STRANGE ATTRACTOR                                       Volume 1, Number 1
A NEWS LETTER of ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE and MEDICINE
 

RADIONICS, PSYCHOTRONICS and ELECTRONIC MEDICINE
Quantum leaps, dead ends, and new ways of thinking.

by Jon Monroe, Director, New Science

There is no field of alternative medicine more obscure, misunderstood, and  burdened with a difficult history than Radionics. It may be that most of the difficulty associated with this science is due in large part to the fact that as a technology, radionics was almost 100 years ahead of its time.
Let's take a brief look at the history of this strange science that has caused so much controversy. Radionics has been largely derived from the work done in the early part of this century by Dr. Albert Abrams. In 1919 Dr. Abrams was head of pathology at the University of California Medical School at San Francisco. As a pathologist his specialty was cancer. Like most doctors of his day, Abrams used the manual percussing of body cavities to locate and determine the density of internal organs as well as tumors. Abrams was in fact a master of this technique and taught advanced courses to doctors from all over the world. On a summer day in 1919 he was percussing the body cavity of a man with an obvious cancerous growth on his lip. In the middle of this procedure he heard an abrupt tone change. Then the tone returned to normal and then changed again. To one as expert in this technique as Abrams, this was more that a little perplexing. He then noticed that the tone changes from his patent's abdomen were in chorus with a faint buzzing sound from down the hall. On examination, he discovered that technicians were installing an early X ray machine. In the process, they were repeatedly turning it on and off.
Abrams surmised that the electromagnetic fields generated by the device were somehow causing the tone change. Over the course of that summer,  his patients came and went, and testing of the    X ray machine continued. He noticed that it was only those patients  who in fact did have cancer that elicited the changing tones. This phenomena was so reliable that in the cases where he could not be sure of his diagnosis, he would have an assistant go down the hall and switch the X ray machine on and off so that he could check for the shifting tones.
 This was the beginning of what came to be called the electronic reactions of Abrams or ERA. Abrams devised simple electrical devices that provided the same effect as the x ray machine. These devices could be set to different resistance settings that would produce the tone change effect for different diseases, giving Abrams a new electronic, diagnostic tool. It was soon obvious that the diagnostic devices were also having a therapeutic effect on some people. Abrams then started using the electrical hookup and the diagnostic settings as treatment for various conditions. Finally, to standardize and further objectify the process, Abrams replaced the percussing of the person with an electrically charged glass plate. The patient would be wired into the circuit or a live tissue sample would be used instead. Tone changes would be heard or not as the plate was rubbed and the diagnostic settings were changed. It was 1923 and what would later be called radionics was born.
 ERA, The Electronic Reactions of Abrams, was initially hailed as the future of medicine. In an age of ever more astounding invention, doctors fully expected a new technology that would take the guess work out of medicine. As it turned out, they were not ready for the paradigm shift that this technology would require of them. It was the same paradigm shift that was transforming the world of physics. Dr. Albert Einstein led the way  to a new understanding of time, space, matter and energy. The field of medicine would prove to be too inflexible to fully embrace the new thinking.
 Abrams, was an independently wealthy man as well as a brilliant and determined  researcher. A rare combination in science. He did not stop at the limit of what was acceptable to his peers, but found himself a pioneer in totally new territory.
 The new technology quickly developed to the point where diagnosis could be done over telephone lines and then via a tissue sample without the person being present. Abrams noted and reported a mysterious sympathetic healing response that could be observed in the patient even a great distance from the instrument. At this point many of his peers began to publicly criticize his work.
 Doctors in the U.S. turned away from the ERA technology because the effects could not be adequately explained within the framework of 19th century science and medicine.
Abrams continued to train many European doctors in the techniques of ERA. After  his death, his work was attacked in the academic press where slander and innuendo were used to diminish his lifetime of achievement. Doctors in North America all but stopped work in this area.
 In the decades following the death of Abrams, the development of radionics proceeded in three isolated arenas. In Great Britain, doctors who had studied the work of Albert Abrams founded what I will call the Classic School of Radionics. This came to be expressed in the work of Delawar, Copen, Rae and others. In eastern Europe, there were many doctors trained by Abrams. Cut off from the rest of the western world after World War Two, the use of electronic healing and diagnostic techniques was promoted by state supported medicine. As with many things in the top heavy communist bureaucracy, medical science was poorly done. Individual innovation was discouraged and the potential of this technology never flowered in the east.
 In the United States, in the decades following Abrams death, we see a great deal of animosity develop between doctors who were seeking to ally themselves with the pharmaceutical industry and the developing wonder drugs, and those that continued to develop the fields of homeopathy, herbology and radionics. On the latter side, we find natropathic doctors, chiropractors, and a growing array of alternative practitioners. Most notably among these, Galen Hieronymus and Dr. Ruth Drown seek to build on the work of Abrams. These individuals give rise to what I call the Underground School of Radionics. The approach of Heronomus, pushed the capabilities of the electronics of the day to its edge, adding signal generation and phase control to the Abrams work. Ruth Drown, a student of Alice Bailey, took a decidedly more metaphysical approach. In her view, the instruments were only extensions of the conscious mind. So within the Underground School there arose two factions, the gear heads and the air heads. The gear heads built large and impressively complex electronic healing instrumentation and evolved strange energetic theories to explain the effectiveness. The air heads constructed modest black boxes that you discreetly did not ask to be opened, and evolved strange energetic theories to explain the effectiveness.
 Beyond this point, little progress was made in the field until the late 70s with the advent of personal computers. It was more than just better electronic technology that emerged then. For the first time in our culture we began to develop concepts for understanding information as something in and of itself. In the 19th century scientific paradigm, information could only exist as a message on a medium, like words in a book. With the emerging paradigm, one can understand structure as a function of pure information and the existence of medicine made purely of information can be contemplated.
 At first computerized models of classic radionic instruments were introduced. The SE-5 biofield analyzer is a good example of this. A neo classic radionic instrument, the widespread popularity of the SE-5 signaled renewed interest in the field.
My own direct involvement in the field came in the mid eighties when I began to study the efficacy of past and present instrumentation and techniques. This was complicated by my realization that what we commonly call the placebo effect is vastly more potent than I had been led to believe in my medical studies. Instead of accounting for only 20% of positive results, I learned that it could be as high as 60%. This greatly raises the bar of proof where the efficacy of a medicine or healing device is concerned. I was also reminded that in the Ruth Drown school of mystical radionics, placebo effect and function of the device were considered to be one and the same thing.
My initial survey of practitioners and the instrumentation they used indicated several things right away.

1. All radionic analysis was a form of electronic kinesiology. Kinesiology is a perceptual measurement technique that most people can be easily taught. It can be done with the body and the senses alone or with the aid of a measurement device.
 
2. The instruments that actually output a magnetic or electromagnetic signal or current were more effective than those that did not.
 
3. Those instruments that used some form of pulsation or frequency control had more impact than those that did not.
4. The individual operators could not be factored out of the results. This was not because it was all a function of the consciousness of the operator but because each individual’s creativity and skill with the instruments varied. The best tools in the hands of a mediocre practitioner produce poor results.

5. A precise system / mechanism of storing and replicating information was indispensable.
 

I found that within a group of practitioners, all of whom had good tools and good training there were always a few that stood out as the miracle workers. These individuals were always the most creative of the lot. I was convinced that the next generation of radionic instrumentation had to make the most of these obvious facts as well as utilize our new understanding of the nature of information as medicine.
 By the fall of 1986 I was ready to conduct my first hardware experiments. I was interested in combining as much of what worked into a single instrument as I could. Working with a small group of colleagues and volunteers, we began by designing an electromagnetic signal generator. The trick here was to create a signal generator as one function and a mechanism to transcribe healing information onto the signal as a second function. Initially we used a Abrams type precision resistor rate bank as the information input. This gave us good results on a par with what Abrams himself was reporting in the 1920s. Even though the rate bank was as much of a precision device as it could be, I was convinced that we could do a far better job of transcribing the needed information onto the EM signal. I thought that the limitation might lie in the fact that the resistance bank method was static whereas the EM signal was linearly dynamic. A fancy way of saying that an electromagnetic wave front is in motion and a resistance potential just sits there. I was looking for a way to encode the dynamic and strangely coherent energy vector potentials that seemed to embody the living process. The whole unimaginably complex dance we call biological life, looks chaotic to our instruments but acts coherent. If we could find the coherence amidst the chaos it would be like finding the simple keys to a complex puzzle.
 After several months of getting nowhere with our dynamic information problem, we put it on the back burner and tried what looked to be a more practical approach. We reasoned that if we could not find the coherent keys that would enable us to write living information, we might be able to take samples or dynamic snapshots of the life process we wished to promote or antidote. To this end I devised a memory bank element that could store an actual quanta of electrical energy from the body. We would test this stored quanta of bioenergy to see if it had the information we needed. If it did, we could then slowly tap it from the storage bank and feed it into the signal generator. By modifying the wave phase ( in phase to promote, out of phase to antidote ) we could use an appropriate energy sample as dynamic medicine. I called this technique dynamic memory storage or DMS.
 DMS was found to be extremely effective in treating psychological problems. A procedure evolved which we came to call the promotion of desire. While working on the redefinition of health and disease, it became clear to me that in the psychological arena, the concepts of success or the lack of it worked better than health and disease. In short to be sane one needed to be reasonably successful at being themselves. Given the demands of life in the late 20th century, this can be understandably difficult to achieve. In a typical promotion of desire session the client is asked to think of something they greatly desire. It did not seem to matter what they thought of so long as the feeling of desire was present. Warm socks worked as well as world peace. Electrical energy from the clients body was used to charge the DMS bank while they were having the feelings. This charge was then bled off into the signal generator during the remedy making process. The resultant homeopathic like remedy was taken for three days. During this time the clients response to moment to moment situations was determined more by their inner nature than their lifelong conditioning. As this happened on a mostly subconscious level, it would invariably seem to the clients that it was other people acting differently, not them. This catalyst would facilitate an opportunity for much needed change.
 With an inverted wave phase, this same technique can be used to antidote negative mental emotional patterns like fear, anxiety and depression.
 As potent as the DMS bank was with the psycho physical, it lacked a broader scope including the purely physical and especially the cellular level. It was at this time that a breakthrough came from an unexpected direction.
 Years before I had studied the I Ching, a Chinese mathematical table used to understand and predict the workings of the human mind and society. The I Ching was developed over 1000 years ago by a man called the Duke of Cho. He developed the I Ching from his studies and understanding of what the Chinese called the buk zok permutation table. In reading the works of Jose Arguelles, I was suprised to learn that the Buk Zok permutation table and the Mayan calendar (the Tzolkin) were one and the same thing. I undertook the study of the Maya in hopes of learning something of their mathematics. What I found, profoundly changed my scientific world view. The Maya were extremely advanced mathematically. Their base 20 system had an elegant notation style superior even to our own scientific notation. Like the great pyramids of Central America themselves, their stunning mathematical achievements were there to see but we could not comprehend how they had made them. How, for instance, did they compute the orbit of Venus so precisely. It is not just very close, it’s exact! Our own mathematical sciences could not even approximate this calculation until the advent of modern computers in the late 1950s, and even then our system of calculation gives only a very close approximation. The Mayan system gave exact values. It hit me with the force of religious revelation that they were not using numbers to do these calculations! What then? The Maya seemed to not even have complex arithmetic. The answers had to be within the tzolkin itself. I searched for information on this mathematical enigma and found it in a most unusual place. The writings of Benjamin Franklin. Franklin it seemed, suffered from insomnia on those long winter nights in New England. He would spend hours pacing about late at night. Being perhaps one of the most intelligent men to ever live, he would amuse himself with mathematical puzzles. On one of these late nights he composed the entirety of the mathematical table known previously only to the Chinese and the Maya. In his notes he called it his magic square and commented on how the order within it seemed to come naturally from the relationships between the numbers. He could see that the numbers 1 through 13 had a nonlinear but fixed relationship with each other that had nothing to do with their numerical value. The table in fact acted like a hologram made of numbers. When I read this, I realized that this grid of numbers could be used to store unimaginably complex information in an utterly simple form. I saw then that the flaw in “our” mathematics was that we were confusing numbers with values. We are taught that numbers are precise and our perceptions are not, the quintessential objective and subjective realities. The Mayas thought just the opposite was true, their accomplishments speak for themselves.
 With these realizations, my problem of storing dynamic information was solved. I was back to the drawing board!
 I knew that my next generation of experimental devices had to be  computer programs. What with the advent in the mid eighties of the graphic computer interfaces, computer control of complex devices could be managed more easily and creatively than one could ever have imagined. A device that needed hundreds of knobs, switches, buttons, and dials, could now be controlled by a single computer screen in a fast, simple and intuitive manner. A well designed tool is one that the user does not have to think about or even be aware of within the creative process of using it. With expert help in the translating of design dreams into computer code, we began to assemble the first Harmonic Translation System.
 As the name implies, the system we envisioned was one that would translate dynamic biological information into frequency shifts in sound and light. Having learned from the Maya that information can be stored in the relationships between  certain numbers, we were about to see if those same relationships could carry medicinal information into the human body.
 The results of our first beta tests were stunning. Not only could we emulate the effects of the dynamic memory storage units, but we could vastly amplify the response and precisely target the effects. It took many months of experimentation to comprehend the degree of control that could be had over biological functions. The initial problems were more in learning restraint in the treatment process than in not getting results. We had to learn to respect the disease condition as the body's best attempt at balance under duress. The learning curve was very steep in the early days of our work. We had no way to fully comprehend the depths of our ignorance. We were only just beginning to think in the light of this new paradigm. By the time we had gone through several beta versions of the software, we had refined the instrument to the point where we were sure that no unintentional mistakes or poorly composed treatment programs could cause harm. Where peoples health was concerned, safety needed to come first.
 Another vexing problem we were able to solve at this point was that of the toxicity of complex electronics components and the electromagnetic waves they put out. Research has shown that most people have slight negative reactions to many electromagnetic fields. Environmentally sensitive people have much greater reactions. I could see that the problem was not so much the electromagnetic frequencies themselves but the information
(toxic signatures) embedded in them. The primary signatures we found were lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury and dioxin. All of these substances exist in the power distribution system. A good analogy of this is an ocean beach littered with trash after a storm. Everyone understands that it was not the ocean waves that trashed the beach but the garbage that was floating on them.  In previous instrument designs I relied on an Abrams type mirror circuit that used sea salt and clay samples to antidote this toxicity on an electromagnetic level. This would wipe the toxic signatures from the EM waves while leaving the waves themselves intact.  This circuit is still incorporated into the harmonic translation hardware, it is there to clean up the background toxicity from the power grid. The computerized harmonic translation system digitally screens out any unwanted information. The signals it composes contain only the healing information the operator puts there.
 This brings us to the analog Vs digital debate in electronic healing. Many believe that all signals in nature are analog (one continuous stream), and hence digital signals (composed of bits), cannot be compatible with the human body and mind. Research into mind, brain, body physiology, done in the last two decades have revealed that the brain and body use both digital and analog signals. The firing of neurons within the brain and nerves is essentially digital, as is the quantum level activity within nerve cells that lead to neuron firing. The feedback and suppression of neuron firing is analog. This is similar to complex computer controlled processes now in development.  With the Harmonic Translation System, precise digital information is contained in an envelope of analog FM signals. This is analogs to cretain body mind functions.
 All of this technical detail and theory is quite irrelevant to 98% of those using the Harmonic Translation System. It’s like taking a trip in your car. Upon relating this trip to another you probably wouldn’t even mention the automobile. As a well designed tool, it takes you where you want to go without requiring a lot of attention. It is the combination of creativity, skill, and knowledge that combine to make a truly great healer. As important and essential as our healing instrumentation may be it is this magic that matters most. Modern electronic healing instrumentation becomes an extension of ourselves as does a musical instrument in the hands of a talented musician. Few of us, watching an inspired piano performance would sit there marveling at the piano, and yet, without it, such inspired creations would be few and far between.
 Research and development of advanced harmonic translation technology continues. The internet now makes it possible for a practitioner to practice there medicine via the net. Electronic medicine composed on the Harmonic Translation System can now be sent anywhere in the world instantly via  e mail attachments. Soon electronic clinics will dot every corner of cyberspace. In the coming decades, people will first come to believe in the miracles of electronic medicine and then to take them completely for granted. This is as it should be with advanced technology, for it is not our scientific comprehension of the universe that maters so much as our ability to reinvent the world and to find even grander dreams.
 

RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT NOTES

Work on the advanced win95 / NT version of the Harmonic Translation System continues. Completion of this project is still a year or more away. Those practitioners with the H T System (A) will receive the updated program at little or no cost.
One of the more ambitious areas of this work is in the reading and acoustic rendering of DNA sequences. As the Human Genome Project moves along toward a complete mapping of human DNA, this information becomes potent new medicine for future electronic pharmacies. In our alpha test programs we can hear the music of short DNA sequences being played. It is mesmerizing how melodious and beautiful this can sound. A bit like Bach, without the arranging. There are no sour notes in normal genes. The idea here is to supplement missing or damaged genetic information via harmonic translation sound. The human gnome is so vast that at normal 4 4 tempo it could take 20 years or more to play the whole score.