Hugh, Jane and the list. Machine Vis Instrument.
I do not understand the confusion between machines and instruments. Machines do something physical, usually change something, such as grinding wheat to flour, or drilling a hole in some thing. While an instrument tells you some thing. Such as a thermometer telling temperature or a barometer air pressure. Other instruments include the dowser's pendulum, rods and forked twig. In Radionics, an instrument is used in analysis (scanning), giving some sort of measurement. In many cases the same piece of equipment also functions as a broadcast device. Example: the "Base 44" on which one, if checking for Malaria, would dial up 22 22 35 12, but would treat with 44 44 13 34. In other cases it may only function as a broadcast device and is then not an instrument. Example: The Peggetty. It is used in large numbers for treatment, but has not analysing function. A practitioner working in "Base 10" may have one analysing instrument, but a great number of "Base 10" Broadcasters, often including Peggettys. Hugh's Field Broadcaster is a Radionic Broadcast Device, while his pendulum and air photo also fall into the instrument category. The Macquarie says:- A machine "An apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, which is used in the performance of some kind of work." "a device which transmits and modifies force or motion." An instrument "a thing with or by which something is effected", "a device for measuring the present value of a quantity under observation". If some one wants to try a bit of Paper Based Radionics: Get two five inch pots, some Super Market type (Brand X) potting mix with no fertiliser in, not the good stuff with all the ticks. Plant ten radish seeds in each. Label: test and control. House and water them exactly the same, but keep them about two feet apart, so that the energy of one does not effect the other. On a sheet of paper, draw two circles, the size of the base of the pots and a few inches apart, along the long axis of the paper. Draw a joining solid line and an arrow head indicating an energy flow from one to the other. Obtain some really good quality BD compost and keep it in an open topped container, such as a glass. Each day put the "Test" pot on the "to" circle and the compost on the "from" circle for ten minutes. If you do not have ready access to good compost, write on a piece of paper "Best possible quality BD Compost" and use that instead. [Or have a pot "Test 2" and try both.] Each day observe and record: growth, size, colour, vitality or what every you like. When the first radishes reach a nice eating size, remove them all and wash the soil from the roots. Weigh the contents of each pot as a whole. Then remove the roots and leaves from each lot, measuring the ratio of leaves to roots to eating bit. Do the taste bit as see if you can taste the difference. Have some one who does not know which is which taste them. Post your findings on the List. Gil
