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OWSE FOR BETTER HEALTH DOWSING FOR MEDICINES HOMOEOPATHY & BACH FLOWER TRADE, FOOD ALLERGIES DISTANCE HEALING
ARTHUR BAILEY Phd, MSc. Past Scientific Adviser to and Past President of the British Society of Dowsers
HEALTH {@ HARMONY
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Any inform ation g iven in th is hool,' is not in tende d 10 he tahen a s ct rep luce men t (or tncdicn l aduice, Any p er...·vn wi th a condition req u iring medical attention shon ld c OIISU lt u qu alified p ractitioner or th erap ist .
Conte n ts
Reprint edition 2000, 'i oo1.2002
1'1dare
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Ilie l and Dietary Suppleme nts
73
I )llwsing for Me d icines
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lIowsing for Hom eo path ic Remedi es
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II ... Ring of Tnu h
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SII"H IIH('r than Fiction
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II u- Tools of th e -Trad e
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1J.l ng th e Tools
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I Allergles and Se nsitivities
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II ... lIach Flower Remed ies
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/'uh!iJ!t{'(1 hy .:
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Kuklcep .lui n
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Ili" anl Healing
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I ,c'y l.ines , lIIack Streams a nd Ccopa rh ic Stress
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111I1I'r I kaling Ap plica tio ns of Dowsing
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hu plira rio ns fo r Healin g
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I\ ppc nd ix I : Recommended Daily Allowances of Minerals and Vitamins
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'\ p l)('llIlix 2: Useful Add resses
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Preface
.1II Y people be lie ve th a t sc ie nce is all a bou t scien tific 11u -",i" s. T his belief le a d s 10 th e id e a th at if somethi ng d o. ·s no t fit with scie n tific th eories, th en it is a lmost , 11,11 11 1)' wro ng-. Yet n o thing co u ld he fu rthe r fro m th e truth . • It 011 Iii " ho n l knowing. a n d if ca refu l ex perime n t shows tha t ," .,111 Ilt llllls happe n, the n that is truth . T he fa ct that th e I' '1 ,, 11' ti ll 11 01 ii i co m fo r ta bly with in c u r re n t scien tific theories 1111 111 1 11111 di 'nC.'di t th ose res ults . Scien tific p ro g ress is littered II I, • , .llllp l,'s of peop le h avillg 10 b rave th e wrat h of the II 1111 111 1I.1IC'l'nil y. a nd it is o n ly lat e r tha t th ei r wo rk is 11111l4. " 11u ·c1 ;1\ a hreakth ro ugh in understandi ng. Whe n an \U tI l l ld l,lI l 1I1lI"lor discovered chat sto mac h u lc er s wer e ca used 11\ I 1.,11 Il ' dulIl th at lived in th e sto mach , lIl'lico!Jaclt."- /ry!orii. he Itll I \~ l l lt f ' I10 1 1ll 0 \l S o p positio n from the es tablish me n t and wa s Ill l d Ih.ll h.u'led" co u ld not live in th e stomac h , T hey di d n ot I" , I ~ i l l h i" Ie 'se'a rc h ; th e y re acted ac cord ing to th e es tablished I II lit II. II I llle- clay, I' I. ,111 1" " ,'asy 10 1,,11 into snc h a lrap. Beli eving ill scie n tific I III 11, 11 -, ~l\' "s o ne a fee li ng o f wo rk in g withi n a safe I lIllllll l llf ' l l l. lndc cd , it was from just such a background th ai I 1111 I II 11l\'I'stiJ.ta tc d owsing . Exac tly h ow I ca m e to hecom e Itllll h i d ill "lIc ll a stra nge su l~ect is d escribed in th e follo wing II ''I ' l l I
1111 , hllok is based o n my o wn ex periences o f d owsin g a nd I" " II" M. M.,h ,,· d over mo re th an 30 yea rs. My ba ck g roun d is tha t I III t lI",IIII 'I'rinK scie n tist who became in volved in d owsin g by , " I. I II Il.l\'i").( first p roved th at dowsin g was indeed effec tive .
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I then did my utm ost to find a logical ex plana tio n for the p henomenon . [ have to ad m it tha t even after some 35 years of inves tigation, [ still ca nno t find a theory which is acceptable in all respects . Dowsing is far wider in its poss ibilities and uses tha n ca u be explained on the basis of cu rre n t scientific th eory. ludecd, to have any chance of e xp lana tio n , o ne has to postulate on e or more dimensions to the unive rse than are at present recognised by th e scientific fraternity. My co n tin u ing in vestiga tions in to field dowsi ng led m e into what was for m e, the slrange new areas of dowsing fo r heal th aud healing. I d iscovered that dowsi ng could be of im m ense help in . obta ini ng information that was not kn ow n to the co nsc io us mind . In my resea rches I have always tried to re mai n true to th e spirit of gen uine scien tific research: that o ne neve r rejects : ,fo rmation j ust because it docs no t fit with curre nt scientific u-ories, T heories, afte r all, are just man-made prop osals to ex pla in what o ne o bserves. Fact is wh a t actua lly ha ppens. T h is, the refore, is a bo ok abo ut facts I have d iscovered for m yself. I have no t been prepared to accept the o pinio ns o f othe rs unless [ tested them OUl persona lly. T his was essentia l, as [ di scove red th a t d owsin g was full of pseud o-scien tific theories an d overcomplex m etho d s of wo rking. [ had personally to so rt the whea t from th e chaff. [ would d e fin e healing as bri nging the mind and body of a pe rso n to as hi gh a sta te of whol eness and case as is possible a t a partic ula r m ome nt in tim e .Just what is ac hi eva ble for a nyo ne pe rso n will d epe nd on man y circu msta nc es, not least o f whi ch is th e a tti tude of the person need in g hel p. I sec healing as g u id ing a nd hel pin g a uot her person , no t just doing Ihinl(S to th em. T he em p hasis th ro ughout this bo o k is o n e ncou ra ging th e rea d er to try things o ut for themselves and p ut aside any d oub ts th at th e y m ay have a bou t th eir o wn a bilities. Dowsin g is not a 'girt' g iven to j us t a few, as so me people have asse rted in the past, ra the r ir is a u innate a hility in everyone. For m any pe ople, d owsing m ay seem to he a ve ry impro ba ble concept. The id ea that one can obtain info rmation, not known to the co nscious m in d , wit h the a id o f a pendulum or pai r of bent wires is, after
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an casy thing to accept! It is important that yo u keep an II p t ' lI mi n d , The hook begins with an introductioll showing how my own dll\\'~i llg: started and how I discov ered, against all my scien tific "Ic'l'lid slH , that it was a reality. It describes how I re lu ctantly pllll'('('ded t o loo k further and further into it, and fina lly how I IIn', IIl U: invo lved with the healing aspects of dows ing, This is I"How("tI hya brief histo ry of dowsing, wh ich is important as it ~ h c 's ;l linn backgrou nd from which modern dowsi ng G ilt he ......lu.ucd. Nex t, the basics of dowsing are co ve red: ho w 10 start, pitfalls I II ;1\'01 (( and how to keep things simp le . Th e re is no need wh.u r-vcr for so me of the \ve ird and co mplex ways of working 1" ;11 so me.: people usc l T he pra ct ica l health aspects of dowsing arc looked at next , 1',1I1i('ulady diet and ho w it call affect o ur health . From there It tl' hook leads in to dowsi ng for vitam ins and o ther
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' I'he la te r ch a p te rs cover su ch d ive rse aspects as th e l,illlll('lllic remed ies, flower re medi es, hom eop ath y, geopathic 1iII 11l"'l'i and radio n ics - the wide areas of healin g techniques in whhh I have been privileged to work. The inte ntio n throu gh ou t has bee n to give an insigh t in to wh,.1 lies behind d owsin g a nd it, a p plica tio n to he alth , ra ther 111 ,111 just give a series of 'do this - do that' exercises. My " I'I" , ,,,eh has been to 'demystify' d owsin g as far as possibl e , I 1 . 111 'ice 110 virtu e wha tever in llsing over-co mplicated metho d s .u u t il u-ories that simply d o not h old wat er. In thi s Lacccpt th at . " " ,,' of the thi n gs I say m ay we ll upset some peo pl e . For th is I .n .,k. , no a pologies, as thi s is wh at is really in c ant hy scien tific lIhjc'c,tivity: speaking the truth as yO ll find it, without fear or 1.1\'1 urr; Tru th lies in simplic ity a nd in kee pin g an open mi nd . The text contains many exa mples taken from my OWII " 'I"-d e nee. ! ho pe th at th ese will not o nly illustrat e th e su bjec t uu uu-r, hut also give support and e ncourage me n t to o the rs to II y th in gs o u t fo r th emselves. It is o ne Ihing to re ad abou t th ing s, someth ing quite diffe rent 10 ta ke your co urage in both h ..nels a n d expe rie nce th em for yo ursel f! T h is a pplies
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parti cu la rly with some.~. th ing as ofT-beat as dowsing, even tho ugh it is now more accep te d than wh en I start ed in the early 1960s.
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The Ring of Truth
Arthur lIai ley , a ll sta rted wit h Asia n ' llu . Un til tha i lime I h ad be e n a very o l lhodo x c ng inc c ring scie n tist teach ing' c lcc uo n ics at 1I1'... II'ml U n ive rsity. I h a d o n ly a mild sceptica l in te rest iu 01 I 1111 u ratt crs. Not h ing: was further fro m my mind than gcUillg 111\'11 1\,(' 11 with fringc su b jec ts like dowsing, llu-n th e ' Ilu st r uck. I h ad o n ly on ce bef o re be e II so ill , a 1IlIIH lim e previous ly, I had 110 e n e rgy , even when th e virus had dl ' l' ,II It'd , It was di agnosed by my doctor as Post -inf luc nzal pll ll o lll C, (T he c u rre n t names for th is arc Chron ic Fatigue '> ' "1'1''"''' or Mya l/{ic En ccpalopa thy - M.E . fo r short) . A pll.lIl11arist friend of mine to ld m e that 'synd rome ' me ant tha t Ih" r di rlu 't really know why _I was stil l ill : indeed I shou ld be 111' 11" 1 - hUI I wasn 't! I fell terrible , T he least exe rt io n put me 11,11 '" ill bed, So I watched televisio n in thc eveni ngs (th is was 111'1111 (" a il-day tel evision ) and read many ho o ks. I be ca me dl '''I Il ' la l e for th in gs to rea d an d fin ished lip by rea d ing all sorts II I houk s that p re viously I wo u ld h ave rej e cte d. It \.. . as one of 111 1',,1' hooks th at sta rte d th ings o il". ~ ly m othe r Ie II I m e a ho ok hy Beverley N ic ho ls ca lle d II 11n,ld,, ',[ Roo],' It was largely a u tobiogra p h ica l and in it the ,,"Ihu l' me n tio ned how a wate r d iviner had found him a mu ch 1"'''1'1 WOl le r s u p p ly J{JI' h is co u a ge . It so u nded ta r-fetched hut 011 11 hael a s tra nge ri ll/{ o f trut h . I asked at th e lo cal library to see II lIu')' ha d a hoo k O il dowsin g - th e name m entioned i ll the 111 10 '" lo r wa ter div in ing . T hey finally man aged to o btain o ne for 11 11' hUIII the Hal ifa x library, but it did Ilo t h illf.t 10 give me li n. dq Nil hnl \ , .1 '/ h"t,.h,.,/ U//f,/,.Iull;tllM Il Cap(', 19:1:t
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pictures of bearded Frenchmen in stove-pipe ha ts, and one picture I ca n still rememher we ll was o f a tall , bearded man holding a pendulum in one hand and a tall cylinde r labelled Trnu.' in the o ther, It all loo ked rathe r eccentric to say the least. The hook did , ho weve r, have a 'd o-it-yo u rse lf' sect ion at the end. II m e n tio ne d the usc of the pendu lum but a lso recommended that begin ners often obtained bet ter results wi th angle-ro ds, For this they suggested making two Lshapcd pie ces
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of fencing or weldin g- wire , T hese were the n d ropped in to sho rt bamboo handles m ad e from ga rde n ca ne . I decid ed 10 try it o ut a nd mad e my first pa ir of a ng le-rods, I had proh le ms gelli ng the ro ds 10 move fre ely u ntil I di scovered l hat it was impo rrant that th e bott om of the hand les he cu tj ust hel ow a ' node ' in the ste m . T ha t wa y, whe n th e wires a rc d ropped int o th e handles, the y pivo t on the solid ham boo node al th e bo ttom of the rube. T his can be seen fro m the illu stra tion above: th e vertical pan of the wire that fits inf o the ham boo holde r is lo nge r th an th e holde r into which it d rops,
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gal e . In credulous but exci ted , I checke d it out. There was no doubt ab out it Every time I cfosse d the imaginary line running betw een the bri cks , the rods moved. The water and electricity supplies both came into th e house a t that co rn er - could it be eithe r of th em ? I checke d beyond my lin e , on th e oth er side of the wall, by th e front ga te. I picked np m y lin e again. It ran straight out into th e ro ad a nd stopped abo u t three-quancrs of th e way across. There was nothing to be seen wh ere it ended. I checked it ag ain and carne up with exac tly the same result. I marked o n the road wh ere m y lin e e nded , th en went into th e house to Ihink about what I had found . I had never found th e co ld-wa te r Slop-tap o u tside th e house . I kn ew where it sho uld be as I h ad a set of plans o b ta ine d from
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way into th e road . Ab out 2 cm (Yo in) down I hit th e sto p-tap cover that had o bvio usly been tarred over fo r m an y years! I d on 'I kn ow who was more shaken , m yself o r m y wife. I had neve r ex pected dowsing to wo rk . I had bel ieved the stop-tap to be somewhe re quite different, ye t by d owsin g I had fo u n d whe re il ac tua lly was! T he odds o f find in g it by cha nce were ex tre m ely re mot e - they must have he en thousands if not millions to o ne aga insl. Auto-suggestion woul d have had me lo o king mu ch further down the ro ad . This can be seen from lhe map of the garde n 0 11 page 15, showin g the po siti ons of the water pip e lines . It was then that I decided to investiga te furthe r into dowsing . I suspected th a i it '.. . o rked in som e way hy magn et ism ; afte r all, th e wat e r pipe to th e house co uld well be an iron o ne. I hoped to mak e a name for myself as the lirst person full y to explain th is age-old ph enomenon. In the hope o f ac hieving this, I con tin ued dowsing and e ve I): tim e fo und th at it re ally d id work . I found thin gs thai I never kn ew were there, and it work ed tim e and lim e aga in. T he slOry o f how I del ved deeper and d eeper into th e realms o f th e 'i m possible ' mus t be tol d els ewhere . Suffi ce it to say th a t I hav e always mainta in ed a very critica l app ro ach to my investi gations. It is all 100 easy to get ca rried away by o ne 's own beli e fs and e nthusiasms. A, I said at the beginn in g, I have always tried to maintai n m y scie n tific o bjec tivity, no mailer _what th e su bjec t, T he true scientist knows tltat it is th e ex perime nt that mail ers, not the th eory. T heories are ther e 10 try to ac hieve a un ifyin g undersr andin g fro m what o the rw ise wo u ld be seen as dis conn ected eve n ts. However, o ne call becom e to o ho ok ed O il th eo ries. It is all to o easy to become h yp notised by them a nd be led to believe ill th em . T h is is a fa ta l mi stak e . If ex perime ntal results cannot be ex plaine d by curren t theories, the n it may well be that th os e theories arc too lim ited. Ce rta in ly, on e sho uld always ch ec k a n d re ch eck re sults th a t di sagree with th eo ry. Fo r whe n the chips arc den-VII , it is the ex per ime nt tha t tests the valid ity o r th e th eory. 111 ce rta in circles, ex pe rime ntal re sults th a t do not fi ; the the o ries arc co nside red, virtually by definition , to be inco rrect.
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'I 1It-{1 1l1I . T he Validity of Dowsing ghi ng a lectu re at o nc an nual congress o f the lIo1d'h Soci e ty of Dowse rs o n the m edical a p p lica tio ns o r dltw"llIg. Aflcr wards I was accosted by a rathe r upset medical 111 ,11 ri ti on c r, He asked me how on ea rth so meone with my ,1 11\ Il ltl, ly imp eccable scien tific qu alifications was concerning " 'I'\I-U' with suc h quack ery . I told him that my experie nce Io " w,'c\ th aI d owsin g worked - as I had said in my talk. He I" ,,1"" <1 - he was o bvio us ly upset and challe nged m e to p rov e ." h hu tha t d owsing ac tua lly worked . Now th is is a trap tha I th e uuwn t y ca ll easily fall into . In tryin g to p rove th e efficacy of t111\V"llI ~, you finish u p workin g to rules that have been set by the II l lH' r person rather than working in your usual way. I refused to 1,1'" I said , very tru thfu lly, tha t it would take far to o lo ng to tal k ." 10 1111 a bout it. I suggested tha t if he was really inte rest ed in the 1,llid ily 0 1' dowsing, th en he sh ould re ad a go od bo ok on the ' ll l lin ·1. I co uld recommend such a book to him so that after he 10,,, 1 ', 'a
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th e d oc to r at my lecture - hu t I kn ow from m y o wn ex perie nce tha t it is true. Scie n tific breakth roughs h ave la rgel y been made by those willi ng-to ' b u ck th e syste m', o the rwise e veryo n e would stay o n ly in sa fe , known a reas. Just be ca use a sc ie n tist says that d ows ingo r cla irvoyan ce o r a n yth ing- el se - d o cs n ot ex ist beca use it ca n no t he p roved . m e ans n ot hillg'. II is usu all y their o p in io n based on C UlTC Il I sci e n tific theo ries. O ne o n ly h as to lo ok at th e histo ry 01" sc ie nc e to find th a t, like a ll o ther hi stories, it is liu c rcd with mi stak en id eas and be liefs. Galilco su ffered terribly fo r sla ting that th e ea rt h went ro u n d th e s u n a n d n ot vice-ve rsa. llis co n cl usio ns we re no t ill acco rd a n ce with th e e xistin g Ch u rc h d ogm a 0 1" th e d ay. Indced , h e h ad to re can t h is stat e me n ts or h e would h ave had to [" CC th e Inquisition a n d be burned a t. ,the sta ke as a he retic. If' we beli eve th at m odern scie n r e is n ow quit e dif ferent , with scien tists p urel y d edicat ed to th e tru th , th en we arc m akin g a se rio us e rro r. We n o longe r b urn people a t the stak e , perha ps, b u t b igo try d o cs still ex ist. T h e ba sic p roblem is that o f human n atu re and ou r d esire for p owe r or sec u rity o r th e approval of ou r pee rs. It n eeds a ve ry d et e rmined, hardy sou l 10 go 'O UI o n a limb' and risk to tal o p positio n to es ta b lished id eas a n d wo rk.
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I " j " I l.llicHlS o f wh a t th c a nswe r mi ght b c . Wish ful thinki n g lies I' till teln l of lIlany erro rs. III ,II I' a S suc h as d owsin g- - with th c curre n t lack o f a n 1111 '1" ,lle~ , f'i('lIlific th eory - th e o n ly proof th at h as a llYvalue is 111 ,11 II I . 11 Illal ex perie nce. T h e re a rc m an y we ll-docu m e n ted • I ~ l • • lu lwing- whe re wate r divi n e rs h ave succeed ed , against all 1111 1"l'C lirtions o fgeol ()gj,l~t s , ill findin g wa ter, O n e o ft h e be stdl .. III1 WlI led rases was o ne in wh ich a d owser found a largc nll dl IH'0lllHl rese rvo ir wh ich was co m p le tely u ndiscove red in a I I" 11 HI'Illc lg ica l sllrvey. A se ries o f test drillings we re ta kcn th.u 11I 1I \1 'c1 hi , liIHlings'l. H is dowsin g- resu lted in saving th e Briti sh 1 111 11 ' 11I III ( ~e l'l lia ny co nside ra b le expen d itu re o n n ew wat cr- , III ,1111"111 p lanls. We m ust a lways re mem ber, h oweve r, th at 11 0 IICIlIIIIII Clf' ca re fu l, wcll -d ocum cn rcd work will co nvin cc th e • clllIl' ll'le' sce p tic, wh o will say that it must he due to lo cal ~ IlllWlc 'l lgc ' ( )I " co incide nce or seei ng- visu al cl u es . II )'(111 arc sce p tica l b u t still have a ll o pc n mind , fin c. Have II ,Iud see h o w yo u ge t 0 11. Like m e, you ' mi gh t vcry well III pi l ilt' )'o u rscl f.
Pe rs o na l Experience of Dowsing T h is bo o k is not intended as a co m p le te d o-it-yoursel f g n id e to d owsin g. Dowsing covers su c h a wid e variety o f applicati ons th at t he re is insuffi ci ent room h ere to Co ve r e ve ry th ing in reasonable d epth. It is in tended m ore to act as a guide to th e man y a p p lica tio ns th at d owsin g ca n o ffe r in th e fields 01" health a n d healing, I lowever, su fficie nt information is in clud ed in thi s book 1"01' a nyo ne wh o has n ot d owsed before , to try things o u t fo r the mselves, T h e m ain thing is 10 h ave a go, That is th e o n ly way 10 p rove that it works - o the rwise yo u a re only listening to th e ta les 0 1" oth er people . It d o es take lime to becom e com pe te n t, as with Illa n y o th er skills, but th e benefits 01" suc h skills ca n be ve ry g rea t. Do wsing really docs wo rk a n d ca n be ve l) ' accu ra te , provided yo u d o not 1I)' to o hard ! The m ost acc ura te res u lts a rc a lwa ys o b ta ined wh en yo u h ave n o
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11 11 II· ,.. all Eh'Yplia n mural showing so meone holdin g a forked it. Some III "I'll' have supposed that the image depicts a dowser loo king 1111 Mll itl hut such ideas arc pure co nje cture. Th e ea rlies t 1111 1 IIIII i l is no t certain what th e pe rson was doin g with
01 . 11 ,,11.. , ..Iere ncc to th e lise of a divining rod was in about 1430 ,,, Ill II II was used for locating metalli c o res', T his referen ce is t
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"".u, 11,\('( 1. T he next referen ce comes from Martin Luthe r in I ~ Itl, wlu-n he declared th at the use o f a di vining rod broke the 110 .1 • oun ua nd mcn t. In cidentally, there are still a few people to , III . oI.' y who insis t that dowsin g o rigi nates from th e devil. For 1" , 111 1• .,Iion th ey usually quote the boo k ofDeute ro no my, whi ch I 1.1 ~ IU ' " dowsing with soothsaying and divining from an imal II
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11,1. " ""y was loll owcd in 1556 by h is major work ca lled De I/e \1, 1,,111111. T his ho ok is perhaps best known for its wo odcut l ll ll lil l l ,Il! II I1S. wh ic h arc o fte n reproduce d in modern hoo ks o n .h ,w,IIlH. T he m o st fa mous o ne shows all th e sta ges in d owsin g. l' lIlll I II I ti " H" a b ran ch from a tree; h old in g th e rod; th e rod d ll'l'lll~ : a n d ore be ing exc ava ted . 'Hfit'ola pointed out th at the reason th e rod moves ca n Hot til t1t1f' I II a fo rce ex e rted on it by the mine rals undergr ound t il I . " Illl~ th e rod will not work for e veryo ne - a b asic poin t I n f .lllIlk('d hy so me people eve n today. Ilwlirsl llriti sh reference to dowsing was in 1639 hy Ga briel 1'1,1111 'l1li ' . l it': m entions h ow to cu t rods a n d us e th em for th e 1.11 ,1110 11 of met alli c o re s. T h is was fo llowed hy an in c reasin g 1I1111111l'1 o fa rt icles on div ining a nd the d ivin ing rod. II)' 1710 th e use of divini ng te chniques must hav e heen " " WII widdy. asJo nathan Swift published th e fo llowin g satirical
I' ''' 1,,,.'1 1,./1 ft.' some thing strange and odd. 1/"",1 a cer tai n Magick Rod, I'I", t, hnuling down its '1'0/), divines \\,/",,, ,,0,.,. the Soil has Golden M ines: " ' 'n ,. thrre are rume, it stands ered, \, '" "i"g 10 shmu the least Respect. III 111-1 I th e J esuit Athanasius Kirchner' made th e discovery III ,.' II\(' movement of th e rods was due to un conscious muscular II 111111 .
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II~ . llIw!wrs . who rev e rted to the theory of an affin ity being ""Kl li 1...tween the rod and the clement. 1"( 1I1ll Ih e end of the seventeenth ce n tu ry. numerous books
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Early mineral dmosers in action. From De Rc Metallica, G. Agricola, J5.S6.
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hy an y o bjec tive evid e nce of fraud. It was o n ly in the latter pari of th e ei gh te e n th ce n tury th at any de tailed investigation or dowsing was mad e and recorded. T his was undertaken by a Dr T ho uve nel , who investigated thre e exceptio nal Fren ch dowsers: Parangue , Blet on and Pen ne t' . T ho uvenel 's results maintain ed French interest in both public and acad emic circles ":>I" over a quarter of a ce nt ury. No dou bt th is is why dowsing has contin ued to be more acce pta ble in France than Britain - a sta te or affairs which co ntinues to the present day. T he re were exce ptio nal dowse rs in Britain - th e ni nete enth-century John Mullins being one - but information a bo ut thei r ac tivities neve r reac hed th e Briti sh public in an ything like th e same way as did th e work of French dowsers. Early Scientific Investigations The first real scicntific investigation into dowsing in th e UK was ca rried out hy Barrell and Besterman in the early part of th e twentie th ce n tu ry, Their book, 17.. Div ining Rod', is still in print an d is a ve ry read able accoun t of d owsing. The investigations we re ca refu lly made. A number of Briti sh dows ers were tak en o ver to Ireland to dowse on a pre-sel ected site that none of th em had ever seen before . The results of thi s investigation were concl usive. T he d owsers, none of wh om kn ew ea ch o the r, gave virtually identical locations wh ere water was to be found. The results were th en verified hy drilling where the dowsers had in di cated, and by drilling elsewh ere o n th c site. T h e dowsers proved to be accurate iu finding th e water on th at site, th e other bore-holes heing virtually dry. In spite of this an d co un tless other ca refu lly co n tro lled investigations, th ere arc still people who claim that dowsing has been proved not to work! It may be worth noting at this point that setting up an experiment that docs not give positive answers means just that - there were no positive results _ nothing more. If th e co nd itio ns arc poor, then positive results may not o ccur. Barrell and Besterman tested dowsers in their 7 I
Dr Tbouvenel, Mnnoi". l'h, JUp",1 M,Jiri,lab. 1781. Snv nb Mnnoi".. 1784. Sir William Barren and Theodore IklU.. rman , 7M Divining Rod, 19"16. republehed 1968 hy U ll i ve~i (y noou Inc.
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lor it 10 work. It is the tension that is initially PUl into thc "" I I,y Ih,' way it is held that causes it to move in th e hands of 110 , 01 owscr, Because or the difficnlty in holdin g the rod " " " ., ,iy, it was believed that o nly a few gifted people cou ld I" , ""II" wate r divin ers. T he old dowse rs p robably did not show I" "1'10' how to hold a fo rke'd rod co rrectly, sin ce if o ne is going I II ,I\,,,hl com pe tition, then keeping o ne's secre ts can be very I" ,,1il.,Iold O n th e whole, a fo rked rod is be tter than the I" ,,, 1,,1,,,,, fo r outdoor work as it is not affec ted too much by """II winds . This is why man y professional wat er find ers still " .. 110,. classic fo rke d rod . O n th e other hand, th e pendulum is 1'''1"01.,, tor those working in th e h ealth field. 11 11 1. I
1I"llling Applications of Dowsing II ,lpl",,,rs th at we h ave to thank th e French dowsers for "1141,,.lli " R many o f the healing applications o f dowsing. Not ""Iv Ih.,I, hut a large amount o f that healing work o rigin ated ,,," " with in the Roman Catho lic Ch u rch . This is really quite " ' I" I,I" R co nsid eri n g l113t,' as we have already m entioned, ", o"y.diRions have been firmly against divining, It was perhaps I It. k of the late Abbe Mermet in France th at convinced the I I,,, ,, h uutborities to reconsider their stance. He maintained 110 ,., oIow,ing was activated by natural radiations a nd co ined the 100 ,, 1 'm diesthesie' (radiesthesia in English) to explain his ,1",,"1 " 11 activities. 'Radiesthesia' means the deterntination of 110. p"',ence of things by their radiations. He firmly believed
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Suffice it to say that . to d a te , no such natu ral radiation s have, ill fac t, bee n di scove red ! For h ealing a p p licat io ns , the pen dulum h as m a ny ad vantages over the fo rked ro d. IL onl y requires one hand, leaving the o ther free. T he pendulum is no t res tric ted by simple u p-d own respon ses li ke the forked rod. It is also morc se ns itive - allhough this ca n he hoth a hl essing a nd a curse, as we sha ll see lat er, II was th e use of d o wsin g in heal in g th at reall y bro ug h t se rious o p posi tio n to th e art . Up to th at p oi nt, it h ad bee n com mo nly beli eved tha t dowsing was a direct ph ysical reaction - the disco veries of Kirchner rega rding muscul ar respo nse havin g hein g forgott en. It was suggestcd th at it was the result of the body reactin g to ~o mc t h i ng given o ff hy underground water or m inerals. This ' e ffluvia ' , as it was origina lly called , affected sen sitiv e pe ople . Even to day these id eas still h ave so me c urre ncy, o n ly n ow 'effl u via " is ca lle d ' elec tro magnetic
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p uzzling feat ures. T h ese arose from the natu ral d es ire to kn ow if the wa ter was pure and how far down one n eeded to dig in order to lind it. A variety of tech n iques were used for th ese purposes anel they sometimes gave co nflicting results. For exa m ple. SOlli e dowsers. havin g fo und an und ergrou nd wate r flow, would determi ne its d e pth by a n 'eq ua l dista nce' meth od . They would ma rk the ce n tre of th e water flo w, th e n walk away from the strea m at right angles u n til th e rod moved aga in . The)' wonld the n ma rk this secon d pl ace. The d istance between the two points on the gronnd surface was equal to the d e pth of th e strea m fro m th e su rfac e . T h is m etho d is st ill widely used tod ay, It is o ften calle d the bish o p 's ru le, b ut j us t who Bishop or th e bisho p was, no o ne seems to know.
As you ca n sec fro m the di ag ram on page 27, th e so-ca lled dep th ba nds arc lines running para llel with the stream at a distance awa)' from the ce n tre line whi ch eq uals the d epth of the stream from the ground surface , A wo rd of warning. however. I on e n get a response 'It ha lf the true d e p th as well as at th e fu ll dep th of the stream. It is a smaller react io n, but nevert heless it ca n he m islead ing. That is why I d ug a th reem etre (I ()-fOOl) hol e in the lawn of Illy previous ho use to lin d a stream , o n ly to dis cover that the irue d epth was six metres (20 feet) ! If I had been wise I would have had a loo k a t the local geologica l map, whi ch showed a clay bed ru n n ing tha t distance belo w the su rface , It pays to he ca reful and to pay a tte n tio n to all th e info rmatio n 10 whi ch you have access. To confuse m utter s even mo re, some dowsers use exactly the sa me method to determine the flo w rate of a stream . They put in a marker above the ce ntre of the stream, th e n wa lk away from it until the rods move agai n. As an ex a mple, every 30 cm ( 12 in ) d ista nce fro m the ce n tre of the stream co uld co rrespo n d with 450 Iitres ( 100 ga llons) per hour of flo w ra re. Using th e sa me method for ca lcula tin g two suc h di ffe rent m easu rem e n ts m ak es th e idea of radia tions generating th e dept h bands lo o k preuy suspect. In additio n , if o ne j ust goes lo okin g for wat er, then usu all y the o n ly reactions that occur are
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anomalies split the do wsers into two opposing grollp still bclieved thnt dows ing was due to a direct ,oi l'"'' ;11 I'lkr t on the dowser. T he se co nd beli eved that the 111 1111 u W . l ~ c:lI lirely unde r the ment al co n tro l of the dowser, 1111 h,1l 1 "," 0 111(: so rt of mind lin k with the material he ing sought. 1'"1' d llw"c lS felt that it was pe rhaps a mixtu re of the two , 1'1" IldlllK till particu lar circumstances. Obvious ly this degree I 111I1l1l, io ll was idea l amm un ition fo r the oppone n L~ o f I l l h .. I II~ 1 ' 1)l l lt: ofwho m m ad e fu ll use of it. Indeed, as rece ntly !II \, " " s "!(O the re was still a very large sp lit betwee n th e III h II I dll~ t wo sides of the dowsing fraternity. 11 11 . Is un fort u na te b UI nat ural. H u ma n heings have always 1..111 II III understa nd mo re o f the universe arn und th c m, and it 1111 ' .!I ·"il C that creates theo ries. When cori tlicti ng theo ries I h i II I"a lark of relevant info rmation that is the real problem. 1110 ,," n' ,IIdy, hu m an nat ure bei ng what it is, many people like I I Illvolved in arguing a bout the best theory in stead of 1' ''1 "'l1 l1 l1 g dow n and exploring the who le m atte r mo re 11 11 ..1 111111
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pa~es 1 7- 9 .) Mu ch to my su rp rise , th e p endulum s",mg in to circle s o ve r places 0 11 th emap wh ere th e drains and th e co ldwa te r su p p ly ra il. There was no d oubt a bo u t it, I was ge lling a
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pos itive resp onse a nd accura te results. However. thi s was, after all , n ot co n cl usive proof that lIlap d owsin g ' . .·o r kc d as I kn e w where I sho u ld have been ge ll ing responses. Au to.. .su ggesti o n co u ld so e as ily he m akin ~ th e pendulum move . I kn ew th a t I n eeded a much more r igo rous lest , so I had a ch a t with m y n extdoor n ei~;,bolll', .Jack 'Iaylo r, I kn ew th at h e was somewha t scep tica l of my o u tdoo r d owsin g a ctiviti es (whic h h e had see n trom his house ) hUI neverthel ess I felt he would help m e . 1 told him o f Illy int ere SI ill lIlap dowsin g a n d e xp la ined that I wanted to Ir y it 0111 to sec if' it rea lly wo rk ed . .Ja ck agreed 10 help a nd drew me a l ar~e ske tc h pl an o f th e h ouse a n d garde n in Nou in gham in wh ich h e used to live . It sh owedj ust th e o u tlin e of his house a n d ~a ra~e a n d two parallel roads, one at th e fro n t of th e house and th e oth er at th e ba ck - nothin g el se. H e told m e th a t if m), d owsing worked I would find so me th ing vc l) ' slra nge a bon t th e co ld-wa te r Slip 1'1)' to th e h ouse. Thai was it: h c told m e nOlhing m ore. I sta rred 10 d owse over th e map , go ing hackwards a n d forwards with my pendulum a n d ~I'a d na lly working my way d own th e wh ol e are a . \'\'h crcv(.'r th e pendulum swu ng in a circle. whi ch it did from tim e ( 0 tim e , I piu a c ro ss on th e map. Wh en I had linish ed I co n nec le d "I' a ll th e c ro sses that se emed to be linked to e a c h o ther. lfin d ouht I c h ec ke d between points to se c if I still go t a rea ction . Apparently I was tot ally correc t in m y d owsin~ ! j a ck was as surprised as I was. I had ma r ked o ne lin e tha t wen t di agon all y from th e p avem ent towards th e h ouse , thc n stra ig hte ned u p a nd weut at right angles fro m th e road into th e h ouse . This was Ih e wat er su p p lyjac k had m unt ioued . lie sa id th at h e kn ew il went th.u way be canse h e had o n ce been di gging d eeply in his rose bed and had uncovered th e pipe just where it bent. I ha d
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1 1111 11 11 1 a n o the r lin e th at went from th e sid e of th e h ouse to III 11 1111 ' 1 l o ad . .la ck told IIlC tha t was also co rre c t: I had 11 ,,11\ , 11'1 1 th e line of th e drain s. O n ce aga in I \..'as pre tty It,d,. II " li t II lhin gs just sh ould n ot hap p en ! All (h e scie nt ific 1111 ' II I. t I h ad be e n pllttin g forward , based 0 11 m agn etism , fell tI" MI lI l ll H l. I was a ga in fa ced with a n a p pare n tly impos sibl e 1" I !l l lI' lI l lha l h ad wo rk ed .
\ U.. uhl e-blin d Test I d id n o t acce p t rl uu o ne e xperi m e n t as proo f th at d llw"lllg wo r ke d: th at wo u ld h ave been unsafe. I d id I ,,, I,, I , . , , "' , im cn ts: I c he cke d a nd re ch eck ed . Finally I did a 11 '1' 1141,1 11 , t il
1,,11 dll llh ll'. h lill cl' le s t. , I I ,III'ag lie o r mine , TOll Y Nayl or, oq.~a ll i se d l hc le st fo r III C'. I II III , l f~ Il'I' d to gi vc a talk 0 11 dowsin g 10 hi s local schoo l's I' til II I 1t'''1 lu-r assoc ia t io n. I lc was very emhusiast ic a bout m y I, ,, ~ I I I ~ 11I\,('.\l ig a l i o ll s a n d sug-g-es ted tlia t I carr y o u t a d oubl e!dlil d 11 ' 11 1 III m a p d owsin g:, I fdt di st in ctl y co rnered but ag reed II , II 1 1111 - just as lon g as it was sta ted that it was only a n III IIIlU' ll l a n d it mighl well fa il. I Ie asked m embe rs o f th e H I II I 11 '.11 lu -r g ro u p 10 se n d m e ske tc h m a ps o f th eir h ouses 11 1111 111 1I'II in g h im wh ethe r o r not lh e y were se n d ing o ne to 1 11 11. 111 )' I h e)' were not 10 g ive an y indication as (0 who h ad III II" 11I .l p , n o r was th e h ouse to be id entifiable in a n y way by Ifl 'IoIIlU" o r o the r speci fics . Conseq u en tly, ( did not kn ow l il t . 1
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lIIaps arrived . O n e of th ese lat er turned o u t 10 be a as th e p e rsoll wh o sC ll t it did not kn ow what was 1I 1111 l H I I I I1I 1l 1. Th e sec o n d iliaI' was a n archit ect's plan o f a 1" 111" ""' 11 hllll galow.1 d ows ed overboth of th em an d plotted m y 11 11' I .I1l·fll lly 0 11 th e maps. Ah oUI a we ek lat er I went to ~i vc 1\ I III I w.rv s p('a k i ll ~, I n oti ced a d istinrtly scc ptica l-Ioo king H" " 1 1I 1 1I ~ i ll rh c fron t row of th e a ud ie n ce , l ie turned o ut 10 Itt 1111 , II I h iu -rt \.. ·h o had se ll t m e th e second map. The m ap was I hi t 11\ \11 ho use whi ch was 1I0W buill. I 1,I,,, u -d "p tlt e lIIap that lu: h ad sen t and st a rt ed lalkin~ 1111 1111' II ' S1111S I h,HI di scovered from III )' (Iowsill g. Ilis Iace IW II
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c ha n ged as I talk ed . T he sce p tica l lo ok was grad ually replaced hy a n ex p re ssio n o f lol al in cred ulity. He lo o ked quite sh a ken wh e n h e fin ally to ld me th at I wa s to ta lly correc t! I had acc ura te ly lo cat ed th e co ld -wa te r su p p ly a nd th e d rains . I had a lso ma rked in two ad d itio n al feat u res in th e garde n . H e to ld m e thai th ese \v·c re two la rge sto ne so ak-aways in h is gard e n, whi c h use d to he a n o rc ha rd . I h ad a lso lo ca te d all und erg rou nd stre a m th at hc kn ew lIoth in g abou t. Late r o n tha i c Vt:n in g th e a ud ie nce we re ' le i loose ' with angle-rods o n the village g re e n o u tside a nd the a rc hi tec t was a mazed to find that h e co u ld d owse with so me acc uracy. Abo u t I I o 'cl o ck th a t ui ght th e arc h itec t's wife tel epho n ed To ny ami asked h ow she ' co u ld g" t 1",1' husband in fro m th e garde n . I Ie was wal kiu g a bou t with Iwo b its o f hent wire sayin g, 'I have found it! I h ave fo u n d i r! ' H" had found th e stream an d, o n pegging it o u t on th e g ro u n d , di scovered th at its posi tio n co inc id ed e xactly with th e liu e I h ad drawn o n my ma p .,
Proof o f Dowsing Successfu l d o wsin g und e r th ese con d itio ns m eans th at an y p h ysica l e xp la nat io n based o n cu rre nt sc ie n tific th eo ries is qui te untena ble . T h e o n ly con cl usio n th at ca n be drawn is th a t o u r prese n t scien tific th eories do not c llcom pass everyth ing prese n t in o u r u n ive rse . T h ere a rc ot hc r factors, o th e r dimensions of re a lity at wor k a bou t which we kn o w lill ie o r no thi ng. We ca ll p ro vc th at th ey exist, h u t so fa r 110 ratio nal ex plana tio n is possibl e. Many people find th is ve ry uncomfortable . So me people have ve ry d e fi n ite id eas a bout wha t co nstitutes ' reali ty'. Any th ing th a t d o es uo t lit in with th ei r beli efs a bo u t th e un iverse is la be lled a h eresy. O th ers eve n go as far as stating tha t d owsing is the work of the d evil. In th e past 1'' '01'1" we re burned at th e sla ke for m a kin g sim ila r unorthod o x st a te me n ts! Wh en th is h ap pen s, a ll scie n tifi c object ivity becomes lost , Tru th becomes th e vic tim of prejudice. Yet sc ie nce sho u ld ' h e o n ly conc e rned with the tru th - no t with the bolstering of th eories tha t arc showin g th ei r limi tati ons. O n e o f th e most o u tsta nding Frenc h m a p d owsers o f th e early twentie th cen tu ry was Ahb" Me n n e t, wh om we mentio ned
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1111 , l ie was a n expert dowser a n d ,,"cry m an y peo p le '" I" Ii ' '''lh e acc u racy of hi s wo rk. Typ ica lly, h e wo u ld as k for ~, " I. o f lhe area where wate r was re q u ired , If h e cou ld IIl1d \\, l lt" th ere , h e would ret urn the map with a red c ro ss ,,~ llI H 111(' spo l. lie would give instruc tions on h ow d eep to 1'._""I, ll.. "u"nlily o f water wh ich wou ld be found . lI is hook, 1II1t/ Practice of ll11tli('!ith('.~ia''' makes very interes ting , ll ll ll~ , ,II HI a lt ho ug h Abhe Mcrmet believed th a t h e 1110, 11 \1 It·d Ihe presence o f th in gs Ih ro u gh radicsrhcsia . th e 1,11 1111111 tI l ' na tu ra l rad iations, which we 11()W know ca n not he IIdt" 1I01IC 'thdess his ex peri me n ts did work. 11111 I
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Mi-r-u ct believed Ih a t b ecause h e o b ta ined a from such a tes t, then Lhis res ult III list be Ill" I I "" II, However, ex perim e n ts h ave shown th at th is is n o t th e \ I\, 1,11(' fo r go ld lIlay h e quit e different from you rs. T h is is 1111 1111 I 1 ,1' 1' in whi c h th e scepti c m ay claim tha t this difl ercncc 111 11 \ " " dowsing ls rubbish . Not so . What m atters is whethe r til " d ll w~ l lI g is accu rat e - no t that o ne's r o des a rc the same as I \ li ll t' l'l se's. A r o de , in fact , is a n appropria te n a m e be cause \II I ..".
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it is rath er like having a n agreed code with someone else , through wh ich yo u ca l) co m m un ica te informati on. With d owsing. th e code acts as the mea ns of comm u n icatio n be tween you r co nscio us mind and your suhco nscio us m ind, whi ch d rives th e pendul um. Suc h tru th s arc pe rso nal, not uni versal. My pe rsonal truth is th at my pendulu m ro ta tes clockwise for 'yes'; my wife 's ro ta tes ant iclo ckwisc - th at is her pe rsonal tru th. Ano ther pe rson wh o h el d sim ilar opinio ns o n th e universality of d owsin g codes was th e lai c Tom Let h bridge, an avid d owse r a nd writer workin g in th e I960s. H is hooks make in teres ting reading as he re fused to talk to o the r dowse rs about d owsing meth ods. lie felt that by avoiding co m m un ica tio n with o the r dowsers he would d iscover th e truth rathe r th an he in flue nced hy the id eas of o the rs. U nfortuna tely, he a lso failed to ap precia te that his cod ing metho ds co uld be pe rso nal rathe r than un iversal. T h is must be born in mind wh en re ading any of h is book s o r you may become di sh earlened wh en you lind that YO llr results do n OI agree with his. Medical Dowsing So far we have look ed mainl y a t mineral a nd wate r dowsing , the origina l reaso n for d o wsin g. T he mcdical a nd healing aspects of do wsin g- ha ve grown fro m thi s ve ry pra ct ical background. Indeed, it is as well 10 ke ep th e same d own-to-earth a p proac h to the healing aspects o f d owsin g if we a rc to avoid so me se rious pitfalls. With medical d owsin g, th e first thing it is im portant to re member is th.u inside man y people lurks a hypochondriac just waiti ng to get o u tl Oowsing ca n be a hypochondriac 's delight, for they can nowse to sec if they arc ill, wh at medicin es Ihey need, whether they arc [ 0 0 ill to get u p - th e list is e nd less! T his is why we must develop a se nse of p ropo rtion to cu rb overc n rhusiasn.. We must bear in mi nd particul arly that it is all too LISY to i"IIIi('n Ce d owsin g by perso nal preferences. Indeed , so"'e pi.el'''" h ave ca used much d istress thro ugh se eing themselves a,; self-ap poin ted guardia ns of th e health o f o thers. One comple tel y misgui ded perso n wrote to people o ut of the blue sal'ing that h , had d owsed fo r th eir health. H is d iagnosis
I",.." ," ways cla imed th at th ey ha d ca nce r a nd that h e co uld I IIl'1II . Su ch activities arc to tally unet h ica l and bring th e 11 111. I" .ulin: of d owsin g int o d isre put e . T hey also do a great II ,.1 III llllele r-min e the p at i ent and serious work of respo nsible
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I It.ullu Tn Iryin g: 10 find S0I111: land d rains lor my [olleague , 1,,", Ill ' WC\.'i having d ifficulties with a wat erlo gged ga rde n lu I 'il l lll I Ill' build er had severed th e land drains whe n th e house 1,"111 I fo u n d tha t by dowsin g I cou ld eas ily local e th e land I tt ll l lli ll 11Ie' a( ~jacc n t field , and th e fann e r gave liS pe rmi ssion d l ~ III IU O\fC my dowsi ng:. T he re , sure e noug h, were th e land ti l l . Howe-ver, I Mill could not find th e drai ns in To ny's I til II I "ad been usin g a sam ple of land d rains (more abo u t 111 1'11'" I.IICI') to help me in m y sea rc h . As thi s had not worked I I It II ,1I1111IH:r tack - I would try to d owse fo r th e sma ll amou nt 111'1 lIowi ng in th e d ra ins . I wen t o ut int o th e fiel d an d ,t i ll d dllwsing: for very sma ll water flows. I got a rea cti on from III III I he- land d rains and ke p t o n walkin g to check over th e I H i ll ' whe n I walked straigh t over a very large underground III -1111 l lu - pain was in credible, I\oth se ts o f a rill muscles went 1111 1I1 11ll ,II11aneo us total spasm. I forget what I said , bur it was I , " II.II,i<' fo r people se ns itive 10 had langu age ! I had II II lI ,d III )' mental se ns itivity to loo kin g fo r ve ry small water 11111 this had ca used th e muscular o ver-reac tio n , II, lll lwsing- for anyth ing, it is easy fo r the b<:gin" cr to try too , 01 .un l Ihll S ge t mi sleading - if not pain ful - res u lts. For Hill • • virtua lly eve ryone has cancer cel ls in th ei r hody. Th is fi lii 1I11lllla lly dangerous as the body's auto-immune syste m .\ -,
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will des troy or inunobi lisc th e m as th e y a rc p rod uced , However, dows ing fo r ca ncer with too m uc h e nth us iasm and too little experience ca ll give a completely incorrec t res u lt. O ne should be lo o kin g for lifl...th rt}(ltn ling or act ive ca n ce r, no t j ust th e presence of ca ncer ce lls, )11 dC )\\lsing:, remember th e Scottish sayin g. ' Ga ng: wa ril y' , So far we h a ve lo o ked at dowsillg and the effects of overse n sitivity, b i ll wh a t about peop le who c la im not to be a ble to dowse a t all? And what about the scepti c for whom nothing seem s to ha ppe n? Fi rst , we must re m em ber the cla ssic forked rod is difficult 10 hold co rrec tly, T his IIIl1St ha ve led to the idea that dowsi ng is a VCI )' special gift , In fac t, this is not so ; dows ing ability is ex tre me ly wides pread . My first wife on ce test ed two classes of c h ildre n at her seco ndary school. One class had j ust moved lip from middle sc hool. She showed th e m how 10 dowsc with anglerods, th en sent th en : 0 11 1 in to th e playground . (JIlSI what th e hc ad tea cher Iltoll g h t of Ihis I n ever discoveredl ) Over 80 pe r f (,llt had a good reaction and co u ld follow where th e drains for th e school a nd the p layillg liehls rail . Site then experimented with a cla ss of sixth formers. The m ~j o ri ty d id gel positive re actions, h u t th e n u m be r gctting positive reactions was now d C)\\!1I 10 about (i{) pe r ce n t. In ot her words, th e re were about twice as many non-do wse rs in th o sixt h lorm . Obvio us ly th ere co u ld he seve ra l n~aSO IlS, b u t th e mos t likely one is that a n in creasing: scep ticism ofte n se ts ill as c h ild re n grow o lder, Attitude o f m ind wou ld th e re fo re appear to h ave an importan t hearing O il the a b ility to dowse.
Bio-feedback The la te a n d m uc h lo ved Max Car le, a remarkable teach e r of meditatio n , o n ce cond u cted a very int e restin g experime nt. Ma x was a grea t bel iever ill the usc of bi o-feedback techn iques to help people in m e d itat io n m etho d s. (T h is work has been ca rried on by h is wife Isobel Maxwell Cade.) Max h ad been traini ng so me of h is stude nts to ke e p the h rain in th e rel a xed alpha-rhyth m suue with th e ir eyes open . T hey we re con nected to a porta hie alp ha m onito r tha t gave a tone in a n earp iece as
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so meth ing perso n al, like a ring o r a wa tch , and leave th e roo m. Il l' the n h id all th e o bjec ts un d e r 11,111t'1 ~ 4)11 a long ta bl e . They we re th en asked to co m e back II,. 1111 10011I o ne at a tim e a n d . main tai ni n g th ei r re laxed II,h ,. l !.11I' , slo wly 'scan ' ove r th e table wit h on c h a n d . With o ut • 1,, 1,,", rhc alp ha rhy th m cu t o lf wh en th e ir h a n d mo ved I I hl'l l own perso nal bel onging! \ Vhen q uesti oned, n o n e o f III WillI awa re a t a conscious level th at anythi n g h ad h ap pe n ed ,110 10 ' , IIwrd)' th a t th e lo n e in th ei r ea r p iece had s to p ped a t , II II I 1111 ' 111
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\. 1.11 as is n ow kn own. d o wsin g responses arise from "u IKI III III a p e rs on's b rain rh ythms. A'\ alp h a b ra in ac tivity is II L I II ' I! with a sta te of me n tal re laxatio n , th e cessa tio n o f the 11.11 11 dl )'11a 1ll in d ica tes a n in c reased level of m e n tal te nsion . I Iii , III lUI II ca n lead to in creased muscle tensio n , a n d it is the !l 'flI M' " III muscl e tensio n th at move a ngle-ro ds a nd th e fo rk ed . \11I hi .iin act ivity ca n c h a nge witho ut tl l'ce,u ari ly affec ting flnl II h.rlan cc (bet ween th e fle xo r a n d exte nsor muscl e 114111111") , thi s cou ld h e one ex p la na tion wh y SO IllC peo pl e tllil II lit Iwse with in str uments su ch as a ng le-ro ds. It appea rs, ,\0 " Iha l eve n with th ose people . p rovi ding th ey ca n rel ax . 111, 1... "ly, th e d o wsing respo nse will sh o w up in th e frequency , 11111 11 o f th ei r b rain ac tivity, \llhll llHh tryi ng too h a rd ca n give rise to ovcr·sensilivity in till I'l'l lple, in o the rs it ca n inhibit th e d uwsin g re sponse . '''10 I. ,,,·..d cd to be su ccessful in d o wsing is to h e d et ached 1111 111 .. i es u lts th at m ay be o b ta ilied. AUlo-su ggestio n a n d fu ll l Y ,III' th e p erman ent e n e m ies o f th e. d owse r. For th is II i~ ~\l ggeslcd th at where th e re sults of d owsin g arc ve ry 111 11 ' " 11,11 11 10 a d owse r, th ey should se riously co nsid e r ge tt ing 1111 00'"' .-I.• e to d o th e d owsing for them, It is o ne thin g ge lling IIlK If';lclions , so m e th ing qui te d ifferent in b eing accu ra te • 1111 111 11' 1 pretation of th ose re ac tions. III II... ne xt c h a p te r we will be lo oking a t th e tools of the " .d,., Ih.. d iffe rent d owsing m ethods availa b le a n d th eir ,.. Ihlp pil fall s. Not e veryo ne is co m fo rt a b le with some 11100,10 ..I' d owsing. Some people gel no response fro m a
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pend ulu m , o thers ca n not lise a forked rod. The main th ing is to experi me n t .and rind wha t you arc comfo rtable with . Some hooks a re 1'11 11 of a ll sorts of mu m bo-jum bo : yOIl must d o this or n o t d o that. Forget all tha t. Dows ing is basicall y sim ple. T here arc as ma ny ways o f d( )\\lsing as th e re are dowsers . Many people start off with o ne we ll-de fined way, th en ada pt it fo r th ei r own method of wo rking. T ha i is line a nd is hy far th e hest way. The main thin g is to kee p an o pe n mind and try thin gs o ut lor yourself: Ult imately o n ly yOIl ca n p rove whether d owsi n g ac tual ly wor ks a nd fin d h ow it ca n best serve YOIl. Boo ks like thi s can only act as a guide and give enco urageme n t. T here is no alternative to good old 'hands-o n' experience!
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\...IYII Pen rose was all ex pe rt dow ser from Co rn wall and II," hoo k, A dv,.,,!ure Unlimited, (n ow 0 111 o f p ri n t) makes L,,,d lla ting reading. In her later years she worked all ove r hi w"d d as a very successful dowser fo r mining co mpanies. In I I" Ill~. , ,I I<: stressed th at dowsin~ is esse n tia lly simple and th at 1",,,101 I,,: ke pt th ai way. My own ex perie nce has led m e 10 '" wllh h er views a n d this is wh y you will not lind any IIIclh ods given h ere . Eve ry aucmpt h as been made to I' 11l11lt-tS simple , as so o ften it is within co mple xity th at we I".. "'" way. It see ms that human beings like com p licale d ,1o 'K' II j, as th ough so m e th ing simple th ai works always needs I I" '11I 'I ,roved ' ! Perhaps it is because people like 10 leave th eir lI 11 j ll l ll l nil thin gs. so if so me thing can be 'improved' by add ing IM.1 1o ,,, ,, I wh istles, th en that is wh at is done. T he problem is th at
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1,,11 ,'11 illl proveme nL'" arc unnecessary; indeed, they can get in 11" wlIy .. f seein g th e esse n tial simplicily of th e tools th at arc tu·, d,',t.
I Ivc '" th e years many d owsing 100is hav e been developed.
,,,,,y..1 these have had temporary acceptance and then fall en loll" ,11.. " e . Fashions chan ge . Al one lime th ere was much
th e so-c alle d 'universal pendulum'. T h is h ad a sliding \10 whir h included one area marked 'negative green' . There 11111..1 \ di scussion at the time about n egative green bUI I u -v I t'JI,,"1 OUI whal it IVa'. Eve n wearing my sc ie n lific hal I '10 I ,' 01 i ll
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o u ld not s 'C wh at o n .a rt h it was m .a n t to be . If we lake green light away from wh it ' light , lh .n we g ·t a mag rn a colo ur, bill th e y di d 1101 a ll it mag .n ta bu t n 'gi ll iv 'gr' m, An a nti-dowsing ou ld have a fie ld day wit h su h co nc pts! So s .p ti throughout thi s boo k I have tri .d I avo id a ny tat ' m e n lo; th at ca n b ' take n th ' wro ng way and so p ro vid ' a mm un ition for tlu sc .p ti . W, n ' -d o n ly to stick 10 .s ta b lis hcd fa ts an d k 'ep In simple ways. ornp l .xity a nd mumbo-ju rnbo do no t mak ' fo r a b .u -r d o ws 'I', th e m 'I' 'l o p ' n us lip to ridi ul c .
Dowsing Too ls and Materials Wh in lo oking a t d owsing to ol s, w ' must b .a r in mind th at th e re is still mu h unsu bst anti at .d fo lklore o n th e sub] 'c t. I well I' 'Ill nn b ' r o n' lady who lo o ked ad m iring ly a t a be hw o od p endulum th at I was Ilsin g . 'Tha t's a 10v'Iy p mdulum. ' sh ' sa id . ' It 's so important 10 us ' natu ral m at 'ri als for a u rat e resu lts. What. so r t o f thread arc you usin g ? It. lo oks lik ' silk.' 'W'II a tu all y,' l r .p li x l, 'i t's m ad ' o f n ylon!' From t.h lo o k th at sh ' bray ' m .. I kn .w that I had b .c n o ns ig n .d to th ' ran ks of inacc ura t d ows rs! I would agr' , th a t it is good to f ' I a t home with th to o ls you us " but it is la rg .ly ir r 'I evan t wh at yo u a tually us for your d owsin g . Wh at matt .r is wh .th ' r it wo rks fo r yo u . I have a m ost i ty of Dows r ' congre sat tr easur .d m 'mory fro m a Bri tish Harrogat e in Yo rksh ire , Engla n d. W had sp ' nt an afte rnoon d ows ing n 'a r Fountains Ab b 'y, a nd a g rou p of us h ad gon into a tca shop in Ripon fo r aft. ' moo n t.ea. On ' lady d e idcd to dows ov 'r th e s o n s to s " if th 'y con ta ined margilrilJe or butte r. Sh ' op ' n 'd h ' r handbag a n d from it produced a toy mous '. Sh ' th n h 'ld it up by its tail and uS 'd it as a dowsing p ' nd u lu m. It d 'monstr.lt ' d that on ' r 'a lly a n use anything _ although I hav ' to ad m it it would hardly in still onfidence in a sceptical onlook -r! At th e sam ongr'ss, one of th m ' m b rs produc d a set of angle-r ds a n d d 'fi d a n yo n to dows with th em . They were m ad' with gimbal bearings in th e handles, so that whatever one did with on ,'s wrists, th rods always pointed in the same
T ilE TOOI.S OF TIll': TRADE
c-ral p .o p lc who fir m ly b -li -vcd th at th e d uws ing Ill(' rods, ra th ' I' than a bod ily rca ' lio n , tri ·d 10 usc II II ll It 10 th .ir annoyan c " th ' rods I' -Iuscd tu wo rk a t a ll, I II " , I I'0 illling in th ' sam ' din: lion a ll ih ' lim " I tried I lid 101111(1 th e .x p 'ri .n i qui tc strang ' . Wh -n I walk 'd I 11111 1 'q~ ro u n d str ' ,UI1, I kn ·w that rh ' rod ' shOt.lld . b ' II hili lIolhin g happened a t all. It was a OIWIll . Illg II II.II\on o f th ' fa .t th a I the dows rr's mus ular I' 'a lions tI.. lods. II , .Ie I c p l that it i a mus u lar r 'a tion by th ' body ratl,l -r I d ill ( I for 'on th ' 1001 b 'in g us id whi h aus 's d wSlllg 1 1111 \ c will be able 10 un d e rst and ho w the d iffer -nt II ;ools work. T h is I' .m o v 'S IIlU h o f th . m yst i ism an d 1111111111 dowsi ng a nd will h .lp us 10 vi 'w d iffe r -nt d owsin g I II 11\ o bj . ' live m anne r. . lit, d o wsin g instrum mt is basi all y an ampl,.n ·r .of 1 111,11 uiovcm .n t, A sma ll ' ha n g ' o f muscl e tension WIll , I lilt , p rodu ' a la rg e h ang ' in th e rn ovcm .n t of th ' I
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,,1 \ he n th y o nsi dcr dowsing -quipm .n t. It shou ld. b ' tI lu iwr-vcr; that it an 0' qu it , diffi lilt to h old a do.wsmg
lIy, so it is n ot r 'all y th ' b est 10 01 .for t.h b grn ne r. I g'ol in ' xp 'ri ' 11 ' with su h d ' VI S IS o n a good II I 0 111 -. do w i l\ ~ rod n eed n ot b ' Illad ' fr om wo od; plasti o r tl~in I I" 111 10 th' orr - t sh a p . will d o just as W 'II. If yo u try With I I I I im p rumt to s ' I ' t a ni ' V-sim p d branch of supple I 11.1 ... -I is th - lassi choi " but rh odod ' n d ron , dogwood IIt lll I . Iro n g, n 'xibl woods a I" a ll goo d. The Am ?ri ans I II ' p 'a h . Britt} · wo ds will br 'ak, whil ' woods whl h a~c III Ihk will not b su ffici ' n lly sp r in g-lo ad 'd to work. If rn , ,11 1(1\1\ a particular typ ' of wood, try making a rod and I III 11 '(
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T il E T OO I.S OF TilE T RA Il E
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fork ed ro d, you co u ld even usc su c h unli kely mate ria ls as p lasrir kni lling need les, T he need les need 10 be both lo ng and thi n for this to be successful. Bind th e need les toge ther at on e end for abo ut 2,5 cm ( 1 in), using a few laye rs of sticky tape. If you then p ull th e o the r e nds of the needles apart, you have a forked dows ing ro d . Whalebo ne from Victorian corsets was o nce very' popu lar fo r making dowsing rods, a ltho ug h th an kfull y this is no lo nge r a n o pt ion! Basica lly, you can use two pieces of a nyt hing sp rinb'Y th at ca n he bound logelhci' a t o ne e n d . II is very importa n t to h ol d the forked rod co rrectly, with th e pa lms faci ng upwa rds a nd the slic k be nt o pen fro m it, natu ral position . T his ca uses the stick to he spring- loaded and can be seen by com paring the sha pe o f th e classic rod in the illu st ratio n above, with th e p hotograph o n th e nex t page of the ro d in lise.
Wh en hold ing a forked rod in this way, wh ich may feel very unna tu ral 10 the beginn er, a ny o pposite d irectio n of ro ta tion of the forea rms will mak e th e rod move . If th e tops of the fo rearms rota te sligh tly towa rds each o ther, the tip of the rod will dip. On th e other han d , if the to ps of th e arms rota te aWdY from ea ch o ther, th e ro d tip will rise . Angling the wris ts to in crease o r decrease the sp ring- load ing of the rod will in crease or decrease its se nsitivity. Too much te nsion in th e rod will make it so unstabl e th at it willjump in to th e ' up' o r ' down ' positi on before
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/ Iiolt! (I forkrd md with thr Iwlm-\ far; l1~ upumrds. 111\1 ' 11 vmrt to dowse and ma)' even ca use th e ro d to break lit Ill' I1IC' im porta nce of lIsi ng- a stro ng hut f1 exihle mat e rial . 1.11..., '.. omc time to practi se.: holdi ng th e rod unt il you fed lill t. Ill.lhle with it. O l1f C yOIl have mastered the co r rec t wa y (0
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"Ill' 1111 th is is ill opell co u ll try awa )' fro m prying c)'cs. It is jlll ll d illin l! l 10 m aster til e co r rec t way of ho ldi ng- the rod and
• 1'111 ,II on lookers ca ll he unh elp ful. Most people get qu ite a Illd !l 'ar l io n fro m undergr ound water flows, fo r the re is 11111 Il lill g vcry basic abou t usin g a forked ro d to look for wa te r I 1111 1 . uu u rysid c. I Iov..'eve 1', thi s may lull be easy fo r e veryo ne 1 IU l, l ll g ('. If you are not ab le to do so you cou ld , like m e, start
it, •. ,Il l la ill J.t for such th ings as dra ins, g-as and water pipes. lookin g fo r a reaction from th e rod - a m ovem ent Neve r m ind which way il gocs; th er e is no ' righ t' Ill. I 11011, \ Vltat m att e rs is thai it m o ves in a repeatabl e way. If it fllll\ "" 4'\,('r)' tim e YO ll wal k o ver a certain pla ce and you don 't III IW what is there , never m ind . We will he look in g a t me thods \" III ;lI l '
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of a na lysis la te r. AI liti s stage il is a m att e r o f gell ing repeata ble m ove me n ts and in cre asin g yo ur co nfide nce . Angl e-rod~
If yo u have fo u nd a forked ro d too d ifficult to usc o r hav« d ecided th at it is not th e hes: pl ace fo r yo u to stan. you Ill'll' \.... ~1I 11 to try dowsin g \.. ·ith ang le· rods. and I reco m m en d these f(u beginn ers. Ang le-rods can he quite responsive . Th e fact th;ll th e y arc not as influen ced by th oughL' as the pe ndulu m. i, actually an advantage for th e beginne r, as it is impo rtant at fhi, stage to minimise the e ffec ts of thou ght s as m uch as possible . I therefor e recomm end lIsing a pendulum o nly afte r gaining so me expe rience with ~~ less mind-sen sitive dowsing too l. Most peopl e find 'angle-rods casy to usc , and the)' C U I usually work where people hav e had lilli e o r no response when trying a Ic)rk ed rod . Like m e . yo u lIIay find il helpfu l 10 lo o k first fo r und e rgro und fea tu res su ch as drains and wate r pipes. I think it is a good thing 10 o btain expe rie nce o f re acti ons to ac tua l physical o l~cc is befo re venturing in to more difficult areas of dowsing. Ang le-rods have a nice 'so lid' feel 10 the m a nd a ltho ug h th ey arc not idea l for the p urpo se . Ihe y ca n eve n he used ill healin g appli cation s. . Ang le-rods arc ve ry casy 10 make and co nsist o f nothi ng' more than two pit.·rcs o f bent wire . T he diameter and len g th of the wire is not 100 c ritical, although it is best 10 use fairly thick, steel wire so th at the ro ds a rc not se rio usly affe cted by the wind . The wire in stcc] coa l hange rs is fine when straig ht en ed o ut; aluminium o nes make the ang le-rods too light for easy usc . A d iame ter ofabou r ~ I1 l1n (X'li in) will do we ll and the straight wire sh o u ld he c u i to a bo u t :\0 C IIl ( 12 in) long. Each wire should th e n he ben t 'II rig h t a ngles about \l C III (:~ X in ) I'rom o ne e nd. T he rods a rc held , on e in ea ch hand. with th e lo nge r leng lh o r th e Lshape point in g forwards. T he rods must he h eld ve ry lig h tly so that they a rc fre e 10 swing. with th e horizon I'll pan o r the rod clea r o f th e index Iing, ·rs. II' thi s is found to be [00 d i ffi cu l t, th en hollow han d les ca n he used . as d escribed o n pa ge 12. lnslead ofhalllhoo. llind il is sim p le rto usc o ld chea p ball-poi nt pe ns. If Ihe ' in na rd s' o fs uch pe ns arc p u lled o u t with ·14
T ilE TOOLS OF T il E T RAD E
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H I plie rs, then the rc mallung: casing creates perfe ct Il,llldlt·s wit h a hottom plastic hu ng. The shorte r side of h.,I'" needs to be a lill ie bit lon ge r th an the hold er le ngth
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so th at th e ro ds d o n ol fou l th e lop o f th e tu be. The ro ds ca n l«. d ro p ped int o th ese h o ld e- rs an d Ih e tubes ra n th en he hd el in ste a d of th e rods. T h e ang-lt'-ro
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1.. ..1 Ill'ople ge l a re action with angle-rods un less th cy a rc
Iii 11l1l\'iIlC<" d th a t dowsing ca u n o t wo r k, Often th e ini tia l !llIll Ir, sm a ll and it may b e h a rd to see, l Iowcvcr, \ I I , U ll t ' will p ay off In itially m y a ngle-rod reactions we re 111111 1 oltly j us t n otic ea ble , Wit hi n a year they we re strong. II III n l" d pra c tice to ga in th e co n fid e nc e th a t was necessary 111 ,1111 ..11..11 positive reSUIL"i. A"i I me ntio ned previously. I was I I p tira l whe n I firs t tr ied dows in g and th ere is 110 dou ht t III 1111 ' hegi nni ng that sce p ticis m adversely a ffec te d my 111M 'H' llsilivity. II I. " ' I Y ni ce , though hy no m e a n s essent ia l, 10 try a ngleI. 11111 i ll the co u n trysid e. Anglc.rods have ra ther m o re 1I 11 1V iha n a for ke d ro d a nd this soon he co m es eviden t wit h " pPU'\(' tha t yo u arc looking fo r wa te r hut, u n kn own to , Ih l 14 ' i ~ an underg round aq u ifer (the aca de mically co rr ec t .. 1111 ,I II underground st rea m) to the rig ht o f yo u , U n de r lli lid itio ns b oth rods will often move a n d poi n t to the side " ,I,, " water is. T h is ca n he ve ry h el pful and can save a lot of II I ~ ,I I lim es. I tlf' pcolldulum
q ui te a few o ther forms of rods a nd d o wsin g d evices, dou b le-V rod s, wands, m oto rsco pcs, a uramctcrs a nd 1111 I II J.;cncra l th e y a rc little \ used apa r t front ce rt a in 1.11"',1 a p p lications wh e re th e y are thought to be m o re h ,I"1 H oweve r, th e pendulum remains easily th e m ost 1'01 '0 100 1 1,)1' th e h e aling a p p lications of d owsin g . ~ 1"., ,, lu lu m can he m ade o f a ny material as lon g as its ",',,' IC'ds a t h ome with it. A fai rly h eavy fin ger rin g o n a " I ,ollon th re ad works well fo r many p e o ple ; o thers use h.1 1',' ,,, llIh un s o n m e tal chains, crys ta l pendulums o n fine , 0' lIold chains, wo o d en or pl ast ic pend u lu ms. T he m ain 111M I. 1It;ol th e p endul u m 'bob' n e eds to be sufficie ntly h e avy ,lh,l II.' movemen ts ca n Le fel t Ly the fin ge rs. You can o b ta in Ill' a ttrac tive pendulu ms from the British Society of , . (see page 188) . ". wilh the angle·rods and fo rked rod, it is unconscious , IIl1'lIts of th e h and tha t m ake the instrument move . In this ' f III t '
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case th e pendulum is givon sm all im pe rce p tib le ' p ush es' lru m th e h and a t th e sa me ra te as th e n atu ral fre q ue n cy of os c illatiuu o f th e pend u lu m , For Ih is reason, Illau y people fin d th ai ,I ce rta in length o fstr inJ.{ g ives th e heSl response for th em . A good way of dete rm ini ng th e best length is to start by usi ng a sh on th re ad of5-H e m (2-1 in) in length , T h e pen d u lu m ca n th e n h, successively leng th ened u ntil yo u o b tai n th e most scnxitivr res ults. One way of gett ing used to a pe n du lu m is to ' te ll' it wh ir h way 10 go, l lol d th e pend ul u m perfectl y st ill, th e n req uest th.u it ro tates in a c loc kwise direct io n . For ma ny people th r pend u lu m will beJ.{in to ro ta te in th at d irection without a ll) co nscio us act Oil th ei r part. For more speedy res u lts IIII' pe ndu lum can be swung ill a straight lin e befo re tel lin g it wh.u to do. T h is a c tio n of th e mi nd u nconsri o u slv to alte r th e S \\,j llJ.( of a pe nd u lum h as been known fo r a lo ng tim e , It h as On Cl 1 been use d as a ba sis I o r a rg u in g th a i dowsing is th e ref o re n othi ng more thao wishful Ih in kin g. This effect must always \", remembered . It sh o ws just how easy it is for the mind 10 intlucurc o n u's dowsing. This efl"cc i of th e mi n d ca ll 0<:<'111 whatever dowsing im pl e men t is used, b ut it tends to be mo rr no ticeable with a pendulum . A pe nd u lum ca n he use r] 10 . c hec k for th e presence 0 1 undergro und water flo ws, b u t it is n o t as easy as using angle-rodor a forked rod. Ii is a m a tte r of walki ng a long slow ly a nd watchi ng for th e pendu lu m either to start moving or ch a n ge it., mode of movement. For inst ance, it lIlay c h a n ge fro m a straight . lin e swing to moving with a circular swiug. T he mai n d ifficu lty is that the act ion of wal king te n d s to move th e pen dul um, so one h as 10 wal k very steadi ly and carefully for the res ults 10 I", una m b iguous. The pend ulum is best used indoo rs, A< it only uses o n" h an d it leaves the other fre e and, as we shall sec, it is ca pa b le of more responses th an the angle-rods. This m akes it very us eful for healing a pplications as it ca n give subtle r and m ore informative answers thanjust a plain 'yes' or ' n o '.
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tl ,t\'I1 ~ looked a t th e m ain <1o\\'sin g instrumcnts a n d h ow th ey I"
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11l1 1 ~ta IlCCS. T hc n e xt ch a p te r is co n cc rn cd with p racti cal lll\\ . l ll~ a n d so me o f th e pi tfall s yOll m ay e nc o u n tcr - a n d 'I I
1'1 11,,11, the re are, I know th a t feelin g o f wishing th e ea rth would 11111\\' rue up! Wlu-n so u i c o n c h as cxcava ted som e 8 m et res
d ow n for wate r o n yo u r say-so a n d found n othing, it is .rwlu ] fee ling. Tel ling th em th at yO ll hav e succeeded 99 I 11 '11 1o f th e rim e in th e past is of n o help whatever, A n ne per III I.ii l urc ra te m a y see m VCI)' lov.. ' to yo u , hut YO ll r 99 pe r ce n t 1111 '" ra te m e nus norhing to th e pe rson with the d ry h ol e! Nu l that I wo u ld wish to dissuadc a nyo ne from trying o u t I II W" ll lg _ far fro m it. I m erely want to point out th at yo u have H''- I'" llsih ility 10 th os e 1()I ' wh om y O ll d owse . Wh ether o r not 11 1111,11ge for yo u r sc n.'ires is irrel cvant. As d ow sers wc must be I 1lI1I 1IIah ie for o u r nrtiou s. Indeed , c h a rgi ng: for 0 \11' wo rk m ay Ilf 11'10 re m in d us thai we arc not d oin g: it ~j ust for fun ' . If we I I tl. .ulvisc oth ers, it is vital that we arc as compet ent as is I IITI)
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Used carefu lly, Ihey will help us 10 hecome steadily Illolicielit and lessen th e risk of e m ba rrass in g- failures.
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4 Using the Tools
we' have seen , the 10 01 mo st widely used for healin g: ,q .plicat io ns of dowsin g is the pendulum, alth ou gh it can h•. helpful a t tim es 10 usc e ithe r a ng le-rods o r a la rked 1IIl 'll' fo rc.:. alth ough most of thi s ch ap ter will refe r to th e II IIII' pendulum , th e othe r tools must not be rorgotlcn as HI « uuc t im es app ro priate fo r a pa rticular type o f dowsing. \\' 111' 11 alt cmptin g to d owse o u tdoors fo r the first tim e, man y 1+" ,.", ,", the same qu estion : 'I have j ust found so met hing by 111 11 wha t is il?' This is o fte n th e lirst p robl em you will Il l ll l " ! afte r finding that dowsin g works: what do the 11iH I «,act io ns mean ? If yO ll get a d owsing reaction when .. .11. liver a parti cular place , th e reac tio n docs not actually " II ,lilYthin g a bou t what lie s undcrgnulI1d . It may be wate r, I" .. 1 min e shaft o r virtually anything - even just a large 1I
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lin I said th at co d illg .me thods ca ll be used to obtai n th e dl'lai k d inform ation th at we need,. These , or other lI"cI , of a na lysis, arc vital , blltlhcy d o present p roblcms. Wc cI I" I heck o ur results very care fully,
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For ex a m p le, there was a fir m in Leeds th at m ad e all instru ment th e y ca lled the Rcveal e r, I\asically it was a pair ..I adapted a l1~le-n)( ls, o ne of wh ic h had a se t of sam ple m a rc riah a ttac hed to it by wires. T he samp le s were o f comm on un d e rground materials suc h as drain pip e, coppe r, co al e rr. I tried a pair o r th em o ut a nd fo u n d th a t th ey worked beaut ifu lly Wh e n I pulled th e co p per sa m p le towa rds me I co u ld find ,h" co p per o il pipe Ihal fed th e ce nt ra l h ea tin g; the d ra in pip, sample gave me just the drains, and so Oil . I then read lilt in stru ctio ns ca refu lly a n d ro u n d th at 1 had /(o t it all wro ng, Accord ing 10 th e ho ok, h olding th e co p per sa m p le, th e rod s sho uld h ave re acted 10 e ve ryth ing' hut co pper, and the samr ap p lied 10 a ll th e o the r sa mples. My own id eas had com p le tely o ve rrid d e n wh at th e m anufactu rer h ad sai d sho u ld h appe n alld I was wo rking- th e rods in reve rse ! Anot her ex perie nce whi ch occu rred so me time la ter shed even more light o n th is su b jec t. A Mr C u ucrid gc co n tac ted II\C ' via th e Bri tish Soc ie ty o r Do wsers a n d asked m e if h e could dem on strate his ang le-rods to me . as he felt that they \ \T Il' mil ch be tte r th an th e Revealer. l ie ca m e 10 sec m e a n d sh owed mc a ve ry im pressive pair o f rods with dial s that co uld be lI S('t! 10 sel ect sam ples o f the material to he fo und. He d emon str a ted th ei r usc o u tside in th e gard e n. T ile y worked ve ry well. Wilh rh« samp le se lec to r sc i to 'wat e r ' , he was able to lo cat e o ur u n d er g ro un d stream ac cu ra te ly Wh en we went insid e , he want ed 10 d emonst rate further. ' Loo k,' he said , ' I will show youj ust how sel ective th ese m el, a rc. I will SCI them to a very unusual material and th en fin e! it with th em .' li e twiddled th e di als and started walkin /( from 0 11 1
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used alcoho l sprrrt. If his dowsing had worked 1\' the.: rods would have pointed to th e ot her side, III , 111(' hat hro01n . where there was a m ercu ry clinical Illtlll ll . ' l !' ),. I am sure th at he had fix ed in hi s min d the image ltl ll ll lw tc l' and that h is dowsin g had responded to that , " II lu -r th a n to m e rcury, If I h ad be en it sceptic rat h er I III f''' I )(~rie llccd dowser, that de monstratio n would n ave III "," IIClyed a ny c redibility h e had buill up with h is dowsin g
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1.1. I h c' ho use , 1101 . d ('lIIo nsmlles th e p roblem with all d o wsing. T h e 11111 . 0 1 mind is alt-important. I will he de sc ribin g ho w "Iii I I Hcl i lt~ methods can hc used - an d very useful they call 1111 1 Il'mc mber at all time s th at the whol e thin g is un de r 111 ,,1 I 0 11 t 1'0 1. Wishful thinkin g d est roys accuracy. 11I Vl'lIIcnls or th e P endulum
11 11 11 111 111 can be used to g ive m o re than sim ple 'yes ', 'no' or 111 1,11' I es po nse s. 'I'h c pendulum has m a n y 'co d in g m etho d s 11 .,llk withi n its movements. Th is can be very important , eve n II 11111(' 1' methods o f ana lysis arc being used . So what so rt o f 111111\ f an th e pendulum givc? 1.111" d m plc way is just to hold the penduluIll and ask for a 1"11 1111(' : 'Show me whi ch InoVCIllenl indicates a positivc ' I ' T h is is the m ethod I always re commend for be ginn ers, • 11111'" co mlno n re sponse is th at th e pendulum draws a 1,,1 I w i..' d rcle wh en viewed fro m above. II lIIay tak e qui te a "M ' III '" fo r th e pendulum to m ove . If this h appens, /(ive it a u.u-kward and fo rwa rd swin/( and watch to sec if th e 111 110 11 of mov ement changes to a circular path . Above all , II " t... e1i sh eartened if nOlhin/( much h appens at first, It may I ,I hil or pracli ce befo re the pendulum m oves a t all reli ably. II I 1 11 , yo u are trying to for ge a ncuro-ml1scul ar link with thc 1 IlI ll l\". part o f the brain , so don 't be rOIne impatient if the I ll lU M ' is not immediate , and try to avoid be coming frustrated 111 It 'II \« ' by trying too hard . Nothing inh ibits dowsin g m o re hili 11 'II,don . A small amount of alcohol can help o ne to relax. II II Y to avoid becoming like o ne dowser who co uld o nly Iwll l ,'(,f uratel y whcn he was drunk!
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Le t's assum e th ai yo u now ge l a linn pendulum rn OVCII U'lI1 10 indicate a positive dowsing an swer. T h is is like gelling 11 11
angle·rods crossi ng or Ihe forked Slick lifling . T he pendlllt" " has m all }' m o re m ovem en ts avai lah le , h c)\ovc vcr. a nd CHi there fo re ind icat e mo re tha n just '),cs' or 'n o ' respon ses. II (';11 1 swing in straig h t lin es at vaiJ ing ang les ; it call make e llipses ;ll varying ang-Ics hoth clock\visc an d artliclockwisc; if can 1II;lk~ clockwise and :lllticlockwi sc ci rcles ; it ca n rota te i ll 0 11 dir e c tion , then the o ther - and so O IL Th is is the key to its II.\! in heal in g a p p lica lions . 'fold the pendululII by its strin g a nd ask it In d em on slral" whic h m ovcm cm indi ccucs ne gative or ' no' , For man y pco p" th is is all all.icl ockwisc ci rcle, hut aga in don 't be surp rised if yoII get a di llcrcIIl rcs u h . You II OW have two dit le re m pcn d uhllll m OVCm CII L"i
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Q uestion an d Answer \Vc arc 1I 0W enterillg' the stra nge wo rld of Ih e su bco nsciom mind , a nd we hav e a lready o bserved Iha l th e min d ca n over ridr the usc o f samples or specia l sclt ings on do wsing tools. T ill' do wser wh o found Our harolll el er was looking fo r a bar orm -u-r, not asking hi s dowsing eq uipmen t to find mercury. T he rn iml
has stra nge powers an d in dowsing we lise these powers in a vel')' sim p le way by e m p loying a qneslion-and-answe r o r Q&A lechni qn e . In Ihis lechniqne , we ask Ihe pendnlum (as a represenlal ;v,'
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of o ur suhconsci ou s mind) to answer 'yes' or "n o ' to a specific qu estion in o rd er 10 estahlish our 'yes' and 'no ' direCliolls, Fro m th ere, we should theref ore he ahle to obtain simpl«' a na lysis results, and OUe way 10 check Ihis is to Iry dowsing ovei food . Foo d , like water, is a basic human need, so it is 110 1 unreasonahl e fo r Our mind to he concern ed a bo ut it at a
fu ndam enlal level. T h is is why il is a very good place to sia n ofT o ur investigafi ons into 'yes' an d 'n o ' respon ses.
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Foods vary in their e/Teet' o n us. NO! all foods are ben eficial and tod ay food all ergi es and sensitivities arc very com mon. All America n doclor, Dr Arthur Coca , di scovered, for exa m p le. tha t Ih e m'y orily of people in th e Wesl a re a llergic 10 co/Tee, with
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'yes' and ' no' respo nses sh ould hel p us to de te rmi ne should o r sh ould not be eating an d drinking. I " ,Id your pendulum over d iffe re nt foods a nd d rin ks, o ne I ,. lillie , with th e m ental q uestio n, ' Is thi s good fo r m e to cat II .Iriuk)?' T ry it over a vari ety of foo ds and see wh at sort o f 1'''"'''' yon ge t. At first , d o n ' I ge t to o in volved with th e I' II\\' I "~ . Learn to become deta ch ed fro m what happens, to I.. I 11 1111' a di sinterested observe r as I~l r as po ssible. D o it in th e li d 11111
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Ir i."i always essen tial have a q uestio n in mind when III I L.:l llg over an item of food fo r a 'yes' or 'no' re spo nse, or Ifllk i'd whe never you are d owsing. A qu estion is an essen tia l III ll f llowsing , as with out it the p rocess becomes m eani ngless. III lIIig ht be dowsing to find ou t if the foo d was grown in goo d 111 1 or indeed for ' water un der wher e ' yOll arc standing.
'" lhe r implied o r sp oken, all dowsing is based 0" a specific I',... d" " . For exa m ple , wh en you arc looking for wate r, yo u Ill '" I ('q uest the rods to m ov e wh en yOll arc going- over UIIlII'I Hroun d wat er fl ows. In the same way, wh en you arc ", w"llIg over food, you must co ncen tra te on th e qu estion you 111 1 'l1 \sweri ng.
II,"" sin g is a very pow e rful tool wh ich is o n ly limited hy the 1'.... II,, "s th at can he asked . It must th erefore he used with care, ••uu - people may find th at a more dis ciplined method of II,,,I,,,~ a nswe rs to questions would he better - certain ly at first. ' Yes-b ut' and 'No-but' Wh" 1so rt of answers do yo u get in practi ce ? Ar e all th e a nswe rs ,1t','I, ivt: or do yOll get some hesitant m ov ements of the ," " d nh lln ? If you do o b tain hesitant mov ements, that's fin e, ..'..11"" they indicate th at th e pendulum is ca pa ble of giving fllU lI '
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.,11 questions can be an swered accurately with a simple 'yes' ,., ' nu ', Un less you arc ab le to ex pect more co m p lex responses. ' ''" <'OIIld fall into th e well-known trap exemplified by th e
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q uest ion , ' I lave yOIl sto pped heatillg- yOIII' wife ? Ans we r "yes" 01 "n o".' Either ans wer can be to tall y mi sleading . Wc nee d all escape ro u te, a method by wh ich th e pend ulum can te ll liS thai we a rc pa rtly rig-ht or part ly wrollg. T h is is wh at I ca ll th e ' yes. but' and 'no-but' responses. If we dowse over a cup of co ffee and ge l a 'yes-bur' ans wer, it means that we need to he careful wit h th a t answer - it is no t a de fini te ycs. Perhaps coffee is JlO! alw ays good for us, perh aps we should not drink too mu ch of it, pe rh aps we need a bit of a hoost fro m caffe ine or need a drin k but preferably not co ffee, Havin g o ther possible resp onses apart from the obvious 'yes' and 'no' , ca n th e ref o re bro ad en the scope of o ur dowsing co nsid e rably, T he nex t stag-e is th e ref o re to de te rmine th e specific res ponses in the same way as we d id with th e o rig-inal 'yes' and 'no' answe rs. Ask the pen dulum to ind icate which movement indica tes a partial 'yes' and which one ind icates a partial ' no' and, havin g- es tablished th ose sig-nals, stick with the m! Do n 't so w th e seeds of dou bt in your mind. YOII can gel into e ndless d iffi culties if YOIl bel ieve th at YOllr d owsing resp onses can cha ng-e with YOllr own .pe rso nal cycles, the phases of th e moon , o r th e size of the hol e in the ozone layer e tc. As it says in that beau tiful book Illusions by Richa rd Bach : 'A rg ue for yo ur limit.a tions a nd sure e noug h th e y're yours'. Having established a syste m do n' t doubt it ,jll~t usc it. Be prepare d to get some strange answe rs fro m time to time . Even th ough your codes sho uld he co nstan t, o ther th ings may • not a lways be so. Wh at is go od for you today will not n ecessarily . be good for yOIl tomorrow, Our bodies n ee d variety in fo od a nd will com p lain if we stick to a monotonous di et. I o nce dem onstrated d owsing to so me friends at a th ea tre bar. I d owsed over a glass of be er a nd , much to my su rprise, I got a clear 'yes ' an swer. This was not wh at I had been e xpecting a t a ll, and it ca use d a lo t of am usement as I had been telling m y friends th at bee r W
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W' lll'l alisatio ns. It also showed how my dowsing was II\Y menial beliefs, beca use the dowsing had II .dl l wet Ill )' ex pectatio ns. T hat is always a ~ood sign. Ifyour IIIK " 1"\ T I' Hives yo u an y surprises, then hcware - it may he tllllU. I lIll l e than wishful think ing! 111 M
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.ll,..II"Byo ur Codes I'II, ilive and ncgativc responses arc (00 similar, what do III auc h cases yOll will havc to change either one or ho th III III VOIl will have to he VC.:I 1' firm abo ut this . It is like giving lilt f'! 'i( ' so me very clear ins tructio ns and insis ting that I .iI I v rh cm out, In this case it is yo ur subconscious mind li l t ,II C' instruc ting. Decide whic h dowsin g react io n needs 1 1I ,1I11-4('d and make up your mi nd whal yo u want it to be in II "\I.tt(' very clearly what yo ur new posit ive o r negative 11l '1l' is to be , th en pract ise it. You arc virtua lly IK I ,II II III in g a re flex so it may take a little time - bUI I can I I \ '1 111 lhat it works . I 1I '1" d 10 o btain a 'no' responsc fo r so mc homeo pathic Ii ' I II'" whic h were n ecessary for a pa tien t. Presum abl y this I.. , " II'" hi g-h doses of th e medicine would h ave dnplicated II lj ' I ulllS from which the patient was already sutfcring. T his ,,,,iy .....a ted proble ms as I knew that I co uld not trust m y ' II" , ,·spollse. I decided fro m th at d ay m y d owsin g reSponse , , ything- would be 'yes' wh en it W
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now es tablished a set of pe nd ulum mo ve men ts that we Ii"hly iutc rpret, fro m :I straightforwa rd 'yes ' to a definite 1\1 11 ho w ca n we usc thesc results? Le t us assume tha t we I..... . . . I"'t tound an undergrollnd stream. T h ere is littl e point in "M I hat water ca n be found at a certa in place wi'th ollt 1I1 \I"fI whether o r not it is d rinkabl e . Undergrou nd water ,II," ,' Ie not always pure; th ey ca n he h eavily mineralised o r 1t"... 1and so be unfit 10 dri n k. r, r-nchman ca lle d Henri Mager gave dowsin g a ve ry It ll .... ...
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sim p le Inn rel iable 10 01 for d e te rm in ing wa te r purity: a d n it ca lled the Ma r:e r Ro sen e. II is a di sc divid ed in to eigh t c'l" se c to rs whi c h ar c co lo ured vio le t, b lu e , gTc<..:' n, yello w, re d, glt hla ck a nd wh ile , in rh.u o rde r. The di sc is n orm all y a bo u t 10, I ( 4 in) ill d iamet er hUI th e.: size is n ot impo rta nt. I n o rm ally II o n e mack from plasti c beca use it is mo re du rable, hu t o ne 111 ;1( fro m th ic k ra I'd with rlu : secto rs painted will workj us t as well Eac h co lo u r lias a sum d a rd m eauiug , altho ug h th ese arc III th e o llly p ossible m canings. Viole t: a hso lu n -lv pu rc wat er, th e.: best sp ri n g o b miunhlc . Blu e: n orm al drinkin g wate r o r tap wate r: 1101 as gonel vio le t, bill still drinkable.
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Ih -d l wa te r with a hi gh iron con tent : fo r exa mple , ,h l ll'. l lc' sp ri ng s will give a resp o nse o n th is co lo u r. . ....)'1 po llu 1cd wat e r or wa ter ( o n ta in ing lead. "I lu k: so -ca lle d ' b lack strea ms ': wat e r fl ow s th a t ca n 11111. 1\' ,tlk ct th e h eal th of people livin g n ea r th e m . T here is II 11l14ll ma lion o n this la ter in th e bo o k. \\-'lI lt ,-: th e colo u r of ma ny repul ed h ealin g sp rin gs o r wh e re 1 h cli.. so lved in th e wat e r; WI"'II yo u h ave fo u n d a n u nde rground stre a m o f wat er, it is lltl. 10 d(~ l erm i n e ito; pu rit y b y seeing wh ic h colo u r ge ts a IInll , Sta n d o ver th e wa ter flow a n d h old o nc co lo u r on th e I " l U I ' he twecn th e rin gc r a n d thumb o f o n e h and. Hold 1" 'lId u lu m in th c o the r h an d a n d se c wh cth e r th e 1111 11 11 111 1 give s a p ositi ve respons e . vVo rk thro ug h th e co lo u rs It , I lime . If a res ponse is o b tai n ed , for e xa m p ll:, 0 11 b lu e I \. lI nw, th e wat e r is likely to be dri n kable hut h ard. T h e tl'lI ll ut.' of th e swin g o f th e pe n d u lu m 0 11 yello w will give III 1.1.';, of th e d eg re e of h ardne ss o f th e wate r. ' Itho ug h m o st pco p le obtai n sim ila r m eanin gs fo r th e llill" , th e m eanings a re n o t a bsol ut e. It m ay well h e th a t the 11I1I1 ~ uu-rc ly suggest sim ilar thi n gs to diffe rent peop le . T h e III Ih ill ~ is tha t th e co lo u r in terpre ta tio ns for m a su ita ble lllllH poi n t for us to lo o k a t codi ng m ethods. I. ,. llo wsin g ove r sta n dard tap wat er a n d se c whi ch co lo u rs WIl li' !' reac ts to . T he n Iry bott led, no n-carbo llat ed spri n g II 1 I c'ave a few rus ty n ail s ill a glass o f v...a tc r fo r a day o r so, II II v d owsin g o ver th e irrm -wat c r and chec k you r responses. 1111 ' ro selle call be used fo r ac tu al materi al s as we ll as th ings 1I1\'l'l1 in water, as so lid m aterial s as wen as min eralised wa te r II Wll '" yo o p osit ive respo ns es. Try dowsio~ ove r a pi ece or lead 1lI l'l'(' I', for in stance, a n d sec wh a t colo u rs givc th e m a ximum
11111 till reactio n . II III im porta n t to rcmcmber tha t th is m ethod is n ot j us t 1'1I 11 llin g- to water quality, as o therwise it ca n givc Ini slcading " II •. I o n ce b"lVe a talk in Manch ester a n d dCm(}1l51 r~ted my . 1" 1( methods to th e a u d ie n ce . I pi cked op a stra igh t-lin e uu r- ill th e leclure roo m , Us ing th e rosette , I got reacti ons to
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Green: so me t ~'P(: or m in eral isat ion , suc h as tra ces I II co p per, lIlay he p res en t. Yellow: hard wat er o r wa te r n Hl lai n ing: o the r sa lts suc h a, magu cxium .
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' It is most likel y a stream of pollu ted hard wate r.' I said, 'abou t two m et re s down ' , I had assesse d th e d epth by th e point d epth method o n pages 27 a nd 28, 'Could th e co lo u rs m e an an ything' el se ?' aske d II Il c hairma n . 'Yes.' I a nswered hesitantly. 'Grey ca n indicat e lead , arul yel lo w can suggcst calci um-ric h mate rials suc h as Iim CS« HIC' boul d ers o r bon es.' 'You ma y be in te rested 10 know.' he repli ed, 'that thh buildi ng is built over a m edieval ce m e te ry a nd tha t th ere arc still skele to ns uude rn eath h ere in lead-lin ed co ffins.' So it loo ked :1\ if I had d owsed acc ura te ly, but m y interp ret ati on was in co rre I d ue to m y inferri ng th at th e lin e I had found was d ue to a wau flo w. T he ros e tte ca n also be use d with a ngle-ro ds, In this case rluro se lle ca n be held with th e fin ge r and thumb o f o ne hand, using th e re ma ining three fin gers to hold th e rod. No t ea sy, bUI q u ite possible. T he ros elle is the refo re a sim p le but o bvio usly restricted form o f co m m u n ica tio n code. Fo r its original purpose 01 determi n ing wa ter p u rity, it is normally suffic ie n tly acc ura te, but th e ex a m ple I ha ve given shows that we still need so me me thod of achi eving gre ate r di scrimination ~i f we arc to be capable 01 ana lysin g com plex materials o r situa tio ns . Using Samples T h e usc o f samples is o ne su ch m eth od th at ca n be e xpa nded 10 m eet virtua lly any ne ed. T he m ain p roblem is the numbe r 01 sa m p les that m ay be needed. If we take th e p roblem of tryin g III fin d a lead pipe o u tsid e in a garden wh e re th ere may lnelectrici ty ca bles, gas pipes a nd so o n, how ca n we be ce rtain that we have found th e lead pipe? H avin g got a reactio n thai lo ok s as if it co u ld be th e requi red pipe, we can ch ec k by usin j; a lead sa m ple . With angle-rods, a sm all lead sa m ple ca n be helel in o ne of the h ands holding th e rods, A pendulum is easie r to usc, as th e sample can be held with the o p posite h and to tl", pendulum , Alternativel y. a hollow pendulum ca n be used . To usc such a pendu lum, you o pe n up the pendulum, put a sma ll
IIpll lit 1 1H~ rc q uired ma tcria l ins id e. then screw the ho h hack ,Ih, ', "gain . (l nci d en lally. if yo u d o go loo kin g fo r \cad p' . ~ tllI should k n o w that so m e old el e c trici ty cahlcs arc ,11 u ' 01 iu k ad . It may be as well to chec k Ii)r co p per as well. 111 1 ",, ' 1 a reac tio n to bo th me tals it co u ld he an ckctr icity I,ll I Ill l'l lII ethod 0 1" do wsing usin g samples is sOllll:limc s calle d
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II " 1l, l.lSIic dowser, .uu plcs ( all be used fo r m edical d ()\'vsin g: purpo ses and thi s III I,,' d<,alt with later 0 '1. Som e finn s "a n supply samples of 111 ''1 ( in vc ry low co nce ntratio ns) , hancri a and e ve n diseased 111 11 111 (again in ve ry small co nc e n tratio ns!) for the purpos e o f 11, 1",,1'1 , Suc h sam ples co mc in sca le d glass vials and d o not he opened. ('()I1cludc , \.. . c b asicall y have two fllndam e llta lly different I ll l lt Is of an alysis. O ne use s a meth od of ( ulillg - su ch as the ,' '' (' 1 I{ose tte or sa m ples - and the o ther is based Oil asking t"I',lIo us and se eing what .1I1S\,\'c r one gets from thc do wsing 1l1'h' II U.IIl. III thc next ch ap te r we will be lookin g furth er into I
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Iwl{l " and whal can I dowse for?' We h ave already I,d the various tool s yon can lISC. For health and he alin g lit"" th e pendulum is th e best tool because of it' ra nge , 11110' I esponses, but th e beginne r ca n try with a pendulum I ~I, lods. I-l avin g chosen yo u r tool , th e first thing is to II.f' .1I1 d recog nise speci fic movemen ts from whatever 1I111llllple melll you have d ecided to usc. "'klng Alone .. oIow,ing, bear in mind th at it is possible to be affec ted by of o ther people . so it is best to start by work ing 11".,e is no point m aking things m ore diffi cult th an th ey 110 I.... I had heard h ow th e p resence of o ther pe ople upset l'lIWl\(~rs. so I once carried out a tes t to sec just h ow tru e it Ii .. '''1 .:. I asked a fri end, Hil a ry, to help me a nd I p ro ceeded lllw'c over an undergroun d stream in my gankn. I " " 'Iy allowed mysel f to -O ~ ope n to her thoug h Is ('L,"um ing I " IlIi"K was possibl e }. 1 walked away from h e r over the lin e '" ' I to see if I got any dowsing response. T he res ults "",,-.ing. If she wan ted me to fin d th e stream , then the I""wd in my h ands; if she mentally said 'no' . then I got n o
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resp onse wh ateve r. T h is wo rke d repea tedly even thoug h I had no id ea o lwha t sh e was lhinking a t the tim e I W.lS d'lwsing. T he im p lications arc o hvio us : be ve ry, ve ry ca re fu l. Scep tica l o n looke rs can serio usly affec t your dowsing if you are o pen 10 th ei r influen ce . Play safe and pra ctise o n your o wn . Testing Foods Le i us assume th ai you now have a pendulu m (hal works sa tisfa c to rily and that yuu have es ta blished your personal 'yes'
a nd ' no' response s a nd a lso yo nr 'yes-bill' a n d ' no-bur ' resp o nses, as dis cussed in the previous ch a p te r, Now we are going to Iry a simi lar ex pe rime n t to th e o ne we did when yOll were es ta b lish ing th ose resp onses. Place a se t of difTerent fo o ds o n a table , in cluding herbs, spice s a nd a nyt hing you may calo r drink. Wri te the ir n ames d own o n a piece of paper, th en syste matica lly chec k ea ch o ne by d owsing with th e quest ion in you r mind, ' Is th is item good for me to cat o r drink?' T h is time , writ e d own your res ults againsl the nam es o n th e paper, noting if you recei ve any 'yes-but' and ' no-b u r' answers , T hese latter a nswers often ind ica Ie that su ch food will be su itable o r un sui table un de r ce rtai n co nd itio ns. If for a ny reason yuu ca n o n ly work with , say, angle-rods, th en p lace th e item o n th e flo o r a nd chec k it by wa lking o ver it. In this case a positive resp unse will mean that it is good: Yo u may find th e ro ds swing o utwar ds for a negative response and partia lly in o r partially o u t for 'yes-but' and ' no-b u r' responses. T ry usin g ite ms fro m d ifferent SO\lfCCS . Fo r instance. try severa l d ifferent brands of lea or co ffee . So me brands of instant coffee arc mad e in -sta in less ste el eq u ip men t, some in a lum in ium , a nd this Illay ma ke a d iffere nce to your results, Equally, so me tea may be organ ica lly grown withu ut pes ticides and fertilisers. Have a good lo o k at the list yo u h ave written . Arc there any surp rises? If eve rything is as you would have expec ted , th en yOll should be ve ry ca utio us indeed.
Food Allergies O fte n we a re most a Uractcd to food items to whi ch we a rc th e lIIost a lle rg ic. Food alle rgies, 0 1' food sc nsitivities. ca n he a VCI)' ~o()(l way of checking o ne 's d owsing. (Incidenta lly th e re is a vira l difTcf<:ncc b etwe e n allergies a n d sc nsitiv ities. Allergic react io ns show u p very ra p id ly after taking the food . Se ns itivities may o n ly show u p much lat er as the fo od passes through the illiestilles .) T he question that you shou ld have had in m ind previo usly was 'I s this food o r drink good fo r m e ?' Now cha nge th e questi on to 'Am I alle rg ic 10 th is foo d? ' T he re is a s u b tle d ifferencc bet ween these two q uestio ns. A su bsta nce ma y he po isonous, o r to xic, to you witho ut ca usi ng a llc rgic resp onses. Repeal yo ur dowsin g with th e sa me items bu t the ne w q uesti o n .uu l non- do wn the answers yOll goCI 0 11 a separa te pi ece o f paper, ~ ' '(' pi n g th e first results o u t of siglll so thai they do not distract r O ll from keeping your m ind o n th e dowsin g. At th is stagc, we ,II (' tryin g 10 gain cxpcricnrc. n ot tr)'in g to prov e a nyth ing . S OllliJa rc yo u r al l swcrs. Ar c lll(:y the sam e? Do th e y cOllflic t? I" sOllIe th ing good for yOIl eve n tho llg h you a rc appare ll tly 11 11(' rgic 10 it? If th is is Ihe case, do n 't make the m istak e of " " lI l11i ng that yo ur d o wsing is poo r. You may have a we ak ," 'ITg-ic rea cti on to so me thing , h ut th e pos itive prope rties of tll, H su hstance o ut wei gh th e n egati ve cha racte ristics. T he Pulse Test II \ '0 11 now wish to c heck the seco nd se t of response s, there is a " "I' tha t works fin' Ih e m'!jo rity or peo ple , based 0 11 the pulse
If II' allergies. T he pioll ceri l1~ work in th e area w as ca rried Amcri ca n a nd Ihe hoo ks o f Dr Art h ur Coca'" g ive a VC I)' 11111 1 d es cript io n o f (he sll l~je(' ( a nd its impo n a nce to heal th . I II "" I.,ill, Ihe work was ta ken u p sho rt ly after th e Ame ricall rcsu hs ,..." . I'"hlish e d a nd Dr McI{amess's hook , Nol A ll in 1//1' Mimi" , III " .uuc th c bes t-k nown po pula r hoo k O il the sll l~cc i. III ho th li ' III I
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Am erica a nd the U K, th e pulse test was found to work fo r the m ajority of people, a nd it ca n be a very f(ood a nalytical tool. Th is is how the pulse te st is carr ied out, Ta ke your pul se 0 11 first wakin g up . co unting th e num ber of bears in o ne minute . T hen gel lip and . before eating . check it again, b UI don't brush yo ur 'tee th before stan iug th e test as you m ay be alle rg ic to toot h paste. You r pulse should be lowest o n wakin g: and th en in cr ease hy a sma ll amount - say five bea ts per m inute - aft er ge lli uf( up. If th ese fif(ur es are th e o the r way round - th e pulse rar e falling after gell ing up - th en you m ay well be allergic 10 th e h ouse-dust mite th at lives in bedding. T he n ea t o ne single item of food from yo ur dowsed list and wait five minutes, Chec k your pulse again . If the pulse rat e h as risen by m ore th an a bolll five beats per minute, it is hi f(hly p robable that yo u arc allergic to that part icular fo o d. You can do this with single fo od s befo re a normal meal , and usc it to dis cov e r any m ajor fo od allergies. T he pulse test ca n no t d iscover th e whole story straight away, however, as so me foods 10 which yo u h ave a min or alle rgi c reaction ca n he masked hy th e m ajo r o nes for quit e a lon g period of tim e . For instance , if yo u h ave a maj o r alle rgic response 10 th e bread yo n ea t a nd yo u eat it every d ay, th en it ma y com plet ely m ask othe r alle rge l~s in o the r foods until yo u have fasted for se veral days. T he pulse test docs not d et ect se ns itivities to ce rtain foods as the reac tio n time is m uc h slowe r after ea ting them . Fo od Se nsitivities Now repeat your d owsin g lest a thi rd tim e . T h is tim e yo nI' ques tio n shonld be: 'Am I se ns itive 10 thi s fo od?' Remember th a t food sensitivity means th at the food will affect yo u ad versely d u ri n g iL' di f(('Slion . Compare all three se ts of answers. They may well have so me surp rises for you. In cideutal ly, th ere is now considerable d ebate th at food se- nsitivities a rc ca used by the ' leaky gu t syndrome' . This is whe re food material can actually pass th rough minute holes in th e gu t wall and in ro thr- blo odstream . These part icles will be d et ecte d as in vad e rs by th e bod y's im m u ne syste m a nd d efen ces,
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All ove rg rowlh o f th e natu ral yeast Candida albiamsunsv well be th e cu lp ri t he re . Aft er heavy doses of a lllibio lics, wh ich kill o ff lht: natural flora and ba ct e r ia in the ~U (. this yeas t ca n grow wi ldly o ut of co n rro l, It is the sa me yeast as the o ne t ha t causes thrush and at h lete 's foot . T h is yeas t ca ll pCllt'trat e th e ~1I 1 wall s .u rd ca use all sorts o f problem s. Ifyour dowsin g shows that you .lppear 10 have food SClis ilivilics rather th an a llergies. th en C:alldida is the prim e sus pec t, in wh ich case it is wo rth see king uu -dical ad vice . U nfc H"tllnatcly m all Y med ical p r..lClitioll crs seem lotally unaware o f j us t how devastatin g a Candida overgrowth ' . 111 he. If you meet an un symp ath et ic o r disheli eving response , tln-n blly a ~ood bo ok 0 11 Ihe su l~ect. T he re a rc se vera l ava ila ble .uu l all con ta in details of how 10 tackle and o verco me the 1" 11)))c m .
Allergies and Ad d ic tio n reslating lh al we arc o fte n a~ lcrgic or se ns itive thin gs th at we like the m ost . For instance , I am person aJly 1111 1 allerg ic to tobacco , at le ast in sm a ll am o u n ts I ca n smo ke a . IIIKle ciga re llC an d m y pulse ra te rema ins vir tually the same. ~1"l',lI ISe at Imo lrvels i am n ot allergic to nic otin e , I get no 'kick' 1111 1 o f smoking the odd cigare lfc. T he re is no alle rgic reac tio n 11. 1 th erefore no tcnden cy to wards adc lic lioll . Add iel ion and 1II ''1~ic response o f l en go hand in hand , A close relative of TIl li e' had ulcc rati w, co litis when he was a teen ager and was ,JII "ill cned with a possihl e co lostomy. FOrluna tcly we were ahle II . ",L ,hlish th at he was aller~ic 10 m ilk (a ll mil k, n otju sr co ws' II I~) and thi s was a m;~jor ca usa tive factor, C lIl'io usly, howeve r, II' wa, actually ad d icled 10 milk ! li e o fte n haeI an overwhel mi nf( 11"1 11' 10 drink mi lk cven Ih oll~h he kn ew it m ad e his co litis 1111 II worse . II I'" worth whil e
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be tween th in gs th at a rc of maj o r importan ce a n d th o se of m in o r e ffec t. Ra th e r th an relyin~ o n the s t rell~t h of th e d owsin g respo ns e , whi ch pa rti cularly lo r be ~illll ers call vary fro m day 10 day, a more ncc u ru tc m easu rement syste lll is helpful. What is n eeded is th e sim p les t p()s:~ibl e syste m th at will g ive accura te res u lts; o ne suc h sysle lJl is th e usc of a rul e. A m et re rule is ra ther to o long; somethi ng sho rter is much easie r 10 usc and about 2:) e m ( 10 in ) is a bo u t ri ght. Ta king a pi ece of paper or ra n i, draw a lin e O il th e pa per exac lly 25 em ( 10 ill ) 1 01l~. Mark rlu: haU,m y point with the number ze ro . th e n m ark off th e lin e ill I c m ( X ill) in cremen ts, m a rking each point to the right with n umbe rs in c reasing by 1 1 eac h tim e , so tha t the IlII111 ber Oil (h e tar righ t-ha lld side will be + 10, Repeal. goi ng- Ie fl from th e cent re , bUI Ihi s lime ma rkin g th e p oi n ts wit h a m inus S i~ ll so th e furthes t le ft-h a n c! point will be - Ill. T h is will be o u r II(.:W m easu rin g syste m, based 0 11 th e f OIH"Cp t rhat th c n earer o ur respo nse is to a read ing of + 10 , the bet ter th e food bdll~ tested will be fo r us. Put th e ite m o f fo od N EGA1 IV[
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Re fin in g your Result. to he tested just above th e ze ro ma rk and a sa m p le o f yo u r own h airjust to th e ri ~ht of th e + 10 mark. The la u e r is not a bso lu tely n ecessary as yo u a re dowsill ~ for yo u rsel f, hili a small lo c k of h air will help to fix th e id ea of wh at yo u a re dows in ~ for. Stan d owsin g with yo u r peud u lum from th e - 10 e n d of th e sca le, very slow ly movi n~ u p th e sca le towa rds th e +10 mz :k, Walch ca rdu lly for auy c ha n~e in th e pendulum swin g. All bdn~ well , tile pendulum will g-ive a maximum reaction at so me po int alo ng th e sca le. Ifit is helow zero, th en th at foo d is not good for yo u , a t le as t 1101 at p re sent. T he c l<\ scr to + 10 th c re act ion occurs, th e bcu cr th c fo od is fo r yo u.
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gct the sa me resu lts, It is always possibl e th at add itives or m e th od s of. prod uc tio n arc iuflueucing yo u r react ion to the food and you need to be more spec ific in selecti ng foods rathe r than omi tting them fro m yo ur di et altogether. Changi ng your Di et If your dowsi ng leads you Lo sus pec L that yo u arc allergic or se ns itive to vario us fo o d s, th cn why not take ac tio n a nd trust yo ur dowsi ng? Try cutting th ose sus pect foods o u t of you r diet for at le ast two weeks a nd sec how yo u geLo n. It won ' t hu rt you , a nd yo u ma y well he surprised how much better you feel. Negative reac tio ns to foo d are vcry com mo n. T he re have been m an y re marka ble ch anges in heal th fro m d oing nothing m ore th a n changi ng d ie t a nd avoid ing p roblem fo o d s. It is im po rta n t to bear in mind , h o weve r, th at alle rgic reac tions ca n change with time, a nd ca n be affected by mo re than the foo d itsel f. Allergic thresholds can alter re marka bly with one's stress levels. I rem embe r th e pe rso n who introd uced me to Arth ur Coca's book o n food allergies te lling m e about his experiences. Usi ng th e p ulse test, he had de term ined tha t he W.LS alle rgic to all th e cabhage fam ily, wheat a nd chocolate. He CU i th ese out of his di et, and th e cha nge in his appearance was amazi ng. lie regained 10sL weig ht a nd loo ke d far fille r. The follo wing su m mer he we nt aw.lY o~ holi day and after a week re alised tha t unwillingly he had be en eating 'allergic' foods withou t a ny re ac tio n . He assumed tha t he had o utgrown the p ro blem , so h e ate everything p ULbefo re him for th e rest of his h oliday. No p roble ms a t all. I Ie then went back to work, wh ere he was under a g rea t d eal of stress. Within a few days all his food allergy sym ptom s had re turned ! H is a lle rgic th resh o ld was stres sse ns itive. T h is seems 10 a pply in all the fo od a lle rgy ca ses th at I have co me across . Fo r thi s reason it is vita lly importa nt 10 check your d iet carefully a nd when und e r stress o r ill kee p o ff all fo ods th at arc suspect. U nfo rt u na tely, h uman natu re being whaL it is, it is when we arc unde r stress th at we m ost crave th e th ings th a t arc bad for us! It is wise to find OUL if we a rc allergic or se ns itive to any foods a nd if po ssibl e 10 avoid th em . Dowsi ng is an ideal m ethod
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o f checking fo r these se ns itivities, a nd th e majority of people ca n chec k wh ich fo ods th ey sho uld avo id by using th e pulse Lest.
A Healthy Die t Overall, th e im po rtan ce o f a health y, ba la nce d d ie t ca n not be stressed e no ugh. Ily th is, I mean a die t tha t is right fo r yo u personall y, taking into acco u n t no t o n ly a llergic reactions but also yo ur age, level of act ivity a nd so on . There is a lot of tru th in th e o ld saying, 'We arc whaL we cat' . I we ll remembe r a farm e r talkin g to m e a bou t di e t. 'When I h ave a sic k beast and ca ll the vet, he always as ks m e , "Wh at have yo u been feeding iL o n?" 11\11 wh en I a m ill, my d octo r neve r asks me wha t I have bccn ea ting! ' We a rc m ore co m plex in man y ways than o ther a n imals; surely we sho uld be even m ore se ns itive to di et th an th ey a rc ? It is essentia l to have a general und e rstanding of what com prises a good diet. In essence, it should in clude adeq uate amo u n ts o f p rotein , ca rbo hyd ra te a nd d ietary fibre with no t too mu ch fat, b u t with adequa te int a ke of allthe essential vitami ns and mine ra ls. T he increased availability of p ro cessed foods and cha nging lifest yles over th e years h as m e ant th at th e requiremen ts o f the 'normal' Western d ie t have cha nged su bsta n tia lly a nd it is no longer safe to ass u me th at our 'normal' e1iet is perfectl y adeq ua te fo r all o ur need s. It is impo rtant to be aware of new informalion on di e t an d health , but the m o st important factors arc balance and wh at is app ropriate for yo u personally. For exam ple, a h igh-fib re d iet is now acce p ted as being necessa ry fo r good health , even in orthodox ci rcles. But how d o we get o ur fibre? ALone stage, hran was often suggeste d as hei n g one of th e best sources o f di etary fib re , b y which m o st pe o pl e m ean L wh ea l bran. Un fo rtu na te ly, a la rge numbe r of people arc alle rgic to wh eat b ran , so th ey m ay make th eir health wo rse by add ing it to th ei r e1iet! We also now know th a t so lu ble fibre, th e so rt fo u nd in oats, fo r exam ple, is n ot ou ly much more pala table bUL also m ore e ffec tive a nd better fo r o n r general heal th . As a sta rting point to good health , th e refo re , lo ok a t you r e1iet a nd lry Lo es ta blish a good heal th y balance in th e foods you
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o r many years the rc ha-;c been a large num be r of people who havc taken vitamins and minc rals to slI pplcmcH t thcir d iet. O rt hodox medical o p in io n has gene,ollly been that \l IC h sup p lements a rc to tally unnecessary. T he co m mo nly h eld view has been ' tha t a n adeq ua te ba lan ce d diet will co n ta in all lltal we need . Unfu fl ullalcly. there is a grow ing weig ht of rvidenc e to sho w tha t such ideas arc co mp lacent to say the least. Our Changing Die t Ild ' ,re loo king in to th e dowsin g aspects of d iet and health, we . ho nld ta ke a bri ef look at th e bac kgro und to the p roblem , lit e r a ll, in whatever field we usc d owsin g, it would be foo lish to h,"'!:"an in su flicient backg round kn owledge of the subjec t, In o rder to es ta blish wh ich vitam in a n d min e ral 1I11 pple m e n lS, if a ny. we need , we must firs t un de rstand what " .nstitutes a ba lanced d iet, an d to fin d o u t what ' ba lan ced ' " '.lIly means, we mu st look bac k into histo ry, indeed pre-hislo ry. In sp ite of what th e ra pid rise of mode rn te chn olOb'Y m ight ' II).( /o( cst, humans have evolved slowly over the cen turies . Our hodies and di gest ive syste ms arc still remarkabl y sim ilar 10 those people living many th ousands of yea rs ago. Since th ose tim es we re befo re th e days o f wriucn h isto ry, we l l l llll ' turn to the archaeolog ists to find o u t how o ur an cestors h I'l l, and it co mes as no surprise that the re were 110 f;lSI~fo()d
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chains _ o nly me n running fast, trying to ca tc h thei r food! For rh o usand s 0 1' yea rs, pe ople live d prim arily as h unte rs 01' a n imals a n d ga lhe rers 0 1' vege ta b le fo ods - a way 0 1' life st ill prac tised by so me so-ca lled primitive tribes in isol a te d regio ns 0 1' the world. III terms o f evolutionary time , growing cro ps purpose fully and dom esticating animals has be en a ve ry recent devel opment , wh ile a ctua lly ma nufactur in g fo o d s h as been a ro u n d fi ll scarcely a ny lim e a t all. T he original hunte r-gathere r tribes lived o nly ill the warme r pa rts 0 1' th e world . T heir d iet d e pe nded o n th e clima te a n d what was available where Ihey lived or wande red in the sea rch for sus te na nce . We sho uld re me mbe r, of co urse, that the prese nt cli mates arc not the same as they o nce we re. \Ve know thai Bri tai n , for instance , was once much warme r than it is now. The main die t o f primitive peoples was veg etables - rOOL~, stems, leaves and seeds - fruits, nuts and whateve r animals co uld he ",u lgill. It is likel y th a t th ey also a te gru bs a n d insects a nd pe rh aps e ve n h ou ey from wild bees. In add ition, th e ir lives we n , p h ysically very ac tive . T hey h ad 10 sea rc h , ch ase or di g for every m orsel o f food, probably mo ving: quite lon g di stances as tln: seaso ns ch a n ged so tha t th ey cou ld . lind th e best food . Their IiI(, spans were also much sho rter. We can ha rd ly p re te nd that th e vas t maj o ri ty 01' us la ke anything like the a mou n t o f physicaJ exe rcise th at o ur ance stors d id , n o r Ihal the d iet 0 1' th e m a jority 01' th e world is a nyth ing like Ih ei rs. Since th e biologicnl ne ed s 01' o u r bo d ies h ave ch a n ge d lilli e sin ce pre-h istory, th e fact th at o ur foo d su p p lies a u d lil'e slyles h ave c ha n ge d so d ru m ari call y must a ffe c t o u r wellbeiug in a (;lirly ra d ical way. Wh a t arc likel y 10 be th e m ajo r cha nges in o ur di et ? T he first place to loo k is at manu factured o r 'conve nie nce' fo od s. A few ingre die nts make up th e main constitue n ts of many co uvc n ic uce foo ds: wh ite wheat flou r, saturated [a ts and wh ite suga r, T h es e h ave all bee n alte re d hy p rocessin g o r th e in clusio n o f che m ical add itives, a n d m ay e ve n be totally synth e tic, The)' ce rtainly bear 11 0 resemblance to the foods o ur ances tors ale. T h e y h ad no sliga r, littl e fat excep t a n im al fats a nd th at fo und ill nuts and se eds , and no refin ed flour. Th e meat in wild
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anima ls co n tains far less Ell than in our dom esticated animals, and a highe r p ropo rti on of unsaru n u ed as against saturated fat . Flo ur which primi tive l)c()I )les g nH l l l d 10 form ce reals co ntained mo re minerals, fibrc and pro tein and le ss starch than our p rese n t h eavily d e velo ped ce rea ls. Ba sicall y, 0 111' prcsen l average d iet co ntains 10 0 little fih re , too few vitami ns and m inerals, too III lIch suga r and too milch fat. II also co ntains syn the tic a d d itives a n d pesticides th at the human bod y has never had to m c tuh o lisc be fo re the twenti et h ce n tury. This II1m;t be a ca use for co n cc ru . In sh un , our diet Io r th e m ajo rity 0 1' peo pl e a t leas I - will he h ea vily u nbala nced co mpared wit h wh at o ur digestivc system was ge neti ca lly d eveloped for, So first o f all it will he ius truc tivc to dowse o ver a whole range o f food s, hearing all this in mind . Try d()\vsing over such lhin gs as refined white s u~a r, white flo 1I 1', b u tte r and m a rg a rin e to sec if they arc Il<.T d ed ill yo ur n ext n u -al . For th e m .~j ori l y of people th e a nswe r w(HII(1 he ' u o '. I f you norm ally eat a lot o f swee t and r~l lt y things and J.{e l a 'yes ' a n swer, I wou ld suspec t tluu YOllr d owsill ~ ah ility is hcin g o verridd en hy wishful thinkinJ.{! So what ca n we do abo ut il? We ne ed In thin k ca re fully nbou I changing o ur diet to a health y, balanced O IiC . Red u ce cons u m p tio n of sugar, fats and refill ed produ cts. Cut clown th e ilitOl kc o f cultivated m eat (most peop le cat far too much meat in a uy case) . Ea l mo re fre sh vegetables a n d I'r "i l 0 1' a ll Iyp
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Minerals We shall tak e a lo o k at m in e rals lirst - pe rh aps th e sim p les t form o f c he m ica ls we m ay n eed to ad d to o u r d ie t. It would be a goo d ide a to pay a visit to you r local lib ra ry or hea lth sho p to obtain a d et ail ed refere nce hook to give yo u in formati o n o n th e subjec t: You will th en he a ble to c h eck yo ur d o wsillg re su lts a n d m a ke c ha nges in yo u r di e t. Man y mine ra ls arc basicall y m etal com pou n ds , o fte n ca lled trace clemen ts, as th e m e tals a rc ess en tia l to the pe rfe c t wo rk in g of o u r bodie s o n ly in mi nute , or tra ce . a mou n ts, Iron is perh aps th e hest known. An iro n d efi ciency will ca use a na e m ia . as th e red b loo d corp uscles n eed iron in orde r to work e fflc ic n tly. U n fo rt u n ately, an iron d efici en cy ca n no t he remedied by swa llo win g iron p owd e r ! T he hod y n eeds iron from n atural so u rces - n o t as cr ude c hem icals. I re m e m ber rcading a n a rticle o n iro n a bso r p tio n in The Nnu Scientist, in whi c h it was main tai n ed that iron su lp ha te sup p lemen ts we re worse th a n usel ess a n d cou ld e ve n ca use a bod ily lo ss o f ir on . Fe rro us fu ma ra te a nd lc rrous g lu co n a te arc much be tte r a bso rbed by th e ho dy. Yet, it is not ve ry long ago th a t th e h lo od transfusio n service still ga ve away free iron su lp ha te table ts to bl ood d ono rs! T h e re is a long list of mine ral s -th at th e body m ay n eed. So me su p p le m e n t m anufacture rs produce tablets that a rc meant to givc a n ad eq uate su p p ly fo r a ll o u r n eeds - but do Ihe y? Ta ke th e e le me n t sel e n iu m It . This e le m e n t is co nc e r ned with longevi ty a n d th e h ealthy m aintenance o f th e au to immune syste m . It al so helps reduce the risk o f stroke o r h ea rt di sease . Peop le livin g in areas wh e re long , he althy lifespans arc known , all h ave a large a mou n t o f se le n iu m in th eir di et. Modern farming m ethods in th c Wesl h ave ca used th e a m o u n t o f se le n iu m in o u r fo odstuffs to drop a bou t 50 per cen t in th e last ~ O years! For a lo ng lifespan we se em to need ove r 100 '''ie rogram s o f organicall y com b in ed se le n iu m per d ay. T h e America n Recomm ended Dail y All owan ce ( RDA ) is 125
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mi crog rams. yet so me mine ral su p p le me n ts con ta in o n ly 10 mi cro g ra m s fo r a daily close . T he British a u thorities h ave not e ve n sllggesled a n RDA. T he sa me th inl( a p p lies (ill' ma ny o ther mine ral s. '11lkin g in to accou n t th a i e veryo ne will h ave a d iffe re n t di e t a n d a di ffere n t m in e ra l rcq ui rcm c n r, ho w do we se t a hou t d ecidin g wh at wc n ecd? Again . d ows in g p rovides an id ea l so lu tio n, as m in e ra ls ca n he assesse d on a n in d ivid u al basis, rather Iha n o n p ublish ed figu re s or m a n u factu re rs' d a ta . T hai way you ca n kee p a c hec k 0 11 yo u r prog re ss and m a ke su re th at th e a mo u n t ta ken is correc t for you r n eeds a t th at pa rti cula r tim e . Il o w sho u ld yOIl gel sta ned? Firs tly c h ec k a n a u rho ri ra tive re fere nce book o n RDA 'i an d m anu fac tu re rs' recom mc n ded d oses of specific m inc ral s. You arc u nlikel y to ge t int o trou ble 1'r0 111 such su p p le ments if' yo u r d owsin g con firms d oses wit hin th e m anufa c tu re rs ' rccommcn d ed figu res. O ne vc ry g o od m e th od of d owsin g to check wh e th er yOll req u ire mi n era l su p p le me n ts d o cs re q u ire you to b uy th e wholc ran ge of m in e ral s. Yo u ca n do th e same tes t with vita mins w para lely o r a t th e sa me lim e. First o f all, h old yo u r pe n dul um over eac h boule in tu rn with th e m e n ta l question . ')) 0 I ne ed th is part ic u lar m in e ral ill ad d itio n to my food ?' This will sort o u t wh ic h o nes arc n eeded . Take a tabl e t o u t o f' o ne o f' th e ' yes' hottles a nd d owse ove r it with th e questi on . ' Is thi s su ffic ie n t su p p le me n t?' Ifrh e a nswe r is ' no'. th e n ad d a se con d table t a n d d owse with th e sa me question . Kee p o n ad d ing ta blets un ril a pos itivc 'ycs' is o b ta ined. T he n lo ok a t th e recom me n ded d o se . I, YOllr result less th an th at figure? If' it is th en a ll is wel l. If' it is , Iigh lly a bo ve, then th ere sho u ld be 110 prob le m . If' it is wel l .rbovc , th en yo u sh o uld read up o n th ai pa rti c u lar mi nc ra l TIny l aNflilly. Your d o wsin g ma y he corre c t. bu t always re me mbe r rh.u d owsin g acc u racy lakes tim e to d evelo p so. es pec ially wh cre he alth issues 01' safe ly a rc conce rned . yo u m ust always d ou b let he ck )'0 111' resu lts. You sh o u ld a lwa ys allo w fo r a possibl e varia tio n in qua lity h um dif fe rent m an ufactu re rs ' mine ral s as SO IllC lIIa y he slig h tly more bcn cfl cl a] than o the rs. So m e min e ral fo rms. like iron. a rc I II (l n~ easily ass im ila ted th an o the rs, You co u ld a h.vays d owse
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over th e bot tles in th e sh op if th e man age r permits it. In thi s way yOll ca n safely pu rch ase the min e ral s tha i yield th e stro ngest reac tio n . At th is poin: yOll ma y well be ag hast a t th e id ea o f d owsi ng o pe n ly in a sho p an d de cid e 10 dro p th e wh ol e id ea . There a rc . hov.. .ever. ways o f dowsing th at are not o bvio us to th e casua l on looker. I o f rc n lise o ne o f th em whe n 1 d o no t wish to draw a tte n tio n 10 m yself. All th at is needed is a littl e inge n uity. I lise a ke y ring with a sm all crysta l hall in it. This hall is o n a ve ry sh o rt cha in . If olding my keys in m y hand it just lo o ks as iI I am id ly ho ldi ng m y ca r keys. wh ereas in !:ICI I a m d owsin g. nsin g the ball as a sma ll pe ndulum . .JlISI gla ncing a t th c ball occasio nally is 'Illi te e no ug h; th e main th in g is not to draw a tte n tio n to th e l~l( t that yOll are in tereste d in its m oveme n ts. T h at way you ca n chec k bef o re yOll hu y, and perhaps save yo ursel f a lo t o f mOllcy in the pro cess. 1 rind that I usc ca lciu m , magnes ium, iron . zin c a n d sele n iu m m ost frequently. and things like ch ro m iu m and th c like less o flen . Re m ember. however, th ai dif ferent rcgions have diffe rent mine ra l di st ributions, so YO!lr re q u irements may wel l be diffe rent fro m mine . Vitamins
So far ' . . c have bc cn loo kin g at m in e ral s. Wh a: abo u t vitamins? Vita m ins we re first th ought to be vital am ines ( n itro ge n co m po u nd s) th at we re nccessa ry for hod ily fu nctio n . th e o rigi n 'o f th e name . No wadays th e list includes man y lion-am in e co m pou n ds like vita m in C, bill th e name h as stuck. Basicall y vitamins arc che m ica ls th , a t arc uecessa ry for h ealthy bodily fun ction . Minera ls a rc sim ple che m ical substan ces and the che m ica l form of th e re quired cle m ent call be associa ted with diffe re nt co m po u nd s. Vita m ins an.: quite sp ecific a nd ofte n co m p lica ted co m po u nd s. NOlie o f th em e xce p t vita m in Bl 2 (wh ich con tains co ba lt) inc orpora les a ll}' m et al . They a rc co m po u nd s o f ca rbo n . o XYf.{e n. hyd ro gen a nd oft e n n itrog-en. l uad cq ua n: a m oun ts of a ny vita m in will ca use p hysica l healt h problems. Bu t what is th e m inim u m a m o unt needed ? It is here th at we e n te r a mi nefiel d . Diffe ren t au tho ri ties
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qu o te di ffe rent amoun t" so it is a lmost im possible to kn ow the true minimum figures. Fo r th e RDA of a ny pa rti cular vitam in , it is not unusu al to find th a t th e Am erica n rigu rc is g rea ter th an th e British o ne (wh ere a Brili sh value is given ), T h is ca n no t he cl ue 10 any th ing ex cept di fferent interpret ati ons o f research d ata . as th e people in th e USA a rc nol basica lly an y d iffere nt (ro m th ose in th e U K. So metim es. as in th e case o f vita m in C. th e RDA m ay be hased o n ve ry dubious inf ormati ou . T he Br itish RDA is based on th e amo u n t n eeded to prevent sc u rvy - in o ther wo rd s, o n th e .issu m p tio n th at th e o n ly fun cti o n o f vitamin C is to p revent \C ll rvy. Hut vitamin C is now kn o wn to hav e a ho st o f valua ble tuuctions, in cluding assisting' the a u to-im m u ne syste m . Large doses have a lso been used to assist in re moving ha rd en in g (athe ro m a ) fro m a rt c ria l wa lls. 11II ilia I1S a rc o ne o f the very few .m imals wh ich ca n no t syn thesise vitamin C within the bo d y. If we co m pare the vita min C level in th e hlood o l' a pes and other an imals with o ur OW II, fo r hum ans 10 ach ie ve th e same bl oo d level would require us to take ahOUI ·1 g ra ms o f vitamin C p CI' d ay - ye t th e British RDA is o n ly about one-eig h tie th o f th at li ~ure!
T h is ind icat e s th at th e o ffi cia l RDA ligu res fo r so me vitam ins are ve ry slispec lo O n th e ot her hand . so m e vitamins a rc to xic in large q uantities, partic ula rly vitam in s i\ a nd D. so it is l'ssc n tia l to be ca u tio us in o u r a pproach to ad d ing vitam ins to Ihe di et. Agai n 1 rc co uu nc nd re ferri ng to a n a ut ho rita tive Ilook ' ~ o n th c su bject so th at yo u r d owsing result s ca n be rhcckcd aga in st a reli able re fe re nce . Whi ch vitamins arc mo st likel y 10 he ne eded? T he m oSl co m mo n defici en cies th at I com e acro ss a rc vitamins B, C a nd I':. In particu la r. vitamin C a p pea rs 10 he a key fac tor in .u- tivating lIla n y o the r vita m ins and mi nerals in the body. Vitam ins in th e l\ gro up prese n t a rathe r m o re co m plica ted pic tu re . Man y o f the m arc in lcn k pe nd c n t. so vita m in BH, for insta nc e, sho uld n ot llo rtu:III}' be given in isol a tion . O ne safe WOlY is to usc ta bl e ts of th e who le B co m ple x. o the rwise it means
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havin g sto cks o f all th e se parate co m pou nds - a nd the re a rc quite a few of th em. We m ust also be ar in mind th a t so m e o f th e vitam ins need adeq ua te mi n eral le vels in the di et fo r them to he e ffec tive. so it is necessa ry to check hoth vitam ins and m ine rals. VVc can dowse fo r vitam ins item by item hu t, as h asjust be cn m e nti o ned, th ere a rc q uite a lo t o f the m . T h e simple r way for the begin ner is to start with vita m ins A, B co m plex, C, D a nd E. All o ne then need do is do wse fo r the num be r o f table ts to take pe r day at meal lim es. T his is not the most exac t m ethod, but it will givc goo d resu lts in most cases. Again, you can go into a health food shop and do wse over thei r stock of min e ral and vitam in su p p le me n ts. I have do ne that in the past, and it has saved IIIC fro m huying unsu ita ble ta ble ts. S u itab le S u p p le men ts Wh a t, yo u may ask , a rc unsu itable tablet' ? Without trying to be clever, th e answe r is those that do 1I0 t suit yo u ! Fo r instance. vitami n C tabl ets arc alm o st always m ade fro m synthet ic sources whi ch a rc not d e rived from plants.As vitam in C (ascorbic acid ) is a ve ry sim ple che m ical, thi s will m o st likel y be perfectly acceptable to yo ur body - j ust like th e natural che mica l. I Iowevc r, so me vi tam i n C table ts co ntain biollavon oids d erived fro m p la nts, Th csc arc m ean t to ass ist the ut ilisati on of the vitami n C by thc body. O n o n e o ccasion, however, I go t a very stro ng negative res ponse from an e xpe nsive make o f vitam in C tablet . I was puzzled until I realised th at I was probably alle rgic to o ne o f' th e bi otlavon oi d s. A", it turned o ut, that ind eed was the p roblem , I was alle rg ic to th e ros e-hip ex trac t in the table ts. So don 't he surprise d if y Oll find thai yo u ge t diff e re n t res po nses to diff erent manufactu re rs ' prod ucts, Trust Y() lIr do\'vsin g- rath er than the manu factu rers' "hype '. Mor e e xpensive is not necessarily beucr fo r yo u personally. Rem embe r also thai man y vitamins arc not natu ral products: they arc syn thesised ill che mica l processes. T h e hi ol o gical activity of such che m ica lly pro du ced vitami ns may he co ns ide ra b ly le ss than their natural co unte rparts. Te sts o n rats showed th at tile clfec tivencss of SO I1H ' synth eti c vitami ns was o nly a bo u t a third or the natu ral product.
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I re me m ber whe n a frie nd o f mine started se lling vitam ins in one of th e ' p yra m id' syste m s. She was very e n th us ias tic abo u t he r products aud tried to se ll m e some - they we re quite ex pe ns ive . I lo o ked at their advcrti sing 'hlurb ' which said how good thei r p roducts were. I asked he r wh ethe r th e vitamins were made fro m na tural source s. She d idn 't know, h UI said th a i she wou ld fin d o u t. To Cu i a loug slory short, all she could get o ut of he r supplie rs was thai they bought from the bes t so urces. They re fused to say wh ich, if a ny, of thei r vitamins ca me from natural so u rc es, m erely repeat in g tha t they bo ught the best avail able . lies I in whose bo o k? U nfo rt u na tely, n o t eve ry manufacture r o r sales o rganisatio ll 0p l~ l.ltCS with high e thical standa rds. The bu yer mu st be cautio us. So here is a n id ea l place to practise yo ur dowsing: chec k o ut mine rals and vitam ins and ariel the m to your diet , You may wel l be very pl easa n tly surprised by your res ults. I have in cl ud ed tables o f the m ost co m mon mi ne rals, vitami ns and o ther d ements th a t arc necessa ry in th e diet in Appen d ix I (page IHli) with th e offi cia l RDA. In cidental ly, it is worth remem bering th at not all the fac tors in food that arc vita l to goo d health may have been d iscovered . It is all to o easy to th ink that providing a ll the known m ine ral s, vita m ins, fibre, prot ein and so o n arc presen t, then o ur diet will I... sa tisfa ctory. T h is m akes a d ange rous assu mption th a t we know everything ahout di e t' and that nothing re m ains to he clisco ve re d , I well remem ber a lecture a t o ne of the Heal th a nd II ea ling r oufe rcnces run by the Wrekin Trust. This was given hy a t :a nad ia n specia list o n d ieta ry m auers . H e quoted th e I II ~ red i e n ts o f a tomato sa uce for use o n pizzas - a ll th e :{O odd I II~ red ie n ts were syn the tic! More wo rrying was what we were lo ld a bo u t a h rand o fs yn the tic egg yo lk. Ap pare n tly, a t that time tlu-rc was a glut of egg white in Ca na da a t egg-processing plant'. om eo ne h ad th e id ea of m ak ing a d ry, syn the tic egg yolk th at ' OI ,ld be packed up with th e d ried egg whi te. T he com hinatio n W,e. so ld as a d ried-egg su bstitu te for usc in cooking. At th e lecture r 's Ca na d ia n u n ive rsity they carried o u t so me 11" 1' on th is p rod uct. Raw eggs arc a ve ry good di et fo r ra ts a nd
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they ca n live well on e ggs a lo ne. So, fo r a con trolled experimen t, o ne grou p of rats were fed o n ra w eggs, th e others o n reconstituted 'Eggo ', o r whateve r it was ca lle d. We were sh own a photograph o f a specimen rat from each g roup afte r a fortnight. T he rat fed o n ra w egg was a fit and h ea lth y sp e cimen; the o the r lo o ked appalling: wizen ed, ill and o ld . The ex periment was to have run fo r six we eks but th ey te rm ina ted it afte r three . All th e rats fed o n th e a rtificial egg were d ead. Bear in m ind that th e arti ficia l egg yolks were meant to reprod uce exactly th e cons tituents in raw e gg yolk - p rotei ns, vitamins, minerals e tc. - and o ne is rightly concerned . In terms of food quality th e art ificial yolk fell very far sho r t of th e n atural counte rpart. T h is is th e unacceptable technol ogy ga p betw een what we th ink should happen and wh at ac tually do es happen in p ractice. So check o ver your foods and th ose o n th e supermarke t shelves. See if you r d owsing shows up recurrent ' no' reac tions fo r particular additives. Check over fresh foodstuffs like frui t a nd vegetables, They m ay be tain ted with sp ra ys of vari ous so rts. Pe rh aps, as I suspect is the case' with some imported strawberries, they may be ir rad iated fo r lo n ge r life (the strawberries' life , n ot yours!) Above . all, p rovid ed your results arc not obviou sly suspect, learn to trust your own dowsing. Assuming tha t your results d o not unnecessari ly res trict your di et (in wh ir h case you may well be trying too hard), it sh ould h ave a very beneficial e ffe ct o n your general h ealth .
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o far we have co ncerned o urselves with cha nging o ur diet as a means 10 achieve bette r health. T h is is fine, provided our bod y is sufficie n tly well to be a ble to respond to these methods of treatm ent. But wha t h appens wh en we need SOmeth in g more th an the changes tha t an improved d iet ca n bring ? O nce we ente r th e area of m edicine~ and other thera pi es, we a re in a co m p le tely new area . To begin with, th e ra nge o f possibl e th e rapies is immense. Secondly, some of th e therape utic areas a rc very much with in th e p rovin ce of o rthodox medical practi ce . Certain ly I would never re commend th at anyo ne dowse on how to ca rry out brain surgery o n a fri end! If we are to make sense of th e th erapeutic area, we m ust proceed very slowly. It is all too easy to be ca rried away with e n th us iastic id eas and to lose track of reality. So let's have a loo k at just what we m ean by illn ess and d isease .
'!)pes of DIness Firstly, we ne ed to distinguish betwe en ac ute, tempo rary an d r hro n ic illn esses. Acute illn esses are those where life may well be threa tened in the immediate fu ture. Very ofte l) -th ese a re th e areas be st left 10 orthodox medicin e · an d Lrea tm ent. Acute illn esses,' like several bacterial infections o r in te rn al problems needing Im me d iate surge ry, arc n o t normally sui ta ble areas for purely ,om plementary techniques. Th is is not to say th at a lte rn ative
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me thods of treatmen t GUillot Il l' used at the same time . l Iuwevc r, in gen e ra l, compleme ntary met ho ds o f treatm ent work mo rc slo wly than , fo r in stan ce , ant ihio tics. I n lifeth re aleni ng situ a tio ns ,.. .'t' ca n no t afford to delay. I defi ne temporary illness 'LS illnesses whe re th e bod y's dc tc ncc systems will overco me the problem , givcn tim e , I n this : cast' we need meth od s of treatm ent th at will work in harmon y wit h Ihe body 10 speed np re cove ry. O fte n th is is qu ite easy 10 ac hieve. In th e thi rd catego ry, ch ronic ilh u-sx, we arc usu ally facin g a m nch mo re diflicult p roblem . Ilere we a rc lo o kin g a t a situa tio n wh e re , (' )1' whatever reaso n , th e body has gO I in to a ' lo cked ' state whe re it is unable to b rea k frec fro m the illness, This is the area where co n ve n tio n a l m ed icin e ca ll usually do litt le fo r the pa tient b ut a lle via te sym p to m s. O ft e n th e re is a stead y d ege ne rat io n of the health of the patie nt. Fo r such cases we need ke ys thaI will unlo ck th e syste m so th at reco ve ry is possibl e. In all illn ess we must re me m be r that ulti matel y it is th e body sysle m s that produce reco ve ry - what we d o with o ur th e rapies is give th em a helping hand . In Ch ina , hoth Western a nd tradi tional Ch inese m ed icines a rc p ra ctised side hy side. T he latt er is a bl end o f h erbal and acu puncture treatment . The Ch inese a ttitude is that acute illness res ponds 10 Weslern medicine, and shou ld be tr eat ed th at way as it is usuall y mo re eff ec tive. O the r classes o f illn ess lend to be treated with th e traditional m el hods, as th ese have oft en been shown to work where Western medi cine is in eff ectiv e . Dowsing ca n be used for both o rt hodox and co m plem eu uu y m ethods of trca u nc u t. Indeed , so me o rtho dox med ical practition ers use dowsin g meth od s in their prac tice . T his, ho weve r, is unusual. Fo r this reason O U I" e mphasis will he 0 11 com ple me nt a ry m ethods o f treatment, 'LS th ese will be th e o nes th at are o pe n In th e maj ority of readers. However, th e metho ds o u tlined ca n he used within o rt ho d ox m edicine just as easily. Wh en we sta rt 10 dowse , we will sian by looking a t mil d , or slow-acting ch ro nic ill nesses. He re th ere is no u rg ency and th eref o re no e mo tio na l presslll'e th a t co u ld otherwise affect the accu racy of o ne's d owsin g,
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Biochemic R em ed ies I f We nrc new 10 (OlJ)p le lllc ll la l"Y rn cdic im- and h ave 11 0 dcvel op ed s kil ls ill this area, we need 10 I ry tr eat m ellt IIlClh od .'i thai cal) easily he checked, \ Ve also n e ed 10 ensure tha i if a mi slake is mad e. nOlh ing d isaslro lls call hap pen . For th is reason I o fte n suggest th e Sch uessler hioch emic rellJ edi l~s ( tissu« sa lts) arc use-d as a slart ing p o in t. Th ere are oll ly 12 or them and Ill er have th e a(h"all iage o f heillg read ily availahle I hrou gh most health foo d sho ps. I begall with these when I hrall<:hcd 0 11 1 into the trc auu cnt o f i11l1ess, a lld foun d th orn vcry helpfu l. The}'a rc hased on the c hc m ica l co m pou n ds rl uu rc mai n after a hody has been cre mated . Ihese hei ng the m;~jor mi nerals present ill th e hod y, T hese com po u nds arc based 0 11 sod iu m, p o tassi u m , ca lci u m , iro n, m agn esiulJI and silica. I n turn , th ese arc
co m billed with se veral ac id base s: ch lo ride. .slIlp ha le , ph osph al e and IIlIo ride . In a ll, Dr Sch uess ler e nded u p with I:! cllm pollnds were esse n lial to hodily heahh . th.u he T h is m eth od of Irca llll cll l mi g-Ill Seem to he pe rfe clly accepl ahle III orlhlld ox m edici ne , excel' I for (" ' e fact o r. T he slrenl{lh o f Ihe co m po llnd s is ve ry low. T hey a rc dillll ed d OWlI,
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in a ca rrie r of mil k suga r, to a co nc c n tra tio n of o n ly o nc pan ill o ne millio n . In o the r words th e y are OIl a lo w le vel o f ho meo pa thi c po tcn cy. O rt hod ox th e o ries would lead o ne to cx pec t that suc h sm all co ncc n ua rio ns could have no effec t 0 11 t h e hnman bod y. Part ic u la rly as one o f the m , NOlI. M u r., is com mo n salt by a different name . Ye t, I know from my 0 \ \' 11 ex perie nce th at th e y G ill work ve ry e ffectively, At this point I wo uld like to le ave a ny di scussion of th e po ssihle m e ch a n ism s o f opera tio n to C ha p ter H. 0 11 ho meo pathic m edi cin es. All th at is nccessary 011 p rese nt is 10 lak e the ir valid ity o il trust. Because o f th e ir low co nce n tra tio n o f ac tive p riucipl c«, O IlC ca n ta ke much mo re tha n the recomme nd ed dose of the b io chem ic re m ed ies witho u t all Y risk 10 healt h , T hey arc th e re fo re a very ~ood pl ace 10 sta rt o fT with o u r dowsing, T he Bio chemi c Handbook!' th at goes with th e re m ed ies gives a lo t o f d e ta il a bou t wh ich remedi es o ne sho uld lise for sp eci fic ailme n ts. However, fo r o ur p u rposes it is best In d owse first , and th en chec k in the hoo k aft e rwa rds 1.0 see what it says. I find that a bout 80 p er ce n t of th e lime I o bt ain res ults th ai are in agrcem e n t with th e hoo k, whi le 20 pcr ce n t o f the tim e I ge t d ifferent re sul ts. Fro m lo ng ex pe rie nce I kn ow that Ill )' dowsi n ~ p ro d uces better res u lts th ar relyi ng o n th e ho o k. Wh y sho uld thi s be so ? I thin k it is beca use d owsing: ca ll ge t to th e ro ot o f what treatm en t is needed at th at partic ul ar lim e. Prescrib in g fro m a n a na lysis o f o bvio us sym p to ms is not a lways th e best wa y, be cause th e re llIay wel i be sym plo ms th at we have no t noticed. These less o bvio us sym p to ms may. ill fact, he th e m ost important. T his is acknowl edged in Iraditional Ch inese ac u p u nc lure , wh ere m an y d iffe rent aspecls o f th e body arc exa m ined, not j us t th e we ll-known multip le pulse rests . In the linal o u tco m e it is th e e nd result o f tr ea tm e n t that m aile rs. I re me m be r wh en m y two so ns were sma ll a nd co u ld n' t ~e l 10 slee p OIl nighl; if I gave th em th e remedy th at ca me "I' by dowsin ~ (often Mag, Phos. - magnesium p hos pha te ), th ey would d rop o fT 10 slee p injust a few m inutes. If in th e m om ing "./.1\. Ch ;IJlII\;Ill. MD. Or Sc h lU~ ~~ I('I\
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th ey claim ed 10 be 10 0 ill 10 go 10 school, I would dowse 10 sec if th at was rea lly th e case . Often Ih ey were jnsllrying 10 get a d ay off sc hool. I d owsed 10 se c what bioche mi c re m ed y wou ld hel p th em , ga ve th em th e table ts a nd said th ey would soon be perfe ctl y all right, Gmdgi n~ ly, th ey would th en go 0 11'10 schoo l, k nowin~ th ey h ad been ' r u m b le d ' b UI h avin g no effec tive meth od o f cou n te ring it. It saved an awfu l lo t o f argu me u ts a t th e lim e ! Dowsing for Others So ho w d o we d owse fo r o the r people ? II is o ne Ih ing 10 d owse fo r o urselves, bill how d o we fo rm th e necessa ry lin k with o the r people so th at we can dowse fo r th em ? O riginally I used 10 hold th e oth er pe rson 's hand, the n d owse over th e bottles with m y free hand . T h is worked well , hut it is not a lways easy 10 a rra nge. Lthcn rem embered Dr Wes llak e and th e blo od-spo ts th at h is wife used 10 dowse fro m . Ye t he re was ano ther p roblem - how di d yo u o b ta in blo od-spo ts fro m clien ts? II seemed 10 be a ~ood way of limiling th e numbe r o f people that would co me 10 sec yo u, ra the r than heing a helpful lechn ique! I th en read a bou t people usin g ha ir sa mples fro m c lie n tss . Appa rently this acted as a 'witness' fo r th e clie n t a nd gave up-t odale results, even if th e hair sa m ple was seve ral years o ld . T h is so und ed ve ry od d , bUI il see med 10 be a n easy way o f wo rkin g if it reall y did work. So o nce again I found m y cred u lity stra ined II I th e utmo st. The upshot was th at I tr ied it o u t. Mu ch 10 my su rprise I lo u nd that it worked well , th e results no rmall y ag re ei ng clo sel y with what appeared reasonable for th a t parti cular clien t. In IMrticular, m y clie n ts seeme d to improve to th e same d eg ree as whe n I wo rk ed with di rect co n tac t, T h is is a m ethod that I st ill u« : wh en th e cli ent is remot e from me. I ask th em to se nd m e a h.rir sample a n d th en d owse o ve r it to arr ive 01 1 th e ir p"" criplion . I hav e a file-index syste m so that if fu rth e r hel p is n'Tded I ca n use th ei r o rigina l ha ir sa m ple . II is as if th e hair II,1 m ple forms a contin uing link with th e person from who m il w", obtained. Strange hill true.
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Using Hair Samples So ho w ca n we lise o u r ha ir sa m p le? O ne wa}' is to lise a similar scal e to th at described earlie r. "Ve lise our ha ir sample as a 'witne ss' to represent th e patient. The ru le on ly need give us 'yes' 0 1' ' no ' answers in the first insta nc e , hut we will need to kn ow the dose rate late r, For this reason I sug-g:cst rh a t yO ll lise a sca le div ided in to ten eq ua l divisions, The wit ness is placed on th e left-hand sid e of the sca le , and th e medicin e to he tested on th e ri~ht-hand side. T he pendulum is then used to determine the point at whi ch a maximum reaction is ohtained. If the pend ulu m gives a m axim u m reaction about the zero point Oil the sca le, the n the medicine is no t needed . Readings of less tha n three normally mea n that littl e effect will he
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m aximu m reaction between th em . T h is h as bcen sa id to o perate because of a n affin ity betwee n th e IIlcdicine a nd th e pat ie nt's witness. T he p ro blem is th a t this is j us t n ot true . Do wsin g is no t a res pecte r of cosy thco rics, a n d we must always remem be r this. Wh a t m a tters is wh eth e r m ethods wo rk; h ow th ey work is a d iffere n t thin~ altoge ther, U nfortu na tely, la r too m any people , in clud in g' dowsers, feci th at if a p he noIllc no n ex ists , th cn it must h e e xp lir a h le in terms th e y und e rsta nd. It is a t th is p oint in o ur d o wsin g th at lo gical cx p la na tio ns m ay b cgin to fail. Let us replace o ur sca le hy another o ne calih l:a lccl fro m ze ro to ten hilt marked in large r a p ita ls ' NU MIIE R OF TAIIl.ETS PER DOSE'. Sta rt to d o wsc aga in , usin g a m edici n e th a t p rcviously gavc a stro ng positive re act ion . As bef o re , th c h air sa m p ic is p laced a t th e lett-h and e n d o f the sca le. This time we a rc dowsing for th e size o f
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drops 0 1' a pa rti cul a r medi cin e sho u ld be take n at a lim e. I got a slig h t respo nse o n th ree drops, a slight response on four dro ps and no thi ng' else . I repea ted the process a nd obtai ned exactly th e sa me resu lts. Th is was stra ng e to say the least, as I had ob tained a very positive reaction fro m the medi cine itsel f. Fin a lly, I dowsed (" I' three a nd a hal l' d ro ps - a nd gOI a stro ng positive answer! Hut how O il eart h docs one ge t half a dro p? I tried dowsing for seve n dro ps of half-strcugth med icine - the answer was 'no'! Finally, in d esp era tion I d o wsed 1'01', 'Am I ask ing a silly q uestion? ' and gO I a vcry po sit ive 'yes'! Afte r q u ite a few a bo rt ive tests, I finall y d iscovered what I had been missin g: the med icine was not to he tak en a t a fixed dose rate. IL had to be taken at a high dose 10 start, red ucin g the conccn rra tion of dose in the following days. Even tually I l{ave the clie nt a c ha rt fo r the next fortnight, sho wing: the required dose Oil ea ch particular day. This d em onst rated clearly to me th e ab so lu te n ece ssity 0 1' leaving all esca pe route o pe n so that an incorrec t assumption can he de tec te d . As mentioned ea rlier, I do this nowadays by having: the ' yes-bur' and 'no-but' dowsin g respon ses available. T he Sc huess ler tissue saiLs are therefore a good and a safe way of e n te ri ng int o dowsing for medicines. My experien ce has been tluu th ey ca n he ve ry helpful a t tim es. These sa lts arc at a ve ry low co nce ntratio n of o ne part in o ne million, and there fore a hso lutely safe. However, th ere is a problem . How ca n it be th at a co nce ntration of o nly o ne part in a million of a simple sail such as Nat. Mu r, (so dium ch loride or co mmon salt) can have healing properties, when we lIlay use millions of times this dose o f salt on our fish and chi ps? II' one biochemic tablet ca n help us, salt ed lish a nd ch ips shou ld help us far more! In som e ways there is a co mmo n probl em in dowsin g a nd homeopathic-type medicines: logic sugge sL' th at neithe r 01 th em sho uld work but practi cal ex perie nc e shows that th ey do work and usually - in skilled hands - th ey work ve ry well in deed. i t is th erefore tim e to lo o k furth er into th e whole a rea 01 homeopath y and homeopathic tr eatm ent. This is a sui tab le meth od of medical treatm ent for th e dowscr, as thc resul ts alf' ea sily chec ke d. For the beginner, it has th e added adva ntag e,
like th e bioch emic rem edies, th at it is highly unlikely th at a ny harm will he caused to a patient if an in co rrec t re medy is prescrib ed .
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o meo pa th ic medicines ca n ea sily be used hy th e lay perso n , particul arly for first-aid situa tio ns , as th ey a rc tasteless, non-tox ic and there fore a very attrac tive ... me th od of tr eatment. Witli devel o ped dowsio g skills, th e field of appl icat ion in hom eop ath ic medi cin es opens lip much mo re . H om eopathic remedies arc much more powerful th an th e bioch emic remedies when d ealin g with dee p-roote d p ro blems, but th ey o fte n need to he used in conj unc tio n with co u nselling. When we a rc d ealing with 010 illness th at is roo te d deep in a perso n 's e motio na l past , th ere is often th e necessity 10 he a ble to give su pport and bTUida nce a t a personal level. So what arc homeopath ic medicines a nd how d o th ey work? Ra ther th an launch into co m p lex ex planatio ns at this poi n t, it would be bes t to look into th e o rigins of homeopa th y and sec h ow it a ll started .
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m uch dis tress as the illn ess, so met imes mo re so . Ha hnc mann decided to see what happene d if h e red uced th e dose of these h ighly toxi c malerials. If, with a red uced dose, the tox ic ellects reduce d mo re q uickly than the therapeutic effect, th e n he felt th at it m ight be possible to treat the m'\jo rity of cases with less roxi e side effects. If that was the case , he mig ht th e n he ahle to hel p patieu ts withou t severe side effects o n th eir syste m whic h, in turn, co uld ac t against th e th era peutic effec t of th e med icine. He carried out a series of tests and discovered that his assumptio ns were correct. In fact , the tox icity o f a mc dicl nc reduced much mo re rapid ly th an th e m c ra pcuuc efTect. He realised th a t he was ge lling good th e rapeutic effects with dil utions th at were less th an one-hund re dth o f th e accepted dose. In tr ue scie nt ific spi rit, h e decided - stra nge as it m ight appear _ to see at j us t wha t level o f dilution th e th erapeu tic effects stopped . He co n tin ue d to dilute hi s medi cin es further and further, bu t still they worked. Indeed, th ei r effect see med to become stronger th e more th ey were di lu ted. Fina lly, he W;LS working with medicin es that contained less tha n one m illion mi llio n th pa rt of ac tive ma terial - a nd still they wo rked! At th ese levels o f dilution th ere would be almost no m ole cul es of the
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Homeopathic Medicines There is strong o ppositio n to hom eopathic medi cine from the orthodox, drug-<>rien ted m edical professio n. Even th o ugh do uble.blind tests h ave proved time and aga in th at homeopathy works, stren uous opposi tio n still exists. The p roble m is that co m mon-sense logic di ctat es th at suc h h igh dil uti ons co uld not possibly work. O rthodox sources state th at th e double·blind tests must some how be flawed, even th ough th ey themselves use juS! th ose same methods to test d ru gs. They argue th at th e re is no possible ex planation as to why such dil u ted ma te rials can have a therapeutic effect _ th e refo re tJley ca nnot have a th e ra peutic effec t. The doublc-hlind text must have given false results. This is, of course, an incorrect usc of science. Science relic s on experiments 10 create theories. T heories are just that : theories, not absolute laws. If our experiments show that certain
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effects take place , th en th at is fact. We m ust never let th e tail wag th e dog. Fina lly, a ll th eo ries are tested hy experime nt - by what ac tually happens in reality - not vice ve rsa. T he fact th a t th e re is n o co nve n ient explanation for ho meopathy is irrelevant. Like d owsing , th e j ustiflcation is that it works. T he lack of a curren t scie n tific theory to ex plain it do cs not mea n th at it ca n not ex ist or be effective, The lack of a su ita ble theory mean s o n ly th at ou r underst anding o f the un ive rse d oes not yet e ncompass suc h things as dowsing an d hom eo pathy. T he to xic th e rapies on which Hahnemann based his ea rly e xperi me nts were not ed to give sym pto ms in a heal th y pat ient sim ilar to those produced by th e illn ess be ing treated. III other word s, mercu ry poison ing shows simi lar effec ts to a syp hilis infe ction , stryc h nine gives the same symp toms as lockj aw (tetanus) a nd so o n. T h is 'like cu res like ' had been o bse rved befo re , It was Ha h ne ma n n , howeve r, who d iscovered th at o n ly very sma ll doses were necessa ry fo r treatmen t. T h is 'like cu res like ' co ncep t is now th e sta nda rd m ethod of 'provi ng' new ho meo pa th ic medicines: d et e rmin e the effect of a large dose of a prospe ctive treatment co mpound on a h ealt hy patient, a nd those will be th e sym ptoms in a sick pa tient that the medicin e will tr eat. Homeo path ic mean s 'li ke pathology ' or 'like sympto ms' and illustrates th e m e th od by wh ich th e syste m o f tr eatment arose, T he re al breakth rough of Hahnemann was d iscoveri ng th at a ve ry small dose is all th at is neede d. T he concen trations "ill use the old Latin n am es suc h as 6X or IOC. Here X m eans I()a nd C means 100. lI ence 6X means 10 raised to th e power o f H: IOxlOxlO xlOxlOxIO, wh ich equa ls one milli on. In o ther words, a 6X di luti on me an s o ne part in o ne mi llion of the ori gin al substance is all th at is left; IOC means ten hundreds mu ltiplied togethe r, o r that o ne hu nd red , milli on , milli on , millio n th part o f th e o rigina l ma terial is all th at is present! T h is may be less th an one atom of th e o rigi na l ma teria l in a ta ble t of Ihe medicine. I[ow ca n it possibly wor k? It may be due to th e method of I" cparatio n. Fo r example, th is is how a 4C di luti on is mad e.
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O ne part o f th e original su bsta nce is di ssolved in 100 parts o f water and th e wh ole is very lInuly sha ke n to gether (succ ussed ). T his c rea tes a l C dilution , O ne pan of th is is then m ixed with 100 parts of wat er a nd succ ussed a nd a 2C dil nt ion is mad e . O ne part of this i ~ tak en an d succ usse d with 100 parts of water to mak e a 3C dilutiou . Fin all y, o ne part of this is mi xed with 100 pans o f wat er and succ usscd to form the final ·Ie medicine. O ne th eory is that th e molecular ' Im p rin t' of th e o riginal m ale rial is impres sed on the WOlle r, a n d this repli cates down through the successive diluti on s. Perhaps so . Water is a ve ry se nsitive and rather an omalou s materi al, so it could happen. O ther people have o the r th eories. Ultim a te ly, al l th at matters is th at homeopath ic medicine works. In th e UK it is not gen erally known that o n the co n rinc n t of Euro pe about h al f of all medicines pres cribed arc hom eopathic. The re is, of co urse , o ne hasic problem with home opath ic medi cin es - th ey are very chea p to produce : no big profits for the large d rug com pan ies, no large slush funds to persuade people of th e value of prescribing suc h medicines. Indeed, it would appear that th e low producti on cost o f homeopathic m edi cin es is th ei r g re ates t d rawback - th ere a re no large profits to be mad e from th em . The typic:.1 prescription cost (full econo mic cos t, not subsid ised like conve n tio nal pre scriptions) of su ch medicin es rarel y exce eds a few pounds. T he pa tien t, o f cou rse , views it rathe r differently! The medicines arc inexpen sive, tasteless, non-toxi c and normally have few side effects. I would not suggest that homeopathic medicines can be used successfu lly in all cases of di seas e and illn ess, but th ere is no doubt ih at accurately prescribed they can be used for the vast majority of purposes normally treated by more expe nsive drugs. The abse nce of se rio us sid e effec ts is also .:nportant. Many hospital cases exist because the person is sl:l1e ri ng from ' iatroge nic illn ess' . This is a cove r-up phrase w.· jeh ~al1;' m eans th a i the patient is su ffe ring from the effects o f I ~. eir 1-' l'v:<)us treatment, normall y drugs. We need only II) lo o k a t th e :1O~ren dously high figures fo r medically induced drug-addiction i, l Bri;;~;,~ fro m the b enzo-diazepines (antid(' pressan ts and . Ic<'(, ing tablets) to realise that the non-
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addic tive hom eopath ic ap proac h is lon g ove rd ue. (I nc idel ua lly it has been clinically p roved th at th e herb St jo h n's Won is a t least as cfTcClivc as conve n tio na l \Vill it wo rk, and if so is it better (han COllve lltio na l mClhods of prcscdbing ? T he first thing that we need to look a t is th e ran ge o f homeopath ic medi cin es ava ilabl e . It is ex tre mely large . Th ere are se ve ral thousand hom eop :llh ic m edi cines to choose from! This has always been th e problem with homeopathy. A very wide range is ne ce ssary 10 cove r all th e small nuances in symptom patterns. For inst an ce , if we arc s utleriug- fr om a co ld, then classic hom e opathi c prescript ion means th at we need to look at all facet' o f th e pe rso n's sym p to ms . These will in clude a stuffedlip o r runn y nose , blocked sinuses, abno rmal skin colo ur, hig-h temperatu re, swea ting a nd so o n. T h is all tak es a considera ble lime, and e ve n [hen th e pracl ition er lIIay well be faced with several po ssibl e a ltc r n a uve mcdi cin es. In gencral term s, in home opalh y a prescripti on o f an incorre ct mcdicin e will have litrle o r no e ffect and it is some timcs ne cessary to try se vera l alt ernatives if th e ,firsl o ne is in effective o r o nly partially effec tive. In hom eopath y th e skill and ex p e rie nce of th e practitioner makes all th e differen ce : much more fine.tuning is ne cessary than with conven tio nal drug th erapy. In homeopathy one is treating- the whol e pati ent, Bot just the o bvio us main sym p to m.
SUppose we have found th e most suita ble medicine, th en what ? A whole range o f potencies is availa ble from 6 X up to IOOC and beyond. How do we choose th e co rrec t potenc)' a nd dose rate ? Will a no the r medicine be needed as a follow.up? All these factors show why homeopathic medicin e has needed to be ;lpproached from a long period of study and training before proficiency is a tta ined. Becau se th e effec t of home opath ic medicines becomes ' tronger with in crea sed d ilu tio n, high potencies arc those with
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the high est dilu tion s. It must also he rem em bered that high pot e ncies C~lIl have large . su d d e n e ffec ts, wh a teve r type of medi cin e is used . 11c.:II l'c GX (10\\') poten cy medi cin es wo rk slo wly. hut arc unli kely to cause any proble ms. lligh potcn cics some times only need a sing le close , hut the)' can cause trauma to the hody _ eve n seve re shoc k - because of an aggravation of svrn p to iu s.
I ment ion ed in th e introduction that it was hom eop athic medicine that so rted me out after Asia n ' Ilu. It was the late Dr Wesliake who p rescribed th e medicine fo r me, a nd he did all the analysis fo r the treatm l'llt by dowsing from a hlood -spot that I se nt him th rough the post. It was abo u t six years la ter befo re I had the ple asure of m eet in g him face to face. For my ' Llu he se nt me tw o high-po ten cy powde rs and a bo u le o f tabl ets o f hom eopalhic phosph o rons a t m uch lowe r pOlency. I think Ihal the h i~h-polen cy powd ers were ex trac t of th ym us ~I a nd . lie wa rn ed me Ih al I mi ght feci wo rse before 1 ICiI he Ite r, It was j nsl as we ll that he di d. I had fel l p retty drea d ful he hm:, but th e eff ec t o f'. the po wders was to make me lc cl se rio usly ill: I fe lt thaI a com p ie tc bre akd own was o nly a hai r's b readth away. So mehow I hu ng on for a wee k, and then the tid e rurn cd. Wilhin a fOrlni~h,t I was feelin g bette r th an I had do ne for months. It took nearly a year for me 10 recove r tutly, but I re alise now that is a very sho rt time to re cover from wha t is now called Ch ro nic Fatig ue Syn d ro me o r M.E.. Indeed , without his treatment I am sure that I woul d h ave e nde d up with a co m plete 11crvouS breakd own . with disastrous co nseque nce s. T he effec t of a tem pora ry agg ravatio n of sym ptoms is a classic side effec t of hom eop athic medi cin e . It is a positive sign in that it ind icates that the co rrec t rem edy has been cho se n and is stimulating the body's de fen ces. Too severe a reactio n shows that the poten cy is to o high for th a t particul ar patient. Patie nls vary in th e ir sensi tivity to treatm cnl m el h ods. Sensitive peop le le nd to need consi de ra bly lowe r po te n cies for th e san ", th erapeu tic e ffec t. T he re is a d ifference of o pin io n between ho mcopathic practiti on ers abo ut wh erhcr aggravation of sympto ms is a good thing o r a had Ihing. I will nol c u ter into such a discussion , but merel y state that it can occur. and when
it does it shows th at th e co rrec t remed y h as be en se lec ted , It is now becom ing o bvio us that homeo path y is no t an easy disci pline for th e beginne r. T he re is a ve ry wid e ra ng e of possibl e medicines co m bined with a wide ra ng e of pot e ncies. For th is reason , the re have been few hom eopaths in the past who havc no t had a long , ard uo us (rainin g . Med ica l practitio ne rs in Britai n wh o wish to practi se homeo path y, for exa mp le, have to fo llow a two-year filii -time co urse o n top of their no rmal medical trainin g! Small won de r, the re fo re . thai few co nven tio nal doctor s practise hom eopath y. Dowsing , howeve r, can provide a different way into th e su bje ct , Again, it is possibl e to chec k o ne 's d owsin g agai nst a refe re nce boo k 10 check th at it is safe and lo gical.
Finding the Correct Remedy Using dowsing , it is no lon ge r nccessarx 10 remembe r lo ng lists of rem ed ies and thei r rel at ed sympto ms. In dowsing OIiC is merely looking for a ' resonance' betw een th e pat ient a nd a suitable medicine. Assumin g that we ca n d owse co m pe te n tly, we have di sp osed of th e need fo r a lot of book lea rn in g. The re is o nc se rio us probl em, howeve r. In its place we need to have samples of several th ousand medicines! Su ppose wc locat e th e correc t medicin e afte r dowsing throug h 1500 medici nes , and it take s 10 seconds to dowse fo r each one . T h at is 15,000 se conds (over four hours) to ge t th e co rrect medicine . T here is no way th at one co uld wo rk that way. O bviously somc so rt of sho rt-eu t is vital. As has been said earlier, dowsing is un d er men tal co n tro l, so we ca n set up th e rules o u rselves as long as we a rc ve ry ca re fu l. Suppose we keep o u r stock of medicines packed in bo xes of 100 different remedies: 10 rows by 10 co lumns d eep. Su ppose we have 20 boxes. We cou ld dowse o ver each box a t a tim e aski ng , 'Is th ere a suitable re medy in this box fo r th e patient?' A 'yes ' answer means that we now have o n ly 100 remedies to check through. Mu ch mo re sensible. Now we co uld change the rules again . Taking th e box containing th e correc t remedy, we could dowse fo r whi ch ro w and whi ch co lu m n conta ins th e correct remedy. T he po in t of 1 01
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What aho ut po ten cies? Firstly, ill dowsing fo r a suitable medicine we were merely loo king for the best re medy; the po tency was not men tioned . Suppose we have a whole ra nge of pot encies o f the me d icine' ava ilab le, Ihen we ca n d owse for the correc t one. Su ppose tha t we have a ra nge of ten pote nc ies of each of o ur 200 0 remedies. We will th en need a mi n im u m of 20,000 sa m p les a nd th e space for th e m. Co nvetlliona l prescribing is now Jooking ve ry a ttrac tive again ! H oweve r, a ll is not yet lost. We ne ed to co ns truct a no ther sca le, thi s tim e marked in equa l incre me n ts, the u nits heing of C pot ency. We need not usc th e X po te ncies , as 3C is the sa me mat hema tical d iluti on as 6X. (Strictly speaking, th ey arc not identical , even th ough th ey are bo th o ne part in a m illion , as o ne has had th ree dilution stages, th e o ther six. In p ra ct ice th e diffe rences will normall y be small , but to be p reci se we shou ld di stin guish be twee n th em .) Mark th e points o n th e rul e as 0, 3, 5 , 10, 20, 50 , 100 a nd 200C. Put th e sa mple at th e zero mark and the pat ient's witn ess a t th e other e nd of th e sca le , th en d owse for the point of max imum reac tion . If th e reac tio n oc curs betwee n ca libratio ns, the in te rmediate potency ca n be estima ted'. T his way we ca n d et ermine the co rrec t potency withou t th e need fo r larg e stocks of th e different remedy potencies. II
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We still have one serious problem, however. Several thousand remedies cos t a lot of money and tak e up quite a lot o f space . The cost will be th e most serious factor for most people ce rta inly it would run into thousands of pounds. This will deter .rnost people from starting off, particularly if they think thei r d owsing is of doubtful accuracy at that time. This is where we need to delve deeper into one of the more esoteric aspects of dowsing: dowsing from a list of remedies. The first time I carne across the idea of dowsing fro m a list of things to determine which one was required, I was sceptical to say the least. Then I remembered that I originally felt the same way about dowsing itself. So I tried it out and, much to my surprise, it worked. This is, I suppose, the parting of the ways. Whatever kind of theory one has previously looked at to explain dowsing _ like 'radiation' links between the medicine and th e witness _ falls to the ground at this point. I know of no adeq uate theory to fit in with dowsing from an index or a list of medicines but, from my own experience and that of many others, it works
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- un com fortable thollgh th at may be to th e lo gical minel. To th e lo gical mind , th is is the un acceptabl e face of dowsin g. T he re wo uld ap pe a r to be n o possibl e explana tio n for such an idea - there fo re it ca nno t ,..-o rk , As staled earlier, such a view is n o t sc ie n tific, Ultim a te ly, wh at mail ers arc the facts. Explanations can o nly co me when 0111' view of the universe is wide e no ug h to be ablc to c nco mpass thcm . In this case we arc dealin g' with 'right-brain' ph en om en a. so we need not he surprised that th e logical left brain Iinds it very un comfortable . As th e saying goes , 'Tough! ' The idea of dowsing through a list is not restricted to medicines. As o ne 's skills d evelop, it is possible to use such a system in othe r fields. I rem ember on ce bein g ill Floren ce with the late Major Bruce McManaway. We we re tb ere to run a course on healing, and I was ve ry mu ch aware of I\1Ylimited ability with th e Italian language . O ne lunch tim e we went out to a local ha l' that a lso se rved food . We had heen told th at th e coo king was very good, traditional Italian , and th at th e ha l' was almost entirely freqnented by the locals . That proved to be all 100 true . No one there spoke English , and even th e best Italian-speaking person in 0 111' party could not interpret 1\10re than abou t half Ihe menu. Someone j okingly sa id to me 'Arthur, you have be en ,),owing us how 10 dowse from lists o f things, how a bo u t ..hoosing that way from th e menu!' I realised th at I had littl e option but to have a go. Muttering things about medicines not hdng the same as Italian m enus, I got out my pendulum and dowsed down th e in comprehensible list. One particular item H·lve a very strong reaction. No one kn ew what it was. Taking my , ourage in both hands I ordered it, amid much hilarity from the I "sl of tbe party. When it came , all the sceptics were silenced, as I had selected by far the be st item on th e menu - it was I...antiful! (Incidentally, no one else had followed my lead, so th r-re were a lot of e nvio us facesl) So, medicines apart, the next time yOll arc out to dinner, 11111 you don't know wh at to choose, why not try dowsing ,llIongh the m enu. You co uld well have a very pleasant surprise,
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The Hollow Pendulum O hvio usly, d owsing through a list is not as simple as using a m edicin e , witness anel scale as we d emonstrat ed ea rlie r. Wh at we need is a co nve nie n t m eth od th at gives as little room for erro r as po ssihle . T h is is where som e pe ople usc a hollow penduhun . With a holl ow pendulum , the witness (the hair sample, fo r exam ple) from th e p.ui cn! is pl aced in th e pendulum so that th e pendulum is ' tu ne d' 10 th e patient. Never mind th e th eories, th e m ain thin g is to use th e conce p t as a workin g method In o the r words, we hav e co ns truc te d a th ought-form for th e pendu lum with its witness whi ch will on ly respond to th e correc t m edicin es fo r lh al particular pat ient. If yo u do not hav e a holl ow pendulum, th en yo u co uld tic th e sa m ple on to th e pendulum o r hold it in th e same h and as th e pendulum . This frees th e o ther hand s(~ it can point to th e list o f m edicines 10 he d o wsed . Personally I usc a pencil as a pointer, so it is c asy to sec just whi ch m edicine is bein g indicated. T he rcmcdies arc
chec ke d o ne by o ne until a po sitive reac tio n is o b tained, If we usc th e index in a homeopathic Materia Metlim (like Allen's !") . th en we have to find sho rt-cuts be cause o f th e shee r number o f po ssibl e rem edi es. What I d o is chec k pa ge by page with th e q ues tio n in m y m ind, 'Is th ere a su ita ble m edicine listed 0 11 th is page lor thi s particul ar pati ent?' As soon as I recei ve a positive react ion from o ne of th e pages, I th en d owse care fu lly through all th e m edicines o n th ai page for (he a p p ro p ria te m edicin e or medicin es. Always rem embe r th at yo u mal' get severa l answers. If th at happens, note th em all d own . A'isuru ing we elici t j us t o ne positive a ns wer, th en we need to d etermin e th e co rrec t pot en cy and d os e rat e. T h is ca ll be clone llsing- th e sca le m entioned o n pages H9-9 1. In thi s case, however, we ne ed a witn ess for th e medicine as well as th e pati ent, as it is unlikel y th at we will have th at particular remedy in stoc k, A suita ble witn ess need he noth in g mo re than th e name o f th e m edicin e written clown 0 11 a piece o f paper. T he m edicine witn ess is th en pl aced a t th e e n d of th e scale al th e point wh e re th e actual m edicin e would hav e been used, We ca n th en d owse fo r th e d os e ra te a nd potency of th e m edicine as we did previously wh en using th e ac tual medicine . We sh ould th en chec k our a nswe rs in the reference hook fo r ve rificati on . If yo ur answers a re nothing like th e sym p to ms d escribed in th e hook, th en I would suggesl th at yo u arc likel y 10 he Irying 10 0 ha rd . Alte rna tive ly, dowsin g fo r homeopathic m edicines lIsing a list j ust d ocs not suit yo u. Please remember th at not everyo ne is g ifte d in th e salli e way.
Obtaining Several Answers What about th e case where we gel se ve ra l a nswers? First o f all, heck to sec if yo u r d owsin g reacti ons arc all eq ua lly Slrong. If 1101, th en it is almost a lways th e stro nges t on e that is th e best o ne III go for a l th e beginning . Assuming that th ey arc all o f " p pro ximatel y equal stre ng th, write d own th eir names o n ''' ' I);I ra te pi eces of paper and, usinj; th em as m edicine witn esses, I
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e xpan d ed to 3H se para te remedies ". Hi s lif e sto ry a n d d isco ve ry of th e rem ed ies make s fascinating reading a n d I would th oroughly re com me n d th at a n yon e int erest ed in this fiel d sho u ld read h is hio gra phy hy th e la te Nora Wee ks"'. Ap a rt from th e :~H se pa ra te re med ies . th ere is O tiC co m p osite remedy wh ich lie ca lled hi s Res c ue Re m edy. T h is co m p rises fivc of the re m ed ies a n d is speci fic ally co m pou n d e d fo r th e re d uc tio n of shock . Wh enever a nyo ne is unde r su d de n stress - ca use d, fo r exa m p le , hy ac cid c n t o r bc rca vcrn cu t - this re medy is re m a rka b ly effe ctiv e . I ca n vouch lo r its c ff cc rivcn es» ill m any insta nces. O ne particular occa sio n still re mains fre sh ill Illy min d . \'\lh en rlu -y were qu ite sma ll, my t \ I' / O ch ildn-» were pl ayin g togc the r ill th e ga rd e ll. T h e y had a paddl in g po ol a n d were fillin g it with water. T h ey must h ave d ecided Ihal th e wat er was rather 100 co o l a nd th e elde r o ne went in, to turn d ()\'~'11 th e cold water. Un fo rr u u a tc ly h e turned it o ff just as th e o ther o n e plll the h o sepipe rlo wn the Iroru or h is swim m ing trun ks. T h e re was " loud scream a n d there was a sca lded sma ll ho y ill a h i ~h d q .;rec of shoc k. \".'e illllll ('diald y put h im in r ool wa te r a nd I ;'1)p lied th e Res cue Remedy. \Ve ru sh ed him 10 h ospital , whi ch look a bo ut I!) minute s. \\'h ell we started off h e was still d eadly wh ile a n d ill sh oc k. By th e tim e we go t to h o spital he was pink ill co lo u r a nd singing! T he re.' was vc ry litt le hli stering' a nd no .rl tc r-c ff cc ts su ch as ni ghtmarcs o r o th e r signs o f emoti o n al d am age . A quit e remarkable case o f h ealin g. There is o ne p robl em with Dr Bach 's remedies: d ecidin g wh ich on e to lise for a ny p art icular pa tient . Bach pres cribed rl um by eS la hl is h i n ~ th e mo oel o f" th e pati ent , and from that h e W;''i a h le to prcsr rib c th e co rr ect rem edies. He rein lies th e plohlem . It fa ll he vc ry di tficu lt to e sta b lish acc u ra tel y a nyo n e 's uu -n ra l suu c , Peo p le b l'(,( lI l " : ' d a b-ha nd s' a t co ve ring lip th eir lI'd ings, a n d it m ay lak e a !l)t of tim c to g:et (h e pe rson to adm it lurw th e y really fee l. Dr Bach used hi s in tu ition 10 arrive 1 ,1"".. cI 8:t ("h . 'I'll, 'I'rl"/I"- II mlrr,\ (11I,1 tJtl u'" U"" mlif'1. C ,W. l).m il·1, ! !J:l:\. n'\'i ~t'I I ,1l 1l 1 1' 1" In ' l'cl m :tny lillu' ~ . NII" I \\'c· t· k~. 'I'll, ,\Itv/iml IJi,"lI1lf'nn "/1:,"'"",,,111.,,11. I'lIyl;(I,,,,. C ,\\" I) .m id ,
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ins tin ctively a t th e correc t remedies for a ny part icular pati ent. Apparen tly o ne day h e prescribed lo r so me 200 cli ents - th ere is no way he co uld have don e tha t on a co unselling basis! We may not he as di rectl y intuitive as Dr Bach , yet we ca n use dowsin g: to selec t rem edi es for a patient. We ca n then look the m up in the hook to sec what sor t o f e mo tio nal analysis appears. I f in d oubt, we can thcn tal k to tile patien t 10 verify o ur results. Like hom eopathi c remed ies, the wrong o ne will no rmally do nothing. so no harm will result As has be en said bef o re , nlt im atel y what m aile rs is wh ethe r or not th e patien t improves. Tha t is the acid test of o ur healin g skills and meth od s. I realise that with som e pe ople, advoca ting dowsin g: with th e lIac h re med ies is like waving a red rag to a hnll. I have h ea rd it said o n several occasio ns that o ne sho uld rigorou sly foll ow the way tha t Dr lIach worked - as any t h i n~ else is cons ide red d an ~e rons he resy. What snch people fo rg et is th at Dr lIach was hi ~hl y intuitive a ud th at he h im sel f was a rebel. H e re belled aga inst the m e th ods o f the time , feel in g that the re we re be tter ways. In m y experie nce, dowsin~ is a ' pe r fectly valid way of d et ermining th e co rrec t re med ies . What matte rs is th at the pa tie n t is helped; h ow it is actually d o ne is o f seconda ry imp ort ance . U ufo r tu na te ly, so me peopl e like to be co m e 'experts' ill thei r field . whether' o rtho dox o r un orth od ox. Ho wever, do gm atic adh e ren ce I n an)'llling will ultim ately destroy wha t was originally of value. Histo ry shows us no e nd of ex amples o f this.
Dowsing for Bach R emedies So how do we se t abo u t dowsing for the Bach remed ies and what sort o f re sults call we expec t,? For be~inne rs I would alwa ys su ~ges t d owsing with th e ac tua l remedies. II is perfectl y po ssihl e 10 d owse from inde xes, as we co vered in the last chapter, hut most peo pl e find they art: less likely to make mistakes when usin g the esse nces th emse lves. Th e rem edi es can he dowsed over by using a graduated scale , as hefore . If I find that I ge l respon ses fro m mor e than five remedies, th en I chec k all those with a positive res po nse and normally usc o nly th ose ~i vi ng th e stronges t re ac tio ns. 11 2
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I rem embe r staying at a ce n tre in Grasmere run by the late Aya Harriso n. I had given an impromptu le cture.•.. .d cmo n srrar ion on dowsing for the Bach reme dies th e previou s evening, and we we re discussing it the fo llo wing tea-time . Two wom en had just arrive d to stay for a few d ays a nd h ad mi ssed my tal k. T hey ex pressed great in te res t and so meone asked if I would d emonstrat e to th em ho w I worked. I fe tc he d my remed ies an d do wsed fo r o ne of the wom en to sec what results I o b tained for he r. The re med ies tha t ca me u p were for anguish a nd dee p unhappin ess. Everyo ne roared with lauglll e r because this woman lo ok ed happy a nd W illen led and m y res ults were apparently all wrong. ' He is perf ectl y right ,' she sa id. ' ( have been very unhappy just recently and I was in tears just before we left 10 come here . This is th e face ih a t I pUI o n to the o u tside wo rld . People a rcn't inte rest ed in th e fac t that I am so unhappy.' All th e peo pl e prese lll were ve ry sha ke n , particul arl y as a few o f th em were p rofe ssional cou nsello rs. No o ne had pi ck ed np th e fac t that th e wom an was so di stressed. T hi s inci de n t was very helpful 10 m e, as it was a timel y reminde r that I could rely o n my dowsing, even when all the app arcll t evide nce seemed to point in a con tra ry direction. Pe rsonally, I alwaysdous e 'blind' over flowe r remedies. I loo k al th e labels o n th e bottles afte r I have dowsed over th em, T ha I way. I ca n not be iullucnred hy knowing what a particular bottle contains, Too o fte n in the past I have co m prom ised my results by thinking. 'I am sure this will he what is need ed ' and auto.'mgge stion has made sure my dowsing gave just th at result. With .-xpc ric ncc, I am now much less allccn-d by my co nscio us rhou ghts. III fan , quite o lu-n I ge l res ults that arc con t"u)' 10 what I would e xpec t a nd I tak e th is to be a ve ry positive si~n . I well I c me m ber once do\\o'sing fo r some one and ge lling an answer that "'('med to be mil es away from what I had ex pec ted , I rech ecked ,11 111 go t th e sallie a nswer, I still could n' t beli eve it a nd rech ecked , ,~a i ll. T he pendulum went off illto what I can only ca ll a vel)' .tllgry positive swing. It was j ust as if it was saying to me, 'Why d 01l '1 you beli eve what I a m Iellin ~ you !' The pendulum p roved 10 he quite right: m y lo~i callllilld had go t ir a ll wro ng.
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I th e re fo re makc it a ru le to d owse blin d over rem ed ies, only l oo k in ~ .u wh a t the boule con tai ns a fte rwa rds. I normally lISC qu ite a re stric rcd range of Ihe rem ed ies. I lind some o tt hem ge l a reac tio n Ircq ue ru ly, and so me oll ly very occasio nally. Re med ies like Sta r of Beth le h e m , used 10 treat shoc k, co m e np freq ne n tly in m y d ow sing ; wh e reas o thers, like Wild Oat fo r treatin g' un ce rtai nt y, occur very infrequent ly. If dowsing' '.. .'asj ust a d el us io n and a ra ndom process , the re is no way tha t this wou ld happen: o n avera~e a ll the remedies wou ld he use d eq ua lly. So how docs o ne practically dowse lor flo we r rem ed ies and h o w muc h sho u ld yo u tell th e pa tien t? T h is latt er po int ca n be very imp ort ant becau se so met imes il mig-h t he cou nterprod u ctive to tel l a paticn t everyt hi ng. Fin.aly th e dow sing . I fi nd that if the pe rsoll the m se lves is th cr« with me , then I h ave no prob le m ill do wsing' fo r the correct remedi es. I j ust co nce n tra te mentally 0 11 rh ar pcrsoll and what re med ies will he appropria te for th e m , I leave the bot tles ill th ei r bo xes and to u c h the hott les o ne at a time with a finge r of my le ft hand, as I usc .my right hand for dowsing. ln cirlc nt a lly, usc which ever hand you find wo rks be st for YOllr dowsill g - li ) r ~el all tal k a bou t th e left ha nd heill~ un rel ia bl e or dangero lls! As the le n hand is co n nected to the righ l b ra in yOll mighl eve n ex pec t it to \.. . o rk better, hut I h ave n o c vid cnru for th a t act ua lly h a p pe n in g . I use the pe ndulum with a slraiglu.lill c swing fo r n e u tra l beca use that g ives me the qui ckest respon se . I check each b o ul e carefu lly alld wat c h for a llY c h a n ge o f d ire c tion o f th e pend ulum. I la ke o u t all those with a p ositi ve react ion as I do wse over the bo ttle s. If the fin al tally is m o re than five, I check for th e size or Ihe posi tive swing tha i I get fro m eac h or the reme dies and pick out th e slronges t. An o ther way .vou ld he 10 dowse lo r wh ich re medi es arc n eeded ill the first bo ttle 01 m edicin e . I would no t re com me n d this Fur hegi nne rs, h owevr«, as it is best to keep th e ment al side of Ihin gs 10 all a bsohu r m in im u n: unt i! yo u arc mo re ex perie nced. O f course , yOIl co u ld eq ua lly d owse fi ll' th e re med ies II)' IIsing the ca lib ra te d scale me thod . I merely usc th e simple", direct mel h od because it wo rks wel l f( )r IIl C . For so me pco pit' , ,I
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ea ch oc casio n. Again this would no rmally he betwee n o ne and fo ur: T he Bach rem ed ies arc usuall y ta ken in a lillie water, preferably hefore ra ther th a u after a meal, If o ne is in a h urry, h oweve r. the medici ne can bedro pped di re ctly in to th e m outh . T his la tte r tec h niq ue ca n be inva luable with Dr lIach's Rescue Rem edy, whe n il is ne eded as a matte r o f urgen cy.
Possib le Side Effects and Differences in Remedies II has be en stated that the Bach rem edi es are co mple tel y safe a nd ca n ha ve no ad verse effe cts wha teve r, I feci thi s is ra the r d ogm at ic. No rmally o ne can take the m with no o bvious adve rse effe cts. H o weve r, as with homeop ath y, if o ne hits the co rrec t re medy a nd d o se spot-o n . the n th ere ca n he te m pora ry al{l{ rava lio n of sym ptoms . I know this to be true because I have o bserved it o n quit e a fe,..' occasions. As in ho meopath y. such symp to ms arc a positive sig n, as they show that the bod y is reacting favo u ra bly to the med icin e and ac tivating its o wn healing p ro cesses. O ccasionally whe n d owsin g, I h ave o btai ne d a ne gati ve indic.ui on from o ne of the Bach rem ed ies. O n such occasions I did not use th at particular csscncc vcvc n lhou gh it appeared to fit th e patient's co nditio n. The re arc several possibl e reason s fo r th is (a pa rt from inco rrect d owsin g ). Firslly. th aI pa rti cula r m ed icine migh t make the patient feci suflicie ntly wo rse ac tually 10 h inde r Iht, h t'aling process. Seco nd ly. it m ight he th at its / nl',\(m/ us(' is in app ro priate, eve n thou gh it would ot he rwise be iudlcau-d, Perhaps othe r healing needs 10 lake pl ace befo re using that parlinalal"re medy. If ill douht, trust your dowsing . There arc severa l manufacturers of Dr Bach 's remedies no wadays aud most p ra ctition ers tend to Ican to wards on e panicula r su pplier, \\1, at matters in su ch 'ene rget ic' m ethods of In'at uu,'llt are Ill(' e th ical standa rds of the manufacture r and the Ion : and care thl'Y put into the production of their essen ces. If yo u an' in ::11)' d oubt , check OUI the d iffe rent produc t, hr
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Success Rates Dr Bach 's re medies co mprise a simp le and VCI)' co mpre hcnsive method of Ireating a whole variety of illnesses hy tack ling th e e mo tio na l sla te of th e pat ie nt. T hey a re o fte n very ellect ivc hu t. like all syste ms of medi cin e , so met imes they are of lit tle or no value . If O IiC be lieves that any system or medicin e sho uld he able 10 trea t all pati en ts successfully, then o ne is making a serious, fund amental e rror. From my ex pe rie nce, so me pcople will he assisted hy one m ethod or p ra ctit io n e r, wh ile o thers will benef it from o ther pra ctitione rs or forms o f treatm ent . A..; myoid m editati on teach e r sa id . ' In sk ille d hands yo u ca n heal someone with a pi ece of we t le ttuce! ' T h is is not int ended to p u t you o il. m e rel y 10 poin t o ut tha i you sho uld n' t be surprised if wh en try ing- o u t the lIach (or any o ther) rcmcdi es, not all your clie n ts improvc. A success ra te of 80 per ce nt mnjo r improvcmcru is abou t (he average; so me ac hieve a bit more , o thers less. The m a in thin g is that whatever healing syste m you lry. d on 't he surp rised if yo u d on 't succeed all th e lim e - no one d o es. I re member lalking to a heale r in Hull a bo u t my healing expcriences with laying-on o f hand s and wonder ing about my a p paren t failu res . 'Whe n I first sta rted healinl{ . for th e first two wee ks I got re all y spectac u lar Lu res,' h e sa id . ' 1 th ought I W' LS j esu s Chris t! T he next wee k everylhi ng we n t wrong and I disco vered th at I wasn 't!' Beginn ers ' lu c k is co mmo n in all areas; don 't let its di sappea ran ce ge t yo u d own. Ma ny people in th e sp here of healing tend to dwell overmuch o n th ose who d o no t respon d. Remembe r. th ere is no im m u ta ble message from o n hi g-h th at says 'Ye must c ure all who come to you, of wha tever diverse illnesses, or ye are a miserable failure - lit on ly 10 be cas t into ye deepest bo ttomless pit!' We arc all hum an . O ur systems o f trea tm ent, howeve r iuspircd , are no t in fallible. Remembe r th at. ke ep a sense of humou r a nd a se nse of humility, and you will be able to hd p ,"an y o the rs if you so wish . Dr Bach ca lled h is essences IIi, helpe rs; th at p u ts it ill a nutshell . Those who work ill Ill"alillll strive to help othe rs. a nd an ything th at will hel p us is 111'11"'10'1;01 I I
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pat ients where o rthodox medi cal treatm ent has failed , then we will perhaps be a littl e more co m passio natc to ourselves.
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n th e last chapte r, I showed h ow Dr Bach used h is o wn intuitive faculty 10 det ermin e which remedies were need ed for the various emotional sl ates he ex pe rie nced. When I first read abou t him I wondered if he had found all th e flowers which possess cu ra tive p roperties. After all, he had been looking spe cifically for plants th ai co uld help cu re e motio na l problem s. Perhaps th ere were others 'ye t undiscove red th at co uld help in other areas o f healing. By following Dr Bach's and Nora Weeks' in structions, I ha d already made some of the Bach remedies myself. I rem ember particularly g rowing my own ch ico ry and being cap tiva ted by its beautiful blu e flowers. My Bach remedies seemed every bit as active as those I had bought from Nora Weeks, so I used th em rq,'ularly. This ex perie nce of making flower re med ies was to stand me in good st ead later on. It was about a year after I had started dowsing and, with th e typical enthusiasm of th e recently co nve rted , I started dowsing round my garden for flowers with potential cu ra tive properties. I kept that thought very firmly in my mind an d detected about u-n of them,
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Twenty Qucstio ns, if we lise the quest ion-and-answe r typc of dowsing, we ca n o nly make pro gress if we ge t positive answers. So me o f those flo we rs hlo cked eve ry q uestion I as ked. All I could ge t was a successio n o f 'no ' responses. It we n t so met h iug like th is: Do you possess h ealin g properties? Yes Can yo u he used with th e Bach remedi es? Yes Ca n I use yo u with a ny of my p rese n t patien ts? No Co u ld I have used yo u with any of my past pa tients? No Mig h l yo u he of a ny use with future pa tien ts? Il aif no Are yo u of an y use for stress p roblem s? No
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And so ir went o n - ge lliug nowhe re fast . Finally, aft e r feeli ng co m p letely despe rate , I d id th e thing th at I sho uld have done much ea rlie r o n: I lo ok ed a t th e firs t qu estio n I had asked . 'Do you possess healing properties?' I sud de n ly realised th at it was far too wid e - th e whol e of th e an ima l a nd plan t kin gdo ms could be in clud ed in my questio n ! So I rephrased th e q uestio n: ' 'Do you possess heali ng prope rt ies for human s?' Immediately th e ' d ifficult ' flowe rs b'
up with e nd less quest ions, but Ihey a ll mel a brick wa ll no respo nse . I became te rribly fr us tra ted , a nd th e mo re frus trated I be ca me , th e less I seemed 10 be a ble to gel a ny hel pful respo nse . Fina lly I gave u p . I gave in to th e essences. I ma de them u p as Bach had don e with his rem ed ies, marked thei r names o n th e m , a nd p UI th em with m y Bach rem edi es. T he n I wai ted tn sec wha t might hap pen. I had six of th e m a ltogethe r by Ihe su m me r: Rho d od endron , Welsh Poppy, Soapwo n, But tercup, Blu ebe ll and Foxglove .
Using the N ew Remedies Wh en a new patie n t came, I checked a ll th e Bach re medies a nd then Illy o wn. and much 10 my surprise my o wn re med ies came up abou t o ne time in th ree, I chec ke d m y d owsing care fu lly a nd got ve ry firm positive answers about using rhe remedies with the Bach ones. Ta king m y co u mge in both hands, I mad e up the co m posite p res cr iptions a ud wai led 10 sec wh at ha ppened ! I a pp recia ted th at th e esse nces we re , like Ba ch 's, o f hom eopathic pote ncy, so th ere was no real risk o f ca using any damage . Neve rthel ess, I cau tio ne d my p ati ents 10 watch o ut fo r an y aggravatio n of sym p to ms a nd to ring me up if th ey had any problems. I need no t have worried . All was well. Indeed , the res ults I was ge tting when using the new re me dies were ve ry promising. O ne case in pa rti cular stood o u t For this pa rtic ular pa tie nt th e o n ly remedy indi cat ed was Rhododend ron _ o ne of mine . My pati en t had suffe red a ne rvous breakdown just before taking his fin al deg ree an d he had neve r recovered. No treatment he had tried had had a ny benefit. I-Ie lived at hom e with his mothe r .Il HI had tri ed to work but just co u ld no t co ncentra te, so had heen unem plo yed fo r several years. H e was ve ry depressed and had be en di agnosed as suffe ring from mental illn ess. Wh en I prescribed Rh ododend ron , hi s re cove ry was ,' llIazing. Within a we ek he was fe eling much better a nd within oi. weeks he was holdin g down a full-time job a nd was reall y ''''ppy. I rech eck ed m y d owsing questions for Rhododendron. 'Is it
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of lise ill so me rases of m enta l illn ess?' I go t a very h al f-he art ed 'yes' hut I ~as st ill no ne a rer to ge ll ing Illy answers. I was therefore in th e position of h avin g some n ew (lo we r esse nces that were o bvious ly use ful , hut could no t lin d out what they were for. T ill:)' frequen tly ca me up whe n dowsing fo r th e remedies n eeded fo r a pa rti cul a r pat ie nt , bu t I co u ld sec n o obvi ous paltern link in g th em to either p hys ica l illn ess o r emot iona l sta t es, ! l o wc vc r, th e (;1(:( remained th a t th e y were vcr)' useful a nd h el pful , so Ij ust got 011 with usi ng: th em in the h o pe tha t in d ue co u rse l would d iscover th eir real propert ie s. At times I got th e u rge to dowse for Iu rth c r re medies, a nd slowly their num bers buill up. O fte n, I wo u ld lin d a n e w remedy wh e n I h ad a particula rly d ifficu lt casc o Fo r ins rnn cc, on o n c occasio n I cou ld n ot find a su itable re me dy for an acq uain ta nce o f m in e - n othin g seemed to fit, my d o wsin g g iving a series o f ' n o ' responses to a ny thi ng I checked . It was O IlC spring a nd I we n t away to r u n a weekend co u rse in th e cou n try n ca r Eves ha m. That Sat urday afte rnoo n, d uring a b reak in th e co u rse , I saw a bank of Wood Ane mones j uS! by th e river. I immedia te ly ' kn e w' th at they wo u ld m a ke th e rem ed y I was lo o kin g to r, Dowsi ng co n firmed th a t in ne r knowledge, so I set a hou t making u p somc of the re medy fro m th e flo we rs. I fo u nd a glass bo wl, pu t the flowe rs ill it wij h so me bottled sprl ng water a nd Ie I'I it o u t ill th e SU Il . Two h ours lat e r I co llec ted it a n d added a ll equa l quantity of vodka as a p rese rvati ve . T ha t remedy was imm ed iat el y h elpful when I ga ve it 10 m y clie n t, It was o n ly lat er O il th a t I di sco vered it is m ean t for p ro bl ems of VCI l' lon g sta n di ng - genetic o r from a previous lifetim e - d e pendin g O il yo ur p oi n t of view. I was the refore faced with a stead ily in creasin g a rmoury of re m edies, com patib le with th e Bach o nes a n d ve ry effective but I di d 110 1 h ave th e fo ggiest cl ue as \0 wh a t th ey we re really for. Ali I kn e w was th at when selecte d by d owsin g , th ey we re ve ry use ful in hel p ing peo pl e to regai n th ei r h ealth . Alone level , th at is all th at m atters. Nevertheless, I found il ve ry fr us tra ting, particularly wh en people aske d m e wh a l th e remedies were for.
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Finding the Answers through Meditation Over all l l-ycar period I had fot II HI a bo u t 2(; n e w flo we r esse n ces. I used th em on a rel{lIlar hasis, h ilt was still no nearer findin g out just wha t they were fo r, T h eil c ircu m sta nces aro se th at co m p le te ly c ha nged m y lire. I we nt 10 York to h ea r a m ed ita tio n teac h e r ca lled J ohll Garrie g ive a ta lk ca lled ' Med ita tio n ill E"cryday L ife', I had previo us ly, albeit re lucta nt ly, tried m ed ita tio n . Mu c h of the time I received vt:ry vivid images rh.u see med to ha ve d eep uu -au in g fo r me. Yel ill a wa y it all seemed ra lh er d ivorced fro m my no rmal life - rat h er 100 'esoteri c'. At the lec ture , h owever, someone was t al k i ll ~ in ;1 co m ple te ly di fferen t vei n . Basicall y th e le ctu re r was saying tha t unless OIlC 'S med itatio n practi ce.: a ffe c te d o nc 's whole life (how o ne wa lked, talked. sal, eve n flu sh ed th e 1( 0 ) , then hasicall y it was n ot working. Meditati o» sho u ld inte g ra te evcrylhing in 0 111' life so that evc ryth ing we d o bccouu-s more sk ilfu l. I was e n tra n ced. l Ic re was SO Ill ('OIIt: tal kin g co m m o n se nse! It struck a d eep , reson ant chord in me , I had always k it th at th e ort hodox religio n and the medi ta tio n m e th ods I h ad tried we re so me how se para te fro m life . l Ic rc was someo ne sayi ng that m cdi ra tio n sho u ld alfcc t th e ""ry f ore of yo tll' everyday iiI.." mak in g it easie r a n d m o re joyfu l. T he u ps hot was th at I sta l'led to work with J ohn . T h is is not lh e pl ace to go [urth cr inl o this me thod of wo rki ng exce p t 10 'ita re th ai it is now th e basis o f m y everyday lit e, and h e was qu ire l igh t - it rea lly d o es wo rk . O ne o ljoh u's se nio r stu d e n ts was Ca ro line Sherwood. Sh e was ve ry d irec t and always ca me slra ig h l to th e p oin t. I h ad told he r abou t th e rem edies I had found , and went to sec her in l .ondon to di scu ss them with he r. Caroline was ve ry in te res ted in th e rc nu -d ies , part icularl y in IllY lack o f kn owledge a bou t th ei r sped lie uses. She fixe d m e with a searchi ng lo ok a n d sa id , 'A rt h ur, yo u have crea te d th ese c', sences, so d ee p d own you must kn ow wha t th e)' are for. I have lx-cn a secre ta ry so I ca n ta ke things d OWIi a t speed. I will tak e ou t th e esse nces o ne a t a tim e and re ad o u t th e n am es . Y 01l will lie' hack and rel a x, a nd tell 11I e j us t wha te ver conu -s in to ro u r I
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mind. I will wri te it all d own a nd th en we ca n se e wh at yo u get abou t them .' I felt quite di sturbed a nd threate ned by a n inn e r knowledge tha t I re ally d id know wha t th e esse nc es we re fo r. I had tha t uncom fo rtable feel ing th at Caro line knew that I knew the answers, and worse that she would no t let up un til I agreed to d o as she sugges ted! :'0 th at was th e way it was. I lay back with m y eyes closed a nd listened to he r read o u t th e names o ne by o ne . Mu c h to my surprise, word s came into my head: ph rases like 'coo ling warmth', 'comfortably bewitched ', 'breaking through into new level s o fcon scio usness' and so o n. When I saw the final list I was a m aze d. T h ey a ll m ade very good sense a n d co rr espo nded well with th e pati cntx I had seen. T his was th e first b rcakrh rough ill und erstanding the rem edi es . Mind yo u, I now had a fu rth e r p ro blem . It is o ne thi ng reading abo ut clairvo yance and perhaps half beli eving it; it is so rne lh ing qui te di ffe ren t to lind yo urself ac tua lly d o ing it! Once again I had ex pe rie nced so rnelhing that my logical mind fo un d tot all y unacce p ta ble . I we n t ho rne in a Slat e o f shoc k. I now had my list o f what the remed ies were for, but I was no t at a ll happy a bou t th e way I had o bt a ined it. I had n 't really bel ieved suc h th in gs co u ld ha ppen . Even worse, it had happe ned to m e. It is easy to writ e off ot her pe opl e 's tales as e xagg e ratio ns o r fi g m e nL.~ o f their imagination . It is qui te diff e ren t to experie nce so mc thing so extrao rdinary for o neself a nd know thai the a n.mJrr.~ llwre all correct. Ho weve r, O il the positive side I co uld now talk a bout the esse nces m ore freely with o ther people . I co uld tell peo ple so mc thing of what the essences were fo r, hut I did kec p ve ry qu iet abo ut ho w I had discovered the inform ation . I was rather e m ba rrassed by it all. If questioned to o d eeply, I spo ke of how dows ing co uld give answers. It was no t a true stateme nt, but at that lime there was no way I co uld co pe with this new info rmation . T here was no d oubt th at th e re m ed ies co uld help greatly 10 allevia te sym plo ms , to make peo pl e feel better - th at I kn ew fro m ex perie nc e . I a lso kn ew th at th e y o pe ra led in q uite a
d iffe re nt way th an by j ust casi ng p h ysical sym pt o m s. T hey also hel ped peo pl e a t a much d eeper or more sp ir itua l leve l. IL loo k so me live years' work with my medi tation teacher before the whole healin g pa ttern sudde nly hecame clear 10 me . The esse nces we re lo r a ttitu des of min d , fo r ho w we view the ex terna l and 'in ne r' wo rlds. T he y we re not for the e mo tional sla tes th emsel ves, like th e lIach remed ies, h ut for th e sta tes fro m which those e mo tio ns arose . I rea lised the rem ed ies were to hell' us to let go o f o ld and o u tm oded bel iefs, d esires and rigid ways of think ing - in fact, e ve ryth in g liable to stan d ill the way o f pe rsonal freedom to live a free a nd happ y lire. The Bailey Flower Essences At long last , I had found th e a nswe rs I had been lo oking for. I realised that I co uld n o t have arrived at those 'co nclusio ns before because such co ncep L' had not even e nt e re d Illy head . It was definitely a case of 'knowi ng in part ancl seeing in pan' . A full er d escription o f my in vest igati ons a p pears in th e [ ournal oj the Briti..h Society oj Doiosers , No . 222, Decem be r 1988. At p resent, th e re arc 48 bo ttl es of these esse nces. We have received lIIan y co m plim e n tary re po rts a bo u t th em, T hey d o not replace th e re med ies created by Or Bach ; th at has neve r been my intention . T hey trea t a t di fferen t and o fte n d ee per leve ls of th e pe rsonali ty. We make the esse nces with lovin g care, try ing a lways to honou r th e heali ng properties o f th e !lowers. I have dis covered that 'vibration al' esse nce s such as th ese are quite se nsi tive and, like foods, Ihey mirro r th e care and inleg ri ty ta ke n in their preparati on . To lind a name for them was quite difficult. I th ought of Yo rkshire Esse nce s, hut th e flowe rs co m e fro m a much wid er .uca. 1 fin all y se ttled on th e Bail ey Essences and I ..a ke full pe rsonal re sp onsibility for th em - as Bach himsel f had d one fo r his creatio ns. Twe lve o f the CSSCIl Cc:S are co mbinatio ns o f mo re than o ne llower. This was d ecided 0 11 to reduce the number of flower " "ences from a lmost 70. I realised th at m any of th e essences IIca red different aspects o f the sa me a rea of di fficul ty. Several
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rel at ed to c h ild h o o d p roblems, for ex a m p le, a n d o th e rs to transitions in life . I dowsed to sec whi ch rel at ed esse nc e s would h appily co -e xist in the sa me stock bottle a nd so work to gether in h arm ony. I found th at th ese co m po sites behaved j us t like a
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Healing Ourselves I a lways dowse for th e a p p ro pria te esse nces to pre scribe for a clie n t. Like Dr Bach , I find tha t intuitive m el h ods tend to he the m ost a ccurat e. a ll hough it is possibl e to pre scribe th e esse nces purely from co u nse lling the pati ent. I find it easie r to d owse first , th en di scuss th e m att er with th e patien t. Helping a clien t to se e th e p ossihility o f c h a n gin g their lives for th emselves ca n he o f g reat benefit. The essences will be a help, hut to hel p a pati ent m otivat e th cmsel fis alwa ys benefi cial. I feel th is is a vital part o f th e h ealing process: helping o the rs 10 become selfe m powe re d , se lf-h ealing. Man y people have co m e to bel ieve tha t h ealin g is so me th ing th at is don e to us , rath er th an a process th at o cc u rs within us , wh e re th e heal e r o r h ealing age n l is merely a ca ta lyst. Deep within eac h o ne of us th ere is a b ri ght poin t of illumin ati on a nd insi ght, whi ch is o u r sp iritual birthrigh t. I n eve r used to beli eve in su c h th ings, ye t my e xperiences o n so me intensive medi tati on wo rksh ops c h a n ged all th at. T h is
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in n e r spIrit h as bee n ca lle d ' th e kingd o lJl of God th ai lies \.. -ith in ", T hi s is th e area wh e re e ve ryth in g- we n eed to kn ow is ava ila b le to us. U n fo rt u n a tely. we tend to he so b usy with life a nd 0 111" o pi n io ns tha t we ne ve r g ivc o u rse lves su fflcic n t tiu u: an d space to become awa re o f wha t it call tell us. lktw(.-en th is inner knowing a nd a ll o u r o ut er life - D ill' a ttit ud e-s. des ires . h opes, n m d itio lling a nd bel ief str uc tures - th e re in evita bly fo rm s a cred ib ility ga p . It is thi s ga p tha t crea tes e mo tio n al st res s - believ in g- o ne thin g yct kno\\'ing- d ee p down tha t we arc in some way d eludin g o u rse lves. Em o tio n al stress ca ll ca use a wh ol e va rie ty of sym p lOlIls. T he re a rc c ha nges ill body c he mi stry whi ch ca n serious ly afrcf! o ur immun e sysu -m, as wel l as virtuall y all o u r bodily fu ncti o ns. T h e e mo tio n a l .u id m en ta l st re ss c rea tes c h ro n ic m usc le te nsio ns th a t will a ffec t 0 111' breat h ing . p o st ure, facial ex pressio n a n d h ow we ha ndle o ur hody. Fina lly co me a ll th e p h ysica l symp tolll s th a t we m ay co m p lain o f: Ag rced . so me o f th es e ca ll he caused by th in gs like in co rrect di e t. hu t I have n o d oubt th a t th e m .~jo ri t )' o f O U I" illn ess es ste rn fro m the m in d a n d its a tt it udes to things. T h ese Ihings ca ll he o bjec ts , e ve n ts or peopl e. It is fro m th ese rel at ionsh ips th at m an y o f 0 111' 'dis-cases' stem . Mind a nd body a re int e rlinked . indeed , in som e ways th e y sho u ld b e called ' ho dy m ind ' - a tot al e n tity. I "'alin g a t a n y level o f th e bodymind will help th e o th e r a reas . O fte n. if o n e ra n d ea l direct ly wilh the main problem, results will be m ore ce rta in a n d more rapidl y achi eved. A had back ca n be tre at ed hy flower essences, b u t fo r m o re rapid reli ef. m assage o r ost eopath y will most likely he th e best co u rse - a t least in th e first inst ance . There may be m ore to o u r bad ba rk than m ee ts th e eye. It llIay originat c fr om c m o tio nal tensions: wc ma y havc se rio us diffi culties in so me rela tionsh ip and those te nsio ns have fin ally mirrored in th e spinc . \ Ve a re VCI )' co m p le x bein gs an d th e symptoms we present m a y he far re moved from th e o rig inal ca use. It is h ere that d owsin g ca n be very helpful. It ca n help us to d et erm in e th e best co u rse o f trcaunent to sta rt with , a n d h ow to progress th e healing process. Fo r in stan ce , it m ay he tha t so meo ne els e with other skills would be th e best sta rl ing- p oi nt.
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Eq ua lly. il may he Ihal a fter we have done so me ea rly 'spade work' a nother p r.lCtitione r should take o ver. We sho uld never get in to Ihe way of th i nki n~ that we sho uld be a maste r or mist ress of all tra des. Indeed, if we only acted as a sig npost, directin g c1 ie nL~ to the most sui ta ble practition e rs, we would provide a ll invaluable se rvice, I lavi ng said th at, th e re is no do ubt that flower essc nces can for m a very valuable meth od of h ealiug, hel pin~ peo ple to hecome mo re whol e . T hei r ge n tle ness bel ies th e ir po wer. T hey car. ind eed 'move moun tains' whe n co nditions are favourable. If we ca n help people 10 live a t peace with th emselves a nd th e world, th en th eir hody and health will re flec t that peace . My pa nicul a r esse nces h ave be en my teachers. I have learned much from my struggles 10 unde rstand th em. Often, the discovery of an esse nce has come at a time when I was in need of h ealin~ mysel f. Origina lly I doub ted them, not kn owin g if th e healing th ai took place occurred as a res u lt o f my o wn heali ng e nergies ra ther th a n e nergies fro m the flowe rs. I now kn ow th at th e esse nces th emselves possess great healing p owe rs. Many o thers now usc th em a nd gain help fro m them. Ulti mately tha t is all that ca n be said fo r any system - 'Docs it wo rk?' I now know beyond all shadow of doub t that th e answe r is 'yes'. T he fac t Ihat we ca nno t say fo r sure why flower essences work is merely an in te llec tual p roblem . We ca n all too easily fo rge t th at th e patien t is mainly co ncerned with being helped; the ac tua l method e m ployed is of minor im porta nce. Like homeopathy, the ac tual o peratio n of th e h eal ing p ro cess is open to debate. We must never allo w suc h debates to ge t in th e way of the real, holistic object: hel ping people to become heahhy and whole.
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The rates were compiled quit e simply from findin g th e instruuu-nt sel1in gs that n -suln-d from a patient \vith a known ill ness , T hes e.: \Ve IT c ross-c hecked with res u lts from o ther pati cnts a nd the ius uu mc n t settings wen: th en re corded, This reco rd 1(}r11lCd th e sta ndard set of d ucs [or th e in strument. Ikca llse the inst ru m e nt was m an ufactured with a hlack eh ollil e lron t panel (t ypi cal of scientific in strt u uc rus of th e lime ), it bcrunu: kn own as the 'black box ' . This was III a 11)' years hefore air craft fliglll re corders a p pea re d that were to be g ivc n the sa m e nam e. At this stagc , th e hlack hox was basicall y a di agn o stic instruuu-ru that co uld he used when sym p10 ms \..'e re co nfusing . Provid ed that the rat es had been com p ile d c a re..-' f l .lly. the results o luaincd wen- normal ly \'cr)' go od. It was assume d that lire iu struru cut was so me ho w ill tun c with th e illness, the circui ts resolla till J,t with th e p.uicu t. T he next stage was to remove the n eed for th e patient to tou ch the in strunu-ut . A sample holder was co n nec te d to the ('n e! o f th e box circuit remote from tire Slick pad , It was Iou url that th e- in strument worked just as we ll when a sam p le from l!Ie pali ellt (spuu uu , urine o r hlood ) \\'as pla ced ill this container . Distant dia gnosis was 1I 0\\' poss ihh-; the in strument had 110
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with selecto r switc hes so that its mod e o f o pera tion ca ll he changed , For instance , it can he switche d from an alyse to tre atm ent mod e without resetting: the ro ues, as they are the same I" r both (to save looking things np ). This has th e added advantage that yo u d o not even need a ho ok o f rates (unless yOll wish to kn ow what th e paticnr 's problems a re ). O ne sim ply dowses for th e se lt ings o f eac h of th e ninc di als in tu rn , with th e pa tient's witn ess (ha ir sa mp le et c.) in the sample holde r. Wh e n all th ese arc set , o ne simply exte nds the ae rial rod and changcs th c switch from ' a na lyse ' to ' trea t'. It wo rks very well. There is j ust o ne problem . T he re is nothing insid e it! No pot cutiometers. no wiring. nothing! I was no t th e first 10 d o thi s. I discovered a few years afte r I made the box that an American woman had been prosecuted in co u rt for se lling black box es with nothing in th em but sawd ust, Th e fact th ai Ihey apparently worked was immaterial. 11 wasjusl as well for th e De La Warrs th at th eir box looked more scie n tific anclthercfore more cred ible . Yet th c De La Warr boxes mad e in
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I know many peop le who h ave sta rte d o fl' with black boxes a nd h ave e nded np hy d iscard ing th e m , not because Ihe y cou ld not get res ults with th em , hut because th e y fou nd tha t th e y cou ld ge l eq u ally good res u lts wit ho u t litem . No w th is m ay a ll so u nd a h it negalive a nd a n ti-rad io ui cs. II is no t m eant to he so. It is me rel y me ant to show how e asy it is 10 ge t ca rried away with impressive tcchIiOlo h'1' an d m iss th e hasis of th e p ron~ss.
Using the 'Co r re ct' Rates If yo u ren t o r hu y a radi onic or o the r type o f hia r k bo x, you will find th a t it co mes com p le te with a book o f rat es fo r that particul ar machin e . T hi s is 10 sa ve th e long, labo rio us p ro cess of \\'o rkillg th em out fo r you rself. Howe ver, like o ther d ov.. .sing syste ms, th e re is a problem : th in gs like specific Icnglhs of pendulums, len g th s a nd directions of 'fundamental rays' , ra tes
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and so 0 11 te nd to be pe rson al - inde pe nde nt testing of dowsers gives d i ffe re nt ligure s for eac h pe rson . So how docs a published book o f ra tes wo rk? Basica lly it seems to be th at if o ne acee pl s th at tbe ra tes in tb at pa rticular hoo k a rc co rrec t, th en those ra tes will work for yo u! Curio uscr and cu r iouse r - as Alice said. It is these a ppare n t con flic ts tha I a rc widely e xp lo ite d by p eopl e wh o a rc despera te ly tryin g to 'e xpose' dowsin g and o the r simila r te ch niqu es as a fra ud . I must ad m it th at it all docs se em 10 be very stra nge a nd ca n appear to be th e ' u nacce ptable face of dowsing'.
Like so many Ihings, we must be ve ry ca re ful be fore j n m ping to prem ature co nc lusio ns. It is all to easy to pooh-po oh thin gs just because we arc unable to acce pt their impli cation s. Wilh thi s in mind, let 's have a loo k a t the qu esti on of rates as a typ ical exam ple. T he re have been m an y di fferent radi on ic m achine s manu factured o ver th e years. T h e lat e Malcolm Rae was fo r eve r pro duci ng larger and larger machines, 'o ne o f wh ich had no
fewe r than 19 di als 10 se t up. T he basic idea seem ed to be that the more co m plex th e ma chine, th e more se lec tive it co uld be and therefore the mor e e ffec tive , Amo ngs t the machines made by d iffe re n t people th ere were quite a few th at had tb e same numbe r o f adjustabl e di als with ' rh c same number of ca lib ra tio ns (no rmally () to 9) . O ne investi ga tor did the correct thin g to investigate the mu ch -vexed question o f rates - he o btaine d Iwo machin es with ' th e sa me number o f di als, co mp le te with their re spective books of rat es. li e th en as ke d e xperie n ced radion ic m ach in e o perat ors, who had never seen eith er of th e m achines before, to usc th e new ma chines and do a na lyses of samples from pati en ts. He found th at th e results were very good , co rrelating closely with what was kn own of th e patients. Howeve r, what he had not told th e o pera tors was that so me of th em were using th e m anufacturer's set o f rates for the m achine , an d so me th e rates (wh ich were different) for th e other machine . The acc uracy was just as high when usin g th e 'incorre ct' book of rat es! In oth er wo rd s, as long as th e o pe ra to r beli eved in the book of rat es th ey
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Wirhin a week all th e ca te rpilla rs had di ed ! When repo ned, th is u pse t many people who had thongh t th at radio nics was a ben ign method of healing. Some even said that it was an o ut rageo us usc of the ho x. Yet this is too simp listic a view. We need to loo k wid er, Su p pose it was your livelihood at stake fro m the predatory caterpillars - what then ? From a safe positi on it is o nly too Cil"iy to criticise o r to say ho w things shou ld he do ne . When one is directly in the fir ing lin e , lhings lo o k di ffe re nt ! I well reme m ber my fat her saying that if the ge nerals in the Firs t Wo rld War h ad ever spent timc ill the tren ches in the front line , wherc he had been , they would never have made some of the stupi d decisions th ey did. So we ne ed to bear in mind that it is, as usual, o ur own integrity and e thical standards that arc of vital im p orta n ce . Providing that our motives arc clear, the n we will have little to fear. Healing with a Black Box T here arc two approaches 10 trying o ut a black-bo x me thod of healin g. First of all yon co u ld go o n a sho rt in trod nctory co u rse to develop a rapport for it. If it is still what you want , then re nt a ho x and see how yOll get o r.. T he Rad ionic Association (sec page 188) would he the best place to hq;i n you r invest iga tio ns, as it ca te rs for all radioni c training req u ireme nts in a ve ry tho rou gh m a nne r, T he main thin g is that YOllr dowsi ng has to he re liab le , be cause unless yO ll call gc t co nsiste nt 'yes' and 'no' answe rs, your rad io nic results arc likel y to he eq ually var iable. Second ly you could try a do-it-yourself ap proach . Vou could make up a bo x like th e o ne I made ; of cou rse, that needs a so urce of su itable materials and a basic sc t of e ngine eri ng tool s. T he cheapest metho d o f all is that evolved hy a dowser fro m No rthe rn Irel and who saw my gn~y ho x. In his me thod yOll fin ally th ro w 1111: ho x away! Ta ke a long strip or' paper, say 25 em ( 10 in che s) long by 5 ce n tim e tres (2 in ch es ) wid e , and write th e numbe rs 0 to \) alo ng it. T his is what yOll will dowse o ver. O n a separate sheet of pape r, writ e d own th e n am e of th e pat ien t. Decide what leng th
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o f code yO ll are going to usc ; I am sure that four digits is sufficien t, but you may like to usc six o r eig h t to [it in with some of th e com me rcial syste ms. With a qu est ion in yo ur min d such as, 'I am dowsing for a tr e atrncn t rate for this particular patient', take a sui table sample from th e patient (h a ir etc.) in the le ft hand (assuming that. you dowsc with the right ) and dowse alo ng the sct of numbers unti l you gC I a reac tio n. Write down the num be r. Then dowse down the numbers for tile ne xt number, writc it down, and so 011 . Vou will finally finish up with a Iou r-, six- or nine-figu re nu m be r which represents the rate need ed ( 0 tr e a t th e patient. Put the p ati ent's sample on top of the n u m be r that you have written down, and that is ill Not hing mo re to do . Recheck th e patien t the '" Ilowing d ay. The numbe rs may ke ep the same values or keep changing: either way is fin e. Wh en you fina lly ge t a ll zeros, that in di cat e s that there is no thing mo re th a t you can do to help in that particular way. If you arc no t happy with i m posio~ a fixed n umber of blan ks to fill in, make a num be red strip as before but with an exira place marked 'cud ' . Dowse
The Laws of Physics So far in thi s cha pte r we have loo ked at th e black-box a p proach to healing at a d istance. a techn ique which seeming ly owes lilli e to rad iation s in the co nve ntio nal sc nse . In physics, there is a
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The Tansley Box I re me m ber my first experience o f havin g an a na lysis cond uc te d o n a Ta ns ley Bo x. T he la te Dr David Ta nsley wo rked e xte n sively in th e lield of b lack boxes and produced h is o wn beautifully made box. T his could m easure the activity of th e chakras of th e bod y and rel ated to th e m ra the r tha n th e more physical basis of th e Dc I~I Warr Bo x. T hese chakras a re e ne rb'Yce n tres kn o wn to th e Easte rn he alers an d mystics and ca n give a very good guid e to the sta te of a person's h eal th . T hey ca n also be used fo r healin g and o ther pu rposes" ; It W'L' at th e time th at I me t Bruce McManaway. My health was not too good, so after giving me some co n tac t h ealing he sugge ste d th at Betty McPhe rson , a n eighbour of h is, sh o uld carry o u t an a nalysis o n her Tansley Bo x. All she needed was a hair sam ple , so I se n t o ne off to her. Bru ce co ntac ted me about a week later to say th at he had th e resul ts of h er analysis and h e wanted to m eet me o n th e way d own to LOndon to d iscuss it. I was puzzled by th e secrecy, but me t h im a t an hotel o n th e A l near Weulerby in Yorkshire . He did not give m e th e analysis but read it o ut to me . Mu ch W:IS quite straigh tforward and extremely accurate. It was just as if so meo ne wh o had kn own me for a long tim e Wd S givin g m e an accu rate ch aracter read ing. Wh at I had not app reciated a t th e time was th at th e Ta ns ley-Box analysis gave results not of physical illn esses but of emotional states and attitudes of mind - rathe r like th e Bach and Bail ey remedi es. Her resul ts were very, if uncomfortably, ac cu ra te. I th en found out why BOIce did not wan t to give me th e written rcoort. 'It says here : h e said , wriggling rather uncomfortably in his seat, 'that you may well have homosexual tendencies' . H e was o bvio usly " cu te ly e m ba rrassed at having to say it to me. Remembe r that thi s was in th e mi d-sixties and both h e an d I had grown up in a soc ie ty wh ere homosexuality was never eve n mentioned - it was far too e m barrassin g - h ete ros exual sex was bad e nough ! T han k Koodness we have left th ose daustrophobic days behind, even if things did the n swing ra ther 10 0 far in th e o pposite d irectio n. I was more amused th an embarrassed. At o n e level th e • n.K.S. lyt'ngu. 1.JPlon l i:lga. Unwin P.lpnbacb .
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analysis was right: I have always had a stro ng ' fem in ine' aspecl to m y being. It m anifests itself in various ways. I a m o fte n used as a shoulder (0 cry O il , I h ave a love of colou r, an interest in people and what m ak es th em ' tick', as well as m an y o the r things. Suc h sensitivi ty in a man , if not supported by a strong 'male' side, ca n o fte n lead to p roblems - particularl y when rela ting to wom en , Wom en looking for a strong male call a p pear ve ry crue l to su ch a person , ridic u ling th eir lack o r mal e positivity. It is small wonde r that su ch m en ofte n take to th e se xual com pany o r m en for sa fety a nd prot ecti on , rath er than trying to develop their own male sid e. I had not gone d own th e homos exual path , however, perh aps becau se for me it would, in retrospect, have worked against my d evel opin g my own male aspcctli. Neverthel ess , Iletty's analysis was basi call y correct; I was living with too littl e personal male e ne rb'Y in my lire. Incidentally, th e British Radionic Socie ty a t that tim e had o u tlawed David Tansley a nd his bo x and th e Dc I ~I Warr Bo x was th e a p proved model. David was persona non grata , As in other fringe areas, th e Radionic So ciety had d evel oped its own orthodoxies a nd beliefs or wh at was and what was n ot acceptable , Perhaps be cause David Tansley was marketing boxes in com pe titio n to its own , he was "defin itel y 'our' , La te r, the Society realised the e rro r o r its ways a nd welcomed him into th e fold; he even tually became its president. This is not meant as a criticism, o nly as an ind ication as to how o rtho do xies grow, eve n within a n unorthodox field .
Dowsing with a Code Earlier I showed how we co u ld throw th e box away an d just dowse for a numbe r code, Go u ld we also throwaway th e code? Arter all , it lo oks as if th e intelligence behind distant box healing o wes m ore to the operator than th e box. Perhaps a code is not needed either, Try th e foll owing a nd sec wh at happens. Take a hair or o the r sample or someone who requires healing. A signature will do if nothing else is ava ila ble . H old a pendulum over it and rel ax. Te ll yourself th at yo u wish the pendulum to rotate fo r as
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lon g as healing energies are heill l-{ accepted by th e person requ iring h ealing. Keep th e th ou ght ill mind that yOll arc transmitting' hcaling e nergy to the o ther pcrson for the m to
mak e lise o r ir ll/l, so wish. T heil wal ch yo m pendulu m . All bei ng well, it sho uld sta rt to rouu e.jus. ke ep relaxed a nd wat ch ; d on 't try 10 do anyth ing. I f you care to 'see ' enc rg ies leavin g YOll , or
reel a lin k with th e o the r person, fin e , hut th e m ain thing isjust to allow the g:ood will towards the o ther perso n . Not hi nl-{ more .
All heing well, afte r quite a sho rt tim e th e pendulum will slow down and sto p rotating. If it is still fuunin g after five minutes th e odds arc that }'O ll a rc tryin g, rath er rh anjusr leulng it happen . That is it! NOlhi ng mo re to d o , no co m p lex rituals, no stri ving: to help the o ther person , 110 ego trip eithe r! It isjust y O li olfcring h ealing (0 the o ther person and chec king with the pendulum to sec when you can m ove Oil to the ne xt slage. II seems too simple, yc t it works. Dare , I say it, hu t wh en you becom e co m pe te n t. you ca n eve n throw the pendulum away! You will kn ow instinctiv el y wh en to mov e on to th e next pati ent needing treatm en t. So lise a bo x hy a ll m eans. Vou m ay lind it very helpful . Rem ember tha t it ta ke s tim e to d evel op ex pe r tise and con fid ence . Alw ays hear in mind, however, that yOll arc (he essen tial ingredient , and that it is your goo d will towards the pe rson needing he aling th at is paramount. Good will is essen tial; (1)';llg onl y ge ts in the way. Remember to he rel axed and not to he a nx io us, M editati on or rel axati on p ractice can help e no n no usly. The best heal ers I kn ow seem nearly o lT-ha nd about it all, II is n ot thaI tl",y don't ca re; il is merel y that th ey do not idenlily th emselves as heing healers. T hey o n ly sec themselves as someone who is ahl e to help o the rs from time to tim e. Th e true ma gic co mes from relaxati on and a 1J0n ~ identification with wh at ever healin~ tak es placc.:. \Vc identify with heing a healer
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in discovering the efficacies o f the flo we r esse nces , such thing's fccl uncomfortable in a socie ty that seems or wants to he dominat ed hy IOl(ic. It is e'tsy to become dish eartened and wonder if one isj ust imagining it all. Did all those people really get better due to you r help or was it all just co inci de nce, th e odd mauy-millions-to-onc coincid en ce? . T he problem lies in our too-ready acceptance o f th e logi cal side of our n ature, and beli eving th ai is a ll th ere is to it. The idea of an intuitive side is still viewed with derision in som e quart e rs, a lthough scien tific research has shown that we a rc indeed mo re than j ust a logical machi ne. It is th e refo re appropriate at thi s point to look deeper into th e diff e rences between th e le ft a nd right sides of the brai n to sec if an intuitive side docs indeed exist. T he brea kth ro ugh in understanding so methi ng of the hrai n fun ctions came whe n research was made into so me cases of severe e pile psy. It was noticed Ihat in so me pa tients th e electrical 'storm ' of ep ile psy started in o ne hemisph e re of th e brain, transfe rred to th e other, the n seemed 10 oscillate between the two. T here is a b undle of nerve fibres called th e corpus callosum th a t lin ks the two he misph eres o f th e brain, II... fun ctio n o f whi ch was n ot unde rstood . It appeared that Ihis the link th at was propagating th e e pilepsy. T he patients WI ''' ' seriously ill. so it was decid ed to o perale on som e o f 111 " 11 1,
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T h is was an e motio nal reac tio n ( 0 a visual stim ulus that the y could no t sec - rath er unusual , howe ve r yo u loo k at it It shows that the rig h t hrain ca n int erp ret imaJ..tes e motio na lly without Ih e obse rver ac tually 'seei ng' what is the re to be se en . Fu rt he r work co nfirmed all th ese fact o rs a nd m o re. The le ft brain , for the large m ;~j ori l y of people, is concerned with wh a t is termed 'linear pro cessing' : th ings like lo gi c, mathematics , ana lysis and lan gua ge . It is also heavily concerned \.. .ith time, viewi ng' this as a linear ph en om enon that flows ste adi ly past. Th e le ft b ra in is also conce rned with suc h pe rso nal c ha racteris tics as aggressive ne ss and bei ng' sure of what o ne is do ing' be cause one's ac tio ns appe ar 10 he 'logica lly' correct. In Iacr, a ll th ese ch aracte rist ics are th os e typi call y asso ciat ed with rh o mal e o f th e human sp e cies.
Balancing the Left and Right Brain Th e right brain is co nce rned wi th diff erent fun c tions. It is co ncerned with seei ng' th ing s as a co mple te whol e rathe r tha n a se t o f lo gicall y rel ated pi eces. It d o es 1I0t a p pear to he res tric ted hy tim e or di stan ce . It feels thi llf(s a nd is th e seal of the emotions. It is the sid e connec ted with c re a tivity, prod ucin g things that arc not a logical devel opment from what has gone befo re. Apprecia tio n o f art and mu sic lie predominantl y in th is hemisphere . It is the side o f cari ng and co mpassio n and intuit ion . ( In tu itio n, we sho u ld rc mcru b c r, m e an s in ne r tui tion ) . C lassica lly, th ese arc th e aspec ts th at have heen typicall y assoc iate d with th e human female . Rem ember. how eve r. thai hoth males and fem ales have left and rif(ht hemispheres. Th e diff e rences he tween male and klll ale alii tudes is theref o re prcdomin.uulv due to a di ffe ren t halan ce betwe en left-hemisph ere a nd right-h em isphere activi t)'. Milch of th e work of th e lat e Ma xwell Cade was in thi s a re a. He wa.~ ve ry intere sted ill brain rh ythm ac tivity and how it link ed with mcditari onal sta Ws. Geoff Blund ell , o f Audio Ltd of High Wycombe , wo rked with Max to p ro duce a spectru m ana lyser fo r I I Il" brain wh ich is ca lled the Mind Mir ro r. This di splays the .nt ivit ies of each side of the brain on all array of lig-hts . The who le spectrum fro III the low-freque ncy de lta wave s (no rmally ,
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asso('ia led with deep sleep) ri gh : " I' 10 the wide-awake bet a waves ix d isp layed , T he hula u cc o r im bal ance be twee n le ft and righ t b rai ns ca ll illlll)(~diat el y be se;~ 1 1. . Wha: Ma x (HInd was th at m en d o in deed te nd to lISC th eir 1d'1 (Iop;ical) bruin (;11' IIIl1 re th an th ei r rip;hl b rain , wh ile 1II0S1 women p redominantly lIS C th eir rig-h t brain . However, the lise of su ita b le meditat ion techniques helps to balan ce th e ac tivities of th e two hemisphe re s. Ma x also lound tha t the more people worke d 011 their own personal growlh a n d went deeper int o m editation , th e m ore th e two hem isph eres ha lanred , Men who h ad p revio usly shown lilli e ar tistic 'ta le n t fo u n d they co uld prod uce am az ing a rti stic work; wom en who h ad been fi'iglll cll cd o f logic co u ld hold their OWI1 in rati onal argume nt . Mo re th a n thi s, particu lar displa ys became evide n t Oil th e Mind Mirror, correla ting- close ly with th e menta l sla te of tile su b ject: sla tes such a s 'Sta te Fivc ' {sonn-t im cs ca lled ' cosm ic conscio usn ess'). which only a p pea red with skilled med itators or sim ila rly adept people" , ,..(:. r..1,I1l.w.·11 ( :;ul.· a IleI N. ,t1.1 ( ~ , ,..h c ·; \(I , "/lIr .-I"'/llw" "'} :l /i", l. Ik lan lrl c' l' u ·!\" j Elc·allt )!
Th e dowsing in formar iou, wherever it may co me from , first manifest.' withi n the rig lu ( no n-logica l) h ra in . It is not a lo gica l mind auriburc, h en ce th e diff iculty of someo ne wh o has an ove r-dominant left brain accept in g som eth ing like d owsing. In learning to dowse we arc learning 10 un lock a la te n t a b ility o f th e in tu itive m ind. Un fo rt u n a te ly, o ll.r whole Western ed uca tio n system is h eavi ly p;eared to d evdopin p; th e logical m ind - a di sastrous m istake as it ca n c ri p p le o u r personal growth . True c rea tivi ty and co m passio n co me lrom the other side or our n ature. NOl that we sh o u ld ICd 100 p;ni lty in the West about such thi n gs. for we do 1I0t have the mon o po ly of logica l ( male-type ) do m ina nce. Some cu ltu re s view th e left side of th e body with d isgust, ca lling it evil. Left-ha ndedness is lo o ked IIpon as !>ei np; d evilish a nd a th ing to be sta m pe d o u t as SOOIl as possible. If we reme mber tha t th e le ft side of th e ho d y is ro nnccred to th e right b rai n , th en the reaso ns bccotuc clear, It is the Icr nint n c aspect that is being stamped upon . T h e int u itive aspect is being- treate d as evil. It is no ticeable th ai su c h societ ies arc inevitably male d ominat ed , wo me n being lo o ked d o wn O il as on ly ex isting to serve the domi na n t mal e. Suc h soci eti es also show typical ' Ra m bo'-Iikc aggressive c h a rac te ristics, The q u iete n ing , in tuit ive , ca rin g aspects of the fem inin e a rc bei ng su ppressed . T h e domi na n t lop;ical ma ll' a lways fe el s threa te ned by th e quie t, intuitive fe male. because dee p d o wn h e knows tha t th e fe male is ofte n wise r, lie m a y po ssess p;real know ledge, b ut th at is no t th e sa me as wisdom . To th o se who d o n ot like th e lise o f th e wo rds ' male ' a nd ' female ' I ca n o n ly apolop;ise. T he re reall y a rc n o wo rd s 10 d escri be fu lly th e aspeclS of th e left and right b rai ns withou t refe rrin g: to everyday co n ce p t'\. T he Ch inese yang a n d yin arc be tte r words pe rh aps, avoidi ng th e more e motive as pects or the m asculine a nd femi nine princip les. So . ir we wou ld become good OJ" bet te r d owse rs we n eed to befri end o u r right b rain a n d learn to trust it. 'Htkin g a n inte rest in a rt or music ca n help. Some form s o r m ed itation ca n a lso be a tremendous ins p iratio n . So if ever somcone says 10 yo u tha t d o wsin g: is illogical and non-scientific, reme mbe r th e sp lit-brain e xpe rim e n ts. We a rc much m o re than j ust a lo gical , lin ear-time machin e,
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vcr the ce n tu ries, there have been tal es told ahout some placcs o r ho uses hc iog u nh eal th y 10 live in . In my pari of Yorkshire such hou ses are often called 'can cer houses' . At one lime, like many other people, I thouglu su ch ideas were far-fetched - unless so me obvious cause such as dam pness was 10 blame . The idea that so me sor t of curse co uld be on a building was unacce ptable. Yet th e re we re houses whe re a succession o f people had d ie d from can ce r and other stress-rela ted illnesses; houses wh e re people who had previously enjoyed good heal th became ill shortly after moving in . I used to wr ite such th ings oIT as coi ncidence. rather like the nuclear power ind us try's experts who have claimed th at the h igh incide nce of le u kaemi a ncar n uclea r reprocessing plants m us t be coincide nce 'because there is no reason fo r it ha p pen in g' . There is a risk of falling in to th e trap of saying that because no reason can he seen. it canno t ha ppen . In a lmost a ll nati o ns a nd cultures, th ere exists a folklore a bou t healthy a nd un healthy places to live. In China, th ere arc ' dragon lin es' whic h determine where h ouses shou ld he builr fo r the hest health of thei r in habitan ts. Fantasy? If so , why I" " this ancient art of feng shui, as it is known , have laslc't1 fo' th ousands of years in the East a nd now be gaining sllc h a h"loI in the Wes l?
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Withill the dowsing world, the re arc underground water flo ws that arc co m m o n ly referred to as 'hla ck streams' , These arc und erground waters thai seem adversely to affe ct the h ealth of people and animals ahove them, I suspect that they were given th e n ame from thc trad itio nal Wcslcrn id ea that h lack is asso cia ted with witchcraft and evil. WhclI IIsillg th e Mager Rosett e (sce pages 57-liO), if a reaction is obta ined on th e hlac k sec tor, it is assumed the water flo w has these h eal th-th rea te n in g properties, T he res ulting stress o n the human body is so me times called 'water stress', hu t th is is no t really a good te rm, as the stress fa ct o r is not just due to the wat er flow, T he vast m ,~jo rity or unde rgrou nd water flo ws arc perfectly be nign,
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A be tter ex pression is 'geo path ic stress' , T he te rm or igi nated in Ge rmany or Austria, whe re there has be e n m ilc h in te rest and work clone O il the subject, Geo pathic stress is a wider-rang ing term than black streams , co vering any natural geological factor that causes hea lth-threate n ing stress, It is an u mbrella word tha t cove rs all forms o f earth-induce d stress, ' T hc last Ihing I would likc you to think is th at such stress is com m o n , a n d sta rt panickin g abou t it. Altho ugh it is relatively com m o n , m o re in SO IllC places than o thers, it is not so co mmo n as SOllie people suggest The warn ing signs arc fairly clear: illne ss orr urri ng ill o the rwise previo usly h ealthy peo pl e when they move ho use - even th ough the re is no o bvio us additio nal stress in their life; a feeling o f tension or 'coldness' in so m e roo ms o f th e housc (or work pl ace ) ; so me times a feeling of dread a t th e th o ught of go ing back 10 work or h ome afte r a h oliday (a lthough there may he much mo re d own-to-earth reasons fo r th a t!). III shor t, geopalhic stress mani fests itsel f as a feeling of ' d is-ease' eve n Ih ough th ere is no appa ren t reaso n fo r it. Stress-related illnesses suc h as ca nce r. MS. d epression , in ability to shake off virus a ttacks, Chronic Fa tigu e Syn d ro me, e ll'. shou ld all be take n as warn ings a bou t possible geo pathic st ress. So wha t is geopath ic stress, h ow is it caused . h ow can it h e locat ed , a n d wh at - if a ny th ing - can he d one 10 n eutralise it? Ceopathi c stress is o ne of th e areas, like d owsing. wh ere we 1 .r;l :l
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come ti p against the fact th at we have no ex planatio n of" its preseu('e . T he re is plcnty o f evide n ce 10 sh ow that it exists, hili nothing concrete to give tiS any ind ication o r wha t it is. People usc term s su ch as ' nega tive radiations' as if the y e xplain what is going o n, but basically we know nothing abo ut what causes the effects . 'Radi ation ' isjust a co n ve n ie n t ( o vcr-up word! Th e ca uses of gcopathic stress arc rather better known. T here arc many thin~s th .u arc known to cause the effec t. Geolog ical rock fau lts, Icy lines and black streams are co mmon causes; even steel-framed bui ldings can ca use it. In northern Britain , without doub t the most common caus e is unde rgro und wa te r flows, Black Streams In so me areas, dissol ved lead in und erground \va ic r seems to be h ea vily im pli cat ed , a nd altho ugl : th e reason is 1101 clear the evidence is very strong, Mrs Enid Smuheu, a past edito r o f the ns/)[ ournal, tol d of how she tra ced a b lack stream o ve r th e fie lds Oil o ne of the C ha n nel Island s. Sh c fo llowed th e stre a m by do wsing and it was leading to wards the dills when a woman came out from o nc of the ne arby hou ses, ,"'hcn aske d what she was doing, Enid lold he r she was fo llow ing a to xic un derg round wate r flow. 'O h yes ,' th e wom an said , 'we know abo ut that. It co m es o ut pa rt-wa y d o wn the cli ffs where yo u are goi ng. A c h ild di ed last ycar fro m drin kin g th e wate r. It is heavily co n la m in a tcd with lead.' Eni d [old me h ow sh e dealt with hl ac k strea ms hy d rivi ng a n ir on rod into the groun d directly o ve r th e water o n the upstream side of the hou se expe rie ncing the troub le . T he rod had th e e ffe c t of n e ut ral isin g th e e ffe ct o f the strea m fo r a conside rable distan ce downstrea m, She did n ot kn ow how it worked, but assured me th at il was effe ctive. I have now used thai basic m cth od successfu lly fo r m an y yea rs. I will give more d eta ils o f h ow 10 trea t strea ms lat e r o n (see page ({j6) . AI th e 1!l76 Scou ish congress o f the British Sudety o f Dowse rs, David Steven, a Scottish sh e p he rd from Du u nc t in th e .. J);l\; fl 5 1«"\'(" 11, IhmJ" '.1:nn
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o f Sco tland. described his ex perie nces ill thi s field " . l ie had located a black strea m by d owsing, and fol lowed it down th ro ug h D u n ne r villa~c unt il it fl ow ed out in to the sea. T he strea m foll owed th e lin e of the road fairly closely as it be n t through a righl angle in the ce n tre of th e village . II flowed unde r almost all th e houses o n o ne side of th e road. li e th en asked all the lo cal pe o ple , ma llY of whom had lived in th e sa llie house for gc nc ra tio ns , how man y people who had lived in th at house had di ed o f ca ncer, T he map tha t he the n p roduced was stunn ing . Pe ople from nearly all the houses over th e hla ck strea m had su ffered ca nce r deaths, most with mult ipl e deaths, so me of th em with five and six people d ying. Nea rly a ll th e o ther houses were clear. Th e sta tistica l cha nces o f one side or a village stree t havin g lIIan y ca nce r de aths, th e ot he r side vcry few, arc milli o ns 10 o m- agains t. It was th is lecture th at [ired lHy o wn investiga tio lls int o gcopa th ic stress. In th e strange way th at things seem to appear sp o nt an eously 'o n cue' , it was o n ly a rev,' weeks late r that I was asked if' I cou ld check o n a n Arts Ce n tre not far away ill tile Yorkshire Dales. The two wom en who ran th e pla ce lived O il th e premises, whi ch used 10 be a sm all cOlllllry ch urc h. They ha d been so alarnu-d by th e ' evil' fcelings in th e huildin g: that th ey had th e ch urc h exorcised by o ur losal cura re, who was a bit o f a law unto himself and did it without as king for h is bishop's permission , After th e exorcism th e building fell cons ide ra bly bcuc r, hu t it was not reall y righl ; th ey were still lin happy livin g th ere . My broth e r 's wife , llilary, had th e cura te 's co n fide nce and kn ew of th e e xorcism . She was talking to th e two wom en concerned a nd mention ed Ill y int erest ill bla ck strea m's a nd wondered if tha t could be th e trouble, The upshot was that Hi lary and I went 10 sec th e huilding. I lo ok a sledge h ammer a nd a ;ni scdlan eous co llec tio n o f ang le-iro n lengths with me . I would have used round rods like Enid, hut I didn 't hav e any su ita ble mat erial 10 hand . I co uld u'r sec that th e ac tua l sh ape of th e rod would matter, so I used what I already had ava ilable. I d owsed round th e buildin g with a ngle-ro ds a nd th e Mager Rosett e and found th ai I got two very stro ng reac tio n lin es . O ne
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appeare d to he a stream just m issing: th« huildi ng a nd th e ot her o ne cu t rig h l under il. jllst by the porch . Ilow di d I know it was wat e r and not o ther fac to rs su ch as ley lim -s, tor exam ple? Pe rh aps n ow would he a good mOI1U'lIt to digress an d lOOK at strea ms . I low docs one know when a dowsing reactio n is d ue to a stream rat her th an a rock. fau lt. Icy lin es or ot her fe atures? Pe rso na lly. I thin k th at ma llY O«'IlITCI1 CCS of gcopat h ic stress arc m islabe lled . It is a ll too casy un conscio usl y 10 mak e evide nce fit in with o ne 's pel th eo ries . If W(~ arc to be acc u ra te in o u r dowsin g, we need to keep an 0 PC Il mind . Un de rg ro und wate r ha s severa l cha rac te ristics th at ca ll he useful 10 help ill o ur analysis o f what is actua lly p resent . First ly. it d ocs nOI normally flow ill straig h t lin es. It ca n be nd and twist to a re markable d t'gre e at times. Second ly, its dep th fa ll he fo und hy usin g techniques like th e: bishop's rul e (see: pages 27-9) . T h ird ly, it has a flow rate that ca ll he acc ura te ly de te rmined (sec pa g-c 2H). Fin all y. afte r it has been neut rali sed , one ca n d et erm in e th e min e ralisati on a nd so 0 11 of th e lIo w withf hc Mag-e r Rosett e . If all th ese th in gs ca n he det e rm in e d . th en it is an und e rground wat er flow. T he two line s of infl uence I fou nd a t th e Arts Ce n tre were not stra igh t lin es: th ey bent in curves. In ad dit ion , when testing th em for d epth . th ey ca me 0 111 a t abou t (i metres (2 0 feet) . T ha I was good e no ug h for me - th ey ch ecked o u rj ust like o rd ina ry wat er flows, except that I gOI a blac k reaction 0 11 th e Mager Rosette . T hey d e finitel y xec rucd to hc hlack stn:allls. I th en realised I had a problem. En id had tal ked abont driving ill iron ro ds , ycr wh at ICII g-th sh ould th ey he and where should I drive th em in? I realised th at I was sho rt of so me vital inf oruuu ion , So I resorted to qu estion-and-an swer dowsin g with m y pendu lum . Ca ll I neut rali se th e n egati ve e ffec t o f th ese strea ms? Yes. Ca n I usc th e a ng le-iro n rods Ihave brouglu with me ? Yes. So I dowsed for what le ngth o f iron rod I needed for eac h strea m, and th e point to hamme r the iro n int o th e g ro u nd . Hil ary was standin g on th e upstream sick o f the first of th e flows wh en I began hammering in th e first a ng le iron , ' \'\'hat o n ea rth arc yOll doing?' she ca lled to rue , ' It feel s terrible here .' Indeed it did . Th e downstream side of 'he rod dowsed quite
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clea r as rega rd s th e b lac k 011 th e rosett e , hut th e u psl re a m sid e felt stra nge. It was like hei n g surro u n ded hy swirli ng , h o stile e llc rg H:s, T his I ha d n o t ex pect ed ! I was start le d a n d rath e r worried. Upstre a m fro m th e lIeul raUsin g rod the stream Howed u nd er th e road wh ic h led n p in to th e Da les . I was co n cerned th a t someo n e se nsitive mi ght re a ct 10 the e ffec t wh en driving . and h ave all accide n t. I th eref o re wen t upstrca m o f th e road in to a ca r park a n d hamme re d in a n e xtra rocl to ne u tral ise th e strea m before it we nt unde r th e road . Th is seem e d to d o th e tr ic k. T h e road now fe lt a n d d owsed sa tis(;u:lo rily, I neu tralise d th e se cond stream in e xac tly tIH.: sa me way. In sid e th e hnilding , it ce rt a in ly fe ll much b e tt e r; Alt hong h we rea lise d lh is eff ect cou ld j ust he wish fu l th inkin g , th e wo m e n re p o rt e d ha ck a we ek la te r tha t the pla ce n ow fe lt ve ry peace fu l a n d rh.u th e y we re h a ppy 10 co n ti n ue 10 live th e re . There was a lso a n inde pe ndent witn ess to th e im prove m ent. A fri end of th e WO IlH.~ 1I visited th e m severa l m onths a fter my visit. I lc h ad n o t been th ere fo r a bo u t six mo n ths and kn ew n Olh in g o f what h ad be en guing' O Il.. 'Wh a r ha ve y O ll d on e to th e p la ce ?' h e as ke d quit e spon ta n eously ' It fe el s II1l1ch ligh te r. H ave yo u h ad it rede corat ed or so m e lh in g?'
' h o n eyco m b ' for lest ing sam p les agains t a pa tie n t h as no obvious scie ntific basis. However, th at docs no t a ffec t th e very accura te re su lts th ai th c mac hi n e ca n p roduce in skill ed h a nd s, T he VCA'a m ac hine has tes ts fo r th e p resen ce o f geopathic stress o n a pa tient. and I h ave be en ca lled o u t to Illa n y h o uses 10
Assessing and Dealing wit h Ccop a th ic Stress now kn o w th a t ge o p a thic stress ca n se rio usly nll cct h ealth if n o thing is d on e 10 rem ove its e ffec ts. hut th ere seems to he n o re al way o f de term ini ng it <:xre p l hy d o wsin A" It looks as if gc o pa th ic stress a ffec ts livin g t!l in g:s, b U I so fa r th e re is n o m anmade e q u ipmen t th at ca n measu re it di rectly, alth ough it ca n be assessed indi re ctl y. T he re arc two e lect ro n ic ins tru me n ts m ade in Ccrma uy th at ca n d e te ct its prese n ce by m easurin g: rea ct ions o n th e human hody. O n e ofthe m, th e 'Sc guic n tel c ku'og ra p h ' , will h e refe rred to lat er. T he other, th e Ve ga m achine , ca n produce impressivel y acc u ra te results by m onito rin g' th e el e ct rical resistan ce a t a n acup unc tu re point. The re is n o d oubt th at th is part icular ma ch in e is 'operatorse n sitive' and h as so m e sim ila rities to th e bla ck box , in lh at its
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n eut ra lise the stress th a t was rev ealed hy th e m ach in e a n a lysis. In eve Il' case so fa r I h ave fo u n d g:eopa th ic stress to he p res ent wh e n th e Ve ga ma chin e in di ca ted thi s was so . So h ow d o we dea l with suc h geo pa thic stress? \Vh al me th ods arc use d a nd h ow effec t ive a re th e y? O ve r th e yea rs , vari ous pe ople h ave used all sorts of te chn iques to remove th e lIega tive eff ects th a t res u lt fro m p eo p le livin g o r workin g in gc o pa thic a lly st re ssed p la ces, T he re chn iqucs vary e n o rm o us ly: c rysta ls o f a m et h yst . ro ils o f wire, baths o f mi n e ral o il, co lo u re d ca rd as well as met a l stakes! AI1 in a ll, 1101 a co llec tio n o f m eth ods d esig ncd to in stil co n fid e nce in our sci e n tist. Yet the re is no doubt rh ar a ll o f th e m r a n work .
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T h e d ifficu lty is th at we a n : d eal in g with something iu ta ug ib lc , eve n th ough its e ffe cts can he very se rio us. T he m ethod I 110\ .... use is hasi call y th e sa me as p reviously m enti oned : lhe lise or meta l rods driven into th e g ro u nd. l lo v.. e ver, I now always d ows e fo r wh ich met al to usc : co p per o r iron. or e ven a lu m in iu m 0 11 rare occas io ns . I d owsc fo r \vh a t le ng th of rod to lise a n d wh ere to h a n u u c r it in . I also d owse fo r whether m o re th a n D il l' rod is n ecessary, Q u ite o fte n I find thai two or e ve n i h r cc rod s are nc ccssary 10 re m o ve th e e ffe c ts co m p le tely, T hc di a me ter o f th e rod d o cs not a p pea r to be cri tical: I so me tim es use H n u n-d ia m e te r rods o f' ha rd steel, as th ese ca n he driven betw een paving sto nes if requi red. My d owsing questions nrn as fo l low s: 'Can I d ca l with th e problem sa tisfac torily> Wh c rc shall I put th e first rod ? Wh al mat erial sha ll I lISC th e rod ? Wluu len gth of rod sh all 11Isc?' Then , a rtc r ha rn rnc ri ng th e rod d ow n 10 a d ep th where it will not be accid c n la lly d llg lip (hopc fu llyl) , l thc n re c hec k 10 sec if the re is an y 1H.:ga live efl cc: re mai ni ng'. If th ere is, th e process is repeated a second tim e a n d fu n h e r Ip ds in se rted as n eeded . I once h ad a ve ry gond d emonst ration o f th e effec tive ness o f n eut ra lishu; geopa rh ic stress, An o rt hodo x m ed ical co nsu lta n t had ho ug lll a Vega m achin e a n d also th e Segmcm c lektrograp h madc hy th e sa me co m pa n}'- Ne ith e r ma ch in c would work when he trie d th em o ut in h is co ns u lt ing room. I Ie co n tac ted th e m anufac tu re rs, who as ked him if he h ad had h is co ns u lting roo ms c h ecked hy a dowscr for ge o pa thic stress. li e had no t a n d . 'was scept ical a bou t wha t th e y had told him. T hcy th c u to ld h im th at ,~ h c re was no poi n t in re tu rn ing th e ma c hi nes to them u nl ess he h ad h is rooms c hec ked . T he y sa id th at n eit h e r ma chin e wo u ld work co rre c tly wh ere th ere was geo pa th ic stress. l Ic was p ilI in co n tac t wit h th e Bri tish So ciety o f Dows e rs, wh o asked me if I co u ld so n 0 111 Itis proble m . I we nt to h is h ouse nca r No tti ng h a m a n d fo u nd a strong , hlack stream go ing di re c tly un d e r hi s co nsu lting room . I neu tr a lised lhe stre a m wit h two ste el rod s an d th e n went ha ck hom e . l ie rall g m e " I' a week lat er 10 say Ih al afte r I h ad left , h oth m ach in e s hurst in to life! III fa ct , h c se Tl t m e th e Segmelltcle kll'ogra p h traces of th e same pa tient hefo re and
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shows an o ve r-se ns itivity to stress, 10 0 lillie shows a hodil y (a nd o fte n mental) withdrawa l from the world . T he mach ine is therefo re quite scie n tific in its o pe ra tio n a nd d r.cs no t d epend o n a skilled o perator for its acc nmcy. T he Segmen lelektrograp h th erefore measu re s geopa thic stress indi rect ly: it measures th e resp onse o f th e person hcin~ tes te d. If tha t person is geopa lhically st ressed, th ei r bod y will he in a de pressed state . T h is effe ct th e n shows u p hy a g re ally red uce d rcs p< )Ilsc. So me thi ng even more surprising happened abou t two years later. I recei ved a tel e pho ne ca ll fro m th e consu lta n t who asked if I co uld visit h im agai n as ho th h is machi nes h ad Slopped working . T he ga rde ne r had d ug out the rods and th e puzzled co nsulta n t had ro un d th e m in the nearhy h edge botto m! I pu t in some more rods a nd the machines started to work agai n. A reass uri ng co n firmatio n th at d owsing is not all wish ful thi nk ing - as so me people would have you beli eve . O th er Cause s of Geopathie Stress So far I have been ta lking alm ost exclusively abou t black streams. What abo ut tb ings like roc k faults and o ld mine shafts, wh ich are also sugge sted as being so urces o r stress? Basical ly I usc exac tly the sa me tech n iques. I use rods, just as I d o with black st reams, and d owse for wh ere to inse rt the m . In such cases it may lake severa l rods spaced ro u nd a bouse to clear the who le in terio r. It is no t o hvio us why the me th od wo rks in th ese cases, yet it appears to be e n tirely sa tisfactory in cleari ng u p the healtb or people living above suc h areas . Ley Lines, H artmann G ri ds and Curry Grids Wha t abo ut o the r phen omen a su ch as ley lin es an d Cu rry and Hartmann Grid s"? T he re is much confusio n a nd dissensio n ill this area . T he re see m to be as man y ideas as th e re arc e n th usiasts p ursuing th e su bj ect. T he o riginal co nce p t of ley lin es came fro m Alfred Watkins who wrote a book called '11" Old
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Stra;liht Tra ck": He not iced that the re a p pea re d to be long, st raight tracks co n nec ting pla ces of a n tiq u ity su ch as ch u rc hes, d olmens and ba rrows . O n th e O rd nance Survey map , as man y as five ancient sit es co uld be found lying a lo ng th e sa me stra igh t lin e o r track , accura te 10 within o ne 30 mel res ( 100 feet ) or so . Watk ins su rmised th at Ihis alignlllelll was deliberate and ca lled the lin es ' ley lines' . Late r, Guy Unde rwood, in his boo k '11" Pal/ern of the Past"; wrote abo u t how he had d on e so me d owsin g work and co me up with th e id ea th at th ere were natu ral e ne rgy lin es (' tfdc k lin es', 'wa ter lin es' a nd 'aquastats' ) wh ich h e called 'geodetic lin es' . SOllie o r these were round along these straight (o r Icy) lin es thai linked an cien t sites. These lines co uld be detect ed by dowsing. He also did much d owsing arou nd th e sites o r antiquity th emselves. T hat was what sta rte d it a ll o ff, After so me len yea rs, ' Icy hunting' got unde r way. Th e re newe d modern inte rest in an cient sites ca ta lysed th e whol e thing and lIIan y e n th usiast' sta rted dowsing for these ley lin es - sometimes, I sus pec t, with littl e id ea what th ey were dowsing for! It was also o r note that not everyone ca me up with th e sam e e n e rgy patterns as Guy Underwood h ad done; indeed, th e majority o r people achieved quite different result'. This difference between the results of 'ene rgy fields' d owsed by different people is something that turns up time and tim e again. I would like to repeat Illy warnings about not being ca rrie d away by wishful thinking. It is all too easy, in suc h a nebulous area , to dowse and lind th e products o r e xpecta tio n or imagination rather th an wh at is reall y there . When dowsing for something th at is, afte r all, pretty intangible , it is also easy to get one 's dowsing question wrong or too broad in conce pt. From thi s dowsing for Icy lin es has co me a welt er of information, much of whi ch I reel is suspect. According to some people, th e whole earth is co ve red with grids or enerb'Y lin es. One or these, the Hartmann Grid, has lines spaced o n ly a mailer of two metres apart. Anoth er is th e Curry Gri d . A wh ole mystical industry se ems to have built up around these things. All .. i\ lfrr d Wal " in~, 7M Old Straight '[" M It. Meth uen . 19'15. .. Guy Underwood, The P,IiInTl o/ tM PaM, MU$curn Press, 1968.
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I ca n say is that I feci that lIlan y o f th e theorie s a rc based mo re o n wish ful t.hinki n g th a n on firm evide nce. Certa in ly suc h g rids of lin es d o nOI turn lip ill m y dowsin g wh en lo o kin g for geo palh ic stress. Th is is 1I0t to say that p ra ctition e rs who n eut rali se suc h syste m s a rc c h a rl a ta ns and fra ud s; thin gs an: n o t th at sim p le . Wha : tends to he fo rgo ([e n a t tim es is th at th e person wh o dea rs gl"opat hic stre ss d iscovered hy dowsin g ma y he ac ti ng mo re as a h e a ler th a n a n ything e lse . 111 o ther words , h ave th ey always foun d gc..'o pa thic stress? Certa in ly the amou n t of geo pa th ic stress di scovered from Vega lest s is n othing like as hi gh as would he ex pec te d fro m a co nside ra tio n o f the Ha rtma nn (2 x 2.5 met res) a n d C u rry (22 m e tres sq uare) Grids. A'\ a n exa m p le o f h ow diff ic uh a m ailer we arc dealing with , tak e th e C h r istm as e d itio n of i h c te le vision programm c 'JimI01! "Ow \ lVorld of some I f} yea rs ago. O n th e prog rammc a mac h ine was d emonst rated th aL, acco rd ing to its inventor , cou ld p roduce Icy lin e s th at d owsers cou ld lo ca te . At first sight , the res u lts the)' showe d lo o ke d qu ite im pressive. II' th e m achin e was swit ch e d o n, d ows ers ga ve a positive- react io n wh en crossing its beam, eve n th o u gh th e}' d id n ot know wh ethe r it was on or o ff. Lik ewi se , wh en it was o ff th e y showed 11 0 reacti on . This appeared III prove thaI the ma ch in e wo r ke d. T here was, h ow ever, a problem : th e inventor was switc h in g it o n 0 1' o ff, so so meo ne kn ew wheth er th e machin e was in its ' 0 11' or ' ()Ir st at e , Th ere sh o u ld have been a ra n do m in terna l swit ch in the ma chine so th at 110 o ne kn ew wh e th er it was o n or o ff unt il after th e d owsi nH ha d taken p la ce . l d escribed p revio usl y how my dows ing co u ld h e in flu e nce d hy wh at m y siste r-in-law was th in king. T h is is th e fatal flaw in a ll suc h te sts. Un fo rt u n a te ly - unlikely th o ugh it may se em III sor .re - re lcparhy ca n n o t be ru led OUl . (In any case , dowsing' is n ow lookin g j ust about as improbable as telepathy as far a s rati o na l e xp la na tio ns are conc e rned l) T he cons tr uc tio n of the m ach in e was a lso sus pec t It use d a quart z-h al o gen ca r h e ad la m p bulb as it.s so u rce , No w, snn liHht ra diates a ll th e frequ enci es that a rc ge ne ra te d by such lig h t bu lbs , so in sun light we sh o u ld have im m ensel y strong le y lin es
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rd lc cling: a ll ove r th e pl ace ! Perhaps \vh at the..: ex pe ri me n t d id p rove was th at d owse rs co u ld he inl lu cn ccd hy th e th oughts o r ex p ec ta tio ns or o th ers. Ca re fu l doub le-bli nd te sts h ave yc t to valida te man)' o f th ese d evi ces. Wish ful thin kin g a n d bein g o pe n to th e in flu e n ce o f o the rs ca ll a ll to o e a sily wre ck dowsi n g resu lts a n d ma ke them me aning le ss. This is not 10 say th at natural c lle rh'Y lin es d o 1101 exist, m erel y th at on e h as to lak e th e ex travaga n t claims of so me p eo p le with a v""y la rH" p in ch o f sa lt! From 111 )' ex perience, le y lin e s - o r what ever el se yo u can' to ca ll th em - d o re rlai n ly ex ist. hilt n ot ill vas t numbers. I filld th at b lac k stre a ms a n d cu rt l: Endts ro u ui b u tc fa r m o re 10 r ases o f ill-h eal th . p.utic ul arl y th e fon u c r, My hasis fo r say inH thi s is quite sim p le, If some lhin g runs ill a d e ad st ra ig h t line th en it is hig h ly u nl ike ly to he a ll u n d ergro und \\ ';lI cl' 1I0v\I" (exn: p ling flows in o ld mine workings). Th e vast JI1 ;~j ori t y o f !lc ga tivcinf luc n cc lin es I find ca u sing hea lt h proble-ms d o no t go ill stra ig h t lin e s hut foll o w a meanderin g path. \Vhcl) L!I e !lc ga ti\'(' e ffec t has ber -n n eu tralised , the n I usuall y lind a rcac tiou o n th e j\'1ager Ro sell e co rres p o n d ing 10 wat er purity. O ne ca n a lso de pth th e flo w wit h 110 problem . I tlu-reI o r« kel tha t th e wh ole le y lin e / e n e l'h'Y g ri d id e a h as 'be r-n b lown li p ou: of a ll pro port ion . \"'hell I d o r o me a cross wha t I term a Ic), lin e - a dead stra ig h t lin e of n e gative influe n ce th at se C.'llIs to 1'1111 0 11 indefinitely - th e n in e vita bl y il ha s h ad a vcry serious dfcc,t 0 11 th e h e a lth o f those livin g withi n its inf lu cn cc , a nd its e-ffe-c- t is n o t eas), to ueutralisc . I remember nne bea ut ifu l cOll age in C hes h ire ih.u I was ask e d to in ve sl igal e . It loo ked id yllic - h ut )'0 \1 cou ld h ave Cu i th e heavy a tm os p h e re with a kn ife. Th e woman livin g there was h avin g se ve re h e al th proble ms , and geo pa thic stress h ad rome up stro ng ly 0 11 th e Vega ma c h ine, I fo und a dead s tra igh : lin c travelling 0 11 a so u th 10 n o rth dircc tiou righ t th ro u jrh th e h ouse , It to o k thre e rods Lo clear th e e ffec t: o n e a lu mi ni u m, one co p p e r and o ne iron, an d a ll or diflerc nt Ic..: ngt hs . I dowsed for wh ic h meta l 10 lise firsl. th e n the position in whi ch to pUL th e rod . a nd fina lly what Icn g th ( 0 lise . I n'pc;l ll' d th is u ntil I gut
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a 'yes' to the quest ion 'Have I 1l0W neu tralised the adve rse e ffec ts th at were being im posed o n pe ople living in th e ho use?' You m ay as k, ' Why th e three metals?' T he a ns wer is th at I just d on 't kn o w. I feel tha t at th e m oment we ' arc really in th e iufo rma tio u-ga the ri ng stage and un til we have sufficient inf ormati on in any investigatio n, the n theo rising will not on ly be prem ature hut ca n g ive rise to incorrect ideas that can imp ed e final urulerstaudi ng. T he woman who lived in the cottage bei ng affecte d by th e Icy lin e made a re markable recovery. Two we ek s later th e practi tion e r who did the Vega analysis ran g me up and said, 'She is now dancin g around like a' spring chicken!' T hat partic ular p ra ct itione r is an acupuncturist and found that the presclJ c ~ of gcopa thic stress would preven t he r c lien ts recove ri ng fully. Afte r th e neutralisati on had taken place , th e healin g progress o f her clie nts wou ld resume. Inc ide n ta lly, always chec k th e p ro perty full y a fter you th ink lha l you have neutralised the ncgalive-in (1 ucnce lin e or lin es tha t yo u fo u nd with YOllr initial search . just occasiona lly yOll ma y find th at a no the r, a n d o ften a m ore virulent o ne , was bei ng m asked by II ", o nes th at yo u have just ne utralise d . So me times yOli may he faced with mo ral dilemmas. 1 was o nce asked by a sch ool te ach e r aho ut treating the main school h uildin g where he worked. ' O n ly if I ge t perm issio n fro m th e head teache r,' I answe red, T here was no way that I would have drive n n cut ral isin g rods int o a sc hool's gro unds withou t perm issio n ! I sa id th at I co uld carry out a m ap dowse if he se n t me an acc urate scale pla n and th en he could pu t th e rods in , bu t he neve r wrote back. So me times it is ea sy 10 get involved with so meo ne e lse 's p robl e m wh en it is yo u , and not th em , who will be criticised. Ceoparhic stress can extend for quite a few metres each side of the ce ntre lin e of the black stream or Icy line . Sometimes thi s is forgoucn and people gel th e idea th a t just moving a bed a lillie way will remove th e in flu en ce . 'I think that this id ea stems from the Hartmann Grid conce p t, where the grid lines arc said to be some 20 cen timetres (8 in ches ) wid e , b ut th is is n ot my experience. Checking carefully fo r to xic effects, m y d owsing has
in d ica ted th at th e)' no rmall y fall o lf q ui te slowly fro m each side of the main influen ce line . I find that o ne needs to he abo ut :\ m etres ( 10 fee l) to th e side of the lin e of infl uence to be sure the e ffects wili not be noticeable . T he in flu ence will be wo rse if you are dead o n the ce ntre, so any mo ve away will he beneficial. Check it for yo u rself. I m ay be wrong a nd th e IIaru nann a nd /or Curry Grids really d o exist. I remarked ea rlier how easy it is to be swayed by th e id eas and concepts of others. I believe I h ave been comple tely o bjec tive in my wo rk o n ea rt h e ne rgies, but o ne m ust always leave roo m to cha nge ideas. No o ne is infallible .
Neutralising Geopathic Stress Retu rnin g to the treatm en t of gcopal h ic stress, it can also he a proble m a t yo ur pl ace of wo rk. If so, and th e management agree, neutrali sat ion of th e bu ilding is hy far th e best cure. Fai ling that, sec if it is possible to move your d esk or wh e re yo u normall y work. If th at is nol possibl e, th en yOll need so me ot her m e th od to clea r yo ur work space. T he re have been m any devices o n the m arke t for clearing geopathic stress in small areas. So me of these arc ve ry expe nsive for what lhey are . T hey seem to be based o n a wide vari ety of princip les : so me lise crystals, som e usc m etals, some usc alternating m etal and o rgan ic materials (like Reich's O rgone Accumulato r" ) . Pe rhaps the cheapest and onc of the mos t effective m ethods is to get a cl us ter of amethys t crystals and place it wh e re yOll wo rk . Ta ke it home abou t o nce a fortnight and give it a good wash in clean water to rec ha rge it. It m ay so u nd totally crazy, but m ore often than no t it wo rks ve ry well. I have also used large lIuorite crystals, m ounted with th eir ax is vertica l, to good effect. It is even possible to neutrali se geo palh ic stress by wo rk ing o n m aps. I appreciat e that thi s m ay sound com pletely stu pid in th e re alms of fa n tasy - but I know that it ca n work very effec tively, In a way, it is no mo re peculiar th an treating peo pl e v ,
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with radio n ics, o nly th is time we arc tre atin g a place. I lirst hea rd abo u t th is method o f neutralisation from Enid Sm itheu. many yea rs ago. She wor ked ex te nsively from ma ps to dowse lor blac k streams and o th er so u rces of geopathic stress. Someo ne had se nt h e r a map for analysis an d rang up o ne eve ning 10 see if sh e h ad c hecked it, Enid took the iliaI' and dowsed over it whi lst tal kin g to the pe rso n o n the telephone. She was using a pi n as a poi nt er. and when the pendulum ind ica ted the correct spot for tre atm e nt o n the si te , she stuck the pin int o th e ilia I' to mark the co rrect p lace. ' Wh a t h ave you done?' asked th e wo ma n at the o ther e n d of the tel ephone . ' th e h ouse su d de n ly reels a 10 1 lighte r! ' On c hecking the h ouse o n the p la n with dowsing. it was found that the p in in th e map had neutralise d th e hlac k stream! I know il sou nds impossible . bUI lat e r o n I tried it myself and it can ofte n wor k well. I would no t like 10 give the idea th a t it is as good as working on th e site n ormall y th at is n ot th e case - hut wh e n it is d iffic u lt to ge l to a particu lar pl ace , wo rking o n a map may be a cons idera ble help. even if no t a co m ple te c u re, I rem emb er o ne woman who- had been o n o ne of my do wsi ng courses asking fo r help with a gco pa thi c stress p roblem . She lived in Win d so r, h owe ve r. and I was no t going an ywhe re n ear there in th e fo reseeable future. So I sa id th a t I would try working fro m a m a p , whic h she dul y se nt m e . I found a band of stress, rathe r like a river, cu tt in g righ t th rough h er house - someth ing- I have no t expe rie nce d since. It was some 4 m etres ( 12 feet) wid e a n d wen t straigh t th rough th e livin g roo m and bed room . I d owsed fo r p laces where rods shou ld be d r ive n into th e grou n d a n d m arked th ose places wi th a small cross surrounded hy a ci rcle; I th ink I fo u n d five . I th en chec ked th e house o n the map and, 10 my surprise, it now ga ve no reac tio n to geopalh ic stre ss. I had been e xpecting to put live pins in th e map . bUI they seemed n ot to be n eeded. It lo oked as if th e inte ntion h ad been all th a t was necessary. The woman rang m e up a bou t a week lat e r. Botb she and h e r husband (who was a com p le te scep tic ) were much bette r in h ealth a n d th e y stayed that way for th e n ext few yea rs. Sh e th en co ntac ted m e a n d sa id tha t th eir h ealth was suffering aga in. I
re check ed th e map and Io u nd that th in!(s had altered . I rubbed o u t the o ld pencil marks and started aga in . The rive r of stress had moved somewhat and needed different trealment points. T he wom an ran~ me ahout a we ek late r and to ld m e that 11H.~ir he alth was hack to n o rm ul. Su ch occurrences have leel me to the co nc lusio n that when we arc treating so meo ne with whatever me thods we choo se , we must be care ful no t to he dogm atic a bout what we arc doing. The reslllL"i that we ohtai n ma y not hc du e to the me ch an ism s we h ave co me to believe in . For those wishing to try dowsing for gcopathic stress, I would co u nse l can tio n . It is ea sy to he carrie d away with fanciful ideas a nd find st ress problems everywhere . Eq ually, yOll m ay miss a sou rce of stress and so leave unresolved d itlicu lties. I fe el that d eali ng with gcopalhic stress is he st left until you h ave devel oped a good dowsi ng accuracy in so me other field. After all we arc dealing with a pretty intangi hle th ing . and to he safe we ne ed to h ave hot h Icct p lanted Iinn ly on the grp u nd before we start .
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h is chapter is abo ut o the r uses o f dowsin g, so me o f wh ich ne ed sp ecial skills a nd should therefore not he en tered into with out su ita ble training. Reade rs will now ap p rec iate that dowsin g ca n be use d fo r a whol e variety of di agnostic and treatm ent purposes with in the healing field. Indeed, it is diffi cult to e nvisage a n are a whe re it docs no t have a pplica tio n.
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Aromatherapy Take . for instan ce , a ro ma thera py, the ancient treatm ent of illn ess with th e a ro m a tic e sse ntia l oils from pl ants. Aroma thcrapy has taken a steadily increasin g import ance within th e co m ple me ntary healing field, ofte n being a llied with massage techniques. T here is a long list of essen tial o ils, all of wh ich are well docum ented for th eir th e rapeutic e ffects. T here is a probl em, however, in what you sho uld do if someone CO llies to you with a symptom th at is not cove red by th e infonnati on already available . When seve ral o ils ca n be used , d o you use j us t o ne o il or a co m binatio n , an d how do you sel ect th e right o nes? O bviously, d owsing ca n be very helpful here. Dowsing ca n also give you an insight into the patient th at you might 16 9
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otherwise m iss. Wh en yon dowse fo r the righl essential oi l or oils to be used for a pa rti cu lar patient, the results may mean yO Il treat perhaps less obvious yet more imp o rtan t facets of that person 's make-up. It is all too casy to go for the o bvious, For exa mp le , suppose that so meone is feeli ng n an do wn and asks for a relaxi ng aro mat herapy massage . T his would perha ps suggest using chamo milc, neroli or simila r oils. l Iowevc r, if you were to do wse and co m e up with sage and rosemary oils, this would suggest that it is the Cflll!ie of thai ru n-down feel ing th at needs treating. T he re arc stro ng ind ications with these latter o ils tha t th e perso n was feeli n g run do wn because they had a sluggish lymphati c syslem . A lym p h-d rainage m assage cou ld be ver y hel pful , perhaps with co u nse lling aho ut what co uld be causing the trouble; it lIlay he thei r diet , for exam ple . I would agree th at an ex perie nced aroma the ra pist would most likel y spot what was need ed. All I am stating is that do wsing can he a very hel pful 10 01 ill g.iining insig hl into a patient's co ndition and select ing the most app ropriate me thod of treatment. Ac u p u nc tu re
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co rrec t to J,{ivc treatme nt at this point?' T he answer was 'yes'. By a series of ques tio ns and a nswers I d et e rm in ed tha t there was a ne rve trapped at th at po int a nd th at a ro ta tio n o f the sp in e was needed to Ir ee it. I go t hi m to lie d o wn o n my o ffice 1I0 0r a nd gave his spine an adj ustme m in the direction determined by my dowsing. It is wo rth noti ng here tha t by dowsing it is possibl e to get info rmation about how to carry o ut manipulativc treat me nt. Aft er I had fini sh ed he got u p , th an ked me and ho b bled away. A wee k lat er he carne ba ck to see m e . H is fool was a lmost fu lly re covere d bUI he wo nd ered whethe r a ny furthe r treannen t was need ed. My dowsing indicated th at o ne mo re treatm en t would c ure the p roblem . Two weeks lat e r it was the sta ff Eas ier walk o ver the Lakela nd fe lls, a wal k of 20 kilometres ( 12 m iles ) or so. My patien t was not o nly there at the stan, he finished lip in bette r sha pe than I did at th e end of th e walk. It was a bo u t a year la te r th a t a p ro bable ex p lana rio n e me rged regarding the need for sp ina l man ipula tion at th e point found by dowsing . I was co nd ucting a weekend course o n dowsing and gavc a dem on stration of th e usc of the pendulum in manipulat ive thera py, in which I re ferred to th e bursitis expericnce of the previou s year. An acu p uncturist on thc co urse became ve ry inte rested in the case . He q ueried exactly whe re the pa in and swe lling we re in the foot a n d e xac tly wh e re I had m anipulal ed th e sp ine. It turned 0111 th at th e pain in th e foo t co uld well have co me from what ac u p u nc ru ris rs call th e ' alarm point' for th e kidneys. T his parti cular area ca n become ve ry lend er a nd infl amed with im paire d kidn ey fu nc tio n . T he poin t o n th e back tha t I had m anipulat ed was just above th e lin e of th e kidneys, so it was quite reasonabl e that a trapped ne rve was affecting kid ne y fun cti on . Unfort u natel y, eve n with in co m p le m e n tary medicine th ere ca n be to o much specia list kn owl edg e . T h is m eans th a t in format ion is not c ross~ fc rt il ised between the di fferen t m e th ods o f working 10 an ything like th e d e gree th at it shou ld. O steopathy, ch iropmctic , 'acu p u ncture a nd sh iatsu hav e much in co m mon. O rre n we bl ame o rthodox m edicine for being too specialised an d " ,rget th a t un orthodox m ethods ca n be just as
isolati onist and el itist in thei r o wn way - if no t more so at time s. Pressu re o n ne rves in the spi ne can ca use a whole 10 1 of problems thai orth od ox medi cin e can do little 10 trea t. at least in th e UK. I still lind it a m az ing that osteo pa th y a'H' ch iro p rac tic are o n ly just hein g acce p ted withi n the o rt hodo x field in Bri ta in . Perhaps it is be cause the cla ims of those professio ns seem too grea t fo r the orthodox medics to accept, Like the case o f my co lleague , 11 0\-\' co uld pressure on a nerve in the spine cause bursitis in the foot ? O nce aga in, we arc trapped into feelin g th at unless we can e xplain things within our e xisting theories, th en that phc nomc no n canno t ex ist - like dowsing ! I remem ber after a tel evision appea rance o f Majo r Bruce McMa naway, he was floo d ed with e nq ui ries lo r healin g sessio ns. To help <:o pe, I saw qu ire a few people fro m nort he rn E n~la nel . One Saturday afte rnoon a man fa me to sec m e accompani ed hy his wife. I thoug h I th at he lo oked a bit pu zzled when I invite d the m in. I sa t th em d own a nd th en as ked him wh at th e proble m wa..S , He was very di sturb ed a nd quite ang ry. ' I th ought th at we we re j ust go ing o ut for a run in the co u ntry,' h e said . '[ had no id ea th at my wire had bo o ked m e in to see you. Wh o are yo u anyway? Whal arc yo ur qualification s, and how do you work?' Looking back, I am surp rised that I didn't just lear a lo ng strip off his wifc fo r bookin g in he r husband und e r false p ret ences. the n send th em away. However, as I was not p ressed lo r tim e I sp en t th e next 20 minutes talki n g a bo u t whu I was a nd how [ worked. T he ma n lo o ked up at me a b ru p tly after I finished tal kin g . 'If yo u a re any good,' he said , 'you will he a ble to tell me what the maile r is with m e . I we nt 10 the d o cto r yesterday a nd he gave me a full exam inatio n.' To say I was floored was putting it mil dl y. I was ve ry angry at bein g pu t in such a position , o n trial as it we re . Aga in I a m surprised that I d id n 't j us t tell him to h" ' " 0111 However. I didn 't. I d o-vscd carefully down his spi ne and fo und what seemed to h.t ~ se vere pressure on the nerves ill the lower neck. I to ld him of my find in gs. 'What sym p to ms could that ca use?' he as ked . I replie d, 'In
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that area , mos t likely p a in in th e right sh oulder wh ich cou ld well travel down th e right a rm , even as fa r as the h and. ' I lis face softened for rhc fir st lime sinc e I had m et him . 'You may b e interest e d 10 kn ow that I went 10 m y doc tor with a pain in m y n e ck wh ich went d o wn in to Illy righ t a rm ,' h e said . 'The d o ctor told m e th a t it was m ost likel y ca used by a trapped n erve in th e n e ck, and Ih al he cou ld d o nothin g lor it!' Need le ss to say, h e th en a llowe d m e 10 work o n hi s n e ck, freeing th e trapped n erve a n d reli ev in g the pain . I a m still su r p r ise d th at under su ch extre me p rovocati on m y d owsing skills held up; p erh aps it was bec ause I was a n gry and fe lt th at [ h ad n othing 10 lo se. Ce nain ly I d o not re commend d owsing unde r suc h difficult con d itio n s) H erbalists
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In the We stern world th ere is a great sh orta ge of skilled m edical herbali sts , Cons ide ri ng th at the vas t m ajority o f o u r m odcrn d ru gs h ave their origins in h erbs, it is surprisingl y difficult to fin d pe ople wh o s till practise with tlie n atural substances, II is always worth be aring in mind that th e natural su bsta nce ca n h ave dif fe re n t, a nd o lien ge n tle r, e ffec ts than th e synthetic pro duct . ' I on ce talked to a n ei gh hour o f mine , a pharmacist. about th is. I Ie tol d me th at usuall y th e natural p rodu ct was bette r, T he p roblem with n a tural drugs was th at their potency varied from ' ye a r 10 year a n d depended o n wh ere the y were grown . Synthe tics were acc u ra te ly re p rodu cible . It was a lso possible 10 p at e III syn the tic dru gs and th erefore make large p rofits. No o n e m ade much p rofit from n at u ral drugs as th ere was open com petitio n . So basica lly there were two factors thaI tended to favour synth et ic drugs and, as usual , th e strongest OIi C was the p rofit motive . (I a m not criticising th e drug com pa n ies as su ch wh cn I say this, merely pointing o ut a co m mo n fact or of human n ature! ) My e xperie nce is that n atural products do not a p pe a r to have su ch viol ent side effe cts as synthetic drub'S and my n ei ghbour con firmed this. 'Take the case o f aspirin,' he said. 'The synthetic drug is a pure, single c he m ical - acetylsalicylic
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aci d. T he o ri~i ll a l ex tra ct fr om willow ba r k ro n tuin cd n o t o ne. hnt a whole series of re la te d sa licyla tes. the n et ellert of wh ich was 10 givc a le ss h a rsh ac tio n o n th e h o dy. ' As a n exa m p le , take the trad itio n al usc o r ras p be r ry le a r lea to p rom ot e easie r c h ild b irt h - a typi cal ol d wives ' ta le , so me pe ople say. Not so . A resea rch le ct u rer a t I\radford Un ive rsity exam incd the co nstituen ts o f ras p he rry leaf tea and fo u nd it con ta ined c he micals sim ila r to ergot, b u t witl) a gCll tler ac tio n . Ergo t is p ro
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eo p le have always tri ed to find ex pla na tio ns for illn esses and plagu es, and because not a ll th ese stood up 10 the test of lo gic , it has be en an arc a fu ll of superstition and false beli efs. The idea th at th e gods brin g d own plagues o n th ose who offend th em see ms to be o ne of th e oldest. T he law o n blasphemy W'L' brought into being be cause it ' '''IS th ought th at
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retribut ion upo n th e whole population , not just the pe rp et "u o r. Und e r suc h circu ms ta nces, a law to prot e ct th e general population mad e se nse . It was also a vcry co nvenient device to ge t rid o f here tics by blaming th em lo r any lo cal mi sfo rtunes. Under th ese co ndi tio ns, bu rn ing th e 'evil' people who broug h t misfo rtune on o thers mighl h ave seemed justifiable. In re ality, these extreme and viol ent courses of action we re o ften aimed at
main taining th e power base of th e cle rgy, T hen th e modern period o f scientific e nligh te n me n t ca me and in creased kn owled ge an d th e usc of instr umen ts such as th e micro scope showed that illn esses were cause d hy microhes nothing mystical, no h ereti cs ne eding burning, jusl a sim ple, scie nt ific ex p lana tio n . T he work o f Pasteur and o thers seemed 10 prove it beyon d all doubt. Bacte ria (and lat er viruses) we re responsibl e fo r o ur ills. Plagues were du e to microbes sp reading infecti on from person to person. Ve ry few people ap preciated what Pasteur saip on his d eath-bed. Transl ated it meant, 'I go t it wron g . T he mi c robe it is nothing . its e nviro nm e n t is everyth ing!' H e had realised that a t times of plagu e no t everyo ne co n trac ted th e illness . It was th e d ifferences between
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peo ple thaI mauercd , th e diffe rent e nvironmen ts th at th ey presented to the mi crobes, So ther e we re som e new que stio ns to be answered. Why was it that some pe ople becam e ill and e ven di ed , wh ile o thers remain ed well and free fro m in fect ion? Modern research ha s shown th at th e body possesses an imm une system which helps 10 figh ts off illne ss. Yet th e im mu ne system is not eve ryth ing. There are other fac tors involved . We arc still working with too sim plistic a model. We co nstantly st rive for hi gh er-powered drugs and spe nd vast sums o n med ica l re search - ofte n for littl e resul t. For example , a pa rt from so me types o f cancer (the most co mmon form of ch ild hood le ukaem ia, for ins tance), th e death ra te fro m the disease has no t im p roved g reatly. People may live longe r, bnt th ey may d ie a diffi cult a nd painful dea th as a res ult of so me of their treatment. So what has go ne wrong? Why a re so man y illnesses so intractable , and why have illn esses su ch as ast hma and hay fever beco me so mu ch mo re common during the twentieth ce ntury? T he first q uestio n th at has 10 be asked is whether all medical rese ar ch has pu re motives o r whether th e pro fit motive has a part to play in th e eq uatio n. T h is may soun d cynical, bill it is based o n many yea rs of obse rvat io n , Research has sh own, fo r exam ple , that high d oses of vita min C greatl y prolol,lg the survival lime of many ca ncer patien ts, with out th e di stftssing side effects presen t in chemotherapy, ye t its use is ra rely mentioned , Vitamin thera py as a whole has been dis credited by the o rt hodox medical profession in spite of the fac t th aI some firs t-class research has shown th at it ca n be ben e ficial. O ne conclusion is th at th ere is littl e profit to he made in p rescribing vitamins. Ho wever, 10 maintain th e ba lance I must stress th at modern medicine has its place . Antibioti cs, whe n used wise ly, can be lifesaving. Indeed , th ey helped me when I had a life-threat en ing abscess. B UI antibio tics ca n have side effec ts - o ne of which is des troy ing bene ficial bac teria in th e gut. T he result of this is that the yeast Can dida albicans can invad e large areas of the body and cause serio us side effects - as it d id with me . It can pene trate th e gu l wall a nd end up invad ing othe r parts of the
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hody by ge tt ing into th e bloodstream. For quite a few yea rs I suffered fro m Can d ida overg rowth. I had littl e energy, a dry cough , a so re anus. and man y o f the symptoms tha t I now kno w a rc associa ted with Ca nd ida. Ye t my doctor was un con cerned an d of no real help . It was self-di ag nosis and a mode rn systemic fu ngicide, Diflu can O ne, th at finally killed it ofT. T h is is advert ised for usc in cu ring vagi nal thrush - Ca n d ida under a nothe r name. I tried it, and within two days my e ne rg ies began to cha nge radically. So o ne mode rn drug cured th e problems ca used by a not her o ne . In my ex perience , many modern drugs arc not as efficien t as herbal or other remedies. Fo r instance , St J ohn's Wort is a better re medy fo r sleeplessness than most common ly p re scribed sleeping pills. and il is non-addictive. Yet in Britain it is not widely used - why?
Funding Medical Research If we want to see just why sim p le he rbal an d o the r' remedies a re not investi gated full y, we ne ed to loo k a t th e fu nd ing of medical researc h . Wh ere do the funds come from for th e g rea t m ajori ty of medical research p roj ects? The re arc two major so urces: th e pharmaceutical industry and chari ties. The vast majo rity o f research is carried o ut in universi ties. A common fallacy abo u t universiti es is that they arc places whe re d edicat ed individuals work in th eir 'ivory towers' pushing bac k th e fron tie rs of knowledge, th ei r o n ly interest being scientific truth (even if it may a ppear to have no practi cal application ) . I do not believe th is is e n tirel y the case. Un iversity lec turers an d pro fessors a re human like anyone e lse . There is j ealousy, infighting an d political ge rrymande ring of th e highest o rder. Indeed , th e fac t th at co lleges a re rel at ively e nclosed in stitu tio ns ca n ma ke it worse . Promo tio n may depend o n h aving su fficient research papers published in professional j o urnals, and fo r research to be acce pted as original generally means that it needs to be somewhat abstruse. This is the first classic universi ty problem: find ing original research topics. There is much tha t we need to know. There are yawning gaps in our knowledge abou t many th ings , so ,,~·.at is
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the prohlem ? No rmally it is that these areas of need arc nOI o rig inal e no ng h ; th ey arc to o obvious. T he fact tha t th e information is ne ed ed and not known is irrelevant if th ey arc no t su fficie n tly academically challe ngi ng. T he seco nd proble m is .tha t of finan ce , Wh ere can staff ge t fina ncial sup port for research stude nts and allied su pport s",fT? Bo di es like th e Me d ica l Research Co u nci l and th e Scien tific Research Co uncil, wh ich arc govern me Ill-fund ed , h ave a n extensive 'old-boy' net work which seems to maintain the status '1no . Otherwise in areas of h ealth and medici ne, th e mo ney will almos t all co me from th e drug co mpanies, with th e ir strong: interest in disco vering: ncw drugs. Th ere arc also charities that su p port u n ivers ity researc h . T he fact th at the pharmaceu tica l indu stries push for pharmaceutical answers to illness should surp rise no o ne. lIu t wh y charities? Why have th e main stream ca ncer charities not in vestigat ed the e nvironme nt of a pe rson's body? Wh y arc so me people more susceptible to canc e r? Docs die I affec t the chances o f a pe rson ge tling canc er, and do special di ets help people recove r fro m canc e r? Is immun isati on respo nsihle fo r th e increasin g n um ber of immune-deficie ncy prohlems? After all, a tri ple vaccine to a small in fan t is like s u l~jecti ng thei r im mu n e system sim u ltaneous ty to th re e d iffe ren t viral a ttacks. T he re is growi ng evide nce that we should investigate some of o ur immun isatio n proce dures . . T he m agazi ne Whal Doctors Don 't Tell Yon, hascd o n publ ish ed scie ntific research , h as indicat ed th at we arc not a lways told th e full truth . We a rc fed up with filt e red in forma tion, suc h as in the case of liSE a nd CJD. I believe tha t wh at we n eed is m o re su pport for what is ca lled ' clinical eco logy' : th e pe rsonal e nvironment fac to rs th at contribu te to illness. T his has some su pport in th e USA, bu t in th e UK dinical ecologists tend to be looked down o n hy th e estahlish.,d medical p rofession . Ther e have been lon e vo ices in the wilde rness: Professor Birkeu wi ,~' :, is work o n di e tary fibre for one, although it took abou t 20 ye a " before his resu lts b ecam e ac ceptable to orthodo xy. Professor Yud kin's work on sugar is st ill me eting "'ro"g oppositio n fro m th ose with vested in terests, even though
th e case against suga r in th e d iet, except in sma ll quan titi es, is inescapable" . If suga r cons umptio n was d rasticall y re d uce d , particularly in ch ild re n , proposals for the co n trove rsial tlu o ridatio n of water wo uld be un necessary. Eno ug h is a lready known, yet noth in g ha ppens! Professor Lin us Pau ling in the USA (with Dr Cameron o f Scotla nd) showed that vitami n C has an ti-eancer properties , yet this is no t a recogn ised part of cancer treatmen t. Vitamin C is, of co urse, n on-p ro p rieta ry and vc ry che ap! Again, no in terest was shown in fo llowi ng u p the work. When o ne understand s th e ecology of med ical research , th e reasons for th e absen ce of researc h into fields of vital importance become obvio us : possib le promotio n, acce ptability an d money lie elsewhere! H eal th a nd h eal ing, like e nviron me n " .1 co nce rn s, arc becom ing cons umer-led re volutions . For too long o ur Min istries of th e Environ ment, Agriculture and Health have been too concerned with th e produc ers, no t with th e consumers. In deed, so me sceptics have eve n said th ey arc really concerned with the o p posite. d estroyin g th e e nviro n ment. destroying agricultural lan d and bei ng conce rned with illness! Cha nges have fo r too long been d ecided by cons u ltation with those who con trol how th e money is spen t, not with those wh o have th e money spen t on them . I re member listenin g to a radio program me years ago whe n cons u mers were just waking up to th e possibl e bene fits of whole meal bread . An expert di etician, I be lieve from the Ministry o f Ag ricu lture, ca tegorica lly slate d that it was a com ple te fallacy. 'Wh ite bread isj us t a. nutritious as whol e meal. It is just a group of ro od cran ks who arc irresponsibl y attacking perfec tly wh olesome food,' was her com men t. So much for 'experts' ! It is sma ll wonde r that th e average consumer is getting more a nd more sceptical about the quality of II" , info rma tio n th ey receive from o fficia l so urces.
.. John Vudkin, Pun' Whi" and lNadly, Vi king, 1986.
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Research into Complementary Therapies
We should no t therefore be unduly su rp rised that littl e ge n uine research has been don e by officia l bodies into co m p le me ntary methods of healin g. T here is little to motivate th e research e rs in th ose di rections. I remember the attit ude of my co llea gues at Bradford Uu ivers ity when I was doing my first investigati on s in to dowsing: th ey ranged from interest (in a few people) to d efinite hos tility. One m embe r of staff told me he th ought my investigations brought th e co llege into disrepute. If h e had had the power I am su re h e wou ld have h ad me cen su re d and my investigatio ns stopped immedia tely. Such bigotry appea rs even when you try to keep things clearly in th e scie n tific a rea. with o n ly te n uous co nnectio ns with th e unknown . O ne year I sugges ted a final-yea r project topi c looki ng into electrical responses in plants. From a n electronics point of view it was a reasonable topic, as it pos ed interestin g difficulties in m easuring th e e lec trical in formation ge nerated by a growing plant, without picking up 'Sp u rio us signa ls. In the description to th e project I pointed out th e work done by Cleve Backst er" in th e USA and how people had criticised his techniques. , T he student who too k on th e project was acad emica lly one of th e best I have supervis ed. Unfortunately he was full .of ideas . and talk but had limited practical ap plica tio n, and th e work dragged on. Finally, I virtually had to show him how to do it. His re sults were poor, de cidedly inadequate in quality for a finalyear degree student. At the exa mine rs' meeting I was concern ed by th e attitude of th e e xte rn al examiner and some of my colleagues. The project I had suggested, not th e student's inadequate performance, was cri ticised. Again, emotion had totally clouded the issue. The basis of the project was dis covering how to obtain accurate measurements from living plants, irrespective of th e information obtained from th ose m easurements a n d an y possible in terpreta tions of th a t info rm ation. Afte r a ll, informatio n is just that, informat ion : I was not expecting th e ...l.y.1I W:UMlII . S~pt'm 'J/~ ",. p. ~s 2"7-9, lIodclr r am i SIClUKh IOIi . 1 97 ~ .
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student to make any earth -sh attering m easu rements.j ust
(0 see what sign als , if any, co u ld be obtained with 100 per cen t co nfidence that the signals were real. Even moo ting the possible presence of su ch e lec trica l signa ls in p lan ts was sufficient to ca use an im mense amou nt of hostility. Indeed , a lecturer in botan y said th ere was n o ne ed 10 look for su ch signa ls as they could not exist. So mu ch fo r having an o pe n scienti fic mind ! In ciden tally, abo ut five yea rs ago I saw a n article on resea rch ca rrie d o ut a t a prestigious unive rsity which had discove red high- frequency ele ctrical signals in plants ! T h ere a re some unive rsities a nd co lleges th at arc now beginning to investigate such areas of th e unknown , but it ta kes a pretty determ ine d re sea rch wo rker to p u rsue such study. Afte r all, where will o ne publ ish suc h wor k? T he jou rnals which sh ould be a forum for honest research wo rk se em often to co m p ro m ise inte gr ity by concentra ting o n ly o n orthodox research, Why sh ould th ere be su ch hosti lity to things like dowsin g a nd co mple m en tary m edicine? - I suspect fo r th e sa me reaso ns th at here tics used to be burned at th e stake an d mode rn fundamentalists see m to burn with so much hate. Quite sim ply fear. When we arc really sure of o urselves, when we know things fro m our own expe rie nc e rather th an having been indoct rinated into believing th em, then we have no fe ar. A very defensive , and th erefore aggressive, attitude usually indicates that th e person has so meth in g to hide, h ence the futility of trying to co nvince people, by a rgu me n t, of the reality of suc h th ings as dowsing! If people beli eve th at such things cannot exist, th en they will fee l th rea tened by th e suggestion that th ey do exist. Politics and religi on, those twin areas of dedicated beliefs, have ca used th e majority of all wars and serious co nflic ts in th e world. True religi on has nothing to fear fro m anything. Afte r all, th e word comes from the Latin re lig>m! which means to rej oin -to be come one again. Religion sh ould th erefo re o n ly be concern ed with humanity's quest to be reunited with th e supreme creative force. It is th e power poli tics and el itism of o rgan ised rel igions that some time s beli e their nam e.
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Broadening Consciousness Dowsing is a gatewa y in to ex panded areas o f consci o usness. W ith in suc h e xpansion the re is always personal g row th.
Expe rie ncing m ore o f th e rea lity of existe nc e can no t bUI broade n one's vision , providi ng the re is good will a nd o pe n ness. If yon keep your fe et firm ly o n th e groun d, dowsing is abso lut e ly safe . If we do not a llow fligh ts of fantasy to ta ke over, dowsing can be a n invaluabl e skill in hel p ing us to live o u r lives more fully. T hese arc th e reas o ns th at I always suggesl usin g dowsing fo r th e ord inary, everyday Ih in h'" o f life - like di et a nd improving health . If o ther thi ngs develo p - an interest in such areas as persona l g rowth , meditation o r spirituality - fine . Th e main thing is th at such in te rest shou ld no t be force d . I h ave seen to o man y peo ple try to lise rel igio n as an escape from thc world , rathe r th an usc this world as a ste pp ing sto ne into g rea ter areas o f awareness. Do wsing is a bridge betwe en th e logica l a nd th e intuitive mind . We n eed to huild th ese brid ges. T he logical mind , withou t the ins p ira tio n o f the in tui tive , is ste rile and has no com passio n o r feel ing . Wars a rc hat ch ed an d ru n by peo pl e with suc h lack of in tui tive gu id an ce - th ey sec th ings in black a nd wh ite , good and evil. It is tim e for th e fem in ine, intuitive 'aspect in all of us to take its rig h tful pla ce a t the head of th e ta ble . T he intuitive sho uld be su ppo rt ed by th e logical , not vice ve rsa . T his is th e problem in dowsin g. We must allow th e d owsin g . to te ll us how things arc a nd we must not a llow th e logica l mind to inter fere . The logical mind is fin e fo r putting th ings into practice and qu estioning things which appear to be wrong o r dangerous. In the fin al even t, howeve r, we have to lea rn to trust th e intuitive aspect of o ur nature. O n ly th at way will we becom e more loving, more a t case, and fu lly skilled in th e world . T here is a saying: 'As above , so below' . Eq ually we could say: , 'As within , so without'. Whal we fee l insid e refl ects o u t into th e world. If we a rc unbalanced within , th at unbalan ce will be refl ected in th e way we deal with other people a nd with the world in ge n era l. If o ur intuitive side is largely ignored, then our logical side will o ver-do mina te and may well sh ow as aggress io n
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towa rds others. T hat is the message th e wo rld shows all too clearly at th e e nd of the twentie th ce n tury: in far too many people th e fem ini n e sid e is m is trust ed and su ppre ssed, particul arly in male-d ominat ed cu ltures whe re th e mascu line principle' feels th rea te ne d by th e in tu itio n o f th e fe mini ne . Male pride ca n ofte n be a defence me chanism aga ins l acce p ting th e powe r of the fcminine . T his is no t a fe min ist poi n t of view, merely a realistic o ne. Yin-yang ba lance is needed in bo th men and wo men : the balance where thc masculine and fe m inine principles live in harmony, bo th within the pe rso nality and re flecti ng in to the ou ter worl d. Is it possible to ach ieve thi s balance of mascu lin e an d fe minine, o r is it just a pipe d ream ? T here a ppear to be so many e n tren ched powe r struc ture s in place in th e wo rld that perhaps th ings may o n ly cha nge very slo wly. Yet it is e n tirely possible 10 ch ange the o n ly bei ng o ver whom we have tota l co ntrol: o urselves . Do wsing has revo lutio n ised my life . It starred m e on a pat h which has led me to be come happi er than I eve r d reamed possib le . T he ache in my heart h as gone, th e re is now a ligh tn ess in my step. Do wsing has helped to heal m e in a way that I neve r expected , bringing m e more and mo re into a un ity with th e surro undi ng- un ive rse . T here is a ancien t Chinese saying: ' The longest jou rney begins with th e first step' . O fte n tha t first step into the longest j ourney, that of sel f-discovery, ca n be very d ifficult. My first step was tryin g o u t d owsin g. Perhaps it migh t be yours as well .
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AP PENDIX 1
Appendix 1
Vitamins
R ecommended Daily Allowances (RDA.) o f Min erals and Vitamins
All a mounts are given in mill ig r.uns unl ess o the rwise stilled .
UK
Mincrals
USA
M en
,"Vumen
M en
Wo men
Vi tam in A
750'
750'"
BOO'
BOO'
Thiamine
l.l
0.9
1.1
1.0
Ribufl avin
1.7
1.3
1.6
1.2
Niacin
18
15
20
18
non e
none
2.0
2.0
non e
non e
3.0'
1\.0'
All a m o u n ts art: give n in milli grams 1I11Ics.'i o t he rwise s late d
UK AdulL'
USA Pre gnant
Adull s
wo me n
Calciurn
500
1200
Pregn ant women
BOO
1200
Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6)
Chloride
II Oll e
non e
11100
11100
Chromiu m
n on e
n Oll e
125·
125·
Co ppe r
110l l(:
non e
2.5
2.5
Vita min C
30
30
45
45
HO'
140'
150'
Vitamin D
2.5*
2.5*
7
5
Vitamin E
non e
non e
15
12
300
300
400
400
Iodine
12
I [)
Magnesium
non e
nOlle
Ph o sp horus
nOlle
none
t' ot uelum
nOllc
Selenium
150' IB
1B
35 0
450
BOO
1200
none
,17500
37500
n Olle
1I 0il e
125'"
125'"
Sodi um
n on e
non e
2200
2200
Zinc
lI on e
non e
15
20
I ron
.
Vitamin BI2
Foli c acid '" micrograms
.. micrograms When we co nside r tb ut th e averagc British diet di spl ays o nc o f th e worst nutritional stand ards in \""e stern E uro pe , if is aslcHiish ing that we are so behind the times in having no recommend ed allowan ces for the majority of key mi nerals.
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Appendix 2 Useful Addresses
Index Page refere nce s in ital ics refe r
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illus t ra t io n s
The British Society of Dowsers Secre ta ry: Mr Michael Rust , Sycamore Barn, Tam ley Lane, I-Iast ingle ig h, Ashford . Kent T N25 511W 01233 750253 T h e BSO has a g ood sel ection o f hooks a nd d o wsing im pl e m ents for sale, as well as a n ex te nsive m embers ' lib rary. The Radionic Association Ilaerlei n Ho use , Goose G ree n, Dodd ingto n , Oxfordshire OX5 4SZ (J 1869 ,13885 2 Bailey Flower Essences 7-8 Nelson Road, I1 kle y, West Yorksh ire LS29 8HN 0194 ,{ 432012 Produ ces the Bailcy Flower Essence s and associated litera tu re, also u nd e rt akes n e u tral isa tio n of gcopath ic stress for cl ie n ts. Hellos Pharmacy 97 Ca m d e n Road , Tn n b ridgc Wells, Ken t TN1 2QR 0 1892 5 18663 Man u fac turer a n d su p p lie r o f a wid c ra n ge of homeopath ic and o t her rem ed ies. • Biomonitors Ltd/The Awakened Min d Ltd , 2 O ld Garden C OUrI , Mount Pleasant, St Albans; Hc rtfo rd sh ire AL34 RQ 0 1727833882 Supplier of th e Mind Mir ro r and biofeed ba ck equ ipme nt, Wa tkins Bookshop Ce cil Cou rt, Lo ndo n WC2 4EZ 017 18362182 Sto cks a wid e ra nge of both new and se cond-hand books o n health a nd heal in g, as well as worldwide rel igio ns. Ho m eopath ic a nd bio ch em ic rem edies arc read ily avai la ble from health fo od sho ps. Dr Bach 's Flo wer Remedies ca n a lso be o b ta ined from he alth food shops, T hose m anufactu red by Healing Herbs Ltd o f Hereford arc particularly recom me n derl.
Abrams. Dr ·129-:~O acupu nc ture 8 4, 86, 170- 1 acute illn ess 83-1 addiction a nd a lle rgy 67 srr also f sod affi nities. p ro pe rty of oJ
holdi ng 13-1 4, 13.41, 46,4 7 how to make 12, 23 . 44-6 with Mager Rosette 60 types 52 au tibioucs, sid e e ffec ts 178 an xie ty. a nd do wsing 37 aquastal<; Wl see also Icy lin es a romat hcrapy 169- 70 aspirin , sid e (~fT(' CL'i 174-5 a ttitudes o f mind . •and illn ess 125, t 27, t 41 a ura me te rs 47 a uto-suggestion 14, 16 , 30, 37, 113 Bach , Dr Edward 109-1 2, 117 Bach Flower remedies ItYJ-18 c hoo sing correctly 111- 2 c re a tin g spe ci fic remed ies 115-1 6 d owsing fo r 112-16 succ ess rate 117- 18 Bac h, Ric hard 56 Back..stcr; C leve 182 Batley Flower Essences 125-6, J26 Barrett, Sir Will ia m 24-5 Bcstcrmau . T he odo re 24-5 b igo try 17, 18, 18 2 SIt! also o p po sitio n/h ostility bi o-feedback 3f.-7 bioc hem ic remed ies 85-93, 85 dowsing for 86-02 Birkett, Professor 180 b ishop's ru le 27 , 28-9, 155 black box (radion ics) 130-40 and ch a kras 141
' co rrec t' rat es i:'~ 5-7 De La Wa rr 132, l :i :3--4, 112 d iagnosing with I :~O dowsing fro m 1:12, 1:17- 9 heali ng with t:H , 13B-40 .~i'e al so 'g re y box' b lack stre a ms 151- 2, I f) $·~ ), Hl4-5 see also gcoparhic stress: m e tal rods blood-spots, d o wsing from 87, 100 Blun dell . Geoff 11 7-8 hrains, r ight/ le ft sid e HI , l Ofl, 115-9 and dowsing 14H male/female a.<;pcclS 148, 149, IH4-5 re search 115- 7 British Radi o ni c Soci e ty 142 British Soci e ty of Dowsers 17, 40 , 47, 1 5 :~
bursit is 171- 2 Ca d c , Ma x 36-7, 117- 8 Ca m,ero ll, Dr I RI ca n ce r and ' blac k strea m s' 151 , 154 dow sing for 35-6 and gc:opath ic stre ss 152 re search 180 a n d Vita m in C 178, 181 'ca ncer houses' 151 Can dida ntbicans 67, J 78-9 C h inese medicine 81 Ch ro n ic Fat igue Syndrome J I , 100 c h ro n ic illit es.s 84 clairvoya n ce 124 clinica l e cology 180 Coca, Dr Arthur 54-5, 65-6, 70 codes/cod ing 33-4, 5 1-3, 56, 57, 6 t, 142- 3 SPe also mental con tr ol, m us cula r reactio n corpus callosum 145-6 cosm ic co nsc io usness 148 crys tals, for clearing gcopath ic str ess 16f) Curry grids 160, 162, 165 De La Wa rr, George 13 1 b lack box 132, 133-4, 142 j N also bla c k box; radio u ics depression , a nd geopathic stress 152 De utero nomy 21
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Dcvtl. and dowsing 2 1. 32 diet
fibre 180 he al thy 7 1-2 history o f 73-[) srr alw foocl; supplemen ts Dit lnca n One 179 disuuu healing 129-4:i d ivin ing ser dowsi ng 'double...b lind' te st :i I double-V mels ·i7 d o~i ll g
ability 2:i. 25, :I t). :n , 47 be nefits 181 c xplamuions I ii. 2:i, 2!I. :i 7, 9 1 f..ilu rc rate ,19, 175 hi sto ry o f 21-4 in terpret ing result s [)J- 2, [l[)- 7.
67-70 lIIap 29-:i:i. 165- 7 over-sensitivity :i[l. :n drugs
na tural v. syn thet ic 174- 5. 179 side effe c ts 174-5. 17K cft luvia 26 E~'JPI , an cien t 2 1 elect ricity H elec tromagne tic radia tio n 26 e motiona l states. a nd illn ess 141 epilepsy 14[)-7 csscut ia 1 o ils, d owsing for 169--70
j nl K shui 15 1 Ilc xoive xu-nso r m uscle tensions :17, 46 !" also m uscu la r reacti o n Hower re medies 128 dowsi ng for 120-2, 126 new 119- 25 !" also Bac h Flo wer re m edi es; Bailc)' Fl o wer cs.~en ces ' fl u II flu o rida tion I KI foods all(~rgi (;s ti[)-fi, 67 . 70 . Hn ch:\llhring o ur di et 70-2, 75 co nve n ie nc e 74 d owsing .')1-{), 64-5. fl8-70, 105 ir radiatc.·d 82 pesti cide s a m i additives 69-70. 74 sensitivities 6f)-7. 70 syn the tic KI- 2
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srr also d iet : sup ple me n ts forked ro ds 2[1, 26 , :i 6. 4 1-4
Kirchner, Atha n asius 23. 2li
class ic hazel .,2 h old in g '12- :i , 43 hnw to ma ke -10-2 Fran ce , d o ~in g 2·1. 25
La ws o f Ph ysics '139-40 ' le aky ~ut synd ro m e (J(J
Ga rr it:, Joh ll 1 2 :~ geologica l maps. fo r c hec king 28 gcop.u hi c stress 152- 3, I[,[)....f)(), 162 nc ut ral isin g 157--H, Hjj...1, 165-7 WI' film blac k strea ms gradua ted sca le )\,,('h Flo we r remedies 112. 114-1 5 food !i7-9, 68, 69 ho meopath it: re me dies w:~ , UN ,
IOH medici nes 88 , 88 , 89-9 1, 89, 90, 91 ' J{fCY bo x ' 132- 31. JJJ, I J "
C uucridg c , Mr [l2 Hu hn cman n. n. Sam uel 9!"J-4:l, 97 hai l" sa m ples and ' blac k box ' l :i9 , 14 1 d owsing from ()S , 69, H7-9 1, 106 Harrison, Ay.t II :i Hartm ann gri ds 160. 162. If)[) heale rs 14:i healiuJ{ applications 18 , 2:l-fi. 5 1. 169- 75 e th'ies 34-5. 144 im pl ica tio n s 177-85 o urselves 12fHi, 134 hea lth , co ns u me r-led re vol ut ion 18 1 h erba lists 171- 5 h om eo pat hy 92-3 , 95-108 co rrec t d ose 99- 100, 103-4, 107--8 developme n t of 95-6 a n d d o wsin g 99- 108 , J()2 dowsin g fro m a list 104-7 hypochon dri a 31 illlll' ss 83-4 and :. u titudes of m ind 12[), 127. 141 cl ini ca l ecology 180 immu ne syste m 178 int t' rpre tin g res u ll~ 37. 5 1-3, 55-7,
f>7-70 in tu itio n 9 1.105, 137, 147, 184-5 inverse sq uare law 139-40 invcstiK"tions 2 4-5 iro n de ficien cy 76
Leth hri d ~c , To m :H ley lines !liO-I , 1r.2- [) list. d owsing from 104- 7, 106, 112 Lut her, Ma rl in 2 1
Mclcu'ucss, Dr Richa rd 65....() McM :'Ul:.lway. Majo r Bruce 105. 141. 17:i Mol' hcrson , lktty 141 Mag. P hos. 81l-7 Mage r. I h- n r i 5 7~ Mager Rosette [)7- liO, [18. 6 1, 152, 15 ol-[). lIi:i mng uctism W . :i l m ale / fc.· m ale bala nce 142. 148 , H 9 , IKol- [) sre (Ilm brai n s
map dowsing 29-:i:i, 16f)- 7 medi cal OlppliC:ltiolls ,V I' healing a pplications Mcc~ i c ; l l Rc.·se:.ud l Coun ci l I HO m ed icine Chi nese t34 cn lllp lc m c n t.'\I)' vorthodox J 72-3.
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u t' also mental co u tlol Myalg ic EI\('epa lo pat hy (M.I.-: .) II, 100 ,lIIe1 geop;\Ihic s tress 1[)2
NOll. Mu r, KH, 92 ' negative gn~c.' Il ' :i9-40 ne rves. trapped 171 , 17:\-4 Nichols. Ik \'('rly I I, )I)\) NI' K (n itro gen phos pho rous potassium) 75
opposition / hostility 17, 2t), 182- 3 Pasteur. LOllis 177 I';m ling . Professor Linus l Kl pcud uhnu ·17-8 Bach Flowe r remed ies 114 an d ( O l tC.'S :i3....4 d ie tary supp le men ts 77--H a n d he al in g 25 , 26. 5 1, 6:i h ealin g a t a dis ranrc 142- :1 hesi tant m o vem ents 5[)-6 h oll ow 106 a n d M ,t ~c r Rosene- [,7-60 q ucs uou and ,lIl SW('I' 53-7, 92 , 120, If)!) ' u n iversa l' 39 used with bl ack hox 1 :~ 2
m.
Pe n ro se , E\'d)'ll :m medi tat ion 36, 123-[J, 143. 1-17, 1-18 plan ts, n-k-r trrca l rcspouscs 182- 3 mental co nt ro l of dowser 29. [l l-3 Pla n es, Oa bric l 2:\ ctlect of ot hers 6:1-1 pressure o n ne rve s. sym p to lTl,.' 17 1, M'l' abo m uscula r rea cti on 17:1-4 me ntal re laxation /fv nsion :\7, [):S p roxy, d ows in ~ b y 26 men u , dowsing fro m 105 p ulse test for allergies fi[J-6 , 70 me rid ian points. acupu nc ture 171 Me rm vt , A bhC.~ 25-(j, 32-3 radiat io ns 2[)-1).28 , 33, 1:\9-40 , 153 m e tal ro d s, for n eur ral isin g ~('() pa t h i c: radiesrhesiu 25--4.). :l :l, I-tO stress 155-6. 1ss, I tl3--4 Radion ic Association 138 metallic orca/ minerals 22. 2:S, 39, 59 ra dionics 129- 36 in wate r 58-9 'radioni c ca mera ' I :i I m icrohe s 177-8 st't' i Jb o hl:.tck bo x Minet Mi.-ror 1-17--H, /48 R;\e. Malcolm 1:\ 6 mind . power of 54 ,6 1, 162-3 ra sphc'rry lea r lea 175 SIV' alfO b rAin s Re ic h ':'\ O r(o;olle Accumulator, for min e :'\ hafL~. a nd g('o pathi c slress 160 dearing gcopath ic: s t r(' s.~ 16[1 mi nc ral s, in d iet 7C....g . 186 relaxation 37 , 53 MV' a lm su pp lcl1lc.· n ts; vitamins rel igious o~jec t i ons 2 1, 23--4,183 m in c ml s 5I't' rnct:.llliC o rcs RCM:lIe Rt'lI1cdy II I , 116 rnOWrs.f0IX's 47 rc.~sea r( h Mull in s.Joh n 24 co m plt' lIle lll ary thcrapies 182- 3 Mu nst t' r, S. 2 1 n a tu ral f('mcdies 179-8 1 nUL~clll"r reac tion 23 , 26, 37, -H , 46 , 47
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