John Klimo has been a regular contributor to the USPA Newsletter for several years. This room in our library is a collection of his papers. The papers will be presented whole, in order and then be maintained as pdf documents.
Radionics as an Example of an Idealist Technology by Jon Klimo – December 2023 Newsletter
(from More Speculation on the Emerging Nature of an Idealist Science, 2002)
What has come to be known as radionics had its beginnings with the work of the late 19th and early 20th-century physician Albert Abrams, Professor of Pathology and Director of Clinical Medicine at Stanford University, who paved the way for other pioneering radionic practitioners to follow, such as Ruth Drown, Guyon Richards, George De la Warr, Malcolm Rae, David Tansley, and others.
Abrams discovered what he called the “electric reactions of Abrams” (or ERA). This involved percussing or tapping regions of the abdomens of his patients and finding that, whether he got a hollow sound or not could be used dependably to ascertain diseases or other medical problems that they had. He also found that he could connect another person to the patient in question and, percussing only the abdomen of the second person, could still get accurate information about the targeted patient. Such removes reached the point that the physician, or anyone else trained to act as a radionic “operator,” could replace the patient, who did not have to be present, with a physical sample from him, or with a “witness” to represent him.
The radionic operator would then go through written (or memorized) lists of parts of the body, types of medical problems, possible causes of the problem, and possible treatments for it or things used to treat it, while stroking his fingertips over a small, stretched rubber-type diaphragm, which had replaced the patient’s own abdomen.
Each time one stroked what had come to be known as the “stick pad,” one would either get a smooth, uninterrupted stroking sensation or a friction-type, static-feeling sensation. If one made the fingertip stroking motion for each item on the list, the ones that got a “stick” sensation became associated with a correct choice, with the operator repeating the process for each stick-response item to be sure it remained consistent. The stick sensation, experienced at any distance from the patient, had replaced the telltale dull quality obtained from percussing the actual physical abdomen.
Some operators have chosen to use a pendulum, instead of a stick pad, in order to get the kind of appropriate side-to-side, up-and-down, or clockwise or counterclockwise, rotation equivalent to the frictiony, staticky stroke sensation with the stick pad.
In radionics, getting the stick sensation signifies that the human operator’s system is in resonance with the part of the body, type of fundamental problem and its cause, or type of treatment that will be most effective, depending on which is being targeted and tuned for.
The issue then is: What is the ontological locus of each of the items in resonance, and of this resonance itself and its realm of effect? Is it “physical” level, “scalar” level, “subtle energy” level, “mental” level, or “spiritual” level, or is it all of these at once, depending on one’s cosmologically dissociated perspective at the time? Resonance is also a way of conceptualizing a state of quantum nonlocal correlation, or idealist identity condition, between any two things, people, forms, ideas, or minds, or between a person (or person’s mind) and a thing, or between an idea and a person, or an idea and thing, and so on, so long as the two items in resonance share a sufficiently similar or in-common structure, form, meaning, identity, or intentionality.
Indeed, it is the similarity or uncommonness of the structure, etc., that appears to give rise to, or be, the resonance relation. The stick sensation or appropriate pendulum swing signals having achieved not only a hit as opposed to a miss, but is evidence, as mentioned, of the resonance relation established between the operator and the item in question. This is a radiesthetic-type tuning process: tuning consciousness by focusing, tuning with consciousness to particular items within the idealist universal consciousness field, and tuning until resonance is achieved. As we connect radionics more with idealistic science, and when the patient happens to be at a distance from the radionic operator and there are no known physical or biomedical modes of diagnostic or treatment connection or communication possible, then we appear to be looking at a kind of nonlocal quantum correlated condition that obtains between operator and patient, and between the operator and the sample or witness representing the patient, and between the sample or witness and the patient.
Additionally, in radionics, symbols can be used to represent, and can be shown to have a causal or non-locally correlated yet efficacious relation to, so-called “real world” physical components. For example, Malcolm Rae created a large set of abstract geometric forms—variations on the same concentric circles with radial lines drawn with respect to them in different ways—placed on cards that he and other practitioners could then use to radionically represent a wide variety of parts of the body, ailments, substances, treatments, etc. This should remind us of the kinds of symbolic and other relationships with regard to the Universe construed in both idealist terms and in terms of being a universal grammar and a universe of discourse for the myriad perspectives, seats, stations, or loci of cosmologically dissociated consciousness within the one underlying un-dissociated field of in-kind consciousness.
If, during the radionic analysis/diagnosis process, one, for example, moves a point of designation along a ruler, making the stick-pad stroke or pendulum swing at each point while focusing on or holding clearly in mind one of a series of possible candidates for the correct targeted item, one can achieve discrete metric symbolic representations of points of resonance found to be correlated with distant “real world” things or objects, or “simply” with the ideas or representations for those things or objects. The domain of “real world” things one attempts to target by coming into a condition of resonance with respect to them is similar to the domain of extension in my earlier-mentioned universal grammar, and the domain of those things “only” remembered, mentally focused on, or brought to and held in mind, is similar to the domain of intensions within that universal grammar.
One can also move pegs around on what is called in radionics a “peggoty board” in order to get other kinds of symbolic representations of certain patterns of resonance relations between different things, whether the locus of their existence is deemed external or internal to consciousness, as being objectively real and physical, or as being “only” subjective, mental, and internal. But, of course, such thinking is old-fashionedly dualist in nature.
What is truly veridical for me needs to be grounded in an idealistic, nomological reality of fundamentally nothing but consciousness and its infinite possible localizations, individualizations, objects, and experiences.
Further, in radionic practice, one can use the stroke pad or pendulum while slowly turning a calibrated dial during the tuning process as one strokes or swings while focusing on or keeping clearly in mind whatever targeted candidate item or intended aspect as subspace of the one higher-dimensional consciousness field of idealism. The operator notes what number the dial had reached when the stick, swing, or other hit occurs, which signals having established a non-locally correlated resonance relation, or perhaps having actually established a true identity relation, especially as construed as taking place within an idealist context. Then one continues the process with the next dial on an appropriate radionic device (originally called an Abrams device or a radionics “box”) with such devices having up to nine dials.
Traditionally, radionics has amassed books of multi-digit numbers to represent many thousands of parts and levels of human anatomy, structure and function; of kind of diseases and other medical problems; and of kinds of causes; and of kinds of treatments, including specific chemicals, preparations, kinds of energy, etc. These numbers are called radionic “rates,” and in some systems are also called “frequencies,” “fundamental frequencies,” and, more recently, “subtle information fields” or “intrinsic data fields” (where the data is seen as intrinsic to the field accompanying, or actually fundamentally comprising, the item in question).
Thus far we have only looked at the analysis or diagnosis half of the radionics process. Let us look now turn briefly to the treatment half. The part of the human organism where the medical or other problem may lie will have its own radionically determined telltale intrinsic rate or frequency to represent it (or to actually comprise its fundamental nature, depending on one’s perspective).
Similarly, whatever can be used to treat will have its own radionically determined rate or frequency to represent it, or be seen as it, as well. It may have been determined, for example, that the radionically diagnosed rate for a particular at-a-distance patient’s diseased heart is a particular number, which denotes that particular condition of that heart and its kind of disease. It may have also been radionically determined that the rate for the universal healthy structure and function of the generic human heart is a slightly different number.
The idea, then, is to go through the radionic process of analysis in order to ascertain the rate for the appropriate treatment. Then the operator places the patient’s heart into alignment or identity or meaning relation with that rate by activating, putting into play, sending, “broadcasting,” or intending that treatment rate, or by sending the generic rate for healthy structure and function of the human heart, in either case bringing the out-of-phase heart and its rate into resonantly entraining alignment with it radionically by way of quantum nonlocal correlation in a higher-dimensional idealist phase-relation process.
In order to see for yourself some of the many connections between the field of radionics and the idealist perspective I have been sharing throughout this presentation, I want you to consider some selections from the writing of one selected radionic practitioner, the late David Tansley. To reflect a theme that underlines all of radionics, he draws from David Foster’s book The Intelligent Universe:
“Number is the most basic aspect of pattern or data. All human and natural data is digitized. The entire structure of nature is based upon the digitization of matter (particles) and the digitization of radiation…The most obvious attribute of the universe is that it reveals structure or pattern which is data having a digital base. Put in creative order, the universe consists of digits or numbers that are organized in patterns of data that we see as structures.”
Some radionic practitioners think of these data patterns only symbolically; others treat them as existing in some kind of subtle or “scalar” energy domain that, in turn, is connected to and can affect so-called physical reality; still others see these as the actual real-world presence, activity, and effectiveness of their matter and its particles, and of their radiation and waves that radiate locally in interaction with other such systems in a more physical reductionist kind of interplay.
Still others, like me, would relegate such data patterns to the idealist domain of the structures of mind, those earlier-mentioned nomological constraints on experience, and to my associated analytical-type concepts of attending-from, attended-to, and ostended points and their coordinate systems superimposed and phase-entangled in higher-dimensional phase space of the one all-containing consciousness field.
In describing how radionics operates as he sees it, Tansley at one point uses the concept of “Dimension II,” which is what others might call the implicate order domain of David Bohm, or the pre-collapse condition of the Hilbert-space-like higher-dimensional quantum reality, with its coherent, all-inclusive, nonlocally correlated, phase-entangled, superimposed nature, or what I would characterize the nature of reality to be by looking at it in idealist terms and from a less cosmologically dissociated perspective than most others would use.
In contrast, what Tansley calls “Dimension I” sounds like Bohm’s explicate order, or the entire universe from the frame of reference of physical reductionist materialism, or the physical part of the universe from a dualist’s perspective. He writes:
“Dimension II is the source of all events. You select from Dimension II the events you will experience in Dimension I. Only your beliefs can limit you and shape your physical experience. What you now see as Dimension I as a physical event, no matter what it is, it existed first as Thought and Feeling. Dimension II is a multidimensional reality in which the simplest to the most complex become actualized” (p 51, Radionics: Science or Magic?, Saffron Walden/C.W. Daniel Co Lmtd., Safron Walden, England, 1982).
Tansley then bases his understanding of how radionics works in terms of the ways the operator focuses attention and bring to consciousness items that appear to reside in either or both Dimensions I and II (depending on one’s frame of reference at the time). The operator can then connect and effect, through consciousness, through Dimension II, different aspects of the one underlying idealist universe, including any of its Dimension I aspects. While he uses a rather traditional dualist perspective here, it can with a little adjustment be put into relation to the more inclusive idealist thinking I’ve been using throughout this presentation.
Following are some excerpts from Tansley’s book Dimensions of Radionics (C.W. Daniel Co Limited, Saffron Walden, England, 1977, 1983). I suggest that you consider them in light of this entire presentation of mine in the hope that you can better see how radionics, at least as presented by Tansley (and Malcolm Rae quoted by Tansley), can serve as an example of one way of operating practically and purposely within a Universe best explained and understood in idealist terms.
“If the process of radionic diagnosis is extrasensory then why do we need an instrument?… because they [instruments and other accouterments of radionic practice–JK] provide a step-by-step procedure, a disciplined ritual if you like, they act to focus the mind more strongly, which can then function within the guidelines laid down by procedure associated with the instrument without wandering off (p. 62) [See how this is a kind of idealist science and technology involving the identification and manipulation of patterns and structures that are the nomological structures and constraints placed on experience, placed on consciousness by itself.–JK]
….Where radionic instrumentation is concerned we have the factors of number, pattern and symbol, [symbols in my universal grammar.–JK] which relates it to The Universal Mind…man is a living computer card programmed with codes from some cosmic source. God, it seems was an Engineer (period to 1900), a Mathematician (1900 to 1930), and a Magician (1930 to 1965). Now God is a computer software-merchant, programming the hardware in the universe (63)
…Radionics posits that it is possible to transfer healing data (digitization of radiation waves) across space in such a way that it will inform the system upon which it makes impact, what needs to be done in order to correct an imbalance. Healing data serves as a pattern or template which will remind the diseased area of its inherent normalcy or harmony. Disease then is a deviation from the harmonic of health which can be represented by a series of digits or geometrical pattern (66)
[The remainder is from radionic pioneer Malcolm Rae, quoted in Tansley–JK]…To give a treatment effectively without an instrument requires that the practitioner should ‘hold the therapeutic thought’ steadily in mind for the duration of the treatment, without permitting other thoughts to pollute it, and that he should have been personally providing the energy to project it.
By the use of an instrument, the thought may be stabilized for any length of time, may be exactly duplicated at a later date, if so desired, and is energized without calling for any contribution from the operator (69)
… the field is believed to be an ultra-high frequency spectrum of standing waves [which some call ‘scalar’ –JK] i.e. pulsations without actual outward travel away from source, containing the characteristics of every thought possible to any human, past, present, or future. It is thus possible for brain, or for a radionic instrument programmed by a brain, to select any definable thought from the source by ‘tuning to its proportions’ (70).
All this smacks to me of being a technology for working with and purposefully interrelating nomological structures within an idealist universe. The “things” and “ideas” in Berkeley’s “All things are ideas in the mind of God” are idealistically interrelated, as are their “rates” and “frequencies.” In radionics, “physical” things, “mental” things, and symbols for things all become inexorably confounded together as components of a single universal grammar of consciousness in interaction with itself across all its cosmological subpersonalities and the objects and experiences within one all-inclusive higher-dimensional universal consciousness field.
In summation, then, throughout the radionic process, there is an ongoing relationship, maintained in the mind of the radionic practitioner as cosmological subpersonality, and efficaciously used across the following five domains:
1.) of so-called physical real-world organisms, physiological components, chemical systems and other physical-level items, such as energies and energy patterns known to present-day physics, chemistry, and biomedicine;
2.) of physical-level samples and witnesses, such as blood spots, hair samples, or Polaroid photographs;
3.) of anything that can be used as a symbol for anything else in either of the prior two domains;
4.) of pre- or trans-physical or subtle energy or even “spiritual” things, entities, objects, patterns, et al; and
5.) of ideas, thoughts, thoughtforms, feelings, cognitive structures, intentions, volitions, and other related “mental” objects brought to mind and held steadily within it, objects intended and focused on by individual consciousness.
Radionics seeks to manipulate the relationships across the above domains; and I have already described an idealist Universe operating in terms of relationships of the objects of consciousness located across a variety of ontological sub-levels and nomological structures and mediated through assorted symbolic means.
An entire separate presentation would need to be made to more adequately detail how radionics eloquently and efficaciously exemplifies how an idealist science and technology can work as practiced by its operators, who, themselves, can possess indices of cosmological dissociation far from what would be associated with being in a condition and state of consciousness commensurate with the true idealist perspective.
That is, so long as one can be trained to focus one’s consciousness and to hold the areas and items unwaveringly as possible within it, and as long as one can be trained to make a pendulum work or to get a reliable, consistent stick on a radionic device stick pad, one seems to be able to proceed to radionically higher-dimensionally connect and interact with different parts of the universe– be they deemed physical, mental, symbolic, or informational– and, in so doing, effect change in desired, useful, and helpful ways.
The heart of radionics seems to involve what Einstein derogatorily called “spooky action at a distance,” or what a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist would be likely to diagnose as delusional thinking that includes “magical thinking” imputing “magical causation.” The reigning scientific paradigm and virtually 100% of the membership of the professionally trained and employed scientific community, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the Food and Drug Administration, etc. etc., are either oblivious to radionics or have relegated it to the domain of pseudoscience, quackery, or downright illegality where an American physician can lose his license or even do hard time if caught using radionics as part of his practice.
Unfortunately, radionics practitioners have had a long history of being ignored, belittled, chastised, demonized, or even imprisoned. Bearing in mind how the power structure of the reigning materialist/dualist scientific paradigm and consensus reality culture during the past hundred years have reacted so negatively to radionics, any attempts to develop other kinds of technology best understood and practiced from a more idealist perspective should proceed cautiously, given the politics of consciousness and its contending of forces at work within our current consensus reality portion of the universal consciousness field. And we certainly need to find the resources to conduct careful, convincing, replicated empirical, research on the efficacy of radionics that can reach out to and hopefully change the thinking and ways of the current dualist and materialistic scientific community and larger consensus reality.
A few final observations on radionics in relation to an emerging idealist science:
1.) Radionics has for decades been widely reported to have been used equally successfully with regard to the plant kingdom and the realm of agriculture, and with regard to the non-human animal kingdom and associated veterinary practice, as well as with people.
2.) Radionics pioneer Malcom Rae made a distinction between the realm of humanly created things and conditions (and their representative rates or frequencies), on the one hand, and the intrinsic healthy structure and function of those things and conditions (and their rates) provided by Nature or God, on the other hand. In this light, radionics is often seen by its practitioners as a systemized way of working to return things to right and natural healthy constitution, order, and essential nature and resultant manifestation.
3.) Radionics can be related to the practice of homeopathy, since, in cases where a homeopathic preparation has been diluted to the point that no physical presence remains of the substance being diluted but where effect can still be demonstrated, both radionics and homeopathy appear to involve affecting things in the realm of so-called physical reality by means of something which is itself apparently nonphysical in nature. In this regard, radionics, in its diagnostic mode, seems to involve something like extrasensory perception (or anomalous cognition), while the treatment mode of radionics may involve something like a psychokinetic, or anomalous “mind-over-matter” mode of interaction and seeming causation, both of which are studied by the discipline of parapsychology, and perhaps parapsychology should therefore turn its attention to radionics.
4.) Radionics devices in recent years have been designed, such as the so-called “SE-5”, that are electronic, digital, computerized versions so that rates can be stored, called up, and used radionically in a kind of purely symbolic artificial intelligence extension of operators and their minds. This certainly provides new food for thought about the nature of reality and its symbolic operations as an idealist universal grammar operating in a universal consciousness field.