In 1913 Rudolf Steiner predicted, “The science of the future will be based on Sympathetic Vibrations.” Will that future arrive before 2013?
In the century before Steiner’s prediction was made, John Ernst Worrell Keely (1827-1898) was the man who did science based on “sympathetic vibrations.” He built working devices that operated on a mysterious force—an entirely new form of energy or source of power. Keely believed it would eventually power ships, cars, airplanes and even spaceships. Legend has it that he could set a machine into motion by playing a note on his violin—the precise vibration that resonated with his machine. But either he was too far ahead of his time or we are too far behind. Strangely, all of Keely’s writings—referenced in books, articles and memoirs of his era—have disappeared, except some fragments. Photographs of some of his machines remain, however. Keely built beautifully crafted expressions of his knowledge.
A generation later the visionary philosopher/sculptor Walter Russell (1871-1963) wrote about and painted expressions of his own inspired understanding of the universe. The knowledge that came to him in visions was later verified in scientific experiments. This report deals with Keely’s legacy; another time we’ll look back at Russell’s own important discoveries.
What were these extraordinary men trying to tell us? Could their knowledge eventually be applied to solutions for our time?
Dale Pond not only wondered; in 1984 he set out on a mission to find out. He studied the writings of Russell and Keely and what others wrote about them, trying to sort it all out. He researched sources ranging from the psychic Edgar Cayce to today’s hardcore scientists. Many years of study, contemplation and experiments resulted in a body of knowledge that Pond is now releasing, offered on a CD illustrated with more than 200 graphics, tables and images. If you want to buy a printout, you’d have more than 800 pages.
Pond describes the product, [SVP Universal Cosmology version 2.0], as “a fresh new—for most of us— comprehensive paradigm that binds and bridges many fields of science, mathematics, music, philosophy, religion and art.” The SVP stands for Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, a scientific system of natural laws pioneered by Keely. Pond’s web site further defines SVP as the field that explores sound and vibration “as they work in and through all known material and energetic matrices which includes Mind, Matter, Spirituality and their intimate linkages. SVP explores the harnessing of Mind Force in machinery”—understanding harmony and sound are key to this physics.
Dale Pond’s Journey of Discovery
Pond didn’t start out with the ambitious goal of articulating a whole new paradigm, but he did start out as a budding scholar. For instance, he recalls his intensity when he was only nine years old and begging his mother to drive the 30 miles to the local library so he could check out more books, and his disappointment when he found no books on chemistry. Pond mentioned that incident to me as a comparison with the wealth of information readily available to children today, only a few keystrokes away on the Internet.
That era had certainly not arrived in December, 1983, when as a young man Pond felt drawn to Virginia Beach. He didn’t know why he felt compelled to explore that seaside town; he only knew it was a time when he felt lost in his life—searching for something. At the Cayce foundation’s headquarters in Virginia Beach, he read about the famous psychic Edgar Cayce (1877-1945). The foundation’s library appealed to his love of books, so he volunteered to help there for a few months. That time coincided with the arrival from England of packages from the estate of a well-known writer, Edgerton Sykes, who had bequeathed books and papers to the Cayce foundation, the Association for Research and Enlightenment.
While reading the Sykes archives, Pond kept running into references to John Keely. One day, Pond pulled a book from a shelf and read at random. It was a Keely biography. He recalls the experience as similar to a light flashing on in his head as he realized, “This is what I came here to do.”
Motivated to learn all he could about this man Keely, Dale Pond went to every major library he could find. Obsessed, he became a collector. Digging back into the Cayce readings with fresh interest, Pond discovered that many people had come to the famous psychic with science questions not unlike Keely’s work. Eventually as Pond learned more about Keely’s science, he noticed that over the years the people who had catalogued the transcripts of Cayce readings—rich with spiritual, science and health advice—had not always known what to make of the hundreds of vibratory-physics-related references nor understood the scientific principles being revealed.
Who was this man Keely?
Even if we dedicated every word of this column to him, you would still need to read a full biography to grasp the importance of Keely’s work. It’s hard to believe that a man whom official histories ignore could have made paradigm-changing discoveries—including a source of unlimited free energy. And that he experimented for years with a mysterious aetheric substance and built about 2,000 machines and devices that ran by harmonizing with subtle forces.
The outcomes of his experiments ranged from power generation and anti-gravity to disintegration of solid matter. Perhaps a divinely higher power had allowed a few people to glimpse what humankind could do technologically and then had shut the door. If so, the door will probably remain shut until enough members of our species are advanced enough spiritually to use the knowledge responsibly.
Keely’s work was reported on in Philadelphia newspapers. Leading scholars, engineers and business people visited his shop and witnessed his demonstrations. Biographers say those visitors came to expose him as a fraud, but after most demonstrations they went away wanting a piece of the action; they had seen some very complicated but working machine that seemed poised to revolutionize the world.
His first machines weighed tons, but he made them smaller and smaller over the years, down to the size of a dinner plate. Water, sound waves and harmonics were involved in harnessing the forces that Keely showed could bend steel bars and produce thousands of pounds of force per square inch.
As Dale Pond read through stacks of books and other materials he discovered that Keely had been wrongly labeled in the mind of the public. The predominant legend after his death has been that Keely was a charlatan and irresponsibly spent investors’ money. Instead, his serious biographers reveal, the inventor was repeatedly swindled by certain men and companies who did take the money and run. Keely lived modestly. The money he spent went to metal shops and to workers in other specialized shops who forged, machined and built parts for his unusual machines.
Those who try to pin the “charlatan/swindler” label on John W. Keely often repeat a story claiming that he ran his amazing machines on compressed air. They base that legend on the fact that a large spherical tank was found stored under the floorboards in his laboratory. They ignore the fact that the pipes emerging from that famous spherical tank were of a diameter too tiny to be used for carrying compressed air. Instead they may have transported the mysterious force he worked with, and the tank was conveniently stored below because it would have dominated the room above.
Keely was called by friends “his own worst enemy” for several reasons. He didn’t deign to defend himself from every ignorant accusation. On one occasion he apparently lost his temper and destroyed his own machines after being wrongly accused. And he didn’t always speak or write in the terminology of the day’s accepted science.
Nearly a hundred years after Keely’s death, European author Theo Paijmans wrote a 472-page biography Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely. Paijmans’ book says Keely’s work was well known to Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Jules Vernes as well as theosophist Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and an underground of “technooccultists” who were fixated on the ultimate development of humanity through free energy.
Keely’s ideas and the machines he built were so advanced that the nineteenth-century scientific community couldn’t incorporate his concepts into their model of the natural world.
Combining Keely, Russell, Cayce insights
Back in his Virginia Beach days and during subsequent travels, young Dale Pond could see that someone should carefully sort through, organize, illustrate, review and explain what Keely, Russell, Cayce and many others had to say about how the universe works. In addition he began to collect notes for supporting research from whatever valid source he could find—Einstein, Hertz, Helmholtz, Tesla, Edison and many others. “The basic scientific tenets of SVP have been researched and found valid. Intuitive sources such as Cayce and Russell seem to support the conclusions being reached.”
When I first met Dale Pond, in 1989 while he was a guest speaker at the Swiss Association for Free Energy conference in Einsedeln, Switzerland, the international network of frontier-science researchers was beginning to seriously respect his research. That respect continued to grow. Now his web site is a massive landmark on the “frontier.” He is still invited to give presentations, but feels more comfortable in his library in Colorado or conducting science experiments.
His next invitation to speak was for the tenth International Conference on Science and Consciousness, March 28 to April 2, 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (www.bizspirit.com/science). The brief bio in the conference brochure describes him as a maker of Dynaspheres, scientist, inventor, machinist, consultant, author of [Physics of Love], [Universal Laws Never Before Revealed] and [Tesla’s Earthquake Machine] and many other books, and founder of Delta Spectrum Research and the Pond Science Institute. His scheduled workshop is titled “Experience a Higher Reality with Whole Mind Vibrations.”
The gruff researcher is pained by what he sees as the result of a prevalent mechanistic view of life, now “while the creative people are being laughed at and ostracized.” Before the late 1880s scholars had a more wholistic view. They were called Natural Scientists. Astronomy, chemistry, mechanics, botany, biology, thermodynamics and other fields were all linked in a comprehensive “natural science” worldview that had been built up over centuries. In contrast, the mechanistic view broke the whole into parts and isolated narrow specialties. Unfortunately, Pond says, those in charge of the changeover removed much more than the “ether”; they separated out the Universal Creative Intelligence from science. The results of that separation include an education system that churns out what Charlie Chaplin called The Machine Man—mere pullers of levers— and “experts” robotically repeating what they have been indoctrinated with. Divorcing humanity from wholistic science has created the if-I-can’t-put-it-in-a-test-tube-it-doesn’t-exist human, Pond has observed.
The divorce—the breakup of science into tiny specialties—began around the time that Nikola Tesla’s ideas for transmitting free energy to the people of earth clashed with the monopolistic plans of power brokers such as J. P. Morgan. The worldview of Pond and his Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, however, comes from the older perspective of studying the knowledge base of more than a few disciplines at the same time. “The individuals who are able to work within multiple fields are those who make the breakthroughs.”
Dale Pond found that John Keely, Walter Russell and Edgar Cayce covered the same new-science territory—in different jargon. Looking at the three men together, he says, one can begin to understand each of them.
Pond’s work points to vibration/oscillation as the science principle underlying all things. He says it links spirit— what he describes as activated Mind—and matter, and is the magic key for creating new experiences, worlds and universes. His new CD contains a wealth of insights for the serious. We’ll leave you with a fragment of Keely’s own words:
“Luminiferous ether or celestial mind force, a compound inter-etheric element, is the substance of which everything visible is composed. It is the great sympathetic protoplastic element; life itself.” [Keely]
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