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

[ecosophia]

I was delighted to find that photo. I went looking for an image of Mesmer, and that showed up too... :-)

[ecosophia]

And thank you for the essay! I was unaware that Mesmer commissioned Mozart's first opera Bastian und Bastienne -- too funny, given that one of the characters of that piece is a quack soothsayer...

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

[kayr]

I would certainly be up for a kit. I think I could manage that. Thanks for the link.

[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: But...

[(Anonymous)]

Here is a website with, among a lot of other useful things, detailed instructions as to how to make vacuum tubes in a manner achievable in the home workshop:

https://simplifier.neocities.org/

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.

[(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

[(Anonymous)]

The only other subject I can think of that ever gets this sort of reaction is astrology, and I can say from having used it that there is most definitely something there....

[avalterra]

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

AV

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

[lp9]

Two buyers!

[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!

[(Anonymous)]

Late to the discussion but I once had a chuckle at somebody online insisting that this one grimoire was *clearly* fake since it recommended using solid mercury for some of the talismans, and everybody knows mercury is a liquid! Those dumb medieval peasants...
Of course they didn't stop to think that maybe alchemists knew something they didn't. I had already read enough about alchemy to know that it was possible, and I know absolutely nothing by alchemy standards.
I'm too chicken to do anything with mercury personally, although I know the safety procedures exist.

[robertmathiesen]

I played a little with mercury in my home basement chem lab when I was in high school, back in the later 1950s, and even distilled some from cinnabar in a retort. Beautiful stuff, and the simple metal isn't as dangerous as some organic compounds. As for solid mercury, mercury forms amalgams with many things, and mercury amalgams are generally solid, so far as I know.

[open_space]

Interesting. I don't know if this solidified mercury is the same thing as the amalgams but at least the one I was referring to, the one used in rasalingas or perhaps in this particular rasalinga is solidified using only prana through a consecration ceremony. It's solid, but still malleable somewhat like putty. And according the Yogi, the linga can stay intact energy-wise for at least 1000 years. I am interested to see, a long time from now, if such solidified mercury could be used as a very efficient etheric capacitor.

You can see the solidified mercury in the first minutes of this video and then it is inserted into the core of the linga for the final consecration.

Edit: I looked into mercury amalgams using copper, it definitely looks similar! Thanks, Robert

What I know is that the poisonous are mercury oxides that poison the water, by itself I think only if you ingest it the weight of it makes holes in your stomach...

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.

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.

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