Essays

A Radionic Odyssey - Part Two

14 Aug 2011 by Gordon
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“Well if you’re reading this now, you’ve only yourself to blame; you obviously ignored the subtle warnings in part one!”
—Gordon

Is There a Shaman in the House?

They might be called shaman, priests, priestesses, mystics, healers, medicine men, or one of a variety of other names. In ancient cultures these folks claimed the ability to tap into nature’s emanations and by doing so might predict the future, induce healing, or translate the wishes of some God to the masses. Practitioners of black magic foretold the future by the throwing of chicken bones onto a table and observing the patterns formed when they landed, a practice still in use today. Soothsayers, fortune tellers, and Tarot readers use a variety of props in their quest for information on future events as do the readers of tea leaves. While we’re at it, let’s throw in the Ouija board and automatic writing. It is a bit of a stretch for me to include any of the above mentioned practices within the area of radionics but I’m sure that there are some who have either indulged in or benefited from them. I am inclined to believe that some ancient cultures were much more “tuned in” to those phenomena which contemporary sophisticates would tend to classify as paranormal or occult in nature.

A Radionic Odyssey - Part One

28 Jun 2011 by Gordon
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GORDON SALISBURY

Many readers of Dragonline know Gordon as a co-contributor to the site with myself and Todd Thille. I first met Gordon almost 15 years ago when he was still sane; by that I mean totally skeptical of topics like Nature Intelligence and Rocks That Play Music. He was, by general consensus, a thoroughly pragmatic electronics engineer and instrument designer. He had practiced his craft in the military, the marketplace and for institutions of higher learning. Being recently self employed, I asked Gordon if he would be interested in examining the design and function of several radionics devices—-to satisfy our mutual curiosity regarding their operation. In frustration, finding no operational methodology we could explain on purely electromagnetic terms, we set out to see if “subtle energy” could be detected in another format. The classic works of Clive Backster and L. George Lawrence with plant sensitivity soon piqued our curiosity. Then, it was off to the races……

Elsewhere on this site is documented some of the experiments and devices Gordon built or tested that allowed us to enter the world of nature intelligence. In the interim, Gordon has been friend, teacher, colleague, as well as creative nemesis and spoiler to many fanciful and exuberant flights of fancy subsequently pursued. But in the end, the spirits got to him. There were just too many things we witnessed that didn’t fit well with scientific reductionism.

I have prodded Gordon to relate his particular take on our long collaboration, in Voices From Beyond The Tree Line. He has now obliged, as I am pleased to present here.

— Duncan Laurie

Foreword

I can picture in my mind’s eye the stereotypical author meshing and flexing his fingers as he begins his newest literary masterpiece. He is probably wearing a Cardigan with leather elbow patches, rimless bifocals, and a pair of corduroy trousers supported by suspenders. A nearby cast iron and jade ashtray holds a freshly filled briar pipe, and alongside at the ready awaits a vintage WWII Zippo cigarette lighter. At the typewriter A green-shaded bankers’ lamp illuminates his roll top desk behind which a half-acre or so of bookshelves offer him leather bound editions of his favorite reference books. With a flourish, those freshly flexed fingers begin their journey across the keys of his freshly oiled Underwood typewriter, a journey already fixed in his mind, one which will reflect his impeccable preparation and dedication to the literary arts. He’ll carefully create a foreword, which will guide his readers into the subject of discussion and deliver a clearly defined map of his thoughts for them to follow through his text. The man is a master of his craft. He begins.

Click, click, clack, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap………ding!

The Radiant Landscape

02 May 2008

In a series of recent New York Science Times articles, radical new ideas about the nature of our universe have been presented that could affect the way we view megalithic culture and stone monument design. When new, accurate measurements proved the universe is accelerating, when in fact gravity should be slowing it down, an idea once discarded by Einstein called the “cosmological constant” was resuscitated. The theory demonstrated how subatomic particles at the quantum mechanical level going in and out of otherwise empty space could exert an anti- gravity force upon ordinary matter, thus explaining the acceleration. This invisible “dark matter” or “quintessence,” as it is often called, is said to comprise 90-99% of the “missing” mass of the universe. As such, the door was now opened to the scientific possibility of parallel universes, subtle energy transactions and a host of other possibilities normally reserved for science fiction and mystical studies.

Rock Music

06 Apr 2008

Abstract: Millivolt level signals produced by certain rocks lend themselves to scientific, artistic and mythical interpretation. Empirical probing of these signals by an artist and an electrical engineer observed both linear and non-linear displays. Whether interpreted through the lens of science or panpsychism, the signals themselves provide an excellent template for sonic experimentation. Accumulated years of unstructured qualitative data indicate these tiny voltages originating in the core of the rock react to outside stimulus in a variety of perplexing ways. Creative application has therefore tended to produce unexpected and unexplained results.

Byrd / Laurie Conversation 11/1/99

15 Jan 2007

Eldon Byrd is a renowned inventor and bio-engineer with many published papers and patents to his credit, especially in the audio-engineering field. He was blackballed by the Office of Naval Research where he worked in the 1970’s for talking about Top Secret ELF research on human biological activity.