Ken Raines This post brings you up to date on what’s been going on with me after I stopped publishing the JW Research Journal in around 2000 and the website for it went offline. . JW Burnout & Depression I stopped publishing the Journal due to burnout on the subject of JWs and the Watchtower. It got too strange researching all the bizarre stuff they endorsed and took a lot of mental and physical energy out of me. I suffered from depression for awhile as a result of the burnout and my sleep apnea. I was sleep deprived and not…
Read moreQuack Cures and Radionic Ouija Boards
Abstract: In 1953, the Watchtower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) officially ended their endorsement of the “electronic reactions of Abrams” or the ERA They claimed that radionics, as it was now called, was medical quackery. In 1962 and 1963 they said the ERA methods were psychic and spiritistic in nature. No mention was made in these articles that they had been heavily involved with this “spiritism” since the early 1920s. by Ken Raines From JW Research Journal, vol. 3, #2, Spring, 1996. Revised August, 2021. . The Jehovah’s Witnesses endorsed the “Electronic Reactions of Abrams” or ERA methods of diagnosing and treating disease…
Read moreRoy Goodrich and the ERA “Ouija Board”
In 1928, Roy Goodrich, a Jehovah’s Witness, went to an E.R.A. practitioner on the advice of Watchtower Society representatives. What he witnessed convinced him that the E.R.A. methods were spiritism and the operator of the oscilloclast was a spirit medium. He began a one man campaign to eradicate the use of this medical procedure from Jehovah’s Witnesses. After a shouting match with the Society’s president, J.F. Rutherford over this issue, Goodrich wrote an article for The Golden Age in 1930 explaining his views. The Society had a “Bethel” doctor, Mae Work, write a response for a subsequent issue, declared the matter…
Read moreThe Radio Disease Killer: William Hudgings And The RDK
Ken Raines The Radio Disease Killer (photo from American Artifacts) Some notes on the RDK In 1926, The Golden Age printed a short article by William Hudgings that he was quitting his ERA medical practice to serve the Lord “unencumbered”: FOR the information of readers of THE GOLDEN AGE who frequently write to me personally concerning the Abrams diagnosis and treatment, and about the electronic home treatment machine known as the RDK (“Radio Disease Killer”), I wish to explain that I have severed my relationship with the RDK Corporation of America and also with the Brooklyn Electronic Institute, in order to be…
Read moreThe Electronic Radio Biola
The Watchtower Society in The Golden Age magazine promoted numerous highly questionable medical cures and remedies. Some of these were more related to the occult arts than medical science. One of these endorsements was of the electronic theory of disease of Dr. Albert Abrams. Several machines and techniques were developed by Dr. Abrams and by his supporters after his death in 1924. Some of these ERA machines were actually invented and used by International Bible Students (JWs) doctors, such as the Electronic Radio Biola and the Radio Disease Killer. Many Bible Students were treated for their diseases by these devices. This article looks…
Read moreDr. Albert Abrams and the E.R.A.
[This paper is an overview of Dr. Abrams, the E.R.A. and the two main scientific investigations into his methods of diagnosing and treating disease in the 1920’s. This is provided as background into the Watchtower Society’s endorsement and use of the ERA well into the 1940’s. Originally published in the JW Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring, 1996, pp. 4-11. Revised July/Aug., 2021.] . by Ken Raines . The electronic technique has been conceived by a master mind. It is far more intricate and ironclad than medical fads of the past. It deals with a new form of energy…
Read more1925: Millions Now Living Will Never Die!
As we have heretofore stated, the great jubilee cycle is due to begin in 1925. At that time the earthly phase of the kingdom shall be recognized…. Therefore we may confidently expect that 1925 will mark the return of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the faithful prophets of old,… – J. F. Rutherford, Millions Now Living Will Never Die, 1920, pp. 89, 90. What a happy prospect! Though mistaken, they eagerly shared it with others. – Jehovah’s Witnesses–Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, 1993, p. 632 on the “millions” campaign. by Ken Raines [This article originally appeared in the JW Research Journal, vol 2,…
Read moreAngels And Women
Angels And Women (PDF) The revisor of this book is of the opinion that the original manuscript was dictated to the woman who wrote it by one of the fallen angels who desired to return to divine favor. – Angels and Women, 1924 p. 5. … automatic writing is most certainly demonism. – The Golden Age, March 30, 1932, p. 394. God’s Curse on all these things The Scriptures group all these forms of deviltry in two verses, in Deuteronomy 18:10, 11…. Reviewing this passage we see that one who uses divination is one who receives information from the fallen…
Read moreThe Golden Age’s Review and Endorsement of Angels and Women
Ken Raines Angels and Women is an automatic writing book recommended by the Watchtower Society in 1924. It is a revision of a novel written in 1878 titled Seola by J. G. Smith. Seola was revised and published as Angels and Women by a Bible Student who was identified as being “a personal friend of Pastor Russell and one who was close to him in his work.” (The Golden Age, July 30, 1924 p. 702) It is a work of “automatic writing” as the revisor said the woman who wrote it was “impelled to write it after listening to beautiful music.” (Angels and Women, pp. 3, 5.) He believed the…
Read moreRutherford’s Angelic Channeling
. Is The Watchtower a means or channel employed by God to transmit information to his people?… he could and would transmit information to his people… No man can properly interpret prophecy, and the Lord sends his angels to transmit correct information to his people,… – The Watchtower, Feb. 15, 1935 p. 52. . by Ken Raines [This article contains material from several JW Research Journal articles.] . J. F. Rutherford was the second president of the Watchtower Society from shortly after the death of C. T. Russell on October 31 of 1916 until his death at Beth-Sarim in 1942. Under his leadership…
Read moreJehovah of the Pleiades
The constellation of the seven stars forming the Pleiades appears to be the crowning center around which the known systems of the planets revolve…. It has been suggested, and with much weight, that one of the stars of that group is the dwelling place of Jehovah and the place of the highest heavens…. The constellation of the Pleiades is a small one… But the greatness in size of other stars or planets is small when compared to the Pleiades in importance, because the Pleiades is the place of the eternal throne of God. – J. F. Rutherford, Reconciliation, 1928, p.…
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