- "The time has come to meet the third of my titans.
Knowing, loving, and serving her in the final years of her life was a
rare privilege. You may have heard many of the numerous and elaborate lies
circulated about Dr. Ruth Drown. Let me tell you the truth." --Trevor
James Constable in The Cosmic Pulse of Life
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- Trevor's Role
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- Over the years, I occasionally heard of the name Ruth
Drown with reference to Radionics, but I really didn't know anything of
her magnificent contributions to humanity until Trevor Constable opened
the door wide for me in his masterwork, The Cosmic Pulse of Life (1976).
In a previous article, The Visual Ray (http://educate-yourself.org/visualray21may0.html),
I explained how I happened to come upon this wonderful book and the treasures
that are held within its covers. After widening the path for us 25 years
ago, we now see greater recognition for two of Trevor's Titans, Wilhelm
Reich and Rudolf Steiner, but much more needs to be told of the astounding
accomplishments of Dr. Ruth B. Drown, whose legacy might have remained
known to but a handful of students of Radionics had it not been for the
Cosmic rescue launched by Trevor Constable.
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- A Brief Biography
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- Ruth Drown was born in 1892 in Greeley, Colorado. Her
father was a professional photographer and taught young Ruth all he knew
of the photographic processes. Years later, this background would play
an important role in her development of Radio Vision, an invention of such
inestimable importance and merit to the healing arts that it should have
carried her to the stage in Stockholm. Instead, her work, her inventions,
her honor and finally her life, were all shattered by a calculated onslaught
organized by the Little Men of Big Medicine using their media pimps and
government stooges to destroy her. These jackals of greed and duplicity
always seem to reserve their greatest torments for those who would relieve
man's suffering the most, as was seen in the case of Dr. Royal Raymond
Rife whose great discoveries in cancer research and therapy were obliterated
by the same medical mafia (see The Cancer Cure That Worked! by Barry Lynes).
Dr. Drown's persecution was remarkable in both the continuing torment of
her detractors and her tenacity to preserve in the face of such unrelenting
and withering ridicule endured over many, many years. Quoting from page
233 in Trevor's book:
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- "During her lifetime, Dr. Ruth Drown was one of
the most widely misrepresented and vilified women in America. The poisonous
rubbish circulated about her in magazines and newspapers was never written
by anyone who knew her. Alleged technical descriptions of the Drown work,
invariably condemnatory and always inaccurate, were printed in national
magazines and published in books by writers who had never even met Dr.
Drown, let alone had studied her work. The pillorying went on for decades."
So exactly what did Ruth Drown do that drew the wolves to her door? Stated
simply, she succeeded mightily where the great men of medicine had failed
and they hated her for it. She developed and refined a means of diagnosis,
treatment, and visual representation on photographic plate of any cross
section of disease organisms, tissue or organs of her choosing that ualitatively
exceeded anything offered by organized medicine in the first half of the
20th century or indeed of that which is offered today. The amazing journey
that carried her to the pinnacle of great achievement is the stuff of legends.
A less auspicious candidate for greatness could not be imagined.
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- Ruth B. Chase married a farmer, Clarence V. Drown, at
the age of nineteen and assumed the domestic life of farmer's wife and
mother to their twochildren, Cynthia and Homer. Inexplicable friction,
however, developed between the couple in their seventh year of marriage
and the situation soon became intolerable. With eight hundred dollars in
her purse, Ruth left with her two children and moved to Los Angeles in
1918 where she opened a gas station and lunch counter for about a year
before selling the business to the mechanic who had previously been working
for her. She then found comfortable work at a Hollywood photographic lab
utilizing the skills learned at her father's side, but soon was offered
a better paying job with the Southern California Edison Company arranged
by a woman friend from her home state who was secretary to an executive
with the company. Ruth was placed in charge of mechanical addressing machines
in the company's accounting department. The job required mechanical skills
and maintenance experience that Ruth did not possess, but she made up her
mind that she was going to perform well at her new job. Returning to Trevor's
narrative:
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- "She took over a room full of clanking mechanical
beasts that gobbled in paper and vomited addressed bills. A belligerent
young German assigned to show her around made it clear that he didn't
think she could do the job. 'We got along like two strange bulldogs,' she
recalled of the time, 'and his attitude made me determined to succeed.'
Buckling down, she put her fierce will to work. Latent mechanical ability
burst into expression. She mastered the operation, maintenance, and repair
of the machines, and was soon in charge of the addressing department. Fifteen
girls worked under her direction. The Edison period brought her phenomenal
mechanical aptitude to light, and her later work would have been impossible
without awakening these dormant talents." (page 236)
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- During her four years with Edison, as her mechanical
aptitude blossomed, she also developed a passion for radio which was not
uncommon in thoseearly years of radio. She enjoyed assembling crystal radios
from spare parts gathered at radio stores where various components were
chosen from huge bins. While other customers needed to carefully examine
the size, values and ratings of the components in order to calculate their
effect, Ruth demonstrated an impressive intuitive ability for knowing which
parts were needed without bothering to study theory and laboriously analyzing
how the circuits might work. She possessed a knowing. Trevor said that
she would merely pluck spare parts from these large bins, in a seemingly
random fashion, and return home to assemble a radio which worked perfectly,
without any spare parts left over!
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- Dr. Strong's Lecture In 1923, Ruth Drown attended a lecture
given in downtown Los Angeles by Dr. Frederick F. Strong that would profoundly
affect the course of her life. Dr. Strong was lecturing on the application
of radio energies to the treatment of disease conditions. Initially drawn
to the lecture by her interest in radio, Ruth found Dr. Strong, a Cornell
graduate who had studied at the University of Berlin and other European
academies, to be an inspiring humanitarian who was
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- " able to stir mighty but heretofore dormant forces
in Ruth Drown. As she dwelt upon the potentialities of radio therapy, she
felt the electrifying effect of inspiration. She knew intuitively and immediately
that her future lay with this new ideaGetting into this kind of work became
a matter of urgency for Ruth Drown from the time she heard Dr. Strong's
lecture " (page 237-38)
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- As it turns out, Ruth happened to know Dr Strong's secretary,
Maude Breeze. She inquired of Maude about the possibility of working for
Dr. Strong as a nurse, but Maude told her that the only position available
was that of part time office assistant. Ruth leaped at the opportunity.
She knew what she was doing when she left her high paying position with
Edison to take a much lower paying part time job with Dr. Strong, and she
was happy and excited to do so. A new world was about to open for her.
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- Dr. Albert Abrams
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- Dr. Strong was using the techniques and methods developed
by Dr. Albert Abrams, who could justifiably be called the Father of Radionics
in America. Dr. Abrams was a highly educated man with impeccable academic
credentials from the University of Heidelberg where he garnered top honors
and even a gold medal. As a distinguished Stanford University medical professor,
he would have been feted for the rest of his life as a great authority
in the field of medicine had he continued to embrace the orthodox approach,
but he became the victim of intense vilification and excoriation by the
orthodoxy because he had discovered something about the nature of biological
tissue that almost exactly paralleled what the Russian engineer, Georges
Lakhovsky (http://educate-yourself.org/lakhovskyindex.html ), had discovered
in France: that all histological tissue whether it came from a man, animal,
insect, or a microbe radiated (and were affected by) very high frequency
emanations that could only be described in their day as electromagnetic
radiation since that was the only available nomenclature at the time.
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- Etheric Life Energy
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- Later, however, Wilhelm Reich would more accurately identify
this esoteric form of radiation as a constituent manifestation of the ether,
which he labeled orgone energy. Still later, author Gerry Vasillatos would
refer to this radiation as a component of Vril energy, which he describes
handsomely in his published volumes known as The Vril Compendium (Borderland
books). Despite the different names given to the life force energy, it's
important to bear in mind that the bioenergetic 'signals' that Lakhovsky
and Abrams were describing were not really electromagnetic waves at all,
as they had assumed at the time, but were rather a much finer and infinitely
more powerful radiation of the ether which was elaborated upon by Rudolf
Steiner, Guenther Wachsmuth, Ernst Lehrs, and more recently by author Ernst
Marti (The Four Ethers 1984) as being composed of four subcategories known
as the Warmth ether, the Light ether, the Chemical ether (also called the
Sound or Number ether), and the Life ether. It should also be clarified
that electromagnetic waves are "carried" by the ether, a notion
foreign to conventional physicists, yet true, since there would be nothing
for the wave to "wave in" when traversing the vacuum of space.
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- Numerical Identification Possible
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- Abrams' ideas about the vibratory nature of tissue and
disease organisms allowed him to theorize and later validate that these
subtle emanations from biological tissues could be detected and classified
numerically. He called this detection process the Electronic Reaction
of Abrams or E.R.A. and fashioned a new system of diagnosis and therapy
based on this discovery. The very words to describe the process, however,
such as electronic and radionics, ultimately became an obstacle that created
a misdirected focus as to the true nature of the energy being considered.
It also made it easier for vested orthodox debunkers to deride and ridicule
the science as a whole. Trevor explains:
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- "Terminology inevitably became a stumbling block
in this new approach to diagnosis. Development of Abrams' work paralleled
the first major and general technological development of radio. All this
took place as well at a time when human consciousness of radiation was
just dawning. Terms were used in Abrams' work -such as radio-therapy-that
were drawn from another technology altogether. The terminological confusion
has persisted right down to this day, and through the decades, an expertise
has been automatically assigned to radio physicists in evaluating radionics.
In fact, such people know nothing whatever about the energy involved in
Abrams or Drown instruments, and have contributed greatly to the throttling
and ridicule of American research along the lines started by Abrams."
(page 239) Abrams' Method of Diagnosis
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- Obtaining the E.R.A. in the Abrams system of diagnosis
involved three people: 1) the patient himself or a bioenergetic substitute
for the patient-a drop of his blood; 2) a person in good health who would
serve as the "subject" (Abrams' term) and 3) the diagnostician
or operator of the equipment. The procedure involved comparing the difference
in 'tunings' obtained from the healthy 'subject' and the diseased patient
or from his blood sample. The subject essentially acted as a detector for
identifying the particular pathogens affecting the patient. Equipment wise,
the Abrams' diagnostic method involved using one leg of the standard electrical
outlet (110 Volts AC at the time) and this caused his test to be adversely
affected by certain colors, lights, or particular foreign substances found
present in the room when the test was being performed.
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- Abrams' Treatment Protocol
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- For treatment, the Abrams method required the use of
an electrode placed over the affected area and sometimes glass wands were
used, swept back and forth over the appropriate region. The Abrams method
allowed the physician to treat one person or treat an entire group of patients
at the same time with a single hookup. Doctors using the Abrams method
enjoyed a degree of success in treatment and occasionally the results were
spectacular, providing great encouragement for those practitioners, but
success for Abrams came more in the area of greatly improved diagnostics.
The discovery of the E.R.A. allowed Abrams and his followers to lock onto
the characteristic resonant frequency of the pathogenic invader and thus
identify its presence and type, unlike their orthodox colleagues who were
essentially engaged in educated guesswork. The day would come when Ruth
Drown would greatly expand the important foundations in Radionics established
by the astute and refined mind of Dr. Albert Abrams.
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- A New Chapter
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- After starting to work for Dr. Strong, Drown's intuitive
abilities and healing instincts became immediately apparent. She quickly
gained an admirable reputation among the patients she ministered to as
well as among other doctors using the Abrams method. One such physician,
an osteopath by the name of Dr. Thomas McAllister, took such a strong interest
in Ruth's skills, that he asked her to come work for him as a full time
employee and she accepted. Impressed by her eagerness to learn, he lent
her his books and gave her personal instruction in the medical arts. A
patient of De McAllister's, Louise Thrall, was so grateful for the quality
of care she received at Ruth's hands, that she loaned her $5,000 so she
could attend Osteopathic College in Kirksville, Missouri. Unfortunately,
Ruth could only attend one year before being forced to return home to LosAngeles
due to the deteriorating health of her mother who had been taking care
of her two children.
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- Needing to support and raise her children, she remained
in Los Angeles and entered Chiropractic college, graduating in 1926. She
became licensed as a Doctor of Chiropractic in California in 1927. While
attending Chiropractic school, Ruth spent much of her time experimenting
in new ways to manipulate the life energy encountered in Radionics diagnosis.
She knew that she had to simplify the Abrams procedure and eliminate the
need for using a healthy 'subject' to determine the diagnosis for the patient.
She became convinced that the use of wall outlet AC electricity was a huge
mistake and contaminated the patient with a coarse and brutal energy that
was anathema to the subtler life force emanations. Above all, she wanted
to individualize the diagnosis and apply treatment custom tailored to maximize
the healing effect for the individual patient. From page 242:
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- "Experience and intuition thus united to convince
her that commercial electric power was in some way inimical to the energy
she was seeking to tune and manipulate. A quarter of a century later, Dr.
Wilhelm Reich was to find out in the Oranur Experimentthat a fierce and
potentially lethal antagonism exists between life energy and electromagnetic
energy. Worth noting also is that Kirlian photography-now becoming widely
investigated in our universities-depends upon exciting the life energy
with high-frequency energy in order to make the life energy luminate. In
this application, the antagonism between the two energy forms is utilized
to objectify the life energy, although this simple fact appears to elude
most persons doing this work."
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- The Cosmic Connection
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- We should also mention an important commonality shared
between Strong, Drown, and Abrams. They were all ardent and serious students
of metaphysics. Strong was a Theosophist who understood completely the
underpinnings of physical matter as the realization or expression of energy
patterns encoded within the unseen etheric body or human aura (also called
the vital body, the functional body, the orgone body, the formative-force
body, and the later Russian designation of bioplasmic body). Ruth Drown
had been studying metaphysics since 1916 and later in her life, she published
books that echoed her atunement with ancient themes of Atlantean wisdom
and frequently wrote of the role of the Kabbalah as a gateway to higher
planes of human consciousness and knowledge. Dr. Abrams was so highly attuned
to the spiritual plane that he could unerringly name both the hour and
day of anyone's passage from the physical into the spiritual realm-including
his own-which he accurately predicted publicly a year before his death.
Franklin Thomas, an extraordinary clairvoyant and guiding mentor to Trevor
Constable in his early years, described Ruth Drown
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- "as a 'unique cosmic figure' standing far above
her contemporaries in significant observation: ' In Atlantean times, she
was a master of these forces that we now dabble with as radionics, and
she is in the body at this time to contribute to their rebirth on a higher
arc.' Franklin Thomas had the clairvoyant ability-as mentioned in connection
with Rudolf Steiner- to travel back in time and read the events of other
epochs." (page 234)
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- Next time
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- In Part 2, we'll continue Trevor Constable's wonderful
biographical and personal recollections of Dr. Ruth B Drown. We'll examine
in detail with narrative and graphics the Drown Instrument, a marvel of
advanced cosmic inventive genius, which remained totally misunderstood
and incomprehensible to her ignorant, arrogant and unenlightened orthodox
tormenters, while providing accurate diagnosis, relief and cure for thousands
upon thousands of Drown patients. Lastly, we'll provide a comprehensive
overview (including histological photos) of the greatest invention in modern
medical history, Radio Vision. A device capable of reproducing on a photographic
plate, a cross sectional view (similar to that seen in a CAT scan) of soft
or hard tissue from anywhere in the body accompanied by razor sharp images
of accompanying microbes or tumors in situ, without the need for electricity,
radiation, giant electro magnets, hospitals, high cost, or even the physical
presence of the patient-and all this in the 1930's!
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- Until then, Keep looking to Nature for all your answers
in health.
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- Sincerely, Ken Adachi
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