J.G.: But you had one control -- a box of seeds with aluminum foil at the top and bottom that wasnt wired or connected to anything, right? What happened?
Hieronymus: They all sprouted at the same time and were about the same degree of sturdiness. But then something entirely different and, as far as I was concerned, unexpected actually started happening. There was chlorophyll in every plant that was wired to the outside plates, but the control box plants remained a pale yellow -- almost white.
J.G.: Fascinating. Has this experiment been duplicated by others?
Hieronymus: Yes, although when it was first published, one of the early experimenters deviated from my explanation in two serious ways: first, he didnt light-seal several big windows in his basement and second he laid his plates on the ground instead of elevating them six feet on outdoor shelves, so he got no potential differential, or antenna effect. This was corrected in later experiments and in each case the results coincided with mv own.
J.G.: What about differences in size and texture of the outdoor plates? What results?
Hieronymus: Thats the interesting thing. The amount of sunlight falling on any given area is measurable. For analogy, you can use an optic lens to concentrate sunlight to scorch or burn paper; well sir, the plants connected to the largest plates outside in the sunlight not only generated green coloring, they also gave every appearance of having been subjected to scorching sunlight -- as if theyd been singed or burned! The next largest plate yielded better plants and the next was about what youd expect normally from normal exposure to sunlight. The others especially the ones connected to the screening, were less green, and the one connected to the smallest piece of screen was yellowish.
J.G.: It seems inconceivable that photons can be transmitted through a wire.
Hieronymus: Oh, I doubt that the energy is visible sunlight; in fact I suspect were dealing with a form of energy from the sun that is probably non-electromagnetic in nature. This concept represents the entire thrust of the work Ive been doing most of my life.
J. G.: Are there others whove independently discovered the same energies?
Hieronymus: Oh sure, there are dozens of patented devices from all over the world. There are also scores of copies of the John Campbell version of my own instruments. When you stop to think about it, were dealing with a certain type of energy that is conductible over certain types of conductors and insulatable with certain others. When John asked me whether paper was a conductor of this energy, I told him no. Well, how about India ink? I said yes, India ink is a conductor, so he drew a diagram of the circuitry of my device in India ink -- a printed circuitry of my device in India ink -- a printed circuit -- and it worked!
J.G.: Isnt that because it contains carbon and silver nitrate which are conductors of electricity?
Hieronymus I cant tell you why. In fact I never had any occasion to find out whether there was silver nitrate in India ink. The point is that it is a conductor, not very good maybe, but good enough -- and the paper was a good enough insulator.
J. G.: Im interested in the life-affecting properties of psionic devices. Didnt you once kill corn ear worms with the energy focused through your instruments?
Hieronymus: On many occasions, but what most people are unaware of is that there are ways to shield against this energy and one of the shields is, of all things, simple transparent plastic. In one very important experiment I actually dissolved corn ear worms, but because of the life-affecting danger of such experiments, I havent said much about the process.
J.G.: All right, you neednt go into details . . .
Hieronymus: Some years ago when I was at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, the farmers, who used no sprays, gave me some just-formed ears of corn, twelve of which had worms inside. I chose six as being almost identical in worm-size and activity. With my instruments I measured the vitality of the worms (in test tubes) and we searched until we found a chemical reagent that, when applied to the worms environment -- poisoned it -- reduced its vitality to zero, and killed it. We picked out six ears and cut off some of the husk with scissors from the outside of three ears and put these three in a deep plastic bag. So I had a resonant contact with those three ears of corn by what is called the Aka thread -- not a religious concept, but a direct electrical conductor between a piece of the corn shuck and the ear itself. Its a natural phenomenon among living things that can easily be proved.
J.G.: Has this anything to do with the philosophical concept of the Akashic thread or record?
Hieronymus: Exactly the same root word. Well, the other plastic bag wasnt as deep as the first, so I put the next three ears inside, with the tassel tops downward and the ends stuck out. I packed the spaces between the ears with cotton so that when I put the bag down and tied a string around it, the worms couldnt crawl out. This turned out to be an important difference. Using the corn shucks from each three ears, I set my devices on automatic timers so that the essence of the reagent was tuned to each bag at alternate ten-minute intervals -- first the corn in the bag that was completely enclosed and tied with a rubber band and then the other that had the ends of the corn sticking out. With this set on automatic instruments, I left for the weekend for Chesapeake Bay. When we returned on Sunday night, one of the first things I did was to open the large plastic bag that had completely enclosed the corn and worm.
I was surprised to find that the worm in the first ear of corn was twice as big and twice as lively as he had been -- in fact hed eaten the whole length of the ear and already was two-thirds of the way back. The other two ears were just about the same; the worms had glutted themselves. I was so disappointed that I almost threw the other bag in the trash can. But I didnt. When I untied the string and removed the cotton, I found that in the first ear, which had been sticking out of the shallower plastic bag, the worm that had eaten about two or three inches when Id tied up the bag had only eaten about a half or three-quarters of an inch. In the trough at the end where the worm should have been there was only a damp spot. I was amazed, but when I checked the second ear -- the same thing. The worm in the third ear was still there, but when I touched him with a toothpick, he was absolutely dormant, so I upended him into a test tube and ran a vitality check, which was almost zero. So I laid him back in the trough hed eaten, covered the ear with its husk and let it treat overnight. When I unpacked the corn in the morning, that worm was just a damp spot. None of those three worms could have crawled away; they couldnt have gotten through the cotton or eaten a hole in the plastic bag. I ran a test of the plastic and learned that it was an almost perfect insulator against the poisonous energy I was directing at the corn earworms. On the other hand, with the corn sticking out of the other bag, the radiating energy from my instruments had direct contact with it. Ive done any number of experiments along these lines and theyve consistently proven the effectiveness of thin plastic sheeting as a radionic shield.