Job Opportunities in Radionics

[ecosophia]

I had occasion earlier today to check up on the state of the art in radionics.  Radionics?  It's a weird hybrid of sorcery and technology, in which a variety of electro-etheric devices such as the Hieronymus Machine (an example is on the left) are used in place of the typical medieval technology of wands and star-spangled robes. Rather more than a decade ago I built a Hieronymus machine, collected all the necessary information to use it, and spent a while getting a good sense of its potentials for spirituality, divination, magic, and healing; I don't do a lot with it any more, but I've still got my endearingly clumky homebrew machine, and get good results with it when I do use it. 

I was pleased to find that my old friend Joseph Max has gone from creating his own finely crafted radionics devices to selling high-end radionics machines -- his site, Aetheric Arts Labs, is worth visiting just to wallow in the glorious dieselpunk esthetic of his products. (Here's an essay, lavishly illustrated, about the construction of his first Hieronymus machine.) I was less pleased to find that there's not much else available out there, and most of it is very pricey. Joseph's machines are expensive, but they're worth it because of the quality of the materlal and workmanship; a lot of the others are pricey because the manufacturers are charging what the market can bear. 

Me, I like to see occult knowledge and practice finding its way to as many people as possible, and that's difficult in this case when you have to shell out $1500-$3000 for a device that you can build for about $50 if you buy all the parts new. I have a lot of talented readers, a fair number of them can read simple schematic diagrams and build things, and it occurs to me that a lot of people just now are interested in finding a way to bring in money that doesn't depend on selling their time to an employer. So it occurs to me to wonder aloud if anyone out there is interested in learning how to make Hieronymus machines, which can sold via the usual online venues; there's apparently a substantial market, and a good practical model for a reasonable price (say, $200-$300) would likely fly off the shelves. 

I've got a very substantial collection of documents on the Hieronymus machine, including T. Galen Hieronymus' original patent, the schematic of a later transistorized version, and detailed instructions for manufacture and use, which I will make available to anyone who wants them and sends me a PM or a comment marked NOT FOR POSTING with an email address. What I ask in return is one of the machines you make. Interested?  Let me know. Baffled by all this?  Well, that's why my journal allows comments...

***Update**** -- I've received an enthusiastic response to this, which is great. One resource that might be helpful to those who plan on building their own Hieronymus machine using the transistorized circuit I've included is this detailed discussion by Joseph Max. The comments are particularly useful. 

***Update 2*** -- I'm temporarily suspending my offer as Magic Monday draws closer. Interest in this project turned out to be much higher than I expected; rather than the half dozen or so packets I expected to email, I've sent out close to 40, and I want to make sure I don't get a couple of hundred requests while Magic Monday is in process! I'm going to look into other ways to make information on radionics and building your own Hieronymus machine available to those who are interested; I'll post something here as soon as I've gotten that worked out. In the meantime, if you're frantic for plans, the Wayback Machine has something to get you started,  and Joseph Max's discussion of how he built one using the same circuit is not to be missed...

Comments

[youngelephant]

PM'd. A more general question - What did you personally use the machine for? It looks like a technological way to mess with the life force, but I don't at this time understand all what it actually does with said life force. Maybe this will become clear with the papers.

[ecosophia]

I used it for healing, for banishing noxious energies, for divination, and for agriculture. One of the things I've included in the collection is the following photo, which shows what happened when I planted corn and used a radionic device (you can see it on the far right, the tall thin white thing) for soil fertility:

[(Anonymous)]

Hi John Michael
Well I'm doing a little very low level Radionics project just now which I'll post about once I've done more work but ...
meanwhile there are also some pendulums that can be used as Radionic broadcasts; generically known as energy pendulums, or Egyptian pendulums.
There are the Isis, Karnak, Osiris, Nova and the impressive Fench Universal Pendulum with 48 setting . These are the ones I'm working with.
here are some links
for those who want to check them out - plenty of other sites too
https://emeraldinnovations.co.uk/pendulums/egyptian/isis-pendulum
https://www.baj-pendulums.co.uk
https://www.pendulumalchemy.com/power-isis-9.html

BTW I recommend a little caution - some of the devices need care and practice - especially the Osiris; and the French Universal Pendulum.
All the best
Lurksalong
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[ecosophia]

Many thanks for this! I'm no good at pendulum dowsing, I'm sorry to say, but others may have better results with it.

Radionics, Nigel Ayers, Harry Oldfield

[sothismedias]

Hi JMG & all,

First I'm delighted to see this. Radionics is one of the areas of occult study I want to explore more in the future. I'm not sure when that will be, but it would be great to do some kind of correspondence course around this material in the future, and then go into a mad scientists lab to make some things. (You did say once the world needs more mad scientists!)

My friend Nigel Ayers, of the long running ambient / post-industrial / ritual music project Nocturnal Emissions has also made some Radionics machines as this is one of his interests as well. They can be viewed here for inspiration: http://www.nigelayers.com/pages/desire.html. I find these kind of things very inspirational.

Are you at all familiar with Harry Oldfield's work? He used electromagnetics to vibrate various types of quartz crystals to sound vibration used for healing. His site is worth exploring. I read a book on him I get from interlibrary loan once, very illuminative: http://www.electrocrystal.com/crystalsound.html

Anyway, it seemed that last time I searched there was a website for radionics practitioners where subscription gave access to a lot of otherwise hard to find papers, journals, etc. I was just doing some googling, but haven't been able to locate it yet. I thought I'd bookmarked it for the future, but such is the internet (it sure ain't what it used to be!)

Anyway, I do hope you get some takers on your offer & suggestion. There is a lot to explore and be (re)developed in this area.

To all who apply: success to your work!

Justin

Re: Radionics, Nigel Ayers, Harry Oldfield

[ecosophia]

Some years ago I drafted a ritual of three degrees for a magical lodge based on radionics, to be called the Aetheric Fellowship -- it had a very deliberate dieselpunk/mad scientist vibe. If radionics becomes popular enough, I may just have to throw open the switches on the sonic oscillator and step up the reactor power pressure three more points... ;-)

How to get the machine to you

[sea_spray]

Hi JMG

It sounds like a great deal to me. I'd love to take you up on the offer however I don't know when I'd be able to get to it. I tend to only be able to get through a fraction of the ideas I have. Would there be a preferred time for you to get the machine by and would your postal address be including in the pack of files? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

Thanks!

Re: How to get the machine to you

[ecosophia]

We can work out the details once you start building the machines. I'm not too worried. ;-)

[boulderchum]

My hands are a bit full with CGD, Alchemy and Astrology for several years at least but all things etheric tug on my imagination. Aside from basic electronics competency, what sort of skills and books would be best to study in order to take you up on that offer someday?

[ecosophia]

Anything that deals with the etheric plane -- qi, prana, life force -- will be useful. Some basic cabinetmaking skills will also help.

But...

[degringolade]

Do you have the specs for a Tillinghast Generator :).

Let me ponder this...Might take you up on it. My local bar has a side business selling vacuum tubes from the Czech Republic. (Seriously, it is a great bar, and the guy who runs is is a long time John Bircher. I love the place)

Re: But...

[ecosophia]

I wish!

The original specs for the Hieronymus machine use tubes, and I think Joseph's done several tube-based models. That could be fun.

[deborah_bender]

Would cinnabar do as a substitute for solidified mercury?

[ecosophia]

Good question. You'd have to talk to a practitioner of Indian alchemy.

[industrialchemy]

I read several books last year after you posted about radionics then, and I started playing with the printable symbolic version soon after. It's been tied up in a long-term project for most of a year, so the total number of uses has been small but the results have been satisfactory for all of them thus far. Building a full physical machine has been at the back of my mind ever since.

[ecosophia]

Check your inbox! The plans should be sitting there now.

Interested!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Archdruid Emeritus,

I am extremely interested in the results you’ve gained in your garden! I live where the soil is sandy and poor, exacerbated by an excess of construction materials remaining in the soil. I don’t have good luck with even native plants, and a lot of it is probably down to the developers raping this land. I think this is a lot more appropriate than a weekly application of chemicals in the form of Miracle Gro - which, although it will make the plants lush, results in a strangely flavorless fruit. The synchronicity between my life and my studies is quite... striking. All this to say, I’d be early in line to access information on this technology, and thank you immensely for the offer!

Thank you,
Erika

Re: Interested!

[ecosophia]

If you haven't sent in a comment marked NOT FOR POSTING with your email, do that and you'll have the plans promptly. The zip file labeled "Earth Pipe" is the one with the most immediately useful stuff.

[degringolade]

I didn't want to do one of those long comments, but since JMG got me thinking,

https://degringolade.dreamwidth.org/204406.html

[ecosophia]

Thank you for this! I'm delighted that you're going to be looking into Reich's work -- there's quite a lively scene of people doing orgone work these days, and the Wilhelm Reich Museum website is a good place to start looking.

You know, I may just do a series of Dreamwidth posts on etheric technologies. I found out only a little while ago that there are still surviving examples of the devices Franz Anton Mesmer used to store and transmit animal magnetism...

aetheric science and technology

[deborah_bender]

I'm not planning to take up radionics, but I want to follow the discussions and reports. Physics appears to have reached a point of diminishing returns. Chemistry is making discoveries with nanoparticles and extreme temperatures, and there is plenty going on in biology. Aetheric science looks like a promising field for amateurs and semiprofessionals, with potential for a Thomas Kuhn paradigm shift within a generation. Science would be far more useful if it acknowledged the life force, or developed an adequate theory of consciousness, or both.

Re: aetheric science and technology

[ecosophia]

I'd like to see that happen -- and I figure that the best way I can contribute to it is by getting the documents I've got in as many hands as possible.

[(Anonymous)]

I’d like to see orgone investigated anew. The U. S. government came down so savagely on Wilhelm Reich that I figure there was an excellent chance he was on to something.

—Lady Cutekitten

[ecosophia]

Agreed. It's also intriguing to me that the scientific establishment reacts to Reich in a way they don't react to other heretics. They laugh at the others...but Reich gets them into an incandescent rage; as Degringolade comments in his journal post, you'll rarely hear so much bile from establishment scientists on any other subject. That really does make it look as though there's some "there" there.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the forbidden lore! Ist alles in Ordnung.

Regarding Radionics

[(Anonymous)]

jmg

Sorry for saying something which might be irrelevant to this discussion, but I wanted to ask you this: are there any peer reviewed scientific papers agreeing that radionics is not 'pseudoscience'? I ask because I first came across the terms 'radionics' and 'orgone' in the book 'The Secret Life of Plants', and I recently read that there is no experimental evidence to support anything that the book claims, including plants reacting to music, the Backster effect, and let alone 'imaginary' stuff like radionics and orgone. However, given how materialists deny paranormal phenomena without even looking at the evidence, and selectively show only that evidence which supports their 'debunking' efforts, I'm a bit confused. Could you help me out with this?

Regards,
Viduraawakened

Re: Regarding Radionics

[ecosophia]

There's plenty of experimental evidence supporting the effects discussed in The Secret Life of Plants, but none of it has been accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals, for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the research. I encourage you to find and read a copy of Deviant Science by James McClenon, which discusses why and how institutional science excludes heretical ideas.

The nature of eloptic energy

[(Anonymous)]

I imagine that in order to design these devices, Hieronymus must have had a theory as to how eloptic energy propagates. Is it a wave form, a particle, a wavicle, or an emanation of indeterminate form..? How otherwise could one determine what kind of device could be used to work with it? Much the same applies to Wilhelm Reich and his orgone devices. Is orgone the same as eloptic energy, or are they distinct? If the same, how is it that a cloudbuster or an orgone cabinet appears distinct from a radionics machine?

The researcher whose work most intrigues me is von Reichenbach. His descriptions of Odic force make its mode of propagation sound a good deal like that of light. If you aimed a parabolic mirror at the full moon, would Odic energy concentrate at the focus? Conversely, if you placed a highly charged crystal at the focus, would Odic force be reflected from it in a beam? The more it behaves like light, the more I imagine I could design devices to work with it. But maybe I have misunderstood von Reichenbach, and it isn't really like that at all.

Re: The nature of eloptic energy

[ecosophia]

T. Galen Hieronymus named the energy in question "eloptic" because it behaves somewhat like electricity ("el-") and somewhat like light ("-optic"). He didn't devise the machine from first principles, though. Albert Abrams first detected the effect by accident while trying to use radio waves to treat illnesses, and Ruth Drown built on Abrams' experiments; Hieronymus started from their discoveries and designs, and worked out a device of his own which seemed to do a better job.

As for Reichenbach, I'd encourage you to read his books on the subject -- he covers things in quite a bit of detail.

[(Anonymous)]

Something just made click... I wondered all the time where I have seen this machine before - and suddenly I remember. The father of a former girl-friend is an alternative practitioner and used the device for some purpose I didn't really understand back then. I had just started into studying physics and was rather on the skeptical side of things but this device intrigued me since I thought it should be fairly easy to set up experimental protocols that would yield interesting results if this thing worked.

Today, I am far less on the "skeptical" side and have a very solid background in physics (PhD). Additionally, we have a rather large vegetable garden and it would be fun to set up devices and design experimental protocols or test existing ones. Should I manage to build a machine I will of course share the results of my experiments and should I be able to build more than one I will gladly arrange shipping over to your side of the Atlantic. Thanks a lot for that great offer!

Cheers,
Nachtgurke

[avalterra]

Backyard garden needs earthpipe! If anyone builds a reasonably priced kit and puts it up on Etsy you have a buyer!

AV

[lp9]

Two buyers!

Meeeee!

[(Anonymous)]

Hopefully didn't miss out on this...very cool...I've got to have a go at this, so waiting for further instructions on how to get my paws on the docs!

Thanks JMG...Really missed you btw!

JMac

[realmscryer]

Goodness. I just realized we have some bamboo plants which are surviving though not thriving. A radionics project could be just what they need!

Radionics

[iprescott]

Hello JMG,

I believe I am a bit late to the conversation here. I have been working with a printed symbolic machine with a quartz pyramid for the power. Have had interesting results. I would love to see the information and see what I could build, if the offer is still open.

Ian