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Periodical: Visible Spectrum Researcher

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Visible Spectrum Researcher.
A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Service of Mankind / Official Organ of Visible Spectrum Research Institute.
Happiness in Every Home. Service of Humanity
1955--1957
Monthly
Malaga, NJ.
Language: Italian.
Editor: Dinshah P. Ghadiali, of Mankind, editor and publisher.
Succeeds: Spectro-Chrome
1/1, January 1955-3/11, November 1957.
8 pp., 25 cents a copy, $3.00 a year.

This was the revived journal of Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1873-1966) after his release from prison where he had been held for the fraudulent promotion of his color-therapy device, an experience that had taught him the value of caution. The journal no longer promoted its students as medical professionals but simply as "Graduate Researcher, Not A Doctor (Not Licensed or Registered in this State)" for the "Experimental Service of the Visible Spectrum of Light and Color Extended Exclusively to Member Researchers," and cautioned subscribers that "the Reader who uses the contents as basis for own investigation, experimentation and (or) research along the lines of the Visible Spectrum, to determine the Powers and Effects of Light and Color upon Living Organisms or otherwise, will do so on own absolute responsibility, taking and assuming ALL RISKS pertaining to such activities." This hedging proved ineffective, and the Government again enjoined the journal in 1957. On Ghadali and his career see the note under Spectro-Chrome.

Other Sources:
Issues:Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N1 Jan 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N2 Feb 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N3 Mar 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N4 Apr 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N5 May 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N6 Jun 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N7 Jul 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N8 Aug 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N9 Sep 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N10 Oct 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N11 Nov 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V1 N12 Dec 1955
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N1 Jan 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N2 Feb 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N3 Mar 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N4 Apr 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N5 May 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N6 Jun 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N7 Jul 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N8 Aug 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N9 Sep 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N10 Oct 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N11 Nov 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V2 N12 Dec 1956
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N1 Jan 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N2 Feb 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N3 Mar 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N4 Apr 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N5 May 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N6 Jun 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N7 Jul 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N8 Aug 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N9 Sep 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N10 Oct 1957
Visible Spectrum Researcher V3 N11 Nov 1957
Claude-Generated Themes:   Visible Spectrum Researcher (1955–1956) was a monthly color-healing and natural-living newsletter in the Dinshah Spectro-Chrome tradition, addressed to a fellowship of dues-paying members. Its pages promoted 'Tonations' — treatments with colored light — alongside vegetarian diet, organic gardening, breathing, and the general reform of members' food and living habits, all in the drugless-healing key of the mid-century fringe-health world. A mild devotional self-help note ('use your innate divine qualities,' 'have Faith when taking Tonations') frames the program without turning it occult or metaphysical. It belongs with the color-therapy and diet-reform press rather than with esoteric periodicals.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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