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 radiesthetic 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
techniques1, 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
Radionics2 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 radiesthetic 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
was
formed radionics as we know it today. 3
Dr
Ruth Drown (1892-1963), a chiropractor based in Hollywood,
had apparently worked in Abrams' clinic as a young woman
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 practise 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 6, both men, regrettably, dying quite young.
Most of their work was done in the UK between, approximately,
1965 and 1985. Tansley, a chiropractor, 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
work7, 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, and 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 9 -
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 friction10
resulting from conflict between the different objectives
of the Higher and Lower selves which creates illness,
and hence, many11 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 12,
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 appropriately13. 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.).'14 In 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
be 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.15 In 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.16
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 17
(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.18
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, cardiovascular, 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. 19
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. 20
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. 23
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/Wisdom and
Active Intelligence, 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 (Active Intelligence) 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. 24
The 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.' 26
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 divining 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 Radiesthetic 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 Gurudas, 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 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 Secret of Life by
Georges Lakhovsky (English edition, 1939, 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, 1956, 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 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 emphasises 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 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.
(Copyright: © Nick Franks)
Reprinted with kind permission of the author from
an article that appeared in the Radionic Journal 46
(2) 4-21 (November 2000)
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