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GEORGE DE LA WARR
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II TH E GREAT ARTIFICER
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liENan im)X>rtant scientific discovery is made, articles
describing it first appear in scientific and technical
publications, after which books are written for the
students of the new subject; and finally popular expositions
become available for the lay reader.
This book represents a departure from the established prac-
tice, for it is addressed to the general public and it describes
discoveries which do not yet form a part of orthodox science.
Indeed the phenomena involved are so batHing and appear to be
at variance with so many known facts that science will have to
expand its present frontiers considerably before it is able to
embrace them. But this is bound to take a long time, and so it
was decided to put something into print, for it was felt that the
importance of the discoveries set out herein was so great that it
would be a disservice to the public to withhold from them
knowledge of the facts involved and their signifi cance.
This book is an attempt, handicapped by the limitations of
present-day language, to present an accurate record of what
happened between the years 1942 and 195.5. Certain theories are
advanced, but no claim is made for their correctness or finality:
they merely indicate the trains of thought of the experimenters.
But undoubtedly, as scientists probe deeper into the mysteries
of the subject, further facts will be revealed and new theories
will be formulated.
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PART l
CHAPTER ONE
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HOW MUCH DOES SCIENCE KNOWf
answer. We shall begin by trying to get a clear idea of what
science already knows about radiations of different kinds, and
after this we shall cross the frontier and see what lies a little
nearer to the Source.
Gamma-rays
Roughly speaking there were formerly two views as to how Alpha particle 4 x 1,878 ( approx.)
,I these energies travel. T he first favours the conception of un-
dulatory or wave movement through an all-pervasive medium It is possible to accelerate charged particles to such velocities
called the ether. This accounts for all the vibrations except that when they strike atoms, electrons may be ejected from
those of sound and ultra-sound which of course travel in air. their orbits. Free electrons in the vicinity of the atom will
The other view is that the source of energy emits fine particles replace the missing electrons and the atom will be restored to
often referred to as quanta, travelling at very high speeds its original state, energy being released in the process.
through space. For some time it was thought unlikely that any radiation
The text-books of both schools of thought describe radiations could exist with a higher energy than Gamma-rays, but at
with an enormous range of frequencies, or number of vibrations length physicists began to notice that something unaccountable
per second, from around zero up to astronomical figures. was happening to their electroscopes. No matter how carefully
The different radiations arc tabulated diagrammatically they screened them with lead, the electroscopes per sisted in
according to their frequencies in Fig. 1. losing some of their electrical charges.
We must now make another classification of these radiations This looked as if an unknown form of radiation was passing
known to science by li sting the text-book references to charged through the lead, which is a powerful absorber, and altering the
particles. Some of these are shown in Fig. 1. The behaviour of electrical balance of the atoms. Could it be coming from the
each particle depends upon its charge and its weight or mass. Earth? The electroscopes were sent up in balloons, but the
Present-day atom ic theory does not provide a picture of the higher they rose the greater was the leakage. At a height of
atom which is easy to visualise. However, an early theory of 100,000 feet it had increased 200 times over. Evidently the
Rutherford gives us a working model in which the positively radiation was coming from outer space.
.charged nucleus may be considered as a sun, and the negatively With his associates, Professor Millikan put in a very great
charged electrons which surround it as planets. In this picture deal of ~ork in investigating it, and today we know that these
the inner electrons have many times the energy of the outer so-.ca.llcd cosmic or Millikan rays will pass through 1,500 feet
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of ordinary soil, or more than 5,000 feet of water. Since the human body. Newton r~garde~ t.he ,Universe. as a dead m~ha.n
Universe is mostly empty space, they may travel for millions of ism, but Goethe with h1s poetic nlSight saw It as filled wtth hfe
years before encountering any solid matter. and colour.
Year in, year out, they fall upon the Earth. Every second About a quarter of a century later, Goethe's idea was taken
about six 'shots' pass through an area about the size of a man's by another famous German. ~ron von Reichenbach was one
head, and perhaps they play some important part in the pro- ~fthe most distinguished chemist~ of his aay and the dis~overer
cesses of life. But what their origin is and precisely what they of creosote and many other chemical compounds. But hiS heart
are, no one knows. was not.in coal-t~. it was in the curious experiments which had
Are there any other forms of radiation, radiations which are been made by Mesmer. Towards the middle of the nineteenth
not listed in the text-books? It will appear in the course of this century he began to carry out experiments of his own in this
book that all forms of matter emit radiations. direction, using as his subjects people who obviously possessed
Where living matter is concerned, persons possessing a cer- some fo rm of extra-sensory perception. Many of them suffered
tain kind of sensitivity, or an extra sense of perception, can from various kinds of nervous disorders, but some were in good
become aware of emanations emitted by human beings or health. He called them 'sensitive subjects', and with their aid
animals. Perhaps when we come down the evolutionary scale to he accumulated a wealth of evidence indicating that there existed
insects, molluscs and plants the emanations are not so obvious, in Nature a peculiar kind of energy which he named the Odic
though they are clear enough in the case of glow-worms and Force. He found it iJ1..lnagnets, in G.rysals, in ligb_t, h~at and
fire-flies which happen to emit radiations falling within the living_ cells; he found it manifesting itself wherever any kind of
visible lightband. Many of the mysteries of Nature, such as the Chemical reaction was taking place.
migration of birds, might be explained by the presence of This energy could be accumul~nducted along _wires,
radiations which are received in some unexplained fashion. focus~ lens, or distOi=tedis_a candle-flai_ne is distorted by
The scientists Gurwitsch and Frank have recorded what they blowing on it. It seemed to be a vital energy smce he discovered
call 'mitogenic radiation', which is said to come from the growth that certain people could transmit it to others- for healing, the
process of living cells, namely cell division in the roots of relief of pain, or even to produce anaesthesia. In 1844 Reichen-
growing plants; and more recently in Colombia University I. I. bach published his ..[lae.axdtt s and the book created a consider-
Rabi, P. Kusch and S. Millman, using a new kind of apparatus, able stir in this country. But doctors and scientists were sceptical
gave scientific proof of rays or vibrations which pass between and could not accept his claims. Yet the great Humboldt said of
one molecule and another. They showed that each cell, living his work: 'The facts are undeniable: it now becomes the task of
or inert, is a tiny radio transmitter and receiver which gives a Science to explain them.'
continuous broadcast, and that the waves range in length over Even more scorn was heaped on the head of the American
the whole of the Electro-magnetic Spectrum. Indeed, they found doctor, Abrams, who held the view that all matter emitted
that the jumble of these vibrations emitted is almost incredible. rad i atio~ that the human body could be used as a receiver
A single molecule, they say, may give off rays of a million for them. Each of the organs, he found, acts as a separate broad-
different wave-lengths but only on one frequency at a time. casting station, emitting waves of a certain frequency when not
There is reason to believe that some of the ancient races were diseased or weakened. He drew up aj!!:tle-Q[frequencies which
familiar with this idea of radiation from living creatures; but he believed represented the corre<:t vibrational rates of the
this knowledge seems to have been lost and re-discovered after :Ya..ti2u.s-axgans. Disease, he said, was an altered rate of vibra-
the lapse of millenniums. In more recent times it was Goethe tion. He claimed to be able to correct wrong vibrational rates by
who first suggested studying the vibrations emitted by the means of a device of his own i~ention, and he also claimed to
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND T H E ATOM RADIATIONS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN
be able to diagnose a patient's physical condition from a speci- of the original drug remaining was about one divided by an
men of his blood. · t ger with sixty noughts. Not one molecule of the drug
Doctors regarded him with the greatest misgiving, and in lll ~ained yet more than 1,000 carefully control led experiments
the medical world the term '.:\_bram.s.:._Box' is still a term of ;roved ~yond any doubt that these .high-dilutions will affect
scam and derision. Abrams' great mistake was to be somewhat
bombastic about his powers to diagnose, so that he appeared in liv~~ ~~~~~rds thought that this radiative force in homeopathy
a ludicrous light when he was tricked in a test in which rabbit's was the same force wh ich had been discovered by Reichenbach,
blood was substituted for human blood. Abrams and others. He improved on Abrams' wO"rKiiKK tried
The work of Abrams was carried on by Ruth Drown, of to proVe that his table of rates bore a definite rel.ationship .to t~e
California, who in I9S9 published an account of her work in table of atomic weights. He also confirmed Retchenbach s dts-
eory and Technique of tlu Drown Radio-Thtrapy and Radio- covery that the human body radiates a form of energy which had
(fl;, ion Instruments. She developed instruments for diagnosis and
atment and found she was able to treat patients through a
not hitherto been detectable by instruments. Towards the end
of his life he formed the London Medical Society for the Study
'link' such as a blood specimen. Her work still continues in of Radi esthesia and began to make use of a pendulum for diag·
America, though it is not officially recognised in medical circles. nosis. This is 'dowsing' applied to Medicine.
In England Abrams' work was taken up by Dr Guyon What is water divining, or dowsing? Tlu Divining Rod by
Richards, who lived in Lister's old house in Park Crescent, Sir William Barrett and Theodore Besterman, an authoritative
London. Also by Drs Dudley Wright, Emest Martin and others. book published twenty years ago, describes the work of some
Dr Richards was much impressed by the results achieved by of the best-known dowsers and proves beyond doubt that water
homeopathy, a therapeutic system which consists in administer- divining is a genuine art. Not only can water be discovered by
-igg so-called 'potentised' dilutions of minerals and herbs. its aid: minerals, metals, archaeological remains and many other
Hahnemann, the originator of homeopathy, was ridiculed by things have been traced in this way.
the medical profession of his day. How, it was asked, could Some people believe that the rod with which Moses struck
one-m ill ionth of a grain of belladonna possibly cure scarlet fever? the rock was a divining rod and the term 'Mosaical rod' occurs
He and his followers knew that the almost magical effects of in literature. Ancient Egyptian bas-reliefs show diviners at work
these microscopic doses depended upon potentisation. Some with bells held in their exten ed hands. In the reign of James I
subtle form of radiation entered into the dose. If you are an a. certain John tt 'w o pretended to the use of the Mosaical
allopathic doctor, you pin your faith on chemistry and administer rods' was engaged by David Ramsey, a clock-maker, to dowse
doses of drugs, but if you are a homeopath you diminish the for buried treasure in the cloister of Westminster Abbey. Un-
chemical action and rely on the radiative force in the potentised happily he failed, but the chronicler records: 'The true mis-
dilution. carriage of the business was by reason of so many people being
At the moment of going to press there is news that fifteen present at the operation; for there was about thirty, some
years of research work carried out by the Boyd Medical Research laughing, others deriding us.'
Institute in Glasgow has shown that this potentisation is a This looks as if our ancestors regarded dow.sing as a psychic
reality. In the experiments a crude drug was added to a diluting operation, and in fact the authors of The Divining Rod suggest
fluid in the pi=Oportion of Qne to ninety-nine drops. After vigor- that knowledge of the object searched for enters the operator's
oUSshaking, a single drop of the diluent was added to a further subconscious mind and usually shows itself by a slight involun-
.,llin'ety-nine drops, and so on. tary twitching of.his....l:m!s-cles. Some diviners even believe that
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When this process had been repeated thirty times the fraction the gift is telepathic, but it seems more likely that the dowser's
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neuro-muscular system is affected by this same radiation which It may be that there has bee~ t?D much loose talk about
is emitted by all forms of matter and that his mind acts as a ' human vibrations', 'personal radJ~tiO?s', an~ .so forth on t~e
selector or tuning-in apparatus. Some dowsers get a reaction rt of people with little or no sc1ent ~fic trammg. I:I~we~er It
1rot onl:f\Vhen t iley"a)-e immediately over the underground !:ay be, doctors are suspicious ~f such 1deas an~ med1cme IS apt
stream, or whatever it may be, but at regular intervals away to lean rather heavily on chem1st~y. But.chemJstry a~ we have
from it-rather like a series of diminishing ripples. said earlier is not very far back m the lme of causality. What
This hardly seems like the work of mind, and yet mind enters lies behind it?
into it in no uncertain way, because in radiesthesia, of which Here and there even among the most orthodox you find an
dowsing forms a part, we are passing beyond the frontiers of admission that there may be something more at work than
matter into another sphere where mind is a demonstrable force. chemistry. joseph Needham, who cannot be accused of undue
So when a dowser sets out in search say of coal, he must have credulity, says•: 'It is possible to picture a single molecule or
coal in his mind; or if he prefers, he may take a sample of coal molecular aggregate (perhaps of a para..crystalline nature) ex-
which acts as a ·~itn~ . It not only helps him to focus erting an influ~JlCC around i~self in. all dir~tio?s of ~pa~ for a
his mind on 'coal underground', but being coal it emits radia- considerable diStance, even mto microscopic d1mens10ns.
tions similar to those of the substance he is seeking. Some There are in fact formative forces in Nature which cannot be
dowsers find samples more effective when they hold them against pin-pointed in the Electro-magnetic Spectrum. E. Pfeiffer has
the solar plexus . .)for"~ · produced patterns of some of them in rather the same way that
Smce <lowsing works with inanimate matter it is not surpris- many of us produced patterns of magnetic forces in iron filings
ing that it can be used to detect the still more powerful radiations when we were at school.
from living substances. just as dowsers have discovered He covered a smooth ~Lglas_s with a thin film of copper
concentric rings of reaction at regular intervals from say, an chloride which crystallises when it cools. By adding the juices
underground stream, so they have found circling the body of a oL.v_ioous plants, b.wnan or animal saliva, urine or diluted
patient similar rings which vary with his state of health . bloosl, he found that the radiations from these substances draw
Most medical dowsers use miniature pendulums consisting characteristic designs in the crystals. Lily juice, for instance,
perhaps of a small piece of ivory or~am~r suspended on a length draws a sort of "lily picture', while agave produces a strange
of thread, and these pendiiTi:irtb arel'OUil.d to gyrate when placed design which appears prickly.
in one of these rings emitted by the patient, the manner of Blood, he concluded, possesses a strong radiative energy and
the gyration giving a clue to his state of health. each person has his own peculiar blood crystallisation pattern.
Pendulists also make use of samples of diseased tissue, bac-:- fBy using stium sulohate instead of_£Qp_per chloride, he found
terial cultures and so forth which emit their own particular that1fiose orces which build up and maintain the shapes and
radiations, and by various techniques they attempt to diagnose pro_ES~rtion s in Nature depend to a great extent upon radiations
the cause of the trouble. They are also able to check any pro- from the Sun. The patterns are much less distinct at night or
posed remedy, whether homeopathic or otherwise, by placing a durmg a solar eclipse. His latest work seems to indicate that
sample of it near the patient and observing if its radiations crystalline form ations obtained from certain solutions can be
bring the gyrations of the pendulum nearer tOJ!9I.!.Dal. affected by tl_lought_processes.
There is no doubt that medical dowsing works and that some We must a:TSOtake- note of the work of J. C. Maby who with
of ~ts practitioners acquire considerable skill, but unfortunately T. B. Franklin and others tried to record radiesthetic vibrations
unless the operator is exceptionally capable and experienced with delicate electronic apparatus. He found that his instruments
the personal element may interfere with the results • Ortkr tu~d Ufr; by j. Needham.
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were upset by onC£ming_gales, thunderstorms, sno~storms, fog, gether by a 'universal plexus of cosmic rays' , and all forms of
heavy clouds, and also by near~moving Objects such - as matter, ranging from rarefied gases to solid rock are simply
aircraft, cars and human ht;ings;_ ?ut in. these latter cases only varying degrees of condensation in t.his plexus. In radiation
when they were at certam cnttcal dtstances, suggesting a everything lives, moves and has its bemg.
parallel to the 'rings' known to dowsers.
Among other men who have contributed something towards Let us now follow the work of another pioneer who has spent
our subject are George Crile, an American doctor, and Georges many years of his life investigating radiations, particularly as
Lakhovsky. they appear in life processes.
. Crile, as others have done, formed a view that the human body This will involve a journey into very strange country, a
IS an extremely complex electronic apparatus in which both country which lies beyond the frontiers of text-book science. It
short-wave and long-wave radiation play important roles. Each may not be easy to describe what has been discovered there
living cell he saw as a tiny electric battery generating its own because we shall be looking at it through the aperture, so to
current by chemical action, and the nervous system as a network speak, of a series of laboratory experiments which may be
of highly specialised~uctors. compared to aerial photographs taken by an explorer Hying over
Lakhovsky developed the study of radiations from living uncharted territory. The task of interpreting these photos, of
matter on rather different lines. He regarded each of our 200 taking a great many more, and interpreting these too may take
quintillion living cells as a tiny battery with the nucleus acting 100 years. The most we can hope for is a fragmentary pre-view.
as an oscillating circuit and giving off radiations. In disease the In earlier days when an explorer reported having seen nuts
frequency changes the size of a man's head with hair on them he was laughed to
He drew an interesting analogy between human bodies and scorn. Europeans could not imagine a coco-nut. Perhaps we
~adio sets. Our radio sets work because our aerials are placed shall have difficulty even in imagining some of the things des-
m a ~lee~ field created by the waves emitted cribed in this book, but that is no reason why they should be
by the broadcasting stations. The cells of our bodies work in a rejected. Any Victorian scientist who had been bold enough to
similar way. They move ra i with the Earth's rotation and forecast radar or television would have been derided as an
revolut.ion through a variable elec r agnet1c e generated irresponsible visionary. In these days it is as well to preserve
by radiations from the Sun, the Milky_)Vay and the distant an open mind.
~ics. Like all living-matter, tneyife balanced on a knife-
edge, for they are constantly under the influence of radiations
of higher and lower frequency which may compel them to alter
their vibrational rate and so produce one of the many diseases
whose root cause is so batHing.
Lakhovsky quoted Albert Nadon's experiments which showed
that the radiation from plants is as great as that of radium or
uranium. ThaUlU!l sec~ is from three to fifteen times greater,
while the vital cel1Siii1mman bodies radiate still more power-
fully. He showed that every living thing is a delicate and com-
.plex radiative apparatus depending upon chains of interlocking
processes within and supported like a fish in water by a sea of
vibrations without. In his view the whole Universe is knit to-
SOUND AND ELECTRIC ITY
CHAPTER THREE experience that homeopathic methods worked, but he felt there
was something important behind homeopathy which needed in-
vestigation. Modem medicine had been in existence for only a
SOUND AND ELECTRICITY , ·ery short time, but the human race had not died out. Gradually
he became convinced that Nature held the remedy for most
human and animal ailments and that it could be applied particu-
There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest larly by the judicious use of plants and minerals. This, however,
But in hi! motion like an angel sings
While quiring to the young eye'd cherubim was not quite the line that he eventually followed.
Such hannony is in immonal souls; It seemed to him that medicine should make use of the curative
But whilst this mi.M:Idy veature or decay doth grossly radiations in Nature rather than relying quite so much on allo-
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We cannot hear il. SI!AK!SP~:Aflt. pathic drugs. Perhaps these radiations could be produced
synthetically. But how?
One day a friend remarked casually that each plant probably
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T is necessary first to say a few words about the man who emitted its own particular musical note. This gave a new turn
initiated these experiments. &ience is impersonal, or should to his thoughts.
be; it is the discoveries which matter, not the men who make This 'music' might be ultrasonic, in which case it would be
them. Nevertheless, when it is a question of revelations which inaudible to human ears, or it might be a harmony in some othe r
are not in line with established tenets of science, the personal kind of radiation . Was it possible to pick it up with a small
factor cannot altogether be excluded. Readers will wish to be receiving aerial? He experimented with a crystal set and was
assured that they are not hearing about the work of an im- disappointed to find that it recorded nothing at all. On the other
practicable visionary who has never passed through a hard hand he had some slight success when he tried a pendulum. But
school of training or held a responsible post. he says: 'The gyrations of this annoying instrument misled me
George de Ia Warr, who was born in 1904, passed the Associ- so often that I wonder I persisted.' He says too: 'I also tried
ate Membership examination of the Institution of Mechanical another form of radiatio~tor, a water diviner's twig, but
Engineers at the age of twenty, and three years later that of the I found this equally annoying-especially as my wife proved to
Institution of Civil Engineers. Later he qualified as an Associate be a better diviner than myself!'
Member of the Town Planning Institute, since when he has However, this idea that living things such as plants emit
served as Chief Engineering Assistant of an oil refinery, Chief musical notes led to some peculiar discoveries which linked
Constructional Engineer of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber acoustics with the electrical forces in Nature.
Factory, and also Development Engineer in the same firm. For In the last chapter we saw that every living entity is a complex
five years he was building roads and bridges for the Somerset electrical apparatus composed of myriads of cells, each one a
Cmmty Council, and for sixteen years the Oxfordshire County minute galvanic battery, the aggregate of which is capable
Council employed him as their Chief Engineering Assistant. of producing a considerable electrostatic potential.
In 1929 he married the daughter of a scientist, a lady who _Dsing a sensitive ~t galvanometer capable of measuring
proved exceptionally capable of helping him with the work mmute electric potentials, de Ia Warr performed some experi-
which he was to take up later on. n.Je~ts with plants. Dr j. Bose did a great deal of work with
As a young man he had been very much interested in medical Simtlar apparatus and was able to prove the sensitivity of plants
science, and particularly in the conflicting views held by allo-- to extraneous influences such as the passing of the sun behind
pathic doctors and the homeopathists. He knew from practical a cloud. De Ia Warr confirmed some of Bose's findings, but he
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also found that a plant's electric potential was affected when the to form ~Uhm!i. an~ so ~n. So.und. waves are gov.erned by .a Law
plant was treated with sound waves, or when he or his wife held of Harmonic Relat1onsh1p wluch IS the very ?as•s of ~us1c:
their hands near it. As we have seen, there are many other kmds of vibrations,
He also suspected that when the plant was rotated into a
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uch as light waves, radio waves and cosmic rays, which ~re
certain position in relation to the north-so~f the Earth ibrations in the so-called 'ether'. Each of them has a defimte
there was a very gradual change in-the plant's potential. Could ~ave-length and is ftnalogQllLtO)a single note on the piano. And
there be some fundamental relationship between the Earth's like sound waves-tllat combine under the Law of Harmonic
rna~ on the one hand and the s~tic e~ctrit;ity of the Relationships. They will also combine if they have the right
plant on the other? harmonic relationship.
Eventually he came to the conclusion that the cells in the To illustrate this let us take three different wave-lengths, A,
~ts were emitting some form of radiation which was stimu. B and C. If we combine them we shall get a complex wave
latea by sound, and that this radiation was related to the .Atalie pattern. Now let us add a fourth vibration and we shall again
~y__generated in these cells. If then, he thought, plants get a change of pattern. If we keep on adding vibrations which
were treated with sound waves of just the right kind, their cells have the necessary rhythm and harmonic relationship, we shall
should be stimulated sufficiently to bring about an increase in build up a steady, harmonious pattern. In fact, we shall create
~owth. what is called a wave-form. This is seen, or rather heard, clearly
He tried an experiment with six potted plants, using an in music where single notes combine to form~' and chords
apparatus consisting of a ~ariable resonators to pro- combine to form harmonies.
duce the ne~nd waves. He realised that each type of Once again, if we strike a note on a piano it will vibrate in
plant would have its oWrl'Special electrical cond itions and there- harmony with parts (or components) of a note l~er or lower in
fore it would need a corresponding mixture of sound waves to the octave. This is called resonance.
stimulate its growth. We shall see how he arrived at the right In the same way one ra<ITOWave resonate with another
mixture in a moment. radio wave. A r~uned to 6q met e is in resonance with
When the plants were correctly treated in this way he found the Light Pfo~me transmitter which is emitting waves of
they grew much faster than similar plants which had not ' been the same ~ency. If we wish, we can regard resonance as a
treated. In fact, the results were so striking that he decided to sort of affinity such as is found in various chemical elements, but
see if seed could be germinated out of season. So in October w affinity }Vhich_takes little accolQlt of distance.
he planted six nasturtium seeds in a shallow bowl of earth It was at this stage in his experiments in the year 1942 that
and gave them a 'concert' twice daily. Within four or five de Ia Warr had that flash of inspiration which was to enable a
days they had germinated and shoots were showing above logical sequence of experiments to be made at intervals over
the soil. the next few years. Knowing that in radar it was necessary to
How was he able to choose the correct 'musical programme'? relate the length of the aerial to the signal wave-length, he
Before answering this question we shall have to understand made up some small stu~.aerials of different lengths. The
two things which figure rather prominently in this book. The method he used was to take a small ~oJ_brass sheet as a
first is '~.::(Qorls', and the second is something which is base-plate and mount several short masts o it. To each mast
familiar to musicians, namely ·~·. he fitted a short piece of cpp_pcr wire to act as a .stub-aerial.
If you strike a note on a piano you get a simple vibration in laking a pair of pliers he kept shortening these aerials until the
'air. Now if you strike another note which has the necessary necessary relationship was arrived at between their lengths to
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give resonance with a {U!ar-by plant.
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He thought that if the plant was emitting a complex wave..
form he might be able to detect it with a complex arrangement
of aerials . The resulting signal would then be detected in the
~plate.
It proved to be a reasonably satisfactory piece of detection
apparatus, but it was a laborious process getting the aerials the
right length. Some easily operated method of determining the
moment of resonance was needed, and it was this problem
which caused de Ia Warr to make his portable detector.
A photograph of it and also a diagram of it in cross section
are shown in Figs. S and ·~.
You will notice that it has a~u;avity-and a metal plate
which also acts as !l..ut.onator. ( Imagine a cavern in which if you
pitch your voice correctly you will get a _reverberant effect.)/
An 'antenna wire' connects the plant or seed to thestU'b in order
to introduce the ~nt's r'diations into the cavity. This simple
piece of apparatus was found perfectly effective for detecting
resonance when the plant responded to the correct musical
programme.
But how is it known when there is resonance? This is where
the third kind of radiation comes in, a radiation emitted by the
FtG. ~~. l'ortablc Detector :md Antcun:a
operator.
On the top of the instrument is a thin rubber diaphragm. The
operator strokes this diaphragm, lightly passing his finger 're-
peatedly from right to left, and when there is resonance this is
shown by a tell-tale crackle and a sticky feeling in the rubber
_known technically as a 'stick'.
If we follow up what iSllappening and why this stick proves
that there is resonance, we shall have to cross the frontier which
divides the ~dof matter from another world where mind is
an operative force. For as we shall see later, the mind acts as a TO RF
fi. N It
modulator of complex and continually changing wave-forms
which are emitted from the human body. To hold in mind a
steady thought of something is to attune your bodily radiations
..JQ those of that something.
In order, then, to tune-in to the plant's radiations the operator
focuses his mind on the plant. The wave-forms which he is
einitting are then in a harmonic relationship with the plant's
radiations and this reinforces the effect. If there is resonance
FI G. 6
Diagno.!olic Instrument
( Preliminary tuning
NEW METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS
CHAPTER FOUR
~ arrang_ed rathe':' _like ~ square ~arp. J Br tapping these
'ffires at different posttJons It was sulfjXtss!ble to get the
necessary resonance with the plant.
NEW METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS In other words, this new piece of apparatus behaved rather
like a violin when the fingers of the violinis t are pressed firmly
on the strings. ~ each.wlre into ten equal pru:ts..it.ms
TI~e great bulk of people infinitely prefer the con- possible to record repeatable positions in tenths. Thus when
tinuance or a problem wtuch they cannot explain to an
explanation which they cannot understand.
this harp-like device was tuned to detect the disease radiation
Lo110 BALf0\111 of, say, a culture of the tuberculosis bacterium it always showed
the following positions:
Jst Wire 4 / 10
AVING established a rela~ionship. between these. di~erent
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INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY
I NTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY of ~~i~r::~~ations and the .subtle radiations w~ich they evoke
can be potent for good or til. Lord Harder satd .not lo~g ago
that we were dying in greater numbers from funcuonal dtseases
Tile field is u much an integral part of matter as the such as coronary thro~bosi~, arterio--sclerosis ~d.dia~tes, and
sen5ible part which it surround.ol . . The field may
either be viewed as activities, or as structure-u that in all these maladtes notse pi~~ wtth .tts evtl effects
elenlt'nU of force, or as curves. Indeed, from many on our nervous syste~s. In Amenca It has be~n ~tscovered that
points of view struCture and function, 001"\'C and fo~ the din of jet engines ~he J.ungs. ~tent1st~ who have
are convertible temu for the purpose of describing
physical effects. studied the subject know that tt ts even posstble to k11.1 ~~an by
Holism a~~d Evolution, by J, C. SNUTS an acoustic wave. In the first world war the posstbthtles of
constructing a lethal sonic weapon were.discussed.
It seemed to de la Warr that acoustic treatment sets were
S
I NCE it had already been shown that treatment with air well within the bounds of possibility. There was no mechanical
waves stimulated the growth of plants, it seemed only difficulty in producing air waves of different frequencies and
reasonable to suppose that a physical effect would be pro- combining them, but there r~mained the question of h.ow. t.o
duced if creatures higher in the evolutionary scale were treated calculate the correct combinatiOn of waves to meet each mdJvl-
in the same way. dual case.
De Ia Warr carried out a series of experiments on spiders and Suppose you wish to treat a case of tuberculosis. The recog-
other creatures which proved beyon_d ~oubt th!tt ultrasoniS waves nition rate for Tuberculosis on the Delawarr Dials is 40.3.1.
did in fact affect the behaviour o£ hymg cells. Cell fission could If the patient were treated with this rate it would stimulate the
either be ~ated or mhibited according to the 'musical pro- growth ofT.B. cells. What is needed to inhibit their growth is
gramme' which was praiected at them the antidotal wave-form, or the 'key to .fit the lock'.
Lecturing to the British &xaety of Dowsers in 1948, he said: It was found that this could be worked out by simple arith-
'It would appear that the human cell is_lie_!!.sitive to movement, metic, for it is the remainder of each dial marking beyond the
and just as a crystalline structure will alter its polarity on dis- original figure which gives the new figure that i !_~ soug~t .
tortion, so will a cell-group respond to air-wave bombardment Dial No. 1 has markings from 0 to 100. The firSt figure m
and produce specific changes of electric potential resulting in the recognition rate of Tuberculosis is 40. Subtract 40 from
~rve stimulus.' 100 and we get 60.
Taking as an example the radiation pattern emanating from Dials Nos. 2 and .s are marked from 0 to 10. Subtract .S (the
the mucous lining of the human larynx, he switched on three second figure in the recognition rate) from 10 and we get 7.
loud-speakers each emitting the appropriate note, and the re- Subtract 1 (the third figure in the recognition rate) from 10
sulting sustained chord of sound produced a dryness of the ~-~~ . .
throat which was clearly felt by members of his audience. The The antidotal rate for T.B. is therefore 60.7.9. If th1s rate ts
frequencies used were ~. ~ and 455 cycles per second. set up on an acoustic treatment set it will tend to inhibit the
This phenomenon can be verified Gyinyone who wishes for growth of tuberculous cells and so have a r_!!medial action.
proof. Any sensitive part of the human organism will respond De la Warr designed several a_coustic_t~~ts for
to the correct ~ o~frequencies. For instance, the professional use and also some for self-treatment. From what
NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY
has already been said, it is obvious that sonic waves of high Whence arises this homely lore of putting a dock leaf in one's
intensity are dangerous unless used under skilled direction, So hoe or spurge on a wart? Why do some gardeners always plant
1
these latter instruments emit only waves of low intensity which kinds of vegetable together_ and forestry experts encourage
cannot hann a_patient. :eo growth of saplings ~y plantmg th~m in groups? Reson~ce
Some of these sets were used by medical practitioners with is the key to much ~orticultural practice as well as to vanous
excellent results. It was found that once the antidotal wave-form enigmas of natural history. .
had been correctly fixed, the growth of bacteria was checked by De Ja Warr's instruments also showed COIUlectJOns between
treatment. Under the care of qualified medical men, even sar- psychology and phy~iology. The ast?nis~ing discov~ry was
cOmalnd other grave maladies responded well made that it was poss1ble to treat a patient s psychological con-
These instruments were so successful that one of them was dition as well as to diagnose it. It was almost unbelievable that
exhibited at the British Industries Fair in 1948. Tens of thous- aomebody's mood could be changed in a very short time by
ands of people must have visited the Fair during the fortnight wming a knob, but there it was. A test made on a whining
when it was open, butfewofthem stopped to look at this strange infant showed that its whine could be cut off like music from a
little apparatus. No doubt the claims made for the curative loud-speaker.
properties of sound struck them as all too improbable. There was another case in which the diagnostic set registered
After diagnosing a patient's physical condition with the 'anxiety', and at the same time it showed that bo~eart
instrument, acoustic treatment need not be prescribed if herbal, and the s~pra-ren~medulla were slug~ When the patient
homeopathic or allopathic preparations are preferred. But here was treated on the supra-renal medulla rate of vibration, his
too a precise method of prescription can be used. Tjie proposed anxiety at once disappeared. The state of anxiety had depleted
remeQy is placed in th~p_posite to that which holds the the action of these two organs (heart and supra-renal medulla)
blood specimen, and if it is an appropriate remedy it gives a and had thus set up an energy-pattern which expressed anx iety'
reaction on the rubber detector. If it is wholly appropriate it has and which in time might have produced some 'disease of
a localised effect, for as de Ia Warr found, there is resonance anxiety'.
between the radiations of such a remedy and its specifics here of This connection between panem and psychology on the one
action in the body. hand, and between pattern and physiology on the other is ~ost
This shows the connection between chemistry and radiations. important.
A medical drug acts upon a patient because the radiations which There are some people who believe that emotions are e<J,!:!i-
it emits have the right !!armQ[lic relat_!9Qship with those of the valent to glandular secretions, but this is surely too materialist
disease which is~ treated and the part of the body which is a view to meet the case. Emotion is in a different category,
affected. A part of the wave-form emitted by the drug forms a although glandular secretion profoundly affects it, just as a bang
discord with the radiations of the disease while another part of on the head or a s ot of pentothal affects thinking. But what
it is in resonance with the organ which is ~g treated. precisely is the bridge between psychological activity, such as
Resonance explains many things which puzzle doctors and thinking, sensation, emotion, and the physical body?
biologists. How is it that certain constituents of the blood such It seemed to de Ia Warr that everything whether animate or
as hormones and enzymes, though minute in size, exert such a inanimate had certain properties in common with ~hL!Da~tic
powerful effect, and moreover an effect which is highly localisedr field which is found in the inunediate .)!..i!:inity of a bar-magnet.
The answer is that they are exceedingly strong centres of radia- If we imagine the numerous groups of cells in a human body
tion and that they act only on cells of the body whose radiations acting as tiny transmitting stations, it is clear that they will emit
are in resonance with theirs. an enormously complex network of radiative forces in terpene-
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
W
HEN de Ia Warr came to Oxfo'rd in 19.56 he was still
The experiment was tried again, this time with the compass very much interested in engineering, but as time
suspended from the ceiling, and again the ~oved. went by he became more and more engrossed in the
It was clear that sensation affected the force field body and so work which forms the subject matter of this book. Although he
produced an electrical effect strong enough to be recorded by a had to work long hours for the County Council, his researches
.!!'!!,g!!.etic in§.trument. So there was reason to suppose that the and experiments made greater demands on him every month.
force fi eld body was a bridge leading from laboratory pheno- They had to be carried ou t in his spare time. Often he would
mena such as mag~m towards s~!!!on, which is in the rise between four and six in the morning to draft out his ideas
psychological spntre. and plans for the next experiment.
It was also evident that these delicate instruments which had His wife, too, as her two young daughters grew older had
been invented were working on the level of the force field body more time to give to this absorbing pursuit, and at length it
rather than on that of the physical organism. As he gradually became a whole-time job for her.
came to discover, the~eld bodr is the breeding ground of At first, not counting an instrument maker and a mechanic,
good and bad health, and it is governed to a great extent by the they were a team of two, but as the years went by the task
psychological make-up of the subject as well as by solar and became too much for them. Their experiments with plants had
cosmic energy. We shall hear more later on about this cosmic shown that there was a connection between sound waves and
e~d how it is evoked. electric potentials so that some electrical research work became
~ necessary. They decided to engage a full-time physicist.
The amount of apparatus was increasing every week, and
since Mrs de Ia Warr was carrying out experimental diagnosis
and treatment, room had to be found for at least one patient.
To house the physicist properly would mean obtaining permits
from the Ministry of Works for an extension, and meanwhile
they seemed to be on the verge of startling new discoveries.
Their enthusiasm was too great for them to stomach irritating
delays, and so after finding a physicist they persuaded him to
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM WORKING WITH A FREE HAND
occupy the gardener 's cubby-hole! They chose him for his wide irritations which come from Directions issued by superiors.
experience and his ou tstanding ability to design and construct Looking back, it is clear to them that these inspirations fell into
experimental electronic circuits. an orderly pattern and produced new knowledge and new
At fi rst they carried out some of their experiments in the designs for apparatus which were always stepping-stones to
bath-room with the bath covered in, but i ~ was most exhausting cheir goal. Sometimes an inspiration wou ld misfire, but as they
to have to remove dozens of bottles and p1eces of apparatus each would realise later, this was always due to their inadequate
time somebody wanted a bath. In the course of time a small knowledge at the time which led them to draw wrong inferences
laboratory was built. When a little later a second laboratory (rom it. Invariably they were able to pick up the threads later on.
was added, it seemed a hazardous venture buying more land One of their first experiments in the new laboratory was to
and wondering how they were going to pay for everything, but rest a special kind of valve which they had been inspired to make
they went boldly ahead, bought another two acres and included 10 me little time before. Originally it had been designed to work
the cost in the mortgage on their house. in circuit with a crystal receiver to detect radiations, but they
De Ia Warr's father, himself an engineer and architect of bad never compltted it. This they now did, and when th~
repute, who from the Start had backed his son, gave him all the up_a_!:~ !~ they found it was.Jensitive to light waves.
help he could afford . In order to be in complete control of their This was surprising. Broadly speaking, science knows no
work they decided to keep expenses as low as possible and not method of adapting{!_'!Q....E_ieces of coyper wire in such a way
seek fin ancial help from outside the family. They had to be free that when connected to another device rrtade only of coils of
to follow whatever lines of research work they wished to pursue wire and ~le Rochelle salt cryst'!!>it becomes sensitive to
and to develop new kinds of apparatu s without interference light. Their light-valve contamed none of the normal light-
from backers who might have different ideas from their own. sensitive substances, and yet for some reason light affected it.
Their researches were too much off the beaten track to appeal Evidently there was something important to be unravelled here,
to the commercial instincts of the average financier. and de Ia Warr began to ask himself questions such as: Suppose
Official backing of large research groups with narrow utili- we have a ~ight-proof bo-!_ in the side of which is a single pin-
tarian ends in view is seldom suited to pursuing new lines of hole, what energy enters the box if light is admitted through
discovery. As Dr Alexis Carrel says•: the bole, say for one second? Is it possible that energy particles
other than photons are trapped in the box~
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, ~ey carried out a number of experiments with their valve,
their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to trymg the effect of coloured light and the interaction of two or
a small subject, and over-specialisation, have brought about more col~ured beams. And the valve regis tered strange pheno-
a shrink ing of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality mena whtch they could not understand. At the same time, the
of any human group decreases when the number of t~e results as seen on the cathode-ray oscilloscope gave them their
individuals composing this group increases beyond certam first fully scientific glimpse of the interaction of the radiations
limits .... They vainly exhaust their strength and spend their which fill all space.
time in the pursuit of the conditions demanded by the elabora- Ev~n after their new laboratory had been built, the space for
tion of thought. workmg was all too small. Some of these experiments were
With a coherent flow of inspiration which came to them in COnducte~ in a room no more than seven feet square, and they
great wealth and detail, all the de Ia Warrs had to do was to put soon .reahsed that when they used their new valve it built up
it into practice. They suffered none of the frustrations and petty pecuhar conditions in this confined space.
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• Mtm tM Un..tnown, by Alexis Carrel. TI1ere was an atmosphtrt which after about an hour affected
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM WORKING WITH A FREE HAND
their instruments. Their magnetic compass which at the begin- ved to be very capricious because they needed a stabiliser.
ning of the day's work had behaved normally would begin ~r he had incorporated his magnetic tuning device he won-
registering m~gnetic nodes in mid-air, and instead of pointing dered how his first sets could have worked more than perhaps
to magnetic north"the needle would swing round when the once in the day, and then only by chance.
compass was moved across the room. After about two hours As time went by, most of his trea~ment instruments for n~ar
this atmosphere became so strong that it would even dim the d distant use began to sell stead1ly and the reports wh1ch
~tric lights.' They could stare directly at the filament of their 111
me in from the purchasers showed that his work was correctly
25D-watt proJector-lamp without blinking. Fuses would blow ~. But it became obvious that a great deal depended upon
when the current was switched off. the operator. Operators had to be coached individually, and this
At the time they could not fathom the reason for these peculiar took a great deal of time and trouble on the part of Mrs de la
happenings. The explanation came a few days later when they warr. No instrument was sold unless the user had first been
found that charged particles were being 1~. producing mined.
something like a particle cloud which affected a photographic Some prospective purchasers liv~d abroad and had to come t.o
plate and also caused a short-circuit across the terminab, England if they wished to have an mstrument. Not everyone, 1t
blowing the fuse. wa.s found, made a good operator, but people had to be tak~n as
These experiments caused them temporarily to abandon they came. The de Ia Warrs always pre:e.rred to choose tra1~ees
sound waves and to concentrate on light waves, which led to
entirely new instruments for medical work. Previously they.had
from among medical students, pract1t10ners, o: recogmsed
medical auxiliaries, for this at least ensured a baSIC knowledge
used modulated sound waves which evoked subtle radiatiOns on which to build. But even so, the number of good, fully trained
matching radiations emanating from the patient's cell-groups. operators is still not very large.
It now struck them that they might be able to use modulated One of their best pupils was a blind American doctor for whom
light waves to even better purpose. This idea was a correct one. they made a special diagnostic instrument which clicked musi-
A long series of experiments and a steady chain of development c:ally when the dials were turned so that the settings could be
work led to the invention of the Colorscope which will be made by ear.
described later. -. -
At the same time there was a gradual development of broad-
cast treatments. As mentioned earlier, it was found possible to
use a patient's blood specimen for making contact with him and
discovering the nature of his maladies with the diagnostic
instrument. Experiments showed that it was also possible to use
his blood specimen to project the correct treatment at him and
restore the harmony of his vibrations. But in this case of course
energies were involved which unlike acoustic vibrations took
little account of distance.
Most of his earlier attempts to make broadcast treatment sets
strike de Ia Warr now as being rather crude. One of them was
an instrument made of copper wire wound round copper tin-
tacks. The only way to find out whether these sets worked was
·to try them out on a patient. Like the early diagnostic sets, they
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THE SPIRAL STAIRWAY Of EVOLUTION
CHAPTER SEVEN This proved to be correct. Placing. the ~orth pole of the
~ et flush with the paper and explormg wtth the free end of
'the an_tenna w1re;the strongest :eaction. was fou~d whe~ the
THE SPIRAL STAIRWAY OF EVOLUTION magnet was twi~ted round so tha~ It stood 1~ a defimte rotational
sition _i.!lJ1ililtton to the Earths magnetic field.
polt-scCmed that'Wlien it was in this position. the magnet was
~lle ~hole outward, visible world with all its being radiating energy of some kind-probably, de Ia Warr thought,
IS a Slgna~u~e, or figure of the inward spiritual world;
";hat~ve~ IS mt.emal!y, and however its operation Is, so corresponding to the inner structure of the atoms or elements
!Jkew!seJthasttsr:haracterextemally;likea.sthespirit contained in it. If this were so, there should also be an inter-
of eachcreaturesets forth and manifests the internal form action between the magnet's rad iation and that of each of the
of iu binh by its body, so does the Eternal Being also.
}Acoa BoEHMa in Tlrt SignalltT6 of All Thing1 elements-if the elements really did emit radiations.
Samples of iodine, copper, gold, silver, sulphur and carbon
were assembled and another experiment was carried out. An
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· industrial age with all its complications and doubtful benefits to
THE SPIRAL STAlRWAY OF EVOLUTION'
aaankind, not to me~t~~n weaP?ns of war which might well mean
the destruction of_ ctvJhsed ex tstence. . .
But the line wluch de Ia Warr and hts httle band were follow-
Ing was quite different in character. It had not the inherent spirit
a1 violence, and the results which it was likely to achieve were
in a different category.
This being so, the means which would lead to further dis-
coveries were unlikely to be the same as those used by electrical
technologists or atomic physicists. De Ia Warr had begun by
.x:epting the tenets of the electro-magnetic theory and by trying
to develop electronic instruments. But now he decided that these
kinds of instruments would be useless to him and even mis-
leading.
He had entered a new world of subtle radiations and reson-
ances where original apparatus was called for. It was a world
nearer to the heart of Nature.
D
URING six years of research work, attempts had been
m~de to radiate treatment t~ patients who might be the sliding cursor, Mrs de Ia Warr next discovered what parts
miles away through the medtum of their blood speci- of the organism were contributing to the torticolli s and there-
mens. This technique seemed capable of further development, fore vibrating in sympathy with this, the torticollis rate. Three
and so the next step was to incorporate a magnetic aerial which locations were found:
would enable the operator to tune his treatment instrument to
a state of resonance with the patient. The Muscular System Sheath of the Trapezius Muscle
With such tuning it was found that the results were good. It The Nervous System Posterior Cervical Plexus and
meant a great deal of additional work, since the aerial had to be Sub-trapezial Plexus
tuned each time a new patient was put on the list for treatment, The Skeletal System The Vertebrae
but by this time Mrs de Ia Warr had organised a routine for
continuous broadcast therapy The next thing to discover was what was wrong in these
l11e normal method is to take a blood specimen of the patient locations. Using the Cause Sheet she found that:
on a piece of white blotting paper and to use this to link him The sheath of the trapezius muscle showed injury and the
~ith the opera t~r . The blood is not chemically analysed by the presence of Mycobactuium Tuberculosis.
mstrument, but It provides the necessary link and seems to emit Both the posterior cervical plexus and the sub-trapezial plexus
something like a carrier wave. At the same time we must not ahowcd vitamin deficiency, mineral imbalance and the presence
forget that the operator is using an instrument which functions of both M)'cobact~rial Tuberculosis and Clostridium Tetani. One
in a region beyond the physical (in its more material sense) and of the cervical vertebrae recorded a fracture.
that he is ass isted by a form of energy which is subservient to It _looked as if the Clostridium Tetani were causing a con-
the power of his mind. tractiOn of the trapezius muscle by irritating the motor nerve.
Using this instrument, he is able to tune-in to his patient's As to the fractured cervical, the patient now admitted th at while
vi brational rate, discover what diseases or infirmities he is ~avelling by train some years earlier , a suitcase had fallen on
suffering from, and also the severity and location of these er head. X-ray examination confirmed the fracture.
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM US ING LIGHT TO CARRY WAVE-FORMS
Treatment now began. The broadcast treatment rates were: the ituitary gland, and inhibiting the growth of B. Coli. The
6088 T.B. in Trapezius Muscle be.:: condition responded well and became normal when the
th r troubles were treated. In three months the patient was
1092 Injury to Cervical Vertebra 0
bl e to take long journeys without any suspicion of her previous
6088 T.B. in Sul>-trapezial Plexus
7096 Clostrid. Ttt. in Sul>-trapezial Plexus =~ptoms. After going abroad by air, she made a special journey
(rom Scotland to see Mrs de Ia Warr whom she had never met.
2544 Vitamin B for Post. Cervical Plexus
ssog Gold for Post. Cervical Plexus. Her treatment had been in the form of radiation broadcast from
Oxford . She is willing to corroborate this. . .
At intervals the severity of each malady was measured and In scientific research work the knowledge gamed IS often
found to be steadily diminishing. After several months of treat- empirical, at least to begin with, Pioneers may find that some-
ment the spasmodic movement lessened, and in time the patient thing works without knowing why it works . Like others, de la
fully recovered. She is willing to corroborate these facts. Warr had found that a blood specimen was permanently in
Another interesting case was that of a lady of over eighty resonance with the body of origin, but evidently there was
who was living 200 miles away in Cornwall, bent double with much to be learned about the sort of radiation it emitted, why
rheumatism and in much pain. At this distance she was treated rotating it should affect the strength of this radiation, and so on.
for a succession of different conditions: toxins, hormone im- Perhaps photography would throw some light on these ques-
balances, mineral and vitamin deficiencies, affection of the blood, tions as it had on Fundamental Rays and the magnetic spectrum.
muscles and bone marrow. By means of her blood specimen she De Ia Warr placed a blood sp · 1eH absorbed by a small
was checked up from day to day in the Laboratories at Oxford, pie<:e of blotting paper on a photographic plate and rotated it
and each day the disorder which was most marked was treated at thirty-de~ intervals making a thirty-second exposure in
by rad iating the appropriate wave-form. each position. This entailed twelve exposures, but the results
She straightened up in a most remarkable manner and after were not very striking. True, there was a noticeable difference
a year she became once again active, travelling alone on buses in the intensity of the radiations from the blood in these different
to do her shopping, taking walks, doing her housework, and in positions but it was not quite what he had expected or hoped for.
fact behaving very differently from the helpless woman she was Something was needed to evoke the energy-pattern. In the
rapidly becoming before her first treatment. Later, she moved next experiment he used the blood specimen of a patient who
to Oxford where she rece ived regular treatment by personal was suffe ring from rheumatism. Placing it at a critical distance
irradiation. She is now being treated by her daughter who has from a treatment instrument with the dials set for rheumatism,
made a close study of de Ia Warr's work. For a woman of her he rotated the specimen to such a position as to give the
age her condition is excellent and she is willing to corroborate ltrongest reaction when using the portable detector. He then
these facts. switched on the treatment instrument and irradiated the blood
Another case of a different kind was a lady in her middle specimen.
thirties who could not bear the thought of travelling. She was All these things should surely combine to produce something
at once sick if a bus ride was suggested. Mrs de Ia Warr found significant on the photographic plate. They did, as may be seen
a reaction to the rate for lesion in the cerebellar cortex, in- fl:om the spectacular result shown in Fig. IS. Something of this
flammation in the myocardium, and tissue derangement in the. kind had been expected in the previous photographs, but evi-
ventricle walls of the heart. There was also trouble from B. Col: dently certain conditions were needed to bring it out. These
in the kidneys. COndi.tions had now presumably been satisfied, but a great deal
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Treatment consisted in normalising the cerebellar cortex and remamed to be clarified and explained .
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM USING LIGHT TO CARRY W AV E-FORM S
It was found that when the experiment was repeated with the lbe 1 upervision of a medical man. The few patients who were
blood specimen rotated say forty degrees so that it was off-tunc t to them by practitioners were usually difficult advanced
no photograph could be obtained even when it was being irradi~ :Cs with very little hope ofrecovery.
ated with the correct wave-form for rheumatism. The explana- So there was little chance of discovering what the Colorscope
tion of all this seemed to be that thn~ was a force fold round t/u oould really do. Nevertheless the results they achieved were
blood s~cimm when lh~ latl~r was corr~ctly ori~nt~d. IQOit encouraging. Few cases are ever simple and straight-
What was the sign ificance of this force field? What did it forward. For instanc~, mere inhibition of the mu~tiplication by
express? fipion is not enough m a case of T.B. There are t1ssue damages
Possibly it expressed the radiation pattern of the subject to be repaired, mineral deficiencies to be restored, glandular
which had some relation to his state of health. In the case they imbalance to be rectified, and so on. But it was felt that such
were experimenting with, the patient was suffering from things might possibly be done by suitable wave-forms carried
rheumatis m. The forte fi eld of his blood specimen would there- on a colour-beam to the patient.
fore include the wave-form of rheumatism; hence it could be Ever since it made its appearance, the Colorscope has caused
used for the detection of rheumatism and also for tuning-in some confusion of thought among people who imagine that it
when it was wished to apply the corrective treatment. ~ the colours themselves which have the healing virtues .
You will remember that his earlier experiments with the Although de-ia Warr agrees that v_!!jo_us colours may produce
light-valve had led de Ia W arr to the notion that light waves resonance wit.j1 certain cell-groups in the body, with organs,
might suit his purpose even better than acoustic waves fo r blood constituents, bacteria, and so on, he thinks this can have
carrying or evoking the subtle energies which were needed for very little therapeutic value by itself. The all important thing is
treating a patient. He conceived the idea of using a variety of the specific wave-form of vital energy which accompanies the
colou red beams. Each beam, being of a specific frequency, would li&ht waves. -
perhaps act as a carrier for a different wave-form of energy. At first it appeared to de la Warr that this wave-form was
How could such an instrument be designed? Sitting one after- tiii'Ti~d by the light waves, but ultimately he formed the opinion
noon in the Cumberland Hotel, London, discussing this problem that it was not a true conception of what really happens. It
with a member of his staff, they had a flash of inspiration. They teemed more probable that an omnipresent Cosmic Energy
pictured ~t-consisting of eight revolving turrets, existed which can always be evoked under certain necessary
e_ach of which contained seven different colour filters and one conditions.
blank. All would be arranged in a line so that any colour or His experiments showed that it can be evoked by light waves,
combination of colou rs could be produced by turning knobs on radio waves, acoustic waves, or even possibly by a factor that
the front face of the apparatus. was common to all these sources of energy. So in treating a
By turning another set of knobs on the back face, treatment d~stant patient it is not strictly speaking an emission of some
wave-forms could be created, each to be combined with or kind of energy which has to traverse the intervening distance,
carried by the appropriate light-beam. They rapidly designed but an evocation of Cosmic Energy which manifests in the
an optical system, and in the short space of three weeks the physical organi sm of the patient in a pre-determined form. It
C_olo.r:.5eope was working. •as, at all events, an unknown principle but it looked like being
When it was tested it proved to be very effective, but it w~s of great value when properly applied.
by no means plain sai ling for the de Ia Warrs. Not being quali- . In the case of the Colorscope, the dials at the back of the
fied doctors, they were prevented by Law from treating cancer, Ulatrument are set to form the requisite wave-form for treat-
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tubeiculosis, diabetes and other grave maladies except under
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lhent, and this enables Cosmic Energy to manifest in the form
NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
determined by this pattern. The process is that of evoking or
channelling Cosmic Energy to, say, the heart muscle of the
patient in a form exactly similar to the energy which the heart
muscle would receive naturally if the patient were in a normal
state of health.
\Vhere disease is concerned, it is easy to imagine the reverse
process of channelling. If bacteria are tiny radio stations broad-
casting their special programmes, then the Colorscope has the
effect of jamming these programmes.
-----rrus being so, it looked at first as if the efficacy of the instru-
ment could very easily be demonstrated. All that had to be
done was to irradiate bacterial cultures with the Colorscope,
and any pathologist would be able to see at once that it worked.
So obtaining some ~of St:phylococcus prepared at a
neighbouring hospital , he and an assistant sat up night after
night into the small hours of the morning trying to destroy
these bacteria; but nothing happened. What was the reason for
this unexpected failure?
The answer which gradually dawned on him threw an extra-
ordinary light on the world into which he had penetrated.
Scientists regard energy as impersonal, or completely lacking
in qualities such as ~cence or maleficence. But this Cosmic
Energy evidently had a beneficent quality. As far as could be
}~~t:~~·a~~t~~ !~f~t::;~ni~:~~dsJ~:r:Jiile~
So if the bacteria of some disease e~patient, it will
prevent them from multiplying or will even destroy them in the
process of healing the su[eret. But if the bacteria are in a culture
~e_ th e ~.ient. it wil.l not kil~ them because they are living
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The Colorscope has been most successful and has been of
USING LIGHT TO CARRY WAVE-FORMS
inestimable value to me. It has certainly not removed my
rheumatoid a~t~r.itis, i1ut ~atly reduced it and has ~rtainly
halted its activitieS. I am gliat o say I can do considerably
more than I used to be able to do--in fact, I can now do most
things I want to. I believe that if it had not been for the
Colorscope I should have been more or less crippled by now.
Another patient with a f .Y!! in the throat showing signs of
· cancer had Colorscope treatment for six months. The
·c,.1,1 respm,ded well and was .EJ.ssipated completely. There has
no recurrence after two years, but it will be necessary to
wait four or five years before a complete cure can be claimed.
However, treatment has dissipated the obstruction in the throat
IPd the patient is able to lead a normal life. He is willing to
corroborate this.
A3 in all such cases, the treatment varied from time to time
ICCOrding to which cell-groups of the throat were needing
..,eclal attention. Since it is possible to tune-in to the various
constituents of the blood separately and assess their contribu-
tion to the Harmonious Whole, the condition of the blood
could also be corrected as and when might be necessary.
lt is interesting to compare these methods of treatment for a
disease such as cancer with the orthodox treatment by deep
X-rays. Deep X-ray treatment destroys healthy cells along with
diseased cells. Such a method is hardly in line with other less
crude methods used in modern medicine.
On the other hand, the new methods described in this book
are far more delicate and discriminatory. Unlike a general
massacre of friend and foe, they are equivalent to a resistance
movement which arms and fortifies the inhabitants against the
occupying power, supplying them with guns and food and at the
nme time engaging the enemy by highly selective bombing.
F iG. ]()
lhdiJtionsfromcrystal
of copper sulplw1c
shollingciclnents
DISEASES PHOTOGRAPHED THROUGH BLOOD SPECIMENS
CHAPTER NINE ous disorder. When they were irradiated with the wave-
aerv of tuberculosis, there wa~ a dark are~ on the plate und~r
:n;uberculosis and also the diabetes S~imens-because as Jt
DISEASES PHOTOGRAPHED happened, the diabetic was also developmg T.B.- but none at
THROUGH BLOOD SPECIMENS all under the third one.
This suggested that it mi~ht be po~sible t_o devel_op a tech-
. ue for the visual confirmation of a diagnoSIS, and It was also
Tile knowledge of Nature is the foundation o{ the
Jcience of medicine. If you wish to be a true physician
:~aong link in the chain o~ evidence ~upporting the peculiar
you must be able to do your own thinking and not C.Ct that controlled thought IS :m operative factor. .
merely employ the thoughts of others. To be an The chain of evidence was th1s. The table of rates for d1seases
akhemist is to understand the chemistry of life. bad been mapped out by a method ~hich ort hod~x scie~ce_wou ld
Medicine is not merely a science, but an art; it does not
tons!st in compounding _Pills and plasters and drup of consider fantastic, namely by relymg on the d1agnostJc mstru-
all kuds, but 11 deab With the processes of life, which ment which operated to a great extent on the mental plane.
must be understood before they can be guided. ln order to use the diagnostic instrument successfully, the
PAitAC I':UUJ
operator has to think of the patient's condition which _he is
trying to detect. For at least one second he must hold m his
mind a single thought-as a resu t of which his sola(._Jl\exus
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oWners of which were suffering from tuberculosis, diabetes and his new technique for diagnosing photographically, he felt that
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM DISEASES PHOTOGRAPHED THROUGH BLOOD SPECIMENS
his feet were on firm ground, but he knew that this technique ..,Iformed foetus. The woman was in Ireland, whereas the
must be developed and improved. before it co~ld become a ~tograph was taken in Oxford.
practical proposition. A patient m1ght be suffenng from any There was naturally some excitement at such a spectacular
one among hundreds of possible diseases, and to arrive- at a rew)t. To photograph a foetus in a distant subject by means of
correct diagnosis by trial and error would be a most laborious a blood specimen seemed sheer magic, but here was conclusive
poofthat it could be done. The Camera was a first-class witness
pr~!\:amcra does not analyse a blood specimen, but uses it ~ must. surely carry conviction. ~nee accepted and applied,
to set up a condition of resonance with the patie_nt. It is some- this techmque could among other thmgs revolutionise the entire
thing like the automatic telephone system w~1ch connects a l)'ltem of ante-natal care.
subscriber when he dials a number. The same thmg can be done Looking round for another mother-to-be on whom to test the
by using other things from the. subject's. organism: ~uch as ~ new appliance, they remembered the Laboratory cat, Tinker.
sputum slide, sweat, hair, or a p1ece of skm. These Witnesses, No one volunteered to stick a needle into her to get a blood
as they are called, have force fields which are in permanent tpecimen. Waving a_ piece of filter paper, which seemed to fill
resonance with the force field of the person to whom they belong, the animal with su~p1cion, one of the staff at length managed to
Cl~ her and .obtam some sputum from the side of her mouth .
but resonance is strongest in the case of blood or ~urn ..
Force fields, it will be remembered, are somethmg hk~ a 11us resu_lted m the photograph in Fig. 15.
close network of radiations from an immense number of tmy Assummg that the two smaller objects arc end-on to the lens
aerials all broadcasting at once. Was it possible to sort out these of the Ca~era, you will see that there are four big somethings
an~ two httle ones. There was elation in the Oclawarr Labora-
radiations by selective tuning and pick up the various 'pro-
tOrieS when four weeks later Tinker gave birth to four healthy
grammes' separately? kittens and two weaklings!
The apparatus which de la V!arr had already_ used was
obviously capable of being selectively tuned, and It _had pro- They were now in the position of travellers with an unknown
duced beams of radiation which affected the emulsiOn on a wo~ld_ to explore. Next they tried taking photographs of the
photographic plate. A lens system was devised t~ focus the rad1at~ons ~rom ~rystals. It so happened that they had been
radiation more accurately onto the plate, but somethmg else was expern~en~mg .w1th the effects of these radiations on the rate of
needed if the complexity of the radiations was to be sorted out. c'!'stalhsation m saturated solutions of copper sulphate, silver
At this point in their work the de la Warrs had what was mtrate and alum, and these particular crystals being handy they
probably their most cruci_al.idea to date. ~t was to use two were chosen for the next experiments. '
intersecting beams of radiation, one of wh1ch emanated fro~ A coppe~ sulphate crystal was placed in the Camera. They
the patient's blood specimen while the ~ther w~s a synthetiC then tun~ m to the wave-form of the copper sulphate molecule
radiation specifically tuned to some particular d1sease or con- and obtamed the photograph in Fig. 16.
L- The photograph is a composite picture of the directional
dition. This second beam would 'analyse' the first beam at the
~ams of the atomic radiations in the molecule.
point of intersection. . To make sure that there was no mistake about it, the Camera
When this apparatus had been fitted up, a blood spec1men
was chosen for the first experiment and the plate was placed at was tuned to detect each of the atomic rays in turn. Six photo-
~aph~ were taken, and each of them showed a ray in a different
the point where the two beams crossed.
This specimen was from a woman who wis~ed t~ know if she d 1r~t1~n. Two of them are shown in Figs. 17 and 18.
· were pregnant. Tuning to the foetus rate of v1br~uon, ~~hater lacmg these six photographs on top of each other the result
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graph was taken which is shown in Fig. I+. Obvtously 1t IS of a exactly tallies with the composite picture in Fig. 16.'
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM DISEASES PHOTOGRAPHED THROUGH BLOOD SPEC IMENS
Here, then , was visual proof that each atom ~mits a directional object was in one particular rotatio~al position, when it ~n
beam of radiation and that when atoms combme to form mole~ creued the clearness of ~he ray. ~Ius of course agreed w1th
cutes, these beams form a combined pattern. vious experiments carn_ed out wuh the portable detector.
The silver nitrate and the alum crystals were photographed ~n one experiment a smgle element, sulphur, was photo-
with results as shown in Figs. 19 and 20. phed and the sulphur beam appeared on the plate. The
Photographs were taken of a bottle of Oxford tap water and ~phur grains were then placed on the north pole of the bar-
of a bottle of water from a spa, as in Figs. 21 and 22. IPlgflet which was rotated of!'-tun:, and an?~her photograph
Notice how much richer in various elements is the spa water. was taken. This time only a pm-pomt was VIS ible: the Funda-
This method of gauging the qualities of water supplies could mental Ray had evidently been distorted or cut short. But when
obviously be used for foods and other substances, for even trace the magnet was rotated to the correct on-tune position and
elements can be detected. But a quantitative analysis may not another exposure was made, it showed the full ray as before
be possible because the length of the radiating lines is no guide It was a remarkable fact that it was the rotational position of
in this respect. the magnet which affected the photograph and not merely the
The Camera gave still more interesting results in the bio- presence of the magnetic _field. In classical atomic physics _the
logical field. More or less at random a photograph was taken behaviour of charged particles such as electrons or protons m a
of a common daisy which showed the pattern of its elements, magnetic field is well known, but to find energy particles which
rather as in the photographs of the crystals. are affected by a magnet in one position and not in another
But this is not like ordinary photography: it is multi- position is something new to ~cience. . .
dimensional. In other words, it is possible to photograph an Electronics has developed mto a separate and htghly un-
objectl,on different levels of organisation or existence. Or to put portant branch of science. It has g iven us radio, radar, television
it differently, higher up or lower down on the §EirakStairway. and a host of new appliances for peaceful and warlike uses, as
The photograph of the daisy was taken on the eve! of its well as a certain insight into the atomic world. So much work
atoms because the Camera was tuned to this rate of vibration. had been done in this direction that, on first thoughts, it is hard
But such things as daisies have higher levels of organisation and to believe that a discovery, such as is described in the last
by suitable tuning it is possible to photograph it 'higher up'. paragraph, could possibly have been overlooked.
Jo~or example, on the level of its cell-groups, or that of its But this is to misunderstand the nature of modem scientific
existence as a complete entity. ~search work. The laws which govern matter and energy are
If you examine some of these photographs you will noti~ 10 complex in their ramifications, and the phenomena of the
what looks like a small spiral at the source of the rays. Vlhat IS animate and inanimate worlds so well-nigh limitless, that the
d1is? The attempt to discover what it was led to furtJ1er tendency in research groups is always to keep within strict
experiments. limits lest their efforts be dissipated.
It had already been found that these Fundamental Rays were This produces material resuhs, but it narrows the viewpoint.
affected by the Earth's magnetic field so that no photograph How often must such workers come upon some strange fact or
could be taken unless the crystal, or whatever it might be, was Hash of inspiration which if followed up must surely lead to
correctly orientated. An additional magnetic field provided by a something important, but which being 'off the beam' must be
bar-magnet ought afso to affect them. Some photographs were left severely alone?
taken to find out if this was true.
. When the test was made, it at once became dear that the
magnet adversely affected th~ photograph except when the
CHAPTER TEN
PHOTOGRAPHING A FLOWER
FROM ITS SEED
Fl<;. ~'0.
lbdiation~ from crystal
of:t \um .,\1011illg
cleme nts
PHOTOGRAPHING A FLOWER FROM ITS SEED
Fig. 27 taken on the vibrational rate of'P?tentiality to fl?~er'
Jives a picture of the chestnut flower whtch may matenahse.
For some unexplained reason the Camera would not respond to
1
tuning for 'chesmut tree'. It was thought that the season of
year, Spring, must have had something to do with it.
lf we consider the beginning of a new life-cycle, say the pro-
creation of a human baby, it begins on the cellular level as a
fertilised ovum, and passes through progressive stages until it
becomes an adult human being. At any time in the course of the
baby's development the Camera will photograph it as a whole
entity on the level it has reached. The rate of its vibration
1 teadily changes and the Camera can be tuned-in to whichever
rate is desired.
Suppose, then, a woman who is pregnant wishes to know
when her pregnancy began, a series of photographs of the foetus
can be taken on different rates of vibration corresponding, say,
to one month, three months, or six months, and the tuning
which gives the clearest impression on the plate will indicate
the time-period .
This can be plainly seen in Figs. 28 to '1, which are photo-
graphs of the same foetus all taken on the same day, but on
different rates of vibration.
The vibrational rate for three months, in Fig. SO, gave the
best result because the foetus was in fact about three months
old. Fig. s 1, taken on a six months' rate of vibration, looks
almost like a threat of a miscarriage, but this is only because
the embryo was not yet emitting the radiations corresponding
to a six months' growth. On the other hand it had already
pused the stages of growth corresponding to the dial settings
in Figs. 28 and 29.
F1G. 2S. ll adiations from bottle of Aronilum Xapt/lus pilules At the time when these photographs were taken, de Ia Wa:rr
had not yet thought of using his Camera for sex determination,
but since then he has been developing a technique of tuning to
the vibrational rate for ovaries in the case of a female foetus, and
tates in that of a male, and these two rates give very definite
photographs at a fairly early stage.
In exactly the same way as in the growth of an embryo, the
~~e in the vibrational rate during the progress of a disease
Wlllmdicate the stage which the disease has reached.
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
=~~~:~d~'::e:yb{h~r~f:t:~~~s.s~~~s~~~';in::t~o~~:
engines could be developed on much the same lines as that for
diagnosing diseases in patients. Nor is there any reason why
aid of an aerial photograph of a city, the criminal's photograph this should be done only when machines are grounded. Although
or finger-prints, and a Camera at police headquarters tuned to a test has not yet been made, it is believed than an aircraft could
detect his radiations. be vetted while it is in flight, providing it maintained its course
It can be disclosed now that by means of his photograph, while the photograph was being taken.
Pontecorvo, the scientist who went to Russia, was located by Why this proviso? Because de Ia Warr discovered that when
the Mark II Camera in the outskirts of Leningrad three weeks taking photographs of patients with his Mark I Camera any
after his escape via Italy. The correctness of this result was rapid rotational movement on the patient's part during the
subsequently confirmed. exposure produced a blurred picture.
His photograph was placed in the Camera and radiated with This was only one of the surprises which the Camera had in
various latitude and longitude 'fixes' until a condition of reson- Ito~ for him. As we shall see later, it had many more, some of
~ce was established with the part of the world where Ponte- whach were so strange that it almost seemed as if the Camera
corvo was. There is a separate tuning of the apparatus for Wll bewitched. Each time the Camera behaved in an un-
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
T
UE fact that if a patient turns his body rapidly while a
photograph is being taken of him with the Mark I
Camera the picture is blurred, is not due to the same
cause which blurs an action photograph taken with a time
exposure by an ordinary camera. The patient can make any
movement he likes provided it is not a rapid rotational one and
it will not affect the image. The blurring, in fact, is not con-
nected with linear change of position but with resonance. This
wu made clear in another series of experiments.
Since there is resonance between a patient and his blood
apecimen, it was reasonable to suppose that there is resonance
between a plant and its extruded juice, or between a plant and
ita torn-off leaf. And because magnetic fields are involved, it
might also be that resonance is affected by the way in which a
leaf is rotated or oriented after it has been removed.
To test this, an experiment was carried out in which a leaf
from a small plant wa~ mounted on a qrd and then place on a
dar~lide in.conta~tb an infra-red film. The slide was t~ten
placed on the grOlmd and allowed to remain in this position m a
closed position so as to exclude the light.
Th.e leaf and slide were rotated through 560 degrees, and at
each tnterva~dg_grees an exposure was made, using a
new film, making ~~.v..:rour exposure& in all.
It was found that there-waiOnfy one position in which
the fllm had been fogged, and this was evidently about the
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
position in which there was resonan.£e between leaf and plant.
To make doubly sure, the leaf and slide were again place! in
this critical position. The plant was then dug up and rotated
thirty degrees. When another photograph was taken there was
no fogging of the film.
There seemed to be no doubt, then, that there was resonance
between plant and leaf when they were in the corr~onal
positiona. though they were separated by a distance of at least
100 yards. Subsequently it was found that this distance could be
iiicreiS'ea to 200 miles without affecting the result.
When juice from the plant was smeared on a piece of filter
paper it was found that the fil ter paper could be oriented in
exactly the same way as the leaf to obtain resonance with the
_pa~nt.
Experiments also showed that a pl!I!!_was ifl.!!_sonance with
the Earth's magnetic field when it was in the position in which
it had grown from ~ed, for if it were dug up and rotated at
intervals through 860 degrees, exposures gave the strongest
':lk.nctiQ!Ult tb~growth position. 1'1(; . \:! k Hadiation ~ from lily sC(:d ,h011 in~,C 'bu lb. part of life cydc
To conliiii1this, young plants were dug up and replanted, and
those which were replanted in the original growth position grew
at the outset more strongly and rapidly than the others. This is
an interesting explanation of what is known as 'green fingers'.
People with this gift instinctively replant in rofational positions
which favour optimum growth.
The same thing evidently holds good with respect to a patient
and his blood specimen, although it is not such a potent factor as
in the case of a plant and its juice, because human blood radiates
much more strongly. For the best results, the blood soaked into
a piece of Q_lOffing_paper has to be correctly oriented, and there
is a rotational position for the patient himself which gives the
strongestr~
It may seem a strange notion that even liquids such as blood
and extruded juice can have critical rotational positions, but it
appears that this depends upon the aggregate effect of the
countless numbers of the molecules in the liquid, each of which
has its directional beam.
. Some of the experiments in photography, such as diagnosing
a distant patient's physical condition and obtaining a clear
Fie . 25. Hadiations from lily seed :.howi11g 'flower' p:u·t of life cydc
"
Four photographs taken 011 the same day of the same
Fr<:. !!H. \\"ith the Camcr:r tun L'< I to dctef" t :~ I mo nth prt' gn:mcy
F IG. 26.
llad ia t ion ~ from hoi"S<'
che-~ tmn showing
fer tility spots
F rc. 27.
lbdia tions from horse
cht·s tnirt sho11ing
fe rtilit y spo ts :It the 1-"r<;. 29. \\'ith the Camera tuned 10 deiCt t a 2 months" prejoi"II:Urcy
fi OIIC I"iu g SWKCOfth c
lifecyd e
WHAT MAKES THE CAMERA WORK1
pldllre of an embryo over an intervening distance of perhaps
miles, showed that the Camera is not limited by space in the
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,..ne way that, for example, electronic instruments are. In one
experiment a patient in New Zealand was 'photographed' quite
well from his blood specimen which was in Oxford. All physical
cypes of energy such as those on which electronic instruments
depend fall off in their intensity as the square of the distance
from the source, but the Camera depends upon other kinds of
energies which come under different laws.
In the same way it seemed possible that the Camera was not
bound by Time as an ordinary camera would be, in which case
it might be possible to photograph events in the past. And this
would fit in quite well with the conception of the 1~etic
iptCtnl m which appeared to be mJ!_lti-dimensional. In addition
to the three spatial dimensions of length, breadth and height,
the s~t rum shQUld have a fourth, or time dimension, and the
time vector should be expressible as a Fundamental Ray_ tuning.
In 19.50 de Ia Warr decided to put this to the test by attempt·
Ft G. 30. \Vith the Came ra tUH t.>d to detect a 3 months ' pregn;utcy ing to take a photograph of his own wedding which had occurred
in 1929. He made an appropriate apparatus with an additional
tapping on the spiral for the position of the time vector, and
with his wife's and his own blood specimens side by side he
then rotated the dials, holding the clear thought in his mind:
My Wedd ing Day, 1929.
The portable detector picked up a reaction very clearly.
It was so sudden that he was inclined to mistrust it and to search
elsewhere with the dials. But after several attempts to disprove
the tWling he was satisfied that it was the correct one, and so he
e~thulate.
, When developed, the plate showed twq 4ark energy-patterns
WI~ a very rough resemblance to human beings. This was such
an ~mportant result, with conseqiiCrices so far-reaching, that he
dec::tded to repeat the experiment with 'controls'. Two control
~otogr~phs were to be .t:ake.o...2!!""'tuM, both of which should
gtve a ml result if the experiment were valid.
• Beginn i~g again, he took a fresh Fundamental Ray tuning for
fy W~dd1~g Day, 1929' and found it practically identical with
ekaethng m the first experiment. He then exposed the plate,
too the two control photographs and developed all three of
F1 G. ~ I. \\'ith tl1c Cotnlc r<l tuncJ to Jetect a (i months' prcgmnx:y • 7S
N.EW WORLDS BEYOND TH.E ATOM WHAT MAKES THE CAMERA WORKr
them. It was a gratifying moment when the plates emerged u ht as a stepping-stone to the ~oncep~ion of.Divine Po~er.
from the fixing bath, one with a clear outline of the same energy- tboisghad taken the form of a ~ghtly ~~~ perspecttve,
patterns and the other two blank. ~h the ~~Chr~st to one _stde m the tradtuonal posture
Examining the first, he saw that there were t~o force fields .,td with thongs at Hts feet.
belonging, so it seemed, to two stand ing figures. \Vho were Th' may suggeSt to some readers that the Camera merely
they? Using the photographic plate in the same manner as a ot~;raphs what is in the ~per<UQ.r's min~. It. is n~t so.
blood specimen (for a link) and testing with the Mark 1 ~though thought is a ~n.tnbutory fa~t~r m d1agnosmg a
Camera, he checked up on the fact that these two force fields disease with the diagnostic m~trument, tt tS b~ no means the
were those of his wife and himself. tor of it. It can be catcgoncally stated that m the course of
They were rather crude in outline, but so was the apparatus, :e~ng over !.Q,OOOexposures no indication ~~been found th~t
which was a mere 'lash-up' of spare parts. Nevertheless, the the Camera phot~graphs only what the operator knows or ts
fact remained that, however imperfectly, a past event had bttn deliberately thinkmg.
photograplud, proving that ~ vector of the !.!!!_gnetic At the same time de Ia Warr's work.seems. to show .t~at
spectrum and that the spectrum had a pliCe in itself for events. 'thought for(]lS' do. exist. ~ey are real thmgs wtth no postttve
Another very interesting experiment in the new photography mass. Their mass lS negattve.
threw further light on the principles upon which the working of Also the physical presence of the operator appears to. be
the Camera depends. essential. To test this, de Ia Warr fitted a rcm ot~ontrol swttch
This arose from the somewhat startling photograph which to the Camera and attempted to take a photograph with the
had been obtained from the reliquary of St. Ignatius. A clerical operator twenty feet away from it. The result was a blank plate.
friend offered to perform a ceremony of consecration, and it was Another experiment was devised to find out how much the
decided to photograph a bottle of holy water. operator had to know a~ut what ~.e ca.mera was ~uned: to
Some Oxford tap water was thereupon ceremonially blessed detect. While at London Atrport awattmg hts daughters arnval
and photographed, with the result shown in ':ig. 82. from America, de Ia Warr telephoned the doctor at his Labor~
Comparing this with Fig. 21 which is the same tap water tories in Oxford, ~ing for t:& C~ra to be s~ detect .hts
before consecration, it is easy to see that vital energy has been Degenerative.Q.§teo.. rthritis, but without the operator bemg
added to it by the ceremony. told what he was to photograph.
This success prompted de Ia Warr to carry out a more An exposure was taken with the doctor absent from the
elaborate experiment ~sing salt in the ritual. This time another Camera-room, and the result was a vg_ry poor photo.
priest, robed in cassock and stole, performed a fifteen-minute The doctor then telephoned the Camera-room and told the
Service of Consecration according to the Sarum Missal, with operator what the U!ning was. Another photograph was taken,
the striking result shown in Fig. ss.
Here was something which outshone all previous experi- ~~:sa~~n:et~~ ~~:iTea:h~~~!t~; been said before?
ments and which showed clearly the existence of forces an.d A tentative explanation is that the Camera is an artificial aid to
influences not to be found in the scientific text-books. What ts what is known as Extra-sensory Perception, or E.S.P.
the explanation of it? 'YE.S.P. has been exhaustively investigated by Or Rhine, of
Subsequently it was found that the pattern on the plate Duke University, U.S.A., who has performed hundreds of
accorded with the thought of the priest while he was per- thousands of experiments reducing the results to statistical
forming the ceremony. He admitted that he could nev~r analyses.
visualise .Coq ~person, b~! preferred to use a symbohc In these experiments large numbers of people were asked to
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
name cards which were turned up one by one in another roolll CHAPTER TWELVE ·
describe objects handled by assistants hundreds of miles away'
and in general to give information of which they could no~
possibly be aware. And the results showed that on the averag TREATING PLANTS
they were able to do this with an accuracy far above that whi~ THROUGH THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS
can be attributed to mere guess-work. The inference is that we
possess E.s..P., a faculty poorly developed no doubt, but none
ihe less real, which is able in some measure to operate beyond It is in a dark and oold world we Iii, if we will not
the limits of time and space. open the inward eyes or the spirit to the inward ftsme
It seems that in using the Camera the E.S.P. of the operator or nature.
Gt!STAVJ: TH. FECHNU, Tlt1 St111l Lift q{ Pltmll
probes the force field of the patient-or whatever the subject of
the photograph may be-and the Camera records the resulting
change in th t_~or's force field.
At the same time the 'Operator's ordinary mind plays its part. E LA WARR had discovered in 1950 that the emulsion
In Dr Rhine's tests it was necessary for his subjects to know
what they were being asked to reveal, and in the same way the
operator of a Camera must have in mind the thing he is seeking
to photograph. The ordinary mind acts as a sort of link; it does
D on an ordinary photographic plate was linked in some
way to the person whose photograph was taken. In the
aame way, it was found that a plant was linked to its photograph.
This being so, it was to be expected that the growth of a plant
not do the probing. could be stimulated by irradiating its photograph with a radionic
A t this stage is it impossible to be dogmatic. But as we shall device such as the Colorscone. Further research work showed
see later, the results which can be obtained by this new and that this appeared to be the case, and in 1954 a series of con-
strange form of photography are too closely related to verifiable b'Olled experiments on plants carried out at the Delawarr
results to be dismissed as imaginary pictures i.n the operator's Laboratories proved it beyond doubt.
mind. The phQ!Qgraphs always correspond to something which How can there be a link between a plant and its photograph?
exis.ts, even if it is only thought forms created by an officiating lfwe photograph a cabbage, t~ image on the p)!te is formed by
priest, but the mind of the operator is a necessary factor in the multiplicitr.£f_reflected light-ray$ COrillng from the cabbage.
creating the conditions which enable them to be taken. But besides these light-rays, vitaJ radiations of the kind which
have been discussed in this book are also emanating from the
cabbage and these, too, are_r:e_ceived by the effiUrsron.
At risk of repetition, eaclunokwle of ffiatter can carry an
electrical charge which is specific for tl1aLparticular molecule'
~~en it is..dlirgedln this way; andthis charge can act as an
tneonceivably minute radio station which ~th transmits and
receives its o.wn particular signals. When all these countless
myriads of charged molecules are broadcasting, they build up
wh~t may beCiTiea--a 'generic pattern', which, as we have already
noticed, js the means whereby form or shape appears in the
material world.
The combined signal from a plant or a human being, a signaJ
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM TREATING PLANTS THROUGH THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS
which is built up by all. the separate .br~adca~ts of the billions or the school of thought which_ believes tillt better crops are to be
~barged molecules whtch compose tt, IS umque. This cabba e bad by leaving the soil undtsturbed.
m your .larde: is no~ quite t~e same as any other cabbage; ~r A more detailed series of experiments was carried out to
Brown ts ~ htt1e different m his physical make-up from an measure the electrical charges in soil which is left in its natural
other m.an m the world. In the same way, the signals broadca!t atate. The apparatus used was a bras~ t, in dup iCate, tow ich
from thts cabbage, or from Mr Brown, are different from an was fixed a..._centr!!l-brass electrode...w.1_an insulator, the insulator
other broadcast signals. y preventing any~co..n.tact between the electrode and the pot .
.F~rther~ore, si.!tce each tiny molecular charge is also a re- The pot was suspended from the galvanometer to avoid any
ce~Y.mg Statton, the generic pattern of a plant or a human bein leakage, and the earth connection of the galvanometer was
go_y~s the pattern DrSignalsfecelve<Lirom outside. This i~ connected to the ~trode. The pot was then filled with
wher~ a photograph plays its ~art. The emulsion retains the soil which was kept moist during the experiment.
gene~tc P-Attern of the thing wh1ch is photographed, and there- From july 29th, 1954, ..imlrSeptember 22nd readings were
~ore·~ acts as a sort of tuned transmitter. ~f~ionic broadcast taken.eve.!.Y...!_WO hours. They showed very considerable varia-
ts proJected through it, thl!_generi~a.uem will traits mit exact! tions. Oilce tliey!"anged from ~seven microvolts minus
t~e pattern ohadiations suitable for affecting the plant at
d1stance .
! to twenty-two microvolts plus in~-four hours.
What WiS the cause of these variations? Recordings of rain-
.... BeCause p~t~ are closely linked to the soil in which they fall, temperature and sunshine which were carefu1ly made
grow, and especially to the micro-bacteria which form a vital showed no signs of any relationship with the electrical readings;
part ?f. the soi l, it seemed proDible that the soil itself contained nor did it seem possible that electrolytic action between the soil
prodLgLous numbers o_f ?lolecules carrying ~lectrical charges and and the metal surfaces could explam the phenomenon. Local
that these charges _affected the soil's fertihty; also that the rise el~.!r~ysis in the soil seemed nearer to the true explanation,
and fall of th~ mJcro-bacterial population was in some way although it could not fully accOlmt for the results. The most
related to _the mcrease and decrease of the elec~.trical charges. It likely answer to the problem was that the rny..riAY_s_of local
was also hkely"1liit the chargeamolecules in the soil were not micro-bacteria are subject to rapid changes and that these
evenly distributed, ~kets. changes affect the electrical ch~ges in the soil.
A number of expenments were carried out, and it was found If this were so, then radionic treatment which can influence
that twQ CO.£~~~ed to a galvanometer gave living cells can also influence the micro-bacteria, which in their
~te~y high ~d lOW readings ~ed into the ground. lun~ ~ill prod~ce the electrical stimulation to promote greater
Tile re~Omgs vaned a good deal with the site, and whereas they fertility. On this hypothesis another experiment was carried out.
were h1ghest when the prods were ~ed, they gradually Two sites forty feet apart were chosen close to the Labora-
decreased and fell to zero '!f!er a few hours. tories. To eliminate any possible variations in the soil, the soil
There was a great difference in the electrical conditions in was removed from each site, sieved, mixed together and re-
undisturbed soil and in soil which had just been dug. When the p~aced. After six days in which the soil was allowed to settle,
soil was removed from a tesfhole of abo~ree feet square and S1te A was photographed with a standard plate camera. Site B,
nine inches_ deep, mixed thoroughly and replaced, the galvano- the control site, was not photographed.
meter readmgs wer_e the same at di~erent depths, but they were For one month Site A was treated radionically by irradiating
~xt.r.e_me!.y ~w. ~IS showed that d1gging and mixing had the the photograph daily in the Laboratory dark-room. Each site
effcc~ of_ 01schargmg the ~kets of electrical potentials and was then planted with four ca~which as far as possible
dLstrJbutmg the ~ormly-a fact which should interest were precisely of the ~arne size and sturdiness.
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For the first tw~eeks there was no apparent difference in
the growth of the two groups of plants, but from then onwards
until the end of the experiment the cabbages in Site A (Fig. 85 )
grew at least three times as fast as those in Site B (Fig. 86).
Four weeks from the time of maturity, the treated plants were
in fact about three times the size of the untreated controls.
Arrangements were made to repeat the experiment on a
'
larger scale. This time a continuous strip of garden, seven feet
in width and thirty-seven and a half feet long, was chosen be-
cause three rows of peas already growing in it were so uniform
/~
in size that they proved an .uUl.lSJ,l.ilLconsistency of the soil.
Sixteen plots were laid out. Fifteen of them, including the
untreated buffer plots in between the experimental ones, were
I \
exactly the same size, while Plot 16 which ran right across the
site acted as an additional control. The fifteen plots inducted
six treated plots, two untreated control plots and seven buffer F 1G. :1~
plots. H:1di:1tions tfon1
The random selection of the plots was carried out under the \ Oxfo rd tap 11atcr :1ftcr
scrutiny of Or. E. W. Russell of the Soil Science Laboratory, rc remonial blessing
Oxford University. hy the
Two of the plots were photographed and the photographs lh-1 . j .C. StcphcnJ>OII
were irradiated in the De Ia Warr Laboratory every day for a
~h. Ninety-one broccoli plants, about sev,en inches in height,
were then planted eighteen inches apart over the whole of the
garden strip. Four more plots were photographed and added to
the treatment list.
The experiment came to an end when severe frost and snow
had apparently stopped all growth. After sorting and weighing,
it was found that the treated plants were _righty-one per cent
heavier than the untreated control plants. The photograph in
Fig. 87 which was taken in October shows the relative sizes
of the treated plants (on the left of the picture) and the untreated
control plants (on the right of the picture).
No necrosis could be discovered on the treated sites, but
someWas visible on the control sites. 1"11;_ :1:3.
Previous work in the Laboratory had shown that a plant in ll~di~t ions from
its original growth position is also in its critical rotational (hfortl tap 11atcr after
position and therefore in resonance with the life sources which ~~r~;:~onial blessing
· sustain it: in this position it is receiving the optimum quantity
80 llcl l'. \\', J·::mllcy
FJG. 35. T rea tl'"<l Cabbages
S
CIENTIFIC discoveries can be divided roughly into two
categories. Tiwse which arise from an extension or de-
velopment of knowledge which is accredited and to be
found in the text-books , and those which, following an original
line of their own, appear to contradict the accepted tenets.
Discoveries in the first category are far less apt to meet with
incredulity or opposition since they are in agreement with
current trends of thought. They fall on prepared ground, and the
organised forces of Science are usually willing to give them
support and acclamation.
But those which are contrary to established scienti fie concepts
are in the position of heretical creeds in the face of religious
onhodoxy, and the men who make them often have a sterner
battle to win acceptance of their work than they had in their
laboratories.
It should not cause surprise, then, that de Ia Warr has not
trodden a primrose path in his contacts with many of the
doctors and physicists who have investigated his claims. In
de'?"ibing what has happened during the last ten years there is
no Intention to criticise these men. Heaven knows, they must
have found it hard even to consider the possibility that such
apparently fantastic claims might be true.
But if this book is to be the 'documentary' which it sets out
to be,_it is absolutely necessary to include some accatmt of how
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these 1dea.s have been received up to date by the outside world .
NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM THE PITFALLS OF A PIONEER
And all the more so because the impact of critics and investi- Perhaps if he had allowed people to look inside his diagnostic
gators has not only given de Ia Warr's work an extremely instrument he might have won over more practitioners at this
severe testing, but it has instigated further experiments and stage, but on the other hand he might have shattered the credulity
revealed strange and most unexpected factors which have added of those who expected to find complicated electronic apparatus.
to the knowledge already gained. This question of seeing inside his instruments was always a
In 1944 before the Laboratory had been built and when difficult fence to take, because apart from the bar-magnet the
research work was carried out in the bath-room, Sir Farquhar various components were meaningless to orthodox science.
Buzzard was persuaded to come down to Oxford and see the Any orthodox scientist or engineer who examined the simple
diagnostic instrument. The lounge was fitted up as a show-room. make-up would probably have considered the whole thing a fake.
Sir Farquhar arrived with two colleagues, one of whom was Some little time later a chance came of demonstrating the
a doctor working in the Oxford Pathological Laboratories. He effectiveness of his acoustic treatment set. In 1946 the medical
listened attentively to what de Ia Warr had to say and watched profession was interested in a comparatively crude method of
him give a demonstration of testing a proposed remedy for stimulating the pituitary gland by short-wave therapy, a method
some disease, namely penicillin. Then he asked de Ia Warr introduced from Holland by a Dr Samuels. His was an expensive
what he would like him to do and he offered to bring along apparatus, and although it appeared to have beneficial effects
some patients on whom he could carry out some tests. on certain types of disease, it was highly dangerous in de Ia
All this time the doctor from the Pathological Laboratories Warr's opinion when it was used to irradiate the brain.
had been fidgeting, and finally he rose and stared out of the A doctor who knew of de Ia Warr's work wished to discover
window as if the proceedings no longer interested him. When if his treatment set could produce the same eflCct as the Samuels
Sir Farquhar asked him what he thought of the demonstration apparatus, and so a comparative test was made at this doctor's
he turned to de Ia Warr and said: 'I Cf11't understand what you address in London.
are doing and I can't accept any of it. The very way you handle The conditions of the test were to irradiate a patient's
the penicillin shows that you know nothing about it.' pituitary gland for a certain length of time and then examine
This was direct enough, but Sir Farquhar turned it by asking the spectrum of his blood through a spectroscope and see
him what tests he would prefer. The doctor replied: 'We will whether some specified change in it had occurred. De Ia Warr
send twelve bottles labelled only with numbers, and if de Ia irradiated the patient for ten minutes with his set, which inci-
Warr can tell us what is in them we will send twelve more. It dentally cost a mere fraction of the sum charged for the Samuels
may take him ten years to prove his case.' apparatus, and on examining his blood it was found that this
De Ia Warr explained that inert samples of inorganic matter particular change had occurred. The doctor was delighted with
in bottles lacked the vitality which was present in blood speci- the result, but so far as de Ia Warr knows, he was unable to
mens, and so on, and that the diagnostic instrument was only arouse any interest among his colleagues.
designed to probe the force field of a living patient. This ex- It would be unfair, perhaps, to criticise the medical profession
planation was regarded as an excuse to evade a test and the on this score. Dr Samuels was a qualified medical man, and
matter was dropped. shor!-wave therapy comes within the province of classical
These early days were difficult for de la Warr. In 19+5 he phystcs, whereas the radiations investigated by de Ia Warr fall
lectured to the London Medical Society for the Study of Radies- outside it.
thesia, a scientific body whose members are qualified medical The doctors were certainly not slow to realise the possibilities
. practitioners, but although his lecture was well received, it did of X-ra! treatment when Roentgen introduced it in the 1890s .
not set the Thames on fire. And thts in spite of the seer~~ having leaked out before its
M£W WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
official announcement and the most absurd stories and specula-
tions having been circulated. An English merchant had been
advertising X-ray proof garments for modest ladies, and a
Professor in New York had talked about using X-rays to
penetrate the thick skulls of slow-witted students and project
knowledge directly into their brains
But X-rays, of course, figure in the text-lx>oks, whereas the
energy with which de Ia Warr is concerned has sometimes been
alleged to be too 'subtle' for laboratory demonstration. But this
is not true. Anyone who possesses the necessary knowledge and
apparatus can demonstrate these forms of radiation in the
laboratory.
However, as has already been explained, these wave-forms
are in a different category from the energies of the Electro-
magnetic Spectrum, falling into the same dass as the ' radiations'
from a magnet.
Was it possible to demonstrate some firm connection between
these two classes of energy? If only this could be done it would
F1cs. 38 and 39. Hcsuhs of Broad Bean ExpcrillJCI\t
make these wave-forms 'respectable' in the eyes of orthodoxy
by giving them a place in the scientific genealogical tree. The
scientist, of course, would like to confine' any tests he makes
to the use of his existing range of apparatus whereas it is
obvious that the apparatus for detecting these subtle radiations
has not yet been perfected. The de Ia Warr Camera is the first
piece of apparatus for the purpose yet discovered that will
produce repeatable results in this new field.
Meanwhile favourable reports continued to come in from
practitioners both qualified and unqualified who were using the
Colorscope, and the idea occurred of designing pre-set instru-
ments for various maladies so that they could be used by patients
at wilt.
A pre-set treatment instrument was devised for fibrositis,
incoqx.>rating the use of an infra-red lamp instead of a simple
light-bulb. The mechanism in front of the lamp was tuned ~o
treat fibrositic tissue, and also bone marrow since this last IS
often the source of arthritic or rheumatic conditions. The results
to date have been most satisfactory with very few exceptions,
but it is found that certain patients need sptcific tuning to meet
· their indi vidual cases.
THE PITFALLS OF A PIONEER
With the small number of Colorscopes and other apparatus
at present in use, about soo,ooo treatments are being given each
year. This is a mere nothing in comparison with what could be
done, and in 1951 the de Ia Warrs decided to set about opening
a regular practice in Oxford. Their treatment centre was to be
run by a fully qualified doctor engaged by the Laboratories
which by now was a limited liability company. This doctor
would have the service of a number of operators trained to
diagnose by the de Ia Warr methods and to give treatment by
Colorscope, or by continuous broadcasts, according to the
circumstances.
Alternatively, patients would be allowed to hire a smaller
type of Colorscope and use it in their own homes under medical
supervision. The clinic would be equipped with a Mark I
Camera for confirmatory diagnosis and for progress photo-
graphs to check the dev~lopment of each case. A service would
also be run to help medical practitioners in this aspect of their
work.
It was a good idea, ;md if put into eftCct it would be the first
clinic in the world which claimed to be able to diagnose photo-
graphically and treat specifically by these methods. It would
give new hope to patients suffering from tuberculosis, cancer
and other grave maladies which do not respond readily to
ordinary methods of treatment. Of course it would mean a very
great deal of work for the de Ia Warrs and their staff; but it
would be rewarding work and it might give a fresh stimulus to
their research work which by now was languishing for lackoffunds.
An elderly doctor agreed to consider accepting the post of
medical superintendent, terms were discussed, and a suitable
three-storied house was found. Only a lease-hold purchase was
possible since the property was owned by St. John's College.
l11e next problem was to raise the money needed for a thirty-
fi~·e Y.ear leasehold tenancy plus the cost of equipping and run-
mng It for the first year. A mortgage was applied for and the
~rst difficulty arose when the building society refused to con~
ltder a mortgage on leasehold property. After some considera-
tion it was decided to include the de Ia Warr's own home in the
application, and the building soctety eventually agreed to
advance a certain sum repayable within twenty years.
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
The de Ia Warrs were now heavily involved, but they had CHAPTER TWO
faith and a clear purpose. Their agent made arrangements to
close the deal. But at the last moment he reminded them that
they must get permission from St. John's College to use the HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
premises as a treatment centre.
When de Ia Warr explained the situation, the Bursar grew
nervous about the probable reaction of the other doctors in the 111e major p3n of the .stientiflc world does not wW!
to cxaminethccvidcncc,butcndcavoursonlytocvade
neighbourhood to the centre; he was unwilling to agree to the and escape from it. It is not animated by a ~ientiflc
proposal until he had consulted them. After some delay he told desire to know the truth but is in the gr1p of a
de la Warr that he was not prepared to put forward his appli- psychological urge to disallow what is distressingly
unfamiliar.
cation unless the doctor in charge of the clinic was approved by G. N. M. TYII.ELL in 77u PmDIIt~lilJ of M11"
the local doctors.
De Ia Warr wrote to the doctor in question and explained
what had happened. He was dismayed when this doctor replied ROM the Laboratory on the hills overlooking Oxford there
saying that he had reconsidered the proposition, that he felt the
British Medical Association might take exception to his working
with unqualified persons even as a limited liability company,
and that he could not therefore go forward with the plan. This
F is an exhilarating view of the city's spires. Here was one
of England's great seats of learning. Surely it should be
interested in the remarkable discoveries which were being made
on its very outskirts?
brought the whole project to an end. De Ia Warr had taken a number of striking photographs with
Other difficulties beset the de Ia Warrs'1 this time it was in his Camera, photographs which showed beyond doubt that he
~~~~:~.gTlfi~teO~~:~~~e;=n!;rw:~ p~!f:::;:; ;~~z~
was on the track of new knowledge, unknown laws. All over the
Kingdom there were men of brains and ability who could easily
tnarlie should claim any value in the critical orientation of a verify the results of his work and help to develop this new
bar-magnet or the use of a spiral with adjustable tappings, branch of science. But how could he attract their attention and
since no previous work had been done in this field. Affidavits get a hearing ?
were swom by practitioners who had used these instruments He wrote to the Royal Society asking if it would accept a
successfully, but after protracted and expensive argument the paper, or some communication, about his work. The reply was
patent rights were refused. that unless such a paper was sponsored by a Fellow of the
Society, nothing could be done.
So he telephoned the President of the Society, briefly des-
cribed his work and asked him if he was interested. The Presi-
dent replied that he himself was a chemist so that the work was
a little out of his line, but he suggested contacting Professor L.
who would probably take the matter up.
De Ia Warr did this, and in due course Professor L. came to
the Laboratories and was shown everything except the inside of
the Camera. He was extremely interested but not very hopeful.
!he immensity of the discoveries bewildered him and he doubted
1f such things could be 'got over' to the average physicist.
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
He suggested that _de Ia Warr should make a very simple Standing five feet high and measuring three feet square, it was
piece of apparatus wh1ch would merely photograph the Funda- 1
most handsome instr~me~t. Knowing what it would do, he saw
mental Rays of the elements and that he should offer to lend it to every chance_ of launchmg It successfully on the market.
Oxford University. If this were done he thought someone might The occaston seemed to call for a Press reception, and so
be persuaded to investigate it, but he warned him to s~y nothing he approached his local newspaper, the local agent for the
about the revolutionary theory of Cosmic Energy wh1ch by this News Pool, the Sunday Express and the London branch of
time de Ia Warr had formulated-a theory which will be TiTM-Life.
described later. On the day of the reception an imposing assortment of photo-
This seemed good advice, so de Ia Warr made the apparatus graphs was laid out for viewing. Two reporters arrived, followed
and again contacted Professor L. who promised to send over a by an American lady with a chauffeur in the biggest car on the
woman crystallographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society, to talk American market.
the matter over. After cocktails, de Ia Warr explained briefly about his work.
Once again hope rose high. On the appointed day de la Warr The local reporter strove valiantly to adjust his mental pro-
called at the University to meet Mrs M. and drove her to his cesses, and the News Pool man, a terse Scot, asked just enough
Laboratories along with her small child. pointed questions to throw his mind into a confusion from which
Nothing could have been more disappointing than the upshot. he never recovered. The American lady, with the intellectual
Mrs M., a vague, unreceptive lady, seemed to be incapable of determination of her race, fought her way through to some
understanding de Ia Warr's work, and at length when her understanding of what de la Warr 'claimed to have done', as
patience and that of her child who for some time had been she called it, and then tried to write it down.
tugging fretfully at her skirts, was exhausted, de Ia Warr drove They all went away saying that it would be a very difficult
them back in chilly silence. Her last words were that she did matter to write up. However, the Sunday Express reporter came
not think the University or the Royal Society would be in- back later to ask some more questions, was impressed, and
terested in what he had shown her. returned to London to try it out on his editor. That was the end
After this set-back de Ia Warr decided to press on with the of the Press reception, and the de Ia Warrs waited hopefully for
medical side of his work and market the neW Camera in order a little welcome publicity.
to help his finances. Research work costs considerable sums, and They were disappointed. The local newspaper gave them
it is somewhat hard on a research worker when he is obliged to half a column of timid reportage, but nothing appeared in any
fight a grim financial battle as he goes along. But there was no of the other papers.
other alternative, and the readiest means of making enough There was a ray of hope when the Sunday Express man came
money to avoid closing down the Laboratories seemed to be the back a second time to say that whereas he and his colleagues
sale of his Camera. were inclined to think the work genuine, his editor was not.
The first thing to do was to embellish the apparatus and make Perhaps this was understandable since the editor had consulted
it a marketable proposition. Using polished bakelite sheets and an eminent physicist who pronounced the whole thing as quite
~hrg.mium.~.R~~ed fittil_
1gs, he produced his Mark I model, which is impossible. However, the reporter was not to be put off, and he
SFiOwn in Fig. ~ctual'Camera' part oft he apparatus is in the had brought with him a fifteen-point questionnaire. This de Ia
Small boxlike structure supported on th5-fow:..pillars. This camera Warr answered to his satisfaction and added some points of
head houses the lenses and the photogTaphic plate whilst the main his own.
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cabinet below houses the rgagnets and tuning devices required At this juncture the reporter mentioned that he had some
to produce the two h:!:ams of radii.tion already referred to. shrapnel in his lung and he invited a test. So with twenty
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM HOPE SPRINOS ETERNAL
minutes to go before his train left, a blood specimen was taken He approached a commercial firm which contacted a young
and it was rushed into the Camera-room. doctor of considerable character and ability on the staff of a big
The Camera was tuned to 'Foreign body in the lung', and general hospital in London. This doctor consented to meet de
with a fervent prayer that this rate would work, a photograph Ja Warr. He examined some of his photographs of disease con-
was quickly taken. Ten minutes later they were all looking at a ditions which had been taken from blood specimens, and over-
dripping plate which clearly showed the outline of a foreign coming his rather natural prejudices he not only remained polite
body, a dark patch on the edge of the lung's arch. but even lent a sympathetic ear to the story of how the dis-
Driving with the reporter to the station, de Ia Warr's hopes coveries had been made-which to any medical man who had
rose again. Surely this piece of personal proof, so obviously never heard of such things must have sounded well-nigh
unrehearsed, would bring conviction to the editorial mind? But irteredible.
no, nothing appeared in the Sunday Exprtss except a bald Gaining c~nfidence at his first interview, he agreed to visit
statement that the Delawarr Laboratories had detected a piece the laboratones and see the apparatus with his own eyes. De Ia
of shrapnel in a man's lung by means of photography. Warr knew the risk, for his work was largely in the world of
No doubt it would be unfair to accuse the editor of undue ato~ic physics and most doctors are not very good physicists.
timidity, for it is hard to accept such apparent miracles as these But It was a risk which had to be taken.
radiation photographs without a personal visit to the Labora- Some of the doctors he had met were men whose minds were
tories. De Ia Warr thought that the scientific world might be not fully open to completely new ideas, but this one was different.
more inclined to listen to him if he offered a small fragment of Perhaps the obvious sincerity of the de Ia Warrs impressed him;
his discoveries, something so modest that it would not conflict possibly the white-coated staff, men who were obviously not
too strongly with the accepted tenets. cranks, gave him confidence. However it may be, he agreed to
So he wrote a simple article dealing with the radiations of the take s~me photogra~hs himself immediately.
elements and sent it to Naturt. The editor returned it on the Havmg satisfied h1mself that the Camera really did work, he
plea of insufficient space. He tried a letter to the British Medical began to come down to the Laboratories once a week until he
Association, enclosing three of his best photographs. It was was convinced that the claims made for this new branch of science
returned with a chit to say that the B. M.A. was not interested. were just ones; and also that he could operate the Camera
The same letter and photographs were sent to the American himself with the aid of a physicist.
Medical Association, only to elicit a similar reply. At this point he decided to ask permission from his Chief at
It is a well-known fact that most scientific bodies have to deal the Hospital to import the Camera and keep it there under lock
with cranks and impostors who pester them with impractical and key. His request was granted.
suggestions which cannot stand up to tests. In self defence they Some exciting months followed. The de Ia Warrs made
have to erect a barrier against these would-be wasters of their frequent trips to London with their physicist to give what help
time. De Ia Warr realised this and he also knew that to many was needed. Case after case in the hospital was photographed
doctors and physicists his photography would seem so fantastic from the patient's blood specimen and the results were checked
as to suggest pure fraud. by X-ray photography, biopsy or autopsy.
How could he get over this? Suppose he allowed some quali- More than 400 photographs were taken with excellent results.
fied doctor in a key position to talct the Camna away and wt it In a few cases the vibrational rates, which as explained earlier
h.imstif. Surely he could not fail to acknowledge that it worked, had a~ready been fixed provisionally, had to be modified, but in
. and once the testimony of such a man was on record, the m?st mstances they were sufficiently accurate, and on the whole
..
medical profession could hardly fail to investigate his claims? thmgs went very well.
NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
Among the first batch of cases chosen from one of the hospital
wards was one of tuberculosis of the lungs (Fig. -41 ), and one of
gastric ulcer (Fig. 42).
In Fig. 41 the Camera was tuned to 'Tuberculosis of the
Lungs', and the dial setting for this was 402776. In these
photographs, which are prints from the plates and therefore
'negatives', the disease radiations from the affected organs
appear as large white patches. Notice that this is unlike X-ray
photography in which the bones and more solid parts of the
anatomy stand out clearly. What is being photographed is dis-
tant radiation, so that accuracy and clearness in anatomical detail
is not to be expected at this early stage of the Camera's
development.
Much was learned from these photographs taken in hospital.
It became clear, for instance, that three factors entered into the
taking and the interpretation of radiation photographs. These
are: the vibrational rate which is used on the dial setting, the
intensity of the disease radiation, ~nd the anatomical interpre-
tati on depending upon the structural features of the radiation
pattern.
The third factor is easily the least important; on the other
hand, the first factor is vital. As explained earlier, a disease
changes its rate of vibration as it develops, and if a series of
photographs is taken on slightly different rates, that which
gives the clearest picture indicates just what stage the disease
has reached.
All the cases chosen for photographic detection in the hospital
were subjected to the usual thorough routine tests. The checking
up was sometimes done before the Camera was used and some-
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times afterwards, so that on some occasions a case was dealt
and i\lr Stevens. in1otrument maker
with 'blind'; that is to say, the doctor had no previous certain
knowledge of what the Camera should show.
In most cases the results were very satisfactory, but there
were some exceptions in the case of bronchial carcinoma. The
difficulty here was to establish a vibrational rate which gave
consistent results. At length it was realised that there were
many stages and ramifications of cancer of the lung and that
several rates had to be used before a correct picture could be
oOtained.
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using photograph instead of blood specimen
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Ulcer:ltion of the
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The doctor who was using the Camera became more and
more endmsiastic as case after case was checked up and found to
have been accurately photographed.
When some future historian writes an account of the origin
and development of this new technique, he will have to put it
on record that the Camera during its first official test was housed
in a room hardly bigger than a cupboard, and that the quarter-
plates had to be developed in the huge tank intended for large
X·ray plates.
Once when the physicist who was helping the doctor was
washing a plate, it slipped from his grasp and sank to the bottom.
The tank was so deep that even when he groped for it with the
full length of his arm it was out of his reach. So he undressed
and practically dived for it. He was just drying himself when a
nurse hurried in, stopped dead, and nearly dropped the X-ray
plates she was carrying.
A few weeks later, de Ia Warr had a phone call from the
FrG. •M. Iron 11irc anJ storrc i11 rd icu!un1 of CO l\ ·~ st011radr
doctor who was using the Camera and who now sounded in
distress. His own Chief, he said, had been hauled over the coals
by superior authority. Orders had been issued that the Camera
was to be removed from the hospital at once.
Naturally de Ia Warr was dismayed, and he asked for further
information. None was given him officially, but he gathered that
strong undercurrents were at work. The doctor who had been
using the Camera had been given an ultimatum to break off all
contacts with the de Ia Warrs or resign his post.
None of the mute evidence in the 400 photographs was in-
vestigated. Once again the axe had descended, llld de Ia Warr
brought his Camera back home.
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ONCE MORE UNTO THE BR EACH
CHAPTER THREE Meanwhile de Ia Warr's debts had been mounting, and unless
the Laboratories were to close down it was imperative to get
financial help. It was felt that at this stage the London Cancer
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH Hospital would surely be interested, and so a doctor and another
man representing the de Ia Warrs arranged an interview with
the doctor in charge of cancer research. Photographs and
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a cra:ty
other evidence were submitted .
civilisation. Society is never prepared to receive any
invention. Every new thing is resisted, and it takes The interview was brief. They were told that dozens of
years for the inventor to get people to listen to him similar applications were received every month and tha t unless
andyearsmorebeforeitcanbeintroduccd. the claims were submitted in writing together with full parti-
THONAS EDISON
culars of the apparatus and an explanation of how it worked,
nothing could be done.
To this they replied that by a process of selective tuning,
S
OME considerable time before King George VI underwent cancer in any cell-group of the body could be detected and
his lung resection operation there was great public anxiety actually photographed. This could be demonstrated at any time
due to the newspapers reporting Buerger's Disease in his under test conditions, but the inner working of the Camera was
leg. Since a person's radiations are' transferred to the emulsion complicated and original, and as its principle was not dearly
when an ordinary photograph is taken, de Ia Warr tried the understood it could not be written up satisfactorily from a
experi ment of tuning his Camera not with a blood specimen of scientific point of view.
the King (which he had not got) but with a photograph of His Thereupon the negotiations came to an end. The hospital
Majesty. official made it clear that he did not believe a word of it, and the
This answered the purpose tolerably well. The diagnostic fact that the principle of the Camera was not understood seemed
instrument indicated that he was suffering from Buerger's to convince him that the whole thing was a fraud. Once again
Disease in the posterior tibial artery of the leg. Photographs de Ia Warr was thrown back on his own resources.
were taken with the Mark I Camera on the dial setting for He realised that if he made a premature disclosure of the
Buerger's Disease in this region, and that shown in Fig. 4.9 Camera's inner construction, imitatJOiiS\yould come on the
confirmed the presence of the disease in that artery. market and he might not even be able to repay the money he
To check the correctness of the vibrational rate on the dial had borrowed.
setting, another photograph was taken on the same rate. This However, at this juncture hope appeared from a new direction.
time the blood specimen of another sufferer from this malady A far-sighted and sympathetic acquaintance in the Secret Service
was used, with the Camera still tuned to detect Buerger's was quick to see the great possibilities of the Camera for use in
Disease in the posterior tibial artery. Fig. 44 shows the result. war. He arranged for the Director of the Royal Naval Research
It indicates advanced thrombosis and clearly shows the obstruc- Laboratories to come down to Oxford and talk the matter over.
tion forming in the artery. This man arrived with hi s chief physicist and the whole thing
Not having a blood specimen of the King, it was impossible was discussed in a very friendly way. He agreed that it was
to make a really satisfactory comparison, but at least it showed unreasonable to expect to be shown the inside of the Camera,
that for the purposes of the Camera an ordinary photograph but before coming to any decision he asked for his physicist to
would act as a link, though not such a good one as a blood be allowed to operate the instrument personally for a fortnight
spot. to convince himself that it fulfilled the claims made for it. De
NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH
Ia Warr consented to this test and a little later the physicist particles which remain active even after the apparatus is switched
came dov.11. off. Their period ofremanence may be as much as three-quarters
The situation was a most peculiar one. The physicist found of a minute, and if another plate is exposed too soon the
himself very much in the position of a nineteenth-century original image is obtained again.
electrical expert who had been handed a radar set. The prin- But to the physicist, here was something which had happened
ciples on which the Camera worked were quite foreign to him. when it should not have happened. He made it clear that
It was impossible to explain to him why it worked: he was he regarded the Camera with deep suspicion, and left the
simply shown how to work it. Laboratories.
To de Ia Warr there was no longer anything strange about In spite of this contretemps de la Warr felt that something
its working, but to the physicist it was either pure magic or had been proved which the Naval Intelligence would find well
exceedingly clever trickery. Trained in electro-magnetic prin- worth investigating. And so he wrote saying that if the O.N.I.
ciples, he was of course extremely sceptical of de Ia Warr's would finance him for three months, he would undertake to
theories. So much so that he did not believe there could possibly provide sufficient evidence to enable them to put the matter
be any such radiation from a blood specimen, as de Ia Warr before their Chief, Sir Henry Tizard.
claimed to have discovered. The reply t~ this was: 'On the present evidence, I could place
This was obvious when he tried again and again to take a no confidence m your apparatus.' It was clear that the physicist
photograph of a patient's condition with the Camera correctly had reported unfavourably, and yet another costly experience
tuned but without a blood specimen. drew to a close.
To those who watched him he seemed to spend most of his At this point in his career de Ia ~arr decided that if necessary
time trying to disprove the evidence which the Camera so he would not only allow some SCtentist of repute to take the
obstinately provided when the necessary conditions were ful- Camera away and use it, but even to look inside it and have a
filled. Whenever for some reason the result was negative, his full explanation of how it worked. For by now he was forty-
face lit up with a glow of hope. But if a photograph appeared on seven years old and unless he could win some official support
the plate he frowned in perplexity, wondering how he had been he might fail to get things moving in his life-time.
deceived. To take some really good photographs seemed to be Being a FeHow of the Royal Society of Arts, he thought it
the last thing he wished to do. might be possible for him to read a paper to this Society and
Nevertheless, a few good photographs were taken as well as under its aegis to get a hearing elsewhere.
a great many bad ones. Then a peculiar thing happened. In the In October 1951 he called on the Secretary, showed him some
course of his interminable juggling with 'blood specimen on', of his photographs and briefly explained the situation. The
'blood specimen off', he took a photograph when he should have Secretary was polite but quite incredulous. However, he agreed
obtained a blank. This occurred while he was taking a rapid run t? ~orne down to Oxford and apply a few tests as a first pre-
of exposures. hmmary.
At the time de Ia Warr could not account for this result, but When he visited the Laboratories the first tests did not go as
later on he discovered that 'residual images' were responsible smoothly as had been hoped because residual images showed
for it. One had to wait a little while after taking a photograph to themselves again and it was on this occasion that they became
allow the energy of the image inside the Camera to fade away. evident.
It is like this. When the energy which activates the Camera is The next test agreed upon was for the Secretary to load four
~witched on for an exposure, a three-dimensional image is ~nexposed plates in four opaque plate-holders or cassettes, and
formed inside the Camera. This image is composed of energy m one of them to place a copper sUlphate crystal mounted on a
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I
T seemed to de Ia Warr that the veterinary field was a and a stone in the stomach of a cow which was twenty miles
promising one, especia.lly in re~ard to foot an? mouth disease. away from the Camera. (Fig. 45.) These photographs and
Early in I95S some mformatton was published about the others were sent in by a veterinary surgeon to the Royal
ravages of this malady. Since the beginnings of the outbreak in Veterinary College, with corroborative evidence. Fig. 40 shows
November 1951, some 50,000 cattle and sheep and 11,000 pigs the iron wire and the stone after removal by operation.
had been slaughtered by order of the Ministry of Agriculture There was no response from the College, nor was the surgeon
and about ,€1,000,000 paid to farmers in compensation. or the owner of the cow approached for corroborative evidence.
Germany, where the outbreak originated, reported a loss of An approach was then made to Dr Galloway, Director of
/dl2. millions, France ,£10 millions, Belgium .27t millions Research into Foot and Mouth Disease at the station near
and Denmark £5 millions. One of the leading experts in foot Pirbright in Surrey. Once again de Ia Warr offered his services
and mouth disease, Professor Ramon, declared that unless some and the use of his Camera, but again without success.
more efficient means of coping with the scourge could be found, On the other hand there were men in responsible positions
the world's stock of cattle would be faced with 'almost universal who were quick to see the possibilities of his work and who gave
disaster'. him help and encouragement. One of these was Kenneth Walker,
There is still controversy about the possibility of inoculating the well-known writer, a Harley Street specialist and a former
cattle. It seems that the vaccine has serious disadvantages. One member of the Medical Research Council. He paid several visits
is the time-lag after inoculation which allows the disease to to Oxford and soon saw the importance of what de Ia Warr was
spread rapidly. Another is that each individual strain of the doing. To Tht Medical World he sent an article which de la
virus needs a special vaccine and that the wrong one may be Warr had written on the basic condition of resonance which
quite useless. exists between a patient and his blood specimen. It was rejected,
De Ia Warr felt that his methods should be very well suited hut later it was acknowledged in Nature.
to the case, since his Camera could confirm the disease even in In August 195~ another Press conference was held which
its incipient form. In fact it could photograph foot and mouth Kenneth V..'alker attended with three other doctors who had had
disease in all its various stages and even detect its presence in practical experience of the work, particularly with the Camera.
the soil, thus rendering it possible to prevent serious outbreaks. The M.P. for Newport was there, and Brigadier R. C. Fire brace
Even if the Camera were used only after the beginning of an was in the chair.
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM CRITICS AND GREMLINS
Due to the multiplicity of radiations from the assembled They suggested a number of tests with blood specimens. For
company, the Camera could not be shown in action, but it was example, if a dozen blood specimens were handed to de Ia Warr
exhibited and discussed. The Press men with their technical could he determine which of them were from tuberculosis
advisers took notes and left by the evening train.
This time three papers published. articles. The Sunday Piclorial pag~n~~:e face of it this appeared to be a test in line with his
ran a full page under the headline 'Moonshine', Time and Tide claims; nevertheless, he had to refuse it for two reasons.
printed an article captioned 'The Alchemist', and the BirmingluJm The Camera will detect the mechanism of infection at work
Post gave a creditable report. But evidently Fleet Street had in the force fields of a patient's body~lls and good positive
decided 'against'. photograp~s can be taken. of threaten~d. infection. But the
Clearly, until something appeared in the technical Press it was alteration m cell structure m1ght not be chmcally observable for
no use hoping for publicity elsewhere. How was this to be some months and in the meantime the photographs would be
achieved? The experiments on animals were too incomplete for at variance with an ordinary medical diagnosis. Clinical cases
aoceptance by The British Medical Journal or The LAncet. The of T.B. would of course photograph well, but it is always hard
results of the experiments on basic phenomena, using X-ray to distinguish between clinical and incipient infection.
plates but no Camera, had been printed and circulated. to thirty The second reason was that unless the Camera team could
different universities without eliciting a single enquiry. identify the patient, the apparatus could not be tuned. It was
The only documented evidence was that relating to the Mark necessary, therefore, to know the name and address of each of
I Camera, and since this was bound up with the whole future of the people to whom the blood specimens belonged.
medicine it was decided to approach the Medical Research This latter condition seemed unreasonable to the Professor,
Council. So detailed drawings, specifications and modus operandi who was evidently thinking in terms of blood analysis and who
were prepared, and in September I9SS Kenneth Walker sent could not see what the name and address of the patient had to
them in to the Council. do with it.
In October the Council wrote saying that if de la Warr Possibly the reader will feel the same, unless he remembers
believed he had made a discovery of any importance he should that the Camera is an artificial aid to the operator's E.S.P.
publish a full and frank account of it in some technical journal. which probes the force field of the patient and which cannot do
De la Warr asked for the name of any journal that would be this until the ordinary mind is told what has to be done and is
agreeable, but he received no assistance in the matter. given sufficient information to initiate this task. In fact, the
The financial burden had now become so heavy that Lord ordinary mind has to be britftd.
Nuffield was approached and persuaded to visit the laboratories. It was then suggested that if blood specimens of fifteen
On his first visit it was difficult for him to grasp the extent guinea-pigs were sent to the Laboratory and then, subsequently,
and importance of the work which was shown to him, but he one of them was killed, the Camera might be able to discover
offered to arrange for a well-known medical man to come do~ which one had died.
and try to form an opinion on the medical aspect of the dis- This seemed a reasonable test, and it was agreed that a
coveries. rehearsal of it should be carried out in case of some unforseen
Some time later Professor M. arrived with two young difficulty.
physicists, but having no previous knowledge of this new bra~ch A preliminary run was made with four guinea-pigs housed in
of physics they found it very hard to accept de Ia Warr's clauns a different part of Oxford. Then one of them was killed. When
on the inevitably scant evidence which was presented to them photographs were taken with the Mark I Camera to see which
duting a stay of two hours. of the four blood specimens failed to respond, all four responded
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equally\ And when the experiment was repeated during the 10 rne way the presence of the visitor was affecting the delicate
next few days, none of them would respond. balance of forces. Various insulating materials, such as sheets
Here was another obstacle. Due, possibly to the animals of perspex were tried without success. Only if the visi tor were
being in metal hutches, or possibly, to the close inbreeding of banished to the next room could a good photograph be taken,
the guinea-pigs it was apparently impossible to detect the and naturally this was not the best way to inspire him with
radiations from each animal separately. Whatever the ex- confidence!
planation, the test had to be refused. The doctor on de Ia lt was then suggested that if the new Mark Vlt Camera were
Warr's staffhad to tell the Professor that he would be approached adjusted to the chemist's personal radiations he could perhaps
again when a suitable test could be devised. take a good photograph himself. The new Camera was fetched,
After some discussion it was agreed that the best way to and each of its components was adjusted to suit the chemist as
instil confidence in such people as the Professor would be to he stood in front of it. A photograph was taken and with
loan the Camera out to teams who had been given short periods extreme anxiety the plate was developed. This time there was
of training. They would then learn about these problems at first no sign of fogging. It showed a perfect image of the radiating
hand, and surely they would not doubt the authenticity of Jines of the copper sulphate molecule.
photographs which they themselves had taken~ ~The· ae ra-Warrs were naturally much relieved. Not for the
But again the gremlin which had begun to plague de Ia Warr first time it seemed certain that their work would now be
played an impish trick. When training a second team it was regarded with less suspicion in high quarters. But the gremlin
found that they could not take any photographs at all! had another trick up his sleeve.
II At that time it was not realised to what extent personal factors
counted. When using a radar set, the operator cannot affect its
The visiting chemist had himself taken the photogr aph, but
the plate had been loaded into the plate holder by the Labora-
functioning and therefore a set can be made for general use. But tory physicist. The Harwell man now tried to load a plate him-
the research work wh ich followed this failure to take photo- self as well as taking the photograph, but he found that he
graphs showed that for some teams such as this one the Camera could not do it. Evidently his personal radiations were re-
I had to be specially adapted to suit them before they could get sponsible for the failure.
any result at all. Here was another qui te unexpected complication. Hitherto
After several months the Mark VII Camera appeared. This all the plates had been loaded into the dark slide by the Labora-
is an instrument which can be adjusted to the personal radiations tory physicist and no such difficulty had been met with. But now
of the team which uses it. experiments were made with a number of other men and the
At this point another influential friend appeared. Lord Glyn 's surprising fact was discovered that out of twelve persons only
keen and energetic mind quickly realised the importance of tw.JLtQJili!._load their own plates, whereas all of them could
de Ia Warr's work. When he brought it to the attention of the expose and develop the plates quite satisfactorily.
Atomic Research Station at Harwell, a senior chemist on the What was the reason for this? So long as this problem re-
staff was asked by the Director to visit the Delawarr Laboratories. mained unsolved, they were working in the dark and further
On coming down to Oxford, some of the less sensational progress was precarious. All other work was set aside in an
claims were explained to him and a simple demonstration was attempt to settle it.
given of detecting the radiation from a copper sulphate crystal By the summer of 1954 it had become clear that operators
with the Mark I Camera . ?id not vary in their ability to trigger off the Camera and to
. At this critical juncture the gremlin again put in his spoke. Impress an image on the emulsion provided the Laboratory
Only heavily fogged plates were obtained. It seemed that in physicist loaded the plate. This naturally suggested the possi-
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bility of faking the emulsion during the loading operation and
the Harwell chemist soon arrived at this simple conclusion
although the operation could be done in the dark-room in te~
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especially when static electricity is considered in conjunction
with his discovery of the magnetic spectrum, as revealed by- the
critical rotational ~sitioning of a bar-magnet in the Earth's
seconds. ma netic field.
The seriousness of the situation and the ill feeling from all
sides was too obvious to ignore. Fortunately from out of the
blue came a young physicist from Cambridge who was in some
CHAPTER FIVE remains the impressive evidence of the photographs which have
been taken by others, including such men as the doctor in
the general hospital in London and the physicist from
THE FORCES OF CONSERVATISM Cambridge.
And besides this, there is the testimony of the many practi-
tioners who for years have been using the diagnostic and treat-
Titey (thetcientistlll) willingly believe that facts that ment sets with very considerable success and who frequently
cannot be explained by current theories do not exist.
ALEXIS C.'lll.l\1:1. in MIM til# Udncm'l!
send their more difficult cases for photographic verification. It
is inconceivable that all these men should be gross-self deceivers.
Some readers may feel surprised that discoveries of such
T
HE normal method of judging some scientific discovery is obvious importance should have met with so much indifference
to ask such questions as: Is it a logical development of on the part of the physicists and the med ical profession. No
what is already known? D oes it conform to the estab- surprise need be felt, nor should we blame these scientists and
lished laws which govern Matter and Energy? Are the experi- doctors for their attitude of cautious scepticism towards some-
ments which support the claims repeatable, no matter who thing which appears to nm contrary to immutable concepts.
conducts the experiment? In a living entity such as a human body, we can see various
If the answer to any of these questions is No, then the claims classes of cells each of which fulfi ls some special function. And
are regarded with the gravest suspicion. this no doubt is paralleled in the living entity which we call
When the discovery is in line with orthodox scientifi c tenets, Organic Life. There are many different classes of men who
when its ancestry can be seen clearly on the genealogical tree, willy-nilly play some special role. For instance, there are the
it responds readily enough to these tests and itsyalidity is easily originators of new ideas, new activities , the preservers of what
established. But the discoveries which are described in this book already exists, and those who play a necessary part in the ebb
fall into a different category. They belong to the world of energy- and flow of plastic circumstance.
pattems, resonances and electrostatic potentials, a world half- Those who preserve what exists naturally grav itate to high
way between mind and matter with laws of its own. When the administrative posts in organised insti tutions, for it is in the
exceedingly delicate instruments which flUlCtion in this half-way very nature of such bodies to maintain their status quo and resist
world are subjected to tests appropriate to the known world of the influx of ideas which might disturb or disrupt them. These
matter, the results arc apt to be disconcerting. are the men who give stability to a profession or to a learned
Once the laws of this half-way world ar e tmderstood and society and who ensure that what has been gained is not easily
accepted, it will be a different story, but at present de Ia Warr lost. But of course this cuts both ways.
is rather in the position of a litigant who has to contest a case If we take the medical profession, we can see that many
before a judge and jury who understand only the laws of excellent things such as the Hippocratic Oath have been pre-
another country. served with the greatest tenacity, and on the other hand that
If this 'legalistic' factor were the sole aspect of the situation, the admission of revolutionary ideas has been resisted with
he would be in a very difficult position indeed, but fortunately equal tenacity.
there is another side to the picture. The results achieved by his William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood
instruments arc too substantial to be dismissed by unbiassed nearly cost him his practice. \Vhen Ambrose ParC, surgeon to
minds as mere trickery. Even if the Camera behaves erratically four French kings and to Mary Queen of Scots, suggested tying
when· non-loaders try to load and expose their own plates, there up the amputated limbs of soldiers with thread instead of
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r scientific discoveries are sufficiently deep, they will give us
a different view of Nature and the Universe and throw some
light on problems of causation. They will act as poi nters to
questions which have always puzzled us. Among these we might
list: How is order and harmony maintained in Organic life?
~' h at is the origin of form or shape? In what way does Nature
carry out her building operations? Is there mind behind natural
phenomena, and if so how does it act on matter? What is the
origin of matter and energy? What is the true meaning of
evolution and what is its modus operandi?
It would be absurd to suppose that any laboratory experiments
could find complete answers to such profound questions as
these. The most they could do is to give us fresh lines of
approach which will take us a little nearer to their solution, and
perhaps free our minds from false hypotheses and distorted
view-points which bar the way to a better understanding of
them. Among these last we can safely mention the 'flat earth'
point of view which ignores higher levels of organisation and
attempts to account for things on one level in terms of factors
on a lower level. This leads to the various mechanistic theories
and to positivist thinking which explain nothing at all and which
may be described as mentally bankrupt.
Can the discoveries described in this book and the inferences
drawn from them offer us something better?
Let us begin with the earlier experiments which discovered
an interaction between sound waves and subtle radiations such
NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM A NEW PRINCIPLE OF UNIFICATION
as those emitted by living cells. Sound waves, as we know, are in wave-forms of subtle radiations which combine under the
governed by a Law of Harmonlo--Relationsllip un er which LaWJ>f....Harm~ Relationship to produce energ.Y.=Patterns of
notes of the right fr~~ncy combine in.!g chords, and both extrcm.e.__co~exity. -
single notes and chords combine in a time sequence to produce We can imagine a living entity, such as a human body, as a
more complex harmonies. There is also the phenomenon of tremendous collection of orchestras playing in hannony, each
resonance, in whic l one note or chord vibrates in harmony with cell-group representing an orchestra and each cell a musical
components of note!_or chords in a higher or.Jg~octave. instrument. When a cell-group is in a state of health, it will play
Resonan~ it has been discovered, also takes place between its score correctly, but if debilitated or diseased it will play flat
vi~of quite a differintorder, namely these subtle radia- or even in gross disharmony so that the whole 'symphony' is
tions which have been mentioned so often. There seems to be ~d. The new technique of diagnosis and treatment consists
no doubt that they too are governed by the Law of Harmonic of tuning-in to such disharmonies and then introducing a force
Relationship. which changes the faulty music and makes it blend in with the
How about the radiations of light, radio waves, and so on, in rest of the composition.
the Electro-magnetic Spectrum, vibrations in the so-called -we can also look at it in a pictorial way. These multitudinous
Ether? It seems certain that they too are under this same law radiations build up a harmonious energy-pattern which is com-
and the Oo,Re, Mi,Fa,Sol,La, Si, of music are in fact paralleled parable to a picture by a gifted artist. In ill-health, parts of this
by the Red, Orange, Ye!!ow, Gr,:en, BLue, Indigo, Viq!,et of the energy-pattern are distorted and out of balance with the rest of
light spectrum. the picture. The new remedial methods alter these disharmonised
'Talking with physicists, biologists, and other scientists who parts of the pattern, restoring the original wholeness.
are unaware of a crisis in musical thought,' says Paul Hinde- Whi.chev~r way we look at it, remedial treatment along
mith,• 'one is always profoundly surprised to how great an these hnes IS an art as well as a science, which agrees with the
extent they operate with concepts analogous to those in musical well-known dictum of Paracelsus.
creation. We have already seen how time and space have their These radiations which for want of a better notion we can
musical equivalents, and there apparently exist similar equi- perhaps imagine as vibrations in a sub-ether, must constitute a
valents to basic laws in the physical sciences. This could lead us 'finer ' world to which our senses are quite closed. The sounds
to the belief that there is some foundation in the ancient idea of a we hear in Nature, the...!!.ghts and colours we see on a summer's
universe regulated by musical laws--or to be more modest, a dar, are so tiny a fraction of the ha~1ies which are continually
universe whose laws of construction and operation are comple- bemg broadcast that there are scarcely words to describe the
mented by a spiritual reflection in musical organisms. The extent of our blindness and deafness. Rudolf von Urban has said
time may perhaps return when !!lusig.Lrules will be, as they that what our special senses reveal to us as compared with what
:~~~:s ~lden times, an essential part of the code of the physical actually exists is about in the proportion of a single drop to all
the water in the Pacific Ocean.
lf.Jnu_sic' is the key to a deeper understanding of Nature and There is reason to suppose that such lowly creatures as worms
the Universe, it can be said that modem science has hardly got with which we may C?mpare ourselves, are hardly aware of
beyond the stage of a small boy playing the piano with one conn~tedness. At any moment their tiny spotlight of conscious-
finger. Science occupies itself largely with the vibrations in the nes~ IS focused on what they happen to be touching, with no
Electro-magnetic Spectrum. These are single notes, but Nature reahsation that it is related to anything else. We are in much
i.t seems is not much interested in single notes; she deals rather the same position. If we could be even a little more aware of the
• A CAmpour"t W~ld.by Paul Hindemith. close-woven network of radiations which fills all space we should
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no more feel that things are truly separate than we should feel _tbe-present cal}..influence the past. What happens today may be
disconnected from our own legs. conditio~y what will happen tomorrow.
And with different faculties we should see how things were The conclusion we come to is that our apparent separateness
connected. If we were completely flat creatures living on the is largely an illusion and that as Maeterlinck saw it, we are 'the
surface of a table-doth we should be unable to understand how cells of an immense organism connected with everything that
one corner of the cloth could ever come in contact with another exists by an inextricable network of vibrations, waves and
corner of it. We should need one more dimension to perceive in.fi.t!ences'. They extend into the future and stretch back into
the lady of the house folding up the cloth so that _the comers the past, knitting up the multi-dimensional continuum into a
came together. In the same way we need another dtmension to connected whole. And although in a general sense nothing is
realise just how a patient can be connected to his blood spot by isolated, yet connectedness is relative. True separateness be-
resonance. tween A and B is disharmony of their mutual radiations. On the
Resonance is not in the three dimensions of space, nor is it in other hand, if there is resonance between A and B, neither time
tim'e.lt appears to belong to another dimension which intro- nor space effectually_divi~em.
~es a principle of unity or connectedness that is not present
in the four~imensional continuum.
'-->fhings resonate beca~ey are in a certain harmonic re-
lationship, not because they are simultaneous or contiguous.
I-IUndre<ls of miles may lie between them, nevertheless there is
this strange connection.
In chemistry we have what is called 'affinity' between certain
elements. The well-known characteristic'orva:lency is the power
of one element to combine with others whose radiations are in
harmonic relationship with its 0\\11. Much the same kind of
thing is seen in biological pro;;,ses where one species of cell
is attracted by its ~e_nwnber'. Resonance also accounts
10Tine specific and localised effects of certain drugs and for the
highly selective work which is done by hormones, enzymes, and
so on.
Higher up in the scale many other enigmas of natural history
can be explained by resonance. For example, the migration of
the Pacific Golden Plover which includes a direct sea flight of
some 2,400 miles to the nearest land, and that of the eels which
make their way down the rivers of Europe to a certain region in
the Western Atlantic.
In one of the experiments described in this book, de Ia Warr
established resonance with his o\vn wedding which had taken
place twenty-two years earlier. Thus it seems that the past can
influence th_e present and the pr~ent can iDJiuence tie fUture in
Ways other than ~escribe~~n his~~ry. ,And for all we know
THE GREAT ARTIFICER
CHAPTER TWO
chemical combination of sodium and chlorine, is beyond the
sodium and the chlorine positions. It appears to be higher up
because its atoms -have passed through a certain experience, the
THE GREAT ARTIFICER experience being the union of the sod ium and chlorine atoms
into a new fonn.Jli.2!g_~ation.
Experience is gained by undergoing significant events.
Everything knows something and h.u had some Higher up on the Spiral the events which are possible become
experiera; and everything it a rc<:ord. of its own
experience; knowledge and condition are u convertible more varied, and experience widens. A flower can have wider
asforceand~t .... experience than a molecule or a cell, and an animal can have
But some things know more than others. Some have experience still wider.
had larger experience and made more of it. Their
fomuandqualitie!laretheexpre&Sion oftlJisexperience Such experience modifies the inner make-up of the entity and
insofaruitha.talfectedthem. hence the radiation it emits, or its Fundamental Ray. So since
5AMII£L 8UTLEII'S No/Wools nothing in the Universe passes through precisely the same ex-
perience as any other thing, both its ilmer make-up and its
Fundamental Ray are unique-though in the world of atoms
r everything can be linked in a fifth dimension, then every- this uniqueness may depend upon differences so slight as to be
..
great many fine strokes with his pen. At first the strokes look
pattern were worked out. When that happened the archetypal
like strokes and nothing else, but gradually they build up into
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
mould would be broken up and the species Dinosaurus dis-
appeared, never to be recreated by the forces of evolution or CHAPTER THREE
creation,
Probably in the course of time the same thing will happen to
every species, including Man. ~d in or?er to. actualise further FOUR NEW LAWS OF PHYSICS
possibilities of experience, Umversal Mmd will have to create
new moulds and manifest in forms at present unknown and We know so little of the real nature of both the
perhaps unimaginable. electro-magnetic fields and the s~lled 'particles' that
to claim them as being of the nature of mind is quite
plausible. When we go on to consider the biological
world with the indubitable evidence of purpose and the
necessary inference of mental fields or patterns to
which 'matter' must conform, I think we may feel that
there are indeed strong indications that the subllistent
world is of the nature of mind .... We may regard the
subsistent world as the ever-presemdominant back-
ground of a World Mind to which our individual minds
arerclatedinaselectivemanner.
DR RAYNOR } OffNSON in TM lmpriumed Sp/mdour
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forms of energy. They are most interesting in their implications,
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM FOUR NEW LAWS OF PHYSICS
though perhaps a little hard to understand without some further what is called a Force Field Body, and the third Law points out
explanation. that this Body anOthe atomtc structure of the radiating elements
They are concerned with Fundamental Energy, or Universal are related.
Mind, which being beyond space an time iS revcrywhere' and Returning to the aconite mentioned earlier, we can see that
'always'. It is a limitless ocean of potential energy, imperceptible its Force Field Body as shown in the photograph is acting as an
to us until it is 'conjured up' into our world of seose.pen::e_ptions. extremely complex aerial receiver whereby it receives vital
Then it appears as some perceptible form of energy, or as energy. The shape of the aerial determines the kind of vital
matter. And this is in agreement with Einstein's Generalised energy it receives. The aconite aerial pattern is composed of
Theory of Relativity which says that matter and energy are living cells each acting as an aerial and helping to build up the
diftetent a~ts of a cCrtainSomething which is the source of particular shape of the network which characterises aconite.
t~h, a~ moreover that energy--em be cOnverted into Only energy suitable for an aconite is received through this
matter, anO'mt'l!'·vtrsa. network; and so it is with each of the billions of plants and other
-Form or pattern is the channel thrq_ug~ this Funda- living creatures which compose Organic Life.
mental Energy makes its appearance. ~~Says that it No doubt resonance with each plant's aerial is conditioned
manifests as energy particles through ti1eintermediary of an by the Sun and Moon, the rhythm of the seasons, the position
energy-pattern. The energy-pattern modulates it in accordance of the plant in relation to the Earth's magnetic field, and many
with the Law of Harmonic Relationship. other factors.
Although it is by no means certain exactly what happens, it As to how a living creature grows after fertilisation, the
seems probable that there is a ·~ eutral ether' consisting of Force Field Body evidently precedes any physical manifesta-
countless myriads of inconceivably small particles per cubic tions-something which in the case of human beings would
centimetre having no electric charge and no mass. Universal overcome the difficulty of trying to cram vast series of char-
Mind plac~es electrostatic charges on these particles when there acteristics into the chemical elements which we call genes and
is a suitable magnc_tic field so that they become charged particles. chromosomes.
The complexity of the charge determmes the type of charged De Ia Warr believes that the pattern of the change of energy
particle and its behaviour. evoked by the Force Field Body (say of an aconite) is subse-
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
It is these energy-particles which compose the physical radia- CHAPTER FOUR
tion from a magnet, the vital vibrations from cells of living
creatures, the energies which are evoked and broadcast by
de la Warr's treatment sets. THE FUTURE
There is a relationship between the inner construction of
ato~d tJu:i{ outward ex~ressions in the fonn of radiations.
~ra-ta~ expresses th1s in the words: ·~Force Field But _contemporary IICience, by ~he mere fact of having
cut Jtsclf sharply olf from relig•on and 'mysticism', i.e.
Body is related to its atomic structure.' It also says solllething by having set up for itself a definite "taboo', has become
about the second way in which Fundamental Energy can mani- an accidental and unreliable instrument of thought.
fest. This reservoir of potential energy, which like Atlas supports 11Je constant f~ling of this 'taboo' compels it to shut
its e¥e~ to a whole series of inexplicable and un-
the world on its shoulders, needs an energy-pattern as a channel intelhg•ble phenomena, deprives it of wholeness and
through which to make its appearance. An energy-pattern, or a ~ity, and as 1 result brings it about that we have no
Force Field Body, acts as a complex frame aerial, and it is sctencebuthavesciences.
P. D. 0uSP£NSKY in A Ntw MOtkl of tN UnMru
through this that Fundamental Energy manifests as mattu.
In Tlu Nature of tlu Universe Fred HoyreSayS:
From time to time people ask where the created material
S
OME critics while admitting the validity of de la Warr's
comes from, Well, it does not come from anywhere. Material
~!aims try to belittle his discoveries by objecting that his
simply appears-it is created. At one time the various atoms mstruments are mere mechanical aids to psychic pcrce~
composing the material do not exist, and at a later time they tions. This may be so, but no one criticises the telescope or the
do. This may seem a very strange idea, and I agree that it is, microscope because they are mechanical aids to vision. With
but in &:ience it does not matter how strange an idea may these and other optical instruments such as the spectroscope we
seem so long as it works-that is to say, so long as the idea have learned a very great deal about the Universe and the
can be expressed in a precise form and so long as its conse- structure of matter, and we have entirely changed our view of
quences are found to be in agreement with observations. this planet's position in the scale of Creation. It is quite possible
Having seen that the power of human thought can modulate that in the years to come when these new fonns of radiation are
an energy-pattern, it is not so difficult to realise the probable better understood we shall think quite differently about such
role of Universal Mind in the initial process of the creation of things as the operations of Nature and the inner workings of the
matter. At any point in space where there exists a suitably human organism.
stabilised magnetic field, it can evoke an energy-pattern through Science, which reached its point of maximum ·solidification'
which it can itself manifest as matter, and in the course of aeons in the later Victorian period, is already turning towards less
a new galaxy comes into being. So the dismal doctrine of a grossly materialist concepts; but these new concepts are far
dying Universe is replaced by that of a Universe which is fro~1 clear, and as with all solidified systems of thought which
perpetually re-created. begm to break up into hard lumps, there is considerable dis-
integration. Dualistic thought runs through the sciences like a
series of Iron Curtains.
For instance, there is great confusion of thought on the prob-
lem of Mind and Matter. Professor Adrian, of Cambridge, has
probably done more work on the detection of brain impulses
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM THE FUTURE
than any other man. He has tap~ many thousands of n:rve established we should have a medical science which makes Jess
centres in the brain and traced the1r nerve channels to vanous use of crude drugs and relies more on the curative forces of
parts of the human and animal anatomy, re<:ording the impulses Nature.
on the electroencephalograph. Yet when le<:turing on this su~ The de Ia Warr instruments provide us, in effect, with a
ject several years ago in Oxford, he said: 'There is no evidence sixth sense which is able to penetrate the crust of gross material
to prove the existence of a mind.' results and sec what is happening a little higher up on the ladder
On the other hand, Sherrington has written•: of causation. With such a faculty it should be possible to develop
The mind is something with such manifold variety, such preventive medicine and also resolve many an ancient con-
troversy.
fleeting changes, such countless nuances, such wealth of
combinations, such heights and depths of mood, such sweeps Are homeopathic dilutions really effective in treating diseases?
of passion, such vistas of imagination, that the bald submission Have herbs the curative properties which many claim for them?
of some electrical potentials recognisable in nerve centres as Does X·ray therapy permanently damage the Force Field Body?
correlates to all these may seem to the special student of mind Is there any virtue in so-<:alled spiritual healing, or the Laying
almost derisory. . . The mental is not examinable as a form on of Hands? All these things should be capable of scientific
verification.
of energy. That in brief is the gap which parts psychiatry and
The. same thing a~plies to foods. Apart from discovering by
physiology.
analys1s ":hat ~hem1cal essentials of diet may be lacking in
These two contrasting views by two most eminent authorities canned frmts and vegetables, dried and processed foods, etc., it
on the subject show clearly the gulf which. yaw.ns between men should be possible to test such commodities for vital radiations.
who are still thinking in terms of the old V1ctonan formulae and From a nutritional point of view these food preparations are
those who realise that they do not cover the facts. thought to be of equal value to fresh foods, but is this really
De Ia Warr's discoveries are a step towards bridging this true? Is there no difference in the vitalising effect between
gulf. The human mind which is capable of modulating an energy- canned peaches and peaches just picked from the tree? Has yes-
pattern has a direct connection with physical forces. Universal terday's milk lost something which is present in milk warm
Mind is able to manifest through an energy-pattern as matter. from the cow? Does the injection of antibiotics into a herd of
The Delawarr Camera connects a purely mental function known cows affect the bacterial balance of the animals and detract
as E.S.P. with an image on a photographic plate. And so on. from the nutritional qualities in the milk yield! Are there
The No Man's Land between psychiatry and physiology nar- stronger radiations in com grown under natural conditions
rows down, perhaps eventually to disappear. than in com grown on land treated with a chemical fertiliser?
This narrowing of the gap is certain to have an effect on It may be that we shall soon know the truth about such matters.
medical science which like physics is divided, roughly speaking, \Ve may perhaps venture a few speculations as to where
into two schools of thought. There are those who believe that these discoveries may lead in the rather more distant future.
all diseases originate in the mind, and others who attribute It has often been pointed out that if we possessed eyes which
illnesses to infections, exhaustion of the body, exposure to cold re11ponded to X-rays or Hertzian waves we should see an
and damp, and other purely physical causes. No doubt both entirely new Universe. The new radio telescope enables us to
schools of thought are partly right, but a better knowledge of 'see' invisible stars, but compared with the subtle radiations
the Force Field Body should bring these differing views into with ~hich this book is concerned radio waves, X-rays and
line,. and once the new methods of diagnosis and treatment are He.rtz1an waves are extremely clumsy media for observation.
• Ma tm
,,.
l/i1 Nllllll't, by Sir Charles Sherrington. \Vnh a telescope which operates, so to speak, in the sub-ether,
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NEW WORLDS BEYOND THE ATOM
who can tell what we shall discover? What shall we 'see', for
instance, when we train it on Mars? For one thing we should
undoubtedly discover whether or not there is life on Mars
similar to our own.
These radiations also stretch back into the past. Thus the
skeleton of a megalosaurus or of a pterodactyl is in resonance
with the creature which lived millions of years ago, and by
analysing the radiations we should be able to discover more
about it than can be gleaned from the fossilised bones.
It needs little imagination to realise that vast fields of ex-
ploration lie before us and that the knowledge which can be
gathered by these new techniques may radically alter the whole
pattern of modem scientific thought.
The discoveries briefly outlined in this book show how the
material world rests upon a framework of finer vibrations which
in their tum have their origin in something still further removed
from the material. What lies higher up on the 'jacob's Ladder"
which connects our physical world with the Prime Source we
cannot tell, but at least we have a picture of a Universe created
and sustained by higher levels of existence.
The dead hand of gross materialistic thought lies too heavily
on modem science. Let us hope that the time will soon come
when the Message of the Holy Grail is fulfilled: