Hi! Allan, Thank you for subbing me right on. If you feel this would be of interest, feel free to post it to the list. Gil
My current interest in Radionics is a direct result of Hugh Lovel's work on what I tend to think of as "Energetic Agriculture". About ten or twelve years ago, I decided, that, in at least my case, much of my health problems were related to food and environmental factors. I found by Radiesthesia and later confirmed by reading, that nearly all food currently available, had levels of chemical and other pollutants that made them unsuited for human consumption. This set me off on a search, initially for my own interest and protection, to find how I could produce clean, healthy food for my own use. This grew into an aim to find and define a workable system that could be promoted to commercial growers, so they could produce food that was more suited for humans, while still making reasonable profits and that this food should not cost the end user significantly more than chemically polluted food. This took my down the path to Organics, then BD. With Dean Gentlin leading the way, we started with 500/ 501 twice a year and compost preps in all our compost heaps. We soon found marked changes. Wild mushrooms came up in our clay soil, clean, unlike those a few yards away. They were larger and thicker. They were not worried by slugs, millipedes etc for several days and tasted much better. We are sure we can taste the difference in our vegetables. We started making peppers, with mixed success. Some times spectacular and others doubtful. Occasionally the reverse of our intention. In my case I could easily handle the two to four acres of garden and fruit trees, but I also wanted to use BD Preps and peppers over the whole 200 acres. Then Hugh's articles on "Cosmic Pipes", came out in Acres USA. Hugh has been kind enough to answer my many questions and when he visited Australia, I was able to spend time in his company, by courtesy of Barbara and James Hedley. It was Hugh, who told me, if I was to use a device like his Field Broadcaster, and wanted to make Preps for it to suit our Australian conditions, I would need to learn the English Radionics system. I was already working to this end. I have just spent five weeks of special one to one training in the UK, to tidy up my training and equip me to teach others in Australia. I will be doing this in the name of the Radionic Centre of Australia and under the direction of the Keys College of Radionics, who will handle the examinations for the students. I think that Biodynamics, as currently used is great, but it is not the whole story. In my area, we have to look at remineralising the soil, as ours are very depleted. Paramagnetic rock dust of the right type is a start, but in most cases will need some topping up. Our soils are very low in soil carbon and most productive country has been abused with chemicals, thus there is little, if any good soil biota. BD can help with this, but on badly denigrated sites, there is not the food for a reasonable soil biota level, so we have to look to providing this also. Another issue here, is the need to recondition water. Our mains water is largely from underground basins and quite energetically dead. Some water we use is said to have been in the basins for hundreds of thousands of years!! Even just a couple of very strong magnets, properly placed, will produce measurable differences. At the risk of offending much of the list. I think, in my situation, Biodynamics has a central and major place in the scheme of things, but I must also balance the minerals in the soils/ provide paramagnetic rock dust to help the energy levels/ increase soil carbon/ provide food for soil biota and recondition my water supply. In addition I have many feral pests to deal with. Some such as weeds and some insects will go or be of little impact, as the energy levels rise and system gets up to speed. But there is problems like foxes, rabbits, mice and rats, which I doubt will move away without encouragement. This is an area where I thing the devices such as Hugh's Broadcaster, or the "kites" used in the UK and Australia will be of great use. An example is Joan Saunder's property. She is a Radionic Practitioner of many years standing. Twenty years or so ago, they planted a commercial apple orchard. Rabbits came for miles and started to ring bark the young trees. Shooting, trapping etc did not make an impact. Still they came. They set up Kites and set them to keep the rabbits outside the fences of the property. In days, the rabbits understood and would run along the out side of the fence and no longer come into the property. In about 1984, there were major wild fires and all the fences were burnt, along with the Kites. The remains of the Kites went to the tip along with the fences and a number of out building and contents. (Including a De La Warr Camera!!) Even to day, the rabbits run along the fence lines, but do not come into the property!! The Kite is an energetic device and works along the same line as I assume Hugh's Broadcaster does. So I believe there is place for these things in the scheme of things. I understand that Joan and her family use Organics and Radionics, with no chemicals on the farm. I think that RS would have taken Radionics on board, had he lived longer. My reading of his writing has helped me understand the energy involved in Radionics and allowed my to more readily accept the theories involved. While in England, I studied mainly with Enid Eden, one of those who did much of the early research on Radionics in Agriculture. She knew all the well known names in the Radionics in the UK and has taught in the US on at least one trip. While I am dropping names, I also spent time with Lavender Dower and Alison Davey. Their area is animals, particularly horses and dogs. Enid has done a lot of work with farm animals as well as crops and soil. My challenge is to take this knowledge and experience and move it into the Australian landscape. Gil Allan Balliett wrote: > Gil - I'm going to sub you right now. I'd sure appreciate it if you'd > post to the list about your use of radionics and BD (or just ag) Hugh > Lovel is on the list, so discussion of radionics can get pretty deep. > > Thanks! > > -Allan Balliett > moderator, BD Now!
