Hi! Jane, Radionics is a formalization of a number of closely related energetic methodologies. Radionics traces it's history over a similar period as BD. There are a number of schools of thought in Radionics and some do not speak to others. Radionics ranges from the very complex to the very simple and across the range some thing work much better than others. Some methods require broadcast over long period, or repeated broadcasts, some are one shot hits, great differences. Some Radionics Practitioners formally trained and others are not even in contact with another like minded soul. With early work by Abrams, considerable development was continued by Drown. Most Radionics, as we know it, is post Drown and built on her work and on that of those who came after her. February 2003 marks sixty years of Radionics in the UK where most of the major developments have taken place and much of the research leading to us having some idea of what actually happens, has taken place. There will be a major conference to mark the date.
Radionics has taken many paths and many dead ends. It seems to me that a high percentage of those who do the hard miles and actually study it to depth, also make some contribution to overview, with new instruments or better understanding. Every now and a again some one will come up with a system that makes things over complicated and cumbersome. These divergence's are usually short lived. The really powerful systems in use currently are paper based. Here in Oz, Frank Moody found that the circuit of an instrument, would work as well as the physical instrument, in the hands of a trained practitioner. He later developed this further and we can increase our arson of instruments at the photocopier any time we need more. In India, Western type instruments, even when made locally were too dear for the local needs and they came up with the SSS System, which will treat a large range of the sort things most people will come across. I have previously posted on the joint UK - US development of the Meridian Card System, the fastest working system I know about. With all these systems, it is still necessary to have a good understanding of what you are trying to do. If working on people or animals, you must have the appropriate anatomy and physiology and an understanding of disease and how all the systems work. In venturing into agriculture or the environment, one should have the required knowledge appropriate to the area of interest. On top of all this, to be a creditable practitioner, one needs to have ones life in order, as most of what Radionics is about is done by the mind of the practitioner, thus if one has distractions, lack of concentration or effected by substances, your work will reflect that situation. Then there is the core knowledge of Radionics. This is to do with an understanding of the energies involved, the subtle anatomy and other matters which have a meaning in Radionics, which at times is quite different from other disciplines. This is only taught person to person and not available in published form. It is this that divides the formally trained from those who are not. The vetting of students before and during training is rigorous and unforgiving. Around the place are many people making instruments without the core knowledge, and while they may work to some extent, they are not a patch on those properly designed and constructed. Having studied the core knowledge, the practitioner is free to go on and innovate and develop Radionics further. The recent major innovation has been the Meridian System. I am currently doing some promising work in the Agriculture/ Environmental area. Over time, Radionics has taken on board many other vibrational methodologies - Homeopathy, Flower Essences, Gem Essences, several Colour methods etc etc. These can be made up as a pill or liquid, or broadcast direct to the client. To use each of these, the practitioner must of course also study the field they are going to venture into. Thus most of us are continually studying and teaching one another. While the basic training is three and a half years, learning is for ever. Having rambled at length above, I can now get to the core point of your post. Yes, we can work without instruments, but at the risk of loosing focus. The instruments, rates, cards etc are nothing more than a focus for the practitioner's mind. There are all sort of hazards in non instrument Radionics. Say you are working on a client (Most Radionics is remote - we rarely meet our clients) and an attractive person walks down the street and catches your attention, the treatment can be redirected to that person and away from the client. It may not desirable for either. The Instruments, Charts, Rate Books, Cards and most important, the Witness are required for focus and for safety. I will give an example. I have developed some weather modifying methodologies. I had some successes using my instruments, and decided to see if I could do it by thought alone. I was going through the routine, using only my mind, I got distracted and did not "turn off", nor did I continue to check the target or listen to the news, until the floods become street talk. The drought breaking weather system come out of no where and caught every one un-prepared and did a lot of damage. Thus I now only work with instruments. You mention: " giving away one's power." As soon as you start considering there is anything such as "one's power.", you have let the ego in and you will not make a functional Radionic Practitioner. Once, when my ego tried to come back, Spirit told me: "Be humble or be humbled", this a prime prerequisite of working with the Energy, by any methodology. As I wrote about under SDDS (self deluding dowser syndrome) on another list. Gil jsherry wrote: As for radionics, I am a bit surprised that you (of course I don't know you so I'm not sure why I am surprised...) use a radionic device. I am NOT a bd purist, or purist of any kind. However, my intuition or gut instinct of depending on such a device is that it is a form of giving away one's power.
