Ebooki / The Cosmic Pulse of Life - Trevor James Constable

They seemed drawn to her by a strange magnetism or instinct. In her care, they seemed to make more progress than with anyone else. This marked ability to reach and to heal others was with her to the end of her days. No matter how beaten down I was by business or other worries in the time that I knew her, when I came into her presence it was like being pumped full of adrenalin.

Her abilities were discussed by Los Angeles doctors using and following the Abrams methods. Dr. Thomas McAllister, an osteopath, asked her to work for him on a full-time basis. Noting the intensity of her interest and her surpassing abilities, he loaned her books and personally taught her from his own medical knowledge. The association with Dr. McAllister was one more of those strange “coincidences” that shaped Ruth Drown’s career.

A patient of Dr. McAllister’s named Louise Thrall benefited considerably from Ruth Drown’s ministrations. Oil had been found on the Thrall property in Kansas. As a financial blessing flooded in on her, Mrs. Thrall felt impelled to share it with somebody, without simply giving it away. To the young nurse whose care she valued so much, Mrs. Thrall gave $5,000 so that she could attend the Osteopathic College at Kirksville, Missouri. This $5,000 was later repaid in fall.

An enthusiastic Ruth Drown attended Kirksville for a year, during which she received the intensive training in histology that is a feature of osteopathic education. This was to have vital value later on, when her invention of the radiovision instrument provided photographs of histological and pathological cross-sections.

After the first year, however, misfortune intervened. Her aging mother’s health had begun to fail. This made it impossible for the grandmother to care any longer for Cynthia and Homer during Ruth Drown’s absence. She was forced to quit osteopathic college and return to Los Angeles and her children. She had been delayed, but she would not be denied.

In Los Angeles she entered chiropractic college. By nursing for the Los Angeles doctors who were using Abrams’s work, she not only maintained contact with this field, but also was able to support and raise her children. She graduated as a Doctor of Chiropractic in 1926, and was licensed to practice in California in 1927.

During her chiropractic schooling, all her spare time had gone into experimenting with new ways to handle vital energy in diagnosis. Like every pioneer doctor who used the Abrams system, she was aware that acceptance of such instruments would require that they be simplified and further developed. Eliminating the clumsy patient-subject-diagnostician triad was a prime problem. Her intuitive gifts and her practical expertise were directed to tuning in directly on the patient, source of the vibratory activity under analysis by the instruments. In individualizing diagnosis in the strictest sense of the word, she developed a strong intuitive aversion to utilizing commercial electric power sources in the instruments in any way whatsoever.

Commercial electricity is created by manipulations of inert matter. The young woman experimenter could clearly see that this power source was neither individual nor biological. Her experience had already taught her that the vital energy patterns of every patient were individual and distinctive, affected as they were in each individual by the particular areas of lowered function with which that individual was afflicted.

Experience and intuition thus united to convince her that commercial electric power was in some way inimical to the energy she was seeking to tune and manipulate. A quarter of a century later, Dr. Wilhelm Reich was to find out in the Oranur Experiment—of which more in due course—that a fierce and potentially lethal antagonism exists between life energy and electromagnetic energy. Worth noting also is that Kirlian photography—now becoming widely investigated in our universities—depends upon exciting the life energy with high-frequency energy in order to make the life energy luminate. In this application, the antagonism between the two energy forms is utilized to objectify the life energy, although this simple fact appears to elude most persons doing this work.

These observations will give the reader a better appreciation of Ruth Drown’s profound intuition to keep electricity out of her instruments. At that time, and right down to this day in the general field of radionics, there is a widespread conviction that nothing can be achieved in this kind of diagnosis and therapy without injecting the commercial electric supply in some way into the human body. This is an archaic and dangerous holdover from the Abrams days, when even doctors experienced with this work were skeptical that the patient’s own biological energy could ever be tuned or detected without electric assistance of some kind. Ruth Drown hung on tenaciously to her own opposing view and kept experimenting.

RUTH B. DROWN

Every spare dollar she had was put in this research. Her mechanical skills were used to fashion panels and in the assembly, machining, fitting and connecting of components and cabinets. She was a dogged empiricist on the pathway of trial and error. A student of metaphysics since 1916, she meditated daily upon the instrument she was trying to make concrete on the physical plane.

By 1929, the first Drown instrument was a reality. Someday this simple, seven-dialed instrument will be ranked as one of the major breakthroughs of the New Technology. All the instruments she designed in the remaining years of her life were only slightly modified from this original 1929 model.

Problems existing in the Abrams system had been decisively eliminated. The means of localizing the

source of disease vibration, or the desired tissue on organic vibration was transferred from the healthy human “subject” to the instrument itself. Detection was localized in a simply-constructed rubber diaphragm approximately 2 inches by 4 inches included in the instrument circuitry. Not only was the “subject” now unnecessary, but there were no connections to commercial electricity. The instrument was simply grounded. There were no electron tubes, batteries or other familiar electronic impedimenta. Examination of the instrument’s simple construction belied the years of grinding labor, experimentation and prayer that had made it possible.

Ruth Drown introduced the Los Angeles doctors she knew to the new invention. Their enthusiasm was enormous. The development of the rubber detecting diaphragm was a triumph for the young woman. The need to go over the “subject” body with a glass rod and other clumsy aspects of the Abrams work had been overcome. The doctor now sat in front of the instrument and localized the patient’s troubles on the detecting pad, conveniently placed for his right hand. A new era in diagnosis had opened. Unerring diagnosis was now a possibility.

Development of the instrument had taken all Dr. Drown’s money. Her doctor friends now subsidized production of additional instruments so that six months after the original was shown, the doctors all had copies and the inventor had a second instrument of her own. From this beginning came the hundreds of Drown instruments manufactured down through the decades.

The origin of the therapeutic use of these Drown instruments should be recorded, because of its obvious membering into the pattern of happenings that brought Dr. Drown’s work into the world. She thought it might be possible to use the diagnostic instrument for treating, but treatment with the Abrams setup utilized commercial power. The structure of this therapeutic system had been swept away by the new invention—divorced now from electric sources. How then, was therapy to be accomplished?

While Dr. Drown was directing much thought to this, a man she had never seen before stepped into her Hollywood office and asked about her instruments. She explained in a general way the principle of diagnosis. The man shook his head.

“No. No. That is not what I am looking for. I am looking for an instrument that will take the patient’s own energy and focus it back into specific areas of his body for treatment. I am sorry. Good day.”

With that, he departed, but he had set off a bomb in Ruth Drown’s mind. Of course, that was the way it must be done. The theory and the technique came to her now with blinding swiftness.

The energy that is leaving the patient and is used in diagnosis—she reasoned— must return to its source, the patient. Why not focus it directly into the same tissues and organs that the device can tune? Only a slightly different hookup would be required from the diagnostic circuit. Tests proved this could be done. Experience proved the procedure therapeutically effective.

The man who was seeking that strange new therapeutic method never came back. Was he just another “accident” in the chain that made Ruth Drown’s unfoldment possible? Who was he? Perhaps we will never know. Surely it is enough that he came that once.

The basic principle of tuning subtle emanations from all substances, be they living or inert, has grown

into the worldwide and international radionics movement. Prestigious figures in European medicine turn increasingly to this field today. Even in the U.S., long the scene of mindless harassment of radionics pioneers, a major university finally entered this research. Stanford University in California, where Dr. Albert Abrams once taught medicine, started a program in the 1970’s under the redoubtable Dr. William Tiller. Early in 1975, the first U.S. Radionics Research Congress was held in Indianapolis, Indiana. Later on, the U.S. Psychotronic Association was founded.

There have been many mutations of Dr. Abrams’s basic work developed in many countries. In this connection, tribute should be paid to numerous European investigators, including the late George de la Warr of England. Mr. de la Warr got his start by building instruments for English friends of Dr. Drown, after the Second World War prevented her from shipping instruments from California. That Mr. de la Warr subsequently designed and used instruments of this type in the exactly opposite way to that intended by Dr. Drown does not detract from the substantial interest that the English worker was able to attract to the entire field.

In the U.S., an outstanding researcher along these lines was the late T. Galen Hieronymus,2 who worked devotedly—and successfully—for many decades with what he elected to call “eloptic” energy. His achievements are considerable, but cannot be detailed here, any more than can the work of de la Warr or perhaps a dozen other inventors and innovators in America, England, France and Germany.

Dr. Drown remains unique in developing a method of photographing soft and hard tissue in crosssection, as an extension of her basic diagnostic invention. She is thus the only worker in the world to date to be able to objectively verify that her instruments tune in as and how she says they do. She called this device radiovision, and it added to the basic tuning of the diagnostic instrument a simple method of flashing light on a photographic plate. This flashing was done in such a way that the light was modulated by the particular tissue emanations from the patient to whom the diagnostic instrument was tuned.

The film was processed in normal chemicals with one incidental step added to produce a polarity reversal similar to the well-known “solarizing” effect. The vital energy patterns precipitated their form into the emulsion in this way, and the finished plate could be examined on a viewer in a manner identical to that used for x-rays.

RADIOVISION AT WORK

This Radiovision photo was made of a dental abscess by tuning in with a Drown Radiovision instrument on the abscess. The line of tooth

structure is shown by the arrows A, with the tooth root pressing into the gums. The photo is cross-sectional and arrow B shows veins in the central pulp of the tooth, black areas where blood flow has been sectioned in the veins by the Radiovision tuning. Arrow C shows a sinus of infection from the lower part of the pulp through the gum of the patient. Arrow D shows the gum boil as a bulge in the patient’s mouth.

Radiovision terminated argument about whether or not it was possible to tune in this vital radiation from organs, glands and tissues. The photographs spoke for themselves. The diagnostician made the diagnosis, perhaps revealing, say, a tumor near the Eustachian tube of the ear. Such a manifestation would produce the gross symptom of deafness.

By tuning in the vibratory rate of the tumor and the vibratory rate of the Eustachian tube tissue itself, the instrument would then photograph the tumor and the surrounding soft tissue and hard tissue in cross-section. The effect was akin to vertical surgical sectioning of the area, so that the doctor was enabled—through this energy photograph—to view one wall of such an incision with all its detail. In one such actual radiovision photograph, the tumor may be clearly seen pinching shut the Eustachian tube.3

From 1937 until her death, Dr. Drown made untold thousands of radiovision photographs of her own patients and of the patients of other doctors—M.D., D.O. and D.C.—who came to her for diagnostic assistance. There were numerous cases where medical doctors and osteopaths confirmed the accuracy of both the Drown diagnosis and the radiovision photographs by post mortem surgery. The dauntless Dr. Drown, in repeated efforts to get attention to her work, went to various cities in the U.S. and abroad and made these photographs in front of audiences of medical doctors and sometimes of their own personal pathologies. She even went to Chicago, epicenter of Big Medicine, to demonstrate her work there.

For every critic of Dr. Ruth Drown and her methods that Big Medicine might bribe or brainwash, at least a hundred former patients could be produced who would gladly testify to the benefits of the therapy. She not only met the challenge of introducing her work in this way, but also trained doctors to use her instruments. She would not sell an instrument for diagnosis to anyone who was not a physician. The physician who purchased an instrument was required to take her personal training course as a condition of that purchase. She also edited and published the Journal of the Drown Radio Therapy and a magazine, The Philosopher’s Stone.

This lifegiving endeavor and the success of her practice provoked a decades-long battle with the Ahrimanically-inspired forces of status quo. Sending hired liars to her as fake patients was a common stratagem, invariably frustrated by her remarkable intuition. In 1951, nevertheless, her enemies finally got her into Federal court through an action nominally filed by the Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Government.

The government charged that Dr. Drown had shipped a device in interstate commerce that was “misbranded.” The charge was based on a man from Chicago having purchased a treatment instrument from Dr. Drown in Los Angeles, and taken it back to Illinois. This was legally interpreted as “shipping.” Just to show you how far they were willing to go, the instrument was actually sued under Admiralty Law in other litigation, and ordered destroyed by the court in Chicago on 15 November 1949.

Egged on by Big Medicine, the Food and Drug Administration got hold of this instrument, or one like

it, in Chicago. The instruction leaflets were studied by FDA investigators. In 1951, eighteen months after the instrument had been ordered destroyed by court order, criminal charges were brought against Dr. Drown. The leaflet enclosed with the treatment instrument was deemed to be “labeling” under the Food and Drug Laws. Since the government held that nothing could be treated with the instrument, it was mislabeled, and shipping the device in interstate commerce was a criminal act under Federal law.

This action forced Dr. Drown into defending more than a quarter of a century of original research in basic natural science in a court of law. The same Federal statutes and the same stratagem were used a few years later against Dr. Wilhelm Reich and his invention, the orgone accumulator. At the time the government assailed Dr. Drown, she had treated some 17,000 patients with her instruments and her methods of diagnosis and therapy.

During her career, because of the ethical barrier erected against the work by Big Medicine, she had published her findings in the Journal of the Drown Radio Therapy, in her books, and in The Philosopher’s Stone magazine. She had demonstrated her instrument before audiences of licensed, qualified medical doctors all over the U.S.A. and in England. She was also accessible to any person —in or out of science and medicine—who had an intelligent purpose in seeing her. She would discuss her work with any scientist. Few came. They already knew, or were told by Big Medicine and its lackeys, that it was all fake. All of these people must have felt proud, if they survived until the 1960s, to see Russia rub America’s nose in its own stupidities by proving that bioplasmic energy did exist as a physical natural force.

The transcript of the 1951 Drown trial is an incredible document. Opinion witnesses from the medical profession on the Drown instrument made goats of themselves and could have been destroyed and humiliated by a defense attorney with even rudimentary technical knowledge. None of these opinion witnesses had either met Dr. Drown or studied her work. The University of Chicago, which had forced Dr. Drown to sign a paper in 1949 stating that she would never mention the university in connection with alleged “tests” of her instruments made in Chicago in that year, happily sent a professor to testify against her.

Persons who were present at this obscene legal proceeding report that the judge—a fair and decent man clearly upset by the travesty of justice before him—groaned audibly when a guilty verdict was rendered by the jury of laymen. The judge had done his best to assure justice. The Federal attorney urged the judge to enjoin Dr. Drown against ever using her instruments again. His aim was to destroy her work. The judge declined. He imposed the minimum $1,000 penalty required by law and demurred at imprisonment. The trial had presented abundant evidence of, and unassailable witnesses to, the accused’s high ethical and moral character.

Two internationally famous and universally respected character witnesses for Dr. Drown were Dr. Ernest Holmes and Dr. Arthur Young. Dr. Holmes was the founder of the Church of Religious Science; Dr. Young was the inventor of the Bell helicopter. The people who bore varying forms of false witness against Dr. Drown were, by contrast, little men. Their recorded technical testimony condemns them, not the woman they sought to destroy. Dr. Ruth B. Drown walked out of court branded a criminal. Years later, every thinking American with a grain of idealism in their soul can see how the once noble American legal system has been almost completely corrupted. Policemen who

arrest criminals find themselves sued by these thugs. Vicious criminals are repeatedly unleashed from prison on society before their sentences are up. Humanitarians who devote their lives to the service of mankind receive criminal convictions under this twisted system. Still there remain those naive victims of negative superstition who cannot accept that this massive perversion of justice is inspired and engineered from beneath man by the Ahrimanic powers.

In the case of Dr. Drown, the 1951 trial and her conviction frightened off dozens of skilled physicians who were just starting with the Drown work. Building it up in the difficult era from pre-war had been an exhausting task. Just as these labors bore fruit, the founder got into trouble with the law. Most of the promising recruits to the new ways bolted, for fear of their professional lives. They felt the ship was sinking.

The ship did not sink. Dr. Drown reduced her practice and continued her research work. She developed a special modification of her instruments for the location of minerals. Abuse, vilification and indignities continued through the years! What Dr. Wilhelm Reich was to term the “Emotional Plague” of mankind—irrational destructive action on the social scene—turned its full fury on Dr. Drown. Every avatar—every great teacher of mankind—has had to face the same kind of abuse.

In 1963, the State of California brought fraud charges against Dr. Drown, arising from her diagnosis of an allegedly healthy woman sent to her as a decoy. Then aged 72, she was arrested at her home during lunch and taken to her laboratory. State agents there were already looting her premises of patients’ records and apparatus. Television camera crews and crowds of uncomprehending newsmen took part in the trampling of a fellow American’s constitutional rights.

This aged and dignified lady was hurled into the Los Angeles County jail. Her arrest and imprisonment were integrated into a triumphant anti-quackery article in Life magazine, which probably engineered the whole proceeding in servitude to its massive commitments to official medicine and the drug industry.

Endless litigation now began. The judge involved, who years before had publicly sworn that he would “get” Dr Drown, turned up on the bench to administer justice in the Drown case. A contemporary affidavit by a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education who had heard his threat, resulted in his being pushed off the case for prejudice. The judge would not have gone on his own.

As a result of this final savage assault on her work and the ensuing turmoil, which involved the complete convulsion of her affairs, Dr. Drown suffered a stroke and did not recover sufficiently to stand trial. She died with a giant’s work behind her. Shame and dishonor are not on her face before history, but they stain the character and the karma of the little district attorney—himself twice bilged out of medical schools for poor scholarship—who engineered her end.

Twenty-first century science will honor Dr. Ruth B. Drown as we now honor Tesla. She had broken through to the new cosmic electronics. The practical workings, significance and importance of her discoveries and methods will now be described. Let those who crucified this godlike woman say that it is not so. Let them utter their croaks while the wind roars around the mountain tops.

NOTES TO CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1.Biometric evaluation of Ruth Drown, using procedures now widely accepted by large corporations in personnel work, confirms that she bordered on the superhuman.

2.For information on the work of T. Galen Hieronymus contact Advanced Sciences R & D, P.O. Box 109, Lakemont, GA 30552.

3.Published in Radiovision—Scientific Milestone, 1961, under the imprimatur of the Drown Laboratories.

Chapter Fifteen

COSMIC ELECTRONICS

It is not in an arbitrary decree of God, but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the face of tomorrow; for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The basic discovery of radionic medicine and the radiant nature of living organisms made by Dr. Albert Abrams will probably be judged by 21st century science as epochal. The subject of continuous efforts at suppression in the U.S., these discoveries have nevertheless survived. Split into many different streams and modes of development—all of them thus far outside official scientific acceptance—they are nevertheless the beginning of the new cosmic electronics. The confusion that often exists within the radionic movement exemplifies the way in which the Ahrimanic powers, when all else fails, split and compartmentalize the New Knowledge even as they have the Old. Mechanistic science is a monument to this kind of splitting action, with its interdisciplinary barriers and multitudes of highly educated people barely able to comprehend one another’s work.

The reality of this splitting and fragmentation of new discoveries that are cosmically significant is demonstrated in the case of Sigmund Freud’s work. Working a little before Abrams’ time, the master of psychoanalysis was in no doubt that his discoveries would eventually open a pathway from psychology to biology. This was yet another possibility for microcosmic-macrocosmic relationships to come into modern human ken. Half a dozen of Freud’s followers who thought they were both smart and right, splintered Freud’s work. All became famous and respected. None found the psychology-to- biology pathway. That achievement belongs to Dr. Wilhelm Reich, who maintained his direction on the pathway broken by Freud, his mentor.

Similar circumstances and a similar fate attended Goethe’s major impulses to scientific cognition at the inception of the age of modern material science. This has been dealt with already in our review of Steiner’s work. Goethean conceptions lead to a spiritual, dynamic understanding of natural processes. Following Goethe’s methods of training observation and thought would have obviated for mankind the Ahrimanic fragmentation of knowledge that ensued from the mechanistic, lifeless world conception that was impressed on mankind instead.

These examples are cited to illustrate how the right pathway, even when found, can be quickly obscured and lost again through Ahrimanic influences on vulnerable humans. Vulnerability is rooted in spiritual ignorance. As long as humanity remains ignorant of the existence and workings of the Ahrimanic powers—as detailed in Chapter 13, “The Boys Downstairs”— these influences will be felt and wielded in evolution.

Negative superstition sustains these processes and its major instrumentality is academia. What we have here to relate concerning these new discoveries is that instruments and concepts have been poorly received by academia. Ask yourself why this is, when the same segment of society can devote a disproportionate percentage of its energies to fashioning devices of destruction. Your answer lies in

Ahrimanic inspiration and control—the control of good men by unseen degenerates. If you have ever wallowed in the philosophic bog separating human knowing from human doing, knowledge of the beings from beneath man brings you to firm ground. Life can then be read with accuracy.

In the case of the Abrams work, there was one individual who followed the initial breakthrough and in due course found the cosmic mainstream. That individual was Dr. Ruth B. Drown. Her achievements do not diminish those of others who devotedly pursued the Abrams discoveries in their own way. Not one of them, however, was able to make the monumental cosmic connections that Ruth Drown established. Her cross-sectional, full-plate photographs of human histological and pathological structures are to this day unequalled. These photographs are staggering verification of the technology from which they are derived.

Almost everyone involved in the radionic field became a party to the general process of sequestration where these photographs were concerned. Sequestration is the process of walling off a discovery by not looking at it or into it, and by verbalizing it away when it arises to consideration through its own native buoyancy. In extreme cases, as with Wilhelm Reich, the scientific literature that would guide men to these principles is burned—in full legality! Official science tacitly assents to the destruction of such literature. Where the cosmic connections become too obvious, too strong and too undeniable, the innovator is legally murdered. The 20th century has done no better than any other in promoting truth, but it exceeds all others in its promotion of murder.

Our description of the basic instrument of cosmic electronics will begin with the Drown instrument having nine dials. Her initial instrument had seven dials, but the reason for extension to nine dials will become evident shortly. Instruments in this nine-dialed configuration were being used and made by Dr. Drown up until her death.

In all the world of electronics there is no piece of apparatus seemingly simpler than a Drown tuner. Each of the nine dials has ten positions, numbered from 1 to 10. Behind each position is a metal stud, leading to the back of the panel. At the back of the panel a simple loop of wire passes around each stud on its way to the next stud.

These nine ten-position dials, with a single loop of wire around each dial position behind the panel, are led out at one end to two metal plates. At the other end, the dials are connected via the rubber detecting pad to ground. In a diagnostic set-up, the patient sits with his feet on the foot-plates. The patient is the source of the bioenergetic “signals”—originating in his tissues— that are to be tuned by the instrument.

In nonmedical applications, any specimen may be placed on the footplates and tuned by the instrument. The principles of analogy will have value here in clarifying the functioning of the Drown instrument. The analogy is with radio broadcasting, but it should be constantly borne in mind that with a Drown instrument we deal with life energy and not electricity. The sketch sharpens the analogy.