The Great Adventurer: David Loye’s “Hololeap” to Future Vision

Abstract

David Loye’s concept of the hololeap describes how precognitive information “leaps” across the gap between organisms to enable future vision. This maps to Denis Gabor’s energetic unit of information, the logon, wherein the spectral overlap among logons provides the means for future vision. In rediscovering Darwin’s “lost” theory, Loye found that selfless love was Darwin’s key principle in human evolution. Groundbreaking studies in psi research document love’s subtle but crucial role in future vision and nonlocal agency, and point to an understanding of evolution theory in which love plays a primary generative role. Loye’s intuition was right on the mark!

Keywords:

• Darwin
• love
• evolution theory
• psi research

Acknowledgments

I thank Riane Eisler for her support for this work, which stemmed from an invitation to contribute a tribute to David Loye to the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (see Bradley, 2022). I am grateful to my wife, Chaarenne Torris, Dragan Milovanovic, and to Bob Rees, for their helpful comments, and also to Rob Nixon for his input on Figure 9. Finally, I thank Bruce MacLennan for permission to reproduce Figure 4.

Disclosure Statement

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Notes

1 See Bradley and Pribram (1998), and Pribram and Bradley (1998).

2 This section draws on previous work (Bradley, 1997).

3 Note, that the figure also summarizes the translation into Gabor’s terms, which is described in what follows.

4 It should be noted that Gaobr’s use of the word “quantum” relates to his definition of an elementary unit of information—the logon, and not to information communication exclusively at the quantum level (see Bradley, 2015).

5 A notable exception is Quantum Holographic Criminology (Milovanovic, 2014).

6 Heisenberg had determined that it was impossible to simultaneously measure the precise location of a subatomic particle—say, that of an electron in its orbit around the nucleus of an atom—with respect to its momentum and position. He showed that a trade-off in precision obtained: that measurement on either ordinate always came at the complete loss of precision on the other. Thus, if the observer chose to measure the particle’s momentum, it was not possible to precisely define the particle’s location in space—only within a probabilistic envelope (technically, a Gaussian envelope) encompassing a cloud of the different possibilities. Similarly, with measurement of position. Nowadays, the two are known as quantum conjugates. In Gabor’s use of Heisenberg’s mathematics of uncertainty, he substitutes frequency for momentum.

7 Gabor shows how these are calculated for real components of the elementary signal—the complex numbers for the cosine and sine constituents (Gabor, 1946, pp. 435–437; see Fig. 1.10).

8 There are notable exceptions. See Pitirim Sorokin’s little-known treatise, The Ways and Power of Love, (Sorokin, 1954), for an earlier effort to develop a scientific approach to the study of love. See Sternberg (1986), and Lewis et al. (2001), for more recent influential works.

9 Among the many other intriguing findings, was a strong “experimenter effect” which is often reported in studies of psychic phenomena. One manifestation of this was the abrupt drop in magnitude of the water pH and temperature measurements when “people enter the [lab] space.” Another was that they also observed “highly correlated drops in pH every time the raw data” was accessed (Tiller et al., 2005, see pages 64–67; addition in square brackets added).

10 See Nelson (2002, 2008), Radin (2006), Sheldrake (1999), Bradley (2020), Radin et al. (2012), Radin et al. (2013), and Radin et al. (2015) for examples of studies presenting compelling evidence of an emotional component in nonlocal communication involving humans.

11 See Bancel and Nelson (2008), and especially Nelson’s important paper “The emotional nature of global consciousness,” (2008).

12 McCraty et al. found that the heart received precognitive, pre-stimulus information some 5-6 seconds before the brain (see McCraty et al., 2004a, 2004b).

13 See, for examples, the works by Laszlo (2014), Loye (2000b), Eisler (1995), Eisler and Fry (2019), and those in Laszlo and Dennis (2013).

14 The concept of passionate attention denotes the arousal of coherent bio-emotional energy by the body’s psychophysiological systems when a percipient engages in sustained focus on an object of attention (see Bradley, 2010).

15 See Bradley (2020), for a review of the evidence.

16 See Radin (1997, 2006), McCraty et al. (2004a, 2004b), Nelson (2002, 2008), Nelson et al. (1998), Jahn and Dunne (1987), Tiller et al. (2005), and Radin et al. (2012, 201370).

17 There is more to this backstory, beyond the inspiration of Loye’s hololeap, too lengthy to relate here. I do want to acknowledge Murray Gillin’s key role almost a decade later. Gillin, a former physicist in materials science, had become acquainted with my quantum holographic work on communication in social systems (e.g., Bradley, 1987, 1998; Bradley & Pribram, 1998), and invited me to write a conference paper on the challenging topic of intuitive foresight in successful entrepreneurs (La Pira & Gillin, 2006). In the course of writing the paper, I discovered the work of Marcer, Mitchell, and Schempp (see “References”)—in particular, Marcer’s (1995) insightful concept of Phase Conjugate Adaptive Resonance (PCAR), which when combined with Gabor’s quantum holographic approach and the concept of quantum entanglement, resulted in my paper “The Psychophysiology of Entrepreneurial Intuition: A Quantum-Holographic Theory” (Bradley, 2006). It should be noted, that the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their bold and courageous experiments that established the reality of quantum entanglement!

18 In addition to Jahn and Dunne (1987) and Tiller et al. (2005), for examples of other studies documenting individual nonlocal agency, see, Jahn et al. (2000), Radin et al. (2012), Radin et al. (2013), and Nelson et al. (1998). See, Bradley (2020), for a review of studies on group and mass nonlocal effects.