24) Radionics and Consciousness

One can readily appreciate, even from this abridged history of Radionics, over the last 100 years a number of individuals assembled a wide range of workable devices. Each inventor produced practical results according to their varied professional experience and expectations. The common denominator wasn’t a mechanism or even electricity; it was each inventor learned form their technology how to use the power of applied intention to do work in the material world. We have called this capacity Information to Energy (I>E).

Dr. Abrams believed human disease could be detected in the form of electrical resistance, and he designed instruments that did just that, and much more. Dr. Guyon Richards wanted to prove that Abram’s rates were scientifically valid, and soon discovered they corresponded to atomic numbers. Ruth Drown didn’t worry excessively about the science, but she wanted to see the Radionics work in pictures, which she achieved (along with a British Patent for her camera).

Curtis P. Upton and his associates weren’t concerned with pictorial proof; they wanted farmers to tell them Radionics worked to replace fertilizer and pesticides, and that’s exactly what it did. Galen Hieronymus was a respected electrical engineer, and he wanted to see his device patented and used in industry, which it was. His friend, John Campbell the publisher, wanted something to bait science with. He demonstrated Hieronymus’ patent would work right from the schematic, without even being constructed! Malcolm Rae didn’t want to use electricity either; he designed a whole radionic system around diagrams, names and numbers. Darrell Butcher couldn’t work a pendulum or a stick plate, so he designed devices that worked automatically, without electricity, rubbing plates or rates!

Bill and Marjorie de la Warr wanted to expand the design parameters of Radionics and to explore every aspect of Radionics. They made cameras and devices and instruments that described a whole new way of interacting with Nature that was joyful, creative and eminently pragmatic as well. Decades later, scientific researchers found holographic images imbedded in their radionic glass plate negatives, made before holography was even discovered!

Lutie Larsen expanded upon the interface with Nature to demonstrate Radionics as a wonderful new way of living; at home, among animals and in the garden. She followed Darrell Butcher by making colored radionic cards that looked like miniature paintings but worked radionically!

In the 1980’s, when computer technology was re-shaping society, Dr. Willard Frank designed the first computerized Radionics device. Frank wanted more diagnostic and treatment capacity from his instruments, and soon they were treating patients with far more capacity and faster than ever before. Society was becoming environmentally conscious, and so organizations like the Institute for Resonant Therapy in Germany appeared that found computerized Radionics could treat and re-certify large forests damaged by pollution. Other German Radionics pioneers like Peter von Buengner discovered design inspiration in world class scientific experimentation conducted at Princeton on consciousness. From the effect of thought and intention on probability machines, he designed radionic software to optimize existing computers for radionic functioning.

Each of these individuals created a working Radionics technology from their intellectual and aesthetic design preferences. There is no underlying structure guiding each personal effort beyond human consciousness and how it can affect the world. Turn this observation around and one might suggest that Nature’s own force of Intelligent Design is at work through each individual’s creative process. If one can credit Nature with a conscious impulse, the implication is that physical reality is as mutable as the quantum reality from which it is constructed. The history of radionic healing is a demonstration of that potential. These inventors, who each developed unique tools and techniques, established a connection with Nature that is extraordinary. Whether they fully realized the role of Nature played in their healing ability, it is clear each used consciousness as an applied natural force to the tasks they confronted.

From this perspective, one could argue that anyone could construct their own working radionic device out of anything; to the extent they invested their complete attention in the process. Everyone has to some degree experienced this metaphor of Radionics in their own life—through cooking, gardening, art or athletics, anywhere our intent helped shape our reality. However, when one uses Radionics effectively in a fully conscious way, we realize how empowering it can be.

What Radionics has yet to accomplish is the expansion of its metaphor into a system of self-reflection. My impression is that this type of Radionics won’t be a device or a design, a science or a philosophy, but a form of Art, practiced by the individual according to their own capacity for awareness, possibly as a means of cultural de-conditioning.

Nature touches us all in such a personal way. We are not used to thinking of Nature as intelligence with a capacity for direct communication with ourselves. In Radionics, Nature has assumed the guise of a device to initiate a dialogue.