One thing I love to do every year is sit and discern what the new year will broadly have in store for me using a collection of methods, Radionics, Biorhythms and Numerology just to name a few things.
2019
(2+0+1+9 = 12)
12
(1+2=3)
Numerology year 3 is considered as a symbol of the trinity and a number that brings good luck. Year 3 in Numerology also inspires and encourages generosity, power and positivity.
Numerology year 3 gives people the strength they need to express their ideas freely and to fight against abuses of power (Not a political statement).
Year 3 motivates all the life paths to rise to the challenges they face as well as to defeat the obstacles ahead of them. 2019 is essentially about grabbing hold of all the opportunities available to you and making the best of them.
A look at Duncan Laurie and my take on the narrative.
“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.
Thoughts on the old report.
Published in 1973, this book shows it's age in many ways, however it is enduring and holds up as comprehensive report on Radionics up to the state of the art of 1973.
This book takes the progress of radionics from it's infancy with Abrams, outlining details such as the diagnostic areas for his original 'thumping method' that was used to show the body had intuitive ways of diagnosing itself to detailed information on his Oscilloclast device. Like most literature on Abrams it stuck strictly to his involvement in Radionics and gave very little external information on his life or external influence before, during or after his experimentation. The one thing it did cover with a certain level of clarity was Abrams spat in the 1920's with the British Governing body on Health. There was a challenge raised as to the authenticity and accuracy of the tests performed with his newfound technology that ended in an overwhelming support in court by Abrams many patients whom experience the lasting and accurate effects of treatment with Radionics.
Anecdotes such as the previous are primarily this book's focus. If appears the author's main intent was to convey the struggle that Radionics practitioners, even just as researchers face when daring to explore the far reaches and limits of fringe medical theory. One of the pictures the author paints with his story is the nature of the insulating community the practitioners had that appears to be all but last in present day. Sure we have forums and groups for Radionics but there seems to be no real local pockets of research with buildings and practices attached. I feel this could be largely because of the many anecdotes in this book. While there were many triumphs for Radionics and breakthroughs in the practice there were just as many examples of the medical and regulatory establishment cementing it's control in the community.
I guess the question this book poses in my mind is one of, where is the practitioner's place just at a local level. I refuse to accept that my place is huddled around my devices in a back room with a whispered hush so as to avoid persecution or judgment. Now where I believe the climate exposed in this book has been particularly helpful has been in seeing Radionic's power for things other than medicine.This book doesn't cover the use of Radionics for tasks outside of the medical treatment/diagnostic. This mainly has to do with at the time of it being written it was still largely in the throws of a battle for legitimacy in the medical arena. It has been my experience that practitioners who use Radionics medicinally very rarely indicate that their craft is good for anything else. Influencing matter using intent and a machine to impact the human organism is one thing to them but using intent and a machine to bend reality to one's benefit is a complete other!
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