundaries

Where a method attributes voices or compulsions to entities, people may be less likely to seek clinical assessment. A 2025 qualitative study of 30 British Sikh adults, a different community and setting, found that supernatural explanations of psychosis sometimes led families toward faith healers, and the authors state that delays lengthen untreated psychosis, which raises suicide risk and worsens recovery. That study does not concern Holographic Kinetics and shows only how this indirect pathway has been described.

Anyone experiencing severe distress, thoughts of self-harm, or hearing voices should not delay or replace assessment and treatment by a qualified health professional or a crisis service with sessions of this kind. Fees, session numbers and refund terms were not examined in the sources reviewed.