LETTER ABOUT MURRAY DENNING
from Annice Denning
26 Wey Lane 
Chesham, Bucks
March 14, 1989

Dear Tom:

Thank you very much for your letter of 2nd March requesting 
further details of Murray's life.  I am listing below some 
facts for you to include in a write up as you suggest and am 
delighted to think you are so doing.  If I repeat anything 
already known, please forgive me.

a)  He was born in 1903 in Epping just outside London.
b)  His father was a General Medical Practioner, and his 
family-tree shows a long line of apothecaries and doctors 
going back into Irish history to the Battle of Boyne.  His 
Mother was Scottish.
c)  He was educated at a public school at Tonbridge in Kent, 
where he excelled in sports (r    ). d   , and his hands, 
the best of his talents on a physical level - first 
carpentry and woodwork and later healing first showed.
d)  Sp......... Nervous Spine, cured when he was 45, spoiled 
his early years--though he became an Insurance Agent to earn 
his living.
e)  After his cure (described in Truths), his Hand-Healing 
led him to investigation and to Ruth Drownism.
f)  He joined the Radionic Assoc., G. Britain in 1956.  
Served for a short period on the council, where he advocated 
basic medical training as essential and undertook a journey 
via Los Angeles to Australia and New Zealand.  In Los 
Angeles he met Ruth Drown, the teacher of his own teacher, 
Mrs. Mary Leigh, and correponded once or twice with her 
before her tragic death.
g)  Following his own advice he took a Physio Therapy Course 
in which I joined him and commenced in his sixties to study 
Eastern philosophies and Esoteric teachings.  The latter he 
was still doing right up to his death.
h)  He sought a link between physical and spiritual psychic 
healing all the time, and even before he died, was planning 
new ways of research, particularly with reference to Dr. 
Drown's photographic diagnosis.
i)  When the B. Rad. Assoc. took on the Pendulum Technique    
diagnosing, he felt strongly they had lost sight of Basic 
Principles and training their students, and devoted his 
latter years to promoting Drown's ideas, and trying to turn 
the thinking of the people over here back to a restatement 
and awareness of her work.  (In other words, he felt they 
had gone off the rails of genuine progress, and needed 
reminding)  To some extent he has been successful.
j)  He and I were married in 1956--and I have always been 
intensly interested in his work and supported him in every 
way I could.  We had one daughter, now married with 2 
children, and he also had a son and daughter by previous 
marriages, and was a Great Grandfather when he died.

Is this sufficient?  Maybe too much - you will use what 
seems right to you.

Thank you for the assurance about further royalty d     .  I 
shall be most interested to hear how your own plans procced.  
Good luck finding a suitable business manager.

With best wishes,

Sincerely,

Annice Denning
26 Wey Lane 
Chesham, Bucks
ENGLAND

I've been trying to figure how best to run the 
information in your letter and thought that it would be best 
to run excerpts from it in our letters page, with further 
comments.  Murray had a most interesting life and I find 
that I agree with his general attitude.  
You mention that he was in disfavor of the teaching of 
pendulum technique for radionic analysis.  I feel that the 
pendulum is important, mainly due to its de facto presence, 
but that the true radionic action comes from the contact 
through the rubbing plate.  I would have to concur with his 
feelings and I suspect that Murray was treated as somewhat 
of an outsider for his championship of Dr. Drown's 
methodology in the British radionic climate.  We dropped 
Tansley's books from our catalog when I found reference in 
one of his books unfavorable to Murray and Trevor Constable.
Perhaps Murray would have concurred with my views that 
the US radionic climate is completely distorted these days 
with "psycho-tronic" explanations, which imply that the 
entire process takes place in the mind, with the physical 
instrument merely a focus.  Murray's work toward an 
automatic radionic instrument shows that he had a clear 
grounding in the true realities of the art.  One of our 
correspondents put together about 80 pages on the theory of 
automatic radionic instruments.  He draws heavily on 
Murray's views presented in "Truths" and we are publishing 
it as a research brochure.  I will send a copy along to you 
when we get it printed.
Murray's advocating basic medical training for 
radionicists seems so common sense one would wonder why his 
ideas weren't paid more attention to.