Nexus - 0303 - New Times Magazine-pages

Page Content (OCR)

In his newspaper account, Douglas concluded that there was no _ one hog farmer assured him that sows confined in particular pens scientifically established relationship between arthritis and under- would repeatedly eat their litters, and that all the swine in a pen ground influences and no logical explanation of why arthritic located directly over a water current suffered from bloody flux patients should improve when their beds were moved. However, while animals in adjacent pens free of such an underground influ- he added: "It would appear that the research of medical men over- _ ence were healthy. seas, coupled with my own experience and that of other dowsers In several decades of research, Kopp came across hundreds of on the matter of underground irritation, is persuasive evidence that _references on earthly influences and their effects on living organ- some diseases may be related to their underground forces." isms. The effect of terrestrial radiation on micro-organisms came By the end of 1976, in an area less than fifty miles from his to light when, in 1897, an Italian dowser in Piacenza traced a cur- home, Douglas had found underground veins of water intersecting rent of water under a dairy producing a large quantity of defective under the sleeping places of fifty-five patients being treated for cheese. After several days of experimenting, he observed that cul- arthritis, twenty-five of whom had their beds moved, at Douglas's __ tures of bacteria necessary to cheesemaking would grow normally direction, to areas free from flowing water veins. or abnormally depending on whether they were located over the The literature he had perused also hinted that sleeping over current or not. Acting on the clue, Kopp went on to discover that water veins could cause cancer. When one of his friends, a | what in German are called "Earth rays" could cause potatoes to rot woman in her thirties, fell ill with breast cancer, Douglas dowsed _ faster, wine or cider to sour, and jams to become mouldy, all of around her bed to find that his rod produced so many reactions he _ which indicated enhanced activity of microbes. could not count the veins. In 1932, even solider evidence that bacterial growth responded In 1978 Douglas reported: "I have now checked twenty cancer _ to radiation from veins was put forward by two researchers at the cases of different kinds and in nearly all of them got an almost _ Institute of Biology and Anatomy of the Technische Hoschschule uncountable number of dowsing signals coming from water veins in Munich. Mice, inoculated with certain disease-producing bac- or, less frequently, clefts or breaks in rock ledge underground. I _ teria, fell ill more rapidly when the cages in which they were thought that the underground veins could be best illustrated if I restricted were set over a vein of water, and more slowly when the laid out a series of wooden laths on the bed to show the direction © same cages were installed over an area outside the vein's influ- of their flow. When I did this, I asked the person who slept in the —_ ence, or vice versa, depending on the type of pathogen used. Sim- bed to lie down in the position they ilar experiments in the Swiss canton normally assume when falling asleep. of Aarau showed that the mice Repeatedly, the crossing of the laths it * , located over perturbed zones were indicates precisely where the person is Overa period of ten years, I've in a constant state of agitation, afflicted. checked sixty cases of arthritis, fH 8n2wed at their cages, ate their "Over a period of ten years, I've ee 4 tails, and, though cannibalism is checked sixty cases of arthritis, twen- twenty cases of cancer, and nine rare among mice, often devoured ty cases of cancer, and nine cases of cases of cataracts. In every single their offspring. cataracts. In every single one of them See Strangely, the radiation from the I found dowsing reaction lines inter- one of them | found dowsing subterranean veins was not harmful secting under the affected part of the 1 H i 1 to every living thing. Beehives body. In every cancer case but one I reaction lines intersecting under placed over them on attested to found a network of water veins creat- the affected part of the body." produce as much as three times the ing anywhere from thirty to fifty average amount of honey. crossings." Evelyn Penrose, a British dowser In 1978, Douglas had a German article whose prowess won her employ- translated into English and discovered that his own findings had ment by the government of the Canadian province of British been paralleled by those of Dr Joseph Kopp of Ebikon, Switzer- Columbia to locate water for farmers and ranchers during a severe land—a consulting geologist who, for years, had dowsed success- drought, sct up a number of hives on the tiny island of Herm in fully for water in his country, including commercially valuable hot British Columbia Channel. In Adventure Unlimited, an account of mineral springs for the communities of Zurzach and Eglisau on the _her life as a dowser, she reported: "After a short time I noticed shores of Lake Constance. that some of my hives housed much stronger colonies than others, That radiation from subterranean water veins might be linked to and I soon discovered that those which did so well were always disease came to Kopp's attention in the Swiss Rhine Valley com- over a stream of underground water. I then made a minute divin- munity of Grabs, in Sankt Gallen canton, where he detected a _ing survey of the apiary and put as many hives as possible over the water vein flowing directly under a new barn. Asked whether underground streams. The results were invariably good.” there had been cases of animal disease in the barn, a Grabs village Ants appeared to benefit from their effects, since many dowsers official simply swung its door back to reveal itempty. So many discovered that large hills of the insects had been built over water- animals had become ill when housed in it, he said, that ithad been _ courses. Certain varieties of trees including oaks, elms, ashes and abandoned. willows seemed to thrive when rooted over water veins while Kopp went on to conduct a personal dowsing survey of 130 beeches and various conifers became diseased. One study of barns in which cows confined for considerable periods of time had —_ 11,000 orchard trees disclosed that, of those planted directly over a high incidence of maladies ranging from severe rheumatism in irritation zones, apples developed cancerous growths on their the joints and uterine deterioration to marked weight loss and trunks and cherries an abnormally increased flow of sap. Plums repeated miscarriages. Their calves either developed very poorly _ and pears rotted or withered to death. or died before maturity. He found that one or more strongly flow- A crucial finding linked with water vein-associated radiation ing veins of water ran under every one of the buildings he sur- _was first put forward in the 1920s when two German researchers, veyed and that, in many cases, the cattle afflicted with disease Winzer and Melzer, divided the city Stuttgart into districts of were tethered at spots directly above them. Learning of his work, _ varying cancer incidence, only to find that they could in no way be 38 ¢ NEXUS APRIL-MAY 1996