16) Other Post Abrams Radionic Developments

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As noted before, Ruth Drown was not the only person to continue developing Radionics. In fact, there were a number of highly qualified doctors and engineers in America who continued to pursue radionics as scientifically as possible. Notably, these would include Dr. J. W. Wigglesworth of the Pathometric Corporation, who produced a vacuum tube upgrade of Abrams’ Oscilloclast called the Pathoclast. Similar devices from the late 1920's were called the Calbro-Magnawave (by Caldwell and Bronson), the Dynamiser (Richards), the Radioclast, the Wilson machine, and most notably some time later, the U.K.A.C.O. (for Upton, Knuth, and Armstrong Co.) and T. Galen Hieronymus, who was the first and only Radionics inventor ever to receive a U.S. Patent.

In England, Radionics found a much more comfortable home. Free of persecution, English practitioners continued to pursue both the scientific and occult aspects of Radionics. Notable in this effort were the names of Dr. Guion Richards, Marjorie and George DelaWarr, Langston Day, Malcome Rae, Darrell Butcher and David Tansley.

In other countries, Radionics branched into color therapy (Dinshah and McManus), treatment by direct radiation, (Lakhovsky) and pure research (Tromp), with many subsequent developments.

Dr. Guyon Richards: Before he became interested in Radionics, Dr. Guyon Richards had a distinguished career as a surgeon and administrator in the Indian Medical Service and later in World War One. His book, THE CHAIN OF LIFE was published in London in 1934, ten years after Abrams' death and retained the rigor of the Abrams' approach. Richards modified the Oscilloclast to receive high frequencies. He took the trouble of doing his measuring while he and his equipment were shielded inside a Faraday cage, which prevented signal contamination from the environment.

His methods also included amplifying the signals from the patient and washing them with colored light. With the assistance of a top instrument maker, Richards was able to measure down to one one-hundredth of an ohm. This accuracy became even more important when Richards began measuring elements and substances. What he discovered, like Drown had intuitively done before, was that the atomic numbers of the element being analyzed corresponded to the figures on his rheostat. For some unknown reason, hydrogen would cause a one-ohm reaction on his subject, oxygen, eight ohms, etc. Though Richards knew that ohms were entirely an arbitrary measure applied to quantify the percussive reaction, extensive testing over time convinced him that the correspondence to atomic number was accurate.

More significantly, by 1930 Richards claimed to have discovered a new form of matter he termed the "Biomorphs". In examining this substance, he determined that it could be measured in concentric rings, nested among the atoms and molecules of the specimen. Minerals had one ring, vegetables two, insects and reptiles three, mammals and bird three and four, man four and five. This discovery would have an interesting corollary to the work of Yale scientist, Dr. Harold Saxton Burr. Dr. Burr succeeded in measuring and quantifying small voltages emanating from all living things.

Richards found that these rings or layers had a corresponding presence outside the human body, in what we nowadays would call a field structure or 'aura'. Due to the increased sensitivity of his instruments, it wasn't long before Richards realized that thought could impact a radionic measurement. Again, this fact presented an overwhelming problem in establishing a scientific basis for Radionics, which by definition must remain independent of the operator and objectively verifiable.

In Richard's work, we again encounter an example of a highly qualified Doctor conducting serious research according to the scientific principles he is aware of at the time. However, his measurable discoveries ultimately lead away from physics into parapsychology.

With the FDA and AMA putting the screws to the medical application of Radionics, it is easy to understand why researchers into this fascinating world turned to agriculture with their inventions. In the pragmatic world of the farmer, only results counted. Here at last, was a venue for applying Radionics that didn’t require a scientific theory or the approval of the American Medical Association.