My Search For

Radionic Truths

with

Possibilities of Acceptance
by Science and Medicine

R. Murray Denning
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R. Murray Denning, M.S.F.
 My Search For Radionic Truths
with
Possibilities of Acceptance
by Science and Medicine

R. Murray Denning

Borderland Sciences Research Foundation

Garberville, California
© 1981 R. Murray Denning
© 1988 R. Murray Denning

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First U.S. Edition 1988

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 CONTENTS

Foreword by Mr Mike Hallas

Introduction

1 My Path to Radionics 1

2 Extra Sensory Perception. A Natural Function 13

3 The Case for Diagnosing by Measurement 1

4 Basic Principles of some Early Pioneers 25

5 S.W. Tromp. 'Psychical Physics'. A Scientific

Analysis of Radiesthesia and Kindred Subjects 37

6 Dr. Ruth B. Drown. Theory and Technique of

the Drown Radio Therapy' 43

7 Darrell Butcher. Discovering his Concepts, with

illustrations 49

8 Dinshah Ghadiali. Spectro-Chrome Therapy 65

9 Marguerite Maury. 'How to Dowse'. Experimental

and Practical Radiesthesia 77

The Enigma of Numbers. Developing Sensitivity 85

1 Can Yoga and Alchemy Meet? Eastern and

Western Traditions of the Ancient Wisdom 97

2 Radionics and Modern Science 107

Conclusion 1 1

Bibliography 117
 ILLUSTRATIONS
Page
1 The Author Fronticepiece

2 Mary M. Leigh The lady who brought the first

Drown Instrument to this country 10

3 Ruth B. Drown Presentation of 'Certificate of

Merit' awarded by the New York
Museum of Science and Industry 29

Diagnostic and Treatment Sets 48

Broadcasting Room 49

Mechanical Detector 49
4 Darrell Butcher Meter I 50

Internal Plate & Arrow Pattern 51/2

Meter III with special mechanism 53

Pegotty 54

Pegotty + Meter 55

'Straw Hat' 56

Upright Treatment 58

Diagram 'Rings' markings 59

Upright + Delawarr Cards 62

Archimedian & Huygens Principles 63

5 Ghadiali Early Spectro-Chrome Colour

50 years old 71

Mogen David Triangles 72

Colour Polarity Performance 73

Chemical Elements by Single

Polarity Predominance 75

6 Case 'Key to the Cosmos and Numbers' 93

7 Wilson '51' Diagnostic and Treatment 109

8 Roberts Author's new Diagnostic and

Treatment Instruments 110
 Foreword

Whilst reading this book

had to weigh and consider its implications
I

on Radionics in general. Many books

have been written on the subject
but they mainly seem to have followed an official line, and there are
many aspects that have been ignored, but which need an airing to pro-
vide a more comprehensive picture.
For example, to my knowledge, few students are aware of Mme.
Maury. I am a keen advocate of her dowsing and teaching techniques.
Nor do they know anything about Darrell Butcher, whose Pegotty in-
strument is widely used. Indeed this is the first time I have, myself, seen
anything in writing about his work.
I consider it is very important that this and as much other forgot-

ten material that is available be made known, so that students may pro-
perly examine the evolution of the subject and decide in which direc-
tion the future lies.

The first book describing the author's 'Path to Radion-

part of the
ics' is fascinating, something one rarely sees written down. What a
and is

familiar picture it is to many of us who, ourselves, have been pushed

into Radionics by an unseen hand.
I am delighted to see in the last chapter that detailed research is

being undertaken, and undoubtedly the new material will cause great
interest and comment.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, particularly
In conclusion,
as has a balance which gives considerable detail, but without becom-
it

ing too technical. The book provides a missing link in Radionic know-
ledge and should cause quite a stir and enable many people to enlarge
their thinking on the subject as a whole.

Mike Hallas
Former Member of the
Radionic Association Council
 INTRODUCTION

Another book on Radionics! That subject which is a scientific tease to

those who work in it, and a scientific anachronism to those who work
in the orthodox medical world. Why should I feel an urge to add to the
already ample supply of literature on the subject?
It all began in the Spring of 1980 when I received a telephone call
from a leading Member of the Radionic Association asking if I would
see a young man who was thirsting for factual information on Radion-
ics. I was intrigued by the sound of his enthusiasm, and an appoint-

ment was duly made. The young man, in his early thirties, told me that
as an Electronic Engineer he had become convinced that Electronics
could be used to explain some of the phenomena of Radionics, but
after much time spent in searching for facts, had been unable to find
any answers which satisfied his intellectual needs on the subject.
He obviously had a good brain, asking intelligent and fundamental
questions. So I decided that I might be able to help his quest and we
talked for a couple of hours, broadly covering the basic principles of
many of the early pioneers. Much of what I told him was news to him,
but when he left I did not really expect to see him again. However, just
a week later he 'phoned ... 'Could he come back for more talk?' An-
other appointment was made and in due course he arrived. On this
second visit we discussed books. I showed him my library and told him
of the copious notes I had taken over the past 25 years.
I explained that the growth from the inspired work of the early

pioneers to the experimental efforts of a few brave technicians had been

varied, but these early men and women, with considerable thought and
knowledge, had laid foundations lasting for over 70 years, and I con-
sidered their basic principles should not be lightly discarded.
I told him that after many years experience in the Radionic field,

I still had faith in the possibility of its ultimate recognition as an

accepted form of Healing. Therefore, I had given much thought to the

direction in which Radionics was turning.
At this point my enquirer suddenly interrupted me, "Mr. Den-
ning," he said, "You must get all this knowledge on paper before you
die!" A kindly thought for a man more than double his age. I thanked
him for the compliment, and we had a good laugh. But there and then
was born still another book on Radionics. As for the young man, a
steady friendship grew between us from that time. We both had one im-
portant factor in common. We were both convinced that Radionics
MUST have a scientific foundation if it was to survive. I agreed to write
a book, and in the meantime to give him all the information I could,
while he would supply me with advice from a scientific point of view.
I knew that another book on Radionics must have sound foundations,
but must also take the subject into the modern Electronic Era, and he
could provide this need.
In this book I have outlined some of the positive achievements of
individual pioneers, quoting from their writings rather than from their
histories.
There have always been two distinct schools of thought on Radi-
onics, whether it is a matter of Mind alone, or whether there is any
factual evidence that it can be based on a physical level.
In physical radionics, as practiced by the pioneers, the concept
was that they were measuring an energy, as yet un-named. This was the
teaching on which radionics was founded, and it was expected that, on
such a basis, it could become an accepted therapy. Since then, however,
the idea has grown that the same results in diagnosis which are ob-
tained by physical measuring, could be achieved solely through the use
of the mind ... a form of Non-Physical Radionics with no recognisable
scientific backing.
I have always maintained, and still do, that if one is working on a

sustained campaign for universal medical recognition, the fact must be

faced that it will not come about unless there IS a sound scientific

background. Without this, recognition will not be granted and the

whole issue will remain confused. I examine and enlarge on this state-
ment in my book, explaining in which way I feel it can be achieved.
My belief has been strengthened by an article in the September
1981 Radionic Association Journal addressed to 'PAST AND PRESENT
STUDENTS OF THE SCHOOL OF RADIONICS' by the Chairman of
the School Management Committee where she writes:

"We, the School, are very aware that somehow, some-

time — we hope in the not too distant future — Radion-
ics will become recognised by the State and will be able
to take its place side by side with the Medical pro-
fession."

Among the many pioneers in this field, Dr. Ruth Drown stands
pre-eminent and I have therefore devoted one chapter to her work,
quoting from her 'Theory and Technique of the Drown Radio Therapy'
and also from her other books.

It may occur to my readers that I have omitted to quote from any

of the latter-day writers and practitioners. My reason for this is that

they are well known and have been widely covered in other publica-
tions. I have attempted to move away from their subjects and to include
new and generally unknown fields of material which do not appear to
have been written about before.
I refer in particular to Prof. S.W. Tromp who PROVED that Radi-

onics could be explained on a scientific, physical basis; to Dr. Geo.

Crile, the eminent, highly qualified and internationally known medical
specialist who was a contemporary of Lakhovsky; to Butcher, one of
whose instruments is much used in treatment today and whose princi-
ples and theories have never been fathomed. These I have shown as
being based on three fully acceptable scientific principles. Lastly, I have
included Dinshah Ghadiali, a brilliant Indian scholar and doctor, who
advanced his theories on colour therapy based on Light rather than on
Pigments.
I end the book with a comparison of the Eastern and Western Tra-
ditions of the Ancient Wisdom, and with thoughts on the possible fu-
ture for Radionics in the Electronic Era.
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My Path to Radionics

Once upon a time I had a dream, that Science would prove Radionics to
be true. At last, after working in this field for many years, the dream is,
I believe, within reach of becoming a reality. But in order to illustrate

my journey along the radionic path, I must begin by describing my own

pre-radionic experiences which led me to take up this work.
Firstly, what is Radionic Therapy? It is a form of 'Absent Healing'
by the use of a 'Force' or 'Energy' in conjunction with instruments.
What is this energy and how does it manifest? To the first part of the
question the answer is that this is unknown. There are, however, some
men and women who, when they have reached a certain point in 'inner
development' do know what it is, yet are unable to describe it in terms
acceptable to science. Others accept its existance intellectually, though
they too are unable to define it. Still more people can use it without
experience or understanding. It has been given many names, e.g. Reich-
enbach called it Odyle; Reich, Orgone; Paracelsus, Munia; Eeman, X
Force; Alchemists, First Matter; Theosophy, Fohat; Alice Bailey,
Cosmic Fire.
It is the Energy that manifests itself through all forms of express-
ion on Earth; through physical form with all its complexities — physical,
chemical, biological, electrical, magnetic etc, and through the Etheric
and subtle fields of which life is composed. It is the Energy that flows
through the hands of a 'Healer' which is released through the shape of
;

the Great Pyramid; through geometrical and numerical patterns. It is, in

fact, Cosmic Energy.
It is the manifestation of this immeasureable Life Energy that is
measureable. What we are interested in here is how this Energy can be
effectively used for the benefit of mankind.
Let us begin where I began. By the time I was 45 years old, I had
been the victim of Ankylosing Spondylitis for more than half my life. I
looked 65, and life was not worth living. I was a misery to my family
and myself, and although I never contemplated suicide, in moods of
depression I would often wonder why it had to happen to ME.
This incurable complaint is a painful disease of the spine which
causes the sufferer to become gradually more and more bent forward
until his spine is is looking permanently
fixed in such a position that he
at the ground in front of his feet. My
doctor father naturally tried every
possible treatment for a cure, but without any success or even relief...
Heat ... Light ... Drugs ... Serum Injections ... Massage ... all these had
their turn, including the removal of all my teeth, one at a time, over a

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period of 32 weeks. Each week I would attend the surgery bent and in
pain, yet, half an hour one tooth less, I walked away down the
later,
street erect and in comfort. The reaction was so severe that my dentist,
a family friend, would not proceed in any other way. Nobody explained
why the sudden removal of the symptoms after each extraction occur-
red. But by the following week, I would go crawling back to the surgery
as crippled and uncomfortable as ever. Life indeed was intolerable. For
twenty years I was in and out of hospitals and clinics, always in pain
and with my condition deteriorating.
Then something happened. One winter while I was alone at home,
my family having gone for a holiday, I picked up a magazine called
'Everybodys' and idly thumbed through its pages. Suddenly my atten-
tion was caught by an article, and I found myself reading about 'wonder
cures' for people with every kind of diseased condition. I was fascinated,
but did not immediately relate it to myself. However something made
me go back later and re-read it, and I began seriously thinking about
these 'wonder cures' ... surely they were meant for people like me? I
hardly dared to think of myself as 'cured' - and in any case, the pain I
was enduring was too great for me to make the effort of following up
the idea. I had learned to live with it', in and out of hospitals for more
than 25 years, and nothing had changed its inexorable progress. But the
thought kept nagging at me ... Suppose a miracle of this kind were
possible for me? My thoughts began to race and back to the article I
went. Where was this clinic? In the City of London. That was not too
far away. Dare I go? After all I was on my own, with nothing to do. I
might as well make the effort as just sit around moping. It could not do
me any actual harm, and certainly I had nothing to lose. The magazine
said the next session was that very evening. I made up my mind even
though it was obviously a chance in a million. I would go without un-
due optimism and with no direct anticipation of a miracle result.
My destination turned out to be a large house in Russell Square in
the West End of London with a clinic on the first floor. I went in and
found myself in a reception room where some 30 people were sitting
patiently waiting. I gave my name to the receptionist and she said that
I would have to join the others and wait my turn. I took a seat and

watched what was going on. The proceedings seemed routine. One by
one people would be called and would disappear behind a curtain where
they would remain for 5 to 10 minutes. They then went into cubicles
round the room, in which they were received by men and women wear-
ing white coats. After a further 20 minutes or so, they would emerge
and depart. For an hour I sat waiting for my turn, by the end of which
time I was in such pain that I felt I could no longer stay. I went up to
the receptionist and explained this, and she said kindly, "Right, we'll
take you next". So a few minutes later I was ushered behind the large
curtain.
The room entered was dark, but there was enough light for me to
I

see that I was in the presence of a tall lady in a white coat. She was
standing, but at once indicated that I should sit on a stool in front of
her and with my back towards her. Slowly she passed her hands, with-
out once touching me, down the entire length of my spine. After a few
minutes she spoke, with a slightly foreign accent.
'You have injured the base of your spine, you have duodenal
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troubles and you have haemorroids."

Startled by the accuracy of the diagnosis, I thought ... "How can
she tell? Nobody here knows anything about me. Nobody knew even
that I was coming, and I have not spoken a word. What sort of place am
I in?"
The lady spoke again, "You have been a long time coming, but we
will cure you."
I could hardly believe my ears. The whole thing must be a dream.

I sat amazed and bewildered while the lady called a man in from the

hall and gave him instructions. Finally she turned to me ... "Go with
Mr Harris," she said, "He will treat you." That was the end of the most
astonishing five minutes that altered the whole course of my life.
Mr Harris led me to his cubicle. His approach was reassuringly
matter-of-fact and workmanlike.
"Please take off your coat and lie on the couch."
It might have been in an ordinary surgery or hospital. He placed

his right hand under the small of my back and his left hand on my
stomach. I had no idea what to expect, but immediately I felt a com-
forting warm glow spreading through my body. In minutes the acute
duodenal pain disappeared.
Wonderful I thought, but I don't suppose it will last, and what
about my back? When the half-hour's treatment was over, I was asked
to return once a week, and to this I faithfully adhered for three months.
At the end of that time a wonderful day dawned for me. I realised that
I had lived through a whole twenty-four hours without once being con-

scious that I even had a body, let alone a grumbling one.

On my next visit to Mr Harris, I asked if I needed to come any
more. His reply was illuminating and I have made use of the advice he
gave me many times with my own patients. What he said was simple
and to the point.
"Most people stay away when their pain has gone, but the cellular
structure of the body has not been recreated. If you are wise you will
stay with us until you are told that treatment is finished."
Accepting this advice I continued to visit the clinic for six more
months, during which time I was able to discuss many things with Mr
Harris, including the Spiritualist teachings. In particular I vividly re-
member this reply to my question ... "What do you want me to be-
lieve?"
"All I ask," he told me, "is that you treat anything I say with your
most critical faculty."
At the end of nine months, and on the day of my last treatment
he "You are going to do this work."
said,
I replied that insurance was my line not healing. However, time
proved that he was right.
Long before my final visit I had, of course, found out the name of
the lady who originally diagnosed my case. It was that of the famous
Spiritualist Teacher and Medium, Ursula Roberts, and to her, to Mr
Harris and to all who helped me my grateful thanks go out.
Up to the time I visited Russell Square I had never heard of let
alone been interested in Spiritualism. I was told that Miss Roberts was
in trance while she diagnosed, and that her 'Guide' had told her what
my troubles were. My curiosity having been thoroughly aroused, I set
about reading everything I could on the subject during the time I was
visiting the centre. However, I never became a Spiritualist because I felt
that I must also study a number of other philosophies. Then came a se-
quence of events that read like a fairy story, so interwoven were they
that I became convinced they simply had to take place.
One day I was visiting a local garden nursery to buy some vege-
tables. The lady who owned it was tall, six feet in height, and at the
time I got there, she was half-standing, half-sitting up against a bench
obviously in pain.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"Oh, it's my ankle," she replied.
I remembered Mr Harris' words, "You do this work,"
are going to
and in a flash something inside me your first case." In-
said, "Here's
stinctively I tried to reject the idea. "No, not me." I argued with my-
self, "Yes ... No ... Yes," and even while I did so, I knew that sooner or
later I would have to accept the challenge and obey.
"Take off your shoe," I said in my most convincing insurance
voice. Then I held her ankle in my right hand for several minutes. I
hadn't the faintest idea that anything was happening but I heard myself
say, "You'll be alright now," and overcome by my boldness I fled. She
had not said a word.
Next morning I plucked up courage and returned to the nursery,
only to find that she would not speak to me. But I persisted, and on
the second day, in great trepidation, I called again and asked, "How is
your ankle today?" To my supreme relief she actually smiled.
"Yesterday my ankle was much worse, but today I have no pain in
it at all."
I asked her to tell me her story. "Two years ago," she said, "I fell
heavily and since that day I haven't had a good night's sleep, in spite of
all kinds of medical treatment."
Six months later made a point of checking with the lady and she
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told me that after my treatment her ankle had given her no more pain.
In fact, until I reminded her, she had forgotten all about it.

This story was my ... what had happened

first healing experience
To me, had now happened Through me. would never be the same I

again. The two-way experience was not only a part of me but had
changed my entire outlook on life, and no amount of argument against
such phenomena would ever convince me that it could not or did not
occur.
My
second experience came a few days later when our milkman
hobbled up the path to our front door. I happened to be looking out of
the window, and went out to meet him.
"What's wrong with your leg?" I asked.
"Oh, it's not me leg, it's me back. It's giving me jip.' Here we go
again the inner voice said.
"Come into the hall," I invited, and safely out of sight I put my
hand on his buttock.
After a few minutes he exclaimed, "Blime Guv, wot yer got in yer
'and? Like 'lectric fire, yer 'and is, but the pain's going." He began
stretching and bending his leg cautiously, and five minutes after that he
walked happily away to complete his rounds.
Next day I waylaid him and asked him how the back was, and he
told me his story. "Tell the truth, when yer me into yer 'ouse
called
yesterday, I was going to ask if I could use yer 'phone to get a relief.
Felt as if couldn't take another step."
I

"And how did you manage after you left here?"

"Well, it was a bit stiff up ter the end of the road, but then, blime
I forgot all about it! Thanks a lot."
My third experience came quickly on the heels of these two. I was
asked to go and see a man in a neighbouring street. When I arrived he
was sitting in his dining room looking utterly miserable. To my query
he replied, "I've got an open wound on my ankle. I'm supposed to go
on hospital convalescence, but they won't take me with an open
wound."
His ankle was covered with a dressing, and to treat it I would have
to work through this. Very gingerly I rested my hand on the bandage
for a few minutes.
come back again in a couple of days' time," I promised.
"I'll

When I returned to keep my promise, his wife opened the door to

me, and before I could even ask after her husband, cried excitedly,
"He's gone! He's gone!"
"But he can't have," I exclaimed. "He's got an open wound. He
told me they wouldn't take him."
"He's gone all the same," she said triumphantly, "After you 'did'
him the wound was completely closed up by the next morning."

These happenings left me in a somewhat dazed state of mind, rum-

inating on my three healing experiences ... a sprained ankle ... lumbago
... an open wound. By now I was really thirsting for knowledge. Princi-

pally I wanted to know what made 'Healing' work? To me it had be-

come a burning question, and searching for the answer became the over-
whelming objective in my life. I wanted to know what healing was all
about and how health could be restored in seemingly hopeless cases.
Were there, I asked myself, laws relating to health and disease
which were unknown to the medical profession? Who was qualified to
work in this field, and were there any special procedures involved? I
found answers to my questions in due course, but I had to learn that
personal experiences enable one to speak with convincing authority.
For example, when someone says to me, "I've been in pain for
years!" I can say with conviction, "I know, I've been there." And when
someone says, "My doctor says I've got to learn to live with it. There's
nothing more I can do for you", I can reply, "This is probably untrue,
I have been cured of an incurable complaint."

Wondering where I should go in pursuit of my enquiries, a simple

incident swung the direction of my thoughts back towards Spiritualism.
I was driving from Chiswick to London one day when I saw a young

man I had met occasionally. We did not know each other well, but I
stopped and offered him a lift. No sooner were we on our way than he
turned to me and asked if I knew there was a Spiritualist Centre in a
nearby road. This was two roads from where I was living. I replied that
I did not, but I made a note of the address. The point about this con-

versation was that neither of us knew the other had any leaning towards
the subject, and I never saw him again.
But I took his remark as a clue - followed it up and visited the
Centre. There I joined the ranks of a Healer who was working there one
evening a week.
At the same time I continued my investigations into another side
of Spiritualism by attending a number of 'Direct Voice Seances'. As
keenly critical as I tried to be, I found much of the strange phenomena
that went on at a sitting intrigued me.
For example, there was a queer cold breeze round our feet at the

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beginning; always trumpets whirling round the ceiling; whilst on several
occasions the room was filled with a revolting, but definitely non-
physical 'odour'. Once we all felt moisture like fine rain falling on us
and when the lights were turned up and we examined our clothes, they
were damp. These pehnomena seemed to me beyond normal physical
experience and required an explanation. However, none was ever given
at the time,during or after the sittings.
Getting back to my story of events, one day I called at our local
chemist's shop and the lady owner came forward. She looked straight at
me and before I could ask her for what I wanted, said, "You ought to
use a pendulum." Then without another word she retreated into her
dispensary.
I had no idea what she was talking about and called out to her say-
ing so, but she refused to say another word. I thought she was rambling

and promptly forgot the incident. But soon after this I was reading a
journal which spoke about a pamphlet called The Pendulum', and I
naturally sent straight off for a copy. This was a monthly revue of
Radiesthesia, founded by Lt. Col. F.A. Archdale. The first number
being in October 1950. It was invaluable for everybody interested in
our subjects as it was very comprehensive, e.g. in the first number we
have ... News Items from abroad; Serial numbers; Fundamental Rays;
The 'Mager Rosette' and compass; Testing soil; 'Bottled Rays'; Personal
Colours; Colours and musical notes; Residual rays and ghosts; Radies-
thesia and War; Radionic Therapy. No subject was excluded.
The Co-Editorship later included Mr Egerton Sykes, F.R.G.S.,
F.I. I. A. and the magazine ran until Vol. 16, No. 1 1 July 1967.
Mr Archdale also wrote that excellent booklet 'Elementary Radies-
thesia and the use of the Pendulum'.
I found the magazine contained an article describing new tech-
niques for diagnosing disease by a Dr. Mary Walker of Oxford. It also
included instructions for making a pendulum of one's own. I decided I
must make one, so I sneaked a cotton real from my wife's workbasket
and a wooden skewer from the kitchen drawer. I took them into the
park, and set about whittling down one end of the cotton reel to a
point. Then I pushed the wooden skewer through the centre of the
reel, made a small hole in the end of it for a cord, took it home, painted
it black, and 'lo and behold', I had created my first pendulum. It has

been constantly and effectively used ever since.

The article that had set me going included a notice of a lecture to
be given in Chelsea by Dr. Walker saying that she would describe her
new methods. This seemed too good an opportunity to miss. So off I
went and was so impressed by what she had to say, that when she had
finished I told her how interested I was, and this led to an invitation to
join her class in Oxford.
 Of course I had little idea what I was letting myself in for, but I
was convinced it was right to go and to find out if what she was teach-
ing was for me. I was delighted to discover that I was learning a great
deal.
It was at this crucial point that my life was disrupted by matri-

monial breakup. My wife left me taking our four year old son. My busi-
ness collapsed, so at the age of 45 I was left penniless. I moved into a
bed-sittingroom in a poor quarter of London and existed on £1.50 per
week dole money. How I kicked at fate for having dealt me such a blow!
Why should it happen to me, just at a time when events seemed to be
shaping my life towards a genuine vocation? I felt utterly alone and my
thoughts of the future were bitter.
What lay ahead? How should I earn a living? In the eyes of pro-
spective employers I could clearly read 'too old'. But, eventually,
a small clerical job came my way and I was able to pick up the threads
of life once more.
I went back to the lady in Oxford where I was able to buy a
radionic instrument and a book of instructions. In my small room I
worked and experimented evening after evening. Sometimes I managed
to make a successful diagnosis; at others utter frustration was the only
answer and I wanted to throw my 'Box' out of the window. But I kept
up these visits to Oxford, where I discovered what I really needed was a
book which Dr. Walker had shown me, published privately by Dr. Ruth
B. Drown of America, one of the founders of Radionics. It was called
Theory and Technique of the Drown Radio Therapy. Dr. Walker could
not let me have her copy and she had no other available, so I advertised
in journals, searched second-hand bookshops, and made endless
enquiries from everyone I could. One and all gave me the same answer,
"quite unobtainable".
Suddenly I was offered a basement room in a house off Baker
Street, run by a lady whose late husband had been taught by Dr. Drown.
It was an improvement in my fortunes for which I was most grateful,

particularly as it gave me the chance of talking radionics with someone

who lived in London. My visits to Oxford were no longer imperative and
I ceased to go there.

With my small belongings I moved in to my new quarters and a

new chapter of events. On my arrival I was greeted by a housekeeper
in a smart white coat. She showed me to my room, and on the way be-
gan telling me a sad story of how she had burnt her hand that day and
was very worried about it, since she was the sort of person who never
healed quickly.
She took off the dressing and showed it to me. It was a very bad
burn. She kept on pestering me about it, so in the end, in order to get
rid of her, I put my hand lightly on hers for a moment or two and said,

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"That could help". To my relief the small concession satisfied her and
she leftme to unpack. The sequel was surprising. The next morning she
rushed into my room exclaiming excitedly, "It's cured! It's cured!
Wonderful! You came in the night and I saw you do it! What shall I do
now?"
I said she could, if she liked, show it who was a
to the lady upstairs
physiotherapist. Later that day the lady asked me up
and we had, what
was for me, another momentous chat. Eventually the day came when
she produced another clue for me — she advised me to go and see a Mrs
Mary Leigh in Wimbledon.
"And who is she?" I asked.
"A wise old lady of 70 who has much knowledge of Radiesthesia.
A lady of 70 did not sound as if she could be particularly helpful, but I
made an appointment to see her and travelling to Wimbledon I arrived
at her house one afternoon about four o'clock. The old lady turned out
to be very alive and with an exceptional warmth of personality. She led
me straight into her garden, where there was a splendid old fashioned
tea laid out, and the subject most on my mind had to wait patiently on
buttered scones and fruit cake.
At last she started to talk about Radiesthesia and her opening re-
marks nearly made me fall off my chair. She pointed to a table beside
her and said, "That's the book you are looking for, isn't it? "I looked
and it was.
"You can have it, since I understand that you want to learn the art
of healing by this method. If you like I will teach you what I know."
I was so overwhelmed that I was speechless for a while. She talked

on until at last I was able to stammer, "What will it cost me?"

"Nothing," came the astonishing reply. "I was cured by Dr. Drown
and her technique in America and as I have private means and do not
have to earn my living, I freely pass on what little I was taught in thank-
fulness."
Of course, I was soon to discover that she knew a great deal, for
she had not only been a student of Dr. Drown and her methods, bring-
ing back to England the first of her instruments, but a personal friend
as well. She it was who had put such early pioneers as Dr. Mary Walker,
Mable Lloyd and Ruby Hodgson, all of whom were qualified Chrio-
practors, into direct contact with Dr. Drown when she visited England.
So my tuition began. Regularly one afternoon each week I went to
Wimbledon. There for two to three hours we battled out the techniques
of Radiesthesia, as it was then called, discussing and testing on her in-
strument. The remainder of the week I spent putting into practice what
she taught me. What a year it was! Fifty-two personal lessons. At the
end I felt that I could rightly claim to have had a thorough grounding in
the work, and Mary Leigh felt able to give me the following testimonial.
Mary M. Leigh

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Mary M. Leigh : 5 Clifton Road, Wimbledon, SW19

"Mr R.M. Denning has been studying with me for the

past few months some of the ways in which some of the
Drown Instruments may be used for the relief of suffer-
ing and the leading back of invalids into habits of good
health. I have greatly enjoyed our discussions.

In no way do I represent Dr. Ruth B. Drown 's dis-

coveries in the field of bioradiology, her work or her

philosophy, but for several months I studied to her
satisfaction in her Clinic in California before bringing
back with me the first of her instruments to be imported
into England.

That was in 1937, since when many others have been,

and many professional workers have learnt to use well
these and somewhat similar instruments. I continue in
personal friendship and in frequent correspondence with
Dr. Drown, and I can confidently rely on Mr Denning's
use of his instruments.

(Signed)

27.8.54 Mary M. Leigh

Slowly patients began to come, but I only had one instrument for
treatment purposes, so having saved a little money by this time, I
bought another which my physiotherapist's husband had used and
which would enable me to treat five patients at the same time.
My tutor had told me that there were four large instruments in
the country that were capable of treating 50 patients at once, and by
happy chance, I learned from another source, that one of these was for
sale. I mentioned this to Mary Leigh who said, "Well, I know all four of
them personally, and I'm sure that none of them would be so foolish as
to sell, but I'll write to them and we'll see what happens."
One reply came by return. "Yes, I am selling my instrument, but
it's on offer."
My hopes sank. But a week later a letter arrived for me.
"Offer not taken up ... you can have the instrument. Please collect
it at once."

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 I couldn't have been more eager only had £20 in
to do so, but I

the bank, which was completely inadequate when

discovered the in
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strument was valued in three figures. Dare I send my all as a deposit? I

decided it was worth trying, and off went my precious savings.
Imagine my horror when I received an answer by return and when
I opened it, my cheque fell out of the envelope. I thought that my offer

had been rejected. Then I read the accompanying note. "I said you
could have the instrument ... pay when you can."
Here now seemed to be an insoluble problem, but the following
weekend I was spending with some old friends who were interested in
what I was doing. At about 9.00 p.m. and although we had not once
talked about money, my host said, "You want some money, don't
you?"
"Yes," I answered quickly, thinking he was making some kind of
joke, and I lightheartedly went on to mention the three figure sum that
would enable me to buy that precious instrument.
To my astonishment, and without another word, he sat down and
wrote a cheque for the magic figure. "This is a loan, free of interest.
Pay me back when you can."
Unbelievably the treasure was to be mine after all.
Needless to say, I took this as yet another sign that I was to carry
on with radionics, probably on a full time basis. I had my instruments,
I had my training and much information. I was well set up for the heal-

ing path. The only question still without an answer was, how does it
work? With this in mind I waited for something to happen which would
show me where to look for guidance. Time passed until one day I was
told about an organisation called 'The Theosophical Society', and it
was suggested to me that with them I might find the answers I wanted
so badly. I was soon to realise that nobody in the Society was interested
in my subject, yet I knew that every contact has a value sooner or later,
and that this one was all part of a broader plan that I could not envis-
age.
So I joined their library, and there I found a wealth of information
which not only embraced new concepts of life and energy, but gave me
many of the basic principles of healing.

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Extra Sensory Perception : A Natural Function

My investigations of seances, described in the preceding chapter,

made me realise that there were forms of consciousness that were,
physically speaking, abnormal and unusual phenomena. Having experi-
enced them I wanted to know if they were truly abnormal, or if they
could be realised on a more rational and down-to-earth basis. Much
publicity has been given in books, on the radio and television, but
usually surrounded by an aura of mystery and scepticism. I asked my-
self ... Can ESP be a normal faculty of life? Several experiences of mine
pointed to such being in the realm of fact, not fiction.
For example, a lady in her early forties was sent to me because she
had a most unusual and unpleasant complaint, about which doctors had
been unable to help her. At certain times she would 'give off a highly
unpleasant odour. It was not a recognisable smell, and its pungency was
so strong that people had to leave the room where she was sitting. It was
not a regular occurrence, and she never knew when it might happen.
When she told me the story I was pretty sure from my seance experi-
ences that this distressing complaint was a psychic phenomena. On her
second visit I asked her if she could give me any clue or time when it
might be triggered off, or when it began.
Her reply was illuminating and profoundly interesting.
"Oh yes," she said, "I can tell you exactly when it began. I was on
holiday at the seaside and had just come out of a cafe and was walking
to the beach some 200 yards away. Just as I reached it I heard a thud
behind me. I turned to see what it was, and saw that an old lady whom
I had seen in the cafe had fallen, and what I can only describe as a

'black thing' left her and came and landed on my back. Ever since then
I have had this trouble."

After hearing this story I was sure that I was on the right track,
and began treating her radionically with some slight success. But I was
not happy that I had found the best treatment, so as I am not clairvoy-
ant myself, I called in an experienced Seer, and asked her if she would
come and meet my patient. She came, and when we were settled down
I explained, "This lady has a persistent problem from which she cannot

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get relief."
That was all the information I gave my friend. Without hesitation
she replied, "This lady has a black entity on her back which is causing
the trouble," and she went on to describe in detail what she 'saw'.
My patient agreed that her description was absolutely correct. Be-
tween us we were able to treat her effectively and she had no more
trouble.

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 Another experience that impressed me was when I was living in i

bed-sitting room Kensington. My room was on the ground floor of <

in
large house run by two Swiss ladies who lived and ran their dressmaking
business in the basement. One afternoon I returned to my room and, tc
my horror, found it filled with smoke. Instinctively I rushed to the win
dow and threw it open, then down a flight of stairs to warn the ladies
that there was a fire in the house.
Naturally we all ran back to my room to check how bad the fire
might be, but when we got there the smoke had vanished! Mystified, the
ladies went downstairs again and I went out.
Two days later my landladies received a letter from Switzerland
telling them that their brother had died, and it turned out that his
death had occurred at the exact time that I saw the smoke. They told
me that on the last occasion on which he had visited his sisters he hac
slept in my room!

One further example was when I was walking to a meeting one

evening and I suddenly found myself 'walking beside myself. I had not
experienced 'getting out of my body' before, but knew that this was nol
unique. At the time I was so scared that I jumped back into my body
pretty smartly!

My final conversion to the existence of a psychic world came in

the writings of Dr. S. Karagulla, MD, in her book Breakthrough to
Creativity, and in particular in some short stories in the chapter, True
Stories of Fantastic People'. These convinced me that psychic experi-
ences could be accepted as a part of ordinary living. I quote a few ex-
amples from her book:

"On one occasion Kay invited me for the evening to the home of a
physician who was interested in Higher Sense Perception. There was a
young scientist present who was making a reputation for himself in the
scientific world. He already had a number of developments and dis-
coveries to his credit. Both the scientist and the physician were inter-
ested in force fields, both those that could be detected by present in-
strumentation and possible fields that had not yet been detected. Dur-
ing the course of the evening I learned that the scientist was engaged in
research dealing with space platforms. He finally told me frankly, but
off the record, that he had received some of his very best ideas from an
individual with Higher Sense Perception. He had no hesitation about

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consulting individuals with HSP ability. He had found that some of the
ideas given him by these people were found to be of great value when
tested in the laboratory. Such information had saved him much time
that might have been spent in trial and error methods of investigation.
"The ideas given him enabled him to find a correct line of investi-
gation and proceed with it at once. He attributed some of his excellent
progress in his research and discoveries and his rapid promotion to in-
formation given him by those with HSP."

"Doctor George, a famous surgeon with patients in many parts of

He shows a some-
the world, was finally inveigled into discussing HSP.
what different pattern in his HSP abilities.
"He not only has a remarkable ability for diagnosis, but he can
often foresee events connected with his patients. He knows when a
patient can survive an operation and will benefit by it. He also knows,
no matter how excellent the prognosis, when a patient cannot survive
the operation. At times he operates when his consultants on the case
consider it unwise for a doctor to take the risk of surgery. Such patients
always recover.
"On one occasion he had gone to the operating room and his
associate was preparing to make the incision. Dr. George suddenly
changed his mind about where the incision should be made. In spite of
the protests of the assistant surgeon he marked out the incision in an-
other area, explaining that they would run into an artery in the area
which had first been marked out. His associate protested that there
could not possibly be an artery in the area. He was bewildered and con-
cerned that Dr. George thought so. However, when the patient was
opened up, there was a peculiar anomaly. The artery was in the wrong
place. If the incisionhad been made in the first area they would have
gone into the artery too suddenly to save the patient."

"I continued to seek out as many people as possible with different

types of Higher Sense Perception and study and evaluate their ability.
My friend Vicki finally broke down and described an experience which
she had had all her life. From time to time and sometimes for many
weeks and months at a time she went regularly to classes at night when
she was asleep. She could repeat word for word on awakening the
lectures that had been given and describe the class demonstrations
which had been made. She rather took it for granted that the material
of these lectures had to be in books available somewhere. The point was

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she had not read the books.
"From time to time she read accounts of some new scientific
theory or discovery that was in print for the first time, which she had
heard about in the 'night classes' months or even years previously. She
finds this type of experience an interesting phenomenon but says no-
thing about it. She is the president of a corporation
and cannot afford
to appear odd of other people.
in the eyes
"I finally persuaded her to discuss these classes with me in more
detail. She explained that they are different from a dream in that the
discourses given by the lecturer are in clear and orderly sequence. At
times teaching aids are used or there are laboratory demonstrations. She
goes to sleep and seems almost immediately to find herself on the
campus or in a building or a classroom of the University. These have
been the same buildings and lecture halls through the years. The archi
tecture is simple but not like any building she has seen in waking con-
sciousness.
"The demonstrations or teaching aids are what she calls 'thought-
forms'. The teacher or lecturer instantly brings into manifestation in
the air in front of him, three-dimensional models which he can turn and
alter at will. The models are instantly enlarged or reduced in size as the
teacher desires for demonstrating some point in the lecture.
"When she attends lectures on the atom, schematic models are
shown, also models that do not look like anything she has ever seen.
These models may be in motion or may be stopped for observation ...
Vicki's impression was that the others present were scientists from
different countries. The lecture lasted for some time and when she
awoke in the morning it took an hour to dictate it word for word."

"One of my most interesting contacts was with a chemist, a native

of the Canary Islands. He spoke English with certain quaint idioms and
with a decided accent. He had made some interesting discoveries and
someone suggested to me that he might be clairvoyant. Remarks which
he had made about his discoveries also suggested this possibility. Early
in my conversation with him I asked him point blank if he were clair-
voyant. He was astonished and assured me he was not.
"We proceeded to talk for several hours about some of his dis-
coveries. I had just about come to the conclusion that he had no parti-
cular Higher Sense Perception when I asked one more leading question.
How did he make his discoveries? He replied in his quaint idiom, "Oh, I
see me doit."
"What do you mean, I see me do it?" I enquired, puzzled.
"I see me do it, like TV, like the movies," he said.

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 "Do you mean you see it in your mind?" I asked.
"No, no. Like on the wall in front of me. Just like a moving pic-
ture on the wall."
Apparently he thought this was nothing unusual, so I proceeded
cautiously.
"How long have you been able to do this?" I asked.
"Since was very small, in the Canary Islands. Long before there is
I

TV I have my own TV. I see things in many places, things happening in

the world like the newscast. I tell my brothers and sisters like stories,
many things happening in the world, things that really are happening."
"He went on to explain that when he was working on some experi-
ment he saw himself in moving pictures on the wall in front of him do-
ing things in a laboratory that solved the problem on which he was
working."

From these stories, and many others, I reached the conclusion that
Extra Sensory Perception was a natural function of the human psyche
and a good deal more common than most people realise.

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The Case for Diagnosing by Measurement

When one considers the work done by the early Practitioners of

the past, one is impressed by the fact that all of them, in their different
ways, were taking measurements. Their electrical theories may have
been found wanting by modern research, but the fact of measurement
s clear. Whether we are talking about cellular structure, electrical
phenomena, colour radiations or any other aspect of our work, we are
nescapably dealing with radiations that are measurable.
There are a number of groups teaching Radionic Therapy. They all
probably have different ideas of how it should be presented. But one
nust look beyond their different concepts and consider what will take
Radionic Therapy itself"into an acceptable position as a fully recognised
therapy. Having been involved in the movement for many years, I have
is time passes, become more and more certain, that with very rapidly

increasing technology, scientists and doctors WILL find the answers for
which we have been searching.
In the meantime it behoves writers in this field to be precise in
their facts and specific in their terminology. A theory expressed fre-
quently is often accepted as a fact. In truth very few facts really exist,
but many theories in need of change are often well entrenched and
difficult toupdate.
Clear thinking will have to emerge. Certain myths will have to be
:onfronted and, if found wanting, be discarded. Myths dissolve in the
narsh light of truth.
The first and most important myth I will examine is that Radionics
is a para-psychological therapy having no basis in physics. This has been
disproved and illustrated with extensive experiments by Professor S.W.
Tromp, Professor of Geology, in his book Psychical Physics published
in 1949.
The second myth is the belief that Radionics and Esotericism are

inextricable. contend that they are two completely separate subjects

I

and although it is perfectly legitimate to use them as complementary

they should not be regarded as inseparable. One can be an excellent
Radionic Practitioner without touching Esotericism at all.
Abrams, Drown and other pioneers certainly knew about such
things as 'Inner Planes' and 'Hidden Force Fields' but they considered
that these were not for public consumption lest they raised confusion
and misunderstanding.
The third myth is the simple belief that one can write all manner
of inaccurate statements and terminology, and still hope for universal
recognition by science and medicine.

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 Words are vital for intelligent communication, and if Radionicl
Therapy is to be taken seriously, both facts and terminology must bel
capable of withstanding examination. One example will illustrate what!
I mean.

"Nearly all radionic instruments have a magnet in them and thisj

acts as an accumulator, transducer and radiator and both holds and!
sends out the energy pattern set on the dials."
Let us examine this statement. Firstly it is extremely complex and I

contradictory. Most radionic instruments do NOT have magnets in j|

them. If an instrument does have a magnet, and still works, the rest of
the statement is invalid.
As one radionic writer has put it, "The object throughout is to get
the truth whatever it may be." I agree entirely.
The must be to ask how measurements are
natural sequence to this
arrived at. There are onlytwo methods. The first by what is known as
the 'stick-pad' method. In a Drown Radionic instrument two metal
plates 4%" x 2 lA" separated by a thin card are set into the instrument
,

and connected with the circuit. This is covered by a firmly stretched

piece of thin rubber. According to Drown instructions, a rubber finger-
stall is worn and occasionally dipped into a fine white powder. Thus
the pad is quite smooth. However, when
the dials are set to a number
representing a gland, organ or disease in the patient, and the measuring
dial turned up from zero, at some point one clearly feels the pad 'stick'.
This indicates the normality or deficiency of the gland, organ or disease
in the patient. In later instruments other materials were used.
The second method is by swinging a pendulum. In both cases
Extra Sensory Perception comes into operation. By using his or her
faculty a trained and competent Practitioner can discover diseased or
unbalanced conditions within the living system of a human being,
animal or plant.
The first method implies that one is measuring a purely physical
energy, under which heading come such experienced people as Abrams,
Drown, Lakhovsky and others. They all considered each cell or organ of
the body to be a living entity, and that with a calibrated rheostat or
similar piece of mechanism, they could measure its function by the
vibratory rate or number which had been set on the instruments.
The other method, i.e. swinging a pendulum, implies the gathering
of information by posing a question to which the Practitioner wishes to
find the answer. By observing the nature of the swing of the pendulum
the Practitioner assesses whether the answer is YES or NO.
The former took their readings, deduced the results and treated
and cured their patients by this means. They arrived at their theories
and conclusions by using their intellectual knowledge, often by long
and tedious hard work. The latter rely on the swing of a pendulum to

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give them the information they require.

This question of physical and non-physical radionics poses a pro-

blem, but it is one which Dr. Aubrey Westlake, MRCS, LRCP, makes
fair comment in his book The Pattern of Health, where he writes,
"There can be no doubt, I think, that we must accept the fact that we
have definite physical forces operating in dowsing. There have, of
course, always been the two schools of thought on that subject; those
who think it can all be explained by the ordinary laws of physics - the
physical school, e.g. Madame Maury, in her book How to Dowse, says,
"What interests us at present is the physical or, as one may say, the
material form, and the possibility of putting it to real use and reducing
it to a system — and those who think it can only be explained mentally
— the mental or psychic school. There have been abundant facts to
support both sides, but the conclusion has been gaining ground of late,
that both may be right. We must in fact assume that we are dealing with
two different orders of energies, but which are in correspondence and
operate together. Progress in understanding will come from an accept-
ance of this fact, and with research to disentangle the physical from the
mental and indeed from the psychic and vice versa. In this way it will be
possible to build up a science, as well as an art, of Dowsing and Radi-
esthesia from a basic understanding of the true nature of the facts and
their interrelationship, particularly their correspondence."

In the development of Radionics it was found that actual contact

with a patient was not essential, and that a 'witness' i.e. a sample of a
patient would serve the same purpose. This 'witness' could be a blood-
sample, or amongst other things, hair. Radionic Practitioners who use
dried blood say this gives them all the particulars of the donor. As far
as I know, there has never been any written explanation of the validity
of this statement, but the following will remove any doubts from
peoples' minds.
Although not generally known, it has been proved by scientific
experiments in Germany and Switzerland, that dried blood can be re-
liquified, and that a sample of such will hold the precise properties it
originally had. I have written permission to quote the following, 'Ex-

tract translated from A Monograph of Experience' by Frieda Bessenich,

4

on The Method of the Sensitive Crystalization. Edited by the Natural

Science Section of the Goetheanum, Dornach. Copyright 1960 by
Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach

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(Schweiz)."
"The blood necessary for carrying out the test is taken from the
patient's finger. Formerly it was allowed to drip into a small graduated
test-tube with distilled water up to a concentration of 6% blood. It then
had to be put on crystallization immediately because it became useless
after one hour. For many years the possibility of changing the blood
into a condition which allowed its use after longer periods of time was
sought."
"In 1944 A. Rohlofs (Benefeld, Hannover) discovered that the
blood preserves its usefulness for the crystallization test if the blood is
drawn onto filter paper and allowed to dry. A series of comparisons
made in our laboratories confirmed Rohlofs' experiments, i.e. the use-
fulness of blood dried on filter paper is equal to fresh blood."
"After receipt of the dried blood in the laboratory the bloodspots
are cut out and dissolved in a corresponding quantity of distilled water
in a temperature of 37°C."
"Some drops of the blood-solution are then mixed with an 18.6%
Copperchloride solution. That mixture is poured into evaporating
plates. The time of evaporating before the actual crystallization starts,
should be 13-16 hours. After the crystallization is finished the plates
are dried for 1 2 hours."
"Rohlofs' discovery has been of great importance because it is now
possible to send blood samples to the laboratory by post. There is prac-
tically no limit in distance. Special investigations have shown that dried
blood is still useable after 2—3 weeks."
It will be seen that these experiments show that fresh blood, dried

blood and reliquified blood all hold the properties of the donor.

Still on the question of blood, there a theory that blood-samples

is

should not be used because, if a person has had a blood-transfusion,

their sample is no longer related solely to them. It is suggested that

blood samples should be replaced by hair. But it must not be forgotten

that blood samples have been used effectively by Practitioners for very
many years without difficulty or comment.
There is, of course, a practical point of view as well. Unfortunately
for those holding the 'no-blood' theory their premise does not stand up
to examination, and in order that there can be no possible ambiguity on
this score, I propose to enlarge on the theme in some detail.
A scientific colleague with whom I discussed the question put it
this way, "It is important to distinguish between the identity of the
donor being the chemical substance of the blood-spot or what lies with-
in the chemical substance.

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 "The blue-print of a person lies in the genes and these are in the
blood. Therefore, the radiations that the genes emit ... the emits, DNA
identifies the body. There cannot be any confusion on this.
"No modern scientist, no modern biologist but will confirm that
the identity of any living thing, particularly any vertebrate thing, lies in
the genes, and absolutely no two can be the same. The genes, whether
in the toe, or in the bones, or the head or finger are identical, and they
co-operate to make an efficient machine to maintain their existence.
"Now in the complex human form, we have the blue-print in the
DNA which is the genes, and whatever food we eat, the machine which
is the body, takes it and converts it into useable form for the body. And

having taken out such as it wants to provide energy, it disposes of the

residue.
"Blood made IN the body and destroyed IN the body. If the
is

body is its own blood, for a variety of reasons, and the blood
short of
of another healthy human is introduced, it doesn't substitute for the
body's natural blood, it simply assists the natural blood to carry on
acting, and the life in the body of BOTH is a short time in the terms of
the identity itself.

"The transfused blood has no permanent residence in the host

body. It is not of bone, or kidney. That is a dif-
like grafting in a piece
ferent thing. Blood is being destroyed regularly and recreated con-
stantly. And since the blood that is used in transfusion is mixed with
that of the body, and MUST be destroyed with the host's blood, there
can then be no further transfused blood left. Further recreation of
blood by the host, through its genes pattern, MUST retain the unique-
ness of that particular body. It can do nothing else."

We are now left with the problem of deciding how a blood-spot

can be linked to its donor, in such a far away place as, for instance,
Australia.
Scientifically, the answer is that 'all matter radiates' and that once
radio wave has been originated, it continues to radiate into infinity.
Once initiated, it never ceases to BE. This confirms the Esoteric Theory
that 'Everything is Everywhere'.

Finally we should examine

the premise that a snippet of hair is as
good a 'witness' blood-sample for making a radionic analysis. If one
as a
uses one's critical faculties, and I submit that one should do so in all
aspects of our work, the following story requires a convincing answer.

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 A lady hearing of Radionic Therapy, and being in need of help, de
cides that shewould like to try it. At breakfast next morning she tell*
her husband that she proposes to do so. He agrees, and she remarks.
"Good, but I can't go looking like this," and off she trots to an appoint
ment with her hairdresser. First she has a shampoo with a hair conditior
er, and as she is not as young as she used to be, she follows this with a
tinting. Setting lotion is essential for her styling, which is then finished
off with a half-hour's baking under the hair drier; finally she submits to
a lacquer spray which will protect her from the ravages of any wind or
weather which could spoil the whole happy event.
Groomed and satisfied, she goes off to her Radionic appointment
where she finds she is asked for a snippet of hair as a 'witness' of her
pattern of health. "Yes, I'll be pleased to give you one," and out come
the scissors. This, it is said, will give the Practitioner every detail of her
physical, mental, emotional and spiritual nature for the rest of her life.

I wonder. In the case of children or invalids it would, of course, be

quite possible to work from a urine sample which comes from the 'in-
side' of the body, or even from a photograph.

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 4

Basic Principles of some Pioneers

"Strangely, the expounders of some of the great new

ideas of history were frequently considered on the luna-
tic fringe for some or all of their lives.

"If one stands up and is counted from time to

time, one may be knocked down. But remember this, a
man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man
flattened by conformity stays down for ever."

(Author unknown)

The works of the pioneers, particularly for those who have not had an
opportunity to study them deeply are of absorbing interest. Their ap-
proaches to the development of healing techniques varied from indi-
vidual to individual, but in the ultimate all were striving to a single end
— that of alleviating the disabilities of mankind. In this chapter I have
tried to give some brief and possibly unknown factors about the notable
theorists who worked out their ideas, often at an inspirational level.
What can one do in a few paragraphs to show the value of men and
women who have spent their whole lives experimenting and propound-
ing new theories of healing? It is an impossible task and I can only point
to the direction in which this revealing information can be found.

Let us begin with Abrams.

Dr. Albert Abrams AM, LLP. MP, FRMS

Professor of Pathology and Pirector of the Medical Clinic,
San Francisco

New Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment

Physic o-Clinical Medicine

The Practical application of the Electronic Theory in the
interpretation and treatment of Pisease

Albert Abrams, the son of a successful San Francisco merchant,

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was born in 1863. The
inheritor at an early age of avast fortune from 1

his father, he decided to devote his talents and his life to medical re-|
search. By no means content with his American education and medical:
qualifications,and having mastered the German language, he enrolled
himself as a student of Heidelberg University, from which in due course
he graduated with the degree of MD (First Class Honours) and the Gold
Medal of his University.
Returning to his native California, Abrams was appointed Pro-
fessor of Pathology at Cooper Medical College, a branch of Stanford
University.

His work as a diagnostician has been the primary factor for most
authors, but it is essential that two other aspects ofhis work be given i

expression.
Firstly, he expounds in great detail matters concerning vibrations
emitting from the body, both from the physical and 'inner' points of
view. And although his work does not stress the occult teachings, his
knowledge in this field must have been extensive. The very brief ex-
tracts I have chosen from his book illustrate this other side of his re-
searches.
In his preface he writes:

"The author's new physico-diagnostic and theraputic

methods are not theories but physic o-clinical facts and
therefore endow this book with decisive meaning. The
laws of physical science are universal and apply equally
to living organisms and so-called inanimate things. This
iatro-physical conception demonstrates the trend of uni-
fying the various forms of force under one great prin-
ciple. Practical Medicine embodies all sciences and a
clinical diagnosis must invoke physical, biological and
chemical methods. The Electronic Theory demonstrates
the electrical nature of matter and radioactivity is a uni-
versal property of the latter. In disease, the re-arrange-
ment of the electrons is associated with the evolution of
energy endowed with a definite polarity, wavemeter in-
dex and vibratory rate. Insomuch as electrons are in
motion, there is a continual radiation of energy and the
instability of the atom, as expressed by the polarity of
my reactions, shows the constant loss of positive or neg-
ative, positive and negative or neutral electrons.

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 "

I follow this by extracts from his chapter on Energy and Vibra-

tions.

"ENERGY — The present age marvels at man's con-

quests of the forces of nature. Yet, this age of energy
can only be triumphant when man can know and then
direct and control the more important forces within
himself."

"HUMAN ENERGY - Investigations of all ages have

espoused the theory of human radiations."

"To some, the organism is compared to a Voltaic

battery which emits something akin to electricity.
"The hagiologist conciliates the reality of radiations
by referring to the auras in ancient pictures around the
heads and bodies of Christ and the saints."
"The phenomena of light in materialization has been
witnessed and accepted by notable scientists as spirit-
istic phenomena. Of superstition, it has been said, that it
is true psychology with the wrong dress."

"The writer is convinced that the phenomena are

realities independent of disembodies spirits and can be
referred to the manifestations of human energy. Dis-
occulting the occult will be possible when one attains a
better understanding of the activities of living cells and
when the biologist shall know the laws that govern cell-
growth with the accuracy of the scientist knowing his
laws."

"Every individual, it is maintained, is enveloped in a

radiance (Aura) invisible to the carnal eye and only per-
ceived by the soul accustomed to it. Perception of the
aura is the supposed prerogative of clairvoyance but
Kilner has shown that anyone can observe the 'atmo-
sphere' surrounding the human body by aid of chemical
screens, notably, one containing a solution of dicyanih,
which, by partially paralyzing the retinal rods and cones
causes visibility of the aura in a darkened room."
"Kilner does not explain the auric force. The aura is
probably energy-discharge. In a letter from Dr. Kilner,
the latter observes; 'Your opinion that the aura is only
energy emanating from the body corresponds entirely
with mine, only I have expressed it in a different man-
ner. I have tried to see it on the dead body but have
always failed to do so."

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 Dr. RuthDrown DC
B.

Theory and Technique of the Drown HVR and

Radio-Vision Instruments

"Introduction

"The purpose of this book is to help the doctor with

the use of the instrument, correlation of his diagnosis
and treatment. In order that he may have a broader un-
derstanding and knowledge upon which to base his
findings, the true foundation of life is touched upon.
"Very ancient writings deal almost wholly with the
rates of vibration of all things pertaining to the mental
and physical world of mankind. It is impossible to diag-
nose and treat the physical body without relating it to
the mental. After two years of using our radio instru-
ments, we found in the deeper study of ancient wisdom
amazing and satisfying corroboration of our own de-
velopment of rates of vibration. These will be discussed
later with reference both to our instruments and to that
ancient knowledge."

Items which are described in a later chapter include:

1. An explanation of the HVR Diagnosis and Therapy.
2. Making a 'Blue-Print' of the body.
3. Endocrinology in Modern Practice, correlated with the Drown
System of Diagnosis and Treatment.
4. Procedure for Running a Blood Count, Making a Urinalysis,
Checking Temperature, Blood Pressure, Impinged Nerves and
Diet.

The Science and Philosophy of the Drown Radio Therapy 1938

In this book she expounds her philosophy of Life. Chapters in-

clude:

1. Life as an energy, a consciousness and a substance.

2. Life Force and Magnetism in relation to the body.
3. The Chemistry, Physics and Metaphysics of the body.
4. Radio-Vision photographs.
5. Diagnosis and Treatment.

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 The following quotation comes from the quarterly Journal of
Drown Radio Therapy.

Drown presentation

"On December 10 at a luncheon in the Rainbow

Room atop the RCA Building, the Certificate of Merit
was awarded to Dr. Ruth B. Drown by the New York
Museum of Science and Industry, a part of the Rock-
feller Foundation. The Award was made for her
Hemorrhage Control and Diagnostic instruments, and
read as follows:

This is to certify that

Ruth B. Drown
The Drown Laboratories
Has been awarded the
Certificate of Merit
for the Year 1946
For her efforts in stimulating interest
in the human body and the correction of its ills.

R. P. Shaw, Director

The award crowns 29 years of research and 1 8 years of

practical use."

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 George Lakhovsky

Engineer/Physicist. Born Russia. Naturalised French. Awarded the Red

Ribbon of the Legion of Honour for his technical services during the
war.

The Secret of Life. Cosmic Rays and Radiations of

Living Beings
Translated from the French by Mark Clement

Preface by Professor D'Arsonval

"What are you thinking about, Faraday? If I were to

tell you, my dear Deville, you might think I was suffer-
ing from hallucinations.
"Such is the legend.
"More confiding than Faraday, Lakhovsky has told
me the gist of his ideas on radiations and their effects on
living beings. He thought, and rightly, that his ideas
could not shock an experimenter who, for the past
thirty-five years, had studied the effects of the full range
of Hertzian waves on animals and microbes.
"In scientific research it is advisable to encourage
what appears to be the most daring ideas. I have lived in
the intimacy of two great men: Claude Bernard and
Brown-Sequard, who revelled in new ideas. It did not
pay them too badly!
"The phenomenon of resonance have long been
familiar to physiologists. We all know the accoustic re-
sonators of the organ of Corti, the optic resonators of
the retina since the famous researches of Helmholtz.
And still more familiar to us, the biological resonators
of Charles Henry Lapicque, Latzareff and myself have
invoked on several occasions the phenomena of cellular
resonance in order to explain the action of nervous in-
fluences or other physical agents in living beings.
"That space is full of forces which are unknown to us,
and that living beings emit radiations or effluvia of
which we are not aware, but whose significance has at-
tracted the attention of certain observers, are facts that I
have long since accepted. Anything is possible. But one
must not accept anything except that which can be ex-
perimentally proved. The ideas of an insane person
differ from the conceptions of a genius mainly because

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 experiment invalidates the former and confirms the
latter.
"Lakhovsky, encouraged by his own researches and
the practical results he has obtained, is particularly
anxious that his theories should rouse interest and stim-
ulate experimental work among independent investi-
gators. Lakhovsky's theories constitute what Claude
Bernard called 'working hypotheses'.
"In The Secret of Life' Lakhovsky confines himself
to the study of electromagnetic waves, deeply penetrat-
ing waves and unknown waves.
"There are certainly many more processes of energy
transmission besides those revealed to us by Newton and
Fresnel. It is in the study of human beings that the
chances of discovering such processes are most promis-
ing. Therefore, let us experiment by using the methods
of physicists and chemists, and let us aim at discovering
the special detector mentioned in the conclusion of this
work."
D'Arsonval

Now follow two extracts from Lakhovsky's Introduction.

"Every progress in the evolution of knowledge shows

a newpoint of view and enables us to explore further
the whole field of different sciences, to know their
various states of advancement, to observe their mutual
relations and the assistance they can render one an-
other ...

"Uptill now this original conception of radiation,

which seems to be the basis of all positive knowledge,

has been confined to the realm of physical sciences and,
apart from an incursion into industry, it has not made
any important contribution to the natural sciences
whose development appears to be limited to that of or-
ganic chemistry ...

"What then is this universal radiation in living beings?

My theory expounds in simple terms its fundamental
principles and discloses its nature. In deriving support
from the most recent discoveries in the domain of radia-
tions, my theory demonstrates, with the aid of elemen-
tary analogies, that the cell, essential organic unit in all

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 living beings, nothing but an electromagnetic reson-
is

ator, capable of emitting and absorbing radiations of

very high frequency."

Translator's Introduction

... 'The English version is also the only one contain-

ing the remarkable photographs of cases treated by
means of Lakhovsky's famous apparatus, the Multiple
Wave Oscillator."

"The theories of Lakhovsky bear a striking similarity

to those of Dr. George Crile, the eminent American sur-
geon, whose great work on surgical shock has earned
him an international reputation.
"In his admirable book entitled The Phenomena of
Life, Dr. Crile points out that electrical energy plays a
fundamental part in the organisation, growth and
function of protoplasm. Lakhovsky and Crile, pursuing
their investigations independently, have come to the
identical conclusions.
"While the engineer physicist was experimenting with
his oscillating circuits, the surgeon was testing in the
clinic the principles of radio-electricity.
"The foundations of Lakhovsky's theories rest on the
principle that life is created by radiation and maintained
by radiation. Crile states that man is a radio-electrical
mechanism and stresses the significant fact that when
life ends, radiation ends. He writes, 'It is clear that radia-

tion produces the electric current which operates adap-

tively the organism as a whole, producing memory,
reason, imagination, emotion, the special senses, secre-
tions, muscular action, the response to infection, nor-
mal growth and the growth of benign tumours and can-
cers, all of which are governed adaptively by the electric
charges that are generated by the short wave of ionising
radiations in protoplasm.'
"Like Lakhovsky, Crile holds that living cells are
electric cells functioning as a system of generators, in-
ductance lines and insulators, and that the role played
by radiation and electricity in living processes is no
more mysterious in man than in batteries and dynamos."

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I therefore follow Lakhovsky's work by that of Dr. George Crile.

Dr. George Crile

The Phenomena of Life. A Radio-Electric Interpretation

Introduction

"Oxidation produces radiation energy.

Radiant energy generates electric currents in proto-
plasm.
Electricity is the energy that governs the activity of
protoplasm.
The normal and pathological phenomena of life are
manifestations of protoplasm.
Therefore the phenomena of life must be due to
radiant and electrical energy."

After numerous experiments ... "it became evident that

death of an animal was associated with loss of the acid-
alkali balance within the cells of the organism.
"What could be the fundamental relation between the
relative acidity of the nucleus and the relative alkalinity
of the cytoplasm?
"An acid colloid and an alkaline colloid separated by
a semi-permeable membrane, a dialectric membrane,
constitutes a concentration cell, within which an electri-
cal potential exists between the positive and the negative
poles.
"According to this conception the cells of the organ-
ism are electric cells in which the comparatively acid
nucleus constitutes the positive pole and the compara-
tively alkaline cytoplasm the negative pole.
"On this basis, therefore, we began to consider the or-
ganism as a bi-polar mechanism and to direct our re-
searches into the field of bio-physics.
"According to our systologic findings, the mainten-
ance of the acid/alkaline balance between the nucleus
and the cytoplasm of the cells — the electric potential —
is essential to life and furnishes the immediate driving

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 energy of the living process itself. Its reduction to zero
or equilibrium is death.
"It remained, however, to discover how this vital elec-
tric potential of the cells is maintained. We assumed that
the electric potential is mainly due to oxidation and
that, in turn, the electric potential within the cell
governs oxidation.
"Proteins hold active nitrogen in bonds from which it
is released by electric forces thus producing the radia-

tions which we postulate are the primary source of living

energy.
"The mechanism by which oxidation within the pro-
toplasm of the cell generates the electric charges that op-
erate the cell and the organism we postulate is due to
the short wave radiations generated and emitted by oxi-
dation within the protoplasm. According to this con-
ception this short wave radiation knocks off electrons.
These moving electrons charge up the intricate network
of the nervous system as well as the infinitely thin mem-
branes that separate the various units of structure and
the network within the cells.
'The unit of structure and of function of the living
organism is the cell. The nucleus of the cell is compara-
tively alkaline. The nucleus and the cytoplasm are sepa-
rated by a semi-permeable membrane.
'Therefore the cell is a bi-polar mechanism or an elec-
trical battery, the nucleus being the positive element,
and the cytoplasm the negative element.
"The rate of oxidation in the nucleus is greater than
the rate of oxidation in the cytoplasm, and therefore an
electric tension increases in the nucleus; the electricity
passes through the nuclear membrane; the electrical
potential in the nucleus falls and in consequence the
current is interrupted.
"There are two lines of evidence which indicate that
the structure and function of cells are both dependent
upon the maintenance of the normal electric potential."

These are then given.

Having dealt with four outstanding thinkers, I paused. Professor

Tromp was next on my list, and feeling that his work is virtually un-

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known to many, a whole chapter devoted to him would not, I thought,
be out of place. The breadth of his researches was phenomenal and he
deserves more recognition by contemporary practitioners than he has so
far been given.

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 5

S. W. Tromp, Professor of Geology

Psychical Physics

A of Dowsing, Radiesthesia
Scientific Analysis
and Kindred divining Phenomena

Few people have heard of Professor Tromp in the Radionic sphere, but
I feel that his is of such importance to our subject, that I
contribution
now give extracts from his book. This will enable a picture to be formed
of the depth of his researches and his conclusion that Radionics is not a
para-psychological therapy having no basis in physics. In his introduc-
tion, only a part of which can be given here, we read:

"The task of this publication is three-fold; first to

establish whether the different divining phenomena
really exist or are due only to suggestions; secondly,
when established, to study all the disturbing factors;
thirdly to analyse whether the reactions of diviners
(after they have proved to be real) can be used as indi-
cators for certain external physical conditions.
"The author, a geologist, met many dowsers in his
work and always was extremely sceptical about their
capacities; the results he had seen were not very con-
vincing. Around 1940, however, more and more im-
portant data were collected which indicated that divin-
ing phenomena were as real as electricity and other
physical phenomena. In 1946 and 1947 scientific tests
were arranged in the physical and physiological labora-
tories of Leiden University (Holland) and in the labora-
tory of Technical Physics at Delft (Holland).
"These experiments with artificial magnetic fields and
string-galvanometers indicated:

1. That divining phenomena are not due to char-

latanry and suggestion but really exist and that
the number of people sensitive to these pheno-
mena is greater than is usually assumed;
2. That a great number of physical and physio-
logical factors might cause errors in the registra-
tion of these phenomena by our nerves and
muscles; this could explain most of the so-called

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 'failures' of scientific tests on diviners;

3. That these phenomena can be explained by the

normal physical and physiological laws: there-
fore they should not be called para-normal nor
do they belong to para-psychology;
4. That many of the so-called para-psychological
phenomena might be explained by the same
methods of research, bringing para-psychology
into the ordinary medical sciences;

5. That a careful analysis of these phenomena

might prove to be of great value to future medi-
cal science.

"The problem of the physical and physiological

causes of divining phenomena and of the influence of
external electric fields, magnetic fields or a combination
of both on living organisms is extremely complicated,
and it is impracticable for one research worker to study
the whole problem.
"We have therefore tried to summarise in this publi-
cation only the different aspects of the problems of
divining, in order to give the scientific reader an idea of
the enormous field of research which is required for the
solution of these problems. Should this summary stimu-
late co-operative work in the field of 'psychical physics'
and remove scientifically unjustified prejudices the
author will feel sufficiently rewarded for his work.
"The book is divided into three main chapters.
In the first chapter an analysis is given of the electro-
magnetic fields in and around living organisms. This
problem divided into three parts; the electro-magnetic
is

fields created in the living body (so-called organic fields),

those in the upper part of the earth's crust (geo-physical
field), and those in the atmosphere (climatological or
meteorological field). The interaction of these three
fields is reviewed and the author has endeavoured to
demonstrate that the existence of divining phenomena
can be expected even on the theoretical grounds.
In the second chapter further evidence is gathered to
support this theoretical possibility and a summary is
given of the different influences of electrostatic, electro-
magnetic and magnetic fields on living organisms.
In the third chapter the divining phenomena are an-
alysed scientifically and the experiments of the author

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described in detail. This chapter is divided into five
parts; Rhabdomancy (water divining etc.), Radiesthesia
(pendulum phenomena), Magnetizer phenomena, sensi-
tivity for direction of animals and finally a short review
of the possible applications of the previous analyses on
other para-psychological phenomena. (Psychical Physics).

Experiments by S.W. Tromp 1 947

"From September 1946 to June 1947, a number of

experiments were carried out by the author, first in the
Physical and the Physiological laboratories in Leiden
(Holland), and later in the laboratory of Technical
Physics in Delft (Holland).
"The experiments consisted of three main groups:
1. Experiments with artificial magnetic fields (assis-
ted by Van der Starre, Chief Technical Assistant
in the Physical laboratory);

2. Experiments with a string galvanometer of Ein-

thoven (carried out with the assistance of M.J.
De Groot, technical inventor of the string galv-
anometer of Einthoven);
3. Electro-static experiments (carried out with the
assistance of the Physical Engineer, H. de
Zeeuw).

"The main purpose of these experiments was to find

a method that enables us to prove or disprove convin-
cingly the reality of dowsing reactions.
"The first group of experiments was carried out be-
cause the author had noticed during geophysical work
that dowsing reactions seem to coincide with magneto-
meter maps. At that time he was not yet aware that
many other physical phenomena, besides the disturb-
ances in the magnetic field of the earth, can be respon-
sible fordoswing phenomena.
"The second method was chosen in order to study the
fluctuations of skin potentials of dowsers with a con-
tinuously self-registering multivolt-meter.
"The third group of experiments was carried out in
order to study the influence of electro-static induction
on dowsers.

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 'The author believes that with these experiments it is

possible to prove the reality of dowsing phenomena.

"Before we discuss the experiments in detail, a short
summary is given of the main results that support the

statement that the reality of dowsing phenomena could

be proved with at least four different independnet
methods:
1. Artificial Magnetic Fields.
2. Experiments with a string galvanometer of
Einthoven.
3. Experiments on sensitivity to local disturbances
of the earth's magnetic field.
4. Experiments on sensitivity to electric fields.

Medical applications of Pallomancy

"We can be very brief here as most of the appli-

cations have been discussed in the conformable section
on divining rod experiments and in the pages on pallo-
mancy. The main applications of pallomancy are:

1. The possibility of specific auto-sensitization

which might enable a doctor to establish more
accurately in each individual case the requisite
dosage of drugs. A human being is not a machine
and each person has his specific degree of sensi-
tivity to drugs. Usually a doctor has very little
chance to know exactly which dose is the most
favourable. He will give one, two or three tab-
lets day whereas the optimum treatment of
a
that particular organism might be obtained with,
for example, 1 2/ 5th tablets. A scientific study
of this subject is therefore of the greatest im-
portance.

2. The determination of the pattern of the electric

field of the human body, which as we have seen
reflects all the physiological processes in the
body. Once we have learned to interpret this
pattern correctly we might predict certain dis-
eases long before normal medical methods en-
able a diagnosis to be made. On the other hand

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strong artificial electric fields might influence
this pattern and could have healing effects which
otherwise are difficult to obtain.

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 Dr. Ruth B. Drown DC

As a student and follower of Dr. Drown it gives me great pleasure to

include a chapter on her work in my book, outlining her techniques
and basic philosophy.
I cannot do better than to begin with comments made recently by
a leading Radionic Practitioner who wrote:

"When X
first came into Radionics in 1953 she had

great help from such people as Ruby Hodgson, Mabel

Lloyd and Dr. Mary Walker to name just a few. Their
diagnostic work was fantastic, the accuracy of which
cannot be bettered today."

These three ladies, all of whom I knew, were trained Chiro-

practors, who were personally taught by Dr. Drown, and I feel it will
also pay tribute to them when I describe her procedures. I am there-
fore quoting from her main book, Theory and Technique of the Drown
Radio-Therapy.

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 Extracts of Lectures given by Dr. Gladys Shutt

Speaking of the Drown instrument she writes:

"It is so constructed that the operator is able select-

ively to tune in to the various organs, glands and tissues
of the body and receive each patient's specific wave-
length. Then, by precise tuning, the degree of variation
in that wave-length reception from the normal point can
be determined; and the degree of variation in function
of that tissue, as well as the variation in energy produc-
tion and molecular activity can be interpreted.
"Invading organisms and disease tissue formations
have their own molecular arrangements; their presence
in the body tissues may be detected by tuning in for
their particular frequencies in the same manner. Hence
the physician using the Drown Method has accurate
facilities for differential diagnosis as well as for func-
tional charting of organs, glands, tissues and systems of
the body.
"To be sure, the Drown Instrument
an instrument,
is

not a machine. It is not meant

supplant the
to
physician's brains nor substitute for them. Its use, like
that of the stethoscope, must be combined with wis-
dom, thoughtfulness and knowledge. The doctor must
be able to interpret his functional findings in the light of
their possible effects on organic function and pathologi-
cal developments, and with those possibilities in mind
proceed to differentiate between them by using the in-
strument for detection of their presence or absence. The
greater his knowledge of anatomy, symptomatology,
physiology, histology, pathology etc., the better diag-
nostician he becomes and the greater his field of useful-
ness with this instrument.
"In the same way that the operator tunes in on the
various body functions and diseases, he can tune in on
remedies for the elimination of those disease vibrations,
and the causes producing them. Homeopathic physi-
cians, particularly, have found the Drown HVR Instru-
ment invaluable because of its accuracy and exactness
in checking homeopathic remedies both for potency and
polarity in the dissipation of those disease reactions re-
ceived in the instrument

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 Extract of lecture given by Dr. Ruth B. Drown
HVR Journal, March, 1932
Making a Blue-Print of the Body

"Is thorough diagnosis too much trouble? To this

question, the average physician who is conscientious and
has knowledge of his work will respond with an em-
phatic 'no', but the one who has skimmed over the sur-
face, working only for his degree and not for the know-
ledge he can gain, will answer in the affirmative.
"Yet in the last analysis the patient really settles the
question, for he will have confidence in and remain with
the doctor who is skilled, and will leave the one who is
not.
"This in our opinion, is why we have patients coming

to us continually and who have been to as many as

thirty or forty physicians all over the world, and who
have found that the detailed diagnosis delivered to them
through our work have uncovered the obscure condi-
tions which previously seemed so difficult to locate. We,
too, would have found the matter difficult were it not
for the use of the HVR
instrument.
"In some cases we have brought to light a condition
previously discovered by another doctor, yet this same
condition proved to be only a part of the whole trouble.
Consequently, because of the unusual accompanying
disturbances, the patient was not relieved of pain and
distress when treated.
"In one such instance, a physician in England dis-
covered what appeared to be diabetes, and accordingly
gave his patient a diet. (From this diet we knew his diag-
nosis). However, we found not only the diabetes but
also uncovered the fact that at its base was a tubercular
condition of the Islands of Langerhans in the tail of the
pancreas. An additional factor in the trouble was dis-
covered to be psoas abscess. We located two such ab-
scesses one on each side of the body. These had affected
both hips to the degree that the patient was hardly able
to walk.
"We brought to light other resulting conditions and
even causes. Had previous physicians on the case dis-
covered all these, they would have been able to aid the
patient. Inasmuch as they did not help him, we are com-

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 pelled to conclude that they did not get to the root of
the trouble, because he was healed under our treatment.
"We are continually being questioned by doctors as
to the correctness of our diagnosis. We are also constant-
ly being checked by the laboratories, which procedure
we welcome.
'it is our definite opinion, after being examined tho-
roughly on our work by many physicians, and at the
same time examining the knowledge of other doctors,
that it is the one who has an open mind, who is con-
scientious, scientific, keenly thorough and always ready
to learn, who will accomplish the most and as a result
will keep the largest number of patients.
"Many times doctors who have looked over our de-
tailed diagnosis sheet have commented, it is too much
trouble to go through all that'. But we have never had a
reaction of this sort from a physician such as we have
described above. He knows the value of thorough, scien-
tific diagnosis."

Ruth B. Drown HVR Journal, February, 1932

"Obviously, a complete and scientifically accurate

'blue-print' of the condition of the patient's body is of
inestimable value to the doctor. This it is possible to ob-
tain with the HVR Instrument, since it may be tuned in
to any part of the body for measurement of function
and for disease. In fact, measurement of function of the
glands and organs in the body is the fundamental basis
on which a diagnosis with this instrument is built.
'in testing with the HVR, the first step is therefore
to register the function of these various organs and
glands, also of the blood vessels and the nervous system.
A differential blood count is then made, followed by a
urinalysis. In addition, blood pressure, temperature, im-
pinged nerves and diet may be checked on the instru-
ment if desired. This gives a complete ground-work for
procedure in diagnosing disease.
"If the physician has a true case history, much time
and labor is saved at this point through the process of
elimination.
"... It is quite essential to know the symptoms, age,

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weight and height of the patient, whether he has under-
gone operations, the children's diseases he has had, and
the possibility of congenital diseases in the family. It is
always desirable to know the blood pressure in order
that the doctor may check this with the findings of the
instrument.
"As an instance of the value of a true diagnosis and
the use which may be made of the HVR instrument by
the physician, the following case is given.
"Patient came in with high blood pressure. Urinalysis
showed a slight alkaline reaction, which may have been
due to some drug taken for the blood pressure con-
dition. The latter, according to the patient, varied from
140 to 150 systolic, and from 100 to 110 diastolic. No
cause had so far been found for this abnormal condition,
we were informed.
"A check-up with the HVR Instrument showed that
the kidneys were functioning normally, or nearly so.
The interstitial tissues of the left kidney seemed to be
normal, but that of the right registered only 2/10. (Nor-
mal registration with this instrument is 8/10 average,
10/10 high normal). Contracted kidney came through
as the disease here, showing the presence of inflamation
at some previous time.
"A questioning of the patient as to whether there had
ever been any severe fever, or any other illness that
might have created such inflamation, brought out the
fact that the appendix had ruptured a year or so before,
with so much resulting pus that two operations were
necessary to drain it. This condition had evidently
caused much trouble in the interstitial tissues of the
right kidney, and revealed the vascular obstruction re-
sponsible for the load upon the heart.
"The heart was found to be dilated, both ventricles
showing hyperfunction. Both the coronary arteries and
the heart muscle registered one-half the normal capacity.
The systolic blood pressure came through at 145 on the
instrument, and the diastolic at 100.6 which conformed
closely with the history given of former findings.
"Who would normally have diagnosed the trouble as
that of the interstitial tissues of the kidney, when it did
not show up in the urinalysis?
"The patient stated, incidentally, that urinalysis made
in other laboratories had shown about the same results

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 as ours. We might add that we made our analysis by two
methods - one, by the normal laboratory procedure,
the other by means of HVR. Both were done from urine
samples and results were almost identical.

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Drown Mechanical Detector
vfodel A-458 - Complete Office Model, three inch screen oscilloscope,
"his instrument treats with either original HVR instrument or can be
ised for special treatment with the new amplifier used in diagnosing
vith the oscilloscope. (No specification available)
Broadcasting Room Of The Drown Laboratories
 7

Darrell Bu tcher. Discovering His Concep ts

Creator of the First Automatic Radionic Instrument

[s too wild a claim to make? I think not, and my reasons will fol-
this
low. But to answer the question adequately, it is first necessary to en-
deavour to understand Butcher's thinking, for he never did anything
without a reason.
Much of his was spent as an aircraft engineer, a career which
life
proved invaluable when
in the 1950s he became interested in Radionics,
ind which led to years of unique experiment and research.
(In the beginning he found himself unable to use the conventional
neans of registering the Radionic impulse by 'stick-pad' or pendulum,
3Ut where most men would have given in and sought another field of
mdeavour, he, with his creative faculty and technical skill, overcame
this obstacle by the simple expedient of designing his own very personal

nstruments. Some, at least, appear to work entirely on their own,

vhilst others make use of the operator's mind.
As yet undisclosed information about his experiments has come to
ight, together with interesting comments by himself. These I propose
o give, together with illustrations and descriptions of eight of his in-
itruments.
But before doing so, I must pay tribute to his exceptional creative
ibility, and to the quite exquisite precision work in their construction.
le made every piece of equipment himself, and all of these are master-
)ieces of design and craftsmanship. These I will show with photographs.
With the exception of Pegotty, I found his instruments far too
ime-consuming for everyday work, but I could and did use them all in
lis laboratory and in my home.

Whilst describing his work I will give notes of what he had in mind
md indicate his own words putting the letter 'B' in front of paragraphs.
j
3 "We are going to discuss the Downpouring first. This is a known
orce. It has been given many names. I am of the personal opinion that
lifferent people are able to attract different amounts of this force, but
t is always with us. And that it does come down vertically under nor-

nal circumstances and this can only be made use of if we abide by the
jaws of light, one of which states that: 'Vibrations of the ether take
|)lace, not in the direction of the wave, but in a plane at right angles to

It, and the latter are called transversal vibrations'. This is from Ganot's

3
hysics."

3 "The meter is only important to those people who cannot use the

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'stick' or pendulum. The Meter was necessary to me because I was quit*!
unable to operate either of these. Which has been one great asset all the
way through the 14 years of experimentation. Having to use a Metei
one has had a useful form of comparison. For that is what all meter:
are. They are comparators. Meters have been of different sizes anci
shapes during all this time. The latest one, which is thought to be the
best, though I do not suppose it will be the last, is very simple."

I will now describe his instruments beginning with the Meter.

Meter I

I believe that this was one of his early efforts. It is made of black

perspex with a circular band 1" deep and the circumference 6" in dia-
meter. On the top and bottom are fixed black hexagonal perspect plates
The central portion is covered to hide all working parts, with the ex-
ception of a white perspex measuring dial and a needle arm protruding
from the suspension mechanism. On the top is a small black ring with a
hole in it, presumably for a needle on which can be balanced a small
metal holder for the patient's sample. The feet are adjustable for levell-
ing.

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If When the cover is removed we find underneath the needle suspen-
sion frame - a plate 5Vi" in diameter, with a clearly engraved Archi-
qiedian Spiral and extending from the centre a carefully bevelled slit to
nle extremity.

ternal Plate

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 Part of the Archimedian Spiral is covered with black paper
|
similar design. On
the inside of the central frame will be seen a beau ji
fully engraved design of an arrow on transparent perspex 6" long ari
1
" deep at one end. This must have been engraved flat and then bent
fit into the Meter.

Arrow Pattern
Meter 2

In all other Meters I have seen the framework is rectangula

Needles appear to have been of different designs. In this Meter tli
Archimedian Spiral lies on the base and is made of black paper.

Meter 3

Here again we have a black base, but above it and under the need
suspension we find a different item which can only be appreciated froi!
the following photograph.

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m {

in

leter III

"It has been ascertained that a cone made of thin paper, suspended
reely, will revolve clockwise when in the presence of a human aura; I

:onsider that the Fundamental Force comes into this, and in order for
is, ashuman beings, to use it we have first to turn it into a spiral and
hat why one hears so much about spirals in Radionics."
is

I "When the operator is facing a patient and a machine at resonance,

[he meter reacts in a clockwise direction taking up the spiral of the
Dperator. Or that's what appears to happen. And that is the basis of our
diagnosis."
"All this was made use of in the latest model and a form of cone
simulated within the rotar bar. The rotar bar itself which supports
ulaijwas

the needle has a small pin magnet and this is repelled by two other pin
magnets, one at each side of the meter. The whole thing is adjustable
for centering. And that broadly speaking is the meter."

We must now centre our attention on his Pegotty Instrument.

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h
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Pegotty

This consists of a black perspex box frame with a white perspe>

top marked with a rectangular design 6" x 5" and divided into 12(
squares. Each square has a small hole to take a round black peg. Then
is a double dividing line down the centre and the two sets of squares ad

jacent to this line represent the number 5.

B "It has been found that if a surface made up of black and white i<
placed in a convenient position and a transverse beam of light is re-
flected across it, then a message, or whatever it may be, can be reflected

onto anearby sample. And that very briefly speaking is that."

B "Nothing much more to be said except to get down to the form ol
message."
B "And we find that, if we again obey the laws of light by sayin§
that white reflects and black absorbs light, and therefore put on a plat-i
form a mixture of black and white, our message will be made up of
those waves which have either been attracted or vice versa."
B "Pegotty, of course, has been designed on those very broad
principles. There are ten white lines in the 'message' portion which are
divided up by, if necessary, ten black pegs and it has been found that |
the waveforms already used throughout the Radionic world do apply,
react and cure, or treat, whatever the word may be, in a most satis-'
factory manner."

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 B 'Tor Pegotty you don't necessarily want a bright light because a
aright lightwon't necessarily bring any more of the force. The amount
bf force that is present in a room is at the control, or the ability of the
pperator. And is very important. (Underlining by Butcher). An
that
j>ven light is what is wanted. It is not an advantage to have a light com-
jng in at 45° or some other angle, because the Fundamental Force
homes straightdown, and why put a beam of light across it and inter-
fere with it?"

spei

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tier

s at

itei:

ire

•ctei

egotty + Meter

lym
Butcher also made an instrument incorporating both the meter
plat!
nd Pegotty as illustrated. Although not mentioned in his notes, Blit-
ipo
her used this instrument by putting a 'rate' on the peg-board, for
ither a gland, organ or disease and watched the reaction of the meter

iroai
or response. I was able to see this in operation.

ii an
"Why it works is a little difficult, in as much that it seems to be
j, a
ompletely dependent upon the operator. Yet, a set, with Meter, has
een observed from outside the window, and has been found working

satis-
minutes after the operator has left the room, but after that it does
ppear to weaken.

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B "Whether this is the set or the Meter that is in need of a huma
presence I do not know. It may be that the patient's etheric is full

charged.
B "It has also been found that the operator is not required so muc
as had been necessary in the past, because the machine is capable c
working by itself." (My comment AUTOMATIC).
iflr f

'Straw Hat'

B "Gadgets called 'Straw Hats' were manufactured and used, an

proved to our satisfaction at any rate, that there was such a thing as th
Radionic Wave, and I believe that up to now this has been in questioi \\

or might have been by quite a few."

B "Having accepted the working hypothesis of Pegotty it was foun
>
that almost the same effect could be obtained by small bits of pap*
cut out to 12 squares by 10, and punctured, l/16th holes in all the line
where in the ordinary way a peg would be placed in a Pegboard." :i

B "These things having been made were then mounted on a rim of a

article which we called 'Straw Hat' because that's just what it looks lik
It was placed on a needle, freely supported. It has a lamp underneath i
which gives a beam of light coming outwards through the side of th
'Straw Hat' in a horizontal direction."
B "The lamp also gives rising heat to the top of the 'Straw Ha

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 vhich because of the flutes revolves it in one direction."
3 "All things being equal, once the 'Straw Hat' is revolving in accord-
ince with the rising heat, it should not stop. But it has been found that
f a patient's sample is placed close to the rim of this 'Straw Hat' when
t is revolving, and when the symptom from which the patient is suffer-

ng comes by on one of our bits of graph paper, the thing hesitates and
tops. Sometimes it goes past and comes back again, but whatever hap-
>ens it stops."
* "Thisis quite revealing and can be useful. It is a form of diagnosis

>ver which we have no control, and with which we do not interfere.

Underlining by Butcher. My comment AUTOMATIC).
* "It is especially useful as regards toxins and hormones and we also
ise colours for treatment in this manner. Here again we have the story

)f the cones. It is the Downpouring."

) "When you get a really good 'stick' the 'Straw Hat' goes round in
he opposite direction, because you get a downpouring from above that
its on the back of the flutes and instead of the air from underneath

ushing it one way, the downpouring pushes it the other. It's incredible
t should have this amount of power."

* "One little instrument was evolved which is rather puzzling and it

Las bothered a few scientific types, and that is three paper cones freely
upported, something like a windmeter. It has been found they go back-
yards, i.e. that is towards their bases when in a room where there is
esonance with a patient, meaning by that, when we have what would
>e known in ordinary parlance as a 'stick', then we find this incredible

•reeze coming along that blows these things round in the opposite di-
ection to which they should go."
* "This puzzled us for years, and after further checking, it was
ound that when we placed a piece of board above the cones all this
topped, so it rather looks as if this is another example of the Funda-
mental Force being brought down and accelerated by the fact that we
lave attained our objective, and impinging on the outside of the cones,
yhich are at an angle of 45° and pushing them forward towards their
•ases."
* "People have been puzzled because cones have been placed on a
vindow-shelf, near aircoming in and have been gaily going round in the
lormal direction, which is to their apex, blown by the wind. And it is
ery strange to see them stop, stagger, struggle and eventually go in the
opposite direction."

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Upright Treatment Instrument

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 Upright Treatment Instrument

I have no notes from Butcher on this instrument, but it no doubt

follows a pattern similar to his Meter and Pegotty. I can therefore only

give a description and measurements.

begin with the front panel. This consists of a black perspex plate
I

8" square, with nine dials and marked with rings of dots in white paint.
There are also adjustable dials which have a 'nitch' cut out of the side at
one point The outer ring of dots is permanently visible. The inner ring
:an only be seen by turning the dial until the 'nitch' reaches the appro-
priate point on the panel. A small hole is also drilled in the panel at 45°
from horizontal of each dial. The dots are not equidistant.
Total height with base ... 26cm, width ... 24.5cm.
On the back of the black panel we have a transparent plate 7W
x
7%" on which are glued, for each dial, a circle of black paper 5" dia-
neter with a cut-out of an Archimedian Spiral in its centre. Over this is
i black perspex disc cut with a slit 1cm wide from the edge and almost

to the centre. This is adjustable from the front. Finally there is a white

iisc 4.5cm.

Why did Butcher go to such endless trouble with this instrument,

ind what was in his mind when he designed it? This was the conundrum
had to answer. I felt that it might well lie in the two sets of dots. May-
)e there was some link between them? This proved to be a false trail. So
then made a sketch of the rings of dots and tried drawing lines be-
ween any two points. This took a long time because I was still using
)oth rings. This too proved worthless. I made a final effort, but this
ime using the inner and outer circles separately, and the result, with
iiagonal lines was reassuring. At least I had a pattern.

Slings

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 I still had no idea what they might mean. My next approach, there-

fore, was to measure the distance between dots on each ring, and up
came a fascinating discovery.

Inner Outer

1.1 .8
1.6 1.3
1.2 1.1
.9 1.6
.4 1.3
***3.2 1.1
a *** 5
.9 LI
1.2 1.3
1.6 1.6
1.1 1.1
1.3
.8

It will be seen that there is no relationship between the two sets,

but each has a central balance figure from which measurements are the
same in both directions.
In an endeavour to find an interpretation of these two sets of
figures, inner and outer, and the diagonal lines, and knowing that But-
cher was interested in Light, I felt that I must look for some theory on
Light that might fit the case. An endless task, but eventually I came
across the proposition of Huygen (about 1680) known as 'Huygens'
Principle' and in this I believe I found the explanation for which I had
been searching.

But before drawing any conclusions I must introduce one more

instrument built on similar lines.

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Q

•a
•c

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 The photograph shows the front panel lying flat, but this can b<l

raised into a vertical position for operation.

The dials are exactly the same as in the previous instrument, bu
have 'quick stick' measuring points. The two sets of rings are also identi
cal. But in addition there are two further larger rings on the front hori
zontal plate. Under the prism which is adjustable from the top
left is a
That on the right has a double triangle underneath ... one fixed and on<
variable. The central dial has a small hole, presumably for a needle anc
sample balancing strip as used in all Butcher's instruments. The whole i
enclosed in a carrying case and in the lid is provision for a set of Dela
warr diagnostic cards with an adjustable sliding arm.

It remained for me, with all the information now available, to de

termine what lay behind Butcher's thinking in the creation of his in
struments. Not by uninformed speculation, but from scientifically
acceptable facts. Butcher would have worked in no other way. This
have done, and my findings are that they are all based on three concept
acceptable to science.

1 The Principle of Light' which he gleaned from Elementary

Treaties on Physics by Prof. Ganot. The fifth edition, illustrated by
coloured plate and 726 woodcuts, was translated by E. Atkinson, Ph.D.
F.C.S., in 1872. This gave him his initial inspiration, and was the bool<
he said he bought from a street bookstall for 1/- (5p.).

2 The Principle of the Archimedian Spiral' which runs through al

his labours.

3 'The Principle of Huygen' which completes the story.

The proposition I put forward, therefore, at the beginning of thi:

chapter, that 'Butcher created the first Automatic Radionic Instrument

turns out not to be so fantastic after all.

Surely Butcher answered it himself when he wrote, "It is a form oi

diagnosis over which we have no control, and with which we do not in-
terfere."

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Del

RADIUS
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rata] \rchimedian Spiral

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Huygens' Principle

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 Dinshah Ghadiali 1872-1966

Spectro-Chrome Metry Therapy

A book on Radionics would be incomplete without a chapter on

colour. I have therefore chosen the work of a quite remarkable man,

born in Bombay to a family of Zoroastrian faith, who lived a life of

astonishing scope and enterprise. His work and the depth of his re-
searches are phenomenal. A few items of his achievements gives an idea
of his qualifications.
"He was appointed Superintendent of Telephone and Telegraph
for Dholpur State; Made his first visit to America in 1896 where he met
Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and other noted scientists; Lectured on
radio-activity and X Rays; Campaigned for a number of civil reforms
throughout India; Developed a medical practice; Became Stage Manager
of Bombay Theatre; Received a commission as the Captain in the New
York Police Aviation School; Wrote the three volume work Spectro-
Chrome Metry Encyclopaedia; Was awarded prizes for proficiency in
English, Persian and religion and eventually eight oriental and eight
occidental languages".
This gives a picture of the broadness and humanity of the man. I
do not propose to write about his healing techniques, for there is an
excellent exposition of his application of Colour Therapy by his son,
Darius Dinshah in The Spectro-Chrome System. (See Bibliography.)
There is one aspect, however, that I feel should be more widely
known. His approach which led up to his experimental research and
eventual writing of his Three Volume Encyclopaedia.

Darts of Ridicule"

1 "The pages of history are studded with the experiences of pio-

neers. On
January 19, 1736, in the family of a Scotsman of Grenock,
Scotland, was born a son. This boy, James Watt, had a taste for mecha-
nics and one morning, as he was drinking his tea with his parents at the
breakfast table, suddenly the dome of the teapot flew open. This was
nothing singular, and the boy asked his father why the teapot dome
flew open and when his parent answered by the word 'steam', the mind
of the youthful would-be engineer started on the trail, until after a deep
study of the properties of steam and the crude steam engines of New-
comen, he perfected in 1765, his idea of the condensing steam engine,
which gave to the world the prime impulse in mechanical civilisation."

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2 "On June 9, 1781, in the house of Robert Stephenson, an English
collier engine fireman of Wylam, near Newcastle, a son was born whom
he named George. This product of a lowly cottage, became assistant
fireman to his father at the age of 14. He was unable to read, but,
energised by the desire to study the inventions of James Watt, attended
a night school. He became engineer of the Stockton and Darlington
Railway in 1822 and in October 1829, ran on the tracks of the Liver-
pool and Manchester Railway the locomotive 'Rocket' which won the
prize of $ 2.500. This machine is now in the Kensington Museum in
London, England, and is the progenitor of the later locomotives run by
steam."
3 "Think of the first locomotive run in this country! It was built by
Peter Cooper and styled the Tom Thumb'. Small as it was, it could
pull forty people at a speed of 18 miles per hour and was run on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1830. It created quite a stir in those
days. The scientists and the Misters Tainte shook their heads in doubt.
Eighteen miles per hour was too terrible a speed for the Human Body to
endure! The chest walls would most certainly cave in with the enor-
mous pressure of the atmosphere! In spite of much silly conjecture,
nothing happened and now we can fly in the air over 450 miles an hour
without giving the chest walls a second thought."
"What happened to Alexander Graham Bell? Born in Edinburgh,
Scotland, on March 3, 1847, he moved with his father to Canada in
1870. In 1876 he exhibited his Electro-Magnetic Telephone, but, none
countenanced it except as a curiosity. At the Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bell showed it to Emperor Dom Pedro, of
Brazil who dropped the receiver as soon as he heard the human voice
through the wire, saying, "My God! It talks!" It took Bell nearly 8
years to have the financial stage reached by making the public believe in
the value of the Telephone."
"Thus goes the World in all cases. When George Westinghouse in-
vented the Air-Brake in 1869, he wrote to Cornelius Vanderbilt asking
for an interview and received the laconic reply, 'I have no time to waste
on damned fools!' Later, when Westinghouse became a successful busi-
ness man and a millionaire, the same gentleman wrote to him asking to
see him and received the retort, 'I have no time to waste on damned
fools!"'
"Tribulations and trials of pioneers in the Healing Arts have been
varied and many."
"When in 1796 Samuel Hahnemann, dissatisfied at the principles
underlying Allopathy, promulgated his doctrine of 'Similia similibus
curatur' or 'Like cures like' i.e. diseases are cured by those drugs which
produce symptoms similar to them in the healthy severe hostility of est-
ablished interests commenced. This raged so high in 1821, that he was

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 ^compelled to leave the city of Leipzig in Saxony, Germany and went to
^Gothen, whence in 1835 he moved to Paris, France; the Allopaths
i
ichased bitterly practitioners of the new school of Homeopathy, but,
(finally were forced to yield; at present, the status of Doctors of Homeo-
i is practically the same as the Allopathic Doctors."
jpathy
"Osteopathy, established by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, of Kirkville,
ilMissouri, went through many troubles when it butted against the ortho-
efdox hierarchy of organised Medicine."
"This short glance at the history of scientific progress will show
that the life of the radical researcher is not enviable and by no means a
bed of roses. Were Spectro-Chrome a system of so-called 'scientific'
jargon, a compilation of switches, buzzers, bells, condensers, spark-gaps,
induction coils, thermostats, electrodes, motors, dynamos, lights,
sounds, raptaps and a chosen other monkeydoodlers and were given as
an auxiliary to existing 'Medical Sciences', it would have been acclaimed
as the 'most marvellous healing organisation'."
"As it is, to state that an electric Bulb and only five pieces of 'Col-
oured Glass' can be made to remove all disorders of the Human Beings,
appears so preposterous on the face of it, that even the most optimistic
of students and believers in the integrity of researchers stand aghast at
the assertion."
"May be, but, thirteen years of the use of the system throughout
the United States of America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast
failed to indicate a single flaw either in its theory or practice and
wherever it was given due investigation, it came out victorious, proving
the soundness of the system."
)ice

ri

ein

He was aninveterate scholar and researcher and would accept no-

had proved, to his own satisfaction, that it was scientifl-
thing until he
;mgl cally true and sound. At an early age he began experiments in chemistry

aste at home, but started off by making one serious mistake. He describes
usiiwhat transpired.

"Since admission to the High School, I joined the

Cowasji Dinshah Library, which was in the school build-
ing. A reading from the scientific magazines from the
United States of America guided me into the study of
chemistry, and goaded me to experimental research.
"In the Scientific American, I read the recipe of a
wonderful efficacious remedy for headaches; it was said

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 and was composed of Menthol, Chlor-
to be a 'sure-cure'
Cocain and Vaselin. I had a maternal grandmother
al,

who suffered from severe Hemicrania at New Moon and

Full Moon periods. My thirst for research led me to try
the ointment on her at her special request, to relieve her
of the malady. The recipe stated that the ointment
should be smeared only on the forehead and temples,
but I thought that was for Americans and the Parsees
needed more. My Grandmother's case was very chronic
and also she was my beloved relative. I took the whole
pot of Unguent and slapped it onto her forehead and
temples, covering the parts with a tight bandage for
better effect. This was done as the Moon came into the
proper position and I expected great results from that
American ointment. I could hardly sleep that night be-
cause of the gleeful excitement in my mind of being the
agent of doing so much good to my darling grand-
mother. The result proved far beyond my expectations
and her bargain; the next morning, the headache being
reported as totally disappeared, I removed the bandage
— the entire skin of the affected part had disappeared
also!
"This was a bad start in research, as my father in
anger threw all my chemicals into the city drain; how-
ever I quietly continued studying Chemistry, Sound,
Heat, Light, Electricity, Magnetism, Hypnotism, Mes-
merism, Medicine, Watchmaking, Engineering and the
like — in fact, anything on which I could lay my hands.
"The situation of Dadabhai Khurshedji Kateli, Pro-
fessor of Mathematics in the Wilson College and In-
structor in Chemistry in the Proprietary High School
was drawn to my penchant for experimental research
and I became his assistant at the age of 11; by 14,
through his kind recommendation and encouragement, I

attained the unique position of being a demonstrator in

Chemistry and Physics in seven institutions of learning
in Bombay. My services were in demand; they were
honary services, without pay.
"Later a son of the landlord of the house where I was
born - an intimate kind friend of mine - and I spent
about two hours each evening together. One day, in
reading the Times of India, he drew my attention to an
article which spoke about some members of an organisa-
tion called The Theosophical Society, who claimed com-

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 munication with some 'Masters' on the Hymalaya Moun-
tains. I laughed at the statement saying, 'Oh, there must
be a telephonic connection! How can anyone talk other-
wise, a distance of 1,300 miles away?'
"It was easy to laugh, but it robbed me of my sleep;
the research spirit rebelled from within out of justice
and instigated enquiry.
"The next day I went to the Blavatsky Lodge of the
Theosophical Society in Hornby Row, where I met the
Secretary Munch ershah M. Shroff, a Parsee Zoroastrian.
He was a serious looking, bearded man and greeted me
with a peculiar Ahem-ahumphs that sounded like the
neigh of a horse! To my questions he responded with
many such Ahem— ahumphs, saying it was possible by
occult processes to communicate, at a long distance,
without telephone wires and recommended me to study.
Study was a candy I never declined! He gave me a num-
ber of leaflets and I thanked him, went home and spent
the night devouring that intellectual banquet like a fam-
ished person. A revulsion of ideas came into my mind.
"How could the testimony of the personal experience
of so many people of respectability, like Madame Helena
Petrovna Blavatsky, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, Sir
William Crookes, William Thomas Stead and others in
high walks of life be ignored without due investigation?
Not by me. I went to the Secretary of the Theosophical
Society and received further information from him with
some more Ahem— ahumphs. I was initiated as a fellow
of the Theosophical Society on October 26, 1891.
Barely was the initiation completed when I underwent
an internal change. Things began to happen."

He then goes on to describe many startling occult experiences

which came to him, and continues ...

"Thus launched into a new life with a keen zest of a

background, I followed the Heal-
scientific researcher as
ing Sciences very carefully. However, the theories and
practices on none appeared to be capable of giving any-
thing beyond hit-or-miss results and none had the accur-
acy or precision so dear to my heart. Question after
question came to my truth-seeking mind, without pro-
per answers from any source available.
"It may interest you to know some of the headache-
producers that racked my brain."

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 He then gives a list of 26, of which I give a few: —

(a) Why is a Tomato Red and a Cucumber Green?

(b) Why does a raw Green banana become Yellow when ripe]
and not Blue?
(c) Why does not the Gastric Juice which dissolves a piece of II

Beef, make holes in a live Stomach?

(d) Why does a Brown Cow eating Green Grass produce White
Milk, which when churned makes Yellow Butter?
(e) Why does Light have seven Colours?
(f) Why is a Human Being made of Chemical Elements called the
Image of God?
(g) Why does a good person receive punishment for something
another did?
(h) Why do some Saints take birth in stables?

(i) What makes a seed grow?

(j) What is the purpose of the Frauenhofer Lines of Spectra?

"I looked into effects to trace causes; I looked into

causes to find the effects. Working on the foundation
that all actions must have reactions and all reactions
must be preceded by actions, I laboured with all the
means at my disposal to obtain the answers to the ques-
tions, many of which were enigmas for centuries and by
the time I solved the problems or cut the Gordian-
Knots, Spectro-Chrome was born.
"Acting upon the outline scheme, I commenced to
look into the Fundamental Principles of Light and
Colour as based on Babbitt. Newton and successive re-
searchers had followed the view of White Light being
composed of 7 Colours; Red, Orange, Yellow, Green,
Blue, Indigo and Violet. It was proved, however, that
three of these Seven Colours were Primary Colours, be-
cause any of the other Colours can be produced by the
combination of the Three."

He continues to describe similar work by others in this line and

ends by:-

"However, I am no face- worshiper; I know other-

wise. Their conceptions are not supported by my experi-

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 mental research and I discard them as scientifically er-
roneous. It is me that all these opinions
quite evident to
were from the standpoint of PIGMENTS and not of
e MATHEMATICS or RADIANT ENERGY, which are
the basis of my work."

:e
Here I must digress for a while from the text of Ghadiali's book
ind describe an incident that occurred to me which has a bearing on the
vhole story.

Early Spectro-Chrome Colour Set

50 years old

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 Someyears ago, I was asked to look at a queer 'contraption' in th
attic of a large house once occupied by Dr. Mary Walker. I had no ide
what it was or whether it could be of use, but I was impressed to take i
away. I stored it in my garage where it remained for several years.
Then one day I began to consider adding colour therapy to mj
practice. I was offered a copy of Babbitt's Principles of Light and Coi
our and a three volume book by Dinshah Ghadiali. I went into my gai
age, dug out my 'contraption' and having blown off the accumulate
dust, found to my delight that it was a colour lamp with a complete
perfect and original set of colour slides, and for good measure, a spar
set as well. After some search I discovered that it was probably made ii
the mid-3 Os, i.e. 50 years ago. On the front panel I found the diagran
of the 'Mysterious Mogen David Interlaced Triangle' and I knew that
had been given the Key to Ghadiali's work.
What is this Mogen David Triangle?

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Mogen David Triangles

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 I continue his story.

'Mysterious Mogen David Triangles'

"The Double Interlaced Triangle is a sacred symbol of

It is used by the Jews on their
the highest character.
Synagogues, is promiscuously seen in the literature of
the High Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Theosophists and all
Occultists. It is called Mogen David, the Seal or Shield of
David and was extensively used in ancient times in what
are ordinarily called 'Magic Rituals'.
"Whatever we may think with our modern ideas of
life,we must admit that for the time in which King
David lived, he was a man of great learning, enormous
power, breadth of vision and strength of character. The
Psalms of David team with gems of wisdom."

Because of his Theosophical study Ghadiali uses the Mogen David

Mangles as a foundation of his colour therapy forming themselves into
complete circle.

izo°
<^ GREEN
of*.

YELLOW
60 °
BLUE
180°

ORANGE
30 o INDIGO
°
210

RED VIOLET
240°

MAGENTA
300 °

olour Polarity Performance

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 After pages describing how he arrived at this diagrammatic arrange!
ment he continues:-

"This completed the Circle of ATTUNED COLOUR

WAVES, being Oscillatory Frequencies then of a speci-
fic Color, graded to a specific position, to produce uni-
formly specific Wave-Lengths, with specific effects. It is
this Attuning System that lifts Color Therapy from its
empirical stage and firmly establishes it on a scientific

basis of unrivalled precision ...

"Having explained the rational of Attuned Color
Waves, I shall proceed to elucidate the actual mathema-
tical accuracy of Spectro-Chrome Metry.
"Spectro-Chrome is built around the Three Primary
Colors exclusively, to produce its well-recognised Pre-
cision. In Spectro-Chrome Equipments, Red, Green and
Violet form the main slides; two Secondaries, Yellow
and Blue, are also supplied to make ALL the necessary
combinations, to produce the physiological effects of all
the Elements of which the World is composed.
"The first move, after making the Color Chart of the
Mogen David, was to analyse the Spectroscopic Position
of the Elements and deposit them where they belonged.
As each Element has a number of Fundamental Lines,
this task was exceptionally difficult, tedious and exas-
perating. I considered the Elements individually, I used
various recognised methods to examine the Spectra of
the Elements. Those that could be quickly disintegrated
in the Alchohol or Bunsen Burner, I examined thus;
others I investigated by making tiny electrodes and send-
ing a High Tension spark across; many others I tested by
Vacuum Tubes containing traces of them; some were
ascertained by burning in the Electric Carbon Arc. In
the last method, I superimposed the Spectrum of the
Element on that of the Carbon and cut off the Carbon
Spectral Lines, leaving the Element Lines. Where some
easily cognizable Fraunhofer Lines were involved, like
the Double Yellow Lines D of Sodium, I looked quickly
into the other characteristics of that Element to find if
anything existed that would in any way affect the ulti-
matum; if not, I fixed that Element within that Color
range. Where I found a discrepancy owing to there being
no prominent Fraunhofer Lines to fit it so, I had to look
deeper into other effects of that Element, in order that

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 the potency may be properly evaluated and fixed at the
point of Predominance. Thus, patiently experimenting, I
built my Single Color Polarity Predominance Chart,
which you see here.

"This chart of the Color Waves Of The Elements is

accurate along Chemical, Mathematical, Physiological,

Spectroscopical, Psychological, Pathological, Clinical
and Chromical Lines. Eighteen years of actual test in the
work of hundreds of practitioners and thousands of
sufferers did not indicate a flaw."
CERIUM BARIUM CHROMIUM
CERMANIUM CHLORINE COLUMBIUM
GOLD EASHMIRIUM FLUORINB
IODINE NITROGEN MERCURY
IRON RADIUM NICKEL
LANTHANUM TELLURIUM TANTALUM
NEODYMIUM THALLIUM ZIIC
PHOSPHORUS
CARBON PRASEODYMIUM
•LUCTNUM SAMARIUM
IRIDIUM SCANDIUM
MAGNESIUM SILVER
MOLYBDENUM SULPHUR
OSMIUM THORIUM
PALLADIUM
PLATINUM
TITANIUM
URANIUM
\ N
RHOD IUM VANADIUM <
RUTHENIUM YTTRIUM
SODIUM ZIRCONIUM
TIN CAESIUM
TUNGSTEN « INDIUM
YELLOW BLUE OXYGEN
ALUMINUM
ANTIMONT
ARSENIC ORANGE INDICO BISMUTH
BORON IONIUM
CALCIUM LEAD
COPPER POLONIUM-
HELIUM RID VIOLET
SELENIUM
SILICON
XENON

CADMIUM
HYDROGEN
KRYPTON
/ ACTINIUM
COBALT
GALLIUM
NEON SPECTRO-CHROME NITON
SINGLE POLARITY
ARGON
PREDOMINANCE CHART
DYSPROSIUM
ERBIUM
HOLMIUM
LUTECIUM
MANGANESE
THULIUM
YTTERBIUM
IRENIUM
LITHIUM
POTASSIUM
RUBIDIUM
STRONTIUM
S BROMINE
EUROPIUM
GADOLINIUM
TERBIUM
POSITIONS OF ILIUM. MASURIUM = UNDETERMINED.
RHENIUM = YELLOW. HAFNIUM. PROTOACTINIUM = LEMON.

Chemical Elements by Single Polarity Predominance

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 9

Mme. Marguerite Maury

"How to Dowse. Experimental and Practical Radiesthesia"

Everybody in Radionics uses a pendulum. I do myself, and I am a be-

liever that a sound training is consider that
essential for best results. I

there is no better place to find this than in the work and explanations
of another pioneer ... Marguerite Maury, who has a fine record of stu-
dents. I will, therefore, begin by quoting from the Foreword of her
book by the late Col. A. H. Bell, past President of the British Society of
Dowsers.

Foreword by Col. A. H. Bell

"The authoress of this little book, Madame Marguer-

ite Maury, is a lady of much experience in the teaching
of Radiesthesia and in the practice of the art, particul-
arly inits medical application.

"For many years she was a fully trained nurse and

later took up massage in which she obtained conspicu-
ously successful results.
"Some years ago, she happened to make the acquain-
tance of M. Louis Turenne, an engineer and a radiesthet-
ist of great repute. Following a remarkable diagnosis of a

case of eczema made by him, and its subsequent cure

through homeopathy, Madame was persuaded by M.
Turenne to take up the study of Radiesthesia, for he
realised that she had a special aptitude in this direction.
She developed her powers to the full and tells me that
during the course of fifteen years she has carried out
more than 70,000 diagnoses and made numerous loca-
tions for water and minerals.
"With the help of some collaborators she founded
the College RadiesthStique Fran^ais and drew up a
course of instruction by correspondence which has been
followed by more than 900 pupils.
"This series of lessons, to which a section on Medical
Radiesthesia has been added, forms the substance of this
book.
"Readers Mme. Maury who, previous to
will see that
becoming a nurse, had studied physics in Vienna, is a
firm believer in the purely physical origin of the radies-

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 thetic phenomenon, and some may think that her claim
in this respect cannot always be justified. For instance,
it is difficult to see how location on maps and diagrams,
which is now a well-established fact, can be attributed
to anything but some obscure stimulus from the sub-
conscious mind.
"Mme. Maury very rightly stresses the individual
nature of the radiesthetic art, and anyone who has
studied the subject from an objective point of view for
many years will fully bear her out.
"However that may be, it is always an advantage for a
novice to start on a definite system, though he may find
later that he has to depart from it and develop a method
better suited to his own personality.
"A book such as this which deals with Radiesthesia in
its widest application and does not advocate unnecessary

refinements in instruments and technique, should be of

great value as an introduction to a science which is still
in a state of evolution."

A.H.B.

"Part 1. A Course of Radiesthesia. Introduction."

"We are about to introduce you to a world where the

sense of touch, extended in some strange manner, is sup-
reme over all other senses.
"First we must define the word Radiesthesia. Trans-
lated literally from the Greek, it means 'sensitiveness to

radiations'. What is this sensitiveness? It is a form of sen-

sitivitywhich responds to external influences and re-
veals them by movements of a pendulum, rod or other
instrument held in the operator's hand. Unfortunately
we cannot tell you the nature of the biological mechan-
ism which controls these movements, but we can tell
you the conditions under which they take place, the
various forms they take, and how they can be interpret-
ed.
"We do not intend to instruct you in the mental form
of Radiesthesia; what interests us at present is the physi-
cal or, as one may say, the material form, and the possi-
bility of putting it to real use, of reducing it to a system

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and of proving by results that Radiesthesia is not the
fruit of a fertile imagination but a reality, though we
may not at present be in a position to give a complete
explanation of its mechanism.
"The difficulty is that it is almost impossible to lay
down rules of a general nature, as the interpretation of
the movements of the instrument used depends upon
the individual properties of the person concerned. When-
ever the radiesthetist discovers something, he is apt at
once to fly into print and state dogmatically that, 'De-
tection is a phenomenon of the following nature ...\
But this statement is only true as far as he himself is
concerned.
"The essential characteristics of Radiesthesia are its
variability, its uncertainty and its individual quality; our
course of instruction will deal with all these phenomena
on this understanding.
"It is an essential condition for good detection that a
radiesthetic search should be undertaken in an entirely
detached manner. Your attitude towards it should in no
way differ from that of one who is making an enquiry
on some everyday matter. In this case, however, your
sense of touch will take the place of your senses of sight
and hearing; you are simply trying to find out something
and should not allow your thoughts to interfere. The
more detached your attitude, the clearer and more un-
biased will be your powers of observation and the
greater the accuracy of your results.
"We hope that none of our readers will fall into the
usual mistake of exaggerating the mysterious. In our ex-
perience Radiesthesia usually gives rise to two different
attitudes, either an excessive credulity or an unreasoning
and violent scepticism out of all proportion to the nat-
ure of the subject. Let us approach the problem in a
calm and well-balanced though critical spirit, denying
nothing in advance, but preserving an attitude of practi-
cal common sense."

Lesson 1. Pendulum and Rods

"When we hold a pendulum over certain objects cor-

rectly - that is to say, between the thumb and first

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 finger of the right hand by
a thread of suitable length
(2 /2— 4 inches)
1
— it moving.
will start
"A pendulum can be made of wood (box for choice),
metal, glass or some 'neutral' substance, of which bak-
elite and plastic are particularly suitable. It should be
round or symmetrical in shape. Metal pendulums should
only be used for particular objects, as they respond
more readily to certain definite influences. For instance,
an iron pendulum is particularly sensitive to magnetic
fields, whilst one of copper is susceptible to even minute
electric changes. Several special pendulums have been
devised, such as Turenne's, which is fitted with magnet-
ised needles; that of Abbe Mermet made of ebonite and
hollow inside to hold a 'sample'.
"The suspension of a pendulum should be made with
a thread of silk, cotton, hemp, gut or better still, nylon,
as it has no initial torsion.
"Our task is to learn how to use a pendulum, and to
analyse and interpret movements. The accompanying
its

figure will show you how to hold

it when making a

search. Just as a violin and its bow cannot be held just

anyhow, so a pendulum must be held in a certain way.
Even when held wrongly, a pendulum performs certain
movements, sometimes very violent ones, but without a
good technique you will never be able to claim that
your result must be correct. Let us, then, at the outset
try to analyse the pendulum's movements.
"In principle, a pendulum hanging on a string from a
support of, say, wood or metal is inert. It is subject to
two forces which, in accordance with the well-known
laws of physics, keep it in a straight line. If now a hu-
man being should take a string in his hand, replacing the
material by a living support - the hands and fingers of
the operator — the weight will infringe all laws of phy-
sics and start to move. The movement may take two
forms, either oscillation or gyration. It therefore appears
that the force of gravity is temporarily suspended. When
the process of detection is prolonged, the pendulum
stops at a certain instant and radiesthetists call this
phenomenon 'saturation', but we rather believe that the
stopping of the pendulum marks the extreme limit of
the ability of the human organism to withdraw the
weight from the laws of gravitation.
"It is always the visible rupture of this equilibrium

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between the two forces which influences the pendulum.
Its round shape induces the gyratory movement in one
direction or the other — but this is another problem
which we will study in our second lesson. For the
moment we merely want you to realise that the pendu-
lum when correctly held in front of a certain object
really starts to move.
"When you hold your pendulum in front of two
bodies of different masses or of different volumes, for
example one of 2oz and the other 8oz, whatever the
material may be, your pendulum will be more strongly
affected by the larger mass.
"It should be noted that a pendulum in the hand of
even an only slightly sensitive operator will always
move, for various reasons, which we will not go into
now. For the moment we will confine ourselves to the
movement itself, bearing in mind that the mass and the
volume of the body examined have an influence on the
amplitude, and consequently on the violence of the
movement.
"What we require is a moderate and steady move-
ment. Since you are using your body as an instrument
of detection you should, whenever the movements of
your pendulum are too violent, try to relax your mus-
cles and take deep breaths; you will find that a restful
condition of the body will ensure calm and methodical
detection.
"You should never start the pendulum moving your-
self; bad technique. On the contrary, the muscles
that is

should be completely relaxed, for if they are in a state

of tension you will obtain no response, or if you do get
one it will be jerky and useless for any accurate detec-
tion. Do not think about your hand moving, for the
weight of the pendulum, small though it be, enforces a
movement of the hand in its relaxed state; if you resist
it an attempt to keep the hand steady you will only
in
prevent it from moving.
"During a radiesthetic detection the operator must be
entirely relaxed physically and from the mental point of
view, only moderately interested. It is better to think of
something else and maintain an attitude of complete in-
difference towards the end desired. In this way he will
get the best results. We have always noticed that eager
beginners who, in a laudable desire to act correctly, get

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 into a state of tension and nearly hypnotise themselves
by concentration, end up by enfeebling the pendulum's
movements or in stopping them altogether.
"We can now lay down to principles: -
1 Weight exerts an influence on the pendulum which is
appreciated as an increase in the mass of the pendu-
lum when it is moved over an object, especially one
which is radioactive.

This increase of the pendulum's mass has been ex-

perienced by all radiesthetists; it has been actually
proved and recorded during tests in our laboratory.

2 Bodies attract the pendulum in proportion to their

mass.

"We will now give you a few simple exercises to help

you to handle the pendulum effectively.
1 (a) Take two weights and place them about 10
inches apart. Then hold the pendulum first over one,
then over the other. Note the different amplitudes of
its movements.
(b) Hold the pendulum between the two bodies and
note to which it is drawn.
These experiments should be made with the pendu-
lum held about 2 inches above the level of the object
examined. Do not forget that you are registering the
field of influence of the object rather than the object
itself.

2 Place two little balls of different sizes the same dis-

tance apart as before; go through the same exercises
and note to which ball the pendulum is drawn.
3 Take two glass tumblers of the same size; fill one glass
half-way and the other to the brim. Your pendulum
will be drawn towards the full glass, because the vol-
ume of the water in it is the greater.
4 Take two glass tumblers of different sizes and fill
them unequally with water; find out to which the
pendulum is drawn the more strongly."

This procedure of a few pages of instruction on various aspects of

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>ractice, followed by exercises is adopted throughout the book. This
nay appear too simple at first, but a gradual experience of what trans-
>ires is of inestimable value to beginners.

" "
Form and Geometrical Figures

"Radiesthetic detection is strongly influenced by

'form'. That is the surprising fact which we are going to
try to demonstrate in the course of this lesson.
"Form exercises an influence on detection in all types
of work involving it. The form of the field to be de-
tected, of the object to be discovered and of the recept-
acle in which the object or the body is contained all
affect the question. For form in itself, either two-
dimensional or three-dimensional, seems to produce a
visible effect on the pendulum.
"We will first discuss plane geometrical figures be-
cause they are the simplest and offer the best examples.

"When we of form, we mean one possessing geo-

talk
metrical symmetry. It is by this that we can prove com-
pletely the reality of our contention, namely, that the
pendulum, as well as the operator himself, are directly
influenced by physical agents.
"A rectangle of the exact dimensions of the Golden
Number, that is to say the proportion 0.618, for ex-
ample, can be divided indefinitely into squares with a
pendulum and that without any knowledge of mathe-
matical technique. This can be done by any pendulist.

"With a little care a circle can be divided with the

pendulum into ten, the ideal figure, corresponding to
the Golden Number of Pythagoras.
"Angles of different sizes produce different effects.
We think these phenomena may be due to the deviation
of the earth's magnetic field caused by these shapes and
angles, so that what we detect is not the 'form' itself,
but the effect it produces.
"Here we must again recall the laws of mathematics
and mechanics. When a projectile strikes a shelter built

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 like a cellar, that is to say with a pointed roof, the wall
of the building is pierced; if, however, the cellar is
arched the projectile follows the curve of the arc and is
deflected. The emissions we detect, or rather the devia-
tions of the magnetic fields, seem to follow the same
laws.
"Moreover, every three-dimensional form, sphere,
cube and ellipsoid gives out emissions in different direc-
tions."

Exercises follow:

"Draw a rectangle of the following dimensions;

breadth 4 inches; length 7 inches. Follow a long side
with the pendulum at a height of about 2 inches; it will
at first oscillate along the line, but at a certain point will
oscillate across it. Measure this distance. You will pro-
bably have traced a square."

Part I includes: Magnets and Magnetic Fields; Personal Field of th

Operator; Interaction of Bodies; Light and Colour; Samples; Radiej
thesia and Agriculture.
Part II: Medical Radiesthesia. A wide range of material.

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 10

The Enigma of Numbers. Developing Sensitivity.

t is now
time to move on from considering the personalities of Radion-
:s and work, to exploring one of the mechanical workings ... num-
their
ers, since these are fundamental to all Radionic systems, the very nuts
nd bolts of its existence.
Whether they are regarded as key links to a psychic plane or as
reating scientifically regarded radiations is a personal conviction often
ebated in Radionic circles.
Both methods produce healing successes. Whichever method is
sed they are the medium through which all measurements are taken,
nd students inevitably are curious to know how these numbers are
hosen or worked out. Perhaps this chapter may help throw some light
n this difficult and abstruse subject.

My
first encounter with numbers came when I called on a friend
tbookshop off the Charing Cross Road in London. While I was
his
fiboking round he asked me what I was currently doing. I replied, "Stu-
ying Radiesthesia." "God help you!" was his comment.
idie

I countered this observation by asking if there were any books on

le subject.
"No, none he replied. "You're a great help," I said.
at all,"
Soon exchange I turned to leave the shop, but as I was
after this
oing through the door my friend called me back.
"There are two books that might help you. Theoretic Arithmetic
f the Pythagoreans by Thomas Taylor and Key to the Hebrew Egypt-
\n Mystery in the Source of Measures by J. Ralston Skinner. However,

oth are rare and you won't be able to get them."

"Thank you, you're still a great help," I replied and left the shop,
ut I made a mental note of the titles and the authors even though I
'as too occupied to pursue the matter further at the time.

My story now takes a strange twist. At the time I was living in the
ountry and one afternoon a complete stranger came to see me. I found
lat he wanted me to hypnotize him, but I refused to do so since I did
ot know him and had had no introduction to him.
In spite of this he stayed and our chat went on all afternoon, until
t last I was forced to tell him he would have to leave as I had other
'ork to do. As he was going he suddenly said, out of the blue, for we
ad not discussed books, "By the way, if you ever want any rare or
ifficult-to-obtain books, try Weisers of New York."

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 My mind went straight back to the conversation had had in Lorj
I

don with my bookseller friend, and remembered his comments abou

I

non-availability of books. I sat down at once and wrote to Weisers an

within a fortnight, to my surprise and delight, they replied stating thai

they had both books for me!
In the introduction to Theoretic Arithmetic Manly P. Hall writes:

"Thomas Taylor, the author of this remarkable trea-

tise on the philosophy of numbers was the greatest
Platonist of the modern world. He was a prodigy of eru-
dition and industry. He translated into English the com-
plete works of Plato and Aristotle, and numerous but
scarcely less important fragments of classical learning. In
addition to these Mr. Taylor composed
translations
several original works, of which his 'Theoretical Arith-
metic' is the most important.
"Unfortunately no complete system of numerical
divination has descended to this age from the old
mystery schools. The Pythagorean philosophers, after
the martyrdom of their master, were scattered through-
out the Mediterranean countries and left to posterity no
complete account of their numerical tradition.
"The third book of Theoretic Arithmetic is devoted
to philosophising on the virtues of numbers, contains
practically all of the fragments of genuine Pythagorean
onomanics which have survived the ruin of time. From
these fragments it will be evident that to the Samian
Initiate numbers were the elements of a sublime theo-
logical symbolism. Through the study of Mathematics
Pythagoras invited all men to communion with the
Gods.
"... Numerology as it is practiced today derives its

premise from a short statement of Iamblicus to the

effect that Pythagoras perfected a system of divination
by numbers, based upon the secret traditions which had
descended from Orpheus. In the sixth and seventh cen-
turies before Christ it was customary for the ancient
Greeks to perform divinations from the entrails of speci-
ally sacrificed animals and birds. Pythagoras condemned
this practice and substituted therefore arithmomancy,
the oracular use of numbers, as more acceptable to the
Gods and not harmful to any living creature. It should
not be inferred, however, from the words of Iamblicus,
that Pythagoras actually invented numerology. The use

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 of numbers for symbolical and divinatory purposes was
common to nearly all ancient religious systems. Well de-
veloped systems of numerology are to be found in the
older writings of the Chinese, Egyptians and Jews. Num-
erological cabbalism is usually found closely associated
with astrology and magic."

he following is on the flyleaf of his book.

THEORETIC ARITHMETIC
contains
the substance
of all that has been
written on the subject by
Theo of Smyrna, Nicomachus, Iam-
bilchus, and Boetus — together with
some remarkable particulars respecting
and other numbers,
perfect, amicable,
which are not to be found in the writings
of any ancient or modern mathematicians.
Likewise, a specimen of the manner in
which the Pythagoreans philosoph-
ized about numbers; and a devel-
opment of their mysti-
cal and theological
arithmetic.

By Thomas Taylor

Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery in the Source of Measures

by J. Ralston Skinner

"Originating the British Inch and the Ancient Cubit,

by which man built the Great Pyramid of Egypt and the
Temple of Soloman; and through the possession and use
of which man, assuming to realise the creative law of the
deity, set it forth in a Mystery, among the Hebrew called
Kabbah."

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 This is a highly abstract mathematical treatise. In the introductiol
we read:

"Contents of an essay or study rather than, strictly!

speaking, a work. The whole a series of developments
based upon the use of geometrical elements, giving ex-
pression in numerical value, founded on the integral
values of the circle, rediscovered by the
late John A.
Parker, and by Peter Metius 16th century. Brief
in the
statements of these developments; the greatest being
that the system from whence their derivation was an-
ciently considered to be one resting in nature, or God,
as the basis, or law, of the exertion practically of crea-
tive design: as such to be found as underlaying the Bib-
lical structure. This introduction contains the Hebrew
alphabet, with the values and powers of the letters, and
some of their supposed symbols, with some remarks on
the hieroglyphic use of the letters."

Chapters include:
Quadrature of the Circle by John A. Parker, and reflections on.
Problem of Three Revolving Bodies by Mr. Parker.
British System of Long and Land Measures, inclusive of an occul
System of Time Measurement.
Introduction to Construction of Great Pyramid.
Temple of Soloman.

Another line of investigation was through Dr. Drown. I wrote t

her on several occasions asking if she would advise me if there was
fundamental LAW by which she had arrived at the numbers for he
work. Her answer came in a leaflet 'Drown Radio-Therapy' where sh
had written:

"The so-called 'rates' were originally worked out from

histological structures of the animal body ... the patho-
logical diseases were taken from specimens found and so
labelled in medical hospitals."

I felt confident, however, after reading her other books that sh

must have had some other specific system from which to work as wel
I became certain that she KNEW the deep meaning of her combinatio

of figures, and that she combined it with a profound spiritual undei

standing of natural laws in their application.

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 So I persisted and on numerous occasions I asked her if this was
Drrect, but she was always reticent on the subject. Eventually she
rote to me saying:

"I have worked out a comprehensive study on the

numbers of the Qabalah, which, of course, go back to
the very essence of Life itself. It seems quite true that
people are using these numbers in what they call a
'code', and yet they have no understanding of what the
'code' stands for!"

I now knowthat this clue leads one towards the Principles in-
rived in themeaning of numbers, although at the time I had no idea
hat a profound question I had asked her. Subsequent experience made
e aware of the vastness of the subject I had inadvertently broached.

On this subject one must also consider the teachings of other early
riters, for certain great rhythms and numbers in nature affect every
oment of our lives.
In Nature'sHarmonic Unity Samuel Coleman gives numerous
ustrations, which he analyses, showing that the triangle, the square,
e pentagon and pentagram, the hexagon and the hexagram and the
;tagon are the determining geometrical elements of tiny plants. These
id the circle provide all the geometrical patterns for the manifold
>rms of the physical world.
He shows also that the angles and lines of these microscopic mem-
>rsof the vegetable kingdom are the precise angles and lines utilised in
e planning of the Parthenon, in the construction of the Great Pyra-
id and in the composition of innumerable works by the greatest
dnters and sculptors.
By the proportions centred in these simple figures all force rela-
Dns in the Universe are determined. Sound vibrations, both in pitch
id volume, are determined by the same principles. All the play of
ght and Colour follow the same laws of form. And the spirals of a
ell are the logarithmetic spirals which are the basis of all forms.

Manly P. Hall has produced many diagrams in his large Encyclo-

\edia of Masonic and Hermetic Symbolism to illustrate these facts.

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 All this made me think much more along Esoteric lines. As ofter
happens when one comes in contact with Radionics, one is suddenly
confronted with possibilities of deliberately developing one's sensitivity
For many this is not a major factor, and it must be made clear that on<
can become an excellent Radionic Practitioner without esotericism. I
is against esoteric teaching that this type of self-development can o:

should be forced on beginners ... offered maybe ... but forced ... never
The choice must be left to each individual.
For those who wish to use such facilities, they are confronted by i
wide selection of training; many systems of approach become confusj
ingly evident. Broadly speaking there are those who advocate the East
ern Tradition in various forms.
There is a safer although longer method of which many may no
be aware. This lies in the teachings of the Western Tradition.
"The life of any person is necessarily influenced by the custom:]
and traditions of his race. Thus escape from the world, which is norma
in the East, is pathological in the West. Western occult systems do no!
seek ways of escape. They seek mastery of the hidden powers, botl
within and without, enabling the initiate to control his environmenj
while he continues to live in it."
Dr. Paul Case, founder of The Builders of the Adytum' sets ouj
the Western Tradition in the pamphlet 'The Open Door' (see Biblic
graphy). This system of the Ancient Wisdom is known as the Hermeti
Arts, after Hermes Trismegistus who is reported to be its founder. Th|
Seven Hermetic Principles are set out in a book The Kybalion and is I

study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece. Wril!

ten by Three Initiates' these principles I now set out as described ii
this hook.
This will be followed by considering the practical applications o|

this philosophy.

The Seven Hermetic Principles

Introduction

"The purpose of this work is not the enunciation of

any special philosophy or doctrine, but rather is to give
to the students a statement of Truth that will serve to re-
concile the many bits of occult knowledge that they
may have acquired, but which are apparently opposed to
each other and which often serve to discourage and dis-
gust the beginner in the study.
"From the land of the Ganges many advanced occult-
ists wandered to the land of Egypt, and sat at the feet
of the Master, Hermes Trismegistus, Master of Masters.

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 "In all the ancient lands, the name of Hermes Tris-
megistus was revered, the name being synonymous with
the 'Fount of Truth'.
"The Principles of Truth are seven; he who knows
these, understanding^, possesses the Magic Key before
whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open.
"The Seven Hermetic Principles, upon which the en-
tire Hermetic Philosophy is based are as follows:

1 The Principle of Mentalism

The ALL is Mind. The Universe is Mental.

2 The Principle of Correspondence

This principle embodies the truth that there is always

a Correspondence between the Laws and Phenomena
of the various planes of Being and Life.

3 The Principle of Vibration

Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.

4 The Principle of Polarity

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything
has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same,
opposites are identical to nature, but different in de-
gree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths;
paradoxes may be reconciled.

5 The Principle of Rhythm

Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides;
all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests
in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is

the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compen-

sates.

6 The Principle of Cause and Effect

Every Cause has its Effect; Every effect has its Cause;
everything happens according to Law; Chance is but
the name for Law not recognised; there are many
places of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.

7 The Principle of Gender

Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine

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 and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all

planes."

Now let us turn to the practical applications of the Hermetic Arts

which include The Holy Kabalah, Tarot, Alchemy and Astrology.
Unfortunately these have been misused, even debased in the past
but when seriously studied, they serve as a dependable guide on the
road to Mastership. They are largely based on symbolism which is a
universal language, and gradually lead to higher states of consciousness.
Let us first look at Tarot and I quote from Dr. Case's book of that
name.

"Tarot is a pictorial text-book of Ageless Wisdom.

From pages has been drawn inspiration for some of

its

the most important works on occult science published

during the last seventy-five years. Its influence on the
minds of a few enlightened thinkers may be traced
throughout the history of the modern revival of interest
in esoteric science and philosophy.
"This revival of interest began in 1854 with the publi-
cation of Eliphas Levi's Dogma and Ritual of Transcen-
dental Magic, first of a series of occult writings in which
he names the Tarot as his most important source of in-
formation.
"Levi's opinion of The Tarot was very high." He said:

"As an erudite Kabalistic book, all combinations of

which reveal the harmonies pre-existing between signs,
letters and numbers, the practical value of the Tarot is
truly, and above all, marvellous. A prisoner devoid of
books, had he only a Tarot of which he knew how to
make use, could in a few years acquire a universal sci-
ence, and converse with unequalled doctrine and inex-
haustable eloquence.
"The oldest examples of Tarot designs now preserved
in European museums were probably made about 1390.
According to an occult tradition, in which I am inclined
to place confidence, the actual date of its invention was
about the year 1200 A.D.
"The inventors, this tradition avers, were a group of
Adepts who met at stated intervals in the City of Fez, in
Morocco. After the destruction of Alexandria, Fez be-
came the literary and scientific capital of the world. Thi-
ther, from all parts of the globe, came wise men of all
nations, speaking all tongues. Their conferences were

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 made difficult by difference in language and philosophi-
cal terminology. So they hit upon the device of embody-
ing the most important of their doctrines in a book of
pictures, whose combinations should depend on the
occult harmonies of numbers."

In the chapter on the occult meaning of numbers Dr. Case writes:

"In this chapter we shall consider the occult signifi-

cance of the numbers from Zero to Ten, with particular
reference to the esoteric meanings of the so-called 'Ara-
bic' numerals. As a matter of fact, these numerals were
invented by Hindu priests, from whom they were bor-
rowed, (and slightly altered), by the Arab Mathematic-
ians who introduced them into Europe. The key to the
meaning of the numerals is the diagram which appears
at the frontispiece of this book."

"•...y>"
Key to the Cosmos and Numbers

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 "Readers of these pages, who are familiar with occult
symbolism, will percieve that the basis of the construc-
tion of this diagram is the six-pointed star, known as
The Shield of David' and 'The Star of the Macrocosm'.
Years ago, one of the Theosophical Masters declared
that the system of six circles, tangent to a central sev-
enth, is a key to the construction of the Cosmos. At that
time, the Master's meaning was not grasped by the stu-
dent to whom the statement was made.
"I hope the inclusion of this diagram may stimulate
some of my readers to further research. Want of space
forbids my developing the various details. shall there-
I

fore content myself by saying thatone diagram is a

this
key to the geometrical construction of the Great Pyra-
mid; to a very close approximation to the squaring of
the circle, to the true occult meaning of the apron worn
by Free Masons, to the construction of the Qabalistic
diagram known as The Tree of Life (which has been,

called 'a key to all things'), and to the proportions of

the mysterious vault in which the body of the founder
of the Rosicrucian Order is said to have been discover-
ed. These are but a small selection of the mysteries to
which this one diagram affords a clue."

Who then are 'The Builders of the Adytum'?

"They are an authentic Mystery School. Its system is

that of the Western Tradition, and its teachings have

been handed down from one group of Initiates to an-
other since very ancient times."

What can be expected from this training?

"Firstly there will be a gradual improvement in the

ability to concentrate, to think through plans with
clarity, and act on them correctly."
"Creative imagination and discrimination are height-
ened and also control of One's path of Spiritual growth.
Under their direction students learn the essential re-
quirements of esotericism by monthly instalments, so
that they are not plunged into a mass of occult termin-
ology."

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 This isfollowed by study of the Tarot Keys, with careful colour-
jing instructions which students paint for themselves. This gives each one
la set of cards suitable to his own psyche, yet conforming to the same

pattern of design for all.

After this a year is spent studying the meaning of the symbolism
and leading on, over a further four years or so, to experience in the art
jof healing, balancing the personality by the use of colour and sound,
land the methods of Tarot interpretation leading to the attainment of
higher consciousness.
An explanation of the occult diagram that is called The Tree of
I
Life' and revelations of the secrets of Spiritual Alchemy are also given.
All this brings one face to face with such questions as ... What is
life about ... The Inner Being of Man ... Life and Death ... Nature and

Immortality ... and many others?

The other important step is to be able to consider where one
wants to go and what one wants to be in this life.
For a long time in the past secrecy was necessary about such
matters but today, 'closed doors' are not necessary, for the secrecy
applying today which guards the deeper meanings is by not possessing
the ability to understand the concepts involved, or the reasoning re-
quired to master such an advanced science.
Through training with The Builders of the Adytum' theoretical
knowledge is gradually imparted to students alongside experimental
work. The Student finds he gradually gains mastery over small things,
then over greater. He must learn about the forces with which he will be
working, and to discover that his own determination and willingness to
work will be the measure by which he achieves his results. There are no
short-cuts to enlightenment.
Albeit, in spite of the divergencies in this method between East
and West, their similarities in principles should also be recognised. These
similarities I will show in my next chapter.

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1

Can Yoga and Alchemy Meet?

Eastern and Western Traditions of the Anceint Wisdom

When one is asked by a Syllabus Secretary to give a talk, the opening

gambit is nearly always 'What will your title be? I want to put it in my
syllabus'. This simple query is designed to pin one down. "That'll fix
him, he can't back out if I get a title," the Secretary thinks. But if the
lecturer is wise and knows the ropes, he plays for time.
"I'll let you know ... yes, as soon as possible."
Being the prospective lecturer I have time to think this over. It
will probably take several days while I get on with my normal work.
After a couple of weeks I decide that I had better do something about
that wretched lecture. My first thought is, 'Get away from the usual
cliche titles and try to find something startling and interesting'. This is
not so easy, so I decide to discuss it with my wife. This I fancy is a
good move.
"What are you reading about at the moment?" she asks.
"Alchemy," I reply.
"Well how does that tie up with your reading on Theosophy?"
What a question!
"Yoga might be the nearest contact I suppose, but I really can't
see it." A long pause ...

"Can yoga and alchemy meet? How would that do?"

Yes, that has possibilities, so I reach for the 'phone and get on
to the Secretary.
"I've got a title for my talk. I hope you'll like it."
A sigh of relief is heard at the other end of the line. Of course he
likes He's got me hooked!
it.

hang up and sit back. What have I done? Committed myself

I

either to bluff it out or prove a case. Strangely I find this a refreshing

and exciting challenge.
And that was the beginning of a lecture I never gave because the
date was cancelled.
Yoga and Alchemy ... the East and the West ... well, most systems
have something in common, so out come my books and I set to work.
But before getting onto the subject matter I must make it clear that I
am not a practicing Yoga student, so I have taken what I have to say
from Swami Vivekananda's book Raja Yoga and The Yoga of Health,
Youth and Joy by Sir Paul Dukes, K.B.E.
Regarding Alchemy I must express my appreciation for the help
I have received from 'The Builders of the Adytum' without whom I

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could not have attempted this chapter.
Let us begin with Yoga.

"The approach to Divinity through study, learning,

thought and meditation. Jnana Yoga is generally agreed
to be the most difficult of all the paths, for it leads
rapidly into a mass of paradoxes and contradictions.
Being the path demanding the highest flights of pure or
abstract thinking it makes a strong appeal to the intel-
lectual student.
"The second path, that of devotion, Bhakti Yoga is
perhaps more popular for it does not demand the same
intellectual equipment as Jnana. The approach is to God
through worship, adoration and self-abnegation. The
path of the visionary and the poet, of all great mystics
and saints.
"The third path, that of Karma Yoga is the approach
through work, activity and enterprise. The way of the
welfare worker, the mechanic, the inventor or business
man. It is the Yoga of a man of action inspired by an
ideal.
"An important aspect of Karma Yoga is the economy
of energy. It strives always to obtain the maximum of
result with the minimum of effort. The principle of
'skill in action' applies not only to large matters of daily

life, but to small details of thought and action too.

"The aim of Hatha Yoga is to bring the function of

our physical bodies into harmony with the source of
creation. Our physical and mental faculties must be
trained to function with perfect rhythm and harmony.
In physical terms perfection of health and physique is
the aim, but health of a super-nature is the ultimate
goal.
"Of the other divisions of this great subject, two of
the more important are Mantra Yoga and Laya Yoga.
This is the science of sound and vibration. It includes

the study of chanting and incantations; the repetition of

sacred formulae and their effects on the emotions, mind
and body. Laya Yoga is the study of the subject of
energy, particularly in the human organism, and the
mystery of the 'Life Force' in all its aspects.
"These alone will not lead a man to develop his div-
inity. Along side must come the practice of character
building in every aspect of every-day living in thought,

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 word and deed. Wisdom is learned from experience
gained by knowledge applied."

One could enlarge on these paths, but I propose to spend more

time on Raja Yoga because we have here a method of dealing with con-
sciousness and development of mind concentration.

"What has Raja Yoga to offer? It proposes to put be-

fore humanity a practical and scientifically worked out
method of reaching truth. One must, they say, proceed
as in science by observing, from which consciousness
and principles are drawn.
"Knowledge of the internal nature of man, the real
world and of thought can never be had until the power
of observing the facts that are awakened within our-
selves.
"Raja Yoga proclaims that there are in nature gross
manifestations and subtle manifestations. It proposes to
give a means of observing these internally. The instru-
ment for perfecting this act is the mind.
"Before one can anticipate personal experience in-
tellectually, acceptance must come from those who have
trodden the Path before us. And there are many to
whom we can refer if we wish to do so.
"One must have a basis on which to work and the in-
tellectual reading and study of men like Vivikananda is
an excellent beginning. One's own confirmation follows
by practice."

What then is their basic philosophy of the Universe?

1 "The Universe is composed of an omnipresent, all-

pervading, ineffable, nameless existence. The One
Life' in limitless varieties of forms and formlessness,
everything that exists."
2 "Nature is governed by three forces or distinguished
by three qualities known as Three Gunas:
Raja a positive quality that induces activity.
Tamas a negative quality that shuns activity,
including inertia.
Sattva the equalising quality that balances the
other two; these represent poise, self-
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 "It also has five classes of expression known as Tatt-
vas. These are five classes of energies behind our five
senses. Each has its own colour and shape. Rama Pra-
sad gives a very full description in Nature's Finer
Forces"
The five are:

Akasha subtle principle of hearing ovoid

Vayu ditto touch spherical

Tejas ditto sight triangular

Apas ditto taste semi-lunar

Prithivi ditto smell cubical

Expressions can, of course, be combinations of any two

or more. How then does one, with this fundamental
knowledge, begin? The answer is by considering the
eight Yogi Steps. These are:

1 Yama Non-killing; non-coveteousness; truth-

fulness.

2 Niyama Cleanliness; Contentment; Regular Ob-

servations; Austerity; Self-surrender to
God.
These are the basic moral techniques without which no
practice of Yoga will succeed.

3 Asana Posture. A series of exercises mental

and physical. Through this much acti-
vity goes on in the body. Nerve cur-
rents have to be given a new channel.
The whole constitution will be re-
modelled and the main activity will lie
along the spinal column.
4 Pranayama Control of breathing. This includes
amongst other things, nostril breath-
ing.

5 Pratyahara Restriction of the senses. Checking the

outgoing powers of the mind and free-
ing it from the thraldom of the senses.

6 Daharna Concentration of motion. A fluid state

of heightened attentiveness that is
highly focussed.

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 7 Meditation This leads from the former.

8 Super-Conscious Awareness.

"As one proceeds, the purification of the seven cen-

tres, known as the chakras, or spinning vortices of en-
ergy, begins until all seven are sublimated in the highest.
"When the serpent power, Kundalini, now coiled up
in the base of the spine awakened, the whole nature
is

will begin to change and the book of knowledge will

open. Each chakra is said to have its own particular col-
our, musical note and geometrical form.
"By the activity of the mind this power, when pro-
perly guided and directed towards the internal world,
will analyse and illumine facts for us. This is accom-
plished by the agencies of Surya - Sun and Rayi -
Moon."

This is a subject on it's own and does not come within the range
of this article.

"The man who has discovered and learnt how to man-

ipulate the internal forces will get the whole of nature
under his control. But he has to start, as was said earlier,
with his own nature.
"The Yogi then proposes to himself no less a task
than to master the Whole Universe, to control the whole
of Nature, internal and external."

Now let us turn to Alchemy. I will not take time in discussing the
people who have, over the centuries, tried their hands at the transmut-
ation of base metals into gold. A number were certainly genuine experi-
menters into the metals of their time, and as such were probably the
fore-runners of chemistry. To my mind some undoubtedly discovered
the Philosopher's Stone and were able to effect the miracles of trans-
mutation.
Others were charlatans seeking to extract large sums of money
from those motivated by greed. We will leave them.
As with Yoga, I intend to spend time on the highest aspect of Al-
chemy ... or Spiritual Alchemy, the quest for the Philosopher's Stone
and the discovery of the Universal Medicine. We can then see if there is
any basis on which one can consider the hypothesis contained in the

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titleof this chapter to be a possibility.
One must understand that all old alchemical writings are in a spe-
cial cryptic language. To decipher their meanings one has to learn the
language in the same way that one has to learn Sanscrit or Chemical
formulae if one wants to understand Yoga and chemistry.
But at the outset it might be useful to examine the quotation from
Webster's Dictionary to give us a start. It is this:

"The mediaeval chemical science, whose great objects

were the transmutation of the baser metals into gold;
the discovery of the universal cure for disease and the
means of indefinitely prolonging life."

But this is not all the story and it is misleading because it makes it
appear that various operations of alchemy are directed primarily to
those objectives; whereas, the truth is that the Great Work has to do
with man himself.
Alchemy has been described as 'A state of consciousness which is
reflected into the physical plane as perfect vibratory equilibrium'. But it
is not exclusively concerned with consciousness. The performance of

the Great Work is more than a state of mind and enables him who has
succeeded in unfoldment to exercise all the powers that go with it.
Eliphas Levi describes the Great Work as follows:

"The Magnum Opus (Great Work) is pre-eminently

the operation of man by himself, that is, the full and
complete conquest which he can make of his faculties
and his future; it is pre-eminently the perfect emancipa-
tion of his will.
"This self-command enables him to transform his
'corruptible' physicalbody into a body of 'incorrupt-
ible'. So we see that alchemy is also primarily an in-
terior operation.
"Yet it isby no means wholly metaphysical. Actual
physical materials are worked upon, and the operation
has for its object the making of a mineral product,
which may truly be called a stone. This stone is a pro-
duct of Art (Mind) though the materials composing it
are drawn from nature. Therefore The Great Work may
be described correctly as being a Psycho-physiological
transformation, directed by human self-consciousness."

What then are the tenets of Alchemy?

1 The doctrine that "all manifestation is of one sub-
stance"

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 Sulphur Fiery and passionate.
Mercury Vital and reflective.

Salt Arrestive.

2 They recognise five phases of manifestation or five

classes of expression of The One Thing. These are:
"Quintessence and the four elements, fire, water, air,

earth."
"But before practical work or experiment can begin
in alchemy the student must practice discipline, both
mental, emotional and physical and have an under-
standing of the aims to which he proposes to direct
his energies. These are given in the twelve stages laid
out in The Great Work. They have strange names but
are:

1 'Calcination' Process which drives from our

consciousness the changeable ele-
ments of emotion, personal bias,
erroneous opinion etc.
2 'Congelation' This is to work out new patterns
for the expression of the 'Life
Force'.

3 'Fixation' Harmonic balance in the opera-

tion of the three principles men-
tioned earlier.

4 'Separation' Formulation of the objective to-

wards which the special work of
the alchemist is directed.

5 'Digestion' Transformation of the destruc-

tive forces which throws form in-
to perfect comprehension of Re-
ality.

6 'Distillation' Food, water, air, light. These ele-

ments outside our bodies are life-
less. By assimilation or distilla-
tion they become living sub-
stances.

7 'Sublimation' Diversion of undesirable trends

by education, and conscious ef-
fort.

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 8 'Purification' Decomposition and disintegrat-
ion of former structures of false
opinions.

9 'Incineration' A step further where something

has to be brought to bear which
the alchemist cannot do for him-
self. A Higher Power is invoked.

The Great Work is only achieved

10 'Fermentation'
by the Grace of God.
When the leven of a super-con-
sciousness has been received thro-
ugh the suspension of personal
identification with events and
actions, the leven begins to oper-
ate subconsciously.

1 1 'Dissolution' Process of meditation which be-

gins by concentration on some
particular object.
''

12 'Multiplication Isthe tingeing of the whole body

with Super-Conscious awareness.

"In alchemy one hears much about the seven metals;

gold, silver, copper, mercury, iron, tin and lead. Each
has its own
appropriate colour and is related to plexuses
and glands in the body. They are the same as the seven
chakras of Yoga.
"In the transformation of the Alchemist these metals
are so modified that the lower rates of vibration are
transmuted and sublimated ... or lifted up. This trans-
formation of the subtle Scorpio force which works
through the interior stars has a triple consequence.

1 It leads to spiritual illumination.

2 It gives the perfected Adept a new body which is

absolutely healthy.

3 It enables him to exercise powers which remain

latent in most human beings.

"In meditation the subtle changes in consciousness

are effected whereby the scorpio force is raised from its
natural centre in the body to become an active power
awakening other centres in the brain."

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 By what agencies is this accomplished? In Alchemical terminology

... "Sol is its Father, Luna its Mother".

It is clear from this that there are many similarities in the two
nethods of spiritual unfoldment ... the philosophy of Yoga of the East
ind Alchemy of the West.
I willnow, to make this clearer, show in diagrammatic form a com-
>arison of the two systems.

Yoga Alchemy
1 All things are an expression of
One Fundamental Energy. Akasha Quintessence
1 All things combine three qualities. Rajas Sulphur
Tarn as Mercury
Sattva Salt

* All things have five modes of Akasha Quintessence

expression. Tejas Fire
Vayu Air
Apas Water
Prithivi Earth
There are seven vehicles of
activity. Chakras Metals
5 A secret force raises them from
one level to another. Kundalini Scorpio
> There are two main agencies Surya Sun
of the work. Rayi Moon
7 Preparation for the work entails
physical purity and ethical freedom. Eight steps Twelve stages
3 Success gives the Adept extraordinary Performance of so-called
powers. Miracles

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 So we find that there are many places where Yoga and Alchemy
meet though they have different terminology.
"In concluding this brief outline, it may be as well to
remind ourselves that we have all Eternity in which to
complete the operation. This does not mean that we
have to sit idle and wait for ever. If we grasp the basic
principles and begin to work in harmony with them
now, we might possibly finish the Great Work in any
one incarnation.
"But in any event, if we begin now, we will have at
least laid the foundations for further progress. Next
time it will inevitably be easier."

And in conclusion from Vivekananda ...

"Do this either by work, or by worship, or psychic

control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of them
and BE FREE."

And one final reminder ... "Personal effort is the price one must
pay for the discovery of truth".

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 12

Radionics and Modern Science

The construction of Radionic Instruments has been one of the great

difficulties in our work. Elementary radio and electrical components
were the only parts available in the early days, and it is natural that
these should have been used.
For years scientists, doctors and laymen have asked, "What is in-
side your 'Box' ... can I have a look at the circuits?" My reply has in-
variably been, "Yes, certainly." And having looked, in most cases the
reactions have been uncomplementary.
"This is rubbish, a lot of nonsense, it couldn't possibly work."
And immediately they would turn their attention elsewhere.
I have always held, and still do so, that science MUST and WILL
eventually find the keys to solve the radionic riddles. I make this opti-
mistic statement because science and radionics are today very close to
being linked.
Mike Roberts, an expert and inventive Electronic Engineer whom I
mention in my Introduction, and who has spent a great deal of time on
Radionic instrumentation, has made one for me. We introduce a new
concept in its construction, as well as assuring, as far as possible, electri-
cal circuitry. But before describing it, let us run over the construction
of the dial mechanisms that have gradually evolved during the 70 years
of radionic endeavour.
To begin with Abrams used a variable resistance box in his initial
experiments, and later, variable capacitors and inductors in some of his
more advanced instruments.
Dr. Drown in her HVR Instrument used a series of 'studs' mounted
in a circle made from hardboard or plywood, with a copper wiper mov-
ing over these studs. The studs were connected, one to the other, with
stiff wire, and the dials were connected in series. These dials were not
'electrical' components but were especially made for her instruments.
Guyon Richards followed Abrams work and used a resistance box.
He also experimented with various forms of valve amplifiers to amplify
the radionic waves. Faraday cages and screens came into his experi-
ments and a fuller explanation of his work is outlined in his book The
Chain of Life.
Delawarr started by using a series of stub aerials. Later he devised a
form of 'split washer' arrangement that covered the full 360° of arc
but for some reason dial calibrations still had a gap between start and
finish. At a still later date the Delawarr laboratories changed to radio
type potentiometers.
In more modern times Malcolm Rae used potentiometers for his

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Base 44 instrument, but there is a difference here in the dial calibra-
tions. Insteadof the usual 0-10 markings, Rae devised a system that
employs the numerals 1 -44.

From the front a Radionic Instrument has a mass of dials and

switches and one could be forgiven for thinking it is a complex form of
electrical instrument. Delving into the back reveals a series of intercon-
necting wires and this further strengthens the illusion of electrical cir-
cuitry. They SEEM electrical ... therefore they ARE.
But what has to be remembered is that these dials and wires are
not carrying electrical signals as the scientist understands them. They
were never designed to do this, but to work on a different basis. The
use of such circuits, unconnected to any mains and therefore not appar-
ently producing a viable electrical energy makes it hardly surprising that
scientists were not interested in radionic instruments.
This aspect has not been brought out strongly up to now, for I
suspect, the simple reason that people using these instruments
THOUGHT they were electrical because they LOOKED electrical,
when, in fact, they were nothing of the sort.
Here we have a further reason why it is essential in the future that
Radionic writings MUST conform to, and be described in, scientific
terminology if tliey are to be accepted in scientific quarters.
It is not until we come to inspect the Wilson instrument that we
find a true electrical circuit. Here there are 50 individual dials on the
upright panel, and a panel of 9 dials on the table.
The problem was how to convert a 9 dial 'treatment rate' on this
latter panel to a single dial on the upright.
Wilson introduced what is known as a Wheatstone Bridge as a
balancing circuit for this purpose, so that he could get a ratio of 9 to 1
on each of his dials on the main panel. This instrument came to be
known as the 'Wilson 51' because 51 patients could be treated at the
same time; and all with different rates. He also made a smaller model
with 3 treatment circuits.

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Wilson Instrument
1
'5 ' Diagnostic and Treatment
 This again makes one consider 'What is the energy one is using?'
In radionic diagnosis and treatment I believe the nearest one can get to
an answer is to say that one is determining and measuring some form of
frequency, and that, as far as one can judge, the patient's 'witness'
radiates a whole gamut of frequencies. These are disturbed in some way
if a patient has an abnormal condition or is functioning in an unbal-
anced way.
work on a very simple
In general, radionic instruments appear to
principle, inasmuch as they try to interpret the regular and irregular
frequencies, by using numerical and/or geometrical patterns of energy.
This corresponds to the theory which was incorporated in the
work of Malcolm Rae, and which he describes fully in his Magnetic
Geometrical Applications literature.
In my new instrument about which I shall comment, the principle
of the Wheatstone Bridge as a balancing circuit is also used, but the
mains power, to which it is connected, is solely for registering this
balance through the meter, and for the inclusion of the Sine-wave
method of increasing effects in treatment, and for earthing. As with
Drown, radionic work does not require mains power.
This, at first sight, looks like any other radionic instrument, but it
has been designed on a modular basis, so that any number of units can
be linked together. Its versatility is invaluable since a practitioner is no
longer limited to ONE instrument in ONE cabinet. He can choose what
units he may need for his own particular requirements. These could in-
clude items for work on colour, sound computers, etc.
In my own case, the centre portion is the basic unit for diagnosis.
The meter between the radionic impulse set on the
registers a 'balance'
diagnostic unit and the ten position treatment unit on the right of the

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Author's new Diagnostic and Treatment Instruments

picture. The lower socket connects with the 'stick-pad' unit which can
be adjusted to the sensitivity of a particular operator. This pad can,
moreover, be used as the focal point when working with a pendulum.
The left hand panel gives a Sine-Wave pulse as an addition to the
normal radionic wave. This can either be set for continual pulse or be
switched to a pre-set timer.
At this point it would be legitimate to ask whether such an instru-
ment has any advantages over others. I cannot describe its working in
absolute detail here, but two factors are of key importance.
Firstly, there is the ability to measure more accurately than has
ever been possible and Mike Roberts makes this need clear in his article
'Observations and Experiments in Radionic and allied fields' published
in the Radionic Journal of September 1980, under the heading 'Base
Ten Dials' from which I quote:

"In the course of developing a portable diagnostic

and treatment instrument two conditions were laid
down as being of prime importance. The first was that it
should be possible to accurately set any number re-
quired round the dials, and to be able to accurately re-
set that number on any subsequent occasion. It is possi-
ble, unless great care is taken, to go slightly over or
under the desired number. For example, suppose the

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 'rate'596 is being put on a standard 9 dial instrument,
itcould be set at 5 and a bit over, 9 and a bit under, and
6 more or less. The next time the 'rate' is set up it could
be 5 and a bit under, 9 and a bit over, and so on. This
problem was solved by using click-stick positions at each
numerical setting. In this way each number clicks into
position as it is approached and is very easily re-set to its
exact position on any subsequent occasion."

This method is incorporated in my new instrument. In addition, I

use three dials for measuring, instead of one, as has been the practice in
the past. These are to be seen in the centre of the picture. The right dial
is for units, the centre for tens and the left for hundreds.

Using the Drown technique all glands and organs should register at
80—100 normal. One begins measuring on the tens dial and the impulse
registers, say, 40. One then continues on the units dial, and if this regi-
sters at 6, the full reading is 46. It cannot be 45 nor 47. Thus more
accurate information is obtained. Having worked out our information
on a practical basis, one must then consider the possibility of storing
this in a computer. So we turn our minds to the concept of 'Computer-
ised Radionics' as a workable premise.
One major problem, however, lies in tying up the pendulum or
'stick-pad' response to a computer. It is unscientific to wave a pendu-
lum, or to stroke a rubber or wooden pad in order to register the im-
pulse. But here I think a big step forward could be taken in terms of
'brain-wave' patterns, which are known to produce signals and might
indicate pendulum response.
In the beginning it was thought one would have to measure the
brain-wave directly, but that would mean having an electrode on or
round the temple of a practitioner. This is obviously impracticable and
a device less clumsy is under consideration. One way is to have a plate
or pad on which a practitioner could place his hand and which would
detect the electrical signals from the brain. These signals a computer
would then interpret in the same way as a practitioner now interprets
the automatic movements of a pendulum suspended from his hand.
This I feel is the most modern and dynamic area so far as the over-
all progress of Radionics is concerned. However, a word of caution ...

although some experimental trials have already been made, it is likely

to be some time before satisfactory conclusions can be put on record,
and information on the subject made public.
A further point under consideration is the 'time factor' in radion-
ics. In a large practice much time is consumed by dials having to be set

manually on instruments periodically. Here there is room for saving by

the introduction of Radionics and the Computer. The ultimate method

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could be to have a simple computer that would allow all information
relative to radionic procedures to be incorporated in it, with a display
panel similar to those used in everyday commerce. This would instantly
display all possible treatments applicable to any diseased condition.
With such a system a Practitioner would have at his elbow a simple
and quick reference infinitely superior to having to search through his
notebooks, card indexes and treatment lists. Such a computer could
also retain a wide range of information gleaned over the years from his
own practice as well as those of colleagues.
The possibilities grow — for instance, a more advanced form of
radionic computer would be able to store all the information contained
within the 'rate book', and this would be instantly accessable to the
practitioner. A computer with more memory capacity could contain
everything in a patient's file so that if a new analysis and treatment
was needed at any time, the relevant information would be there. In
fact the total amount of information stored in a computer is limited
only by its memory capabilities, and it is at this point that the vexed
question of cost to the practitioner would have to be considered.
It must be pointed out, however, that the term 'Radionic Com-
puter' is not strictly correct. Any computer with enough memory and
the ability to be programmed by the practitioner can be 'called' a
radionic computer, but he would merely be storing information in ex-
actly the same way as a small business man would do for his individual-
ised merchandise.
For thefinal ideas on the possibilities for 'Radionics in the Elec-
tronic Era' hand over to Mike Roberts, the technical expert, and am
I

asking him to express his thoughts on the subject in Electronic termin-

ology. He therefore continues:

"A
truly radionic computer would be another matter.
It would be interfaced with the main memory and
would be a system of converting the signals now inter-
preted by the practitioner with a pendulum or stick-pad
into electrical signals compatible with the computer's
addressing and programming needs.
"The 'output' of the computer, as well as being avail-
able as a hardcopy on paper, would have a secondary or
peripheral box to enable it to convert its 'electrical sig-
nal' into 'radionic rates' or 'geometrical patterns'.
computer were able to interface directly with
"If the
a radionic treatment instrument one could use a pattern
or numerical value created by the computer, and then it
might be possible to abandon the use of rates altogether,
and this would mean, in turn, that much less memory
would be required in the main computer. The name of

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 the condition or location of the organ under analysis
might be enough, and this could be assigned a certain
reference point on a matrix of connections, each organ
or condition being assigned its own particular position
on this matrix in much the same way as it now has a
rate assigned to it.

"The may not have to be displayed on

actual position
the video display unit. The computer could be pro-
grammed to know which connection on the matrix any
condition represented.
"Turning to the complementary display terminal one
could incorporate a cursor bar that would underline the
location or organ one was interested in. This cursor bar
would, of course, be adjustable from top to bottom of
the screen.
"Graphics could be used to advantage. A 'picture' of
the relevant area of thebody under investigation could
be displayed with all the organs and points of interest
labelled. Anatomical physiological diagrams could be re-
membered and displayed. This 'picture' system of pre-
senting the information to the practitioner could be of
great help in visualisation.
"The actual point of detection during an analysis,
that is, the point when a practitioner would normally

get a pendulum or stick-pad reaction, could be displayed

as a flashing light indicator next to the organ on the
screen.
"Ihave already designed a mini-computer that will
remember a series of treatment rates and present them
to the practitioner, in sequence, by the touch of a but-
ton. Where several different treatments are required for
a particular case, selected treatments could be stored
and automatically switched on and off through a pre-set
timer, thus giving a patient what it is considered he re-
quires, spread over perhaps 24 hours.
"Miniature diagnostic and treatment instruments not
more than 12 inches wide are in production."

In ending my book I must again stress that in our discussions on

lew and more complex forms of radionic instruments, the complexity
is directed towards the mechanics of presenting information to and re-
:overing information from the very simple factors of radionics itself.

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 The complexity is an aid to the Radionic Practitioner, and nothing
more than a time-saving factor. Radionics itself does not demand com-
plex or even electronic circuits. It is, as mentioned earlier, probably a
very simple form of geometrical pattern energy. It does, however, re-
quire the 'human factor', and our researches are directed towards allow-
ing the practitioner to make full use of his ESP faculty whilst removing
as much of the labour involved in storing his conclusions as is scientifi-
cally possible.

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 CONCLUSION

The very survival of Radionics over three-quarters of a century is

encouraging in itself. It could well have faded out for lack of support
had there not existed within itself an element of truth. The search for
this truth has gone on through the generations with a constant changing
of techniques. Radionics adapting to each new element of understand-
ng as time went by.
New ideas were brought out by new pioneers — all credit to them,
but no less important has been the loyalty of the grass-root Practition-
ers in the field. Many of them have devoted years of their lives working

quietly in their homes to relieve such pain and suffering as they were
ible. They were led and inspired by an organising leadership which
carried the movement forward regardless of stress or opposition, and
iVhich was constantly on the alert for any revitalising impulses — equal-
y to them — all credit.

Today Radionics is facing a new challenge — that of assimilating

tself into a galloping technical and scientific age. It must adapt and
quickly if it is to be recognised as a natural segment in the general heal-
ng spectrum of the next quarter century and beyond.
It can do it — the will is there, so are the young people who will be
ts catalysts. They must be encouraged and helped, since it is by their
efforts that recognition will come.
However, I am convinced that only when we have moved into
ound physical research procedures, as outlined by such people as Pro-
essor S.W. Tromp, will science and medicine open their ears and listen
o us. We can hope for more than that. We can expect welcome dis-
cission and collaboration in research, so that TOGETHER we will be
ible to bring a whole new dimension into our work.

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