The De La
Warr Mark IV Thought Photography Camera
The Mark IV Thought Photography camera
was manufactured by the De La Warr Laboratories in England in the 1950's.
It was designed to capture on film the subtle vibration of a witness (a
sample of the vibration of a person or object) whether sputum or a drop
of blood, and transfer these vibrations onto a photographic image. There
are three significant factors involved in operating this equipment:
- the instrument itself
- the photographic plate (glass or
film) and
- the operator
One of the major problems in the operation of this camera is the necessity
of charging the plate prior to using the camera.
A vital force or charge must be translated to the film in order for a
picture to be created in this camera. It is my belief that this is very
analogous to electro-photography in which a plate is charged by the corona
discharge in an electro-photographic copier. The charge is acted upon
by light, producing an image on the drum, transferred by the toner application
to the paper, and fixed o the paper by heat. In the case of the De La
Warr camera, I felt that a subtle energy charge was necessary and could
be created by the use of a four sided single terminated meditation crystal.
An invitation presented itself for me to visit David Tansley in England.
He arranged a meeting with the owners of the De La Warr camera, Elizabeth
Baerlein and Lavender Dower, at their home in Oxford, England. We agreed
on a research protocol.
- I would not touch the plate; Elizabeth
Baerlein would load the plate into the holder.
- I would charge every other plate
with the crystal, in the light.
- Lavender Dower would test, with a
pendulum, the energy that was being accumulated in the plate. The three
of us would decide when we had a fully charged plate
- A crystal was held four to six inches
over the plate in the wooden holder. I drew my breath in and began to
pulse my breath onto the plate. A change was immediately noted in the
reading on the pendulum. When we came to a certain numeric value, we
stopped and asked what length of exposure was required. The answer was
14 seconds, which was noted. The holder was marked and we decided on
observing the heart chakra of my body. This rate was set into the camera,
after I put a witness of a drop of my sputum on the witness plate. The
other set of values were designating the vibrational rate of my own
body and the earth's magnetic fields which surrounded Oxford.
When it was time to try the first exposure I stepped back about forty
feet from the camera and said "Let's take a frontal view of my body"
and faced the camera. One of the plates was chosen randomly and put into
the camera. The switch was turned on for 14 seconds. I felt nothing in
my body and noted that to my associates.
The next plate was loaded and when the switch was turned on I immediately
felt a pressure in the solar plexus and thymus region of my body. I began
to sway and noted this effect verbally. Both plates were developed. The
first had not been charged and was totally free from any image or fogging.
The second plate was excessively overexposed and would not clear in the
hypo bath after five minutes. I reached in and touched the plate and when
I lifted it out from the hypo into the red safe light, it immediately
cleared. There was an image of a spiral of energy on the glass plate,
with points or light scattered throughout the plate.
The experiment was repeated three times in a row with exactly the same
results. An untreated plate in the De La Warr camera gave no image and
the treated plate produced images. I then said "Let us see what a
side view would look like". We followed the same procedure with side
views and now we had a threefold flame emerging from the plate. This was
repeated a number of times. These events were observed by David Tansley,
Lavender Dower, and Elizabeth Baerlein.
The photographic glass plates were Ilford ordinary #N.30 glass, with an
Ilford meter setting of 16 degrees and the speed group A, black and white.
The photographic developer was B.72 and the fixer was Hypo (sodium hyposulfate).
I left the crystal with the two ladies and they worked for months after
I left with no apparent success in producing any images.
Images can be formed on photographic film purely by the intention of the
operator as in the case of Ted Serios, but there is no control over the
image production or the capacity to get repeatable results in any one
event.
What does the De La Warr camera contain?
When Lavender Dower loaned me the camera, I took it apart, carefully measured
and photographed the equipment. The lower and larger box contains three
chambers, with the dimensions of the "King's Chamber", in which
an electrical vibrator produces a tone. There are 12 dials in three rows.
They are attached to various lengths of wire that lead to a magnet which
is set in a vertical position. Two of these units are identical and they
are tuned by a rubbing plate. The third unit is a spiral of wire which
can be tuned to various positions on the ascending or descending spiral
form. This, too, leads to a magnet set with the north pole in the up position
and is tuned accordingly. There is another box on top which is separated
by posts. This holds the film plate holder and contains within it three
parabolic reflectors aligned to each of the magnetic rods. The focal point
of the parabolic reflectors is the glass plate. The plate holder is completely
light tight. To operate the equipment, it is rotated until it is facing
due west.
There were implications from George De La Warr's work that we can move,
with a camera like this, in and out of time. We can precipitate, on film,
the three physical states of matter.
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