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2.2. The history of radionics

Resonance therapy has its origin in radionics. The first discovery in the field of radionics was made at the turn of the century by Dr. Albert Abrams, an American physician and Professor of Pathology at the Leland Stanford University.

One day, while percussing the upper part of a patient's stomach, Abrams was surprised to hear a dull sound instead of the hollow, drum-like sound he expected. On closer investigation, Abrams was unable to feel any solid mass which could explain the mysterious dull sound. Moreover, this puzzling phenomenon only and invariably occurred when the patient faced to the west. This one position, in which a change of sound occured, came to be called the Critical Rotation Point.

Abrams repeated this experiment on other patients with the same illness. Whenever they turned to the west, he unfailingly elicited a dull note from the same area - just above and around the navel.

Healthy people, however, produced a hollow sound. When he examined patients with other illnesses, he perceived a dull sound again, but in a different place. After numerous experiments, Abrams concluded that every illness brings forth a dull sound from a specific place on the abdomen.

Abrams took the information transmitted through the wire to be of an electrical nature. To improve diagnoses he built the first radionic instrument, incorporating copper wire, electrodes, resistors and potentiometers.

The American physician Ruth Brown discovered that Abram's treatment also worked at a distance. By means of a blood drop sent by mail, Brown diagnosed and treated patients at their homes. Because radio waves were believed to be involved, the method was called radionics.

Broadcasting Room of the Drown Laboratories

Curtis Upton with two other engineers offered to treat fields in Pennsylvania. The agreement was that the farmers would only have to pay for the treatment if it proved successful. He then cut a corner off each of the aerial photographs so that only 4/5 of the field was left. The section that had been cut off served as a control. This was the first large-scale research project and significant and in some cases highly significant results were achieved in many of the fields. Crop yields increased by up to 20 % despite a reduction in the amount of fertiliser. Moreover, although no insecticides were applied, the crops exhibited far lower levels of infestation with insects.

In the fifties the British engineer George de la Warr reconstructed Ruth Drown's appliances in Oxford. As well as treating humans, he and physicist Leo Corte carried out a series of highly successful experiments on plants.

When I visited the laboratory in 1986, they had ceased to treat plants but they were treating about 180 patients a day via blood drops. I was permitted to read the reports of their work on plants and was impressed not only by their success but also by the meticulousness with which the experiments had been conducted.

Curtis Upton and George de la Warr pioneered the use of resonance therapy on plants. Their methods and ideas formed the basis for the treatment method developed by the IRT.

Irene Lutz was prompted to revive the idea of radionics in 1986 because forest die-back was escalating. She called her method "resonance therapy" because the mode of treatment differed from conventional radionics and because by then it was clear that teletherapy relied entirely on a type of resonance rather than on radio waves.

The special type of resonance used by the IRT was described the a British biologist, Rupert Sheldrake, as "morphic resonance".

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