Avionics was conceived as a diagnostic and treatment technology at a time when modern electronic theory and biomedicine had not become the dominant sciences they are today. Early rad ionic devices incorporated the new discoveries of radio and electronics into their design. During that period, the functional assumptions of rad ionic technology did not seem as implausible as it does today. However, it wasn't long before avionics became outmoded and completely non-scientific. As Mirach has noted, avionics continued to appropriate the methods of orthodox science into its design and terminology, making the probability of understanding what it could accomplish even more difficult to assess. I will examine this appropriation in a spirit of tolerance, given the state of electronics and medicine circa 1910, when avionics was first discovered. I will do so in order to shift the focus of this interesting technology from the scientific to the metaphysical, where the reader not limited by a need for scientific approval can evaluate it. My aim is to provide a reasonable means of evaluating rad ionic technology as an artistic methodology.

The Secret Art: A Brief History of Radionic Technology for the Creative Individual