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THE FUTURE OF BORDERLAND RESEARCH

This website marks the initiation of a new phase of borderland research. The philosophy of the content of the borderland stream has gone through definite and requisite metamorphosis over the years. Such is inevitable with a living information stream.

The term "borderland" is used in several ways, but has one main definition in this context. Meade Layne used borderland to designate the area of contact with the unseen spiritual forces. In Goethe's theory of color, the prismatic colors form on the border between white and black when viewed through a prism, indicating that the formation of color is a borderland phenomenon. Borderland has also been used to designate "fringe science" types of ideas. Fringe science is oriented toward ideas that are generally incapable of being understood by the mainstream—usually because the world view of the inventor or discoverer is unique—and generally works with unseen and unknown energies and activities. This is in accord with the main contextual definition l use. The border we speak of is the border which separates the seen from the unseen, the ponderable from the imponderable, the physical from the spiritual, the known from the unknown.

We have borders above to the cosmos and borders below going into the earth. These have been probed for millennia with the imagination, but have only been probed in the physical over the last few decades through great efforts of technology. Our rockets into space have begun to cross the physical barriers to our environment on the surface of this planet. Drilling probes into the deep earth have been done in various places on this globe, but going down deep into dense matter is a bit harder than going up. Of course the caverns of the world offer deep world entrances, and the lore of caves leaves us with many mysteries of the unknown.

CROSSING THE BORDERS

So in borderland research these borders can be crossed, and what is beyond them perceived, in many ways, physically, mentally and spiritually.

Psychic research is one direction. Developing clairvoyance does not mean that one can "see" thing which are not visible to others, but they are able to see that which is before their very eyes without the conceptual blockages inherent in our current status quo consciousness. It is a higher state of awareness where sight comes through not only the eyes but through the whole being, through the activities of the developed imagination.

For an example let us consider plant life. In most cases there is the seed, the young stages of the leaves, the flowering and fruiting. At which stage can you say "this is the plant, this is the whole of the plant?" The plant is a temporal phenomenon and the physical plant we see on any given day shows the growth state and condition of the temporal being behind it at that point in time. To understand the whole of the plant one must study its entire life cycle and its interactions with its universal environment When one can see the metamorphosis of form being driven by the flow of cosmic events then one can begin to approach the basic understandings of the etheric world, for the etheric world is a temporal one. So our clairvoyance in this field is not one of seeing something that is not visible to all, but in seeing what is truly there to anyone with the insight. This type of sight comes through thorough observation of, and contemplation on, natural phenomena with the use of the imagination and intuition. Directly related to this higher sense of seeing is the visual ray experiments such as are given in MAN OR MATTER and COSMIC PULSE OF LIFE.

For many years borderland researchers used mediumship to obtain answers from the beyond. Meade Layne relied heavily on the information gained from the "Inner Circle", a group of disembodied entities channeled through Mark Probert. In the 1940's & 50's the borderland stream invovled the use of mediums. Meade Layne and others would go to the Inner Circle to ask questions and bounce ideas around. They were probing and questioning. Riley Crabb built on much of this material to pursue research into the occult connections of the flying saucer mysteries.

Today people go to channels to relieve themselves of responsibility for their future. They allow their spiritual growth to be determined by disembodied souls, entities whose general story seems to be, '1 am here to help you, let me take over your mind and speak through your lips." Some helpl This is not realty a pathway to higher states of consciousness, though it is a pathway across the borderlands.

RIGHT IDEA - WRONG DIRECTION

But clairvoyance, without proper orientation in the universe, can lead one to pursue false paths. A classic example of this is the occult chemistry of Theosophist Charles Leadbeater. Leadbeater was able to discern the atomic and subatomic structures of elemental matter through his clairvoyant vision—he would isolate an element from nature, slow down its activity psycho-kinetically, and view its structure. Modem research with high energy accelerators has shown Leadbeater to be on cue, and there can be no doubt that he had deep insight, but his orientation—that of looking into matter—was that of modern science in these researches and that orientation has left us with a world full of problems. What is interesting is the polarity of action against nature present in these thoughts. Leadbeater, with his internal volitional force, slowed down the materials and the modern scientists, with their electrically driven atom smashers, speed the matter up (electricity being how the externalized volitional force has manifested in our culture).

Rudolf Steiner had several pertinent comments about this orientation:

"Spiritual Science always tries to look into the effects of living things on a large scale. It does not pry into the minute and microscopic, for that is not the most important. It does not primarily concern itself with the conclusions which are drawn from the minute—from microscopical investigations. To observe the macrocosmic—the wide circumference of Nature's workings—-that is the task of Spiritual Science. But we must first know how to penetrate into these wider workings of Nature."

"What does science do nowadays? It takes a little plate and lays a preparation on it, carefully separates it off and peers into it, shutting off on every side whatever might be working into it. We call it a 'microscope.' It is the very opposite of what we should do to gain a relationship to the wide spaces. No longer content to shut ourselves off in a room, we shut ourselves off in this microscope-tube from all the glory of the world. Nothing must now remain but what we focus in our field of vision. By and by it has come to this: scientists always have recourse, more or less, to their microscope. We, however, must find our way out again into the macrocosm. Then we shall once more begin to understand Nature-and other things too."

AGRICULTURE -A Course of Eight Lectures by Rudolf Steiner, Given at Koberwitz, Silesia, June 7-16, 1924, Bio-Dynamic Association, London, 1958

THE WONDROUS ELECTRICAL FORCES

Electrical research is another area of prime borderland research. While the term "occult" puts many people off, it should be realized that electricity is an occult force whose effects we only see when equipment is property engineered. Four to five hundred years ago one would possibly be burned at the stake if it would have been possible for them to demonstrate modern electrical devices.

Electricity is considered by some to be a degraded form of the Light Ether, that the etheric force gets bound up in matter in a way that it can be used. But being bound up in matter it provides mankind with the option of using it property or improperly. Many articles on the detrimental effects of electric fields have been published, and more studies are no doubt underway on this important topic. There are also some records of electro-therapeutic devices that used this force for healing.

Tesia envisioned a worldwide electrical power system and did the basic testing to show himself that it was viable, and the Wardencliffe Tower just needed to be completed and we would have worldwide free electricity today. Tesia was a man of great intellect and was a reader of Goethe and other great minds. One would feel that he was in some way familiar with Goethe's Farbenlehre (color theory). The type of electricity being sent around our globe on wires is of a different, lower form that that of Tesla's transmission of electricity without wires. It is quite possible that Tesla's electricity was of a beneficial nature. Tesla did research into electro-therapeutics and was no doubt aware of both beneficial and detrimental effects. With the power system he envisioned on line we may not have ended up with the electrical health problems we are just beginning to see the "tip of the iceberg" of.

This point needs clarification and elaboration beyond what most people now imagine. Consider Dr. Lilly Kolisko's experiments with the crystallization of metallic salts rising contra gravity during planetary alignments. These experiments were done to establish whether or not the planets had any direct connection to the metals as alchemical lore supposed.

"That there is an inward gold, or rather, that gold has an inward as well as an outward reality, was only logical for the contemplative way of looking at things, which spontaneously recognized the same 'essence' in both gold and the sun. It is here, and nowhere else, that the root of alchemy lies."      —Titus Burckhardt in Alchemy

The connections investigated are Gold-Sun, Silver-Moon, Mercury-Mercury, Copper-Venus, Iron-Mars, Tin-Jupiter, Lead-Saturn- For example. Dr. Kolisko would take a gold chloride solution (1%) and allow a portion of it in a laboratory dish to climb a segment of blotter paper. As it dried the fine details of crystalline form could be seen. After many experiments the characteristic form of each metal's salt could be understood. It was scientifically established that the actions of cosmic bodies would have direct effects upon the crystallizing actions in the lab. Gold chloride would not crystallize property during several solar eclipses that Dr. Kolisko reported on (1927,1947). A darkening effect was noticed on these slides.

Amongst the recollections of Dr. Rudolf Hauschka, founder of Wala Pharmaceuticals, he states:

"In the course of researches into the delicate changes in matter which are revealed in the capillary-dynamic method, an alarming symptom came to the fore. At one of the Easter conferences of the Anthroposophical Doctors' Working Group in Comburg in 1964, Frau Kolisko, the past-master of the capillary-dynamic method, spoke on 'Gold and the Signs of the Times.' In earlier years she had demonstrated by means of the Steigbild (literally rising pictures, also known as chromatograms) the connections between the metals and the planets, and in particular the effect on gold of an eclipse of the sun. During an eclipse of the sun the gold Steigbild which normally glows with beautiful colors, shows a darkening and the emergence of grey formations. Frau Kolisko now showed a series of gold Steigbild produced in the last years almost hourly and at all times of the day and of the year. Without exception all of them showed the same sinister dark formations which had appeared earlier, in the first half of the century, only at the time of a sun eclipse. She closed her lecture with a question to the doctors, namely whether, considering the change now in gold, they could still be answerable for its use as a medicine. There was no doubt about it: since the middle of the century gold had become different — it was sick. Or, to express it differently, the connection between the spheres of the sun which stream down and the metal which they permeate is disturbed."

AT THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE by Rudolf Hauschka, Steiner Book Center, N. Vancouver, Canada, 1985

ELECTRICITY: THE MAIN CULPRIT

The main culprit in this sickness of earthly matter is none other than the electrical environment that has manifested on this planet Certainly there were radio communications going during Dr. Kolisko's early experiments, but as this chart from Trevor Constable's COSMIC PULSE OF LIFE shows, the post WWII environment was heavy with these signals,culminating in today's total saturation point. Imagine what the Steigbild would have shown in previous centuries before the electrical force began its manifestation.

Nuclear proliferation must also be considered as adding to this phenomenon, but electricity is the degraded form of the light ether, whose source the sun is related to gold. Walter Russell, in ATOMIC SUICIDE, indicates that the spread of nuclear energy will destroy the atmosphere surrounding this planet and now scientists are scratching their heads as the hole in the planetary ozone layer gets larger. (Of course chlorofluorocarbons and New Zealand sheep farts have all been blamed for the ozone depletion, but nuclear energy is the primary cause according to Russell.) This atmospheric destruction could well aid in cutting off gold from its cosmic wellspring of life.

Rudolf Steiner had many insights into the true nature of electricity, its relationship to humanity and its role in our future. Pertinent to the matter at hand let us consider the following remarks, a portion of his answer to a question about electrical treatment of animal fodder:

"You must consider the whole part played by electricity in Nature, ...to the effect that human beings cannot go on developing in the same way in an atmosphere permeated on all sides by electric currents and radiations. It has an influence on the whole development of man. This is quite true; man's inner life will become different if these things are carried as far as is now intended. It makes a difference whether you simply supply a certain district with steam-engines or electrify the railway lines. Steam works more consciously, whereas electricity has an appallingly unconscious influence; people simply do not know where certain things are coming from. Without a doubt there is a trend of evolution in the following direction. Consider how electricity is now being used above the earth as radiant and as conducted electricity, to carry the news as quickly as possible from one place to another. This life of men in the midst of electricity, notably radiant electricity, will presently affect them in such a way that they will no longer be able to understand the news which the receive so rapidly. The effect is to damp down their intelligence. Such effects are already to be seen today. Even today you can notice how people understand the things that come to them with far greater difficulty than they did a few decades ago.

'It is a remarkable fact that whenever something new appeals, as a rule in the early stages it is heralded as a remedy—a means of healing. Then the prophets get hold of it. It is strange, where a new thing appears, clairvoyant perception is often reduced to a very human level! Here is a man who makes all sorts of prophecies about the healing powers of electricity, where no such thing would previously have occurred to him. Things become fashionable! No one was able to imagine healing people by electricity so long as electricity was not there. Now—not because it is there, but because it has become the fashion—now it is suddenly proclaimed as a means of healing. Electricity—applied as radiant electricity—is often no more a means of healing than it would be to take tiny little needles and prick the patient all over with them. It is not the electricity-it is the shock that has the healing effect.

"Now you must not forget that electricity always works on the higher organization, the head-organization both of man and animal; and correspondingly, on the root-organization in the plant It works very strongly there. If...you pour electricity through the foodstuffs—you create foodstuffs which will gradually cause the animal that feeds on them to grow sclerotic. It is a slow process; it will not be observed at once. Electricity will not at first be recognized as the cause; it will be ascribed to all manner of other things.

"Electricity, once and for all, is not intended to work into the realm of the living—it is not meant to help living things especially; it cannot do so. You must know that electricity is at a lower level than that of living things."

AGRICULTURE — A Course of Eight Lectures by Rudolf Steiner, Given at Koberwitz, Silesia, June 7-16, 1924, Bio-Dynamic Association, London, 1958

How pertinent and timely these words are today on many levels of borderland research. Electrical/electronic medicine has the glamorous position on stage, and in many people's minds, in today's 'borderland' field. People are racing to buy instruments which are designed by electronic engineers with little or no training in the comprehensive constitution of humans. It is the fashion! There is no consideration that true healing comes from the spiritual realms, that the spirit is always healthy, and that dis-ease comes from a condition where the various subtle levels of the body are not aligned property with the physical.

These electrical instruments have the potential to work on many people to treat symptoms. But what of the long term effects of the subsensible electric current? Considering the alarming state of affairs viewed through the information just presented I pose the question, "Do you prefer the natural or the unnatural forms of treatment?" Many people flock to electronic medicine because they feel that the petro-chemical drugs that are prescribed by the medical establishment are detrimental to their long term health. Very possibly so, but will electricity be any better? What about your own vital energy and its relation to cosmic life forces?

Electrical stimulation of the body treats a symptom and fails to allow for the body's natural healing process. As electricity is an externalized part of humanity's inner volitional force we can see that there will be definite effects from the subsensible current But the effects will be relative and the inner healing process put on secondary mode. Electro-therapy, while emerging as a viable medicine of the future, appears to ignore the natural healing process.

This does not mean that we should not research electro-therapy. In what may seem a contradiction here, I am 100% for further research into this area. It will no doubt be of benefit to many. Our relationship with electricity is one of the greatest questions of our time. People unconsciously use this force, and the results are such as those noted by Lilly Kolisko.

EEMAN AND REICH

The researches of Leon E. Eeman and Wilhelm Reich provide a solid ground for research into balancing and aligning the human vital force with the physical body. Eeman worked with connecting opposite polarities of the body in order to overcome and get around energetic blockages. Dr. Reich worked with an innovative technique of therapy and massage that he developed in order to 'unarmor' the human, release the blockages. Dr. Reich also developed the orgone accumulator, based on his discovery of a mass-free atmospheric life energy. The use of Dr. Reich's orgone accumulators was not recommended around electrical appliances, fluorescent lights, X-ray tubes and the like because they were life-negative. In light of Dr. Lilly Kolisko's forboding discovery of the status of gold we must reconsider the wide-scale usage of orgone accumulators. They concentrate the energy that is there, and we must consider its current status.

L.E. Eeman did many experiments with 'substance circuits', that is circuits of wire connecting polarities of the body in which substances are inserted. J. Cecil Maby, who participated in many of Eeman's experiments, insisted on using a high-frequency coil in the circuit. Eeman relented, and could identify the substances - they were coming through the electrified circuit — but be got much clearer and stronger indications from the simple copper wire circuits he developed.

THE SQUARE AND THE CIRCLE

With our present world condition in mind we must consider the appropriate individual paths to take in researching the borderlands. The ancient cultures of this planet were in tune with the cosmic forces as well as the earthly forces. Our present culture has cut off the cosmic forces, as is ominously evident in Lilly Kolisko's 1964 report, and has twisted its use of the earthly forces—merely taking what it wants with no allowance for the renewal of the planetary life force.

So the square has taken over and the circle made subservient Modem architecture shows the square overtly, with happenstance circles not tied in according to the old cannons of measure. Ancient architecture built in harmony with earth and sky and this is now being used in our present world by a scant few aware souls. The circle and the square must be in harmony as polar opposites, rhythmically carrying living forces, and not in conflict with each other as in our present situation.

So in borderland research we must again strive to reconnect with the cosmic bearings which bring the constant renewal of life and the intellectual impulses of a higher order. This can be done through many means and this website is in existence as a medium to present these manifold ideas.

Ancient cultures have left us many mysteries and these must be investigated to allow our developed imagination to build a complete world picture. Energy researches must be carried on to investigate the beneficial and detrimental effects of the electrical forces on one hand, and the development and use of equipment that will tap the higher forces on the other. Tied in directly with that are the conceptions of electro-therapy, but we must consider that research important but secondary to research into the subtle energies such as radionics, homeopathy, radiesthesia and dowsing. Plant metamorphosis must be studied as an overall key to the etherics sciences. UFOs, the perichoresis of our modem world view, must be looked at from many angles, keeping in mind that they are phenomena on the horizon line of our sensory capacities.

And thus Borderland Research moves into the future. With feet on the earth, and eyes toward the cosmos I ask you to think for yourself and attempt the same. This work requires one great task, the proper orientation and continued growth of your world view. Those who are capable of going in that direction are ready for advancement. It is for them that this site exists. It will be continually expanding with new and innovative ideas as time and energy permit.

Thomas Joseph Brown