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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE According to Paracelsus, control of the many other substances which were light emanating from crystals when mumia of an animal or plant enables a eagerly embraced by the chemical, enclosed in complete darkness. The one person to divert the flow of archaeus to industrial, food and medical industries, | common factor seemed to be a reaction to its own uses. These "lower life-forms" making him a very wealthy man. moonlight, so Reichenbach set up an often assimilate the disease of humans, Reichenbach became interested in impressive laboratory in Castle thus relieving the patient. When the _ studying the powers of people he referred Reisenberg in which he could study lower life had either assimilated the to as "sensitives". Around 1850 he dozens of sensitives. foreign mumia from the patient, or itself published his Researches on Magnetism, He discovered that many of these died from this mumia, complete recovery Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystallisation sensitives had an allergic reaction to resulted. Many years of investigation and Chemical Attraction in their Relation moonlight, especially in the red and green were needed to determine which herb or to the Vital Force, based upon these _ spectra. They were also able to feel the animal most readily accepted the mumia _ studies. The baron was also fascinated effects of moonlight from the castle's of each disease. with people who were sleepwalkers or interior, leading Reichenbach to Paracelsus also discovered the occult suffered from "night cramps" which had hypothesise that moonbeams carry an properties of the magnet and founded the no apparent cause. He studied the energy which is independent from light School of Animal Magnetism. These theories of Dr Mesmer and determined energy. Only the protective layers of ideas would come into fruition centuries that these maladies were of a physical, woollen clothing, leather and piles of paper later with the theories of Dr Mesmer. not emotional, nature and could not be were able to block out the effects of the In the 19th century, Paracelsus's cured by hypnosis. Mesmerism did not moonlight upon these sensitives. theories on the seven bodies Moonlight, especially in the of man and the liquor vitae red range, caused were embraced by _ the somnambulism and _ other Theosophists, who called this maladies like cramps in some subtle force prana and the "sidereal body" the "astral body". Paracelsus was possibly one of the most underrated minds of the Renaissance. sensitives. They required the cooling rays of violet sunshine to counteract these unpleasant sensations. Sleepwalkers, on the other hand, were craving moonlight, which forced them into their nocturnal wanderings. Reichenbach was able to expose his subjects to the rays in which they were deficient—either positive moonlight or negative sunlight—in order to treat their maladies. He also iscovered that humans have ositive and negative polarity within their bodies. Reichenbach postulated an energy which contains the roperties of light, gas and even fluid so it can penetrate ‘ar beyond the reaches of each arl von Reichenbach, property. He called it Od kK born in Stuttgart, energy, and believed that the Germany, was a odic force permeates the scholar of high merit with universe: "Od is a cosmic doctorates in natural sciences Baron Karl von Reichenbach, 1788-1869 orce that radiates from star to and theology. He also made star, and has the whole contributions in the chemical, geological, involve hypnotic suggestion at all, but universe for its field, just like light and metallurgical and meteorological channelled a mysterious energy which heat." (Regush, p. 30) References ¢ Franz Hartmann, "Paracelsus on the 'Vital Force! and Medicine", in The Life and Doctrines of Paracelsus, John W. Lowell Co., NY, 1891 * Nicholas Regush (ed.), The Human Aura, Berkley Medallion Books, NY, 1974 (includes Paracelsus quotations translated by Franz Hartmann) Baron Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869) sciences. The baron established passed between the practitioner and The odic field can be conducted ironworks in Baden, charcoal furnaces in _ patient, he determined. through wire at 13 feet per second, Hausach and Baden, chemical works in Reichenbach tried to formulate a theory depending on the wire density rather than Blansko, Moravia, steelworks in Tiirnitz, for these maladies, including electric, conductivity. Some odic fields are Austria, and blast furnaces in Gaya, magnetic and allergic, but they all fell focused as light through a lens, while Moravia. He also discovered paraffin, short. He was intrigued that many of another part of the odic field can flow kerosene, phenol, creosote, picamar and _ these people were also able to perceive around. many other substances which were eagerly embraced by the chemical, industrial, food and medical industries, making him a very wealthy man. Reichenbach became interested in studying the powers of people he referred to as "sensitives". Around 1850 he published his Researches on Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystallisation and Chemical Attraction in their Relation to the Vital Force, based upon these studies. The baron was also fascinated with people who were sleepwalkers or suffered from "night cramps" which had no apparent cause. He studied the theories of Dr Mesmer and determined that these maladies were of a physical, not emotional, nature and could not be cured by hypnosis. Mesmerism did not involve hypnotic suggestion at all, but channelled a mysterious energy which passed between the practitioner and patient, he determined. Reichenbach tried to formulate a theory for these maladies, including electric, magnetic and allergic, but they all fell short. He was intrigued that many of these people were also able to perceive NEXUS * 45 Baron Karl von Reichenbach, 1788-1869 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com