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ESSENTIAL IDEAS IN RADIONICS
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an essay
by Nick Franks
‘We
analyse the normal so that we may know the difference between it and the
abnormal’
Ruth Drown
I began studying classical Homoeopathy
in January 1994 and starting adding Radionic instruments and techniques in
October 1995. As I have learned the two disciplines side by side and have
found both approaches attractive, it has taken me some considerable time to
decide which of the two is most appropriate for me as a practitioner. I have
concluded that in spite of the genius of the Homoeopathic method as set out
by Hahnemann, there are often - notably in complex cases - a far wider range
of problems to be addressed than can be uncovered by standard Homoeopathic
diagnostic means. Indeed, it could probably be argued that without the use
of the Radiesthesic sensibility in some form, there is currently no method
available to discover some of the problems which are routinely treated by
the Radionic approach.
Since its beginnings about 100 years ago, the relatively
obscure science of Radionics has utilised various dowsing techniques
1,
not only for the detection of disease states but also to identify and apply
appropriate therapies. Homoeopathic remedies are widely used in Radionics,
and some seminal personalities in the present development of Homoeopathy in
Britain - such as John Damonte - were also Radionic practitioners. In this
essay I will give a brief overview of Radionics; I will also contend that
Homoeopathic remedies are a subset of a far wider range of healing sources
which create a generalised category of Vibrational remedies; and that
Radionics is one of the best available methods for using this therapeutic
approach.
A Very Brief History of
Radionics
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Radionics was founded by Dr Albert Abrams (1863 - 1924), a
native of San Francisco, under the original name of ERA - Electronic
Reactions of Abrams. A highly-qualified conventional practitioner with an
illustrious career and also the advantage of a substantial private fortune,
Abrams was able to pursue his researches without reliance on outside
funding. Like Hahnemann (1755 - 1843), the founder of Homoeopathy, Abrams
was a master of observation and a tireless experimenter and truth seeker,
which attributes eventually led him to make discoveries which brought
considerable opprobrium from the medical establishment of the day. Like so
many of these outstanding figures, he was also capable of making inspired
leaps of judgement.
Abrams’ fundamental discovery
was that under certain conditions the human nervous system will react to the
energy field of external elements such as persons with disease conditions,
samples of diseased tissue, and so forth. This reaction would manifest by
means of a muscle reflex which could be detected by percussing the abdominal
wall. Alternatively, Abrams found that drawing a glass rod across the
abdomen could also be used to localise the point of response. Different
diseases - or as Abrams noted, ‘drugs in homoeopathic dilutions can be
detected and identified by the stomach reflex’ - produced reactions in
different parts of the abdomen, which suggested a unique diagnostic method.
He then proceeded to develop a technique which placed a person with abdomen
bared (known as the Subject) in series with a patient, i.e. linked by a wire
which terminated on the Subject’s forehead. He could then diagnose by
testing on the healthy Subject for response to disease conditions in the
patient.
Abrams later discovered that
certain diseases produced reactions in the same muscle groups, which neatly
threw his method off the rails until he hit upon the idea of placing a
variable potentiometer (i.e. a rotary control such as might be used to
adjust the volume on a hi-fi) in the middle of the cable linking the Subject
to the patient. Settings of the potentiometer would be found which were
unique to each disease, thus making it possible to diagnose a wide range of
conditions.
Eventually Abrams discovered
that he could diagnose just as accurately using a blood sample from the
patient, and eventually found out that he could work at a distance with the
patient’s sample placed next to the telephone line; such tests were
performed over distances of more than 500 miles. He finally discovered that
he could work without any form of linking wire between himself and the
sample, but not over a distance of more than a mile.
From these basic elements:
- the reflex muscle reaction
to the stimulus of an external energy field (i.e. the radiesthesic faculty,
from the practitioner’s point of view);
- the substitution of a
sample from the patient for the patient himself;
- the creation of a unique
value representing a disease or other energy factor; and - the
possibility of working at a distance -
are formed Radionics as we know it today.3
Dr Ruth Drown (1892 - 1963), a chiropracter based in
Hollywood, had apparently worked in Abrams’ clinic as a young women and
decided to develop his methods. From the accounts I have read she was
clearly another remarkable figure, and once again, probably as a consequence
of her successes and unwillingness to toe the line, the establishment
persecuted her to the point of trial and eventual brief imprisonment. In
fact as a result of the Drown trial in 1951, I believe that it remains
basically illegal to practice Radionics in the USA.
Drown redesigned the diagnostic instrument into a compact
system which gave greater flexibility and extended range. The patient’s
blood sample was relocated into a small container in the instrument. She
replaced the Subject’s abdomen with a small rubber membrane (known as the
Stick Pad); the index finger was stroked along the Pad while the
potentiometers were adjusted, and when the appropriate setting was found -
i.e. the circuitry came into balance, indicating a resonance or response in
the practitioner - the finger would ‘stick’ on the membrane.4 Her
new designs also allowed longer sequences of numerical values to be created,
which enabled her to assemble an Atlas of rates which covers most of the
structures in the human body, many disease types, poisons, toxins, and a
range of other factors including emotional states.
Drown sought to define perfect structures, to measure the
degree of deviation from perfection, and then to rectify any imbalances or
deficiencies. Thus - very simply - her rate for the liver is 48
5;
this would be set on the instrument and the deviation from 0 tested. Any
significant reading would indicate a problem either in the liver or
elsewhere in the body which was affecting the liver. Her principal treatment
method was to feed the ‘perfect’ rate back to the respective diseased
location in the patient, either by wires or remotely, the idea being that as
new cells were created they would be healthy and would replace the diseased
structures, and according to the information available, she claimed many
successes. She also placed a priority on treating the endocrine system, and
as Radionics emerges as a system of treatment on the dynamic plane, I will
show how this ties in with the analysis of the subtle anatomy which has come
to dominate present-day Radionics, at least in the UK.
What is also of significance
is her use of the technique of treating at a distance - any distance,
anywhere in the world - in the process known as Radionic broadcasting. It
was no longer necessary for the patient to be present. Incidentally the term
‘broadcasting’ is descriptive but probably inaccurate, as no radio or
television technology is involved. Whatever the mechanism, there is no doubt
in my mind that treatment at a distance works, whether one is broadcasting
Homoeopathic remedies, Radionic (i.e. Drown-type) rates or any other energy
factor or vibrational pattern which can be represented as a Radionic
signature and is appropriate to the patient.
It would seem, from the
present day position, that virtually anything can be represented by a
Radionic rate, and this of course includes the entire Homoeopathic Materia
Medica; it is even possible, in principle, to find rates for remedies which
we do not yet have or which are too dangerous to handle, such as radioactive
materials. Malcolm Rae’s ever-expanding system has around 24,000 rates which
are presented in the form of Ratio cards and include the whole Acupuncture
system of meridians, a vast range of chemicals, drugs, human organ
functions, Ayurvedic concepts, I-Ching hexagrams and so forth.
The
Dematerialisation of Radionics and the Influence of Alice Bailey
Drown was also very involved
in esoteric studies - notably Kabala, which amongst other things attempts to
understand the underlying structure of reality through the relationships
between numbers; and she thus sought to find meaning in the Radionic rates
through Kabalistic interpretation. Whatever the result of this, she also
thought that energy flowed from the Universe into the human system via the
brain, and that proper distribution of this energy was essential to healthy
functioning - in other words, moved away from a purely physical conception
of health and disease.
Just as James Tyler Kent (1849 - 1916), influenced by
Swedenborg, switched the focus of Homoeopathic diagnosis to the Mental and
Emotional planes and the realms of high potency prescribing - and thus
dematerialised Homoeopathy - so Drown’s esoteric line of thought was taken a
huge step further in the work of David Tansley and Malcolm Rae
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both men, regrettably, dying quite young. Most of their work was done in the
UK between, approximately, 1965 and 1985. Tansley, a chiropracter, had spent
many years studying the writings of Alice Bailey (1880-1949) and drew
heavily on her concepts of esoteric anatomy and psychology to introduce a
new diagnostic system which re-oriented the focus of Radionic analysis away
from the material plane of organ functions and pathology and towards
causation within the human energy, or subtle, body. Rae, on the other hand,
was the inventor who could translate Tansley’s thinking into a practical and
flexible diagnostic and treatment system, known as Magneto-Geometry.
Bailey’s work
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drawn from various Eastern traditions and integrated into a new form, is far
too vast to even begin to attempt describing here, and I will simply create
a thumbnail sketch of some of what has been appropriated into Radionics. I
might add that as the years have gone by various of these concepts have
become commonplace, but during the period the books were written, 1919 -
1949, they must have seemed like the last word in arcane obscurity.
Bailey proposed a model of (ultimate) reality as
being comprised of seven planes of energy, each with its concomitant forms
of consciousness. Each plane is comprised of seven sub-planes of increasing
quality and fineness, the whole blending into a continuum. Each of these
planes also manifests in us as a corresponding energy body, e.g. the Etheric
Body, Astral Body, and so forth. Briefly, the 7th plane is the Physical,
which is subdivided into the solid physical; then liquids; then gases; then
four superior levels of Etheric matter. It is the energy of the Etheric
plane (prana) which vitalises the Physical form, and Tansley also states
that the Miasms reside primarily in the Etheric body; when activated by an
appropriate (morbific) stimulus they will taint the energy reaching the
physical body, with the results that Hahnemann described at length. I should
also note that energy is also distributed through the Etheric body via a
system of pathways known as Nadis; it may be considered that these in
turn externalise as the nervous system
8.
The 6th plane is the Astral (or Emotional), the seat of
emotions, desire and illusion - and also, with the Etheric, the place of
origin of the greater number of diseases. The 5th plane is the Manasic (or
Mental), the plane of Mind, which ranges from concrete rational knowledge on
its lower subplanes through to spiritual knowledge on its higher levels. For
the purposes of this essay it is not necessary to deal with the four higher
planes - Buddhic (Intuitional); Atmic (Spiritual); Monadic; and Logoic
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as they are not involved with the disease process. Tansley refers to them as
the Transpersonal Self (or perhaps Soul), and I suppose that you could
consider them as the essential being of a person, whereas as the
lower vehicles are the becoming of a person and the deeper objective
of life is to align the Soul’s Purpose with that of the Personality.
The link point between the Transpersonal Self and the
Personality is the Higher Ego or Causal Body; this is the vehicle, found on
the Mental Plane, through which the individual manifests his or her purpose
in existence and it is primarily friction
10 resulting
from conflict between the different objectives of the Higher and Lower
selves which creates illness, and hence, many
11 of
the illnesses of humanity. Compare this concept with §9
of The Organon - ‘In the healthy human state, the spirit-like life force
(autocracy) that enlivens the material organism as dynamis, governs without
restriction.... so that our indwelling, rational spirit can freely avail
itself of this living, healthy instrument for the higher purposes of our
existence.’ Without arguing the finer points, it could be proposed that
Radionics and Homoeopathy share a broadly similar central concept of the
nature of human health.
Embedded in the subtle bodies are a number of energy
transmission and circulation centres known as Chakras, which have their
counterpart on each plane
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and as the individual develops and consciousness reaches a higher level, so
the Chakra ‘opens’ and becomes receptive to energy flowing from higher and
higher sources. Radionic analysis is principally concerned with the 7 major
Chakras, namely, Base, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Brow and Crown;
although certain minor Chakras, such as the Spleen, are often taken into
consideration. Each of these Chakras in turn externalises as one of the
endocrine glands - e.g. Throat - Thyroid; and the state of the Chakra is
considered to condition the functioning of the associated gland and local
anatomy.
Seen in this context the physical human is a precipitation
of higher energies into form and as such the quality of each structure,
physical or subtle, will reflect the quality of the energy which has reached
it; or, to put it another way, each structure will condition the energy
flowing through it - hence for example the miasm in the Etheric body taints
the energy to produce some form of illness in the Physical. Energy must flow
freely through all of these systems into the physical body to make for the
healthy human, and any disturbances of the subtle body will tend to
interrupt the flow at some point and will be reflected in mental, emotional
or physical symptoms of some nature. Thus the objective of Radionic
diagnosis is to find the energy disturbance at its source, if possible, and
treat it appropriately
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Again, this can be compared with § 3 of the Organon ‘a physician
must...clearly realise what is to be cured...in each single case of
disease....(et seq.).’
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other words we have to identify and rectify the causation; we will not deal
with a polluted river (as it were) simply by cleaning it up downstream, if
the source of the toxic material is in the higher reaches.
The
Radionic Approach
As I have indicated, it seems
that virtually anything can represented by a Radionic rate, and Radionics is
therefore an open-ended system which enables a vast and probably limitless
range of energy qualities and relationships to be studied. Radionics
combines Oriental concepts of the subtle anatomy and the relationship of the
soul to its vehicles of manifestation with the Western approach to the human
body as a biochemical organism. This diagnostic method is therefore
concerned not only with the inner ecology of the patient but also his
relationship to, as it were, Heaven and Earth. Equally the practitioner
needs to cultivate a knowledge, awareness and understanding of a wide range
of both esoteric and exoteric factors which in principal goes beyond
anything envisaged by many other healing disciplines in use at the present
time.
This draws the practitioner
to bear in mind - as a minimum - the following when making a diagnosis:
1. Problems resulting from
the Spiritual character
Karmic and related factors
such as birth circumstances and willingness to incarnate may need to be
considered in some instances. In addition there may be problems resulting
from the Spiritual growth practices of the person, such as over-stimulation
of certain Chakras. The influence of such factors may only become apparent
if a case is proving difficult to treat. The practitioner needs to assess to
what extent it is possible or practical to deal with these problems; they
may ultimately be a matter for the patient to resolve through life
experience. Such cases will also teach the practitioner to accept his or her
own limitations.
2. Problems resulting from
the Personality
The Personality is at least the sumtotal of the Mental and
Astral bodies and is therefore the psychological persona through which the
Higher Ego (or Causal Body) interacts with the world at large. Multiple
impacts from life in general and its problems, and the conflict between
aspiration and achievement, may create many difficulties in the Mental and
Astral bodies which are reflected in the Etheric and Physical bodies, often
via or including the Chakras. Negative experiences, particularly in
childhood, may become embedded in the subtle body to such an extent that
they entirely colour the patient’s outlook and produce deep delusional
states, considered from the Homoeopathic point of view.
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effect this category would include the range of psychiatric, psychological
and psychosomatic diseases accepted by orthodox medical science.
3.
Problems resulting from Inheritance
Genetic inheritance and predisposition are of course widely
known to modern science, but the Miasms are hardly acknowledged. These were
identified first by Hahnemann as Psora, Sycosis and Syphilis but later
researchers in Homoeopathy have added Cancer and Tuberculosis
(Pseudo-Psora). These taints are distortions of the Etheric Body which
reflect at the cellular level, presumably via the DNA - Chromosome system
and are a major source of chronic disease conditions.
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4. Problems resulting from
the Environment and the Planet
This is a large and,
regrettably, expanding category. Alice Bailey writes of diseases inherited
from imperfections in the etheric fabric of the Earth itself. As this
material is incorporated into the body of the individual human so the Miasms
may also be acquired, as I at present understand it. In this category we
could also include mass Acute diseases, which may have their roots in social
stresses, such as Influenza, Measles, Mumps, etc, and which may leave their
own sequelae that can have effects on the individual for years
afterwards. In addition human activity has created a range of new Miasms,
which at minimum may be said to include:
(a) Radiation, Petrochemicals, Electro-Magnetic, Heavy
Metals, etc
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(b) Iatrogenic, from
medicines, vaccinations, dental amalgam, and so forth;
Here I would suggest we also include Geopathic Stress in various forms,
which seems to have its source in imperfections in the geological structure
of the planet; and Parasite diseases such as Malaria and other types of
infestation having their provenance in the other Kingdoms of Nature. We may
even want to add Cosmic influences here such as Solar Electromagnetic flux
and even Astrological influences.
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5. Problems in the Physical
Body
This includes in effect the
entire range of functional and pathological disturbances covered by orthodox
medicine.
There are various approaches
to performing the diagnosis. If the case is complex the practitioner may
wish to create an overall picture of the patient’s health and vitality by
assessing the various levels and systems: the Mental, Emotional, and Etheric
bodies, Aura, and Nadis; the Chakras; the physical systems as generalities,
for instance, Cardio-Vascular, Respiratory, Muscular, G.I. Tract, and so
forth. The influence or presence of Miasms, effects of Vaccination, Poisons,
Toxins, Geopathic Stress, Malignancy, Infection, Allergies, Nutritional
Deficiency or Malabsorption and other factors are also taken into account.
The findings are marked into a chart which enables a rapid assessment of the
patient’s general state to be made and any areas of trouble should
immediately be apparent. The type and source of the problem can be worked
out either by mentally posing questions and watching the pendulum response,
or by the use of the pendulum with additional charts. Again, each
practitioner will tend to vary the basics according to his or her knowledge
and experience; the key factor lies in knowing which questions to ask and
how to interpret the responses. It should be apparent that both diagnosis
and treatment are highly individualised.
On the other hand a more
simple approach is to discover the most prominent symptom, its location,
character and, if possible, reason for any deviation from proper function
and treat that, with a step-by-step approach of always treating the
remaining worst or most prominent symptom, preferably at its source.
Whichever approach is used, the second job is to establish the nature of the
relationship between the patient and an energy factor - for instance, a
Flower, Gem, Command or Homoeopathic remedy - which may be used to correct
the problem. Although Radionics encompasses both diagnostic and treatment
techniques, there is nothing to prevent the practitioner from dowsing
therapies outside of the scope of Radionics to assess their appropriateness
to the patient’s problems.
I would note that in my
experience it appears to be crucial to get the treatments in the correct
order of priority, which tends towards being ‘worst’ symptoms first. This
can of course be difficult in complex cases where there are a multiplicity
of confused factors some or all of which may be feeding on or playing off
each other. In homoeopathic terms these would be considered multi-miasmatic
or layered cases and often require a lengthy period of
prescribing.
Radionic and Homoeopathic Approaches to Prescribing
I am going to suggest that the system of subtle bodies and
Chakras used in Radionic practice in fact constitutes a model of the Dynamis
- or perhaps more properly a model of what the life-force must flow through
(as by analogy, electricity flows through a circuit) - in order to result in
a state of health in the individual; and that the Radionic method gives the
practitioner much additional information which will help the diagnosis and
prescription, and can even detect diseases before they manifest in the form
of symptoms.
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Homoeopaths use the word
‘stuck’ when talking about their cases, and another way of looking at the
problem is to find out where the energy is stuck. In case-taking we
have the verbal description by the patient to guide us; in Radionic analysis
we use a structured method of dowsing to locate the points where the energy
is blocked. The description of the symptom by the patient, I have to
suppose, is how he verbalises the symptoms he experiences as a result of the
blocks in his subtle anatomy. In my understanding of Radionics, the
fundamental point is that anything which impedes energy flow impedes health;
the primary objective therefore is to identify and clear blocks in the
subtle energy system first and foremost, whether these are caused by
conflicts within the patient’s personality or by external factors. Obviously
in many cases there will be limitations as to what can be achieved because
of complex pre-existing health conditions.
The provings, rubrics and
remedy pictures of Homoeopathy are records of the effect of the energy of a
potentised substance on a healthy person, and the prescription is reached by
a transposition of the patient’s comments into the special diagnostic
language of Homoeopathy via a weighting system through which the
practitioner attaches greater or lesser significance to the patient’s
symptoms, and then compares them with the rubrics in the repertory until the
best possible remedy match is found. Homoeopathic prescribing is always
guided by the Law of Similars, which, in brief, states that ‘like cures
like’; or, ‘a substance which causes certain symptoms in a healthy person
will cure them in a person sick with those symptoms’ - to which we must add,
with some certainty, ‘when administered at the appropriate potency.’
The problem with working from symptoms can be that the
patient may not give you all of them, or may not remember certain things, or
may not consider certain things as being relevant or important enough to
tell you, or, perhaps, that the practitioner misinterprets them. The result
is that using Homoeopathic methods alone you may never find the key to the
case, or you may give any number of what you think are well-selected
remedies without useful results, because you are missing a vital part of the
picture. Indeed, George Vithoulkas, one of the world’s leading Homoeopathic
practitioners, has stated that typically, only about 5% of cases are fully
covered by one remedy. He has also stated that the younger a person is when
manifesting serious symptoms, the more remedies are likely to be needed. In
other words, long-term prescribing requires enormous skill and knowledge
levels - which many practitioners may take years to attain. In addition to
this there is the problem of potency selection, which in many instances
results in a great deal of difficulty. Kent clearly used a vast range of
potencies whereas I have heard Jan Scholten, another leading contemporary
Homoeopath, state that he gives the potency 1M in virtually all cases.
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Using Radionic methods, on
the other hand, we have the possibility of finding the name and potency of
the appropriate healing energy (remedy) by a method which does not rely on
what the patient says. The Radionic approach to diagnosis of the subtle
energies can reach behind the patient’s given symptoms to find
problems and causes which he or she may not be aware of and may never
be aware of, but which may nevertheless be crucial to a resolution of the
problem. There is certainly little recognition of the subtle anatomy and its
concepts in the Homoeopathic model, whereas these are all-important in the
present-day Radionic paradigm. Congestion, over-stimulation,
unco-ordination, damage, shock, geopathic stress, latent viruses, parasite
infection, the embedded vibrational patterns of toxins and poisons, and many
other factors, may cause severe disruption; they may be cleared perchance by
well-selected Homoeopathic remedies but quite often the remedy will only do
part of the work, leaving the problems unresolved and ready to come back
into play at some future time - not through any fault of either the
Homoeopathic practitioner or Homoeopathy, but simply because they are not
identified within the boundaries of the Homeopathic diagnostic paradigm.
Although the Law of Similars
may apply in Radionic work, especially where Homoeopathic remedies are
selected, there does not seem to be any such clearly-stated rule behind the
choice of Flower, Gem or Colour Remedies, Radionic rates, Commands, and so
forth. The practitioner identifies the problem and asks which type of remedy
or treatment will help to resolve it and the pendulum will indicate
accordingly, without reference to any underlying theoretical rationale - at
least at the conscious level. This does not mean that Radionics is easy, of
course!
There is a further test which is possible with Radionic
techniques, which is that the effect of the selected remedy can be checked
before it is administered to the patient. Abrams discovered that ‘a
sample of quinine gave exactly the same reactions on the Subject as
malaria...if he tested the blood of a malarial patient with a few grains of
quinine he could obtain no reaction at all.’
21 There
are various easy ways in which this test can be done with Radionic
instruments, allowing the practitioner to check against all detected
problems to see how much action the remedy is likely to have. To put it
another way, the hair sample provides a link with the energy field of the
patient and when the Radionic rate or ratio card or sample of the remedy
itself is introduced into that field the two are mixed together in some way.
I presume that the remedy cancels out some distortion in the patient’s field
and thus rectifies it, and this is later reflected in the removal of the
symptoms.22 This
may of course be a rather mechanistic explanation and the answer may lie in
some other area, such as a concept of the remedy as information or
resonance.
I should note, finally, that
in homoeopathic prescribing the remedy is given orally, whereas in
Radionics, broadcast treatment is the norm. Thus the patient may be on the
other side of the world and may be treated with the same degree of efficacy
as the patient in the next room. This phenomenon of course creates many
problems when considered from the viewpoint of Physics as it implies, at
least to my mind, an additional dimensional layer not allowed for by
present-day science.
Practitioner’s Technique and some Related Considerations
Diagnosis by dowsing requires the use and interplay of both
the intellectual and the intuitive faculties, or perhaps, use and interplay
of both left and right brain qualities. The intellect and the concrete
knowledge which supports it are used to frame questions relevant to
the correct understanding of the problem. Obtaining answers via the
pendulum however requires a suspension of the intellectual process and an
activation of the (higher) intuition. Intellectual knowledge may presuppose
the practitioner to expect a certain result, and in my experience there is
nothing so dangerous as a loaded pendulum, in that it will tend tell you the
answer that you expect to find. The answer obtained via objective dowsing,
if such an expression can be permitted, may be completely different from
what is expected and is usually, in my experience, more relevant to the
patient’s requirements. It is therefore necessary to have and cultivate the
openness - or even emptiness - of mind required to be able to work in
this way.
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From Alice Bailey’s
standpoint, physical reality is the result of the precipitation of energy
into form via force, force being the vector or idea, as it were, which
organises energy into coherent structures. Thus the immaterial is first and
the material comes afterwards. The intent behind such creative action may be
characterised by the first three Ray Qualities of Will, Love and Wisdom,
which are concepts which we can use to help us try and understand, or reason
with, the immense existential questions which lie behind the problem of life
and the fact of the objective Universe.
The well-known esoteric
maxim, Energy Follows Thought, also characterises this creativity and
in a sense encapsulates the activity of the practitioner as a healer. The
practitioner intends (Will) to heal (Love) and focusing his attention on the
problem provides the basic energy required to perform the task. The selected
remedy adds the required quality (Wisdom) to the intention and thus it can
be suggested that on a microcosmic level the practitioner follows a model
which may be replicated at many levels throughout what Bailey calls
the Cosmic Physical Plane.
From this point of view Radionics is a form of spiritual
healing so-called, but using supports such as the Pendulum and the Radionic
instruments and providing differentiated forms of healing energy. It may be
that at a certain stage of the practitioner’s development he or she would be
able to dispense with the instrumentation and work with the required
energies on the level of Higher Mind alone; through formulating the
appropriate creative commands he will attract the needed energy and direct
it to the patient.
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importance of the instruments to most practitioners is that they act as a
focus for both the attention and the intention and may be set up to perform
certain tasks. Otherwise the typical practitioner may run the risk of
quickly exhausting his available energy and thus rendering himself unable to
work.
Another view of how the
practitioner may operate can be derived from studying the ideas of Rupert
Sheldrake, who in his book The Presence of The Past, proposed the
idea of Morphogenetic (structure-creating) fields in his Hypothesis of
Formative Causation. In outline this theory proposes that
- there is an information
field unique to every structure or concept, whether it is a form in one of
the kingdoms of nature or the knowledge of how to speak a language;
- the field organises the
basic physical material (e.g. DNA) or provides the unseen impetus or
tradition which enables any new skill to be learned more easily by fresh
generations of learners;
- the strength of the field
is reinforced or even increased by usage;
- the field is adapted or
evolves as new means of usage or different events occur;
- the field strength
decreases from lack of usage;
- multiple and often nested
fields exist for complex structures, such as human or animal bodies.
Although Sheldrake’s theory
was rejected and even ridiculed by some conventional scientists, I would
suggest that the Morphogenetic field is an integral part of the Etheric and
other subtle energies which are addressed by the Radionic practitioner. Thus
the practitioner accesses the relevant field or fields as information
when examining certain aspects of the patient; when treating, aspects
of the field which may be considered dysfunctional are adjusted by the
Radionic rates; this in turn normalises or stabilises the relevant energy
flow in the patient and adjusts the field to reflect the new
conditions, which the practitioner can then read (dowse), often in advance
of physical level results.
It must also be considered
that the morphogenetic field exists as an archetype, in the sense
suggested by Ruth Drown in the quote at the beginning of this essay. The
practitioner compares the present state of the patient with the
ideal state of the archetypal form and attempts to conform the patient
as far as possible to ‘perfection’. Ultimately, of course, all of this must
be considered within the context of the Causal Body energy and the purpose,
character and circumstances of the patient, which in many respects provides
the driving force behind the individual incarnation and its present
difficulties.
In conclusion I would like to state that I personally consider the need to
demonstrate, and perhaps even use - for the appropriate and right purposes -
the existence of higher orders of reality as important.25 Human
thought at the present time is dominated by the mechanistic and
materialistic model of science, which has created numerous benefits but also
many problems for humanity and the planet. Many incredible advances have
been made by modern medical science, but the incidence of chronic disease
and especially cancers is increasing. Radionic techniques and practices give
us a window of insight into the higher reality, and we, although only a
small group, should grasp this opportunity to increase and enhance human
understanding. Radionics in my view is only at its beginnings, and if
fortune favours the work many valuable advances will come in future years.
Finally, I would like to
partially reproduce a quote from a lecture by the late Aubrey Westlake,
given to the British Society of Dowsers at Malvern in 1972. These words seem
to epitomise the situation of the man or woman with a pendulum when viewed
against the colossus of modern science and technology:
‘God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to
confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things that are mighty....God hath chosen...things which are
not, to bring to naught things that are...In the eyes of the world
Radiesthesia is a thing of no account compared with, say, nuclear or astro-physics
or atomic research and yet....it can, when properly understood, open to us
the mysteries both in this world and the world invisible. It can reveal to
us the Truth in so far as our finite minds can comprehend it.’
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Notes:
1. Dowsing itself, sometimes known as
Radiesthesia, is a vast field of study predicated on the idea that
everything has a unique energy signature which can be detected by a human
sensitive using a means such as the diving rod or pendulum. As I see it, the
technique used mainly serves to amplify the dowser’s subconscious reaction
which is transmitted to his or her arm muscles via the nervous system.
Although it seems that the pendulum is considered to have no intrinsic
power, I have noticed that some pendulums seem to work better than others. I
put this down to the fact that the material from which it is made may be
more or less compatible with me in some way. There have been lengthy
arguments as to whether the Radiesthesic reaction is a response to magnetic
or some other form of energy, which can be called ‘subtle’ energy, for the
sake of argument. This can be summarised as the physical vs. the psychic
approaches, psychic, let us say, meaning some form of ESP (extra-sensory
perception). It may be possible that both explanations are correct, with
physical energies shading off into subtle energies as the dowser searches on
‘higher’ energetic levels.
2. The best history of Radionics is
Report on Radionics by Edward Russell, published by C. W. Daniel & Co.
Essential reading, including fascinating material on Agricultural Radionics
and the general techniques of weed and pest control without chemicals
(suppressed in the USA in the 1950s by the chemical companies, according to
Russell).
3. Abrams also developed
electronically-based treatment procedures, but this promising line of work
seems for the present to have fallen into neglect and is outside the scope
of this article. It also possible that his concepts were used as a partial
basis for the work of Royal Raymond Rife, the American inventor of another
allegedly-suppressed healing technology. See The Cancer Cure That Worked
by Barry Lynes. Abrams’ work may also bear some relation to the current
research of Dr Jacques Benveniste - see his website, www.digibio.com
4. Present-day practitioners tend to use a
hair sample, and I think that the pendulum is now more widely used than the
stick pad. It certainly gives a far greater range of responses.
5. See Drown Radio-Vision and Homo-Vibra
Ray Instruments and their uses, Radionic Rate Book. This, and seminal
works by Abrams and others, have been republished by Borderland Sciences
Research Foundation in California, see www.borderlands.com
6. For the sake of brevity I am obliged to
omit comment on important researchers such as George de la Warr (UK), T.
Galen Hieronymous (USA) and Dr W. Guyon Richards (UK) - to name but three.
The trend of their work, however, does not materially affect what I am
describing.
7. Bailey’s work covers 24 volumes and is not
a religion, system or dogma. It may be considered to be a kind of gigantic
cosmology within the context of which man is seen as an evolving conscious
being currently manifesting through a physical plane body. The introduction
to each volume basically says ‘take it or leave it’ or even ‘take what you
want and leave the rest’. A starting point within the context of Radionic
work might be Esoteric Healing (published by Lucis Press).
Note that I have deliberately left out any mention of her system of Ray
psychology because of space limitations.
8. There seems to be some debate about the
exact nature of the relationship between the Nadis and the nervous system
but Garudas, in Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing, states that
the Nadis are ‘an extensive ethereal nervous system just outside the
physical body, and directly connected to the nervous system.’
9. The Logoic Plane is the plane of God
(however we try to understand this concept); we do not have a Logoic body,
although the Monad (or Spirit) is a ‘chip off the old block’, so as to
speak.
In respect of the
transpersonal self, I will state that on two occasions the pendulum has
indicated that I should treat the Buddhic body and I have done so, with
flower remedies. In both cases there was a deep level of personal insecurity
with its source in some form of lack of self-confidence.
10. Perhaps this friction is what, from a
philosophical point of view, we could consider to be the root of the miasm
Psora as a general human phenomenon, i.e. the basic delusion of existence,
which has been written about in many of the great spiritual writings.
Possibly an individual who had overcome his lower nature would be free of
Psora, or enlightened, as it is also called.
11. But not all. There are for instance
classes of disease produced by conditions inherent in the physical and
etheric structure of the planet itself, such as Geopathic Stress, or some of
the Miasms. For example see Chapter 9 of The Origin of Life by
Georges Lakhovsky (published approximately 1925), republished by
Borderlands, in which the author examines the statistical distribution of
cancer in France against the underlying geology.
12. Which is to say, you don’t have a
separate Chakra for each plane but the planes are present in the Chakras
like - to use a simple analogy - layers in a sandwich.
13. Chronic diseases are defined in
Homoeopathy as non-self-limiting conditions which generally have a slow
onset and increasing degree of action (often spotted with acute episodes)
ending in death. If it is correct that the miasms reside in the Etheric
body, should they be activated by a problem at an energy level higher on the
scale (e.g. Astral body impinged by shock) then it may be that you have to
identify this and treat it, otherwise the maintaining cause - as it were -
is still there.
14. Organon of the Medical Art by
Samuel Hahnemann, Wenda Brewster O’Reilly edition.
15. Rajan Sankaran, the Indian homoeopath,
proposes, in The Spirit of Homoeopathy, that disease is basically
delusion. By this he means that reaction is out of all proportion to
stimulus. A simple analogy is that if a man runs down the street being
chased by a lion and screams that he is afraid of being killed by it, this
is a reasonable reaction. On the other hand if a man runs down the street
being pursued by a Yorkshire Terrier and screams that he is afraid of being
killed by it, this is a delusion. The fear produced by the delusion
may of course may kill him, if it strong enough.
16. Psionic medicine, which is practised by
Doctors and uses dowsing primarily in conjunction with Homoeopathy, takes
treatment of Miasms very strongly into account.
17. Bailey writes about the Miasms in
Esoteric Healing, although I do not believe she refers to them under
that name. More recently Gurudas, in Flower Essences and Vibrational
Healing, has proposed that we add new environmental Miasms such as
produced by Petrochemical pollution, etc. Hahnemann recognised excessive
medical drugging as a cause of chronic disease states.
18. Lakhovsky, op. cit., also writes
about what are in effect interference patterns created by cosmic radiation
striking certain mineral strata and being reflected back to create
cancer-forming energy conditions on the Earth’s surface.
19. In §6 of The Organon, footnote, Hahnemann
states that ‘The medical-art practitioner can never see the....life force
that creates disease, and he never needs to see it’ ; in fact the Dynamis is
something which is only detectable in terms of the symptoms it produces.
Other lines of thought, such as that employed by Radionics, suggest this is
not so. There are grounds to believe that we will in time be able to see the
Dynamis and the subtle bodies; Drown and de la Warr developed Radionic
cameras which purported to be able to photograph the etheric fields of
whatever the camera was tuned into, and this includes homoeopathic remedies
- for instance, see de la Warr’s Radionic photograph of Aconitum Napellus in
New Worlds Beyond The Atom (by George de la Warr and Langston Day,
out of print). There are also various so-called aura cameras around which
appear to depict the aura quite accurately, although whether they show the
other subtle bodies is not clear to me yet. I can imagine that interesting
experiments could be done where people are photographed before and after
taking a Radionic treatment, and so forth.
Perhaps Hahnemann’s Dynamis
may be considered as the life force, perhaps prana, or chi,
and needs to be clearly differentiated from subtle anatomy, perhaps not.
Whether one could have a perfectly functional subtle body but which is not
energised is a point to consider, i.e. can the circuit be separated from the
energy in any practical sense?
20. Apart from reading their books, I have
attended seminars with both Vithoulkas and Scholten. Vithoulkas is a fairly
strict follower of Kent and seems to disapprove of Sankaran in particular
and Scholten in general - not to mention pendulum users!
21. Quoted from Report on Radionics,
p. 28. Readers familiar with the story of Hahnemann’s early work will
recognise that he started out by testing Cinchona Officinalis (China)
- from which quinine is derived - on himself and noted that the symptoms
proved were similar to those of malaria.
22. In electronic terms this is appears to
me to be akin to the phenomenon known as phase cancellation. If two
identical waveforms in inverse relationship are added together, they will
cancel each other out. I do not yet know if this idea throws any light on
what actually happens in Radionic treatment, but it is worth considering.
23. Bailey emphasis meditation practice to
purify the subtle bodies and Tansley emphasises that the best protection for
the practitioner is keep his or her focus on the higher spiritual centres.
24. Bhattacharya in Teletherapy,
which was in effect the first book I read on Radionics, writes of creating
Cure commands and treating the patient with them. He suggests you write on a
piece of circular card in red ink , ‘Mr X, cancer, diabetes, high blood
pressure, CURE’ and broadcast it to the patient via his witness, using one
the various methods set out by Bhattacharya. What Bhattacharya calls the
‘intelligent cosmic rays’ will then be set into to motion and perform the
healing work, over a suitable time period. He claims to have obtained many
excellent results by this simple method. Can it be so easy?
It may also be possible to
contact and work with the Devic kingdoms as the builders of form, mentioned
by Bailey in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire; maybe the Devas are similar
to the ‘intelligent cosmic rays’. Bailey writes that in time to come
(which may be now, as it is virtually 70 years later) the human and Devic
kingdoms will begin a rapprochement. This may being happening anyway
in Radionic and other healing work, but unconsciously to the practitioner. I
readily admit I have yet to grasp the question of the nature of the Devic
kingdoms in any substantial detail, fascinating as the matter is.
Otherwise Radionic work may also fall under the category of magical
work, as discussed at length by Bailey in A Treatise on White Magic.
What is considered as magic, of course, may simply be manipulation of subtle
energy on its appropriate plane to bring about results on the physical
plane. Whether the magic so-called is White or Black depends upon the
magician’s intent and desire-nature. Analogously we manipulate physical
plane energies on this plane but subscribe to the idea, supported by
science, that we understand what is happening.
25. There may of course not be any ‘higher
orders of reality’. Implicit in the Radionic approach are the ideas of
reincarnation, life after death and many related concepts which are hotly
disputed down here on the Earth plane. If the physical world is the end
product of higher energies, forces and intelligences then it possible to
suppose that these existed before the manifestation of physical, or
objective, reality. For example if the incarnating soul exists prior to the
human form then it can exist without such a form; from that we may think
that it can continue to exist after discarding that form which has served
its purpose temporarily.
26. Quoted in Dimensions of Radionics
by Tansley, Rae and Westlake, published by Brotherhood of Life.
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