On the information circulating in Radionic Circles, the figure of some where around the area of ten idyll instruments for every one in use, would be close to the mark. One of the reasons for this is that Radionic Instruments are very specialized beasties. There is no such thing as a universal instrument and it is very easy to buy an instrument quite un-suited to your intended use. This quickly leads to discouragement, unless there is some form of ongoing support. This is seldom available from instrument builders, who quickly loose interest once the cheque has been cashed. I say this in general terms, not aimed at any specific type of instrument.
The other problem is the would be Radionic Practitioner. While I believe it is possible teach nearly anyone to dowse, I believe that only a small percentage will attain a worthwhile level of accuracy without a considerable amount of practice. This, for most, is at least many tens of hours over at least weeks and more likely months, rather than some tens of minutes over a weekend workshop.
As the Radionic Process is largely a mental process of the Practitioner, the Practitioner must be confident in their dowsing as well as very accurate. The moment we allow self doubt to enter our mental process, we blow the result. Obviously the quality of the resulting Radionic process can be no better than the dowsing that is part of it. I have a file of close to an inch thick of letters from people wanting quick fix tuition in strange and obscure instruments or to learn the most basic information about them. Others want to sell these treasures and for reasons I do not understand, expect to get their purchase price back, even when they have demonstrated the beastie will not do as they wish it would. Anyone with lots of money to waste, I could direct you to lots unused and mainly unusable instruments. A lot of these are "improved" instruments. By that I mean they are not built by or at least designed by an established practitioner. For reasons unknown to me, there are gadget builders, who without learning Radionics, pull an instrument or three apart and then start building "improvements".
The practitioner must also be totally "together". Anyone going through personal drama, major ill health, using some types of prescription drugs or affected by recreationals, should refrain from working in these sort of areas until they have their life together again.
I believe that Hugh can best be utilized to impart his advanced knowledge and ongoing research. He is a very busy man and it is a sacrifice on his part to travel to the antipodes. I do not think that access to his workshops should be limited to those have the knowledge to put his work into practice, but that provision should be made to provide what ever level of training required by his students. For some it will be a bit of hand holding while they gain confidence in Dowsing. Others will need help to build and position Field Broadcasters or have this done for them. Still others, a small proportion, will see the potential of Radionics and want to study it in depth. I would like to think there would also be a small number who are on top of all this and interested in research. Some of the areas needing exploration are Broadcasters to cover larger areas, such as whole cattle stations, and the specialised needs of our particular soils and very arid climate. Like BD, much of the earlier work was done in quite different soil and climate.
It would also be good to have some level of communication of people dabbling in Radionics in a particular bioregion, to avoid the wide broadcast of conflicting or competing energies. Once we go beyond our own boundary we need to consider all within the target area.
I get really concerned about the prospect of more than one person deciding to flush the Murray Darling River system and starting in an unco-ordinated manner at different parts of the system and bringing about sizable falls that later meet in narrow parts of the system....
I also think it would be a good idea if as many attendees as possible be offered dowsing tuition, before the workshops, hopefully some time beforehand to allow practice. If they have got a handle on that, it is pretty easy for Hugh or who ever to convert them to the exact method he prefers on the day.
Gil James Hedley wrote:
Dear Lloyd, Hugh, Gil and everybody,
I query the arbitrary figure of 10:1 of unused radionic instruments. That
may be so with some people who have graduated through several instruments,
however I don't agree that as a general rule this would be correct. I am
sure that John Pannan would be horrified if you told him that only 1 in 10
radionic instruments that were sold by him were not used
If this assumption is the basis of you running a series of workshops in
