king
31-07-2007, 06:01 AM
interesting read on psychotronics (interaction of mind and matter, union of physics and metaphysics)
Psychotronics: Tuning Into the Next Dimension
Tinkering with black boxes and headphones, dials and electromagnetic fields, Bob Beutlich is spending his retirement years in his rural home north of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, searching for the scientific truth behind psychic phenomena. He places a lightweight headset over his shock of white hair, holds out an attached small box about the size of a transistor radio and explains this is an instrument that can help heal addictions, called a "brain tuner." The dampened, padded ends of the headset sit not in the ear but over the mastoid bone for maximum effect
Psychotronics is the catchall name Beutlich and other members of the U.S. Psychotronics Association (USPA) apply to the interdisciplinary studies to which they've devoted their lives. That's "Psycho" for mind-consciousness, and "Tronics" for physics and instrumentation. By marrying the human mind to electronic instruments, they believe, mankind can extend its senses to realms beyond our physical world, and achieve a more harmonious state of existence.
"We are not an 'experiencing' type of group," noted Beutlich recently in his sunny livingroom filled with a cheerful clutter of books, stacks of papers and scientific journals. "We don't do seances or New Age type retreats or things like that. We look at the technical side; it's hard nuts and bolts theory of how psychic phenomena works within alternate realities."
Beutlich, an electronics engineer originally from Chicago who used to design TV stations, has been treasurer of the organization for the past 20 years. The group has about 600 members nationally, and Beutlich, 77, is the only Elkhorn member. He belonged to a chapter in Chicago for 20 years that is now disbanded, and Beutlich says there was a small group in Darien that is now also gone. Most members tend to be individuals like Beutlich, with only 4 active chapters around the country... 2 in Ohio, 1 in Atlanta and another on the west coast, said Beutlich.
"We're a non-profit, all volunteer group scattered all over the country," he said. "We meet annually at a conference, usually in July." Last year's get together, the group's 27th since its founding in 1975, was held in Columbus, Ohio. The conference theme..."2001: A Spiritual Odyssey, exploring the Quantum Universe." The main speaker was a noted researcher in the field of alternative health.
QUANTUM HEALTH--- At first blush, alternative health may seem a bit far afield from the topics of ESP and electronic instrumentation. But adherents of Psychotronics see a connecting link. Although Psychotronics publications state that the group "holds no single viewpoint," there is general agreement among members that "man and all life forms share a common ground in that they are submerged in the electromagnetic field of the earth." Each life form, in turn, has its own electromagnetic field, and distortions of these fields are the cause of diseases in organisms. It follows, then, in their line of thought, that correcting the energy distortions should enable healing.
Psychotronics members study and experiment with a healing method called Radionics that is based on these assumptions. Radionics has its own separate association in England, and was invented by San Francisco physican Dr. Albert Abrams around the beginning of the last century. It is defined as "a method of healing at a distance through the medium of an instrument using the ESP (extrasensory perception) facility."
"In plain English," said Beutlich, "it's merely an extension of hands-on healing."
According to the association's statement, "a trained and competent practitioner can discover the cause of disease within any living system, be it a human being, an animal, a plant, or the soil itself." In short, practitioners use ESP combined with electronic instruments to detect, in Star Wars lingo, "disturbances in the force." They operate much as a water dowser might, said Beutlich, by training to sense variations in energy fields.
But it gets more technical than that. Believing that all solid matter is just a different level of energy, Radionics sees each organ and disease as having its own particular vibration or frequency. The frequencies are put into numerical values Radionics proponents call "rates," which correspond to calibrated dials on the radionics instruments.
BLACK BOXES--- The instruments used are actually fairly simple and are referred to as "black boxes." "That term was coined some time ago," said Beutlich. "It means something comes in, it does something, and something else comes back out. It's quite mysterious as to what's going on in there. In World War II you had black boxes in aircraft that transmitted identifying signals," he continued, "but in this field, a black box is used to detect an energy pattern using waves we call scalar waves. Scalar waves are the way information is transmitted on the other side, where the types of signals are totally different than in this world." The boxes are of two main types, those containing capacitors much like radio tuning capacitors, and those containing banks of resistors. In both cases, the human operator uses the dials to "tune in" to vibrations not of this world, similar to tuning in a radio station.
"You need a human operator who is trained to be able to detect and transmit," said Beutlich. "It's a prayer box....prayer does work. When you train people to focus their intent, they can affect energy fields surrounding a person, plant, or animal." Operators can tell when they are receiving a "hit" by intution or by physical clues such as electrostatic charges appearing on the surface of their skin , or their blood vessels dilating. In more common terms, hair standing on end and goosebumps. "We prefer to use the term 'intuitive' rather than psychic," noted Beutlich. But once a hit is perceived, the user can check what numbers the dial is tuned to, and look them up in Radionics "rate" books to help decipher the meaning. If it's an illness that's being checked for, the operator can then go to "Treat" mode and reverse the process to help effect a healing. It's not a technique one can pick up overnight, and the association deals with that by providing a vast amount of supporting literature and training.
Reading through the Psychotronics Newsletter, members can find treatises on everything from quantum mechanics to musical intervals and mathematics. They can also find notes on best materials for equipment (the best glass is pure quartz,Beverly second is Boron-Silicon type glass beakers) and equipment exchanges. Psychotronics members do not manufacture or sell equipment of any kind, but they do freely exchange information, including addresses of companies that do sell the equipment. In addition, the association has been meticulous about recording every talk made at each of their annual conventions, and recordings from 1978-2000 are available in the form of transcripts and audio/visual material for modest prices.
An interested newcomer could begin with a set of tapes by Beutlich called "Beginner's Radionics," proceeding to intermediate and advanced versions. He or she might spend a little more time listening to Thomas Bearden's "Action at a Distance: The Fundamental Mechanism of Radionics," or watch a video, "Unification of the Four forces of Nature with the Mind," or "Sound Harvest: Music and Management of the Soil." And the newcomer would barely have dented the volume of material offered by the Association, which is added to every year at the annual convention.Last year's major guest speaker was be Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D., said Beutlich. Dossey is a noted author and senior editor of Alternative Health magazine. "He has written 6 books in the alternative health field," added Beutlich, which include "Healing Words," "Reinventing Medicine," and "Prayer is Good Medicine." Other speakers will address topics like "Radionic Photography and Quantum Physics," "The Metabolic Science of Reversing the Aging Process," and researcher Tom Bearden who promises to discuss his operating "Free Energy" device.
SPIRITUAL DOWSING--- Bob Beutlich is a trained water dowser, himself, and has located two wells on his own property by dowsing. He was taught by his father, he said. He began to investigate psychic phenomena as a young man, but was always frustrated by the lack of explanations for the experiences. Then he attended a meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1975, organized by psychic and scientific researcher J. G. Gallimore and attended by 80 other seekers. Gallimore's meeting dealt with his attempts to understand the energy flows he was able to see around people, animals, objects and machines. The group met again the next year in Washington, D.C., and formally organized the USPA. "We don't do psychic investigations per se," said Beutlich. "We're after how the stuff really works. There's a good explanation once you get into quantum physics where everything gets weird. But it does take a human with psychic abilities to make the system work," he said.
"The phenomenology is still dependent on a human interface link who is able to contact the spirit realm and transduce a signal into one we can perceive," said Beutlich. "On the other side, there are all domains of time...we live in a space world, they live in a time world. So these energy fields that exist on the other side are coherent and are spiritual entities who may or may not have lived. Once a spirit is created it lives forever...enters at birth and leaves at death. We come into earth to experience solid stuff," said Beutlich.
Sometimes the experimenters have problems with "spirits" they didn't intend to contact, Beutlich noted. "We have had problems on and off with entitities buzzing through; they see a bright light and want to find out what's going on. There have been occasional individuals who've made contact with those from the spiritual side."
On the other hand, there are times the researchers do try to pick up messages from "other worlds," said Beutich. "You can hook up a diode and antenna, turn a tape recorder on "play" and voices from the past will be picked up on it."
So where does religion fit into this? Religion per se is not discussed at Association meetings, said Beutlich, except in the most non-denominational terms. But Beutlich says the understanding he's gained through the practice of Psychotronics has only deepened his personal faith. He is a practicing Episcopalian and still attends church regularly. "It has changed my belief in the Bible from just a namby-pamby view into a concrete, material thing that is the center of my life," he said. "I'm more devout, more aware now than ever."
And while Beutlich prefers to live and work in his rural, lakeside setting, he has made a few national waves in his field. He was on a committee for the National Institute of Health in 1992 and helped write up the protocols to establish the National Office of Alternative Medicine for that organization. And last spring, he was interviewed for a 20/20 TV show that aired in April. Beutlich was not the main subject, but gave a side interview regarding a New York doctor who included Radionics among many controversial practices that brought the doctor to the show's attention. "They didn't tell me the show was going to be just a slam against him," said Beutlich. Although many of the Association's founding members have passed on to that "other side" the group tries so hard to understand, Beutlich is still sure the group's studies have a big role to play in coming years. He wrote in one of last year's newsletters, "the spirit that has kept the USPA alive is the unstinting willingness to share our experimental and experiential results. For none should doubt that we were destined to fill this roll and close the gap between science, religion, and man."
And Beutlich sees a sort of inevitability to the trend of using instruments to help the human psyche peer into worlds previously hidden. "Technology is moving ahead whether the world likes it or not," said Beutlich.
*** For more information on the USPA, visit their Web site at http://www. psychotronics.org Membership is $25 per year, write USPA. Box 45, Elkhorn WI 53121.
Psychotronics: Tuning Into the Next Dimension
Tinkering with black boxes and headphones, dials and electromagnetic fields, Bob Beutlich is spending his retirement years in his rural home north of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, searching for the scientific truth behind psychic phenomena. He places a lightweight headset over his shock of white hair, holds out an attached small box about the size of a transistor radio and explains this is an instrument that can help heal addictions, called a "brain tuner." The dampened, padded ends of the headset sit not in the ear but over the mastoid bone for maximum effect
Psychotronics is the catchall name Beutlich and other members of the U.S. Psychotronics Association (USPA) apply to the interdisciplinary studies to which they've devoted their lives. That's "Psycho" for mind-consciousness, and "Tronics" for physics and instrumentation. By marrying the human mind to electronic instruments, they believe, mankind can extend its senses to realms beyond our physical world, and achieve a more harmonious state of existence.
"We are not an 'experiencing' type of group," noted Beutlich recently in his sunny livingroom filled with a cheerful clutter of books, stacks of papers and scientific journals. "We don't do seances or New Age type retreats or things like that. We look at the technical side; it's hard nuts and bolts theory of how psychic phenomena works within alternate realities."
Beutlich, an electronics engineer originally from Chicago who used to design TV stations, has been treasurer of the organization for the past 20 years. The group has about 600 members nationally, and Beutlich, 77, is the only Elkhorn member. He belonged to a chapter in Chicago for 20 years that is now disbanded, and Beutlich says there was a small group in Darien that is now also gone. Most members tend to be individuals like Beutlich, with only 4 active chapters around the country... 2 in Ohio, 1 in Atlanta and another on the west coast, said Beutlich.
"We're a non-profit, all volunteer group scattered all over the country," he said. "We meet annually at a conference, usually in July." Last year's get together, the group's 27th since its founding in 1975, was held in Columbus, Ohio. The conference theme..."2001: A Spiritual Odyssey, exploring the Quantum Universe." The main speaker was a noted researcher in the field of alternative health.
QUANTUM HEALTH--- At first blush, alternative health may seem a bit far afield from the topics of ESP and electronic instrumentation. But adherents of Psychotronics see a connecting link. Although Psychotronics publications state that the group "holds no single viewpoint," there is general agreement among members that "man and all life forms share a common ground in that they are submerged in the electromagnetic field of the earth." Each life form, in turn, has its own electromagnetic field, and distortions of these fields are the cause of diseases in organisms. It follows, then, in their line of thought, that correcting the energy distortions should enable healing.
Psychotronics members study and experiment with a healing method called Radionics that is based on these assumptions. Radionics has its own separate association in England, and was invented by San Francisco physican Dr. Albert Abrams around the beginning of the last century. It is defined as "a method of healing at a distance through the medium of an instrument using the ESP (extrasensory perception) facility."
"In plain English," said Beutlich, "it's merely an extension of hands-on healing."
According to the association's statement, "a trained and competent practitioner can discover the cause of disease within any living system, be it a human being, an animal, a plant, or the soil itself." In short, practitioners use ESP combined with electronic instruments to detect, in Star Wars lingo, "disturbances in the force." They operate much as a water dowser might, said Beutlich, by training to sense variations in energy fields.
But it gets more technical than that. Believing that all solid matter is just a different level of energy, Radionics sees each organ and disease as having its own particular vibration or frequency. The frequencies are put into numerical values Radionics proponents call "rates," which correspond to calibrated dials on the radionics instruments.
BLACK BOXES--- The instruments used are actually fairly simple and are referred to as "black boxes." "That term was coined some time ago," said Beutlich. "It means something comes in, it does something, and something else comes back out. It's quite mysterious as to what's going on in there. In World War II you had black boxes in aircraft that transmitted identifying signals," he continued, "but in this field, a black box is used to detect an energy pattern using waves we call scalar waves. Scalar waves are the way information is transmitted on the other side, where the types of signals are totally different than in this world." The boxes are of two main types, those containing capacitors much like radio tuning capacitors, and those containing banks of resistors. In both cases, the human operator uses the dials to "tune in" to vibrations not of this world, similar to tuning in a radio station.
"You need a human operator who is trained to be able to detect and transmit," said Beutlich. "It's a prayer box....prayer does work. When you train people to focus their intent, they can affect energy fields surrounding a person, plant, or animal." Operators can tell when they are receiving a "hit" by intution or by physical clues such as electrostatic charges appearing on the surface of their skin , or their blood vessels dilating. In more common terms, hair standing on end and goosebumps. "We prefer to use the term 'intuitive' rather than psychic," noted Beutlich. But once a hit is perceived, the user can check what numbers the dial is tuned to, and look them up in Radionics "rate" books to help decipher the meaning. If it's an illness that's being checked for, the operator can then go to "Treat" mode and reverse the process to help effect a healing. It's not a technique one can pick up overnight, and the association deals with that by providing a vast amount of supporting literature and training.
Reading through the Psychotronics Newsletter, members can find treatises on everything from quantum mechanics to musical intervals and mathematics. They can also find notes on best materials for equipment (the best glass is pure quartz,Beverly second is Boron-Silicon type glass beakers) and equipment exchanges. Psychotronics members do not manufacture or sell equipment of any kind, but they do freely exchange information, including addresses of companies that do sell the equipment. In addition, the association has been meticulous about recording every talk made at each of their annual conventions, and recordings from 1978-2000 are available in the form of transcripts and audio/visual material for modest prices.
An interested newcomer could begin with a set of tapes by Beutlich called "Beginner's Radionics," proceeding to intermediate and advanced versions. He or she might spend a little more time listening to Thomas Bearden's "Action at a Distance: The Fundamental Mechanism of Radionics," or watch a video, "Unification of the Four forces of Nature with the Mind," or "Sound Harvest: Music and Management of the Soil." And the newcomer would barely have dented the volume of material offered by the Association, which is added to every year at the annual convention.Last year's major guest speaker was be Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D., said Beutlich. Dossey is a noted author and senior editor of Alternative Health magazine. "He has written 6 books in the alternative health field," added Beutlich, which include "Healing Words," "Reinventing Medicine," and "Prayer is Good Medicine." Other speakers will address topics like "Radionic Photography and Quantum Physics," "The Metabolic Science of Reversing the Aging Process," and researcher Tom Bearden who promises to discuss his operating "Free Energy" device.
SPIRITUAL DOWSING--- Bob Beutlich is a trained water dowser, himself, and has located two wells on his own property by dowsing. He was taught by his father, he said. He began to investigate psychic phenomena as a young man, but was always frustrated by the lack of explanations for the experiences. Then he attended a meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1975, organized by psychic and scientific researcher J. G. Gallimore and attended by 80 other seekers. Gallimore's meeting dealt with his attempts to understand the energy flows he was able to see around people, animals, objects and machines. The group met again the next year in Washington, D.C., and formally organized the USPA. "We don't do psychic investigations per se," said Beutlich. "We're after how the stuff really works. There's a good explanation once you get into quantum physics where everything gets weird. But it does take a human with psychic abilities to make the system work," he said.
"The phenomenology is still dependent on a human interface link who is able to contact the spirit realm and transduce a signal into one we can perceive," said Beutlich. "On the other side, there are all domains of time...we live in a space world, they live in a time world. So these energy fields that exist on the other side are coherent and are spiritual entities who may or may not have lived. Once a spirit is created it lives forever...enters at birth and leaves at death. We come into earth to experience solid stuff," said Beutlich.
Sometimes the experimenters have problems with "spirits" they didn't intend to contact, Beutlich noted. "We have had problems on and off with entitities buzzing through; they see a bright light and want to find out what's going on. There have been occasional individuals who've made contact with those from the spiritual side."
On the other hand, there are times the researchers do try to pick up messages from "other worlds," said Beutich. "You can hook up a diode and antenna, turn a tape recorder on "play" and voices from the past will be picked up on it."
So where does religion fit into this? Religion per se is not discussed at Association meetings, said Beutlich, except in the most non-denominational terms. But Beutlich says the understanding he's gained through the practice of Psychotronics has only deepened his personal faith. He is a practicing Episcopalian and still attends church regularly. "It has changed my belief in the Bible from just a namby-pamby view into a concrete, material thing that is the center of my life," he said. "I'm more devout, more aware now than ever."
And while Beutlich prefers to live and work in his rural, lakeside setting, he has made a few national waves in his field. He was on a committee for the National Institute of Health in 1992 and helped write up the protocols to establish the National Office of Alternative Medicine for that organization. And last spring, he was interviewed for a 20/20 TV show that aired in April. Beutlich was not the main subject, but gave a side interview regarding a New York doctor who included Radionics among many controversial practices that brought the doctor to the show's attention. "They didn't tell me the show was going to be just a slam against him," said Beutlich. Although many of the Association's founding members have passed on to that "other side" the group tries so hard to understand, Beutlich is still sure the group's studies have a big role to play in coming years. He wrote in one of last year's newsletters, "the spirit that has kept the USPA alive is the unstinting willingness to share our experimental and experiential results. For none should doubt that we were destined to fill this roll and close the gap between science, religion, and man."
And Beutlich sees a sort of inevitability to the trend of using instruments to help the human psyche peer into worlds previously hidden. "Technology is moving ahead whether the world likes it or not," said Beutlich.
*** For more information on the USPA, visit their Web site at http://www. psychotronics.org Membership is $25 per year, write USPA. Box 45, Elkhorn WI 53121.