“Radionics was conceived as a diagnostic and treatment technology at a time when modern electronic theory and biomedicine had not become the dominant sciences they are today. Early radionic devices incorporated the new discoveries of radio and electronics into their design. During that period, the functional assumptions of radionic technology did not seem as implausible as it does today. However, it wasn't long before radionics became outmoded and completely non-scientific. As Mizrach has noted, radionics continued to appropriate the methods of orthodox science into its design and terminology, making the probability of understanding what it could accomplish even more difficult to assess. I will examine this appropriation in a spirit of tolerance, given the state of electronics and medicine circa 1910, when radionics was first discovered. I will do so in order to shift the focus of this interesting technology from the scientific to the metaphysical, where the reader not limited by a need for scientific approval can evaluate it. My aim is to provide a reasonable means of evaluating radionic technology as an artistic methodology.”
― Duncan Laurie
I feel that Duncan delivers on this intent partially in this book. He himself does not make an expressive transition from one of science to metaphysics but more or less demonstrates the shift through the chronicling of practitioners throughout the year. It shares many similarities with the Report on Radionics in that it is a series of autobiographical snapshots of other people's endeavors.
This is my biggest critique of the community as it lives in this day in age. Progress and experimentation are largely kept to one's self and held as guarded knowledge. The practice has largely been walled by personal silos in which practitioners are playing against each other while lightly stepping publicly so as to avoid persecution from the mainstream. It seems that any public discourse is entirely the mass retelling of the first hundred years of the practice and hushed whispers of what others may or may not be up to presently.
There is a large part of me that assumes this has to do with Market perception. I am interested in Radionics for many reasons. I have a deep spiritual attachment to the concept and ideas behind it's method of action. I have an equally powerful connection to the business side of the technology. With this being said I am guarded when I speak of my research and development in the community because I feel I have ideas and opportunities that others could take advantage of before me. This in itself is in direct conflict with the core tenants of Radionics.
We create reality. Resistance does not have to exist and competition can be suspended.
Now with these thoughts all out of the way, I do not feel that Duncan falls into the realms of my observation. He is some one who is personally not out for gain through the industry of Radionics but seems to be benefitting solely by the practice of Radionics and this is what has driven his individual contributions to the community and this alone illustrates the mentality behind Radionics AS business and Radionics FOR business.
I will be getting into some of these examples in due time.