Chronos Apollonios' "Home on Olympus"
Somewhere in the ever shifting blizzard of papers, temporarily lost, is an article from an old science magazine about a researcher who successfully put out flames with radio waves. It very likely came from Science Abstracts or the Science Citation Index for the 1920's or 1930's, or perhaps slightly later.
Understanding well the researches into dowsing, and the identification or partial identification of the forces involved and a few basic science concepts, we can begin to see that certain old practices promised to magickally prohibit houses from burning down may have a basis in recognizable physical reality.
Some of the materials involved in the proceedures have numerous citations of miscellaneous magickal properties, which under cafeul scrutiny appear to be more expressions and extentions of the same thing. The patterns of correlation are strong, and consistent.
In more recognizably modern applications, the use of wireless anti flame methods might save "inestimable" dollars in water damages to personal properties as a result of firefighting efforts, facilate firefighting through difficulties in the use of water such as transportation and shortages of it, and so on. Clearly, insurance companies have an unrequited vested interest to stand behind such technology and see it along.
Some variations of the magickal ways, such as driving three hazel twigs into a house as an enchantment against fire may go toward the technology of Howard Wachpress' levitation designs/patents, where odd & even numbers of magnetic poles are responisible, or the seemingly related "Countermagnetic Amplifier" of Active Research and Development's Time Camera and toward the magnetic qualities of magic mirrors.
It is the first thing to suppose that excessive spontaneous combustion does have various energy signatures, and can be prevented by devices which "jam" the appropriate bands, to those which take energy away from a spontaneously combusing system. By the same token, principles of "scalar thermics" are related, and applicable as well.
There are interesting overtones in some Native American literature that certain animal traps might have been employed or almost imployed around this purpose, in light of the formidable "metaphysical" or magickal reputations of the plants which were used to prohibit rusting of the traps, which is, like combustion, subordinant to the concept of oxidation. Numerous books on Native American ethnobotany contain such information. Certain oaks and horsetails are several plants which have been cited.
Native Americans of the same regions express awareness of plants acting on water at a distance, a signature of "magickal" forces, in the way they "credit" the water lily for formation of fog over ponds. They probably don't believe that, per se, but as always, they're likely getting at something quite important.
Thus such relics as the "Babylonian Terra Cotta Devil Trap" (E.A.Wallis Budge, "Amulets and Talismans") may in fact be along the same order, and may be enacted by a specific circling current pertainent to the energy signature of excessive combustion. Much literature is able to support the technological standards of the time and the recognition of the principles.
(see web page here: "I'd Rather Ride A Broom: Tutankhamen Did" for more information on ancient technical standards and on their incredible applications of dowsing forces)
Some likely candidates are hydromagentics or magnetohydrodynamics, but there are of course others. Reports of experimental spacecraft jamming electrical equipment and certain radio experiments causing power blackouts may well be similar, as well as the principle behind accounts of "cold explosions".
It may be rare, of course, in the modern day, that we deal with such elegantly creative ideas like the energies that interact with water or behave like water could express enough of the physical characteristics of water to extinguish combustion if they were correctly directed; the application of obvious ionic ideas and the like could, in honesty, be readily applied to such problems to produce quick results.
Oscar Blomgren's methods of electrostatic cooling could also be immensely relevant here.
Babylonian Terra Cotta Devil Traps. Circling, dynamic magnetic currents can perform circuit functions such as sense, act and decide... in this case, sense rampant combustion, decide it's excessive, and act to put it out. Does the establishment of such a current in a ceramic like this rely on the "Directional Casting" technique in Stanton Friedman's article on electromagnetic submarine propulsion ?
We can assume much of these and their primary purpose perhaps from the strong symbolic association between "the Devil" or "devils", and fire.
We can also consider whether traditional groups like "Fire Societies", who knew uses of herbs (such as Echinaceae and Yarrow) and other folk ways of lessinging the impact of fire on living beings, and performed them in public, handling hot coals in their mouth, somewhere back in time knew a great deal more about the mastery of, and immunity to, fire in it's destructive aspects.
Failing that, we can maybe consider Palingenics: if a plant can be raised from its ashes, why can't a house and contents? Lacking the appropriate pan or flask for this alchemic process, we can consider how to define the area involved as a resonant cavity, or other time-reversal methods which rely on energy input. Rupert Sheldrake's observations about Paralastor species wasps may already reveal sufficient clues.
Names of time reversal researchers and Oscar Blomgen links, and more information can be found on the "Astounding Information" pages, and the Palingenics page at this site.
And of course, we can consider any of these merely the logical extention of another set of experiments of roughly the time of the radio wave work. Popular Science, March 1931, contains the following article:
"High Voltage Current Extinguishes Flame"
Fire in a mine is always a deadly peril. Explosions and cave-ins may block the work of fire-fighting brigades equipped with ordinary apparatus. Therefore mine officials watched with unusual interest the experiments of Bernard Lewis, physical chemist at the the Pittsburgh, Pa., station of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, who recently demonstrated that he could put out a flame with electricity.
Lewis lit a gas flame in a glass tube. Then he brought near it a piece of wire gauze charged with high voltage electricity. The flame vibrated convulsively, dwindled, and went out. Burning carbon monoxide gas, and gaseous carbon-and-hydrogen compounds like the dreaded 'fire damp' of miners, were successfully extinguished.
The electrically-charged pieces of gauze, Lewis told Popular Science Monthly, literally tear the flame to peices. WHen an inflammable gas burns, the hot flame throws off particles of negative electricity, leaving the products of combustion charged with positive electricity. His high voltage electric feild draws negatively charged electrons to one electrode and positively charged particles to the other, breaking up the flame. Whether the same thing may be done outside the laboratory, and if so on how large a scale, remains to be seen."
One gets the sad and discomforting feeling that not many have been looking ever since...
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