Tuesday, June 30, 2009

I just finished a 2003 reprinting of Peter Thompkins _The Secret Life of Plants_. Clearly much of the research work at Borderlands in general and in Gerry Vassilatos' books in particular intersects heavily with this work. Amoung other things, Thompkins gives treatment to the electronic+plant sensors of L. George Lawrence, touches on Wilhelm Reich and Rudolf Steiner, and has one of the better chapters on Radionics I've read so far including an overview of Abrams, Drown, Hieronymous, and De La Warr. Since the book is more of a survey of the field than anything else, the bibliography is the most interesting part. If anything, I'm disapponted the book hasn't been updated since 1973. There is plenty more in this book concerning electric-like/magnetic-like/plasma-like species of light/energy with profound interactions with biological systems, but again with no solid theoretical underpinnings - only phenomenology. Here is the new list of threads to go searching down:

Wiggelsworth, Pathometric Association
Hisatoki Komaki
Kervran
Magnetite, ferrous powder
Prof. E.J.Lund
Otto Rahn
Alexander Gurwitsch
George Washington Crile
John Nash Ott
F.S.C. Northrop
Harold Saxton Burr
Henri Bergson
Hans Driesch
'Problems in Bioenergetics' - Kirlian, Adamenko
V.S. Grishchenko
Thelma Moss
Albrecht von Herzeele
Pierre Baranger
Rudolf Hauschka
Simoneton
Felix Bloch
UKACO
Jakob Boehme
L. George Lawrence
Bioplasma
Mitogenic Rays - Gurwitsch
Sir Jagadais Chandra Bose
Pflunger
Winkler
Giordono Bruno
Spinoza
Gottfried Arnold
Paracelsus
Hans Keyser
Berthelon
Nollet
James Lee Scribner
Prof. William A. Tiller
Hieronymous - Eloptic Rays

Thursday, June 11, 2009

I have recently finished _Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion_ by Paul Laviolette. Here he chronicles the work of Thomas Townsend Brown and further developments along that line of research within the US aerospace industry. He puts forth plenty of experimental results, many of which were new to me, and a theoretical explanation using 'Subquantum Mechanics'. He quotes heavily from Vassilatos concerning Telsa's work with highly non-linear 'disruptive discharge' experiments and claims that the combination of high-K dielectrics, non-linear pulses, and non-linear electrical field shapes are all prerequisites for successful results. While I certainly think this work is interested, I'll leave the megavolt experiments to others. Interestingly, he also brings up Faraday's Homoplanar generator which plays an important theoretical role in Meyl's work.

Also, I just finished up _New Worlds Beyond the Atom_ by Langston Day and George De La Warr. Following the line of Ruth Drown's work, De La Warr devised a set of radionic instruments which were capable of making diagnosis, treatment, and photographs of internal organs (and thought-forms) through a combination of radionic tuning (below), operator mental focusing, a static magnetic field (described as a double vortex lying along a particular orientation), and some sort of specimen linked to the subject (blood sample, photograph, etc.). In spite of the complete absense of a workable theory, the photographs are enough to give one serious pause. There is a real phenomena here worthy of further emperical exploration. The various radionic tuners I have come across so far appear to be simply a set of 10+ adjustable capacitors or resistors (rheostats) with one end of each connected to a common metal plate. Although these instruments contain electrical components, their operation is clearly non-electrical in nature. I have another high level overview on radionics coming in a few days, and hopefully that will have some more schematics to look over.