by Peter Morrell
RADIONIC HOMEOPATHS
During the 40s and 50s
radionics began to develop and with homeopathy they started to have a
reciprocal influence upon each other. Many figures who were active in
one therapy were also active in both during the 50s and 60s and were
thus important in both fields.
George de la Warr
[1904 – 1969] – Radionic diagnostic instrument.Radionics had an
important influence on homeopathy and there are strong parallels between
the two because many of the founders and practitioners of radionics were
[and are] lay people e.g. George de la Warr, Malcolm Rae, Vernon
Wethered, Jane Wilcox, Rosemary Russell, John Da Monte, Lavender Dower
and Edith Eden. They also exerted an important influence from 1940-1970
upon the lay homeopathic movement because many of the figures involved
were the same and mixed together. Also they shared the same remedies and
often shared the same social scene. Homeopathy influenced radionics much
more than the reverse, but nevertheless, they had a generally beneficial
and benign influence on each other. Basically, radionics or radiesthesia
depends very largely upon the dowsing faculty [see Hill, 1979, pp.161-9;
Wethered, 1957, pp.13-63]
Dr George
LaurenceThey also shared the
same dilemmas and difficulties and problems of being in a lay status and
having the marginalisation and denigration from the medical majority
allopaths. They also shared the same problems about tuition and passing
on their skills to others of their kind.Aubrey Westlake
[c.1895-c.1980], David Tansley [d.1988], George de la Warr [d.1969],
Malcolm Rae [d.1978/9] and George Laurence [c.1880-c.1970], who were
mainly prominent in the Radionics Association, but who nevertheless had
a strong influence upon lay practice of homeopathy.
Malcolm Rae [1913-1978/9]
Malcolm
RaeAn electronic engineer
and dowser who later took a great interest in the development of
radionic instruments [see Hill, 1979, pp.28, 160, 167]. He is connected
with George de la Warre, John Da Monte, et al. He was born near
Manchester, associated with Wethered, Laurence, De La Warr, Westlake,
etc., dowser, Psionic and radionic practitioner, but is chiefly revered
for inventing a ‘geomagnetic potentiser’ using patterns printed on
cards. He learned homeopathy from Dr. Farley Spink and Dr. Donald
Foubister, [Obituary Rad. Quart 25:3, June 1979]
“born 1913 near Manchester…in his twenties
due to ill-health, he became interested in unorthodox medicines and
diets…had been ‘written off’ by the medical
profession..”[Obituary, 1979]However, he achieved an
acceptable level of health and joined the Fleet Air Arm in 1940 serving
with Capt. Atkinson in WW2, who was married to Jean Atkinson the
homeopath. Malcolm and the Captain talked about homeopathy and he
remembered that in 1958 when he became ill with hypertension and was
diagnosed as having kidney stones. Using homeopathy alone, with the help
of Dr. Farley Spink, Malcolm eliminated the stones and returned to work
immediately. Two years later he was diagnosed as having gallstones and
again using homeopathy he was able to eliminate them [p.18 of ‘Homeopathy
In Relation to Radionics‘, Radionic Quarterly, 33:1
Dec. 1986].Published:
Semantics, Rad. Quart. 16:4, Apr 1970,
Human Blood Chemistry with G.W.Meek, Rad. Quart
19:1, Dec. 1972, pp.25-36,Potency Simulation by Magnetically Energised
Patterns, Rad. Quart, 19:2, Mar 1973,
Albert
Abrams [1863-1924] Founder of radionics.
Vernon D Wethered,
c.1900-?,
Walton-on-Thames, BSc, Member of the British Society of Dowsers
since 1939, was elected to Council 1942 and Vice Pres. in 1952. became
acquainted with radiesthesia through Dr. Guyon Richards 1st President of
the Medical Society for the Study of Radiesthesia. In 1939
Richards gave up the use of instruments and used a pendulum instead. It
was at this time that Wethered began to develop his pendulum and rule
technique for both diagnosis and treatment. [dustflap of Introduction
to Medical Radiesthesia And Radionics] lived Weybridge 1967.works:
The Practice of Medical Radiesthesia [1967] L N
Fowler,A Radiesthetic Approach To Health and Homeopathy or
Health and the Pendulum [date?],An Introduction To Medical Radiesthesia and
Radionics [1957]
David V. Tansley [c.1934-1988]
David
V. TansleyDavid Tansley was
born in London in 1934. [see David Tansley, Omens of Awareness, London:
Abacus, 1979, ISBN: 0349133719, page 1, About the Author. This amended
information was kindly supplied [in Oct 2005] by John Nauss, a Radionic
Practitioner, of Toronto, Canada, who knew and worked with Tansley.]
Tansley trained in Chiropractic in the USA, and became an important
influence on Radionics and radiesthesia throughout the late 1960s and
1970s, publishing a number of influential books on radionics and
homeopathy.He died in 1988 of a pancreatic tumour.
published:
Radionics & The Subtle Anatomy of Man [1972]
Dimensions of Radionics [1977]
Radionics Interface with the Ether Fields [1975]
Chakras Rays and Radionics
Ray Paths and Chakra Gate Ways
Radionics Science or Magic? [1982]
Ruth
Drown 1892-1962Died of leukaemia, originally a Chiropractor trained
in the USA, then living in Australia and finally Chichester, Sussex.
[see also Hill, 1979, p.167].
“David Tansley, after qualifying in
chiropractic in America came to England to start a practice here. I
first met him when after reading my book, “The Pattern of
Health”, he asked whether he could meet me with a view to
knowing more about Radiesthesia and its practical application to
healing. He felt, quite rightly, it might be a most valuable adjunct
to his Chiropractic work…although a doctor of chiropractic, he was
not medically qualified, and so I suggested he join the Radionic
Association to study the subject… from this beginning he has gone
on from strength to strength and has become one of the outstanding
exponents of Radionics for he has brought to it his training in the
Occult Schools of thought, especially that of Alice Bailey.”
[Aubrey Westlake in preamble to Tansley’s Dimensions of Radionics]
Roy Ogden [c.1900-c.1974]
Roy Ogden comes from
March in Cambridgeshire and learnt homeopathy while in Burma before
WW2 and when he came back from active service he set up in practice.
He was a medical student at Downing College, Cambridge but failed to
complete his internment due to WW2, much like Da Monte. He was on
friendly terms with both John Da Monte and Thomas Maughan. His
daughter Dr. Elizabeth Ogden has practised homeopathy in Dublin for
over 30 years [Ogden, 1990].
George
McLeodRoy Ogden is also
important as it is rumoured that he did some teaching in London in the
70s and may have become involved for a time with the Da Monte and
Maughan study groups.
‘Roy Ogden taught the Da Monte study group, as
did George McLeod…after Da Monte’s death…Roy was a dowsing
homeopath, as was Da Monte as I understand it, but I never met him.
Roy…was reputedly the busiest medical practitioner in Dublin…’
[Chappell, 1996, Letter to The Homeopath, 61, p.569]
But in correspondence I
have had with Roy Ogden’s daughter, she has no knowledge of him ever
teaching classes in London.
