I last spoke with Robert the week before last. He will turn 93 on 6 August 2010.

Jerry

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SAHAGUN says Chapter 5 “Good Vibrations” P.160:

“The Halls were close friends of Oscar Brunler, an amiable physician and Rosicrucian chemist who lived a few miles west at the top of a steep flight of stairs on Queens Way off Sunset Boulevard. Brunler was noted for having invented a special torch used in underwater demolition work during WWII. But the Hall were interested in his “brain scale,” a mechanism roughly the size and shape of a shoebox that he said produced a numerical value for the frequency of the “di-electric radiation” vibrations streaming out of a person’s brain, or off their artwork, or handwriting.

“Brunler believed that a person’s handwriting that a person’s handwriting could be measured for levels of “brain radiation” with his biometer. This was because, he said, eyes focus such energies on the moving pen or pencil during the act of writing. People with the greatest mental capacity, he determined through the experimentation, also showed the highest frequency of vibrations Writing samples could only be tested with the biometer if they were rendered with a fountain pen if they were rendered with a fountain pen. Ballpoint pens, which were becoming popular in the early 1950s, were useless, Brunler said. Hall, who had been collecting the signatures of occultists and influential leaders in science, literature, business and religion for decades, provided Brunler with lots of material for testing.

“In his promotional literature, Brunler claimed his “discovery of the di-electric radiation and its application to the mind of man is proving to be one of the epoch-making discoveries of the Twentieth Century,” and that he had measured the brain radiation of “20,000 men, women, and children from the common laborer to the outstanding personalities in all walks of life.” Brunler held that most people registered below 300 on his brain scale. Hall’s biometric reading of about 450 was in the vicinity of Einstein’s and Tolstoy’s, Brunler concluded, but about 200 points below Madame Blavatsky’s and Michelangelo’s. Brunler rated himself at 792, 12 points higher than Leonardo Da Vinci.

“In his book ‘Rays and Radiation’, Brunler tried to explain the dynamics of the peculiar radiation, which he said “no instruments used by orthodox science can measure. “The radiation of our mind is di-electric radiation,” he said. “Our mind is a condensation of the all-pervading energy. Mind is not matter, but it is energy at its first stage of condensation. Mind is composed therefore of neutrons and the radiation of our minds is the radiation of the neutrons. The wave length of the radiation indicates the energy condensation of the neutrons.”

“Brunler’s peers included a mutual friend of his nd Hall’s, Ruth B. Drown, a masculine-looking specialist in bone diseases who was being closely watched by American Medical Association investigators. Drown’s method was to transmit shortwave “healing rays” over long distances from a “broadcasting room” in Los Angeles. Drown also used a “radio-vision instrument” to to analyze the radiation flowing off dried drops of a patients blood on blotter paper and then draw conclusions about his or her health.

“In her book ‘The Theory and Technique of Drown Radio Therapy and Radio-vision Instruments, she explained the system this way. “When placed on a blotter, the blood is crystallized, even as ice is crystalized steam, and each small atom is the precipitated crystallized end of an invisible line which reaches out to the ethers,” she writes. “This invisible line passes through the body over the nerves and through the blood vessels and the electrons from the air, water and earth supply the body structure, attaching themselves to that line, which holds the pattern of the body.”

“Medical authorities believed Drown was an outright fraud, or insane. But some metaphysicians regarded her a medical genius. Among them was one of Hall’s close friends, Dr. Robert Gerard, who served as chief of intelligence for psychological warfare under General Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II and later headed the PsychophysiologicalResearchLaboratory at the Veterans Administration Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Los Angeles. “Ruth Drown was a brilliant woman who was psychologically crucified by the state,” Gerard said. “When you use machines that are more advance than what science believes, you will be accused of being a quack.”

“Gerard, a longtime PRS trustee, was also a devotee of Brunler, who died in 1952, and among five people trained to use his “biometer.” The others included a college counselor, a head of personnel for a large corporation, and a physician, Gerard said.

Leaning back in a comfortable armchair in his Brentwood living room, Gerard reveled in the memories of the 1950s and 1960s. “I got my Ph.D. in clinical psychology at UCLA in 1958. It would have been denied had they known I studied Blavatsky. At UCLA, I was known as a great scholar and hardcore scientist.” “Brunler” he added, “thought I was a virtuoso occultist who could measure a person’s energy fields simply by looking at them. “Before Brunler died, I told him that I could get biometric results without using his machine, which was empty except for nylon strings,” Gerard recalled. “i had discovered that one’s very soul knows what another’s measurement is. Brunler took my hand and said, ‘So you have discovered the secret. Please keep it to yourself. Some people need black boxes in order to believe.’ I said, ‘Dr. Brunler, it shall remain a secret.”

Most of what SAHAGUN says is true. But he gets the radiations of Leonardo and Brunler wrong. He seems to be skeptical of radiesthetic and telesthetic technique. The following list comes from radiations taken by Brunler and given to Arthur Young to copy at the time c.1950.

Manly Hall 438
Marie Hall 497
Oscar Brunler 640
Leonardo 725
Einstein 469
Tolstoy 422
Blavatsky 660
Michelangelo 688
Ruth Drown 650
Bob Gerard 416
Eisenhower 492