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SWIMMING THROUGH THE ETHER NOTES ON HOMOEOPATHY & RADIONICS SWIMMING THROUGH THE ETHER NOTES ON HOMOEOPATHY RADIONICS Esoteric science provides a model for understanding how radionics and homoeopathy work in transmitting specific energy frequencies to effect healing. We analyse the normal so that we may know the difference between it and the abnormal. — Dr Ruth Drown A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF RADIONICS ' n the past few issues of The Homoeopath, there have been a number of references to dowsing. Nicholas Biggins's article, "Off with the Fairies" (issue 73, spring 1999), is an excellent description of how he has learned to use the pendulum to give him sig- nificantly improved results. Previous to this, the readership may have been surprised to discover that no less a person than Edward Whitmont would test his remedy selection by stroking a glass rod across the abdomen of his patient, looking for the reaction which would confirm its suitability (see tribute from Dana Ullman, issue 72, winter 1999). Since its beginnings about 100 years ago, the relatively obscure science of Radionics has utilised various dowsing techniques,’ not only to detect disease states but also to iden- tify and apply appropriate therapies. Homoeopathic remedies are widely used in radion- ics, and some seminal personalities (such as John Damonte) in the present development of homoeopathy in Britain were also radionics practitioners. In this essay, I will give a brief overview of radionics and how radionic techniques may be of assistance in homoeopathic prescribing and also to our understanding of what remedies are and how they work. Radionics was founded by Dr Albert Abrams (1863-1924), a native of San Francisco, under the original name of ERA—Electronic Reactions of Abrams. A highly qualified conventional practitioner with an illustrious career and also the advantage of a substantial private fortune, Abrams was able to pursue his researches without reliance on outside funding. Like Hahnemann, the founder of homceopathy, he was a master of observation and a tireless experimenter and truth-seeker—attributes which eventually led him to make discoveries which brought considerable opprobrium from the medical establishment of the day. Like so many of these outstanding figures, he was also capable of making inspired leaps of judgement. Abrams's fundamental discovery was that under certain conditions the human nervous system will react to the energy field of external elements such as persons with disease conditions, samples of diseased tissue and so forth. This reaction would manifest by means of a muscle reflex which could be detected by percussing the abdominal wall. Alternatively, Abrams found that drawing a glass rod across the abdomen could also be used to localise the point of response. Different diseases produced reactions in different parts of the abdomen, and, as Abrams noted, "drugs in homoeopathic dilutions can be detected and identified by the stomach reflex", which suggested a unique diagnostic method. He then proceeded to develop a technique which placed a person (known as "the Subject"), with abdomen bared, in series with a patient, i.e., linked by a wire which termi- nated on the subject's forehead. He could then diagnose by testing on the healthy subject for response to disease conditions in the patient. Abrams later discovered that certain dis- eases produced reactions in the same muscle groups, which neatly threw his method off the rails until he hit upon the idea of placing a variable potentiometer (i.e., a rotary control such as might be used to adjust the volume on a hi-fi) in the middle of the cable linking the subject to the patient. Settings of the potentiometer would be found which were unique to each disease, thus making it possible to diagnose a wide range of conditions. Eventually Abrams discovered that he could diagnose just as accurately using a blood sample from the patient, and he later found out that he could work at a distance with the by Nick Franks © 2000 PO Box 93 Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5FF, UK Fax: +44 (0)1625 549809 E-mail: nick@nicko500.co.uk Website: www.nicko.com PO Box 93 Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5FF, UK Fax: +44 (0)1625 549809 E-mail: nick@nicko500.co.uk Website: www.nicko.com JUNE — JULY 2000 NEXUS - 47 by Nick Franks © 2000