Dr. Bevan Leslie Reid

At Sydney University since 1948, the notable Scientist and inventor, Dr. Bevan Reid, passed away January 17th, 2010.  He had been a champion of the cause to show the existence of subtle forces in nature.


As a cancer researcher he had tremendous success:


Research by Dr. Bevan Reid lead to the invention of a computerized device which reliably detects cancerous and pre-cancerous cells.

He further developed the polarprobe:
The basic scientific research leading to the development of the new device called Polarprobe, which can detect cervical cancer and pre-cancer on the spot simply by scanning a probe across the cervix.

Dr. Reid conducted experiments with 'aether waves' at the QE II Research Lab at the Sydney University.

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"Copper sulfate crystals dissolved in water created these aether waves which could be measured by means of a torsion balance a couple of rooms away in another lab down the corridor."

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Some readers may be interested in Bevan's research on the influence of a mass of lead over distance (through the aether) on the mortality rate of bacteria.

In 1980 he performed experiments on salt crystals which showed that crystal growth in one test tube could affect crystal growth in another- even when separated by several meters.

A heavy lead mass nearby would also affect growth. Such action-at-a distance was proposed by Sir Isaac Newton.

Dr. Reid said that Russian experiments in 1972 showed that infection of normal cells with a virus would cause destruction of healthy cells which were in another dish separated by a few millimeters.

Intrigued, one of Reid's colleagues from the University of Chicago repeated the experiments but could not get them published.

"His research was elegant, but he really got roasted for putting forward an idea like that," Reid recalled.

Reid repeated the experiments using specialized mouse fibroblast cells in two petri dishes and a poison called colchicine. He found cellular disruptions caused by colchicine in the first dish were mirrored in the second dish which did not contain the poison. When the cells in the first dish died, cells in the second dish ultimately recovered.

To Reid's astonishment, lab workers in another building 200 meters away found that mouse fibroblast cells were being affected!

These experiments show how there is truth to the processes of sympathetic magic. They also give us food for thought on healing and how it can be achieved "outside" of the patient.

Morning & Evening Meditation- Rudolf Steiner

 Given in English to an English pupil:

In the Morning:
Picture to yourself that you are in the midst of cosmic
space, surrounded by Light, and that a voice comes to you from the four points of the compass (a single voice, but coming from four different directions) speaking to you:- 

"Be a strong I. Give thy heart to the Spirit of the World."

(Be very quiet in your soul after this meditation.)

In the Evening:
Review the day in backward order from evening
till morning.
Picture to yourself that you are in the depths of
cosmic space, surrounded by Darkness, and that you are speaking to the Full Moon in the East:-

"I will be a strong I. I will give my heart
to the Spirit of the World."

(Be very quiet in your soul after this meditation)

-Rudolf Steiner

Icy Formative Forces

As an addendum to the blog entry on water and karma :

There was a time when Helena Blavatsky was shunned by some in the Theosophical Society. She still had little study meetings in London with stalwart fans and these are published as Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge. Here is an excerpt of relevance to our subject:

From H.P. Blavatsky, Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge:

Q. When Tyndall* took a large block of ice and threw a powerful ray upon it and thence on to a screen, there were to be seen the forms of ferns and plants in it. What is the reason for this?
*(Professor John Tyndall b. 1820)
A. .....Occultism would explain it by saying either that the ray helped to show the astral shapes which were preparing to form future ferns and plants, or that the ice had preserved the reflection of actual ferns and plants that had been reflected in it. Ice is a great magician, whose occult properties are as little known as those of Ether. .....This is well known to the learned Yogis who dwell on the eternal ice of Bodrinath and the Himalayas.
At any rate, ice has certainly the property of retaining images of things impressed on its surface under certain conditions of light, images which it preserves until it is melted. .... in decomposing the ice with heat you deal with the forces and the things that were impressed on it, then you find that it throws off these images and the forms appear. It is but one link leading to another link.

Rudolf Steiner also noted this marvel:

When Steiner noted that the icy crystals that form in winter on the panes of windows are different on a flower shop from those appearing on the windows of a butcher shop, he suggested to Pfeiffer and to another of his early followers, Lily Kolisko, that they experiment in the lab with the formation of crystals as a means of demonstrating what he called the "formative forces" in nature.

- Secrets of the Soil, Tompkins and Bird, 1989

In recent years Masuro Emoto has been known for his work in demonstrating the responsive nature of water to human thoughts and emotions.

Love Is Endless- Thomas Lake Harris

As I mused, in fancy friendless,
While the shades of evening fell,
From the land where Angels dwell
Came the whisper, "Love is endless,
Endless, endless!"
From the land where Angels dwell.

From my thought the Vail was taken;
In my heart I knew that Love,
From its holy home above,
Gently came my soul to waken,
Waken, waken,
From its blessed home above.


Then from all its load of sorrow,
Lifted up, my mind was free;
Full of gladness, dawned on me,
Love-inspired, a better morrow,
'Morrow, morrow,
Full of gladness, dawned on me.


Heavenly dew of peace descended,
And my Lord, from His Divine,
Comforted this heart of mine;
All my grief in love was ended,
Ended, ended—
Comforted this heart of mine.

Jesus speaks the heart's evangel,
"Love is endless!" His behest
Fills with life the happy breast.
Nearer He than man or Angel,
Angel, Angel;
Love is endless in my breast.

Nearer draws the blest Elysian;
Perfect glows the holy spell;
Love is endless; all is well.

Brighter grows the heavenly vision,
Vision, vision;
Love is endless; all is well.
I ceased; and as the dying strain,
Like a white cloud, afar was lifted,
My bosom grew inspired again,
My heart with melody was gifted.
I poured my rapid thought in words,
Till music shook the chords of Heaven;
Those golden chords, those golden chords,
Those heavenly harp-strings, three and seven
The threefold chords and strings of air,
The sevenfold breath of perfumed sweetness,
In music thrilled, as, free from care,
I sang the Hymn of Life's Completeness.

-T.L.Harris

Dionysos & the Wedding at Cana

Archbishop Temple in his book, Readings in the Gospel of St. John says, "The modest water saw its God, and blushed."
This is quoted by Alfred Heindenreich in his The Unknown in the Gospels.

More from there:

".....The Fourth Gospel by Sir Edwyn Hoskyns. This great scholar draws our attention to the fact that the change of water into wine also has its background not only in the Hermetic literature, but even in Greek philosophy and poetry. He quotes from one of Plato's dialogues where he says that poets are inspired and possessed 'like Bacchic maidens, who draw milk and honey from the rivers, when they are under the influence of Dionysos, but not when they are in their right mind.' Plato suggests that the maidens connected with the cult of Bacchus or Dionysos, in a certain state of mind, draw milk and honey from the rivers."

"This happens when the devotees of Bacchus, of Dionysos, go out under the spell, under the influence - you might say, under the blessing - of the god.

It is somewhat on those lines, on that level, that we now approach the understanding of this significant deed recorded in St. John's Gospel."

"Had we been called to a wedding in ancient times, what would we have seen? Let us assume that the customary beverage, wine, had all been used. What would have happened? Given the right conditions of blood-relationship among the members of this wedding party, we might have experienced, for instance, that the water which, at a later moment of the feast, had been offered in place of the wine had been experienced as wine by the guests, through the magical force of consanguineous love."

"Wine, not water, would have been drunk had the proper magical conditions prevailed among these people. Do not say that the wine would have been water none the less, for it is reasonable to say that, in such circumstances, things are what they do to us, what effect they have on our organism, not what they appear to be . . The power to experience in this manner prevailed among those who were present at the marriage at Cana in Galilee.

-The Gospel of St John, Rudolf Steiner

"In a subsequent lecture (XIV in the same course RS ) he comes back to this once more, and says that through his special training the author of the Fourth Gospel "understood that it was possible to transform that which appears outwardly as water so that it becomes changed into wine by being taken into the human organism when it is drunk".

"There is another detail in the story which has puzzled theologians. You remember there are the six pots of water according to the Jewish custom of ceremonial ablution. They are described as holding between them something like one hundred and fifty gallons- a colossal amount. Although they were filled, however, the Gospel in the Greek suggests that the servants now go out once more and draw. It was Bishop Westcott who drew attention for the first time to that peculiar phrase, a phrase used now, "draw again from the source". Steiner says this is vital, and it shows just how accurate John is."

"What kind of water was required by Christ? He needed water drawn from the sources of nature. Hence it must be expressly stated that the water had been freshly drawn. Water that had not yet lost the inner life force which any element possesses so long as it remains united with nature such water alone could be suitable for His purpose."

"Steiner sums up his discussion on this first sign by saying that special importance is attached to the fact that the Christ-power worked upon the other soul prepared to receive it so that a result was evoked.

"The essential point is that the Christ force has the power to prepare the other soul so that these effects can show themselves. Christ rendered the wedding guests susceptible so that they also tasted the water as wine.

"Putting it in terms of the ancient mysteries, He acted like Dionysus. This is by no means a far-fetched idea; if you go to Rome and visit the catacombs, some of the tombs excavated under St. Peter's, you find Christ actually depicted by the early Christians as Dionysus. Perhaps we can see why."

The other point is, that up to the Mystery of Golgotha alcohol had not completed its mission. This was the "turning point of time" and alcohol then worked in a different way. The Christ now brought us the full power of the Self.