Hi! to Greg and Hugh and those still following this thread. I feel suitably humbled, throwing my opinion in with yours, as I respect you both greatly and revere your work.
I think you are both right, in a sense. In an earlier email, I mentioned those who seem to regard "Spiritual Foundations for the renewal of Agriculture" by RS as some sort of religious text frozen in time. I am not saying you are among those numbers, Greg, But when I read RS, to me, he is talking more about the energetic than the physical. When he is talking about the movement from the Point to the Periphery etc it sounds very close to Radionics to me. As I said in that post, I believe that RS would have taken Radionics on board with open arms. If one wants to do a few acres, [as I have done for five or six years], it is no great problem hand stir and hand apply the Preps and get some exercise at the same time, there are no difficulties. If one has a few tens, hundreds or even the odd few thousand acres, mechanical stirrers and boom sprays will do the task, providing the land can be accessed by vehicles. But, should one want to do substantial areas, say a quarter or half a million acres, even the use of Crop Duster Aircraft would become a major tactical exercise. Even if one was using aircraft, there is a limit to how many acres one can cover at the few windows of optimum application time. If for no other reason, Radionics and the RS inspired Preps can allow a broadcast of energy to a substantial area of land, far beyond the ability of physical spreading. Watching this list, I get the impression that many think that when applying the RS inspired Preps they are applying an amount of significant physical material that then interacts with the land and that which is on and in it. If one uses an once and a half ounces to the acre or 80 grams to the Hectare and one considers only the top two inch/ 50 ml of top soil, which is the limit of chemical agriculture (but we know with RS inspired Preps, we can effect the top 400 or 500 ml) it is a ratio of around one in one million (assuming a cube metre of soil weighs around 1.6 tonnes). This compares with chemical fertilizers at one to a few thousand. (I do not advocate chemical fertilizers.) On this list, there has been much to do about the risks of damaging Biota in the stirring and spreading, which I do not question, but if one looks at the weight of any one type of Biota, within the above 80 grams of say BD 500, when shared over the approximate 80 Tonnes, it is a ratio of almost uncalculatable numbers. If, having separated the biota from the compost component and one looks at the nutritional, fertilizing value of the compost, or it's quality and quantify as Biota food, it really will not do much in a ratio of one in a million or there abouts. It is without doubt that RS inspired Preps do work, but they work out of all proportion with their physical presence. We can not consider the RS inspired Preps in physical terms. Then, how do we consider them? Much of RS's teaching is about energy and I think that is how we need to consider RS inspired Preps. Those of us who have followed Phil Callahan work, will know that animal horns are archetypal antenna. We know the emphasis RS put on timing in relationship with the movements of the planets. I suggest that the processes involved in energizing a Prep is is not far from some Radionics processes. The horn works as an antenna, it's void as a resonator, taking the energy collected by the horn, modifying and magnifying it and setting it in the Prep. The stirring adds more energy and "bulks up" the Prep and the energy it contains. When we walk around a small acreage, with a pail and brush or a hand sprayer, are we spreading energy and intent, or does BD501 has measurable presence and action? So why not use Radionic Devices and do it from the comfort of the office? I have worked with crystals and colour for many years. In the last couple of years I have started studying Benoytosh Bhattacharyya's Gem Therapy and the related Colour system. I have the Rae Cards and have been using them on family and friends as I learn. Using a Malcolm Rae Instrument, I have made homoeopathics like drops and to my surprise, one can taste the difference between colours. I then made up a number of Flower Essences and again, one can taste the difference. I know they work, but did not expect to be able to taste one from another! Fifty years ago the Delawarr Laboratories were successfully projecting colour on a photo of a garden bed and producing effects that were verified by independent observers. A 1954 model instrument sits a metre from me. That instrument has a light source, 64 colour filters and a set of Base 10 knobs. Thus a colour and an agricultural rate could be broadcast at the same time. I have worked for a client who lives an eight hour drive away, it is much easier to use that instrument or any of the much more modern ones at our disposal, than to spend two days travelling. That instrument is about the size and shape of a large suit case, but we can do much more with modern instruments that fit easily in a shoe box. Gil
