My Search For Radionic Truths

with Possibilities of Acceptance by

Science and Medicine
by R. Murray Denning, M.S.F.

Foreward
By tom October 20, 2011

Whilst reading this book I had to weigh and consider its implications on
Radionics in general. Many books have been written on the subject but they
mainly seem to have followed an official line, and there are many aspects that
have been ignored, but which need an airing to provide a more comprehensive
picture.

For example, to my knowledge, few students are aware of Mme. Maury. I am

a keen advocate of her dowsing and teaching techniques. Nor do they know
anything about Darrell Butcher, whose Pegotty instrument is widely used.
Indeed this is the first time I have, myself, seen anything in writing about his
work.

I consider it is very important that this and as much other forgotten material
that is available be made known, so that students may properly examine the
evolution of the subject and decide in which direction the future lies.

The first part of the book describing the authors Path to Radionics is
fascinating, and is something one rarely sees written down. What a familiar
picture it is to many of us who, ourselves, have been pushed into Radionics by
an unseen hand.

I am delighted to see in the last chapter that detailed research is being

undertaken, and undoubtedly the new material will cause great interest and
comment.

In conclusion, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, particularly as it has a

balance which gives considerable detail, but without becoming too technical.
The book provides a missing link in Radionic knowledge and should cause
quite a stir and enable many people to enlarge their thinking on the subject as
a whole.

Mike Hallas
Former Member of the Radionic Association Council

INTRODUCTION
By tom October 20, 2011

Another book on Radionics! That subject which is a scientific tease to those

who work in it, and a scientific anachronism to those who work in the
orthodox medical world. Why should I feel an urge to add to the already
ample supply of literature on the subject?

It all began in the Spring of 1980 when I received a telephone call from a
leading Member of the Radionic Association asking if I would see a young
man who was thirsting for factual information on Radionics. I was intrigued
by the sound of his enthusiasm, and an appointment was duly made. The
young man, in his early thirties, told me that as an Electronic Engineer he had
become convinced that Electronics could be used to explain some of the
phenomena of Radionics, but after much time spent in searching for facts, had
been unable to find any answers which satisfied his intellectual needs on the
subject.

He obviously had a good brain, asking intelligent and fundamental questions.

So I decided that I might be able to help his quest and we talked for a couple
of hours, broadly covering the basic principles of many of the early pioneers.
Much of what I told him was news to him, bu I when he left I did not really
expect to see him again. However, just a week later he phoned Could he
come back for more talk? Another appointment was made and in due course
he arrived. On this second visit we discussed books. I showed him my library
and told him of the copious notes I had taken over the past 25 years.

I explained that the growth from the inspired work of the early pioneers to the
experimental efforts of a few brave technicians had been varied, but lliese
early men and women, with considerable thought and knowledge, had laid
foundations lasting for over 70 years, and I considered their basic principles
should not be lightly discarded.

I told him that after many years experience in the Radionic field, I still had
faith in the possibility of its ultimate recognition as an accepted form of
Healing. Therefore, I had given much thought to the direction in which
Radionics was turning.

At this point my enquirer suddenly interrupted me, Mr. Denning, he said,

You must get all this knowledge on paper before you die! A kindly thought
for a man more than double his age. I thanked him for the compliment, and we
had a good laugh. But there and then was born still another book on
Radionics. As for the young man, a steady friendship grew between us from
that time. We both had one important factor in common. We were both
convinced that Radionics MUST have a scientific foundation if it was to
survive. I agreed to write a book, and in the meantime to give him all the
information I could, while he would supply me with advice from a scientific
point of view.

I knew that another book on Radionics must have sound foundations, bul must
also take the subject into the modern Electronic Era, and he could provide this
need.

In this book I have outlined some of the positive achievements of individual

pioneers, quoting from their writings rather than from their histories.

There have always been two distinct schools of thought on Radionics, whether
it is a matter of Mind alone, or whether there is any factual evidence that it
can be based on a physical level.

In physical radionics, as practiced by the pioneers, the concept was thai I hey
were measuring an energy, as yet un-named. This was the teaching on which
radionics was founded, and it was expected that, on such a basis, il could
become an accepted therapy. Since then, however, the idea has grown that the
same results in diagnosis which are obtained by physical measuring, could be
achieved solely through the use of the mind a form of Non-Physical
Radionics with no recognisable scientific backing.

I have always maintained, and still do, that if one is working on a sustained
campaign for universal medical recognition, the fact must be faced that it will
not come about unless there IS a sound scientific background. Without this,
recognition will not be granted and the whole issue will remain confused. I
examine and enlarge 011 this statement in my book, explaining in which way
I feel it can be achieved.

My belief has been strengthened by an article in the September 1981 Radionic

Association Journal addressed to PAST AND PRESENT STUDENTS OF
THE SCHOOL OF RADIONICS by the Chairman of the School
Management Committee where she writes:
We, the School, are very aware that somehow, sometime we hope in the
not too distant future Radionics will become recognised by the State and
will be able to take its place side by side with the Medical profession.

Among the many pioneers in this field, Dr. Ruth Drown stands pre-eminent
and I have therefore devoted one chapter to her work, quoting from her
Theory and Technique of the Drown Radio Therapy and also from her other
books.

It may occur to my readers that I have omitted to quote from any of the latter-
day writers and practitioners. My reason for this is that they are well known
and have been widely covered in other publications. I have attempted to move
away from their subjects and to include new and generally unknown fields of
material which do not appear to have been written about before.

I refer in particular to Prof. S.W. Tromp who PROVED that Radionics could
be explained on a scientific, physical basis; to Dr. Geo. Crile, the eminent,
highly qualified and internationally known medical specialist who was a
contemporary of Lakhovsky; to Butcher, one of whose instruments is much
used in treatment today and whose principles and theories have never been
fathomed. These I have shown as being based on three fully acceptable
scientific principles. Lastly, I have included Dinshah Ghadiali, a brilliant
Indian scholar and doctor, who advanced his theories on colour therapy based
on Light rather than on Pigments.

1 - My Path to Radionics
By tom October 21, 2011

Once upon a time I had a dream, that Science would prove Radionics to be
true. At last, after working in this field for many years, the dream is, I believe,
within reach of becoming a reality. But in order to illustrate my journey along
the radionic path, I must begin by describing my own pre-radionic experiences
which led me to take up this work.

Firstly, what is Radionic Therapy? It is a form of Absent Healing by the use

of a Force or Energy in conjunction with instruments. Wlial is this energy
and how does it manifest? To the first part of the question Hie answer is that
this is unknown. There are, however, some mon and women who, when they
have reached a certain point in inner development do know what it is, yet are
unable to describe it in terms acceptable to science. Others accept its existance
intellectually, though llicy too are unable to define it. Still more people can
use it without experience or understanding. It has been given many names,
e.g. Reichenbach called it Odyle; Reich, Orgone; Paracelsus, Munia; Eeman,
X Force; Alchemists, First Matter; Theosophy, Fohat; Alice Bailey, Cosmic
Fire.

It is the Energy that manifests itself through all forms of expression on Earth;
through physical form with all its complexities physical, chemical,
biological, electrical, magnetic etc, and through the Etheric and subtle fields
of which life is composed. It is the Energy that flows Ihrounh I In- hands of a
Healer; which is released through the shape of I lie (ileal Pyramid; through
geometrical and numerical patterns. It is, in fact, Cosmic Energy.

It is the manifestation of this immeasureable Life Energy that is measureable.

What we are interested in here is how this Energy can be effectively used for
the benefit of mankind.

Let us begin where I began. By the time I was 45 years old, I had been the
victim of Ankylosing Spondylitis for more than half my life. I looked 65, and
life was not worth living. I was a misery to my family and myself, and
although I never contemplated suicide, in moods of depression I would often
wonder why it had to happen to ME.

This incurable complaint is a painful disease of the spine which causes the
sufferer to become gradually more and more bent forward until his spine is
fixed in such a position that he is looking permanently at the ground in front
of his feet. My doctor father naturally tried every possible treatment for a
cure, but without any success or even relief Heat Light Drugs
Serum Injections Massage all these had their turn, including the
removal of all my teeth, one at a time, over a period of 32 weeks. Each week I
would attend the surgery bent and in pain, yet, half an hour later, one tooth
less, I walked away down the street erect and in comfort. The reaction was so
severe that my dentist, a family friend, would not proceed in any other way.
Nobody explained why the sudden removal of the symptoms after each
extraction occurred. But by the following week, I would go crawling back to
the surgery as crippled and uncomfortable as ever. Life indeed was
intolerable. For twenty years I was in and out of hospitals and clinics, always
in pain and with my condition deteriorating.

Then something happened. One winter while I was alone at home, my family
having gone for a holiday, I picked up a magazine called Everybodys and
idly thumbed through its pages. Suddenly my attention was caught by an
article, and I found myself reading about wonder cures for people with every
kind of diseased condition. I was fascinated, but did not immediately relate it
to myself. However something made me go back later and re-read it, and I
began seriously thinking about these wonder cures surely they were
meant for people like me? I hardly dared to think of myself as cured and
in any case, the pain I was enduring was too great for me to make the effort of
following up the idea. I had learned to live with it, in and out of hospitals for
more than 25 years, and nothing had changed its inexorable progress. But the
thought kept nagging at me Suppose a miracle of this kind were possible
for me? My thoughts began to race and back to the article I went. Where was
this clinic? In the City of London. That was not too far away. Dare I go? After
all I was on my own, with nothing to do. I might as well make the effort as
just sit around moping. It could not do me any actual harm, and certainly I had
nothing to lose. The magazine said the next session was that very evening. I
made up my mind even though it was obviously a chance in a million. I would
go without undue optimism and with no direct anticipation of a miracle result.

My destination turned out to be a large house in Russell Square in the West

End of London with a clinic on the first floor. I went in and found myself in a
reception room where some 30 people were sitting patiently waiting. I gave
my name to the receptionist and she said that I would have to join the others
and wait my turn. I took a seat and watched what was going on. The
proceedings seemed routine. One by one people would be called and would
disappear behind a curtain where they would remain for 5 to 10 minutes. They
then went into cubicles round the room, in which they were received by men
and women wear-inn white coats. After a further 20 minutes or so, they would
emerge .ind depart. For an hour I sat waiting for my turn, by the end of which
time I was in such pain that I felt I could no longer stay. I went up to lln
icieptionist and explained this, and she said kindly, Right, well take you
next. So a few minutes later I was ushered behind the large curtain.

2 - Extra Sensory Perception: A

Natural Function
By tom October 21, 2011

My investigations of seances, described in the preceding chapter, made me

realise that there were forms of consciousness that were, phv.H .illy
speaking, abnormal and unusual phenomena. Having experi-rui < il |hem I
wanted to know if they were truly abnormal, or if they could be realised on a
more rational and down-to-earth basis. Much publicity has been given in
books, on the radio and television, but usually surrounded by an aura of
mystery and scepticism. I asked my-.11 ( .in ESP be a normal faculty of life?
Several experiences of mine pi .mini in such being in the realm of fact, not
fiction.
Imii example, a lady in her early forties was sent to me because she li.nl i
niosl unusual and unpleasant complaint, about which doctors had lii-en unable
to help her. At certain times she would give off a highly unpleasant odour. It
was not a recognisable smell, and its pungency was mi t.lrong that people had
to leave the room where she was sitting. It was mil ii icfiilar occurrence, and
she never knew when it might happen. When -.lie told me the story I was
pretty sure from my seance experi-. in i-s that lliis distressing complaint was a
psychic phenomena. On her net ond visil I asked her if she could give me any
clue or time when it iiii|.|11 In triggered off, or when it began.

I lei reply was illuminating and profoundly interesting.

()li yes, she said, I can tell you exactly when it began. I was on hi iIhIiis il
I hi seaside and had just come out of a cafe and was walking i.. Hi. Imiii Ii
some .100 yards away. Just as I reached it I heard a thud behind inc I turned to
see what it was, and saw that an old lady whom I hml seen in the cafe had
fallen, and what I can only describe as a iiliii k thing left her and came and
landed on my back. Ever since then I have liiul (his trouble.

AI lei hearing this story I was sure that I was on the right track, .mil began
treating her radionically with some slight success. But I was iinl happy that I
had found the best treatment, so as I am not clairvoy-nil myself, I called in an
experienced Seer, and asked her if she would . nine and meel my patient. She
came, and when we were settled down I explained, This lady has a persistent
problem from which she cannot get relief.

I hat was all the information I gave my friend. Without hesitation In replied,
This lady has a black entity on her back which is causing llu- trouble, and
she went on to describe in detail what she saw.

My patient agreed that her description was absolutely correct. Between us we

were able to treat her effectively and she had no more

I rouble.
Another experience that impressed me was when I was living in a bed-sitting
room in Kensington. My room was on the ground floor of a large house run by
two Swiss ladies who lived and ran their dressmaking business in the
basement. One afternoon I returned to my room and, to my horror, found it
filled with smoke. Instinctively I rushed to the window and threw il open, llien
down a flight of stairs to warn the ladies that there was a fire in the house.

Naturally we all ran back to my room to check how bad the fire might be, but
when we got (here the smoke had vanished! Mystified, the ladies went
downstairs again and I went out.
Two days later my landladies received a letter from Switzerland telling them
thai their brother had died, and it turned out that his death had occurred at Ihe
exact time that I saw the smoke. They told me that on the last occasion on
which he had visited his sisters he had slept in my room!

One further example was when I was walking to a meeting one evening and I
suddenly found myselfwalking beside myself. I had not experienced getting
out of my body before, but knew that this was not unique. At the time I was
so scared that 1 jumped back into my body pretty smartly!

My final conversion to the existence of a psychic world came in the writings

of Dr. S. Karagulla, MD, in her book Breakthrough to Creativity, and in
particular in some short stories in the chapter, True Stories of Fantastic
People. These convinced me that psychic experiences could be accepted as a
part of ordinary living. I quote a few examples from her book:

On one occasion Kay invited me for the evening to the home of a physician
who was interested in Higher Sense Perception. There was a young scientist
present who was making a reputation for himself in the scientific world. He
already had a number of developments and discoveries to his credit. Both the
scientist and the physician were interested in force fields, both those that
could be detected by present instrumentation and possible fields that had not
yet been detected. During the course of the evening I learned that the scientist
was engaged in research dealing with space platforms. He finally told me
frankly, but off the record, that he had received some of his very best ideas
from an individual with Higher Sense Perception. He had no hesitation about
consulting individuals with HSP ability. He had found that some of the ideas
given him by these people were found to be of great value when I est id in the
laboratory. Such information had saved him much time lh.it might have been
spent in trial and error methods of investigation.

The ideas given him enabled him to find a correct line of investi-iMlion and
proceed with it at once. He attributed some of his excellent process in his
research and discoveries and his rapid promotion to in-Iiiiiii.iInin given him
by those with HSP.
3 - The Case for Diagnosing by
Measurement
By tom October 21, 2011

When one considers the work done by the early Practitioners of 11ii past. one
is impressed by the fact that all of them, in their different wmvn weic hiking
measurements. Their electrical theories may have hi n IiiiiikI wanting by
modern research, but the fact of measurement i i luii Whether we are talking
about cellular structure, electrical phenomena, colour radiations or any other
aspect of our work, we are mm upahly dealing with radiations that are
measurable.

i litic aic ii number of groups teaching Radionic Therapy. They all pmli ihlv
have different ideas of how it should be presented. But one nut I It ink beyond
their different concepts and consider what will take N milt uilc Therapy itself
into an acceptable position as a fully recognised ill inpv I laving been
involved in the movement for many years, I have tin lime passes, become
more and more certain, that with very rapidly

using technology, scientists and doctors WILL find the answers for

whit Ii wr have been searching.

In I lie meantime it behoves writers in this field to be precise in lliiii I no Is

and specific in their terminology. A theory expressed fre- 1111 it 11 v is
often accepted as a fact. In truth very few facts really exist, luii in.iiiv theories
in need of change are often well entrenched and dllllt nit to update.

< Irar thinking will have to emerge. Certain myths will have to be

i ill..led and, if found wanting, be discarded. Myths dissolve in the

liiii -.It light of truth.

Hie first and most important myth I will examine is that Radionics i i |mi,i
psychological therapy having no basis in physics. This has been disproved and
illustrated with extensive experiments by Professor S.W.

I lump, Professor of Geology, in his book Psychical Physics published in

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ili second myth is the belief that Radionics and Esotericism are in. in nlilf I
contend that they are two completely separate subjects mil iillhoup.il it is
perfectly legitimate to use them as complementary Hi v should not be
regarded as inseparable. One can be an excellent l i.Iiuim Practitioner without
touching Esotericism at all.

A In ;iins, Drown and other pioneers certainly knew about such ilnnr us Inner
Planes and Hidden Force Fields but they considered

II in I these were not for public consumption lest they raised confusion mill
misunderstanding.

I lie third myth is the simple belief that one can write all manner i iniiccurale
statements and terminology, and still hope for universal ..(Million by
science and medicine.

Words are vital for intelligent communication, and if Radionic Therapy is to

be taken seriously, both facts and terminology must be capable of
withstanding examination. One example will illustrate what I mean.

Nearly all radionic instruments have a magnet in them and this acts as an
accumulator, transducer and radiator and both holds and sends out the energy
pattern set on the dials.

Let us examine this statement. Firstly it is extremely complex and

contradictory. Most radionic instruments do NOT have magnets in them. If an
instrument does have a magnet, and still works, the rest of the statement is
invalid.

As one radionic writer has put it, The object throughout is to get the truth
whatever it may be. 1 agree entirely.

The natural sequence to this must be to ask how measurements are arrived at.
There are only two methods. The first by what is known as the stick-pad
method. In a Drown Radionic instrument two metal plates 4% x 2%,
separated by a thin card are set into the instrument and connected with the
circuit. This is covered by a firmly stretched piece of thin rubber. According
to Drown instructions, a rubber fingerstall is worn and occasionally dipped
into a fine white powder. Thus the pad is quite smooth. However, when the
dials are set to a number representing a gland, organ or disease in the patient,
and the measuring dial turned up from zero, at some point one clearly feels the
pad stick. This indicates the normality or deficiency of the gland, organ or
disease in the patient. In later instruments other materials were used.
The second method is by swinging a pendulum. In both cases Extra Sensory
Perception comes into operation. By using his or her faculty a trained and
competent Practitioner can discover diseased or unbalanced conditions within
the living system of a human being, animal or plant.

The first method implies that one is measuring a purely physical energy, under
which heading come such experienced people as Abrams, Drown, Lakhovsky
and others. They all considered each cell or organ of the body to be a living
entity, and that with a calibrated rheostat or similar piece of mechanism, they
could measure its function by the vibratory rate or number which had been set
on the instruments.

The other method, i.e. swinging a pendulum, implies the gathering of

information by posing a question to which the Practitioner wishes to find the
answer. By observing the nature of the swing of the pendulum the Practitioner
assesses whether the answer is YES or NO.

The former took their readings, deduced the results and treated and cured their
patients by this means. They arrived at their theories and conclusions by using
their intellectual knowledge, often by long and tedious hard work. The latter
rely on the swing of a pendulum to i-iK |lu-m the information they require.

Ill is question of physical and non-physical radionics poses a pro-i>li in hut it

i. one which Dr. Aubrey Westlake, MRCS, LRCP, makes i in 11 ntiinouI in
his book The Pattern of Health, where he writes, I In ii i in lu- no doubt, I
think, that we must accept the fact that we hiivi tlrllnlle physical forces
operating in dowsing. There have, of

i mica , .ilways been the two schools of thought on that subject; those who
think it can all be explained by the ordinary laws of physics the pliVMli nl
m liool, e.g. Madame Maury, in her book How to Dowse, says,