Leadbeater chemistry

Besant, Annie Wood and Charles Webster Leadbeater. Occult chemistry. 1st ed ed. 

Besant, Annie Wood and Charles Webster Leadbeater.Occult chemistry investigations by clairvoyant magnification into the structure of the atoms of the periodic table and of some compounds edited by C. Jinarajadasa, assisted by Elizabeth W. 

Besant, Annie Wood and Charles Webster Leadbeater.Occult chemistry clairvoyant observations on the chemical elements Revised ed., edited by A. P. Sinnett. Edited by Alfred Percy Sinnett. London Theosophical Publishing House, 1919. iv, p., 1 1., 109, x p. 

Leadbeater and Besant s occult chemistry clearly participated in the privileging of visual data emerging in the physics and chemistry of the day,... 

But in spite of Theosophical vitalism (to which I shall return below) and the Theosophical attack on mechanistic science and philosophy, the atomic theory Besant and Leadbeater developed in Occult Chemistry and elsewhere was in many ways a mechanical theory involving interactions of ever-more-rarified particles and their vibrations. It adapted many assumptions of Victorian ether mechanics. 

Crookes, Lodge s fellow scientist and psychic investigator, contributed an al-chemically inflected ether/matter theory that gained wide acceptance amongst Theosophists and helped lay the groundwork for Besant and Leadbeater s occult chemistry. On February 18, 1887, some twenty years after Kelvin s... 

Yet it is on the issues of reproducibility and instrumentation that Occult Chemistry failed to persuade, at least outside of Theosophical circles and the small group of scientists in recent years who have been willing to work entirely at the level of theory. Besant and Leadbeater could move beyond older models of science, which based themselves upon deductions from revealed principles (alchemical or scientific deductions from the writings of the Hermetic tradition, for instance, or from the revelations of H. P. Blavatsky), by turning to experimentation. Not surprisingly, their form of experimentation did not admit of reproducibility. In spite of efforts by Stephen Phillips to conduct blind trials using a Buddhist clairvoyant to confirm Besant and Lead-beater s micro-psi visions (1996,48), direct experience is neither convincingly verifiable nor falsifiable. 

Phillips s entire argument, across the more than twenty years during which he has worked on Occult Chemistry, is that Besant and Leadbeater must have been right—not hallucinating, not fabricating their findings—because their research correlates with that of sciences that did not yet exist when they wrote Occult Chemistry. This correlation, for Phillips, seems to offer unprecedented, unassailable proof of paranormal powers ... 

Phillips believed he had found such an instance in Occult Chemistry—and that it even provided evidence that quarks were not fundamental particles. Yet in this boundary skirmish between physics and parapsychology over the subatomic world, Phillips, Smith, and Besant and Leadbeater ultimately will not persuade the scientific world. The boundaries between occultism and... 

Besant, Annie, and Charles W. Leadbeater. 1908. Occult Chemistry A Series of Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements. London Theosophical Publishing Society. 

Some broader contexts and meanings of these esoteric astral bodies were subsequently enunciated by C. W. Leadbeater in his book called Man Visible and Invisible (1902). Passages from this important Theosophical publication are worthy of citation because, besides reiterating standard notions about the wholly occultist astral bodies and haloes—the kind discussed by Revel in the book Duchamp is now known to have owned—they additionally document the role played within the Esoteric Tradition of important emblematic themes employed by Duchamp and long recognized by various Duchamp scholars. In short, the writings of Besant and Leadbeater prove that Theosophists often discussed both symbolic chemistry and the fourth dimension. Especially significant in this context is the fact that their pub-... 

Leadbeater begins his discussion of The Planes of Nature by placing his argument within a theoretical, rampantly pseudoscientific context belonging to what he rightly calls a wholly Occult Chemistry ... 

The chapter following deals with Man s Vehicles. After listing their exotic nomenclature— the names used in Theosophical literature for the higher planes are derived from Sanskrit, for in Western philosophy we have as yet [1902] no terms for these worlds —Leadbeater enumerates the colorful, painterly effects of the fourth plane, or fourth dimension. Again, he relates such esoteric and fourth-dimensional phenomena directly to the spiritual operations of Occult Chemistry ... 

Leadbeater, N.E., Fast, Easy, Clean Chemistry by Using Water as a Solvent and Microwave Heating, Chemical Communications, 2881-2902 (2005). 

A. Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, Occult Chemistry—Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements, revised edition, Theosophical Publishing House, London, 1919, pp. 1-2. 

Lawlor, Robert Sacred Geometry Philosophy and Practice Thames Hudson, 1989 Lambert, Joseph B Traces of the Past Unraveling the Secrets of Archaeology through Chemistry Helix Books, Addison-Wesley, 1997 Leadbeater, C.W. Glimpses of Masonic History The Theosophical Publishing House,... 

Leadbeater, N. E. McGowan, C. B. Clean, Fast Organic Chemistry Microwave-Assisted Laboratory Experiments, CEM Publishing, Matthews, NC, 2006. 

It should be pointed out that great care should be taken to ascertain that the catalyst is indeed the metal or reagent used, and not some trace of unsuspected contaminating metal. This point has been clearly made in the article by J.M. Crow entitled When is a catalyst not a catalyst (Chemistry World 8 46 2011). He draws attention to the papers q/Buchwald Qo m Angew Chem, Int Ed 48 5586 2009, Larsson et al. Angew Chem, Int Ed 48 5691 2009, Leadbeater Marco Angew Chem, Int Ed 42 1407 2003, Arvela et al. J Org Chem 70 161 2005, and the measurement of trace impurities at the ppb (parts per billion) and/or ppt (parts per trillion) levels in Gonda, Tolnai and Novak Chem EurJ 16 11822 2010, and the possibility of co-catalysis. 

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